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 A look at the price of DJT stock in the last few trading days: A little to know about DJT, from Bloomberg: "The company lost $344 million in the first six months of the year, mainly because of paper losses on derivatives, and took in just $1.6 million in sales." That would certainly explain the long slide in value of DJT stock since it was in the $70's last spring, as the company is clearly worth less than nothing, but what happened today? I'm not a stock market expert, but I am confident in saying that this is not a normal phenomenon.  It is obvious to me that certain forces (read here: the Saudis) are determined to prevent this stock from totally collapsing before Trump can at least salvage a big payoff from what was never any more than a giant scam.  Again, from Bloomberg: "Trump, who owns about 60% of Trump Media, is expected to be able to start selling shares as soon as Sept. 20, when a lockup period barring insiders from selling shares is lifted." Exp...

Trump's behavior since Joe Biden withdrew from the Presidential race has certainly been, shall we say, erratic- a constant series of ever-escalating lunatic claims.  This has led many people to suggest that he is falling into deep senile dementia.  Now, I am the last person to claim that he is of sound mind; I believe him to be suffering from a very deep psychological disorder that could possibly justify being called psychosis.  I just think there is another explanation for his behavior the last couple of weeks. Here is what I think is happening:  Trump may be stupid and delusional, but he has always had a deep streak of cunning when it comes to promoting his own welfare.  Trump knows that, essentially, every single person that is going to vote in November has already made up their mind about him, for better or for worse.  No amount of jackass behavior on his part can, at this point, affect anyone but an utterly insignificant number of voters.  However...

“Miriam, I watched (Sheldon Adelson, her late husband) sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian, it’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version. It’s actually much better, because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor – that’s soldiers.   They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead,” Trump said. “She gets it and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman, and they’re rated equal.” There have been plenty of comments about this statement, one of the most loathsome things ever said by an American President (most everything on that list came from Trump, but this is certainly at the bottom of all of them.)  The comments have almost entirely revolved around discussing the people who got the Congressional Medal of Honor, almost all at tremendous loss and suffering to themselves. Even Trump said, "bec...

  So Donald Trump emerged from the Mar-a-Lago basement today to hold a press conference, after seemingly hiding for several days.  I actually managed to watch a fair amount of it, and I must say that my reaction to it was quite different than the comments I have seen online and from the press.  These people described the event as a rehashing of the same old lies, from a guy who seems rather diminished and dispirited. Well, fair enough, but I actually think this event was a significant success for Trump.  What I think others don't get is the reason that Trump held this event.  I think right now, nothing worries him and his advisors more than Kamala's efforts to turn his own "senile old grandpaw" argument against him, now that he is the old one in the race, and is obviously diminished from the Trump we remember in 2016 or even 2020.   So he came out and spoke for an hour, and seemed in control of himself and pretty much all there mentally, even if the co...

 For some reason, I didn't feel like saying this before Kamala made her VP choice, but I am very happy that she did not go with Josh Shapiro.  And here is the reason:  because Shapiro is a Jew. Now, before you attack me for being some sort of anti-Semite, let me explain why I feel that way.  If Kamala had picked Shapiro, the entire Democratic ticket would have been made up of minorities.  Only one thing wrong with that: you know perfectly well that, from that moment on, the entire Republican campaign would consist of telling white Americans that the Democratic party only exists to benefit minorities, and that only the Republicans represent white people, who are still a sizable majority in this country.  And you know that the Republican party already was prepared with a campaign strategy based on this single issue, and the mainstream press, supine to Republicans as usual, would allow it to define the 2024 election. Sure, that is a racial line that the Republ...

I remember, not that long ago, in fact, just before Donald Trump emerged on the political scene, when it would be considered an act of the ultimate treachery for a previous President to publicly undercut the foreign diplomacy of a sitting President.  This behavior was strictly forbidden, and both parties understood that politics had to end at our borders. How Trump has changed things in the last eight years.  Today, in the aftermath of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' stunning foreign policy victory in uniting numerous allies to force Vladimir Putin to release a number of hostages, here was Trump's response: "Donald Trump Congratulates Vladimir Putin for Prisoner Exchange That Freed US Journalist... At a Georgia rally on Saturday, Donald Trump delivered a congratulations to Russian leader Vladimir Putin following the prisoner exchange between Russia, the United States and several other nations earlier this week that saw the release of United States journalist Evan Gershkovich....

 At least, here's my take.  As usual, the entire mainstream press corps seems to have devoted about two minutes to thinking out what happened.  First of all, they act like Trump just decided to show up for this event.  Anyone who has ever worked on a campaign knows this appearance was scheduled weeks ago, when Biden was still running.  At that point, Trump's advisors thought that there was a chance that he could take perhaps 15% of the black vote away from Biden, a not unreasonable goal considering the results of the 2020 election.  That might, in a close election, be just enough to throw a couple of States to Trump and put him back in the White House. Well, before he could show up, along comes Kamala, and Trump's hopes of making inroads with black voters pretty much went up in smoke.  So he had zero motivation to show up at this event and act like a decent human being, his least favorite activity on earth.  That resulted in his changing his entir...