everyone wants to have a Christmas

Sure, but what's more important if you have limited money available? A tree or a meal (hopefully with leftovers)?

Is he smoking crack?

It's a family tradition

open up diplomacy

In the same way that Neville Chamberlain did?

Despite its claims of being grassroots, the campaign has links to the largest fossil fuel industry advocacy group in the country,

To the surprise of nobody who has been paying attention.

Unfortunately far too many people don't seem to care to think a bit critically.

Christmas trees are $60-$80

If you're struggling to make ends meet, that's not a very reasonable item to be looking at the cost of.

I'm not buying a seasonal decoration if i cant afford to feed my kids.

The biggest impediment to increasing trade with countries that aren't 50km away is the cost and logistics of shipping.

Given their proximity, the US is always going to be looked at as the easiest place to trade with.

Of course, having a chaotic baboon running the place does change that calculation somewhat, but the fact that they're just "across the stereet" still tilts that balance.

Anyone who has been paying attention understands that trumps idea of negotiation is to get everything and give nothing.

He doesn't operate on the idea of mutually beneficial outcomes. The only way he understands him winning is to make everyone else lose.

Among the ones not going fascist north Korea, Russia, Eritrea, China, Syria, Iran…

They're not going, because they're already there.

Does extreme vetting come with knee pads, or do candidates have to bring their own?

Is this draining the swamp?

Draining it directly into the white house.

That sounds like a you problem, Rudy...

Leaving it open ended and subjective is setting up for failure.

Having a specific list always misses something, and bad actors will find ways to abuse the gaps in that list.

My first inclination would not be to join an organization that has a long and notorious history of testosterone fuelled bro culture.

Apparently I vastly underestimated how many people are in the US military in general.

Transgender people are significantly more likely to serve in the US military than the general US population

That also surprises me.

Are there actually 15K trans soldiers in the army, or is this just another number that he pulled out of his ass?

Some of this is likely to be grandstanding, no?

Who the hell knows with Trump.

He makes so many random and often contradictory statements, it's hard to predict what he will actually do, and what he won't.

and America didn't have an incoming president who wasn't more interested in fellating Putin.

That is a bit of a wildcard, isn't it.

leaves the door open for charges to be brought back once Trump is no longer in office

Assuming his lard-ass lives that long.

He has already started littering space with scrapped vehicles.

Carrots will store for a year. Butternut and similar squashes almost as long. Beets, onions, cabbage... Potatoes less so but still 6-9 months or longer

Obviously, but that's not fresh, in-season fruit and vegatables, which is what I was specifically addressing.