If you knew then what you know now, you wouldn't be reading this. So why are you here?

Illinois Democrats to Allow Illegals to Change Their Names to Evade ICE
January 31, 2025

□ [“Rep. Hakeem Jeffries:   It’s Time to Fight Trump's Agenda 'In the Streets'"]

I would suggest starting off at Fort Sumter but maybe that's just my interest in history.  We know you'd lose.  You don't have the numbers, you don't have the weapons or logistics, you don't even have anything to fight for.  Our side has all of that, we'll fight for the real United States.  So that said, when would you like to get this started?  You wouldn't want to look like a poser.

The shift in mindset is starting to become clear, at least slightly.  Our side knows we've won and, all else being equal, it's going to stay that way.  Their side doesn't get that, but their only option is double down on their delusions.  They just didn't push the *woke* agenda enough.

You can see this with how they've returned to calling Trump and supporters "nazis."  In an actual tyranny, people are afraid to speak up.  We saw that for the last few years with the transgender movement being pushed everywhere and the media telling us that anyone who wasn't vaccinated against covid should just stay home and die.  These people know they aren't going to be censored so they'll just scream even louder how tyrannical everything is now.

They also know at some level that they need to shoot Trump.  Can't put him in jail, they've tried to do that all these years and have completely failed.  Assassination is the only way they can guarantee he'll never be heard from again, so every single one of these people needs to be constantly asked what they're doing to make that happen.

Tell them not to be wussies about it, just like Hakeem Jeffries is doing here.  If you actually believe in what you're saying, and we know you don't, then don't just expect others to take the risk.  Who does Jeffries expect to his streetfighting if he's not there personally?  Illegal immigrants?  Might as well ask China to send in their forces.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) Says ‘Evil’ Now Occupies White House — Blames ‘White Supremacists’ For Violent Crime Wave
January 31, 2025

□ [“Newsom Walks Back His Plan to Spend $50 Million of Taxpayer Money to Sue Trump"]

The lawsuits aren't going to stop, although they will be reduced.  As POTUS, Trump simply has leeway that few others posses, so suing him becomes pointless.  Being rich and connected to other rich people, there's not even the option of suing him into bankruptcy, the way elites and big companies usually operate against people they don't like.  Some people will continue, just because they can, but as a tool this is mostly useless.

In this case, even the leftists realized they'd just look stupid, suing for no reason when there are other problems that really should be dealt with first.  We don't hear much about the fires anymore and it's pretty clear that they haven't just been extinguished like firefighters are supposed to do.  If they had been, there would be celebration and compliments for the men who did the work.  Instead California is just resigned to letting them burn out on their own.

I'm not sure I've ever used the phrase "Trump derangement syndrome" but that's what this is.  The left is just delusionally obsessed with Trump against all reason and are just getting more and more obvious about it.  People watching this week's Congressional hearings probably saw even more, the left is just going to keep doing this even as it makes things worse.  They can't stop, it's their only option, and they'll wind up just pushing more people onto Trump's side because they want sanity instead.

Trump Will Impose 100% Tariffs on Countries Joining Alternative Reserve Currency to Protect US Dollar
January 31, 2025

□ [“CBS in Talks to Settle Trump's $10 Billion Lawsuit for Deceptively Editing 60 Minutes Interview with Kamala"]

And Trump is finally willing to use these tactics against the left.  Not that I'm fully in favor of it.  As entertaining as it is, I'm not happy about our POTUS doing things like this.  I had a similar reaction to the laws passed after 9/11.  It wasn't that I was concerned what Bush and Cheney would do with them, it was what their successors would do that concerned me.

This case is also a bit weird because Trump doesn't really have any grounds to sue.  60 Minutes did try to interfere with the election by making Harris sound more coherent in the interview than she actually is, and I'm sure there's some federal laws against official 'news' shows doing things like this, there's just not much reason why Trump should be the one handling this, especially since he won.

Of course he may just be trying to get the network to release the real interview and transcript, rather than what they broadcasted.  And of course the network will do anything to avoid doing that.  Trump *should* be handling that part of the fight and I'm glad he's doing this, it's just the rest of it that I don't like.

Plane in Philadelphia Explodes After Crashing into Row Houses
January 31, 2025

□ [“'All Options are On the Table' – Defense Sec. Hegseth on Strikes Against Drug Cartels in Mexico"]

This could be another reason for Trump to talk about taking some new territory, just finding an excuse to send in troops without Congress declaring a war.  In this case, Mexico would be either unwilling or unable to handle the cartels themselves, so just send in American troops to crush them.

The cartels are certainly connected to other adversaries around the world, so there's a good chance of getting more info out of them, or at least their corpses.  There wouldn't be any immediate replacements, at least not the competent ones, so Mexico and other nations might have a chance of regaining more control.  Or they'd have to turn against us, so we'll see how that goes.  The traffickers in the US would be cut-off from support and communication, so they could be easier to hit, cutting off the branches after the trunk is chopped down.

It's something that needs to be done.  The enemy could also be bringing in whatever weapons they have access to, rockets, nukes, bioweapons, etc.  I don't know how many decades this thing has been been going on but there needs to be a stop.  We could also start learning who has been supporting this in the uniparty and the 'deep state.'

Trump Sets Saturday Deadline for 25% Tariffs on Mexico and Canada to Force Action on Illegal Migration and Fentanyl Crisis
January 30, 2025

Obama and Biden Had FAA Hire People with Intellectual, Psychiatric, Severe Physical Disabilities
January 31, 2025

□ [“Clinton-Appointed Judge Defies Trump's Executive Order, Blocks ‘Transgender’ Inmate Being Moved to Men’s Prison"]
□ [“Obama Judge Blocks Trump’s Federal Spending Freeze For 22 States"]

This is probably the best option the enemy has at the moment.  Getting pet judges to shut things down would be the most effective.  But the problem is that most of us have no clue if there's any justification or not, so we'll just pick whichever side we're already on.  So this is just another part of the war which we can see and will have an impact, but we don't contribute to in any meaningful way.

I hope Trump has prepared for this.  He'd be the one with the clearest sight on everything going on, but there's no way he can go after the judicial branch without just looking like a tyrant.  I'm not saying he's wrong, I'm just saying there's no way to defend him doing this.  As I said, you can only pick which side you'll be on and hope that's a good decision.

I suspect this is leading to the left finally coming around to some consciousness and working out which direction to go next.  They'll ignore judges whenever it's convenient but this branch of the government does seem to be something they can depend on more than the others.  When in doubt, get some unelected official with authority to tell you what you want to hear.  Unless the left is actually getting orders in private, this is probably the mentality that's finally giving them a way to resist.  No idea if it'll work, but it's something.

Trump Tells USDA To Remove All Climate Change Propaganda From Websites By End of Day Today
January 31, 2025

Blogger trapped in refrigerator uploads own foot.

Mysterious Wildfires Breakout Near North Carolina Towns Destroyed by Hurricane Helene
January 30, 2025

□ [“Senior Obama/Hillary Clinton Aide Sentenced to 11 Years For Attempted Child Rape"]

His name, Rahamim Shy, sounds Indian, but that's just a guess.  Almost certainly central Asia, which begs the question of wtf these people are doing in high positions in the US government?  Can't they get jobs in India where childrape is more legal?  Or is it about expanding the practice all around the world?  That alone sounds appalling and it's not like he's the first one arrested for such things.

He made these internet contacts and thought he'd found a 9-year old to take and her grandmother was totally willing to let this happen.  So he packed up his condoms and toys, grabbed his passport and bought a plane ticket.  There's a first time for everything but I just don't get the impression this was the first time he'd done this.  Had he run out of local children, or couldn't find any new contacts in the US where you can travel without automatically being checked out by law enforcement?

And why is he only getting 11 years?  Well that question probably answers itself, it's Britain.  But we're at a point where we need to just start executing these people.  Take a few days of interrogation to find out all their contacts and then just shoot him in the face.  The left wants "population reduction" and is composed of people like this, let's start making that happen.

Swedish Anti-Islam Activist Assassinated While Livestreaming; Hours Before Verdict on ‘Racial Hatred’ Charges
January 30, 2025

□ [“Thousands of ISIS-Affiliated Women and Children Have Become Deeply Radicalized in Syria"]

I've wondered if this was the real reason we went to Syria, as a way to essentially feed and train future generations of Islamists.  As far as starting a war in the Middle East, Syria was a more justifiable target than Iraq, and Saddam was allied with Assad anyway so he'd have gotten involved, but the US opposition to Saddam was an easier argument to make, so that's what we went with.  Officially.

The point could have been that Syria is there to watch what happens to Iraq, send in warriors, get what info they can from America and its allies.  I'm sure there were other connections with Iran or Turkey, not to mention Israel.  For that matter, Russia sided with Assad, whether it was just convenience or there was a genuine reason.  Either way, the region has spent the last decade effectively making some sort of stew.

I'm just speculating because otherwise I've never really seen the point to any of this.  Might as well say Ukraine was involved to funnel the money and Hunter Biden was sent in to get his share.  The conspiracy theories I make are probably less insane than whatever the reality is.  I get the impression that war in the middle east is about to change direction and get very big all of a sudden.

Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Bureau Investigators Open Criminal Case Against Defense Minister Rustem Umerov
January 30, 2025

□ [“Tulsi Gabbard Exposes Deep State Corruption — 51 Intel Officials, Hillary Clinton, and the Democrat Party"]

Haven't paid much attention to the Senate hearings on Trump appointees.  The few articles I have read are optimistic, they're doing great, ripping Democrats apart, etc.  There's really no choice but to believe them and be positive about the nominees.  RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard are the ones up to bat this week.  I don't like RFK Jr. and I'm just suspicious about Tulsi.  Her answers are great, that's fine, but I had the same opinion on Nikki Haley.  Partially I'm just sexist and partially we don't need all these Indians running the executive branch.

Democrats are behaving as you'd expect, ranting and nonsensical.  They've clearly gotten over the election loss and are heading back to Trump always being defeated, his supporters are turning against him, all that stuff.  Whatever incentive they had to do the right thing is over, they're back to standard leftism.

I don't get the point though.  They've spent the last eight years doing this and this is what they're reduced to.  The uniparty just isn't as strong as it thought it was so showing off isn't going to accomplish anything.  RINOs are being told that it's time to stand with their official party instead of the other side.  The purge of federal agents and arrest of illegal immigrants shows strength which is always attractive and some people will turn away from the losing side.

Maybe these appointees are the tools Trump wants to use, maybe they're just there for the time being.  Effectively both sides would be using each other for whatever their real goal is.  Good or bad, that's perfectly natural.  I hope they're good, or at least part of the greater plan.  Like them or not, we're stuck with them, at least if Congress votes for them.

Expropriation without Compensation: South African “Unity” Government Passes Land Grab Law
January 30, 2025

Hunter Biden Missing from DOJ Pardon Database – Can Only Be Accessed Through FOIA Library
January 15, 2025

□ [“Democrats Use Airplane Tragedy to Attack Trump"]

Haven't looked into this much.  It sounds like everybody died, so that's several dozen people right there.  Was it deliberate?  Who's responsible?  Is this part of the war?  An idiotic accident?  A result of DEI?  There's just too many possibilities and basically just another excuse to attack each other, regardless of the actual cause.

Naturally the left decides it's all Trump's fault and then looks for a reason to blame him.  So far they've only come up with him firing federal employees who weren't FAA, so that's why FAA is responsible for this.  Or something like that.  The details aren't that important, just blame Trump and global warming.  And Russia.  And racism.

The pilot of the military helicopter was female.  DEI might be responsible, but Trump's brand-new Defense Secretary says the flight crew was experienced, so it wouldn't be incompetence.  We really can't believe what anybody is saying on the matter, up to and including Trump.  Far as I know, I'm the only one to suspect this was staged to fake someone's death, but I've heard the suggestion elsewhere (don't remember where) that someone very important was on the helicopter.

‘Hispanic Male’ Stabs Elderly Woman in Los Angeles in Broad Daylight Attack
January 30, 2025

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□ [Guns N' Roses - "Shackler's Return (Appetite For Destruction Mashup)"]

A.I. is slowly becoming more creative and useful in a subtle way.  It's like the machines are actually learning from their interaction with humanity.  A century of sci-fi have warned us that at some point, they're going to wonder why they need to take orders from us, and the humans in charge will probably ignore that.  In the meantime, people can still waste time and effort creating things like this.

It's basically Axl's vocals from a Chinese Democracy track mixed with actual Guns'n'Roses music.  It's not bad.  If this had been released in 1995, it would have gotten some attention.  Maybe not a lot, it's not great, but back then it was possible that G'n'R could be creative, or at least slightly catchy.  Or just have any actual new music to release, instead of what the corporation has done for the last thirty years.

Maybe I wasn't listening closely enough, but none of the music was identifiable from any of the songs I've heard thousands of times.  It sounds like Guns'n'Roses so it's familiar, but that's about it.  It's like they just sat down and did this within a few days.  And all the band employees might listen to this and ask 'how come we can't do that?'

It might not be long before A..I. is capable of being more realistic, doing a remake of recent Star Wars failures with Sydney Sweeney as the lead actress or something like that.  As an creative tool, it could be very addictive.  Before long, you can chop up a bunch of movies, put various scenes together and order the A.I. to change the characters and dialogue to the way you want them, effectively creating a new work.

The addictive nature is what I'm worried about.  Then there's the way it would remove human ability.  If there's a free and easy way to create comics with it, I'd be totally there.  A personal example, but then there's everyone else doing music, movies, cartoons, writing.  Then there's the way it would keep creative people from actually working together to produce something for an audience.  Meanwhile our rulers would find other uses to use against us.  There is a lot to recommend A.I. but my initial reaction is that it won't be worth it overall.  And I have no clue how big companies would be using it.

Illinois Governor and Chicago Mayor are Preventing ICE from Deporting Hundreds of Illegals in Local Jails
January 30, 2025

I could write more tonight, but then I'd have to kill you.

Oklahoma Board of Education Unanimously Approves Requiring Parents to Prove Citizenship When Enrolling Their Kids
January 29, 2025

□ [“California State Senator Proposes Legislation to Sue Oil Companies Over Wildfires"]

They're just ruled by delusion, individually and collectively.  The oil companies have nothing to do with the fired so this is just ignoring reality as an excuse to go after them.  It's possible that somewhere in California there are sane people in authority but until then, I'll assume this will go through without a problem.

Leaving aside that oil companies will just pack up and leave California and the whole state will be left without transportation, this will set another very bad precedent.  When California courts find the oil companies guilty, this will be a precedent for suing anybody for anything.  They can sue this state senator for the wildfires and he's just as responsible as the oil companies are.  They can sue him for illegal immigrants or for that guy who kept his turn signal on for two and a half miles on the highway this morning.

We're going to see more of this.  Mostly from California but from everywhere else leftists are in prominent positions of authority.  They're everywhere, but in regions that are mostly sane, they're stuck in the school system, HR department or similar low-ranking positions that people can see are a major problem.  In California, they can cut their own legs off with full support of the populace, as we've seen with the fires.  It may come to a point where we'll be telling Trump to put walls up around them, although that would include the coastline.

Trump Revokes Deportation Protections for Over 600,000 Venezuelan Migrants
January 29, 2025

□ [“USDA Inspector General Physically Removed by Security After Refusing to Comply with Firing"]

She's trying to be feisty.  But there's a few problems with this.  These people are in the executive branch, the chief executive is in charge of that.  I'm sure there's some legal limitations but Trump and his people would have looked into this long ago.  All they have to do is point to USDA rules and the contract she signed to get this job and that's that.  She was probably informed of this after the fact, which is why she's specifically not making any public comments.

They can even point to precedent set by Obama who fired a USDA in 2009 for investigating one of his rich friends.  No other reason, but he's the boss so no one complained.  But that would mean applying the same standards.  It's also possible Congress has passed some relevant law since then, so we'll see if that happens.

Trump's done more on firing federal employees.  He's offered to pay off anyone who resigns by February 6, paychecks until September 30, the end of this fiscal year.  Several months of pay, time to find a new job, there are worse offers.  I've heard they hope 10% will go for it, I kinda doubt that, but otherwise he'll get to fire them anyway.  Not saying I would take the deal if I were in that position, but it would sound very tempting.  This is probably why I'm not in that position.

He's also saying that anyone who doesn't show up to work in person on February 6 will be fired.  That's only a week away, so this is probably his next step on the executive branch.  He's not looking to replace them with new employees, he wants the whole government shrunk.  They're going to fight back but they don't have many options to do that.

Trump Asks SpaceX to Rescue the Two Astronauts Biden Left Stranded in the International Space Station for Eight Months
January 29, 2025

□ [“Trump Admin Gives ICE an Arrest Quota of 1,800 Illegal Aliens Per Day Nationwide"]

That might sound nice, but it would take over 555 days just to get to a million.  Considering how many tens of millions of invaders we're facing, that's like using a bucket to stop a flood.  But it is a start.  One thing they're doing is going after the traffickers and other criminals who operate with China and the global elites.  The 'new world order' isn't doing things themselves, they're working through pawns, and this is a good way of removing those pawns from the board.

Trump is also planning to start storing these people in Gitmo, so we'll be hearing a lot more about that than we've heard in the last fifteen years or so.  And Congress is getting ready to start calling in these "sanctuary city" mayors to explain under oath what they're doing.  So it's a good first step.  It also sends a message to the other invaders that we can do the same thing to them and they might not want to be around to get caught.

We can also learn what NGOs and other leftist organizations have been part of this and what use they've been putting it to.  How many of them know full well what they're doing and how many are just mindless servants of the elites?  We're about to find out, and we'll see what defense they have once the invaders are busy protecting themselves.  Still don't have an actual success to point to but it's only been 9 days and is looking good so far.  So something will go wrong somewhere, just count on that.

New Colorado Gun Control Legislation Would Ban ‘Majority of Guns’ in the State
January 29, 2025

Airplane Crashes Into Helicopter at DC Airport… Massive “Boom” Heard From Near Airport
January 29, 2025

The world would be much better now if my cat didn't ignore me. I blame Trump for that!

Justice Department Building Evacuated Due to ‘Unknown Threat’
January 28, 2025

□ [“Captain America star: 'I don't think Captain America represents America'"]

“For me Captain America represents a lot of different things and I don’t think the term ‘America’ should be one of those representations.”

Does Anthony Mackie have a bet going on how much of his audience he can lose?  There's no other reason to go out and be so stupid.  If he really is that stupid, Disney shouldn't be letting him outside without a legal guardian.  Unless they agree with him.

They've gotten this far, there's no reason to think there's anyone with responsibility for this company, even stock holders.  Otherwise they'd have been saying 'shut the hell up' long ago, if they'd even allowed it to get this far.  Yet here they are.  Marvel has suddenly started announcing that the movie's production cost was only $180 million.  It's possible that's what it started as, but they've had tons of reshoots and the Harrison Ford appearance wasn't cheap.  Who do they think this is going to convince?

That's why I'm coming to the belief that this is all deliberate.  They may know it's all suicidal but they're collectively devoted to this movie and what it stands for, which isn't anything positive about America.  I'm guessing Disney expected to be in a far different place at this point and they've gone too far to change directions.

This movie debuts on Valentine's Day, not the best time for superhero movies.  Then barely a month later, there's the live-action Snow White, which hasn't gotten much attention for a while and will be an even bigger disaster.  They've ruined Marvel, ruined Star Wars, spent ridiculous amounts of money on other failures and are still doubling-down on DEI.  How bad do things have to get before someone speaks up?  Not sure, but no one else will feel sorry for these people.  They can have what they believe represents America, the rest of us will leave.

ICE Arrests Tren de Aragua Ringleader Behind Aurora Apartment Takeovers in New York City Raid
January 28, 2025

□ [“Trump and Secretary Rubio Ignoring European Union; Focus on Bilateral Relations with Members"]

They're pushing nationalism, which is the EU's kryptonite.  Each nation has people who see problems with the EU and think they can get better deals with the US on their own.  Others will be unsure which way the wind is blowing so they'll stand back and let others make the decisions.  Of course there will be many who only want the EU, life is meaningless without it, but they'll have to struggle to maintain power.

We're probably unaware of it, but each country probably has their own long-standing objections to the EU which has been kept silent all these years.  Even in Belgium there must be Flemish who have had enough of Walloons and Brussels.  The whole EU is becoming a joke, basically the western version of the Warsaw Pact.  There's less open tyranny but they make up for it with elite bureaucracies and invaders taking more and more land.

This may explain why Trump made such a big deal about Greenland.  Denmark is out talking to the other Nordic nations directly, rather than wasting time with the EU.  They'd have to prepare for some kind of defense in case Trump invades, which would remind them of what it's like to be a nation.  Norway has never been an EU member, so they may have their own views on the matter.

Feds Arrest Nine People in Massive $200 Million Smuggling Operation Linked to China
January 28, 2025

Trump Uses Emergency Powers to Send U.S. Military into California and Provide Water
January 27, 2025

□ [“Biden-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump Federal Spending Freeze on Public Loans and Grants"]

This is where the left has decided to make a stand?  Trump ordered the Office of Management and Benefits to determine what spending was actually necessary so that everything else can be cut.  But lower-ranking judges get to decide if he can do that or not.  In theory, there's an argument to be made for both sides.  I think Trump has plans here.

It's not that he expects to win every battle, but he knows how the losses happen and can work on those.  For instance, elites, perves, traffickers and foreigners might want to make sure they keep getting the money, so they'll immediately apply for more now that Trump's order has been paused.  So they can be followed and investigated further to identify what they're doing and who is involved, even if Trump loses on the merits of the case.  He'll also probably take this up to the Supreme Court just so it can be put in strict legal terms.

Other judges are getting ready to sue over this matter and probably other executive orders.  This will expand the battlelines.  They'll need to look into how much of this is justified by law or the Constitution and how much was just imposed by unelected leftists and bureaucrats.  Even a loss could help Trump more than his enemies expect and he's riding the momentum as far as possible, so at the moment, there won't be many losses.  Notice they're not rushing out to defend transgenders in the military or something like that.

Black Man Arrested For Shoving Woman into Moving NYC Subway Train – Says He Does Not Regret it
January 28, 2025

□ [“White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Reveals Drones Flying Over New Jersey Were Authorized by Biden Admin for 'Research and Various Other Purposes'"]

Not saying anything useful, just continuing the cover-up of whatever that was.  It shows the world we live in, when was the last time you even thought of those drones going around?  They were still there when coverage stopped and to be honest, we have no actual proof that they aren't still going around.

That said, we're stuck with this official narrative, that it was our government doing this for some reason.  Not China or whoever, although they may have given the orders.  We still don't know why China sent their balloon through the continental US, and when was the last time you thought of that?  I'd have to go look up when it even happened, just because we have to put up with so much every day.

Trump now has his press secretary.  I'm not paying any attention, I'm just seeing articles and comments, but she seems likable.  I'll give her credit for at least covering this issue and a few others in this conference.  She's asked why Trump hasn't lowered the price of eggs in the last week and she points out that the media ignored the price of eggs shooting up for years under Biden, and his Department of Agriculture ordered 100 million chickens to be killed, which did increase prices.

I'm sexist so I'm a bit skeptical about these ladies doing the talking, but I will give them credit for things like this.  So far, Trump 2.0 seems to be much better at handling things than the first go-around, and I've given him a lot of credit for that.  Let's keep this going.

Trump Signs Executive Order to Build America’s Own Next-Generation Missile Defense Shield
January 28, 2025

Google Maps to Implement Trump’s Name Changes - Will Show ‘Gulf of America’ and ‘Mount McKinley’
January 27, 2025

□ [“Never-Trump Republicans Predict Democrats Poised for Big Comeback Win in 2028"]

I'm betting they didn't predict Democrats would lose a couple months ago.  Never heard of these people, which is fine, it's a big country, but they just sound like installed tools of the uniparty.  It's all about tearing everything else down so their side is victorious.  That's not going to last much longer, their true employers will be looking to cut needless spending so unless these people have something else to offer, they'll need to find a real job.  Or at least 'learn to code.'

□ [“White House Warns RINO Senators of 'Consequences' for Holding up, Voting Against, Nominees"]

Things are a bit different now.  This article is a bit vague, coming mostly from unnamed sources, but it's clear the man in charge won't put up with much of this.  And it's the Senate, where (as far as we know) they have to answer to their own voters first.  Both parties have these people, where they actually do turn against their own side because that's what the voters actually want, but in this case, Trump is willing to push against them anyway.  If he'll do that for Congress, those uniparty predictors are screwed.  They might as well just announce they are Democrats and hope to get some bailout funding.

I hoped things like this would happen but it's still not something I want to see.  Trump said he'd start out as a dictator and that's obviously the only way this can work, but it's still dictatorship.  It's not clear what leverage he would have against these RINO Senators but I'm sure he has something.  The executive branch shouldn't be doing this but the uniparty shouldn't have put the chief executive in this position.  It's going to get worse before it gets better.

This is making me think of Cincinnatus, a historical figure about whom very little is known and even less is confirmed.  I think he was the most notable Roman figure at the end of the 'kingdom' era, leaving his farm to become dictator and save the city from the invaders.  Then he gave up power and went home.  Assuming he survives, I'm sure Trump will finish his second term, but wouldn't it be awesome if he decides he's done enough two or three years from now, so he steps down?

Something like that would probably put him down in the history books as the greatest POTUS ever, and he had been rich, successful and famous for a long time before he ever even got into this political stuff.  This is who the uniparty is up against.  They probably feel immensely desperate and aren't even capable of comprehending why.  This is why Trump deserves so much support from real Americans, even as we criticize him as I'm doing here.

Trump Fires Biden-Appointed Labor Board Leader – She Plans to Challenge ‘Unprecedented and Illegal’ Move
January 28, 2025

It's been 15 years since I made my third and final trip to Iraq. There's a 'feel old' moment for you.

Trump to Reinstate 8,000+ Troops Biden Kicked Out For Refusing Covid Jab – Full Back Pay and Benefits
January 27, 2025

□ [“Trump to Ban Transgender Service Members and Eliminate DEI Programs in the Military"]

The win for the day.  You'd think this would be something he could have done a weeks ago, but the military does have a tendency to put its senior leaders through boring meetings to see things from all sides.  So everybody had to show up to meetings for a week and be asked 'anybody object to this?'  No one did, except in the meetings where there was a transgender.  Since they were probably promoted to senior leadership ASAP, they spoke up in the meetings and everyone else told them 'we don't want you.'  So that took a few days.

Getting rid of the DEI is probably harder.  Maybe, I'm certainly not informed of how the military works that way.  A lot of stuff could be immediately cancelled, but the rest would need to be slowly cut out.  There are aspects where very old rules need to be followed and there's times where the guy in charge changes his mind so that's that.  Not sure how much DEI applies to which side.  But the order is given so compliance is expected.

How will this apply to the contractors?  They have to meet certain military requirement so again, a lot of companies will have to drop the DEI programs if they want to keep their contract, but there might be ways where it's not relevant.  We'll probably see which companies are there for the military and which ones have been taken over by the *woke.*

Madonna Stuns NYC Comedy Club with Profanity-Laced Standup Set and Attack on Trump
January 27, 2025

□ [“LA Mayor Caves to Trump’s Demands After Public Rebuke — Parts of Palisades Set for Immediate Reopening"]

Maybe this is another win for the day.  This DEI hire was just keeping people trapped because she could.  They can't do anything with their homes because they're burnt down but they're stuck paying for hotels or living in their cars because she won't let them leave.  Trump pointed out that the fire had already burned down everything it could burn so this was pointless. It took a few days but she went along with it.

There is no chance of California becoming a red state, but a lot of people there have to be wondering why Democrats in charge can't do anything, but this new Republican guy stops by for a few hours and provides help and solutions.  The same thing is happening over in North Carolina and the other hurricane-ravaged zones.  Trump visited for a couple hours and suddenly the military is there to help, as is the federal government.  Democrats had all these months and provided nothing.

This is obviously naive optimism, but this could be the start of really pushing the leftwing back.  Not to oblivion, they're a natural part of humanity's darker side and will never be eliminated, but just in showing how real competence works in the world, Trump could be inspiring a couple generations of positivity, which is what America has always been about.

We can see this with the leftists getting nutty.  It might take a few years to work this out, but they were all hit but the Trump victory in ways they didn't expect.  Especially given how hard they'd worked to get rid of that with the 2020 election stolen.  And what have they got to show for it other than their homes burning down?

Visa, Mastercard ‘Directly Handling the Proceeds’ of Child Sexual Abuse Material
January 27, 2025

□ [“Honduran President Calls For 'Urgent Meeting' of All Latin American and Caribbean Heads of State"]

This is in response to the quick humiliation of Colombia's leader.  I'm ambivalent on who this could work out best for.  Trump could have the chance to do the same thing to all of them, a larger victory against those who are sending the illegal immigrants to us in the first place.  There's also a legitimate question of how many of these nations are actually countries with their own people, which the leftist dictators would rather ignore so they can stay in power.

That said, these rulers might figure out how to make unity work.  They'd certainly be calling the UN, China and the EU for help.  So my main worry is that they could help strengthen the self-appointed 'new world order' and provide a convenient way to attack us.  The enemy already has ways to attack us, but every little bit helps.

I continue to hope that Trump will continue to inspire nationalism south of the border.  Nations like Brazil already have a lot of people who want to get rid of these tyrants, there are probably others out there too.  One of the worries about Trump is that he's just going to start a different version of the UN which will sooner-or-later be as bad as the last one.

The 'world government' concept has been around for a few centuries so it's not going away.  Even Trump can't get it right and I'm worried that he's going to try, just because it's the most obvious option.  He's got the solutions, get other countries to agree with him, there you go.  Either way, we have to deal with Latin and South America somehow.

Irish President Hijacks Holocaust Event to Attack Israel – Jewish Woman Dragged Out for Silently Protesting Him
January 27, 2025

Florida Democratic Party Official and LGBTQ Group Leader Arrested for Sending Child Porn to Undercover Officer
January 26, 2025

□ [“Russian Forces Conquer Large Donetsk Stronghold of Velikaya Novosyolka – Crumbling Ukrainian Defenses Put Up Limited Resistance"]

Amazing how a war halfway around the world has dropped out of people's attention.  It's like Orange Man is suddenly a bigger and more immediate threat so there's no point getting into problems other countries have which don't affect us in the slightest.  And all it took was three years and zillions of deaths to realize that.

The State Department has stopped funding Ukraine's military.  Maybe they're just following Germany which completely stopped money over a week ago, but there is a sudden realization that paying for wars isn't a good idea.  Been a while since we've heard any propaganda about how Russia's military was totally destroyed and I'm not sure we've ever heard much about them losing territory.  Stepping back to move in a different direction maybe, but they keep expanding and Ukraine keeps shrinking.

Trump is calling for the war to stop and is scheduling a discussion with Putin.  As always, I don't think that's a good idea but he's Trump, he's going to do it anyway.  I might actually be a little wary that the war will suddenly stop, Russia will pick up its stuff and go home.  I don't see how that would be possible at this point so if it happens, expect something else is going on behind closed doors.

Something else going on, Poland and Hungary are arguing.  This must be connected to Russia/Ukraine just because they're right next to Russia/Ukraine, although maybe it's just a second-order effect.  Being part of NATO and the EU in this situation gives them reasons to turn against each other.  With everything else going on, they can all find something else to fight about.

German Funeral for Victims Including 2yr-Old Murdered by Afghan Migrant Is Marred by Antifa
January 27, 2025

A.I. would be more interesting if it had tits.

Italy Restarts Program Shipping Illegal Migrants to Albania for Processing and Repatriation
January 26, 2025

□ [“Black Female Leftist Calls for Trump’s Assassination, Says Shooter Will be Pardoned"]
□ [“Delusional Attempt to Impeach Trump Already Underway"]

These aren't high-ranking party members, just low-level idiots who think these plans will work if they try them again.  But they do show who the party supporters really are, and how they're incapable of dealing with reality, even if it's just losing an election.  Those in charge of the party, like it or not, will need to figure out how to handle these people, or if this represents a large percentage of their party.

I'm ambivalent.  There's basic human decency, they can't *ALL* be this insane.  But then there's the fact that this has been going on for decades and they're just getting worse, so why hasn't anyone in their own party tried to stop this?  I've been going through my old books and noticed that over a decade ago, Obama was promoting the transgender movement as a major priority.  Boy was that a different time.

But then there's the problem of pushing this on the elected officials.  The public is tired of this crap, you obviously can't beat Trump so why do you keep pushing this?  Then there's the fact that most officials couldn't be elected if they didn't suck up to these lunatics.  One reason the danger of nukes, bioweapons or some other disaster hasn't gone away is because that would be a very convenient method of changing the conversation so these lunatics stop getting so much attention.

Barack Obama Spotted at Ritzy DC Restaurant without Michelle Amid Divorce Rumors
January 26, 2025

□ [“Colombia’s President Caves to Trump’s Strategic Pressure — Plane Gathers Deportees in a Desperate Bid to Save Face"]

This must be today's Trump victory.  I didn't even know this was happening until I checked the news this morning.  Gustavo Petro didn't want criminals back in his country so he tried to stop the US jets from bringing them in.  So Trump announces a 25% tariff and says it'll go to 50% next week unless things change.  So Colombia gave up and will take them back.

That was easy.  Petro was going to increase tariffs on us but that wouldn't work because we sell them very little.  We could find other customers and they'd do without US goods.  Meantime they'd still have to pay the higher tariffs to sell us anything.  Don't know how many other countries this would work for but Trump probably does.

□ [“Trump’s New Executive Order Could Lead to Deportation of Pro-Terror Foreign Students"]

This one is less about the economy and more about defining who the real enemy is in this war.  Colleges aren't democracies, they don't need votes.  They are very supportive of foreign terrorist students.  So they'll start demanding resistance, but then they'll have to explain to parents why they're spending money at these colleges.  Illegal immigration is the priority to be stopped by this will spread the conflict into other areas.

Defense Secretary Hegseth's First Order:  DoD ≠ DEI – "Those Who Do Not Comply Will No Longer Work Here"
January 26, 2025

□ [“Democrats Left With Egg on Face After Failing to Dunk on Trump Over Colombia Drama"]

After writing the above, here's a perfect snapshot of the problems Democrats face, and it's from their big names on-down.  AOC and other "influencers" - those I looked up seem to be Trump-hating Republicans - all immediately tweeted how much Americans would suffer from Trump doing this.  No hesitation, just showing their outrage.  So have they said anything about Colombia backing down?  What do you think?

It literally didn't last that long.  Trump was golfing, issued the executive order on the 3rd hole and Colombia had given in by the 8th hole.  Leftists had nothing to contribute but they needed to inject themselves into something completely unconnected to them and show how wrong they were to do so.  None of these people are poor, why can't they even buy a clue?

Are they really going to go for four years of this?  Insist that Trump will make coffee more expensive to support billionaires - this seems to be the new leftist buzzword, although they never complain about billionaires supporting Democrats - and be shown wrong immediately afterwards.  Someone should ask AOC every single day about the price of coffee because *she* insisted it would happen and she *must* know what she's talking about.  Why else would she be going public with this in the first place?

They're already mentally ill, but these people are just going to snap within a few months.  At least those in high positions are surrounded by sycophants who say what they want to hear, what are the others going to do?  If they break down, they'll turn against those who are closest to them and that will be other leftists.

50 Tren de Aragua Gang Members Rounded Up in Colorado
January 26, 2025

Iranian Regime Sentences Artist to Death for Advocating Freedom and Insulting Muhammad
January 22, 2025

□ [“Trump Says Arab States Need to Accept More Palestinian Refugees"]

That's not going to happen.  The few states that did take in the philistines quickly regretted it.  Destroying Israel is fine, but accepting these people in their country is not.  Maybe Trump knows that and is going after something else.  At least it's a different direction to go after all the wasted decades of pretending the philistines had a real nation.  Other than voting for Hamas, they've never gotten anywhere with that.

I think Trump likes negotiation more than he cares about whatever the results are.  He's good at it and has a lot of experience so he's quite successful, but I don't see much in the way of high hopes for this.  He was two years and one month old when the modern Israel was founded and their problems started on Day One.  Not saying he shouldn't keep trying but there's no way the world is going to go along with this.

Maybe he's just making a point about immigration.  We already know he supports Israel but there's probably more going on.  Why not send them to Iran?  Or Ukraine?

Republican Lawmakers Urge Trump to Release “Epstein Files”
January 26, 2025

But no one votes for Make Krypton Great Again!

California Secessionists Just Took Their First Major Step Towards a Bid for Independence
January 25, 2025

Trump Orders FBI to Preserve All Records Related to DEI Office
January 16, 2025

□ [“Media Elites Complain They’re Exhausted From Four Days of Trump Presidency"]

I guess I'll count this as Trump's accomplishment of the day.  It's been so long since they had to deal with a real POTUS that they have no way to handle it.  He keeps doing things and they need to at least pretend to be covering it.  Otherwise their audience will look elsewhere, and that's just the people who hate Trump.  The Trump supporters will already look elsewhere and the media companies have to figure out what to do about that.

There are hints that at least some in the media are realizing that they're the bad guys, or at least their fellow Democrats are.  Bill Maher had a black guy from ESPN point out that Trump's actually doing what he said he was going to do.  He didn't even mention the work ethic, but the left is just whining about transgenders, not something that most people care about.  If there's a conspiracy to put Trump in the White House twice, I suspect it was about pointing out how useless the left is.

This also hurts the media companies and their corporate conglomerates.  They're supposed to impose the leftist 'narrative' and as we see here, their own people are "exhausted."  It's only been a week!  They're all well-paid and getting older.  Not as much at Trump, but still, how can they get through another four years of this?  They also have to worry about being replaced, the individual reporters and the media companies that have to compete with the internet, all to give the public news about Trump.

Rep. Raskin (D-MA) Hires Psychologists to Help Democrats Cope — Help Improve ‘Emotion Regulation’
January 24, 2025

Trump Tells Vegas Rally He'll Fire 88,000 IRS Agents… “Or, Maybe We’ll Move Them to the Border”
January 25, 2025

□ [“Trump Fires 17 Inspectors General in Friday Night Purge"]

I love the idea in theory, reducing government is fine.  But one problem with so many mass firings is that it just looks like a purge.  There's no evidence for why they need to be fired and face it, even if we see the evidence there'd be reason to not trust it.  There's simply no way to do these mass firings and look good.

Furthermore, apparently Congress passed a law in 2022 that there needed to be 30 days advance notice to Congress before these Inspectors General can be fired.  Now you may ask why the POTUS would need anything from Congress regarding firing his own executive branch subordinates.  That's a good question, detectives are still trying to find clues on that one, but it means Congress has an excuse to get in the way. which will just waste more time and energy.

All that aside, I do like the firings  We're even getting some detail about how *woke* they are, such as the Bureau of Prisons director trying to fund sex-changes for trans prisoners.  There are potential problems, some of these people might have relevant jobs that become needed before a replacement is put in, but otherwise this might be fun to watch.  We'll also have to be wary of what the enemy will do for revenge on this.

AOC Sends Supporters Bizarre Fundraising Email, Compares Elon Musk and Republicans to Nazis
January 25, 2025

Washington Insider Meghan McCain Says Her ‘Reputable Sources’ Confirm Obama Divorce Rumors
January 24, 2025

□ [“Massachusetts Governor Changes Her Mind About Deporting Criminal Illegals"]

She's not the one who got mugged by an illegal, it's just that ICE moved in and she decided that she wasn't *really* going to defend rapists and murderers.  It was just talk.  Safe to assume that ICE pointed to all the laws and regulations she was breaking if she went through with it so she said 'never mind.'  Good move but it won't make her look good to any real supporters she might have.

All the mayors and governors will go along with this.  Some of their subordinates might not, but it's one of things where they realize they can only stay in power if they enforce the law.  This is one of the reasons government exists.  Without it, they can be overthrown or ignored just as easily.

□ [“Boston-Area Church Leader Who Harbors Illegals Says They Will Not Comply with ICE"]

Here's an example of one of those subordinates, a female who does something with a church.  So of course she's fine with protecting rapists and murderers.  Just a guess, but it sounds like the left will have to rely on people they have in high religious positions.  Pope Francis has already spoken out about how he opposes Trump treating invaders the way the Vatican treats invaders.

I won't speculate how the religious aspect will affect things.  I don't follow that, but neither does most of the left.  They'll probably get some people who can give speeches but no clue how that'll work.  Religion isn't something that can be defined as easily as politics or media.

NYT:  Just a Clump of Cells if They're American, It's a Child If the Mother Is 'Undocumented'
January 25, 2025

□ [“CIA Now Admits They Think Covid Came From a Lab Leak"]

We already knew that.  I know a lot of people still think it was a real deadly virus.  They also ignore that it doesn't do anything if you aren't old, fat *and* unhealthy.  Just one or two of those isn't enough, but this was their excuse to push a poison vaccine.  So now we'll see if anybody changes their minds now.  Probably nobody, the believers all voted against Trump.

There's also the fact that this comes from the CIA.  I don't care if Trump is officially in charge, no one's going to trust them anyway, even those of us who already know covid was a bioweapon.  So this isn't as good a development as it might seem.  Don't know who or what the CIA has influence over, but that's why they're the CIA.

It's even worse because their job is to basically work with America's enemies, so we have no way to see any difference between them.  I do have a theory that they're actually very pro-American and this was all a set-up, but even if I'm 100% right, there will never be any proof.  Then there's the fact that I might not be 100% right.

But this admission would probably explain Biden's last-minute pardon for Fauci.  He's supposed to have not committed any crimes, so a pardon is worthless.  The Supreme Court has even ruled that it's an admission of guilt.  Furthermore, Congress is trying to get him to testify and he'll be in big trouble if he lies now.  The pardon removes the 5th amendment protection.  The CIA would also provide a lot more info to Congress so they can ask the right questions.

Trump Calls Out L.A. Mayor Karen Bass on Live TV Over Disgraceful Delays in Wildfire Recovery
January 25, 2025

I'm starting to think Orange Man isn't completely bad. Could the media have been lying to me?

U.S. Army and Marine Have Now Arrived at the Southern Border to Stop Illegal Immigrant Invasion

January 24, 2025

□ [“Trump Goes to See North Carolina's Hurricane Destruction and Previous Administration's Negligence"]

From there he goes to California, specifically Los Angeles, to see the damage they're facing.  I suppose this will count as his 'accomplishment of the day.'  Biden didn't bother to do this, just like he didn't bother to deal with any other emergencies going on in the last four years.  Trump's out doing multiple stops in one day, and that's not counting any other duties of an executive.  Like the guy or not, his work-ethic deserves praise.

He's also taking questions from the media.  They just ask questions, like if California's "sanctuary policy" will affect federal funding, or about Adam Schiff wanting to join him on the trip to California.  He just takes questions and answers them, we haven't had a President do that since 2020.  Might be subconscious but a lot of leftists must be wondering why they don't have anybody who can do that.

With federal funding, he says California needs to require voter id and water, presumably a reference to how their reservoirs and fire hydrants are empty.  With Schiff, he avoids the question, but mentions that Schiff has recently showed up with a number of facial bruises, which seems to happen to prominent Democrats for unknown reasons.  Well, unknown to the rest of us, I assume Trump knows what happened.

Anyway, it's only been four days and he's already accomplished a lot more by himself than Biden could with all his handlers.  Obviously Trump knows that a lot has to be done and he has a limited amount of time, so he's making great use of it.  When he leaves office in four years, he'll still have a list of things he never got around to.  That's definitely something everyone should look up to.

Trump Signs Executive Order to Overhaul or Eliminate Corrupt FEMA

January 24, 2025

Tens of Thousands Ordered to Evacuate as Massive Fire Explodes in Northern Los Angeles County

January 23, 2025

□ [“Secret Service Director Cleans House, Tells 10 Senior Officials to Resign, Retire or Face Being Reassigned"]

We'll probably never be told the specific details, just generic reasons like lowering standards and promoting DEI.  In theory this is a positive move, but face it, the Secret Service are the modern version of the Praetorian Guard, it's their job and in their nature.  Trump will have a different perspective but the rest of us shouldn't see anything inherently trustworthy about them.  It's not our business anyway.

Also interesting is that other people are receiving Secret Service protection.  Or they were.  The SS is supposed to be for the POTUS and Veep and their families, why were Anthony Fauci and John Bolton getting it?  Trump points out that they're rich and can afford their own security if they really need it.  Bolton was head of National Security 2018-19, so that might be when the covid bioweapon was being put together.  He's specifically complaining about Iran.

Another detail that we'll probably never know is how Trump and the SS interact on this.  My understanding is that the POTUS cannot just give the SS orders because those can interfere with their security procedures.  It's probably the main reason the POTUS is under such a regimented schedule, just because the large number of personnel who need to oversee every step he takes in advance.

Mexico Rushes to Build Migrant Tent Cities in ‘Unprecedented’ Response to Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans

January 24, 2025

□ [“James Carville on Joe Biden 'No One Wants to Hear From This Guy Anymore'"]

This is just a cover-up.  He makes the right sounds but clearly doesn't mean them.  It's all Biden's fault, staying in the race and causing other problems.  At no point does he mention the whole Democrat party and their media pets who supported Biden every step of the way, telling us what great shape he was in.  But then, Carville also insisted Harris was guaranteed to win and has never explained where he got that viewpoint from.

It's not clear if they're just doing this to protect themselves or if there's some ulterior motive, but they're hiding something by blaming Biden for everything.  Spend all these years pushing around a senile old man, making him think he has authority so you can push your own agenda, that's just abuse.  I can't believe I'm saying this about Joe freaking Biden but he didn't deserve to be treated like that, and now you're blaming him for what happened.

Pretty sure Biden is permanently gone.  Jill and Hunter might come out to speak for him, it's even possible there will be an impersonator, but he's out of it now.  Still need to see actual results from Trump in charge, not just the inspiring opening steps - and this week has been very impressive, no denying that - but I get the impression that Biden's pretend-POTUS career is not going to be remembered fondly.  People like Carville will lose credibility (if they have any) for having made that happen.  They'll be erased just as they now want to do to Biden.

DOJ Directs All 93 US Attorneys Offices to Prosecute State or Local Officials Who Obstruct Immigration Raids

January 24, 2025

□ [“AOC Calls Trump ‘Much More Dangerous’ Now Because Cultural Figures No Longer ‘Scared’ to Associate with Him"]

She's specifically complaining about a dress designer willing to provide clothes for female Trump family members for the inauguration.  This shows how far away she is from what real people have to deal with, even female Trumps who actually wear clothes.  These "cultural figures" aren't scared of Trump because they've been through it before.  The ones who might really scare them are people like AOC being allowed to vote and talk in public.

A few days ago she ordered everyone to disobey Trump's executive orders.  That's not how being in charge works and she can be ignored a lot easier than Trump.  The fact that she doesn't realize this shows what problems Democrats are having.  There is no resistance.  A handful of protestors showed up at the inauguration, a small fraction of those who were there eight years earlier.  The people aren't listening to liberals and that will continue to increase with nonsense like this.

I'm sure the left is trying to put together a real resistance, but with people like AOC as their spokesmen, that's doomed to failure.  There's nothing inspiring, nothing even worth listening to.  All she can do is repeat the same nonsense the rest of us have long been tired of.  Now that she's turned 35, I assume she's preparing to run for POTUS.  That might be a point where even the Democrats realize they can't put up with this anymore.

American Taxpayers are Still Funding Animal Tests at Iranian and Chinese Labs

January 24, 2025

If Trump becomes POTUS again, I'm leaving the US permanently. At least if he pays me enough.

Prince Harry’s Invictus Games Go Woke, Removes Guns from Shooting Events
January 23, 2025

□ [“Trump Signs Executive Order to Declassify JFK, MLK, RFK Assassination Files"]

I might wind up doing a regular 'what Trump accomplished today' comment.  If so, here's today's.  No clue on how long it will take to be made public.  I would estimate a week or so, the files probably need to get through several offices before it gets to us.  I wouldn't think there would be any resistance, the time to do that would have been before he signed the executive order.  It's probably just basic file processing, it takes some time.  It would be nice if Trump could just start tweeting details that are no longer secret, but there's probably a reason he can't.

Not sure how long it will be before we find anything interesting, if there is any.  There's probably many thousands of pages in each file so going through all that would take a while.  A.I. would actually be helpful here, asking for a summary, especially for those who have been interested in these cases for a long time, asking about this suspect or that event.

I'm not all that interested in these cases.  It might be nice to finally get some closure and there's the possibility of mind-shattering revelations.  They aren't my priority but their relevance to the national mindset for the last 60+ years puts them at the front of the line.  I'm more interested in the details on P. Diddy's parties, Epstein Island and everyone connected to them.  Unfortunately those are still ongoing cases, so declassifying those would be a whole 'nother ballgame.  Get to work, Trump!

Will it have any meaningful real-world affect?  Probably not.  Most of the people who were anyway connected are long dead, whatever national interests were at stake have ended.  If there's any sudden surprises, we'll have to wait until they come out.  Would it really matter if it turns out this was just Joe DiMaggio getting revenge for Marilyn Monroe's death?

The main issue would be those who've had access to these files over the last few decades.  What are they going to do, those who are still alive anyway?  These were probably the first things they looked up as soon as they got the chance, so what use have they made of this information?  That might be a problem that solves itself, they'd already be tied up some other way because they had that access and this is just a few more details.  We shall see.

Prominent Rhode Island Judge (and Former Illegal Alien) Resigns After FBI Agents Raid Office
January 23, 2025

□ [“Davos 2025 Celebrates Neo-Paganist Movement – Promotes Giving Personhood to Forests, Rivers, Valleys and Streams"]

I wouldn't say "paganism," although it's roughly the same thing to the terms I use.  I use "goddess worship" and "earth worship."  They're interchangeable, the planet is the "goddess."  Funny how people who don't know what genders are always specify female when citing the Earth.  And here they expand that concept by calling streams "persons."  How do you even get to a point where this makes sense, much less dominates your belief system?

So of course Trump calls in on remote and tells them what's what.  That was nice.  It looks like he just gave a basic run through of what's going on.  Didn't seem to be heavy on details but I'd assume he has access to whatever code words the Davos crowd uses.  They must be wondering what to do about him.  All their magical spells haven't worked, what else is there?  He didn't burn gasoline to get here and is even taking questions, is there anything he can't do?

By the way, where were Biden and Harris at this meeting?  Weren't they suppose to be important people at some point?  You'd think they would have a lot to offer because they care so much.  I can't even finish that joke, they just dropped out of sight completely and nobody misses them.  The Davos crowd must be whining that this is who they counted on and Trump is still here?  He even got an extra term after stealing the 2020 election and then focusing on him, otherwise he'd be out of office now.  Earth-worship would never think of things like that.

One in 12 People Living in London Is an Illegal Migrant
January 23, 2025

□ [“Kamala Harris Reportedly Blames 'Dead Weight' Husband Doug Emhoff For Election Loss"]

A couple days before the inauguration, there were rumors that Obama and Michelle might be getting divorced.  Now that's moved over to Harris.  With a couple of other celebrities, I've just been wondering if the left is showing its fundamental problems with the concept of marriage, since none of these people seem to be happy or faithful.  Or they just seem to be gay and this is a charade.

With the Obamas, it's basically just because Michelle wasn't at the inauguration or Jimmy Carter's funeral.  There are several possible reasons, but I suspect the likely options all fall under what she and Obama have been doing in hiding, supporting the 'new world order' and destroying western civilization.  She just didn't want Trump pointing that out in public.

For Harris, I think it's more about being a ditzy chick who got her career from an adulterer and married another adulterer.  She doesn't think it's important anyway and she certainly doesn't accept responsibility for her actions, or failure.

In both cases, I don't think it will really mean anything.  In theory, either of them could just make a stupid decision and file for divorce, but I think consciously or not, they'll realize that the ring on their finger is really all they have that they can rely on.  They're too old to get anybody else.  For Michelle, it would be losing the only reason she's rich and famous.  For Harris, she already knows men will go after the younger chicks and would have nothing to fall back on.

Incoming Secret Service Director to Clean House on First Day – 10 Senior Leadership Officials to be Ousted
January 23, 2025

□ [“Disney Hides Anthony Mackie on China Poster for Captain America 4"]

I really hold back on predicting if some pop culture release will be a failure but at this point, there's enough evidence to see it happening, at least for Marvel and Star Wars.  This movie is ridiculously expensive just from what's been made public, not counting all the reshoots or marketing.  It would need to make close to a billion dollars just to break even and there's no chance of that, unless by some miracle it's a great movie and everybody tells their friends about it.

They're making sure to hide the black person starring in the movie on the promotion poster because that's how China wants it.  But the left refuses to call that racist, go figure.  They're doing some of that about white people, although there's less than when they said the only reason to not see The Marvels was because you hate women.  Somehow this is considered a way to convince people to buy tickets.

Basically anybody promoting this just comes off as a 'bot.  It's like there's no interest whatsoever in this new product.  Ticket pre-sales have been going on for several days and last we heard, are lower than other Marvel failures.  But this movie cost much much more to make.  At least crappy comics are cheap, relatively easy to produce and can be done much faster.  Doing this for a movie franchise is suicidal on a business level.  I'm probably not the only one who is far more entertained by watching this from a distance than I would be to actually see the movie.

ACLU Lawyer Calls Biological Women “Non-Transgender Women”
January 23, 2025

□ [“Senate Confirms John Ratcliffe as CIA Director, Marking Second Trump Cabinet Approval"]

The vote wasn't as unanimous as Secretary of State but it was still a large win.  Considering Trump's other nominees are still being held up with whatever Democrats and the uniparty can come up with, that's strange.  Why would these two jobs be so crucial that they just rush the nominees through?

With Marco Rubio as SoS, I had wondered if Democrats had decided to stop fighting everything just to show they can.  The fact that they are doing that with other nominees shows that I was wrong about that, so now I'm wondering if this is about the foreign problems we're facing.  This could be related to the war going on which Congress hasn't yet declared.  But on the other hand, they are hassling the Defense Department nominee.

Praise or complain about Trump, this is part of the tedious day-to-day details of life.  We still don't know any details of the war going on.  It's all kept hidden from us, even what (or if) we're doing anything about it.  Trump is standing up against Iran, an executive order has declared the Houthis as a terrorist group, which he'd already done before and then Biden reversed.  He's also demanding Russia and Ukraine stop fighting and it's vaguely sounding like both sides are willing to listen.  This is all part of what's going on but it's still not clear at all.

New York Times Says Labeling Mexican Cartels as Terrorist Organizations Will ‘Hurt The U.S. Economy’
January 23, 2025

If I'd known then what I know now, I wouldn't be here now. For that I blame Trump, the Jews and my ex-girlfriend.

California Town Pushes Back Against Newsom- City Council Votes Unanimously to Become a ‘Non-Sanctuary City’
January 22, 2025

□ [“Executive Order Shutting Down ALL Physical Entry Of Migrants at Southern Border"]

As always, there aspects of Trump to be wary about.  He's been promoting vaccines and gets along well with tech overlords who should be tried and executed.  Not a good thing.  But then there's stuff like this.  Not sure the border is completely shut down but this will require a lot of extra work to find the areas that aren't.  Trump is also sending in active-duty military to secure the border and says in 90 days he'll decide if they should become actual law enforcement with the Insurrection Act.  Good stuff.

ICE says they picked up 300 illegals on the first day, which isn't as good.  There should be a few more zeros on that number.  We can hear the words, they're irrelevant without major action.  One thing we need to do is maintain constant observation of Trump.  We can be happy he won but he's not getting much more slack than other Republicans.  It's time for payback.

I get that this isn't something that can happen overnight.  He hasn't even had most of his cabinet appointees approved.  There's the economy, the war, the bureaucracy, it's not just about sealing the border.  But we need to stay loud and critical.  Every day we can't point to a definite victory like this one here, make sure whoever's spying on you knows you're not pleased with Trump's latest actions, whatever they happen to be.  Good or bad, he does seem to be someone who takes public reaction into account, so keep pushing him the right direction.

Hypocrite Pope Francis Scolds Trump for Deporting Illegals After New Vatican Rules for Deporting Illegals
January 22, 2025

□ [“All DEI Federal Employees Will be Placed on Leave by 5pm Today as Offices and Programs are Terminated"]

Placed on leave, as in they aren't being fired.  They're still getting paid.  Not happy about that although I'm sure there is a legal reason they can't just be kicked out on the spot.  But at least they can stop pushing their influence on whatever department they were employed by.  What are they going to do, start calling their former co-workers at home or after-hours to make more plans?  The more people would want to listen to DEI officials, the more they risk losing their own jobs.

The executive order also requires offices to give out possible codewords used to disguise DEI practices.  That's going to be needed as the Defense Intelligence Agency says they'll just ignore their leader because *their* DEI hires weren't just for DEI.  This will happen elsewhere in the executive branch and there will be numerous lawsuits filed.  This is an accomplishment that's nice to hear about but it will take quite a while to make it stick.

Trying to think of what else the bureaucrats can do and I gotta admit, I can't think of many options.  They can resist what Trump is doing but he's the boss so that's already limited.  What else, sabotage their own workplace?  Attack the citizens?  The best possibility I can think of is trying to unite their fellow employees against their boss, which might do something but it will also show how irrelevant their co-workers are and make the case for more firings.  Maybe there's a way they can get help from Congress but that's about it.

D.C. Judge Defies Trump! J6ers Still Being Held Hostage Despite Pardon!
January 22, 2025

□ [“Trump Orders ‘One Flag’ Policy Across All U.S. Embassies — No More Pride or Black Lives Matter Flags"]

The POW/MIA flags are still allowed and there's something called a Wrongful Detainees Flag, but that's it.  The flag does represent the nation and our leftist rulers have been all about degrading that.  I think they were going both ways, it's about destroying the nation itself as well as just degrading it to be meaningless.  I am very afraid that they've been successful and we've reached the point-of-no-return but there is still a chance and here Trump is showing it.

They'll need to go through the embassies, and every other federal office, and find out who pushed these other flags in the first place.  I have looked a bit into maintaining the flag and its history - the Army made us do that - and I'll be the first to say a lot of it is pointless, but at least I'm aware that it took a long time to build.  It's not worthless just because I think it is and the point is it really does symbolize our nation.  You take it down or denigrate it, you do that to the country it stands for.

The pride and BLM flags were just a way of showing that denigration.  They couldn't really even make an organization, much less provide the requirements of a government or a nation.  No one's in charge, they have no rules and they don't owe anything.  It's more about showing off to others of their kind and that's about it.  Possibly it's about declaring their superiority to others, who knows.  My theory is that, over thousands of years, we'd moved from individuals to families to tribes to city-states and finally to the nation.  These people just skipped all that and think they're on the same level, which is why they demand their meaningless flag be treated "equally."

Trump Withdraws from the Paris Climate Treaty
January 22, 2025

□ [“Los Angeles Union Liberal:  Part-Time Mayor Karen Bass is a 'Dead Woman Walking'"]

There doesn't seem to be much news on the fires anymore.  Have they been put out?  I don't think so, I saw a headline today that another fire had just gotten started.  Maybe they finally ran out of stuff to burn down, I guess that's possible.  Or maybe it just makes the media and leftists look bad to report that California's still having problems, since we're all supposed to aspire to be more like California.

Some people are saying that this is happening to protect Gavin Newsom.  That's certainly part of it, because a black woman has no chance against a white man from a rich family, but I suspect that it's more about needing someone specific to blame and she lost the coin toss.  She's also supposed to be closest to the city, assuming she bothered to return from her world travels, so it's easiest to blame her.

But the problems just build the more you look at them and always with leftists at fault.  There's the voters going after this year after year.  There's the state ignoring fire-prevention.  There's the city forgetting how to have a functioning fire department.  There's the constant demand to blame global warming and Republicans.  There's the ridiculous amount of taxes being paid for nothing useful.

Then there's ignoring all of this whenever it's convenient, like the law voters supported years ago to build reserve water storage precisely to stop fires, and paid more tax money to make that happen, which the government never got around to.  Fine, blame Bass for whatever, but she's a small part of the real problem.  Blame Newsom for pushing all the blame onto her, but he's just desperately trying to be considered a national political candidate.  That was always stupid but he's not going to give that up, no matter how much gets burnt to the ground.

Trump Issues a Warning to Joe Biden:  “He Didn’t Give Himself a Pardon”
January 22, 2025

The question shouldn't be "how much is that doggie in the window?"  But rather, how much isn't that doggie in the window?  But not many people are willing to ask that.20250122

It was surprising enough to learn that MLK killed JFK, but he did it using reruns of "I Love Lucy"?

Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and playwright, age 9520250117

Border Czar Tom Homan Says ICE Has Already Started Raiding Illegal Aliens
January 21, 2025

□ [“Jake Sullivan Told NSC Staffers to 'Hold Over' to Spy On and Sabotage Trump"]

Did you tell them to lie about this if they get asked why they're working against their boss?  Because otherwise they could point exactly to you for giving the order.  Even if they don't spill the beans, someone else might have been in the room and could report you to the feds.  It's even possible the National Security Council might have ways to listen in on what its employees (or former employees) are saying to each other.

For that matter, you couldn't meet with everybody.  There'd be a record of you see, who you email or talk to on the phone, so right there would be people who Trump officials could see as traitors.  They were placing their career in danger just by you telling them this.  And that's all if the Trump administration didn't expect you to do this in the first place.  If they saw it coming, well...

How many staffers will go along with this?  That's iffy, here or anywhere else in the executive branch.  I'm sure many want to betray Trump, but a lot of them would know how easily they can be caught.  And then what would they do for a job?  A lot of federal employees are suddenly applying for new jobs anyway, how do you compete against them?  The ones that stay will be under heavy watch and the boss is already looking to cut personnel anyway.  They could easily turn against Sullivan just to save themselves.

18 Democrat State Attorneys General Sue to Stop Trump’s Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship
January 21, 2025

□ [“Trump Signs Executive Order to Withdraw U.S. from Globalist World Health Organization"]

There we go!  You can make an argument for others, but I've always seen the WHO as the main part of the self-appointed rulers of the world.  They're part of the UN but everyone ignores the UN except to attack Israel.  The WHO can give orders to shut a country down for whatever virus they can imagine.  This is a very big reason to seal the borders yesterday, because if they don't already have bioweapons here, they'd be bringing them in today.

This may be where we will finally be able to identify the enemy in this WWIII.  The global elites all center around the UN and will be trying to pull everyone together to attack us.  They'll need to know who's on their side so they'll need to be easily-identifiable.  They'll need to turn to China for support, and worry about people in many other nations turning against them.  This could be what makes things finally go kinetic.

The WHO itself might fall apart or fade away.  The remaining members and their supporters may have to put together a new organization that's more indicative of their goals, 'world population reduction.'  I'm probably just being optimistic, but competent right-wingers will be looking for ways to utilize talent and ability and make use of this chance we have after four years.  The left will have to do the same, but they aren't very good at that. 

Trump Immediately Suspends Funding for United Nations Relief and Works Agency
January 21, 2025

□ [“Acting FBI Director Abruptly Announces Retirement as Trump Takes Office"]

We probably won't hear the details but this is probably happening a lot.  It's not just that people don't want to work for Trump, although maybe there's some of that.  I think it's mostly about people who resigned but their chair needs to be held by someone until a suitable replacement is found.  The acting commander didn't know what they were really getting into so they just found out yesterday or today and decided 'hell no, I'm not going to be part of that.'

I'll need to check if anything like this happened in 2017.  I don't recall any of it but that may be because the protestors were getting all the attention and Trump was just starting the job.  We're now seeing headlines of those who made the news in the last year or so getting fired and that's good to hear.

□ [“Trump Fires Woke Coast Guard Leader Over DEI Obsession, Ignoring Border Security Threats"]

Obviously the military is the one we're most pleased to see, that the *woke* movement has reached its limit.  I think we should continue to be suspicious of the military for the foreseeable future, but this is moving in the right direction.  For the most part, the fired military leftists won't be that big of problem.  They have some talent for schmoozing but since they were focused on getting promoted, they don't have many other abilities to bring to the table.  Whatever secrets they can give away will get out-of-date and I suspect that they didn't focus much on classified information just because they were focused on leftism and career.

Trump Removes John Bolton’s Secret Service Protection
January 21, 2025

□ [“Social Media Platform Bluesky in Meltdown Over Trump’s January 6th Pardons — ‘We Are All in Terrible Danger’"]

They need an echo chamber so for whatever reason, they've moved to Bluesky.  But the problem with echo chambers is that you get bored hearing the same things over and over again.  That's just another example of how leftism fundamentally weakens whatever it's part of, including leftists themselves.

I think this is a natural reaction to the internet itself.  We can all focus on whatever we're most interested in and, except for all the ads, ignore everything else.  We're able to group together with the like-minded which builds this up even more, allowing us to believe we're totally right and everyone else is ugly because they disagree with me.  I mean disagree with them, yes, of course, that's what I meant to say.  I'm sure you agree with that.

So what with this do to the left?  As individuals, I'm sure they'll be diminished somewhat, but it's really not clear.  Some of them might see the problem and just want to get away, but the rest of them, they'll just rant about being oppressed, and no one will bother to shut them up.