I don’t really care about what orangeboi expects, in a situation I expect was at least passively (if not actively) engineered as a distraction (by which I mean: US diplomats in the past would likely have been playing mediator to both parties to assist with de-escalation, and we’ve basically just stopped doing stuff like that altogether under our current regime).

I do care about the full context of orangeboi’s relationship and interactions with Epstein.

I daresay that Europe would look very fucking different in a negative way if the Marshall plan hadn’t happened post-WW2. And we did that for our allies and the countries we had just defeated.

As an American: we aren’t your allies anymore. Please, I beg you, treat this situation seriously, and act accordingly. You will be forced to make some harrowing decisions before this settles into a steady state. And please note that trying to preserve the status quo ante (that no longer exists) is a complete waste of resources at this point. Even in the best case, you will almost certainly have to significantly change how you frame your interactions with us.

I don’t say this gleefully. It breaks my heart in so many different ways to have to say this, much less so often, and to so many people. But it’s what’s happening, and ignoring the situation is actively harmful, and will likely (well, is, and will continue to) get lots of people killed, and make a shitload of peoples lives worse all around the world.

I’m generally staunchly against leveraging such things as attack vectors, but in this case, knowing her psychology and politics: have at her. Seriously. Drag her through the”mud” and “malign” her as trans. Serves her fucking right if she gets eaten alive by the maga base.

Just as the old adage goes - what would PugJesus do?

Now that’s a tradition I can get behind

Around the same time the definition of “literally” was expanded to include “figuratively”