Steve in Chicago
IT Professional. Friend of democracy. If you're not going to heaven, why only miss it by an inch?
- FFS. Could have dinner prepared by whatever chefs the Saudi royal family has. "Ok, just behave during dinner and we'll get you McDonalds" is something parents do for a fussy eight-year-old.
- This kind of thing is why legitimate law enforcement carries badges with an identifiable number on it, identify themselves, present warrants, etc. Without that, there's no way of knowing it isn't one of these guys.
- Real burden being right all the time. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/u...
- Kind of fun that a whole lot of people who saw War Games and Terminator 2 seem to be looking to turn everything over to SkyNet as quickly as possible.
- I keep looking at the potential security threat of having your new Air Force One supplied by another country, and imagining a leader in 12th Century BC Troy saying "we're suckers and losers if we don't accept this enormous, meticulously detailed wooden horse from the Greeks."
- As always, the "R" in GIFT is invisible when spoken in the Trumpian dialect of English.
- Just going to take a minute to appreciate the wording in this post, specifically "accepting bribes from foreign figures." He isn't "raising questions" or "testing the Emoluments Clause." He's straight-up taking a bribe and I'm glad TNR called it that.
