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LOL! As if you know. Former USN, eh? Well, if true, that means your IQ is at least 80. The agency is a lot more selective. When choosing less than 1% of applicants (more selective than Harvard was), they weed out those who come in below 120, at least for case officers. Well, YMMV, but the DEVGRU I know never took kindly to the bone spurs coward dissing a POW who could have left the Hanoi Hilton any time he wanted, but chose to stay until his brothers-in-arms were also released. As a coward yourself, you wouldn't know that kind of courage of Sen McCain. Neither did the DEVGRU and SF types I know take kindly to trump refusing to go to the Allied cemetery in France, fearing the wind and rain might mess up his silly hair or wash off some of his makeup, prissy little dweeb that he is. Actual patriots were offended when, while riding out to the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, trump asked Gen Kelly: "So what is this thing we're going to see?" If you were a real former USN, that should offend you, but as it doesn't, odds favor you being as mendacious as your messiah and cult leader, or you just joined because you needed a job. Nobody who actually went into harm's way for the US appreciates their friends and former colleagues, who gave their lives in service, being called "suckers and losers". Certainly Gen Kelly, whose son gave his life in Iraq, did not appreciate hearing that from trump. You disparage actual DEVGRU types by claiming they support a traitor. I doubt you've ever even met one other than in passing, much less gone into harm's way with them. Lots of former DEVGRU join the agency as GRS, serving as body guards to agency Chiefs of Station in hostile areas. Perhaps you claim to speak for some of them who were portrayed in the (not so cinematically good) movie 12 Strong, about some of the first Americans who entered Afghanistan after 9-11, and who now serve in GRS. trumpers they are not. The former SEALS who join the agency and go into Ground Branch of SAC are absolutely NOT trumpers. When trump visited the agency HQ on 21 Jan 2017, trying to avoid the Women's March that appeared on Penn Ave, and trump brought busloads of new WH staffers to play trained seals (the other kind of seal) and hoot and hollar as trump stood in front of the Memorial Wall and talked only about himself, how "like really really smart" he is, and how he has more TIME covers than Tom Brady, real agency officers, GRS and Ground Branch (some former SEALS), walked out in disgust. (The actual first American into Iraq in Gulf War II---who incidentally thought the invasion was stupid---heard a bit of trump's self-promotion, said "Fxxx this sh!t", and left.) Oh, and perhaps you haven't asked Adm McRaven what he thinks of trump. You don't have to ask; just Google his comments. How about Adm Krongard? How about Gen McCrystal? Go ahead, steal some more valor and speak of something of which you know nothing. Is it possible some members of DEVGRU support trump? Sure, just as some are psychopaths who joined because they wanted a way to kill. True patriots, however, are clever enough to see through trump's self-serving and anti-American schtick. You, however, are neither of those two things. Go have another beer and add to that ever-expanding waistline.

trump vows to free the terrorists who attacked the Capitol at his urging on 6 Jan 2021 https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-vows-free-jan-6-051421007.html They threatened to kill his VP, beat 140 police, shat on the floor and rubbed it on the walls, and stole Capitol property. These are the people KKKristians think is their messiah. If they think trump is the Second Coming, let's put it to the test: Try and convict trump of the capital offense of Sedition, execute him, and come back in 3 days. If trump is back among the living, I'll support him; if he's worm food, no harm done.

This is such an amusing thread. The most prolific posters here sound as if Thailand is only the second country they’ve lived in. Cultural experts they are not. Guess what---every country has men like the Op’s Thai “friends”. At some level of society most people are tribal, and see all as ‘one of us’ or ‘outsider’. Tribal sorts take the actions of one or two outsiders and project it on to every outsider (except of course the OP, who boasts of schtupping endless Thai ‘good women’ he picks up in bars.) Not sure the OP’s Thai friends would be so fond of him engaging in countless one night stands with Thai women. In the US, we have homegrown psycho white guys who shoot up schools and churches and supermarkets, but if one undocumented immigrant commits one crime, all hell breaks loose and fingers get pointed everywhere by racist Americans who might be the equivalent of the OP’s Thai friends. The provincial and racist types anywhere are incapable of understanding percentages, and project the sins of one onto the many. Just last week, the response to Biden’s SOTU speech was some bimbo from Alabama trying to foist blame on Democrats and immigration issues for a horrible sexual assault….that occurred 18 years ago while George Bush was POTUS, and it occurred in Mexico, not even in the US. Still, the bizarre and unrelated tale scored with her goober audience. I’ve lived in close to a dozen countries, and have learned many of the languages. No doubt it’s just outlier behavior, but I’ve never met an Aussie in any country who wasn’t a drunk. That's probably hundreds of Aussies, some even serving as diplomats. Drunks and bores, one and all. Why, it wasn’t too long ago I saw the aftermath of an Aussie beat a drunk Brit in a Soi 8 bar, which led to brain damage for the Brit and jail for the Aussie. The Aussie was wearing the proverbial wifebeater t-shirt and was heavily tattooed. A real credit to his people, no doubt. If I thought like the OP’s Thai friends, I would conclude all Aussies are…what’s the word down under…dumbass bogans? Certainly neither the OP nor Sparky disabuse me of any notions I might have of Aussies. Now on this site I’ve become acquainted with the comments of Lacesit, and though I haven’t met him, he seems sober and rational, “despite” being Aussie. Things even out. It seems there are some decent Aussies. I guess I've just met the outliers. In my company I have a number of young Thai women, university educated. Over time I have heard their stories of what they and their friends face as women in this society. On the scale of treatment of women in the nations in which I’ve lived, Thailand seems pretty low on the scale of fairness and equality, not much better than the Middle East. My staff all have friends whose baby daddies did runners. Many of the men were physically abusive. The OP might try to argue that the women must have been---I think he used the term “Bikes”---back home, which is patently unfair and sounds wildly hypocritical, when he boasts of all the “good women” he has shagged in Thailand. He assumes a single mother must have been a "bike', and thus bad, while he'll stick his John Thomas in any woman who'll accept it, but somehow he is superior to the single mom. Many or most single Thai women weren’t “bikes”; they just fell for a lowlife, irresponsible Thai man, something every society and culture has to varying degrees. If a man cannot treat a woman as an equal, he is weak and insecure, afraid she'll be smarter or more successful or simply superior. To respect women as equals isn't feminism, it's being a real man, not a bogan.

Perhaps you can illuminate the differences between the Islamic Taliban and these Christian fanatics? Heaven forbid you would ever offer anything of value, other than always trying to make yourself feel better by attacking others. Not much time left in this Earthly iteration for you to clean up your act.

$Billions, you say? Is that "billions" as in trump money? Are you trying to play Everett Dirksen...a billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon (trumpers will believe it)? Perhaps you can link to these "billions". Not sure what guys looting a few pairs of Nikes has to do with whackadoodle KKKristians, the kind who blow up doctor's offices who aid women in making a choice how to handle their own body. As another poster noted, what's with the Whataboutism? Just showing off your "accredited" degree from trump university? But since you bring up violence...... I've watched the videos of the terrorists who attacked the Capitol on 6 January 2021, at trump's request, and they sure looked white as can be to me. Fat, too. And violent. No BLM'ers. Obviously not affiliated with any Party that presents itself as a Law and Order Party, either. Just typical low life ignorant trumpscum, many now doing time for their crimes. Oh, you probably call them "hostages", like your love muffin trump does. LOL. When trump loses again this year, and his absolute last chance to further destroy US democracy is fading away, I suspect he'll try to unleash his goobers yet again on the Capitol, but this time the President WILL order the National Guard to defend the place, unlike the lie trumpflakes have been trying to push lately that donny fatboy ordered 10K NGs to the Capitol on 6 Jan (the transcript from the Defense Dept officials who testified before the 6 January Committee said no such order existed and if it had, there would be paper trail; thus more trumpian mendacity.) https://www.govinfo.gov/collection/january-6th-committee-final-report?path=/GPO/January 6th Committee Final Report and Supporting Materials Collection If trump's goobers pull their keystone terrorist schtick again, perhaps liberal "Kyle Rittenhouses" will show up to "help the police" and eradicate the terrorist scum. We certainly got approval to take out far less dangerous types in the tribal regions of Pakistan, so there is precedent. I'll be more than happy to lock and load again and take on terrorists.

A thrice married, serial philandering, hush-money paying, pathologically lying, convicted sex offender, convicted fraudster, alleged thief and wildly boastful Narcissist…yep, that’s our guy. Pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth…donny’s got the Seven Deadlies covered, and arguably he’s 9 for 10 violating the Commandments.

Nail'em.

Not sure what it is about 15 million news jobs, the lowest UE in 50 years, the highest GDP growth since the late 1990s, infrastructure being rebuilt, the Chips Act which has already resulted in breaking ground for the first new chip plants in the US in decades, and a rebuilt NATO that is standing in the way of putin heinous aggression in Ukraine, that has trumpflakes panties in a twist. I was not enamored of Hillary, and I wondered if Biden still had what it takes, but seeing the absolutely booming US economy, growth that dwarfs other industrialized nations, certainly proved my concerns unfounded. On the other hand, trump never disappoints: he epitomizes failure and profligacy, and the only reason he isn't pouring Slurpies at a highway truckstop somewhere is because his father gifted him so much money. trump really could write the proverbial self-help book: "How to Make a Small Fortune". Page one: Start with a large fortune. Apparently trumpers prefer the guy who is an expert in bankruptcies, business and charity fraud, and a weakening economy---which trump engineered in spite of also exploding the deficit. Coming in at 4.8% UE and a growing GDP, and leaving 6.8% UE and a Recession is what trump 'accomplished', and in trumpistan, where up is down and lies are truth, that resonates. Pass the Lysol! Maybe it's that the modern economy doesn't provide as much opportunity for unskilled labor and the poorly educated, which is trump's bread and butter. The millions of jobs now going unfilled are the result of the trumpian part of the workforce lacking the talent to offer value.

Damn! The guy you quoted has embraced every last conspiracy known to man! JFK, a Truther....can chemtrails be far behind? I think it's a pretty good bet he's a QAnon type, also. Perhaps a Lunar-tic? ("Fake Moon Landing") By the way, as a card-carrying member of the "Deep State", with shopping privileges at Titanic Duty Free (yes, THAT deep), can I pick you up a designer vodka or single malt?

Kimmel's comment was in response to a Truth (sic) Social post by the, inter alia, convicted sex offender trump, who posted: "Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars." I don't know the answer, but I might have to give it some consideration, because if anyone knows "WORST", it's trump, who was voted Worst President Ever by a group of both Repub and Dem-leaning historians.

The Incel and Misogynist Brigades of the trump cult---which likely is all inclusive of his male sycophants---might not enjoy this thread, as it hits donny in his small spot. Of course they will attack Stormy, if they even venture here. Already a poster is criticizing her for being a gold digger and liar. Not sure what Stormy lied about, but trump broke every conceivable record for mendacity, and in terms of a Lying Potus, he is the immoral equivalent of Cy Young, owner of a record that will never be broken. Whatever Stormy made of her life, to criticize or condemn her, but ignore the guy who dallied with her just after his 3rd wife gave birth and was home caring for the newborn, is the height of hypocrisy. Similarly, to criticize her for her career, but ignore the easily Google-able images of trump's 3rd wife in nude poses with other women, plus her falsely obtained Einstein Visa to get into the US, are equally hypocritical. Michael Cohen did time in jail for being the bagman in the Stormy hush money affair, yet trump---aka Individual One in the indictment---has so far escaped punishment. Some of that karmic punishment will come beginning 25 March, as the Hush Money trial opens in NY. Prosecutors will likely attempt to lend credibility to their witnesses by asking Stormy and Karen McDougal, and perhaps even Marla Maples, to describe donny's junk (Remember his response when in the 2016 Repub candidate debate Marco Rubio commented on trump's very tiny.....hands?). Stormy has previously stated publicly how donny didn't exactly measure up. It will likely hit trump right at Ground Zero of his insecurity complex. I wonder if we'll soon see a new trumpian NFT where donny portrays himself as John Holmes? It can't be any sillier than his already-issued NFTs, where he pretends to be a fighter pilot and astronaut. Soooooo Presidential!

Not sure what 'misinfo removed' means. I seem to remember I had 'convicted' in front of each crime. trump faced a jury of his peers in his sexual assault case, defamation case and when his charity was accused of fraud. They found him guilty. That means 'convicted'. His bank and insurance fraud trials were---by his lawyers' choice---a bench trial. Judge Engoron found him guilty, which means convicted. If trump appeals and the conviction is overturned, then it would not be appropriate to call him convicted. Until then, it's 'convicted'. That is what the term means: found guilty by a jury or by a judge in a bench trial.

Here's your long explanation, Stalkerboy. To help with your ongoing obsession, and obvious confusion, not once did I claim DEVGRU. Those guys are always out in teams with lots of backup. Agency guys, such as those in Ground Branch or just case officers in the DO, are in the field alone...no backup whatsoever. Sometimes just a change of appearance and a bag of money, plus language skills. We have weapons in the Station, but usually choose not to carry, because having a weapon would be kind of a giveaway as to our affiliation. As for the men about whom this thread is written, I don't know the circumstances, so cannot comment. I do know, however, that sometimes in the field things get dicey. I do know that among field operatives of all types, whether intel or mil, Brits do have a reputation for being particularly aggressive. That reputation is also shared by Mossad and FSB/SVR. Odd that you are so supportive of those SAS guys, but get obsessed with me and make ignorant comments about "correspondence course" or "pencil neck desk jockey". Other than evidencing your inferiority complex, it's just childish trolling. I assume you, as a trumper, are a Never Served bone spurs coward who thinks soldiers and spooks are "suckers and losers". As with trump, even a Code Pink protest would send shivers down your spine and have you running for your safe space. By the way, I think I saw you recently in Pattaya. Kind of a shortish fat guy riding some red scooter? A case officer's skills never leave him. کس إختک اخ شرموطة

That poster and others don't seem to understand that punitive measures take several things into consideration, such as the supposed financial wherewithal of the guilty party, as well as considering---in this case of defamation---what is the level of punishment that will make the guilty party cease from continued defamation. trump failed to keep his mouth shut after the first conviction, and since he continuously boasts of how, like, really really rich he is, the jury weighed both his mouth and his claimed wealth and assessed penalties.

Right now it is just speculation as to how trump came up with the bond through Chubb. Obviously journalists will try to get a scoop, such as what was pledged, what is the cost, was there a co-signer, etc. In a sense that is moot, because as part of the process of running for a national political office, a full financial disclosure must be submitted, which includes detail as to what outstanding loans or commitments one has and to whom. The public has a right to know to whom any official is beholden. Whether trump likes it or not, this bond---and whatever he does to try to post the $453 million bond for his bank and insurance fraud convictions---will be made public.

If trump can't do the time and can't pay the dime, he shouldn't have done the crimes. The sex offender, charity fraudster, bank fraudster, insurance fraudster, two-time impeached, under 91 felony indictments, getting so confused he thinks Obama is still POTUS and Nikki Haley was Speaker on 6 January 2021, wouldn't be under any pressure if he hadn't stolen classified documents, tried to overthrow US democracy, sent his goobers to stop the election certification, pressured the Georgia SecState to "just find me...11,780 votes", and been intimately involved in the fake elector scheme.

Biden was quite solid in his speech, posting facts that upset the trump [supporters], though the facts were taken from official USG websites. Reality can be upsetting when lacking a valid visa to visit it. Fortunately the actual wall that trump had constructed prevents the cult from getting anywhere near Reality. For some reason (fear of being primaried), Biden's line of "political violence has no place in America" got a standing ovation from the Dem side, but all the Repubs sat with their thumbs up their butts, apparently confirming their Party Platform Plank that "If we lose, we riot....the peaceful transfer of power is for pussies" Though I did enjoy Biden's speech and his feistiness, I have to admit I was a bit confused. Why did Biden give the SotU speech and not Obama? And who was that little dweeb sitting behind Biden on the right, constantly rolling his eyes like a pre-teen girl saying "Whatever!"? I thought Nikki Haley was Speaker of the House, not that short dweeb. Well, President Obama and Speaker Haley is what trump told me, and trump couldn't possibly have dementia, could he?

It was a great speech, detailing the major differences between Biden and trump: ---Biden actually gets things done, trump only has slogans and empty promises (like Mexico paying for a wall that was never built) ---Biden wants to protect freedoms, trump wants to take freedoms away, especially women's freedom trumpers can bark all they want, offering nothing as is their norm, but rather than shout 'gaslighting' or some other silly rant, they can check official USG websites to show that what Biden detailed as accomplishments are fact. https://www.yahoo.com/news/state-union-address-transcript-read-030211757.html From the transcript we can see: Biden inherited the trump Recession; the economy is going gangbusters now, the highest growth since the Clinton years. "15 million new jobs in 3 years A record 16 million Americans are starting small businesses and each one is an act of hope. 800,000 new manufacturing jobs in America and counting. More people have health insurance today than ever before. The racial wealth gap is the smallest it’s been in 20 years. Wages keep going up and inflation keeps coming down! Inflation has dropped from 9% to 3% – the lowest in the world!" The cost of insulin for seniors---many of whom are overweight trumpers---has dropped from $400/month to $35/month The infrastructure is being rebuilt, as opposed to trump's endless Infrastructure Weeks that never happened Getting the Chips Act passed means new chip plants (with jobs paying over $100,000 per year) are being built in the US, the first new chip plants in decades, and making the US less dependent on unstable supply chains. Biden noted that he worked out a bipartisan border and immigration Bill with conservative Senate Republicans, a Bill that would add funding to securing the border, hiring more agents, hiring Immigration officers, installing drug detection equipment, etc., but in the end Repubs blocked it. And why? "I’m told my predecessor called Republicans in Congress and demanded they block the bill. He feels it would be a political win for me and a political loser for him."---from the transcript Another key point from the transcript: "The year before I took office, murders went up 30% nationwide the biggest increase in history. That was then. Now, through my American Rescue Plan, which every Republican voted against, I’ve made the largest investment in public safety ever. Last year, the murder rate saw the sharpest decrease in history, and violent crime fell to one of the lowest levels in more than 50 years." Then there's the rebuilt NATO, the entity standing up against putin's heinous aggression in Ukraine. Finland is now a member, and just yesterday, Sweden joined. Putin want's NATO to fail. So does trump. Biden has major accomplishment and a detailed outline (read the transcript) for the future. trump has only slogans and vindictiveness.

You watched it, and that is what you wrote? Go and read the transcript. It should be clear to anyone with a room temperature of better IQ. Biden detailed the accomplishments, which can be checked against data from govt depts and agencies such as BEA, BLS, Treasury, etc. He clearly outlined a future of more job creation, cleaner environment, stronger NATO, standing against the attacks on freedom such as taking women's rights away, bringing even more manufacturing jobs back home than the 800,000 already done under him.... Really, it is incomprehensible how you could write what you wrote.

I appreciate that by sitting on a Pattaya barstool getting more plump by the day, one doesn't know much of anything, except the pains of Type II Diabetes... In the agency one can leave/retire under cover or ask that cover be removed. I chose the latter. You're belief in what 'real squirrels' do is based on watching movies, not reality. Then again, reality is not something with which trump fluffers are familiar. I suppose your obsession, and feeling some need to call me a desk jockey, is simply a way to project you own abject cowardice, as you know full well you'd disgrace your Depends with a motherload (sic) if you ever faced personal threats. Call of Duty vid games are as close as you would dare come to actual danger....and I suspect even that gives you nightmares. Typical trumpfluffers (I am borrowing that from Danderman123) can only attack, because on their own they have nothing and know nothing. Not once has any trump fluffer on this Forum given an adult excuse for all of trump's behavior that rightfully earned him 91 felony indictments. ---calling his goobers to DC for 6 Jan? Crickets ---demanding GA SecState Raffensperger "just find me...11,780 votes" Crickets ---Going into partnership with Arif Tevfik of Bayrock Group, convicted in abstentia for, inter alia, human trafficking Crickets ---stealing thousands of classified documents rated TS, SCI, SITK, SAP, Codeword, HCS and RD, then lying about returning them Crickets ---trump's involvement in the fake elector scheme Crickets Because you have no excuses, you boast about "owning the libs" or whatever other childishness gives your miserable life meaning between adding on yet more adipose tissue and spare tires like other trump fluffers Please drop your obsession. You are incapable of ever coming even remotely close to the man I am. You lost the Birth Lottery, and unless there actually is reincarnation, what you have is all you'll ever get. Stick with your <deleted> bank images of women you will never have, except on your hard drive. And maybe forego that next beer and send the money to your love muffin trump, as Ms Carroll is waiting.

Maybe I'll be the only one (to cheers from the chubby old bald trumpers, swilling beers on their Pattaya barstools, who live in Thailand anyway, and not the US). trumpers are, by definition, idiots. They actually think a clown who schlepps NFTs of himself pretending to be an astronaut or a fighter pilot---kind of like a 21st Century Village People---is the kind of person who should be POTUS. Let's not forget his latest business venture: golden sneakers made in China. LOL!!! Ask a trumper what their messiah's policies are and they'll say "close the borders" and then maybe "own the libs". trump has no other policies, as he's too dumb to even begin to understand how to run a $30 trillion economy, just as he has no idea how to run a business, except via fraud (as the courts have now shown). Oh...I forgot..."play golf" is another policy, as in trump 1.0 he ran up $170,000,000 in costs to the US taxpayer with his golfing, according the the Office of Management and Budget. Look at what he did---vs his promises and hyperbolic claims---while serving before: ---built only 54 miles of his "wall" along a 1800 mile border, despite having an R House and Senate for his first 2 years....and despite claiming "Mexico will pay", got not a single peso from Mexico. Zero. ---Promised to replace the Affordable Care Act with something "unbelievable", but absolutely failed to deliver anything, and never had an idea, despite claiming he had 'the best healthcare plan ever' ---Repeatedly promised "Next week is Infrastructure Week", but like Godot, it never showed up (until Biden delivered it) ---Enacted tariffs on Chinese goods, claiming "China will pay". China paid as much as Mexico did for donny's wall. The US consumers, however, did have to pay. Then because China retaliated by switching food sourcing to Brazil, trump had to massively increase US Socialism, by handing money to farmers ---Did get a $2 trillion tax cut, which went to guys like me, but began a level of fiscal profligacy never seen on the planet, ending up with an $8,400,000,000,000 National Debt increase, an amount that dwarfed any GDP growth over that time, meaning he just ran up the US credit cards, with the mailman coming with the bills later ---trump's economy rode the coattails of what Obama did. Imagine if 2008/9 had happened in 2017 (The Financial Crisis). Mr 6 Bankruptcies wouldn't have had a clue how to address it. The US banking system and insurance industry would have collapsed So, trumpers, what are trump's actual policies? Having fired anyone remotely competent in his first Administration, who are the "best people" trump will get for any Admin 2.0? MTG?, Bimboebert? Matt PizzaGaetz? His entire pool of "best people" are all losers and clowns. Maybe trump will announce KKKristianity is now the official religion of the US, though he will have already suckered US Talibangicals who actually believe trump even knows how to hold their book rightside up. But hey, two Corinthians walked into a bar..... The first crisis trump faces, if he is elected and if he remains out of jail, he will fail miserably. Injecting Lysol didn't work the first time, and it certainly is not the be all, end all for any subsequent crisis. Fail is what trump does. Only his Game Show Host gig got him out of the financial hole after he squandered his massive inheritance + allowance + daddy's co-signature on donny's loans. I suspect trump will rule over the collapse of the US. Timing will be important. The markets will see his abject incompetence---in fact, trump will throw a monkey wrench into the economy, doing something typically trumpian, which means idiotic, such as when he suggested he would default on US Debt owed to foreigners. Only Steve Cohn saved the US debt market and the dollar by telling trump it would not be wise for a country needing foreigners to fund its deficits to default on those same needed foreigners. There will be no Steve Cohn in any trump 2.0. trump will have a Lou Dobbs or MTG or maybe Ivanka, not Cohn. As trump fails, he will do the only thing he knows how to do (other than fail): he will find someone else to blame. Maybe it will be immigrants, maybe Moslems, maybe even Jews. Remember trump did say "some very fine people" about folks who marched with tikitorches chanting "Jews will not replace us". So I won't be there should trump 2.0 happen. Yes, trumpers won't miss me any more than I'll miss being around idiots like them. I have several foreign properties as well as residence cards, including in the EU. I have sufficient wealth to endure any disaster trump creates. Not everyone does. Those who will suffer most are the very people who support the guy, as their [lack of] skills and talents will leave them destitute as the US economy tumbles. There will be some schadenfreude watching his goobers suffer. They deserve it, so there will be no sympathy as the US declines, perhaps not into a Third World hellhole---or is that Sh!thole?---but decline it will be. I will plan for a collapse of the dollar and soaring US interest rates, as trump is fully capable of instigating both. I might even still come on this Forum and say, "I told you so". That would be childish, but childish is something trumpers understand very well, because their messiah is just an incompetent, petulant, albeit vindictive child.

Actual TDS, as opposed to the projected version, is the affliction of people who think a clown who schlepps NFTs of himself as a fighter pilot or astronaut, and whose major announcement is selling golden sneakers made in China, is a good candidate for President of the United States of America. That fake astronaut is the same guy who regularly ran to the White House bunker when a Code Pink protest (the average Code Pinker is a 70 year old lady) appeared on Pennsylvania Ave. Not exactly "The Right Stuff", though he does have the right stuffing, as in the same morbid obesity his cult carries. LOL!!!!!

Losers always lose. That's what makes them trumpers.

This will be difficult for cult members to understand. This will also be difficult to understand for those who think a clown who schlepps NFTs that portray him as a fighter pilot or astronaut---things he is far too cowardly to ever be---or who sells pieces of the suit in which he was booked in Georgia for RICO violations, is qualified to be President and have the nuclear codes. Intelligence, as a product, is like science via the Scientific Method of Francis Bacon. It is a gathering of as many facts as possible, and from those facts attempting to glean a truth. It is as objective as can be, which means it comes with a willingness to take in new data and information, and change the assessment if that is what is required. It is always, like science, a work in progress. Sometimes it is right, sometimes not. What it never is, and never should be, is what trump wants it to be: tell him what he wants to hear based on what’s best for him or what his preconceived notions are. When a President forgets what the intelligence community is supposed to tell him, or demands he be told something different, things go horribly wrong. A grave mistake was made under Bush II. The actual intelligence and agency assessment was that Saddam had given up his WMD program after Gulf War i. Because a negative cannot be proven, some doubt had to remain, but that doubt was less than 15%. When the UN inspectors were in Iraq before the war, they were given what were claimed to be the top leads on where Saddam was manufacturing WMDs. That was purposeful, because the agency analysts had serious doubts and wanted it to be proven. No WMDs were found. That Saddam had most likely given up his plans---preferring instead a life of “booze, broads and palaces”, as was written back then---was the assessment. The Neocons were unwilling to accept that, and they ‘recruited’ then DCI George Tenet to go along with them. Dick Cheney kept telling the agency analysts to “tell me what I want to hear, not what you think”. Cheney fell in love with a source the agency named Curveball. That was not a random name; it reflected what the agency case officers thought of the guy. The guy sought money and a resettlement somewhere in the West, and made up lies about WMDs. Because his agency handlers did not believe him, he also went to other Western intel services and told the same lies. This came to the agency via liaison contacts, but with the identity known as the same guy, Curveball. Cheney called the multiple reports, despite being lies from the same guy, “corroboration”. Cheney knew, but ignored it. A speech was written partly by a then-agency analyst for Colin Powell, to be delivered before the UNGA. Cheney had the report edited. The agency analysts re-edited it. Cheney erased their editing. Gen Powell was made a fool of at the UN. Bush II and Cheney decided to attack Iraq, despite knowing what agency analysts and case officers in the field reported. Cheney also tried to link Saddam with 9-11, which was totally false and for which there was not only zero intelligence, but actually contrary intelligence. ObL wanted to take out Saddam, too, but first focused on attacking the US. There was similar reporting on Afghanistan. The agency, having analysts who knew the history of that country, know full well it could not be changed. Destroy the al Qaeda bases and pressure the existing Afghan government to keep al Qaeda types out, was the best the agency thought the US could achieve. Case officers (the spooks on the front lines) as well as analysts put together a white paper arguing against anything other than a very short term commitment to Afghanistan, detailing in quite prescient terms what the result of a long term effort would be:failure and a return of the Taliban. Bush II and the Neocons ignored the intelligence assessment. The result: 20 wasted years in Afghanistan, almost as many wasted years in Iraq, 6000 US soldiers killed in the two wars, $4 trillion thrown away, a million dead Iraqis from the communal, tribal and sectarian violence that still hobbles the place, and more power and influence of Iran, along with hardliners in the Islamic world. Trump will not only make the mistakes Bush II made, he will be even worse, because trump wants to weaponize the entire intel community, not only to have it tell him what he wants to hear, but also to use the capabilities of all parts of the IC against critics and political opponents. He has even stated this multiple times, as in “I am your retribution”. Trump got hosed by Kim Jong-un during trump’s time as POTUS. Though Kim is a psychopath, he is clever. A few love letters and he had trump under total control. That allowed Kim to speed up his own nuke and missile programs,…..lots more enriched U235, Hwasong ICBM developments that now allow DPRK missiles to strike every part of the US, miniaturization of nukes, and nuke testing via supercomputer rather than any actual detonations. In the past, Kim and his father had to move slowly, fearing a reaction from the US. Under trump, it was no holds barred, and now South Korea, Japan, and even the US are in much greater danger than before trump. Give the fragile ego trump a little praise, and you can control him. Kim knows that. So does putin. Foreign intelligence services, whether Five Eyes or other liaison services, will not cooperate with a US led by trump. They have seen how reckless and untrustworthy he is, not only while he was POTUS, but when trump stole thousands of highly classified documents and brought them to his country club. They will not risk their own clandestine assets or covert collection programs just so trump can expose them, as trump did with an Israeli penetration of Islamic terror groups during his Oval Office laugh-fest with Lavrov and Kislyak. The US will be less well informed, less alert, and less safe. All that is what has intel professionals fearful of another trump term. None of trump’s goobers or sycophants are capable of running a professional intelligence community nor doing the work required to identify, target, recruit and handle clandestine assets. The US will be blind in an increasingly dangerous world.

Thanks. Actually, however, I meant 'three on the column'. Tree also works.