{"id":1193,"date":"2023-07-10T04:10:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T04:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2023-07-19T04:10:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T04:10:47","slug":"vlad-the-upseller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"Vlad the Upseller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Didn\u2019t see that one coming.&nbsp; Or maybe did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No real mystery that Vlad\u2019s efforts re empire-building\/expansion have been met with a bit of resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What\u2019s it been, 18 months now?\u00a0 Vlad budgeted a couple months to complete his invasion, and just recently Moscow almost got took by his own mercs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ha!&nbsp; Gotta love it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vlad is trying to sell the narrative that if Wagner hadn\u2019t halted the mercs&#8217; march to Moscow they would have (inevitably) been stopped by Russian forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yeh, right.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even more horrifying is if Wagner had managed to dethrone Vlad \u2026 new boss is exactly like the old boss, but possibly worse.\u00a0 A military coup in Russia?\u00a0 Yeah that\u2019s a good look.\u00a0 World: watch out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Methinks me wonders if Gog and Magog are where\/who originally thought it was {<em>Rev: 20:8<\/em>}\u2026 kinda looking like maybe, maybe not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What was the name of that Russian submarine that got stuck at the bottom of the sea and all the sailors died?&nbsp; The <em>Kursk<\/em>, all 118 men died on board while Vlad continued his holiday.&nbsp; What suck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t think the Kursk imploded, just failed and sank (Subway\u2019s joke didn\u2019t make sense, BTW \u2026 why would a foot-long detonate?\u00a0 Altho\u2019, with enough time, dead bodies <em>do<\/em> explode \u2026 makes you wonder what they are using for meat.\u00a0 &#8220;Eat Fresh(kill)&#8221; \/ digress).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of imploding subs \u2026 why oh why does anyone need to see the Titanic lying on the floor of the Atlantic?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Research I get.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Salvage I get.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But sightseeing?&nbsp; Like it\u2019s Mt Rushmore or that big ball of rubber bands in Ohio?&nbsp; Trapped in a carbon fiber experimental bubble?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stupid is as stupid can afford, apparently.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of stupid, Vlad is likely a hologram at this point, and policies are being promoted\/implemented by hawks in his administration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some months back there was serious speculation that Vlad was sick, possibly dying.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His face was swollen, he looked unsteady during public appearances, then somehow, all of that resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kind of like Dick Cheney, bka Emperor Palpatine.&nbsp; Truly a lord of the dark side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bad heart, multiple attacks, rare blood type \u2026 suddenly all resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Methinks he had an organ harvested from an unwilling donor, but I\u2019m crazy.&nbsp; Maybe not wrong, tho\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rumor has it Jamie Foxx (who?) was also cloned.&nbsp; Along with Kanye West (who?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wouldn\u2019t be surprised to find out the actual truth, altho\u2019 Col. Jessup was prolly right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whole world (apart from a few nutjob conspiracy theorists, such as meself [<em>waving<\/em>] &#8220;Hi!&#8221;) would likely shrug and change the channel.\u00a0 American Ninja Warrior does make for captivating viewing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bread and circuses, indeed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whatever.&nbsp; The world is burning, and I have gas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didn\u2019t see that one coming.&nbsp; Or maybe did. No real mystery that Vlad\u2019s efforts re empire-building\/expansion have been met with a bit of resistance. What\u2019s it been, 18 months now?\u00a0 Vlad budgeted a couple months to complete his invasion, and just recently Moscow almost got took by his own mercs. Ha!&nbsp; Gotta love it. Vlad &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=1193\" class=\"more-link\">Read the full post &rarr;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Vlad the Upseller&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nobuy","category-stayaway","category-proof-of-god"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}