“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
—Niccolo Machiavelli
And Trump has surrounded himself with corporate shills, sycophants, cronies, and relatives. His nepotism is more absurdly obvious than that in an old-style Banana Republic. He’s replaced all the scientists on the EPA’s Science Advisory Board with industry lobbyists.
Unless he falls victim to some natural disaster, I fear we are well and truly boned.
Idle Eyes and a Dormy 
WORD!
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I’m thinking of another family to whom this equally applies, only this one have their eyes on the entire world – the Murdochs! (Yuk!)
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It’s so true. That’s why I wonder if the comic Lazarus is telling the future at this point.
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“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
—Niccolo Machiavelli
And Trump has surrounded himself with corporate shills, sycophants, cronies, and relatives. His nepotism is more absurdly obvious than that in an old-style Banana Republic. He’s replaced all the scientists on the EPA’s Science Advisory Board with industry lobbyists.
Unless he falls victim to some natural disaster, I fear we are well and truly boned.
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