Hey. Check this out:

There is suddenly too much entropy in the political universe. At least some people are acting as if there are no adults in the house.

Trump's White House.

TV channels contradict each other in their coverage of important stories, and infighting between presidential factions gets into the open. 

A major player in that infighting has been the head of the oil giant...

Exxon. Tillerson.

[A]political expert writes: "the president is a not-so-young gentleman dogged by power fatigue and accumulated weaknesses".

It goes on and on. And no, it is not about Trump and America. It is about Putin and Russia. With just cosmetic editing masking the Russian references the article applies identically to Trump and America. Here's the original of the above and the rest of the article I thought was apropos:

Is Vladimir Putin Tired?

There is suddenly too much entropy in the Russian political universe. At least some people are acting as if there are no adults in the house. Political campaigns seem to start without the Kremlin's blessing, state TV channels contradict each other in their coverage of important stories, and infighting between Kremlin factions gets into the open. A major player in that infighting has been Igor Sechin, the head of the oil giant Rosneft, who helped engineer the arrest of Economy Minister Alexey Ulyukayev, but who is currently ignoring court summons for the same the case.

All of this prompts one question: Where is Vladimir Putin?

Of course, the Russian leader is very much still around, his busy schedule reflected in daily news broadcasts on state TV. But as political expert Gleb Pavlovsky writes: "the president is disappearing". Currently a critic of Putin's political regime, Pavlovsky was one of its chief architects in the 2000s - definitely a man whose opinion matters on such occasions. In the article, he goes on to describe the Russian leader as a "not-so-young gentleman dogged by power fatigue and accumulated weaknesses".

Putin does often look drained during public appearances. Kremlin sources, quoted by Independent, went as far as claiming that he was on the verge of quitting in 2016 and only changed his mind after the surprise election of Donald Trump in the US.

Wonder why that would change his mind? Has to manage two countries now? No wonder he's tired.

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There is also the issue of perceived legitimacy, 

My reaction entirely.

which didn't come up for years as Putin had no strong rivals. But now he is being challenged by Alexey Navalny, who has revolutionised Russian politics by running an efficient presidential campaign and mobilising opposition supporters not just in Moscow and St Petersburg, but all over the country. No other opposition politician was ever able to achieve this during Putin's era.

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Russian political cycles can be compared to TV series...

Like The Apprentice?

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The second season began with the chaotic revolution in Ukraine, which allowed the political leadership, or - as many Russians say - the "collective Putin", to rebrand the regime by embracing irredentist nationalism and aggressive conservatism, a plagiarised version of the Christian fundamentalism of the US Bible Belt.

PUTIN GOT IT FROM US?! The cross-fertilization in these two Clowns and their movements is mind-boggling. No WONDER the trailer trash in the U.S. has gone soft on communism. Putin plagiarised from them! (By the way? Did you know that Putin plagiarized his "doctoral" thesis?Copied it word for word, from an economics article written by two professors at...the University of Pittsburgh.)

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Putin is a not a brand per se - it is the agenda he embodies, which matters.

I am fucking blown away. Could somebody pass this on to Mueller? Siamese_Twinskis