Well and clearly said.

My lay understanding is that a antitrust law forbids "dumping", though open source has always been a weird exception no one has tried to reconcile. Plus the whole notion of "regulation" across nations, especially sparring ones, is messy. So, possibly an effective strategy, yeah.

It's a metaphor for his degree of care about democracy, public health, and climate. Just roadkill on his path to self-aggrandizement.

"When I see the shattered White House it reminds me of what bin Laden did — minus the mass murder"

Don't subtract that. He's transferred funds from tasks that save lives to selfish caprice. Willful action intentionally teeing up foreseeable mass death for personal ends. Murder, by any other name...

The GOP Congress needs to realize a dictator needs no Congress, as he'll insist they just rubber stamp him anyway, but they retain right to remove him. They think it's job security to back a rogue king, but it's not.

As to whether anyone sees this, I don't know. They all seem oblivious.

There's a kind of codependency here, with the leaders justifying themselves as just fulfilling the bloodlust of sycophants they've surrounded themselves with, alleging they are a representative sample, and the followers seeking to blindly do any sociopathic thing these leaders ask. It's a bad cycle.

Jokes are WAY less funny when easily confusable with the truth, not even to mention when told in a volatile situation full of zealots eager to please their leaders by rushing to blindly fulfill the implicit asks of the "jokes" (i.e., deniability-cloaked seditious conspiracy & stochastic terrorism).

Congrats on hitting this milestone in an amazing public service.

I used to think it was horrifying that little kids had to do active shooter drills. Do they now also rehearse being hauled off by the government and sold as slave labor. Or is that supposed to be a surprise?

To underscore this, revisit it in context of recent reports that they may be placing unmarked guardsmen within the crowds. Why might they? How could it be useful to them? I think we know, and the answer isn't that they want to peacefully talk down crowds by being buddies within.