He’s said that he “deserves a Nobel for every war he’s stopped,” so he thinks he’s due 8 1/4 of them.
Then give them 8 1/4 prizes. On condition that he eats them all in one sitting.
Or as Heather Cox Richardson points out in her Substack today [my bold throughout]:
You know what Americans aren’t talking about very much today after Trump’s threat to detonate the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) this week and his threat this morning to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota?
They aren’t talking a lot about the fact that the Department of Justice has released less than 1% of the Epstein files despite the law, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, Congress passed requiring the release of those files in full no later than December 19. Trump loyalists are trying to shift public anger at Trump over the files back to former president Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom QAnon conspiracy theorists believed were at the heart of a child sex trafficking scheme.
Representative James Comer (R-KY) has threatened to hold former president Clinton in contempt of Congress for refusing to appear for a closed-door deposition about Epstein. But in a scathing four-page public letter to Comer, the Clintons called the subpoenas invalid and noted that Comer had subpoenaed eight people in addition to the Clintons and had then dismissed seven of them without testimony.
They also noted that Comer had done nothing to force the Department of Justice to release all the Epstein files as required by law, including all the material relating to them, as Bill Clinton has publicly called for. They said, “There is no plausible explanation for what you are doing other than partisan politics.”
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Oh yeah… 
I remember hearing something about that a while back…
Indeed. We’re not talking about inflation anymore, either. Flood the Zone.
Is your “friend” in the room with us, Donald?
Of course he took Ozempic. Did anyone think he shed a few pounds through diet and exercise? For a man who’s never done a honest days work in his life, that sort of discipline would come dangerously close.
For which end…?
It has to be the “Perfect Health Care Plan!”
NOT… The Big Beautiful Healthcare Plan?
He must think the number of wars he’s stopped isn’t high enough for the Nobel committee. That’s why he’s starting more. The more he starts, the more he can stop.
Wait a moment here. Why does someone who “is in perfect health” need to be losing weight?
He’s never done an honest thing in his life. And he has zero discipline.
Rip van Simple has unleashed some of his Simpletons against a state governor and a city mayor.
And exactly what did they say that that has gotten Rip van Simple’s unidentified head crittter’s dander up?
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Ah, federalism. I miss thee.
I’m not the only one who thinks this is a war on the constituiton. (The bolding is mine.)
Hey, good news! Milk is now “real food”, but not just any ol’ milk. (The bolding is mine.)
And this shows you the caliber of, let’s call it thought from the Simpletons supporters. I’m honestly surprised I didn’t see this next bit coming.
I guess we won’t have to worry about the next generation if our very own government manages to eliminate them entirely. Seriously, what do you think is going to happen with giving children unpasteurized milk on a daily basis?
Looks like the convicted felon wants to destroy trade with even more of our allies. (All the formatting is from the article.)
Ken Jennings is not a fan of the felon’s ICE.
The rest of the article is a fun read.
We have a new hero! (I removed the formatting for readability.)
I’m wondering now if he can train them to distinguish between the felon’s MAGA hats and Greenland’s MAGA hats (Make America Go Away).
Trump has pardoned this convicted fraudster twice since 2021.
As well as profound relief that they don’t have to change his diaper.
Bigots assume everyone else is a bigot, too.
Everyone who matters, at least. Anyone who cares about “them” is irrelevant.
kristi? She always wears lipstick, wouldn’t be caught shooting, puppies, cos-playing at cecot, or helping rough up brown people (while cos-playing ice agent) without it.
Here in Midland, Texas, the Last Thing Anyone Wants Is Cheap Venezuelan Oil
Tariffs have pushed up the cost of materials like chemicals and steel tubes, Midland oil executives say.
As new wells get delayed, workers at oil-services firms are laid off or see their hours cut. “We’re definitely not drilling right now,” Sell said.
Kyle Patterson, engineering manager at local drilling-fluid company Buckeye, said the company had to lay off around 10% of its staff over the past year. “You can’t just sit around and wait for the market to come back,” Patterson said. He wouldn’t be surprised if his own pay is cut soon and is cutting back on travel and restaurant meals.
The number of operating rigs in the Permian Basin is down 14% over the past year, according to analytics company Enverus. Cash-strapped workers spend less at local businesses, hurting the local economy.
Here in Midland, Texas, the Last Thing Anyone Wants Is Cheap Venezuelan Oil
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History lesson far beyond the level of our administration populated by podcasters, grifters, and scum.
"I’ve been made aware how Thucydides the Greek affects current American policy - only with the wrong lessons learned. It used to be one of the pillars of Classical education; however, certain ranking officials have only read a few quotes from Thucydides’ “History of the Peloponnesian War” to their detriment.
Thucydides is the author of the infamous quote “The strong do what they could, the weak suffer what they must.” However, that was not the point of Thucydides - it was the warning!
Exactly because Athens bullied their allies in the spirit of this quote and scared them into submission and ‘alliance treaties’ by threatening invasion, blockade or slavery, all their ‘allies’ abandoned them at the time of Athens’ darkest hour and switched sides to Syracuse, which was the beginning of the end for the Athens’ sea-faring empire! Reminiscent of something?
So I bought the book, for I admire the Jeffersonian classically-educated true elites although I’m not. And lo and behold - ever since the beginning, it’s a story eerily reminiscent of our times! Comfortable nations choosing to pay the Athens alliance ‘in treasure rather than in ships, so the Athens build ships from their allies treasure and when they threatened them, the allies had neither ships nor military experience’. Ancient superpowers backstabbing and losing allies over arrogance or dishonored treaties. And so forth, so forth. History repeating itself all over again."
Wasn’t there a gaggle of Republicans who went to the Whitehouse at the height of Watergate and had a heart to heart with Nixon? I was trying to think who could fill that role today and came to the conclusion that no united front the Rs could muster would do any good since trump has pure contempt for the spineless lot of them. They would immediately be traitors and losers.
I always thought it was Barry Goldwater. But you’re right–that wouldn’t work here. For one thing, Nixon wasn’t nuts.
He was nuts, but within normal parameters.