The musk-vance-otherguy administration is taking meetings and taking credit for economic good news, should be fine to discuss grocery prices if they’re discussing invasion of allied territories.
On day 1 there need by no wiggle room. Then they own it until they solve it or get voted out
And preps for the trade war is continuing…
Driving inflation on both sides of the border
You must be joking! 
“There is going back” said here. You’ll pay for it though lol. Listening to this contorted message, I wonder if she would have even won.
“The other, sane Republican” is surely a myth approaching Bigfoot level at this point. I’ll bet heavily on more of the Trumpy same in the future.
We need Switzerland, and the Sudetenland
Should post this every so often to remind MAGA that it was a win, but a miniscule win, and to remind Dems that it was a loss, but a razor thin loss.
The only candidate to not get over 50% of the vote in the last 6 presidential elections. Only the extremes on both sides can see it as an overwhelming victory or a devastating loss.
Need to keep the results in perspective for governing and for being the opposition party.
won Popular Vote
won EC
won the House
won the Senate
won every swing state
MAGA only needed an EC win, instead they won it all, while also making it the greatest political comeback in U.S. history. It’s such an extensive win that deep-blue CEO’s are flocking to meet with Trump before he’s even President to change company policy, it’s incredible how deep, far reaching, and immediate the win is.
I think Democrats will have a very difficult time following up with their own PV/EC/House/Senate/SwingStateSweep win.
And Taiwan!
Or Trump can just follow Hillary Clinton’s “so clever” plan of selling Taiwan to China. Then, with the funds he can buy Greenland!
The perspective I’m seeing is that of a non compos mentis opposition:
Also on Inauguration Day:
Also from the above video:
And subsequent events:
–First impeachment of Donald Trump - Wikipedia
–Second impeachment of Donald Trump - Wikipedia
–New York Times headline: “Trump Is Disqualified From 2024 Ballot, Colorado Court Says in Explosive Ruling”
–Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia
–Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Florida - Wikipedia
So winning both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote in the context of the above was not a big deal?
Well, we’ve already done it once by stealth:
–Wikipedia, “History of the Panama Canal”
Attitudes changed over the years:
–“To Unsteal the Panama Canal,” New York Times, February 14, 1977
That piece contains the then-famous remark of Senator S. I. Hayakawa:
I’ve mentioned that I voted for Trump (by absentee ballot) in 2020. I should also mention that the reason I didn’t vote for him in 2024 was that I lollygagged about preparing my absentee ballot until it looked like it probably wouldn’t arrive at the Registrar of Voters in time to count, so I didn’t send it in.
I think when I read about the difficulties concerning the Canal and our role in them, back in the late '70s, I had a high school education, and maybe a very small number–maybe just two?–* of what were then called extension courses, which I took in the military. But back then I tended to read newspapers, especially in later years. I wasn’t a voracious reader, not at all. It was just something I did sometimes. Maybe I was unconsciously mimicking my dad, who also sometimes read newspapers.
I wonder, does Trump read newspapers?
If not, I think maybe he should hire someone to feed him newspaper-type news and maybe a few opinion pieces, say, every day or so.
I say this because he’s the boss now, and bosses are supposed to know boss-type stuff. Maybe newspapers aren’t the best way to get boss stuff, but I think they might beat however he’s getting his info and takes on things nowadays.
*I remember one course was at the Hickam AFB extension of the University of Hawaii at Manoa (I wasn’t at Hickam, I was next door at Pearl Harbor). The other was a Chapman College (nowadays Chapman University) extension, either at Camp Pendleton or “sponsored” by Pendleton elsewhere.
Yea, we’ve done lots of unsavory things; we should maybe try not to repeat the shitty things we’ve done in the past.
He’s known to be not much of a reader, to the point that his daily briefings had to be drastically simplified.
I agree. But I also think that maybe writing about bad acts done in the past can help people avoid repeating the bad acts.
It doesn’t change the fact that he won with just under 50% of the vote and around 50% voted for Harris and others. Point being that he should govern accordingly.
He famously does not read, he likes TV
Also was reported in in the last presidency
Not what the american people voted for
Every president has his flaws.
Some presidents like interns blowing smoke up their read ends and some presidents like interns simply blowing them.
You gotta be a bit off to be or want to be a president of a country.
I was thinking of this kind of behavior:
As a counter, I was thinking that someone ought to feed him real-world events, and some background on the events, and perhaps some experience-oriented reasoning about the events, lest he fall prey to the notion that the Presidency is furnished with a wish-granting genie.
Then again, maybe a lot of what he’s been saying lately amounts to just kidding around. It’s hard for me to tell right now.
He’s not kidding around and it’s having an effect. From Trudeau resigning to Greenland pushing for more independence from little Denmark to Zelensky puckering up….Trump means business and it’s time to take him and the overwhelming majority of Americans seriously
I don’t know enough to say you’re wrong. I hope you’re right.
Behavior never lies and forces of nature do what forces of nature do 
for better or for worse
If he can be half as good a uniter as Biden was we’ll be twice as better off.