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... The President of the United States said that the current laws in America over the amount of water showers can use leave his luscious locks at risk.

The current rules are aimed at limiting water use.

The president is now making moves to change those laws and new rules have been proposed by his administration's Department of Energy.

"So showerheads - you take a shower, the water doesn't come out. You want to wash your hands, the water doesn't come out. So what do you do? You just stand there longer or you take a shower longer?", the president explained last month.
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... and the pendulum, swings towards the left ...

@#3 ... No one could have predicted that Israel would not abide the peace agreement? ...

Well, Israel did not participate in the negotiations for the memorandum of [mis]understanding, so why sould they abide by it?

@#20 ... So the reflecting pool got painted. ...

Via a no-bid contract to someone he knew and with a larger than usual profit margin.

@#5 ... "You Betrayed Us"

Anybody who though lt he wouldn't do that was and is a fool. ...

Pres Trump seems to view loyalty as a one-way street going towards his ego.

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... Adelson, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen with an estimated fortune of tens of billions of dollars, has been a major force in shaping conservative support for Israel and has had close ties to Trump for years.

In the column, Israel Hayom journalist Danny Zaken praised Trump's past support for Israel but said the president had made a "colossal mistake" by signing what he called a "surrender agreement" with Tehran.

In a piece headlined "You could have been the greatest president of all, but you failed," Zaken wrote that Trump had missed an opportunity to be remembered among America's greatest presidents and warned the deal could damage U.S. interests and Israel's security.

The criticism from a pro-Israel outlet closely aligned with Trump's political base comes at a tense moment for U.S.-Israel relations, and suggests Trump's push to end the Iran war tests not only that relationship but his own political coalition. ...

"When someone is President of the United States, the authority is total, and that is the way it has to be. It's total. It's total."
      -- Pres Trump, Apr. 13, 2020

"I have the right to do anything I want"
      -- Pres Trump, Aug. 26, 2025

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... Caputo also asked Trump about his original promise that the war would end with an "unconditional surrender" from Tehran, pointing to the memorandum of understanding he signed on Wednesday.

"Well, it really probably is unconditional surrender," Trump told the outlet. ...

@#32 ... Someone had to find out what would happen. ...

Or maybe ... prior Presidents were informed of the outcome, and decided the cost was not worth the results, if those results could even be accomplished.

@#1 ... A Wealthy Beneficiary: Oil billionaire Jeffery Hildebrand, a major Trump donor, is set to reap the benefits. ...

Pres Trump: ~Give me money and I'll help you... ~

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... The U.S.-Iran agreement -- the first signed by an American and an Iranian president since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution -- is being hailed by its backers as the deal of the century.

But for Tehran's adversaries across the Middle East -- from Israel to Gulf states and factions in Lebanon -- it looks more like the curse of the century: an accord that could leave Iran more secure, more legitimate and ultimately more influential.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed the interim deal on Wednesday, ending a three-month war. Trump chose to formalise it at Versailles, on the sidelines of the G7 summit -- a setting widely seen as symbolic of the remaking of international order after conflict.

The 14-point agreement extends a ceasefire by 60 days, including in Lebanon, to allow negotiations on a permanent settlement and address issues such as Iran's nuclear programme.

"For Washington and Tehran, this is a grand bargain -- the deal of the century, with no turning back," said Lebanese commentator Sarkis Naoum. "The probability of success outweighs the risk of failure. Iran cannot endure further economic pain under sanctions, and Trump has no incentive to start a new war."

DEAL IS A SETBACK FOR ISRAEL

Israeli analyst Danny Citrinowicz described the agreement as a strategic "catastrophe". What had been framed as a joint U.S.-Israeli campaign to weaken, or even topple the Islamic Republic has, in his view, flipped into American recognition of Iran.

"We went to topple the regime with U.S. backing and ended with Washington effectively giving legitimacy and strengthening the same regime we wanted to bring down," said Citrinowicz, a senior Iran researcher at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies.

He says the deal delivers none of Israel's core demands: no curbs on Iran's missile programme or proxies and no clear path to dismantling its nuclear facilities. Even Israel's campaign in Lebanon has been constrained by the ceasefire framework imposed at Iran's insistence.

The fallout is both political and strategic. The deal undercuts Netanyahu's narrative on Iran and exposes the limits of his leverage with a U.S. president seen as closely aligned with Israel. ...

@#5 ... How much do you remember about 1980? ...

Well, for starters, I attended a Pink Floyd Concert (The Wall) at Nassau Coliseum on Long island ...

On the drive home, there was an ice storm. At the end of the concert an announcer came out on the stage and told everyone to be careful driving home because of the ice.

@#30 ... The US has done nothing but screw with Iran, at the behest of oil interests, since '53. ...

Yeah, but Pres Trump is the first of the recent Presidents to be stupid enough to wander into militarily attacking Iran.

@#7 ... This is the same kinda nefarious stuff going on with AI. ...

But it is not just limited to AI.

Facial recognition also enters the picture.

Another view ...

@#8 ... I heard Trumpy sent him a copy of the MOU.

No word back yet. And no one is expecting Nutty to sign anything. ...

So the "deal" could far apart if Israel disagrees with it, and Pres Trump would then have an "out" --- the exit ramp he so desperately has been trying to find. He could just blame it on Israel.

@#5 ... How much do you remember about 1980? ...

Quite a bit.

But what's yer point?

I'll ask again ... what's the gist of the video?

@#1 ... DHS also bought a huge fleet of vehicles for ICE that are unusable. ...

When huge sums of taxpayer money are thrown at DHS and ICE, do you really expect them to spend it wisely?

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... It was before dawn on a Friday in January when a Gulfstream G600 with the burnt-orange Texas Longhorns logo on its tail landed at Dulles airport outside Washington, D.C. Its owner, a little-known oil billionaire named Jeffery Hildebrand, had been summoned to the White House.

By mid-afternoon he was in the East Room, just three seats from President Donald Trump, who had recently ordered the military raid that captured Venezuelan leader Nicols Maduro. Now Trump wanted Hildebrand and two dozen other energy executives to commit to investing $100 billion in Venezuela's decrepit oil industry.

Many couched their enthusiasm with caveats. ExxonMobil's CEO called Venezuela "uninvestable" without changes to its legal system. The head of ConocoPhillips wanted U.S. government financing.

But Hildebrand, a major Trump donor whose wife had been named ambassador to Costa Rica, had already seen how loyalty could be rewarded.

Even though he had no notable operations outside the U.S., he hunched toward a microphone and said in a halting voice, "Hilcorp is fully committed and ready to go to rebuilding the infrastructure in Venezuela."

"That's good," Trump said. "You'll be very happy." ...

... professing his love for the authoritarian leader ...

Emphasis on "authoritarian."

@#4 ... Pete's plan is audacious and silly, ...

Well, yeah.

Quelle surprise on that.

The United Stated needs a qualified Sec of Defense.

@#2

Not too lazy, I just have other things to do than sit through an hour+ long youtube video to learn something I could read in a couple minutes.

Google's AI, btw, has self-admitted errors.

So, I'll ask again, what's the gist of the video?

@#8 ... Demonizing and enfausting the Tehran regime is tantamount to tackling shadows or chasing the wind because like the regime in Beijing, they are not going away anytime soon. ...

I agree.

However, that innate longevity of the regime should not prevent criticism of the regime.

... Cody Johnston analyzes how we're making the same mistakes we did in 1980 ...

What might those mistake be?

Note that I have no intention of sitting through an hour-plus youtube video.

@#4 ... How nice he came out during pride month. ...

Yeah. Did you see how he was sucking up to one of the UFC fighters?

Wow.