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(John Buss, @repeat1968)
(Steve Breen, Creators.com)
(Randy Bish, @bishtoon)
(Chris Britt, Creators.com)
(Christo Komarnitski, caglecartoons.com, Bulgaria)
(Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator, Canada)
(Rob Rogers, Tinyview.com)
(David Rowe, Financial Review, Sydney)
(Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press)
(Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
(Ellis Rosen, @ellisjrosen; context here)
When French President Emmanuel Macron meets with Putin's puppet in the Oval Office next Monday, he'll tell him how to deal with the Russian thug and war criminal. Macron's remarks were in a question and answer session yesterday on social media:
‘You can’t be weak in the face of President Putin. It’s not you, it’s not your trademark, it’s not in your interest. How can you then be credible in the face of China if you’re weak in the face of Putin? [snip]
If you let Russia take over Ukraine, it would be unstoppable. [snip]
We want peace. But we don’t want a ceasefire that means Ukraine surrendering, because that’s dangerous. And we know that would lead to Russia going further. We’ve already experienced it.”
Good luck, Monsieur Macron. We mean that.
Now that the Malignant Fascist has real hopes of extorting Ukraine out of its rare earth minerals and more, he won't be swayed by Macron's suggestion that he's "weak" vs. Putin. He's far more swayed by the likely "rewards" the Malignant Fascist will receive down the road from Russia for siding with it (real estate to develop on the Black Sea? Trump Tower Moscow / St. Petersburg, cuts of the profits from Russian oil and gas production, etc.). The MF is focused on new riches (like in Greenland, Canada, the Gaza Strip) that beckon him in Ukraine, the men, women and children of Ukraine be damned.
(photo: l. to r., Puppet, Puppet Master in 2017: "How am I doing, Vlad?" EPA)
Never forget --
When the wreckage and dust of what these people are doing to our country has settled and the people have finally had enough to throw these jackals out of office, we will never forget the people who enabled it, despite their protestations they weren’t willing accomplices. Never.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) February 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The ketamine and the damage done --
listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Another normal guy. This one's running the F.B.I. now --
Our new FBI director:
— digby (@digby56.bsky.social) February 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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More sieg heil-ing at CPAC NUTPAC --
Big competition in Trumpworld to see who can be the most Nazi. Bannon and Musk with Sieg Heil salutes, Vance with pro-neo Nazi speeches. But Trump, with bedstand Hitler reading and “very fine people” speeches and white supremacist, ethno-nationalist agenda still leads the way.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf.bsky.social) February 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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The mail won't go through if this illegal coup happens --
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say www.post-gazette.com/news/politic...
— Federal Employee News (@fednews.bsky.social) February 21, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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I know there's like a thousand other things that are on fire, and that's the goal, but the fact that Trump is getting ready to just disband the USPS leadership board and take it over and we spent 4 entire years with Biden and Dems going "ah yeah, shame we can't do anything about DeJoy" is AAAAHHH
— Zoe Tunnell (@zoewithasword.bsky.social) February 21, 2025 at 4:58 AM
🎵 There's somethin' happenin' here ... --
U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office. #gapol ajc.com/politics/mcc...
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein.bsky.social) February 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Maddow: All of this absolutely historically unprecedented. No president has ever come out of the gate with numbers like this ever before. And it is across the board
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) February 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Putin's puppet unnerved by Zelenskyy's courage --
"Trump, the ultimate example of a loud-mouthed but chicken-hearted fascist, is almost comically unnerved by Zelenskyy, who has proven himself a brave man leading what is undeniably a courageous struggle by Ukrainians for their independence." www.salon.com/2025/02/21/s...
— Amanda Marcotte (@amandamarcotte.bsky.social) February 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Putin's Muppet Show, starring the Malignant Fascist (Happy Friday!) --
RT Presents Putin's Muppet Show The Kremlin has released their talking points yesterday through Putin's favorite Muppet, Donald Trump. Don't miss the RT special. (NOTE: The script is Trump's tweet word for word.) Created with @hailuoai.bsky.social Share/Subscribe: youtu.be/pQQJhnsxCQc
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger.bsky.social) February 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Arkansas native singer-songwriter Jesse Welles (or just plain Welles) has been the front man for several groups, including Dead Indian and Cosmic-American. His current American tour is sold out (sorry, folks), but here's his latest single, "Horses," to get you rocking into the weekend. Hope you enjoy.
Right wing propagandist Rupert Murdoch's right wing New York Post has concerns about Putin's puppet / the Malignant Fascist kowtowing to Russian thug and war criminal Vladimir Putin, and instead calling Ukrainian President Zelensky "a dictator" on his social media. Today's front page:
Here's the accompanying editorial piece from Douglas Murray. Another Murdoch property, the Wall Street Journal, has also editorialized against his "sellout" of Ukraine. We'll see how long this estrangement lasts.
Yesterday, the Senate confirmed conspiracy theorist and rabid MAGAt Kash Patel as F.B.I. Director in a 51-49 vote (Republican Sens. Murkowski and Collins joining all Democrats and Independents in voting "no"). Here are what some Senators said about that vote.
“He’s an instrument of Donald Trump’s effort to destroy the Justice Department and the FBI so that he is absolutely and completely not only above the law, but beyond the law.”
“This is the worst possible moment to put a person like Kash Patel in charge of the FBI...My prediction is that if you vote for Kash Patel, more than any other confirmation vote you make, you will come to regret this one to your grave."
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
“For the ordinary nominee, any of the defects in character or experience or performance in past jobs would have been disqualifying. We live in a time that is not ordinary, and this nominee is not normal. I’ve never seen any nominee to a position of significant responsibility that has as many disqualifying factors in his or her background... he is on a mission to use the powers of this office and Donald Trump’s name for political retribution against his enemies, Trump’s enemies, against MAGA’s opponents. To use these institutions for political retribution is the height of irresponsibility. … He doesn’t just hint it at. It’s a theme that runs through his public comments.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
“Kash Patel, mark my words, will cause evil in this building behind us. And the Republicans who work for him will rue that day.”
We will all rue the day that this MAGAt misfit -- one of the worst of the worst -- became F.B.I. Director. Every one of the Malignant Fascist's most high- profile, dangerous and unfit nominees have now been confirmed by the servile, bootlicking Republican Senate: Hegseth at Defense, Gabbard at National Intelligence, Brainworm at HHS, Bondi at Justice, now Patel at F.B.I. Missing Sherrod Brown, Bob Casey, and Jon Tester (but not Joe Manchin) more than ever.
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British satire magazine Private Eye nails it, and the moronic Malignant Fascist continues to make us the laughing stock of the world.
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(Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
(David Rowe, Financial Review, Sydney)
(Nick Anderson, Tribune Content Agency)
(Jeffrey Koterba, caglecartoons.com)
(Morten Morland, The Times, London)
(John Deering, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
(Graeme MacKay, caglecartoons.com, Canada)
(Dave Whamond, caglecartoons.com)
(Dave Granlund, politicalcartoons.com)
(Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News)
(Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune)
(David Sipress, @dsipress)
Trump's humiliating, abject surrender to Putin, cont. --
* EXCLUSIVE - US DECLINING TO CO-SPONSOR UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION BACKING UKRAINE AND CONDEMNING RUSSIAN AGGRESSION AHEAD OF WAR ANNIVERSARY, DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAY @reuters.com
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) February 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Where did Trump get the 4% number from? That’s what Putin told him in their recent phone call. The American president takes lies about our allies directly from Putin and asserts they are true to the American people without telling them he got those lies from Putin.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) February 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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‘The US Is Doing Russia’s Work’ Say Ecstatic Propagandists Putin’s mouthpieces are in a lather of excitement over the US administration’s willingness to make a deal to their liking. My latest for @cepa.org: cepa.org/article/the-...
— Julia Davis (@juliadavisnews.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Gov. Pritzker: In this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from history --
Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) February 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Trump's Homeland "Security" dragnet snags another dangerous criminal --
"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) February 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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MAGAts learning from history and following Hitler's playbook --
Years before Hitler invaded the USSR, Nazi agents planted fake disloyalty rumors about Stalin’s top generals on Vienna phone lines they knew Soviets had tapped. They convinced Stalin to purge & shoot his own best generals before the outbreak of war. Imagine Putin’s FSB planting gossip today…🤔
— Sanho Tree (@sanho.bsky.social) February 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Red state welfare --
Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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DOGE for you, not for my pals --
Star of Leopard News Asks That Friend’s Face be Spared
— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) February 20, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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"I love what DOGE is doing! Can I ask one favor?"
— God (@godpod.bsky.social) February 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Make sure no gold is missing before Biff's team leaves --
President Donald Trump said his administration is going to audit the U.S. gold reserves kept at Fort Knox in Kentucky. “We’re going to go to Fort Knox, the fabled Fort Knox, to make sure the gold is there,” President Trump said Wednesday on Air Force One.
— CNBC (@cnbc.com) February 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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You never imagine the descent into despotism being quite this embarrassing, you know? You expect liberal democracy to fall to a Palpatine, not Biff Tannen.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social) February 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Bond now owned by villain like ones he used to destroy --
If you like Bond this is disastrous.
— Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) February 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Never Trump conservative writer Mona Charen, wrapping up her article in The Bulwark on the terrible price we'll pay as the first month of the Malignant Fascist's regime ends:
'What the world knows, and will not unlearn, is that the United States cannot be trusted. Faith in America, and in basic American decency and goodwill, has kept the peace for generations, but that is over. Nations that refrained from getting nuclear weapons because they were secure under the American umbrella will rush to get bombs. Nations that resisted China’s bullying will make their accommodations. The Taiwanese can kiss their independence and their freedom goodbye. Formerly close allies will not share intelligence about impending terrorist threats. Our trading partners will make other plans and find other markets wherever possible. International lenders will think twice before underwriting more American debt.
Ukraine is the first victim of America’s decision to abandon liberal democracy in favor of an entente with the world’s jackals, but it will hardly be the last. And Americans will not escape the dire consequences.
That is what Americans did on November 5. Voters were thinking about high costs. Perhaps they are beginning to see what a price we will all pay for that election." (our emphasis)
Bear in mind that Russia is closely aligned with Iran, North Korea and China, so the MF is joining with that sinister clique.
Our guess is that many MAGAts will never see nor acknowledge their error in voting for a traitor to democracy and a dangerous sociopath. That's part of what makes MAGA a cult: blind belief in things that you should plainly see are not true. We're just beginning to see the damage domestically and internationally that the election of the MF and his vicious coterie have wrought.
(photo: From 2018, showing Trump's obeisance to war criminal Putin by his body language. Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
A majority of the American people, after only one disastrous month of the Trump/ Musk regime, aren't happy:
U.S. President Donald Trump's approval rating has ticked slightly lower in recent days as more Americans worried about the direction of the U.S. economy as the new leader threatens a host of countries with tariffs, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
The six-day poll, which closed on Tuesday, showed 44% of respondents approved of the job Trump is doing as president, down from 45% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted January 24-26. Trump's approval rating stood at 47% in a January 20-21 poll conducted in the hours after the Republican's return to the White House.The share of Americans who disapprove of his presidency has risen more substantially, to 51% in the latest poll, compared with 41% right after he took office.[T]he share of Americans who think the economy is on the wrong track rose to 53% in the latest poll from 43% in the January 24-26 poll. Public approval of Trump's economic stewardship fell to 39% from 43% in the prior poll. [snip]In the latest poll, only 32% of respondents approved of Trump's performance on inflation, a potential early sign of disappointment in the Republican's performance on a core economic issue after several years of rising prices weakened Biden ahead of last year's presidential election. Trump defeated Biden's vice president, Kamala Harris, in the Electoral College and narrowly won the popular vote... (our emphasis)
WaPo/Ipsos poll: 57 percent of respondents say Trump has exceeded his authority since taking office. More than 8 in 10 say he should follow court rulings. That includes more than 9 in 10 Democrats along with roughly 8 in 10 Republicans and independents.
— Andy Carvin (@acarvin.bsky.social) February 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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The latest Washington Post/Ipsos poll found that a majority of Americans, 62%, say Trump is not “honest and trustworthy.” This includes 95% of Democrats, 70% of independents and 23% of Republicans, according to the results.
The poll also questioned respondents on whether Trump “has the mental sharpness it takes to effectively serve as president.” The results found that 47% of Americans said he does while 50% said he does not.
There is no mandate. He is not the "strongman" he and his cultists think he is.
Once again, no need to watch your "mainstream" legacy media when Stephen Colbert gives you the news they can't bring themselves to deliver honestly and directly. Here's news about President Musk's DOGE "post-pubescent pink slip troopers" and the havoc being created throughout government, the convicted felon madman Malignant Fascist's abject surrender to war criminal Putin, and more.
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(Bart van Leeuwen, Oedipoes.com, Netherlands)
(Jeff Danziger, The Rutland Herald, VT)
(Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune)
(Alan Moir, Morning Herald, Sydney)
(Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
(Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press)
(Steve Breen, Creators.com)
(R.J. Matson, CQ/Roll Call)
(Steve Greenberg, @stevegreenberg-art.com)
(Nick Anderson, Reform Austin News-Tribune, TX)
(Jesse Duquette, @misterjesseduquette)
(Chris Britt, Creators.com)
(Asher Perlman, @asherperlman)
Ryan Cooper, writing in The American Prospect, looks at the incalculable damage the vengeful Malignant Fascist and juvenile megalomaniac President Elon "Harry Bolz" Musk are doing to the U.S's position abroad. A selective excerpt, so be sure to read the entire article:
"A month into the second Trump administration, I think it is fair to conclude that the American empire in its current form is collapsing. The post-1945 global order, with the United States at its apex, is no more. America itself is not going anywhere—at least not yet—but the foundation of the empire, namely its structure of alliances and partnerships, has been dealt irreparable damage. Western Europe, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and especially Canada now view America with suspicion if not outright hostility, and they are right to do so.
Now, the history of empires is the story of their rise and inevitable fall. As Herodotus wrote about Greek city-states, 'most of those which were great once are small today; and those which used to be small were great in my own time.' But nobody has matched this current downfall for sheer egregious stupidity. [snip]
Trumpism strikes directly at the heart of American power projection: trust. NATO members and other partners go along with the American-led order because it has been a pretty good deal, all things considered. Rather than exacting imperial tribute, Europe, Japan, South Korea, and the others were encouraged to develop and become rich. In return, they allowed the U.S. to develop overwhelming military dominance, and played along with our control over the global financial system.
Threatening unprovoked war on a NATO ally for no reason destroys this trust—indeed, it makes clear that America is now a rogue state, led by erratic, violent madmen. Even Hitler felt he had to make up some lying pretext about German minorities being oppressed before he stole the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. Trump just saw a map and thought, 'I’ll have that.'” (our emphasis)
The Malignant Fascist's enduring, adolescent worship of Russian thug and war criminal Vladimir Putin, probably based on Putin's promise of riches for his furtherance of Russia's ambitions, and the Malignant Fascist's envious desire to have Putin's authoritarian power, is destroying decades of alliances and foreign friendships that won't be repaired easily, if ever again. The Kremlin's long-term cultivation of the Malignant Fascist is paying off dramatically. It's made the U.S. a subsidiary of the Russian government.
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Trump "in the bubble" with fellow lying ally Russia --
Zelenskyy says Trump is living in a Russian ‘disinformation bubble’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
— aheadbyacentury.bsky.social (@aheadbyacentury.bsky.social) February 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Hours after Lavrov's lie, Russia attacked energy infrastructure in Odesa. About 160,000 people in the city are without electricity and heating. The temperatures are below zero Celsius in Ukraine this week. Hospital and daycares were also damaged. True face of Russia.
— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) February 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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It’s only a matter of time before Trump blames Poland for being invaded by the Nazis.
— Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) February 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Trump proved conclusively last night with his deranged statements that he is an enemy and menace to our friends and allies around the world, and the best thing that ever happened to our adversaries and corrupt dictators. meidasnews.com/news/trump-s...
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) February 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Very corrupt "President" wants to cut Social Security over bullshit "fraud" --
Trump: "We have a very corrupt country. Very corrupt country. And it's a sad thing to say ... if you take all of those millions of people off social security, all of the sudden we have a very powerful social security."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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What's that Musk-y smell? A vile extremist and an obvious fool --
A lot of people now see that Musk is a vile extremist. But many still struggle to accept that he is also an oblivious fool. Once you actually listen to what he has to say about the world, you realize it’s all faux-visionary nonsense layered on top of profound ignorance.
— Thomas Zimmer (@thomaszimmer.bsky.social) February 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Does anybody know how to play this game? ... --
Ah yes, a very long memo, exactly what gets attention in this era. Excellent.
— Amanda Litman (@amandalitman.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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To the feckless, Democratic consultants, here’s a free one: buy a billboard highlighting Musk cutting the veterans suicide hotline program and have it placed across the street from Pete Hegseth’s favorite bar.
— Dave Zirin (@edgeofsports.bsky.social) February 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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... VoteVets does --
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— VoteVets (@votevets.org) February 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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The Trump Recession to come --
It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.
— Jesse Rothstein (@jrothst.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
True, all true (when lies are coin of the realm)! --
Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"
— pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” (@pixelatedboat.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
On this date in 972 was born Pope Gregory V, who endured the election of a rival antipope by rebellious nobles until his cousin, Emperor Otto III, marched on Rome and cut off the antipope's nose and ears. "Tough racket, poping." his rival conceded. "No shit," agreed Greg, poisoned a year later.
— David Simon (@audacityofdespair.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
