Swaziland’s King Sobhuza II was crowned at age 1, had 70 wives, 210 children between 1920 and 1970. About 180 children survived infancy, and 97 sons and daughters were reported living as of 2000. At his death he had more than 1,000 grandchildren. theafricanhistory.com/1629
ER II did fine as far as monarchs go. The concept of supremacy by birth is archaic but still exists even in America. Roosevelt, Kennedy, Bush were families that ruled America. Donald is actually the only President that took a shot at ruling like royalty. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s…
Would America be better off with a singular, permanent ruler chosen by the elites? We have no problem establishing autocrats in other countries. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St…
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Patrick Byrne buzzes like a fat fly around the events of January 6. Mr Pillow is media friendlier, Rudy more entertaining, but Byrne might be the most "colorful character" to make "the film" about. Gun lovin', fun lovin' Puttina Buttina will be played by?sltrib.com/news/politics/…
Fast forward a year later and Byrne is not so funny, Flynn not so patriotic and Jabba the Trump and his foreign backers are clearly still intent on destroying democracy. At what point do we dial 9/11 and report a crime? nytimes.com/2022/02/04/mag…
The America Project supports "freedom" and is spending money on divisive right wing election, medical and family hot buttons. Lot of weird shit to unpack here. americaproject.com/#current
A year ago I pointed out how many people from STRATCOM in Texas were connected to or involved in the Trump coup attempt. The info-ops outfit squirreled inside the Air Force that I got to know in Afghanistan. Oh look Mike Flynn!
Back in 2010. I was top of the fold as part of a ninja assassin story. I refused to work with Dewey and his clown show. They went on to cook POW Berghdal's goose with fake intel reports via Mike Flynn. Small world. nytimes.com/2010/03/15/wor…
I wrote about Bergdahl for Vice, then Michael Ames and Matt Farwell wrote a whole book on the debacle (in which I was described by JSOC as the best source of ground intel in Afghanistan (blush). Turns out Flynn had a reason to lie. #ReadTheBookwashingtonpost.com/outlook/in-afg…
"Early reporting noted that (Wagner) would train Malian defense forces and provide protection services for senior political leaders—activities Wagner has also undertaken in countries such as the CAR and Mozambique. csis.org/analysis/track…
Not just training and security contractors. Rigged elections and coups also on the menu. issafrica.org/iss-today/wagn…
Donald blew through 8 Trillion we didn't have and I expect "I need a wheelbarrow of Biden dollars to buy a loaf of bread" stories from the right. The economy is about to hit a wall. So you could say Donald built a metaphorical economic wall and we are going to pay for it.
I could use "speed bump" or something less dramatic I guess. Much of the giddy spending was based on fear and then recovery. Pumping tax and future money in to get things going. Joe wanted 11 trillion, then 8, then 5 then 1.7 then ?.... theguardian.com/business/2022/…
The truth? In 2021 federal spending was equal to 30% of the total GDP, down from 44% in 2020. Yeah Trump pushed towards being a socialist nation. Faced with economic collapse, would Biden have done the same. Probably. datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finan…