H/T to Hunter for suggesting that Trump’s Sugar-Daddy, Bob Mercer should shop elsewhere for a pet oligarch if he doesn’t like the way the one he has does his shit.
Maybe the fucker will flee the country for some oligarchy that will treat him better; Russia is supposedly lovely this time of year.
Russia is lovely at this time of year. I was there last weekend and the weather, the landscaping and the monuments to a long lost past, still abide. The picture above shows Vladimir Putin’s outhouse in the background. Just kidding.
Actually pictured is one of numerous Summer palaces of the Romanov Tzars — built by serfs for absolute autocrats; restored, preserved and stewarded by Bolsheviks for the edification of the people of the Soviet Union; vandalized by German troops on orders of a mad, lying, racist, ruthless, nihilistic tyranny; restored and stewarded by the sons and daughters of Bolsheviks for the edification of the World; and now maintained and exploited by an oligarchy, controlled by a kleptocracy of billionaires, principally serving their purpose of extracting hard currency, from the Asian and Western Democracies (including, for a little longer, one hopes, the USA), for the oligarchs to use in their International racketeering activities.
I also visited the exact spot pictured 42 years ago, while fulfilling an unusual military assignment. My general impression from visiting last week is that the sons and daughters of Bolsheviks did a generally equal, if not better job at maintaining, restoring and and displaying the remains of Tsarist Russia than the current exploiter class has done, and the Soviets did it free of charge for admission.