Like that's bad, but their handling of the optics is so much less important than the substance of that abusive culture. Being less tone-deaf in their non-apology wouldn't really change much.

They'd also have forced him to take Feinstein on the ticket, leaving us with a whole new Woodrow Wilson

#Tradle #522 2/6

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

https://oec.world/en/tradle

Mafia bosses whose casinos and slaves got liberated in Cuba have spent decades supporting America's efforts against the revolution there, some of the CIA's most consistent assets. They would be delighted to have a similar situation in whatever areas Russia holds onto in the war as a supplement to the blood and soil Bay of Azov gusanos. No action in all the multiverse would be more on brand for them than creating a commoditized settler-investor class by having their puppet regime in Kyiv set up Uber for infrastructure to run a fire sale on Thatcher-brand NFTs for the last vestiges of the Ukrainian SSR.

To the extent that there was deliberate ethnic cleansing under Imperial Russia (and to some extent the USSR) it wasn't ethnic Ukrainians being displaced from Novorossiya, it was Tatars displaced from Crimea.

It's been done before and it was glorious

Battleship Potemkin mashup called Snow White Terror