You may want to read information with how Reagan leaned on Gorbachev and about glasnost and perestroika. Preferably not from fedopedia. I’m sure u/@[email protected] has some material to point you toward.

Considering the USA killed it in the 80s, I guess not.

😂

Yes, and their little bodies have probiscii quintuple their body length!

You may enjoy the habitat here, full of ecodiversity, outside the hot, humid, mosquito and gnat-ridden summers.

You’re welcome, I feel we’re the recipients of your gifts, though!

We’ve got huge old trees around here. Not giant Sequoia, but maybe a third the size in height, but close to the breadth. Oak and pecan are the biggest. Pines grow pretty tall but breadth is sparse by comparison. But when the oaks and pecans are uprooted, the root system is exposed, and it’s breathtaking, as big as mid-sized to larger homes.

Similar to these, I guess:

https://www.shutterstock.com/search/giant-tree-uprooted

For good and ill.

As always, lovely, thank you for sharing your joy with us!

Also, several years ago, a tornado tore through my tiny village and several others. Trees bigger around than 2-3 horses together were uprooted; and a Dodge Ram ended up in the top of a tree that wasn’t felled.

Yey 😑

Does “libertarian” where you are actually mean libertarian or is it like US “libertarian?”

Yup.

Also, “where do you go to church?”

That’s required by the employer.

👍

Yay! I’m so happy for you!

Gorgeous!

Do you have new skin?

Sometimes we project things onto people on our subconscious projections of ourselves. Maybe she was or wasn’t interested. I remember your posts from before, and hope you took advice to get into therapy and are doing the dirty work none of us actually want to do until we start seeing results.

Maybe your own body language and facial expressions cued her to your subconscious self-perception or projection.

Pres, VP, speaker being neutralized, along with Pentagon and military leadership.

I fervently hope so.

No one is here to cater to you.