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The Taj Mahal also has cylinders under it. Fearing earthquakes, the builders figured out a way to make the Taj somewhat flexible. They sourced giant ebony timbers (which can withstand water without rotting for a thousand years), and then built channels into the cylinders from the nearby river. The Taj floats on the timbers, so it can survive the earth shaking during a quake.

Well, fella, you're missing a few details. The MAGA guy named Cole used black end caps and two galvanized steel caps on the bombs. 233,000 similar fittings were sold in the US near to that time period, so it took time to identify all of them----plus the perp would had to have used a credit card. If he paid cash, no way a name would be associated with the purchase. (That's a hint, as MAGAs are not smart enough to keep their credit card/name private.) It also takes time for retail outlets to respond to FBI inquiries. Then they had to make similar connections with people who had bought wire, pipes and 9 volt batteries. That, too, would have involved a lot of purchases. Next they had to look for matches, that is, someone who purchased ALL of the components. Finally, they would have to get phone records from all the companies who service that area, and try to match against people who bought all the components. All of that takes time. As he turns out to be a Trumper who bought into the lie 2020 was stolen, one would think the Biden Admin would not have sat on that info, had they gotten all the responses from retailers and the phone company in time.

i do believe Trump when he says, "I love the poorly educated", and when he more recently said, "Smart people don't like me". Truer words were never spoken, and to have such truth spew from a guy who is pathologically mendacious, says something. Apparently you do not understand tariffs anymore than your messiah does. Invariably, it's the consumer who pays them, as the US importers who initially pay them (NOT the foreign country), pass those costs on to the consumer.Also, the "literally trillions of dollars" he claimed they raised is off by...oh...$trillions. The real number through November is $259 billion. Trump said last week, re his $2000 give back, that "you won't even have to pay income taxes"., Well, not quite. Total income tax revenue is $2.5 trillion, so the $259 billion hardly replaces that. Plus, the deficit this year is going to be $1.83 trillion. So $2.5 trillion + $1.83 trillion is not going to be replaced by $259 billion. As for the folks who opined that Hunter's Laptop was a Russki disinfo campaign, they did not "cheat". They had an opinion. Opinions are not cheating. For MAGAs to think that opinion resulted in Trump's massive defeat in 2020 is about as realisitic as Trump saying last week he'd reduce drug prices by 1500%. When someone makes a statement like that, it's easy to see how he scored 820 on his SATs. He's definitely math challenged. Lucky for you, you stopped at two items, rather than continue to embarrass yourself by being wrong on every count.

Look who's into "Fake News" now.... As usual, anything Trump or a Trumper accuses anyone else of is projection. Dan Bongino, while a podcaster, long claimed the pipe bomb was an "inside job". Last Thursday Bongino was a guest on Sean Hannity on Fox, and Hannity asked him why he changed his tune after MAGA guy Cole was caught: “I was paid in the past, Sean, for my opinions, that’s clear, and one day I will be back in that space—but that’s not what I’m paid for now,” he said. “I’m paid to be your deputy director, and we base investigations on facts.” Nothing sums up Trump's Carnival People Administration more than that. Of course, you can fool some of the people some of the time, but ALL of the MAGAs all of the time.

Presidents used to be against drug running and terrorism, too, but Trump: ---Pardoned a guy who helped run 400 tonnes of cocaine into the US ---Trump pardoned a guy (CZ of Binance) convicted of laundering money for, inter alia, Hamas.

Are you aware "47" comes AFTER "46"? One of the reasons nobody cares that James Buchanan was a "confirmed bachelor" (old euphemism for gay, rather than the new euphemism "Speaker of the House") was that he isn't President anymore and never will be again.

Not sure if this is mental decline or just Trump's pathological mendacity, but he is denying something he said just a few days ago: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-trump-denies-saying-222927725.html He's also showing off his crybaby-ness yet again, going after everyone from the female reporter in the LINKED article to MTG to Paramount for running the 60 Minutes interview with MTG, to Leslie Stahl, who interviewed MTG. The bozo is always calling females "stupid: and Black females "low IQ". Okay, stable genius, let's see your college transcripts. How about an actual IQ test, not an online one favored by a peripatetic poster here, or one you mistake for an IQ test ("Woman Man Person Camera TV") One more thing....has anybody seen the Epstein Files? Didn't Trump sign a Bill to release them? Has Godot got them, and they'll arrive together? Or is there just way too much Kash and Dan need to redact? Maybe they're with Trump's tax returns and his healthcare plan concept?

Come on, fella...be fair to Neville Chamberlain, Jr.! How many shots have been fired between Cambodia and Armenia, since Trump said he ended that war? And what about any new hostilities between Abajabadabastan (Azerbaijan) and Albania? Peace in our time. Plus, the guy is so clever at stopping war, he's planning on starting another one, just to keep in practice ending them (Venezuela). Oh, and he recently reminded us he ended Biden's War on Crypto, when he pardoned CZ, the guy who launders money for criminal gangs and terrorist groups like Hamas. And let's not forget he stopped the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, which has now freed up folks in Rwanda to fight the Congo. I may be mistaken here, but I believe even before he stopped the Rwandan problem, he stopped the war between Betamax and VHS.

Strange that MAGAs keep missing the part of about Trump asking the DoJ how to deport USA Citizens, such as Somalis in Minnesota, or Rosey O'Donnell.

Amazing how the Census Bureau was so advanced and sophisticated way back in 1776. I guess they used those airports that Trump once said the Colonialists secured from the Brits in 1776, and flew around counting people. Do you think they got an accurate count of all the Iroquois, Algonquins and other native Americans in the 13 Colonies?

So you're in favor of deporting US Citizens because of the color of their skin? Maybe the Thais will decide you are too white and send you home, as you're not even a citizen. So many white Western clowns on this site living in Thailand, yet complaining "others" are destroying their culture back home. Perhaps they'll all go home to defend their way of life? I don't think so.

Watch out whitey! The Melatonin Brigade is on the march, coming for you!

Yes, the US needs help, particularly US white males. Historically they enslaved people and invaded other nations, like Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Iraq. At home, it's almost always a white male who shoots up schools and churches and post offices. Also, the average serial killer is a white male. Toss in white collar crime, which is also the purview of white males, and even government corruption, which a lily white guy like Trump excels in. Today, white males are falling far behind their female counterparts in terms of education. Too many slackers and psychopaths. A great deal of the US' recent success in technological fields is the result of non-white, non-Judeo-Christian Americans, whether that's the chief of Nvidia, Microsoft or Alphabet/Google. I guess picking up for slacker white males is kind of Kipling-esque: The non-White Man's Burden

Correct me if I'm wrong, but people from south of the border are primarily Christian, right? So what is this worry about "replacement" that has your panties in a twist along with white supremacists?

So you will follow his ideology and get the eff out of Buddhist Thailand, where your kind does not belong? Or are you arguing it's "same same, but different"?

So "outsiders", or non-Judeo Christians are polluting it? Is that kind of like when people from Judeo-Christian societies pollute Buddhist Cambodia and Thailand? It's so difficult to try to make sense of MAGA racism and insanity!

Do you think Obama or Bush II knew about the guy's activities? Trump KNEW the former President of Honduras helped run 400 tonnes of cocaine into the US, yet Trump pardoned him. Trump watched for 187 minutes on live TV thousands of terrorists trying to overthrow US democracy, beat and bear spray cops, and search for the VP to hang him, yet Trump pardoned them all. Trump knows his comrades tried to subvert the 2020 election with fake electors and changing votes in Georgia, yet he pardoned them all. Cry me a river about the DEA guy. Trump knowingly pardoned much worse people.

Jerry, you seem to be unaware that no MAGA has ever needed to be baptized, because all were born without Original Sin. Heck, Mary is more likely to be "almost" a Virgin than a MAGA would ever violate a law or Commandment or any of the Seven Deadlies. No MAGA has ever done anything wrong. Acts attributed to them are "hoaxes" or false flags carried out by leftist or Marxist or uber woke lefties funded by George Soros. Even their messiah is pure as the driven snow. He declassified those documents with his mind, which the FBI planted anyway. He knew where a box of ballots with 11,780 votes was hiding in Georgia. Just tried to help a guy do his job. He called his minions to DC for the 6th of January, because the Capitol gift shop was having a "Going Out of Office" sale on coffee mugs and key chains with Trump's name and image. That many shat on the floor just proves how popular the key chain sale was and the line for the bathrooms was just too long. I mean, when you gotta go, you gotta go. Besides, if libtards and lefties can get all excited when the newest iPhone xx is going on sale, it's only a fair bit of Whataboutism that MAGAs would get excited about those coffee mugs with their messiah's image. Okay, they got a little carried away, but that's what pardons are for. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I think you'll find that it was either Hugo Chavez---that guy again---or Che Guevara who rose from the dead, hypnotized the pipe bomber, and made him act in a way he would never do without being manipulated by a deranged Democrat. In any event, when it is proven the pipe bomber was a MAGA who believed the election was stolen, he, too, will be pardoned.

Cute, and with all the imagination one would expect from a MAGA, which is to say none. With each passing day, it is abundantly clear that Trump's base owns the territory left of the mean on the IQ Bell Curve. Stake out your ground, put up your flag, and embrace abject mediocrity. Not everybody can be a winner. For the time being, the world still needs janitors and truck drivers.

That is some Trumpian Whataboutism! A pair of Golden Sneakers and an autographed Trump bible for you!

I agree he has a gift---or better to call it a total lack of morality and character---for grifting, but he needed the power of the Oval Office to actually make it work. In the past, he was just hot air, a failed silver spooner, living off his daddy's money and co-signed loans, but failing in everything from casinos and steak to his airline and fake "university". He made it---all the way to the Oval Office---because Mark Burnett took a look at the IQ Bell Curve, saw how big the left side was, and knew he could appeal to the intellectually challenged by taking Trump's endless and silly hyperbole and self-promotion, and turn it into a game show. That made Trump more than a NYC joke. It got him the attention of the lesser intellects in society, which is to say, an Electoral College-winning majority. Now that Trump has actual authority, and a gaggle of Carnival People in his Administration to bless his every corrupt wish, he can leverage his position for personal financial gain. Only morons think guys like Bezos and Zuckerberg and even Musk actually like Trump. Even most Republican Senators think he's a child and a clown, but he does have authority. He can help or hurt businesses that need government approval or contracts or favorable laws. He can get any non-sycophantic Senator or House member primaried. The elite still laugh at him, as did all the NYC real estate developers, but they'll suck up and play along so long as it benefits them or keeps them out of trouble. So in this disaster of the great American Experiment, which likely has the Founders rolling over in their graves, much can be laid on Mark Burnett, who---like Roger Ailes who developed Fox News---knew how dumb the average American is and how easily fooled they are. We can see it even on Forums, as the cult do not evidence any sort of intellect that would place them even at the mean, much less to the right of it on the Bell Curve. Trump said it himself two months ago: "Smart people don't like me"....perhaps the first honest thing he's ever said.

They're not bribes; they are what Republicans call "Traditional Family Values", as in "how much can we make off this pardon?" Binance Chief "CZ" was pardoned despite being convicted for laundering money---what the White House now calls "Biden's war against crypto". Well, the man most deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize has stopped that ^ war. Also, part of the evidence against CZ involved laundering money for Hamas. That, too, falls into Trump's goal of a Peace Prize, as a well-fueled Hamas gives Trump yet another war to end. And I guess in a backhanded way, helping a guy who aided Hamas is kind of ending another war: The War on Terror. Oslo and Stockholm take note. Of course the big payoff comes because Binance does business with World Liberty Financial, the crypto company owned by the Trump Org. David Gentile is good for the Trump brand because---despite swindling investors out of $1.6 billion---Gentile wisely used some of his ill-gotten gain to fund 2024 Republican House and Senate candidates. Grateful as Gentile now must be, he can be expected to donate to Repubs for the midterms, hopefully helping the Repubs to maintain control of the House and allow Trump to not only avoid a 3rd impeachment, but also to continue grifting off Saudi Arabia (3 construction projects for the Trump Org) and maybe even get a superyacht from some princelings to go along with his new B747. Former Honduran President Hernandez has family in south FLorida, so maybe they'll feel obliged to join Mar-a-Lago. Plus, Hernandez still has plenty of ill-gotten gains from his drug and arms running, so he's a potential condo customer. Hey, Trump doesn't call himself "The World's Greatest Dealmaker" for nothing.

10,000 rounds of what is likely 9mm is 200 boxes. Big deal. I've been to gun shows in the US where guys buy a lot more than that, load it on a cart, and wheel it out to their F-150 pickup. At current prices, that's a couple thousand dollars worth of ammo. Guys who buy 5.56 NATO for their AR-15 buy a lot more than that. Heck you're a posseur, not a genuine "prepper" or "Sovereign Citizen", if you don't have at least 100,000 rounds......for EACH of your guns. Ammo caches are what your "guest bedroom" is for. Perhaps the article listed the amount incorrectly, because that's just not a lot of ammo.....at least in 'Merika.

Well, we know it won't stop there, not with the truly weaponized "Department of Retribution Justice" Now it matters not that James' mortgage application specifically stated she could rent the property out, provided she did not use a property management company. That is how she eventually rented it to a family member---directly. No, what matters is that she made the crybaby President angry, so no taxpayer expense will be spared trying to get back at her for actually following the law and charging Trump with his crimes, for which he was found guilty. Perhaps we should applaud the fact that there is such little crime in the US today---no organized crime, no white collar crime (that isn't pardonable), no domestic terror threats such as Proud Boys or Oath Keepers who attacked the US Capitol, etc.---that DoJ has the time and personnel to try, try, and try again, until all of Trump's irritants are vanquished. Perhaps James stuck chewing gum under her desk in 2nd grade? "Destruction of government property" could be the charge. Since Trump's hand-picked lackey failed, perhaps he can appoint another 'crack' prosecutor like Sidney Powell---she of the Hugo "Lazarus" Chavez fame, and send Halligan back to something she is more qualified to do, like sell kitchen gadgets on Home Shopping Network..

All of you anti-Trumpers out there...geesh. You think Trump just has 'the concept of a plan' when it comes to pardons? The guy has a strict and uniform list of rules re P4P, should one seek to 'acquire' a pardon. Like the law, just follow the rules. Example: ---Did you make major donations to Republican candidates before the 2024 election, and with your ill-gotten gains be in a position to donate bigly for the midterms? (David Gentile, pardoned after running a Ponzi Scheme that took $1.6 billion from 10,000 victims) ---Have you retained $millions in ill-gotten gains from running 400 tonnes of cocaine into the US while serving as President of your corrupt nation, and do your children already live in South Miami and have sufficient wealth to buy a membership at Mar-a-Lago? (President Hernandez) ---Were you acting on behalf of your 'Favorite President' when you beat and bear sprayed 140 Capitol Police, shat on the floor of the Capitol, and searched for the Vice President in order to hang him? (Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, QAnon Shaman, etc.) ---Despite laundering money for criminals and terrorists, including Hamas, does your crypto exchange do business with World Liberty Financial, owned by the Trump crime family? (CZ, Chief of Binance) Double pardon if you donate to build 'the greatest ballroom the world has ever seen'. ---You were simply of the mistaken belief that Hugo Chavez rose from the dead, wrote some slick computer code, uplifting it to an Italian satellite, which then altered Smartmatic and Dominion Voting machines? (Sidney Powell)