Kids? Unless they have some allowance money in their pocket, there's seldom anything worth stealing. Ever seen Trump with kids? Yeah, wrapped in a cloud of natural affinity. And his own? Whew.

Do a Mussolini.

This is what happens when you elect an idiot to be your president
#2 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

With only 30 months left in his term.

To spy on people?

No, because it's Gavin Newsom's fault because reasons. And Sleepy Joe Biden and Barack HUSSEIN Obama because problems annd all the other commies, too.

Scary.

BILL - Please don't take anything I've written here as dissing your historian wife, as that was not the intention. Clio's passionate disciples can make for interesting company and you sound like a big fan.

Uh, Bill, Jefferson owned Hemings, inheriting her via his wife when she was about a year old. Indeed, she was his wife's half- sister. (Such interesting people!). Jefferson was Sally's legal owner when he started screwing her, not later (and possibly earlier) than sometime when she was between the ages of 14-16.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

I'm against presentism, Bill, but strongly favor focus and perspective.

This is what happens when you elect an idiot to be your president
#2 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

"But wait! There's more!"
Ron Popeil

So ... much ... more.

Trump don't do lettuce. What's the problem?

#61 | POSTED BY DBT2

Indeed! Yup, that's it.

Surely you've known people without formal credentials you still consider experts.
#56 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

I didn't bring up degrees, Bill, you did in order to "qualify" your wife. Here's what I wrote:

"Experts"? Too often, I think, the word is employed to imply infallibility or some variation on that theme. I prefer to think of people possessing different states/stages of knowledge and expertise and the ability to apply them bringing that to the delicate art of piecing together all those scattered tesserae from which we attempt to assemble a reasonably accurate mosaic.

I'm not the history expert. My wife is.
#31 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

Then she should probably be in a position to opine that an MA in History does not an "expert" make; neither, for that matter, does a PhD. She should also be able to point put public history, especially, is informed by many factors. History is a lot like archaeology, in that interpretation plays a huge role. And that interpretation is, hopefully, driven by a well-informed perspective assisted by encyclopedic knowledge of the subject, training in relevant techniques and disciplines, plus the ability to apply reasoning and reach (tentative?) conclusions based on said encyclopedic knowledge, training, and research.

"Experts"? Too often, I think, the word is employed to imply infallibility or some variation on that theme. I prefer to think of people possessing different states/stages of knowledge and expertise and the ability to apply them bringing that to the delicate art of piecing together all those scattered tesserae from which we attempt to assemble a reasonably accurate mosaic.

My Christian faith is where I get my peace.
#37 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

Seems it's doing a pi##-poor job of it. Maybe shop around some more?

These entitled pols take themselves way too seriously - their jobs and responsibilities, much less so.

"'But he's fookin' dead!?!' said a little child."
Hans Christian Andersen
"The Emperor's New Clothes"*
*(Revised)

"All the things he accomplished and they were obsessed with the fact he had owned slaves"

Here's a shocker for you, BILL: Jefferson was obsessed by the simple fact he owned human beings. And he remained a perplexed hypocrite on that topic his entire life. So what? A complex hero with complicated views? Oh, the horror. So awful, being informed. Turn on the night light!!

The US also created the first modern concentration camps - for the original inhabitants of the land. There it is, live with it.

Ideology is easy. History is often hard. Definitely not a child's tale, unless one chooses to remain a child.

Trump doesn't have "patience." What he appears to have, in addition to dementia, is ADHD. Loaded to the gills with it. That might be why he's often shlumping around, fighting against gravity's pull, giving off those heavy-sigh don't-bother-me-now-because-I'm-heavily sedated vibes.

CORIOLANUS - Oftentimes, I think the Brits put up with us because it was in their interests to do so. Underneath, Yanks remain peculiar beings to them. From WW2, yarn about a bunch of swaggering American soldiers who come across an elderly Brit standing beside his decrepit bicycle. "Know what we'd do with something like that in the States?" a soldier called out confidently. "No," the older gentlemen quietly replied, "but I suppose you'd either ------ it or eat it."

Trump and his MAGAts are following the blueprint Hitler laid out in the 1930s: carve out the existing bureaucracy, fill it with unqualified loyalists, and assign them the task of rooting out The Other, making sure to reward loyalty and punish a lack of zeal whenever and however they can. The result for Hitler was not the vaunted German efficiency of legend but an inefficient edifice that punished expertise in order to reward cronyism. Same here and now,

Thanks Republicans, this is your baby.

MAGAts' ignoramic outrage is hilariously selective. I don't recall Mel Gibson's casting of James Clavizel, an American Catholic, in the role of a Jewish messianic visionary/preacher from the Roman province Judea over 2,000 years ago provoking their outrage.

Trump and ensh#ttification go together like grift amd graft.

#21
Not surprisingly, people associated with wars gone off the rails exhibit a strong tendency not to want to talk about the subject, other than by lying. And in a sense Westmoreland was correct: a lowering/breakdown in restrictions provided Americans with a partially open window onto the war they were buying with their votes, treasure, and children's lives. (My only caveat about Westmoreland's observation is the fact efforts to bury information continued, e.g. My Lai. But I get his point.)

Interestingly, the Pentagon's most recent press briefing on Trump's Iran War was on May 5, eleven-and-a-half weeks ago.

The same month - on May 26 - Trump was at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for another one of his "routine checkups," he visited other troops but not the 14 recovering from injuries they've sustained in his war.

Bought-and-paid-for marriage of convenience between a dodgy visaed immigrant "genius" model and a poosie-grabbing wannabe interior decorator and Jeffrey Epstein pal.

Dinner conversation must be a hoot.