A fan of AI not

 AI is taking over.  Whatever happened to straight up information?  Google the most mundane topic say "how to change a light bulb" and you get about two seconds of the ai "thinking" then you get the AI Overview.  There are many concerns about ai but one of mine is you can get a rogue ai spreading misinfo along the web.  Not even a malicious ai but maybe just a faulty ai.  I've heard it explained that the ai will scour the internet and sometimes pick up false information and rumors and present it as fact.  You'll occasionally see the disclaimer that the information presented by ai can contain mistakes and may not even be 100% accurate so why would you use it in a school report?  When I was a yoot we used to use the encyclopedia as a reference.

Which brings us back to Trump.  He has already posted ai-generated images of himself as pope and as Jesus.  Perhaps a more accurate ai rendition might be that of a mad Emperor and his few remaining loyalists feeding him grapes.  You know who you are. 

Artistic dementia

 Trump takes time off from ruling the world to play around with AI.  Trump as Jesus.  Him and Pope Leo don't get along.  Kindergarten stuff.  Trump says the ai-generated image of him as Jesus was really just him as a doctor for the Red Cross.  Aesthetic interpretations.  If Salvador Dali were alive today he'd probably do a Trump and a Bibi and include an unmistakable phallic symbol. The Persistence of Egoism.  I'm only guessing here but if someone posted an ai-generated image of Trump and Bibi in an act of homoeroticism he would not be amused.

Will this stuff be taught in art class someday?

Off the beaten path

 I have some fond memories of growing up and going to what Yonkerites referred to as the Austin Dump.  I don't know whether this was an official dump or just some unofficial location where folk just got rid of stuff.  Every once in a while my Dad would take my Mom and me and my aunt to visit the Dump so called because it was off of Austin Avenue just on the outskirts of town.  There was a cool blind hill on the road over there and you better slow down because you never knew what was on the other side.  A Sasquatch?  So we went on these free shopping sprees at the Austin Dump because that's what poor Yonkerites did back in the day.  Interesting forays.  People threw away some good stuff.  I still have a nice wooden shelf with sliding doors where I keep light bulbs and whatnot.  Shop at your local dump.  A forgotten poor family hack but you saved money.

I never got the issue with dumping.  Is it simply ignorance?  Do people not know you can go to your local recycling center to get rid of unwanted stuff?  They take practically everything.  I've gotten rid of those big old school tvs, a stereo system, patio chairs, folding tables you name it.  I mean if you're going to make the effort to take a beaten up old sofa to the outskirts of some woodlot why not just go to your recycling center instead?  Ain't that hard.

A trip down memory lane.  Pour yourself some Christian Brothers, sit back and just ponder;)

How to salvage the Trump presidency

 I have nothing.  25th Amendment. 

Money can't buy happiness but it does pay the bills

 Wondering when Tangerine Man will get around to the economy a major concern of most normal presidents.  Many Americans struggling to keep up with their bills very little in the way of actual savings.  I'm actually relieved when I go to the mailbox and it's nothing but junk mail.  Sometimes I read it.

Yonkers - some of the highest property taxes around yet the City of Gracious Living is very slow at fixing the pothole problem.  Other communities have dealt with the ravages of this past overly severe winter but drive around Yonkers and there's still the same craters in the road.  Will City Hall spring for a broken axle?  Does Sidewalk Enforcement need more funding?  Where are the taxes going?  Just asking.

Another puzzlement.  Why are there still Trumpers around?  Those bumper stickers should have come off by now.

The Aging Blogger - Sleep

 Bought one of them Contour foam pillows the other day for side sleepers.  You put it between your legs and it helps align the hips and spine.  Been having some hip pain lately.  Sciatica?  Piriformis?  Arthritis?  None of the Above just one foot in the grave?  The package says causes cancer in California.   So I decided if I ever travel there I won't use it in Gavin Newsom's State.

We never had to go to shelters

 

The cats be coming to us.  Cats be coming from Brooklyn.  Maybe it's because we offer a better menu.  We don't just throw an open can of Friskies on the sidewalk which is probably against Yonkers Code Enforcement anyway.  I'm not a famous cat influencer like Jackson Galaxy but I do my part.

Immigration crackdowns at home. Foreign wars abroad.

 Seems to be the bulk of the Trump Presidency.

What's in your wallet?

People walking around in their pajamas

 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.

Trump to send ICE agents to US airports

 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?

I wish I could Rip Van Winkle the Trump term

 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.

First we stole Venezuela's oil. Now we're after Cuban cigars?

 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?

Good suction for 5 minutes

 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?

The missing checks

 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?

Ìs Hannity into Irish kickboxing?

 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.

Remember when gas prices rose under Biden

 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;)

The Conqueror and the Invader is powerless against Daylight Savings Time

 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!

Keeping the Epstein Files off the front page

 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?

A visceral take on the Iranian action

 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?

Blizzard of '26

 

Life in Yonkers.

The State of Dis-Union

 Not gonna watch it.

Let's talk about the weather...and taxes

 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?

The Trump Remnant

 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.

The Epstein Files are like a horror movie

 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 don't care if the next halftime show is in French

 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. 

The irony of the current situation

 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.

Govern me harder Daddy

 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:)

Open season on American citizens

 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?

The Black Panther is not extinct

Some have even been spotted as far away as Minnesota   The Trump Era suddenly giving off 60s/70s vibes.

Homan's Boys now happily violating the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution with their midnight battering rams.  Vance to visit Minneapolis soon.  Maybe he can observe how agents are now holding people down and tear- gassing them directly in their eyeballs.  Post about how patriotic they are on X.  What would Norman Rockwell think?

Queue Kate Smith and "God Bless America."

Black Panthers in Philly and Demented in Davos

 Never a slow news day under Trump.  How long how long oh Lord before we return to normal governance? Stocks rebounded after Trump said he won't take Greenland by force but he did say Iceland a few times at the WEF.  Despite the country and world being in total turmoil guy at work just likes to talk about the weather.  Nurses on strike in NYC.  Don't get sick here.

The day Donald J. Trump is impeached and removed from office

 I'm gonna go out and get me a bottle of Hennessy.

An open crapper today:)

Cult thinking

 My friend is very political.  He's also a heavy Trumper.  Driving him home yesterday and apropos of nothing he goes "Democratic socialist scumbags."  He'd be right at home over at that other place.  Then he asked me what I thought about Greenland (I just love talkin' politics after a hard day at work).  Basically I said there's nothing wrong with having an offer on the table.  You can always join us no pressure, the offer is always open but where I draw the line is I'm against military threats against Greenland and attacking and invading them.  So then my Trump friend talked about (he really should be posting over at that other blog), he started talking about China and Russia doing stuff up there and Putin maybe put something in the bottom of the Arctic Ocean (my friend an expert on everything).  Went over my head.  Then my friend said two or three times that Trump must have some access to some kind of secret intelligence, some critical info the rest of us don't have.  This is the way the true Trump cultists defend him.  Trump is like God.  His ways may be inscrutable but trust him and his wisdom.  Trump moves in mysterious ways or maybe he's just a dick.

Anonymous has revealed that Republicans are ready willing and able to impeach Trump and remove him from office if he continues to threaten Greenland.  Attacking Greenland a NATO ally would violate treaties and defense agreements.  Germany and France already sending troops up there to defend her.  You can't make this shit up.

There really should be a 1-800 help hotline for the Trump cultists.  Leave now before it's too late.

I wouldn't even say this under the influence of the Christian Brothers

 Deep thinker, philosopher and right-wing podcaster Megyn Kelly has formed a theory which began as a brain fart but which she is now putting on the table as a serious contribution to the national debate over the ongoing events in Minneapolis MN.  She now says that the ICE protesters aren't having enough SEX and talks about all the fat unattractive women with multiple piercings in the anti-ICE crowds. Thoughts - Megyn Kelly has staked out an early position on that tragic ICE shooting of Renee Good, staked it out from the get-go and is sticking with it but I am also beginning to form my own theory here.  Megyn Kelly is secretly attracted to ICE agents some kind of thug fetish going on.  It rings her bell.  The masked anonymous ICE agent, the super manly and patriotic Defender of the Homeland.  The 50 Shades of Megyn Kelly.

I thought I was gonna have nothing to talk about today.  You go girl!  Throwing your sisters under the bus.  (Is that Megyn moaning?)

An aside about the Better Business Bureau

 Might be of limited interest to readers with all the big things happening but I have kind of formed an opinion now of the Better Business Bureau.  This blog has toggled back and forth between basically All Things Trump and my bad online shopping experience with SHEIN.  The finer details are in previous posts.  Filed a complaint with the BBB and this thing went back and forth for a few weeks.  SHEIN places almost the whole burden on the consumer to in effect basically somehow proving your lost parcels went to the wrong address.  Lost about $500 to them which they won't refund.  The BBB concluded the matter today informing me that they feel SHEIN acted in good faith and addressed my concerns.  There were no real offers from SHEIN or compromises even so the BBB couldn't even get me a half result.

My newer view now of the Better Business Bureau is they are probably fine for informational purposes only but lacking any real enforcement powers they shouldn't be in the mediation business at all.  In my modest view they're an overrated organization.  My sister made the point Trump should go after online retailers like SHEIN and stuff like that and I agreed Trump would be better if he did just a few minor useful things for most people rather than the stupid epic things he's doing now so tangent back into politics if you wish.

Things are not normal in the Trump Era.  The quality of our institutions are not what they used to be.  The Better Business Bureau.  Pretty much a paper tiger.  It's like the bad retailers don't even fear them anymore.  Shop at home.  Go local;)

What's the deal with breaking people's car windows?

 Normally if you saw this you'd call the cops.  Oh they are the cops.  Will Homan's Heroes be liable for damages?  That ain't cheap.  Some kind of rage issues going on.  Might we call them oh I don't know domestic terrorists?

A Thugacracy (def.: ...example - Donald Trump's America in 2026)

Homan's Heroes strike again.  Other countries must be looking at this and going this is the United States?  I thought they were a civilized democracy. 

Foreign protesters good American protesters bad

 Pondering the dichotomy here.  The Iranian regime's crackdown on anti-government protesters at last count 2,500 dead.  Trump weighing his military options and knowing Trump he will probably do something and truthfully I would not shed a tear for the mullahs.  Over here state-sanctioned violence against anti-ICE protesters.  Not getting the dissonance.  A growing number of DOJ federal prosecutors are resigning over the direction of the probe into the killing of Renee Nicole Good.  Fringe righties though still defending it even as Rogan and some other podcasters who used to support Trump are condemning it.  Maybe Megyn Kelly will dance with Trump some day to some nice Nazi waltz music in the new WH ballroom.  Apparently if I understand correctly the new training period for new ICE recruits is no longer 5-6 months but 47 days in honor of Trump being the 47th president.   Iranian regime bad Trump regime good.

You can't make this shit up:)

Saying the quiet part out loud. Trump is just plain Nutz

 He wants to invade Greenland still.  His military generals are resisting him.  The Maduro regime in Venezuela is still largely intact.  Hardly a regime change.  Not sure what was accomplished there.  Trump sending hundreds of more federal agents to MN.  What a way to quell and de-escalate the situation.  DHS Sec'y Kristi Noem doubling down on the murder of Renee Good.  Viral videos of ICE agents bothering people at gas stations and McDonald's.   Trump's maniacal obsession with illegal immigration although an important issue not the most important issue facing the country right now imo.  Trump definitely has OCD in addition to his other myriad mental disorders.  You can't get rid of every illegal immigrant.  At any rate whatever approach you favor it should be done calmly and professionally.  For the record I don't favor mass deportations but Obama deported about 3 million without all the social chaos the Trump Administration is causing.  Nobody died horrific deaths as I recall.

Big blue wave come the mid-terms.

Trump can't keep up with Obama's deportation numbers

 Despite everything that's been going on and I don't recall anything as horrific as this happening during the Obama years.  Obama the deportation king at around 3 million.  Biden did his fair share too only they didn't talk about it much.  This is why Trump consigliere Stephen Miller has them hitting burrito stands and Home Depot they're not reaching goal.  So I was thinking about the physics of the situation.  ICE cop stands purposely in front of Renee Good's SUV and she has to take off from a totally dead stop what's the maximum amount of speed she could have reached anyway?  I didn't really understand that new (ai?) bodycam video Trump put out.  Supposed to be a bombshell.  Megyn Kelly all over it.  Kind of a nothing burger in terms of justifying the agents.  Maybe Hannity can deconstruct it for us.

Wisdom for today.  It's better to let an ICE agent drag you out of your car and beat you up than try to take off.

Donald Trump's police state

 State-sanctioned violence against even American citizens.  Trump is tearing apart the social fabric of this once great nation and it's by design.  It appears ICE actively recruits psychopaths.  Talking of course about that fatal ICE shooting of that Minneapolis woman in her SUV.  You see these goons coming up to your vehicle you might panic too.  DHS whore Kristi Noem says she tried to run over an ICE agent.  Trump echoed this on his social media.  The videos and there are many show nothing of the kind.  The International Criminal Court or the ICC already probing Trump's border policies especially its family separation policy.  Trump is flooding the zone.  His international war crimes on the front pages the last few days and the ongoing rogue activities of ICE.  Weren't we just talking about the Trump/Epstein Files?  Change the subject.

Read somewhere the ICC might prosecute Trump and his senior officials once his term is over.  See you in the Hague;)

A new clinical diagnosis - Trump Worship Syndrome or TWS

 I watch a lot of podcasters on YouTube and one podcaster subbing for another podcaster proposed that since we already have Trump Derangement Syndrome or TDS perhaps we can have the opposite disorder or Trump Worship Syndrome (TWS).  I like it.  These are not MAGA-ites as I said in my last post.  Jon Stewart makes that mistake.  With the remaining remnant of Trump supporters there are no consistent guiding political or philosophical principles.  They simply support unwaveringly everything that comes out of the chaos of Trump's mind.  He's just trying to do the right thing and the media and the Left are relentlessly attacking him.  Tom Homan is really a big ole soft teddy bear who has a job to do.  You're anti-Trump?  What do you hate the country or something?

The folk suffering from TWS they know who they are.

OIL, minerals and drugs way down the list

 Elite sex predators even further down.  Trump is now running two countries.  How does he find the time?  Rubio wants to attack Cuba next and I thought he was the rational one.  Rubio is lousy at news interviews then again he has to defend the indefensible.  BTW whatever happened to the Pete Hegseth double tap scandal?  Like two day news item.  Then Trump consigliere Stephen Miller says we have the right to take Greenland.   I think half the Administration is composed of psychos. 

I don't think Trump sleeps all that much.  He has the endless energy of a sociopath.  BTW what is Lindsey Graham so giddy about?  Re narco-terrorism the interesting thing here is that narco-terrorists aren't forcing Americans to do drugs.  Me?  I prefer the Christian Brothers to take the edge off a rough day.  One of the charges against Maduro in the indictment is that he had machine guns.  Like well DUH.

We're living in weird times.

The few remaining people who still support Trump are not MAGA

 President Trump has betrayed MAGA not the other way around.  Trump has betrayed MAGA most notably on foreign policy to wit no foreign interventions and no regime change wars.  America First NOT Israel First.  Trump is a war criminal at this point.  He invaded Venezuela, kidnapped its president Nicolas Maduro and his wife and now claims to be in charge and running that country.  This was never really about drugs but all about OIL.  The indictment against Maduro and his wife doesn't even mention fentanyl.  The rest of the Venezuelan government is still largely intact and Trump has threatened an even more brutal attack if the lady VP over there doesn't comply.  Venezuelan paramilitary forces everywhere.  Sound familiar?  Boots on the ground would mean guerilla warfare = quagmire for years.  Now Trump has his sights set on Cuba and possibly Greenland an important NATO ally.  So far the military is obeying Trump's every illegal order.  Thorny issue.  They might want to reconsider that or be held to account somewhere down the road.  Putin has made his chess move saying release Maduro now.  China the same.  MAGA has already abandoned the POTUS in droves.  What remains are those few remaining supporters and loyalists.  That's not MAGA.  They're beyond MAGA.  Now we're talking cult territory.  Weren't we just talking about the Trump/Epstein Files like a few days ago?

Donald J. Trump.  Madman on the world stage.

The only way to stop Trump is to bring him before the International Criminal Court

 Any country can file a motion.  However with America's military might probably won't go anywhere.   War crime charges have already been filed against Bibi by the ICC and he's still happily conducting his little genocide with our help btw.  The other avenue is impeachment and that's very unlikely to happen.  Turns out Trump if you read the news reports was really after Venezuela's vast oil reserves all along.  Most fentanyl comes from Mexico.  Don't confuse me with the facts though.

Yet another distraction from the Trump/Epstein Files.  Glad Anonymous is exposing Mr. Trump on YouTube though.  Just wish they'd get rid of those silly masks.

So now we capture foreign leaders?

 The little ones anyway.  Trump bombed Caracas the capital of Venezuela and captured Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife.  An act of naked aggression.  What are they gonna do with Maduro have him scrub toilets?  Hegseth is like the neighborhood psycho who finally grew up and got himself into a position of power.  Will Trump someday join his BFF Bibi in the docket at the ICC?  The man is out of control.  I'd like to see him capture Putin, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping.  Trump - a big man with tiny balls.

Trump - A Scumbag For All Seasons

 Two reasons for Trump's downfall IMHO.  He entered his second term in full combat mode mad at half the world.  WHY?  Secondly he's not the intellectual type.  He doesn't mull things over, calmly weigh the pros and cons but just forges ahead in his own stupidity.  The tariffs are a perfect example.  He's turned into a joyless prick and his Cabinet reflects that.  Homan is like something out of a horror movie.  Will he exhume the illegal dead?  OK so the latest is Trump doesn't want Southeast Colorodans to have clean drinking water.  Unanimous bill passed by the Congress, a pipeline project but he's getting back at CO Rep. Lauren Boebert over the Epstein Files.  In a phone call to MTG he railed that full disclosure would hurt his friends.  What kind of friends does he have anyway?  I personally don't know any sexual predators do you?  What kind of social circle is that?  Everyone's a perv?

You can't impeach somebody for being an asshole but I'm sure there are grounds for something.  Either that or Republicans get reamed and cleaned in the mid-terms.

A New Year's Resolution

 I generally don't make them but going forward no online shopping for me.  Would have to be an absolutely necessary purchase like if I ever feel the need to get a hearing aid but other than that I'm done.  There are two groups of SHEIN customers.  The first group are people who never had a problem with them and the second group are former customers who had to deal with Customer Service.  I'm thinking maybe the UPS Claims Dept. is partially driven by ai although I don't know this.  Might explain some things.  Something hasn't been right since Trump got elected.  Maybe it's the tariffs.  SHEIN is a Chinese company so why should they give their American customers refunds?  Just a theory.

We're a nation of compulsive shoppers.  Probably half the people in Target don't really need anything.  You always see them coming out of the store with plastic storage containers.  Credit card debt in this country is at an all-time high.  What's up with people always passing you on the escalators?  Everyone's in such a hurry.  My mother used to have a saying about such people.  What are they in a hurry to get to their grave?

It's gonna snow?  Go to Home Depot and get another shovel.  You already have five.

Oh Tangerine Man - Trump's slide into LaLa Land

 Word on the street is the Trump brain won't last another three years.  He needs handlers.  He wished Americans a very Merry Christmas saying it may be their last.  He wants CBS to put Stephen Colbert to sleep.  There are the new plaques in the WH etc. etc.  It's only a matter of time before the main attraction at the WH will be kids lining up to throw peanuts in his mouth.

Oh Tangerine Man,)

There's guilt by association then there's guilt by too much association

 Trump's name keeps popping up in the Epstein Files.  Just sayin'.

Trump and the Argonauts

 In another flight of fancy Trump says newer Navy battleships are in the works larger faster and more powerful than anything Mankind has ever seen before.  It's part of his grander delusion of what he calls a Golden Fleet.  The first Trump battleship will be called the USS Defiant.  I can think of some other names.  It'll have hypersonic missiles, nuclear cruise missiles, rail guns......I think it will be able to take an asteroid or two out of the sky.  The crew will be able to battle the Cyclops if they encounter one.  Will the on-board cuisine include giant squid?  Commander Trump will be able to do battle with half the world.  Meanwhile the Navy says they may not have all that technology up to par yet.

Trump.  Man Myth and Legend:)