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The next time he's in France, somebody take him to Versailles. He will leave sobbing, a broken wannabe.

Maybe if we called them "Trump's Federal sales taxes on imports"?

It seems like just yesterday that everyone needed to learn to code. We are so bad at predicting the needs of the job market. Or even whether there will be a job market.

That burglar earned your hi-res monitor and your laptop by sneaking into your house and mugging you!

Next to the unicorn horns.

The horror & the hope are that Trump's policies are based on delusions. He even thinks the laws of nature are subject to executive orders. There will be multiple collisions with reality in the coming months. Even MAGA can read a grocery receipt.

No matter how hard he tries, it will never be Versailles. Even if he puts a throne on a dais in the new ballroom, Game of Thrones style.

Tariffs are sales taxes on imports. We should call them that. People who don't get the concept of "tariff" can understand "sales tax." When Trump brags about how much money is generated by tariffs, we should talk about how his sales taxes are costing consumers and businesses billions.

Anyone who has worked with an LLM-based AI should watch Janis and the cactus episodes of The Good Place.
#AI

When foreign leaders leave the stage and are out of sight of Trump, do they laugh or do they cry?

Hitler was overtly and intensely anti-Semitic, but Germans didn't have the Holocaust in their rear-view mirrors as a warning. We do.

Dependence on foreign sources for fuel was one of their key vulnerabilities.

There's an old joke about a farmer and a talking mule in which the farmer hits the animal on the head with a 2 x 4. Punchline: First, you gotta get his attention. Epstein is the 2 x 4 for MAGA.

Were Trump's accusations against these institutions true? The process seems to go from accusation to plea deal without bothering to address that. I suppose it isn't relevant in the context of extortion. Nice University you've got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it.

In any other administration, staffers would have been expected to shortstop this and prevent the President from embarrassing himself. It doesn't seem to bother Trump in the slightest to be caught in this kind of lie or error. He doesn't care because his base doesn't care.

What will this do to Columbia's future capital campaigns, etc.?

At what percentage will the Republican Congress figure out that if the emperor ever had clothes, he's down to his undies now.

If only resistance to tyrants had no cost in profits or grant money.

Reluctant to give money directly to Trump and get shamed by your peers? Give to Columbia instead. It will be interesting to see what this does to alum donations to their capital fund drives, etc.

The evil that is done in Gaza is also a grievous act of self-harm by Israel, devastating the country's reputation abroad and enabling anti-Semites everywhere. It does, however, keep Netanyahu out of jail for a while longer.

It's all a hoax perpetrated by nature to bring down Trump.

(/s Honest to God, only on social media would I feel it necessary to label this as sarcasm.)

Were I one of those executors, I might scan it at high resolution and send the files to a couple of dozen independent sources, then turn the physical book over to anybody Pam wants to send for it.

It should do wonders for Columbia's fundraising. Ashamed to donate directly to Trump? Give to Columbia instead.

I'd hate to be the person in charge of their capital campaigns or donations to their endowed funds.

The administration's war against soulless capitalism continues apace. Who'd have thunk it? When will people who voted for Trump's tax cuts realize they've been taken for a ride?

The ideal Kirkian electrician can wire a kitchen, but has no idea how the government or the economy works. A proto-Republican.

"PAY NO ATTENTION TO EPSTEIN!" through a loudspeaker system, while setting off a fireworks display.

Not if you need steel, aluminum, or copper for whatever you're building.

So, dear, if you tell us the truth (wink, wink), which we know will exonerate our dear leader and implicate some of those awful Democrats, I'm sure a certain person who has the power to commute or pardon will take that into account. Now remember, lying is bad!

I suppose my admiration for Israel began with watching Exodus in 1960, when I was still in high school. I came to believe that there would eventually be justice for Palestinians, too. I no longer believe that. And I no longer admire Israel. (For the record, I despise both Hamas and Netanyahu.)

A President who can repeal the laws of nature (see: climate crisis) shouldn't have any problem fixing supply and demand.