It's not just about literal obscuring; it's more about positioning and the signals that positioning sends.
The women are at the back. They should be at the front. Then Trump is placed on a pedestal, as if he is not tall enough, alongside the men.
The entire staging is pathetic.
It's the postmodern approach to percentages that RFK Jr. has adopted.
He's so ahead of the curve ... er, or something like that.
I get the feeling--dunno how--that she's a bit upset.
Ah, The Borowitz Report never fails to amuse!
I wonder if Trump will insist on a big arch over the Strait, or some kind of monument to himself.
"... and most of this liquor cabinet ...."
Yes, well done! 🤣
Right, but, sincerely, look at all he has done via EOs since 2025. He and his administration don't appear to care at all about the law ... and they've been getting away with so much.
Regardless of how the GOP does in the mid-terms, I still worry he will do more horrible things until he's gone.
Thanks for sharing this! Yes, one imagines that if the two were to have a dialogue, Pope Leo would be doing his best not embarrass Mr. Vance.
Today and last night--first time having in many months. Annoying.
Okay, but where's his halo? And isn't the phone number 1-800-IAMJESUS?
I would love to see Johnson debate or discuss Augustine's or Aquinas' principles of just war with Pope Leo.
Pope Leo is not a lightweight when it comes to matters of theology.
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Sadly, yes he does think folks will believe him. And many still will. It's a cult. Rejecting their beliefs would result in cognitive dissonance they couldn't handle. So they cling on with blind faith.
So, so true! Being able to see systems and networks is literally a cognitive capacity that a number of adults do not possess. See the work of Peter Senge in business and developmental psychologists like Robert Kegan.
It seems Trump and a number of his cabinet members can't understand systems.
"Robby called. Said you guys needed a healing touch, stat."
Wow. J.D. Vance just can't resist going theological ... and getting it badly wrong. Advising the Pope to be careful about matters of theology. I recall Nobel Laurate Bob Dylan had a something to say about God being on *your* side.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
Yet again, Hassett proves he doesn't dwell on this planet.
Robbie is screaming: "Get Trump-Christ in here stat! We need a divine healing, a laying on of hands!
" ... and I think it is very difficult to deconstruct the reasons around why anything changes ...."
Let that statement sink in for a moment.
This is the statement of an ignorant buffoon who should have nothing to do with government.
This whole situation is pathetic. The poor woman's savings have been wiped out by paying for cancer treatments. Awful.
And yet not paying the tax from her Doordash tips is making the difference in paying for the cancer treatments? Something doesn't add up here.
It certainly appears to be the case! But it wouldn't surprise me to hear him bring it up sometime in the future ... and he'll probably work in something about his Christ-like stature.
Everything Trump (and Vance) touches dies.
LOL! I bet he couldn't name any of the major fertilizer manufacturers or their market call signs.
Right on. And the entire world is suffering and will continue to suffer as a result of this supreme sociopathic idiocy.
Exactly. This is what is SO infuriating. And the entire world is paying the price for his damn delusive, narcissistic idiocy.
Groan! 🤣
The sycophantic idiocy. 🤣🙃😱
Hundreds of years down the road?!
Seems to me Trump's incapable of seeing even a hundred seconds down the road. Example after example in just the past three or four days!
Totally surreal. In so many ways, this scene is emblematic of the daily doses of insanity we all have been witnessing.
I'm starting to have a hard time distinguishing fiction from reality ....
These days, it's all a simulacrum.
Exactly! She and her team have *really* messed up. Could they not imagine everyone will asking your very question?!
Was this possibly unconscious sabotage?
My goodness! Talk about an own goal! Yikes!
All the folks in the Trump orbit seem to have an appalling lack of self-awareness.
I like my tomatoes with a polio vaccine! It limbers me up. Also, tastes great!