He’s screwed. He and others in his administration made it an integral part of his platform. Whether it exists or not, his supporters, who have been trained to believe in a deep state conspiracy to cover up child abuse, cannot be convinced that it doesn’t exist, and the more he denies it the more suspicious he looks. Either releasing the evidence would end him, or through multiple layers of convenient, unbelievable incompetence the promised evidence really doesn’t exist. Really? Only one camera that can only see a sliver of a stairway was working and even that has a time gap, and the guards just happened to be slacking off on the night in question? It’d be hard to believe even if the Trump administration hadn’t made such a big deal about it and there wasn’t that photo going around of Trump and Epstein together.

He claims to have finally realized what everyone else knew from the start.

Yes. No taxes on tips is a weird exception that encourages tipping wages. We should be discouraging tipping.

Freedom fries

The only good thing about Trump is that if America survives it will be forced to fix its system of government if it ever wants to become as internationally important as it was just a few months ago again.

Probably less. He could change his mind at any time.

He “learned his lesson” so he was allowed to stay in office. He learned his lesson alright. He learned he can do whatever he wants because the federal government is overrun with traitors.

This isn’t caving. This is the deal they originally wanted, before Trump intervened in his first term. Trump will refuse, and then the EU can say “I thought you wanted fair trade” before retaliating. Maybe it’s embarrassing for the US.

This will happen both ways. Once agreements to buy are over, prices of American material exports will collapse within the US. The USDA says 40-45% of rice is grown for export. Americans are going to eat a lot of rice.

He has amazing levels of energy for being a fat old man who can’t walk down a ramp. It could be the drugs.

There is no year 1 in our current calendar system either. The Gregorian Calendar begins in 1582. The Julian Calendar includes year 1, but changed in year 8, so 0001-01-01 is a slightly different day in the Gregorian Calendar, the Julian Calendar, and the old Julian Calendar. 2000 years after Julian Calendar 0001-01-01 is late December 2000.

This has less meaning in China because China used its own calendar until 1911. People living in China 2000 years before 2001-01-01 would not have called it year 1.

There’s nothing wrong with the Watergate or pizza either.

The thought of Japan buying American cars is hilarious. American car companies only care about making oversized trucks and SUVs now. Even in America, if you buy a sedan you are most likely getting an import. In the most popular 25 sedan models in America according Kelly Blue Book, the top 5 are all Japanese and there are only 3 from American brands.

Why does that mean it’s not signalgate? The name watergate comes from the luxury Watergate hotel in Washington DC where a crime was comitted. Having this conversation on Signal is unquestionably illegal, whether extra people were invited or not, and the scandal is because the conversation being on Signal, not because somebody may have been drunk.

What is the incentive for the US to provide enough power at reasonable prices? Why does Trump think that Ukranians don’t know how to operate their own power plants and need utility expertise?

In December, CISA, a US government agency, surprised people by recommending Signal. Is the UK not having a problem with sophisticated cyber attacks?