Where’s the button labelled “Bomb the shit out of brown people in far-off country as diversion”?
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It’s right beside the diet coke button.
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Chump overload!
John Mappin, a Scientologist lifer, owns the “Camelot Castle Hotel”, a railway hotel for a railway that was never built. It’s the worst hotel in Britain according to TripAdvisor reviews before they’re deleted and drowned by paid fake reviews. He’s a huge Trump fan and fame troll.
I give you the Knighting of Sir Donald Trump of Camelot Castle (hotel):
Melania Trump’s first public appearance in 27 days.
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LOL That’s funny! 
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Is that a promotion or a demotion from Commander in Cofeve?
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'murica first. Oh wait.
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Nothing to see there…
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I can hardly blame them, given how the U.S. has treated other relatively defenseless (i.e., non-nuclearized) countries.
I also wonder what the U.S. has done to demonstrate to North Korea that it has no nukes stashed away in South Korea.
And of course, I assume that any sort of mutual draw down of the U.S. stockpile more generally isn’t even part of the discussion.
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Trump not understanding what he read? That’s not news.
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He said the trade battle is like a poker game “we can’t lose.” He urged people to give him more time with the negotiations: “Just play the game for a little while.”
Oooohhh. That’s grifter speak for “Wait right here, I’ll get you your money.” before running out the back door and jumping in the getaway car. I mean, he’s not even subtle.
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Basic economics is hard! Sad!
Poland. Too bad it’s not India, because that would be full circle.
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I’ve never been entirely convinced that Trump is the blithering idiot so many make him out to be. GWB’s “Aw Shucks!” pose didn’t fool me either.
This piece, on Trump as a wily marketing expert, rings much more true, and scary, to me.
It is easy to dismiss Donald Trump as an ignoramus, not least because he is. But he has an acute understanding of one thing: test marketing. He created himself in the gossip pages of the New York tabloids, where celebrity is manufactured by planting outrageous stories that you can later confirm or deny depending on how they go down. And he recreated himself in reality TV where the storylines can be adjusted according to the ratings. Put something out there, pull it back, adjust, go again.
Fascism doesn’t arise suddenly in an existing democracy. It is not easy to get people to give up their ideas of freedom and civility. You have to do trial runs that, if they are done well, serve two purposes. They get people used to something they may initially recoil from; and they allow you to refine and calibrate. This is what is happening now and we would be fools not to see it.
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