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He's beyond loathsome

Neither does grotesque meet the challenge of characterizing with flawless precision the squalid little creature inhabiting the Oval Office. Nor do revolting, scandalous, or supremely offensive. Indeed the challenge is impossible to meet; for all its serviceable nuances, the English language contains no word as vile in meaning as he is in life.

I sought A.I.-generated imagery as a substitute for vocab, my first venture into such. If the meticulously nonpartisan program had depicted a military dagger dripping in blood with the

sadistically barbaric U.S. "president" holding it, the image presented would be meticulously

truthful as well. But A.I. failed at even that easy task, and by none other than partisan choice.


An invisible hand.

Although in description I'm left to repeat the post's title, He's beyond loathsome, its veracity is scarcely beyond proof. What follows is but one emetic proof in a nauseating bucketful already, merely a one-day story in America's four-year vomitfest.

WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active-duty U.S.

military personnel, are having their flights canceled under ... [an executive] order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.


The group includes unaccompanied minors awaiting reunification with their families in the U.S. as well as Afghans at risk of Taliban retribution because they fought for the former U.S.-backed Afghan government, said Shawn VanDiver, head of the Afghan Evac coalition of U.S. veterans and the U.S. official.


The U.S. decision also leaves in limbo thousands of other Afghans who have been approved for resettlement as refugees in the U.S. but have not yet been assigned flights from Afghanistan or from neighboring Pakistan.


Italics, mine. War crime, the loathsome one.

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ssdd
4 days ago

Just one of many stories in this dreadful genre. Here’s another:


The families of Cuban protesters jailed in anti-government demonstrations are waiting anxiously to see if the government will continue with a planned prisoner release after Donald Trump reneged on a deal made last week by Joe Biden.

Activists from the human rights group Justicia 11J believe about 150 prisoners have been released so far of the 553 agreed with the Catholic church.

Less than a week after it was taken off a US list of state sponsors of terror (SSOT), Cuba was returned to sit alongside Syria, North Korea and Iran – with grim implications for tourism and trade. Trump reversed Biden’s decision late on Monday, amid a flurry…


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3 days ago
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Yes but the upside for them is that any day now, our 65-year ostracization of the impoverished little island will, at last, push it over the edge and right into the capitalistic bliss and sublime governance that is the United States of America.

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