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Prigozhin looks like a Bond villain’s enforcer.
Because he is a Bond villain’s enforcer.
The Julius Streicher of the Internet age.
I hope Robert Mueller and his “It’s-not-for-me-to-say-whether-Trump-committed-a-crime” conscience are sleeping well these days.
Tucker is just a villain. He is not skilled beyond stirring up the GOP. Those other guys have skills beyond blustering into a microphone in a TV studio.
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Some puppets never want to become real boys.
Of course, why would Putin need a “Troll Farm” to produce propaganda when he has Tucker Carlson and the whole miserable right-wing cadre of trolls at Fox doing it for him.
And they work for free, too.
“Surprise, surprise, surprise.”
— Gomer Pyle, 1962
Evidently not much has changed.
“I only ask questions: like ‘Why does Joe Biden rape children?’”
Too on-the-mark.
How I’m responding to pro-Putin Tweets.
That’s Moe my style.
Indeed, as the former Republican president* would say: “Straight from Central Casting” - scary looking villain group.
I thought that was Steven Miller without the luscious hair.
