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Steve C's avatar

This is a very succinct, accurate summary.

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

Aspiring to haiku.

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Michael Myers's avatar

😂

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Janice Phillips's avatar

You stole my word!

I should have read comments before I commented and I'd have chosen apropos.

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Steve C's avatar

Hahaha! I was first! Besides, you and I both know that “succinct” is much more “apropos”

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Janice Phillips's avatar

HAHA!!!

Indeed it is, my wordy friend. Very apt.

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KW NORTON's avatar

We were pretty imaginative at guessing at the depravity of these very sick sociopathic psychopathic narcissist individuals. Guess our imaginations just couldn't stretch this far. If this isn't remembered! - IF anyone survives that is. Looking pretty dark. Make previous totalitarianism look almost tame.

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Tony Cecala's avatar

Yes! The cast of characters on the global scene has actually surpassed my imagination. Having succeeded with Barry/Mike as POTUS/FLOTUS, anything was up for grabs (so to speak). The Hunger Games had good costumes; this realm has true depravity.

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KW NORTON's avatar

Even Shakespeare left out the true sick violent story of Hamlet. (See "The Northman" film) The story of Shakespeare's life is stranger than fiction. Imagine that!

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John's avatar

When the world is a circus, it pays to be the most wacked-out clown in the center ring.

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

EDIT: some are saying the above Zelensky photo is a fake image, and perhaps it may be, BUT the video in the below substack article is 100% real and verified:

https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/zelensky-before-he-was-installed

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Janice Phillips's avatar

LOL!!! What a succinct article.

Some days I wonder how so many were fooled into taking the death jabs, and then something like this "Time Mag" comes up. And then I remember how many were screaming for me to "Support Ukraine" (like little 'ol me could in any meaningful way?) and then I remember just how zombified and sheepified our human pop has become and all I can do is siiigh.

I will NEVER comply.

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Foxton's avatar

I guess it shows Time magazine is consistent. Didn't Mr. Hitler also receive the honour a few decades back?

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Toxi🇨🇦's avatar

Re Hitler: Stole my thunder!🤣 Was going to be my comment

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Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

Where is Tucker explaining the corruption?

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Janice Phillips's avatar

LOL!!!

I banned all TV from my presence. My old, boomer hubby still has to have his Fox News and Football though. I made him put his TV in his own room. I just will not...can not...nope.

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

"Elect a clown expect a circus".

We know all about that in Canada, unfortunately.

#TrudeaumustgoNOW 🆘️🤡🇨🇦🆘️

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Ritaritabobita's avatar

Yep, we have reached end stage of Empire. They are murdering one another and populace as well.

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Andy Bunting's avatar

Thanks for your post.

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Rob Polans's avatar

This whole thing could/should have been avoided. During the first days I was telling people that it was just a distraction. Pictures of the Ukraine refugees (look up WW II pix of starving refugees, those were the real pictures, we were shown staged ones) peoples' hearts were too big. I can't fault them for that. I can fault Congress and the Senate, they never gave appropriate approval for the war pigs weapons and troops to be sent. The rest is now history.

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IsItJustMe's avatar

Zelensky is photo shopped.. fake picture.. come on man! Be real with your reporting

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

was updated. and given his history, it's perfectly plausible.

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volo da zero's avatar

Oh, I see, so he's one of those blue-eyed jews now....mmkay!

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BlackThunder's avatar

Laundryman of the year...

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IainW's avatar

The level of perversion and degeneracy in the West is profoundly depressing and demonstrated by Time. This is a new low as he is being eulogised while he murders his own people and the West has ignored the deaths of 13,000 plus Ukrainian ethnic russians.

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streamfortyseven's avatar

no, it's not Zelenskyy, and it's not 1999, either: https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2022/09/fact-check-photo-does-not-show-zelenskyy-at-gay-pride-march.html Here's the original: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashobbs/430092297/in/album-72157600015188150/ My bet is that it's Russian propaganda, it's exactly the kind of thing that Vladimir Vladimirovich and his KGB buddies would do, they have a track record for this kind of smear... If it were my photo, I'd sue you for infringement of copyright in a heartbeat - if someone had done that to a pic of mine, I'd be f*cking livid, and the lawsuit would be the *least* I'd do. Check my bio, I've been making images for a few years now...

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

It's okay, there's plenty of depraved videos of the Ukrainian puppet president's "acting".

Start here:

https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/zelensky-before-he-was-installed

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IainW's avatar

The KGB ceased operation when the USSR ceased. Actuallly has nothing to with the Russian's if I recall.

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

KGB never ceased operation and the USSR never really ceased either, they simply regrouped and are extremely active today. I wrote several articles on this.

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streamfortyseven's avatar

LOL - "In late March of 2000, in a second Zavtra article, Dugin envisioned a new role for the Russian secret police (which until recently had been headed by the newly elected Russian president, Vladimir Putin). Whereas in his 1993 book, Konspiralogiya, Dugin had criticized the secret police for perceived "Atlanticist," that is, pro-American and pro-British sympathies, he now toasted the KGB (the initials he preferred to FSB) as "a new caste, a new social stratum" called upon both to hold the line against "American hegemony" and to "recreate a mighty Eurasian sovereign state" which would include all of the CIS republics. 27

In August 2000, after reading an article by "one of the chief ideologists of the [Putin] Kremlin," Gleb Pavlovskii, Dugin wrote Pavlovskii suggesting a meeting. Pavlovskii, the creator of several influential pro-Kremlin Web sites, agreed. Commenting on this burgeoning relationship, journalist Andrei Kolesnikov remarked: "Extreme right ideology is not only turning into the dominant view in Russian publications and state rhetoric, it is also becoming fashionable in a salon sense." 28

In November 2000, shortly before undertaking a trip to Brunei, President Putin declared publicly, "Russia has always perceived of itself as a Eurasian country." 29 Dugin later termed this statement "an epochal, grandiose revolutionary admission, which, in general, changes everything. The prophecy of [French conspiratologist] Jean Parvulesco has come to pass .... There will be a Eurasian millennium." 30" https://tec.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/aleksandr-dugins-foundations-geopolitics Read the rest of this article from 2004, it might shed some light on current events...

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