Eh.. they know I've had Castlevania: SotN for 20 god damn years and they haven't done jack shit about it!

What a terrible administration to have a curse.

Not quite. When Paul Manafort is revealed to be half cyborg and Trump secretly has a man made out of killer nano-machine wasps at his command who can use wormholes to exit and enter reality, then we'll be catching up to Kojima. For the moment, it's just textbook dumb greedy assholes who would have not gotten caught if they hadn't been so fucking stupid.

It's simpler to just not believe any of it and call it "fake news" even while the perps are being carted off to jail.

Told you all not to tell him.

Bort, you were right the whole time and I'm sorry. Politics is a matter of measured response, not ideological edgelording, and being a political edgelord is an existentially dangerous game humanity can't afford to play with industrialized opponents. Russia has scored a decisive victory.

Also, the New York and Charlotte protests were Russians on both sides, because Russians know how to play them some violent morons. Probably better than we do.

Putin's great political insight was that there is an authoritarian contingent of conservatives in every "advanced" nation, and it takes very little to fan them into a frenzy. And the saner conservatives, who have spent all this time covering for their authoritarians, are in no shape to rein them in when they finally spring into action.

You're all right, meme. I think you're wrong a lot of the time -- and I'm sure that goes both ways -- but I also think you're speaking from the heart. Even when you're Doing A Thing, it's coming from a position of sincerity. If shit in Kentucky ever gets too shitty, you can hide out in Cleveland.

Interestingly, that is in part how Mussolini and Hitler both came to power: the "saner consevatives" of the time thought they could _use_ the fascists. Whoops.