Getting ready to go trick-or-treating. I love this time of year.

Pro-Hamas Protestors Storm St. Mary's Church in Dublin During Mass
December 23, 2024

□ [“Trump Revives Push to Acquire Greenland, ‘Absolute Necessity’ for National Security and Global Freedom"]

Riiiiiiight.  Because it's Trump, I don't just assume this is some insanity just because.  The article says he suggested this in August 2019.  I can understand it being used for defense against Europe, the Atlantic or the Arctic, but I thought we were already doing that.  Following this up immediately after similar comments about Canada and Panama doesn't come off well.

Perhaps this has something to do with restoring the Monroe Doctrine which John Kerry unilaterally declared no longer existed several years ago.  Trump could be trying to restore it.  Beyond that, I really don't see the point and this does sound like something he should be explaining.  He's pushing something, fine, but what's the point?

Greenland and Panama leaders have responded in the negative.  Now it's Trump's move.  For that matter, he's also making a point of showing who the POTUS is.  Whatever his plans are, he's putting them down now.  Whatever the policies of moving a new administration in, we can assume he's putting everything down now to be ready on "day one."  Can't just fire active employees so they'll need people to be overseeing sabotage attempts.

Italian PM Accuses Russia of Sending Illegals To Destabilize the EU, Calls for Border Protection
December 23, 2024

□ [“New NATO Chief Rutte Blasts ‘Ungrateful’ Zelensky, Asks Him to Stop Criticizing Germany’s Scholz"]

Maybe you should just shut up and obey Ukraine, how about that?  NATO needs to know their place and it's not telling Ukraine what to do.  Now hurry up and bring Ukraine more weapons.

There's not much attention going on about this anymore, just occasional notes that Russia is moving farther inward.  For a while, it made sense, there was all the news from Israel, but that's fallen quiet too.  The left really doesn't care what happens thousands of miles away, they're too busy crying about losing to Trump.

The PM of Slovak is being more friendly with Russia now.  It is in NATO and the EU but there's clearly some incentive to drift away from them.  More than just dealing with Ukraine, this was probably the main goal Russia had.  They had no chance of winning in a direct war but have much more experience tearing opposing alliances apart.  The alliance in question is trying to be *woke* so that's even easier.

That has to be why Russia didn't just move in and wipe everybody out like Russia usually does.  They needed to delay to get western countries involved while pretending not to be involved, sort of the worst of both sides.  This also gives encouragement to build up BRICS with over half the world's non-white population.  Not sure why they'd do this but for whatever other problems these nations are having, this sounds like at least a sensible attempt to survive.

Bashar al-Assad’s Wife Asma Files For Divorce From Syrian Dictator – Wants to Return to Britain
December 23, 2024

□ [“Biden Left Grieving Families of Kabul Bombing Victims Waiting for Three Hours Before Transfer - He Was Napping on the Plane"]

He wasn't napping, he wasn't healthy enough to be pushed out and do something, so that was that.  That's who takes the 3AM phone calls.  And that was over three years ago when he was in better shape than he is now.

Amazing how this is all starting to come out now.  Youtube has any number of compilations of video from media and government people talking about what great shape Biden was in.  We heard the same things about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and look how that turned out.  But they're the elites, they get to say how wonderful they are and hide the truth from the peasants.

Some of them realize that they're going to look bad.  They were obviously lying and maintained power that way.  Pretend for the sake of argument that Biden was actually elected, all the decisions were being made by people who weren't.  They were all involved in the cover-up, the only question is if they did it deliberately or if they were stupid enough to believe those who died.

Jill and Hunter will be the primary targets, and this makes a good excuse for Obama, Nancy, the Clintons and everyone else in the internal struggle Democrats are having.  But not as good an excuse as they expect, since to varying extents, they all knew exactly what was going on and can't even excuse themselves for being too stupid to understand it.

Nancy would have to deal with Biden on a regular basis anyway as part of the job.  Obama made a point of having to drag Biden off-stage during (I think it was) a fundraiser and had been visiting the White House in recent months, probably to find out what shape he was in.  The Clintons did meet with him at least a few times and have always been good at keeping connections throughout the party, they would have also known.

This is why I still think the debate was scheduled much earlier than usual.  They knew Biden would do horribly and need to be replaced.  The main question is if they intended to replace him with Harris or if they had someone else in mind.  Both possibilities seem equally ridiculous.  Harris was the obvious replacement but she's also a guaranteed failure.  But then why schedule the debate so early and keep anybody else out of the primaries?

One of Biden’s ‘Non-Violent’ Pardons Turns Out to Be Voodoo-Practicing Triple-Murderer
December 23, 2024

□ [“Focus Group Says Democrats Are Weak and Overly Focused on 'Diversity' and Other 'Elite' Luxury Concerns"]

I'm trying to think of a name for this phenomenon.  There must be something, but collectivists are just ignoring what people say, which defeats the whole point of being collectivists.  This focus group was Democrats who voted for Trump or just didn't vote.  That's a bit of a start, ask the people who think you're doing the wrong thing what you're doing wrong, but there's no sense that they'll listen.

The people in charge want transgenders, the actual voters want a working economy and less war.  Only one side can win this fight and it's not the side with all the poor people.  But that means they can't win elections except in totally safe regions and there will be fewer and fewer of those.  It's said that it will take a few election cycles before Democrats really understand the problems they face.

There's simply no way for them to turn around.  The people in charge want to double down on *woke* and they don't permit any newcomers who disagree with them.  They've spent a couple generations building this dogma.  Thirty years ago, it was 'don't ask, don't tell,' now it's 'conform or be punished.'  So far, among the public figures, only Senator John Fetterman, commenter Van Jones and megadonor Lindy Li seem to be speaking out in protest of what their party is doing.

Admitting there's a problem is the first step to solving it and the party is almost universally ignoring it.  I'm sure there are others, but leftists aren't the ones who speak out against people in charge.  They just go quiet and slowly sneak away one-by-one.  To an extent, this could be entertaining to watch, but at some point it becomes too sickening.  We're asking 'why would you do that to yourself?' and collectively they are just demanding more, like a very complicated version of mass suicide.

Colombia’s President Threatens to Send ‘Millions’ to Southern Border Over Trump’s Plan to Retake Panama Canal
December 23, 2024

Bill Clinton Hospitalized for Fever in Georgetown University Medical Center
December 23, 2024