Peace Out!

We all know by now that Putin totally pantsed Trump this past weekend in Alaska. But it's not because Putin is so cunning and clever (See: "Three-day war" in Ukraine) it's because Trump has the comprehension and attention span of a bowl of froot loops.

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Do you know why the Trump/Putin meeting in Alaska was necessary?

Because Trump's real estate developer friend, Steve Witkoff, was sent to Russia in early August to talk cease fires. He is not a seasoned diplomat, does not speak Russian, had to rely on translation using a Putin-supplied translator, and took no notes on the conversation.

So his "interpretation" of the meeting was that Putin was amenable to ceding land back to Ukraine which, as it turned out, was 100% totally wrong. Putin played Witkoff, who more than one political pundit has described as "an idiot".

So Trump decided to do it himself and got played, too, because he's also an idiot.

Big picture: If anyone thinks this meeting was about cease-fires I have a warehouse full of Trump-branded golden diapers to sell you.

BTW, that meeting was such a disaster that seven heads of European state, plus NATO, are in Washington TODAY to try and talk some sense into Putin's idiot pedophile friend. (Although, in his adderall-addled mind, he probably thinks they're coming here to give him the Nobel Peace Prize.)

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Jimmy Kimmel talking about Stephen Colbert (from a Variety interview):

Variety: There have been reports that Colbert’s show was losing $40 million a year. What’s your take on that?

Kimmel: "I just want to say that the idea that Stephen Colbert‘s show was losing $40 million a year is beyond nonsensical. These alleged insiders who supposedly analyze the budgets of the shows — I don’t know who they are, but I do know they don’t know what they’re talking about. They seem to only be focused on advertising revenue and have completely forgotten about affiliate fees, which number in the hundreds of millions — probably in total billions — and you must allocate a certain percentage of those fees to late-night shows. It really is surprising how little the media seems to know about how the media works. There’s just not a snowball’s chance in hell that that’s anywhere near accurate. Even that — that’s all you need to know. Suddenly he’s losing $40 million a year? I will tell you, the first 10 years I did the show, they claimed we weren’t making any money — and we had five times as many viewers on ABC as we do now. Who knows what’s true? All I know is they keep paying us — and that’s kind of all you need to know."

- Lefty