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He hasn't any results, just none: empty as a drum. For any non-result, a failure a ton of bombastic hot lies or someone else is to blame, what do you mean responsibility? This the reality. Withdrew, ran away, hid away in all and any encounter with thugs. "Tough on Vlad" not even a joke, just plain stupid dumb parody. Amazing what brainwashing can do to folks brains no matter how many times it happens. But they have to give in and accept it first.

Here's probably the simplest way to look at it: he's pumping his fat lying cheeks promising to "fix" it in days, with Putin? Well, on that we don't need to guess, because there's that thing, facts and reality: just look at his Kim's episode. Kim on the scale of international thugs is no Vlad. He doesn't have oil, gas a half of the world's dead frozen and sh*tted tundra and his herd is a fraction of Vlad's. So look where the bombastic clown got with him. The moment it became obvious that Kim was leading him around his finger in the dumbest of ways, he lost interest and ran away as nothing happened. No, we don't to guess what he would do: give in to the thug, run away or both. On top of that deep unnatural attraction there maybe also real fear. On top of being bombastic liar full of himself if nothing else, he's very likely a coward too. The track record, facts and the reality tell us this. Nothing left to be guessed.

A narrow win would still legitimize his precedents and legacy. The Republican party has created a bad, bad precedent here. I can't think what could erase it and restore the normal political discourse, from now on.

One answer is known from history: cult mentality. It only takes convincing oneself that objective reality doesn't matter. Then, there's no limits where it couldn't go.

What they cannot respond to rationally and logically they will try to suppress. Frightened child syndrome. Cognitive dissonance. But games with these things can be costly, history tells us this much sure.

Putin regularly spits out bluff about N-war because he has nothing to fall back on. And look who's picking it right off his tongue, time after time, and again. Is it a coincidence? Russia wasn't threatened. It can end the war it started in one day, by getting the f*ck out of Ukraine, that is not Russia. Two years ago Putin was making ultimatums to NATO now he just forgot the name, a total memory wipe. Putin is perfectly fine to have Finland in the NATO, less than 100 km from his second capital only to save his sore a$$ in Ukraine. This how things are done by grown up people. It's not some fat lying cheeks pumping out hot air lies. In his term none of the international thugs was any worse due to his leadership Iran included, on the contrary, all were emboldened. He weakened alliances and ran away in every single encounter, pumping up lies in place of the results. But the new axis of tyrants is rising, it's a fact. What kind of leader can and should face it? No this isn't the kind of question that can be shrugged off.

American, as Western societies in general played with cult culture for some time now. Religious, pop, lifestyle, fast enrichment schemes, you name it. A combination of something deep in the human nature and the phenomenon of mass communications multiplied its effects many times over and they spread lightning fast. That seems to be fine while the cults were kept out of public politics. But not anymore: political cults are here and they are the reality. One of the main parties openly gave in to a little less than an authoritarian personality cult. The cannot control its Idol; they cannot and wouldnt' hold him to account. They have no principles; integrity; stamina and will left to do so. The transformation is complete: we have before us an accomplished authoritarian personality cult, with minimal if any regard and attachment to democracy. The other party hasn't been innocent either, it exhibited elitist, closed group behavior and mentality bordering in some aspects on the cultist style. The pattern is catchy and it's spreading in American politics. No need to remind the examples, even current ones of authoritarian cults and what they do to societies. The question is out and before the people: is cultist political culture acceptable and will it be a permanent staple of American politics from now and to whatever end it would take the society and the country? Or the society rejects these trends and culture right here. The answer will be obtained by history in any case: if it's not rejected now, then it's the new normal, and standard.

Repeats Putin's bluff and threats right off his tongue - not once already, cannot be a coincidence. Blackmailed an allied government by conditioning military assistance by America on personal favors. Withdrew from Syria and engineered chaotic withdrawal of the West from Afghanistan. Promised to de facto associate with the worst modern aggressor Putin to force unjust and deceptive Munich-style non-peace on the victim of unprecedented since WWII aggression. Has no idea about the international law: Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, signed in 1945 in San Francisco, spells out that “all Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations". Loved and cuddled with Kim. The new Axis of dictator thugs is rising. All is before our eyes. There's nothing here we couldn't have known.

Voicing Putin's scares right from his mouth, repeatedly, undermining the resistance - is it a coincidence? There's no avoiding it: he is playing into Putin's hands. Imagine if America had the leader of this kind during WWII - what world would we be living it now? A new Axis of tyrants is rising: Russia, North Korea, Bielorussia, Iran, couple of African juntas, Cuba, Venezuela, more are biding their time and he's totally oblivious to it. The absolute zero of integrity, principles, responsibility - even common plain sense. Is this the face and standard of American politics on and indefinitely? Well, one thing is quite certain: we knew everything. No surprises.

Who is he working for, seriously? Is he working for Putin, barely hiding it? Were allies wrong to attack Germany in WWII? In addressing the National Guard Association, "Ukraine's breakthrough in Russia can start world war three". Is it wrong for a victim of a brutal, unprovoked aggression to defend herself? No, there's no avoiding this question because it defines and will define who we are and our path forward. The only way he ever ended conflicts is by giving in to thugs and tyrants. Thug admirer. And now, helper too. In his own words.

Well, who could sum it better than in own words: "no Presidential Candidate, or Candidate for any Office, has ever had to put up with all of this Lawfare and Weaponization directly out of the Office of a Political Opponent” (Truth Social, on the new indictment for interference with the 2020 elections). A mob boss declaring himself a candidate should expect full immunity for anything ever committed. No way it's going anywhere. No way we could just shrug this off. The problems of the cult are two, and they are simple ones really. One is with the democracy. And the other, with the law. They don't understand it; despise it; and don't need it. And all of it is before our eyes.

This sweet and innocent complacency is adorable that nothing much is happening it'll be as always but in the reality it is: we are changing the level and the rules of the political game. And most troubling, doing it without a back thought, implicitly. But it's not going anywhere and the precedents were made. I'm not predicting terrible outcomes right away, these things can't be predicted with certainty when and how and who. But would we be making it the new normal? Most certainly. How and why wouldn't we? And then it opens the gate to: - Elections that aren't recognized for months or years (Venezuela) - Court decisions that are ignored or deligitimized - Factions making claims of victory and refusing to recognize anything else - Violent ongoing protests and so on. Why wouldn't we be opening the door to it, once the precedents were made? What's there: real and factual, to stop it? My guess is, we may feel and know something but are reluctant maybe even afraid to admit it and so, grasp to an illusion, a belief that there's still something solid, that nothing could happen no matter what we do and choose. A frightened child's reaction. Except the reality doesn't work like that. Beliefs and illusions have zero cash value to it. And it will always catch up with the consequences of the choices we make.

If an honest conversation isn't possible or just isn't on the agendas of the sides possibly because they have other plans, one can restate the question: is world OK with having a permanent violent conflict regularly flaring into open confrontation, for perpetuity? At the origin, shortly after WWII it would have taken some years of probably very difficult negotiations to perhaps reach a basis that would satisfy both sides. Now we are closing in on the eighth decade and in the third generation of an active, never ending conflict. Can we ever learn?

Democracy or the mob rule? Today, we can choose. Can the Idol be wrong? Can he be a criminal? There are no secrets here. And the choice is due now. "Philippines, Aug. 12 -- Police and Christian cultists clashed in the southern Philippines after authorities tried to arrest a member of the band, killing at least 20 people, police said today."

I'm not afraid of anything. But it's tested and verified over and again in history that democracy does not amount to the mob rule. You want the latter, go dancing in the dark after lying shamans singing you enchanting songs? Have your way. But happy end is never assured in those adventures. Of course you know. If a mob boss is elected in a free election it just may be the last one. Not sure? Itching to find it out again? As long as you're fully aware and will take full responsibility for the consequences. And by the way, the question still stands: how can one disagree with it, while supporting and rewarding it? Why wouldn't it be the new standard? Does it make any sense, in the sane world? Sanity is not a guarantee like democracy. It has to be kept, and maintained. So it's a responsibility too.

One of the parties created a terrible precedent here, and most staggering is that it just happened, without much reflection of the responsibility and consequences. Anyone can run for the president now. Mob boss with multiple convictions; crazy cult guru; a convicted psycho with online following, anyone: no limits, really. Wow. Founding fathers couldn't have imagined that in the wildest of dreams. A crazy totalitarian just said it randomly decades back. But who could have thought that we could be about to see it play out before our eyes? Astounding.

And again, this choice cannot be avoided, just as the reality and sanity. If it's accepted and rewarded, then it would have to be the new normal, and standard. Why and how, not?

It's not focused on one individual, not a fetish, nor evil incarnated. Defeating that project will not solve all problems by itself and automatically, quite obviously. But anyone who can think for themselves and make independent choices cannot avoid this conclusion: Electing this or even giving it significant support would legitimize; normalize and quite possibly, make standard all of the precedents he has made. He did it; it's a fact; and its rewarded. Next, what? Arguing this would be trying to defeat sanity. Pretending it's not there, a failure of responsibility. Reality won't go away and it comes back, always. Everyone is free to make their choices.

OK so all of this is already normal, for some. That much is clear. The question that remains is will it be the new normal for America, now? It just cannot be avoided or shrugged away you see.

But you aren't answering a simple question: is this the new norm and standard in politics? Should it be, from now on? How can it not be, if the precedent is set; and is accepted, by the party, and his following as perfectly normal and moreover, rewarded with a new nomination? How can one say that it was wrong and then cheer for it? Is this sane?

This is clear: if this becomes the norm and the standard; if every contender from now on could and will claim, before the vote "Me or its stolen"; if they try to find votes, after the polls and try to revert or even hijack the election. This would no longer be a first world democracy. No. No way. Pretend to not see it, or be dumb. Try to whistle something unrelated. But it's here because it's a fact, real factual precedent. And no twisted words can dismiss the reality history is full of those who tried. Yes it arrived unexpected but it's here, now. We only get to decide do we want it. Do we want and fully prepared to have our whatever it is, this way from here and to wherever it would get us.

Thanks to the cult converts the issue is as clear as can be: when it's the mob rule, the mob boss decides who won the "election". No unnecessary surprises. Don't even have to vote. Examples are plenty. So democracy or the mob? We know everything. Sure, it's a choice.

So this comes straight down to the pitch of the cult: we are tired with, and don't need that democracy. We want the mob rule. It sounds like this, and this is what it is. Except they wouldn't say it out and in the open. And the party? Does it subscribe to that? It doesn't look like it has a sound voice as of now. So everyone will have to decide for themselves.

This is just wrong and right in the plain sight. Where all candidates can claim "it's me or or it's rigged" and instruct election officials to find them votes they need to win how would you know who won? And what if the loser refuses to concede? And uses police to defend his/her position? Would it still look like a democracy or what? The harm is already done, it's the fact, precedent. It's not wrong as of now to claim that I win or it's rigged and who cares how they voted. It's not wrong yet to go fishing for votes, as Putin and Maduro do routinely. Democracy is not the mob rule and it's for a reason it wasn't designed that way, mob boss for a president and let the mob figure out how the folk votes. You want it that way - you sure can have it, and there's no point reminding of the consequences if it's not obvious but they will be coming. No one can cancel the reality and the links of the cause and effect. No loud mouth has such powers.

No need to respond to lies. No one refused to concede the election. No one tried to interfere with the election offices or prevent certification. The lies are so plain that only totally brainless like to bath in. This isn't a great situation though and as often in history the onset is quick and unexpected. There is an authoritarian cult that doesn't understand the democracy; is suspicious of it; and despises it. It's ready to do away with it and replace it with some kind of the mob rule. History is full of examples how it could happen. Next, a party, formerly of respected democratic tradition gave in to the cult by first failing to create a viable alternative; and secondly by compromising with it and giving it ground step by step, till no place for an alternative was left. So now the question: is it the new normal? is escalated to the people. Should the democracy be severely eroded or done away with entirely, in some foreseeable stretch if not immediately, is before the people. Except the cult is trying to hide it, adorn and decorate it as just another election. But no. The record is set in history and its' not going anywhere. "I win or its rigged" "Just find me those votes" "You don't have to certify it or else" All is before our eyes. We only have to answer one question: is this the new normal? Do we want and prepared to have the democracy this way, from now and indefinitely?