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.
I guess he sent a fellow real estate magnate over there. Dunno, you can give him credit. IMO, one of the few remaining survivors in Gaza, some little kid, left out of the 50,000 dead under the rubble, probably
ReplyDeletesinged the papers Remind me, why do they call it the Holy Land?
Confirmation hearings underway. Hegseth stuff going on too long. Pam Bondi. I see the FDA just banned some red dye in foods that has a potential cancer link. The RFK Jr. Effect?
ReplyDeleteTrump took credit for ceasefire. Clearly, he has been working over there for months, cajoling and threatening. What a guy.
ReplyDeleteHe probably threatened to withhold aid from Israel.
ReplyDeleteNow the thing is in limbo. Far right in Israel threatens Netanyahu.
ReplyDeleteHard to keep up.
You need Cliffs Notes to even understand this stuff. Thing is the Middle East takes so much of our time ya know? Africa what's that?
DeleteCan you explain the Bannon-Musk spat. Color me confused.
ReplyDeleteIt all has to do with those H-1B Visas used for importing highly skilled foreign tech workers. Good for 3 years you can extend them for another 3. Musk says Silicon Valley needs them because he feels we don't have enough highly skilled American tech workers. The MAGA base which Bannon represents says this is not true and that all those foreign tech workers are undercutting the wages of the American tech workers. It's a kind of high-tech immigration debate if you will.
ReplyDeleteThat is much clearer than anything I've heard or read.
ReplyDeleteWhat channel you on?
Likewise your tips on pipe smoking are much clearer than Google's.
ReplyDeleteI think many conservative blogs tend to focus on domestic politics a lot. To add some weight to this blog you might find me poking around Romanian elections or something. Might make for some dry reading or maybe try exploring some esoteric medical conditions like Havana Syndrome. Where can I get me a Cuban cigar these days?
ReplyDeleteSyndromes - ran across hundreds of medical ones and there is some psychobabble that separates them from diseases. One odd one is the Napoleonist Syndrome - many younger men in surrounding countries admired him for his "Promethean check on the existing order", and the psy babble fold attributed it to their resenting their own fathers. Then there is the Napoleon Complex, said to affect
ReplyDeleteshort guys. That attitued was summed up when little Bonaparte
told a Prussian noble "You may be taller, but I am greater."
TMI - developing a complex syndrome, where's the CG, get me
my pipe -
Hickory Dickory Dock, what's the deal with Tik Tok?
ReplyDeleteIf Musk gets the Tic, does the Bangkok get the ToK?
(I know, worse than the 'Lad in Nantucket")
So now government is in the business of banning apps. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteSCOTUS 9-0 for the ban. Huh?
DeleteI don't get it. Since when is the SCOTUS 9-0 on anything?
DeleteDunno - maybe on whether to take a lunch break?
DeleteNo heated polarity the SCOTUS is known for? No calling each other names just a bland consensus? What gives?
DeleteNot that long ago, congress, Trump, GOP Dems all wanted to ban it.
ReplyDeleteLogically not trusting China, based on past experience. But with 170 million members in the US, there is significant political pressure to
maintain Tik and Tok. I have no horse in the race other than morbid
curiosity.
Basically the law says sell it or ban it. Is that in the Constitution?
DeleteThey are working on it. Perhaps Musk will trade X for TIK TOK?
ReplyDeleteConstitution - no China, no abortion, no AR-15s, pandemics, income tax, vaccines, private insurance, traffic cams, business monopolies, un- declared war or even how many judges shoule be on the court. Not much there. Of course it was written long before all that. What should be expect from the branch of government that is NOT elected?