The thing, to remember about The Art of the Deal is Trump didn't write it. And there's a good chance he never read it, either. As Tony Schwartz, Trump's ghostwriter, explains, ""He is incapable of reading a book, much less writing one."

When you move beyond simple intimidation, smash and grab, busting-out a business, and outright theft Trump is at a loss for what to do and how to account for himself.

That's when he kicks his fake-gold Lego dollhouse into a gazillion pieces, stomps his little feet, and cries out - as tears transform his makeup into a rivuleting creation rivaling one of Jackson Pollock's later drip canvases that Peggy Guggenheim squeezed out of him - "I'M NOT PLAYING ANYMORE!" as he stomps away, pausing to make sure some hired flatterer is paying attention. Just another wonderful day in the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue neighborhood.

The Brit's took a helluva self-inflicted hit with that nativist vote. It may cost them some to get back in, but they want to, should, and most probably will.

Sooooo ... .to the extent ICE's thugs are ever investigated, that will by done by "Homeland Security Investigations, an arm of ICE."
They aren't even really trying to pretend anymore.
American Exceptionalism, yessiree.

Masks?
Check!
Hoohaw-heehaw random camo, hunting, and cosplay outfits, combat gear and kewl crowd control stuff?
Check!
Bodycams?
Huh?
Locked, loaded, masked, roided up and rarin' to go?
Sieg heil!

Who the ---- is stupid enough to think the fat bald pedophile HASN'T done major damage to the CDC? Just like every other agency. FFS.
#41 | POSTED BY LEGALLYYOURDEAD

I don't think each and every Republican is that stupid.
But I am convinced that where there's a drop-off among the stupid there's a pickup among the cynical.
A truly loathsome lot of deplorables.

The Tates have strong MAGA connections, including Don Junior and Barron. I mean, why not? None of them "get along well" with actual, human women with identifiable identities. And it really does seem to eat at them, because they know - deep down - it makes them unfinished people.

Selling ethnocide is a toughie.

But ...

"What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons."
Don Draper
Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce
1271 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), New York, NY 10020

Only if he can't monetize it.

They aren't just "social media influencers." As the headline e at The Guardian reports:

Haven't got the numbers to run - let's recognize the Shyness Factor may play a role here - but there does seem to be a weird MAGA-pedophilia connection. I mean, yeah, sure, they rage about how they're "agin" that sick sheet. But then a lot of the cult's members seem to get popped for it. And then, always, there's an excuse. Problems then, good with Gawd now. That kind of juvenile horsepuckey. Babbling seems to be the entry signal with eye-rolling to seal the deal. No, you can't ask Donald Trump's buddy Jeffrey Epstein. Because he's dead. "Suspicious circumstances." So why not ask Trump? It's his coverup of his pedo buds. Yeah, MAGA and pedophilia. Remember what even they (especially they) say: where there's smoke ...

Intimidation through murder and lying about it are the MAGA regime's default, go-to positions. If you hear of one of their atrocities and wait for some actual facts to emerge, you will seldom be disappointed if you were initially expecting to be subjected to a king-sized load of --------.

H2O
Seems so simple.

Win some, lose some, it is what it is, and best of all: I'M OKAY! You're welcome! In fact, nobody named "Trump" has been or will be in any way harmed by my operation war victory boom-boom. God, what a country or what? Thank you for giving this matter your attention. DJT

There is nothing in the least bit "manly" about Trump.
He reeks of insecurity, weakness, and poos#fication.

Dementia is a terrible thing.
#66 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Indubitably.

Do you have a service/support critter or some nice folks around to help out?

#61
So that's why they call you "Babbles," Babbles.
But usually only once.

Ever wonder why, in the 47-years between 1979 - when the forces of the Iranian Revolution swept the shah away and consolidated by ravenously consuming and spitting out so many of its own - and 2026 no other American president - not Carter or Reagan or Bush I or Clinton or Bush II or Obama or Biden - chose the chaotic, self-destructive course upon which Trump has embarked and set our country?

I swear you people are just idiots.
#61 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Must be tough, being the only smart person on a site festooned with imbeciles.
God works in mysterious ways, eh?
Anyhoo, thanks of a grateful nation for clearing that up.
Seriously, because I was starting to wonder why the lights occasionally flicker.

You mist be thinking of George Santos, Bill. He was a member of the House Republican - excuse the expression - Caucus.

From the article::

Israel now controls 65% of Gaza ... .This is far beyond the 53% agreed under the ceasefire brokered last year by the US president, Donald Trump.

About 2 million Palestinians who survived Israel's war of annihilation are crowded into the remaining third of Gaza's territory.

Israel's military has recognised that a database of Gaza's war dead compiled by Palestinian health authorities is broadly accurate. It contains more than 73,000 people listed by name, with their Israeli-issued ID number.

More than 21,000 were children; more than 10,000 were women under 60 years old, and more than 5,000 were elderly people. Asked whether Yadai's data counted women, children and elderly people as "terrorists", the Israeli military declined to comment directly.

"The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable ... therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty."
Likud Party: Original Party Platform, 1977

#3
I agree.

That said, I have a feeling Tisdall reflects but the tippity-top of the international iceberg. Totally anecdotal: My brother-in-law, who lives in the UK, is a retired Tory banker, refereed soccer well after retirement, travels, reads books, absolutely fell in love with Boston when he visited the US a few years back, talked of returning. Now? Not just "No," but a vehement "No!" Followed by a "Not until" checklist of the some of the regime's more egregious behaviors and attitudes. I doubt we shall see him in these parts ever again. Him and countless others who have been shocked into pretty much giving up on this country - which once actually held out a beacon of hope - while wondering what's the matter with a people who could cleave to a monstrosity like Donald Trump. I'm afraid Americans are going to find out what, for many years, it may have felt like to be a German in much of post-World War II Europe.