Damn, I was worried this (delusions/addiction) could happen, but had no idea it had already started.

The siren call of always being right, being vindicated, being praised, etc that is like crack to our social brains.

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Unfortunately it did not appear correctly 😕

I just. . . I don’t understand the internal logic. How can one get the cause-effect relationship so mixed up. . .

I mean I know the answer, fox news and similar propaganda, but the dichotomy hurts my brain.

The training and requirements to be an ATC are insane, in a extremely thorough way. I highly doubt the Republican administration would be able to find competent replacements among their ‘patriots’.

That said, I doubt further that they would actually care and not just tell people to eat cake, or just privatize the ATC network to some billionaire.

They say that like the law matters to ICE and the Republican administration.

Unfortunately, Budapest is in Hungary, i.e. Putin fan Orbin’s country.

Saddest part is his grand strategy is literally open source, i.e. “Foundations of Geopolitics”, written by a Russian ultra nationalist, taught in Russian military academy’s. Main points are weakening NATO and US by supporting internal strife and divisions, allowing Russia to take back its “land” and sphere of influence.

Top many willing useful idiots for them to use. . .

Ready to fuck around. Not ready to find out.

Threatening and posturing to destabilize Europe and NATO, while going heavily on grey zone warfare and divisive misinformation campaigns. At the top, should not want any kinetic warfare against NATO, but rhetoric, ‘yes’ men, and arrogance may make some think they can and should.

Of course she’s not, she’s a darling of the Fascists at least until the eat professional women as well.

True, but that kind of “both sides” is not helping. One side is hamstring by corporate donors and we need to primary the corpos out. The other side is actively taking food out of babies mouths, destroying public services, etc.

Both are issues, but one is truly heinous and cruel.

FFS, such thin skinned snowflakes. /Jk

FYI, duplicate post

Because his claims to care about “American jobs” are performative at best, is not in the white house to be a President, but to be a Grifter.

“I understood that reference”

It would go a bit of the way, but would be pretty difficult to accept as honest regret/empathy and not just trying to save face.