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Conservatives see that as a positive.

Thanks for that. I don't pay much attention to this, but I thought Harry abdicated his position, which is why I asked.

Right now, if Charles and William were both gone, who would ascend the throne?

Just came across this pic today. Pretty original pairing, don'tchathink?

Why didn't his grandmother, who is standing right next to him, help him out?

This is Charlie McCarthy, Kevin's smarter brother.

Personally I see every non-American DT supporter as anti-US. No good has come due to him. However, if he succeeds in destroying the Republican Party and himself that could be deemed a Good Thing.

Right from the beginning, I thought maybe he's getting them for something that happened long before 2015. When they were doing the two-tiered GOP debates in 2015, I was watching DT tear into each of them like he was Don Rickles. I sensed a lot of venom, like he hated them all. Probably does. After the election in 2012, Bobby JIndel (remember him?) said the GOP has to stop being "the party of stupid." Sorry, Bobby.

They can be real nasty when they fight amongst themselves, but they now know that accusations of sex and drugs parties is too far. When they're at their worst there is this room in the basement they huddle in. (If you want verification of the room, search for what they were doing prior to Ryan's speakership declaration, there was a lot of running to the room then.) And they like to say the other side does things in hiding! Poor McCarthy, Ryan snatched the prize from his hands when Boehner quit, and now he just might get it, but the trophy will be filled with doo-doo. I think who will end up with the gavel will be someone low-key who has been keeping out of the way and does not wear a red cap. But I think there is going to be a lot of mess.

I do know I felt a little safer walking around Bkk knowing it was military on the street, and not . . . In the time after the demonstrating stopped. Once there was clump of soldiers at the intersection near my apt, they had their rifles in that teepee kind of shape on the sidewalk. All of them giving me that look that says they've never seen a farang before. We chatted, they tolerated my bad and limited Thai, they were all country boys. I don't know if the people feared them, but I didn't.

I do crosswords, went over to Android apps. These digital versions can hint that you've entered the wrong letter, but you can turn that feature off at your choosing.

I lived in Brazil for a while, still in touch friends and would-have-been in-laws. I know middle-class people as well as those of modest means. EVERYONE's financial situation picked up in the Lula years, even if the middle-class paid more in taxes. Bolso caters to the rich, but hell, they are already rich. Imagine the temerity to arrest a fine citizen like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eike_Batista Notice this is the same Lava Jato they used to jail Lula. I did not like Lula's successor, she was too much of an arrogant "because I say so leader" for my blood. Compare it to Mandela's successors, but not as corrupt. Even when I'm out in the sticks down there, when people find out I'm from the US they will suspect I'm with the CIA. Really. That's what they think of Americans down there, it lingers from decades of a US-supported military gov't. If you're curious to learn more of this Batista rascal dig around the web for an interview he did with Charlie Rose, before things hit the fan (for both of them).

If the US goes through with the sale anything classified about it will no longer be -- you'll be able to set your stopwatch the moment the last Yank is no longer watching. There will be an auction for first peek, mostly likely Russia or China. Or Iran. Iran? You've heard about the Russians using Iranian drones. Ever wonder how Iran got into the drone business? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident

I recall that there was a court ruling, made very quietly, that his businesses did not violate emolument rules. This was a month or 2 after his inauguration. Very fishy. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/03/politics/emoluments-clause-definition-trump/index.html

I have a prediction: Meghan and Kanye It's inevitable.

I first noticed him around this time: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/30/politics/pro-trump-super-pac-paid-thousands-to-firm-owned-by-brad-parscales-wife/index.html A while later I started seeing articles about him hoarding luxury stuff. I didn't get it. About a week after that was: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/27/politics/brad-parscale-hospitalized/index.html There's a lot out there if you care to search. I hope Mr Smith delivers. My guess is the buying spree had something to do with a money-laundering scheme and when he thought they were setting him up for the fall he wigged.

And he did, he refurbished the Old Post Office building into a hotel and turned it into a cash funnel for selling favors. Enriching POTUS is a way of making America great, no?

That whole piece of history involving the 2016 election, foreign involvement, Assange, the Mueller Report etc needs to be reviewed. For a glimpse of how much things have changed since then, when during a debate Hillary called him "Putin's puppet" and he made the schoolyard response "you're the puppet" she backed off, I suspect she didn't want to attack because it would make her look mean. Well, that's changed, the non-rabid media people have gotten tough. Even heart-on-the-sleeve candy-ess types like Chris Hayes have stepped up. Dana Bash's first on-air words after the first Biden-DT debate was "that was a sh_t show." Oh those Jersey girls! My guess is DT's two AGs (Sessions and Barr) have damaged the rep of the DOJ and there are internal machinations to clean up the mess.

This christian organization seems to be more on the ball than SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts, whose new year message can be summarized as tone deaf. https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jan/01/supreme-court-john-roberts-report-abortion

So if they get rid of him they are still stuck with his buttock-polishers in Congress who, as part of the purge, will be told to shut up and sit on their thumbs. With six months to hat-in-the-ring time and an entire year till the first primaries we have absolutely no way to gauge what that party will look like a year from now. Flynn: he's been traveling the country cooking up some kind of god & country doctrine, I think wherever DT goes he'll attach to that. If somehow DT is out of the picture all together I see Flynn and Pompeo teaming up.

Does that mean the antichrist will be born in 2023, or that's the year he'll get a television show?

Has anybody tried buying him outright? A billion $$$ if he doesn't run, payable November 6th 2024. On the subject of campaign finance, there was something about a 2020 campaign manager named Brad Parscale who suddenly started accumulating expensive sports cars, yachts, and so on. He left the campaign under a cloud. Haven't heard his name mentioned since.

If it wasn't for Glen Beck these guys would never have heard of Soros. They need a new boogie man but can't find one, so they're sweating with an oldie. C'mon Ingram-Tucker-Hannity, give 'em a new one, your audience is waiting. Too bad Lyndon LaRouche is gone. Maybe JFK Jr again with a new twist? (pssst! I hear Bolsonaro will be meeting with him in Florida! )

Maybe Romania is embarrassed. They have the world's attention at this moment, and this trash is what is on display. Provenance of cars like this, and their journey to this guy's garage, probably has a lot of blank spaces. This is kind of like the Bill Cosby thing: one day he goes on social media asking for memes, someone responds with "how about rape?" and the rest is history. This time it was a pizza box. I wonder if things like this happen frequently.

Be sure of it. They have been depending on the Dems to finish him off (Mitch has been heard speaking of it) but they don't have the guts to help -- how many would have liked to vote for the two impeachments? Spineless wimps.