They should’ve checked the toilet pipes when they had the chance.
I beat you to it by about an hour!
Trump is asking Putin to generate Hunter Biden kompromat:
This immediately gives legitimacy to any Russian propoganda, for about 40% of the country. Short of saying something like that the US was developing WMD in Ukraine, it’s hard to imagine how he could have fucked more deeply with his own nation’s effort to reduce the conflict in Europe.
What an immeasurably treasonous, lecherous shit-gibbon.
(Additional anger extended to The Hill for using the word “release” rather than something neutral like “produce”.)
No need; the image you posted is surely fairly close to what we’d see In the Event. (Though JFK Jr. is bound to be at least a bit more hirsute than Venus.)
A Russian “news” commentator says that the US should kick Biden out of office so that Russia’s partner Individual 1 be reinstalled.
Partner #1!
Putin and Trump.
Which shall be Comrade #1 and which shall be Comrade #2?
Seems to me they are both #2s.
You are Comrade #6.
I am not a number! I am a free man woman person camera TV!
Why am I Mr. Pink?!
Probably above my pay grade (more like David Mamet territory) but I think there’s a fabulous play to be written about the private conversations Trump and Putin (and their translator) had, in which Putin plays him like a toy, giving him the impression that they’re equal partners, splitting up the world, engaging him in mock-macho boasting (“Of course, I will think of myself as the premier partner, and you as secondary, as I’m sure you will think the same”) and totally owning the simple-minded douchebag.
Nice. 
Nobody makes money off Donnie’s shit until Donnie makes money off his own shit.
WASHINGTON — As President Donald J. Trump’s tenure came to an end, the chief White House photographer, who had traveled the world with him and spent countless hours inside the White House snapping pictures, notified Mr. Trump’s aides that she intended to publish a book collecting some of her most memorable images.
This was hardly a radical idea: Official photographers from every White House since President Ronald Reagan’s have published their own books. Barack Obama and George W. Bush were so supportive that they wrote forewords for them.
But like so much else involving Mr. Trump, the plan by his chief photographer, Shealah Craighead, did not follow this bipartisan norm.
First, aides to Mr. Trump asked her for a cut of her book advance payment, in exchange for his writing a foreword and helping promote the book, according to former associates of Mr. Trump.
Then Mr. Trump’s team asked Ms. Craighead to hold off on her book project to allow the former president to take Ms. Craighead’s photos and those of other White House staff photographers and publish his own book, which is now selling for as much as $230 a copy.
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My bold.
Signed with a Sharpie, no doubt.
And he pulled the old “they fell for it once, they’ll fall for it again trick”. He promised to make up for screwing her over after agreeing to write a forward for her book by, get this, promising to write a forward for her next book.
Read that too, including also:
Mr. Trump’s book was published by Winning Team Publishing, a company only incorporated in October, and which was co-founded by Donald Trump Jr. and Sergio Gor, a former Capitol Hill aide and Republican campaign operative.
Mr. Gor said the company had sold out the first 300,000 copies — which at $75 apiece for the unsigned version suggests gross sales of at least $20 million, assuming many were not given away. In addition to his advance payment, Mr. Trump is likely to earn a share of all book sales.
I cannot help but wonder how money can taste so sweet to him that he grabs every penny, even if it’s stuck on a dog turd on the sidewalk, and then proceeds to delightedly lick his fingers. The only joy he’s got left.
To quote John Oliver -about his parade but it’s everything really-“ it won’t make him happy. And I think it’s important that he knows that. Whatever this presidency is about – the search for a lost father’s love, trying to fill a void with something tangible – that parade is gonna go past him and he’s gonna realize, ‘This isn’t it either.’ It’s not gonna happen. Those phallic missiles [go by], and he’ll think, ‘No, ok, it must be something else then.”
In two weeks.
In Buddhism there is the concept of the hungry ghost, spirits who are ever hungry or ever thirsty but can never be satisfied.
Trump looks more like a hungry, hungry hippo.
I don’t think it’s (only) the money. It’s being visibly, loudly First, On Top, The Winner, The Firstest with the Mostest. Everyone else is by definition a Loser, Second Best and Doesn’t Count. Money-- highly visible money (even if it’s mostly on paper)-- is the proof that you are the best. That’s how you show them that you are a winner and they are a loser.
When someone else gets something or achieves something, it takes away from him. They are stealing what is rightfully his (like the Presidency). The idea that someone besides him should make money (or gain recognition) from pictures of HIM is outrageous! That woman is stealing not just money but public adulation that is rightfully his!
A very sick puppy.
There’s no joy here. He lost the ability to feel joy somewhere in childhood. IMHO what he experiences is a constant scrambling to keep his own fear that he is truly a loser at bay. It would be infinitely sad and pathetic if he weren’t so destructive!