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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Tuesday, May 1, 1945. German radio reports Hitler dead.
What's up with duck bill lip thing?
A seemingly inordinate number of Trump female member of the court have this going on, and its hideous.
At the same time, it might be noted, you seemingly don't see women in the Trump orbit who look, um, normal for their age or roles. Pam Bondi, it's been noted, is 59, and is either a really well preserved 59, or has had some surgical assistance. Karoline Leavitt, who comes across as a twit, is the youngest Presidential press secretary ever at age 27 and is closer in age to her infant child than her husband. Twentyseven is pretty young for such a job. Her predecessor, Karine Jean-Pierre, was in her late 40s during Biden's term in office.
Just sayin'
Stop avoiding change because it's 'uncomfortable,' says Melinda French Gates—her tactic for being resilient in tough moments
It's just my guess, but I'm thinking this advice is easier to adhere to if you are a billionaire.
The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List.
What we’ve done in our politics is create a situation where we’re electing idiots.
Liz Cheney
Section 1
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Section 2
Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Section 3
Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
Section 4
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
January 7, 2025.
Trump calls in and Junior puts him on speaker (in Greenland). He says we need to take over Greenland because there are “ships sailing around and they’re not the right ships.”
Ron Filipkowski
We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Reporter: Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of Greenland and the Panama Canal, you are not going to use military or economic coercion?Trump: No.. I can’t assure you on either of those two.
And:
The windmills are driving the whales crazy. Obviously.
Trump also stated he'd use "economic force" to compel Canada to become a 51st state.
And:
It's called rain. It comes down from heaven. And they want to do no water comes out of the shower. It goes drip drip drip ... you can have all the water you want. It makes no difference.
And, he claimed at his press conference that Hezbollah was at the January 6 riots.
January 14, 2025
Because creating a new agency obviously makes sense:
January 16, 2025He (Kim Jong Un) liked me, I liked him. We got along very well…I think he has tremendous condo capability. He's got a lot of shoreline.January 23, 2025
Half pipes. You see 'em all the time. Half pipes. People live in those half pipes now. You know, they have homeless living in those halftype
and;
The head of a country that lives in forest. A number of them, actually. Finland told me this. Austria told me this. The head of Austria, the head of Finland. And it was beautiful they way they expressed it. They said, 'We live in a forest. We are a forest nation.'
and;
We're gonna be demanding respect from other nations. Canada, we have a tremendous deficit with Canada. We're not gonna have that anymore. As you probably know, I say you can always become a state. If you're a state, we won't have a deficit, we won't have to tariff you.
and;
REPORTER: You would agree it's never acceptable to assault police officers?
TRUMP: Sure
REPORTER: Among those you pardoned is a guy who used a stun gun on a police officer. Why does he deserve a pardon?
TRUMP: Well, I don't know
January 25, 2025
I'm signing an executive order to open up the pumps and valves in the north. We want to get that water pouring down here as quickly as possible ... you're talking about unlimited water coming up from the Pacific Northwest, even coming from parts of Canada.
Um. .. there aren't any such valves. This is pure batshit crazy.
In any normal time, this would send Donny to the retirement home. It's completely nuts.
Also, fwiw, water flows from the Continental Divide, west. Not from north to south.
cont:
We may be a very substantially enlarged country in the not too distant— Isn't it nice to see -- for years, decades, we’re the same size to the square-foot, probably got smaller actually but we might be an enlarged country pretty soon.
I actually figure at this point there's a good chance he's going to order the military to invade Canada.
January 26, 2025
Okay, there is now this by the person who (illegitimately and illegally) claims to be the head of the most powerful nation on Earth.
No serious nation does this. The man is a dangerous fool.
25th Amendment.
Section 4
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Of course, this is aimed at the American public, with the presumption that being a mob tough guy is cute or admirable, rather than this depiction being childish and repressible.
The American public may disagree, in which case, truly, it has become childish.
When we are past this era, and it won't be soon enough, the long lasting American anti intellectual streak in the culture has to end. Yes, some people really are smarter than other. No, collective widom doesn't trump intellect. People need to get educated.
January 29, 2025
We identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas. And you know what's happened to them? They've used them as a method of making bombs.
We didn't appropriate $50M for condoms for Hamas.
Truly, this is rather weird, even for Donald Trump, and some people will believe it, which is pathetic.
January 30, 2024
A helicopter/aircraft collision occurred last night near Washington D.C. The helicopter was a Blackhawk, and therefore a military helicopter.
Trump took to social media:
Let's face it. Trump is simply stupid. The nation has elected a wealthy, dimwitted, vengeful, ignoramus.
January 31, 2024
This is simply surreal:
This one is shameful beyond all measure:
This is, frankly, shameful in the extreme:
Trump is pitting people against each other on racist grounds. He's an embarrassment to the country.
It's worth watching when it's signed. Trump has the appearance of a profoundly stupid man.
On his appearance, his physical condition is rather obviously declining quite rapidly. He can no longer hide that he's bald and his hair is white. The orange tan stuff, which was always disgusting, isn't working.
Latest babble:
February 5, 2025
Trump proposed the Gazans be cleared out of Gaza and given new land, and the existing area become a real estate development belonging to the United States.
This came in a conference with Prime Minister Netanyahu, who pretty clearly thinks Trump is nuts.
If the Gazans could be resettled in a viable location, which won't happen, it would address much of their problems. The US then owning Gaza as a sort of Levantine Club Med is bat shit crazy, however.
Trump claimed Middle Eastern leaders thought this was a great idea, which they immediately denied. It's pretty clear the major Middle Eastern powers also regard Trump as a lunatic.
This does provide, however, a real insight into his senile way of thinking. Trump, a real estate developer who really has nothing else to his credit, and lacks any moral character, thinks the whole world is just one big real estate developer. Essentially he's a collision of amorality, senility, and capitalism.
February 23, 2025
February 24, 2025
King Donny appointed right-wing conspiracy theorist commentator Dan Bongino as deputy director of the FBI.
Okay, at this, point, this has reached the mornic level.
March 8, 2025
This is twice in a week where a cabinet officer suddenly acted independently in front of King Donny.
25th Amendment. . .
April 16, 2025
From I Could Be Wrong
April 18, 2025
The Congo in Africa. Many, many people come from the Congo. I don’t know what that is, but they came from the Congo.
Donald Trump, in a press conference with Giorgia Meloni.
My guess is the following set of photographs might be copyrighted, as I don't know who took them, but I'm posting them under the fair use exception for what they illustrate.
Meloni is exactly the sort of right wing populist leader MAGA people claim they want. She's genuinely a far right politician, but not a babbling vengeful incoherent old guy. Her expressions, and she's notoriously expressive, say it all. She can hardly stand being there.
cont:
WOMAN: It's an ice fishery, and it's been around since the early 1900s
TRUMP: So it's been around for millions of years
cont:
It's all about slavery and if you look at it that way, we should win that case.
Donald Trump on birthright citizenship.
April 19, 2025
While this thread is focus on Donald Trump, we can't help but note that Lauren Boebert stated Wall Street "is full of Communists selling their stock to hurt President Trump".
Truly, Republicans ought to really stop and think. That's amazingly stupid.
And then we have White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt who comes across as a total ditz. In her defense, her job is shoveling shit, but none the less.
April 20, 2025
Mad King Donny's admin launched a politicized COVID 19 site yesterday.
April 21, 2025
Trump's social media Easter post.
Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country. Happy Easter also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue, an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten! Sleepy Joe Biden purposefully allowed Millions of CRIMINALS to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, through an Open Borders Policy that will go down in history as the single most calamitous act ever perpetrated upon America. He was, by far, our WORST and most Incompetent President, a man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing -- But to him, and to the person that ran and manipulated the Auto Pen (perhaps our REAL President!), and to all of the people who CHEATED in the 2020 Presidential Election in order to get this highly destructive Moron Elected, I wish you, with great love, sincerity, and affection, a very Happy Easter!!! From Donald Trump Truth Social 04/20/25 08:46 AM
This is extremely weird and ought to be evidence enough that Trump isn't well, and should be removed immediately.
April 22, 2025
Rumors are circulating that Pete Hegseth is about to be booted for a second texting war plans scandal.
April 23, 2025
You know, the cost of eggs have come down like 93, 94% since we took office. They are pretty much normally price now.
Donald Trump.
This is a complete lie. And its such an absurd lie, that it once again raises questions about the sanity of the person saying it.
April 26, 2025
There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days. It makes me think that maybe he doesn't want to stop the war, he's just tapping me along.
Donald Trump.
April 29, 2025
With approval ratings taking, and this before the tariffs have even hit, King Donny is having a fit, and blaming the "fake news media".
April 29, 2025
Reporter: Who do you want to be the next Pope?
Trump: “I'd like to be Pope. That'd be my number one choice.”
April 30, 2025
I suppose this is supposed to be a joke, but it's really insulting.
May 1,2025
Trump, in an interview with Stephen Smith, a black reporter, about Harvard:
We had riots in Harlem and frankly if you look at what's gone on and people from Harlem went up and they protested, Stephen, and they protested very strongly against Harvard, uh, they happened to be on my side. ... I got a very high Black vote.
Uff.
Yesterday, a cabinet meeting was held which turned out to be a praise session of sycophants, with Pam Bondi's praise, claiming Trump had saved the lives of over 250,000,000 Americans the most bizarre and extreme.
The entire cabinet is basically nuts.
And so, after 100 horrific days, we'll make that the fitting close to the first installment of this 25th Amendment Watch List.
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"The President of the United States of America is at war with the Constitution and the rule of law."
Nativism is no virtue
Nativism is no virtue: A birth certificate stamped Wyoming doesn't qualify as authority or expertise, guest columnist Marion Yoder writes.
This is no doubt true, but I have to note that I'm very nativist myself.
What Yoder didn't note, interestingly, is that a lot of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, indeed, most of it, is made up of imports.
Wednesday, April 30, 1975. The Fall of Saigon.
Saigon fell to the NVA.
Gen. Dũng received orders from the Politburo to attack and take Saigon, which was surrounded except on approaches from the sea. Early in the morning NVA sappers tried to take the Newport Bridge but were repulsed by ARVN Airborne. An armored battle ensued, holding the bridge.
NVA armor then attacked Tan Son Nhut, which was defended by ARVN Rangers. An armored battle ensued there as well. A pitch battle broke out, but the NVA overcame the ARVN.
At 10:24 South Vietnamese President Minh surrendered unconditionally, although the ARVN continued to fight at the Newport Bridge, unaware of the surrender. They stopped fighting upon learning of the surrender.
The surrender was announced to the nation at 2:30.
I, General Duong Van Minh, president of the Saigon administration, appeal to the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam to laydown their arms and surrender unconditionally to the forces of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam. Furthermore, I declare that the Saigon government is completely dissolved at all levels. From the Central government to the local governments must be handed over to the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam.
Duong Van Minh on the transcript written by Bùi Văn Tùng
This was followed by:
We, the representatives for the forces of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam, solemnly declare that the City of Saigon was completely liberated. We accepted the unconditional surrender of General Dương Văn Minh, the president of the Saigon administration.
Bùi Văn Tùng.
In the Mekong Delta, the ARVN actually fought on for a day thereafter. Upon learning of the unconditional surrendered, they abandoned the ARVN or surrendered to VC forces that they outnumbered.
ARVN generals Le Van Hung, 42, Tran Van Hai, 50, Le Nguyen Vy, 42, and Pham Van Phu, 46, committed suicide.
Brig Gen. Pham Duy Tat, the ARVN officer known for his hopelessly naive cheerful attitude in Ken Burn's documentary on the Vietnam War, survived but would serve 17 years in a Communist reeducation camp. Upon being released, he relocated to the United States, passing away in 2019.
ARVN generals, Le Van Hung, Tran Van Hai, Le Nguyen Vy, and Pham Van Phu, committed suicide.
Operation Frequent Wind concluded.
Over 7,000 people were evacuated.
Monday, April 30, 1945. Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
The man responsible for the deaths of millions in Europe, Adolf Hitler committed suicide with a .32 ACP PPK. His wife of one day, Eva Braun, also killed herself. Both deaths occurred around 3.30 p.m..
Their bodies were taken outside of the bunker, liberally doused with gasoline, and burned in a pit.
The Red Army was less than 500m from the Führerbunker. Soviet troops reached the Reichstag.
Karl Dönitz and Joseph Goebbels took on Hitler's former roles as Head of State and Head of Government of Germany in accordance with his wishes.
Such was the engine of the German state that, even though the Nazis would never have come to power without Hitler, and the war would never have occurred without Hitler, the war nonetheless continued on without him.
The Battle of Bautzen ended in a localized German victory.
The U-879, U-1107 and U-326 were all sunk.
Actors Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida were killed by Italian partisans due to their links to fascism.
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Sunday, April 29, 1945. Dachau.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Tuesday, April 29, 1975. The start of Operation Frequent Wind.
The order was given to carry out Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Americans and some South Vietnamese from the country.
Monday, April 28, 2025
Sunday, April 29, 1945. Dachau.
U.S. troops liberated Dachau. In outrage over what they discovered, some SS Guards were executed along with the camp commandant.
Hitler married Eva Braun, his long time mistress.
Braun had been in a relationship with Hitler for a long time. She was a photographer by picked up trade and relatively young when she met Hitler. She had already attempted suicide twice in her relationship with the dictator by this point in time.
Braun's family survived the war. Her mother Franziska, died aged 91 in January 1976. Her father, Fritz, died in 1964. Her sister Gretl, left a widow by the execution of Fegelein, gave birth to a daughte on May 5 1945 and later married Kurt Beringhoff, a businessman. She died in 1987. Braun's elder sister was not part of the Hitler inner cricle and Ilse died in 1979.
Hitler's German Shepard Blondi was given cyanide capsules as a test of their lethality and died.
Germans signed the terms of surrender in Italy and Austria which provided that the fighting would end on May 2. This effected the surrender of 1,000,000 Axis troops.
The Battle of Collecchio ended in Allied victory.
SS Obergruppenführer Matthias Kleinheisterkamp committed suicide after being captured by Soviet troops.
Italian fascist Achille Starace was killed by Italian partisans.
The Allies began dropping food to the people of the Netherlands:
29 April 1945
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Saturday, April 28, 1945. The fate of the fascists.
More proof I'm culturally clueless.
Me: "Why is her album called Cowboy Carter?"
Long Suffering Spouse: "Because her last name is Carter.".
Me: "I had no idea".
Also, she's not country, and I don't even like country.
Monday, April 28, 1975. Ordering the ARVN to hold on.
U.S Consul Francis Terry McNamara met with ARVN Major General Nguyễn Khoa Nam about the plans to evacuate U.S consulate employees, some American civilians and some Vietnamese employees by boat. General Nam didn't want any members of the ARVN to be included, so they could remain and fight.
A North Vietnamese air raid on Tan Son Nhut Air Base caused half of the fixed winged aircraft to be evacuated from the air base.
The RVNAF launched a helicopter attack on VC troops who were attempting to occupy the Newport Bridge, which was followed by a ground attack.
President Dương Văn Minh made an inaugural speech about the struggle of the South Vietnam military and finding ways for the peace to end the war. He ordered the ARVN to hold all remaining ground and urged the South Vietnamese to stay in the country pending a ceasefire which he promised would keep South Vietnam separate from the north.
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Sunday, April 27, 1975. Big Minh takes charge.
Saturday, April 28, 1945. The fate of the fascists.
From Uncle Mike:
April 28-30, 1945: The Ends of the Dictators
Mike is covering two fateful days ine one post, April 28, when Mussolini was executed by Italian Partisans, and April 30, when Hitler killed himself. In both instances they took a "significant other" with them, in Mussolini's case, that being his current mistress, Clara Petacci, age 33.
Mussolini and Petacci had been caught trying to cross into Switzerland by partisans, who executed them the following day. They were shot, and then their bodies hung upside down.
Mussolini had been the first of the fascist dictators to hold power. There had always been opposition to the one time socialist turned fascist, but armed Italian opposition only came about after the Allies had landed on Italian territory. As with France, whose resistance swelled as it became obvious that the Allies would land, Italian opposition was heavily dominated by the far left, but there were other elements in it as well. Mussolini, as already noted, had once been a member of the far left as well, and it's probable, frankly, that amongst those who watched and cheered his death were those who had once cheered him.
Often missed, Nicola Bombacci, Alessandro Pavolini and Achille Starace were also executed at the same time. Nicola Bombacci was an Italian Marxist revolutionary and later a fascist politician. The others were prominent fascists.
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Novemdiales
We, or at least the Apostolic Christian world, is in the Novemdiales, that being a nine day period of mourning which commenced yesterday, with the funeral Mass for Pope Francis.
The whole world is also in the period of rampaging inaccurate punditry about who will be the next Pope.
Nobody knows who is going to be the next Pope. It could be one of the people mentioned, or might be somebody nobody has ever heard of. Even if it is somebody nobody has every heard of, the Press will pretend like they've heard of him after the fact.
It's also a series of days in which anti Catholics will increasingly attack the Catholic Church, with those attacks being particularly strong in the United States, and particularly coming from both secular atheists and a certain branch of Evangelical Protestants, although certainly not all of them by any means. I've already seen one such post loudly complaining that the whole world takes note of a passing Pope while the death of a local pastor is ignored.
Well, there's a reason for that.
The speculation will continue until the shoes of the fisherman are filled, and his seat taken. During the interregnum the speculation will be rampant, and it will be for a time thereafter as well.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
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Sunday, April 27, 1975. Big Minh takes charge.
Duong Van Minh, "Big Minh" was unanimously elected as President of South Vietnam by the South Vietnamese National Assembly, and authorized to negotiate a peace agreement with the Viet Cong and with North Vietnam. "
Tran Van Huong refused to step aside as President, however.
A career Army office, Minh had joined the French Army early in World War Two and had been captured by the Japanese. He subsequently joined the French supported Vietnamese National Army and became aprionser of the Viet Minh. After the Paris Peace Accords he's advocated for Vietnam to be reunited as neither a right wing or Communist nation. He was regarded as a friendly South Vietnamese politician by the Communists and therefore was allowed to return to his villa after the South Vietnamese surrender, which he orchestrated. In 1983 he moved to France, and then in 1988 to the US. He remained silent about the war after the 1975 surrender.
He died in 2001, unlamented by the Vietnamese diaspora, who blamed him for the South Vietnamese surrender.
The NVA took Nam Yet Island, Ba Ria Town, and the entire Phuoc Tuy Province.
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