Old Zen Buddhist koan:

If a psychotic POTUS addicted to attention was placed inside of a bathysphere and then lowered a thousand meters beneath the surface of the sea, would he make a sound?

Israel already had all this.

30 billion bomb sale to Israel forthcoming.

GUARANTEE: in two weeks green algae will be found coating the lenses of the video cameras and a retired Olympic Curler will be arrested for vandalizing microphone cables.

All fluff aside, Ayn Rand's core philosophical premises only work in an imaginary world of pure voluntary exchange; a world where there is no government intervention or centrally-driven market contortions. We currently exist in a Corporation State. That state is built upon a purposefully created foundation that includes insider information, regulatory loopholes, and political policy leaks that are keys to moving money and markets and forcing reactions from the plebeians that are both predictable and innocuous. That is what created Trump.

Rand's world is pure fantasy for this one. Rand's "hero" would be fundamentally opposed to the current system that is working exactly as designed. Both "Liberals" and "Conservatives" built it, continue to maintain it, and continuously benefit off of it. Basically, its a state-sponsored casino where there is only one rule to winning: proximity to power will always TRUMP intelligence and effort.

Trump is not Howard Roark. He is simply the average idiot's idea of the perfect human byproduct from a corrupt and failing system that everyone keeps pretending is actually "free".

"By the way, the Holocaust may be the most documented event in human history."
Palestinian Genocide: "Hold my beer".

Canada: Man chokes 7yo is acquitted because high on mj.

America: Man assaults and rapes woman while high on himself; later elected POTUS.

It's cute when people talk about potential presidential candidates like it was still 2015.

Meanwhile the obscenely rich continue to accumulate and hoard, the warmongers get the wars and conflicts and security state apparatuses that they desire and the political elite are given multi-layers of MSM and legislative cover for their numerous terroristic crimes.

"So was war, kidnaping and rape"

Trump:
War? CHECK.
Kidnapping? CHECK
Rape? CHECK
Slavery? CHECK

What neo-savage is more deserving of a golden smallpox blanket?

"So my question is what is Trumpy trying to distract us from?"

The 300 foot-long gash in the side of the RMS MAGAtanic.

For MAGAts it's time to run for the lifeboats; women and children first- but only if they agree to be abused and raped during and forever afterwards.

Ah, Hannah Duston, another of history's darlings for the neofascists and MAGA chudlings. A five year-old article.

Chud-slave Boaz is really scraping the bottom of the maggot barrel for stuff to talk about.

"It was either Free Will or Robotics"

Free Will is Remote Controlled.

To MAGA, Heaven is a willing bottle-blonde Natalie Harp lookalike in every bedroom and a trafficked child hiding in every bedroom closet.

A doctrine where an all-powerful creator brings into existence an inescapable and inherited wickedness and then offers his services (in the guise of his son) to save his creation from another wicked condition he also engineered brings to mind the stereotypical rural car mechanic clandestinely breaking something on an out-of-towner's car just so he can tow it back to his shop and charge for the repair.

"If you had any self awareness you'd understand everyone here fits that description, including yourself."

Perhaps to one with a reputation for overanalyzing another poster's retort to the point of incoherence that might be worth trying to argue. But the statement and the language used was directed to Boaz, not to you.

Subliberal is a coconut-headed halfwit soapboxing from the peanut gallery.

More like "The Outsider" from Dean Koontz's book The Watchers

You get a real sense that there's a self-manufactured,rainbow-bedecked CHUD in Boaz's simian-level brain that he's speaking to when he says things like "y'all" or "you liberals" or "you progressives"

He has had PDS (Progressive Derangement Syndrome) since he got kicked in the head by an ornery (and probably liberal) goat while doing THE MAN's bidding in Afghanistan.

Poor fragile coconut probably has to force a smile each morning while dumping $7 a gallon diesel into his rusty 2005 f150 with the NC plates and "Don't Tread on Me" bumper sticker in the back.

"Donner drives a Prius, say no more"

And Vistor_ dives on Penis. Say no more!!! (nudge-nudge, wink-wink).

Remember back on Valentine's Day when oil was around $65 a barrel, diesel was averaging around $3.75 a gallon and Trump and the markets were eagerly looking forward to the possibility of not one, not two, but THREE interest rate cuts for the coming year? Gee, I wonder what happened since that time and what specific people benefited?

Trump can't lower the price of oil by executive order and the Fed cannot lower the price of oil by printing more money. So it is raising 25bp in a rather obvious attempt to stop skyrocketing oil prices from seeping into everything else in the economic zone.

Oh yeah, and diesel set another record today! $6.31!

On November 26th, make sure you give thanks to Israel for that $5 HUNGRY MAN roast and carved white meat turkey dinner (with GMO cranberry compote) you might be forced to eat on their behalf.

"The Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment."

They were too busy going over Hegseth and Trump's Iran invasion plans.

"Amazing the people DJT has radialized"

Ooh, you coined a word: Radialize (transitive action verb): to run over and damage something with radial tires.

Example:
"Trump radialized the Lincoln Reflecting Pool and then blamed the damage on an Olympic canoeist."

Leon Black. Board member:

Epstein Co.
Zionazi, Inc.

What a whiny arse Headline...."

Well, Boaz was always a whiny arse.

The DhS is Osama Bin Laden's greatest gift to the American people.