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Trump told Jordan’s king he would give him the West Bank, shocking Abdullah II, book says - The Washington Post.

President Trump once offered what he considered “a great deal” to Jordan’s King Abdullah II: control of the West Bank, whose Palestinian population long sought to topple the monarchy.

“I thought I was having a heart attack,” Abdullah II recalled to an American friend in 2018, according to a new book on the Trump presidency being published next week. “I couldn’t breathe. I was bent doubled-over.”
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The offer to Abdullah of the West Bank — which is bordered by Israel and Jordan, and which Trump had no control over — came in January 2018. Trump thought he would be doing the Jordanian king a favor, not realizing that it would destabilize his country, according to the book.
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And from earlier,

Trump wanted ‘totally loyal’ generals like Hitler’s, new book says - The Washington Post.

President Donald Trump once told a top adviser that he wanted “totally loyal” generals like the ones who had served Adolf Hitler — unaware that some of Hitler’s generals had tried to assassinate the Nazi leader several times, according to a new book about the Trump presidency.

Trump complained to John Kelly, then his chief of staff and a retired Marine Corps general, “why can’t you be like the German generals?” according to “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021” by journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser.

When Kelly asked which generals he meant, Trump replied: “The German generals in World War II.”
“You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said, according to the book.

Trump didn’t believe him, the book says. “No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” Trump insisted.
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It's never ending, I could see these reports coming out for decades.
 
Trump's historical legacy will indeed be spectacular.

Like all those papers that he shredded, and his aides had to tape the pieces together, because they were by law required to be archived for posteriority. Who's going to read those documents? Historians. The very people who'll define how Trump is remembered 50 or 100 years from now. Imagine these future researchers starting their work in the national archives, finding these taped-up papers and misspelled sharpie markings and thinking to themselves "What in the fucking world?"
 
Microsoft needs a copy editor who thinks.

Microsoft Blog on the release of the Windows 11 update "Our work is never done to ensure Windows evolves and adapts to you." :lol:

Ha. I can guess what they tried to say but it's probably not how most people would read that line! :coffeespray

blogs.windows.com

Available today: The Windows 11 2022 Update

Today, the Windows 11 2022 Update rolls out in 190+ countries. The last few years have brought enduring changes in the ways we live, work and learn, with the PC playing a
blogs.windows.com blogs.windows.com
www.cnn.com

What to know about the new Windows 11 update

Nearly one year after Microsoft launched its flagship Windows 11, the tech giant has officially rolled out its first major update to the operating system.
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ZiprHead said:
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What I want to know is whether these folks are trolling the trolls here. I mean, this could very well be the space of POE's law where there is just enough intersect to create an effective attack against the GQP using their own mechanisms of insane conspiracy.

I am honestly tempted to spin up a -48 or whatever account, craft some absolutely demented bullshit, and see if I can accelerate this clusterfuck by tossing it into that fan.

Convincing a bunch of folks that Donald Trump has been replaced by DeSantis with a gay frog prince or whatever would be hilarious.

To clarify, I'm not going to do this. It would be sick to weaponize stupidity in this way.
 
Jayjay said:
Trump's historical legacy will indeed be spectacular.

Like all those papers that he shredded, and his aides had to tape the pieces together, because they were by law required to be archived for posteriority. Who's going to read those documents? Historians. The very people who'll define how Trump is remembered 50 or 100 years from now. Imagine these future researchers starting their work in the national archives, finding these taped-up papers and misspelled sharpie markings and thinking to themselves "What in the fucking world?"
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Lord, I hope so. Alas, "historical memory" of politicals often defined more by fuzzy memories of a previous generation's propaganda than it is by documentary evidence, as indeed this very story demonstrates. Conservatives 50 years from now will likely remember Trump much as thry do now, as they will be remembering how they perceived him at the time more than by anything that might be taught in a history class.
 
What do conservatives think of Richard Nixon now? From my perspective, they think about him not at all. I'm always surprised when I'm reminded that Nixon won re-election by a landslide less than five months after the Watergate break-in.
 
blastula said:
One of the all time moments in stupid man babies.

White House Wanted USS John McCain ‘Out of Sight’ During Trump Japan Visit - WSJ
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More details on this 2019 story has come out.

Emails show Trump White House's effort to hide U.S.S. John S. McCain during Trump visit - The Washington Post.

t fake news, as a batch of newly released emails reinforces and details.
The emails, obtained by Bloomberg News reporter Jason Leopold and by the Wall Street Journal through Freedom of Information Act requests, fill out the story of military officials responding to a request from the White House Military Office. Among the discoveries:
  • They show military officials saying repeatedly that this was a White House request, but also that officials didn’t want to put it in writing.
  • At one point, a military official was apparently so taken aback by the request that the person asked that it be confirmed. “I could see that becoming a Tweet,” the official added.
  • Another military official responded the next morning by saying, “This just makes me sad.”
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The released emails stretch back to more than a month before Trump’s late-May 2019 visit. And while they redact virtually everything said by White House officials, the context makes clear that the request to hide the USS McCain did come from the White House.
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Trump should mind declassify those emails.
 
As a reminder, our Congress is incapable of action. Passes another Stopgap budget bill.

article said:
The Senate passed a short-term spending bill on Thursday that would avert a partial government shutdown when the current fiscal year ends at midnight Friday and provide another infusion of military and economic aid to Ukraine as it seeks to repel Russia's brutal invasion.

The bill finances the federal government through Dec. 16 and buys lawmakers more time to agree on legislation setting spending levels for the 2023 fiscal year. It passed by a vote of 72-25 and now goes to the House for consideration. All of the no votes came from Republicans.
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*sigh*
 
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