And this can and does change. If he thought something last week, then it was true then. If he thinks the opposite of last week’s thought today, then THAT is true today. He controls reality AND truth with his mind (excuse the expression).
Yes, you can. And everything in between and adjacent. This is one area in which trump excels: self-delusion, ignorance, and a big dose of assholism. He’s got it all!
Actually, what is true in his two disconnected brain cells today has always been true. See Eastasia v Eurasia.
One day long ago I was helping my ex fold clothes, and when I folded a t-shirt in the way she had taught me she asked why I was folding it like that. When I replied that she had taught me the method, she claimed that she had never folded a t-shirt in that manner. By then I had learned not to bait the bear, so I just let it go; but I’m familiar with the phenomenon.
Birds of a feather do flock together, FBI narcissist chief edition
Stepping to the microphone at a news conference Friday morning in Utah, FBI Director Kash Patel wasted no time explaining what led to the capture of a suspect in the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
“This is what happens when you let good cops be cops,” Patel said.
Over the next six minutes, Patel lauded the work of the FBI in leading the investigation into Wednesday’s assassination and its coordination with state and local law enforcement — while also twice saying the decision to release photos and videos to the public, which led to the arrest of suspect Tyler Robinson on Thursday evening, were made at his direction.
But Patel’s upbeat tone contrasted with frustration and anger, both inside and outside the FBI, over his handling of the most high-profile moment of his tenure so far. Some FBI employees told CNN they found it galling for Patel to claim personal credit for the most successful parts of the investigation.
After all, it was Patel who had posted on Wednesday that a “subject” was in custody, a claim he had to walk back less than two hours later. Patel’s style also struck the FBI employees as not in keeping with how previous FBI directors handled similar situations, normally trying to credit employees instead of themselves.
Other FBI employees found it ironic that Patel thanked some of the bureau’s support staff key to investigations — since he has overseen moves to decimate those ranks.
Patel’s response during the rapid-fire series of events surrounding Kirk’s horrific murder has led some allies of President Donald Trump to question both publicly and privately whether he is equipped to handle the country’s top law enforcement agency.
A MAGA loyalist and member of the first Trump administration, Patel was a controversial pick to lead the FBI from the start, with many Trump critics questioning whether he was qualified for the job. But now some of those concerns have begun seeping into conservative circles that Patel is a fixture of.
Christopher Rufo, an influential right-wing activist and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, posted on X Friday that it was “time for Republicans to assess whether Kash Patel is the right man to run the FBI.”
I love the smell of magaflatearther infighting in the morning!
The felon says he’s ready to sanction his owner if all of the other NATO countries do it first.
President Donald Trump said Saturday he is “ready to do major Sanctions on Russia” once all NATO countries have started “to do the same thing” and pause their purchases of oil from Moscow.
He also urged NATO countries to impose “50% to 100% TARIFFS ON CHINA,” which he said should be withdrawn after the Russia-Ukraine war has concluded.
“China has a strong control, and even grip, over Russia, and these powerful Tariffs will break that grip,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, which he said was the text of a letter sent to all NATO nations and “the world.”
What the fuck does China have to do with the war in Ukraine? If he wants to sanction an Asian country in connnection with that war, he should go after his loverboy’s country. But, of course, that won’t happen either.
On Monday, United States Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh released a concurring opinion essentially blessing the use of racial profiling by the Trump administration’s immigration enforcers, even as critics warned American citizens’ rights would inevitably be violated.
The stops of people who are legally in the country are “typically brief,” Kavanaugh asserted, “and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.”
The recent detention of George Retes shows that critics’ fears may be warranted.
On July 10, Retes—an Iraq War veteran—was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies for three days and nights despite telling officers he was an American citizen and his identification was in his nearby car. Retes, represented by the Institute for Justice (I.J.), a public interest law firm, has now taken steps to sue the U.S. government for his unconstitutional detention.
Read the rest of the article for the numerous violations of his constitutional rights.
Liars have to lie, right, felon?
President Donald Trump has for years told outlandish lies about elections in Democratic-dominated California. Trump made more false claims on the subject in a Fox News interview on Friday, prompting California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, to correctly note on social media that the president had told “an outright lie.”
Trump delivered the comments after a Fox host prodded him to disavow the idea of people on the political right taking revenge, other than through the peaceful means of voting, for the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
“He’d want revenge at the voter box,” Trump said, “but unfortunately we don’t have so many ballot boxes because they have mail-in voting, which is totally rigged. You know, there are a lot of problems. I like ballot boxes, where you can – they do mail-in voting all over the place, which is rigged.”
Trump continued: “Any time – Jimmy Carter, they had a commission; he said, ‘Any time you have mail-in voting, it’s a crooked election,’ okay? ‘And they’ve gotta stop.’ But I say – so I can’t really say ‘at the ballot box,’ because in some cases – like California doesn’t have ballot boxes. They send out 38 million ballots, nobody knows where the hell they’re going, then they come back, Democrats get more than Republicans. It’s so unfair, the system.”
Here’s a list from the article of the lies the felon uttered. The article has the truth right after each lie.
Ah, that’s the ticket! It’s the last one that gets his goat because, of course, there are millions more registered Democrats in California than Republicans. The felon’s lie is that it’s unfair. Nope.
Oh, boy! Newsom tweeted that Trump told an outright lie? Newsom has really taken off the gloves!!
Democrats are fucked.
Trump sent the National Guard into California without Newsom’s consent.
I’ve voted at a ballot box at LAVC for four elections in LA County. 
And aren’t there states that only have mail-in voting?
Fucking Trump votes by mail!
And in person, too! (Okay, I don’t know this for a fact, but wouldn’t it be hilarious if he did both for one election or, better yet, it turned out he voted in Florida and New York for the same election cycle?)
Colorado, Oregon and the Soviet of Washington, that I know of. Here (the SoW), every registered voter gets a ballot, but if I really wanted to vote in person I could go to the county elections office and use a machine there.
I generally have my decisions made in advance based on materials published by the Secretary of State (national/state) or County Auditor (local), then it’s just a matter of filling out the ballot when it arrives and taking it to a dropbox.
That’s what I do in CA. And as Super @Monty pointed out, didn’t he vote in his first election in NY, but showed up at a facility near Mar-al-Lardo with Melania as well? Maybe she was voting. Hmmm… Let’s call ICE. (Too late.) 
I worked at a voting center in the 2024 election. I can assure the Dickhhead in Charge that plenty of people vote in person. In fact, a good number of people get their ballot by mail, fill it out at home, then bring it to the voting center. I think the lying sack o’ shit is terrified.
Utah, Hawaii, Nevada and Vermont also have all-vote-by-mail.
Ditto in Oregon, except I don’t believe any county has voting machines. If you want to vote at the County Elections Office, bring the ballot they mailed to you. Or if you lost it, they’ll print you another one.
JD, still not pulling his weight. More MAGA performance art.
Please tell me that is not who I think it is in the box.
Fuck me. It is. We have now gone way past banana republic and ventured into Thai monarchy territory where the royal family’s pets are honored and cannot be insulted in public.
But, hey, why am I surprised when the Second Felonial Era is rendering military burial honors to a traitor who got killed on January 6, 2021?
Treatment of Korean workers at Hyundai battery plant. Yes, they had the wrong visas because the system is fucked up and slow. Based on a lack of US construction expertise in battery plant building. This display is a tin pot dictatorship at its finest. Build a multiple billion dollar battery plant which will provide thousands of American jobs down the line and get this despicable …
@smithsb Do you have a link to the source of the screenshot that might be easier to read and indicate who is being quoted?
I do not. I’ve contacted the poster on another forum I frequent but its system is OpenWeb which is having difficulties (to say the least) right now. The biggest is Notifications, so no timely conversations. I haven’t found the specific link but looking through other news sites, references are made to bits and pieces of the same story. So – stay tuned.
And the visa situation then and now is also borked. There is no communication between the Miller/Noem and Little Marco state department incompetents.
It says:
Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US Immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.
I found that on Attention to the Unseen.
Here is an editorial on this incident from the paper which is linked in the Attention to the Unseen post.
While many would have you believe that the fiasco involving over 300 Korean workers being arrested and detained by US immigration authorities has been resolved by allowing the workers to “voluntarily depart” back to Korea, this is far from the truth. Korea as a nation was deeply shocked to witness our workers, who had traveled to the US to work at the request of American investors, shackled at their hands and feet with chains. This barbaric incident will leave a lasting stain on Korea-US relations.
The mass arrests are undoubtedly a wake-up call, a major rupture that opens our eyes to what is happening in the US at this moment. We must heed this warning to close the loopholes and traps in our investment projects with the US. Otherwise, we may eventually face even greater calamity.
To understand what’s at the core of this situation, we must revisit the “Make America Great Again” movement championed by US President Donald Trump. MAGA represents a reactionary movement by white evangelical forces seeking to revert America to a time before the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Its core supporters are low-income, poorly educated white Americans and evangelical Protestants. Trump has become a voice amplifying the anxieties of these groups, whose societal status has been shaken by job losses due to globalization, deepening economic polarization, and a surge in immigration. Trump has incited them to channel their anger toward the established elite and “outsiders,” such as people of color, undocumented immigrants, and Muslims.
Trump is fundamentally a populist and white supremacist. His slogan of “Make America Great Again” would be phrased more accurately as “Make White America Great Again.” His insistence on imposing a 50% tariff specifically on steel and aluminum stems from the fact that white, Protestant populations are concentrated in the American Rust Belt.
The massive crackdown on allegedly undocumented immigrants at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solution plant in Georgia must also be understood within this context. The sight of our workers being led out in chains resembles images of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries being dragged out by their owners. The Department of Homeland Security boasted that the raid was “the largest single-site enforcement operation in [its] history,” and Immigration and Customs Enforcement even brazenly released footage of the operation — which clearly risks human rights violations — as if to flaunt these arrests as their achievement.
There’s much more, but I have to say Mr. Park knows what he’s talking about.
The Korea Times has information on this as well. I posted it on the “Trump deportation thread” in the Politics forum.