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I see that the bottoms of Glenn & Gage's feet are still black as dirt. They also run around like feral animals. They were such sweet babies.

Yes, for sure, and the particular quote I was searching for earlier (with no luck) was from a journalist (whose name I have also forgotten!) who tied it directly back to Trump supporters and it was powerful. If I ever figure out how to find it, I will share, lol.

From my husband's favourite book. Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind: “People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.” Long story short, this basically: THIS is what Trump has tapped into. He is masterful at it.

I am trying to find a quote I heard recently that nails this but in case I can't find it, the gist of it is that Trump supporters would rather go down with the ship than admit that that they were wrong because if they admit that they were wrong, they have to face the fact that they were conned and that they fell for the grift.

Social media is a scourge on society, so yes to that. Something really bad also happened because of Covid. People forgot how to act as a society. As a whole. The 'every man for himself' attitude that many people adopted during the pandemic has never went away and social niceties have been tossed out the window. Community is gone. Social norms are gone. A lot is just gone. And nobody seems to care.

So pretty! So shiny! So powerful! So strong! I read this morning that nobody at the ports have even started collecting the tariffs yet because of a "technical glitch." Another day, another "glitch." Lather, rinse, repeat.

I flipped by The Shopping Channel, here, in Canada a while ago and had a good snicker. The handbag company called American Leather Co. is now going by ALC. Ha, nice try everyone. Especially since the bags are literally stamped with an American Leather Co. logo on the front. (But Made in India.) This is how serious the DO NOT BUY ANYTHING AMERICAN thing is here.

I saw on CNN last night that Trump's White House staff accidentally called fired & retired Lt. Gen H. R. McMaster instead of South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster. This happened a few days before the Signal Chat debacle. You literally cannot even make this shit up at this point. I told my husband that the White House basically butt-dialed the guy. The Oval Office is basically a circus ring. 🤦‍♀️ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/h-r-mcmaster-trump-accidental-call/ "Why the f*** would I talk" to H.R. McMaster? Trump asked dismissively

Word on the street is that Trump is trying to fire Jerome Powell. He's asked his buddies on the Supreme Court to let him.

Trump administration accused of insider trading after stocks soar. “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY,” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social at 9:37am in the morning. There was a spike in Nasdaq call volume, where traders buy the right to purchase a share at a certain price before a certain date, in the hour before the president announced his U-turn. Outraged Democrats suggested the president had tipped off his “billionaire” allies before showing his hand, and driving the S&P 500 to its biggest rise since 2008. Call for ‘insider trading’ investigation. Adam Schiff, a Democrat senator in California, said: “I’m writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the president was gonna once again flip flop on tariffs? And are people cashing in? “There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading.” Elizabeth Warren, the former presidential candidate and Massachusetts senator, added: “Right before Donald Trump declared that some of his tariffs were off again, he sent out a message to his billionaire buddies. “Was that market manipulation? Was that corruption in plain sight? We need an independent investigation.”

This fool is manipulating the stock market in plain sight for everybody to see. He isn't even hiding it. Everybody working with him in the White House right now is going to walk out of there a gazillionaire by the time they walk out. Same goes for all his cronies, including all the politicians who support him. They are all getting richer by the day.

I keep telling my husband that nothing will change until he pisses off the wrong billionaire(s).

Thank you for my first morning chuckle.

I'm starting to wish I could live in a cave.

White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, on the pissing contest between Navarro & Musk: "Boys will be boys!" https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5238422-elon-musk-peter-navarro-tariff-fight/

I agree. All we can really hope for at this point is that the Cult of Donald Trump ends with Donald Trump and that it is non-transferable. 🤞

Granted, I don't think I caught all 85 episodes of The Never-Ending Last Resort, because after a while, how you can even tell, but I don't think Ari came off looking bad at all. I also found her likeable in her Between the Sheets segments. She apparently goes off on Julia in the next week's Tell-Nothing, but that's probably going to be some made-up nothing burger drama. I would not last more than 10 minutes in a conversation with Bini and that's without the moonwalking. Calm the fuck down, dude.

But it's only going to cost $92 million dollars. And it's going to be on his birthday. A small price to pay to honour and celebrate everyone's favourite president. Kim Jong Un is going to be so jelly.

I don't think everyone knows this, I think most people assume he is the inventor of it all.

Kevin looks great! Does this show get any better though? I have tried to get to the end of this first episode twice now. It's just ... not good.

Trump presents 'Gold Card' for rich immigrants to US

Did he mention the ChatGPT theory? That Trump used ChatGPT to come up with those numbers? 🤦‍♀️

I came across that the other day and I was going to share to gripe about her "to" hard & "to" soft and I just couldn't even summon up the effort to care anymore. OH GOD, and I just caught her 3 "beats" typo now, too. It's a lost cause, really.

Well, he was able to spot the the giraffe AND the lion in that cognitive test Dr. Ronny gave him so yeah, that tracks.