What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[The Minsky Moment]

Right up until her step son called ICE on her.

All citizens must do their duty.  If you see something, say something.

She's from France so obviously involved in heroin distribution.  They made a movie about it.

[HVC]

Yeah I actually want the full backstory of her and that GI meeting when they were teenagers on a NATO base in France (so presumably pre-de Gaulle) and staying in touch for 60 years and getting together once they're widowed. It sounds like a novel.

Feel kind of bad for their original spouses.

[Sheilbh]

Feel kind of bad for their original spouses.

Well that all depends on the story.

[crazy canuck]

Yeah I actually want the full backstory of her and that GI meeting when they were teenagers on a NATO base in France (so presumably pre-de Gaulle) and staying in touch for 60 years and getting together once they're widowed. It sounds like a novel.

Feel kind of bad for their original spouses.

Entirely possible that they were also in love with the spouses, until their respective deaths, and then found eachother again later in life.

[Sheilbh]

Entirely possible that they were also in love with the spouses, until their respective deaths, and then found eachother again later in life.

Yeah, I hoped it was a November romance. Meeting with that shared experience and a couple choosing to not go gentle into that good night.

[HVC]

It's the staying in touch for me 60 years* that's the pusher for me. If they had gotten in touch again after one (or both) became widowed I'd feel different. I'm sure Hollywood would gloss that over and it'd make a great enjoyable love story


*unless sheilbh embellished

[crazy canuck]

Entirely possible that they were also in love with the spouses, until their respective deaths, and then found eachother again later in life.

Yeah, I hoped it was a November romance. Meeting with that shared experience and a couple choosing to not go gentle into that good night.

[crazy canuck]

It's the staying in touch for me 60 years that's the pusher for me. If they had gotten in touch again after one (or both) became widowed I'd feel different. I'm sure Hollywood would gloss that over and it'd make a great enjoyable love story

There are number of women I keep in touch with from my 20s. They were good friends then and they remain good friends. Why does that mean I am less in love with my wife?

[HVC]

It's the staying in touch for me 60 years that's the pusher for me. If they had gotten in touch again after one (or both) became widowed I'd feel different. I'm sure Hollywood would gloss that over and it'd make a great enjoyable love story

There are number of women I keep in touch with from my 20s. They were good friends then and they remain good friends. Why does that mean I am less in love with my wife?

Depends. Are any of them past lovers and do you plan on shacking up under the very unfortunately possibility of becoming a widower? Would you have any feelings if the same occurred for your wife. That is if she kept in contact with a former lover and ended up with them.

Now I'm not saying that for sure these two kept up a 60 years emotional affair, just that the possibility of such a situations leads me to feel kind of bad. Kind of being the important words here. Since I have no way of knowing any empathy I have is superficial and not like I'm denouncing the couple. 

*edit* just to get ahead of any possible misunderstanding, I'm not saying that you love your wife less, nor am I disparaging your relationship.

[Sheilbh]

*unless sheilbh embellished

Always.

[crazy canuck]

Yes, one of those women was a lover and our romantic relationship ended a year before I met Mrs. CC. We remained good friends.  And yes, Mrs. CC had a boyfriend when I first met her.  Mrs. CC remained good friends with him. In fact we are having dinner with him and his wife later this month.  We are long past the age when people were chaste before marriage - if such an age ever existed.

Edit, if I and his wife died, might Mrs. CC and her old boyfriend renew their relationship?  Possibly.  Does that me feel threatened at all, or does that make me feel less loved? Not at all.

[HVC]

*unless sheilbh embellished

Always.

 

[Zanza]

Trump's lawyers seeking resolution of his $10 billion lawsuit against IRS and Treasury

Lawyers for President Donald Trump are engaged in discussions with the IRS and the Treasury Department in an effort to resolve his $10 billion lawsuit accusing the agencies of an unauthorized leak of his tax information during his first administration.

(...)

The lawsuit – which Trump filed personally, not in his official capacity as president – has sparked conflict of interest concerns given his oversight of the federal agencies he is suing. Further, if the case resolves with any monetary settlement, it would be Trump's own administration paying him and his family.


(...)

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/17/politics/trump-irs-treasury-lawsuit

That's a creative way to directly shift tax money into his personal coffers.