Did I bring the joke headline I came up with this morning? Hold on, let me check my other jacket. Be right back.

Justin Trudeau May Resign as PM – Currently ‘Considering His Options’ After Finance Minister Quits
December 16, 2024

□ [“U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Releases Report Confirming Radioactive Material Lost in Transit"]

As far as I know, there's been no official statement that begun, the drone war has.  You'd think whoever's in charge would want to get information before Donald Trump speaks up, but we're a day or two late for that.  So that just leads speculation and an increasing awareness that we can't trust our government, because that's how the government wants it.

So this statement seems the closest we've gotten to actual clues.  Someone managed to steal radioactive material and either they don't know who or they do but are pretending they don't.  It doesn't just fall out of the shipping container and no one notices.  Expecting the worst, I'll assume they were transporting active nuclear weapons or materials to make them.  Maybe I'll be wrong.

Keep in mind, there's still a decent chance it's something else.  Maybe a test to see how people react to things like this.  And there's other possibilities, maybe it's the aliens from Mars spying the invading aliens from Pluto.  We don't know, we may never know and there's nothing any of us can do about it.  Makes me think of when the Roman Empire was collapsing and people were eager to cling to this new religion that showed up because it offered hope.  Life in Joe Biden's America doesn't do that.

This just shows how people and organizations are falling apart with no guidance from the leadership they've relied on.  An Ohio Air Force base shut down airspace because of the drones.  The New York governor is nuts.  She's nuts about the drones too.  It's long been noted that trust is difficult to get and easy to lose.  Now who are Democrats-in-charge supposed to turn to?

Senate Democrats Introduce Bill to Abolish Electoral College
December 16, 2024

□ [“CNN’s Van Jones Admits 'Donald Trump is Smarter Than All of Us… We Look Like Idiots!'”]

One celebrity has finally taken the lead and reached the Fifth Stage of Grief, "acceptance."  Maybe the guy who keeps beating you isn't as stupid as you've spent years saying he is.  Admitting this on CNN is definitely an accomplishment, not putting him down for that, but there is still a long way to go.  If Trump is actually not-stupid, then what does that say about his supporters?  And if some or many or most or all of his supporters are non-stupid, what does that say about his opponents?

Just the notion that they might come to this realization is too big for me to contemplate.  It's like the left, or at least Van Jones and his ilk, are on the edge of seeing something more to life than promoting leftism.  What are they supposed to do now?  Learn something new?  See how leftism fails?  How are they going to get viewers on CNN with that?  How could they even trust any of the leftists they've known in their lives?

I'm sure many others are having these realizations.  The effect will be different, but the Democratic Party is going to have a similar reaction to what Trump supporters have felt since election day.  Those who saw problems with this approach but stayed silent will have less of a reason to be quiet.  They'll either speak up or walk out.  Those who were in charge and made this happen will suddenly realize that they have no one to fall back on and it's a long way down.

Shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin Leaves Four Dead, Five Injured
December 16, 2024

□ [“Democrat Megadonors Want the 'Obama People' Out of the Party, They're Just 'Grifters'"]

The in-fighting is going to get more public.  So far the Clintons don't get much attention and Nancy Pelosi is conveniently absent.  So is Joe Biden but he doesn't count.  I still think Harris is going to be installed as Nancy's replacement because it's more convenient than running for California governor and that's the only other option to show why anybody thought she was qualified to be a candidate in the first place.  And then again in 2024.

So Obama's the most immediate target for his fellow allies.  He contributes as little as possible, he just votes "present" but he's just right there.  He didn't leave DC when Trump took office which, to be fair, he'd have known better than almost anybody at that point.  But it sounds like he's been manipulating everything he could.  Arguably for leftism but maybe just for his own side's profit.  After all these years, there really isn't much to point to in the way of progress.  Even Obamacare is being brought back as causing people to get shot to death for obeying it.

He kept his staff around Biden to maximize control there, and I think keeping them around was the reason he finally accepted Harris as candidate.  He kept his influence, even if it didn't build anything useful.  But then what defense does he have when the knives turn against him?  Will he bring a gun to a knife fight?  What if the others have guns too?

Chicago Mayor Cancels Budget Meeting and Flees As Citizens Call Him Out For Pushing Illegals Over Residents
December 16, 2024

□ [“Trump Press Conference:  'Hell to Pay' if Hamas Doesn't Release Hostages Before Inauguration"]

Well there's a guy who's ready to get to work.  Whatever else you can say about Trump, he's not lazy.  No official response, but the word is Hamas is taking this seriously.  If there's any hostages left alive, Hamas is trying to figure out how to get rid of them without being caught.  If you really want to go 'conspiracy theory' and assume this was all a set-up, it means that's why Israel has waited so long to do anything, getting ready for what Trump's bringing to the table.

He's doing a press conference!  He just went out and took a bunch of questions for over an hour.  No word on those questions having to be approved before they were allowed, it's like he just let people talk and he responded with whatever came to mind.  A brief look at the questions and I don't find much of interest, mostly other current events stuff, but I'm just flabbergasted by the fact that he can do this like it's normal.

He's put out a number of other statements over the last few weeks that also look like he's already taken charge.  When was the last time Joe Biden did something like this?  The 1980s?  Or whatsername?  A lot of other western governments seem to be floundering, like they were really counting on the 'new world order' to save them.  Or at least the US.

German Chancellor Scholz Loses Vote of Confidence in Parliament – Snap Elections To Take Place in February
December 16, 2024

□ [“RINO Mitt Romney Says Trump, Deserves Credit For Reaching the Working Class"]

I've said nice and bad things about Romney.  This is just an initial impression, nothing to base it on, but I think he's being basically serious about this.  He's old, he's not going back to Congress or politics, no point in continuing to attack Trump, especially since he won big time.  Maybe he's reached the "acceptance" stage of grief, maybe he's smart enough to realize that they lost and there's no point whining about it in public.

It is interesting to see how the left is reacting to this.  Democraticunderground is full of people who are bragging about cutting off loved ones and close friends for being evil nazis.  Like Romney, they're old, but they're willing to spend their remaining years alone because there's no way they could be wrong about anything.

For those who've been following me, you'll notice that I have much more respect for Trump now than I did in 2020 which was much more respect than I had in 2016 when it was just 'anybody but Hillary.'  Most of us can't even conceive of what he's had to put up with for the last eight years.  A lot of people really do like him, but from my perspective, he's more of someone who knows he's not likable so he compensates with competence.  You don't want him around you but you're thankful he's there, doing what needs to be done.

Just the change in mood over the last six weeks has been amazing and we're barely halfway to inauguration day.  There's still time for a lot more things to go wrong.  So whether he's being serious about it or not, I will at least say thank you Mitt Romney, for realizing people really don't need you and going away for your wealthy old age.  And if you went to Epstein's island or P. Diddy parties, we'll get to that.

Satanists Set Up Holiday Display at Minnesota State Capitol Building
December 16, 2024

EFF Leader Julius Malema Calls for Extermination of Whites in South Africa – “Our Revolution Will Require Us to Kill”
December 16, 2024

Vatican on the Brink of Bankruptcy Due to Dramatic Decline in Global Donations Under Pope Francis
December 16, 2024