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Words Hurt

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Rex Tillerson, former Secretary of State gave commencement speech at the Virginia Military Institute.  During his speech…well he basically laid into his former boss about integrity and ethics.  He talked about the importance of Truth to freedom and how accepting “alternative realities” as the truth means America loses it’s value as a nation.  It was a startlingly poignant speech.  I mean, obviously, he didn’t name drop Donald Trump, but it’s hard to say that wasn’t his primary target when he talks about the leadership of the country. Still, Trump would still probably insist Rex was talking about the Democrats.

Putin’s Victory Speech

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On Sunday, Vladimir Putin won his 4th term presidency in Russia.  With 74% of the votes, it’s hard to argue that it wasn’t a landslide, though watchdog groups in Russia are reporting, rather matter of factly, that it was hardly fair, with reports of ballot stuffing and voter coercion, among other things, contributing to Putin’s successful campaign.  From the outside, we watch that, and think “What an alarming misuse of power! Putin is a monster!”  Also from the outside, I imagine Donald Trump watches that and thinks “Oh man…one day that’ll be me.”