In the car this morning, I was thinking about how cowards push forward their agendas using children as a shield. I imagined a crime ring wanting to get a lot of crooks out of jail and exonerate their brothers from future crimes. So, they get a figurehead in a position with the /1

... power to appoint judges to rule in the favor of said "conspiracy theory." But, to get the people to accept the court-packing, they need a cause, so they use abortion. The ring-leader says it's all about pro-life (even though judges are not supposed to be political). /2

... The people buy it because the schools don't teach civics, anymore. Then, I was thinking about the discussion about "adoptions," which, for anybody up on current events, which most aren't, pertained to Putin's coupling of adoptions with sanctions. /3

... One can brush up here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act. Putin retaliated by saying as long as the sanctions against oligarchs remained in place, he would stop letting Americans adopt Russian children who needed a level of care only available in the US. /4

... I mumbled out loud, "Abortions and adoptions," and the dog, who was lazing in the passenger seat, sprang to attention as if I'd said something important. /5

While on this thread, I was wondering if anybody knew, in these days of reaching out for mental health, what the cure is for reading books documenting preconditions to major events that turn out to be fake news a few years later. /6