© GrokUrsula von der Leyen, the world is staged to 'Exit Left'
"The left became hideously, ostentatiously, unapologetically corrupt (as ruling parties tend to do). They sold out bigtime and got bigtime rich. You want to know why none of them want to cut waste anymore? Because they're the ones stealing it."
— El Gato Malo on Substack
In my quiet backwater of the Hudson Valley, an early spring drives all creation violently. The peaceful sleep of winter ends in twitches and spasms. The ground breaks open like one big egg and all living things emerge: green shafts of the crocus, scuttling sowbugs, slithering snakes, sleek garlic shoots, 'possums in the compost bucket, ticks are back on the cat's face, the ice in the river cracks in frightening booms, hungry songbirds infest the bare roadside lilacs, tiny voices trill darkly in the woods, a lone early moth in its first rapture of flight meets the pitiless windshield.
You can feel it. The northern hemisphere of this planet shudders, rattles, and rolls into the most tumultuous spring in memory. Everything is in play, turning, turning, while forgotten consequence rises on vengeful wings like an aggrieved god of yore.
Nothing will be as it was. A most wicked spell has been broken.
What does it feel like to be able to think again?Messrs Trump and Putin sincerely seek to end the age's stupidest war in Europe's dumbest country, while the
European Union and its outlier Great Britain go ostentatiously more insane every week. They bethink themselves storybook conquerors out of some retrograde history written by gibbering globalists.
Macron and Friedrich Merz propose a grand invasion of Russia, as if Napoleon and Hitler had never existed, and
they aim to get it done on about three days' worth of ammunition. You first, Emmanuel, Merz insists. Non, non, pas de tout, Macron demurs with a deep bow.
Comment: Expect the 'straight line' to resolution to have some necessary, but controversial curves. If Zelensky wanted peace, he would have quit the war, saved untold numbers of people, restarted civilian life and preserved what is now devastated Ukraine. It would have been right and honorable.