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Yup, yup, yup! What the guy says about Elon and Putin is all true. I am absolutely loving the spectacle of Tesla, Space X, and Twitter X tanking. Well, maybe Space X not so much, since those rockets and satellites technically belong to the American people. We paid for them with our tax dollars.

@Flyingsaucesir When SpaceX does tank guess who gets control?....

You are entitled to your own opinion, however puerile, putrid and pathetic it may be.

Obviously stupid choice perhaps....

Touché!

Well, the way I read it, it suits His Felonious Malignancy to a (golf) tee.

I'll try to explain what I mean.

Notice where Hamilton writes, "... having the advantage of military habits --..." He then goes on to list those habits: despotic, scoffing. Ya see, back in the day, they didn't use parentheses like we do today; they were into dashes. So "military habits" here is not really a compliment.

He does the same thing with "mount the hobby horse of popularity --...." He gives us a list of base and immoral actions: "...join the cry of danger to liberty; embarrass the government; flatter and fall in with the nonsensical zealots. It's a litany of depravity, and it describes Trump perfectly, imho.

@Flyingsaucesir Hamilton does NOT list those as "military habits" and if you read the quote carefully you will notice that he is just adding them to define a lack of character... The ones you think he is calling military habits are undesirable in any free society and especially so in any military defending it. the only "military habit" the Dumpster has is dodging the draft which he has done 5 times...

@Lizard_of_Ahaz Yes, indeed, to be despotic and to scoff at liberty are undesirable traits.

@Lizard_of_Ahaz I wish we had Hamilton here so we could ask him what exactly he meant. It would also be great to get his reaction to what Trumputin and his minions are up to.

@Flyingsaucesir Probably the same thing he did with Arron Burr.... Challenge him to a duel...

@Lizard_of_Ahaz I think it was Burr who challenged Hamilton. Hamilton had been making disparaging remarks about Burr. Apparently Burr was a man of low character; a self-promoting self dealer. Much in the vein of our own orange foolius.

@Flyingsaucesir True but he did accept and Trump is far worse than Burr ever considered becoming...

@Lizard_of_Ahaz Both of them had been involved in duels before.

Indeed, Trump has outdone them all in terms of depravity and hypnotic power over imbeciles.

PS I have amended my previous tag (above).

@Flyingsaucesir I for one would love to see the Whitehouse see a hantavirus outbreak that infected the entire MAGA leadership there... including Kennedy....

@Lizard_of_Ahaz I would settle for a virulent strain of COVID-19.

@Flyingsaucesir Mortality rate is too low and besides those dolts have all been vaccinated but there is NO vaccine for the hantavirus....

You aren't thinking big enough the hantavirus has a 50% mortality rate WITH medical care...

@Lizard_of_Ahaz Okay, but the thing is, since there is no vaccine, Hanta would kill lots of people who aren't MAGAts. Too much collateral damage, because it wouldn't stay confined to just the WH, or Mar-a-Lago.

@Flyingsaucesir It would be transmitted to Musk and his minions... as well as taking out most of the billionaire class as well... They are no longer allowing the voters anywhere near themselves out of fear...

Actually, dictatorships are as old as the hills. Trumpty Dumpty is a throwback, a dinosaur.

And I would not characterize the USA or any of our developed allies as a "shit heap." Self-rule is a relatively new thing, and so far, it has been wildly successful. Witness the expanding human population, and the doubling of the average human lifespan over the last 100 years.

If you are so unhappy with your lot in life, I recommend you seek professional help.

@Flyingsaucesir I meant shit heap as the human shit pile. Our societies have become decadent and hooked on war. We have seen this before when empires, not the USA but Western European colonisers, us whities, and the nations their colonisation formed. The Western Empire, that is the one that is descending. The Romans descended into orgies and circuses. Well, we have opened up sexuality to "anything goes" and "shock and awe" festivities ourselves. Past our prime, decending into shitheapism.
So glad I grew up in our Western societies prime, late sixties early 70's hippy prime imho. I'm quite happy with life thanks for being concerned. Not into therapy in Oz, we go to a pub.

@puff Well put Andrew

@puff You certainly have a jaundiced view of humanity. In my experience, most people are not bad. But a bad one with a talent for demagoguery can stir up mob to do unspeakable things. They can do a lot of damage before they finally wind up hanging from a lamp post, or crumpled in their bunker, or face down in the sand trap by the 9th hole,...

@Flyingsaucesir There he goes with his stupidity ranting about his precious BRICS again... Kind of like Trump he has no real idea what it is or why it doesn't work...