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Oil Painter. Fond of animals and architecture. Former Bouncer. Dainty.
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Also how total it is to the people in it. It's a warping, parallel world that promises a lot of powerful compensations that regular life doesn't.
A lot of libs really want manners to rule the world. It's been a failure of Dems to really understand and work with the powerful irrationality of people.
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Brazil is newly prescient all over again.
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Repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)
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Oui oui!!
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Between the annexation threats, illegal deportations and his platforming Nazis, that veneered, glossy gladhandler can fuck right off.
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Even their trial and sentencing will be a relief. I hope it comes soon.
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A scattering of stones in the birthday cake never fails to delight.
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Especially with government departments full of holes, partly shut down or in confusion.
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Of course Erik fucking Prince is involved. He - and what supports him, who he works with, who keeps him busy - are begging for an expose.
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He'd remember the two generations before him, too. China was in terrible poverty in the 1950's, but the foundation was laid for prosperity in the late '70's, and they've been serious and unstoppable since.
They're tougher - they know what it's like to have nothing, and they are methodical.
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Just parroting and furthering lies from Trump's campaign speeches.
These sycophants are utterly disgusting.
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"...Mama!!"
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One thing you can always rely in the American mainstream media for is to never actually tell you the truth.
It's all opinion, debates over this part of the issue or that, limited framing, scenes from an event, human interest stories, uncorrected errors and glad-handling. When not actually malicious.
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Prince.
Always out doing something, always operative, half in shadows. He's one of the most genuinely frightening individuals that the US has got working evil for a variety of actors.
What has he done? Who is he planning with, and to do what?
This guy needs to be aired out in public.
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What country in their right mind would ever let them dock? What could be brewed up could make plague rats and cholera look timely.
On the other hand, this is going to make for an absolutely wild Love Boat reboot.
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It's so irrational, so destructive to logic and meaning and clarity. This is the ugliness of it - the way their rank stupidity just tarnishes and rots the concepts and language it comes into contact with.
I guess I expected high-level intelligence from would-be autocrats, not this clumsy blindness.
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Insanity - ugliness - stupidity.
The failure at America at every level, to elect and allow these cretinous goons their positions is the most damning indictment of the nation there is.
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A lot of Nerdrum's earlier work had a lot of political thought coursing through them. I think this one fits in that kind of concerned mindset.
I'm sure the painting has multiple meanings, but the 're-uniting after injustice' theme I do remember being important to it.
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If I'm remembering correctly, this painting is about with someone released from prison re-uniting with his loved ones.
Nerdrum had worked on another painting around the same time called 'The Arrest'. I also associate it with the drawing shown here, 'The Embrace'.
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His early, rather imperious works had a lot of political thought coursing through a bunch of them. Though I'm sure this is not the only meaning of this painting, this is what I've associated with it from looking over his work, back in the day.
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I know that NYT paragraph has been written in English, but I'm not quite sure I didn't just read something written in cryptic runes of newspeak doom.
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Their beliefs today, your beliefs tomorrow.
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The way his face is constantly stretched into a giggling rictus of barely-suppressed hysteria is totally unnerving.
He's a deeply weird little imp.
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Besides remaining in place, the "formula" still makes no sense. It's the simplicity of stupidity made global.
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Complicit, compliant donor-class doorknobs.
It's so frustrating. Not just the mimsy lack of principles or actions from the Dems, but the non-existence of any other party to challenge them.
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What a shithead. And surprisingly dangerous for such a dweeb.
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"Trump, therefore, can now decide the future of China."
This sentence is downright delusional.
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Col. Edwards: This is the most fantastic story I've ever heard.
Jeff: And every word of it's true, too.
Col. Edwards: That's the fantastic part of it.
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That's a lot of fife and drums before coffee.
Reveille would be more inviting to wake up to.
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❤️
I call him "My fine gentleman" when I comb him. He's a steady, calm sweetie.
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Carlton Chester Fields
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Leavitt's a bleach-blonde migraine.
That hard, fish-lipped face is so full of filler and botox it seems to be set in permanent, unblinking smug mode.
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At present, it's the US's most abundant natural resource.
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Looks like a kind of hysteria, from here. Irrational, absolutely.
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Ubu Roi.
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I don't think anyone's wasting time considering it.
Canada, with many others, are acting quickly to establish new trade and financial alliances outside of and without the United States.
Disentangling won't be instant, some things will continue, but the trust is broken in multiple ways
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Absolutely. They haven't been voted into law, and are only suggestions with a flimsy coating of 'national emergency'.
There's no bureaucracy or department to collect them yet, either.
It's a scam.
But it shows you how much of a dictator he's already unofficially become.
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He abuses, relents a bit, then rides the grateful energy of the relieved. Ugh.
While still punishing China for some political or populist reason or other.
He's an ugly mess. Dumb on most things, cunning when it comes to greed. Always the same gross shit.
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Is there a right way to read these blithering, batty word salads?
I think poking at chicken entrails might yield better objective results.