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margaret pennetti's avatar

Envision, if you will, “Dr. Strangelove,” Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece. Major Kong is riding a nuclear weapon to earth, waving his cowboy hat and crying “Yee-haw!” That's what is coming our way.

Karla Lian's avatar

He’s declining in every way, yet people are still under the spell and can’t see that either. What, if anything, is going to take for the spell to be broken?

Patricia Menard's avatar

I am done with Donald. (I muss not be the first to think of that. But I am french Canadian so pardon me...)

Janis Pearson's avatar

Thanks Waj and Mary. I wasn’t really shocked at any of this until the last few paragraphs. Blowing up the world because he can’t live anymore. I hope someone can stop him.

Steve Lubetkin's avatar

Max Weber wrote “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalsim,” describing the theory of “the Elect,” who can be identified because of their material success, long before Fred Senior stole his first dollar.

David O Neuschulz's avatar

What I want to know is: In the following article, is Trump’s wrath real or performative? Is this just shaping the information space, or has Piro actually (not conspiratorily) crossed Trump’s wishes?

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-08-01/trump-blasts-pirro-after-she-refutes-his-claim-that-reflecting-pool-was-damaged-by-vandals

Velovixen's avatar

Donald is a cross between King Lear and Macbeth, with a sprinkle of Iago. Like Lear, he is falling apart physically and mentally and his enablers, like Reagan (!) and General, tell him what he wants to hear. They are, like Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, willing to do whatever is necessary to gain and keep power, And he is as thoroughly malevolent and corrupt as the villain in “Othello,” who in the end destroys everyone, including himself—except, ironically, Cassio, who got the job Iago wanted.

Cee's avatar

He’s a Rorschach test.

To us he resembles so many misguided anti-heroes (AND the anti-Christ for that matter) throughout literature. From fairy tales to folk tales to Shakespeare they try to warn us.

I guess Miller is also Lago and Lady MacBeth lol.

But maga sees something great? I guess that’s what Rorschach tests are for. To figure out what’s going on inside the head. If a conning psychopath looks good to someone that is rather telling.

I see 💩

Emoji eloquence.

Velovixen's avatar

Damn auto-correct! It turned “Goneril” into “General.”

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France has tightened checks on its border with Spain and said it would increase its police presence by Saturday.

Portuguese PM Luis Montenegro said he was considering reinforcing border checks.

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