... about "polishing the turd".
I thought the phrase “you can’t polish a turd” originated with the British or US Navy. For you non-native English speakers, it means that you cannot improve something which is inherently or unalterably unpleasant or of poor quality. After doing additional research, one of the earliest recorded uses is attributed to Geoffrey Stokes in his 1977 book Star-Making Machinery: Inside the Business of Rock and Roll, where it is used in the context of music production. The phrase gained popularity and became widely recognized in various contexts, often used humorously to describe futile efforts to improve something fundamentally flawed. That summarizes Keir Starmer’s meeting on Thursday with Donald Trump.
Read the whole thing at Larry's blog. A peculiar detail of this meeting, however, was that not for a second DJT and Starmer had any communications tete-a-tete. Meanwhile, a LOL of a strategic importance. Good grief ...
(NewsNation) — Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, says the United States is hoping to make an estimated $20 billion from a rare earth minerals deal Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump are negotiating. “I think the President’s vision is that not only will it help us with our national security to have the critical minerals, which are so important for putting computers together and everything else, but also, if there’s U.S. ownership in those places, that it will help secure those places, because you, of course wouldn’t want to be attacking U.S. things,” Hassett said in an interview with NewsNation correspondent Kellie Meyer on “Morning in America.”
Russians immediately deployed their superweapon--yes, a meme ... Yes, this one. You don't need "translation for that". For reference--Bacchus and Ariadne by Guido Reni.
Yes, $20 billion, no NOT trillion, billion. You know, a pocket change or Stewie from The Family Guy trying to "impress bitches" with his 0.2 inches dick. Or the dick of Bacchus. Yeah, $20 billion--a pocket change.
