Apart from being egregious and cynical, it’s not sustainable in the long term, which ultimately makes it stupid.

They ceded everything to him from the very start.

So what stunt is he going to pull when the next numbers are released.

lol. It’s not what it used to be.

Last year, the DOJ brought charges against the CEO of Fat Brands for a range of financial crimes totaling $47 million.

During the 2024 election cycle, the CEO donated nearly $20k to Trump and Republicans.

Today, the DOJ dropped the case against him.

Funny how that works.

Working exactly as intended.

What’s the bet Trump chooses to continue the photo ops

I’ve never understood why the public tolerates inflated food prices just to have it delivered.

I spent my academic career researching authoritarian regimes and I've never seen such sadistic cruelty, especially aimed at children, as Israel's. There is no point to their violence but torture for its own sake -- slaughtering parents, starving children to death to maximize agony. Absolutely sick.

Surely that would be the point.

You can’t make this stuff up but then again you don’t have to.

Doesn’t sound good.

It’s more about risk management than success at this stage. I see it as the start of a deep paradigm shift that in many ways has been waiting to happen. There will be many pleasant and unpleasant surprises.

Averaged out, a journalist has been killed every 3 days since the conflict began.

Trump has unwittingly triggered a massive long term opening up of the worlds of trade and science at an enormous cost to the US.

Well each country needs to deal with the realpolitik of the situation by giving Trump a win and moving on.

The small number of deals announced are readily managed by the countries concerned. The real action is the work all countries are doing to limit trade with the US as much as possible.

It’s a long complicated messy process.

Exactly. Everyone is rolling with the punches with the US and moving on.

Waste of time. The regime is studiously ignoring the basic facts about tariffs.

I think every country is taking the view that this is a transient stage they need to deal with in two ways: settle with Trump and focus on what the long term should be.

She’s angling for a position in Trump’s cabinet.

Meanwhile Trump is crowing about how much money the tariffs are bringing in.

First world problems rate higher on focus groups.

Regulations seem to be missing an important point.

I must check how it works here in Australia. I know we have very few private prisons although we’ve contracted out our detention of ‘illegal’ immigrants in offshore centres at fewer cost.

Oh really! So why build them now.

You’re a better man than me. The whole set up looked ridiculous.

But isn’t it federally funded?

He’s the exception that proves the rule.

Especially a hard rocker who had health problems.