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Keep it coming. Loyal and stupid. I cite a right-of-center website that says that, right now, four polls show that Democrats are ahead of Republicans by about one percent. One of which is by Trump's own pollster. If you only use the last two, in March, they suggest Democrats are a little further ahead and gaining momentum. We know for a fact that Americans do not view Russia and Putin as an ally. But you don't believe that, either. That is one of many reasons Americans who held their nose and voted for Trump are already suffering buyer's remorse. But the main thing, as Trump's campaign co-manager Chris LaCivita just said in an interview, is Trump won thanks to inflation. And he is not delivering lower prices. Everyone gets that tariffs means higher prices. You are living proof that having your brain filled with shit by a homophobic and genocidal autocrat does not make you wiser. And topping it all off with ChatGPT doesn't help.

And this is hysterical. I wish Putin's problem was that he had rabies in his anus. I wish your problem was you said mildly unpleasant things, like I have rabies in my anus. Although I know you are not abusive, and you mean that in the kindest of ways. Putin’s young victims: Faces of children killed by war as Ukraine says 90 die Russian ‘atrocities’ An 18-month-old baby is among the children who have been killed in Putin’s bloody invasion Putin's real problem is that he is a homophobic and genocidal monster. And you come here to defend him. How civilized!

I am confused. You are really on a roll here, Genocide Fan. You keep saying shit that refutes your own arguments. I think too much Putin and ChatGPT is turning your Genocide Fan brain to shit. Which, frankly, did not start out all that great anyway. Be careful. You are arguing I am a paranoid narcissist. And then you turn around and argue somehow what I say on an obscure chat board impacts the Democratic Party. Seriously? Who do you think you are? More to the point, who do you think I am? I am a loyal Democrat. And the main way I help Democrats now is by donating money. I think if they moderated off some of the culture war excesses and focused on populist working class economics it would help them. In 2026 and 2028 I will probably swing hard to the center in terms of who I vote for and support. But I think right now I am mostly powerless. Trump rules, and he is wrecking everything. So now we just have to wait and see how many nations he betrays, how much he helps Putin and XI, and how much of America he wrecks. That is what matters. Not me. The insolent pig and traitor is going to stab his own fat ass self in the back, just like in 2018 and 2020. Again, why are you so loyal and stupid? 2026 Generic Congressional Vote Note that even in January, when Trump came in like a hurricane, Trump's own pollster showed Democrats and Republicans even. Which, by the way, is what the actual 2024 election results showed. Demcrats WON one House seat. It's a democracy, which you don't get. Had we won three or four more, we actually could stop some of this wrecking ball. But we can't. That probably explains the trend that is probably starting to emerge. Right now, according to right-of-center RCP, Democrats are actually ahead of Republicans by one point. It is way too early, with too few polls. But if we had to jump to stupid conclusions, like you like to do, Democrats were tied in one poll in January, and lead in both polls in March. Again, way too early. But the reaction to the treason and stupidity and cruelty and wrecking is well underway. Even though it is just getting started. You live in a homophobic kleptocracy. So that excuses your stupidity and lack of understanding. But not your loyalty to a murderous guy who hates Gays, and Ukrainians, and democracy.

Again, you are very good at being loyal to Genocide Man, and stupid. You are telling us you believe what Putin and ChatGPT tells you. And you wonder why we think you are a fool?

Again, you are stupid and loyal. Why? Will Putin take your DNA sample if he kills or jails you for being Gay? You actually just confirmed the article you are trying to refute. That article says 11,000 Ukrainians. Forbes says "possibly close to 15,000 in all." The main point is they apparently succeeded in their objective of fucking up Russia's offensive last year. But, it is a new year. The insolent pig Trump has the blood of many dead Ukrainians on his filthy traitorous hands, because last year for political purposes he got his loyal Republican lapdogs in Congress to stab Ukraine in the back by withholding aid. Now our narcissistic traitor is actively stabbing Ukraine and NATO and our allies in the back, and empowering Putin and Xi. So even if you are loyal and stupid to Genocide Man, you should be extremely happy.

You love being loyal and stupid, don't you? I do appreciate that, unlike our dumb yapping dog, you are not actively trying to make us more stupid by posting dishonest Tik Tok videos where people actually repeat things they say are just rumors, and then ask others to pass it along. I think you do believe what Genocide Man tells you is true. You are loyal and stupid. Does Genocide Man take DNA samples of the Gays he kills and jails? Is that what you are afraid of, that makes you so obedient to him?

Thanks for posting that very informative article. Here's the sad part to me. I expected Trump to be a boorish idiot, like in the first season. And I figured, like in season one, he would instinctively attack NATO and the EU and other alliances that do not bow down to him and kiss his narcissistic ass. But I really did not expect betrayal. I suppose that is my bad, for being naive. As that article notes, Trump already fucked Ukraine a year ago by being the political force behind all the Republican delays in getting support to them. But that was not visible. Now his betrayal of America and our allies is right out in the open. It's increasingly everyone in the world against the US, with cause. And the insolent pig is too narcissistic to realize Putin and Xi are against him, too. And all he is doing is stabbing America in the heart every fucking day, while the piggish stupid man empowers Putin and Xi. What a fucking miserable disgrace! Ugh!

The insolent pig Trump is a racist. What a shocker. But he was racist before it was cool!

Wow. You really captured my inner grace and beauty. If I do say so myself. Sisters, always! 💗💗💗

Hope I don't sexist. But a purple haired drag queen is ALWAYS smarter than a dumb blonde!

I won't post the interview, because he is as boring as me and the idea is simple. Larry Summers is making the rounds of legacy media saying the chances of a recession have gone up from maybe 10 % to close to 50 %. And he says unless Trump changes course, things will get worse. One way or the other, bad shit is happening and going to grow. And Trump and MAGA will own it. And the polls reflect that already. It will be ironic, in a way, if that happens. My own nagging doubt about my hero Allan Lichtman last year was that the polls kept saying a lot of people feel like we are in a recession. Even though we are not. I think Lichtman just missed that, or misread it. So it will be ironic, and tragic, if Trump won by promising to lower prices during a recession that did not exist. And in his first year or so he raises prices and fires lots of people who voted for him, and brings on a recession.

True. But remember, Sis. Genocide Fan @Moses says I have anger management issues. So maybe I just like the yapping dog's loud and obnoxious behavior. It is kind of cute, I think. @Barknaway doesn't realize Trump's obnoxiousness and boorishness, which he is copying, is a big part of why people don't like him. So all he reminds me everyday is, "This is why people despise Trump and MAGA. And why they will send them packing in 2026 and 2028, just like in 2018 and 2020, after two or four years of this asinine bullshit. Which is way worse and more dangerous than Trump 1.0. And it's true. Even people who despise Trump and held their nose and voted for him as the lesser of evils are being reminded why they don't like Trump. And Zoomers who were in puberty during Trump 1.0 are now learning for the first time what we learned about the asshole and his chaos and stupidity and cruelty in the first season. Like all dogs, our yapping stupid dog just wants to feel like he is obeying his master, more or less blindly and stupidly. Here's a different way of thinking of anger management .............. "build indignation". It is one of my favorite organizing phrases. My college professor Paul Wellstone always talked about building indignation. I have personally used it to take on banks, Fannie Mae, Enron, and lots of corporations, and win lots of big things. Paul's grand prize was building indignation to throw out a decade of Republican dominance in Minnesota and win a US Senate seat. So I am 100 % sure the shit works. In fact, Trump more than anyone proved that building indignation works. Obama was like a professor. Biden took a nap. Trump is the one who is a master at building indignation, especially among the White working class. Stated differently, he is a great huckster and fraud. So our yapping stupid dog is now helping build indignation against Trump, without knowing it. Give him the mike. Let him yap. I'm lovin it.

No. No. No. We will not put @Barknaway down. That is just not an option. I love my cute adorable yapping stupid as fuck dog. Please, everyone. Offer your condolences and be extra kind to @Barknaway today. I mean, it was bad enough when supposedly leftist 538 showed Trump polled net negative a few weeks ago. No question why right wingers celebrate that Nate Silver's old website outlived its usefulness when he left. But now right-of-center if not full on MAGA Real Clear Politics shows the same thing. Horrors! No! I love our stupid yapping fucking dog. We can't put him down. He is so adorable, with his videos no one watches and what not! Please be kind to him! Pet him! Give him a treat. We will just have to develop a strategy to make sure Trump does not get more unpopular on our own. Because, just between us, our yapping dog is quite stupid and facile. And a little homophobic. Let's address the problems. The latest YouGov poll seems to spotlight the issues. 1. Since January 2025, has the inflation rate: 48 % gone up 27 % stayed the same 6 % gone down So Trump promised to lower prices, but they are going up. Let's see. How about we lower taxes for billionaires and cut Medicaid and Medicare? Maybe throw in a free Tesla for MAGA billionaires? That should solve the problem, right? Our yapping dog would no doubt agree. 2. Would you support or oppose the following: imposing a 25 % tariff on goods imported from Canada. 31 % support 54 % oppose This prove two things. First, Trump had an overwhelming mandate for tariffs when fewer than 50 % of Americans voted for him. They just forgot. Dumb Americans! Second, most people are stupid when they believe tariffs will increase inflation. Trump knows better! So clearly we need more tariffs, right? Our stupid yapping dog will no doubt agree. I could go on forever. It seems like Trump has a mandate to do all kinds of things people don't want or like. So if we just do those things, he will soon be more popular. Right?

Do me a favor and call me schizo. Okay? And I still want my fucking AI picture! But you will like this. Because it is mafia language. And Putin and Trump are both like murderous, greedy mafia thugs. So I have been called a "hit man" which I take as a compliment. This is true. Is that worse than having anger management issues? And the woman who called me a "hit man" was called a "hit man" by her husband on a very fun walk we had. True. And that woman is one of the best LGBTQ organizers in the world, even though she is Straight and married. True. In fact, were I Straight, I might have married her. True. And she is close to the US Gay mafia, which does exist. True. Is that enough mafia for you? Sadly, this is not like the Russian mafia. The US Gay mafia does not kill people, empower oligarchs, or do what thugs like Putin tell them to do. They elect good Gay governors (e.g. Jared Polis in Colorado) and win things like same sex marriage. Sucks, huh? If we could only all live in Homophobe Genocide World! My Straight friend is particularly good at hugs, love, and warmth. Truth be told, that is not my strong suit, especially as an organizer. I am good at Rules For Radicals, Alinsky, and using confrontation to win big things. But my Straight friend is tough as nails when she needs to be. Which is why her husband, who would know, called her a hit man. But, to your point, I can be a schizo. As an organizer, I was often a hit man. To my MAGA-like Trump loving niece, who I love to travel with, I just try to be kind and loving. Even though I do believe some of what she thinks is false, shallow, and kind of repugnant. Anyhoo, thanks for the compliments. I am sorry you live in homophobic Genocide World. And I want my picture!

Oh, and by the way, this would cause a tiny little inflation problem too. I sort of view this as above my pay grade. But some of the people talking about the implications of a debt crisis talk about things like 25 % inflation. It sound scary and unimaginable. But Dalio's point is at some point the printing press can't just keep printing more money. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated last year when he was running that Trump's projected budget deficit would be something like 9 % of GDP, maybe even 10 % if I recall right. It was a projection last year, and it is all being haggled over right now. But I think we know for sure we will go in exactly the opposite, and wrong, direction, of where Dalio correctly says we need to go. Trump will give a fortune to billionaires, which will help make Trump the king of bankrupting the US.

I know this. I'm fine with Andy Beshear or Rahm Emanuel being POTUS and moving the Democratic Party back to the center, and a majority. 2028 is a long way away. But it is already clear from what guys like Beshear and Emanuel that Democrats in power got the memo. But I want a pound of flesh. And I want it to be Elon Musk's cruel, child abusing, senior-hating, megalomaniac ass. This cruel abusive lying fuck needs to have every single fucking penny he gets from the government stripped away from him. I don't want oligarchs in America. This man does not deserve one fucking penny of my taxpayer money. When Democrats are back n control, this man needs to be stripped of every penny the fraudster, and abuser of his own queer daughter, gets from the federal government.

This is Reagan 2.0, without the political power of Reagan. The whole game back then was they were only cutting "waste, fraud, and abuse" from programs. So Democrats kept asking where is the waste, fraud, and abuse? The Reaganomics who wanted to cut taxes for the rich always said it existed, but they never found it. Here's the thing. Reagan did win in a landslide. Twice. Trump did win twice. But the first time was only because the US was a slave nation, so we have this fucked up thing called the electoral college. That is why Trump won in 2016. He lost the popular vote by millions in 2016. Okay, so he won the popular vote in 2024. But not by much. Not even a majority. So he has no real mandate, other than to lower prices. And he ain't doing that. Which is why his approval rating is dropping like a knife already. Maybe our yapping dog is trying to hide that fact by barking incessantly, and uselessly.

Sheesh! I ask for something really simple and I get this. I want my fake AI picture of me laughing at your weak, genocide-loving ass. I asked you two times: have you ever once supported LGBTQ rights in Russia? The answer is no. You are a weak, timid man who supports genocide. I'm not telling you to go get jailed or murdered by Genocide Man. But what right does living in homophobic Genocide World where Genocide Man kills or jails Gays like me give you to call me a homophobe for calling Putin the murderous homophobic piece of shit that he is? You are a weak, pathetic man. I want my Ai picture of me laughing at your weak pathetic ass. Can you just do that one thing?

I wrote a whole paragraph on Genocide Man and his piece of shit sidekick Trump. Of course you don't agree with it. So all you got is "homophobe". Seriously. I want my AI image of me laughing at your weak, pathetic ass. In addition to being a Putin loving man, a Genocide backer, and a fool, you apparently have a reading comprehension problem. And, of course, no comprehension whatsoever of LGBTQ rights, LGBTQ organizing, or LGBTQ anything. And now suddenly you're the judge and jury on homophobia? Coming from RUSSIA - Genocide World - and defending Putin? You're a complete fool. Putin would jail or kill me and my friends if we tried to do what we have done in Russia. And YOU, weak fool, are lecturing me about homophobia? That's not anger issues. That's comedy. I am laughing at what a fool you are. Thanks for the laugh. Go make some AI images of me laughing at what a weak, genocide defending fool you are. You did not answer my question. Have you ever ever once publicly fought for LGBT rights in Russia? I would love to hear how. I don't think you have. I think you are a weak, fearful man who will get on the internet, defend genocide, and fight for nothing. But your AI tool is mostly right. I do have a background in political activism and LGBTQ rights organizing. Thank you for acknowledging I actually fought for things like same sex marriage. And you are just a weak fool who supports Putin and his genocide. I have no idea why that qualifies you to call me a homophobe. But go ahead. It makes me laugh. You've also done a great job over a series of posts teaching me how emotionally ignorant AI currently is. Every time you post what AI thinks it knows, it reveals some basic ignorance. I do view winning same sex marriage as the political organizing win of my lifetime. Even though I was a nobody volunteer, in an ocean of well-meaning volunteers. So AI, and you, missed my whole point of me being one little ant in an army of millions of powerless ants all over the globe - but not including YOU, weak man, or Russia. What you don't get about the LGBTQ experience, and how we won a long fight for same sex marriage and equality, is that millions of Gay men and lesbians and allies all over the world opened their hearts, told their stories, and changed all of human history. Except in Russia, of course. This is something a weak fool like you can not understand. You have never experienced this kind of love, or unity, or power, or transformation. And you never will. And you ask whether I have principles? What a weak, pathetic fool you are. So if all you got is defending genocide and calling me a homophobe, go ahead. I want my AI image of me laughing at the weak fool you are. This is hilarious!

You're funny. You come here to defend genocide. You do. You rationalize away the intentional mass murder of Ukrainian women and children. And now you are reproaching me as a homophobe? That's funny! You're a fool. And a fool who supports genocide. First, a few paragraphs of righteous indignation. How many years did you spend as a volunteer training teams to win same sex marriage in Russia? Let me guess. ZERO! You are a fearful man who supports your sick leader's genocidal plans. If you have ever once publicly fought for LGBT rights in Russia, I would love to hear how. Mostly you strike me as a fearful and compliant genocide supporter. Your homophobic genocidal leader is a disaster for the global LGBTQ movement Meanwhile, I'm friends with some of the best LGBTQ organizers on the planet. Who might be dead or in jail if they lived in Russia, thanks to Murderous Vlad. I have been paid to win many organizing campaigns, none of which involved LGBTQ rights. But the funnest period of my life was several years in California on the eve of our historic SCOTUS victory, when I was a volunteer training teams of people going door to door to persuade Californians to support same sex marriage. I was working with friends paid to do this, while I was also traveling the world as a high priced hooker. Have you ever done any of this, Genocide Friend? I doubt it. Many Gay men think of same sex marriage as a legal victory. Technically, it was. Our lawyers were heroes. But even SCOTUS members said they were reading public opinion polls before they ruled. So the key thing the LGBTQ community did is change the hearts of minds of a nation, and really the world. I view it as the biggest organizing victory of my life. I view myself as one of millions of loving and heartfelt little ants, who built an army that changed the world. We were this vibrant loving strong LGBTQ community unified, and we literally reversed an entire global history of discrimination. After my friend Thalia helped win this in the US, she was literally paid to go to Ireland and train them how to win it there. And she did! And she helped find a Gay prime minister, as a bonus. Have you ever done that in Russia, you cowardly fearful genocide supporter? You are a fearful compliant little man, with small hateful ideas. In terms or your laughable attack on me, Genocide Supporter, my point in that photo is you have a worthless piece of shit who is running a genocide, and his compliant piece of shit POTUS who is betraying America, NATO, and our allies. Of course your genocidal monster loves it! I wish I could say either of them were at least pro-LGBTQ. Since it would give me something positive to say. But, no. They both torment vulnerable LGBTQ communities. You should be embarrassed about your genocidal and homophobic monster, you small fearful man.

Aren't you forgetting a certain sweetheart of Donald's? 😉

The one thing I will say in Hakeem's defense is that following Nancy Pelosi was going to be difficult if not impossible for anyone. If I had to name the smartest Democratic leaders of my lifetime, it would be Bill Clinton or Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi. I could make a great argument that she should be at the top of the list. All three made some big fuck ups, as well. But especially if I factor in how bad were the fucks ups versus all their successes, Nancy's ratio of success is probably better than the other two. She is the Democrat who mostly won things. I always had a theory as a community organizer that there is simply nothing like organizing Moms trying to protect their kids. The non-literal phrase I have used a lot is that many Moms would slit their wrist to protect their children. That could sound sexist or patronizing. But having organized many Moms I just think it is a fact. And that's not to say Dads are bad. It is just to says Moms and Moms, and great Moms are great Moms. So I always viewed that as part of Nancy's thing. With Trump she has what I viewed as an appropriate instinct to protect us from this felon and rapist and predator at all costs. It stands out now in particular, as I said in a recent post, because Nancy was 1000 % like this with Trump. She fought him fiercely, and I think did almost everything right. Which is to say she went for the jugular. Harris did that one time: in the Sept. debate, which worked great for her. Then she drifted into pablum. Had Harris had Pelosi's instinct of going for Trump's jugular relentlessly, which she did not, she might have eked out a narrow win rather than a narrow loss. Coulda woulda shoulda. But I agree with you about Hakeem. At this point he seems to stand for nothing, and fight for nothing. As a contrast to Ro, I read some anecdote about how Hakeem went to some meeting with Silicon Valley donors recently and talked about "mending fences". That to me is the problem, not the solution. Ro will say many of the richest people in the US live in my district. And I will tell them to their face I want them to pay more taxes, now, to help the working class. That is an actual solution, unlike Hakeem's seemingly empty rhetoric and fat cat fundraising. In my view it was the fat cat fundraising and lobbying from Sinema and Manchin in particular that blocked Biden from doing things - like tax the rich and keep the child tax credits - that might have given more working class Moms and Dads a reason to feel in their gut that Democrats fought for them. That said, either Ro or Hakeem are better than Trump, who is now actively planning on how to screw the working class. He is raising prices on cars, groceries, and lots of other things working class people buy. He is planning to cut Medicare and Medicaid they depend on. He is firing veterans. And working class people know it. Which is why Trump's approval rating and consumer confidence is already trending down.

House GOP conservatives make plea to 'hesistant' moderates on Medicaid changes The insolent pig is just really, really, really, really, really fucking stupid. This should have been obvious in 2017 when all these seniors who voted for Trump said something like this: "See, people like me are smart. Cuz after I vote for Donald Trump, why would he cut my Obamacare? Unless he gives me something better? I voted for Trump. Him hurting me just doesn't make sense. Smart guys like me can figure this out." Well, it didn't make sense. But Trump did it anyway. Go figure. Veterans and seniors are about to get their throats slit the same way, more than likely. Why would trump hurt the very people who voted for him? Maybe because Trump really is that fucking stupid. And he only gives a shit about himself, and his billionaire cronies.

David Axelrod made an interesting point after Trump first won in 2016. He said he advised Obama in 2008 that, after eight years of W, America was ready for the opposite. So he scripted Obama in part to be the anti-W. Axelrod said he couldn't really be as objective as he might have wished in 2016, since he loves Obama and detests Trump. But after Trump won he said he missed the reality staring him in the face. After eight years of Obama, Trump was the perfect anti-Obama. Arguably, Biden was the perfect anti-Trump in 2020. And Trump was the perfect anti-Biden in 2024. Weird shit! Ro Khanna slams Democrats’ behavior at Trump’s joint address: ‘Not a good look’ Every time Ro Khanna goes out on a minor limb and takes a risk, I like what he say to say. Partly because he is taking risks, period. If I had to name the biggest thing wrong with the Harris/Walz campaign, it would be what Tim Walz just said. The campaign played it way too safe. As if they were ahead in a race that they were actually behind or at best tied in every single day. It is time for Democrats to take risk. Beyond that, Khanna seems to be thinking, "How can I be the anti-Trump in a way that actually appeals to people?" My expectations for Trump 2.0 were extremely low. So I'm kind of impressed that Trump has actually exceeded my worst expectations of just how shitty a leader he can be. At this point, given his speed in breaking shit, some part of me feels like it is almost better to just break as much shit as he can. Hurt as many veterans as he can. Fuck as many seniors as he can. Be Putin's 100 % compliant bitch every day. And destroy every alliance that took a century to build. About half of America, so far, is getting a daily lesson is just how scummy and disgusting and traitorous Trump can be. And there ain't much anyone can do about it. Yet. Khanna seems to be one of the people trying to figure out what people might want to hear in 2028. He is not the only one. And I am not arguing he is the best one, or anywhere close. But he does impress me as someone who is thinking hard and taking risks with his eye on the prize for what might work in 2028. There's two things in particular that stand out in that article above, and in a lot of what Khanna says. One is that he seems to have taken both the 2002 and 2024 versions of Ruy Teixeira to heart. In 2002 Ruy and his leftie partner in crime John Judis improbably argued there was an emerging Democratic majority. For years now, climaxing in 2024, Ruy has been arguing woke college-educated progressives are ruining this majority by losing touch with the interests of the working class. Khanna seems to have read both books, and the weekly or so Teixeira memos on his Liberal Patriot blog. First by talking about things like patriotism, and respect. The second thing that stands out is that Khanna seems willing to push hard for the economic boilerplate things that Teixeira argues, correctly I think, Democrats need to focus on: working class economics. I can name two things that could have won 2024 for Democrats: 1) Tax the rich a lot more, which is the single most popular Democratic policy proposal most of the time; 2) Draw blood and fight like hell to extend the child tax credits that helped tens of millions of Hispanics and Blacks and working class Whites survive inflation. The Democrats let the tax credits die. And probably millions of those working class voters ended up reluctantly siding with Trump in the end. It made it easier for Trump to argue Democrats won't fight for the working class and put money in your pocket, but they will fight for prisoner sex changes at your expense. Khanna was on Team Bernie in 2020. He has proven adept at balancing representing rich people in Silicon Valley while he calls for pro-working class economics. And taxing the rich a lot more to help the working class. Now he says, correctly, we should focus like a laser on how Trump will cut Medicaid and blow up the deficit to help Elon Musk and billionaires. Again, I'm not saying Khanna is the best one for 2028, or even close. But he is ahead of the curve in laying out messaging and strategies Democrats better be focused on if we want to eventually end this national horror. Another thing I think is a given. After all the pain of watching Elon Musk kick veterans in the balls, slit Medicaid in the throat, and feed Tesla and SpaceX off Trump's federal slush fund tit, we'll be ready to put a pitchfork in the child abusing piece of shit by 2028. But since we're being respectful like Khanna, I won't say Musk is a worthless child abusing piece of shit who disgusts me. Even though he is. I'll just say we should raise the child abusing piece of shit's taxes to fund Medicaid and veterans, and child tax credits.

Who's counting any more. No offense, but Laura and Maria just don't compete with treason and betrayal. But it is nice to know even the entertainment portion of the betrayal and treason is a horror show, too.