Jamelle Bouie has a take that the Trump Administration may be secretly hoping that when ICE bursts into a house for an illegal arrest that somebody will shoot and kill the ICE officer. Despite the illegal arrest attempt, they hope to spin it for political advantage.

The depth of Dumb in the maga Speaker of the House continues fo amaze…

Trump is saying he won’t use force to take Greenland. The world shouldn’t believe him. Not only because it’s possible he’s lying, but because also he may not know what he might do—and we don’t either.

World leaders at Davos should know: Trying to figure Trump out is a waste of time. He’s a bully for its own sake. Otherwise he’s full of shit.

Hmm…I’m getting hints on youtube that China’s *analog* approach to building computers is going to catch fire. That’s interesting. Not that I necessarily like the idea, but it seems to me that analog computers might have the possibility of allowing for real consciousness.

As a retiree, I enjoy week days rather more than I used to do. Weekends are by comparison a bit more stale. I find I do tend to enjoy Sundays a tad more than Saturdays b/c, it seems to me, more bad news about Trump’s prospects seems to come out…

Reportedly in his fundraising pitch, Trump asks for donations to sustain the “maga movement.” I wonder if the rank-and-file Trump supporters actually think of themselves as a movement—rather than as “just folks.”But I guess they might find “maga movement” as a vaguely flattering descriptor.

Apparently to get a sound out of my $40 erhu, I need a special soft rosin. I have ordered such from Singapore. Then maybe I can at least play the open string A and D. I honestly believe this will happen.

I note that the news videos put out by the Times of India seems to have a subtle but consistent pro Russia slant. That often takes the form of dwelling on the putative military difficulties of Ukraine and the supposed power of Russian military might.

One year in and Donald Trump is close to having rendered the US a pariah nation, heading toward the Afghanistan zone…

Who?

Yes. First reporter who gets dressed down by Leavitt after asking a good question replies to her, “You’re full of shit” gets one too…

If Trump destroys NATO by attempting to annex Greenland/Canada/ever, wd the Congressional Republicans impeach and convict him then? How many civilian deaths ar the hands of ICE are acceptable to them?

Locked and secret as possible…Whew!

I believe that Trump & several members of his cabinet are trying to provoke and hoping for murders of ICE agents, preferably in disparate locations, so they can have a pretext for declaring martial law…

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WIP-Impression of the vast, deep (and secret) coolness of Droopy Dawg…

Who knew? (Anybody conscious..)

1/Kamala Harris was right. On October 29, 2024, she told a crowd: “Donald Trump would walk into that office with an enemies list…Donald Trump intends to use the United States military against American citizens who simply disagree with him.” joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

The Republican party is afflicted with a case of egoistic cynicism. They were largely that way before Trump, but now it’s likely terminal, thanks to him.

It’s almost as if Trump is threatening war with Europe, Canada, Columbia, Cuba, Iran, Mexico and, gosh, maybe even Putin. Oh. And Syria, Nigeria and Minneapolis.

But what if you are a chronic skeptic?

100% this!👇

Earworm DJ has the Internationale on loop…

Things are getting really dark out here, the algo on another site just fed me this

One ironic cunning of history (as Hegel more or less put it) is the possibility that Trump willy nilly actually helps regime change in Iran—assuming the new regime is better and manages to keep adequate control of its resources.

Potato dreaming of ancestral himeland in Andes

Weighing benefits of becoming mezozoic

Impending joy of spring, calculation

Quiltwork kitty

Evolving bird

Working monk

The incident in which Jonathan Ross was injured last June left me unconvinced his actions were appropriate even then-let alone his murder of Holly Renee Good a couple of days ago…

ICE mf-ers have murdered a poet.

Yes. Every bomb dropped is gender affirming care for hegseth and trump.

I’m no lawyer but the evedence for the charges against Maduro seem pretty contestable. “Narcoterrorism” seems like a journalistic epithet. “Possession of machine guns” and the like seem like US might not have jurisdiction. But if so, where’s the NRA affirming his 2A rights?

Interesting that Trump rejected the idea of installing Machado to run the country—saying she did not have the “respect” of the country. Makes me consider she might be a bona fide democrat after all & her pro-Trump remarks were perhaps out of naivete-or maybe just a bit of realpolitik…or both.

So grateful to Yesterday Self for setting up the coffeemaker last night.

I’m thinking Canada and Greenland/Denmark should be looking at strong alliances with Mexico and all other arguably democratic countries in Central and South America…

Trump is such a lying piece of shit.

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Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”

Maduro has received a lot of bad press and reportedly the country has been in dire economic straits the past decade. I wonder why. I suspect there’s more to the story than Maduro simply being a bad guy.

Let us not forget the Epstein files. Our war criminal President may well be, minimally, complicit in widespread pedophilia also.

Is Cuba next? There’s a misery for everybody. I don’t want to think about it. But we should give the Trump regime so much blowback he won’t want to do it.

Breath-taking stupidity by DJT. And he has the nuke codes. Hope we can rid ourselves of this meddlesome prick soon.

Are there unredacted Epstein files on YouTube yet?

I yearn for a visible epic fail for Trump and Trumpism with no collateral damage. Well, a body can dream…

Our old dog Clio is as bad as our cats for wanting to go in snd out—actually worse. The cats generally go in or out opportunistically when somebody is opening the door any way. Life is so hard…