And Putin heads up the Medicis

(I do believe Cesare did some of his own dirty work) and infinitely more intelligent.

Trump barely speaks one.

steroids

...mean-spirited, as Trump is, or more akin to victims of the social isolation to which their privileged backgrounds confined them?

I think they were oblivious to what most of their fellow Russians had to deal with.

more prevalent when the czars were in power; "Romanov" is the modern transliteration. Russian spelling doesn't always have a 1:1 correspondence with English letters.

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Actually I think Cliven Bundy could fill that role too.

& always when I need it most!

Nicholas relied on his wife, the Tsarina Alexandra. She had no training in politics, etc. But she was very religious and very frightened. She was frightened that the divine right of the Romanov Family to continue to rule Russia was dependent on their hemophiliac son, Tsarevich Alexei, to live to adulthood. Along came a mystic, Rasputin, who calmed things down and became a trusted advisor to the Tsar. A grifter at heart, Rasputin took over everything from government to prosecuting the First World War. It didn't end well for all concerned.

And I bet Rump wants some Nicholas-inspired uniforms (only with more gold braid) so bad he can taste it.

:snap:

Oh yeah. Now I remember.

He's fucking WORTHLESS.

love of country?

they want to give back?

naaaaww. this is a once is a million lifetimes to enrich the shit out of yourself.

apparently ethics laws don't apply to you.

have at it!

Grand Duchess Ivanka and Grand Dukes Uday and Qusay are every bit as sociopathic as their father.

The youngest, Alexei, seems to have been developing into an entitled piece of work according to some recent biographies - his mother treating him literally like God's gift to Russia didn't help. The older ones (and at 22, 21, 19, and 17 I hesitate to call them kids) are more of a cipher: their mother kept them isolated and treated them as a single organism, and IMO tried to keep them infantile and dependent. I don't think they were allowed to develop their own personalities.