Speaking of intelligence, you were referring the "median" intelligence, not the average.

Ditto, but your point was apparently lost on the mods which somehow valued the original comment and down voted yours.

He may have but his justice dept. hasn't. That's now the problem, la Presidenta gets his dainty little panties in a twist over something and then uses the Fed. Gov. to screw with the entity that caused him to see an "emergency".

BTW: his justice dept. has been hemorrhaging lawyers, something about them having scruples or not wanting lose their law licenses (it won't be long before he decides law licenses have to go as well). So right now they are severely understaffed. I'm sure he'll be able to scare up a enough Nazis to refill the ranks. He has a similar problem with ICE, so they are beating the bushes to get more storm troopers. And whom will they be chasing after they run out of migrants? They aren't building those gulags for just the migrants.

"the US is now regarded as unreliable and a dubious ally" This feeling of other nations towards the U.S. will not go away easily. It is clear the American people are easily duped. There was an article on Politico (I think) where the quizzed people outside the U.S. on la Presidenta's claim that the U.S. was a loser in world trade. They pointed out that the U.S. has great median income level, the median means half of the pop. is above and half is below, and it has been steadily rising over the years and due to international trade. So the schtick from la Presidenta is just another of his lies. So now other countries figure than a future U.S. (alleged) president can pull similar scams on Americans to get him/her self elected. The past is just that, past, they will never count on the U.S. again.

To get a perspective on la Presidenta's relationship with numbers, Michael Wolff, who did a lot research on la Presidenta for his books, says that people who know him think it bizarre that he cannot read a spreadsheet. Put crudely, he's innumerate. He can grok one number being bigger than another but that is about it. And now he's using that genius "knowledge" to bet the entire U.S. economy on economic falsehoods; there's no fixing stupid.

To enhance el Bunko's shitcoin and his other crime family crypto "investments".

Not modern medicine. AI. Be prepared for AI la Presidenta. They'll conjure images of him at meetings, signing meaningless EOs, opening non-existent factories, etc. Just use your imagination, the Maggots and Republicans certainly will.

There are no real trade deals, la Presidenta does not care about them. What he cares about is getting Americans to accept 15% tariffs on their purchases. He cannot do that domestically without a U.S. sales tax. So he does the next best thing, threaten countries with 50% or whatever and then "accepts" a 15%. He does this for two reasons: (1) he gets to honk on about his "deal" to the Maggots which helps keep them in line, and (2) he has to help pay for the gaping hole he's going to leave the Treasury receipts for his Big Mindless Budget.

That there are no deals is easily seen because there is nothing to see.....literally. A real trade deal takes years to negotiate and then the actual text can be picked over by economists and the press. la Presidenta has neutered the press and is in the process of neutering the organizations for which economists work. And we never get to see the text. So there is never a real news story from the corporate press about how the deals are fake.

An easy example is his claiming Japan is going to give him $500 billion to play with in a sovereign wealth fund. Japan's total GDP for 2024 was $4.026 Trillion USD. So he's claiming Japan is going to hand over roughly 12.5% of a years GDP to make his dick appear bigger than it really is. Even the pols in Japan are laughing at him because they know Japan has no intention of doing such a thing.

Another example is him claiming Europe is going invest $600 Billion directly in the U.S. during the next three years and spend $750 billion of U.S. energy exports through 2028. (Think CO2 emissions). However, "So EU energy imports (at $64.55 billion) are about 26 percent of the $250 billion the EU is supposed to spend on American energy each year under the framework agreement." (https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5435369-the-numbers-in-trumps-eu-trade-deal-are-a-joke/)

Besides, energy is a market and the leadership of Europe cannot tell their industries what to buy in energy. Japan is similar, their government is in no way able to take $500 and ship it to el Bunko.

I would argue that U.S. has been disintegrating ever since Republicans decided to wage war on the Fed. Gov., education, research, Democracy, i.e., anything that gets in the way of them acting like selfish brats. It started under Reagan and was (and is still being) pushed by Gingrich. la Presidenta just found that he could surf off that disintegration. At first, he was just running as a joke. Then he got his tail caught in a crack and decided he need to run again to keep his ass out of jail.

Now, he's busy destroying anything that could put him in jail after he leaves office. Although I expect at that time he'll be totally senile. How would we ever know the difference among his stupidity, his corruption, and his senility. They are indistinguishable at this point. However, never forget that it is the Republicans that are enabling him.

Not quite, la Presidenta has decided that climate change will whack his grifts, so he claims it does not exist. Him believing in anything that doesn't translate to his bottom line is simply a contradiction in terms.

"Sexual attraction is not illegal" Yet. Just wait a bit and the Christian nutjobs will get that outlawed as well. la Presidenta will declare the sexual attraction a scourge on America. There will be tariffs erected to stop it from coming in over the borders so that the sexual attraction industry will flourish in the U.S. At this point, the Christian nutjobs will go through the mental gymnastics necessary to square the two competing impulses, i.e., sexual attraction is a sin against God vs. their blind obedience to Dear Leader and encouraging the home grown sexual attraction industry. Shouldn't be any problem for them given the all the exercise they've had in these sorts of endeavors so far.

He spends quite a bit of time denying he did anything wrong. If what you said were true, then the FBI wouldn't have had to spend all that effort scrubbing the files of his name. I don't think the files describe him committing any crime. I can see the Biden administration holding their fire lest people think it was a political vendetta like unto what we now see from la Presidenta.

However, I am beginning to suspect that he was running an operation that was almost but not entirely unlike Epstein's (thanx Douglas Adams for that turn of phrase). Why was he hiring underage girls? To work in a spa? What was the appeal except that they were young and nubile? Why were was he hiring underage girls if he was running a legitimate business and not something shady? He is above shadiness in the way a brick is above the Sargasso Sea (thanx again D.A.).

You misspelled "butthole".

"TDS sufferers" I don't think we need to bring in the ability to believe la Presidenta into this. Those people have enough problems keeping up with the lie du jour, the *current* enemies list (it gets weekly updates, y'know), and which racial minority is at the top of the list of criminals invading U.S. Then there is the latest grift to which they are expected to contribute. It isn't easy being a Maggot, it isn't all fun and games.....well, it is during the seances to conjure up past slights, but not all the time. They have to spend considerable time inventing new slights and atrocities every week to meet their assigned quota.

Nooooo....that will kill moon whales!! And destroy all that beautiful scenery. Suppose someone wants to build a gold-plated resort there.

The main benefit to Maggot-Land is it makes the Nazi Fascist state just that much closer. Thiel is right-wingnut who supports Nazi parties in other countries. He doesn't have to look at himself in the mirror because he has no reflection in one.