If the mentalist was any good none of this would have happened.

WATCH LIVE: Trump holds press conference after shooting at White House Correspondents' Dinner

~~It hasn't started yet. It's a PBS stream so right now there's only ambience audio.~~

Started!

Bluesky...

Wait, the WHCA circle-jerk is actually being held at the Hinckley Hilton?

Always is/has been.

It’s the largest ballroom in the city, so basically all the big galas are there. (And the National Prayer Breakfast!)

https://bsky.app/profile/lemieuxlgm.bsky.social/post/3mkef77eo3c2f

Why can't...
Must. Not. Fedpost.
Why can't we have nice things?

I voted for Biden in 2020 because I really wanted Trump to lose. I knew there was an effectively zero percent chance Biden and the dems would pack the court but I have to admit that I tried to imagine there was a smidgeon of hope. Whoever the president is in 2029 and whatever the make up of congress is - there will be an effectively zero percent chance the court is packed. The dems will never do it.

Everybody in the 2028 dem clown car collection of presidential hopefuls will use their court reform go-to of saying they want term limits and an ethics code which - of course - is fucking stupid and requires voters to keep on voting and voting and voting as we wait and wait and wait for the fuckers to die of old age, terminal illness, or misadventure.

I turned it into a double album.

I have no idea what this is but I'm leaving it here anyway...

What I love about the average liberal is they keep whingeing about the court. But some of them never say it needs to be packed. I don't think they even want it to be packed. Like republicans want to own the libs - the libs want to "own" (in a an uber-lib way) the people they hate: non-voters and such. The easiest way to do that is to complain for the next few decades about stuff like the court.

AP update - Trump says Iran presented new offers 10 minutes after he canceled US team’s trip. Amid the stalled negotiations with Iran, the president said the Iranians sent over a new peace proposal, but that it “could have been better,” and rejected it.

“They gave us a paper that could have been better, and interestingly, immediately when I canceled it, within 10 minutes we got a new paper that was much better,” Trump said to reporters on Saturday before boarding Air Force One to return to Washington from Florida. The President wouldn’t offer specifics about what was in the latest proposal other than saying “they offered a lot.” But he stressed that one of his conditions is that Iran “will not have a nuclear weapon.”

Trump said he cancelled the latest rounds of negotiations with Iran because it was “a lot of traveling” and because his negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, “weren’t meeting with the leader of the country.” Trump said the U.S. will “deal by telephone and they can call us anytime they want” before adding that “we have all the cards.”

~25m ago - Trump on Truth Social

I just cancelled the trip of my representatives going is Islamabad, Pakistan, to meet with the Iranians. Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work! Besides which, there is tremendous infighting and confusion within their “leadership.” Nobody knows who is in charge, including them. Also, we have all the cards, they have none! If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Edit

A New Yorker writer/ghoul told a joke.

we have all the cards says guy who for a long time has not been playing with a full deck

https://bsky.app/profile/pgourevitch.bsky.social/post/3mkdrqkacac2q

num-nums!

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