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Pres. Putin remains firm and clear in peace talks.

Pres. Trump flips and flops on demands made to Iran.

Iran has every right to say "ENOUGH!", and end all talking.

Larry wrote: "Trump’s claim that he is the master of making a deal is being exposed as a hoax…" Who would trust the US now?

Look what he's done to my country, Ma.

https://youtu.be/r44Ach4mXE4?si=WZX-PUwrxnq6yitn

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My big brother, who's 83 years old, lives in Israel [Don't ask]. Before moving there, decades ago, where he taught in Israeli schools, he'd obtained a Master's Degree in Speech & Communications.

A few days ago he called me. And for some 70% of the conversation he was laughing, almost hysterically, over Trump's "stupidity," as he called it. And our conversation went on for a couple of hours--a couple of hours of his attempt to speak about Trump's tarrifs, and other subjects, but his laughter so intense he was barely able to speak.

There's a scene in the movie, Knives Out, where the Thrombys learn that they will not receive a penny of inheritance from the newly-deceased Harlan Thromby, the super-rich billionaire who decided to leave all of his dough, and the family mansion, instead, to his live-in nurse, Marta Cabrera. Well, after the annoucement is made, and the family sits stunned, the quiet, oldest member of the Thromby family, whom they call Greatnana, giggles. Yeah, she giggles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV05E64dI6I

Yeah. Like my big brother, I'm feeling it. You know, all the shit I've come across, in life, that I once thought was so important, ain't resonating with me anymore as "all that." I guess my brother's uncontrollable laughter can be attributed to that vibe, with, perhaps, the special spin--Well, and my big brother virtually said as much--that, it ain't about Greatnana; or my brother; or myself; or any individual.

It's about the entity that Col. Lawrence Wilkerson always refers to as, "The Empire," i.e., the U.S.; America; "The West." Yeah. My big brother pretty much, eventually, explicitly stated that. He said something to this effect: "How appropriate it is that, at the end of 'The Empire,' a maniac, a con artist, and an immensely stupid fool, Donald J. Trump, is in charge." I really don't like name-calling. Yet, on the other hand........

I just hope that I can let out a big belly laugh, as my childhood buddy, Ralph, would put it, "Every OTHER now and then!" If people weren't being slaughtered, maybe I could laugh myself to death. Maybe that's what my big brother's doing: laughing to keep from dying. I don't know. QUESTION: Why are our leaders such WEAK MEN? They stink of weakness. It's sickenly obvious. Nuf said.

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