Of the roundly criticized accent he adopted for Mary Poppins after working with an Irish accent coach, Van ---- has observed it should properly be traced to "a little shire in the north [of England]where most of the people were from Ohio." Terrific showman.

From the article (emphasis added):

"I don't think there's an armed attack" against the U.S. by the drug cartels, John Yoo, a Berkeley law professor, told me.
Yoo's skepticism is especially notable. That's because he was famously one of the drafters of those post-9/11 memos while working at the OLC in the Bush administration and, despite considerable criticism of his analysis, has never changed his position. Even for him, the Trump administration's arguments are hard to accept.

"They're not attacking us because of our foreign policy and our political system," Yoo said, drawing a distinction between al Qaeda and drug traffickers who may be based in Venezuela. "They're just selling us something that people in America want. We're just trying to stop them from selling it. That's traditionally, to me, crime. It's something that we could never eradicate or end."

If that is correct, then the boat strikes constitute murder under federal law and are also illegal under international law. Trump may be immune from criminal prosecution in the U.S. thanks to the Supreme Court, but everyone else involved, in theory at least, faces the risk of federal prosecution in a future administration unless Trump at some point grants some or all of them a pardon.

Why does Old Senescent even count "sh*thole countries" in his embarrassing quest for a golden gong?

Holsey, not "Holley"

Holley is the only person associated with this mess so far who comes out looking like he did the right thing, putting miles and miles between himself and Trump's murderous lunacy. I hope he has a decent retirement.

But anyone who expects the US military as a whole will "do the right thing" in that regard probably should consider a rethink.

Clearly, Trump has oodles of free time on his hands.
That happens a lot.
When you're not working your actual job.
Has Old Senescent actually ever worked a day in his life?

Stealing another country's wealth is one of those awful ideasthat's fermented for quite a while inside Trump's imagination, where he nurses the fever dreams:

From George Orwell, 1984:

Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head. For example, the Ministry of Plenty's forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at a hundred and forty-five million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in re-writing the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than a hundred and forty-five millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.

Pardon he?

"My name is Ozymandias ... ."

"In other words, we've been betrayed by Donald Trump and the people around him in ways that would have made Benedict Arnold blush."

Arnold plotted to turn over the position at West Point and failed.
Trump is surrendering an entire nation and finding no shortage of enablers.

Nancy Mace disappeared around the bend a long time ago.

Barron Trump was birthed, raised, and formed in an atmosphere so shallow and tawdry it's depressingly mindboggling.
If this guy doesn't end up as just more sh*te dripping off the faked Trump family escutcheon it will be a surprise.

Speaking of American names ...
How about Hinmatowyalahtqit (Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain)?

Worst Henny Youngman impression, ever.

#26
The escargot?

CATDOG
As to the majority of the folk you're writing about being hardworking: boy howdy. You said a lot in that short post, by the way. Thanks.

#4
Checking out some of the stories this morning about Miami's mayoral election I noticed references to the percentage of the area's population born outside the US. That number is around 57%. It's quite a mix, so generalizations can be hard to arrive at. But if you consistently show a bit of respect you will find masks coming off.

The face the US presents to the world, thanks to Trump and his motley crew, is a glum, uninviting one.
For some reason, his feckless Republican enablers are comfortable with this.
A reputational trashing of these proportions is not something from which nations normally recover.
Yeah, the Germans and Japanese did, after WW2, but they had a lot of help and the world has changed.

#20
You dismissal of their contributions seems fueled by ignorance.
That's being charitable, by the way.
On the other hand, I have a feeling it's just basically an offering from a whole crock full of ---.

Trump's wildly self-absorbed, cringeworthy whiney, sadly embarrassing performance before some folks in that ballroom at a hotel/casino up in the Poconos was just a warm-up for the latest in his by now almost predictable nightly mental breakdowns on social media. Here's a sample of that therapy session:

The "worst of the worst" line is just more rube bait.
These are racialist Kavanaugh Stops.