I usually say never assume malice where incompetence will suffice, but not in this case. It's as foolish as it is dangerous to assume that Trump is just an idiot who doesn't know what he is doing. He does, and he is profiting off it.

The world is full of countries that alternate between being the aggressor and playing the victim. The Chinese and the Russians often see themselves as the victims of those foreign devils and use that to justify the aggressions of their own countries. In the minds of Trump and his supporters, it's fair game to "hold a mirror up" to that behavior rather than leading by example. They have a lot in common with the far left SJWs with chips on their shoulders in that respect.

Hyping up weather events to get ratings is nothing new, but it really seems to be over the top now. The side effect is that people will take the warnings less seriously after predicted catastrophic events for their areas don't occur.

He ------ up a lukewarm economy in 2 months, which is somehow even worse than if it had been booming.

If it had been booming, he probably never would have beem (re)elected.

One of my Chinese professors in college worked at some of these institutes. There's probably some truth that some Chinese spying or cultural subversion goes on in them, just like there's probably some truth that it goes on in US NGOs, but I don't that's representative of them in either case.

Not sure if he worked at one in the U.S., but I know he was assigned to some in Thailand and also in Pakistan. He told me that that he heard OBL was hiding out in a village close to where he was. He also talked about how insanely hot it was there.

He was a real Dick.

This happens every so often in Minnesota. I remember a few years ago a small plane crashed into a cemetery. The next morning they found over 300 bodies at the crash site.

Do they have squirrels in Greenland?

Or maybe Greenland is the squirrel.

"The difference being that democrats never vote their extremists into positions of power"

Right, they just regularly refuse to call them out and sometimes even pander to them, which damages the credibility of their less extreme candidates with the mainstream. Democrats really need to recognize the mistakes they made which allowed someone like Trump to come into power twice.

"We're in Trump's 50th month. His voters knew what they were doing. Burn it all down."

Yup. Anyone who voted for Trump, especially after his first term, are just as bad the extremists on the far left who want to tear it all down and build their idea of a utopia from the ashes.

"OMG, proving who you are to get your check, it's outrageous!"

Making it very difficult if not next to possible for elderly, disabled and expat people to get the benefits that they ------- earned is outrageous.

Too bad the left can't call out this idiocy for what it is: pure f-----ry.

"Like shutting down USAID immediately is going to cause the death of millions."

I'll say it again, you guys should have been comparing him to Chairman Mao instead of the stupid Hitler comparisons that he actually wanted.

"As global warming opens up the Arctic Circle for mining, Orange Puddin' Pie wants to claim it all for America."

If the 'the West' doesn't claim it (and back the claim up with military strength, whether it's from America or Europe), Russia and China will.

"Seriously.
I'm a born and raised White Southerner"

Interesting.

There's definitely something off about that woman. At best, the glazed look on her face reminds me of a new age religious cultist. No matter how you cut it, she's a dangerous fanatic. Unlike Kennedy, who I think isn't very bright but isn't anywhere near as malicious as Gabbard.

We live in a "might makes right" world, no matter how much we want to pretend otherwise.

"Everyone will set their own red line on the subject of Trmp's sanity.
If people had accepted mine. we would not be in this mess."

This illustrates how you're suffering as much from delusions of grandeur as you perceive Trump to be. You're projecting your own inadecuacies on to him, because you don't want to acknowledge he has the power you don't.

"Bikl Maher"

BILL Maher.

Goddam autocorrect never works when you need it. Always folks with you when you don't.

Bikl Maher had an excellent segment about free speech last night on his show. He said that in the future historians likely won't pay much attention to the camps people currently divide themselves into, but will note that this waa a time when free speech was regularly under attack. And yes, it is from Both Sides(tm), no matter how much your side pretends to champion free speech and liberty.

If it makes you feel better to call something you don't like or understand, go ahead. Just don't ever use the phrase "words mean things" again if you don't actually believe it.

Being a cynical machiavelian couldn't is not the same thing as being insane.

"Accept that Trump is insane."

An insane person could not pull off the level of scam that Trump has. Nor could they be elected President twice.

The idea isn't entirely out of left field, and there's probably some method to this madness. That doesn't make Trump a genius (far from it), but he certainly knows how to bait people who can't help themselves,like any classic troll.

One group wants to incentivize illegal immigration and human trafficking. The other group wants to harass legal immigrants and make life more difficult for them. A monkey pox on both your houses.

What goes around comes around. Maybe if people didn't demand dismantling historical monuments because they offended overly sensitive people, this wouldn't have happened.

It's an obvious troll.