(July 17, 2025 at 3:23 pm)Pat Mustard Wrote:

(July 16, 2025 at 6:51 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Look at this embodiment of health: From the fatness of his chin to his swollen ankles.



His kidneys must be completely dead considering how fat his ankles are.

And remember, given that he's a VIP that's an extra wide seat he's crammed into.

He’s either lying about his height or weight or both. He claims 6’3” and 220 lbs. Bollocks. I’m 6’4” and 215 lbs. There’s no way he is what he says.

Boru

Trump’s doctors are claiming the swollen ankles are due to chronic venous insufficiency (I say ‘claiming’ because they’ve lied about his health before), a relatively minor condition that can also causes varicose veins.

Just when I had my hopes up for irreversible kidney failure.
 
Boru

^ There will be an unsuspecting "donor" lying face down in a tub of ice.

(July 17, 2025 at 4:00 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(July 17, 2025 at 2:37 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I could see the Turump Administration being spiteful enough to destroy perfectly good food. I have no evidence that that is what has happened, but let's face it, nothing is beyond the pale to Trump and his lackeys.

Agreed. I wouldn’t put it past him, that just doesn’t seem to be the case this time.

Boru

I don't disagree with this assessment but we do have to remember that regardless of what is happening with THIS lot of food, this administration has arbitrarily decided we aren't going to feed starving foreigners any longer.

Come to thing if it they don't seem so keen on feeding our starving domestics either.

As several other reports have noted, resources like this are going to waste because Trump and DOGE defunded the USAID grants that provided mechanisms for delivery.

...Before the administration dismantled USAID, citing alleged waste and fraud, personnel would have kept track of the expiration dates of the food aid. As the dates approached, they would have contacted colleagues to see who needed it, the former official explained, or it could have been donated.

The food could have been sent to places that desperately needed it, like Gaza...

US set to destroy 500 tons of US-taxpayer funded emergency food


The food is to expire this month.  This could have been avoided.

(July 17, 2025 at 8:01 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: ...Before the administration dismantled USAID, citing alleged waste and fraud, personnel would have kept track of the expiration dates of the food aid. As the dates approached, they would have contacted colleagues to see who needed it, the former official explained, or it could have been donated.

The food could have been sent to places that desperately needed it, like Gaza...

US set to destroy 500 tons of US-taxpayer funded emergency food


The food is to expire this month.  This could have been avoided.

It still could be avoided, if there were the will do to so.

This administration would rather people starve than feed them food -which has already been appropriated- for that purpose.

Starvation is a policy choice.

(July 17, 2025 at 8:35 pm)Jackalope Wrote:

(July 17, 2025 at 8:01 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: ...Before the administration dismantled USAID, citing alleged waste and fraud, personnel would have kept track of the expiration dates of the food aid. As the dates approached, they would have contacted colleagues to see who needed it, the former official explained, or it could have been donated.

The food could have been sent to places that desperately needed it, like Gaza...

US set to destroy 500 tons of US-taxpayer funded emergency food


The food is to expire this month.  This could have been avoided.

It still could be avoided, if there were the will do to so.

This administration would rather people starve than feed them food -which has already been appropriated- for that purpose.

Starvation is a policy choice.

I think someone should stuff every single bit of it down the throats of the administration and all those in Congress and SCOTUS who continue to enable this crap.

At least it would do some good if a few choked.

Send them all to the gibbet. Crows need to eat too.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.

It was Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, and Ghislaine Maxwell was preparing a special gift to mark the occasion. She turned to Epstein’s family and friends. One of them was Donald Trump.

The letter bearing Trump’s name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy—like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly “Donald” below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.

The letter concludes: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”

It isn’t clear how the letter with Trump’s signature was prepared. Inside the outline of the naked woman was a typewritten note styled as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein, written in the third person.

“Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything,” the note began.

Donald: Yes, there is, but I won’t tell you what it is.

Jeffrey: Nor will I, since I also know what it is.

Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.

Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it.

Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?

Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.

Donald: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffr...n-f918d796