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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTweety calls them the Romanoffs/Romanovs
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Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Foamfollower
(1,097 posts)And Putin heads up the Medicis
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)(I do believe Cesare did some of his own dirty work) and infinitely more intelligent.
DavidDvorkin
(19,502 posts)Trump barely speaks one.
malaise
(269,243 posts)steroids
DavidDvorkin
(19,502 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)3catwoman3
(24,084 posts)...mean-spirited, as Trump is, or more akin to victims of the social isolation to which their privileged backgrounds confined them?
DavidDvorkin
(19,502 posts)I think they were oblivious to what most of their fellow Russians had to deal with.
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)malaise
(269,243 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)malaise
(269,243 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Retrograde
(10,170 posts)more prevalent when the czars were in power; "Romanov" is the modern transliteration. Russian spelling doesn't always have a 1:1 correspondence with English letters.
JI7
(89,281 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)malaise
(269,243 posts).
Initech
(100,119 posts)Actually I think Cliven Bundy could fill that role too.
furtheradu
(1,865 posts)& always when I need it most!
no_hypocrisy
(46,253 posts)Nicholas relied on his wife, the Tsarina Alexandra. She had no training in politics, etc. But she was very religious and very frightened. She was frightened that the divine right of the Romanov Family to continue to rule Russia was dependent on their hemophiliac son, Tsarevich Alexei, to live to adulthood. Along came a mystic, Rasputin, who calmed things down and became a trusted advisor to the Tsar. A grifter at heart, Rasputin took over everything from government to prosecuting the First World War. It didn't end well for all concerned.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,204 posts)And I bet Rump wants some Nicholas-inspired uniforms (only with more gold braid) so bad he can taste it.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,834 posts):snap:
Oh yeah. Now I remember.
BigDemVoter
(4,157 posts)He's fucking WORTHLESS.
spanone
(135,917 posts)love of country?
they want to give back?
naaaaww. this is a once is a million lifetimes to enrich the shit out of yourself.
apparently ethics laws don't apply to you.
have at it!
malaise
(269,243 posts)GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,473 posts)GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)malaise
(269,243 posts)Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Grand Duchess Ivanka and Grand Dukes Uday and Qusay are every bit as sociopathic as their father.
malaise
(269,243 posts)Retrograde
(10,170 posts)The youngest, Alexei, seems to have been developing into an entitled piece of work according to some recent biographies - his mother treating him literally like God's gift to Russia didn't help. The older ones (and at 22, 21, 19, and 17 I hesitate to call them kids) are more of a cipher: their mother kept them isolated and treated them as a single organism, and IMO tried to keep them infantile and dependent. I don't think they were allowed to develop their own personalities.