For the first time in my life, I am wondering if I will wind up being a refugee in my old age. Installing Trump as the Dictator of Florida would assure that nightmare will come to be, although it might be worth it, just to see the State dissolve into a bitter Civil War between the Trumpites and the DeSantisoids.
May the road rise to meet you,May the wind be always at your back.May the sun shine warm on your face,The rains fall soft upon your fields.And until we meet again, Fuck Ted Cruz.
"it quickly became an insane kleptocracy (but with lots of nice things for some people to buy);" "rapacious capitalism," but just as the "the land of the free" required:
Don't forget the invisible hand of Milton Friedman (wizard of Chile, too). Capitalism and Freedom? Freedom to Chose?
Boris Yeltsin became the president of the Russian Federation and got busy selling off chunks of the economy to the rich and powerful
And just how did those people get rich enough to buy multibillion dollar state enterprises? They weren't rich under communism, although they may have been powerful and had their own private dachas. They were loaned that money by western fat cats eager to control the future of the ex-Soviet countries, with the assistance of Richard Armitrage who set up the new banking system. (Armitrage also is rumored to have been the one who taught the Afghan warlords the advantages of changing from high-mass low-profit opium to low-mass high-profit heroin.)
also, everyone in russia got 'state dollars' (not the right word) that meant they owned a certain amount of the state property. the oligarchs partially established themselves by buying their neighbours etc out, for pennies too cos people didn't see the long term value and needed to buy food for their kids, thereby becoming majority shareholders in the power grid and other vital infrastructure, which they leveraged into more money
For the first time in my life, I am wondering if I will wind up being a refugee in my old age. Installing Trump as the Dictator of Florida would assure that nightmare will come to be, although it might be worth it, just to see the State dissolve into a bitter Civil War between the Trumpites and the DeSantisoids.
May the road rise to meet you,May the wind be always at your back.May the sun shine warm on your face,The rains fall soft upon your fields.And until we meet again, Fuck Ted Cruz.
Something like that?
"it quickly became an insane kleptocracy (but with lots of nice things for some people to buy);" "rapacious capitalism," but just as the "the land of the free" required:
Don't forget the invisible hand of Milton Friedman (wizard of Chile, too). Capitalism and Freedom? Freedom to Chose?
Fuck Ted Cruz
Constantly Chernenko.
Looks like there might be tongue?! The mind reels, then resists.
Ah, DELICIOUS!!
Boris Yeltsin became the president of the Russian Federation and got busy selling off chunks of the economy to the rich and powerful
And just how did those people get rich enough to buy multibillion dollar state enterprises? They weren't rich under communism, although they may have been powerful and had their own private dachas. They were loaned that money by western fat cats eager to control the future of the ex-Soviet countries, with the assistance of Richard Armitrage who set up the new banking system. (Armitrage also is rumored to have been the one who taught the Afghan warlords the advantages of changing from high-mass low-profit opium to low-mass high-profit heroin.)
Then they followed that up with giving the prize to unrepentant terrorists Menacham Begin and Yassar Arafat.
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Or Jerry Lee Lewis!
Gorbachev probably recognized the Reagan was senile (having been exposed to a lot of it at the Kremlin).
Ta, Dok. My loathing of the abhorrent Ronnie Raygun is intact decades later.
And TFG said build Wall and illegal immigration ended forevah!
also, everyone in russia got 'state dollars' (not the right word) that meant they owned a certain amount of the state property. the oligarchs partially established themselves by buying their neighbours etc out, for pennies too cos people didn't see the long term value and needed to buy food for their kids, thereby becoming majority shareholders in the power grid and other vital infrastructure, which they leveraged into more money
Pluralized or possessed?
here is your fainting couch