I really want to believe this is all caused by lead poisoning affecting the Boomers’ executive judgment function.

It beats the alternative of accepting that we’re surrounded by flaming morons who stayed undetected for their entire lives before coming out as misogynistic and racist assholes just in time to ruin their legacy.

Turboprops to you for that joke, I’m a big fan

Are you sure it’s paywalled? It isn’t for me, and I don’t think Reuters even paywalls any of its articles.

There is also the possibility that his family was being threatened if he didn’t end the march to Moscow.