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Let's keep something clear: we are not talking about a compassionate man. He has resigned his life to be a reality TV character: compassion is not part of it. He wants personal glory and, of course, $$$. Whenever he does something it is entirely appropriate to try to discern what is his expected outcome/return. Live with it.

When ICJ takes this on the fall guy will be Hegseth. DT will say he had no idea it was happening and learned about it from the teevee, like he always does -- the entities that actually report news will split-screen it to show otherwise. And Hegseth isn't smart enough to be setting up a fall guy of his own. As a history prof said "The difference between JFK and LBJ was that Kennedy did not realize the value of having stupid people on his team." Have a drink on the boss, Pete! BTW, Jack Smith was working at The Hague before Garland's faux pursuit of DT. Maybe Smith should send POTUS an xmas card saying "See ya soon, bro!" Unfortunately things move incredibly slowly over there, and DT will be in his nineties when the trials begin.

He was their guest, he asked for shelter and they provided. What they did they did in their own house. Maybe ol' Julie is feeling neglected, what with not being mentioned in the media as of late. Maybe he's kind of embarrassed because they caught him flogging the mule.

It was scheduled for a bad time of the month. As Roy Cohn's bodyguard asked him at the hiring interview when Roy told him part of the job was having sex with him: "which was is the woman?"

Blue hair? Men breastfeeding? Lost your meds prescription due to government MAGA funding cuts? Are you being paid for this stuff? Call out to your mom and tell her to bring you a Pepsi.

Yeah, call him names! That'll teach him. That's funny, but if you didn't mean it to be funny you definitely need help.

I was born when Truman was president, the only POTUS I saw as a possible cult leader was Reagan, but I put that on his publicity flacks and the party. Being a Republican, it was God's will that he became president, as is every Republican elected to office: the joke was Team Reagan tricked the evangelicals into endorsement twice ("fool me twice . . . "). As much as I loathe his conservatism, I credit him for not playing into the chosen by God idiocy. W had it too, and his I once was lost But now I'm found worked well for him. This present guy's GOP is definitely a cult, and it is his own doing. The most telling evidence is how they see those who do not share their beliefs as insane, deranged or whatever else the leader says. Does DT play into it? You betcha! He tells you the derangement is with those who don't believe his bs, and all his outright lying. https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-suggests-derangement-syndrome-is-to-blame-for-hostile-former-staff-241002565733 Definite derangement (superhero memes?) on the orange side, and it's like little kid name-calling. I think the MAGA people don't actually listen to what he says, but rather the stuff that comes out of Fox and the other "hair on fire" MAGA outlets. If/When there is a military coup, what side will Fox be on?

Give that man a peace prize!

Metaphor? What's that?

DT gets on the case of everyone in his cabal to get out there and make attention-grabbing statements to keep the ratings up. If he doesn't see them on the teevee for a few days he calls them on the phone and says things like "You are not doing anything about making America great again, Bobby" (this is supposedly a direct quote from a few months back). There is host (on one of those extremely stinking filthy commie radical America hating pro-fascist networks) who says she knows Bessent and swears is a brilliant guy, I guess he embarrasses her these days.

Looks like the poll numbers were not good for the Putin summit, so the boss pulls back. "He is a man who pulls no punches" cannot be said of him.

And let's not forget the gallery of party bobbleheads who will continue to nod with consent. and keep their traps shut.

It's the same rope-a-dope used on every US president for the past 50 years. For a problem that has been around since the time of the Old Testament. I recall that in the lame-duck days at the end of his terms W was all excited about ending the conflict -- yeah, right. So much for an orange Peace Prize.

What do you reckon is Mr. Trump's emotional age? Eleven. Still the bratty kid that got sent to reform school. I know someone like this: the arrogance and ego, maybe it has something to do with living off of inheritance. He too had his father buy his way out of the draft in the VN War days.

I have W10 running, and have no intention of going to W11. Then I saw this (note that this article was updated a few days ago): https://www.engadget.com/computing/microsoft-has-ended-windows-10-support-but-heres-how-to-get-an-extra-year-for-free-125118044.html So I went for the latest update last week. Seemed ok. Then came across this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/10/21/microsoft-confirms-emergency-update-for-millions-of-windows-users/ Hmm, I'm not having any issues, so I brushed it off and bookmarked it. And then yesterday some tried & true programs I've been using for years started throwing messages about corrupted .dll files in the Windows systems files. Spent about 20 minutes sleuthing and rebooting to no avail, so I reloaded a backup from last month. Back to normal (fingers crossed). I can't say that this was the problem, but thought someone might find it helpful if I passed this on. It took a week a daily reboots for it to reveal itself.

Sure, blame the victim. If there were no victims there would be no crimes, right?

It is possible there will be members who will not see the irony of your post.

Andy to chauffeur: Why are you taking this long route? Chauffeur: not permitted to be within 100 meters of a school, sir.

Is the Tower of London reserved for peerage only?

Are non-domestic terror organizations subject to the tariff?

I am still anticipating that someone at Fox is going to do a meltdown on air, Howard Beale style, driven to it by the doublethink/triplethink etc of the MAGA agitprop. I have the impression that there must be at least one Fox luminary that blows up the moment the camera is off them. My money is on Steve Doocey, who at least makes gestures that he is striving for sanity, being led out of the building in a straight jacket while Murdoch Jr cuts off his health insurance coverage. In the first DT term he was doing things at the suggestion Fox, pretty scary stuff.

Stopped using service laundry while living in Brazil where clothing items tend to disappear. I guess the soap is so strong it makes things disintegrate . I met a US guy who really hit the ceiling when a sports jersey that cost over US$100 disappeared from his wash. Stick with $10 tee-shirts, bro! Also no sidewalk cafes for me, another piece of Brazil influence; I guess Thais are too proud to do public begging on that level.

Another thing is showing off to other Thais that they can speak English. Vanity is certainly not exclusive to LOS, but it does burn brightly here.

Recently saw a movie (Brit) where a military veteran is telling a young soldier that the whole game is bs: posh guys telling fat guys to kill poor guys. (but instead of "guys" he used that c-word that the Yanks find more egregious than the f-word). I've been on a war movie spree the past month. I grew up in the years following WWII with the heroic "war is hell but somebody has to do it" message and so on. I finally got to see "Saving Private Ryan" and was surprised by the grisly detail right at the start. In "Flags of Our Fathers" one character directly slams these "glories of war" statements -- 50 years ago they would probably have pressured the film makers to cut that for having a defeatist attitude. (BTW I think "Letters From Iwo Jima," the Japanese companion movie, is a very good piece of work, both directed by Eastwood). Tried watching "Warfare" but when the casualties started it was just too grisly for me. Former US president Teddy Roosevelt had a glorified attitude toward war, but he got over that when he lost all his sons in WWI.