Trump's Second Term

[Jack by the hedge]

How does Trump keep henchmen like Rubio in check? He literally makes them wear shoes that are far too big | Marina Hyde

The art of the heel: if you want a shot at the US presidency, you better be ready to sartorially debase yourself on the world stage, says Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

How hard would it have been for Rubio to give an intern $145 and send them to get a matching pair of shoes that actually fit him? Is the performative humiliation of wearing shoes that don't fit, without complaining, a kind of ceremonial supplication to the orange monster?

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Kegseth says there should be no free press.

Just bomb them.

Back in the '90s NATO caught a whole world of ◊◊◊◊ for bombing that Serbian TV news station, but they were all just woke back then. There are no such rules restraining Hegseth's savage warfighters from applying as much murderdeathkill as they find necessary.

 

[shemp]

TRUMP: “You’re a rotten reporter.”

That's like something a six-year-old would say. "And you suck at dodge ball too!"

 

[jimbob]

How hard would it have been for Rubio to give an intern $145 and send them to get a matching pair of shoes that actually fit him? Is the performative humiliation of wearing shoes that don't fit, without complaining, a kind of ceremonial supplication to the orange monster?

It's so tight.

They are all incredibly wealthy and yet Trump is giving them midrange shoes

 

[Segnosaur]

It's so tight.

They are all incredibly wealthy and yet Trump is giving them midrange shoes

Well, to be fair, we still don't know exactly how "wealthy" the Trump Klan actually is.

Remember before the 2016 election, Trump claimed he was worth billions, but as we pointed to at the time, we didn't really have any verification. (We know Trump had assets, but he also had debts. So for all we know he could have been flat broke.)

Now, Trump has supposedly added billions of dollars in "wealth" since his first election, but a lot of that has been quite... nebulous. (Stock holdings in Truth social, which will probably never turn a profit, crypto holdings of questionable value.) And, lets fact it, he's still a pretty poor businessman, so any "real" money he manages to scam might have already been lost.

He might still actually be completely broke for all we know.

 

[Andy_Ross]

How hard would it have been for Rubio to give an intern $145 and send them to get a matching pair of shoes that actually fit him? Is the performative humiliation of wearing shoes that don't fit, without complaining, a kind of ceremonial supplication to the orange monster?

A loyalty test.

 

[Mike!]

Wow. CENTCOM has offered a correction, there were SIX killed when the plane crashed, so as of Friday the Thirteenth, we have 13 killed in Operation Epstein Fury.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

A loyalty test.

He's lucky they weren't two sizes too small with nails through the heels.

 

[Planigale]

Wow. CENTCOM has offered a correction, there were SIX killed when the plane crashed, so as of Friday the Thirteenth, we have 13 killed in Operation Epstein Fury.

Two tankers out of action will presumably have a significant impact?

 

[Safe-Keeper]

Wow. CENTCOM has offered a correction, there were SIX killed when the plane crashed, so as of Friday the Thirteenth, we have 13 killed in Operation Epstein Fury.

That's nothing, he got a million Americans killed when he was last president.
/s (it's not nothing, of course, but I'm in a snarky and sarcastic mood)

 

[P.J. Denyer]

That's nothing, he got a million Americans killed when he was last president.

Give him credit, he's taken out a crack battalion of 170 Attack Schoolgirls.

 

[LDE1976]

He's lucky they weren't two sizes too small with nails through the heels.

When I saw the article, I immediately thought of the Family Guy episode where Peter wears Stewie's shoes.

 

[Armitage72]

Kegseth says there should be no free press.

I'm currently reading a short story anthology called "Alternative Liberties", stories about alternate futures spinning off from the current political and social situation.
One of the stories is called "C.A.R.E.", and depicts a news broadcast implementing the FCC-mandated Corrections, Apologies, Retractions, and Errata program. News sources are required to retract, "correct", and apologize for any "fake news" or "Unamerican" stories they run. Midway through the story, the "E" is changed to Education because most viewers don't know what "Errata" means, which makes it an Unamerican word.

 

[Andy_Ross]

KILMEADE: You think Putin is helping Iran?

TRUMP: I think he might be helping them a little bit, yeah. And he probably thinks we're helping Ukraine, right?

KILMEADE: And you are, right?

TRUMP: Yeah, we're helping them also, and so he says that, and China would say the same thing. It's like, hey, they do it and we do it, in all fairness

https://twitter.com/x/status/2032475545301049666

 

[Andy_Ross]

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Q: You have said the US military has aerial and naval superiority over Iran, yet we're not escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz. How did you not plan for this?

HEGSETH: We planned for it. We recognize it. Um, because ultimately, we want to do it sequentially in a way that makes the most sense for what we want to achieve.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2032437141213417623

 

[Andy_Ross]

Hegseth: "This country is conditioned to previous leaders -- whether it's George W Bush, or Barack Obama, or Joe Biden -- who had these expansive, nebulous mission sets that kept changing all the time ... we're taking the opposite approach."

https://twitter.com/x/status/2032435862168883232

 

[Mike!]

I'm pretty sure that's a Wiggles song... "Word Salad, Yummy Yummy..."

 

[Andy_Ross]

Rant

CNN, what a bunch of bastards

Karoline Leavitt
@PressSec
This story is 100% FAKE NEWS.

CNN decided to run this garbage based on three anonymous “sources familiar with discussions.”

This is despite the fact that myself, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of State, and multiple lawmakers (who were actually present for the recent classified briefing) have directly disputed this false reporting.

THE TRUTH: The Pentagon has been planning for Iran’s desperate and reckless closure of the Strait of Hormuz for DECADES, and it has been part of the Trump Administration’s planning well before Operation Epic Fury was ever launched.

The idea that Chairman Cain and Secretary Hegseth weren’t prepared for this possibility is PREPOSTEROUS. The President was fully briefed on it, and a goal of the Operation itself, to annihilate the terrorist Iranian regime’s navy, missiles, drone production infrastructure, and other threat capabilities is quite literally intended to deprive them of their ability to close the Strait.

President Trump will not allow rogue Iranian terrorists to stop the freedom of navigation and the free flow of energy.

Wiping out these terrorists who indiscriminately target civilians and attempt to hold the global economy hostage is part of the ongoing noble U.S. mission.

The Fake News is working overtime to discredit President Trump, his Administration, and our U.S. Military, all of whom are working 24/7 to eliminate the threat of the Iranian regime.

It’s a complete disgrace to witness this from the media, and we will keep fighting back against it.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2032461051493511299

https://twitter.com/x/status/2032461051493511299

 

[The Great Zaganza]

thanks Karoline, I might not have seen that article without you!

 

[Resume]

Rant

CNN, what a bunch of bastards

https://twitter.com/x/status/2032461051493511299

Sure Granny Panties, sure.