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Kind of reminds me of the famous chant "Lock her up!". I recall that at the 2016 RNC Convention, one of those who led that chant---suggesting a lack of belief in the phrase "innocent until proven guilty"----was a woman named Pam Bondi. Not so coincidentally, and not so surprisingly, she has been nominated to be the new Attorney General. Go figure.

Never have I heard a louder scream of I N C E L !!!!! And misogyny runs deep in your post, too.

There are two kinds of people in the world: 1) Those who know 47 schtupped Stormy and then engaged in fraud to cover the hush money payment and 2) Those suffering cognitive dissonance, who on the one hand look at pics of Stormy back then and fantasize about 'gettin' me sum a dat', and those who defend their messiah at all costs, despite knowing deep down he's a serial philanderer plus had his misogynistic philosophy captured for all time in his silly boast on Access Hollywood. They also can relate physically to their messiah in that they note Stormy's description of his 'not quite freakishly small, but well below average'. (Prepare yourself for one Vespa-rising poster to chime in and claim Holmes-ian like status.)

The OP is providing a major public service. It isn't so much the information and truth you post, but the fact you are giving the lonely old men on this site a reason to be. If not for people like you, OP, these political threads are just an echo chamber. Absent a few rational voices like you, the cult here would be living a life bereft of meaning, invisible and irrelevant, and with no reason to wake up in the morning. They are living the tail end of an Eleanor Rigby life, grasping for a reason to go on. You are giving them incentive to live another day, rather than climb in the box or self-immolate and be poured into the urn. I smile at the way they prioritize issues facing the world. The most significant problems are not the threat of nuclear war, nor pandemics, nor the changing environment, nor the not-so-nascent rise of popularism and fascism, nor disease and poverty, nor even the potential dangers in developing technologies like AI. No, the key threat to 'geometry and theology' is excessive pronouns or bathroom admission policies. I enjoy looking at who becomes most vocal whenever an iconoclast posts something that points out the stark reality of the messianic clown behind the curtain. To say anything less than glowing about their messiah gets their blood flowing, when otherwise rigor mortise is already setting in. Anyway, the framework of the Forum notes those with the most posts per thread. Look who they tend to be. Heck, iconoclastic posts even got Sparktrader/BigNok/susanlea/etc. to fabricate yet another identity (albo) and turbo post. Now THAT guy must be living a rich and meaningful life....LOL! We've lost some folks who used to work on the side of all that is good and decent. One former poster sitting on the right side of rationality and reason, whom I won't name, likely has gone off to enjoy the $500 million fortune he earned after selling his tech start up. Good for him. Like those of us in the know, we get the last laugh.

Of course I know that. For example, I know there's a little short guy who rides around Pattaya on a red Vespa claiming he's some sort of babe magnet, when the reality is he couldn't get a woman to hold his hand without dipping into his USG pension. As for what I write, just pay attention to the news if you survive the next 4 years. I'm either right or an anonymous fraud, but only time will tell. Veritatem Cognoscere

Let me add a specific…. I know what al Qaeda’s long term goal is. They will sanction little individual hits and terror acts, but their real goal is to unleash a bioweapon inside the US. al Qaeda long worked on how to weaponize smallpox, but they have moved up the bio chain by looking into altering genes and viruses. They have some truly brilliant members who were sent to the best undergrad and doctoral programs in the world to study biochemistry and genetics. These guys are more than capable of creating something on a scale that would make the Bubonic Plague seem like a sniffle. Also, because they believe in a reward for taking out infidels, they do not care if their invention also takes them out and their families out. They are without fear, because they have a much more powerful superstition. I know how the US gets its intel on terrorist intentions, and it relies heavily on many nations, each of whom might have their own ‘sources and methods’. The US absolutely cannot do it alone; it needs cooperation from allies. Nobody trusts 47. Liaison cooperation stops on 20 January 2025, if it hasn’t already stopped, as they know he’s coming. Even previously shared intel is being deleted at the request of friendly liaison services, as nobody wants it in the system when 47 takes over. The US will be at much greater risk. Absolutely al Qaeda is excited about the US election results, because they know their field will be much more wide open. Elections have consequences. Yes, we lost. So did the other side; they just don’t know it yet. If and when you and your family are dying horrible deaths from an al Qaeda success, I hope you take solace in the fact Haitian pet eaters have been sent home and the list of allowed pronouns is back to 1970 level, since those things are far more important than you and your family's lives. Yea, you would have shown us radical lefties a thing or two. I know I have one more reason NOT to be in the US for the next 4 years, and it isn’t just because I don’t like 47. Good luck.

This is good news for people like me who still hold lots of secrets from our days in the agency and carrying TS/SCI and (actual) Q clearances (not the silly Q as in QAnon, but Q as in a clearance to see nuclear related intel at the DoE). It's okay to use highly classified material in any way we so choose. Eff US national security. Monetize the secrets if that is to one's advantage. I was fortunate enough to become wealthy after I left the agency, but folks still working there, who now know both intelligence and the US itself are dying or dead, might as well use their knowledge for personal advantage. Imagine what Putin would pay to know whom in his inner circle is a clandestine asset for the CIA ! Even al Qaeda is flush with cash, and they would pay to know what US intel knows. And then there's weapons systems...China and Russia would love to know what the US military can do, and what is in the pipeline. Ka-ching! It's auction time! 45 stole highly classified intel regarding everything from nukes to weapons systems to order of battle to identities of clandestine assets in hostile nations or areas. I have no doubt whatsoever he intended to monetize it, as clearly he needed cash (why else would he schlepp silly NFTs, golden sneakers, commemorative coins, Chines-made Bibles, Chinese watches, and now rip offs of Les Paul guitars?) If it's good for the goose..... SC Smith is wise enough to know the system is broken. Institutions failed. The rule of law no longer exists in many ways. Some folks are above the law. Even the stacked Supreme Court says Madison and Jefferson were wrong and that the US is kind of a monarchy. Little guys---like a guy who took a doc or two home to work on the weekend---get 12 years in jail, but a guy who put national security and the identities of clandestine assets and programs at risk gets re-elected to the White House. The people got what they think they want, but it will come with consequences. Liaison cooperation is finished for at least the next 4 years. No more Five Eyes. Also, no sharing of intel with non-Five Eyes nations like France, Japan, South Korea, Israel, etc. They all know 47 cannot be trusted, and neither can Tulsi Gabbard be trusted. The risks that were thwarted because of liaison cooperation now have a wide open door to get the US. So be it. That's what the democratic majority wanted, so give it to them in spades. Terror attack, dirty bomb, bioterror, disrupt the electric grid, poison water supplies....enjoy! In the meantime, my former colleagues, see what you've got and think of who might make your 401K sing paying for it. Anybody want to know what Putin has on 47 and who told me? It's going to cost you.

The shift in wealth in this modern tech and asset shuffling economy (confession....I was the proverbial asset shuffler as a hedge fund manager) has been even more staggering than the days of the Robber Barons. No way is it going to stop under 47, as he will bend over backwards to curry the praise of the Musks and Griffins and Thiels of the world. His entire life has been about trying to gain the acceptance of his 'betters'. He was always a joke in NYC. He tried to manufacture status with his golf resort and wedding planner facility and its $200,000 membership fee, but he only drew in gauche nouveau riche types or perverts like Jeffrey Epstein. He saw he could appeal to the great unwashed when he finally had financial success with his Game Show, and he used that to catapult himself into the White House. Even his followers on this site think he's a 'successful businessman', when he always bled his father's money (evidenced by his leaked tax returns) until Mark Burnett saved him with the game show. His various nominees either come from entertainment or big wealth. His choice of Bessent, who followed Rogers and Drunkenmiller in the Soros Organization, was quite a surprise given Soros' 'devil incarnate' status among magas that you noted. Let the Trojan Horse meme begin! 47 is a 'man of the people' who hates the people he is the 'man' of....and I use the term 'man' loosely, as the whining crybaby butterball is only a weakling's epitome of a man, just as he's a poor person's idea of a rich man and a dumb person's idea of a smart man. What he has most in common with his cult---and why they think he is one of them---is because he's fat and out of shape, a whiner and crybaby, and always thinks his own failures are others' faults.

Harming oneself physically? How? I think 47 is a bloated, pathologically lying, insecure, racist, misogynist, self-serving, serial philandering, willfully ignorant, pile of useless blubber, but it doesn't cost me anything to have that view. I'm not caught in the madness of crowds. I accept he won. I know he will create carnage in the US on a scale almost unimaginable, but I am fully prepared for it, as I have secured isolated properties and acreage in several different countries. His rallygoers and cult members will be living Cormac McCarthy/The Road soon enough, but I'm lucky enough in life to be able to afford to not be near folks like that when the zibel hits the fan. I find the endless victory laps his cult is undertaking quite amusing, as if they think somehow his Administration is going to benefit them. I find it rather adorable that many of them think he actually gives a flying eff they exist. He got the only thing he ever wanted from folks even he thinks are losers: their vote. He has no further need for them. They will hopefully find psychological fulfillment in distinct XX and XY bathrooms, and limited pronouns, because they are not going to get anything in the way of economic prosperity. If they failed to get wealthy during the Biden Boom, they sure as heck are not going to get flush during the 47 Recession. If limited pronouns are their main priority, godblessem. They can knock themselves silly and think they own people like me. They're just clowns who don't know the joke is on them. I'm an old school liberal, not into the woke thing, but neither could I ever be a Kool Aid drinker who thinks 47 is anything but an embarrassment as a leader and as a man. As for my health, I just finished one of my daily workouts. I benched 333 lbs (150 kg) 4 times on my last set, so I guess my 'natty' muscles still work. BP is 105/60, VO2 Max was last measured at 58, resting pulse is around 50, I have a 30 inch waist on a frame over 6 feet and carrying 185 lbs. Cortisol (which would rise if under chronic stress) is generally low, my HbA1c is below 5, and testosterone runs a healthy 680 naturally. No prescriptions and never needed a blue pill to rise to the occasion. I'm a little concerned that my % of body fat fell below 10% on my latest DEXA and checkup, so I'm now eating a little extra carb to build up a reserve. Of course I could switch to the Macs and KFC Diet of Plumpions, but I prefer to NOT look like the typical MAGA-loon, most of whom look 7 months pregnant and haven't seen their own junk since before puberty. Probably no female has seen it either, unless they flashed or dipped into their beer money to buy someone.. Thanks for your 'genuine' concern about my health, however, but it's okay.

Oh my! To me, what I read there is evidence of next level naivete. The slurping at the trough from guys like Musk, Thiel, Griffin, etc. is going to top Krakatoa on the decibel meter. 47 got the votes from people he himself calls "losers". They no longer have any value whatsoever to him. 47 has long sought acceptance from people he wishes he could be, which is to say successful in their own right, not silver spoon legacy kids. He will do whatever it takes to win their praise, and they will give him all the false praise he seeks, so long as it benefits them. Just like he sucked up to Jeffrey Epstein, he now sucks up to the new elite. Once somebody has a few 'units', he or she is immune from the havoc and carnage they know 47 will create. There's a reason so many built bogout bunkers in New Zealand or Hawaii or other isolated places. They will take whatever largesse 47 gives them, always ready to gas up the Gulfstream and let the masses have at each other.

What you call the 'mess [Dems] have inflicted on the country' is what others call growth and low unemployment. To remind those who truly need reminding: Biden inherited 6.8% UE and a Recession. US growth since 2020 is running 3 times the average of G7 nations. UE is ~4%. Name a country that has done better since 2020. 45, soon to be 47, inherited a growing economy and 4.8% UE from Obama. He was a disaster in terms of the economy, and FAILED---in 4 years, with 2 of those years accompanied by a Republican House and Senate---to get an Infrastructure Bill passed. Biden got it done with bipartisan support. Oh, and 45 was the first President since Herbert Hoover to leave office with fewer Americans employed than when he took office. Those enamored of Hoover will probably love 47. If failure and economic decline is what those in the cult want again, I have no doubt 47 will give it to you in spades. The guy failed 6 times trying to run businesses---casinos---where losers actually stand in line to give you their money, yet he could not pull that off. The self-proclaimed 'successful businessman' is only not pouring Slurpies in a 7-11 on an Interstate highway because his daddy not only gave/willed him over $500,000,000, but co-signed all of his loans back when decent banks still loaned him money (vs the SIVs using Russian oligarch money structured by Deutsche Bank, and bragged about by both Uday and Qusay Jr & Punxsutawney Eric.) Admittedly, when Mark Burnett made him a Game Show Host the guy finally made some money as well as becoming a hero to the forlorn. His leaked tax returns show just how UNsuccessful the blowhard was---even with his daddy's help. His years of constant hyperbole and self-promotion---which was a running joke for years in NYC and Wall Street circles---just goes to show Abraham Lincoln was dead right: "You can fool some of the people all of the time". What his cult fails to realize is that the world has changed in ways that make unskilled human labor as cheap as last week's losing Powerball ticket, and there is absolutely nothing 47 can do to change that, other than offer false hope to those the modern world has left behind. They are about to learn the harsh reality. Two types of people were beneficiaries of the booming Biden economy: those with marketable skills and talents, and those who can never have enough, and thus voted for 47 so that they get yet more tax breaks like 'carried interest', the deficit be damned. Call this latter group the New Robber Barons, as wealth and political clout has accumulated in the hands of the elite in ways unseen since J.D. Rockerfeller, the Melons, Fricks and Carnegies. Today their names are Musk, Thiel, Griffin, Ackman, etc. They ain't you, and they ain't "the poorly educated" 47 claims to love so much, only so long as he needs their votes. When I see people who champion 47 as some great and powerful wizard, I know those are folks who missed out on the Biden Boom. It's a simple equation: love 47 = You failed. That they so regularly broadcast their failure by championing 47 is an odd thing, but it's most definitely a "tell". Sorry if you missed out on the Biden Booming Economy. It was so easy to make money and sock it away. In fact, not only is consumer spending up, but also consumer savings. Those who can do; those who cannot voted for 47. That was the last chance to make hay while the sun shined, because it's not Reagan's "Morning in America", but as all will soon see, it's Mourning in America. The carnage is coming. Act accordingly.

To start out, I am no fan of the President Elect. Let me politely and with feigned respect call him PE, for brevity’s sake, plus so that my ears and eyes do not hurt hearing or seeing his name, and my tongue does not catch fire by saying it. Yes, all are welcome to call my feeling by some fictitious syndrome, if that gives people orgasmic bliss (especially the Incels, as that’s the best they can get orgasmically, unless they opt for onanism or pay for a tryst). All are welcome to wallow in their own ignorance, like dinosaurs ignoring the coming asteroid. While I could probably top "War and Peace" in terms of how long a tome I could write on why I have nothing but contempt for the guy, I will keep it as simple as possible: it is his willful ignorance that disturbs me the most. Case in point: the guy has no clue what government does, nor does he care. I guess he’s also the Poster Child for the Dunning Kreuger Effect, because he thinks he knows everything he needs to know, plus how to make it better. We’ve all heard him say a hundred times, “Nobody knows more about [XXX] than I do”. I don’t know who this “Nobody” character is, but there must be billions of them, because even grade school kids know more than the PE about most everything. The best illustrative example of where willful ignorance can bite you on the arse was written in a book and article by author and former Wall Street bond trader Michael Lewis. Back when 47 was merely 45, and much less dangerous than today, 45 fired the transition team set up by Chris Christie to introduce 45 and his Administration to the government behemoth they would soon be running. 45 thought---and actually stated---I can figure out how to run the government in an hour and a half. Funny he thought he could do that to a multi-trillion dollar entity employing millions and running everything from highways to the military to power generation to transportation, but he could never figure out how to run a profitable casino, where people literally stand in line to give you their money. Coincidentally, I began writing this post just thinking about mistakes that might be made by aggressively shutting down agencies and firing people willy nilly, and the term ‘willful ignorance’ popped into my head. I then remembered articles written by Michael Lewis about PE Transition 1.0 in 2016 and searched them out. In the article to which I link at the end, there is this quote from Lewis: “Here is where [the PE’s] willful ignorance plays a role. If your ambition is to maximize short-term gains without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing those costs. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it’s better never to really understand those problems. There is a downside to knowledge. It makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview.” (We subsequently saw this in action when 45 downplayed and mishandled Covid......from February 26, 2020, then 45 said: "And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done." That's like congratulating yourself now for winning the next Super Bowl or World Cup.) Lewis notes many seemingly necessary programs slashed in the 45 Administration, such as measures to enhance the electricity grid and protect it from cyber attack or national disaster, and cut all funding for research on climate change. Such things are when actions are driven not by knowledge or science, but merely by ideology or worldview. Lewis ends his Vanity Fair article with this: “Indeed, if you are seeking to preserve a certain worldview, it actually helps to gut science. [45’s] budget, like the social forces behind it, is powered by a perverse desire—to remain ignorant. [45] didn’t invent this desire. He is just its ultimate expression.” Let me rifle down to one example of just how willfully ignorant PE is and what effect it might have. 45 appointed Rick Perry, a guy I would guess has the IQ of a turnip, to run the Department of Energy in 2016. Recall that during the Republican primary of 2016, Perry had stated in a debate 3 government agencies he would close if he was elected President, although he couldn’t remember one he said should be closed, revealing himself to be the turnip he is. The one he could not remember in the debate was the Dept of Energy, an entity he was later appointed to run. Now the mandate of the DoE is huge…unbeknownst to both Perry and the PE. They are in charge of everything from the electric grid to the US’ nuclear stockpile, A rational person would think it might be a good idea to keep an entity in charge of the nation’s power grid and its then-7800 nukes, but since “Nobody knows more about nukes than I do” (Yes, PE said that.), maybe rational people are not up to speed and should bow to PE’s 'encyclopedic knowledge'. Now for a little history….back during WWII and the Manhattan Project, a facility was set up in Hanford, Washington to produce weapons grade plutonium, which was used in the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The facility subsequently produced plutonium for upwards of 70,000 other nukes, most of which have been dismantled because of the various START treaties. That production generated a lot of dangerous radioactive and toxic chemical waste, some 56,000,000 gallons. It’s all still there, and there is a program costing $3 billion per year, both to keep it safe and clean it up. If this waste…which like the Hanford facility itself is on the banks of the Columbia River…made it into the wider environment, millions of people would get sick or die. If it made its way into the Pacific Ocean, forgetaboutit. Really dangerous, so it’s critical that the waste be monitored and cleaned up. Guess which government agency is in charge of the Hanford waste? Yes, the very same Department of Energy PE’s Secretary Rick Perry wanted to close, with the approval of 45 himself. Just the Hanford program is 10% of the DoE’s yearly budget. Also note that Perry fell somewhat short of the credentials Obama’s SecEnergy---Ernest Moniz---brought to the table. Moniz has a Masters and PhD in theoretical physics from Stanford, and served as head of the Dept of Physics at MIT. He beats the turnip by a peck and a bushel. Moniz likely understood the risk much better than Perry or the PE. Are even cult members beginning to see the danger of willful ignorance? That is just one part of one department in a sprawling government. How many other time bombs like Hanford exist in other departments and agencies? Now we have the Elon and Vivek Show called DOGE, which is going to streamline government. Anybody think they will take the time to learn about Hanford waste-type issues hidden in other departments and agencies? Anybody? (Aside: Tesla released a beta version of its self-driving cars, but did not exactly get everything right. Musk said something on the order of “Well, you have to expect a few dishes to get broken along the way”. If your child gets killed because a Tesla ran a red light while the driver was munching Doritos in the back seat, I’m not sure that isn’t worse than a few broken dishes.) Another part of PE’s plan is to make 50,000 Federal jobs political appointments, so that people can be fired at anytime for any reason. Anybody think each of those political appointments will be expert in things like handling 56,000,000 gallons of dangerous nuclear waste? Anybody? Or will they just be Friends of PE, such as major contributors or Fox Talking Heads or people who have said nice things about PE or bought a membership to Mar-a-Lago? I have no doubt there is waste in government, and if a thoughtful and informed approach is taken, $billions could be saved. Unfortunately, “thoughtful and informed” and PE do not go together. An analogy can be taken from the first Ghostbusters movie, when the EPA guy ordered the Ghostbuster’s containment system to have its power shut down. All hell broke loose. Let’s hope life doesn’t imitate art. The pressure is going to be there to do big things quickly. For the PE, everything is about the show, so he’ll want to produce one with great ratings early on, such as his plan for mass deportations and massive tariffs. Does anybody think a truly thorough analysis of all critical government departments and agencies will be carried out before people and monies such as those that keep the northwest safe from Hanford are slashed? Anybody? With PE, his Dunning-Kreuger Effect Administration, Project 2025, etc., the odds are extremely high that there will be Hanfords that escape the cursory scrutiny of the bulls in the china shop, who will be PE’s team. We’re all going to pay a price for that, but as yet we don’t even know what that price might be. In Admin 2.0, there are no guardrails, but there is a certainty the PE knows everything. Dangerous. Now go back to the willful ignorance that is the hallmark of everything PE and his cult. Addendum: Michael Lewis wrote about the 2016 transition for Vanity Fair. It is written in Lewis’ usual entertaining style, and can be accessed here: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis

As Bill Maher quipped last night, "Gaetz resigned in order to spend more time with your children."

Like some of the other posters, I have a lot of experience with the country. Burmese is one of the languages I speak, as well as read and write. I had funded the building of a few rural schools years ago with my earnings from my Wall Street days, and I did a few other things such as try to enhance medical care, which has always been abysmal. Back then it was SLORC/SPDC in charge, but a few of the generals were not only aware of what I was doing, they also gave me a 'pass' and stood ready to assist me if any lower level mil types tried to extract 'tributes' from me. Some of those generals had the foresight, or maybe naive hope, that their own days were numbered and that democracy was inevitable. A few of them eventually ran afoul of their fascist colleagues and were jailed, so my 'get out of jail free' card evaporated, and I had to be more cautious. For a while I had free rein of the entire country, even areas where foreigners were not permitted to go. I used to have to take a few soldiers as 'security', as I was told some areas were full of 'dacoits' or bandits. I never had any problem, and though in some places I was a fascination (owing to my height and blue eyes), I was never in any danger. I was there for some of the country's previous major events, such as the 2007 Saffron Revolution and the 2008 devastation by the cyclone Nargis, that killed 180,000, mostly in the lower Ayewaddy Delta areas. I remember during the Saffron Revolution, folks gunned down in front of my hotel, where there were only two guests, the other being Magnum photographer James Natchwey. As the OP may know, even when the military decided to take their ill-gotten gains and step down, they wrote a new Constitution that had a provision where the Tatmadaw could retake power "at any time for any reason". That was supposedly the justification used in the coup from a few years ago. Like in Thailand, the powers that be had also stacked the deck in the nascent Parliament, with most members being appointed by the army rather than facing a popular vote. Those things set the stage for what has happened, as many mid-level military officers, seeing the wealth accumulated by previous leaders like Than Shwe and Maung Aye, had been waiting their chance to move up the ranks and steal from the national trough. The short period of democracy derailed their plans, but not their ambitions, and it was just a few short years before they made their move. Junta rule is different this time, because the people have chosen to rise up, especially in the ethnic majority areas such as Kachin State, Karen State and a few others. Absent junta support from China, Russia and Singapore, plus natural gas sales to Thailand, the junta might already have fallen. As is, it controls just the major urban areas and their surroundings. The Burmese people are astonishingly brave. One can only hope this junta has an expiration date, and the lovely people of the country will once again get to enjoy freedom and some degree of prosperity. I suspect its future is something like the nations of the former Yugoslavia or maybe as associated as the UAE, where individual ethnic areas have a good deal of autonomy, but maybe there is a common central government.

Oh my! That's a new level of idolatry and sycophancy! He's at best the Pillsbury Dough Boy, or tough as nails of solder. He's a whinging petulant child crybaby, a pathological liar, and has on his resume everything from a convicted bank and insurance fraudster, convicted charity fraudster, civilly convicted sexual offender, a guy convicted of defamation, and a guy who has spent his life stiffing everyone from small subcontractors to city governments who had to pay to handle his security and clean up after the goobers who attend his rallies. Pray tell when was this golden time when America was greater than today? Is it just the 'woke' thing that has a hair across your arse, because if one measures greatness in economic growth and employment, especially relative to other major industrialized nations, these are the good old days right now. Or maybe the stock market since 2020. Or US Growth being three times the average of the G7. If that had happened under 45, he would crow longer than a horny rooster, since back during Term 1.0 he never stopped saying 'best ever', when his growth wasn't even in the top 70% BEFORE Covid made it even worse. Sorry if you missed the Biden Boom, but some of us have never done better. It isn't just Elon and Jeff and Ken Griffin and Bill Ackman who have seen their fortunes soar since 2020. As for 'warrior'...or is that WARRIOR?....I'm going to guess you have never been in battle nor gone into harm's way for the US. Bone spurs? Anyway, if that bloated butterball is a WARRIOR, we might as well surrender, because we'd fall to a girls' high school football team. He is a coward. I have no doubt he will preside over the collapse of the US. A Recession in the next 2 years is a certainty, & he has no clue how to handle it, much less get the 'price of bacon' down. I also place the odds of secession by States like CA, OR & WA, plus NY, NJ, western PA and all of New England, at about 30% and drifting higher by the day. If my views seem over the top, go back ten years and imagine a Game Show host as POTUS who chooses incompetents and miscreants like Gaetz for AG, a TV Talking head for SecDef, a champion of Putin and Assad as DNI, and a guy who schlepps deep water toilets for well-hung men and sells time shares in a time travel machine as NATO Ambassador. Ten years ago such talk would have even been dismissed by The Onion as too weird. As Lewis Carroll said, "It gets curiouser and curiouser". Bark now if it makes you feel good, but in two years you will pine for the golden days of Joe Biden.

I see analogous behavior with the fans of 47 and jihadis who get outraged over Danish cartoon artists. A cult is a cult is a cult.

Is that Kamala Harris you're describing? I don't seem to remember you being so effusive in your championing of Harris' qualifications. Harris also has on her resume Senator and VP. FL might be a large State, but CA is the world's 5th largest economy and home to 40,000,000 people.

Looks like Gaetz has been replaced by former FL AG Pam Bondi, a woman with an interesting history. Perhaps her main 'qualification' is that she once led chants of "Lock her up!" re Hillary Clinton during the 2016 Republican National Convention, indicating that she isn't hampered by that 'silly' "innocent until proven guilty" thing enshrined in the US Constitution.

Goodness...he was such the perfect candidate! He gave new meaning to the term sycophancy...he was so far up 47's backside that he got the first bite of cheeseburger! And if he really is a kiddie diddler, as witnesses in his investigation allege, that behavior had to win him the respect of the guy known to enter teens' dressing rooms during beauty pageants. And talk about qualified! King Solomon is jealous! Gaetz made that Matthew Whitaker guy from 45 1.0---the guy who schlepped deep water toilets for the well-hung man and who sold time shares in time travel machines---look like a mere posseur (although 47 has now nominated Whitaker, with those impressive credentials, as NATO Ambassador). One wonders just how egregious the allegations---with witness testimony and photographs and Venmo receipts---must be against him. While he is unlikely to be named anything other than a public nuisance by FL Gov De Santis, I'm going to guess he ends up with a Prime Time show on Fox or Newsmax. Fox, in particular, has a way of hiring alleged rapists like Pete Hegseth (who paid a financial settlement to his accuser) and guys who engage in inappropriate sexual advances in the workplace like Bill O'Reilly, Ed Henry, Roger Ailes. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pete-hegseth-sexual-assault-allegation-payment/

So if I understand correctly, when an aggressor invades, you bend over and give him what he wants? Maybe that's a policy for candy-arse wussy girly men, but real men and women are willing to fight for their independence and not to be subjugated by a miscreant little dictator. If up to you, I guess we'd just have handed Hawaii to the Japanese, Europe would have given in to Hitler and handed over all the Jews, and maybe the US should just cede southern California, southern Texas and Arizona to Mexico. Sorry,, but real men fight for liberty and freedom. Wusses and bend over and take it up the backside. Better to die standing than serve on one's knees with a dictator's junk in his mouth.

LOL! I seem to remember 45 bombing airports in Syria, even announcing to members in his club that he had to go bomb someone. I also seem to remember he called for the assassination of Gen Soleimani, which resulted in Iranian retribution in Irbil and Jordan, where 45 then downplayed any injuries of US soldiers. 45 wanted to attack Iran before the 2020 election, as he thought that might help him win. Fortunately Gen Milley and the SecDef stopped him. After he lost, according to Gen Milley, 45 wanted to start a nuclear war with China, thinking he could then declare a national emergency and stay in power. When Gen Milley did the responsible thing and contacted his counterpart in China to calm things, 45 said Gen Milley should be executed. And for some humor, let's not forget he wanted to nuke hurricanes. I guess we can also attribute the terrorist attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 (terrorism is the word used by 45-appointed DirFBI Wray), as it was 45 who called his goobers to DC for the 6th, Tweeting "It'll be WILD!" and then telling them to march to the Capitol and fight like hell. Biden started no wars, but supported the freedom of Ukraine, invaded by Russia. As for the Middle East, perhaps you missed it, but there have been numerous wars and battles in that area going back 80 years. Maybe you can blame Biden for 1967, 1973, the Intifada, Black September, the PLO, George Habash, Munich........ Biden is no more responsible for October 2023 than he is for the eruption of Krakatoa or Mt St Helens.

Growth under Biden exceeded growth under 45, even BEFORE Covid, so you are hoping 47 can do something he failed to do as 45. In the cult, fantasy springs eternal. I would have said 'hope' instead of 'fantasy', but all MAGA has is false hopes.

If you know of any mongers who dallied with underage females like Gaetz allegedly did, you can contact local Thailand police and report them.

No. They did not have checks. So 47 doesn't trust the man he appointed as DirFbi, Christopher Wray? If you toss Wray into the same bucket as other previous "Best People", like Mattis, Kelly, Coats, Tillerson, Bolton, Esper, Pence, etc., it certainly doesn't say much about 47's assessment abilities. All of those guys became "losers" once they stopped sniffer the4 vapors of 47.

Actually, those 'most voters' are hoping for a miracle and were susceptible to the pie-in-the-sky fantasy 47 tossed them. I'm still waiting for the cult to explain what exact plans and policies 47 has to lower prices and juice the economy (which has been gangbusters since he was voted out in 2020, but which requires those who wish to participate to have marketable skills and talents). I'd even be willing to listen to a 'concept of a plan'. When I was earning my MBA, I do not remember my professors noting any link between mass deportations or high tariffs and economic growth/low inflation. Maybe if I had attended 47's eponymous "university"....... I do know Misters Smoot and Hawley tried big tariffs almost a hundred years ago, and after that the US suffered from the Great Depression and upwards of 25% UE. Shall I put the famous George Santayana quote here? My guess is 47 would confuse George with Carlos Santana, and then say, "with a name like that, he must be a rapist or murderer who sneaked across Biden's open border".