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Actually, that is a good answer. Avoid doom and gloom. 😊 My favorite organizing line, and maybe my favorite line about politics, is "the action is in the reaction." That's Saul Alinsky. The reaction to COVID chaos ended Trump's Presidency in 2020. And the reaction to inflation and the border brought him back in 2024 - by 49.7 % of the vote. I did what I felt I could before the shit storm broke. So did 48.3 % of Americans. I'm going to avoid doom and gloom and wait for the reaction to play out. Although I'm sure the MAGA folks need not worry. I mean, it's not like Trump did anything that led to bad electoral outcomes for himself and other Republicans in 2018 or 2020, right? 😉 My nephew I just visited, who is filthy rich and saves corporations lots of money in taxes and voted for Trump I'm sure, even though I didn't ask (I love him deeply, who needs to know that?) is on the board of his state food bank. It pisses him off that politicians can't compromise more, to do things like end hunger and poverty. His knee jerk reaction is to throw all the bums out. But it's fun to talk with him about things like child tax credits that cut child poverty in half for one year under Biden and Harris. JD Vance talks about this fairly often, as a pro-family strategy. Trump has also said he wants to expand the child tax credit. The money is sure there, if they chose not to give it to their donors, and themselves, in fat cat tax breaks. So we'll see. Trump could be the blue collar billionaire who ends child poverty in America. Or he could be be the hateful raping liar who divides America on purpose and will be remembered as the failed narcissist he is. I'd be happy if Trump ended child poverty and made Republicans the truly compassionate conservatives. Don't hold your breath, @lookin. Just wait for the reaction.

Old news. Boring. Run out of Gay bashing ideas?

Interesting factoids. In the latest YouGov poll, Luigi's favorable rating is 20 % favorable, 43 % unfavorable But here's a breakdown among the oldest and youngest voters: 65+: 5 % favorable, 65 % unfavorable 18-29: 39 % favorable, 30 % unfavorable That speaks for itself. Elon Musk has a favorable rating of 48 % favorable, 40 % unfavorable among all voters. Not surprisingly, he is popular with conservatives and unpopular with liberals like me. Here is the rating broken down by oldest and youngest: 65+: 42 % favorable, 50 % unfavorable 18-29: 56 % favorable, 36 % unfavorable They don't break the age groups down by gender. But Musk has a 58/37 approval rating with men overall, and a 39/47 unfavorable rating with women. So I'm guessing strong support among young men is driving Musk's ratings up. This is a huge problem for Democrats. I think a good starting theory is that this is what we should have expected after years and years of preaching to young men about toxic masculinity. I don't think Musk is really offering them anything. Other than an unattainable fortune, and a government shutdown. But Democrats better deal with this. The idea that we could just wait for older MAGA voters to age out is no longer true. It has to be anger and alienation on the part of young men of every race.

Backlash builds as Elon Musk endorses Germany’s far right “Only the AfD can save Germany,” said the key Donald Trump ally. Which answers the perplexing question, is there someone I can respect even less than Donald Trump? Happily for Elon, all his political contributions are but a fraction of what he will make thanks to tax cuts and oligarchy.

Perhaps he is meeting with his therapist, to work on his mental health issues. I hope so, at least. But, probably not. Maybe he is meeting with a lawyer to make sure he doesn't get sued. Trump allies suggest Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker should be sued for calling Trump a ‘rapist’ Thing is, for the cruel and fact-free wing of MAGA, rape and sexual harassment are of no concern. Trump and Hegseth can grab whatever pussy they want. Sadly for @EmmetKruelty, it should be a pussy rather than a cock. That whole Gay thing is frowned upon, especially in the military. Sex with underage girls is just fine, though. It's not whether you do it that matters. It's that you are able to deny it, and then sue anyone who accuses you. I think @EmmetKruelty is probably just laying back to make sure it is okay to bully transgender kids and call Black women smelly and stupid. Other than that, all's well.

No. But I am concerned for @EmmetKruelty's mental health. He is disinterested in facts, and has problems with human relationships. Especially with Gay men who are not into Gay bashing.

Yes, and no. We are both partly right. First, there is no such thing as failure in Trump 2.0, in the sense that he won't run for office again. Steve Bannon, man child, has teased the idea that maybe he could run again. But he may be dead by 2028. And even if he is alive and healthy, my point is that the overwhelming majority of voters don't want Bad King Trump. Second, he got his ass kicked in both 2018 and 2020. So, yes, he is back. He will be in a position of great power. But it's not like voters gave him a blank check. At 49.9 %, he has still not won a majority of votes in any election. In two elections, 2016 and 2020, he won less than his Democratic opponent. Where you are correct is that he won 49.9 % of the vote in 2024 despite the mountain of reasons he should have lost. So then it comes down to: why did he win? I'm with Trump on this. He said he won because of high prices, and the border. It fits with a world in which 40 out of 54 incumbents that presided over COVID+ inflation got kicked in the polls. Trump was actually one of the first incumbents kicked out due to COVID in 2020. I think the polls overwhelmingly support this take. Lots of people held their nose and voted for Trump, despite Jan. 6th and his other indiscretions. Lots of other people, like Palestinian Americans, said I can't support either of these people. If there is a 49.9 % mandate - is not getting a majority ever a mandate? - it is to lower prices and control the border and help the working class. I don't disagree that appointing an incompetent Defense Secretary is bad. Or bringing back an incompetent border czar who let fentanyl flood over the borders and kill an unprecedented number of Americans. That said, in some ways Pam Bondi is worse than Matt Gaetz. The argument for confirming Gaetz is that he would have done exactly the same things. But it would have been more obvious - or transparent - because he is such a despised asshole. The nice thing about this situation is that all I have to do is hope Trump is more competent than during Trump 1.0. And that he appoints people who will actually be effective in helping the work class. If he instead wants to appoint alcoholic womanizing Gay bashers, that's his problem. That poll possibly autistic @EmmetKruelty posted above says that Trump is actually slightly less trusted than during his 2016 honeymoon. If the majority of America gets sick of him, like in 2018 and 2020, that's not my problem.

Mine too. Trump is a narcissist and pathological liar. So it is always a fight between Trump v. Trump. Or, you could say, between the adults in the room, which would now include Susie Wiles, versus the man children like Steve Bannon and Pete Hegseth. Trump loves to play them against each other. And fire them when they disobey or he just gets bored. If Trump could be King, it would resolve the problem. But I think he knows he can't be King. Although he will keep testing the limits. If only he were born in Russia! So it's going to be a constant struggle. Geez. Somebody should have warned us, right? 😉 If you can stand 14 minutes of News Nation and Bill O'Reilly, I think this covered some of the turf vert well: This video is about King Trump seeking political retribution, as opposed to King Trump suppressing freedom or transparency. But they all fall into the basket of Trump being Bad King Trump. Trump is a feral political animal who can read polls. And if he forgets, he seems to be willing to let people like Susie Wiles remind him. So part of the reason Trump won is there is NOT a majority of Americans who really think Trump will be Bad King Trump. There's a very clean 48/47 split in that poll about whether these things Trump says should even be taken seriously. That means they have to kind of forget about January 6th, Because that is the clearest example of Bad King Trump. What is clear is that there is not a lot of tolerance for things like jailing his political opponents. If he is Bad King Trump, there will be an overwhelming reaction against it. If Trump instead focuses on the border, in a manner that is actually competent, he'll get a much more positive reaction. I don't know where @EmmetKruelty falls on the autism spectrum. But we know he is in the far low end of the extremism spectrum. Only 22 % of voters, the crusty MAGA base, would not be bothered if Trump sought retribution on his political opponents. This is why @EmmetKruelty has a real problem with facts, and human relationships. He does not understand that Gay men don't like the idea of a Gay basher taking away hard won LGBTQ rights. @EmmetKruelty actually loves the threats, and anti-Homo Hegseth gets him hard. In public. Here. It really is quite embarrassing. I think O'Reilly is right that Trump will disavow retribution, as he already has several times. Meanwhile, he will seek retribution wherever he thinks he can get away with it. Like with ABC and Ann Selzer. It will be intended to have, and will have, a chilling effect on freedom of speech. O'Reilly is also right that Trump is appointing a band of merry cock suckers, where getting down on your knees to kiss it is far more importance than competence. That in itself suggests there will be less transparency. Because he will be surrounded by people who value loyalty above all else. But therein lies the rub for Trump. I am actually rooting for anti-Homo Pete Hegseth to be confirmed. It's probably 50/50 whether he will be. And I don't like at all to think about the consequences, for Gays or for the military. That said, I don't like to think about the consequences of Trump 2.0, period. So if they want to wage a holy war for loyalty and get an anti-Gay womanizing alcoholic to fuck up the Dept. of Defense, let them. Anti-Homo Hegseth will be surrounded by all kinds of people, some of whom might be Gay, prepared to expose his every fuck up. Trump, like @EmmetKruelty, has a real problem restraining his cruelty and bullying. So the other consequence of Hegseth being in charge, as opposed to someone like Jim Tillis or Mark Esper, is he will reinforce and encourage all Trump's worst behaviors. Anti-Homo Hegseth, while undesirable, is likely a path to Trump failing quicker. I think Mark Halperin is right about one very important thing. Trump wants to be remembered as a consequential and effective President. So, on the one hand, he is capable of actually listening to be pragmatists like Susie Wiles. He is also capable of listening to Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth, which has already ended badly for him. The process is self-corrective. It is democracy. And I don't think Trump can end it. Trying to, like more Jan. 6th, will just expedite the end of Trump instead.

Self-loathing and possibly autistic @EmmetKruelty has a problem with facts, and human relationships. Especially relationships with Gay men who do not idolize Gay bashing alcoholics who attack LGBTQ rights. He's worse than anti-Homo Hegseth, who at least has a life. And three wives he possibly cheated on, so far. Here's what @EmmetKruelty did not mention. Either because he detests facts that don't fit with his weird idolization. Or he just does not understand them. That is an important fact that self-loathing and possibly autistic @EmmetKruelty seems incapable of processing. No surprise, people are actually slightly less trusting of Trump than during his 2016 post-election honeymoon. Geez. Wonder why? Poor @EmmetKruelty doesn't have a clue. He exhibits the same disturbing and mentally skewed behaviors that cause people to worry about Trump. I am praying to God that Trump is NOT like @EmmetKruelty. I hope he actually gets shit done that helps people. Like how about child tax credits rather than billionaire tax cuts? How about he convinces war criminal Bibi The Baby Killer to seek peace with Palestinians, rather than genocide? So I think there probably is a 54 % "mandate for Trump to do "effective" things that people actually like. If you define "mandate" that way, I'd be in THAT 54 %. But not the 54 % that sick self-loathing @EmmetKruelty has a hard on for, based on cruelty and Gay-basing by drunk assholes like Hegseth. @EmmetKruelty gets no credit for Trump's win, and all the credit for the same cruelty and incompetence and fact free bullshit that will possibly lead Trump 2.0 to fail, just like Trump 1.0 did. Doug Schoen had an interesting but somewhat vague article about new polling that seems to hit at the same idea: effectiveness, as opposed to trust. I think that sums up what is going on. With the key word being "effective". Republicans seem to do better when they can convince people government sucks, and is not to be trusted. So why not let us smash it to bits with alcoholic anti-Gay womanizers? But that is too blunt a conclusion. Because at the same time people actually did vote for Trump to do things effectively. And breaking the nation's military with a drunk anti-Gay alcoholic was not the plan. The plan does include lowering prices, and controlling the border. I'm happy to give new Trump appointees a chance to prove themselves, as I think a majority are. But when you rehire Tom Homan, who spectacularly failed to control the border and created a huge spike in fentanyl deaths of Americans, what I am supposed to think? When you rehire Peter Navarro, who killed hundreds of thousands of factory jobs in Trump 1.0, what am I supposed to think? I'm actually surprised how few areas there are where Trump has a real green light. Controlling the border is obviously one. So is "cutting my taxes". Wow. What a shocker! Cutting government waste is an endlessly popular but meaningless idea, since no one wants to cut government stuff I like. This bodes poorly for Trump's billionaire and corporate tax cuts. When you ask THAT question directly, people recoil from helping fat cats more. Even drilling for more oil, which was one of Trump's most popular ideas (child tax credits was one of Harris's more popular ideas) does not poll particularly well. When you get to the "revenge and retribution" agenda, like pardoning Jan. 6 insurrectionists, support evaporates completely. Same with tariffs. Trump's biggest 49.9 % "mandate" is to lower prices and control the border. Tariffs don't lower prices. Appointing a cruel and incompetent failure like Tom Homan, who let fentanyl rip, does not control the border. @EmmetKruelty has a basic problem with facts. These facts don't bode particularly well for Trump. He won't have much of a honeymoon. Joe Biden's approval rating, out of the gate in January 2017, was 56 %. We don't know where that is for Trump yet, since he is not POTUS yet. We do know his favorable rating on RCP is 49 %, a few points above his initial job approval rating of 47 % in January 2017. So Trump is on a very short leash. The best way for him to fuck things up is to do what self-loathing and possibly autistic @EmmetKruelty would like him to do. If he instead lowers prices, grows the economy, and finds someone who is not incompetent and cruel to control the border, maybe he could have a job approval rating of 50 %. We'll see.

Great! You mean he will actually do his job, instead of getting tens of thousands Americans killed, like last time? Woo hoo! Will he also apologize to the parents of the tens of thousands of Americans he got killed from fentanyl in Trump 1.0 by failing to control the borders? Will he tell Congress how he is doing in his job of protecting Americans from illegal immigrant killers and rapists, as opposed to killing tens of thousands of Americans and raping the truth? Btw, I'd listen to Rand Paul, and not have "soldiers" rounding up Jews maids and farm workers who Trump calls "vermin". It really is a bad look.

While it is always sad to see a self-loathing Gay man crushing on a Gay-bashing extremist like Pete Hegseth, I do feel we need to address @EmmetKruelty's mental health issues. So I called in the heavy artillery for consultation.

We agree!

LOL. Yes, my weak self-loathing Gay Jew who supports genocide and Gay bashers. You are really the enforcer of Donald Trump. What a joke! In fact, you are really a self-loathing Gay man who spends hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours of your useless time alienating Gays and minorities you do not know. And who don't want anything to do with you. Woo hoo! And by not taking kindly to threats, do you mean elections? 2018 House elections; Democrats 53.3 % of the vote, Republicans 44.8 % 2020 Presidential election: Democrats 51.3 % of the vote, Republicans 46.8 % I think it is the autism or self-loathing that makes you euphoric about how you actually won one, with 49.9 % of the vote. I think it is your autism or self-loathing, or maybe just your stupidity, that prevents you from seeing this is not a mandate to be cruel and stupid. Or bash Gays. Or bash transgender kids. Is it autism? Is it stupidity? You must have some self-awareness. Anyway, while I have compassion for your mental health issues, you should at least try to understand that Trump won a plurality of the vote - not a majority - because people were sick of inflation, pissed about the border, and blamed it on Biden. Pursuing cruelty and sexual harassment and Gay bashing and incompetence simply was not part of the mandate. So go ahead and threaten Gays, and women, and smelly Blacks, and liberal Jews. You're just helping Democrats like me lay the groundwork for 2026.

Please. More! More! More! The bottom line is very simple. You are the self-loathing Gay Jew that Trump had to throw red meat to and keep motivated to win. You are not an independent thinker. You are cruel, basically. There is a separate group called Independents. They want Trump to do something about prices and the border. Picking on women and Gays in the military is not what they elected Trump for. So, please. I beg you. Celebrate your cruelty. Celebrate your stupidity. Get down of your self-loathing knees and proudly idolize and extol a Gay-bashing alcoholic incompetent womanizer who most Americans don't know or don't like. Roy Cohn would be proud of you. But he'd still go for the hot young Aryan types, as far as cock sucking goes. So sorry. Don't blame me or call me anti-Semitic. Some of my best friends are liberal Jews. Joni Ernst has a primary in 2026. Thom Tillis has a primary in 2026. He probably won't run, since he is sick of the bullshit. Susan Collins has a primary in 2026. Please, Democrats would love to win those seats. Tear the shit out of them with your cruelty and stupidity. TRUMP 2024 MAGA ALCOHOLISM IS A STUPID AND UNREASONABLE REASON TO NOT CONFIRM HEGSETH SEXUAL HARASSMENT IS A STUPID AND UNREASONABLE REASON TO NOT CONFIRM HEGSETH INCOMPETENCE IS A STUPID AND UNREASONABLE REASON TO NOT CONFIRM HEGSETH OPPOSING WOMEN IN THE MILITARY IS A STUPID AND UNREASONABLE REASON TO NOT CONFIRM HEGSETH OPPOSING GAYS IN THE MILITARY IS A STUPID AND UNREASONABLE REASON TO NOT CONFIRM HEGSETH HOMOPHOBIA IS A STUPID AND UNREASONABLE REASON TO NOT CONFIRM HEGSETH

What have you got against women and Blacks? Really? But thanks for throwing in one White male with the two Asians and three French hens. You're not playing identity politics, are you?

Typical Trump, following the dogma of a self-loathing Gay Jew like @EmmetKruelty Roy Cohn. Trump sues Iowa pollster over survey that showed Harris ahead It makes sense if you follow the cruel and untruthful logic of a self-loathing Gay Jew like @EmmetKruelty Roy Cohn. You can lie all you want. If anyone else doesn't kiss your ass, attack them. It's ironic with Selzer, of course, since she has a reputation for being honest and ethical. As well a history of being the canary in the coal mine saying that Trump was going to win Iowa in 2016 and 2020. And since Trump himself has a history of slathering praise on her, when she says what he likes. Donald Trump celebrates Iowa Poll lead as he rallies for caucus support December 14, 2023 Sadly, but not surprisingly, Trump's attacks on Selzer and ABC suggest we are in for four years of retribution and revenge. I'm worried about @EmmetKruelty. He likes to spend hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours of his useless time pretending he is Trump's enforcer. If Trump pushes a Gay-bashing incompetent alcoholic womanizer, @EmmetKruelty will reliably push a Gay-bashing incompetent alcoholic womanizer. What will @EmmetKruelty do to enforce this one? Does he own a gun? I'm not really a fan of "Free Luigi." He did kill a guy. We're not going to have to live through a "Free @EmmetKruelty" campaign, are we? His autism and lust for Gay-bashing right wing action figures is more than enough for me.

What have you got against women and Blacks? Really? But thanks for throwing in one White male with the two Asians and three French hens. You're not playing identity politics, are you?

Is there a medical test for self-loathing? Like what do you call it when a cruel and extreme Trump ass kisser idolizes right wingers who want to take back decades of LGBTQ progress, like Gays serving in the military?

If Tom Homan, who murdered tens of thousands of Americans, follows through on his threat to illegally deport the American children of immigrants, will SCOTUS throw him out? For that matter, will SCOTUS itself find Homan guilty of failing to protect the border and letting fentanyl flood in, killing tens of thousands of Americans? Will SCOTUS order Trump to crack down on his crypto donors, who facilitate fentanyl trafficking that is impossible to trace, instead of giving his fat cat crypto donors tax cuts and deregulation favors?

I read the Breitbart article. What a joke! It's even more cruel and untruthful than you are. The right wingers claim Hegseth's goal is "depoliticizing" the military. Is that what we call it these days when you bash Gays and women? What a cruel joke. How about this? Let's go back to Gay conversion therapy and call it "depoliticizing" LGBTQ politics. Which screwed up the true purpose of marriage with all those radicals who demanded same sex marriage. Let's go back to national abortion bans and call it "depoliticizing" sex. Which screwed up the true purpose of marriage, which was sexually harassing women and cheating on your current wife by having sex with your next one. There's always a minority of self-loathing Gay men like you who will support a Gay bashing alcoholic womanizer who is incompetent. The right wing's loyalty push for 100 % fealty to Trump and his Gay-bashhing alcoholic incompetent womanizer is already beginning to form the backlash that will grow as the extremism continues. Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of Hegseth’s nomination Right wing generals approve of Hegseth, but the American people don't. Geez. Wonder which side Trump will pick?

Russia to prepare for war with NATO That's a quaint headline, isn't it? At least part of it is blustering. Putin is no doubt letting Europe and the US know he will be a hard negotiator on Ukraine. I'm not holding my breath for anything other than a fragile ceasefire. And he also may be signaling that he really isn't bosom buddies with Trump, after all. Who knew? 😉 But I take it to also be implicit confirmation of two things. Both of which are very bad news for Genocide World and Genocide Man. First, NATO is stronger and more unified than it has been in a long time. All thanks to Genocide Man. Biden was, in effect, President NATO. He was the right guy at the right time to bring in countries like Sweden and Finland. And now Trump is set up perfectly to walk in the room and say, "I love you, but you need to pay the fuck up." It is unintentional good cop/bad cop. But it is for sure not in Putin's interests. Second, Genocide Man needs a permanent enemy to rationalize his stagnating economy and dying nation. So if there's not a hot war with Ukraine, he needs a Cold War with NATO. He knows a hot war with NATO would turn Moscow into dust. And Master Xi will castrate his tired old genocidal pit bull before he could even start such a war. But it gives Genocide Man a reason to keep his warped war economy going. He sure needs one. That's what Putin has done for Russia lately. He had a great first decade from 2000 to 2010, during which Russia unquestionably recovered as he played footsie with the West. But even if we stipulate that there are certain economic benefits to an economy based on processing Russians - especially minorities - into meat, it's hardly great news for anyone in Genocide World. Let alone the Russian families of all the men turned into meat by Genocide Man. As that website shows, when measured by per capita GDP in US dollars, the average US household clocks in at about $51,000 a year. Poor Vlad! Median Household Income in Russia (2010 - 2021, Purchasing Power Parity in Current International Dollars) The alternative chart in that link, which I can't post as a JPG, is more accurate since it is based on PPP. Russia in 2022 was at $27, 634, up about 0.8 % from 2021. Things are way cheaper in Russia than in Los Angeles or NYC. But that number is down from $43,635 (in PPP) for the average Russian in 2010. Genocide Man has been running on fumes, and genocide, for a long time now. By comparison, the US is at $65,658 (again, in PPP) in 2021, compared to $58,757 in 2015. America is leaving Russia in the dust. And Genocide Man can't do much about it, without literally turning Moscow into dust. Regardless of his threats, and mass slaughter of innocent and helpless women and children. Russia today is a corrupt, weak, piece of shit country compared to the Soviet Union, which also collapsed of its decay. Good news is at least someone will do well, until the country collapses again. Wonder who?

It's interesting that Trump today sort of congratulated Erdogan as the key actor in getting Assad out of Syria. I take that as an opening overture in Trump wanting to be the guy who finally brings peace to the Middle East. Arguably, we now have an alignment that is at least as good as Clinton, Barak, and Arafat at the end of Clinton's Presidency. The problem back then was Arafat wasn't willing to go along. In part because he thought the Hamas types would just kill him if he made peace. And look what Arafat got for his efforts! Now the problem is war criminal Netanyahu. But you can make a good argument that if you put four strong men in a room - Trump, war criminal Bibi, MBS, and Erdogan - at least in theory they might be able to come up with something that Palestinians will have to live with. It would be shades of Nixon being the only guy who could open China. Or Reagan making a deal with the Soviet Union. Stranger things have happened. Two of which I just named. It's also a bit surprising that, while the Arab Street pretty much trusts no nation, and despises the US, Turkey is trusted as much or slightly more than Iran. My guess is that Trump will be about as successful at Middle East peace as he was with improving relations with Krazy Kim or Xi. Like with those two, he can't change war criminal Bibi's fundamental views or interests. Nor can Trump change the views or interests of the roughly half of Israel that backs the war criminal coalition that empowers Bibi. But Trump will give it a try. Meanwhile, here's the flip side of the argument: Trump's pro-Israel cabinet picks upset Muslims who voted for him Ya think? This is the part of the 2024 election that is incomprehensible to me. I can get how a young Latino who likes watching the Nelk Boys rip on woke behavior, and is pissed about his rent, votes for Trump. And I can get how Muslims are pissed at Biden for acquiescing while 50,000 Palestinians were wiped out, courtesy of US weapons. But electing Trump seems like voting for genocide. It's surprising that any Muslim who voted for Trump is the least bit surprised. Call me cynical, but Trump would be content to let Bibi wipe out 500,000 Palestinians if he thought he could get away with it. At least Trump is smart enough to know he can't. Whether it was ever stated or not, the obvious incentive to a war criminal like Bibi was to kill as many Palestinians as he could while Biden was POTUS. Let Trump at least make noises about peace. So we'll see. This will be one of the less predictable and more interesting parts of Trump's Presidency to watch. But my guess is that, just like with Krazy Kim, the idea of strong man politics is going to let us down. And in 2028 it will be part of why America is ready to move on to something else. And why the next four years will be particularly tragic for Palestinians and Kurds.

Well, Sis. You have always been more principled than me. It always had to be at least 8 inches. I was the unprincipled whore who would settle for anything. 😉

MBS has already made Jared Kushner rich. So we agree. This is a reason it actually could happen. If Trump and his family will get more money, he is on it. Politics Jared Kushner defends his equity firm getting $2 billion from Saudis after he left White House Quite honestly, I could give a shit. If the price of saving tens of thousands (or more) Palestinian women and children is that Jared gets super rich, who cares? If Israelis get peace, despite having a war criminal leader who has built his career inflaming war, good for them. The problem is that war criminal Bibi The Baby Killer can not survive without his war criminal coalition. He can have either peace, or power. I don't think it's hard to guess which one a war criminal will choose. But I'll consult with Genocide Man and see what he thinks.