Terry Watkins

@gerrygow.bsky.social

If you're not paying attention, Emperor Donald The Mad is currently behaving in a way which is madder than any Middle Eastern prince or potentate has exhibited in several millennia.

@mrteamster.bsky.social

I once read about an Egyptian Pharaoh who chiseled the names of his predecessors off of great monuments and had his own cartouche placed there as if he had built them. So it is with the creature occupying the White House, and like that forgotten Egyptian potentate we must remove his name.

Shikha Dalmia

@shikhadalmia.bsky.social

The Iran war resulted from: Trump's personal belligerence and his need to wield American military might to satisfy his inner potentate; Rubio's neocon hawkishness; Hegseth's toxic masculinity — with the hard-right Israeli PM providing the crucial catalyst.