I’m sure she’s transitioned to pure energy by this point.
dougrb
July 10, 2025, 10:55pm
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From what I can tell, this “No Tax on Tips” thing looks like an accounting nightmare. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Here’s the first semi-comprehensive article I’ve found about it. From AP .
It’s common worldwide, and has a Wikipedia page about it.
Oh my goodness, that is so awful. Ignorance fought, I suppose.
“When she was picked up, we looked at it and said, ‘Are they really looking at it the right way, objectively?’” Scalise told WDSU. “And so they took a second look at it.”
You know, it would be nice if they could do that for everyone. I’m sure there’s something in the law that they could process, duely.
On the right wing message board I lurk on occasionally, the “wisdom” is that he’s waiting for to release the client list just before the midterms to maximize the effect.
Can she get you into a nightclub?
Monty
July 11, 2025, 3:04am
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The felon’s ticked off Liberians with his stupid question to their president.
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump ’s praise of the “beautiful” English of Liberia’s President Joseph Boakai drew confusion Thursday in the English-speaking African country and umbrage over what many considered condescending remarks.
“Such good English,” Trump said to Boakai during an event at the White House, with visible surprise. “Such beautiful English.”
Although English has been the official language of Liberia since the country’s founding in the 1800s, Trump asked Boakai where he had learned to speak the language “so beautifully,” and continued as Boakai murmured a response. “Where were you educated? Where? In Liberia?”
The exchange took place Wednesday during a meeting in the White House between Trump and five West African leaders, amid a pivot from aid to trade in U.S. foreign policy.
Boakai’s government said it took no offense at Trump’s remarks, but other groups in Liberia described the remarks as an insult.
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Foday Massaquio, chairman of Liberia’s opposition Congress for Democratic Change-Council of Patriots, said the remarks exemplified Trump’s lack of respect for foreign leaders, particularly African ones.
“President Trump was condescending, he was very disrespectful to the African leader," Massaquio said, adding that it “proves that the West is not taking us seriously as Africans.”
So now the felon wants to add weapons to the list authorzied by Biden.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump for the first time since returning to office will send weapons to Kyiv under a presidential power frequently used by his predecessor, two sources familiar with the decision said on Thursday, a move suggesting new interest by the president in defending Ukraine.
More than three years after Russia’s invasion of its neighbor, Trump’s team will identify arms from U.S. stockpiles to send to Ukraine under the Presidential Drawdown Authority, the sources said, with one saying they could be worth around $300 million.
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So far, the Trump administration has only sent weapons authorized by former President Joe Biden, who was a staunch supporter of Kyiv. Presidential Drawdown Authority allows the president to draw from weapons stocks to help allies in an emergency.
UNDERSTATEMENT INCOMING!
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The felon’s decision where to relocate the FBI got put out of its misery.
WASHINGTON — A fight over where to relocate the FBI’s headquarters ground the Senate appropriations process to a halt on Thursday — a setback for lawmakers working to avert a government shutdown by the Sept. 30 deadline.
The Senate Appropriations Committee had been scheduled to pass one of its 12 appropriations bills and send it to the full Senate. But Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, was forced to recess the committee meeting after a Democratic amendment to block the Trump administration from moving the FBI headquarters to the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington surprisingly passed.
The amendment, offered by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., would bar the administration from using federal dollars to move the FBI’s headquarters in downtown Washington to a site other than in Greenbelt, Maryland, in the suburbs just outside Washington.
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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., an appropriator, explained why he is opposed to the bill with the FBI provision.
"The Democrats, with one Republican vote, were able to add an amendment that basically turns upside down the president’s decision about where to put the FBI building,” Kennedy said.
“Now, I know that sounds like inside baseball, but it really is a big deal," he continued. "It’s a lot of taxpayer money, and I think that just blew up the process. I think the president is going to be furious.”
That’s enough of the article to get the gist. The site the FBI wants is not the one the felon wants. (Who knew criminals and law enforcement want different things?) One choice was deliberative and intelligently chosen. The other was chosen for who knows what rationale, if any.
Oh, I know the rationale! (Same link.)
In November 2023, during the Biden administration, the General Services Administration — an agency that manages federal property and buildings — announced Greenbelt as the location of the new FBI headquarters .
The felon is purely Pavlovian now. He hears the names Clinton, Harris, Biden, or Obama, and he starts salivating and then yells “Cancel! So shall it be scribbled, so shall it be done. All hail me!”
Co-conspirator Hegseth reclassifies drones as consumables.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has issued sweeping new orders to fast-track drone production and deployment, allowing commanders to procure and test them independently and requiring drone combat simulations across every branch of the military.
As part of an aggressive push to outpace Russia and China in unmanned warfare, “the Department’s bureaucratic gloves are coming off,” Hegseth wrote. “Lethality will not be hindered by self-imposed restrictions… Our major risk is risk-avoidance.”
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“Small UAS resemble munitions more than high-end airplanes,” one instruction stated. “They should be cheap, rapidly replaceable, and categorized as consumable.”
The memos redefine small drones (Group 1 and 2) as consumables — not durable military assets — removing them from legacy tracking systems and simplifying acquisition.
I don’t think even this will prevent his getting scaramuccied.
The felon is pervertingn the course of justice in another country. (The bolding is mine.)
President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 50 percent tariff on Brazilian products if the country doesn’t meet a series of political demands, including dropping the charges against his ally Jair Bolsonaro .
Nicknamed the “Trump of the Tropics ,” the far-right former Brazilian president Bolsonaro followed Trump’s lead in late 2022 and refused to concede his election loss to current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro is being prosecuted for allegedly running a spy ring and masterminding a coup d’état to try to remain in power.
“The way that Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro, a Highly Respected Leader throughout the World during his term, including by the United States, is an international disgrace,” Trump wrote Wednesday in a letter addressed to Lula .
“This trial should not be taking place. It is a Witch Hunt that should end IMMEDIATELY!” he added.
The White House’s new flags are telling a message and that message is… well, here are the two I enjoyed the most–in list format.
Come on down to big dons automotive
This looks like it was decorated by a child…oh.
Finally, let’s take a moment and try to show some empathy for the felon. I created an online device to help you get into his mind, to understand the how and why of his decision making. It’s the least we can do in the empathy department. The very least.
Give it a roll!
As always, follow the money. I would bet money that one way or another the proposed location would wind up with money in his nibs’ pocket,
Monty
July 11, 2025, 3:32am
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And we have another “pardoned patriot” refusing the pardon!
A Navy veteran who admitted to drinking wine he found while participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection on the Capitol has since denounced President Donald Trump and is seeking to formally refuse the presidential pardon issued to more than 1,500 rioters.
“I caused a lot of hurt by being down there. I hurt a lot of people along the way, I said a lot of nasty things,” Jason Riddle told WMUR . “I have to acknowledge that reality, and part of that is not taking any sort of pardon or pass or anything from Trump that denies that reality, because once you do that, I’m right back where I started.”
Riddle, a New Hampshire resident, told ABC News earlier this year that he was struggling with alcohol at the time of the riot and was “obsessed with Trump.”
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“This was a horrible thing that happened, and I deserve to go to prison, and so does Donald Trump. He still deserves to go to prison for having caused that. I think maybe one day he will,” Riddle said.
This is actually a good move. The Ukrainians are going through small drones almost as fast as they do tap water, so it makes sense that we should be ready to do the same. Every once in a while, the Trumpers get things right.
enipla
July 11, 2025, 11:53am
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SCOTUS said bribery is a no, no. But gratuities are fine! See the connection?
Monty:
Foday Massaquio, chairman of Liberia’s opposition Congress for Democratic Change-Council of Patriots, said the remarks exemplified Trump’s lack of respect for foreign leaders, particularly African ones.
“President Trump was condescending, he was very disrespectful to the African leader," Massaquio said, adding that it “proves that the West is not taking us seriously as Africans.”
He has no respect for Americans; why would he have respect for Africans?
Next week - installation of a giant air tube guy (orange, of course).
enipla
July 11, 2025, 4:31pm
6437
Gawd.
I’ve mentioned this somewhere on the SDMB - The producers/directors of the movie the Devils Advocate needed an expensive NY apartment to film in. This was to be the devils apartment. They where going to make it garish and just over the top bad taste. Something the devil would live in.
Trump offered his apartment. The set directors (I don’t really know how movie making works) saw it and laughed - “We don’t have to change a thing” - Trumps NY apartment Word of warning, you may want to at least shut one eye and squint out of the other.
The flags are the same LOOK AT ME as his apartment. Garish, over the top attention getting. Subtle class is what we had, and it was said above it looks like a used car dealership now.
How are we every going to get rid of this abomination. And the flag poles too.
MY EYES!! I didn’t take your advice and used both eyes.
If you went to a dictionary and looked up “bad taste” there should be a link to that website.
So I wasn’t sure where to put this, but:https://x.com/USDOL/status/1942234652896592077/photo/1
(I don’t know why the preview isn’t working)
The Dept of Labor has just tweeted@POTUS , native-born workers have accounted for ALL job gains since January.:"
Really? Of the new jobs gained since Jan, not a single naturalized citizen has got a job? Not one illegal landscaper has been hired?
Does anyone believe that? (Well, it’s all the rage over at Breitbart, so someone does)
None have been reported as being hired, anyway.
“Hey, DOL! Please note that I’ve hired 3 Haitian nationals and 2 guys that just crossed over from Mexico. You might want to update your database!”
I would actually like that.
