Yeah, a bad guy for sure, but when I read this, I had to laugh:

I really didn’t like school and hated some of my teachers. And I still think the German teacher’s association whines too much. But, Jesus, shooting drills with pellet guns. And getting sprayed/fake executed in the process - that’s what it means to be a teacher in the US these days?

The entire population was literally cowed by direct mortal threats.

You would think that too, if you were working there.

“I spent my day doing two one-hour briefings with press and intergovernmental affairs people, agency people from all across the country and then over an hour briefing that I led in the Oval Office with the president and first lady in the cabinet on opioids at one year, so this is what I do here.”

He doesn’t look in the mirror, just look at his hair or the way he binds his ties.

A diplomat? I know a fitting position for him: ambassador to Germany. The current one, Grennell, a Trump supporter, is so adept at diplomacy that the until now unthinkable has happened: well known German politicians are calling for his dismissal - by the German foreign ministry, not as a plea to Washington, mind you.  …

Everybody knows by now that Fox News is a very right wing populist broadcaster and they will air propaganda all the time. You just don’t listen to them. it’s factually wrong, racist and sexist and plain wrong.
So what about that headline:

Things that will not be heard at Woodstock 50: “This is a free concert”.

So are the Hell’s Angels.

This happened with several representatives of BDS here in Germany (but probably outside of Germany too) when they were asked about Israel’s right of existence, they couldn’t or wouldn’t give answers. Other signs include false equivelances like comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and other fascist states and support for…

Excellent comment, thank you. There is a line between criticizing the Israeli government (and there’s lots) to totally exaggerating it to “Israel controls the US”, employing antisemitic stereotypes to boot. And it is antisemitic to deny Jews their own country by denying Israel’s existence like BDS does. Just because…

Those Messi fan boys. Never mentioning that Messi is a convicted tax evader and alleged racist. It’s always (former) Madrid player Ronaldo who’s sins are listed.  

Yeah, I know that, but I doubt, that the yellow jackets thought so far. It was just a reason to go to the streets.

On a related note: at the end of the week he said that the French government brought the yellow jackets’ rampage on itself for signing the Paris Agreement on climate. The original protests were against a higher gas tax. That train of thought is really hard to follow.
On the other hand I’m getting tired of these “Guess…

fascist dickbag/Johnny Depp

A view across the border: Tom Russell - Goodnight, Juarez

We are truly now, more than ever, the last great hope of Earth

Putin would never finance enemies of his biggest asset, his agent/puppet/bootlicker Trump. 

They can become insular and disconnected from those they are supposed to serve; they can act for their own benefit, rather than the benefit of all; they can become myopic, inward-looking, short-sighted, ponderous, and unable to stay connected to the grand vision that may have propelled them in earlier days; and…