Your comment is not contrary. Trump is sadistic, that is clear. The point is that a faked assassination attempt would be beyond their capabilities, not their moral limits.

Would the assassin possibly be so stupid as to think he could survive? And could even the worst marksman possibly be so confident of NOT shooting the president?
Trump is not the man to stand before a crowd knowing that real bullets would fly.

A very corrosive effect on democracy from all their open unapologetic crimeing is that conspiracies to conduct even more preposterous crimes are now totally believable, making what’s real hard to distinguish from what’s fiction. It’s constant amplified Orwellian dystopian nihilism and its torture.

Kayfabe: A mythology enacted as performance with characters.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Still the best description of Trump ⬇️

OPINION: "Donald Trump’s presidency is a morality lesson. He is a living example of what happens when a man is given power that far exceeds his character." thehill.com/opinion/whit...

Pete Hegseth, when he was an Army National Guard major, was one of 12 Guard members removed from duty at President Joe Biden's inauguration in January 2021 following vetting by the FBI and military officials.

Those were all the credentials he needed for Trump to appoint him Defense Secretary.

Social media post with reply: Mila Joy @Milajoy I'm voting for Trump because I want low inflation, free speech, low gas and energy prices, low food prices, low crime, no wars, a secure border, and he will put America first - like he did last time. 4:04 AM · Sep 2, 2024 Mila Joy @Milajoy I didn't vote for lower gas prices, though it would be nice. I voted for brass balls. And I'm perfectly happy. 5:00 AM · Apr 18, 2026 Reply: sashasrbulj At this point MAGA is just Stockholm Syndrome for people who don't know where Stockholm is.

Never seen a MAGA who is ever wrong, sorry, or truthful.

ICYMI — new HUNGARY 🇭🇺 PM Magyar says Netanyahu will be arrested if he goes to Hungary

On the other hand, would a ruling cabal of Vance, Hegseth, Rubio etc be any better? Surely they would end the demented tweets at least? They probably wouldn't have joined Israel's insane attack on Iran - but too late for that now. The immediate hope is for a crushing defeat in the November elections

How low can Trump go? Allowing his inner Angry Child to take over is a sure sign of advanced dementia. What does this say about the USA? THIS is the will of the people? - allowing a dangerous geriatric orange toddler to rule by decree, with no checks or restraints from the Congress? Incredible.

Military leaders fear Trump will 'order them to do something stupid': DC insider Although U.S. President Donald Trump is saying that the United States' military operation in Iran will likely be wrapped up soon, many of his critics aren't so sure and fear that it could turn into a ...

www.alternet.org/trump-rick-w...

If nothing else this presidency has demonstrated that the system is completely stuffed. Even Biden would not be able to avoid taking action when the present incumbent is deposed.

Well, at least the BBC is covering this.

Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal. Since July 2024, when he was elect...

“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves”

It’s so obvious, it hurts.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...

The picture probably approved by Trump because it portrays his notion of a sober, steely-eyed éminence grise, who might order the destruction of a civilization in a movie.

News articles lately have been utilizing the same outdated portrait of him. Did he finally die? Is Heritage Foundation just putting out policy and pretending it’s decrees from him, at this point?

We are 7 weeks into the most egregious stock market manipulations of our lifetime.

Orchestrated by a crooked president and his underlings.

Billions siphoned via false proclamations of ceasefires and peace talks.

With the criminals in charge, every day is a crime spree.

The article mercifully omits from its discussion of the cause of Trump’s “cavalier” war the very real possibility that his motive was to generate a wartime boost IN HIS OWN POPULARITY before the midterms. In fact, nothing to do with Iran, except that he thought attacking Muslims would “play well.”

Oil prices continue to surge thanks to the orange felon’s illegal war in Iran.

We are seeing in real time the equivalent of how he bankrupted his trashy casinos.

Reform UK vows to deport hundreds of thousands of refugees Nigel Farage’s party has looked to Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown as a model

YESTERDAY: Farage pledged to deport hundreds of thousands of refugees including those who have been given asylum stays. & he did so on the anniversary -58 YRS AGO-that Enoch Powell delivered his infamous & highly divisive “rivers of blood” speech
www.ft.com/content/b9d9...

Maddow: "Do we think our servicemen and women are in good hands? Do we think that there is care being taken in terms of what they're risking their lives for?"

Really strict assessment of the many reasons why Vance and Johnson had no right to smugly toss off the words “just war theory” to chastise the Pope. (The Pope!!!)

A Primer on Just War Theory and the Iran War Leading scholar explains just war theory and the Iran war. An assessment of the Trump administration's response to the Catholic Church.

A Primer on Just War Theory and the Iran War at www.justsecurity.org/136692/just-...

A Primer on Just War Theory and the Iran War Leading scholar explains just war theory and the Iran war. An assessment of the Trump administration's response to the Catholic Church.

This is an elegant, learned explanation of Just War Theory and the Iran war.

An important corrective arising out of the Trump administration's responses to the Catholic Church.

By the brilliant @mikeschmitt.bsky.social

www.justsecurity.org/136692/just-...

I would go as far as to say that attending any event that honors this vile child-rapist monster is a tacit approval of him and every crime he has ever committed. Every bootlicking "journalist" who attends needs to have their career tanked.

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) says she will be forcing a vote on Tuesday to end the war in Iran.

Who profits the most from Trump's #IranWarFiasco
Trump is making Russia & China GREAT!
The world now sees him as "untrustworthy & chaotic, if not insane"
He has embarrassed US all & rendered America impotent as a force for good
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