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It definitely was that back in Ea’s time as well. The concept of the nuclear family is very recent, its dominance of Western culture is hardly a century old.

That is the wrong interpretation though. It is the person in the house pretending to have friends when the pizza delivery guy arrives.

Americans are desperate to come up with any other explanation than their beloved toys being the cause.

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/01/caroline-kennedys-explosive-letter-what-she-said-about-predator-robert-f-kennedy-jr.html

They can afford it. After all there are only two entries on the Republican federal budget: 1. grifting money. 2. money to the paramilitary to foment and subsequently suppress dissent.

That is not their point either. It is to virtue signal the submission of the airforce to Führer Trump.

*in the US.

I think they mean American bread, which is just cake.

Ukraine has only systematically targeted Russian oil infrastructure for less than a year. So that is one variable which has changed.

They never believed in any of that. They pretended to because that is what they felt was necessary in order to keep their grift going, but Trump has shown them that they don’t have to pretend anymore. They can openly grift and their voters will love them for it.

That is not what the OP is about though.

They don’t mind. They see this as him owning the libs/blue cities, and are perfectly fine with it.

Not really.

A new government is not just going to magically appear. The current one (and by that is meant the entire GOP) is not going to leave voluntarily, and they are certainly not going to let you have a fair election about that.

So the dust will settle once this current regime has been forcefully ousted, not before. So talking about “after” is a bit premature, the talk should be about what to be done to get rid of them in first place.

Your oligarch overlords certainly don’t consider it so. You are just walking dollar signs living for nothing else but to get fleeced by people who already have more money than they could ever spend in several lifetimes.

Yeah, that description sounded suspiciously like someone living in a pineapple in North America rather than anywhere else.

Well, the Des Moines Register certainly is.

The problem with the “this is all to cover up for Epstein” line is that it really diminishes how much of an actual threat Trump and his oligarch administration really is to everybody.

He is doing all this because he wants to, it is real, and it is not to cover up for anything. Without Epstein he would still be doing all this.

The fact that his avalanche of crimes does slightly cover up for Epstein is just his MO working as designed.

Cracker Barrel was never global. It has always been a strictly US phenomenon.

Even without the Epstein files he would still be doing all this shit. That is what he does, and the avalanche of shit serves to cover up the individual lump of shit. It was exactly the same back in his first term, he has just gotten a lot bolder now, which says a lot.