GoodGuyWithACat
GRRM allegedly knows the ending. It's the broad strokes of what we saw on GOT. Martin's problem isn't lack of inspiration, as someone who has read too many of his blog posts for insight I'm confident it's the opposite. He gets a new idea, has to rewrite hundreds of pages to make it work, then throws that out and rewrites again. That's what happened with the first big break, for books 4 and 5. At least that was his problem a decade ago. Now it's probably a mix of depressing disappointment at being beaten to the punch by GOT and his status as "important writer" as a distraction.
I've accepted long ago we won't get the books to finish the series and moved on with other fiction. But if GRRM wanted to end the books he could punch them out and do so.
I think there's too many people who signed on because they believed Trump was going to punish pedophiles
These people don't care about pedophiles. They care about punishing liberals and built up a public reason to justify their hatred. They care about punishing non white people, queer folks, and women and will do any sort of mental gymnastics to go back to supporting Trump.
Never got far enough to play politics. Whenever I reached the limit of natural expansion eventually a more martial neighbor would bully me. I'm far to accustomed to CK where I can build my kingdom by piecemeal and wait for moronic, inbred neighbors to shatter their kingdoms for me scoop up the pieces.