Thiel belongs to the same gaggle of oddball self-inflated, self-proclaimed "experts" in all things as Trump.

"I've got you pegged perfectly"

Frank Drebin Jr.: You've got quite the rap sheet. It says here you did twenty years of man's laughter. Must have been quite the joke.
Bank Robber: You mean manslaughter?

#11
Exactly

#176 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER | FLAG: UNINTENTIONALLY, HILARIOUSLY SELF-REVELATORY

That, boys and girls, is what's called "an own goal."

The CIA destroyed most of the MKUltra files before investigators could get into them.
The information pieced together in spite of that was horrific.

What was said is no more controversial than "Remember, maintain your oath, obey the law."

Or "Go green, stop on red."

Those getting knickers in a twist over this must be afraid the illegal orders they plan delivering won't be obeyed.

Boaz, seriously, you're coming across increasingly as just another weirdly obsessed MAGAt eager to gleefully crawl inside and carefully inspect other folks' knickers and pantaloons.

The eternal wish list!

"Alas, mouse cannot cast shadow like elephant."
Charlie Chan
Detective
(The Black Camel)

"A l'exemple de Saturne, la rvolution dvore ses enfants" ("Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its own children").
Jacques Mallet du Pan (who lived it)

If Xi wants to incorporate Taiwan into his outfit there's probably no better time to get that won and done than during the time left in Old Senescent's maladministration.

Incompetence runs our country..

And at the top of the heap is a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual abuser.
Land of the free, home of the brave.

Contempt for the customer is a feature, not a bug.

Morning, Coriolanus ... Thanks for that early bit for the day.

"It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet."

Dovetails with Old Senescent's noontime arrivals at the office and endless rounds of miniature golf or whatever it is he engages in while not doing his job and running away from the ghosts of his revolting past.

It's so incredibly dishonest.
#126 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2025-11-26 03:45 AM | FLAG: Yuuge Self-Retorting Retort

Unfortunately, related:

#5 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

As an informal student of such things, child of an immigrant, residing in a multilingual/multicultural environment, I'm curious: what language did you grow up speaking?

Back to the aspirations of their filibustero and piratas yanquis spiritual forefathers, when these guys' heads would be sent home in a jar of mezcal.

Pete Hegseth prancing, preening, and yahooing about "masculine values" is just too Village People-ish funny.

What a voice.
RIP

Trump, ever the evader of responsibility for his own actions, often channels the shade of Sgt. Schultz from Hogan's Heroes: ""I see nothing! I hear nothing! I know nothing!"

Fuhrerbefehl in the original German.