Stephen R. Welch

Fiction | History | Heresy

[Moral Philosophy @ML_Philosophy]

"There is no version of greatness that does not pass through suffering first."

— Augustus Caesar.

[Tat Atfender 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇫🇷🇺🇸🌻 @TatAtfender]

“No American should care about Putin’s “aspirations!” He’s a war criminal and my aspirations for him are for him to rot in a prison cell”
Senator Mark Kelly

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

The Republican Party doesn’t exist as a party anymore, and there’s no hope of restoring it. People are looking for something else.

That ‘something else’ isn’t the current Democratic Party, as defined by its leadership.

People who don’t like the Democrats, because the party has been elitist and tuned out of ordinary people’s needs, have to get over the idea that the Republicans can fix it.

People who don’t like Trumpist authoritarianism have to get over the idea that getting the Democrats back in will fix it.

The Great Party Duopoly got us here. Continuing to swing back and forth within that structure will only make things even worse.

Parties die. The GOP already has. It’s time for the funeral.

Something will rise from the ashes.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

PISTORIUS: Today I've decided to deliver urgently needed PAC-2 interceptors, AIM-9 air to air missiles and IRIS-T air defense systems from Bundeswehr stocks to Ukraine. These missiles are being delivered as we speak and will strengthen Ukraine’s air defenses before winter comes.

[𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐚 🇪🇺🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Tweet4AnnaNAFO]

🔥 Zelensky to russia: “3,000 km isn’t the limit.” Ukraine just proved it.

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[Frank Scozzari @ScozzariFrank]

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
—Joseph Brodsky—

[Black Lodge Cult @BlackLCult]

David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini. Photo by Helmut Newton, 1988

[Words For You @_Wordsforyou11]

“Rome was built by men who slept on dirt. It is being spent by grandsons who sleep till noon.”

- Seneca

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

The Hungarian government has ordered ten diplomats from the Russian Embassy in Budapest to leave the country. They carried out activities in Hungary that are unacceptable for diplomats. We will defend our country’s sovereignty.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Buttigieg: "In a country that amended its Constitution so you couldn't buy beer, then realized it was a bad idea and amended it again, surely we can pass an amendment saying corporations aren't people and money isn't speech."

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

When the Titanic went down, Donald Trump was right there. Jiffy on the spot to help. Yes, we are going to mock him relentlessly.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

The saddest part of 2016 was how many people believed the worst rumors about a woman, while ignoring the worst facts about a criminal man

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Texas Republican on why she is supporting James Talarico:

"Ken Paxton is trash. He's a disgrace to my party. He's a disgrace to humanity."

[𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐚 🇪🇺🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Tweet4AnnaNAFO]

🔥 Ukraine’s Zelensky: “We’ll increase the range & frequency of sanctions.”

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[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Every word of this. The current president of the United States is a Russian asset.👇

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

What a fat stupid liar

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

HODGES: Russians also provided transportation for Witkoff and Kushner. So you’ve got two undisciplined “knuckleheads” sitting in a Russian car being driven around, and every single thing they said inside that car was available to Russians. That’s the problem with these amateurs.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Look at Zelensky. Look at his reaction to what Kushner is saying. Utter disgust. He’s doing his best not to show it, but @ZelenskyyUa is rightly and utterly disgusted with the Americans talking about Putin’s “aspirations.” Fuck Putin and his aspirations. He invaded a sovereign nation. He needs to get the fuck out of that sovereign nation. All of it. But alas, America has a president who’s on Putin’s side.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

WILSON: In 1987, Trump made his first trip to Moscow, and while he was there, something happened. No one knows what.

He came back and immediately placed a paid ad in New York Times saying we need to get out of NATO, that we’re paying too much.

It was Russian talking points 101. At that moment, something happened in Trump’s brain.

Whether it was kompromat, Trump’s unsophisticated nature, or Russians simply persuading him that he could do business in Russia and build a Trump Tower in Moscow, whether it was venality or kompromat, Trump changed, and he's never abandoned that view since 1987.