J.C.MacSwell

Oligarchs gotta oligarch. Does the Trump regime not come up with anything outside the Putin playbook?

AHOTUS works for me

Win-lose transactional positions are not very effective. Short term thinking at best, and even then especially unlikely when "broadcast" to customers.

I'm dying to get some respect here!

Trump Claims he'd "rather work with a Liberal than a Conservative" and Poilieivre "is no friend of mine". https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/trump-says-he-would-rather-deal-with-a-liberal-than-a-conservative-calls-poilievre-no-friend-of-mine/ The guy loves the Putin playbook (Putin claimed he'd rather Biden as POTUS than Trump)...but unlike his MAGA supporters Canadians know that what comes out of his mouth is more likely to be false than truthful.

There seems to be a notable rise in "accusation in a mirror" speech, accusing others of what one is doing or planning, by the current administration. Something Putin has been adept at for years...so it must be a good idea... Much of their "defence" of free speech is along these lines. It seems more systematic than ad hoc, though with Trump himself it can be hard to tell, not so much whether he's lying but whether he planned it or just came up with it and blurted it out.

Might have closed the gap...but even in that "World Class" group...Trump would be an outliar Best ever!

Their partners probably didn't have the cards...even at the casinos...so in their minds who can blame them?

Saw this on ifunny.co though don't know the origin:

Maybe we are being a little hard on Trump. We tend to think of Ukrainian kids, whose lives he affects, foreign aid and social security cuts, or are own self interests, prices of groceries etc. I could go on. Trump is above all that. Maybe in a good way. He does have his good side. Here he is taking his own valuable time, when he could be golfing, to support a friend who has just lost a lot of money in the last couple days on the stock market. Probably thousands of times more than all of us here reading this has ever lost combined. President Donald Trump, alongside Tesla CEO Elon Musk, speaks next to a Tesla vehicle at the South Portico of the White House on Tuesday. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/trump-musk-tesla-white-house-showroom-buys-car-rcna195905 Makes you think. Doesn't it? Maybe he's not such a bad guy after all. Won't anyone think of the billionaires?

Not only is Trump the "BEST EVER!" in every way... He's a modern day Nostradamus: Maybe Nostradamus forecasted much further into the future than 6 months...but you have to give Trump more credit for accuracy...BEST EVER! (and sorry JD but with all due respect to your arrogance, malice, lies, and incompetence you're not included in the big two...)

If he can't shake the Trump connection...hare today...gone tomorrow...

Also a couple of unicorns...not a horse

bit of an unfortunate typo...😊

You spelled Senators wrong...

Unthankful fish obviously attacked the snake, and noticeably isn't even in a suit and tie...

That's hardly fair. It's always the 90% of lawyers that give the rest a bad name. And now I see this...

This surprises me from Exchemist's link. Even Keith Kellogg has now swallowed the Kool-aid: Keith Kellogg, Trump’s envoy to Ukraine, tweeted: “Was honored to be with @POTUS, @VP, and [Rubio] in the Oval today during the bi-lateral with President Zelensky. As the President has ALWAYS done-he stood for America....America First.”

This has to be correct. Lindsey Graham: "I have never been more proud of the President. I was very proud of JD Vance, standing up for our country" "He (Zelensky) needs to resign and send over someone we can do business with, or he needs to change" Lindsey Graham is simply not that stupid. There is nothing Zelensky said that needs taken back.They no doubt hoped for more:

Right. Big mistake giving up their nuclear weapons. What a message for the World. Europe better start building more of them before Ukraine's well trained army is conscripted against them. And let's stop being hypocritical about North Korea and Iran. Only might is right.

I don't know. That's in part why I added "for whatever that's worth"

Okay. No actual test. You quoted this though as well though: "There’s zero evidence, from his life history, of Musk having anything higher than a 110 IQ.” You quoted this as a biographer's statement. Fair enough. But do you believe that? Is there nothing in his life history that suggests above average intelligence?

Musk's IQ has been estimated to be around 155 (for whatever that's worth). I have no doubt that at one time it was above 140, arguably the start of genius level (for what that's worth) My issues with him would be more with both his intellectual and moral integrity. https://brainmanager.io/blog/cognitive/what-is-elon-musk-iq

Surely, though, you didn't look at Musk wielding the chainsaw without thinking a good lobotomy session was in order...

Right now it seems more like cooking a frog in a very bad microwave, with temperatures all over the place.