Okay I guess I'm not a team player but I agree with some of this. It's not that I'm turning more liberal it's Trump doesn't understand the Constitution or appreciate American values like free speech. Anti-Trump protests planned across the country today. Conservative media will most likely downplay it but you don't have to be a liberal to have concerns about Trump. Also on the Greenland front the Danish PM reminded Trump you can't just annex a country.
100 Days of Chaos.
Trump has a complex personality type. Not sure of the exact clinical diagnosis but besides narcissism a key element is the attitude I Can't Be Wrong. This is not uncommon. You see it in the business world a lot. Companies and corporations might do things that seem stupid to the average employee but they never reevaluate as they go along but just forge ahead anyway even if they eventually drive the company into the ground. I've seen it firsthand. Will never take corporate responsibility. They can't be wrong. It's a funny way to go through Life though with that attitude. At the root of many problems. Maybe this goes a way explaining Trump's popularity in a way he mirrors us. It's frightening in a leader though. He's not the cerebral type but the GeeeZers will always sing his praises.
I see Dr. Phil has made a hard turn to the Right going on ICE campouts with Homan. Do they roast marshmallows together? BTW who the hell is this Laura Loomer chick some unofficial advisor to the president?
"Anti-semitism" being rather loosely defined these days to include legitimate criticism of the State of Israel. Trump Administration now going after perfectly legal people who have all the right paperwork. Pro-Palestinian foreign students on visas now being detained and actively deported for protesting Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. Over 50,000 Gazans already dead including scores of women and children. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in charge of revoking the student visas over 300 at last count. Homan's goon squads. Tufts U. student arrested or should we say kidnapped by masked ICE agents in the middle of the street in broad daylight. Her crime? Simply writing an op-ed piece in the university newspaper calling on Tufts to divest itself from companies that do business with Israel. The horror stories go on. The banality of evil.
We tend to forget that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Gaza. On at least two occasions Netanyahu has cut off all water and electricity into Gaza most recently even well after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for him. He's doing what he wants regardless and is now singing the praises of Trump's crackdown on campus speech and says other governments should follow his example.
This is quite possibly the most shocking episode of our government censoring perfectly valid speech in modern times. Unless Trump fires some people (e.g. Rubio, Homan) it means the downfall of the Trump Administration imo and the end of MAGA. A blot on the history books.
Trump wants to invade Greenland and is thinking about a 3rd term in office. On the first score the military should simply disobey and on the second it's ludicrous. Who does he think he is FDR? You're witnessing a man in his dotage with psychotic tendencies. I think at this stage you can slowly build a case for a potential 25th Amendment Section 4 scenario. Not being dramatic here he just belongs in a ward and not leading the free world.
So far Five Guys haven't changed their name to Five Gays but we do have or had DEI sprinkled throughout society until Trump outlawed them. He's issued executive orders on everything that annoys him and has even given orders on statues and monuments. He's taken over the Smithsonian and Kennedy Center why I don't know. Maybe he wants to hold an awards ceremony for himself. He's issued tariffs on cars but has said to car makers don't pass the added cost onto prospective car buyers. Ok no prob DUH. Nothing yet about the price of eggs or Fancy Feast. No real bread and butter issues to date just side issues and strange personal obsessions. BTW can we still honor the memory of Sidney Poitier?
It's not controversial, many people could probably get behind the idea and it's already a U.S. territory. Mexico - If Mexico became a part of the United States the illegal Mexicans crossing over would no longer be illegal but would simply be crossing state lines. Problem solved or at least half the problem anyway. Watching OAN last night and OAN bemoaning we lost that expansionist spirit where did it go? Oh yes PR doesn't have any of them rare earth minerals and PR and Mexico apparently have no strategic military importance but just sayin'. Sure China and Putin are vying for influence in the Artic but Puerto Rico could be an easy pickup if expansionism is your thing. It could be a historic part of your legacy if nothing else so why are Trump and Vance bullying the Greenlanders? We already have a military base there and you're pissing off NATO. In the meantime folks be wondering whatever happened to lowering the price of groceries?
The dismal 2nd term continues. I honestly thought Marco Rubio was a decent choice for Secretary of State but he's turned into a dick. He's boasting he revoked 300 Visas of foreign students who have engaged in pro-Palestinian protests on campus. Actually it may be more he lost count. He says those coming here from abroad to colleges and universities are here to study and learn and to earn a degree. Has he never heard of intercollegiate sports? The Vietnam War protests? Thou Shalt Not Criticize Israel. Rubio somehow conflates condemning the ongoing genocide in Gaza with support for Hamas. Expect more judicial spanking. Meanwhile RFK Jr. in his mission to make America healthy again has cut about 10,000 jobs from his own agency. So where are all the Fruit Loops cops gonna come from? On the Greenland front Trump is now making almost daily veiled threats against the island nation. Denmark is not amused.
You can't make this shit up.
Maybe someday you'll be able to get Yemen war plans on your Smart TV. If I was new to blogging struggling to come up with a name during the early days of the 2nd Trump Administration it would have just hit me in the shower,
You Can't Make This Shit Up
Meanwhile JD Vance is going to join his wife Usha in Greenland for a creepy visit upcoming. See the sights dine on whatever Greenlanders eat and exert some pressure. A kind of friendly Mafioso sitdown. Is Musk going to abolish the DMV? The dismantled DOE workers where do they wind up slicing deli meats? I get the OAN channel crystal clear in these parts and some nights host Riley Lewis looks like he's going to uncork one. The erstwhile sensible National Review is all MAGA now. Lonely. Maybe I'll go smoke a pipe with Mitch McConnell.
You know it would all make sense if I was involved in a horrible car accident and wound up in a comatose state and this was all a bad dream. The Orange Man is real though. It'll all be over in 3 years and 10 months if we have a country left.
IMHO Trump entered his second term in an antagonistic attack mode itching for fights. For instance he could have just deported those Venezuelan gangbangers simply on the grounds they're here illegally instead of invoking some long-forgotten wartime act although Judge Boasberg still comes across as your stereotypical soft on crime leftist judge. Musk - DOGE sees fraud and corruption everywhere. Musk would probably see waste and abuse in the cemetery business. Time to let this corporatist bastard go. Let him concentrate on flying around the rings of Saturn or whatever suits his fancy. Trump goes in and out of the clear state (e.g. Greenland). He's half mental but Republicans and conservatives are enabling him for some reason.
Pop a Prozac.
You can't make this shit up. Not on my bucket list. Maybe Vance's wife will spot a Yeti. No word yet on whether Homan's going. Is that where all the fentanyl comes from? Musk and Trump might share a naked sauna together to discuss further government budget cuts.
I wasn't invited.
When is the Right going to wake up and smell the coffee? That's the kind of woke I'd like to see. MAGA let in the Trojan horse.
The other part of the issue is you can't just impeach judges for making stupid decisions judicial arrogance notwithstanding. Talking of course about President Trump vs. federal judge James Boasberg who thinks he has the power to turn around planes in midair. This ain't a movie. Trump deported a bunch of alleged Venezuelan gang members back to an El Salvodoran prison. Boasberg claims the order was signed in the dead of night and is pressing the government why they disobeyed his order to turn the planes around and return them to U.S. detention. It was part of the reason though why the American people put Trump back into office to do things like this. But at any rate it's the system we have but Trump is taking it to another level by calling for the impeachment of federal judges. The drama never ends.
Hire a contractor. I only go so far with DIY. I have a toilet plunger. Ever browse through those home improvement forums? Your head swims after awhile. What in heck are they talking about? Recently learned what a stud finder is and it has nothing to do with Andrew Cuomo. I know how to change a light bulb. Just had my attic ladder fixed and went up there to clean up. What in hell happened? Did a squirrel have a party up there? Growing up I went up there A LOT. Now my bones are creaking. For the cost of home improvement they should abolish the property tax. BTW where is my 5K DOGE check? I want to do some things.
Trump/Musk fire/layoff federal workers and a judge says they have to be reinstated. Trump freezes spending and another judge says he has to unfreeze it. The President invokes some dustbin in history law about alien enemies to speed up mass deportations of Venezuelan gang members and yet another judge blocks that. NOW STOP RIGHT THERE.
Trump obviously views the executive branch of government as properly being the most powerful. On the other hand federal judges view themselves as the most powerful branch of government. You can quibble about my formulation but for all intents and purposes.. THEY'RE BOTH WRONG. Checks and balances. Three CO-EQUAL branches of government. Too complicated to put into a blogpost without it turning into a dissertation. We're reaching a constitutional crisis and yet nobody properly understands it.
Breaking with my fellow conservative bloggers. I do not celebrate thousands of federal workers across multiple agencies losing their jobs. I do not support massive tariffs levied against our allies. I am against trying to censor and punish pro-Palestinian speech on campus. Re Trump's tailspin into dementia or whatever it is if Canada and Greenland did become U.S. states how many electoral votes would they hold? How would the new Canadians and Greenlanders lean politically? I'm thinking Canada to the Left. WHO elected Elon Musk??? He's our de facto president on the domestic side of things. The sentiment among many people I've talked to is he needs to go and these are middle-of-the-road people not radicals. Go back to running Tesla and Space X and whatever else. Go to Mars and start a colony if you want I'm not a fanboy. We need to grow up. Stop blaming Dems and lefties all the time. Trump's nuttery is the issue at least for now.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I was thinking about blogging about other things today as a break from the Trump Follies but this caught my attention.
At the risk of making a low-effort post scanning the newsfeeds this morning and it's hard to make a coherent post about Trump because his actions are incoherent. Do you want to spend an extra 12K for a new car? Would Kamala Harris have pushed us into a recession? Meanwhile Bibi has cut off all food, supplies and electricity into Gaza (again) but Trump wants to crack down on pro-Palestinian speech on campus instead.
If Biden truly was the worst president in U.S. history as Trump says Trump seems to be vying for the #2 spot.
It's too soon to tell but Trump might be slated for this spot in history. At any rate it's a far cry from his campaign promises.
Also Trump considering sanctions against Russia to pressure Putin into reaching ceasefire deal with Ukraine.
From the ticker.
They think everything he does is just swell. Even the erstwhile sensible conservatives are going along for the ride. For me the whole Gulf of America thing was one tipping point. Another tipping point is the mass firing of federal workers but that's just me but for most conservatives these days everything Trump says and does is just fine. Greenland? Anything? Things don't seem quite normal in this blogger's humble opinion.
Trump's Joint Address to Congress last night. He practically said everything he was expected to say. Dems look constipated. Heckler with a cane was escorted out early. Some Dems holding signs saying "False" and "Save Medicaid". Some girl walked out midway through with a "Resist" t-shirt on. Bernie Sanders had to leave early. Still not getting Gulf of America and Greenland. Are we building a telescope there? Big focus on immigrant crime. Republican pep rally basically. Then the Asian rum took its effect and I went to bed.
Mixed messaging from the Trump Administration
Illegal migrants now required to register an online account with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency or face fines or imprisonment or both. Goes into a big DHS databse. Part of the statement says that if they leave now they might be able to come back and enjoy the American Dream. Seems more of a call for self-deportation. Drop the head of lettuce and go back. If not then at least register an account with us. Civil liberties groups are concerned. I'm a little confused.
Has the Ukrainian president ever heard of a dress code? Does he attend funeral services in casual attire? In his younger days did he go on job interviews wearing polo shirts and khakis? Where does he shop? Yes he dissed the WH today by going in dressed like a shlub and started yelling at Trump and Vance about the war and left early in a huff without signing the rare earth minerals deal with the US. Trump accused him of being ungrateful and gambling with WW3 and Vance gave him a lecture as only Vance can give. Gone are the days of quiet diplomacy.
Say what you will I wasn't bored. Gotta get me a bucket of popcorn next time.
Fun place to visit wouldn't want to live there. North Korea looking to bolster and rejuvenate its international tourism industry since the pandemic. Already some Russians have seen the sights. Hmmm...,,,reading just now Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un launching a crackdown on drinking. There goes the Christian Brothers. As the price of eggs here continue to soar Trump is thinking condos on North Korea's eastern shoreline. Kim likes to execute wayward government officials with an anti-aircraft gun from time to time. It's not on my vacation list. Neither is the Middle East. In Germany you can now be arrested for posting insults to politicians online. In Scotland you can apparently be arrested in your own home for praying if you live too close to an abortion clinic or so I've heard. Ukraine no. I think I'll stay home.
I'm just waiting for some sense of normality from this Administration but we're not getting it.
You gotta be careful with those things. Musk had a chainsaw at CPAC but I recently bought a polesaw at Lowe's last summer to cut up some dead branches in the backyard. Dealt with a lot of dead branches down through the years from Yonkers storms. The polesaw is a version of a chainsaw a handy tool for dealing with unwanted small trees on your property or at least when the limbs pose a problem. Only used it a couple of times. Tricky getting the chain tension just right. Came off a couple of times while testing it out no harm. I wouldn't hire Musk. A nerd with a power tool scares me. Don't know if he even knows how to use a condom.
The weird theater is becoming tiresome. Will Trump sign off on the House plan to cut Medicaid and break a campaign promise? Maybe it's time to free himself from Musk. This bromance can't last forever.
He's turning up again like a bad penny. Disgraced ex-Governor of NYS Andrew Cuomo vying for the mayoralty of NYC as Mayor Eric Adams' legal troubles continue. Creeps just can't lie low. NYS Governor Kathy Hochul meets with Trump at WH to discuss congestion pricing. That's what the ticker says. Cuomo has had too much time on his hands. He wants to roll up his sleeves and work. The comeback groper?
Everybody's still talking about Tom Hanks and his stupid spoof of a racist MAGA supporter on SNL's 50th Reunion Special. This was stupid on so many levels. It's a time-honored comedic tradition to go after the president but not the people who voted him into office. Plenty of Bill Clinton jokes back in the day but no jokes about Bill Clinton supporters per se. Tom Hanks' career is basically over at this point. Other than that I just don't watch the show. Hash it up if you want but SNL is well past its prime.
Shock and Awe. The DOGE. Have Musk and Trump showered together yet? Do we really need cancer research? When am I going to get my tax refund? Will Trump change the street cleaning days in Yonkers? Layoffs of thousands of federal workers. When can I expect my first DOGE check? Will Medicaid still cover nurse visits? When is ICE coming to Yonkers? Trump wants Zelensky to pay the money back with rare earth minerals. Like what? Hannity was more interested in what Musk had to say. Why does Musk want the personal details of millions of Americans? When are we going to Mars?
Chaos.
So I'm reading on my phone Sen. Ted Cruz is in talks with Denmark about purchasing Greenland. Why Cruz? Why not the My Pillow guy? How come Ronald Reagan never thought of this? Welcome to the political Twilight Zone. The bizarre Trump presidency continues.
Do we really need health inspectors? You know those folk who protect us from things like rancid meat. With this billionaire punk nothing is off the chopping block. Musk is not interested in the policy of attrition. Say a company or agency has too many workers when they leave or retire you don't replace them. Not dramatic enough.
A LONG four years with the joyless prick in office. What does Melania think?
Being a foreign policy hero. The DOGE. The term "government efficiency" always strikes me as an oxymoron. When is Homan going to go after the lettuce pickers, the masonry workers, the diner cooks and the fence installers? Is Trump going to tariff the Aleutian Islands? A Trump Hotel on the Gaza Strip? Panama Canal. Greenland. Canada. Gulf of America. Rare Earth minerals in Ukraine. Cutting the Defense budget in half. Would Reagan have done such a thing? Dementia in overdrive. Why doesn't he make a peace treaty with the fairies? The MAGA cult and OAN applaud his every move. EVERYTHING but the price of eggs and Fancy Feast.
Oy vey!
On a budget. Contractors charge too much. So I woke up this morning to find the front gate wide open, went out to close it and found a homeless Mexican sleeping on the front porch in the corner with his own bedding and about three of those reusable shopping bags. Regardless of the situation I ALWAYS go downstairs first to set the coffee and then feed the cats I mean if the house isn't on fire or something. We called the cops they came and the man got up and took his stuff and left. I asked the lady cop if they take him anywhere and she said no. Homan might offer him a nice place to stay with three square meals a day and running water dunno. The homeless guy left empty peanut shells all over the place snacking during the cold night. Also left his bedding on the sidewalk which I had to throw out. Code Enforcement you know can't take a chance. Welcome to the Big YO. What would Hannity have done?
Patio needs a little work. Does he do masonry? Ho ho ho and a bottle of Jose Cuervo.
Taking a chainsaw to government. How much is Homan's budget btw? When is Trump gonna lower my grocery bill? He said during the campaign it would happen "very rapidly" (his words). What's his obsession with the Gulf of Mexico? There's not even a movement behind this. Has he forgotten about Greenland? So much on his plate. About the only good thing is he wants to open up the JFK files.
It's wearying. I might devote the rest of his term blogging about cats.
If RFK Jr. were a veterinarian would he advise against getting shots for your dog or cat?
May as well be. Apparently AP reporters are banned from all Trump press conferences for not using the new coinage Gulf of America. The man has splinters in the windmills of his mind to use a phrase from the old Carol Burnett Show.
You can't make this shit up.
Have to agree with him here. He has instructed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies calling it wasteful.
I have tons of pennies at home accumulated down through the years that I don't know what to do with. I could put them into those little coin wrappers but I got better things to do with my time. Could take them to the Coinstar kiosk at the local supermarket but again other things on my plate. Don't know my true net worth because I haven't counted them yet. Ain't gonna remodel the kitchen with it.
A total waste. Trump is right. Won't even get you a bus ride these days.
In addition to Canada Greenland and the Panama Canal Trump now wants the Gaza Strip. He said at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu it would be a good idea if the U.S. took control over it. I didn't know Gaza was for sale. Trump says it could be rebuilt into a Riviera of the Middle East but first the Palestinians should get out and live somewhere else. Egypt? Jordan? Yonkers? Many are calling this a call for ethnic cleansing but it is sure to appeal to the far-right elements in the Israeli government.
Every president tries their hand at peace in the Middle East. The Trump Plan a golf course some hotels and casinos in Gaza but no Palestinians allowed. Is there a Nobel Prize in the works?
Or as my Momma used to say it has to get worse before it gets better.
I think;)
He always looks angry. He's a political grinch. He's trying to be a micromanager with his endless executive orders trying to dictate things like what federal agencies can and cannot say. Nobody likes a micromanager. It's actually the opposite of true conservatism and limited government. He's mean-spirited as if he feels having empathy and compassion are unmanly. He's impulsive with tariffs and says Americans can expect some pain but he ran on optimism and making a better economy for all. Ronald Reagan actually embodied true optimism and hope. Trump is depressing in tone and substance. He makes it up as he goes along. At work we call this bullshitting your way through. May well go down in history as a bizarre presidency and not much else. His first term seemed more muted even normal to a point say what you will. It's as if his political id has taken over. I spend more time cringing than clapping lately.
It's still way too early but the trajectory is bad.
I'm not getting it. Nobody wants to retire and move to Greenland. It's a strategic military location and is said to have rare mineral resources. OK. 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting today but Trump cut China some slack with only 10% tariffs. His endgame may be to end the federal income tax and fund the government with tariffs. Is he shifting the Overton Window? What's the deal with Greenland? Can't really put a golf course there. The subject never came up on the campaign trail. Look every president does things we disagree with. Biden didn't do enough to protect the gray wolf. There was his covid authoritarianism. I always thought it would be interesting to have one of the Star Trek spinoff shows do an episode on the crew encountering the race of Covidians who always stand six feet apart and worship a Fauci-like figure but I digress point being Trump is taking things to another level and how did the National Review become part of the MAGA cult? When he's done deporting can he get back to the price of Fancy Feast? Health care? Families shouldn't have to go bankrupt because somebody has cancer. Homan is in his glory but can we take a breather?
BTW can Trump at least slip in a stimulus check or two to my direct deposit?
ICE raids, Homan to talk to Canadian officials, Colombia caves and takes in the aliens, Laken Riley Act, Gitmo again, political retribution, firing inspectors general, tariff threats, funding freezes, eclectic Cabinet picks, executive orders, rescuing TikTok, no DEI, calls to Denmark, J6 pardons, Trump threatens BRICS, Hannity interview, Trump offering to buyout federal workers, Meta to pay Trump $25 million, DOGE, Rubio to visit Panama, Israel/Gaza, Trump goes after Buttigieg over DC plane crash, Bob Menendez angling for pardon, Greenland for sale? Gulf of Trump.
And it's not even 100 days.
Thoughts?
What do you guys think of the ICE raids? They haven't hit Yonkers yet but I didn't check the list. Obama holds some sort of record for deportations. Unk Joe deported his share without the fanfare. Are there any women out there who find Homan sexy? Can Homan deport Diddy? The Pope and the Bishops have issues with Homan and Trump and Vance said some things. Is Melania going back to Slovenia? Maybe Gordon Ramsay can have a spinoff Top Illegal Chefs winner doesn't get deported. Selena Gomez was crying. Maybe we need a boring president like Gerald Ford.
Forgive the clickbait.
Trump's executive orders continue at a dizzying pace. Covers all situations and issues great and small. Might issue an order stating SNL should go off the air. Trump operating in this make-believe monarchical framework of his.
Reading A LOT about ICE raids. One news item said they went into some Chicago elementary school later amended to oh no that was the Secret Service. What would either of them be doing at a grade school? Is Trump planning a visit? Did some student write an anti-Trump essay?
Not getting the TikTok ban temporarily on hold. Has to do with data mining by the Chinese government. So the Chinese government peers into my boring life and today learns I plan on cleaning the attic. Not sure how this violates the national security though but I'm not as bright as the smarty-pants over at the National Review. YouTube is funny. Watched some attic ladder installation videos last night. One said so easy a 10-year old could do it all you need is a drill a saw and a couple of other things then you'll see some false comment like "thanks Frank the Handyman I did it."
I'm just a rambling man;)
I mean beyond the merely administrative technical stuff. They never really impressed me as having the permanence of real law and besides that they can be legally challenged. Laws or proposed laws have to go through the cumbersome process of passing through legislative bodies first where they are then debated and discussed. Executive orders instead give off a whiff of whimsical autocracy. "I hereby declareth I don't like polka dot ties." The other thing that strikes me as silly is each succeeding president can simply issue executive orders that are the exact opposite of those of the previous Administration. Trump wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico. I don't care if he wants to rename it the Gulf of Yonkers it has no weight with scholars or academics or meets international standards of acceptability. How 'bout the Yucatan Peninsula? What strikes Trump's fancy here? Where does it end? There's a whole bundle of Trump executive orders dealing with immigration alone that are sure to be challenged in the courts. This is not the way government is normally run it just gives any new president a sense of ephemeral power. It's like a make believe scepter. Go play with your crayons.
How 'bout an executive order that declareth that henceforth and going forward there shall be no more executive orders? Forevermore.
(Alternative title: Rough Day For Shaw)
Quite a pageant. The swearing-in ceremony was quite long. Had a strong religious, Christian flavor. An all day affair. Watched Trump's Inaugural Address. A lot to go through comment accordingly. Wants to put an American flag on Mars and Musk was ecstatic. Said in his speech there are only two genders and that he would sign an executive order declaring such. Who knew such a simple biological fact would be so controversial. There was the parade and then an address by Steve Witkoff Trump's special envoy to the Middle East who was instrumental in the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Earlier Trump had already signed his first few executive orders back at the office. These were mostly technical in nature having to do with things like cabinet and sub-cabinet appointments the most notable being going forward all flags will be flown at full-staff on Inauguration Day. I had hoped to publish something earlier in the day but it was a long wait before he signed a few more executive orders at the Capitol Arena the most notable this time being sending a letter to the UN saying we are withdrawing from the Paris Climate Treaty then it was off to the Oval Office to sign a large number of other executive orders.
A LONG day. TikTok also back online thanks to Trump at least for the time being. Sounds like a deal is in the works.
Inauguration events gonna be indoors. Gonna be too cold outside. One of the coldest inaugurations on record. Fresh out of pipe tobacco and cigars. Gotta make a trip today. Gonna be a cold week. Take three puffs and go inside? Don't know if Hulk Hogan is gonna yell "scumbags". Not gonna watch I'll see it on the news later. Moanin' Homan rarin' to go.
The finer details for survivors of the LA fires
Even if reduced property taxes no matter what. Good to know.
Basic thuganomics.
Should I keep my autograph book handy in case Homan and crew come to my workplace? Greenland, the Panama Canal, the annexation of Canada, mass deportations...Trump is not going to invade a NATO ally. It's not worth going to war over the Canal. We never had a state the size of Canada makes no sense and we don't have the infrastructure for mass deportations. Not so much in the hot air category though is a serious growing consensus that Trump is the one mostly responsible for this historic ceasefire/hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. He even sent a Middle East envoy over there to take part in the negotiations and this is all pre-the Inauguration. Biden has issues with Trump getting most of the credit. Don't be jealous. As for Trump being an expansionist president in the Polk tradition I highly doubt it.
So what is bluster, what is la mierda and what's the real deal here? We'll just have to wait and see.
He bombed a few hospitals in Gaza but Trump has promised "all hell will break loose" in the Middle East if Hamas does not release the rest of the Israeli hostages by the time he is inaugurated. I almost said installed as Trump has a kind of monarch complex. It won't be good for Hamas or anybody else he said. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Also where can Netanyahu travel these days? The ICC has issued a warrant for his arrest for war crimes and the Polish PM said he'd arrest him if he comes that way. Our own House in turn has voted for sanctions against the ICC. If Trump follows through on his threat to unleash hell in the Middle East he too could wind up on the ICC docket someday. Meanwhile Trump said he will sign 100 Executive Orders on Day One. About what? Sidewalk cleaning in Yonkers? Also where is T. Swift these days? Will she send a multi-million dollar aid package to LA County?
So I was watching some streams of the Carter funeral just now. EVERYBODY was extremely somber. The Clintons, Kamala, Bush et al first row and in the second row sat Obama and Trump. NOBODY talking to each other just immersed in their own grief. Everybody looked absolutely grief-stricken like you're not supposed to pass away at 100, everybody but Obama and Trump who were amiably chatting away and then Trump said something to Obama and Obama suddenly broke out into his wide trademark grin and started laughing at something. Melania had some kind of Amish mourning outfit on and Kamala looked back at Obama and Trump for a moment like they're not in keeping with the solemnity, nay the gravity of the occasion. This is being analyzed from many different angles and I haven't heard a theory yet.
It's all shtick folks;)
RE the Trump hush money criminal case in which he was convicted of 34 felonies which is more than some serial killers might get the judge in the case Juan Merchan today sentenced or shall we say gave the President-Elect an unconditional discharge and wished him Godspeed in his second term. No jail time, no probation, no fines even. None of his rights have been restricted. My TMI closet is already full but for those who are interested in this kind of stuff Trump was convicted of among other things falsifying business records to arrange a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Basically a soap opera crime. Now without this hanging over his head he can focus on more important matters like invading Greenland and ending birthright citizenship.
Lots of assorted topics out there not really coalescing into a blogpost per se. The LA fires and the politics of the LA fires. Elon Musk opiner-at-large now wading into British politics and the groomer gang scandal which is at least ten years old. Melania's outfit at the Jimmy Carter funeral. Congestion pricing in NYC. TikTok. Just off the top of my head 17,000 doctors signed a letter opposing RFK Jr.'s nomination to be HHS Sec'y. That one kind of surprised me. Diddy updates. Mangione. My God it's COLD outside!!! The Trump Follies. News cycle going too fast for me.
The drone thing. Wha' happened?
We may need to strike the S off TDS and just call it TD or Trump Derangement. The senior editors over at the National Review think taking Greenland by force is not a totally insane idea and Hannity is glossing all the lunacy over by simply posting Don Jr.'s nice video of his trip to the autonomous Denmark territory to make Greenland great again nothing bellicose about it (library word look it up). Meanwhile Germany and France are warning Trump over his threats. Whatever happened to no new wars and working to end the ones we have now? What does the MAGA base think of these latest developments? Trump is either in the pre-Alzheimer's stage dementia or both. There would have to be serious closed-door discussions at this point about possibly invoking the 25th Amendment Section 4 somewhere down the road. Meanwhile Homan is probably thinking we got the buses all lined up for the migrants why are we now switching to geopolitics all of a sudden? He ain't even president yet.
Hell's going on? I'm willing to eat my vote. Maybe they'll make a movie about it someday. "Life Inside the MAGA Cult."
I also didn't vote for Trump so he could use military force to take Greenland and take back control of the Panama Canal. He didn't rule that out at his Mar-A-Lago news conference. Plausible scenario: Trump is officially deemed Nutz as per the requirements of the 25th Amendment Section 4 and JD Vance becomes president. I don't hear other conservatives even talking about this despite Trump's growing list of strange obsessions. Trump has lost sight of his own MAGA mission. His mind has become like one of those Monty Python animated cartoons I watched growing up. He and Biden can become roommates in some kind of ward or home (needs script). Unless this is all shtick.
It's already a U.S. territory. In the wake of woke Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's resignation Trump is again saying Canada should merge with the U.S. to avoid tariffs and enjoy lower taxes. He also wants to buy Greenland from Denmark and says we need to retake control of the Panama Canal. I'm getting a spooky feeling this is not going to be a normal presidency.
I wasn't actually going to say anything about Jimmy Carter. Am I required to? So the latest Trump controversy is the President-Elect is upset that the Dems want to fly the flag at half-staff on the day of his inauguration to honor the recent passing of Jimmy Carter. So my thing is today is January the 4th. The inauguration is still slightly more than two weeks away. HOW LONG are the flags supposed to fly at half-staff anyway? What's the rule on this? Sure when a former head-of-state dies there'll be three funerals and the whole thing will go on for a month so I guess the funereal feelings can well wash up against Jan. 20 but again if anyone knows the rule on the flag thing let me know.
There's always been a kind of rough consensus that Jimmy Carter wasn't a great president but a decent human being. There were the long gas lines and the Iranian hostage crisis but he also negotiated the Panama Canal Treaties and of course is well known for the Middle East peace accords. He did better work post-presidency. Took up a hammer and nail for Habitat for Humanity and put his work pants on. A devout Christian also taught Sunday school. Made it to the 100 Club with Kirk Douglas. Must've been all the peanuts.
Thoughts?
Don't get me wrong traffic can sometimes be existentially annoying. You're stuck in traffic, you made a wrong dietary decision earlier in the day and your stomach is now percolating. Heard of a story of a woman who ruined her front car seat once because they were blasting rocks on the Sprain Parkway in Westchester and so some lanes were closed. "OH God please deliver me and I promise to be good!" Also from a philosophical standpoint we're all given a finite time on this Earth and being stuck in traffic is totally wasted and non-productive time you can never get back.
Having said that I don't understand the whole logic behind congestion pricing. Set to start in Manhattan starting January the 5th. If you dare to enter the Congestion Relief Zone (sounds like a cold remedy), generally the Central Business District below 60th Street your E-Z Pass will be charged a toll. The tolls on trucks depending on size range from $14.40-$21.60 during peak hours. There are discounts for driving after dark. NJ has been fighting this tooth and nail. People can't help it if their jobs take them into certain areas. It's like they're being punished and it's an effort to control human behavior. Yes I'm aware that congestion pricing has been around since the 70s and has been tried in places like Singapore and London and that many economists are in favor of it and sing of the bennies but I think it's loopy, harebrained and unfair. It needs to be shelved permanently.
The whole subject makes my head congested.
A Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the entrance to the Trump Hotel in Vegas. Being investigated by the FBI as a possible terrorist event. Driver killed and a few others suffered minor injuries. Also a truck plowed through crowded Bourbon Street in New Orleans around 3 in the morning and killed at last count at least 15 revelers and injured 35 others. 42-year old Army vet and Texas native Shamsud-Din Jabbar was the driver and killed in a shootout with police. Had an ISIS flag in his pickup. Both the Cybertruck and pickup both rented through the car renting app Turo. Possible link between the two events being investigated. FBI thinks Jabbar was not a lone wolf but possibly had terror associates. NYC and Yonkers recorded their first murders of the New Year.
Not an auspicious start. It would have been really nice not to have anything to blog about today. Ease into the New Year ya know?
Considerable discussion has been given to the Dead Internet Theory. My own view we're at least halfway there. As far as conspiracy theories go there are scraps of truth. This is a real post btw. I really do have to cut my sidewalk grass in Yonkers.
Don't go to the movies much anymore. Most of the great movies have already been made. Ever wonder how many movies are actually in existence? Has to be astronomical. Out of the sheer number of movies that have been made how many are actually worth watching? For me a golden age was the 70s throw in the late 60s. Do you have a favorite movie critic? Rotten Tomatoes - BOTH Citizen Kane and Casablanca got 99% fresh scores. So who was the 1% who didn't like them and why? I wanna hear their thoughts. Roger Ebert tended to overreact to movies he didn't like. You can criticize the excessive violence in I Spit On Your Grave but I found it interesting as a cult classic. Ebert thought it was the worst movie ever made. More worthy candidates for that one. How hard is it to be a movie critic anyway? All you have to do is meet a deadline. You ain't spitting chickens for a living. Bruce Lee movies. He actually made fighting off an army of fifty men believable that's how well the fight scenes were choreographed. The only one to come close imo is Jet Li.
Thoughts on the movies?
Nominally tapped to cut government waste and inefficiency with Ramaswamy he sparked a MAGA civil war the other day (see previous post) and now writes opinion pieces for German newspapers. Writing in Die Welt he said the AfD is the best hope for a dying Germany. AfD is a fairly new political party there gaining a lot of populist support and could be a player in that country's upcoming snap elections on Feb. 23. Could become a strong voice in the Bundestag or lower House. I'm your Captain Google doing your work for you so you can relax. AfD as in Alternative for Germany (Deutschland). Many call it a far-right extremist and radical party mostly focusing on moving the migrants the hell out or in some cases at least forcibly assimilating them. You will speak the German. Vance also supports the AfD. Many folk find Musk and Vance's support of the party alarming. Homan might be considering some work over there when he's done over here. Meanwhile Laura Loomer's blue check on X is currently under review. I don't know what that means exactly. In other news......
MAGA CIVIL WAR ERUPTS
First off Trump hired some Indian-born foreign guy to be his ai advisor. Now presidents need ai advisors? Musk and Ramaswamy are all for extending the stays of our highly skilled foreign workers in the tech field. Musk says a shortage of them is the main problem facing Silicon Valley and Ramaswamy called American culture mediocre (think Family Guy and Judge Judy - editor). MTG kind of agrees with them. Trump ally and hard-righter Laura Loomer, Matt Gaetz and the hard-core MAGA base say they're straying from the original MAGA policy on immigration. Nikki Haley took issue with Ramaswamy's X post. Things are getting heated. Pass the popcorn.
BUT WHAT DOES HOMAN THINK???
President-Elect Trump is putting too much on his plate. Focus instead on 3 main areas: the economy, border security/illegal immigration and foreign affairs. THAT'S IT and maybe scale back on the social media posts.
In addition to son Hunter President Biden has also pardoned about 1,500 Americans mostly released to home confinement during the pandemic for non-violent drug offenses. Being with the missus can be punishment enough. In addition Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 federal prisoners on death row who will now be serving life behind bars. Not a supporter of the death penalty myself but didn't know Biden was such a passionate opponent. Trump has promised to become an execution machine while in office. Is there anything not on Trump's to-do list?
Biden also pardoned the mailman for delivering the mail late.
Cats? Pipe smoking? The Middle East? No foreign policy post for Dennis Rodman in a Trump Administration? My drone is better than your drone?
Recent case in Yonkers. A couple brought a very young cat which was severely injured to a local vet clinic and dropped it off without giving their names or phone numbers. Anonymous good Samaritans but there's a bad twist. Cat later died and tested positive for rabies. The County Health Department is desperately trying to track the couple down to have them tested for the virus. Got me googling rabies again with my hundred other topics. Rabies is still generally considered fatal but...
As always though talk about anything you like.
I'm not one of those knowledge off the top of my head type guys. I'm more of a Captain Google tbh. Wikipedia the Assad dynasty in Syria and you could easily go into the wee hours. Get your brandy snifter. Bashar al-Assad during his earlier life actually graduated medical school and then went to London to train to be an eye doctor but was recalled back to Syria after his older brother died in a car crash and he then became heir-apparent to the regime....military academy...Syrian occupation of Lebanon...Arab Spring...Syrian Civil War...war crimes...human rights violations...chemical weapons...the UN, Obama, Trump. Turkey's Erdogan later became a kind of foe and worked behind the scenes...LOTS to go through. Bashar al-Assad has now been ousted as we all know by rebel forces and the head of HTS an al-Qaida offshoot is practically running the new government. Turkey is heavily involved and the new HTS-led Syrian government is trying to moderate its image. Putin has granted al-Assad and his family political asylum in Moscow. He may have brought a bag of gold coins with him. He always wore nice suits and believed in climate change and even recognized the State of Israel in private. Otherwise a brutal dictator.
There I've done my homework. Trying to give this blog some heft.
Who elected this guy? He's like a law unto himself. When does he hit Yonkers?
To shore up support for being confirmed as Secretary of HHS. Possible topics of discussion:
Dead bear cubs. Whale heads. Cap'n Crunch. Chocolate Twinkies. The benefits of drinking raw milk from a bucket after squirting it from a cow's udder. Under his tenure where to go for a tetanus shot if you step on a rusty nail. How he seduces so many women (is it the croaky voice over a romantic candlelit roadkill dinner?) Will we all have to shop at Whole Foods from now on?
Not a shoe-in by any stretch. I give it about a 50/50.
If there were I would simply chalk it up to Yonkers keeping track of who's not cutting the grass along their sidewalk and who's late on their property taxes.
Mysterious SUV-sized drones have been spotted flying over areas of New Jersey and New York. Aliens? Some weird social experiment being run by a university? Google? Iran? China? Putin? The FBI? The CIA? The military? Some brilliant 10-year old young Sheldon type kid operating a fleet of drones from his parents' basement? A plan to rescue Diddy? Some type of Trump illegal immigrants surveillance project? Is Homan operating these things?
People are alarmed. Congress is concerned. The FBI doesn't have answers. Somebody knows something.
I have a better proposal. First off absolutely secure the border. Plug that thing with Flex Seal if you have to. Maybe let a few of the top chefs through but THAT'S IT. Next absolutely deport the criminal element and expeditiously at that. Get The Rock to help if you have to. Now here's where I get off the MAGA road. Of the remaining millions who haven't committed any crimes and are hard-working have them maybe pay a fine and some back taxes like Hillary said once. Then they have a choice. Take the citizenship test and learn English or else you have to leave. You can't stay here perpetually in this quasi state. You have to become official. Call it forced assimilation if you like but it's less medieval.
So that's it. Let's move on.
That's the liberal take on NYC Mayor Eric Adams' meeting with incoming border czar Tom Homan at Gracie Mansion today. Sure he might need a pardon someday but he's not throwing them under the bus. They might wind up on the bus though.
Your .02.
MN Governor Tim Walz was "a little surprised" he and Kamala Harris lost the presidential election to Donald Trump. He feels "I did the best I could." Not in the VP debate with Vance you didn't you knucklehead. In his first post-election interview with KSTP a Minnesota news outlet he said "It felt like at the rallies, at the things I was going to, the shops I was going in, that the momentum was going our way." Rallies can be a lot like rock concerts. You go to a blink-182 concert and you think the whole world likes blink-182. So puberty blockers and transgender surgery for minor kids had nothing to do with your loss. It's really that the rest of the country isn't progressive enough is his take.
I hope you run into a nice school of yellow perch.
That's the sentiment of many. In the wake of the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last Wednesday outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel many folk have gone on social media and unleashed a torrent of vitriol against the health insurance industry in general and Brian Thompson and United Healthcare in particular. Seems some ai-driven program denied the claims of at least one-third of United Healthcare subscribers who actually had to use their insurance. The wonders of our health insurance system - you pay into the program your whole life, you get really sick one day and finally get a notice in the mail "Claim Denied" and have to foot the bill yourself. You're not Diddy. Never understood how so many cancer survivors and their families use up their entire life savings and eventually go bankrupt. I thought that's why we have health insurance. Hannity would probably say at least that's not socialism. Health care in America. I thought Obama fixed all that. I can't wait for the Singularity.
Would make a great holiday special. Hosted by Joe and Mika. Special appearances by Mark Zuckerberg and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau. Trump jokes Trudeau looks like Fidel Castro's son.
Homan Fights A Migrant Caravan. With Chuck Norris.
Whoopi Goldberg - Keeping It Psycho.
Life In The UK special. Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi talk about life in the Cotswolds region in South West England after moving there following Trump's election. Special appearance by John Cleese.
You got any better ideas?
During my 60+ years on this Earth I don't recall any other president who right after he won the general election we talked about it non-stop everyday right up until the day of his inauguration the following January. That's almost a good solid 3 months of hype if you do the math and that's the way it's headed. Normally since Jan. 20 is still aways away, we haven't even made it through Christmas yet you would think this would be a good time to discuss a garden-variety of other subjects no? Also not getting the continued uproar over the Hunter Biden pardon. Presidents have the power to pardon, many pardons are controversial but at a certain point it's time to move on. I don't care if Jon Stewart and some MSNBC host are upset. Also why is Whoopi Goldberg acting perpetually deranged? She looks like some medieval gladiator in a movie with a pickaxe. Put her in a movie with Jet LI. She looks like she could scare a pitbull.
Everybody calm down.
Saw an old video of Hillary talking about the problem of illegal immigration. Deport the illegal criminal ones she said and the rest who are hard-working should have to pay a big fine and back taxes and LEARN ENGLISH to eventually become citizens. Protect our borders and learn the language? She out-Trumped Trump. Give her a MAGA hat. These were the Democratic talking points back in the day.
There really is not going to be any massive detention facilities for the illegals waiting to be deported. How long would they take to build? Are they going to sprout up like McDonald's and dot the landscape? "Mommy what's that?" Are the Ancient Aliens gonna come back and spring them up out of the ground like the pyramids? Then the immigration courts are gonna be clogged up for years and you'll be spending $40 for a head of lettuce. Ain't gonna happen.
And a happy TDS to you:)
All three believe our legal and justice system has been compromised, that they or in Biden's case his son have been the victims of political prosecutions. Watched a recent Jimmy Dore podcast in which he talked about the media and Hunter Biden. I'm taking an idea from there and expanding on it here.
Trump of course has had his myriad legal problems. There was the hush money case in Manhattan and the Jack Smith legal bundle since dismissed. Hunter recently convicted of federal gun charges since pardoned by his father. Read the WH statement about selective prosecution. Then there is the complex case of NYC Mayor Eric Adams to go on trial next April. Charges include bribery, corruption, wire fraud and donations from foreign nationals notably the Turkish government. Adams too feels it's all a political witch hunt. Now on to the main point. Biden and Adams now have a special camaraderie with President-Elect Trump. If you notice Trump and Biden are now BFFs and Adams has pledged all he can to help Trump deport criminal illegal aliens from NYC. The common thread in all this is all three see the justice system as being corrupt.
It's not about the Rule of Law. The legal and justice system is part of the swamp is what all three are saying in their own way. That's the case that Trump, Biden and Adams are making. Selective prosecutions, the weaponization of our justice system. Who else will join the growing list? That's the main thesis for today folks.
President Biden pardoned son Hunter who pleaded guilty to nine federal tax charges and was convicted on three gun charges. Reverberations on Capitol Hill as expected. I really don't have an issue. Blood is thicker than water.
Maddow has issues with Trump's cabinet picks particularly Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to head the NIH. He was a signer to the Great Barrington Declaration out of Stanford University which was basically against covid lockdowns in general and said herd immunity is the way to go. There was an important caveat to this however: targeted protection for the most vulnerable groups (e.g. the elderly, people with co-morbidities etc.). In other words during that covid timeframe you didn't invite Grandma over for the holidays. We all understood this, everyone was on the same page but Maddow has outright lied about Dr. Bhattacharya and his views. This wasn't exactly the Swedish model that basically said go about your business and the deaths will frontload early and then level off. In the U.S. we had one of the highest covid death rates despite the lockdowns and mitigation efforts the 6 Foot Rule not even based on science as Fauci later admitted. No matter to Rachel Maddow. We also have early footage of Maddow stating emphatically that when you get covid-vaccinated the virus can't use you as a host and transmission stops with you blah blah blah which we now know is not true. My brother has been hyper-vaccinated which is what most doctors still recommend these days and he still came down with a few cases of hardcore covid. I'm not even clear whether Maddow and her hero Dr. Fauci even believe we have functioning immune systems but many people say she's in the pocket of Big Pharma and the military/industrial complex. Word on the street is she's dragging MSNBC down the tubes with her. Rumor is Musk might buy MSNBC outright. Maybe Walmart, maybe Yonkers, maybe a feral cat colony island. The times they are a'changing.
We keep hearing about DAY ONE. Most incoming presidents might move a painting around and kick the furniture a little but not Trump. On his to-do list: Secure the border, deport all the illegals, impose massive tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico and Drill Baby Drill! He has so much on his plate for Day One he's just trying to get ahead of it all. Homan is probably fighting a bunch of illegals in the parking lot as we speak. Trump might address the Nation any day now. The thought occurred if they had already 25th Amendmented Biden by now Kamala Harris could at least say she was president. Put that on the resume.
Been meaning to do this post for awhile. When the SPLC and the ADL list someone or a group (usually conservatives) as "anti-government" or "anti-government extremists" you're supposed to go OMG No! but the phrase itself is not automatically good or bad. In order to be pro-government you have to have a government worth supporting. If you oppose the governments of say North Korea or Putin's Russia nobody says that's a bad thing. A libertarian supports limited government. Only an anarchist is opposed to all government. Most of us just pay our taxes and follow the law. To be 100% pro-the government you're probably a fan of statism which is really worship of the State. Most of us criticize government from time to time. Property taxes are too high too many regulations whatever. I think this term "anti-government" is used most often by aggressive defenders of the status quo. It is designed to intimidate you into not criticizing the government or the State TOO MUCH. If you or your group wind up on the SPLC and ADL lists your political philosophy is automatically assumed to be bad and people are supposed to avoid you. They mix you in with the Nazis and the skinheads when maybe all you wanna do is eliminate the federal income tax. I always say as usual do your own research and have a nice day.
A lot of old people watch the news all day. Had an uncle watched the news at 5 a fire in Brooklyn. Then he watched the news at 6 the same fire in Brooklyn. OK so now you're extremely well-informed now go watch a movie. Old people also big on the weather. I don't have to look at my weather app anymore. A customer tells me what it's gonna be.
Being overly or extremely well-informed also means absorbing through a kind of unconscious osmosis the biases of the mainstream press. Watched the PBS Newshour last night. Story about "Rising Hate." They had on an "expert" from the Southern Poverty Law Center who tied it all into MAGA and Trump's cabinet picks. RFK Jr. might be a little quirky but he's a hater? The SPLC is a lot like the ADL. They hate conservatives and conservative groups. No counterpoint on the Newshour of course.
Maybe I'll rename myself the Grouchy Blogger.
As in have a nice day. DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith says let's move on. No community service in Yonkers when he leaves. Nothing. Meanwhile Trump has said he will impose massive tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China on Day One. A lot on his plate on Day One. Securing the border, deporting the illegals, tariffs. So who's coming in from the North anyway? The illegal French? Canadian drug cartels? It's so much bloviating. I think Day One will be more like settle in, move the furniture around and have a cold one.
Lots of people wondering how "The View" has been on the air for 30 years. Basically a bunch of liberal chicks sitting around a table with one token conservative. Sometimes they start yelling. I thought "The View" was supposed to be a light and frothy show. Instead you get Whoopi Goldberg's anti-Trump meltdowns. The other one Sunny Hostin who I never heard of before says uneducated women voted for Trump meaning they never went to college. So wait a minute your WHOLE education up to but not including college doesn't count? Then she says racism and misogyny also were big factors that got Trump in. The price of pet food had nothing to do with it?
Word on the street is "The View" might be on the chopping block along with Morning Joe. Elon Musk might buy everything that's not nailed down. Maybe buy Yonkers who knows?
The Senate has A LOT of Trump nominees to go through. The Gaetz thing - for me it wasn't the sexual rumors just that every time I saw a newsclip of him he was being combative. Temper issues. Reminds me of the neighborhood hothead. Someone's dog craps on his lawn and they have to call the police. I think RFK Jr. will be the most controversial. Maybe Tulsi Gabbard. The ones like Dr. Oz unless he went to a Diddy party should breeze right on through.
Perpetually pissed off about politics. They may not be able to unclog a toilet but politics is the subject they know best. Most people might know their local representatives but the political junkie knows every Congressman and Senator in all 50 states and their respective scandals. It's hard to keep up to speed with them. "What do you think of Mr. Pepperidge's nomination to be Assistant Secretary of the sub-Interior?" Who? My late aunt God rest her soul passed away a few years back from a cancer. Politically conservative they say she argued politics with her liberal son-in-law right up 'til the end. Dunno. I'd be pondering my mortality.
When I came back from my 3 year blogging hiatus I had to google Tulsi Gabbard. I'm always a little behind the curve and a day or two late on today's news. Gotta take care of the feral cats. Half of my YouTube search history is about health problems. Rearranging my finances. Puttering around the house. I'm busy.
What's up with the political junkies? Like a bunch of angry nerds.
Prediction -- There will be no mass deportation of non-criminal illegal aliens not unless Trump doesn't mind people paying $40 for a head of lettuce. Meanwhile Morning Joe and Mika are catching flack for meeting up with Trump at Mar-A-Lago. The Left doesn't like don't hate - participate. Trump told them he wants to work with Democrats. Damned if you do damned if you don't. Wondering any illegal help at Mar-A-Lago?
They couldn't even influence the election. They relied heavily on the fake polling industry to show a neck and neck race to motivate people to vote for Harris but Rasmussen were the only ones predicting a Trump landslide and if you notice they never quoted the Rasmussen numbers. The American voters have spoken. The media doesn't respect landslides or the will of the people. You can give The New York Times and The Washington Post to people for free and many are not gonna read it. Good for lining a birdcage or wrapping fish. Now Trump's Cabinet picks are no good. Expect four more years of a negative drumbeat from the msm. Meanwhile the rest of us have moved on.
So about Trump's cabinet picks I'm hearing this and I'm hearing that. Bunch of rabid war hawks being nominated going against all the MAGA principles. Others not happy about Marco Rubio being tapped as Secretary of State. I'm hearing that Matt Gaetz is the least likely to get confirmed and it has nothing to do with the edge of seventeen sex allegations. Everyone on board 110% pro-Israel of course. Huck even opposes a Palestinian state. Gabbard is in there. RFK Jr. ready to run wild. A FOX News host running Defense?
We have aways to go before the Inauguration. Normally this is boring and dry stuff for me. I'm not a political junkie but Trump's cabinet picks are generating quite a bit of discussion. There is even some talk of MAGA protesting Trump. Me? I just live my life and feed the cats.
The trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs is set for May 5th of next year in Manhattan. Diddy is charged with racketeering, conspiracy, sex trafficking and prostitution. Other charges can be added. If convicted Diddy faces life in prison.
The feds have 100 electronic devices of his they got from his LA mansion and Miami estate and are currently trying to extract data. We're talking terabytes of information here! Maybe Bill Gates can help. He is currently in a federal lockup in Brooklyn and a bail package seems unlikely.
He ain't livin' right. The saga of 50 Shades of Diddy continues.
RFK Jr. tapped to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. A powerful post which oversees the CDC and the FDA. Cross-pollination or people who were once in Big Pharma now working for the FDA a big issue for Kennedy. Also don't expect any massively expedited vaccines on the market without long-range safety data first. Operation Warp Speed belongs on Star Trek. Dunno about the raw milk.
An interesting and eclectic Cabinet.
