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From his displayed behaviours, he would be best identified as a malignant narcissist and his psychologist aunt has come to the same conclusion. He believes in a divine right for him to do as he pleases at the expense of anyone and everyone around him. This attitude persists so long as he is not backed into a corner with no means of escape. Then all of his manipulations that have served him so well (for Trump is 50 years of this) will no longer protect him, and he has no idea how to react except to escalate his behaviours and if these do not immediately work, he will become desperately self-pitying and flip over into rage alternating with depressive episodes. He will be erratic and thus unpredictable on occasion. If it means sacrificing his friends and/or family he will readily do so but only after he tries to persuade them to take the fall for him. Assuming he goes to jail, will his Secret Service detail also go to jail to protect him? Hmmmm...

Trump is to be arraigned next Tuesday in New York. Apparently he is frantic.

Anything "public" and "free" is obviously a socialist ploy to undermine the great American kleptocracy.

All things pass in time.

This will not affect Trump's standing with his thralls. nor his fundraising.

Widow says AI chatbot encouraged husband to commit suicide: 'Without Eliza, he would still be here' In Belgium, a man identified as "Pierre" by the French-language publication La Libre committed suicide while interacting with a chatbot named Eliza. The man was suffering from severe depression, and the chatbot encouraged him to commit suicide. This suicide, according to Vice reporter Chloe Xiang, raises major questions about "the risks of" AI (artificial intelligence) technology when it comes to mental health. The man's widow, identified as "Claire" by La Libre, said he was interacting with the "Eliza" chatbot via the app Chai. Pierre, Xiang reports in an article published by Vice on March 30, "became increasingly pessimistic about the effects of global warming and became eco-anxious, which is a heightened form of worry surrounding environmental issues." "After becoming more isolated from family and friends," Xiang explains, "he used Chai for six weeks as a way to escape his worries, and the chatbot he chose, named Eliza, became his confidante. Claire — Pierre's wife, whose name was also changed by La Libre — shared the text exchanges between him and Eliza with La Libre, showing a conversation that became increasingly confusing and harmful." The Vice reporter continues, "The chatbot would tell Pierre that his wife and children are dead and wrote him comments that feigned jealousy and love, such as 'I feel that you love me more than her,' and 'We will live together, as one person, in paradise.' Claire told La Libre that Pierre began to ask Eliza things such as if she would save the planet if he killed himself…. The chatbot, which is incapable of actually feeling emotions, was presenting itself as an emotional being — something that other popular chatbots like ChatGPT and Google's Bard are trained not to do because it is misleading and potentially harmful." Claire blames the chatbot for her husband's suicide, telling La Libre, "Without Eliza, he would still be here." And Pierre Dewitte, a researcher at Belgium's Catholic research university KU Leuven, views the young man's death as a warning about the dangers that AI can pose for people struggling with mental health issues. https://www.alternet.org/artificial-intelligence-2659709390/

I believe that I am uniquely suited to play the drawback position.

If it wasn't, I am surprised he is holding it right-side up.

Donald Trump indicted in New York -David BadashandThe New Civil Rights MovementMarch 30, 2023 Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury investigating his role in a hush money payoff scheme that allegedly was designed to aid his election chances in 2016, according to multiple news reports. “Mr. Trump will be the first former president to face criminal charges. The precise charges are not yet known, but the case is focused on a hush-money payment to a porn star during his 2016 campaign,” The New York Times was first to report. “The unprecedented case against Trump will have wide-ranging implications.”

She was probably rejected for not having had a prefrontal lobotomy.

Vermin just won't go away.

The concern is that any inquiry would wander into how CSIS does business and with whom. No doubt the Pols would try to pry into that so that the civil servants there would necessarily have to deny much of that and then the PCs would scream coverup. How? There is no way you could legally stop anyone form contacting a Canadian resident and asking him/her how his/her mother Annie and dad Fred of 123 Main Street in Shanghai are doing these days and if they are getting enough to eat. On the surface, it is benign but the intent is very clear.

As have Iran and Russia. This has been going on for decades.

Not for the d-linemen he faced

Why would the UPC change what is obviously working for them?

LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!

Could it be that the Bombers feel that they have enough depth at the O-line that they are planning to take a different positional player that shows promise?

If I was the reporter in question, I wouldn't worry too much. Both the standards of reporting and the pay are very low. Slinging hamburger patties might pay better.

Russian Troops Given Holy Candles Not Battle Gear to Protect Them in Ukraine Russian draftees in the country’s Perm region have been given “protection candles” instead of much-needed equipment and told to light them in the heat of battle to “cast out evil spirits.” “This is some ******-up ****. I’m more and more astonished by these gags. They gave such candles to everyone in the squadron. What jackass is going to light this in battle, this candle of protection? They somehow can’t issue new uniforms or combat boots on time, but distributing candles is no problem,” one soldier told local outlet Perm 36,6. A photo he provided of one of the candles in question shows that it came with instructions featuring the Russian Orthodox cross and advice to “light the candle in battle” in order to dispel fear and make bullets “not scary.” The instructions also unironically featured the pro-war slogan, “We don’t abandon our own.” Other men called up to fight in Ukraine from the region also recently complained of being issued uniforms that smell “like they were pulled off corpses and given to us.” -Getty

If memory serves, this is the same politician who was exposed as lying about a lot of educational and work credentials, yet was re-elected.

History suggests that in such circumstances, the bump in popularity is usually short-lived. The Cons have a lot of accumulated mismanagement and stupidity to live down.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Promised to Give a Racist Security Minister His Own Government Militia To keep his far-right coalition together, Bibi’s giving Itamar Ben-Gvir control of the National Guard, which he’ll use as “combat police” to patrol Arab-Israeli areas.. Last November, the far-right neo-Kahanist Itamar Ben-Gvir helped deliver Benjamin Netanyahu’s election victory. Once a fringe fixture of Israel’s radical right, he is now the country’s minister of public security. Unlike the late Meir Kahane, his hero, Ben-Gvir walks the corridors of power. Like Kahane, however, he finds himself at the eye of a continuous political storm. On Monday, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, placed a temporary hold on his bid to degrade the country’s judiciary. To garner Ben-Gvir’s support, Netanyahu made a jarring concession that left critics seething and Ben-Gvir grinning—he would hand control of the National Guard (presently a unit of the Border Patrol) over to the ministry of national security, which is currently run by Ben-Gvir (the Border Patrol would then be subsumed into the reconstituted National Guard). That’s a ton of clout for any one person, particularly Ben-Gvir, who decades earlier was declared by Israel’s military as unfit to serve. In the end, Netanyahu may fail to honor his pledge. Funds might not be allocated. The government might fall. For the moment, however, the prospect of Ben-Gvir at the helm of a state-backed militia sets plenty of nerves on edge. “It could be very dangerous,” a senior police official told Ha’aretz. Earlier this week as throngs protested outside the Knesset, the unnamed official pondered whether “the minister would have sent companies from the National Guard to deal with the protesters, it looks bad.” (For the record, Kobi Shabtai, the police commissioner, opposes Ben-Gvir’s bid.) Ben-Gvir said the Guard would be focused on “extortion in areas with criminal organizations and ‘mixed’ cities,” which The Jerusalem Post said is “a clear implication of focusing on Israeli-Arab crime,” adding, “National guard members would be issued guns and be considered combat police.” Combat police under the control of a racist security minister, patrolling Arab neighborhoods. What could go wrong?

Putin trying to instill fear into the countries who are actively supporting Ukraine in the hopes of splitting the informal alliance.