The burning tanker is not far from #Bljadimir #Putain's dacha.

newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/massive...

BLJADIMIR... 🤢

The key to being a bully is knowing whom you can pick on and whom you can't.

#proverb

Guess who got an exemption from the new import taxes.

Heard Island is small, remote, and inhabited only by penguins.

Reference:
‘Nowhere on Earth is safe’:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.
​ ​ ​ ​ — Roosevelt (December 29, 1940)

#proverb

There was a meeting today at the White House, to decide which territories should be ceded to #Bljadimir #Putain.

The obvious answer: Start with the Sudetenland.

You can predict the #pussygrabber's actions by asking WWPW?

What Would #Bljadimir #Putain Want?

www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...

Two interesting points from Marcy Wheeler:
emptywheel.net/2026/04/21/t...

1) He can't win his wars without retaliating hard against #Bljadimir #Putain ... a seismic shift.

2) He can't even escape via a negotiated settlement without making it plain for all to see that he is inferior to Obama.

++ Am I right to assume congressman Ciscomani is aware that troops were sent abroad, in open defiance of the law, in open defiance of the constitution, and with open contempt for Congress?

−− Uhh, I don't know about such things.

Full approximate transcript here:
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Today was a good day for #Bljadimir #Putain.

He's on a crusade to prove that democracy doesn't work. He doesn't much care who assassinates whom; he just wants chaos in every direction.

The meeting with #Bljadimir #Putain was so disastrous that the #bonespurs boy may have to use the Epstein files as a distraction.

☞ 兵者，詭道也。[...] 故遠而示之近
☞ All warfare is based on deception. So, when you are far away, pretend to be near.
​ ​ ​ ​ — Sun Tzu (circa 520 BC)

#proverb

#Bljadimir #Putain lost several billion dollars worth of bombers overnight. Some of them were 4000 km from Ukraine.

I don't understand this. The #bonespurs boy is usually predictable. I would have expected him to continue sucking up to #Bljadimir #Putain at every opportunity.

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

I have no idea how this will play out.

He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave.
​ ​ ​ ​ — Sir William Drummond of Logiealmond (1805)

#proverb

Sometimes all three at once.

Reference:
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Reason#D

Blackmail's a bloody sight better than bribery.
​ ​ ​ ​ — John le Carré (1982)

#proverb

It's astonishing how many internet sites mutilate this quote, sometimes citing a made-up reference.

Legit reference:
www.google.com/books/editio...