El Rey Dotardo II wants to make a deal fast. Why? He is such a poor negotiator that searching for solutions with the party on the other side of the table is beyond his capabilities, which amount to bluster, bullying and BS. The TACO syndrome is evident in his attempts at negotiating because he just wants to move onto the next sale, like anyone else whose life is built around transactions.

Hey, Rey, want to make a fast deal? The Vlad the wardog that your patience is at an end, and that to protect yourself from criticism you are authorizing a big delivery of military equipment and hardware to Ukraine for their use in whatever manner they see fit. And you will continue to make such deliveries as necessary until Russia comes to the negotiating table in a serious manner. Deliver the first batch, make a show of it and see what happens. Vlad will come around ...

Were this to be incorporated into the Trump presidential library, it would become the world's largest Bookmobile. Of course, Der Dotard has been famous for never writing anything down, and barely for being able to write at all.

I'll wager that behind the scenes the pressure on Trump on this dumb situation is so intense that he is searching high and low for a graceful way to get out of this 'gift' that he has brought upon himself. In a few weeks he will announce that the gift is 'too nice' for the US, what with all the leftist communist socialist Dems out there who might try to steal this thing from him, so on behalf of all of his supporters he will have to 'give it back' to those Qatari terrorists...

Of course, all economic pain to be felt in the coming three years will be blamed on the Biden robot army, which decimated the US, as we all saw on Faux News...

Translation of Leon's statement, via Grok reads as follows: My ox has been gored. This bill will cause my business interests to suffer, so I'll lose money. If this continues, I'll be forced to throw my financial support to the Democrats...

Keep the base in fear, and then proceed with your criminal grift power grab...

Wait. Isn't the big beautiful wall at the southern border enough to keep out drones, missiles and dark-skinned Spanish speakers? I was personally assured by our king that with the wall we would be safe. Or trapped, one or the other...

Meanwhile in Texas, Florida and other Red states, college administrators will soon be wondering where all the international students went, and how come tuition income is so far short of that in previous years. The greatest minds in academia already know the answer, but dare not speak it...

Remember all those DOGE-inspired committees in the Congress and various red state legislatures? I wonder how they are all doing? Any updates? Anyone? Anyone? Buehler?

How can anyone think that giving Jesse Watters a security clearance is a good idea? The same folks who think hiring all those Faux News talking heads was a good idea ...

Leon isn't gone. The folks at the White House should expect to see him for a while. The money he gave Der Dotard buys a lot of access ...

Li'l Kim needs to ask for a boat with guns that shoot, and maybe some sailors too ...

Eminent Domain actions require that the state, upon taking, provides 'just compensation', which usually leads to two appraisers battling it out over their valuations of the taken property. The person losing their property has the right to appeal in court, so these matters can drag out a long time with no transfer of the property until the matter is concluded. Most of those doing the taking cannot wait around that long, so usually settle in a relatively fair manner.

As for the courts ignoring property law, remember this is going on in Texas, where property law is maybe a bigger deal than just about anywhere else, because of oil, grazing rights, and also because it's Texas...

This is an easy one. Hold my beer:

-This country was founded on private property rights. What is being described in the article amounts to a taking of some of those rights from the current property holders. Courts of law do not truck with such takings.

-Assuming those who received the letter and may be affected are fee holders (i.e., they own their land and the improvements thereupon) and that their current use of that land and improvements constitutes a legal, conforming use thereof, a change in zoning like that described then usually makes the land in question and its use a "Legal, non-conforming use". That means the owner (or a lessee of that land and/or improvements) can continue to use the property under the zoning guidelines in place at the time the property was first put into use. (For example, if the land is zoned for retail use and the owner has a retail pharmacy on the site, that is a legal, conforming use so long as the building conforms to the zoning requirements in place at the time the improvements were constructed. If the zoning is later changed to, say, residential, that pharmacy may continue to operate as such, until such time as the improvements are demolished, after which time the land must be then used in a manner consistent with current zoning regulations.)

-The concept of a legal, non-conforming use after a zoning change is widely understood in this country and courts of law see any restriction based on change of zoning (e.g., telling our pharmacy owner he must now use his property for residential) as a taking of property rights, and such cases are almost always won by the property holder.

-All those on the Right complaining about 'too much regulation' quickly become fans of concepts like zoning and legal non-conforming use of land when someone shows up and gets in their face and tries to take the ownership rights of their land...

Wow! AI is great, almost a great as smack!
--Heroin Bob, best-selling author of fantasy government reports

Christians must suffer to be closer to Christ. We are doing God's work here, people. If you cannot understand that, we're sending you to El Salvador!
--JV and those behind him in the administration and GOP

It's all computer!

There is no way on God's green earth that Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Taco (his very skin matches the color of the taco shell, and is just as thin and brittle) understands anything about what is being done here. After he got to the point in the explanation about how he was able to monetize this invasion of privacy the Orange One was on to other things...

OK, Taco...

AI models appear to have great success in matters requiring a great deal of computing power, e.g., long-term weather predictions and pounding out millions of lines of programming code. The intuitive parts that humans add, e.g., reading a radar screen and calling out to a storm-chaser, or de-bugging and enhancing code to make it run better from the perspective of human interaction, are matters done best by humans. When I think of 'entry level white collar jobs' I think of people who supervise small work groups, and there is no AI model that can do that...

Wait. What happened to those 49 South African farmers and their wives and children? I thought their arrival on these shores brought an end to the food production problems in the US. Why aren't those ungrateful foreigners out in Watsonville, picking strawberries right now? Did the administration actually import a bunch of leeches? Someone needs to look into that, and strongly...

The nation will laugh as a fat orange criminal insurrectionist and golf cheat tries to perform an act of public onanism, only to achieve a skin rash from friction...

Those sanctions will include:
-No more cheese on a Ritz cracker
-5% markup on money-laundering real estate transactions on all Trump-brand Florida property
-The US Will no longer permit the importation of Russian nesting dolls
-Shostakovich and Prokofiev music now allowed on US classical music stations
-Summer interns from Russia working at Trump hotels will no longer be paid 90% of minimum wage; now it will be 88% of minimum

The US will bring the pain! Russia will be at the negotiating table prontodente...

Putin V. Trump is not Chess v. Checkers; it's Chess v. playing with yourself...

As Vlad has revealed, after the insults and bullying, Trump has nothing--no strategy, no goal, no supporting cast of smart folks who provide guidance and options. Hit back at a bully and he finds a new target. Keep hitting the bully and he is easily defeated, because he knows not how to fight.

Keep hitting back, world...

Does it use a Sharpie? Asking for a president...

Remember the Coalition of the Willing for the Gulf War? The next military operation by the US will be us alone, and every person in the audience yesterday realized as much about three minutes into Der Dotards speech. No nation will come to our aid or provide support for as long as anyone with the MAGA stain on their hands or face is in power in this country ...