• oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    3 days ago

    Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a buffon on ketamine tasked with purging the civil service.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Malhuret
    Notes by me between <>.

    Claude Malhuret (French pronunciation: [klod malyʁɛ]; born 8 March 1950) is a French physician, lawyer and politician who has served as a member of the Senate since 2014, representing the department of Allier. A member of Horizons (HOR) <center-right party founded by a former prime minister of President Macron> he has presided over the centre-right <~ Biden’s Democrates> The Independents – Republic and Territories (LIRT) parliamentary group in the Senate since 2017.

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    Great speech but there is still too much wishful thinking regarding the US. The fight in the US is just barely starting and it is nowhere near getting to the worst parts. Europeans need to assume that not only is American help not coming back in their lifetime, but that there is a good chance that they might need to arm themselves against American aggression. Maybe not all out war but certainly in skirmishes.

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      3 days ago

      I hear that. I took those comments in a couple of ways:

      1. he is at least to some degree describing real things that are happening
      2. more so, I took it as an expression of faith that America has deep reserves of reason and dignity which are not exhausted yet
      3. it was also a subtle cue to those of us who think we’re part of those reserves to get off our asses