Not only with tears in their eyes, some kneeled in front of her and lowered their heads. They were weeping with gratitude. One even even pledging their newborns to her.
"you're very welcome," she said, patting them gently on their head as, suddenly, they were illuminated by a heavenly light.

No, you are not. I ask myself this multiple times every single day and have yet to arrive at even a barely plausible answer.

I agree. But I'd go further: Trump's idea of the truth differs from that of most of the rest of us. He thinks whatever he believes is the actual truth and yet does not having any trouble in redefining his beliefs as necessary. I probably should have said that he believes whatever is convenient.

What he doesn't realize is that flying with your eyes shut inevitably results in disaster.

Don't you know, Trump was joking when he said he could end the war in a day. Repeatedly. With a straight face. I don't know why it was funny, but that's just me I guess.

Putin didn't even stay for lunch. I guess he was full after feasting on Trump.

Putin subscribes to the maxim, it is better to be feared than loved. Trump wants both.

It sure as hell is.

I wonder how many blackout markers they'll go through redacting the Epstein files.

It started when we invented fire, or perhaps a bit earlier.

The word truth sounds dirty in Trump's mouth.

I'm probably just slow, but I hadn't made the--now--obvious connection between narcissism and racism, sexism and homophobia. Thanks.

They're rigged ESPECIALLY if we win them.

Oh, that would be so beautiful! If, in the unlikely circumstance that he does win it, I would pay a whole lot of money to be a fly on the wall when Trump finds out.

Make that the fourth largest economy.

He wouldn't return a shopping cart? Low blow, my man.

I hadn't noticed. Thanks for pointing that out, Mr. Obvious.

Believing Witkoff that it went well is the same as believing a mother saying that her delinquent son was a good boy.

Wit-off is incapable of independent thought when he is the presence of his hero Trump. If it "went well" that leaves me to wonder what going poorly would look like. Nuclear war? If only a few cities were wiped out he would probably say, well, that went well.

It's ridiculous, but no more ridiculous than the lies they tell every day. Witkoff is a student of Trump who gifted his lawyer and mentor Roy Cohen with a pair of diamond encrusted cufflinks in a Bulgari box. After Cohen died his executors discovered that the diamonds were cheap knockoffs.

If not for Bluesky I might never have known this was happening. There was a huge march in NYC this afternoon for Gaza. Haven't seen any reporting on that either.

Yes, but AI superintelligence will find a way. And everyone will live forever and have more money than they know what to do with--though I think AI can help them with that.

That would explain a lot. But I think the only drug that Trump is addicted to is money.

"Don't quote statistics to me, I know what I saw, or at least what I think I saw. Take it from me, DC crime is on the rise.

No, it was simple justice. He deserves to have his big balls crushed. Slowly and completely.

Well said. We must not lose hope; that is what they want and we can't give it to them.

He isn't drunk; he doesn't drink. I think what we are seeing is age and exhaustion. Possibly dementia.

"All the news we're paid to print."

The natural instincts of a real estate developer are the natural instincts of a criminal.