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erronis

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1. Replying to my own post because I like the language of this additional post
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 09:53 PM
Oct 9
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/how-kash-patel-and-pam-bondi-became-slaves-to-stephen-miller/#comment-1114042

Miller’s resemblance to Gollum lies in his character arc. In the first volume, when he fluttered like a malevolent Tinkerbell in proximity to power, he displayed the joie de morte of an adolescent vulture (though none of a carrion bird’s moral compass). In the second, while Trump was out of office, Miller expanded his army by spawning yet another ultra-right finishing school–part money suck, part credentialing op, all designed to smother the media with “conservative” influence while buying time…Publicly, however, Miller maintained control of his inner succubus.

Now screaming and stomping into the third (and, we should hope, final) volume, Stephen Miller, like Gollum, is the apotheosis of all metaphors and parables about what craving power does to our souls. Visibly psychotic? Out of control? You are not allowed to say that.

From Icarus to Dr. Strangelove, the human landscape is littered with the carnage. Typically the last life lost is the power seeker’s.

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