re: #385 Lupin

I have friends in Germany, Poland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom that have shared similar concerns during the election cycle (though they are not people who are positioned to know government policies or security arrangements).

That said, I fired an E-mail at my friends in Switzerland and Germany noting that despite the insanity pouring out of the White House, there is resistance to this here. Moreover, it would appear that those inside the government here aren’t taking this lying down. The place already is leaking like a sieve, and there are those even in the GOP who are opposed to this nonsense.

Sooner or later the extremely wealthy are going to come out, and many aren’t going to be happy with the GOP continuing this nonsense (your money is worthless if the country is a smoking hole in the ocean).

What we don’t know is what sort of political arm-twisting is going on behind the scenes, in backrooms and boardrooms. Conservatives like Steve Forbes or liberals like Warren Buffett aren’t going to sit around and let a bunch of nihilists screw up their lives.

And it really isn’t wise to piss off your intelligence services or security force (in this case the Secret Service).

I don’t wish harm on anyone, but an awful lot of awful dictators have been taken out by individuals in the palace guard.