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There are some strange bedfellows (literally!) in US politics. Number one on my list is Carville and his wife. Second would be Conway and Kellyanne, but the caveat there is 10+ years ago they were on the same team. And then of course there are ones we never hear of at all, but there are a few that get whispered, Like Bill Maher and Ann Coulter: from what little I've seen of either of them she is the one influencing him. I never took her seriously, the first time I saw her was about a month after 9/11 and she was saying something like "all swarthy men should be deported anyway, I mean like YUCK!" I thought it was a comic bit, like Suzie Sorority of the Silent Majority from the old SNL. Not long after the 2016 election Rachel Maddow had Kellyanne on her nightly show for the purpose lauding her for being the first woman campaign manager to get a president elected. The following night Ms. M raged about how Kellyanne lied to her on air and she will never be on her show again; I heard her say this on air, but I don't recall reading it mentioned on the news sites.

I'm running Win 10 Home edition, which (legitimately) came with this laptop in 2016; my hardware also is incompatible with 11. After that fiasco earlier this year I restored from a previous backup and have avoided updates since. I'm a software engineer (retired) so I understand that mistakes do happen, but the corrupted updates is colossal egg-on-the-face. I intend to switch to Linux at some point (the dual-boot stuff is in place) but it's work, and I'm enjoying my lazy lifestyle. I have the impression MS has been deliberately slowing down Win10 via updates as a further boot in the arse to get with 11. The only way I'm going to do that is if this laptop dies and I buy another with a legit 11 license.

Liz hops aboard the f-word train. Liz Cheney issues dire warning about ‘fundamentally cruel’ Trump, agrees he’s a ‘fascist’ On the other hand DT's father is probably looking up from hell with pride.

Here's another. A young person of color is walking down the street and gets stopped by a pollster who asks who will they vote for. The person takes in the blonde hair, blue eyes and the paper-white complexion of the pollster, then glances around and sees people who resemble those January 6 patriots, and realizes their's is the only dark skin within sight. "I'm going to vote for the racist guy, yessir!" These things are ALWAYS suspect IMO. E.g., they come out with a poll result that 95% of the people believe in God. You will not be told that the poll was taken in front of a Catholic church on a Sunday morning. And then there is the fun stuff. In the primary a few months ago Biden was running unapposed; a third-party candidate's name was on the ballot but she had dropped out. For a laugh I voted for her, a New Age charlatan. The laugh will be when all is said and done and the electorate data has been analyzed someone will claim that there is a growing trend of acceptance for magical-mystical grifter candidates. But if today a pollster would ask the question of me I would say I'd vote for DT because I want the Dems/libs to be so scared that they get off their butts and VOTE.

That increase of benefits puts it back into the economy, it all gets spent. Tax cuts to the rich goes just goes into the pile, most likely in a different country.

They can always threaten to send him to Iran, where they'll probably torture him for three years before killing him.

Maybe he's selling something else.

Trump’s small-dollar donor fundraising is beset by confusion and fatigue IMO there is very little doubt about him having his little hands in the cookie jar. There will be another round indictments, this time from the Federal Election Commission. This is from the 2020 campaign Trump’s campaign manager Parscale is "milking him like a cow": "He is a sucker" There were revelations that Parscale was suddenly throwing around money for luxuries far beyond his means, like yachts and big-ticket foreign sports cars. That it was handled on the down-low leads me to think there was some sort of money laundering re-routing campaign contributions to DT's pockets. Do not forget that before he got into politics DT did a lot of wash-work for Russian oligarchs, so he has experience in this sort of thing. “notoriously corrupt even for Azerbaijan” Also, he knows he's going to need a lot of $$$ for the court challenges to the upcoming election; he knows no amount of money added to the campaign will help him get the votes, the big expense will be legal cost for the new election-stealing attempt. Let's see if the FEC allows those legal costs as campaign expenses.

My theory: when asked by pollsters, people will say DT because they're afraid of their rabid MAGA buddies who are also present. 42% for him

Maybe back in the 2016 campaign, when DT started provoking the yokels to harass the press and calling them sc_mbags etc, wasn't such a good idea, don't cha think? Nixon blamed the press too. How to get the press to be nice you? Being nice to them is a good place to start. Is it really such an abstract concept?

What is the difference between a word salad and that babbling delivery that DT does when he puts on his show? They're eating the dogs! Battery or shark? Whales catching cancer from wind turbines!

For these lads drinking is part of their holiday. Back in India there are still incidents of people dying of bathtub gin. Sometimes it even gets into the international news. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/22/world/asia/toxic-moonshine-death-india.html

Sometime in the future it may be that he is charged with abetting a sedition initiative. "Back to Africa" boyo! Can they confiscate all he has?

Can a naturalized U.S. citizen have their citizenship revoked?

To be succinct and a bit crude: It's like when somebody makes a loud commotion about 'UGH! Who farted?' you know it was them that did. Every thing that DT accuses Biden-Harris world of is stuff he and his are doing. Example, holding back disaster aid for non-politically aligned regions was HIS thing. Trump refused to give California wildfire aid until told how many people there voted for him, ex-aide says Trump’s False Claim of Stolen Disaster Relief Funds The more you look, the more is revealed. And why is he so adverse to fact-checking?

Good pic! No limit to the amount of goofy captions to go with it. "I just wanted to see what it was like with an uncircumcised one"

Elon seems to have Bond villains as his role model. Dr. No would be the simplest to compare: brilliant scientist/engineer but otherwise definitely not playing with a full deck. But notice that he has enough sense to NOT go into space on one of his own rockets. Low IQ genes? There's a word for believing this sort of thing which your own genes prevent you from knowing. ☺️ Otherwise a very funny post.

And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-sounds-alarm-illegal-immigrant-murderers-bad-genes-in-country Actually, he may be on to something: these two had an immigrant mother And then there's Barron. Melania supposedly came in on a genius visa, when she obviously uh, umm, doesn't qualify, so she's an illegal immigrant?

They added a dancing monkey to the road show. If he wasn't so rich I'd suspect a Nightmare Alley aspect to it. You all who own his autos better say nice things about him or he'll shut down your car.

The first time I heard the term October Surprise was in 1988, and it referred to something GHW Bush (CIA chief at the time) did prior to the election in 1980 with Iran (remember the Tehran hostage thing?) and it appears to have succeeded in getting Ronnie elected. I will not comment on the personal relationship between HW and the young fellow who tried to kill Reagan.

Yep. I don't think even the corrupt Supreme Court could let this pass (for anyone other than themselves).

Death in automobile rate: 13 people per 100,000 in the US 32 people per 100,000 in LOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

If lightning were to strike MAL or hisself, it would influence a whole lot of voters!

So if DT gets back into the WH is he going deport Musk the foreigner?

Doocey Jr is the resident MAGA clown at WH press conferences these days. I'm waiting for the press sec to have security throw his ass out. Nepo baby indeed.