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Another Tiny Russian House

At 77 m2 (829 sq. ft.) it is indeed tiny, but not overly so. I’ve lived in what felt like very spacious one bedroom apartments that topped out at about 700 square feet and a lot of that felt wasted.

The one thing I would do is get rid of the wall separating the front entrance hall from the living room as well as the walls and doors separating that expanded space from the rest of the house. That central hallway is still wasted space, but at least you’d get the illusion of the space being much larger and open.

And as to why Russian homes have such thick walls, it’s as I suspected…

That probably also explains why the public part of the house is divided from the private area. It can be closed off to save on heating!

 

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TIny House

I don’t get walking directly into that office/vestible. If it was me, I’d remove the wall between that room and the living room and the doors (between the newly combined room and the hall, opening it up all the3 more.

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“These Are Not Very Bright Guys And Things Got Out Of Hand”

From Palmer Report:

One of the great ironies of the Watergate scandal is that the most famous quote to come from it – “These are not very bright guys and things got out of hand” – was never actually said by anyone involved. That line only existed in the stylized movie version of events. It doesn’t matter. By all accounts the quote accurately sums up what the real Deep Throat was trying to convey to the real Bob Woodward about the real Nixon and his henchmen. But it’s somehow fitting that, like everything else about the scandal, even the pull quote is fake.

What does this have to do with Donald Trump? In a way, everything. His entire life has been one long series of overlapping scandals. Nothing about the man is what he purports it to be. Trump the savvy businessman was a fictional creation. Trump the billionaire was a fictional creation. Trump on the Apprentice was a spliced together fictional portrayal. Trump the politician has been such a work of fiction that… well, you know.

But do we really know? For a decade, one seedy, corrupt, evil, criminal, unhinged, and often outright filthy aspect after another of the real Donald Trump has been exposed. A disturbing number of people didn’t care. Some still don’t. Some didn’t start caring until it was too late. At this point it feels like any additional scandal that comes out about Trump is only going to move the needle incrementally. After all, literally every inch of this piece of crap’s life has been a hideous scandal.

But then there’s Jeffrey Epstein. In his own way, an even more psychotically evil villain than Donald Trump. Epstein committed the one kind of crime that just about everyone on earth agrees is pure evil. It’s the one crime that other criminals all think is evil. It’s the kind of evil that can instantly end any public figure’s public life if it’s exposed that they even so much as knew what Epstein was doing to those girls.

Which of course is why Trump is willing to burn it all down – even his own failing presidency – in a desperate attempt at keeping his connections to Jeffrey Epstein under wraps. And it’s why Trump’s henchmen have been trying to help Trump keep it all a secret. Even as psychotically evil as they are, they understand just how evil Epstein’s crimes were, and how thoroughly Trump will be finished in public life if the public finds out that Trump even knew what Epstein was doing. And frankly, Trump’s own mouth has gotten the public halfway there.

Yet the effort to cover it all up continues. The federal court systen ordered the Trump regime to turn over all relevant information about the Jeffrey Epstein files. But yesterday the Trump regime basically said “nah.” Instead it’s asking for a sixty day delay for no coherent reason. The court won’t grant any such delay. The Trump regime is buying itself a few days at most, waiting until Friday on a holiday weekend to file something that will surely be rejected once the courts reopen. That’s just how desperate Trump’s Department of Justice is to stall this for even so much as a long weekend.

Of course this is the same Trump Department of Justice – the dumbest four words ever strung together – just yesterday admitted to the court that it accidentally sent a copy of Jack Smith’s report to the defense attorney for someone the DOJ has criminally charged with having improperly obtaining a copy of said report. If that sounds insanely confusing, that’s because it is. It’s incompetence on a level that’s so thoroughly on the nose, you have trouble believing it even as you’re reading the news report about it. Except you do believe it, because these people really are that stupid in how they go about trying to be evil.

These are not very bright guys and things got out of hand. These words may have never been spoken during the Watergate scandal, but they perfectly conveyed the entirety of the scandal. And now, just as accurately, just as stunningly, just as absurdly, just as perfectly these same words apply to an attempted coverup that’s so evil and so stupid that it makes Watergate look like a day at the park. These are not very bright guys and things got out of hand.

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