Just up and moving like that is a bigger deal than some seem to think. You have to find a job, sell your house, uproot your family from friends and school, etc., and there are expenses, and “city folk” are not all as wealthy as you seem to think.
Plus, although Austin is quite liberal, you’d be moving your family into a state with some very conservative laws.
I wonder if Trump is even remotely aware that the mayor of London is a Muslim.
Austin is hotter than hell in the summer. I’m not moving anywhere below the 36th parallel north.
I wish I could write that well. It was a true thing of beauty.
There was a time…20, maybe 30 years ago, when that ego was perceived as earned. He was perceived as successful, as intelligent (or at least skilled), and charismatic.
Then the bankruptcies started making news.
Then The Apprentice happened.
Then he discovered Twitter.
this is scary - and I already had a low opinion of the cheeto in chief.
Now Kellyanne Conway’s husband George is publicly urging Traitor Trump to knock off the tweets. Methinks someone’s not getting laid in the Conway household tonight. (Maybe that was the whole idea.)
Remember back when the Entourage was in Saudi Arabia, and Ivanka was blabbering about how Saudi Arabia was a big country for women’s rights? Yeah. A female driving activist has been arrested.
Trump complains that the Democrats are holding up all his ambassadorial and other nominations.
Two problems:
- Republicans, as the majority party in both Houses, control all the schedules, and the rules only require a simple majority to confirm, so the Democrats can’t hold up bupkus; and
- He hasn’t made the nominations he’s complaining about them holding up. There are only five ambassadorial appointments in train (including Callista Gingrich, for whom the paperwork is yet to be completed) and he’s way behind his predecessors in putting nominees forward for the 500+ other posts. What is it with Trump and imaginary people?
…I’m quietly proud of my fellow Wellingtonians.
We are on the other side of the world: we are a tiny nation, and there really isn’t very much we can do down under. But at the very least we can flip the bird. A small, silent spontaneous protest in solidarity.
(Unfortunately there was no video of all this bird flipping, so just imagine a city of people doing this.)
And even our right-wing government was relatively frosty.
It appears that the over $100 billion dollar arms deal that Trump announced while he was in Saudi Arabia was fake news. Sad!
Great writing; every idiom is apt.
I called it from the beginning, though. Trump becoming President because of his narcissism and then becoming destroyed by it because of his narcissism, reads exactly like a parable. But it’s what we’re seeing.
“The Bird Heard 'Round the World” 
I think that’s an important story; do we have corroboration from anyone else on the writer’s assertions?
Do we have any corroboration that any of this supported $110B arms deal actually involves any new contracts or sales? Because I’ve seen fuck all about any details other than the media glibly reiterating the official stance without questioning what the ‘deal’ actually was.
Trump’s best deal is and will remain getting the media to pay attention to him and unquestionably accept his claims regardless of the dearth of evidence or substance. He is a literal clown.
Stranger
Trump probably didn’t understand the nature of these agreements. After all, he has the attention span of a bug and is also very, very, very, very stupid.
I haven’t found any yet.
Stranger, I’m totally down with your stance on Trump. And someone working the story from the other direction wouldn’t hurt; that is true.
Thanks, Crotalus.
I think this is potentially a big story because it potentially involves catching a US President lying to his own country about something and doing it on the world stage in a very public manner. If the allegations that there is no deal are true, Mr. Trump may have compromised his own ability to further engage the American public.
People will put up with a lot, but not with “being played”. No one likes to feel like they’ve been lied to and used by another, not even if the other is President.
Really? Like Trump hasn’t been lying his sizable ass off from the get-go? His supporters don’t give a shit that he’s lying, only that those lies will deliver the lib’rul tears they desperately need to jerk off with.
Unfortunately, the majority of Trump’s supporters would not see news of his bullshit deal because of the “news” sources they religiously follow, and they wouldn’t believe the story even if they encountered it by accident. Fake news!
What does a real arms deal look like, anyway? Does the US government sell the stuff to the Saudis, or do the various defense contractors sign individual sales agreements? Are there bids, contracts, purchase orders?