I LOL’d this morning when the Trump loving talking heads on WABC radio were fawning over how gracious Patrick Mahomes was speaking about the superb owl loss. “He didn’t whine and he didn’t blame anyone else”
I actually was reading about intermittent reinforcement and how it’s more powerful than consistent reinforcement for keeping people hooked on certain behaviors. And it dawned on me that Trump is the ultimate intermittent reinforcement machine. He spits out a bunch of crazy random shit that is completely unpredictable and occasionally makes his followers feel good or like they got a win, and then he’s back to random shit and they are hooked waiting for the next win.
You’d think he’d have done better owning casinos.
After three bankruptcies? Not so much.
And today he pardoned Blago. Bleccccccchhhh:
Coming up, Blago appointed to cabinet position or something in the Justice Dept.
Put Blagojevich in charge of whatever unit enforces this:
Trump pauses DOJ enforcement of bribery laws for US firms overseas
I can see it now: “If you pay me, you won’t get investigated for bribery.”
“You say ‘bribery.’ I say ‘unreported financial incentives.’”
“UFI” – that has a nice ring to it.
“UFI? Isn’t that where two guys climb into a hexagon or something and beat the crap out of each other?”
Storming of the Capitol, or an unscheduled and unguided tour?
Is Secretary of the Treasury still open?
Isn’t that the plural of UFO? And if they’re coming, I wish they would hurry up and get here and put us out of our misery.
The Horror of Paper Straws
I think we should all start drinking our coffee with a straw.
What’s really happening here is that DJT is trying to graduate from his sippy cup to a straw. It’s not working out too well.
Trump has disliked what he refers to as “liberal paper straws” since at least 2019, when he launched his own brand of plastic straws.
Follow the money grift.
Really? The multi billion real-estate mogul was reduced to selling plastic straws? Somebody get him some pencils and a tin cup, STAT!
Where does he sell them? An auto parts store? A clothing catalog? A steakhouse?
I’d imagine the impetus behind this one has been Don, Jr.
Paper straws tend to absorb powdered substances whereas plastic straws basically don’t.
Follow the money. Sniff, sniff 
Yer all missin’ the point. Trump says that paper straws EXPLODE!
I don’t know what Trump is doing to his straws to make them explode, but eight year old me wants to find out and duplicate it. Exploding straws are COOL. Think of what you could do with them!
Unless it’s just hyperbole and lying. But – naaah! – Trump wouldn’t do that!
‘What are you talking about daddy? It’s not an explosion, it’s a rapid unscheduled disassembly.’
~ Elmo