He's stupid, yes. But worse, all indications are that the man has no real sense of his own identity. People like Thiel like him because he naturally shapes his personality according to his surroundings, an incurable people pleaser with no evident moral center.

HE WAS A PRINCIPAL AUTHOR OF PROJECT 2025, which has the explicit goal of starving entities that rely on government funding.

There is no way they didn't know this would happen. Absolute crocodile tears.

And the department of education does not actually do anything material to support trade school programs.

Even as a joke.

I don't understand why this is the thing the internet cares about right now

Several, in fact

They're giving him these things because he needs familiar narcissistic comforts (ballroom, outrageously glorifying AI slop, etc.) to tamp down the rage fits that are part of his dementia progression. He's basically a 2-year old with the power to launch nuclear weapons.

The Trump Dump has such a nice mouthfeel too.

Also children. Many are children.

He was at Camp David and suspiciously quiet again last weekend.

I immediately saw some of the same qualities in him that Trump has: narcissism, attraction to power and the powerful, and a suspicious tendency to bend his policies toward whatever threats or rewards are being offered by said powerful. He's good at trolling Trump because he has the same nature.

The Onion tells only facts

The left can work with that. Not sure about the Democrats though.

My parents were living in Vegas and knew a prominent state politician at the time of the events the book and movie are based on. And it really was like that.

Boise, Bozeman, Ketchakan, Yellowstone. The others I honestly don't know what could be enjoyable. Kansas might have some decent BBQ?

That sounds much more fun than the Iron Man blocking off all roads out of my neighborhood and tying up food and medical services in town this weekend.

That's the best way the Nerd Reich can explain to him how they need to keep feeding the Silicon Valley Money Furnaces. Winning =winning