Trump's personal hoard has grown by more than $5,000,000,000 since he took office last year.
Thank you, Republican Party, and pass the political puke bucket.
Quick.

Let's see what, exactly, these Republicans actually do about any of this.

"and makes human males avoid 'down there',"

Australia?

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A WW1 bayonet instructor I knew loved the nickname infantry troops bestowed on him: Bucket of Blood. No bucket, no blood, he'd laugh, just "the act ... the patter." Ironically, he never got to the front.

"A woman, if she hates her husband (and many of them do), can make life so sour and obnoxious to him that even death upon the gallows seems sweet by comparison. This hatred, of course, is often, and perhaps almost invariably, quite justified. To be the wife of an ordinary man, indeed, is an experience that must be very hard to bear. The hollowness and vanity of the fellow, his petty meanness and stupidity, his puling sentimentality and credulity, his bombastic air of a ---- on a dunghill, his anaesthesia to all whispers and summonings of the spirit, above all, his loathsome clumsiness in amour"all these things must revolt any woman above the lowest."
H.L. Mencken

The poosification of MAGAt males by missionaries pushing poosification in a Herculean effort to make their poosified MAGAJeebus appear less poosified than he is? That's quite a hoist of the Overton Window.

Always interested. I lived in the Borderlands for ages. The "War on Drugs" really wrecked the relationship between a lot of folks living along La Frontera and the BP. The officers' high-handed attitude toward locals and ignorance of local ways did not help. Last time I was there was up above the San Rafael Valley in AZ with a buddy who lived in the area (where I'd roamed often) and in the middle of nowhere out pops a BP officer. She brought her attitude, demanding to know what we were doing out there, in open country. It was a tense exchange and the two of us left. (She was armed, her word against ours.). Badge and gun syndrome run amok.

Lil' Marco, who claimed his parents were primo Cubano refugees who fled into exile from "Castro's Cuba" five years before took over and while he was in prison. Mentiroso.

This is what Republicans mean when they yip and yap about "good government" - one from which they may steal, openly.

The BP really is loaded-up with the worst, top to bottom, and has been for ages. Low prestige job, widely despised by folk they encounter and hassle, badge and gun syndrome, isolated working locations ... Corruption? Whoa, Nellie.

Hilarious work

*Ooooohbabymewannawomansooobaaaaaaaad*
#32 | POSTED BY THEBULL

Oh, my.
~ Margaret Atwood

The fascinating thing about women is that most don't really have any thoughts of their own.
#32 | POSTED BY THEBULL

Have you ever met a woman?
#33 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

Ain't any folk a the female persuasion ... there.

Kash Patel playing at sober is the inverse of Dean Martin and Foster Brooks playing drunk. Difference is, they were more convincing and it was joke.

Whatever this young woman is doing with Trump at midnight, I hope he's paying well.
#10 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

JFK and Bush 1 were both capable of appreciating war's realities well beyond the comic book phase, each having served in one and seen action and its consequences. As JFK wrote in a letter soon after his PT boat was rammed by a Japanese destroyer and he worked at rescuing his crew:

Between Trump's insanity, FIFA's greed, gooberish MAGAts on parade with their weaponry, and the general impression of the US as loaded to the gills with loons, buffoons, and human baboons, this is definitely one of those "Yah, but ... " destinations.

"Reading about this swindle, I found myself wondering why it rankled me so much," writes Andrew Egger. "After all, this is hardly the first time Trump and his family have cashed in on his cult of personality to part his superfans from their cash. Indeed, for many MAGA superfans, being endlessly shaken down for cash via a blizzard of unbelievably sleazy campaign-solicitation texts and emails has become a defining feature of their digital lives. And that's to say nothing of Trump's crypto projects, Trump's NFTs, Trump's guitars, Trump's sneakers, Trump's watches - I could go on."

Or maybe it just strikes me as so sordid because of the political landscape in which it's unfolding. Donald Trump, who swept back into office last year with approval ratings in the 50s and an unprecedented political coalition at his back, has been hemorrhaging voters ever since. His second-term approval has never been lower"in fact, it hit another new low just today. Pretty much every voter outside his cult has already headed for the hills. And yet that stubborn 35ish percent of the electorate remains, eyes screwed shut, fingers wedged in their ears, unhappy with the state of the economy, unhappy with the state of the country, unhappy with the state of the world"but still convinced beyond all reason or persuasion that their political messiah, Donald Trump, is about to turn it all around.

This is remarkable, unprecedented political loyalty. Without it, Trump could never have gotten back to where he is today"and he'd certainly be in no position to shake down the sheikhs. And how does his family repay this loyalty? By selling his poor dumb true believers a vaporware phone.

"I have all the cards," says American president, a convicted felon, serial fraudster, fabulist, pathological liar, and six-times bankrupt who ran four casinos into the ground.

Problem is, nobody's playing cards, Donnie, nobody but you.

Further:

"The only other way to approach this is to recognise that Iran will have some control, but that the main passage will be operated by an allied coalition which will guarantee free movement of ships without fees. I think that's a preferable approach. But at this moment in time, Iran has a gun to our head with the closure of the Strait. Somehow, we've got to find a way to make sure that that gun is not there.

"The reality is, we always knew that Iran would ultimately close the Strait of Hormuz, and we should have had a plan. We missed that opportunity. As long as the Strait remains closed, as long as they continue to put tremendous pressure on the US and the world economy, we're not going to get anywhere because they have the leverage."

I am in agreement with ANTON at #8 and that led to a bit from Wislawa Szymborska's poem "Soliloquy for Cassandra," Homer's Trojan priestess in the Iliad whose warning prophesies go ignored, thanks to Apollo's curse.

Here I am, Cassandra.
And this is my city under ashes.
And these are my prophet's staff and ribbons.
And this is my head full of doubts.

Trump long ago demonstrated he can serve up an endless smorgasbord of --- sandwiches to the entire Republican Party and they have been so conditioned by their own servitude that they simply mutter, "Please, sirrr, may we have another?" Now we have reached the part where Trump rubs everybody's noses in his corruption, gleefully offering up the yuge, steaming, stinking platter, grinning vacuously and saying, "Whattaya gonna do aboudit, huh?"

That's it, the Trump family, Republican Party, and MAGA ethos rolled into a single motto:

I
REALLY
DON'T
CARE
DO U?