I think I can understand Pete Hegseth's kink. Dudes in dresses are hot! Credit: 2krispii

Trump is out to kill the dollar. It's hard to imagine a different monetary order, The Fed not being the world's central bank. And yet, the Arabs invented Algebra and were once the world's premier scientists. "Algorithm" is mispronounced "Al-Khwarizmi," the guy who developed computational math.

In the Vietnamese creation myth, a dragon prince met a bird princess on a land already inhabited by people. They got married and gave birth to a hundred eggs that hatched into a hundred sons. Eventually they parted, amicably, and the sons became leaders of the Vietnamese tribes. 1/

In other words, I'm not sorry for what I did, I'm sorry it came out. It makes me sick how many people were part of Epstein's circus, and how many more would have wanted to be. I'm sick that I probably interact with many who self-present as upstanding, not knowing how gross they really are.

"Art of the Deal"

Tear gas is so bad, it's prohibited by the Geneva Convention. The US military is not allowed to deploy it against enemy combatants in actual warfare. But somehow it's legal in the US. Congress and states need to legislate this now.

I wrote yesterday about Kevin Warsh, saying what everyone who really follows monetary debates knows: he's a bullshitter who uses big words to make incoherent arguments that always amount to stimulus for Republicans, austerity for Dems 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-bad-heir...

So, impeach, yes?

It used to be that journalists would have to travel all the way to Iraq to get kidnapped and sentenced for their profession. And government were the people who deployed hostage negotiators to get them back.

Trump loots $10b directly from US taxpayers in his first year. That's equivalent to drawing a salary of $40 million every single work day, whether he works or golfs.

Trump is a giant child pressing all the buttons on the economy like a toy box to see what will win him the next election. Raise tariff to cut income tax, but inflation goes up, oops. Replace Fed Chair to bring down interest, but dollar tanks, oops. Go to war for popularity, markets go down, oops.

I miss the good old days when Customs and Border Protection were the guys fining you $50 for bringing meat snacks into the country.

It is insane that three weeks after the murder of Renee Nicole Good, we haven't heard anything yet about an investigation, by *anyone*, into her murder. Why the fuck aren't Kristi Noem and Kash Patel hauled in front of multiple Congressional committees to testify under oath?

ICE tackled Alex Pretti and broke his rib (for peaceful patrolling) a week before murdering him. He was known to ICE by name. ICE is building a database of peaceful protestors and labeling them as terrorists. Everyone in the ICE command chain, all the way to the top, must be held accountable.

What is ICE doing at the Winter Olympics in Milan? Preventing American athletes from defecting?

This. "Free speech" is for speaking truth to power. Not for spreading hate and fascist propaganda. Shut X down. Don't buy a Tesla. Cancel contracts with SpaceX. He's not a Nazi. He's *the* Nazi. Backed by the valuation of his companies, which you're contributing to if you use his products.

Any elected politician, Democrat or Republican, not putting out a statement, is not qualified for office. This is the minimum, basic, sane position. Remember when people were getting fired because they weren't mourning *Charlie Kirk* enough?

TIL that the mafia puts extortion in writing, on company letterhead. Blah blah we'll execute your residents until your governor surrenders citizens' right to vote blah blah.

ICE runs recruitment campaigns to attract the worst of the worst. They hate the things that make good people good people. It's why they are killing the best of us. Be extremely careful out there.

Renee Good was murdered by an agent who's been working for ICE for 10 years. Alex Pretti by an agent who's been working for Border Patrol for 8 years. ICE / Border Patrol have been awful to immigrants this whole time. We're just now finding out because Trump turns them onto American citizens.

The safest thing for any American civilian to do at this point is to assume that every ICE or CBP agent you encounter is a pardoned violent January 6 insurrectionist with demonstrated homicidal urges toward those they disagree with politically and choose your actions accordingly.

The statement from Alex Pretti’s parents is just “tell the government to stop telling smirking, transparent lies about why it killed our son” which feels like a new low for our nation. This president and his toadies have brought us to our knees and must be driven out

ICE murdered Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse working for Veteran Affairs, who was doing everything right. ICE are the domestic terrorists everyone's looking for. They should not be believed, funded, or negotiated with.

Kill the people. Take the land. Develop it, with no input from or respect whatsoever for the people the land belongs to. See nothing wrong. The Trump-Kushner way.

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

Other presidents actually being able to sell merch must really piss Trump off.

Trump continues to double down on NATO not coming to the aid of the US. As if people weren't alive to see coffins coming back at the time. What help does Trump want from NATO now? Invading Venezuela? Invading Minneapolis with NATO soldiers?

TL;DR: I, DJT, in my personal capacity, is chairman for life and makes all decisions. You all just pay in. What for? Doesn't say. There's no mission statement. Gaza isn't mentioned. US isn't a member. It's organized crime fan fiction. I guess BoP is for taking bribes and funding international ICE.

NEW: DHS appropriations bill funding ICE passes 220-207 7 Democrats voted YES on the bill: - Jared Golden - Marie Gluesenkamp Perez - Henry Cuellar - Tom Suozzi - Laura Gillen - Don Davis - Vicente Gonzalez One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie

Donald Trump: the most disapproved president ever. Disapproved like never before! Just what's wrong with white men?

The Evil King is out picking on all the townspeople all at once. Methinks it's not going to end well for him.

Anyone drawing a taxpayer-funded salary who's still acting business as usual is a traitor. Caesar himself got stabbed for this.

This is the song that never ends. It just goes on and on, my friends.

Kidnapping and using child soldiers as young as five 😡

BREAKING: Israel has bulldozed the UNRWA HQ in Jerusalem after uncovering undeniable evidence that it was providing humanitarian assistance to Palestinians x

If anyone wonders why Trump said he won't use force to take Greenland at Davos, it's because the stock markets tanked bigly yesterday.

When I was in middle school, some girl came to me and said she needed my boyfriend more and wouldn't give up on that argument. Not even after I asked if he even had a choice. "We need Greenland for our national security" is making me think of that.

Listening to Trump live from Davos. Why does he talk like he's competing in Miss Universe? Totally explains his obsession with world peace and Venezuela. Can we, like Miss Universe, limit his speeches to 30 seconds?

A new world order, eh?

Trump says no one wants Macron on the "Board of Peace" because he will be out of office in 2 years. Does that mean the people invited are there as individuals and not representatives of their countries? A new global cabal? Tony Blair represents no one.

(To the tune of We Wish You a Merry Christmas) We wake up and threaten Greenland We won't read briefs, don't do plans We yell at Denmark and Norway, "They are unfair to me!" We'll take it with force, or buy it with debt We'll invoice the children And blame it on The Fed!

If only I could threaten all my creditors with death and taking over their properties and still be able to borrow money from them at 4.625%.

I knew I had become British this year when a guy bumped into me on the tube and *I* apologized to him. People who rob you will say, give me your phone, please. Trust me. Keir Starmer saying tariffing Europeans is "completely wrong" is a really big deal.

In today's reality show, we wait with bated breath to see whether the 1,500 troops put on standby will deploy to Minneapolis or Greenland. Seriously, whichever checks and balances that are still left, please shut this shit down.

What do you call the state of mind / state of the world where you can't tell whether you're reading The Wall Street Journal or The Onion?

Donald Trump is not the problem. He was the solution to the problem. The US had not had a proper reckoning with the end of slavery and now the entire world is paying for it. Donald Trump is just one dumbass. It's normal Americans I fear.

Remember that mortgage fraud Trump accused Lisa Cook and Letitia James of? He knows about it because he commits it. He's mad at Pam Bondi for not getting convictions, because he cannot believe other people don't commit fraud like he does. What, applying for mortgages without lying? Impossible!