As someone who works in the industry of making cargo, dump, service and crane trucks: because automakers don’t make those kinds of vehicles.
Trump is thinking of all those poor defence lobbyists - having the rest of NATO stump up 4% means lots of money going to the likes of BAE Systems (effectively an American company now) and Lockheed Martin. And that means jerbs, jerbs, JERBS!
Trump now wants NATO to target 4% GDP on Defence (which no one is hitting, even the US) which is just frankly insane. Apparanty we’re on good terms with everyone now because he’s so fucking amazing yet now we need to spend more on Defence than at anytime since the end of the Cold War...
I’m … having a whole lot of trouble understanding why this smug depraved proto-fascist who was at his Dartmouth reunion while his ICE thugs were lying to kids and their parents and jailing them isn’t in jail himself for contempt of court right now.
Absolutely nothing that I just read has any place in the real world. None of it. Not one fucking word. Jesus tapdancing Christ.
Trump did his usual brand of diplomacy before jetting off to Europe. He lavished praise on former UK Foreign Secretary and excruciating international embarrassment, Boris Johnson.
On behalf of the United States, congratulations to the Thai Navy SEALs and all on the successful rescue of the 12 boys and their coach from the treacherous cave in Thailand. Such a beautiful moment - all freed, great job!
They forgot the unspoken bullet point that has been on the list for ages.
Reality:
STOP
I try really fucking hard to not let hate take hold in my heart, but damn is this shit head president and his entire administration of complete jack asses doing its best to break me of this.
OT: I was asking myself: how many of the Administration’s actions of incompetence, neglect and cruelty are actually part of the original 2016 GOP platform? I found a PDF of the Platform— 66 pages long. I’m still wading through it.
I feel sorry for kids raised by ultra-racist parents. My dad was ungodly racist (I suspect in part because he was too dumb to process the fact that marrying a native woman meant he’d have a mixed kid) and it has taken so long to un-teach myself his awful beliefs.
I’m a pilot and have always loved climbing and descending through clouds and deviating around Tstorms. You try to stay upwind if possible of a Tstorm as they can eject hail out the top of the anvil and you always give one a wide birth (up to 20 miles) at altitude.
Carrie Cordero posted three articles on Lawfare over the past few weeks.
He thinks he can hide from protests by visiting Scotland. Cute.
Can we start a GoFundMe to bring that Trump Baby to the U.S. and follow him around with it? I would love to have it flying outside every one of those stupid rallies he runs away to when Washington gets too mean to him. Totally serious here.
Everyone but the small in number Far Right over here hate him.