In other words, he wants to replicate himself.
He’s a malignant narcissist. He already doesn’t see or recognize humans other than himself. He’s just trying to iron out the annoyances in reality that conflict with his delusional neurosis.
You just reminded me of something I discovered two days ago. Scannig comments on a number of news articles relating to migrants being deported, some of the magaflatearthers have decided to embrace one particular pronoun. They’re referring to the deportees as it.
It’s Friday round-up time!
The felon still cannot accept rejection or responsibility.
There is more at the link. I didn’t want to quote too much of the article.
I want to know how it’s possible he is in a position to now be doing and to have already done so much damange to America all by his lonesome.
And here’s more on his beef with people who are involved in the legal profession and its governance.
The master of negotian gives a master class in diplomacy–in how not to be diplomatic.
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The Department of State is getting the shawarma treatment.
That’s approximately one fifth of the deparmet. And take special notice of the last sentence I quoted.
It seems Bobby Junior incensed the felon, evidently. (The bolding is mine.)
Yeah, the substance of the report is unsubstantiated. Why does this sound oh so familiar in regard to the Second Felonial Era?
Chinese students say our goverment now resembles theirs. (The bolding is mine.)
There’s more. I’ll post the rest after I get home. It’s a 3-day holiday weekend here and the power’s going to be cut to the office in a few minutes.
Here’s an article discussing nine things with the Big Bullshit Bill.
Let’s focus on this bit first.
So this would instantly revoke the full-time status of very many students. And the repayment for those who manage to increase their course load will no longer be income based. And here’s a kicker: military members and veterans who are availing themselves of the GI Bill must be enrolled as full-time students to get the full monthly benefit.
And here’s an interesting twist in regards to foreign workers in the United State.
Did I say interesting? I meant fucked up.
And speaking of fucked up treatment of foreigners.
Moving on to other matters.
Another reason not to believe Noem and another fucked up situation.
The fidocider’s assertion:
What investigators say. (The bolding is mine.)
I find it interesting there are still lawyers working for the felon. Prison, firings, dismbarments. What’s left for how they can kill their careers.
Anyway, that crack legal team isn’t about to decide something the felon wants is illegal.
The few, the proud, the Marines, unless you happen to be Black.
O.C.G. will be returned to the United States.
That means they can do it for Garcia also.
There are some more. After all, the Second Felonial Era is a veritable waterfall of inanities. But that’s enough for one day.
Now comes an accusation that the HHS “MAHA” report is the way it is, with the nonexistent papers that it cites, because it was composed with the able assistance of AI
(Huffington Post, quoting the Washington Post)
After that piece in the Chicago Sun-Times that suggested non-existent books (by real authors) for summer reading, this is pretty easy to believe. Especially because the MAHA report also cites papers by real authors who said they never wrote them.
Here’s another report on the many problems and nonexistent cites in the MAHA report. This one doesn’t bring up possible AI authorship, though:
The Whote House replies to the problems with the MAHA report:
Actually, the full quote is interesting:
This is … honestly less horrible than some of the things they could be doing to Pell, but I’m a faculty member in a state that has already tried to place the same restriction on state-based financial aid, and they walked it back after a few years. It’s one of those things that sounds evidence-based on paper (students who take 15+ credits are, in fact, statistically more likely to graduate), but gets the cause and effect backwards: the students who are not taking 15 credits are usually the ones with complicated lives and multiple responsibilities to balance, and / or ones who are already struggling academically and will struggle more if they overextend themselves.
It also means students are incentivized to stay enrolled in a course they are definitely going to fail, rather than dropping it, which helps nobody – the student’s GPA suffers, so also do the professor’s teaching evaluations (these track fairly closely with students’ final grades in the course), and so, sometimes, do other students who might genuinely benefit from the resources being expended on students who aren’t going to pass, since faculty / advisors / tutoring staff don’t have infinite amounts ot time.
Another example of how Trump is never at fault. For anything.
This made me curious so I asked ChatGPT if US judges need a legal degree:
In the United States, most judges do need a legal degree, but not all. Here’s how it breaks down:
1. Federal Judges (including Supreme Court Justices)
- No constitutional requirement for a law degree or even legal training.
- However, in practice, all modern federal judges have law degrees and significant legal experience.
- Appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
[snipped lower court answers]
So I guess it’s only a matter of time before we get nominations for federal judges who not only haven’t passed the bar, but haven’t graduated to law school. Maybe some Republican Senators will grow a backbone during confirmations if Trump’s unpopularity keeps increasing and they think they can defy him. Maybe. It says a legal degree is needed in practice. There were a lot of things that were norms or done in practice before Trump started shitting on them. (A Google search said a law degree for judgeships is typically required, so I think ChatGPT is correct on this.)
We already have a Surgeon General nominee who has a medical degree but didn’t complete her residency and isn’t board-certified in anything, AIUI.
For someone who (supposedly) wrote The Art of the Deal, the wannabe is incredibly bad at making deals.
It’s TACOs all the way down (with ketchup!). Let’s see how he chickens out of the Xi deal too. Mr. Nice Guy! Hilarious!
Do we even have any trade agreement with China right now? I think we need to know that before we know how they broke it.
You barely have a Trade Nod and a Wink right now.
Didn’t we have 200 trade agreements within days? This was a month ago.
Trump says he’s negotiated 200 trade deals — but won’t say with whom
The president was cryptic about the deals he says he’s reached but said he would give more details in a few weeks.
Only if he counts kids going through their Pokemon card collections with each other.
I heard they’ll be announcing a deal to import mithral from Middle-Earth any day now. Seems about as real as any of them.
The original (accept no substitutes) Marvelous Middle-earth Metal is mithril, mithral is the knock-off version from Forgotten Realms’ Toril.
Spoilered, because it’s topic drift:
IIRC, TSR (the original publishers of D&D) had to change names/spellings of a number of things in the early days of D&D, due to a copyright-infringement suit from the Tolkien estate. That’s how ents became treants, hobbits became halflings, balrogs became balors / Type VI demons, and mithril became mithral.