Just to put a finer point on it, Netanyahu flim-flammed la Presidenta into using the Bunky Bustererinos on Iran by promising (1) it will eliminate Iran as a nuke threat (it won't), and (2) Netanyahu won't now make la Presidenta look like the chicken-shit that he is. la Presidenta only beats on entities that cannot fight back. la Presidenta picked up on (1) because Netanyahu promised that would be the Israeli story-line. Netanyahu needs that story-line to keep his ass out of jail.

Just think of it as the Art-of-the-Deal. Remember the title of Fran Drescher's book "Enter Whining"? la President's next "book" will be titled "Leave Whining". He never stops whining because he knows it distracts the Maggots from standing back and realizing what an easy mark he is.

Cannot trust the ministers to keep their hands to themselves.

No so much to trust them to delete it, but to trust them not to hand it over to the FOX's DoJ? Don't trust them further than you can spit a two-headed rat.

TDS? The ability to believe la Presidenta has nothing to do with it. Bezos is fairly far up la Presidenta's ass. It was launched in March, 2024. That was before Bezos decided he could horn in on whatever bullshit la Presidenta was selling. I doubt he gave an order blow it off course, but I'm willing to bet it won't bother him since now he can report the good news to his minder.

la Presidenta is above causing his regime's military to screw with the satellite in the same way a brick is above the Sargasso Sea (thanx Douglas Adams).

"Move fast and break things!!" is just a euphemism for "I don't know WTF I'm doing and cannot be arsed to learn or I'm too stupid to learn, so I'll break it and pick up the pieces."

Errrr....Mr. Maggot, could you please forward your post to the U.S. Justice Dept. or FOX. Both go for that sort made up bullshit. It warms the cockles of their dark little hearts.

Canada doesn't need reciprocal tariffs. If you spent any time recently in Canada, you'd realize that Canadians would rather eat stink-sap (think Harry Potter) than buy anything American. Canada has also started doing trade deals with the EU and negotiating with Mercosur, the S. American trade block. The EU is also negotiating with Mercosur. China is doing similar things and is by-passing U.S. farm products.

Good luck with you faith in the alleged administration. The U.S. is being sidestepped. U.S. farmers hadn't yet recovered their markets in China due to la Presidenta's last stupid trade war. Roll the tape forward 3.5 years. If la Presidenta even allows another election (he could declare martial law and that another election cannot be held while the U.S. is being invaded with Haitian pets eating Ohioans), no country is going to trust the U.S. not to elect another adolescent moron in 2028 or 2032 or beyond who will not do similarly stupid things. And if la Presidenta declares himself la Presidenta for Life (he's already floating this idea to the Maggots so they can relfoat it back him allowing him to say, "People are saying I should be la Presidenta for life"), then no country will bother with the U.S. unless the U.S. Navy is parked outside their ports.

Just to push your thread a bit further. Companies cut back workers, workers don't earn and do not spend. Companies start to wonder what to do:

Exec 1: I don't know how to get people to buy, they have no money.

Exec 2: Errrrmmm.....we could start employing more people and paying them.

Exec 1: Wow!! What a great idea!! You first.

Exec 2: Thank you, but I really think it is problem asking for your strong leadership. You first.

Exec 1: That's very observant of you, but you have the depth of experience and it is your idea. I'd feel bad stealing your idea. You first.

Exec 2: Yes, I do have more depth of experience than you, however you can stop lying to me. You first.

Exec 1: Your idea or did you just float it sink my company? You first.

Exec 2: You ungrateful squit. I give you a shiny new idea and you refuse. You first.

Exec 1: Sigh....I guess I'll retire with my golden parachute. Golf at 3 today?

Exec 2: A capital idea, I'll retire with my golden parachute too. Could we make it 4? I have a hair dresser appt. at 2.

Why should you assume Powell doesn't realize this? Or are you just talking out of your ass. It is widely known among businesses, but the execs think they themselves are "special" to their companies, so it will be the little people that get screwed and those "other" company's execs whom they will no longer have to worry about losing a job to.

la Presidenta has already declared he wants Bessent to be the next Fed. Chair. as Powell's term is up in 2026. You recall Bessent? Toadie of la Presidenta, able to lie without facial ticks to the national media, and totally bereft personal integrity. If la Presdienta wants rates lowered, and he does, then Bessent will be his toadie on the ground to make it happen. Given the damage la Presidenta's Big Stupid Bill will do to the nation's debt, this is not recipe for success.

TDS? I don't think we need to bring the ability to believe la Presidenta into this.

Look at la Presidenta's behavior over the last 6 months. He gives up Ukraine to that nice Putin, decides to wage economic war the rest of the world but excludes Russia and Israel but manages to get rolled by Natanyahu into attacking Iran (he didn't do it to prevent Iran getting nukes, he did it because Natanyahu was making him look like a whiny, weak chicken), abandons all the U.S. allies except Israel, attempts to coerce Canada into becoming the "51st" state, expresses his lust for conquering Greenland and Panama, decided that the U.S. didn't need no stinking scientific research, is trying to kill Harvard, pressured the president of U. of Virginia into resigning.

He released a lot of water from N. California to combat wild fires in S. California where that water could not reach and then went to honk on about "solving" the fire hazard in S. California, claimed to have "stopped" the recent India-Pakistan flareup but did nothing to stop it yet pissed off India by claiming he had....mostly on the basis of signing a "deal" with Pakistan crypto-bros to contribute to his personal piggy bank, etc. And that etc could go on for several more paragraphs showing his adolescent behavior.

Now, let's review the short list of his grifts since taking office, mind you this is the short list, I've missed at least as much as I have haphazardly collected:

1. Sneakers
2. NFTs with him doing stupid shit
3. Watches
4. Fragrances
5. Cabinet positions: he promises “cabinet advisory positions” to the Maggots in emails, all you need to get one is contribute to him.
6. Bibles
7. His "media company".....just announced they "lost" $400 million in the last year. That's $400 million of other people's money he and his cronies have made off with.
8. The el Bunko guitar
9. Shirts with he and Elmo on them
10. Gold one dollar bills
11. Gold Bars
12. Siphoning money from criminal seizures into a National “Strategic” Bitcoin Reserve thereby increasing money into the shitcoin industry and his own shitcoins.
13. Cabinet positions for his billionaire “contributors”
14. Advertising Teslas on the White House lawn. The Bunk: Elmo announced he’s putting another $100 million into el Bunko’s political operation.
15. $447,000 Birken Crocodile Handbag.
16. Golf “tournaments” at his golf course fueled by Saudi money; the Saudis are above corruption in the same way a brick is above the Sargasso Tea (thanx Douglas Adams)
17. Don Jr. has a millionaires club to rich to get inside scoop on new Bunks.
18. Eric has crypt company merging with another so they’ll be listed on Nasdaq.
19. el Bunko’s own crypto so foreign governments and “friends” can contribute directly. United Arab Emirates put $2 billion into the Trump family’s new cryptocurrency outfit, World Liberty Financial.
20. Qatar’s 450 million dollar airplane “gifted” to DoD but he gets to keep it when he leaves office.after DoD tricks it out to make it secure.which they’ll do by first stripping it down and putting it back together again.
21. Auction to dine with el Bunko.
22. Qatar chipped in to help finance a Trump-branded beachside golf and luxury villa project in the country worth $5.5 billion.
23. el Bunko hotels for housing foreign “dignitaries”.
24. Held a “fundraiser” for people to contribute to his grift-coin.
25. Did a “deal” with Pakistan’s crypto-bros so they could contribute to him directly.

All of his tat is made in China. And he is hawking it now from the Oval Orifice.

No. They are not white, and do not have enough money to make their non-whiteness a non-issue.

Can't. la Presidenta is on a jihad to kick them all out of the country. When SS gets cut because of tax breaks, the gray haired will be bemoaning the fact that they supported that asshole given that no one is left to support them.

I'll second that. Many years ago, circa 1998, I had the misfortune to be saddled with "honors" students in undergraduate CS at Major Midwestern University. I was appalled. They only knew Java but had a smattering of other languages (e.g., Scheme, C, etc.). I asked them to give me "Hello World" programs to see of what they were capable. They were not capable....of even that. "Honors" students my ass. I realized then what the professors were doing was padding their classes so they could teach easy subjects that required little work on their part. They were as much to blame as the students.

1998 was when the Year 2000 craze started hitting and companies were hiring anyone and their pets to "solve" the problem. One bight spark announced he was leaving school because he could make mounds of money in Colorado. Dunno if he ever made his mounds, I'll bet they disappeared after the craze turned into a dank squib. I realized then that companies only required the "staff" to keep their investors happy that they were "solving" the problem.

The problem persists even in my current research environment. No one wants to work on hard problems, they only want easy problems that do not burden them with learning anything new or inventing anything new. And they are incapable of discovering new problems or research avenues to pursue. They want to be handed a problem that is guaranteed to be "solved" if they just whack some shit together for long enough that a polished turd gets emitted.

As usual with this alleged administration, always follow the bread crumb trail back into the pockets of the people "running" the alleged administration.