I respectfully suggest that “useful idiot” is a typo. IMO you meant to say “paid-for corrupt employee”.
I said it before. “The new border wall is going to protect Mexico from the USA” Someone responded “And Mexico got the USA to pay for it”
Sorry, don’t know who that response was from, still learning the new board.
- 1841: William Brown strikes iceberg a few hundred miles from Newfoundland; 47 killed.
- 1849: Hannah strikes iceberg; at least 49 killed.
- 1856: SS Pacific reportedly strikes iceberg; all on board (186 people) lost.
- 1901: SS Islander strikes iceberg; 40 people killed.
- April 11-14, 1912: Over twenty messages warn of icebergs in the area where RMS Titanic was traveling.
- 11:38 P.M., April 14, 1912: “Iceberg! Right ahead!”
Captain Trump: “No one could have seen this coming!”
These are not mutually exclusive concepts.
One hour later:
Captain Trump: "I was the first to see the iceberg. No one else could see it. That’s why we barely have a scratch, which will be painted over as soon as we get to New York. Many people have said to me, “Sir, thanks to your captaining, this will be the greatest arrival in the history of ocean travel.”
My favorite theory is gamblers who no longer have access to casinos, bookies, etc.
More likely it is just a Fed-created bubble. But I still like the image of tens of thousands of bored gamblers yelling “Hertz! Hertz! Hertz!” as the stock rises from $.05 to $1.22.
I’m in the process of reading John Bolton’s tell all book. It’s long, almost 600 pages. I’m only half through, but it’s quite the romp.
It takes a little bit of fortitude to view the world through Bolton’s eyes but if you step back a little it’s sort of a comic narrative. A drunk pigeon gets elected President and gets to play the chess game that is global politics, so he jets around the world knocking chess pieces over, shitting on the board and strutting and cawing about winning.
A typical one, particularly grade schoolish, paraphrased-
Trump asked Japanese President Shinto Abe to pass some notes to the Iranians and ask them if they liked him and wanted to talk. The Iranians told Abe , repeated via tweet, that Abe seemed like a nice guy but Trump was a big doodyhead and they could both go pound sand.
So Trump calls Abe and tells him not to feel guilty about being a complete and total failure ( according to Bolton, his exact words not paraphrased ). Then Trump immediately claims he was just kidding (“having fun with you” was the phrase he used ) and tells Abe he’ll forgive him if he buys products from American farmers.
There you have it, our new foreign policy strategy.
Seriously, that book is just one story after another, all pretty much just like that - Bolton spends a lot of the the time bitching about unelected officials cockblocking the guy that got elected ( this happens whenever someone talks Trump out of bombing something ). The rest of the time he’s the unelected official cockblocking Trump.
I must admit when Bolton told the tale of how he talked Trump into bombing Iran- Bolton was so happy, he went home and got a change of clothes and headed back to the White House, ready to spend the glorious night of his dreams bombing Iran - then Trump called him as he was crossing the Potomac to tell him he’d changed his mind…I confess I liked Trump for about 2 seconds.
I had a moment when Bolton told a story about how a North Korean envoy came to the White House to deliver a beautiful card from Trumps boyfriend Kim but accidently left the card in the limo and had to go back for it.
Assuming that’s what really happened, and the North Korean wasn’t going back to the car to activate the receiver once he’d placed the transmitter - I thought - Oh crap, I can’t believe Bolton told that story. That’s the kind of thing Kim executes North Koreans for, he might have gotten this guy killed. But then I few chapters later I read that Kim executed the guy because of one of Trump’s doomed publicity stunt summits.
Oh, and Trump wanted to invade Venezuela and “keep it”. That one was too much for even Bolton.
That was me. Thanks for the set-up line!
I lived in Mexico most of each year for a decade (1996-2005), including 2000, when Mexico finally had a democratic election and transition of party in power, right when the US was screwing up ITS election with hanging chads and exposing the injustice of its electoral system.
The new Mexican President was Vicente Fox. Two years ago, the now-ex-pres Fox delivered a wonderful YouTube tirade: “Mexico will not pay for this fucking wall.”
Trump needs to be informed that there are an awful lot of immigrants in Canada, many of whom have dark skin (this will come out in a speech to the effect that “many people don’t realize that there are an awful lot of foreign-type immigrants in Canada”). With luck, this might cause the Orange Peril to build a protective wall along the US-Canada border, protecting Canada from US gun smuggling and the drug trade, and paid for by the USA. Another Trump victory!
It’s the Confederacy of Dunces playing out in real life.
True — but Ignatius Reilly had ten times the compassion, humor, erudition, and eloquence as these jerks.
As is so often said, ‘You can’t make this shit up.’
