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Thanks for the link to the video of Vance's Munich speech. I finally watched it— I found that 20 minutes well worthwhile, and extraordinary on so many levels.

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Every day is an overload.

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I'm noticing that, too.

Imagine being a DOGE Boy, or in a frozen Ukrainian trench, or Gaza...

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I've worked at that intensity for a couple of weeks, but after that...

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Me too.... in my 30s.

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Yep

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Most "maturity" is needed across our population, as the great majority of us sit in cosy homes with full bellies and screwded on banal TV to keep our minds dulled !!!!

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True but that percentage may not be as large as you think. Lots of struggling out there and enormous personal debt, both on an individual and business level. Pain pierces dull minds. I'm generally a pessimist by nature but I think I'm right. However, once alerted, herds can run in the wrong direction. :-) Sigh... I guess I'm not a big fan of human nature.

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Hear ya, We are inherently social "creatures"...But modern Life or Time tends to compartmentalise us, instead of bringing us together !!!!

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Very true. We are siloed, atomized.

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J.D. Vance told it exactly the way that it is...The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing, but the Truth....its very hard for all the grifters, liars, cheats, pedophiles, etc. who call themselves leaders in a number of countries to face. They sold their souls. to get into high positions, but they have no integrity, character, morals or intelligence.

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It was a good speech.

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Thank you for lifting that amazing speech into attention. Gustav Klimt painted Nuda Veritas in1899, and elites were equally appalled. Maybe it is always so. In finnish taxpayer funded public news Vance talk is described as ("lyttäsi radikaalioikeistolle tutulla tyylillä eurooppalaiset arvot, demokratian ja sananvapauden") my translation: "smashing european values, democracy and freedom of expression in typicall extreme right-wing fashion". So news presents pretty much the opposite of what he said. We are getting the classic mushroom treatment: kept in dark and fed horse manure. Absurd verging on comedy, if it were not about wars and real destruction.

https://www.gustav-klimt.com/Nuda-Veritas.jsp

And yet, to grow, you need amazing courage - here is a clip of penguins jumping off an icy cliff to take their first swim, this was at Naked Capitalism yesterday. It takes a lot of courage to change anything, leave the old and leap to the new. A risk.

https://x.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1889578911207477372

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Thank You, Kristiina. I have been looking at Naked Capitalism again recently, after a couple of years off. I skim for useful stories.

I appreciate your perspective from Finland.

Klimt's art engages with a bit of discomfort, does it not?

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"I was raised in a very poor working class family and had

to cut the front lawn with nail clippers every Sunday after

church !"

And, 'There's a new sheriff in town !'

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Very nicely done sir.

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Thank You, Ma'am.

;-)

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Somebody finally had the guts to speak some truth about Russia, US foreign policy, and spoiled rotten EU and UK elites. I really enjoyed it, almost as much as the waste cutting at home. I seriously doubt "peace is nigh" but he said many things that badly needed to be said.

They are now proposing a 50 percent cut in DoD's budget. Delicious! That's another nest of spoiled brats, Dr. Strangeloves, and jaded mandarins. I find this administration's policies toward Israel and Lebanon completely reprehensible and I strongly suspect that their approach to what are very serious domestic economic problems will be mostly wrong. However, I'm really enjoying the stable cleaning so far.

Hope you're having a good weekend.

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Looks to me like JD said "there's a new sheriff in town" with transvestite eyes, not steely eyes. Not that there's anything wrong with that outside of the anti-trans movement but Im also not surprised that pyrrhus here isn't mentioning JD's tranny goth eyes: that's politics for you.

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