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When you put it that way, sounds like he's our guy!

He's been out of a job for the last 20 years.

With little intelligence and little intelligence I guess it’s OK to make up your own facts.

Mark Rutte is a genius.

That's what it takes.

That's what it takes.

MR was prime minister for years and years.
remind me of FW

    — Three quarks for Muster Mark!
    Sure he hasn't got much of a bark
    And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.
    But O, Wreneagle Almighty, wouldn't un be a sky of a lark
    To see that old buzzard whooping about for uns shirt in the dark
    And he hunting round for uns speckled trousers around by Palmer-
        stown Park?
    Hohohoho, moulty Mark!
    You're the rummest old rooster ever flopped out of a Noah's ark
    And you think you're cock of the wark.
    Fowls, up! Tristy's the spry young spark
    That'll tread her and wed her and bed her and red her
    Without ever winking the tail of a feather
    And that's how that chap's going to make his money and mark!

A very real and present danger with Trump is that he is so susceptible to flattery and obsequiousness.

There are not many things that he cares about; mainly just his own wealth and popularity. And he is very stupid and has the attention span of a goldfish, which probably feeds into his susceptibility to flattery and obsequiousness: if he can convince himself of someone's submissive loyalty to him, he can just give them free rein to do whatever without worrying that they'll betray his interests in his own wealth and popularity.

While his stupidity and his lack of focus keeps him from doing a lot of good things, it also keeps him from being enthusiastic about doing most bad things.

And that's where his susceptibility to flattery and obsequiousness comes in.

Trump probably doesn't care very much about deporting immigrants. His supporters are racist and xenophobic, so he wants to trouble immigrants enough to placate them ... but probably even his supporters are uncomfortable with the level of cruelty, arbitrariness, and lawlessness with which immigrants are being persecuted: his regime's immigration policies probably don't help his popularity, not even with his core supporters.

But his aide Stephen Miller wants the policies ... and his aide Stephen Miller is fawning and subservient to him. So he doesn't question Miller and the policies continue.

There are probably less wholesale parallel situations with regard to the Gazan Genocide and the attacks on Iran, probably with more than one person promoting them, but I think there is a pattern and a situation ripe for malignant exploitation: whatever evil thing you want to do, just get into Trump's good graces, convince him of your loyalty and subservience, and proceed with your plans.

I love, love, love the renewed fighting between Trump and Musk! They might just about have the means and wherewithal to destroy each other.

It’s hard to know what category to post this under, but this is probably as close to sheer lunacy as anything else we have on hand. So, Netanyahu just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize. No further comments could possibly be needed.

Maybe?

On an unrelated note, if you try to prosecute a deeply corrupt and oddly Trump-like former head of state for corruption, no soup for you! Not even a taco! 50% tariffs! That we will pay…

Hob-nobbing time.

Rather time of bullets.