If I knew then what I knew then, I'd have known what "then" means.

Morrison Hotel Made Famous By The Doors Destroyed By Fire After Being Occupied By Squatters
December 27, 2024

□ [“Arizona Attorney General Says She Won't Comply with Trump’s Deportation Efforts – Mike Davis: 'Want to Go to Prison?'"]

Whatever the other merits of Trump's immigration policies - and I am in the 'I support them but they probably won't work' category - this will be a very interesting year as far as state and federal policies contradict each other.  Good or bad, he might up as relevant of Andrew Jackson or Teddy Roosevelt, not to mention Woodrow Wilson and FDR.

As always, I hope he has plans in place and lawyers ready to move.  And men-with-guns, in case push comes to shove.  Democrats always bounce back and forth on whether they prefer state or federal dominance, and it's probably not a coincidence that it's always about keeping their slave trade.  It's not like they ever say people are free to live without Democrats.

But it's not clear what's going to happen.  At a guess, I'll say the leftist AGs will back down, they're not willing to go to jail for this, but it'll just be a show.  We don't know how much Trump is really going to do on 'day one' or beyond, so it's not clear what will be fought over or who will do the fighting.  There will need to be judicial decisions on which laws people have to obey and which ones can be ignored and everything will have repercussions.

There's issues which most of us would never consider.  If Arizona defies federal law, can they still be qualified as a state?  It would be awesome and hilarious if all these leftist government employees realize that they would lose everything if they actually stood by their beliefs, *and* would be targets of the illegal invaders they've been supporting all this time.  Gotta just keep telling myself 'it's not going to work out as well as I'd like to think,' 'it's not going to work out as well as...'

Displaced Christians Celebrate Christmas Amid Conflict in Burma
December 27, 2024

□ [“57 Percent of Voters Want FBI to Investigate 'Disgusting' Liz Cheney"]

It's a poll, there's no reason to trust it.  Might as well believe the polls that say Kamala Harris will win the election.  It looks to me like polls are just a guess and their accuracy is totally a matter of chance.  Just the fact that they specify that the FBI can be trusted for the investigation shows something is off about this one.

And for that matter, how many people have a clue who Liz Cheney is?  A public figure, sure.  Daughter of a famous guy, that's a fair guess.  I know she was in Congress and I'd have to look up which branch from which state. Yet somehow a majority of Americans want to go after her.  Riiiight...

So is this Trump putting forth a notice that he's going to go after her?  Might be nice to think so.  This is mostly about her lies covering the January 6 thing, which I never paid much attention to.  I'm still wondering why they didn't bring their guns.  What kind of wussy insurrection is that?  Even if you're trying to be nice about it, it didn't work so come back next week and bring your @$%#&ing guns this time!!!  Do I have to come up with everything?

Instead, I've noticed Cheney more just the relentless anti-Trump attitude.  Lost her congressional seat in the primary, maybe because she hadn't done enough to help her home state.  Definitely a RINO, she didn't hesitate to support Harris.  That's the part I don't get, at least why Harris went along with it.  Whoever made her campaign decisions, how did they think making such a deal out of Liz Cheney would help?

And yet Liz went straight for Harris, just like the fans of P. Diddy and Jeffrey Epstein.  It's almost like they knew this was the only way to protect themselves.  Might have to ask at some point how they knew Harris would help them out.  Not sure I'd trust the FBI doing the investigation, but someone will have to, and make everything public.

CA Judge Orders Women Facing Trans Alleged Rapist to Use His Chosen Pronouns in Court
December 27, 2024

□ [“Zuckerberg Dismisses Building Huge ‘Doomsday Bunker’ Under His Hawaiian Compound, It’s ‘Just a Little Shelter’"]

Is there any reason you're not waiting a few years to build it?  Since, you know, you didn't have it built years ago because obviously there was no reason for it.  And if, for some reason, you decide to use it in the near-future, where's the electricity and the food going to be stored?  Will that really be the time to say 'gosh, I wish I'd have built a bigger shelter'?  I bet your friends who helped you become a billionaire are building bigger shelters.

□ [“Footage Shows WHO Chief Tedros Ghebreyesus in Yemen Airport During Massive Israeli Air Strike"]

The war is expanding, that's probably why the billionaires are getting worried.  The guy in charge of the self-appointed rulers of the world was in Yemen for some reason and Israel obviously knew that.  I'm sure they had some other reason to hit Yemen but even there, wtf?  It's quite a ways away and is where Iran and Saudi Arabia have been fighting since 2014.  What does this have to do with Israel or the WHO?  Dunno, but there they are.

□ [“Taiwan Launches First-Ever War Game to Simulate a China Invasion"]

Speaking of countries that have suddenly decided to start wondering what might happen, now we have China looking to expand.  They move on their own time so there's no reason to think it'll happen tomorrow, but they may have decided a long time ago that it'll happen tomorrow.  Up until now, they'd been willing to rely on the US but that's obviously not possible now.  There's Trump but he's got a maximum of four years and then what?  Japan and Southeast Asia are probably worried too.

□ [“Massive Russian Christmas Day Attack Hits Multiple Energy Systems; Blackouts All Over Ukraine"]

At this point, it's obvious that Russia is just playing with Ukraine like a cat with a mouse.  If it was about conquering any part of Ukraine, they could have handled that ages ago.  Instead it seems more about keeping NATO's attention to send over equipment, weapons and money, which Russia probably helps itself to.  Biden is still sending out billions of taxpayer dollars, it's not like anyone's going to stop him.  And he leaves the US military vaccinated against covid and punished if they don't get someone's pronouns right.

□ [“Vladimir Putin on Ending the Ukraine War:  'I Believe in God.  And God is With Us'"]

That's not an answer.  Good to know Russia has leaders who submit to the will of God but they're still Russians, proof that God doesn't love them and doesn't want them to be happy.  So what is Russia going to do about this?

It really looks like this was all about defeating NATO permanently, and it looks like they won.  None of the main members are willing or able to do anything anywhere now and have no way to recover.  No idea if BRICS has any chance of becoming a replacement, but they've currently got momentum, and the WHO will probably side with them anyway.  It's not like they'd side with the USA or western civilization.

Biden Sends Another $1.25 Billion Weapons Package to Ukraine on His Way Out the Door
December 27, 2024

□ [“Scott Baio Drops the P. Diddy List"]

No idea where he got this list or if he just a bunch of names from the most popular celebrities on social media.  I've heard of virtually all of them which was surprising and presumably there were many other celebrities I hadn't heard of.  The ones that stuck out most are those arguing in public these days, which does make sense.

They can't tell us what they really do but they're on the defensive.  They'd been able to spend the last four years assuming Trump was gone forever, so what back-up plans do they have?  Baio does cite some people he used to work with who became much more famous than he ever did.  He started young so he'd been part of Hollywood his whole life.  Whether he's telling the truth or not, he'd at least know what they do.

So is there any chance of Trump releasing the real list on "day one"?  I'd like to think so, but that means identifying all the other people who knew about this and kept it secret.  Trump will also be required to explain why he didn't do this before.  It's not like he hasn't had this information.  He could simply recite a bunch of famous people's names and everyone would start asking why he did that, kinda like Baio is doing here, only with a lot better sources.

Three weeks and three days until we find out what's going to happen.  Before then, we'll probably see who's most worried and how far they'll go to protect themselves.

Kamala Harris's Staff Says She'll Certify Trump’s Win on January 6 After The Hill Announces Plan for Insurrection
December 27, 2024