Michael Weiss

My alternate blue sky livelihood would have been raising Shetland sheepdogs in some like English shire. Probably why I came back to London to escape the, what is it? The moronic inferno. Was that Saul Bellows term for the United States? That's what it would become. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, look, as much as everything is just incredibly stupid, it also makes sense in a weird way.

My alternate blue sky livelihood would have been raising Shetland sheepdogs in some like English shire. Probably why I came back to London to escape the, what is it? The moronic inferno. Was that Saul Bellows term for the United States? That's what it would become. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, look, as much as everything is just incredibly stupid, it also makes sense in a weird way.

My alternate blue sky livelihood would have been raising Shetland sheepdogs in some like English shire. Probably why I came back to London to escape the, what is it? The moronic inferno. Was that Saul Bellows term for the United States? That's what it would become. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, look, as much as everything is just incredibly stupid, it also makes sense in a weird way.

I mean, I was thinking about this. So Trump goes to the Middle East. Everyone he's meeting with has been in power forever or will be in power forever. They've had eight years to take the measure of this guy, and they've realized – Oh, OK, so he's not an American president like we're used to, where we have to barter about strategic and national interests and there's some horse trading and all that.

I mean, I was thinking about this. So Trump goes to the Middle East. Everyone he's meeting with has been in power forever or will be in power forever. They've had eight years to take the measure of this guy, and they've realized – Oh, OK, so he's not an American president like we're used to, where we have to barter about strategic and national interests and there's some horse trading and all that.

I mean, I was thinking about this. So Trump goes to the Middle East. Everyone he's meeting with has been in power forever or will be in power forever. They've had eight years to take the measure of this guy, and they've realized – Oh, OK, so he's not an American president like we're used to, where we have to barter about strategic and national interests and there's some horse trading and all that.

We just have to bribe him like we would anybody in our part of the world. And, you know, it's very clever of the Qatari's to give a 13 year old.

We just have to bribe him like we would anybody in our part of the world. And, you know, it's very clever of the Qatari's to give a 13 year old.

We just have to bribe him like we would anybody in our part of the world. And, you know, it's very clever of the Qatari's to give a 13 year old.

jet worth $400 million, but which will require years of refurbishing, which includes, by the way, cleaning out the spyware that I'm sure the Qataris and probably the Russians and the Chinese and the Iranians have been placed in it, and then installing all the kit that the Americans will require for intelligence collection. And that's going to cost a billion dollars.

jet worth $400 million, but which will require years of refurbishing, which includes, by the way, cleaning out the spyware that I'm sure the Qataris and probably the Russians and the Chinese and the Iranians have been placed in it, and then installing all the kit that the Americans will require for intelligence collection. And that's going to cost a billion dollars.

jet worth $400 million, but which will require years of refurbishing, which includes, by the way, cleaning out the spyware that I'm sure the Qataris and probably the Russians and the Chinese and the Iranians have been placed in it, and then installing all the kit that the Americans will require for intelligence collection. And that's going to cost a billion dollars.

So in other words, Donald Trump takes a bribe by a foreign power, which will cost the US taxpayer $600 million. Wow. It's pretty incredible, like a masterstroke of statecraft. And then you've got Ahmed al-Shara, the jihadi president of Syria, former jihadi, who says, well, why don't you just build a Trump Tower in Damascus? And lo and behold, sanctions are magically lifted. lifted.

So in other words, Donald Trump takes a bribe by a foreign power, which will cost the US taxpayer $600 million. Wow. It's pretty incredible, like a masterstroke of statecraft. And then you've got Ahmed al-Shara, the jihadi president of Syria, former jihadi, who says, well, why don't you just build a Trump Tower in Damascus? And lo and behold, sanctions are magically lifted. lifted.

So in other words, Donald Trump takes a bribe by a foreign power, which will cost the US taxpayer $600 million. Wow. It's pretty incredible, like a masterstroke of statecraft. And then you've got Ahmed al-Shara, the jihadi president of Syria, former jihadi, who says, well, why don't you just build a Trump Tower in Damascus? And lo and behold, sanctions are magically lifted. lifted.

And Trump is not only posing with this guy, who is a top operative of Al Qaeda in Iraq, and then the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's lieutenant who was dispatched into Syria to set up the ISIS franchise there, or the ISI franchise there, which became ISIS. But it was on the US terrorism list up until very recently.

And Trump is not only posing with this guy, who is a top operative of Al Qaeda in Iraq, and then the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's lieutenant who was dispatched into Syria to set up the ISIS franchise there, or the ISI franchise there, which became ISIS. But it was on the US terrorism list up until very recently.

And Trump is not only posing with this guy, who is a top operative of Al Qaeda in Iraq, and then the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's lieutenant who was dispatched into Syria to set up the ISIS franchise there, or the ISI franchise there, which became ISIS. But it was on the US terrorism list up until very recently.

And then Trump not only poses smiling with the guy, but says, oh, yeah, he's quite attractive. He's charismatic. He's a real fighter. And You know, like he's just met like Muhammad Ali or something. It's just, you know, it's transactional. It's like so cosmically narcissistic. But I guess this is just the way the world works and everyone's figuring it out.

And then Trump not only poses smiling with the guy, but says, oh, yeah, he's quite attractive. He's charismatic. He's a real fighter. And You know, like he's just met like Muhammad Ali or something. It's just, you know, it's transactional. It's like so cosmically narcissistic. But I guess this is just the way the world works and everyone's figuring it out.