Yes, the... ring.

totally Listerine his lips and mouth before he speaks to her and that he sanitizes his hands before he touches her.

They only care about access , money and power. Nothing or no one else matters. Only their sickness for more.

All I can do in response is

Tell lies to cover up the fact that it's a grift and power grab.
The morans ate it up and the "media" let the lies go unchallenged.



They DO NOT speak for half of America (arguably more than half)
And they should be shunned the way they shunned America and Americans.,
Lies upon lies upon lies. Goebbels Fascist playbook.

But I do know they're all warped. I wonder if a journalist has asked them directly why they capitulated?
Thanks for posting the Guardian article. I did read it from top to bottom.

We're not the "land of the free". And we're not like Romanians, Georgians, South Koreans, or Ukrainians.

There are still some heroes in the world, but I don't think we're going to find them here. And I'm too old and tired to play at being one.

How is this even happening?

In this current world, no good deed goes unpunished. When people awaken to their good side, hidden behind a crust of taught behaviors, which are not inherent, we will get better leadership.

Racism is taught. Hate and intolerance for others is taught. Those of us who grew up in the 50's saw a great transformation the started in the minds and hearts of people to whom racism and falsehoods were foreign and we turned our backs on that imagined "reality".

Several of us discussed that tonight, among with addictions, including gambling. People sometimes have to hit rock bottom before deciding to abandon those poisons that warp their reality. And sometimes a friend or relative will show them that a better reality exists. Half the country is in a cult hypnosis full of lies reinforced 24 by 7 by 365. It's an addiction, and poisonous to themselves as well as others.

The Buddha is quoted as saying that holding in hate is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.

And medically, hate fills one with cortisol, so it's more than a parable.

to be largely dismantled, with the result that they are replacing all other values and perverting all other motives.