That video has got to be some trump trolling that trump or whichever staffer posted it to his truth social account didn’t watch nearly carefully enough. It has a brief shot of bearded belly dancers on the beach, Musk making it rain money, several golden idol trumps, and a fat trump & Netanyahu in swim suits by a pool. The trollish aspect of the video, combined with the absolute cluelessness of whoever posted it to TS, makes this go well beyond unintentional self-parody into absolute bizarro world territory.
Not even going to try that link again. That is nightmare fuel. Yet is it still up? Have the Chinese taken over Truth Social, then? Trump needs to cast blame all around if it did not go over well.
Were it well received, we’d see the smirking Trump as King picture (also nightmare fuel).
Maybe there’s no “Fuck you,” in the language but Ukranians have had experience telling a blow-hard despot demanding their territory “No way” in phrases said despot would understand before.
According to the story, the Zaporozhian Cossacks (from “beyond the rapids”, Ukrainian: za porohamy), inhabiting the lands around the lower Dnieper River in Ukraine, had defeated Ottoman Empire forces in battle. However, despite his army having suffered this loss to them, Mehmed demanded that the Cossacks submit to Ottoman rule. The Cossacks, led by Ivan Sirko, replied in a characteristic manner: they wrote a letter, replete with insults and profanities. The painting exhibits the Cossacks’ pleasure at striving to come up with ever more base vulgarities.[3]
I’ve seen that painting in one of the Russian museums. Dunno if it’s the Hermitage or Summer Palace or wherever, yet that is a popular painting in Russia.
And of course they have vulgarities. Just that in some cases, not a one-to-one so when Pacino’s Scarface was first translated in its entirety, they may have tried some other things. Yet often in Russian translations, they just speak over the original soundtrack, so they certainly know what “Fuck you” means if they’re hearing it from an English-speaking person.
And just down the River Moika from the Hermitage is Yusopov Palace - a nice enough place but most well known as where Rasputin was lured. The unconfirmed story is the unkillable Rasputin took three gunshots and was either then tossed into the river or remains alive today (I made the last bit up)
Here’s a happy thought. Maybe Donnie (like many Old People I know and live around) has bruises on his hands because he’s taking anticoagulants? Because of some serious health problems?
The article says the first painting is on display in the State Russian Museum (formerly the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III) in St. Petersburg. I posted the second, unfinished, version which is in storage in Ukraine.
The Old Testament vengeful God had full copyright over his image and did not need Gabriel or anyone other Angels to be litigious when he was sufficiently pissed off (had to look it up for the quote):
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” …
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
Absolutely. A fat-ass hamberder eater would have conditions, which is why Doctor Quack’s diagnosis (which he later said was dictated to him by DJT - and he may have lost his license thus his unavailability) that Trump was the fittest president ever was beyond laughable. Esp. the fact that if you believe he is really 6’3" tall, his weight put him exactly one pound below obese. The USA has had obese presidents before - not Teddy R - yet certainly not Felon47. He could outrun Obama and W. Bush by a country mile!
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks by Ilya Repin (they named a nearby coastal town after him - Repino). It’s big - 203 cm × 358 cm (80 in × 141 in)
Wiki says the one in Ukraine is on display at the Kharkiv Art Museum in Ukraine, yet that city has gone back and forth between Russia and Ukraine over the past few years. These Russians are savagely indiscriminate over what and whom they bomb.
During WWII, even though the Russians wisely moved stuff in the Hermitage and other museums to safe storage, the Nazi’s did not bomb the museums or cathedrals in Leningrad (they certainly used them as landmarks to bomb other bits) as Hitler really, really wanted to celebrate at the Astoria Hotel (also un-bombed) in a city that still had some beauty, yet that day never happened.
ETA: The Nazi’s did pilfer-the-shit out of the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo some miles out of St. Petersburg/Leningrad, especially the so-called “Amber Room”. My wife and I saw a newly restored version of it (no photos allowed - they had women hold up paddles if they saw even a phone out).
‘Formally known as measles’ is correct, because the proper name for ‘freedom sores’ is ‘measles’.
But I see a lot of account receivable files where someone has entered ‘formally known as [Company name]’ instead of ‘formerly known as [Company name]’.
This fixation on Ukraine’s and Greenland’s minerals has Elmo’s fingerprints all over it too. I doubt Agent Orange even knows what all that stuff is, much less what it can be used for.
Because of some serious health problems?