It goes without saying that there is a great deal of Psychology going on in Donald Trump's second term. None of it is especially complicated, because the people involved are without exception clammy, low-wattage sociopaths who universally dislike and distrust each other, see their hugely consequential jobs primarily as opportunities to make short-form video content and fly on private planes, and have not let their (correct) understanding that they will be going to go to hell when they die sway them from gulping down huge foamy draughts of humiliation every single day. But if none of it and none of them are very interesting, the volatility of the visibly decaying real-estate priss at the center of it all generally keeps it surprising.
For the most part, this is a matter of nausea and dread—a drawling executive digression revealing plans to invade "four or quite frankly five" new countries, the most powerful politician in the world either nodding along or nodding off as his chief health officials stammer through an endorsement of miasma theory. But sometimes it plays out as it does in this Wall Street Journal story about the president compulsively gifting pairs of Florsheim dress shoes to the underlings and supplicants that wind up sitting across from him at meetings. The Journal story quotes a woman who works in the White House saying "all the boys have them," and another laughing that "it’s hysterical because everybody’s afraid not to wear them."
Winning!UAE just closed its entire airspace.
Israel put out a wide area alarm re: incoming Iranian drones.
But no worries, we already won.
He's tired of the old canal. He needs a new, young canal.
Which will be fine until 2044 when it turns 18He's tired of the old canal. He needs a new, young canal.
The old canal has cancer, so Newt is filing for divorce.He's tired of the old canal. He needs a new, young canal.
It only took 10 years to build the Panama Canal through jungle. I'm sure we could build a 100+ mile canal across harsh desert and mountains while another country lobs missiles and drones at it and terrorists attack it in no time at all. It certainly wouldn't be a trillion dollar quagmire in which thousands of people would lose their lives. Right?
Those are incredibly conservative estimates.It certainly wouldn't be a trillion dollar quagmire in which thousands of people would lose their lives. Right?
If this theoretical canal was built and opened, the Iranians could do the funniest thing...It only took 10 years to build the Panama Canal through jungle. I'm sure we could build a 100+ mile canal across harsh desert and mountains while another country lobs missiles and drones at it and terrorists attack it in no time at all. It certainly wouldn't be a trillion dollar quagmire in which thousands of people would lose their lives. Right?

Cutting a trench with nukes, like brilliant politician Newt Gingrich suggested, should cut some time off that.It only took 10 years to build the Panama Canal through jungle. I'm sure we could build a 100+ mile canal across harsh desert and mountains while another country lobs missiles and drones at it and terrorists attack it in no time at all. It certainly wouldn't be a trillion dollar quagmire in which thousands of people would lose their lives. Right?
Someone's going to mess up and use one of the cobalt shrouded ones aren't they?Cutting a trench with nukes, like brilliant politician Newt Gingrich suggested, should cut some time off that.
But then again, you wouldn't be able to do the finishing work and then run ships through it for another 20-30 years, so there's that.
That's not cancer you're feeling, it's free-dumb!Someone's going to mess up and use one of the cobalt shrouded ones aren't they?