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When Herschel Walker starts peppering his speeches with "Boy, Howdy," I'm losing my shit for real.

Please elaborate. Do you mean prior to or post invasion?

It would be impossible to prove one way or another. The thing is, ultra-nationalism (and the racism it represents) is a problem for just about every country, and the country's ability to fight it tends to correlate with its ability to negotiate factions. What this discussion about new-nazis in the Ukraine typically ignores is what tends to drive the racial animus that fuels it, particularly an insurgency by Russian separatists for the better part of two decades. Neo-Nazis tend to adopt the same proverbial uniform of anti-semitism, "color" racism, xenophobia and religious fundamentalism regardless of the local schism that gives them a place to nest. It's this profoundly bigoted framework that connects these dissimilar causes and gives the impression that outside forces are manipulating the locals.

It's always dangerous and irresponsible to tie a psychological disorder to such an over display of megalomania, particularly since no disorder (even schizophrenia) creates a truly destructive personality on its own. For instance, even if he were to be suffering from a form of dementia where his intellectual capacity is severely compromised, he isn't likely to suddenly "learn" psychopathic traits. Even in severe cases where the condition leads to severe depression and suicide, one's drive toward self-preservation isn't suddenly disengaged. It's simply a matter of suicide being the the least painful path forward. In this case, It's unlikely that Putin is truly suicidal.

Just a reminder... whether or not Putin has terminal cancer, he is clearly physically ailing. That doesn't suggest that he is about to do something as reckless as starting a nuclear winter just to save face, however it does suggest that self-preservation isn't necessarily the principal component in his otherwise opaque thought process... particularly if he's suffering from any other maladies that might affect ones psychological profile.

Didn’t DeSantis have $12million to do all of this?

All hail the Sun God

Mthor on the dark web sounds really fucking amazing.

Took them long enough.

See what I mean? Anyway, I doubt it will come to that. Biden would probably veto it if it got that far.

Pretty sure no one has been "shrieking" about it other than to point out that it's inhumane regardless of what becomes of the refugees. First you shit on Harry for not being sufficiently grieving, now you're expressing glee that liberals are horrified by a profoundly dehumanizing act? Sounds like your idea of empathy is entirely superficial.

Well they deserve and have every right to exercise that veto. Still not good if it ends up leading to a strike anyway.

Not really. Should have gotten right the first time.

Good thing I have a car.

Well, @Ginguy?

Quick question.... @Ginguy: was Elon Musk's bid for Twitter solicited or unsolicited?

He can't even drop dead without screwing up.

Pissing off the Inidians may be his stupidest move yet. They do not play around when it comes to hyper nationalism.

Harry probably has no idea where he fits in. That being said, trying to gauge level of grief based on appearance is pretty terrible.

Nah, no context is needed. I mean, the older I get, the more I measure my failures in life by the number of times per week I feel like a one man wrecking crew.

He was telling his mom this just the other day while she was reheating his bowl of Spaghetti-Os after his afternoon nap.

I mean, that's not as crazy as it sounds. But, the gross ineptitude makes this particular feint on par with a Scooby Doo villain's plot. He's dragging the stench of the ill advised state abortion bans on to the upper chamber at a time when the GOP is stuck with some particularly bad candidates, and he's doing it uncoordinated and, thus, without cover from his fellow Republicans. If he was trying to throw attention away from himself, he failed spectacularly.

That is definitively not the case.

So, the goal is to reset the policy to a national one in the hopes that it stabilizes fissures in the GOP voting bloc?

I wonder if he's been dealing with CTE for so long that his own family simply lost control of the situation.