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Actually, there was indeed a famous female dictator, Catherine the Great (I wonder if Trump might start calling himself Trump the Great) who probably got that title because of her bloody wars expanding the Russian Empire.

I suspect, though, that her ravenous sexuality may have played a part. In her efforts to have intercourse with a horse, they suspended a stailion above her. As the story goes, the cables holding the horse broke from its weight, at which time Catherine was squashed and died. I have no idea how she expected this to work, unless she had a horse-sized vajayjay.

Elena Freshman Schumann's avatar

THERE was also Elizabeth I who never married because she did want to share her rule with a man. The horse thing about Catherine is BS, (WHO WAS GERMAN NOT RUSSIAN, she married the Russian Tzar who died young) Catherin herself was an able ruler and people cannot stand the fact that a FEMALE could control one of the most powerful countries in the world, but she did. She died of natural causes. So did Elizabeth I despite the many attempts on her life so her cousin Mary could take control. She eventually had Mary beheaded but Mary's son became the King when Elizabeth finally died.

Elena Freshman Schumann's avatar

Elizabeth contacted small pox at a young age and that makes you unable to bear children (same with George Washington which is why he married a widow with children). It was known at the time that people who had smallpox could not bear children, so the question of would succeed her was always in the back of everyone's mind, but Mary's son was taken from shortly after he was born so that would be a legitimate heir and he did become the King when Elizabeth died.

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Trump has some luv thig with Kim, he wishes to have similar blueprints of the governing, have you noticed, in every state, are concentration camps being set up for the midterm elections, people being labeled as terrorist's, the unwanted lefty's and anyone that has apposing ideas''

Angie's avatar

Interesting stuff Jay, and as always I learned things I never knew...

Dra Wiersema's avatar

The stories of old dictators adoring their daughters is such a contrast to the evil brutality of a dictator's life. I wonder if the the purity and beauty of a young daughter's love for their father is their only fingerhold on goodness, perhaps scatching a deep unrealized hunger that has been starved by their own solutions for goodness.

Elena Freshman Schumann's avatar

It is well known that the person who wears the pants in the family right now is not KIM, IT is Kim's sister. Kim himself is a figurehead. It is not so much that because people are used to a women (ie Kim's sister) being in control they would mind if his daughter takes control. It is ALL part of a plan to give females legitimacy in the ruling party, for whatever reason it was decided that that should be done. It does not matter who is the figurehead the country is controlled by an elite cabal who protect their secrecy and anonimity because they are paranoid and they have reasons to be so.

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Affordability: Everyone Needs A Scapegoat

When it comes to who is to blame for the affordability issue in the US, Americans want answers Is it the Nazi Republicans led by the incompetent Cheeto regime who buries their head in the sand when there’s a problem hoping that it will go away Remember COVID? Every day it was it will “be gone by summer” or “we’ll let the states handle it” This complete lack of leadership is now obvious and head in the sand Cheeto is just hoping it will go away since he has no answers…his forte is vengeance not problem solving

As an article in TNR(The New Republic) the public would like to blame corporate greed(https://bit.ly/46QRjjN) believing that large companies are simply price gouging the American public Of course Cheeto is complicit since he and his Nazi aligned party favor $$ for themselves over helping the country’s citizens overcome an affordability issue

But the loss of the purchasing power of the dollar is another more menacing and unreported problem that is clearly part of the issue of affordability In terms of gold which is a Constitutionally mandated metallic standard(Article 1 Section 8 and 10) the dollar is worth 6 pennies as to what it was in 1971 when Nixon took the country off a metallic standard How past administrations have let this loss of purchasing power become a now economic disaster is due to misdirected macroeconomists

So in the end the affordability crisis is multifactorial: incompetent leadership, greed which led to poor economic direction by many administrations over 50y with eventual economic collapse The ides of March is approaching and ghosts of the 1930’s are appearing

Frau Katze's avatar

The Kim family doesn’t seem any different from a royal family. The only difference is there are no titles (a sop to Communism, I guess).

I wouldn’t exclude royal families for that reason.

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I grew up with a Korean War vet. There are two reasons why I am glad my dad passed on before ever having to witness the Kakistocracy, I mean Idiocracy that inhabits The Vatican and D.C. A two bit coward and useful idiot Pope Francis smiling, shaking hands with the Devil Castro and The Don going down on Un at the D.MZ. God only knows how many millions of lives the two mobsters, I mean monsters have ruined, oppressed, tortured and murdered for over half a century. On behalf of over 50,000 Americans that did not return, losing their sacred lives fighting for freedom, there is no way Major Witt would not be mad as hell that a the supposed Vicar of Christ would warmly greet a cold blood murderer and dick tator for life, let alone the rage against a President of the United States warmly embracing the world’s biggest concentration camp commando (in Before Trump times, your fellow N.R. colleague and my favorite Rabbi, Dennis Prager, had a very good, moralistic descriptive of North Korea) on the D.M.Z. Proof of life is not fair is Fidel and Un died natural deaths, unlike Nico, who got what he dished out (Forgive me Jay, I believe in the death penalty for murderers, gangsters and dictators). At least Dennis Rodman has the excuse of having grown up in the lower west side…of the bell curve, that I can make an exculpable defense of the nobody basketball stars offense at being a useful Potemkin Village idiot. Bergoglio and Trump have no excuse and both so called leaders will forever be beneath my contempt. I do not suspect you are in communion with me Jay, anymore than what I am ranting is worth your time. I will always love reading your restraint, I mean columns that still manage to brighten my day, even when the likes of the main subject is a a real life horror (rhymes with) show pictured above. But, to the Village Idiwitt, I can still hear my old man say “DO NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS “…in other words, diplomacy is a fools game that dicktators love to play with useful, educated idiots. The only way the A Hole A Tollah is going down Jay, is if he were literally underground already, literally. In a just western political world with men with brains and balls, one not misruled by nationalists populists and know it all progressives…we would not tolerate regimes from hell merely existing on planet earth, as the Un dynasty and the Imperial Court straight outta the Death Star that is Tehrooran would have already been marked for reprisal by none other than The Pontiff and the President in cahoots (hat tip Jonah Goldberg). Gotta run on. Thanks for taking my rant Onward and Upward. Peace through superior mental firepower