Yes, I noticed ‘steller’. 
Not the same thing. You’d need a sycophantic chorus of supporters, like Trump has in Congress, to support and praise your every move and to quash and criticism of it. Otherwise you’re just another narcissistic blowhard
But, he gathered his sycophantic chorus of supporters while being exactly who he is the whole time. It’s as if a bull was running amok in a china shop, and a sizable percentage of the customers and store employees said “I’m so grateful he revealed how fragile the china is! Plus, there’s a lot more room to move around! Sure, there are dangerously sharp shards of china flying around everywhere causing multiple cuts and lacerations, but hey, ya make an omelette, gotta break a few eggs, right?”
You forgot the part about starting with a rich daddy who exacerbates your sociopathy with an unresolved inferiority complex.
You don’t have to climb so high up the ladder or behave like anything resembling a sane human being if you start 2 or 3 rungs from the top rather than from the bottom.
It’s been said about him before and apparently bears reminding: he’s somebody who was born on third base acting like he hit a triple
He had the help of the celebrity-mad media and, later, the folks who made The Apprentice and gave the impression of him as a wise and savvy businessman. You, too, could be a successful blowhard if you have that kind of advertisement working for you
Old age catches up on me…
AIUI, in Scotland, the definition of “fucking” is “Look out! The next word I say will be a noun.”
I read a novel once in which many nouns in the daily speech of a foul-mouthed guy were preceded by the word “adjectival.”
I’m old. I grew up in the Watergate era where every other word in the reporting was replaced by “expletive deleted”.
I’m in favor of replacing every expletive with “smurf”.
“The accused was taken away by the bailiff after calling the judge a smurfing smurfhole.”
Turns out the grant situation is actually worse than losing federal funding. The One Big Beautiful Bill will likely cause a reduction in billions of dollars in corporate and foundation philanthropic giving.
So we have nothing to fall back on.
They really are trying to destroy non-profits.
I can’t even muster outrage at this point. It’s one thing after another.
‘All of the cuts to social safety net programs will be made up for by charity . . . also, we are ending charity for the poors.’ how very modern conservative/Republican.
"Then King Trump will say to those on the right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by me; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For they were hungry and you gave them nothing to eat, they were thirsty and you gave them nothing to drink, they were strangers and ICE deported them, they needed clothes and we arrested them for being naked, they were sick and we told them to die quickly, they were in prison and we celebrated.’
“Then King Trump will say, ‘Truly I tell you, what we did to the least of these brothers and sisters of ours, we did for profit.’"
That actually would be my preferred outcome for him, although it would be better if it happened during one of his rallies in front of his cultists.
Good point.
I daresay people would have fun trying to douse the flame with their personal tributes.
I’d settle for any fucking thing at this point.
I’m going to have to steal that.
I know I’m cursing a lot more since January. It’s the frustration.
It’s not the damage, it’s the lack of class. I’m beginning to understand why old money disdains the nouveau riche.
I wept because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.
I saw your Mullet picture in the other thread. I’m on board.
This. Extra bonus if he knocks his head on the way down.
Donald Trump has been impeached—twice, and he still gets to be POTUS! It’s beyond disgusting. The reason he gets everything he wants is because Donald Trump is an overgrown combination of a schoolyard bully and a spoiled brat!