I'm getting a whiff of a book by Michael Lewis - Flash Boys. Yes, different yet a similar idea: shave fractions of time for players to provide them with insiders' advantage.

Surely the Trunp boys can create a predictions platform focusing mainly on presidential decisions, etc.. What it would lack in subtlety it might more than make up for with its colorful graphics, cool disco music, and t#ts.

Sorry, make that "the Indian Rights Association."

"They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it."
Red Cloud (1822-1909)
Oglala Lakota
The Fifth Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Rights Association (1888)

Taco Bell let us get us
Backyard hit so hard
Remember the Alamo

Personally, I cleave to the sound of the Spanish baboso - it conveys imagery associated with both idiocy and droolimg.

Thieving, covering-up, and interior decorating are the hallmarks of this maladministration. The fact that both Hegseth and Trump have form as war criminal leg-h#mpers dooms any prospect for decency and reason to enter into the picture.

Don't be a clod: best respect other folks' sacred places and spaces.

And Trump needs exemption from auditing/penalties for those years he paid no taxes because ...

#14
Uh ... ..
Constitution of United States of America?
Specifically, Article I, Section 4?
It's often referred to as the "States and Elections Clause."
No, you look it up and find out why.

Sorry to hear this.
Benanti's satirical talents as "Melania" were first-rate.
Unfortunately, MAGAts find satire too complicated.
What they like to do is intimidation.

In the fetid swamps where MAGAdreams are born and from which they emerge as nightmares into the world of normals - only to be discarded as artifacts of a comic book "ideology" - one hears the phrase "Taco Bell ... Montezuma's Revenge." Those words arrive at one's ears as a whimper, a single MAGAt cowering out there, somewhere in the dark wetlands, out behind the fog.

Silence.

Then, as with the frogs, the words are picked up as another MAGAt replies: "Taco Bell ... Montezuma's Revenge ... Taco Bell ... Montezuma's Revenge ... "Soon, the swamp is ablaze with a roar: "TACO BELL ... MONTEZUMA'S REVENGE ... TACO BELL ... MONTEZUMA'S REVENGE!!!"

There's more, the story goes on of course but now maybe you'll have a better idea of how one might go about answering the question: "How did Trump get the US into a war with Mexico that ended up with him surrendering by signing that MoU at the repatriated Alamo, huh?"

When "outsiders" get Abused it's the first step toward abusing and Detaining "Undesirables", People who Vote the "Wrong" Way, Believe the "Wrong" things, etc.

By, oh - just a hypothetical here - shooting them dead in the streets.

No one, anywhere, has ever managed to inflict anything even close to the kind of profound damage Trump and his Republican enablers have wrought upon this nation and its institutions.

Hitler had his name affixed to no major German civilian - or military - airports.
Going one better/worse than Hitler.
That's Trump.
That's MAGA.
Hell, thats the whole damn Republican Party - its symbol a somnolent elephant on bended knees.

"No? Hmmmm ... Well, Mr. Segar, we do have a later flight to K-k-Kathmandu."

Where were these guys when Hitler was around?
Around Hitler.

Trump's I-really-won-the-election mantra started out as JMB (Just More B#llsheet). But as those words swirled around in his head the lie became an "alternative truth" for him. Until, finally, JMB joined all those other idiotic fantasies he believes are actually part of our shared reality but are really just reflective of a deeply disordered mind. Three factors, I think, came into play here: (1) JMB was an easy lie and Trump easily lies; (2) Trump ain't really all that intelligent and he doesn't seem to know much about much, other than lying and stealing, so he is highly susceptible to believing his own JMB, especially when hired lickspittles feed and flatter his fragile ego ("Daddy!?!"): and (3) Trump is experiencing a disorderly physical and mental decline in which a factor known as "The Stupid" will play an ever larger role.

This should be obvious to most folks, although clearly not the members of the Cowards' Caucus, formerly known as the Republican Party.

That leadership, no matter how cynical, emerged from a culture in which certain points are emphasized so strongly, so often that they become, simply, part of everyday lifecan$ outlook, one's weltanschauung. The Battle of Karbala and martyrdom of Husayn, the coming of the Mahdi, the rewarding of extreme sacrifice, these are baked in to one degree or another, ranging from "Yeah, sure, okay, whatever" to a sincere willingness to die for the cause (as they perceive it). One underestimates the impact and influence of these and other cultural factors at the peril of remaining ignorance about, in this case, the adversary. As Mr. Trump has discovered.

Uh-oh, Senor "90% of Mexicans are Spaniards" is a yippin and a yappin again.

"The pilot programme near Rafah is a far cry from the initial aspirations of the BoP. Launching that scheme with a wildly optimistic slideshow in January, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner promised that the gates to aid would be thrown open and basic infrastructure " including water, sewage and electric systems, hospitals and bakeries " would be restored across the strip within 100 days."

Jared "A Little Child Shall Lead Them" Kushner - more of the arrogance of the terminal mediocrity you have come to expect from this particular.y overweening scion of the kleptocracy.

Why should he answer?
The Republicans control Congress and they're fine with this.
Not only with the appearance of corruption but totally on board with the real deal itself.
How many of you MAGAts who come here are writing/cashing $100,000,000.000 checks?
Sweeeeeeeeet.

There used to be a little gift shop hawking prisoner-made wallets and such at the KS state pen in Lansing; the Garden of Eden in Lucas is a wonderfully weird relic of a Gilded Age eccentric (yes, the Mormons have a Garden of Eden but you have to go to MO to see it); Lawrence, home of the University of KS, has a strong our-sheet-don-steenk vibe; the small town feel, with all of its positive and negative attributes, runs strong; and there are plenty of good places to raise kids - doesn't mean it's another planet, just if they screw up you will most definitely learn about it at some point and just possibly find a sympathetic ear. As for the people, in general, good folks.

And yet ... that's what Republicans call "The Base."

An independent investigation - announced in March - was separately launched, and interviews were conducted with service members involved with the strike. Sources said that the information gained from interviews, material that could be useful to commanders still launching strikes against Iran to avoid mistakes, has been "locked down" by US Central Command with only a handful of officers permitted access to the details.