Never mind he didn't write it, people, he couldn't even Copy-Paste it. The point here, IF this is a real DJT post, is how he could have allowed it? I'm suspicious.
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Never mind he didn't write it, people, he couldn't even Copy-Paste it. The point here, IF this is a real DJT post, is how he could have allowed it? I'm suspicious.
Hey, at least he can still type. I'm sure that's a relief...
Has he, perhaps, been doing so for half a year.
And they tried to mask it with fake news, the Gliewicz Incident. It didn't work then, and we can hope it doesn't work today.
You mean a horrifying, immoral distraction? That tracks.
Fair enough. But we can all play this out. An administration willing to post golf photos from a week prior as "proof" will certainly be willing to trot out Karo-lyin' Leavitt to say he's fine. So, how important is a 50-word article?
I feel just the same way when I'm watching a favorite team, and they're giving the superstar a game off late in the season. Selfishly, this is bad. But it will be good later.
There's no escape in sci-fi, you still have "hard" sci-fi fans who want the entirety of future tech explained in textbook detail. Whachoogonna' do? The tribe wants what it wants.
How would ANYONE with IQ higher than shoe size think this image carries a positive connotation?
It's mostly about the quota, with a side order of cruelty. The quota is utterly hopeless, long gone, no shot to ever make even half of it. So the cruelty is all they have left.
Those signs were not printed before this. Costs money.
Nit-Pick Dept: Melania didn't run for any public office. In fact, not that I care about her feelings, but she pretty clearly did not want her husband to be in public office.
None of those verbs apply. The Dem minority in Congress can do NONE OF THOSE THINGS. Where do these arguments even come from?
They couldn't find some more muscular icons? I'm hearing Popeye music.
Terrific analysis of one of the top I-didn't-vote-for-that issues in the entire slate of Drumpf's so-called "policies" (which is saying a mouthful). I've had solar panels on my roof for three years and now I have to wonder if my patriotism will be questioned...
Weekend? They need two years and the only good side will be that he won't smell any worse.
Kingsmen? How about Keystone Cops? The sooner Drumpf is out of office the better, we have stuff to fix. But none of his immediate puppeteers and loyalists have what it takes to lead this mob. Could be a few years of utter chaos, but even that...
SO happy. I'm sure.
Don't worry, he can't count that high.
I like the part where "prior approval" is really just making your doctor say, "yeah, that thing I ordered? I really ordered it, yup."
OK, now THAT's funny.
Maybe she was just referring to political careers?
One way or the other, if he's even still alive, Drumpf will be under constant in-room surveillance anyway.
Well I'll be a monkey's uncle. THANK YOU.
OK, but Lincoln offered the Army of the Potomac to him first. So we can ease up on the rank thing a bit.
Oops sorry, I meant it has all the hyperbole and continuing drama of a spy thriller, but it's of course all the plain story of what's actually happening.
Something I hate about Bluesky- I get a response and I can't see what it's a response to! If you mean Kirk's nonsense about conservatives having more kids, it's simple. Their kids are not going to be conservative because kids never do what their parents want! So his argument backfires badly.
I like the part where kids never do what their parents want...
Every word of this is incredible. It's fiction, but fact at the same time.
Frankly surprised that his people studied hard enough to realize that they’re even existed such an old loophole. They appeared content to just do stuff up until now.
No no, it's "thrown TO the lions", not "throw a lion".
Pirates don't care, and your work is beyond any kind of anchored profit-making imitation. But yes, slap them with a wet noodle, absolutely. What are they doing for you anyhow? Where's the limo? The groupies!!
Rand Paul awarded his license to himself. So... he'd just give it back again.
As lifelong Giants fan, I wish nothing better for my team than that Jones remains in complete control of the Boys and lives to be 115.
If only we could relate such insight to events occurring closer to the present day...
ORAL report, live, to the board. Note-cards only.
:: coughs :: Dude, he's not preventing squat. Congress has been utterly supine, they could stop him in half a day. Courts are doing their best; who else is a dictator with a 95% loss rate at trial? The media, admittedly, has been lukewarm, but protests from citizens, opinion polls et al boom!
Incredible stuff about the cuts to government, and I think the analysis is spot-on as I've come to expect. On the Guard in DC, I keep thinking of a Bizarro-world situation where in 1832 SC nullified the Force Bill and thus had a semantic "tradition" of state sovereignty to fall back on in 1861...
Did he really avenge it, though? I mean, what did they do, leave his desk a mess (maybe it was always that way)? Been three days, any evidence, charges, stacks of boxes in the bathroom perhaps! It just draws attention to the comparison, you ask me.
Most Stone Age human societies were highly matriarchal. If all years are treated equally, I'd say men are still owed a couple millennia in charge... but let's be big about it. I do think we should be past the stage of "they're too emotional" based on current leadership!!!
Great news about the special elections, which I hadn't seen on any trad-news channel. They are so effed on the Abrego Garcia case. Where's that tiny violin I keep around... need my reading glasses...
No. It's what he wants, and Drumpf has no shame sharing his desires. But it's still at the bribery stage. Intel gave Drumpf (he thinks this way) 10% of the company to leave them alone. It's protection money. Drumpf has no idea what to do with a chip company.
And then we have to figure out what to do with all that excess power capacity we built. Happy ending!
Well, they could be doing worse. They could be trying to govern the country.
I would guess that on the alleged merits, this firing will be stayed while she litigates. Where that goes, who can say. But she's in charge for at least another quarter of bad economic news.
Finland, actually. But not often I grant you.
Nit-Pick Dept: Along with HRC in 2016. And not for nothing, but along with everyone who's IQ is higher than their shoe size. These ladies would have been OK or even good presidents. But neither is the Christopher Columbus of human psychology.
I've always said those two were at war (cruelty and incompetence). And they're stuck now. If they can't get him out of the country, they'll have to put this dangerous gang-leader and trafficker and molester on trial. Facts and stuff And then they'll find out what embarrassment really feels like.
I'll tell you who's a good boy.
Drumpf leaned on the cracker barrel, he'd break it. But that idea about changing your ways because of polls, that might be a pearl of applicable wisdom.
I think it sends his likelihood of winning it in the proper direction.
Agree he's stuck on himself. But if Laura Loomer batted her eyes and said "let me just touch you up a little" he'd let her henna daisies on his forehead. Nobody seems to give a damn. The aftermath of the Once and Future Former President will be interesting. Nobody owns MAGA.
These are all very recent photos from reputable sources. I viscerally dislike the man and everything he's doing. But my question: have you ever seen a famous, powerful person that virtually NO ONE is caring for? His people let him go out like this. Start a narcissist and then get THIS LITTLE help?
One minor carp about Ms. Harris (2024) and Ms. Clinton (2016). People, it wasn't exactly HARD to be right about this stuff.
There are not 50 continental states. And in 1866 there were only 35. I've heard of Milligan, but no idea who this dude is.
A lot of people Only the best Never seen before Sir, sir please These are the dead give-away phrases in the Is He Just Making It Up sweepstakes.
I mean, cartels have been known to use small ships and even submarines to move the product. But this is like using a hurricane to vacuum the rug.
Masterful speech. I'm thinking Pritzker, Newsom, Buttigieg, perhaps Crockett, and it doesn't matter which two take the top of the ticket.
Real ones? Or the health records we have on file.
But there will be moments of deeply satisfying schadenfreude as the various would-be puppeteers jockey to gain the allegiance of around 15% of eligible voters. Nobody has an inside track, I mean, at all. Must-see TV! Right now a ticket of Newsom-Buttegieg would win 70% of the popular vote.
If they can't get him out of the country they have to try him. In court. With, like, facts and stuff. That wouldn't go well. So...
Haha, like the best people, and the fact that nobody's ever seen that before, and maybe I do but I probably didn't though I could if I wanted...
I actually agree with the notion (you want speech, say it or write it, art is art and destruction is destruction). But I'd be willing to help fight this dope on general principles.
I believe the use of the word "sir" is in the dead-giveaway category, yes?
Is there a gold-plated spittoon I can vomit into here? Asking for 330 million friends.
Or any day, frankly. Even the day-off photos are worth it.
I did a quick search and can't find any reporting that this is indeed the case. What would be REALLY great is if the Dem candidate won despite gerrymandering because of higher turnout and defections.
Little bit Sgt. Schulz from that side, yes? "I know noh-THING!"
I'd invite him to my American History class, because kids need to see a grown-ass man getting bitch-slapped for what he says.
Thank you, boss-lady, for showing the clear connection between insane "policy" and an insane person. How far would any Dem president have gotten in displaying poor physical and mental health before being forced to step down? I'm currently betting on a heart attack, followed by MAGA martyrdom. Ugh
First teen to get shot by a Guard going to spark a riot.
Thanks for this summary, priceless. I love how Drumpf describes the Intel deal as "great for them". Why? Because the persecution he threatened would have been greater than losing $11B?
And now exactly is giving up 10% of your stock a great deal for Intel? Because you avoid threatened government oppression and persecution now?
Was she even under oath when Blanche questioned her? He spoke off-the-record before they began recording, was he like, chain-winking that whole time?
His full-on would have been, ten years ago, about one-quarter of Putin. Yeah, it's bad, but it's also pathetic.
And a follow-up: when is the next scheduled release date, and on the same question, who is number 2 on the retribution list?
You can argue it's not even worthwhile to buy back the stock right now. Normally a company flush with cash could go private, but who needs to do that when regulations are getting flushed faster than official papers in the White House?
They could probably sue and win with that level of continuity. Drumpf would have to explain why he granted the lease in the first place.
You know, I'm thinking we could put out the fire... might be a good trade?
Asinine, the dedication to self-destruction. Just let them finish and don't tell anyone, you dopes.
Gal on CNN had the right of it. "You admit she's a liar, so why believe her now?" And her "testimony" revealed so far was all opinion: "I like Drumpf, he was always nice to me". Let's just leave what Maxwell might consider inappropriate over to one side, shall we...
So... we could be looking at a situation where anyone that needs intelligence work done will hire... Anonymous? The hacker kids will pick up the fired former agents and analysts and come out into the open, maybe go public on Wall Street and we'll have a private firm fighting our cyberwars!
Let's lie to him and say it is. Let's take up a collection and keep him out on the course 1x365, pay for his SS detail and all the bottled water and the rest of it, so he can cheat on the score and feel good and leave the country the hell alone. Fifty bucks a head? I'll send a check right now.
Even when he's trying to go OTT, it still comes out classier somehow.
I don't know the genre as well as I should, but seriously... could there be two famous fantasy authors FURTHER apart in their style?
I got your interest rate cut RIGHT HERE, you putz.
If I were uncertain whether a judge was doing his or her job... WHY would I ask Alina Habba about it?
If one man says it's raining and the other man says it's dry, the journalist's job doesn't end with reporting that opinions differ. It begins with looking out the damn window.
I'll be happy to judge any knucklehead for criticizing how Garland went about his business in an absolutely unprecedented, hostile, polarized environment. They should make him a Justice now, as was supposed to be in the first place.
You see these masks in the videos, they're not home-made. There's an entire industry around hiding your face and this is not N-95 level stuff. It's camo colors, it's frickin' stylish for thugs.
We need to see Dems win three seats that the GoP designed to go their way instead. People just gotta' vote this crap off the table.
I have more guilty pleasure movies than a Catholic boy should be allowed. Original Road House, Caddyshack, Starship Troopers, several more. Any channel-surfing, half-way through, eighteenth time, I still stop and watch.
Well, trying. Matches seem a bit, wet...
Hah! I don't want any military action in Mexico, but it's JUST the sort of thing Drumpf might not be able to resist. And then as you point out, migrants/asylum seekers increase, and he probably issues an exception to his rules and tries to look all merciful while his people scratch their heads.
Even Andrew Carnegie dared to speak of "excess wealth", and gov't taxation was only the middle path of the three ways he identified to "dispose" of it. Sure, there was a better way (hint: the one he chose), but there was also a worse one (leaving it to your "decedents", ouch).
:: grins :: Parents sidle up on Open House night and say "You know, I never used to like History, but NOW..." Sure, you've been out in the world a while, you see the point! If I had a nickel every time... But all the smart kids come around sooner or later.
"oh, and also not vote" There, fixed it for him.
I like the part where the talking heads scream danger to national security, because the report talks about how many security staff they're hiring. And nothing else.
I should just print these out and read them to my History classes. But I would still feel guilty... WHY did Drumpf feel such a need to shoot his own foot with program cuts? They never emphasize any savings, they just do it and it seems needless. I love how 1/3 of cowboys were Mexican, and 20% black!
Dave McCulloch made a pretty strong argument that the father of her children could very well have been Thomases bachelor brother Randolph. A lot fits.