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.

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!

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?

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."

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;)