Never give a Republican a leg up, regardless of how low on the ladder the position. If he isn't corrupt when you vote for him it doesn't take long for him to figure out where the big money comes from that he needs to climb higher up the ladder.

When you vote you're signing a covenant, an agreement, with the person you want to win.

Some idiots, like the one in this story, just never read the fine print.

There were reams of it (single spaced) in Trump's background that said he wasn't banging on all cylinders. That said he was a bad businessman. That said he was a narcissistic grifter. That said he was a pathological liar and a con artist.

No sympathy for the victim in this story.

Trump was sold "as is" with all his non-working parts in need of expensive repairs.

No backsies!

Now that Trump has puffed himself up enough to think he can start giving orders to Mr. Putin (STOP! BOMBING KYIV) I have a feeling Trump himself is in for a big smackdown . . . Russian style.

In case Mr. Putin decides that Trump is more trouble than he's worth, I wonder who Mr. Putin would prefer for their malleability. . . . J.D. Vance or Mike Johnson?

Trump is making the same mistake he made in his first administration. He failed to work on Putin's agenda (to restore the old U.S.S.R.) so miserably that he set Mr. Putin's agenda back four years, at least.

I was surprised that Mr. Putin gave him another chance.

Now, once again, Trump is turning out to be a very poor sock puppet.

So, if Mr. Putin runs true to nature, he may decide to handle Trump the same way he handled Mr. Prigozhin, (Wagner Group) another former ally and close confident who got too big for his britches.

Wouldn't that be a hoot?

DESPERATION BREEDS DESPOTS!

LAMP

Trump is losing so many of his cases at all judicial levels.

I'm going to sit tight until Trump orders the DOJ to arrest (the traitorous) Chief Justice Roberts for not being more help (greasing the skids) to him on his fast track to a dictatorship.

ITCHY #4

Well, actually they do . . unless their edict is overturned by a higher court.

It's called a system of checks and balances in the Constitution to prevent a tyrannical or wanna-be dictator from running amok with power grabs.

Of course, there's more to it than just that, but for your sake, we keep it on an elementary level.

This isn't surprising. Hitler was a psychological basketcase, too.

El Salvador is Trump's gas chamber.

No more klieg lights for Sarah . . . PLEASE!