They don't want to cut federal spending. They want to cut federal spending on social programs that actually help non-rich people. They'll be find with an increase in military spending and welfare to corporations.
Orange Stool no longer needs him. My prediction is at some point, Felon will say something or do something to take the spotlight from Orange Stool and will end up being emwankpanzered.
Most, if not all of this was illegal, because as a federal contractor he is not allowed to throw money at federal elections. But, hey, the rule of law is so last year that nobody is even raising the issue.
Throw in whatever he spent on Twitter. That whole thing was political. He openly stated his intention to re-platform Trump and his minions who had been banned for TOS violations.
They honestly think that because the spending is voluntary it's not the same as taxes being taken from them "at gunpoint". Which gives you every idea of the emotionally and intellectually arrested world these people have confined themselves in.
Oh, I know. These people have shown they don't want to pay the admission price for a modern society run by rule of law, and instead have bought themselves a semifunctional Victorian/Edwardian antique society run by the type of people the Founders would have despised
Wasn't there a thing not too long ago that one of those big scan things like MRI or something was as good or better than boob squishing for detecting breast cancer, but insurance companies refused to pay for it because money?
I seem to recall something like that not too long ago
being a 2x cancer survivor, ms.tek gets and annual PET/CT.. her doc says "we really don't need to do a mammo, anything would show up on those scans.. "
But last week she had a mammo anyway.. "Just superstitious I guess"
She has almost gotten our not-quite-40yo daughter to go get a fucking mammogram.. hopefully soon..
Now before everyone goes off on the "Vlad owns the dipshit" comments, think twice. Who is actually saying this? (I don't think Dementia Don wrote this) And why? Ceasefire? Why?
Jake Broe had a whole segment in his most recent video about this tweet, because it is really weird coming from Trump. Broe's actually hopeful that the Ukraine-relevant people around him (special envoy for Ukraine and Russia is Gen Keith Kellogg, who's been vocal about praising Biden escalating military aid; Mike Waltz, a pro-Ukrainian hawk, as NatSec Advisor) are getting through to Trump. And Trump notably sees Putin's weakness in his loss of Syria (and with it the entire middle-east and African theaters), and saw Zelenskyy get a standing ovation at Notre Dame.
The hope is that Trump wants to be a winner more than he wants Putin's favor, and might actually (I know, I remember whom we're discussing here) want to do the right thing.
why would anyone take a tweet of his to mean a damn thing when he has, regularly, back peddled and done opposites and whatever else the entire time we've known him.
This young news anchor is dumber than dirt, the weather guy was sharing a picture someone sent him of a sun pillar behind a church with the pillar lined up with the steeple and she thought the steeple caused the pillar.
Can't be. Bare arms. Every conservative worth their salt knows that means you're "ghetto trash" like Michelle Obama. Wouldn't be allowed at Gilead TV News.
Ours went and replaced all the long time anchors with young hots (and the obligatory middle aged white dude) wearing dresses in various hues of the same kind. Was years ago now, but it is at the point I no longer know what station hubby is watching just by looking at who is talking.
I believe that the gun that she knocked over was stored on a shelf high in a closet. The person who left it there, loaded, was more responsible for the accident than the thirteen year old girl was. I feel really sorry for the girl. It probably marked her for life.
Say the words "gun" and "safety" in the same sentence to most Americans and their eyes will glaze over, and they'll automatically assume the speaker is a communist who wants to confiscate their weapons.
Given the history, the neighborhood, the competing ethnic groups and a 14 year civil war, I dont think anyone considers that situation simple. But Assad is gone and that’s enough for now.
Quite the intrigue. The way the whole thing unfolded was a little too pat for me. The army was ordered to fall back in stages. I think it was an orchestrated coup staged as a rebel offensive. They can't be that clever, can they?
That was what I read a few days ago: that he's been distancing himself and his group from their jihadi past, trying to seem more legit.
I would love to hope that they follow through, and reach some sort of power-sharing agreement that might approach something like popular sovereignty (much of the north is controlled by Kurds, not by his group), but hope is a rare commodity in these, our fallen times.
Seydnaya prison, a torture dungeon, very few have survived it, is now free. Thousands can now breathe. Let Syrians have this moment away from any hot takes and analysis.
I have always assumed that 85% of Canada's population can only be bivouacked an easy days march from our longest undefended border for a reason. I for one will welcome our future Canadian overlords.
He doesn't seem to realize that Canada has a long tradition of defeating the US in wars.
American Revolution
War of 1812
Aroostook War
Pig War on San Juan de Fuca Island
I would not mess with those guys. Read what Pierre Berton had to say about Vimy Ridge. These are tough guys.
https://www.amazon.com/Vimy-by-Pierre-Berton-1986-08-01/dp/B01K2WVIBA/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2T0S74I0ZB811&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.QqJH906wm9UToCMDsd37KReB4irR7Kt_ydpIevnc-uBNG5wOcMop491Cd7i4su2ml_DLissp7v7j9yEEW2Aah-AP6F8yfJGh-XGjBQPyg7g.A0bVCeeupyeXhxp8y88i3umQmh-geIp1M3qjvsJKbcE&dib_tag=se&keywords=pierre+burton+vimy&qid=1734552765&sprefix=pierre+berton+vimy%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-1
It trumpy and Trudeau did get along, I'd think less of Trudeau. The fact that he is willing to give it a try in order help Canada is meritorious.
'𝗦𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘀?': 𝗡𝗕𝗖'𝘀 𝗞𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗢𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kristen-welker-donald-trump-concepts-plan-health-care_n_67567d4fe4b06b50ac9324d3
Trump has been stringing them along with this nonsense for a decade. They never learn.
These are getting easier with practice.
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Easy, but I am sort of proud of that array.
𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟-𝑜𝑓-𝑡ℎ𝑒-𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑘’𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 — “𝐷𝑂𝐺𝐸,” 𝑖𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 — 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑟 𝐵𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒. 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠, 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 — 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑦 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑠, 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑠.
𝐷𝑂𝐺𝐸’𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑, 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑛𝑜 𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 — 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑓𝑡-𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑊𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑂𝑏𝑎𝑚𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ-𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚, 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑡𝑜𝑛’𝑠 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑠.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/09/nation/musks-government-slashing-panel-ritual/
They don't want to cut federal spending. They want to cut federal spending on social programs that actually help non-rich people. They'll be find with an increase in military spending and welfare to corporations.
Musk taken something that wasn't his idea, claimed ownership, made unrealistic promises etc.
Don't believe you.
I do not know why the press is running around saying well, he has no authority
He bought the government. They will do /what he tells them to do/
Orange Stool no longer needs him. My prediction is at some point, Felon will say something or do something to take the spotlight from Orange Stool and will end up being emwankpanzered.
𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑦 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑠
No one of right mind thought those things were ridiculous. The Press.
Also, Obama's initiatives /would not have failed if Trump did not dismantle most of them goddamn it
Remember “Volcano research” Jindal (where did he go?) and in 5 days a giant Icelandic volcano shit down air traffic to Europe? Good times!
𝗨𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗖 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀: 𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝗴𝗮𝘃𝗲 $𝟮𝟯𝟵𝗠 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗣𝗔𝗖, $𝟮𝟬.𝟱𝗠 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗕𝗚 𝗣𝗔𝗖, $𝟭𝟬𝗠 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱, $𝟯𝗠 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗔𝗛𝗔 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 — Elon Musk spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to back President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican candidates, campaign finance records filed Thursday show.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-277-million-trump-republican-candidates-donations/
And all he gets is a no authority job working with Vivek.
I suspect that money is a form of investment and that Musky will earn big from it.
Most, if not all of this was illegal, because as a federal contractor he is not allowed to throw money at federal elections. But, hey, the rule of law is so last year that nobody is even raising the issue.
he gave to the Ruth Bader Ginsberg PAC?
awesome!
it was a PAC saying he had similar abortion views to RBG intended to woo wavdring abortion rights voters. and apparently it was not unsuccessful.
RBG's daughter is pissed
Throw in whatever he spent on Twitter. That whole thing was political. He openly stated his intention to re-platform Trump and his minions who had been banned for TOS violations.
This does not get said enough.
And yet slightly higher taxes would be too much of a burden.
BILLIONAIRES AND CORPORATIONS BEFORE REAGAN WERE TAXED AT TWENTY-EIGHT PERCENT
Another dipshit government contractor who thinks taxes on him are No Fair despite getting his damn paycheck from said taxes
They honestly think that because the spending is voluntary it's not the same as taxes being taken from them "at gunpoint". Which gives you every idea of the emotionally and intellectually arrested world these people have confined themselves in.
to be fair, paying taxes does not get you ownership of government
I mean it should, in part, and what not, but you get a lot more shares when you just buy it outright
Oh, I know. These people have shown they don't want to pay the admission price for a modern society run by rule of law, and instead have bought themselves a semifunctional Victorian/Edwardian antique society run by the type of people the Founders would have despised
No authority. lolz.
He bought himself a government. He will get everything he wants out of it.
buy moar cybertrucks!
/ffs
And they wonder why health insurance CEOs are assassination targets.
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘐-𝘦𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺. 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴.
𝗔𝗜 𝗜𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀, 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀
In a study, women who chose AI-powered mammograms were 21% more likely to have cancer detected than those who didn’t.
https://gizmodo.com/ai-is-detecting-more-breast-cancer-cases-study-suggests-2000534894
This is one of those appropriate uses of AI tech.
I honestly don't see how radiologists can do the volume of work they do without assist, AI or otherwise.
Wasn't there a thing not too long ago that one of those big scan things like MRI or something was as good or better than boob squishing for detecting breast cancer, but insurance companies refused to pay for it because money?
I seem to recall something like that not too long ago
being a 2x cancer survivor, ms.tek gets and annual PET/CT.. her doc says "we really don't need to do a mammo, anything would show up on those scans.. "
But last week she had a mammo anyway.. "Just superstitious I guess"
She has almost gotten our not-quite-40yo daughter to go get a fucking mammogram.. hopefully soon..
AP 100 Photos of the year gallery:
https://apnews.com/associated-press-100-photos-of-2024-an-epic-catalog-of-humanity?
It is sad, but I dunwanna click that cause I figure TFG giving his fist pump is gonna be one of them
Yep. He's there. The first picture is horrific enough. The banality of a selfie next to genocide.
epic catalog of humanity indeed. Sigh.
You reminded me of Newt and wife happily posing in front of Auschwitz.
Not Crazy Eyes!?!
https://mediaproxy.salon.com/width/1200/https://media2.salon.com/2011/05/how_is_callista_gingrich_part_of_my_generation.jpg
Now before everyone goes off on the "Vlad owns the dipshit" comments, think twice. Who is actually saying this? (I don't think Dementia Don wrote this) And why? Ceasefire? Why?
𝘜.𝘚. 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵-𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘝𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘳 𝘗𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘦, 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘤. 8: "𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘝𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘳 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘵. 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨!"
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗣𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 '𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝘁' 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗭𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗸𝘆
https://kyivindependent.com/trump-urges-putin-its-time-to-act-on-ceasefire-negotiations-with-zelensky/?mc_cid=1525a08029
Putin has been claiming he totally wants an end to the war if Ukraine will only give him everything he wants, really.
Lip service.
Vlad can end this at any point by /getting the fuck out of Ukraine/.
I go with Occam's Razor: Vlad is broke and Orange Mussolini is looking to pad his bank accounts.
Trump better get the money up front.
Or he is just spouting shit to down play the Biden Administration's latest push to fund Ukraine some more.
I fully expect that to be stripped from the next CR
And now he's cozying up to Communist China too.
Nobody could have predicted this!
seriously, he probably got a two-line note from Xi and is now convinced they are best buddies.
Jake Broe had a whole segment in his most recent video about this tweet, because it is really weird coming from Trump. Broe's actually hopeful that the Ukraine-relevant people around him (special envoy for Ukraine and Russia is Gen Keith Kellogg, who's been vocal about praising Biden escalating military aid; Mike Waltz, a pro-Ukrainian hawk, as NatSec Advisor) are getting through to Trump. And Trump notably sees Putin's weakness in his loss of Syria (and with it the entire middle-east and African theaters), and saw Zelenskyy get a standing ovation at Notre Dame.
The hope is that Trump wants to be a winner more than he wants Putin's favor, and might actually (I know, I remember whom we're discussing here) want to do the right thing.
I find it intriguing that he's suddenly kissing up to China after all the tariff talk. Welcome to the United States of Passive Aggression.
Or dementia.
It is possible that it's both, along with a bad case of entitlement from birth. Also, trumpy is a bully.
why
why would anyone take a tweet of his to mean a damn thing when he has, regularly, back peddled and done opposites and whatever else the entire time we've known him.
Because I don't think Trump wrote it. But you are correct ... next week it will be something else.
I hate this non-stop shitshow of noise.
I just assume anything from him or his camp is a lie. Saves time.
Notice a lack of Melly drooling over Trudeau in that shot
She was checking the bathrooms for a shower curtain to wear
This young news anchor is dumber than dirt, the weather guy was sharing a picture someone sent him of a sun pillar behind a church with the pillar lined up with the steeple and she thought the steeple caused the pillar.
But is she good looking and showing skin?
They never show their gams anymore! MOAR ANKLES!
She's actually very pretty and dresses conservatively, so no skin.
https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/kake.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/6/a9/6a9e7cce-d4f0-11ee-b514-cfd2486b0c09/65dd06921a699.image.jpg?resize=333%2C500
oh no, that's enough skin. Tight too.
Sinclair affiliate?
Can't be. Bare arms. Every conservative worth their salt knows that means you're "ghetto trash" like Michelle Obama. Wouldn't be allowed at Gilead TV News.
oh our local Sinclairs all do the bare arm tight boddice look. Even the weather lady who was like perma preggo wore the uniform.
It's ok so long as you are white you see.
Nope.
surprised, looks like one of their outfits.
Ours went and replaced all the long time anchors with young hots (and the obligatory middle aged white dude) wearing dresses in various hues of the same kind. Was years ago now, but it is at the point I no longer know what station hubby is watching just by looking at who is talking.
While this is not disqualifying, what a horrific story.
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗼𝗻 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗴𝘂𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝟭𝟯 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿
Nominee Dr Janette Nesheiwat knocked over gun in 1990, causing it to fire and fatally shoot father in the head
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/08/trump-surgeon-general-pick-janette-nesheiwat
I believe that the gun that she knocked over was stored on a shelf high in a closet. The person who left it there, loaded, was more responsible for the accident than the thirteen year old girl was. I feel really sorry for the girl. It probably marked her for life.
Nice history and all, but zero info about her positions on anything :(
She was a consultant on Fox during the pandemic.
oh lawd.
To be fair, the article I read did not say WHAT she consulted about or how she came across.
But "For profit clinic doc picked to be consultant during pandemic we are down playing" makes me think the article on purpose did not disclose that.
Well, at least he didn't nominate Dr Lapdog from Florida.
or Phil.
Also, Dr Ruth, being dead, would probably decline to serve in Trump's cabinet.
I saw this, but don't understand how the gun went off - don't they have safety triggers?
Say the words "gun" and "safety" in the same sentence to most Americans and their eyes will glaze over, and they'll automatically assume the speaker is a communist who wants to confiscate their weapons.
An automatic with the safety off can accidentally fire this way.
safety may not have been engaged..
also possible that the gun fired for reasons other than the trigger mechanism.
But I'm not a gun expert, and I don't play one on the internet.
I'm not an expert either, but I have the distinct impression that storing a loaded gun where it can be accidentally knocked over is not a smart idea.
It could also be...MURDER.
was Jessica Fletcher seen in the area?
Safety catches I mean
Maybe this whole Syria thing isn't as simple as some people seem to think:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q0w1g8zqvo
Given the history, the neighborhood, the competing ethnic groups and a 14 year civil war, I dont think anyone considers that situation simple. But Assad is gone and that’s enough for now.
Quite the intrigue. The way the whole thing unfolded was a little too pat for me. The army was ordered to fall back in stages. I think it was an orchestrated coup staged as a rebel offensive. They can't be that clever, can they?
Interesting, I don't know enough about it. All I know is that I really don't know much.
That was what I read a few days ago: that he's been distancing himself and his group from their jihadi past, trying to seem more legit.
I would love to hope that they follow through, and reach some sort of power-sharing agreement that might approach something like popular sovereignty (much of the north is controlled by Kurds, not by his group), but hope is a rare commodity in these, our fallen times.
That they went and freed ALL the prisoners and not just their buddies is a good sign
Notably a lot of women and girls among them.
I heartily approve of chasing off ruling families and storming the bastille.
Now let us hope there isn't ...the next thing.
No matter what is coming, this is just good.
https://bsky.app/profile/rashaaqeedi.bsky.social/post/3lcr4ebwduc2g
Seydnaya prison, a torture dungeon, very few have survived it, is now free. Thousands can now breathe. Let Syrians have this moment away from any hot takes and analysis.
Apparently many many 1000s are still trapped there.
https://bsky.app/profile/christl.bsky.social/post/3lcuh6tnugk2s
"They say they have been unable to open them in order to free "more than 100,000 detainees who can be seen on CCTV monitors".
Absolutely horrific.
I have always assumed that 85% of Canada's population can only be bivouacked an easy days march from our longest undefended border for a reason. I for one will welcome our future Canadian overlords.
I think it's time to divide the United States--which is not all that united--into four countries: East Coast, West Coast, Midwest, and the South..
Or divide it into two, one for men and one for women.
I just figured that any further North and it would be too cold.
I'm sure that's what your handlers tell you to say. It's not like you can admit to being a member of Canadas shock troops
As one of the Canadians living almost as far south as possible, this true. I do love winter, though. Just not 30 below.
I'm surprised it is only 85%.
Possibly Justin Trudeau journeyed to Mar-a-Lago to see the felon because Canada won’t allow convicted felons to enter their country? Just a thought.
I can see Switzerland from my house.
Let's not discount the fact that Fat Joffrey is old and in terrible health, and plane rides are too stressful for him to do very often.