But that's what they told POTUS because he'd brag about means and methods.

i kinda wanted to think it was drunken kung fu, crazy wisdom, or 4d chess

That's always the claim.

It is rooted in the "madman" theory, and it isn't complete bunk, but vastly overrated. Acting like (or being) a crazy asshole is its own form of predictability.

And in Piggy's case, it is a cope masquerading as a boast. When he can't bully, the dipshit just has nothing else. He's strategic about nothing except protecting his fragile ego.

So he does utterly stupid things like attacking Iran while claiming the goals were secret so he could retcon whatever he wanted. The reality is he's decompensing - he's losing badly in court and public opinion. The weird kidnapping of the Honduran president made him think he knows better than all those egghead generals, and he stuck his dick in a meat grinder. And all the while he gets a little more demented, retreating up his own ass, mincing about the drapes in his oh-so-pretty ballroom/citadel from which to claim he can't be ousted as Supreme Ruler.

Which would be fine, except he's taking the rest of the country with him while making everyone hate us.

Trump is a shit stain on the underwear of the nation. He needs to go.

And it didn't even really pull the heat of the Epstein stuff, so it failed there, too.

On the bright side, the dipshit also badly damaged his coalition.

But yes, Stumpy: - spent upwards of 12 digits on war porn without any plan,
- got badly outplayed by Iran on one side, Israel on the other, and China playing adult in the room,
- destroyed the Freedom of Navigation the world depends on for trade the US used to guarantee,
- spit in the face of our allies, yet again,
- demonstrated to the world that the US cannot be trusted to keep commitments,
- turned the most active Iranian protests against the regime in decades into very public demonstrations defending it.

Oh - and we're not done. Iran says the ceasefire isn't on yet, because US/Israel is violating several of the provisions, and the Strait is not, in fact, open.

This is that fucking idiot failure Don Trump's gift for Americans.

This is an attempt to reduce fear, but it seems like a pretty sophomore effort.

They have enough money for really good PR, so I have to imagine there are... personalities interfering. Or maybe just one.

Going to be fun watching the hustling as they try to IPO with a CFO who says it won't work.

That's an extremely short-term analysis.

Your red-pilled lawyer will soon have a reputation. They'll find their client pool shrinking, judges not giving them the benefit of the doubt, and other lawyers not referring work to them.

They'd better do a lot of slop cases quickly and hope the money lasts, because that strategy is going to tank their practice faster than they graduated law school.

"Incognito" has been redefined to mean "we'll pretend we don't know who you are."

More generally, if you're talking to a robot that runs on someone else's machine, you should not be surprised if the machine owner spies on you. Maybe it shouldn't work this way - I'd say it definitely shouldn't, and the big outfits acknowledge this by pretending it doesn't - but that's the world we live in.

The assumption should always be that these robots are front ends to Zuckerberg's & Google's user profiling systems. Your robot talk therapist or cofounder is trying to help Nestle and Ford manipulate you. And let's not forget LEOs and intelligence - we haven't heard much about how they're targeting this stuff yet. But they would be incompetent if they aren't.

I feel like we're stuck in a time loop with a a really screwed up read head.

I so, so very look forward to pissing on several graves. I'll happily be arrested in Arlington Cemetery, so long as they let me shake first.

"It enforces zero policy," Poettering said. "It leaves that up for other parts of the system."

"Calm down, stop being so jumpy. The explosives around your neck will not detonate. Unless I push this button."

LNG is not just used directly for energy.

It is an input to urea production. As in fertilizer. As in a major farming input.

So you can thank Mr. Peace President for you impending food bill, too.

Yes, the same dipshit that calls himself the peace president and minces around talking about redoing the drapes like a pantomime suburban housewife.

(Can you imagine what fun the press would have had with a President Hillary going on about the drapes?)

And then goes on to be a trashy asshole to the Japanese PM. Although that could "just" be dementia-driven disinhibition instead of intentional. And when he's gone, remember that this is what Republicans value - this incompetent, boorish, demented piece of trash. And why? Because he is hurting people they resent slightly more than he is hurting them, and they're willing to burn the constitution to do it.

Oh, that's not what they meant?

Nevermind, not interested.

Absolutely agree.

And you can rest easy knowing the US is currently crippling and isolating itself, so it will likely back off some of its nastier behavior over the long term. (Although the short term is turning out to be... interesting.)

But to be realistic you need to note US is not uniquely bad here. Nations have interests, not morals. If one ends up substantially more powerful than peers, it will throw its weight around. And the US, for all its faults and evils, has mostly promoted human rights and an expansion of political freedom. Its failures and hypocrisies there are many and awful, but I assure you a resurgent Russia or unfettered China would not be a better actor.

There have been several recent cases of the Ohio leg not being responsive to what the citizenry want. You can expect citizens to keep doing this until they manage to dislodge the arrogant little shitweasels who keep trying to tell normal folks how to live.

Nicely self-descriptive comment. I'll remember the name and not bother reading you anymore.