I don't think they give a rat's ass. I don't think they care who's president or what's going on. Probably don't vote. Doritos behind the couch cushions. Another blogger thinks there should be a dress code.
Shoot the breeze today or piss into the wind whichever you prefer.
What could go wrong? Chaos at US airports as hundreds of TSA agents quit during the partial government shutdown. Will Homan do body cavity searches?
Make it stop.
I wish I could hibernate during the whole damn thing. Wake me up when it's safe. It's not normal governance. It's like a Wizard of Oz thing but you can't wake up.
They say Cuba is next on Trump's hit list after Iran. Is there a missile crisis? The way I was brought up only the Congress has the power to declare war it's such a serious undertaking. Call me quaint. War is Hegseth's version of Viagra. Cuba - the only question is what's in it for Israel?
Three's Company misunderstood conversations. This is the Z-man Consumer Reports. Recently got the Horsepower Duck which promised to be a handy little hand-vac. Manual says 16-20 minutes run time which would be fine for my purposes but it always dies out after five minutes. Just now I used it to vacuum up all the cat hairs and dust on my stair treads. Got halfway through and had to recharge the thing just to finish the job. Couple summers ago bought that As Seen On TV Arctic Air device which is like a mini portable AC just add water. Gave off good cooling action for a while but the coils and interior became all rusty in no time and I wound up throwing it all out. Excuse me while I go Flex Seal my pipes.
Readers of this blog know what a bad winter I endured. Frozen pipes and a broken smart water meter which ain't cheap courtesy of the City of Yonkers. Had to call the pros in. Last two weeks my shower was giving me a problem. An old diverter valve the flap broke off. Whenever I took a shower it was like someone peeing on me so yesterday got a new one at my local hardware store and tried to install it myself. Got a touch more complicated than the YouTube how to video so easy a 10-year old could do it in five minutes so I called a professional plumber. Again. The plumbing community loves me. I'm helping put their kids through college.
Does anyone know of any As Seen On TV products that are actually decent? A cat crapper? Anything?
Never got that 5K DOGE check. Never got the 2K tariff rebate check either. That would've been 7K total nice for some home improvement. On the other hand NYS Governor Kathy Hochul promised New Yorkers an inflation refund check and delivered difference being she wasn't talking out of her ass. Don't float something if you're not serious. BB is probably right the money went to fund Hegseth's war games. Maybe after Trump topples Cuba he can install the son over there.
My friend the Trump junkie. Driving him home yesterday and trying to bring up different topics. Movies from the 70s. Robert Duvall. Even Bigfoot couldn't stop him from proselytizing for Trump. He brought up Kristi Noem and why Trump was right in firing her. Appointed her the shield of feral cats in Latin America or something. My friend brought up her muti-million dollar advertising campaign and something about a private jet. Just as an outside observer looking in I offered even though I probably disagreed with most of what she said and did, spinning the ICE abuses for example she was extremely loyal to Trump and seems to me he pushed her off the subway platform. Ethics? When did that ever bother Mr. Trump before?
What's wrong with Lindsey Graham?
The warmongers over at Fox News. Sean Hannity armchair warrior. Probably never even picked up a rifle to shoot a duck. You know things are serious when even Megyn Kelly is distancing herself from Trump over the Iran War. She who spun the ICE abuses. The rift in the Trump base is widening. Trump is both impulsive and compulsive. Is there a disorder for that? Makes important decisions without considering the consequences. Banned the penny now a woman at work doesn't know what to do with all her pennies. The Strait of Hormuz now a huge problem for Trump. The new Ayatollah, Ayatollah Jr. now closing it off. Affecting the global economy. Will you get your SHEIN shoes? Hannity can afford to pay more at the pump. YOU may have to have sardines for dinner. Hegseth says it may take some time to take control of the Stait. Maybe he can put some of his hair gel in the water and set the place on fire.
According to my Analytics I'm even getting blogviews in Vietnam. I don't know what this means.
Some people put Biden "I Did That" stickers on the gas pumps. Now we can put Trump stickers on the pumps.
Another Khamenei chosen as Iran's Supreme Leader. The son. That's some regime change.
7th US Serviceman killed. Trump telling Americans to expect domestic terror. Noem fired as Secretary of DHS. I think Trump put her in charge of feral cats or something. She went above and beyond for her man. Thrown under the bus. That's the Trump M.O. Does the guy have any real friends?
Losing the midterms;)
Trump says he's open to the idea of ending Daylight Savings Time but it's really up to the Congress to play around with it. Just don't try to limit his war powers in any way. There's more of a momentum now of ending DST, more of a bona-fide movement made up of public health officials and simply annoyed citizens but as usual Congress is useless and does nothing. Meanwhile Lindsey Graham just wants to kill people. BTW where is my tariff rebate check?
Onward to Cuba!
The War with Iran. I think they make it up as they go along. Apparently we bombed a girl's elementary school over there and the first American casualties are coming in. Gone are the days I guess of the CIA trying to give a foreign dictator an exploding cigar and sparing everyone else. The send our men and women into harm's way presidency.
The unexpurgated unredacted Epstein Files must be pretty bad. Trump doing a Bibi. Expect more wars. Cuba?
No tears here for Khamenei. Saw some of our American protesters on TV. I never understood the soft spot for dictators on the part of the Left. Never understood the soft spot for radical Islam on the part of the Left. Having said that Trump didn't campaign on taking out the Ayatollah. A key part of MAGA was not so much anti-war but no foreign wars or entanglements. Joint US/Israeli action striking Iran. Again whatever Bibi wants Bibi gets. That too goes against another key part of MAGA America First. So a kind of mixed reaction from me. Ali Khamenei now officially deceased did have thousands of those Iranian protesters killed. No grief here for the ex-Iran Supreme Leader. However since this is all about regime change who will succeed him? Does Bibi have him all picked out? Unclear. Will probably also affect the oil markets.
Chaos in the Middle East. What else is new?
I'm not a news junkie. Old folk watch the news all day. I don't follow the weather all that closely. There's always a family member or co-worker who does and they're like the bearer of bad news. "Snow incoming. We're going to get hit Sunday into Monday." You get to hate that person. The plumbers did a really good and professional job under our porch. New smart water meter installed. New pipe insulation, electrical socket and electric tape. No more frozen pipes to worry about. BTW whatever happened to the global warming?
Did my own taxes again and sent them in. I think my math is close but I don't have a perfect knowledge. I always make a good faith attempt but next year an accountant. When you stop to think about it the only reason most of us have to file in the first place is because our employers don't take out the right amount. When somebody fails to file by Aptil 15 we commonly say he or she didn't pay their taxes. Not true they've been paying taxes all along just failed to file. Wouldn't it be a great thing if Trump and the Congress somehow came up with a way of doing away with the requirement to file? I'm sure there's approaches they could take. Put it on the table. Does anyone talk about thus?
I'm a little perturbed lately. Taxes, frozen pipes and rescheduling vet appointments because of the weather. Can't wait for Spring and cutting that first blade of grass. Should I get a hammock?
Wondering why my neighbor still has a big Trump sticker on his van. It's a mind-boggler.. Trump's approval consistently cratering in poll after poll but some folk still find cause to celebrate. Help me out.
US Rep. Lauren Boebert is talking about some of the unredacted Epstein Files. Were the world's criminal elite into eating human flesh in addition to the sex trafficking of underage girls? Alleged code phrases like beef jerky keep popping up in emails. A restaurant called "The Cannibal." Getting off on torture? There is the old adage truth is stranger than fiction but we really don't know what to believe at this point. Our whole political landscape has become increasingly surreal. I remember a time when politics was boring. Your eyes would glaze over watching the PBS Newshour. Now it's like a Gothic novel.
ICE. Epstein. Which is more depressing?
I'm more into baseball.
Checking out YouTube just now. Bad Bunny controversy all over the place. Except for NippleGate do most people even remember halftime shows? Even years later I never stream them and I listen to lots of music. This is where modern conservatism has lost its way. The issues the Right now focuses on doesn't help me put food on the table. Always some side issue now not the bread-and-butter.
I'm thinking next year maybe Homan can do a standup.
Little delay in blogging here. Plumbing issues which have been finally taken care of. Making vet appointments for five cats. Tax preparation time etc. The disappearance or kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie's Mom. ICE kidnaps people all the time but somehow it's considered normal law enforcement. It's a favorite theme of the Right that social protest movements are not organic but somehow engineered or orchestrated by certain higher-ups. George Soros and Bill Gates I guess. I thought they were gluten-free, normal folk being outraged by something but The Right has never liked protest movements to begin with. Somehow violates law and order or being a good citizen. So Trump calls popular podcaster Joe Rogan a great guy and called him up just a few says ago. Re the current ICE situation in Minneapolis Trump told Rogan they're bad at PR. I guess they need to explain better why shooting protesters multiple times makes sense.
So clearly Trump wants to make some type of massive illegal immigration crackdown the main thrust of his second term. How 'bout something more unifying like simplifying the tax code? No street theater, maybe a little boring and dry at times but nobody loses their lives unnecessarily and senselessly. Help people put food on the table and buy a house. No chaos necessary.
Have a good day.
The New Right. The Old Right used to be against too much federal power. The New Right welcomes it as long as it's in service to the needs and interests of the Right e.g. mass deportations. BTW Megyn Kelly looks like someone stuck a lemon up her ass frothing and fulminating all the time. Could be a dry spell dunno. She definitely has a thing for the ICE goons. What I don't get though is how the New Right considers ICE to be professional law enforcement. Not even getting into the pros and cons of mass deportations but these are your standards?
We didn't vote for keeping it psycho. We didn't vote for a soap opera. We didn't vote for social chaos. I just want a slow news day:)
At least in the blue states. The Feds kill another American citizen.
At first they got rid of the worst of the worst or so they said. Then they went after the farm and hotel workers, the bricklayers and the chefs. Now they're just targeting American protesters of their operations to send a message. The Trump Administration is like organized crime. If the DOJ is corrupt who will investigate who will prosecute? Will Bondi, Noem, Homan, Trump et al. all wind up in the Hague someday?
