"Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation"
The Trump Administration is ideologically purging all branches of government in ways that the USA may never recover from.
This is "End of Empire" behavior.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/hegseth-firing-military-leaders.html
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A quotation from Christopher Marlowe
MACHIAVEL: I count Religion but a childish Toy,Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Jew of Malta, Act 1, Prologue (c. 1590)
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MACHIAVEL: I count Religion but a childish Toy, And hold there is no sinne but Ignorance. This speech is often considered the Prologue, but differs from the Prologue at Court and the Prologue to the Stage, and in some editions is set apart from Act 1, in others simply at…
A quotation from Terrance Dicks
SARAH JANE: Doctor, you’re being childish!Terrance Dicks (1935-2019) English screenwriter, author [pseud. Robin Bland]
Doctor Who (1963), 12×01 “Robot,” Part 4 (1975-01-18)
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Our culture tells youth: Live your passions without sacrifice or effort; seek the “trifles” of mediocrity that surround you. Make these “childish things” the objects of existential desire. Let nothing, not even a small child, come between you and them. (essay by John Horvat)
#misogyny
#childishness
#immaturity
#narcissism
Deeply #insecure
#Racism
#cruelty
#sociopath
#Russian pawn
#Putin's batch
#amorale
#Cultism
#Oligarchy
Why is anyone drawn to this disgusting maggot?
I grew up in Christian fundamentalism so I understand cults and brainwashing to some degree, but this lying manipulative pus bag, and people like him, have always pissed me off. I see them from a mile away. And yet I am baffled why anyone gets sucked in.
The #doublestandard is #laughable.
In former #President #DonaldTrump’s #RepublicanParty (and it is his party now) #childishness, #cruelty, and #pettiness #reign supreme, the primary focus long ago shifted from #policy to #adhominem attacks where and #women’s #accomplishments are relegated to #irrelevance.
https://kentuckylantern.com/2024/08/06/the-double-standard-is-laughable/
A quotation from Bible, vol. 2, New Testament:
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When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and think like a child, and argue like a child, but now I am a man, all childish ways are put behind me.
»
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https://wist.info/bible-nt/40486/
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When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and think like a child, and argue like a child, but now I am a man, all childish ways are put behind me. Alternate translations: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as…
A quotation from Pasternak, Boris:
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself — the gift of life — is such a breathtakingly serious thing! — Why substitute this childish harlequinade of adolescent fantasies, these schoolboy escapades?
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https://wist.info/pasternak-boris/28855/
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself -- the gift of life -- is such a breathtakingly serious thing! -- Why substitute this childish harlequinade of adolescent fantasies, these schoolboy escapades? Criticizing the immature aspirations of revolutionaries. Alternate translation: Man is born to live, not…
A quotation from Martin, Judith:
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In a fit of exasperation, Miss Manners once demanded of a six-year-old person how it could be so childish and was forced to admit the justice of its reply, “I’m a child.”
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/martin-judith/63692/
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In a fit of exasperation, Miss Manners once demanded of a six-year-old person how it could be so childish and was forced to admit the justice of its reply, “I'm a child." Reprinted in Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, Part 3 “Basic Civilization," "Concerning Children" (1983)
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