The Serious

@lhommedauphin.bsky.social

the ‘shadowy’ power behind the throne moderately implies that the real potentate is usually half-seen, it’s not the ‘dark’ or ‘invisible’ power behind the throne

Ed

@notdred.bsky.social

Rapidly declining potentate of fading empire building “Golden Fleet”, erecting various mausoleums and memorials to himself, just normal American things

Paul Campbell

@drumpaul.bsky.social

I think this may be the best sentence I have read this past decade …

‘He holds forth, the all-powerful potentate in Doritos bronzer, the most aureate of mighty assholes, entertaining a confederacy of smiling despots’.

But it’s Tina Brown. So no wonder.

https://open.substack.com/pub/tinabrown/p/how-trump-has-changed-us?r=2sqciq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false