Look to trump? Like a fine way to prove to California that he’s in charge. That’s how.
Look to Californians? “Who cares?” in his view.
This one is on me because it’s unreasonable of me to expect Donald J. Trump to behave in a logical manner that makes sense.
Yup. We all ought to be past that by now. FWIW, here’s how I see it.
An alligator has a very simple brain. It has two drives: eat & (if female) tend the nest. That’s it. With a very occasional bout of “want to mate”. Everything an alligator does can be explained by that 1 (occasionally 1+) drives if male or 2 (occasionally 2+) drives if female.
trump’s brain is slightly more complex than an alligator’s. But not much. He has 3 drives. Ego, Spleen, and Steal. Everything he says or does is directly and only in service of those three drives. There is no other there there. So he’s utterly transparent and predictable, once you realize which yardstick to use to measure his personal cause and effect.
Said another way, there really are lizard-people amongst us. Or at least one. And his name is trump.
The ESS checklist will keep you sane. Appling conventional logic will make you insane.
Caveat: As I said a few days ago in this companion thread, sometimes his criminal regime does something for other more logical reasons. They’ll be evilly logical, but also conventionally logical. And utterly driven by the evil folks who work in the regime, not my trump himself.
I thought I heard on the radio that Ukraine had sent experts to the Middle East to help the U.S. intercept drones. I don’t know for sure if the U.S. asked, but it seemed either magnanimous or stupid for Ukraine to help defend the embassies of a country that had hung them out to dry.
Of course. This has nothing to do with oil production, it’s just a way to stick it to CA and Gavin Newsom.
And is more difficult if you fired the person who was an expert at that sort of thing because they weren’t manly enough.
Two reasons:
- Russia is an ally of Iran, and the more Iran has its hands full the less it can help Russia against Ukraine.
- The faster this Middle East issue is resolved, the sooner sanctions on Russian oil can be placed again.
As it is, Trump’s war is giving Russia an economic lifeline, and since Ukraine can’t stop Trump from doing stupid stuff, you have to do the best you can with what you have and hopefully stay in his good graces enough that when the war is over you can convince him that his putting pressure on Russia is the best way to get that Nobel Peace Prize - or maybe a second FIFA Peace Prize, who knows?
A team will not be playing in the FIFA World Cup, because they’re being bombed by the FIFA Peace Prize winner.
Which suggests FIFA will award another of their cockamamie peace prizes to the same criminarl regime and person as last time. After collecting their usual “finder’s fee” under the table like last time.
Or didn’t sign the loyalty pledge. Or just got arbitrarily fired by DOGE because they fired 75% of the people chosen at random.
There was really no sense in how DOGE went about firing people.
He’s just mad because they keep blowing his golf balls off course.
Zelensky offered to send anti-drone experts and technology to the US. Trump responded with his trademark aplomb:
The “last person we need help from is Zelensky,” Trump told Welker.
Windmills do not work that way!
Even if they did somehow work that way (and I agree that they do not), he cheats at golf anyway. Why should he care?
He has to explain his slice somehow.
"My slice? It’s the most perfect slice anybody’s ever seen. Pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, green peppers, and double cheese. Nobody’s ever seen or tasted anything like it.
Oh … you mean golf?"
Exactly. They’re too busy causing cancer.
This just makes me think of those lines between James Cromwell (Marcel) and James Coco (Milo Perrier) in Murder by Death
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Marcel: Something isn’t right in all of this, eh. I can feel it in my buns.
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Inspector Milo Perrier: Your what?
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Marcel: My buns.
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Inspector Milo Perrier: Buns? Your buns? You bought buns and you didn’t tell me? Where are they? Where are the buns?
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Marcel: Oh! No, monsieur. The BONES in my body.
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Inspector Milo Perrier: You should not speak with an accent when you know I am so hungry.