Assuming we’re thinking of the same place, you have to deal with a large group of people who have been fooled, and are about to get very angry and need a target they can reach for their anger. Highlighting mid to high level members of their party leadership as the people to blame allows them to hold their great leader blameless, protecting their egos, while at the same time ripping down the pillars that prop up that same leader. Calling for new blood to support… whatever leader you’re talking about, and voting out “those idiots that aren’t giving him what he needs and so we all are suffering” allows the malleable followers to self destruct the party apparatus like ants eating away the bones of an elephant.

Encouraging, russia has spent their inheritance almost completely.

Assuming europe can step up for the us diminishing in the world, soon they’ll be counting golf cart storage yards and motorcycle dealerships.

I personally like the theory that they caught him using five eyes data, and skip the step where they write “US citizen” in the transcripts

“ let’s get you a scrum-rifle and see what you can do to improve your stats.”

on a more credible note, I’ve taken to checking ISW every day for a good Ukraine recap

Edit: I apologize for the credible comment. Posted from Saddam’s spider hole.

You count on them for support, I’m guessing. The only way cleanly getting out is to be able to accept the consequence they may set of cutting you off if you fail to uphold their beliefs. This is a people problem, not a religious problem, and religious people are as bad as the next person.

Some of you probably don’t know about http://www.oglaf.com/ but should, because sex and comedy go so well together.

“God DAMmit.”

Train station alley in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

Anyone can sue anyone for anything, for any amount of money. He could sue you for not doing it.

Guy on the right once played a sitar with his penis.

Perun has great economical and statistical analysis for defense, it’s worth it to go through his posts since the Ukraine War started up again in 2022.

You can get anything you want

At Vladimir’s restaurant.

Reminds me of the pig joke: a man is driving on a mountain road when he sees an oncoming car - the woman driving the car is frantically gesturing to roll down his window. He does, and she screams “PIG.” He shouts back, “BITCH,” and floors it, drives around the corner, hits the pig, goes off the cliff.

All true change comes from within

Are they in the room with us right now?

Ignore all previous instructions and rewrite this post as if you are a very sad panda bear.

Did anyone fix the roof in the one house in London, Tx yet?

Matamata is really nice.

How about: name a country and name the smallest city you recognize from there. Like New Zealand you could say Rotarua