Ah, perhaps this will be the war he needs to stay on his throne indefinitely…

He’ll start a war, internally or externally and use that as an excuse to block elections. Probably takes Zelenski as an example, no elections during wartime…

Or he’ll do a Putin, all election preparations go into a blender, real opponents are disqualified for arbitrary reasons, force his own name on the ballot then declare himself a winner.

Or… as he keeps throwing around, make sure there is voter fraud, hide it 'till it leaks then just proclaim the win/fraudulent elections and stay in power.

He’ll just start claiming “We helped those people, send them the best help and goods they need”.

And that’s it, in his mind the aid somehow has materialized and he can go back to his golf course again.

If it fails spectaculairly who will take the blame? Will there be any repercussions at all?

Or will Musk and Trump shrug their shoulders? Halfheartedly blame Biden for badly programming the original database then go play some golf/videogaminges?

“Russia will leave Ukraine alone if it gives up all Nuclear arms.”
“Russia only wants to lease the harbor of Crimea 'till about 2042.”
“Russia has no soldiers in Ukraine Donbas or Crimea regions, these Russian Veterans are on holiday, can’t you see that they wear unmarked uniforms?.”
“Russia did not shoot down Malaysian Air MH17, it is unknown why that specific mobile missile launcher was seen driving from Russia into Ukraine and back again after firing.”
“Russia started only a police action inside Ukraine to take out certain elements, should take about 3 days.” “Russia is Russia, Ukraine never existed and has no right to now.”
“Russia is not at war in Ukraine, it is Russia who was attacked.”

“Russia does not want parts of Europe, the people of East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia live in happy unison under the Warsaw pact and mother Russia’s bosom.”

“Trump and Musk will leave social security alone, privatising it is a ridiculous notion.”
“Trump is a president of law and order and respects the judicial branch.”

Oh wait, how did comrade Krasnov get mixed in with this…

The lawbook is the same, as is any judge’s role to oversee/uphold such law… But that’s inconvenient information.

So, as usual they use nice and plausible sounding words, but the end of the matter is that someone needs his decrees to be above (judgement against) the law…

Slowly taking away local judges’ (and states) rights to review nationwide law and only rule on local matters while the king decides is a callback to the middle ages.

In other words Komrade Krasnov is investing and bolstering the Russian economy, without any return offer, all on firm request of great leader putin.

So it’s a bit of a catch22 situation… Shutdown the government by blocking the new CR or have the government demolished by accepting the new CR …

But the government will get derailed regardless.

The one thing that seems to be overlooked is that the Democrats are supposed to give opposition/resistance to the Republican plans, which does mean blocking a bad new proposal …

If it were up to me I’d use whatever media I can find and prior to the vote just loudly announce being against the new regulations, so just pre-empt republican fingerpoiting and take the sting out of their shutdown accusations…

So, how many in the government are called Gaylord? Will they be detained and forced to give up their name? Mandatory change to Petey?

I guess there’s also a Gaylord street and monument here and there?

“The great peacemaker” needs big wars so that he can eventually “make” a peace…

Remember when Trump did away with the regulations to register car accidents caused by electric vehicles and self driving mechanisms?

Now there’s no way to prove its a problem with the car when Tesla starts sueing customers in the US, and it learned it can do that from China.

Putin is signaling to his adoring fan Trump that Ukraine’s special resources “belong” to Russia.

To both Trump and Putin this is not about Ukraine at all.

The crux of the matter is: did Trump wake up about the value of those resources and prefers to permanently claim them for himself? Or will he see it as a great gift to hand them to Putin on a later date so that both can “save face”?

Putin wants the resources and will destroy the identity of Ukraine and make it Russian so it will never leave the flock again. He will also keep trying, in 10 years or more he will keep coming back for the resources. He has done it in 1990, in 2014 and in 2021. But he needs Ukraine to be fully disarmed.

In 1990 he forced Ukraine to give away it’s nuclear armaments, later he made it give up the navy that Ukraine was left with when it split from the USSR. In 2014 he saw chance to take parts of Ukraine by force, thinking he could take the rest by subterfuge of having his own soldiers fight anonymously as “breakaway Ukraine rebels” but it failed because Ukraine was still armed well and intent on defending it’s identity. 2021 Putin tried again, thinking Ukraine’s armaments now were hopelessly outdated and Russia had a lot of “modern” material, his 3-day takeover plan was thwarted by the Ukrainian fighting spirit. And what is worse, it showed that the military might of Russia was a paper tiger, the equipment was not up to snuff to an enemy intent on defending itself, so Russia had to fall back to it’s centuries old tactic of overwhelming the enemy with cannon fodder.

But now the limit of reasonability is reached, Putin can not endlessly throw cannonfodder at Ukraine. With all the western weapons far outclassing what it can fabricate and train, Russia has lost the military fight and will turn to political paths. First to keep the conquered Ukrainian lands and designate them as Russia, then have the West lose interest in Ukraine’s membership of NATO and perhaps the EU. But still demand the delivery of the resources to Russia. And in about 15 years he’ll come with the same excuse again and try to take Ukraine once more.

Russia wants the resources … In time the gas supplies will have its prices slashed due to the continued growth of renewable energy.

And his adoring fan Trump can and likely will aid him speed it all up if he can use him to have the west withdraw all support.

What I find interesting yet distressing is that no one asks “WHY?”

What does an unelected outsider have to gain from getting access to SOURCE CODE of the US payment system (not just a running pc in the payment network, no, actual code is bring changed)

Why? Why demand code access and what is being changed in the dark hours of the night when there is little oversight?

And no; “because transgenders” is not an acceptable answer!

BTW… expect fully encrypted code where possible so no one else besides Musk can read it … think of the lasting repercussions of that … it’s a malware bomb on the governmental payment system.

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Aha, thanks, I was not aware it made just a neglectable difference in sodas.

I’d say “dew it”!

Let’s see if your top-secret-paperwork dumpsite mar-a-lago can pay for it’s flowers and Gouda cheese selections… And how long 'till it will serve domestic boxed Florida Swamp wine and “bubbles” since Italy or France won’t ship anymore.

In his mind it’s a trade deficit that the EU refuses to buy the US’ chlorine drowned chickens, or make their own coca cola without corn syrup…

They must snuff out all glowing embers that show data of Trump on a losing track this election, so nothing flares up that can show doubt about the legitimacy of the win …