I was sure you were going to say that the entire committee for selecting the "Noble" laureates simultaneously lost bladder control while laughing, because they can't even. Oh, well, can't win every time.

Well, it was sarcasm along with a pun. Dynamite wasn't always considered to mean "outstanding" and far from it. Recall that the naive Alfred Nobel who invented it (and the Nobel prizes in his will) believed that when the carnage from his invention was released, his dynamite might bring a swift end to wars.

I will be first in line for one of those $2 aeroplane tickets for the groundbreaking of the Riviera of the Middle East.

Well, back during the American Revolutionary War when the Continental Army "manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports," that was the cost of an aeroplane ticket.

Maybe I can score one of those golden shovels.

Better to get yourself a broom because:
(1) you can rake the forest with it and stop fires,
(2) you can fly on it for free, and
(3) no high speed rail for you! ;)

you started the anagram thing first, I just sorta took it a bit outside the lines.

Yes, but, as to your description of it being "a bit outside the lines," your comparison of that South African Stanford "student" here on a J-1 visa (but who never enrolled in classes there) to Deputy Führer Melakon was dead-on accurate and dare I say brilliant.

The hypocrisy of it all is the thing... the scapegoating of illegal immigrants while actually being illegal immigrants themselves along with members of their families being illegal immigrants... Trump's wife from Slovenia overstaying her tourist visa and working in the United States without authorization (illegal), Felon with a J-1 visa not attending Stanford (therefore illegal as no legal authorization to remain in the United States) but instead began working on his startup (also illegal as no legal authorization to work in the United States), Felon's South African brother who admitted to illegally entering via Canada under false pretenses (illegal) and then joining his brother in working in the United States illegally.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2024/10/27/what-elon-musk-working-illegally-says-about-the-immigration-system/

But, hey, they gave the gullible rubes a scapegoat and "somebody to look down on" so they're distracted from noticing their icons and family fit the description.

They're also quite fond of scapegoating the "elites" while actually being the elites -- as if wearing an imported cheap hat from China erases it -- and then they laugh all the way to the bank.

I was sure you were going to say that the entire committee for selecting the "Noble" laureates simultaneously lost bladder control while laughing, because they can't even. Oh, well, can't win every time.

I will be first in line for one of those $2 aeroplane tickets for the groundbreaking of the Riviera of the Middle East. Maybe I can score one of those golden shovels.

Wow, I still have my Anagrams set from my childhood. I love that game. The cover looked just like this one: Anagrams. Like polished ebony those tiles are!

you started the anagram thing first, I just sorta took it a bit outside the lines.

This is an A+, top-notch, America First Plan. Should bring the price of eggs right down and improve the lives of all Americans. Let's do it! Everybody loves this idea.

We all love this idea. Don't you just adore little words that mean ginormous things? But I digress. All the world cannot stop themselves from talking about how genius this is. What better way to bring peace to the Middle East than some good old fashioned ethnic cleansing?
"He Who Must Not Be Named" would be so proud.

Reached for comment, the Norwegians on the committee who select the Nobel laureates could not stop themselves from exclaiming in unison: It's dynamite!

Had to look up Melakon, but he sems to be an eerily good fit. Thanks for that.

Here's a gift link to the source information Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally.

The short version that I have cribbed pretty much word for word from the above is that Elno arrived in Palo Alto in 1995 for a graduate degree program at Stanford University, but never enrolled in courses. Instead, he founded a company, Zip2, which later sold for about $300 million. Not attending classes left Musk without a legal basis to remain in the United States, according to immigration experts — a fact that was discovered by Zip2 investors, who gave Musk and his co-founders 45 days to obtain legal work status. An immigration attorney advised Zip2’s co-founders to downplay their leadership role with the company and scrub their résumés of U.S. addresses that might suggest they were already living and working in the United States, according to documents obtained by The Post. The attorney also advised Musk to obtain passport-size photos and apply to the U.S. “visa lottery.”

[Elno] has said he had a J-1 student visa before landing a specialized worker temporary visa called an H-1B. However, he has declined to answer questions about exactly how and when he obtained the work visa. [Elno] has never publicly acknowledged his period of illegal status, conceding only that he lived for a time in an immigration “gray area.” But his visa issues could raise separate questions for his security clearance, which he holds as the CEO and founder of SpaceX, an aerospace company with billions of dollars in federal contracts.

“At a minimum, a determination that he had been less than truthful with immigration authorities would absolutely be something that security authorities could separately consider as casting doubt on his trustworthiness and good judgment,” Bradley Moss, a lawyer who works in security clearance law, wrote in an email. “If his name was anything but Elon Musk,” Moss said, “the odds are his security clearance would more than likely face revocation under those circumstances.” "

regarding this week's agency blitz, apparently it was someone from USAID who blew the whistle on Donald's perfect 2019 conversation with zelenskyi. no idea if that was a cause, a pretext, or neither.

regardless, i really am surprised.

So it appears people are talking now, and the cat -- which definitely is a leopard, as in the "Leopard Eating People's Faces Party" -- is being let out of the bag.

The whistleblower in Impeachment I (not to be confused with Impeachment II) was at the time a CIA intelligence analyst. He composed his original "song" in a form easily recognizable as the handiwork of a trained agent:

Whistleblower Report (now public record)

His name is easily searchable on the Internet; however, I will not repeat it here. Last I heard, he was senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Elno arrived in the US in 1992 to overstay his visa and become and American citizen.

Melakon was an illegal immigrant?

Here's a short cut-and paste from Mission to South Africa, by Timothy Bork, in the archives of USAID.

As the Cold War was winding down in the 1980s, international attention turned to the apartheid regime in South Africa.

The United States passed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, authorizing assistance to apartheid victims to become full participants in the political, social, economic, and intellectual life of South Africa. The Act further required that projects benefit legally disadvantaged communities and have community support and participation.

Prior to its enactment, USAID, with the support of the Congress, was already working on a program in South Africa, beginning with human rights programming which I designed as assistant general counsel for Africa.

U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means.

The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy.

I'm sure that it is mere coincidence that the laws enabling Apartheid were repealed in 1990 and Elno arrived in the US in 1992 to overstay his visa and become and American citizen. Heaven forfend that something like the USAID efforts in South Africa should happen here.

regardless, i really am surprised.

Does somebody need the simple English word "transcript" explained? Rhetorical question.

While a transcript definitely is not an "interpretation," the prattling claptrap of a right-wingnut lickspittle and Party slave definitely fits that definition.

Alleged USAID Probe Into Starlink Raises Elon Musk Conflict Concerns

You know, the link also has the full video as well as the unofficial transcript. Point out this misquoting, or do you not back up your accusations?

In a *REAL* "reality based" forum, we would wait for the actual official transcript of what was actually really said..

You mean wait for the sane washed version to appear in your echo chamber if the white house bothers to post the transcript at all...

In other words, it's simply an INTERPRETATION of what PRESIDENT Trump said by those with a Trump/America/Israel hating agenda..

In a *REAL* "reality based" forum, we would wait for the actual official transcript of what was actually really said.. :eyeroll:

Even one "longtime Trump advisor" anonymously told Axios last night: "He's moving the goal posts on crazy." Sounds about right.

If it was anonymously, how do you know it really is a "longtime Trump advisor"..

:eyeroll:

Reminds me of the time when some "high level administration" official put out an Op Ed in the NY SLIMES that you Trump/America haters got yer panties in a bunch.. Turned out it was just some random ignorant flunkie in a broom closet some where.. :eyeroll:

But, it says what Trump/America haters suffering from PTDS wants to hear, so it's gospel.. :eyeroll:

Welcome to the subjective reality of Trump/America hate...

"Reality can be whatever {we} want it to be"
-Thanos

:eyeroll:

With no adults left in the room, Trump's inner child will roam free.

Considering the complete and utter INEPTITUDE and INCOMPETENCE of the Basement Biden/Headboard Harris junta, do you REALLY want to bring up "adults in the room"??

REALLY???

:eyeroll:

Yunno, there is a REASON why Democrats got so utterly DECIMATED and DESTROYED in the 2024 election...

I'm just sayin'....

The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too.

~ Donald Trump

A con job.

I have heard quite a few takes on this asinine Trump drivel and spew, claiming it is 3-D chess (heh) and all manner of other laughable asinine theories, but I suspect -- combined with the obvious fact that Trump has made a career out of bullshitting a multitude of people for his own monetary gain -- this is Trump's longstanding coveting of fame/recognition via a Nobel peace prize.

Yesterday, Trump floated the asinine fantasy to "take over Gaza" and "own Gaza" to Netanyahu, and today he introduced the idea of a "nuclear peace agreement" to Iran, among other things.

Connect the dots between those things and Netanyahu's longstanding desire for some American bunker busters to be dropped on Iran via US and his current "negotiations" with Trump and the inevitable blowing of smoke up his orange ass that this would entail, and I suspect Trump is coveting that Nobel peace prize and being played like the incompetent fool he's proven himself to be when he's nothing if not transparent and infinitely predictable. Nothing new.

But more seriously, I just don't know what to make of this Gaza nonsense. I didn't read the transcripts you provided - I make a point of never reading or watching anything he says, since his discourse and appearance drive me crazy with the lies, B.S., and then more lies - but I've read the summaries you give and the press elsewhere of this Gaza project. Ethnic cleansing, a virtual Palestinian holocaust, and then Miami Beach on the Med, with the usual profits for all his friends and family (got ya, Jared!): the developers and grifters of the monied set.

It's insane. And as you say there's no longer any pushback from his own staff or supporters - only from his opponents.

Where is this going to go? Nowhere, as the press secretary tried to pretend? Or onward as a constant presidential talking point and project, that still never goes anywhere because it's actually impossible, like the Wall The Mexicans Will Pay For in the first Trump term?

How infinitely depressing. Gah.