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.
