That indeed pretty much sums it up in a nutshell. We're in for some very difficult years. I'd love to read what historians say about this period 50 years from now.
One point. Rasputin was never a priest or monk. He attended a few years at the village school, but never attended a seminary, nor was he ordained. He assumed the role of a religious elder (starets) and a wandering holy man (strannik) after he went to Jerusalem and visited various Orthodox monasteries. His father claimed Rasputin turned into a pilgrim out of laziness.
In his home village of Pokrovskoe, he was known as a petty thief and a man that grabbed women whenever he felt like it. He married a village woman, Praskovia Dubrovina, and had three children, Dmitri, Maria and Varvara. Dmitri and his mother remained in the village, and he had his daughters educated in St. Petersburg. He was well known for his drunken antics and sexual assaults, but Empress Alexandra kept him around because he calmed her son’s bleeding episodes from Hemophilia B. She and Nicholas were very well aware of what he did, but he calmed her son and she thought Rasputin was the only one who could prevent her son’s bleeding, which most people were unaware of at the time, Alexandra’s sister Ella and her mother in law Marie tried to warn her of the scandal Rasputin’s behavior was causing to the imperial family’s reputation. Rasputin engaged in better behavior in front of Alexandra, and she used him as a political adviser, regarding him as an advisor on the Russian people and choosing ministers based upon their friendliness toward Rasputin.
I really am concerned about the system of legalized campaign finance bribery, and don’t think that because Muskrat and his fellow oligarchs have all this money, it should give them the exclusive right to be hear. Trump has never cared about anything or anyone except his bank account. I see big problems with the potential for unregulated cryptocurrency to crash the market and being in Great Depression 2.0. Cryptocurrency is nothing more than a Ponzi scam.
No one seems to have addressed that Musk may be in breach of his Space X contracts. As a contractor, he has to agree he can’t fund or be politicking for a candidate, and he tried to halt the budget agreement so he could get his Chinese factories. These people should not have this power, and we have to stop it.
It seems clear that "the American Experiment" has already failed.
SCOTUS has been captured by religious ideologues.
North Carolina gutted the powers of the incoming Democratic officials.
Missouri and Florida have repeatedly ignored ballot measures to pass whatever laws the GOP majority chooses.an B.
The House passed a stop gap funding measure by throwing pediatric cancer research under the bus.
The Senate passed a funding bill by throwing trans people under the bus.
Corporate media folded in weeks.
Democratic leadership has no Plan B, and they've squashed any shred of energy by choosing an extremely ill 74-yo over AOC.
The new administration will be staffed by Project 2025 zealots, Putin-sympathizers, climate change-deniers, and anti-vax zealots.
Trump will pack the federal courts with Aileen Cannons and religious fanatics.
Whatever system we currently have now is not a democracy, and Trump hasn't even taken office.
That indeed pretty much sums it up in a nutshell. We're in for some very difficult years. I'd love to read what historians say about this period 50 years from now.
The antivaxxers may spread a bird flu pandemic.
One point. Rasputin was never a priest or monk. He attended a few years at the village school, but never attended a seminary, nor was he ordained. He assumed the role of a religious elder (starets) and a wandering holy man (strannik) after he went to Jerusalem and visited various Orthodox monasteries. His father claimed Rasputin turned into a pilgrim out of laziness.
In his home village of Pokrovskoe, he was known as a petty thief and a man that grabbed women whenever he felt like it. He married a village woman, Praskovia Dubrovina, and had three children, Dmitri, Maria and Varvara. Dmitri and his mother remained in the village, and he had his daughters educated in St. Petersburg. He was well known for his drunken antics and sexual assaults, but Empress Alexandra kept him around because he calmed her son’s bleeding episodes from Hemophilia B. She and Nicholas were very well aware of what he did, but he calmed her son and she thought Rasputin was the only one who could prevent her son’s bleeding, which most people were unaware of at the time, Alexandra’s sister Ella and her mother in law Marie tried to warn her of the scandal Rasputin’s behavior was causing to the imperial family’s reputation. Rasputin engaged in better behavior in front of Alexandra, and she used him as a political adviser, regarding him as an advisor on the Russian people and choosing ministers based upon their friendliness toward Rasputin.
I really am concerned about the system of legalized campaign finance bribery, and don’t think that because Muskrat and his fellow oligarchs have all this money, it should give them the exclusive right to be hear. Trump has never cared about anything or anyone except his bank account. I see big problems with the potential for unregulated cryptocurrency to crash the market and being in Great Depression 2.0. Cryptocurrency is nothing more than a Ponzi scam.
No one seems to have addressed that Musk may be in breach of his Space X contracts. As a contractor, he has to agree he can’t fund or be politicking for a candidate, and he tried to halt the budget agreement so he could get his Chinese factories. These people should not have this power, and we have to stop it.