1/ imagine there is a man whose beliefs are as inflexible as bedrock, having become the ultimate Puritan, so much a religious fanatic, when he arrives in heaven, upon meeting God...
2/ ...and there He is sipping a heavenly beer and savoring barbecued beef ribs listening to Elvis Presley + Billie Holiday + Janis Joplin up on stage rocking 'n rolling...
3/ well then that Puritan fellow just arrived in paradise knowing better than anyone else what purity 'n piety looks like, starts giving God a lecture about evils of drinking and how there's the bad kind of music that should never be played by the wrong skinned folk
4/ mazel tov!
you've met a #WSCN fundamentalist who is so sure of himself that he'd refuse to let God enjoy all that effort He had made over thousands of years just to create an afternoon of good music & great food & cold beer
5/ the type of #WSCN walking around with that toxic mixed bag of #BSGC religious fundamentalism & racial purity & limited tolerance of anyone not exactly like himself that Adolf Hitler would hug him on first meeting him
6/ that's who the Republican leadership has been actively recruiting...
...and why the GOP's supposed 'red wave' was another impotent falter of a failing political party
FUTURENEWZ: 21JAN2023 every morning vans slow drive London streets, drivers yelling "bring out your frozen dead"; there are now days when vans have to make a second & third trip to the morgue to unload
FUTURENEWZ: 13FEB2023 announcement by PM Truss of private-public partnership with Soylent Corp for extracting lingering value of high heaps of "frozen dead"; Truss boasts of win-win-win: cheap protein for working poor; no funds wasted upon burial; percentage paid to Exchequer;
FUTURENEWZ: 14FEB2023 announcement by Buckingham Palace, the royal family, by order of KC3 are as of this day, vegetarians; most of British elite follow their lead;
1/ Should we pity the Republicans, obliged to be facing their collective mortality? A literal "end of the world as we know it" b/c the world has been changing so much whilst they did little to adapt?
No. Don't waste your pity.
2/ The Republican Party has decided better to tear down the entire American economy AND wreck democracy AND abandon millions to starvation-homelessness-illness rather than lose too much more power.
3/ Theirs is an opposition to any significant change because at this point all changes in demographics-technology-culture-economics weaken them.
apparently there is indeed at least one chatty turncoat who ratted out some of T(he)rump's amoral schemes 'n illicit dreams with sufficiency of damning evidence to convince a federal judge to sign off on warrants
maybe, given his family's long string of investigations; trading in Clan Trump to protect Clan Kushner from extended Club Fed vacations
as well, positioning himself within the GQP as (uhm) whatever he is good for
3/ Ivanka Trump?
very likely as payback for all those creepy callouts due to her father's borderline pervert hands 'n nausea inducing witticisms suggesting she was not just a 'daddy girl' but his '4th wife'
1/ For the politicians of EU/NATO there are certain strategic concerns. Not least of which being seen picking the losing side. So they slow walk military aid to Ukraine hoping for 'diplomatic resolution'. Avoid humiliation at home, nothing their political opponents can point to.
2/ Prevent loses in their next election cycle.
Avoid embarrassing wastage of resources upon the losing side. Not antagonize resurgent Russian Imperialists. Wait. Study. Consider. Discuss. Delay.
Then delay some more.
3/ Surprise. Ukraine did not fall in a day.
No victory parades through Kyiv.
Russia is getting kicked in the knees. Occasional broken noses. Confirmed 'elephant graveyards' as APC-trucks-tanks are abandoned due to lack of spare parts. Rotting tires due to clueless handling.