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Putin, the Big Bad-Ass Bully
Neighborhood bully will get his way unless everyone bands together to protect the kids who did not join the cool-kids club in time.
It’s your great misfortune to live next door to the biggest, bad-ass bully on the block.
Yeah, when you were younger you did play with him, but he was a real jerk so you told him you wouldn’t play with him any more.
You didn’t want to play with the big bad-ass bully any more and had made yourself very clear. The big bad-ass bully didn’t like hearing that. His itty, bitty feelings were crushed by your rejection. Seething, he knew he’d get a chance to get back at you one day. What a baby.
The cool kids on the block formed a club and promised to band together and protect each other from the big bad-ass bully.
Sure, there were “conditions” you had to achieve before you could join the cool kids club. You were working your way down the list, it was a lot, but you were making progress. You had not quite gotten through the long and reasonable list of accomplishments to belong to the cool kids club.
All the while you were working through the list of conditions to join the cool kids club, the big bad-ass bully was threatening you. He began piling up rocks…
