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  #3491378 16-May-2026 09:22
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International relations #1, per the orange buffoon:

 

 

Still blaming Biden for all the bad stuff going on in the US, almost 2.5 years since he left office 🙄

 

International relations #2, per James (has any world leader has done this recently?):

 

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  #3491435 16-May-2026 11:03
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Trump's Nuclear Hoax

 



(The blue background here looks like a map of the Persian Gulf.)

 

Bloomberg - Trump Says He Wants Iran’s Uranium Mostly for ‘Public Relations’

 

15 May 2026

 


President Donald Trump said the US objective of recovering highly enriched uranium from Iran was “more for public relations than it is for anything else,” while reiterating his commitment to removing the nuclear material.

 

Trump said in an interview with Fox News aired on Thursday evening in the US that the mission to recover the uranium, which is thought to be buried beneath the rubble of bombed nuclear sites, could be viewed as unnecessary because the US was maintaining round-the-clock surveillance.

 

“We have nine cameras on that site, on those three sites, 24 hours a day,” Trump said. “We know exactly what’s happening. Nobody’s even gotten close to it.”

 

Still, the president said, he ultimately would rather get the material out of the country.

 

“I just feel better if I got it, actually,” Trump said. “But it’s, I think it’s more for public relations than it is for anything else.”

 




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  #3491439 16-May-2026 11:39
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Sideface:

 

“We have nine cameras on that site, on those three sites, 24 hours a day,” Trump said. “We know exactly what’s happening. Nobody’s even gotten close to it.”

 

 

 

 

Can't have been "totally obliterated" if there are still 9 working cameras.




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  #3491443 16-May-2026 12:10
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Most likely Trump means night and day satellite coverage with nine satellites. It is possible International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA monitoring cameras continue to function although that seems unlikely. It is possible local cameras have been installed by special forces but that also seems unlikely and not worthwhile. Nine ground cameras would not show all possible approaches and would not provide accurate targeting for missile and drone strikes on approaching forces. Satellites on the other hand provide all that and more.

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  #3491444 16-May-2026 12:15
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So Trump is preparing the ground to walk away. 'Spray and walk away'

 

I don't need Hormuz oil, I don't need the nuclear material. 
Victory is mine, no one is noticing the files I redacted and held back.

 

Gerrymandering marches on. 
Insider trading profits, so much winning.
Stealing the nation's wealth accelerates, even got Elon's campaign money back on tap.
Every Billionaire wants to be a Trillionaire has to 'tithe' to Trump. 

 

I'm not sure Trump ever worries about anything, he just changes reality 
'I don't want the uranium or oil' to suit and MAGA, GOP move on.

 

Incidentally, World Cup is looking craptastic.
https://www.insideworldfootball.com/2026/05/05/world-cup-half-full-80-hotel-operators-9-host-cities-report-poor-bookings/

I'm sure Trump will just see more golden awards and photobombing victories as winning.

 

Just going through histories most expensive bucket list.

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  #3491527 16-May-2026 15:56
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Insider trading 

 

Trump Bought Boeing Stock, Then Announced New Order for 200 Planes

 

16 May 2026

 


Boeing and GE Aerospace are the primary beneficiaries of a historic 200-plane aircraft deal between the U.S. and China that could expand to 750 aircraft, with GE potentially supplying 400-450 engines from the initial order and generating recurring maintenance revenue for decades. ...

 

Trump made 3,642 stock trades during the first quarter [of 2026] including ...

 

$1 million to $5 million    36 transactions
$500,000 to $1 million    45 transactions

 

One of those $1 million-to-$5 million purchases was Boeing stock. Another was GE Aerospace ...

 

 


EDIT  Reuters - Boeing shares drop 4% after Trump announces China orders just 200 jets

 

 




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  #3491532 16-May-2026 16:38
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Tiny Trump just got smaller — and weaker

 

I thought you would be interested in this story I found on MSN

 

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/tiny-trump-just-got-smaller-and-weaker-opinion/ar-AA23iSq3?ocid=socialshare

 

Some quotes

 

He gushed and gushed: "It's an honor to be with you. It's an honor to be your friend."

 

The Chinese leader didn't return the accolades.

 

Xi knew that he could easily play Trump without verbally complimenting him by simply making Trump feel special, feeding his narcissism with other gestures—while maintaining dominance over him.

 

He also brought his son Eric Trump—as one of the 30 business leaders Trump said were there with him—to cut deals for the Trump family, making the self-dealing front and center.




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  #3491586 16-May-2026 18:11
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You might remember 2024's Arlington National Cemetery controversy, in which Donald Trump’s campaign was accused of using the cemetery as a political backdrop, and of mistreating a cemetery official who tried to enforce federal rules.

After a wreath-laying ceremony, widows and veteran family survivors went to Section 60, the area for the most recently fallen troops. Trump smiling broadly posed giving for a thumbs up photo.

So this next story is no surprise

Snorkeling at Pearl Harbor: Kash Patel’s Travels Add to Focus on Ethical Issues: New York Times

Last summer, the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, capped a whirlwind South Pacific trip with a snorkel trip in Hawaii.

There, Navy SEALs used two boats to transport and escort Mr. Patel and nine other people on what a Defense Department email called a “V.I.P. Snorkel” next to one of the military’s most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona that holds the remains of more than 900 Navy sailors and Marines who died at Pearl Harbor.

Mr. Patel swam in the vicinity of the tomb for 30 minutes, according to the Navy.

Out of respect for the dead entombed in the wreck of the Arizona, rules bar visitors even from wearing swimwear at the memorial. With some exceptions over the years for dignitaries, the only people allowed in the water around the tomb are military and National Park Service divers interring the remains of the last Arizona survivors in the wreck, or conducting annual maintenance surveys, according to a former Navy officer and a former National Park Service official familiar with restrictions at the site.
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  #3491685 17-May-2026 08:08
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The orange buffoon on dealing with China's President Xi, take 1:

 

 

Take 2:

 

 

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  #3492178 17-May-2026 22:26
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quickymart:

 

 

"Only the best people" 🙄

 

Just a quick follow-up on this. Sheahan left her cushy job (which she wasn't even qualified for - see above) at ICE in order to run for a House seat in the 9th district in Ohio. I imagine she expected her credentials of working for the orange buffoon would serve her well.

 

She came in third in the Republican primary: https://archive.ph/SxJ1p

 

 

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  #3493655 19-May-2026 07:15
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The NY Times - $1.8 Billion Fund Could Funnel Money to Trump Allies

 

18 May 2026

 


The Trump administration announced on Monday the creation of a $1.8 billion fund to compensate those who claim they were targeted by the Biden Justice Department and Democrats, forging a pipeline to funnel taxpayer money to President Trump’s allies.

 

The highly unusual “anti-weaponization” fund - denounced by critics as a political slush fund - was unveiled just after Mr. Trump withdrew his lawsuit demanding at least $10 billion against the Internal Revenue Service.

 

 

Rotten to the core  🙄

 

 

 

EDIT  The NY Times - Opinion - There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This   (May 20, 2026)

 

The fund manages to combine three of Mr. Trump’s most alarming behaviors:

 

  • One, it is an obvious form of corruption, coming from a president who has used his office to enrich himself, his family and his allies.

  • Two, the fund continues his pattern of using the Justice Department as an enforcer to punish his perceived opponents and protect his friends and allies.

  • Three, the fund is his latest attempt to rewrite history about the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress.




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  #3493705 19-May-2026 10:33
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Trump

“We were getting ready to do a very major attack tomorrow. I've put it off for a little while, hopefully, maybe forever, but possibly for a little while, because we've had very big discussions with Iran, and we'll see what they amount to."

Trump added, “I was asked by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and some others if we could put it off for two or three days, a short period of time, because they think that they are getting very close to making a deal. And if we can do that, where there's no nuclear weapon going into the hands of Iran, I think, and if they're satisfied, we will be probably satisfied also."

Pick your poison: Disjoint rambling, incoherent phrasing, cluttered syntax, fragmented delivery

Even by Trump's absurdly low grammar standards, this sounds uneducated, rambling, indecisive, repetitive, vague and emotionally casual

There's the grating redundant qualifiers "very" in “very major attack” and “very big discussions”

It piles adverbs like a professional gamer piles dishes in a sink. "Hopefully, maybe forever, but possibly for a little while" and “…if we could put it off for two or three days, a short period of time…” feels indecisive and unstructured.

The run-on sentence sounds incoherent.

"Them" and "they" sounds ambiguous, for example "…because they think that they are getting very close to making a deal."

This nested conditional clauses doesn’t resolve cleanly: "And if we can do that, where there's no nuclear weapon going into the hands of Iran, I think, and if they're satisfied, we will be probably satisfied also."

"We’ll see what they amount to", “I think,” “probably,” “some others,” “a short period of time” are pretty casual idioms for a war.

If you wouldn’t sign a used car contract with unclear clauses, why should the public accept unclear clauses about military action.

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  #3493712 19-May-2026 11:01
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Gulf states clearly don't want any more Iranian drones & missiles messing up their oil & gas infrastructure, and they know that's what will happen immediately if the Americans and Israelis start bombing again.




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  #3493739 19-May-2026 12:22
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kingdragonfly: Trump

“We were getting ready to do a very major attack tomorrow. I've put it off for a little while, hopefully, maybe forever, but possibly for a little while, because we've had very big discussions with Iran, and we'll see what they amount to."

Trump added, “I was asked by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and some others if we could put it off for two or three days, a short period of time, because they think that they are getting very close to making a deal. And if we can do that, where there's no nuclear weapon going into the hands of Iran, I think, and if they're satisfied, we will be probably satisfied also."

Pick your poison: Disjoint rambling, incoherent phrasing, cluttered syntax, fragmented delivery

Even by Trump's absurdly low grammar standards, this sounds uneducated, rambling, indecisive, repetitive, vague and emotionally casual

There's the grating redundant qualifiers "very" in “very major attack” and “very big discussions”

It piles adverbs like a professional gamer piles dishes in a sink. "Hopefully, maybe forever, but possibly for a little while" and “…if we could put it off for two or three days, a short period of time…” feels indecisive and unstructured.

The run-on sentence sounds incoherent.

"Them" and "they" sounds ambiguous, for example "…because they think that they are getting very close to making a deal."

This nested conditional clauses doesn’t resolve cleanly: "And if we can do that, where there's no nuclear weapon going into the hands of Iran, I think, and if they're satisfied, we will be probably satisfied also."

"We’ll see what they amount to", “I think,” “probably,” “some others,” “a short period of time” are pretty casual idioms for a war.

If you wouldn’t sign a used car contract with unclear clauses, why should the public accept unclear clauses about military action.

 

 

 

We were getting ready to do a very major attack tomorrow. I've put it off for a little while, hopefully, maybe forever, but possibly for a little while, because we've had very big discussions (should be a triple bold) with Iran, and we'll see what they amount to."

 

His CTRL-C and CTRL-V keys must be pretty worn by now

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  #3493742 19-May-2026 12:27
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I don't see what is different here. Trump's communications have always been incoherent and grammatically challenged. This is the man who invented covfefe. What is different?

 

 




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