The LA Times has been consistent since its founding about shilling for the rich.

According to Trump, nobody has rights but Trump, who has the Divine Right of Kings.

Then turn out in the streets if they steal the election.

Because he’s good at what he does and might actually try to deliver.

Good thing it’s not up to her.

Well, we’re not in the situation now. Better to come up with a credible plan starting from where we are than messing around with counterfactuals.

The fact that you just noticed something doesn’t mean that it didn’t exist before that.

That object persistence needs some work.

I wish an imperfect vessel in his brainstem would do the right thing.

Just ask the bot.

A new low for the kakistocracy.

There’s strong evidence that Trump is so fucked up by his narcissism that he believes that, if he wills something, it will inevitably happen.

His mind is on vacation but his mouth is working overtime. --Mose Allison

since Willard is a traditional Celtic name

It’s Germanic, as are most names ending with -ard or -hard (Richard, Bernhard, Eberhard). It appears in old English as Wilheard.

Wilms can also be a form of Willems, which is Dutch. I don’t know if it occurs in Allemanic-speaking regions such as Baden. It might. I’ve been there, but only once or twice long ago. But I know the Low Countries well and have seen the surname used both in the Netherlands and Flanders.

Wilmsome, even.

back then he was perfectly coherent

People with ADHD can speak perfectly coherently. ADHD is an issue with attention and focus, not with language.

and could stay on track for hours

How could you possibly know that? Were you physically there with him at the time, critically assessing his performance? I thought you were dead, Epstein.

People with ADHD cannot do that.

You have no idea what you’re talking about. They very much can.

doesn’t mean he has ADHD it means he has dementia

Anyone who can’t distinguish those two conditions is more than a few marbles short. They’re nothing alike.

“Influencer”?

Ratfucker. Luckily he’s such a raving asshole that he’ll piss someone off in prison.

I wonder if Melanoma has hired an astrologer to advise him yet.

Well, they’re not entirely worthless after all.

the proof will be in the pudding as the saying goes

That’s not how the saying goes. “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.”

Just a reminder that Hayek and his mob were opposed to the application of the scientific method to economics, and also that the only place any of them had any experience of actual governance was in the proto-fascist pre-Anschluss government of Austria, where their proposed policies failed.