Surround yourself with yes-men and everything will be fiiiiiine!
My father used to tell jokes about the GDR and Soviet Union when I was a kid. I was in kindergarten when the Berlin wall fell. Nowadays you can tell almost the same jokes about the US…
Question for the radio station Eriwan: Could the catastrophe of Chernobyl have been avoided? Answer: Principally yes, if only Sweden hadn’t spilled the beans.
Question for the radio station Eriwan: Is there censorship in the Soviet Union? Answer: Principally no, but unfortunately we are unable to further elaborate.
Question for the radio station Eriwan: How does the soviet government act in a crisis? Answer: We do not provide information regarding the state of our Agriculture sector.
Question for the radio station Eriwan: Is it difficult to go to the moon? Answer: Principally no, but how do we convince our cosmonauts to come back again?
Looking forward to reusing them for the US.
It’s Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. In Russian those jokes were “Armenian radio is asked”
It’s Eriwan in German. I didn’t look up if it had a different English spelling. :D
putins other russian assets, wants hesgeth to stop any aggression against its interest, and iran is putins ally.
This is unspeakably detrimental to the future of the United States.
Hey look.
Republicans further weakening our nation…again.
Man. I grew up really thinking America would have the balls to handle a traitorous president or party.
I was dead wrong.
Instead they love handling the traitorous president’s balls.
The experiment has failed.
I mean, it lasted for a good quarter millennium; it’s not a complete failure.
Humans, amirite?!
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But checks and balances!
More like cashiers checks and account balances…
Incompetent drunk fires career serviceman to please Dear Leader.
Gonna be trouble, Drinky Pete.
More self-sabotage of the war machine, what’s not to like?
Politicizing intelligence and making military leadership partisan guarantees more wars not less.
The shithead with a mustache also only had yes-men. Videos of him presiding over battle plans in his bunker showed him confident about their chances. I’m pretty sure they lost. We can only hope yes-man tank this admin before we go to war.
A well known rendition of him doing this also showed when those yes-men ran into the problem where they couldn’t spin things anymore. So he threw them all under the bus because it was obviously their fault. Projection and blameshifting til the end.
I’m pretty sure they lost.
There have been some theories
The allies actually stopped trying to assassinate Hitler in the latter years of the war because he was causing more and more damage to his own cause by firing people who knew what they were doing and replacing them with yes-men.See below.
Is that accurate? I’d love to read more about it if you have a source.
Doing some more research it seems that people argued against assassinating Hitler for that reason, but they weren’t listened to.
Peter’s Evil Overlord List #32 - will not fly into a rage and kill a messenger who brings me bad news just to illustrate how evil I really am. Good messengers are hard to come by.
He is failing simple things from a listicle from 1996…
When I employ people as advisors, I will occasionally listen to their advice
I will not have a son. Although his laughably under-planned attempt to usurp power would easily fail, it would provide a fatal distraction at a crucial point in time. (This could apply broadly to a few different people in the Admin)
I will not have a daughter. She would be as beautiful as she was evil, but one look at the hero’s rugged countenance and she’d betray her own father. (Would Ivonka betray him? Yes, definitely.)
I will maintain a realistic assessment of my strengths and weaknesses. Even though this takes some of the fun out of the job, at least I will never utter the line “No, this cannot be! I AM INVINCIBLE!!!” (After that, death is usually instantaneous.) (Fascism never has a realistic assessment of strengths and weaknesses)
I will maintain a healthy amount of skepticism when I capture the beautiful rebel and she claims she is attracted to my power and good looks and will gladly betray her companions if I just let her in on my plans. (I don’t know that this has specifically happened, but I bet Trump would fall for it)
I will never build a sentient computer smarter than I am. (LLMs ain’t smart, but a Raspberry Pi can run one smarter than Trump)
