As with Clinton, as with Obama, as with Biden you need to elect a Democrat to balance or begin to balance the predecessor’s budget blowout. Blowouts brought to you by Republicans, ‘the party of economic responsibility’™, unlike those reprobate Dems.

Given his goal all but stated of ignoring / overturning the 2026 midterm results, who’s up for civil war in ’26/’27?

He dwells in an idyllic past, the 1950s perhaps, or 1850s. A time before wind turbines, when battle ships ruled the waves, coal was good and the US was only concerned about its Monrovian backyard. When tycoons were the real men, and the poor knew their place.

Has the wrecking ball started reshaping Mount Rushmore in Trump’s likeness yet?

Shades of wikileaks and the Arab spring.

But the heads of the four presidents are only 60 feet tall. They will have to be demolished to make room for the much larger depiction that Trump will require.

When Trump is MIA it’s likely due to a TIA.

‘A bit Much Fraught’ over the entrance gate.

Jesus wept, Trump slept.

If Lukoil is under sanctions, how can a US investment firm do business with it even to buy its assets? Is this not blood money laundering by another name?

Could it also be that over the last 30 years or so a lot of bright minds got drawn to quantum finance - applying physics to the stock market - and got very rich instead of figuring out nature and remaining poor?

Ha! They found someone shorter to stand beside him.

Right next to Kristi Gnome’s

At least he can clap back that he’s bigger than Donald Trump’s tiny hands.

Agents presumably currently passing round the hat to raise $50,000.

Trump: Good, good. This is keeping Epstein out of the news even better than hitting Nicaraguan boats.

One thing is clear. These events in Minnesota would be a political headache if not an electoral disaster in another era. But this adminis— this regime doesn’t care. What does that mean? That future elections will be fixed or the results voided? The constitution will be suspended?

(From my 1st BBC Reith Lecture, watch the full lecture here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUJ-...)