I call it plain EXHAUSTING! We all need to prick our fingers on a rose bush and fall asleep for 100 years and wake up after this set of criminals is long gone!
Early candidate for word of the year, 2025: Hilarifying (adj.): the state or quality of being both hilarious and terrifying at the same time. e.g.: Trump “administration.”
Yes, that's the word: "Hilarifying." I actually feel a little hopeful now that the Trumputin camp is tottering on an internal civil war of its own making. Another word comes to mind: "weak."
Will Trump continue to side with fellow billionaires Elon and Vivek and throw his MAGA supporters under a bus when it comes to MAGA's anti-immigrant stance and economic concerns? Or will the bromance end in mutual recriminations and hatred?
Stay tuned for the upcoming season of Concepts of a Presidency.
“The current prevailing theory about Trump’s victory is that most Americans, irked by an unpleasant encounter with inflation, cast an anti-incumbent vote without giving much thought to the consequences of that vote for US democracy.
I don’t totally buy this whoops! theory. My sense is that, in this era of the Internet, there are millions more fascists in this country than people think, young men in particular.
And I believe that many more millions are fascinated by Trump not for his supposed business prowess but for his transparent wish to hurt others. He is an evil guy, a villain—and many Americans are excited by it. Harris and the Democrats, by contrast, are boring, boring, boring.
In this sense, the election was like a choice between four more years of church or four years of violent entertainment.
Nihilistic consumerism, as much as authoritarianism, prevailed. Of course, political science is not designed to investigate this kind of stuff. The clearest insights we have come from the realm of philosophy and literature. Hannah Arendt and Primo Levi did not rely on focus groups.”
Trump is transactional. He doesn't need his supporters or Musk et al once he is sworn in.
Trump will need the R-Congress on certain items but not as many as some think he does. And when he needs them it will be transactional under threat of being primaried.
Trumo isn't a fascist or authoritarian. Those are political terms. Trying to apply them to Trump is a square peg in a round hole. Trump only brush w/poltical ideology is the letter I as in I, I, I, me, me, me.
Trump views the nation as his just as he does w/the Trump Org. He so said WABAC at his Turnberry Scotland golf course.
Trump only knows business and that ain't saying much because real estate is a mere subset of business. That is the reason during his presser at Turnberry he likened America to a golf course. Yes, a golf course that needed updating, repair, maintenance, restoring, and PR.
Nearly 10 years of Trump yet the vast majority continue to insist the only lens to view Trump is through politics despite all evidence to the contrary. ~Remarkable~
So, those that do will continue doing what they have been doing and still expecting a different outcome. That is the history of we got him this time whether impeachments or Federal cases, SCOTUS decisions, etc. etc.
Trump plays by his rules, not those others say and write he should or must. And Trump plays a different game than others say he should and must. Nearly Ten Years After (ref. to a band) and people don't acknowledge Trump doesn't listen or dance to their music. And never will.
Well said. But Musk can blackmail Donny if things don’t go his way. Donny has surely bragged to Elmo by showing him all the important top secret documents. Either that or Elmo required the kompromat before he agreed to set the new president up for life.
Abandoning his devoted followers says to me that there will be no need of party line voters in the next presidential election because there are no plans to hold one.
Musk? If Musk gets an office on the WH campus whether in the EOB or in the WH, then his influence goes beyond what I currently see it as.
Have no feel for what docs Trump may or may not have. Do know intel docs age off faster than people think and believe they do. Have no idea where the transition PDB go to and how specific they are compared to the actual ones. And have no idea how they will be created under the Trump Adm or who will have access. Intel is only that. Doesn't make it as factual as most have come to believe. It's all couched with percentages of confidence. And that is subjective.
US NATSEC "secrets" are tightly controlled. And if the Biden Adm didn't further tighten them after the Documents Case then shame on them. Takes more than a change of Adm to snap fingers to undo certain security protocols a previous Adm had in place. And doing so leaves a trail of yellow and red flags. It's what the National Archives is for.
Am not concerned about any future elections. Haven't seen anything that would put any election in jeopardy in the US. Suppose if Rick Wilson was right that everything Trump touches dies there wouldn't have been one in 2024. There wouldn't be one for me in the future because I unregistered to vote after the last one. Didn't forfeit my #1A rights by doing so. Nor any other.
You are exactly right. It has never been about anything but money and power. And now that he has lied his way back into the White House, he won't give it up without a fight. This is why the Supreme Court has become Americas' nightmare. Together with them, the orange traitor will let every one of his maga followers die by the roadside of hunger and heat. He's already started.
Karen Simmons, I think you are on target--at least where Trump's thinking is concerned...although I have to say I don't think he has ever been overly concerned about pleasing his base. I'm betting he figures they are not only stupid but have extremely short attention spans and that he'd be able to sweet lie them back into the cult.
I'm thinking this isn't going to fly with those Reps and Senators who won in very close contests and only by Trump's endorsement or support. This has to be a real concern for them!!! Get out the popcorn...and buckle the seatbelts. This will entertaining, horrifying and ugly all at the same time!
The orange anus face’s energy is flagging. Even though he’s up all hours of the night posting on his loser, dumbass app. Whatever drugs he’s been on for years is keeping him up and helping him blather. He’s old, I should know being born in the same decade. But he’s really going to hate having to work this time, no one running things is lazier than he is. He will need his minions to scurry around pretending to be him. They’ve already started. Let’s start a contest to see who can guess which of his shit bag’s is writing for him or whether or not it’s the naked emperor himself.
Cause he definitely didn't write that "tribute" to President Carter that was posted under his name. No all-CAPS, no trademark repetition, he never correctly used a word like "pivotal" in his life, and the syntax was that of a normal English speaker, not Drumpf's patented kindergarten screech.
He’ll just try to close the border with Mexico to keep out the ‘undesirables’. Immigrants with work visas will be welcomed by those screaming about unregulated immigration. The big corporations are only looking at their bottom line, and if they can exploit foreign workers, then they’re all for immigration (hypocrites!).
Just look to Dear Leader, he employs the immigrants to save money, and even rescued Melanie off the "skilled worker" HB-1 visa, or whatever they called it back in the '90s. Yay exploitation.
It has been brought to my attention that Donald Trump will be inaugurated under flags flying at half mast for Jimmy Carter. Thank you Jimmy.
I was glad he wasn't going to have to see the inauguration and The whole smug smugfest. And I was glad he didn't die on Donnie's watch who would do everything he could to prevent a state funeral. But I hadn't thought about the flags. Every flag in the nation and territories at half mast. Reminding everyone that we're sad.
Isn't this sort of thing called bait and switch? Get a law passed to allow the world's top engineers to fill vacant positions in corporate America that our engineers are just not qualified for. but then use that law to hire a foreign engineers but mostly to import cheap manual laborers, then lie to potential voters that you are going to deport the people taking American Jobs.
To quote from Lucian's article: "According to the Department of Labor, in 2023 alone, Trump requested and received H-B2 visas for non-skilled workers that included seven hotel desk clerks, 17 housekeeping cleaners, 53 waiters and waitresses, 24 cooks, five first-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers, and five bartenders.
Just couldn’t find any locals in Florida to change beds, swab out toilets, check-in guests, and prepare rubber chicken dinners at Mar-a-Lago."
Ah, thank you Lucian, wishing you and all my fellow subscribers the absolute best for the coming year.
It would be a brighter year had Trump not been elected, but the reality is he was. Jimmy Carter (rest his soul) lived for others, Trump lives for himself.
He doesn’t need the maggots anymore Lucian. He’s about milked them dry over the last 8 years. They are anything but a highly paid cohort, they are more like an uneducated mob who is watching technology that they disdained learning take over the landscape that they want to work in. In the marketplace your skills directly impact your income, no skills = here’s a broom. All of this leads me to think that he’s going to follow the money, it is after all the main reason he’s not going to prison. I could be wrong and he may get off on the grift enough to keep it going, but muck, who got him elected with the lint in his pocket, is the new guy in town, and I can guarantee that he has his attention. That may be better for the nation if it helps prevent massive deportations, since that’s a big maggot issue and they are not smart enough to put together what they will be paying for eggs after the people who are critical to our food supply are deported. Where it could be worse for the nation is what muck wants to do with our economy which he sees as free money if he can redirect it, don’t forget that he can buy all of the accomplices he needs. Either way we are in for a bumpy ride, whether our democracy can survive is another matter. 🤷♂️🤬
I didn’t know about the MRNA for pancreatic cancer. Thank you and I understand that it’s expensive. The two things that give me comfort are.1. They’ve never run anything nor produced anything.2. They do not communicate with each other, so who’s in charge when there’s conflict? We’ve seen a little, but I predict there’s going to be a lot more.
It caused me to start my own company. I couldn't stand working for incompetent, untrained 'managers' anymore.
In my entire life I worked with great managers once, that was in a Lockheed logistics group. In second place was Safeco insurance, before Paula Reynolds wrecked it.
Everything else was Peter Principle with a heap of Dunning-Kruger.
Oh, Lucian, you had me with the swamp weasels. Since I've avoided actual swamps and the weasals in them, it was off to Wikipedia, where I learned that the long-tailed weasel (Neogale frenata) lives up to your use of it as a descriptor for the whole lot: "The long-tailed weasel has well-developed anal scent glands, which produce a strong and musky odour. Analysis of a dichloromethane extract of the anal gland secretion showed it contained 2,2-dimethylthietane, 2,4-dimethylthietane, 2,3-dimethylthietane, 2-propylthietane, 3,3-dimethyl-1,2-dithiolane, 3-ethyl-1,2-dithiolane, indole and 2-aminoacetophenone."
The only reason I copied and pasted the second sentence is for those gazillion times in the next years when we'll see the ass-kissers on Fox "news," NewsMax and OAN(anism), running their tongues around MAGA and billionaire buttocks. Some consolation, remembering those are the chemicals right-wing media syco/psycho-phants will be ingesting through mouth and nose.
The only swap I want to go into is the Fire Swamp from The Princess Bride, and only in the company of the Cary Elwes and Robin Wright of 37 years ago, not that I'm objectifying either, oh, no.
Thanks to recent reflections on the Carter Years, I learned today there are things such as Swamp Rabbits in the Deep South. Supposedly one of those menaced Jimmy Carter back in c. 1979. WAPO had a little story about this. Or maybe it was The Guardian. That brought back memories! I'd forgotten about that "Killer Rabbit" episode.
Hell, my gray hair is getting grayer just thinking about the upcoming cluster fuck that starts mid-day on the 20th. Electing a new Speaker of the House should be fun because trmp has now decided maga mike will be just fine which puts all who said they’d not support maga mike in a bit of a bind now. Who’s going to end up kissing trmp’s ass, I wonder. Talk about whipsawing…….I can’t wait.
Trumplethinskin is bought and paid for...and now the new "Chin and Company" are calling in the markers! We need to have a larger popcorn machine to watch our democracy devolve into an episodic diaster.
Follow the money LTK, the rubes will do whatever Dear Leader tells them to and in the meantime Dear Leader will follow whoever pays the most tribute. He's keeping track of who pays into his inauguration slush fund, the media has already bent a knee, he's got immunity and the S.Ct. has said you can bribe politicians. It's all just a matter of counting the grift at this point. The National Anthem is now Sing a Song of Sixpence; "The King was in his counting house, counting out his money, The Queen was in the parlor, eating bread and honey.." As Elon says, the rest of us are in for some sacrificing and belt tightening. And all over the price of eggs.
Yep, it is going to be a ride "like no other"... But, hey, LTKIV, we have you in the driver's seat pointing out the scenery and the folks lurking in the shadows. Couldn't have a better person to be traveling with. So----thanks for this preview And yes, it is going to be one scary ride....
Clear and present danger. I wonder how long Mr. Orange’s blood pressure will hold. I expect a stroke will take him out, and fairly soon—He might not have four years. Pres. Vance is a scary thought.
That’s my hope!!! LOL [Instead of Shadow Musk, we’d get Shadow Thiel … even scarier, as Thiel is not a stupid as Musk, and he knows enough to stay behind the curtain when it matters.]
If this weren’t so terrifying it would be hilarious. Maybe it’s hilarifying?
THAT is a good one.
They've been Hillaryifying for how many years?
Another good one.
I call it plain EXHAUSTING! We all need to prick our fingers on a rose bush and fall asleep for 100 years and wake up after this set of criminals is long gone!
What will wake us up after 100 years?
Early candidate for word of the year, 2025: Hilarifying (adj.): the state or quality of being both hilarious and terrifying at the same time. e.g.: Trump “administration.”
A new word that should have been around forever! Perfect descriptor for the next 4 years!
Neologisms ‘R’ Us.
Yes, that's the word: "Hilarifying." I actually feel a little hopeful now that the Trumputin camp is tottering on an internal civil war of its own making. Another word comes to mind: "weak."
Back in the day, the losers were retouched out of the group, like Lev Bronstein was in the 1920s. Now they have Photoshop. Much faster.
Will Trump continue to side with fellow billionaires Elon and Vivek and throw his MAGA supporters under a bus when it comes to MAGA's anti-immigrant stance and economic concerns? Or will the bromance end in mutual recriminations and hatred?
Stay tuned for the upcoming season of Concepts of a Presidency.
Since Trump can’t (or an he?) run again I think his base may not matter this time around? Stay where the money is would be my guess.
“The current prevailing theory about Trump’s victory is that most Americans, irked by an unpleasant encounter with inflation, cast an anti-incumbent vote without giving much thought to the consequences of that vote for US democracy.
I don’t totally buy this whoops! theory. My sense is that, in this era of the Internet, there are millions more fascists in this country than people think, young men in particular.
And I believe that many more millions are fascinated by Trump not for his supposed business prowess but for his transparent wish to hurt others. He is an evil guy, a villain—and many Americans are excited by it. Harris and the Democrats, by contrast, are boring, boring, boring.
In this sense, the election was like a choice between four more years of church or four years of violent entertainment.
Nihilistic consumerism, as much as authoritarianism, prevailed. Of course, political science is not designed to investigate this kind of stuff. The clearest insights we have come from the realm of philosophy and literature. Hannah Arendt and Primo Levi did not rely on focus groups.”
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/11/09/all-bets-are-off-joseph-oneill/
Good God, I hope you’re wrong. It portends a frightful future.
“Glass Onion”
Thank you for the link. Correct on all points.
I agree, though he does seem to crave the adoration of the MAGA crowd.
The millions of followers was Donald’s only real power. But it looks like he made a money deal with Muck and Co. It’s a real pickle.
Trump is transactional. He doesn't need his supporters or Musk et al once he is sworn in.
Trump will need the R-Congress on certain items but not as many as some think he does. And when he needs them it will be transactional under threat of being primaried.
Trumo isn't a fascist or authoritarian. Those are political terms. Trying to apply them to Trump is a square peg in a round hole. Trump only brush w/poltical ideology is the letter I as in I, I, I, me, me, me.
Trump views the nation as his just as he does w/the Trump Org. He so said WABAC at his Turnberry Scotland golf course.
Trump only knows business and that ain't saying much because real estate is a mere subset of business. That is the reason during his presser at Turnberry he likened America to a golf course. Yes, a golf course that needed updating, repair, maintenance, restoring, and PR.
Nearly 10 years of Trump yet the vast majority continue to insist the only lens to view Trump is through politics despite all evidence to the contrary. ~Remarkable~
So, those that do will continue doing what they have been doing and still expecting a different outcome. That is the history of we got him this time whether impeachments or Federal cases, SCOTUS decisions, etc. etc.
Trump plays by his rules, not those others say and write he should or must. And Trump plays a different game than others say he should and must. Nearly Ten Years After (ref. to a band) and people don't acknowledge Trump doesn't listen or dance to their music. And never will.
Well said. But Musk can blackmail Donny if things don’t go his way. Donny has surely bragged to Elmo by showing him all the important top secret documents. Either that or Elmo required the kompromat before he agreed to set the new president up for life.
Abandoning his devoted followers says to me that there will be no need of party line voters in the next presidential election because there are no plans to hold one.
Perhaps.
Musk? If Musk gets an office on the WH campus whether in the EOB or in the WH, then his influence goes beyond what I currently see it as.
Have no feel for what docs Trump may or may not have. Do know intel docs age off faster than people think and believe they do. Have no idea where the transition PDB go to and how specific they are compared to the actual ones. And have no idea how they will be created under the Trump Adm or who will have access. Intel is only that. Doesn't make it as factual as most have come to believe. It's all couched with percentages of confidence. And that is subjective.
US NATSEC "secrets" are tightly controlled. And if the Biden Adm didn't further tighten them after the Documents Case then shame on them. Takes more than a change of Adm to snap fingers to undo certain security protocols a previous Adm had in place. And doing so leaves a trail of yellow and red flags. It's what the National Archives is for.
Am not concerned about any future elections. Haven't seen anything that would put any election in jeopardy in the US. Suppose if Rick Wilson was right that everything Trump touches dies there wouldn't have been one in 2024. There wouldn't be one for me in the future because I unregistered to vote after the last one. Didn't forfeit my #1A rights by doing so. Nor any other.
Also, most of the power Trump has as president is being given to him by the Supreme Court and others behind the scenes, and can be taken away.
He craves Musk's and the tech bros' money more!
Trump Hotels. Jared, MBS and Isreal millionaires invest in cleansed Gaza
You are exactly right. It has never been about anything but money and power. And now that he has lied his way back into the White House, he won't give it up without a fight. This is why the Supreme Court has become Americas' nightmare. Together with them, the orange traitor will let every one of his maga followers die by the roadside of hunger and heat. He's already started.
Karen Simmons, I think you are on target--at least where Trump's thinking is concerned...although I have to say I don't think he has ever been overly concerned about pleasing his base. I'm betting he figures they are not only stupid but have extremely short attention spans and that he'd be able to sweet lie them back into the cult.
I'm thinking this isn't going to fly with those Reps and Senators who won in very close contests and only by Trump's endorsement or support. This has to be a real concern for them!!! Get out the popcorn...and buckle the seatbelts. This will entertaining, horrifying and ugly all at the same time!
The orange anus face’s energy is flagging. Even though he’s up all hours of the night posting on his loser, dumbass app. Whatever drugs he’s been on for years is keeping him up and helping him blather. He’s old, I should know being born in the same decade. But he’s really going to hate having to work this time, no one running things is lazier than he is. He will need his minions to scurry around pretending to be him. They’ve already started. Let’s start a contest to see who can guess which of his shit bag’s is writing for him or whether or not it’s the naked emperor himself.
Cause he definitely didn't write that "tribute" to President Carter that was posted under his name. No all-CAPS, no trademark repetition, he never correctly used a word like "pivotal" in his life, and the syntax was that of a normal English speaker, not Drumpf's patented kindergarten screech.
Exact-a-mundo.
In my POV none of the enablers want Dumpty to do anything other than > be the distraction < while *they* run the show.
At this point, a Disney animatron programmed to say stupid, chaotic phrases would do that job as well as the original.
He doesn't need minions, the minions need him as a front. An avatar.
re: the contest- if a Dumpty post contains vocabulary above a 3rd grade level it's probably Steven Miller's crew.
He doesn’t have to do any work; he has Musk and Ramaswamy to do it. Then he can spend his time blathering on Fake Twitter.
Trump is not a billionaire …. He’s a poseur …
Poseuraire.
He’ll just try to close the border with Mexico to keep out the ‘undesirables’. Immigrants with work visas will be welcomed by those screaming about unregulated immigration. The big corporations are only looking at their bottom line, and if they can exploit foreign workers, then they’re all for immigration (hypocrites!).
Just look to Dear Leader, he employs the immigrants to save money, and even rescued Melanie off the "skilled worker" HB-1 visa, or whatever they called it back in the '90s. Yay exploitation.
You can get an HB-1 visa to be a ho? Who knew?
As long as you have an advanced degree in it.
What was her skill, modeling? We don’t have enough wannabe models here?
I believe her shill er, skill was, "a rich guy wants it."
I wonder what”skilled work” Melanie does.....
Christmas decorations!
His first wife too. Neither educated nor very bright. Those visas require advanced degrees.
I vote for mutual recriminations and hatred. Who cares about the MAGAs?
It has been brought to my attention that Donald Trump will be inaugurated under flags flying at half mast for Jimmy Carter. Thank you Jimmy.
I was glad he wasn't going to have to see the inauguration and The whole smug smugfest. And I was glad he didn't die on Donnie's watch who would do everything he could to prevent a state funeral. But I hadn't thought about the flags. Every flag in the nation and territories at half mast. Reminding everyone that we're sad.
Isn't this sort of thing called bait and switch? Get a law passed to allow the world's top engineers to fill vacant positions in corporate America that our engineers are just not qualified for. but then use that law to hire a foreign engineers but mostly to import cheap manual laborers, then lie to potential voters that you are going to deport the people taking American Jobs.
To quote from Lucian's article: "According to the Department of Labor, in 2023 alone, Trump requested and received H-B2 visas for non-skilled workers that included seven hotel desk clerks, 17 housekeeping cleaners, 53 waiters and waitresses, 24 cooks, five first-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers, and five bartenders.
Just couldn’t find any locals in Florida to change beds, swab out toilets, check-in guests, and prepare rubber chicken dinners at Mar-a-Lago."
Aamerica
Hey Robert! Happy New year.
Ah, thank you Lucian, wishing you and all my fellow subscribers the absolute best for the coming year.
It would be a brighter year had Trump not been elected, but the reality is he was. Jimmy Carter (rest his soul) lived for others, Trump lives for himself.
He doesn’t need the maggots anymore Lucian. He’s about milked them dry over the last 8 years. They are anything but a highly paid cohort, they are more like an uneducated mob who is watching technology that they disdained learning take over the landscape that they want to work in. In the marketplace your skills directly impact your income, no skills = here’s a broom. All of this leads me to think that he’s going to follow the money, it is after all the main reason he’s not going to prison. I could be wrong and he may get off on the grift enough to keep it going, but muck, who got him elected with the lint in his pocket, is the new guy in town, and I can guarantee that he has his attention. That may be better for the nation if it helps prevent massive deportations, since that’s a big maggot issue and they are not smart enough to put together what they will be paying for eggs after the people who are critical to our food supply are deported. Where it could be worse for the nation is what muck wants to do with our economy which he sees as free money if he can redirect it, don’t forget that he can buy all of the accomplices he needs. Either way we are in for a bumpy ride, whether our democracy can survive is another matter. 🤷♂️🤬
This is a superb point.
As lame a duck as ever quacked needs MAGAts now like he needs a belly button on his elbow.
Clarance Thomas just may be getting a few more free houses and RV's for next Christmas.
I didn’t know about the MRNA for pancreatic cancer. Thank you and I understand that it’s expensive. The two things that give me comfort are.1. They’ve never run anything nor produced anything.2. They do not communicate with each other, so who’s in charge when there’s conflict? We’ve seen a little, but I predict there’s going to be a lot more.
Of course they gonna fuck shit up hugely
Of course, those of us who have worked, especially for big corporations, know that competent managers are very few and very far between.
It caused me to start my own company. I couldn't stand working for incompetent, untrained 'managers' anymore.
In my entire life I worked with great managers once, that was in a Lockheed logistics group. In second place was Safeco insurance, before Paula Reynolds wrecked it.
Everything else was Peter Principle with a heap of Dunning-Kruger.
Oh, Lucian, you had me with the swamp weasels. Since I've avoided actual swamps and the weasals in them, it was off to Wikipedia, where I learned that the long-tailed weasel (Neogale frenata) lives up to your use of it as a descriptor for the whole lot: "The long-tailed weasel has well-developed anal scent glands, which produce a strong and musky odour. Analysis of a dichloromethane extract of the anal gland secretion showed it contained 2,2-dimethylthietane, 2,4-dimethylthietane, 2,3-dimethylthietane, 2-propylthietane, 3,3-dimethyl-1,2-dithiolane, 3-ethyl-1,2-dithiolane, indole and 2-aminoacetophenone."
The only reason I copied and pasted the second sentence is for those gazillion times in the next years when we'll see the ass-kissers on Fox "news," NewsMax and OAN(anism), running their tongues around MAGA and billionaire buttocks. Some consolation, remembering those are the chemicals right-wing media syco/psycho-phants will be ingesting through mouth and nose.
Way to go with Wikipedia! Onward into the swamp......
The only swap I want to go into is the Fire Swamp from The Princess Bride, and only in the company of the Cary Elwes and Robin Wright of 37 years ago, not that I'm objectifying either, oh, no.
Thanks to recent reflections on the Carter Years, I learned today there are things such as Swamp Rabbits in the Deep South. Supposedly one of those menaced Jimmy Carter back in c. 1979. WAPO had a little story about this. Or maybe it was The Guardian. That brought back memories! I'd forgotten about that "Killer Rabbit" episode.
Well played, sir!!!
Grazie tanto, spasibo, merci, and so on....
nyezashtuh (If what my Polish/Russian friend taught me 45 years ago is accurate)
Not sure how it's spelled in English, but it sounds in my ear what my friend Alan Mildzikhov says to me when I thank him with a "spasibo"
I've always pronounced it "neem a Zatch a"
Hell, my gray hair is getting grayer just thinking about the upcoming cluster fuck that starts mid-day on the 20th. Electing a new Speaker of the House should be fun because trmp has now decided maga mike will be just fine which puts all who said they’d not support maga mike in a bit of a bind now. Who’s going to end up kissing trmp’s ass, I wonder. Talk about whipsawing…….I can’t wait.
“MAGAs are saying… We’ve been HAD!”
Trumplethinskin is bought and paid for...and now the new "Chin and Company" are calling in the markers! We need to have a larger popcorn machine to watch our democracy devolve into an episodic diaster.
And some 55-gallon drums of Bombay Sapphire gin, as long as you're ordering.
What am I saying …I drink mocktails now. But scotch was the poison of choice in years past.
Is it all right if I get good single malt scotch: Glenfiddich or Glenlivet? Not loving gin.
Follow the money LTK, the rubes will do whatever Dear Leader tells them to and in the meantime Dear Leader will follow whoever pays the most tribute. He's keeping track of who pays into his inauguration slush fund, the media has already bent a knee, he's got immunity and the S.Ct. has said you can bribe politicians. It's all just a matter of counting the grift at this point. The National Anthem is now Sing a Song of Sixpence; "The King was in his counting house, counting out his money, The Queen was in the parlor, eating bread and honey.." As Elon says, the rest of us are in for some sacrificing and belt tightening. And all over the price of eggs.
Yep, it is going to be a ride "like no other"... But, hey, LTKIV, we have you in the driver's seat pointing out the scenery and the folks lurking in the shadows. Couldn't have a better person to be traveling with. So----thanks for this preview And yes, it is going to be one scary ride....
Holy spit they make the gang that couldn’t shoot straight look like the Nobel Committee and Laureates.
It's not a presicidentcy, it's a "special presedenticial operation".
Clear and present danger. I wonder how long Mr. Orange’s blood pressure will hold. I expect a stroke will take him out, and fairly soon—He might not have four years. Pres. Vance is a scary thought.
Vance who? Didn't he evaporate?
That’s my hope!!! LOL [Instead of Shadow Musk, we’d get Shadow Thiel … even scarier, as Thiel is not a stupid as Musk, and he knows enough to stay behind the curtain when it matters.]
HaHa! Anyway, fuck tRUMP, and the horse "he ride in on"...