Big Brother has been around for a long time. What I worry about is the safety of women who are being stalked by abusers. on another subject, why can’t we use that same technology to find all the missing and exploited children?
Few words capture Donald Trump quite like feckless. Behind the bluster and bravado is a man wholly unfit for leadership—an attention addict who shirks responsibility, evades accountability, and governs with the discipline of a toddler mid-meltdown. His decisions are driven not by principle, but by impulse, grievance, and the promise of applause. He talks like a strongman, but history will remember him as a weak man playing dress-up.
Nowhere is Trump’s fecklessness more grotesquely apparent than in his decade-long submission to Vladimir Putin. This week, after Russia launched its deadliest aerial assault on Ukraine since the war began—leaving dozens dead—Trump responded with a limp, self-serving post claiming Putin was “playing with fire” and that “really bad things” would’ve happened to Russia without him. No sanctions. No support for Ukraine. Just hollow chest-thumping, followed by total inaction. Putin bombed civilians; Trump posted nonsense.
But this isn’t new—it’s his original sin. Trump owes his rise, in part, to Putin’s 2016 election sabotage—an act of foreign interference that Trump amplified by parroting Kremlin propaganda. A hostile autocrat helped install a man so vain, so malleable, so staggeringly ignorant, he could be played like a balalaika. For years, Trump has fawned over Putin, even as Russian forces kidnapped children, bombed hospitals, and executed civilians. His admiration has never been for democracy or decency—but for unchallenged power, no matter how brutal.
There is no ideology here. No strategy. Just one man’s bottomless narcissism—desperate for validation, incapable of courage, and loyal only to those who flatter him.
Real presidents confront tyrants.
Trump curtsies.
A real leader defends freedom.
A feckless one folds.
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“Rage, Reason, and Righteous Mockery. Mersault writes what the moment demands.” – New York Magazine
Big Brother has been around for a long time. What I worry about is the safety of women who are being stalked by abusers. on another subject, why can’t we use that same technology to find all the missing and exploited children?
Few words capture Donald Trump quite like feckless. Behind the bluster and bravado is a man wholly unfit for leadership—an attention addict who shirks responsibility, evades accountability, and governs with the discipline of a toddler mid-meltdown. His decisions are driven not by principle, but by impulse, grievance, and the promise of applause. He talks like a strongman, but history will remember him as a weak man playing dress-up.
Nowhere is Trump’s fecklessness more grotesquely apparent than in his decade-long submission to Vladimir Putin. This week, after Russia launched its deadliest aerial assault on Ukraine since the war began—leaving dozens dead—Trump responded with a limp, self-serving post claiming Putin was “playing with fire” and that “really bad things” would’ve happened to Russia without him. No sanctions. No support for Ukraine. Just hollow chest-thumping, followed by total inaction. Putin bombed civilians; Trump posted nonsense.
But this isn’t new—it’s his original sin. Trump owes his rise, in part, to Putin’s 2016 election sabotage—an act of foreign interference that Trump amplified by parroting Kremlin propaganda. A hostile autocrat helped install a man so vain, so malleable, so staggeringly ignorant, he could be played like a balalaika. For years, Trump has fawned over Putin, even as Russian forces kidnapped children, bombed hospitals, and executed civilians. His admiration has never been for democracy or decency—but for unchallenged power, no matter how brutal.
There is no ideology here. No strategy. Just one man’s bottomless narcissism—desperate for validation, incapable of courage, and loyal only to those who flatter him.
Real presidents confront tyrants.
Trump curtsies.
A real leader defends freedom.
A feckless one folds.
••••
“Rage, Reason, and Righteous Mockery. Mersault writes what the moment demands.” – New York Magazine
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The Canadian woman with a nominal visa issue was detained in their prison for 2 weeks and her description of the conditions are alarming.
sadly, of course he is. a day of reckoning is coming. or a civil war in the good 'ol U S of A. :)