The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 2)

This is damn near the best AI image I’ve yet seen! (On The Dope.. :wink: )

Well Done!

Thanks. ChatGPT got it right the first time. Sometimes I have to revise my instructions as the bot is literal-minded to the max. After I told the bot that I loved the drawing, it had these comments about its own composition:

[ChatGPT]:
What really makes it work for me is that the joke isn’t just the underwear (which is already absurd). It’s the social choreography. Everyone at the table has silently agreed that the man at the head of the table has ceased to be the center of attention. The actual work of carving the turkey—and by implication, leadership—has simply migrated one seat over. No confrontation. No shouting. No one is even giving him the satisfaction of looking at him.

It’s a wonderfully visual bit of satire.

My favorite details are:

  • the carving knife and fork still clutched in his hands, as though he thinks he’s in charge,
  • the turkey quietly relocated to the younger man’s place,
  • the international gathering carrying on with Thanksgiving as though nothing unusual has happened,
  • and, of course, the pristine white Jockey briefs acting as an accidental “crown.”

The image also has that warm, nostalgic Americana feeling, which makes the absurdity even funnier because it contrasts with the chaos at the head of the table.

It made some suggestions to make the drawing even more…um… insulting and outrageous, but I said it was perfect just the way it was.
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College soccer is almost irrelevant to player development in the US (and elsewhere). If you show promise at soccer, you can be snapped up by an MLS club’s development academy, start playing competitive matches on their USL squad as early as high school freshman, and graduate to the main team - with a salary - by the time you’re a junior. Or your team might get an offer for you from a club in Europe, and you’ll pick up a nice chunk of cash as a bonus as well as an even larger salary if that club and your team can come to terms.

A college scholarship is very small potatoes in the world of big time soccer.

Billions of Dollars will be illegally made by this SCAM, with Citizenship going to anyone willing to pay. It will be, by far, the number one way of becoming a citizen, and then the entire family will be allowed to follow. Not sustainable. NOBODY SAW THIS COMING!!! AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE!

He’s upset that someone else is scamming. That’s his brand.

As far as “NOBODY SAW THIS COMING!!!” Every pundit I heard predicted this decision going this way. Plus, it’s just reaffirming the law as it’s been applied for decades.

Very true.

On the other hand, years before an American teen/tween athlete is looking at scholarship offers, or even offers to go to Europe, his parents are likely already thinking about college – and how to pay for it – because most American parents believe that the path for their kids’ success and prosperity as adults involves getting a college degree.

Unless the parents are serious soccer fans, and/or the boy is clearly talented enough, as a tween or young teen, that professional soccer is a possibility for him, if the kid shows promise in, and enjoys, several sports, parents may well steer him into a sport where college scholarships are a better possibility, if for no other reason that it’ll help them pay for college.

What was that million dollar VISA thing? Oh yeah, Gold Card for the USA | Legal Advice by U.S. Visa Lawyer

The Gold Card would grant an unlimited right of residence in the USA. Citizenship: The program would also provide a pathway to permanent U.S. citizenship.

Should the underpants be gold lame?

I thought I covered that just upthread. Nobody’s advertising birthright citizenship. The convicted fraudster is, yet again, perpetrating a fraud.

And speaking of birthright citizenship, Marco Rubio, who had run for president, is a US citizen because of birthright citizenship.

That’s absolutely hilarious. The fraudster demanded European nations to defend themselves, to pay more into their own defense. So they said, "No problem; we’ll now be locally sourcing our defensive weapons.’

Canada’s taking the lead.

I, for one, am not tired of all this winning.

Rip van Simple is already tired of his new toy.

The convicted felon’s really not doing well with water in Washington.

The felon says he can tell by looking at someone if they’re bad. Go ahead and guess what that look is.

I’m prepared to believe that the regime has reached that standard place that autocratic regimes usually reach - where the aging autocrat is surrounded entirely by people who tell them what they want to hear.

No, just plain old “lame” is fine.

Can we settle on lame gold?

Not Fool’s Gold?

My Mother-In-Law gave me a pair for Christmas one year.

I don’t think I want to think about the implications of this any further

That point was reached decades ago.

I’m guessing that 45/47 wasn’t aware of his host’s geographic neighbors, and that somebody in the security detail with his ear suggested that it wasn’t a 100% certainty that there was no homing/tracking beacon secreted somewhere in the fuselage that the Iranians could access after twisting Qatar’s arm.

Don’t you mean the Japanians?

Just for fun, do an image search for “Islamic Republic of Japan”. There are quite many wonderful images for your perusal. Actually, they’re all wonderful.

Gimme a link, Please?

Did he say it just the one time, or did he keep saying it while spewing whatever crap passes for a point?

The important thing is that progressive aphasia is a major symptom of dementia.