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White pettiness, greed, racism, and megalomania, all choking us at once.

America will take decades to recover from the damage done by Dummkopf Trumpf after not even being in power one full year (if China doesn't eclipse America before then).

At the end of the First World War, the Osmanli Dynasty was so desperate to cling on to power, they negotiated most of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul, and Anatolia away to the Allied Powers, leaving the Ottomans a rump state around Ankara. The Ottoman nobility didn't give a damn about their subjects or their lands, they just wanted to hold on to their wealth and power, even if it meant ruling over a broken vassal state: i.redd.it

This is similar to the era we are in now. Political leaders, oligarchs, and elites who don't give a darn about the people or their environment, just their greedy self-interests of making money and staying in power, damn the hoi polloi.

That linked map was why Mustafa Kemal Pasha Ataturk was able to marshal the people of Turkiye and kick out both the Allies and the treacherous, self-serving Ottomans, making way for a modern Republic void of nobility.

Remember when the idiot righties claimed Putin was afraid of Trump? LOL

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-03 02:58 PM | Reply | Flag:PPFFTTT

Yes... indeedeedoo... they have a proven record of mind-reading failures when it comes to Putin... remember this?
www.nbcnews.com
Seems Bushturd2 musta dun took his cues from Sylvia Brown on finding bin Laden nor sumpin like that shucks goshdarn...

I remember when the righty-tightys were telling us we were afraid of Sarah Palin because she could see in Putin's back yard... while ignoring Condileeza Rice's warnings about Putin's future ambitions.

@#3 ... Lewzer is the Joffrey to Putin's Tywin. ..

Game of Thrones citations aside ...

Found this ...
www.google.com

... AI Overview

The statement that "Lewzer is the Joffrey to Putin's Tywin" is a political analogy, likely made in a social or commentary context, using characters from George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series to describe a perceived power dynamic between an individual named "Lewzer" and Vladimir Putin.

In this analogy:


Tywin Lannister is a powerful, ruthless, and calculating patriarch who seeks to control the levers of power and secure his family's legacy by any means necessary. He is the true power behind the throne, operating with strategic foresight and a complete lack of sentimentality.

Joffrey Baratheon (or Lannister by blood) is a young, petulant, and cruel king who is the nominal ruler but lacks the intelligence, discipline, and respect of his subjects and even his own family. Joffrey constantly challenges Tywin's authority in an attempt to assert his own power, often making rash, shortsighted decisions that threaten the family's stability.

Therefore, the analogy suggests that:

- - - Vladimir Putin is the powerful, controlling figure (Tywin), the de facto leader who operates with cold strategy and ruthlessness to maintain his power and influence.

- - - "Lewzer" is the unstable, less effective, and potentially reckless figure (Joffrey), who holds some official position but is seen as an embarrassing, weak, or easily manipulable puppet or subordinate who might ultimately undermine the "Tywin" figure's control. ...


Hey, that is what AI suggests, so it cannot be wrong.

Right?

The GOP Women Are Humiliating Mike Johnson
www.thebulwark.com

... Quite a few House Republicans have broken away from Speaker Mike Johnson in recent weeks, and he only has himself to blame. Like his predecessors, Johnson is an ineffective speaker when Trump is not driving the car for him.

But what stands out about this particularly perilous moment for Johnson is who is causing it.

It's the women in the House Republican Conference who are demonstrating that they have the balls to stand up to leadership.

First, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) maintained her support of the discharge petition to force the federal government to hand over all its files on Jeffrey Epstein in spite of pressure from party leaders to let it go.

Amid the ultimately successful push for the petition, Greene repeatedly criticized top GOP lawmakers, and even President Donald Trump. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) also resisted pressures from Johnson and the White House to remove her name from the petition.

This week, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) filed her own discharge petition to override the speaker's refusal to bring her bill banning stock trading for members of Congress to the floor for a vote.1 It has just 14 signatures at the moment -- nine of whom are Republicans -- but should acquire more as lawmakers get the opportunity to attach their names. ...

[emphasis mine]

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