@#17

I wish I could disagree.

@#3 ... Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) (1986) ...

Seems quite appropriate as more information regarding Pres Trump's seeming Imperialistic colonization of Venezuela comes to the fore.

@#32

More ...

@#27,28

Found this ...

@#15 ... You are actually special. ...

And it does seem to be intentional trolling.

... Judge Orders Halligan to Explain Why She's Still Serving ...

My guess at an honest answer by Pres Trump ...

~because I do not care about the laws of the Country or the Constitution. It is all about me and my morality.~

But, my first guess may be that he won't be that honest.

Oh wait ...

@#25

Pres Trump's House mouthpiece said ...

@#23 ... Maybe then we will stop sabre rattling against them. ...

Pres Trump has said he would invade Iran to protect the protesters there.

Yet, how does Pres Trump speak of the protesters against him here in the US?

(and I am not speaking of the J6 insurrectionists that he pardoned)

@#10 ... Remember all those IRS agents Biden was hiring? Well they wouldn't be much different than ICE is today ...

Absurd. At best.

Can IRS agents shoot and kill innocent victims?

I'd say, do try harder, but it seems your current trolling alias is incapable of doing so.

More from the OpEd ...

... Back in 1980, science fiction and science author Isaac Asimov wrote, "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of antiintellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

He didn't know the half of it.

US President Donald J. Trump's regime has aggressively cut federal science and technology research funding since taking office last January. Recently, one of those cuts hit home for me. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has been closed, and while some of its materials will be stored, at least 85% will be thrown away.

It was at Goddard in the mid-1980s that I learned I had a gift for technology, and, better still, I could explain it to other people. Put simply, that's where my career as a tech journalist began. While there, I also got to know the engineers and scientists who'd pioneered space. This closure is a disgrace.

I mean, who closes down a research library? (It's not like they cost a lot of money, and libraries like this one contain a mountain of material that's never been digitized.) The answer: an administration that has no interest whatsoever in science, knowledge, wisdom, or expertise, that's who.

While personally painful to the people who used that library, there have been worse. NASA itself faces cuts, for example. As John Grunsfeld, an astrophysicist and astronaut who flew five shuttle missions, said: "America is stepping back from leadership in virtually every science area. ...

The proposal for the NASA science budget is ... cataclysmic for US leadership in science." ...

@#3 ... Let's let a jury decide if he was only protecting himself. ...

Agreed.

But will Pres Trump's DoJ even bring a case against him?

@#7 ... I'm uncertain I comprehend this agenda.. ...

Yeah, I'm in that same place.

i.e., what is really going on here?

I saw this ...

@#5 ... There is literally no mechanism that would allow him to do that. ...

Allow me to explain my opinion ...

You are looking at legal mechanisms.

My concern is that Pres Trump may use quasi-legal and illegal mechanisms to attain his goal.

So, within the constraints of normality and Constitutional lawfulness, I agree 100% with your comment.

But, does Pres Trump operate within those parameters?

For example, I see this ...

More from the article ...

... What's more, these "gifted" dogs can learn the name of a new toy even if they first hear this word when the toy is out of sight -- as long as their favorite human is looking at the spot where the toy is hidden. That's according to a new study in the journal Science.

"What we found in this study is that the dogs are using social communication. They're using these social cues to understand what the owners are talking about," says cognitive scientist Shany Dror of Etvs Lornd University and the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna. ...

@#20

My first question now would be ...

Has Pres Trump obeyed his apparent puppet master, and has written off Ukraine? ...

But I suspect that is a whole new thread ...

Then there's this ...

@#2 ... As if Trump knows what morality even looks like. ...

Yeah, there's that aspect to the issue as well.

@#3

That declaration raises issues ...

... Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is "my own morality, my own mind".

"It's the only thing that can stop me," Trump said, ...

So, Pres Trump seems to admit that the Constitution is not something he needs to follow?

He just needs to follow his own morality, and not the Constitution?

More from the cited article ...

... Donald Trump has said that he does not "need international law" and that his power is limited only by his "own morality".

In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is "my own morality, my own mind".

"It's the only thing that can stop me," Trump said, adding: "I'm not looking to hurt people." He went on to concede "I do" in regards to whether his administration needed to adhere to international law, but said: "It depends on what your definition of international law is."

Trump, who spoke to the newspaper as his administration looks into "a range of options" in attempts to gain control of Greenland, also emphasized the importance of ownership. ...

@#3 ... A useless mission ...

What are NASA's goals for this mission?

And why does your alias think those goals are useless?

@#4 ... Man, these Republicans sure do know how to run a Central Economy! ...

As I stated in a different thread, my view is that the defense industry has for years (decades?) been lax with our money.

Can you say "Military-Industrial Complex?" I knew you could. I was saying that back in the 1970's.

OK, that aside...

Is this the suitable approach to the problem?

Or is it the usual vacuous ~headline-grabbing~ event for Pres Trump?

@#6

The video starts with the statement, "As cops, we are responsible for every single round that leaves our weapon."

"If someone is fleeing, that is not justification for deadly force."

&npsb

@#14 ... a filet-o-fish in each tiny fist ...

FTFY

a filet-o-fish with more tartar sauce in each tiny fist.

@!2, 13

You pose most excellent questions.

Here's one thing I saw this afternoon, not an answer, but reporting of what is happening ...

OK, let me see if I understand all this ...

Big Oil made major contributions to the Trump 2024 campaign.

Big Oil has a stiffy in their pants regarding access to Venezuela crude.

Pres Trump takes over Venezuela (for an indefinite time).

Pres Trump then says that he, and he alone, controls the revenue from Pres Trump selling the oil he has stolen from the people of Venezuela.

Is my view correct?