LOL! I came here to say exactly this, but you beat me to it. Well played sir.
Is this some kind of demented game of red light green light? Where if the Dow is under 50K, investigations can go, and if it’s over 50K, they have to stop?
The stock market is all he understands or cares about, specifically the Dow. All the other numbers are too complex for his deteriorating mind to grasp. But the Dow is a single number that he can point to and say, “See? Economy good!”
He’s lying and stupid. He’ll never admit a mistake or take responsibility for anything. When confronted with undeniable facts he just panics and makes stuff up and his toadies then try to spin it and make it make sense, at least enough to satisfy the MAGAsphere.
And here I was hoping Corey was going to stay on and keep providing the same high level of sage ‘advice’ and personal service he gave his old boss. Markwayne will need an experienced hand to help him rise to this challenge.
Nah, Qatar doesn’t want their jet back. It was like their moss covered boat in the yard on the trailer with flat tires. It was a liability. They’d been trying to sell it for years before they cleverly bribed Trump with it. It paid off big, and now WE have to pay to park and refurbish it.
What if the mullahs are smarter than Trump? Seriously? You could replace “mullahs” with nearly anything, except “MAGA voters,” and the answer would be a resounding “YES!”
He’s so conflicted. He’d like to declare victory and withdraw, but Bibi won’t let him. If he stops before the 60 days, it looks like he’s caving to Congress. He needs this to continue and get worse to declare an emergency and disrupt the midterms. But he can’t have a “forever war.”
Cheap drones have changed everything. We can’t afford firing 100s of $7M interceptors forever and can’t build them fast enough. The US Navy does have a laser weapon deployed on new destroyers called HELIOS. Kudos to them.
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The US was developing laser weapons, but the program was discontinued because they had trouble maintaining beam contact long enough to bring down a missile or aircraft. They could take out drones for a few $’s a shot, but we gave up on them.
Iranian drones are $35K. Even an impoverished country can afford a bunch of those. Our high tech miracle weapons are expensive and take months to build, so our supply dwindles.
Patriot missiles, which we’ve been shooting off like firecrackers, cost $7M a shot. The Mk-48 torpedo that sunk the Iranian ship? $4.8M. Our weapons are sophisticated, expensive, and hard to make. The defense contractors like it that way.
If it was so necessary and important, why not make the case to Congress? If not beforehand how about now? You have 60 days to get your supine GOP to authorize it before it becomes more of a crime than it already is, or wrap it up. Tick-tock asshole.
For a long time it was officially referred to as a “police action.” Then it morphed into a “conflict.” Then as the casualties started to mount the media started calling it a war. But never the White House, all to dodge the Constitution. No matter what they call it, the victims were just as dead.
But your point is valid. There's no telling what will happen now that Trump has crossed that line. It upends the calculus. It wouldn't shock me if Iran made an attempt on Netanyahu, or in other volatile conflicts, somebody's calculation changes and they decide it's worth it.
The key is perceived cost. China is playing the long game with Taiwan. Killing their president would just boost the separatists and support from the US. N. Korea offing the president of S. Korea gains nothing. The VP would take over and for N. Korean leaders, the US might take them out.
Rules and norms don't matter. Putin has tried to assassinate Zelenskyy on numerous occasions. There's nothing that would stop him, or any others you mentioned from assassinating the ruler of an adversary if it gained them a strategic advantage, and the perceived cost were acceptable.
Wars are something Donald Trump is too cowardly to join and too stupid to stop.
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
That’s a lot of words. Let’s sum up: “You need to lie to us in private, then to the American people in public, so we can give you everything you want but pretend to be relevant. And when it goes bad, we’ll be outraged that you lied us into a war we were against all along.”
With the dots it looks like a cartoon rendering of a klan rally.
Manchineel (death apple) is also a strong contender. “Ingestion can produce severe gastroenteritis with bleeding, shock, and bacterial superinfection…” And just standing under the tree in the rain will blister your skin. But the question implied fruit that is considered food. So it’s disqualified.
I mean, how could it not be Durian? Durian smells and tastes like burnt tires. And the smell is so vile there are laws in some places against bringing it on public transportation.
Winterset Hollow, Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social
We can add investigating exactly how that happened and who was responsible (all of them, top to bottom) to the enormous pile of crime and corruption that the DEMOCRATIC Congress will have to begin to clean up.
Rich fuckwads bribing Trump will pay for the Epstein Ballroom the same way Mexico paid for the wall.
Our assignment is to embarrass fascist hack and Trump-panderer Bari Weiss by making sure this segment, which she banned from airing, gets more views on YouTube than it would have gotten on CBS. #StreisandEffect
Assignment completed. James Talarico is the Right’s worst nightmare; a Democrat who is a young, handsome, articulate, Christian (seminarian) white man, with sincere faith in God, detailed knowledge of the Bible, deep roots in Texas and a preacher grandfather, calling out their bullshit.
If he claimed to have been given bad information, then ask, “By who?” If he gives someone up, subpoena them, etc. Subpoena all records relating to this claim. Aren’t the Republicans tired of being lied to? Yeah, you’re on the same team but come on…
