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По поводу lenkakot/o_klyueva.

Я посмотрел еще раз на IP -- с location я ошибся. Так что уверенно говорить, что это один человек, я не могу. В связи с чем, я разбанил o_klyueva назад.

Из раньшего времени

В комментарии к записи, в которой упоминался "Новичок", прибыл pioneer_lj и по ходу разговора дал ссылку на oboguev. (Спасибо tijd, я бы сам и не разглядел, на кого ссылка.)

По-моему, это даже красиво.

Я зашел в ЖЖ к Обогуеву, глянуть продолжает ли он репостить десятки записей в день. Нет, по крайней мере, на первой странице ничего подобного не видно -- вообще записи далеко не каждый день.

А pioneer_lj -- я даже не знал, что он still around, в ЖЖ имею в виду.

Не резиновая - 2

К "Не резиновая".

Дети излагают ту же нехитрую message, только без "fuck off" и вообще in довольно adorable way.

These kids at Trump's Montana rally said one of the most important things they want the president to do is build his border wall because Mexicans are “overpopulating us" pic.twitter.com/j2wDpUNQ0x

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) July 6, 2018

В то же время, у американцев есть и другие мнения.

Poll: @POTUS's handling of immigration. pic.twitter.com/eKmWwp5g1o

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 7, 2018

Сон о президенте

Стив Бэннон предрекал, "It's not going to be OK". И я думаю, что он прав.

Но есть и другие пророчества. Куда более оптимистичные. Например, вот это. Особенно убедительным его делает то, что это не просто предсказание, как у Бэннона, а вещий сон.

Я пропускаю вступление и иллюстрации. За ними идите по ссылке.

Last night I had my first-ever dream about Donald Trump. He was driving me around the Midwest in his presidential limousine.

It was just the president and me in the car. I was sitting on a jump seat behind the front passenger position, facing backward, and the president was in the seat behind the driver, facing forward. Neither of us spoke.

Every building was red brick. And every building was damaged.

These were all commercial buildings. It looked like we were driving through a war zone, but I knew it was in the American Midwest.

I felt TERRIBLE. Lost. Hopeless.

Then the president said, "Stop the car." So we stopped.

He got out, and he went over to a parkway that was totally dead. The grass and bushes were brown.

The president was wearing an overcoat and a scarf. He had his hands in his pockets.

He looked down at the grass, and then he looked up up at the sky. It started raining. He stood in the rain with his eyes closed, letting it run down his face.

Then he got back in the limo, smiled at me, and reached over to pat my knee.

"All right. Let's go," he said to the driver. As we continued our tour, I knew that everything would be all right...

К этому сну много хороших комментариев. Я отмечу вот этот:

We're living that beautiful dream as we speak

Брекзит

Дэвид Фрум о текущем состоянии Брекзита.

The End of the Brexit Illusion

Two British cabinet ministers have resigned within the past 24 hours, an upheaval not seen since at least 1982, according to the BBC politics desk.

Both resigned for the same reason: to protest Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to preserve some of the benefits of EU membership for Britain in a post-Brexit world. That plan is not a very realistic or workable plan. But that’s not why the two ministers have resigned. They have resigned in protest that the plan is not fantastical enough, that it does not rely enough on fairy dust and magic wishes. Ominously, something like half the British Conservative party agrees with the departing ministers.