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@#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]

'Tis almost like no one bothered reading the article.

The knee-jerk reaction was over the title, A Blue Wave Revolution is Coming ...

... without once bothering to read the article where Rick Wilson lays all this at the feet of the Trump & Republicans:

When your entire brand is "I alone can fix it" and things feel more broken, it becomes very easy for voters to decide that you, in fact, cannot.

The GOP is already on demographic thin ice. Trump's affordability fiasco is the kind of slow-burning anger that melts what remains of their suburban support among moderates and independents, many of whom held their nose in 2024 solely because Trump promised to reduce grocery and gas prices. It accelerates the erosion with younger voters who have now lived through two Trump eras and a housing market that looks like a hostage situation.

They signed up for the myth of the businessman president. They got the guy who bankrupted casinos and decided the solution for a hurting country was to blow up the economy for a jacked-up economic theory from the 17th century, build a ballroom, and hide the books.

None of the culture war crap, the performative yelping about the Deep State, the liberal media, or whatever else tickles MAGA Twitter's happy place will work when America is locked in a deep recession caused by their Golden God.

In 2026, Republicans will discover the oldest rule in politics and business: eventually, the mark realizes he has been conned. And when that happens, it is not just the con man who pays the price. It is everyone foolish enough to stand next to him when the lights come up, and the check arrives.

Trump is too old to pay that bill ... and doesn't pay his bills in any case.

But the MAGA GOP sure as hell will. That sound they hear in the distance is a mob, hungry and furious, approaching their palace.


The article I posted here is NOT about the Democrats.

It is not about pulling defeat from the jaws of victory.

It is not about if Democrats are (or are not) up to the job.

That is not what Rick Wilson was saying in the article I posted.

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