At times like these it always helps to read some William Butler Yeats
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At times like these it always helps to read some William Butler Yeats
Beautiful analysis
Or maybe just The Band singing The Night They Drove Old Dixie Downโฆ
And kinda thinking, hell, somebody might survive this madnessโฆ
Tragically perfect
Comes to mind more often these days in a haunting, warning way. #poetry #yeats #undoing #psychopaths #evil #power
A relative of mine.
The Grantโs and The Tuttleโs both moved into New Haven 1634-1636โฆhard core Puritans building a biblical city (Cromwell wanted to come too but was denied travel papers by Charles I - cost him his head).
The families crossed over sometime late 1600โs it appears.
He can start with:
I RAN the US into the ground.
President Trump tells CNN he's not worried whether Iran becomes a democratic state
https://cnn.it/4svPDol
Black Elk in 1876.
Black Elk (and unnamed) of the Lakota who had visions as a child of white men swarming the Black Hills (SD) like locusts presaging the apocalypse for the Sioux. Which is what happened. #history
Tragicallyโฆ
Whatever happens, even miraculous Venezuela-like stability in Iran and/or Cuba, the end of US diplomacy as we knew it weakens the US. Diplomacy is a tool of power, we had the best, and we blew it up deliberately. These waters are plenty charted, and they are full of icebergs. 15/15
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Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
โWar-a-Lagoโ
By Barry Blitt @newyorker.com
Geniusโฆ
Collecting your money illegally was so much easier.
MASSIE: โIran is not Venezuela. The Ayatollah was not a president. He was a religious leaderโฆ ๐บ๐ธ & ๐ฎ๐ฑ turned him into a martyr, expended billions, 6 ๐บ๐ธ families must now lay to rest their sons & daughters. And for what? This administration can't even give us a straight answer.โ
The future of Wall Street traders. Itโs all Gordon Gecko on steroids now.
Theyโre not alone in that worldโฆ.
Next Job:
State Penn Analyst.
(Smiles)
Tempus Fuget.
NEW from me: Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Here Are The Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein
๐ www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Oh, this should be uglyโฆ
Thanks for bringing this to light.
It only gets worse by the day. But we need to know the truth. Bad as it is.
Dimmer bulbs is being extremely gracious.
This is only getting far worse.
The Justice Department released FBI interviews with a woman who accused Donald Trump of beating her after he sexually assaulted her when she was a child. trib.al/FRCmhds
Precisely
Has trump made a formal statement about the US military personnel that lost their lives overseas?
Any public condolences?
Any sign of gratitude for their service? Any sign of empathy for the loss of their grieving families?
I havenโt seen it.
Factually true.