This is what happens when a dumb, paranoid, amendment to the Constitution is made.
Showing posts with label 2026. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2026. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Abortion in Wyoming and the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Abortion remains legal in Wyoming after state high court strikes down bans
Abortion remains legal in Wyoming after state high court strikes down bans: Wyoming Supreme Court rules two bans passed by state lawmakers are unconstitutional.
Abortion-rights advocates cheer Wyoming Supreme Court ruling; opponents plan constitutional amendment
Abortion-rights advocates cheer Wyoming Supreme Court ruling; opponents plan constitutional amendment: Governor calls for a rehearing and urges lawmakers to draft a constitutional amendment to let Wyoming voters settle the matter.
Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 1. The reap what you sow edition.
January 1, 2026.
China is imposing a 55% tariff on some (it appears quite a bit of) beef from Brazil, Australia and the United States.
In Casper, Vintage Wine and Spirits and Wyoming Rib and Chop are closed as of this morning.
Donald Trump vetoed a water project in Colorado which was passed unanimously by Congress, and which is in a district that is represented by MAGA Lauren Boebert and which voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump mostly, it appears, as an act of revenge on Colorado.
The costs of at least 350 drugs in the U.S. are expected to rise in 2026.
Also, according to Trump Golf Tracker, Donald Trump has golfed 79 days out of 347 days since returning to office (22.8% of the presidency), at a taxpayer cost of $110,600,000.
The price of oil today is generally $57.41/bbl, below US profitability. Wyoming oil is generally at $57.84/bbl.
Coal rose to $107.50 /T on December 31, 2025, up 0.80% from the previous day. Over the past month, coal has fallen 0.78%, and is down 13.72% compared to the same time last year.
January 6, 2026
Venezuela takeover has Wyoming oil industry bracing for market changes: Though Wyoming politicos regard Trump's actions as necessary, oil executives do not anticipate immediate windfall.
There's no part of this that will be a positive for the U.S. economy, or Wyoming's. There's been too much oil on the market now for years, which has made Wyoming's petroleum economy unstable. More oil will simply make it worse, much worse. Sinking a bunch of infrastructure into a foreign country will make it worse.
This will be an economic problem, if not a disaster.
And here's another GOP bit of great economic news:
Wyoming spent $2.4M on hunger relief during shutdown emergency: Food insecurity is soaring in the state due to inflation and other factors, food relief experts say.
January 6, 2026
There's a lot of weird war related news circulating today.
Trump claims that the government of Venezuela is going to, well, here:
Trump, who is demented, is now threatening Greenland.
Trump needs to be removed via the 25th Amendment, and like yesterday.
Last edition:
Subsidiarity Economics 2025. The Times more or less locally, Part 13. Disassociation.
Labels: 119th Congress, 2020s, 2025, Chuck Gray, Coal, Economics, Government, Health Care, Petroleum, Populism, Republican Party, Taxes, Unions, Wyoming, Wyoming's boom and bust economy
First set of Labels: 2020s, 2026, Agriculture, Australia, Brazil, China, Donald Trump, Food, restaurants and bars, Taxes, The Second Trump Administration, United States, Wyoming, Wyoming (Casper)
Wars and Rumors of War, 2026. Part 1. The Return of the Neo Con Edition.
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
Matthew, Chapter 24.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
James Madison
January 2, 2026.
The United States v. Iran
We start off this year with the no more forever wars president threatening to intervene in Iran.
Iran is a bad actor, without a doubt, but what we'd particularly note here is that Trump's policy of intervention is beginning to look a lot like the Neo Con policy. A person can like that, or not, but it's not what he was promising at all. I'd heard various Trump supporters cite the "no more forever wars" line as (one of) their reasons for supporting him.
January 3, 2026
United States v. Venezuela
The United States hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” early Saturday and took Maduro and his wife prisoner.
No Declaration of War exists, of course, and there's no Congressional authorization for the use of force. This is, therefore, an illegal operation.
The news is too early to really make any definitive predictions about how this will turn out. Wars, however, tend to end when the attacked party decides they are over. Maybe this will tip the scales in Venezuela and things will change. Or maybe his followers dig in and carry on, in which case we are now committed to a wider conventional war, and perhaps a following guerilla war.
U.S. Delta Force seizes Venezuelan leader, sources say
US military captures Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro after striking military sites
The US Is Attempting Regime Change In Venezuela
Cont:
Trump's comments on the raid on Maduro:
As usual, when he reads a prepared statement, he sounds awful. While called to address the illegal attack in Venezuela, it meandered into the usual Trump mental mush addressing various Trump favorite topics and fantasies. Use of the National Guard in various states ended up being addressed by the clearly senile illegal occupant of the Oval Office.1
Trump has made it clear the U.S. intends to occupy Venezuela, apparently forgetting that simply seizing the head of state doesn't amount to a full surrender of anyone opposing a U.S. presence. This will require thousands of U.S. troops on a continent in which we've never had boots on the ground. People aligned with Maduro have no reason to cooperate with the US at all, and have plenty of reason not to.
Inside Venezuela there were protests over the U.S. action. Outside of the country Venezuelan expats celebrated the news.
Trump also made it clear that he intends to reverse the fifty year old nationalization of Venezuelan oil. Either Trump, or more likely somebody in his regime, has a real pre World War One view of the world, as this example of imperialism and gunboat diplomacy makes clear. Trump actually cited the Monroe Doctrine and his new security priorities.
Trump justified the action on the basis of ending Venezuelan drug exports to the U.S.
By way of a set of predictions, and knowing more about the use of military force that Donald Trump does, if the U.S. isn't in complete control of the country within thirty days, this will evolve into a guerilla war requiring no less than 100,000 U.S. troops. If the U.S. hasn't turned the country over to Venezuelans within one year, it'll evolve into a low grade guerilla war requiring no less than 50,000 boots on the ground.
January 4, 2026
United States v. Venezuela
So where are we now?
Yesterday it looked like, for awhile, that effectively what the US had done was to have mounted a coup of the Venezuelan government with the silent complicency of Venezuelan VP Delcy Rodríguez, sidestepping Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado Parisca.
Then came Trump's babbling senile statement about the operation.
Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as the country's President. She's just as left wing and Maduro, and she immediately indicated that she regard Maduro as the President and that she's not cooperating with the US.
So, what was achieved? We don't know, but unless we're going to do a full scale invasion of Venezuela, all we may have done is replace one left wing leader with another.
A bit closer to home, sort of:
Well, of course they did. Was there any doubt?
January 5, 2026
Yemeni Civil War
Saudi backed forces retook Mukalla.
Nigeria
Gunmen killed 30 in Kasuwan-Daji.
Syria
Britain and France carried out a joint airstrike late Saturday on an underground facility where members of the ISIL were located.
United States v. Venezuela
Pope Leo XIV commented on Venezuelan independence yesterday, stating:
The good of the beloved Venezuelan people must prevail over every other consideration and lead us to overcome violence and to undertake paths of justice and peace, safeguarding the country’s sovereignty, ensuring the rule of law enshrined in the Constitution, respecting the human and civil rights of each person and of all, and working to build together a serene future of collaboration, stability, and concord, with special attention to the poorest who suffer because of the difficult economic situation.
Columbian guerilla groups Unión Camilista Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) and FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) issued a warning to the US about the US having a presence in Venezuela.
FARC is a Communist guerilla movement while the ELN is a "Catholic Communist" or Liberation Theology guerilla movement. Columbia is their main focus, but they operate in Venezuela.
While the raid has been portrayed as lacking casualties on the U.S. side, U.S. troops were in fact wounded and have been air evacuated to the U.S.
Something being reported this morning:
January 6, 2022
United States v. Venezuela
Wyoming’s Barrasso, Lummis back Trump’s Venezuelan invasion, Hageman silent: Rep. Hageman, who’s running to replace Lummis, has been mum on the military strikes and Maduro’s capture.
Hageman's failure to say anything is really interesting. MAGA boosted the platform of "no more forever wars" but the US has been fighting everywhere, and is threatening to attack a NATO ally, Denmark, over Greenland, an act that would be deeply immoral and flat out insane. Indeed, the fact that the country is being lead by a mad man is increasingly clear, with most Republicans doing nothing about it.
Wyoming has had a strong commitment to the military. Indeed, an overly strong one as not only do an unusually large number of Wyomingites volunteer for military service, which is admirable, the state had nearly supported a military against the government attitude in recent years. Now, with it appearing that the US might send Wyoming's sons and daughters to die in Venezuelan jungles while doing something that will gut the state's oil industry, some may be having second thoughts. Hageman may be hedging her bets for her Senate run, or she may actually be among those who are horrified by the insane neo colonialism of the Trump interregnum.
January 6, 2026
Venezuela and Greenland.
There's a lot of weird war related news circulating today.
Trump claims that the government of Venezuela is going to, well, here:
Frankly, I don't believe that this will occur. Much of what Trump has been saying about Venezuela is a lie and I suspect this is too.
If it isn't a lie, Wyomingites are going to get another dope slap from the demented fool they voted for. It'll take the price of oil in the state for years. It's at $46.37, below profitability, right now.
Of course, the goal would be to depress the price of oil, which consumers in most locations want depressed, even though we ought to be weaning ourselves off of oil. But closer to home, this is another example of why Wyomingites are absolute idiots to vote for the GOP.
The Nobel Peace Prize winning Venezuelan woman who probably ought to be running the country is headed home. Hopefully she takes over the government, although there's every sign that the Venezuelan socialist party will continue to do so and not much will really change.
Trump, who is demented, is now threatening Greenland.
If we lived in a sane time they'd be taking him out of the Oval Office in a straight jacket, but the Republican Party is now largely bat shit crazy so there's a real chance we'll do this, even while, for the first time, some Republican leaders are dismissing it.
Trump needs to be removed via the 25th Amendment, and like yesterday.
Footnotes:
1. A real irony is present here in that Maduro was not the legitimate head of state, at this point, of Venezuela, and Donald Trump is not the legitimate head of state of the United States.
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What we actually did and are doing.
Labels: Donald Trump, Nicolás Maduro, Predictions, The Madness of King Donald, United States v. Venezuela
Labels: 2020s, 2026, Conspiracy Theories, Delcy Rodríguez, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Nicolás Maduro, The Madness of King Donald, United States v. Venezuela, Venezuela
Last edition:
Wars and Rumors of War, 2025. Part 10 (the final edition for 2025). The Gunboat Diplomacy Edition.
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Wednesday, January 6, 2021. The Coup.
I wasn't going to mark this date. This tragic event is only five years in our past, and therefore it is much too early, really, to be able to fully apprise it.
But attempt to apprise it we must do, and the coup that started on January 6, 2021 did not fail, it succeeded, and whether the fascistic/Francoist revolution it seeks to bring about will succeed or fail is not yet know.
The coup did not fail, as our justice system failed. Trump could easily have been in court within six months and sentenced within seven. Unfortunately, our criminal justice system moves as slowly as Baby Boomers at Walmart as its controlled by them, as is much of our society. This insurrectionist is now in charge.
But will he succeed?
Most Americans do not support the would be caudillo Donald Trump and most are not part of a muddled fascist/Franoist/New Apostolic Reformation movement, or even have its world view. But those who do are running the country right now, aided and abetted by people like opportunistic Marco Rubio and a compliant Supreme Court. The worst tests are yet to come. This year, 2026, is going to be absolutely awful, least we are spared by some sort of Divine Intervention (which I note seriously, not in jest).
Usually, however, people get exactly what they deserve in terms of politics. The roots of the populist revolution go back at least as far as 1973 and have been brewing for decades now. We cannot expect that the fruits of political neglect can be harvest and discarded overnight. We are paying for our errors, and stand to likely pay a heavier price yet.
But the country has come through such things before. The Revolution itself was one, the Civil War a second.
May God grant that we get through this quickly, and with as little damage to the world as possible.
Sunday, January 4, 2026
So now what, and what did we actually do?
The raid was loss free, which has caused one knowledgeable person I know to speculate that the Venezuelan military was in on it, and that it basically amounted to a coup in favor of Delcy Rodríguez of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
Pity poor Maria Corina Machado, the opposition leader we supposedly favored. I guess she's yesterday's news.
Anyhow, yesterday the senile illegitimate occupant of the White House, Donald Trump, came on and gave a rambling press conference full of weird diversions and babble, but he indicated "we", i.e., the United States, was going to run the country.
A commando raid an occupation does not make. Venezuela remains in control of the Venezuelan military and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
And Rodríguez rejected the assertion that Maduro has been replaced. No doubt a United Socialist Party isn't going opt accept the doddering old fool's suggestion that the country's oil is going to be taken back over by American oil companies, which aren't really American, but are international for the most part.
So what actually happened?
Well, if we look at it positively, a really bad guy was replaced by somebody we don't know all that much about, but who shows every sign as being just as much of a socialist as Maduro. Maybe she'll be better simply because she's educated. And perhaps she'll try to take Venezuela out of the drug business, although there are no doubt powerful forces that would resist that.
Maybe that's all we were trying to achieve, but based on the babble, Trump apparently believed that we were actually going to take over the country.
If the Administration was trying to do that, it fell way short of it, or so it would appear, and we're going to have to come up with some cover story for our failure, or we're going to have to outright invade the country.
I don't see that latter thing happening.
Which brings me to this. I don't think there was ever a plan to take over the country. I think the military needed a way out of this expensive endless project and this is what they came up with. Donny was told the results would be that he could install Marco Rubio as Maximilian I of Venezuela. Rubio probably went along with the whole thing as well.
Frenchy would be emperor of Mexico, Ferdinand Maximilian Josef Maria.
But, a military in the hands of the senile remains pretty dangerous to everyone, including the nation they are supposed to serve.
The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Eighth Edition. The Senile Chief Executive.
January 3, 2026
Yesterday the United States mounted an early morning military operation and removed the chief executive, arguably an illegitimate chief executive, from office and brought him to the United States to face criminal charges, even though the real ability of the US to charge somebody overseas with a crime is dubious and we ignore that when people do that to us.
Later in the day, Donald Trump, also an illegitimate chief executive, gave a press conference.
This demonstrates senility. There's no doubt about it.
Last edition:
The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Seventh Edition. Night of Camp David
Thursday, January 1, 2026
New Year's Resolutions for Other People.
Some years I do this thread, other years not. 2025 was such a serious year, I'm tempted not to.
Maybe that's when you should.
I'm going to start of with a minor one.
Heather Cox Richardson, for goodness sakes pay some attention to the production values of your Vlog. It's absolutely horrific and yes, it does matter. Sitting in front of a coast map may be something you can get away with as a professor to your students, but frankly everyone else just wonders on to Erza Klein.
The ones with Joanne B. Freeman are the absolutely worst, not because you both don't have things that are serious to say, but because it comes across like two elderly professors in the faculty lounge who are annoyed with undergraduates.
You have good content. Improve the production values.
Okay, now that we have that out of the way. . .
Cabinet members, invoke the 25h Amendment.
You know that Donald Trump is getting increasingly bat shit crazy and he's making everything worse. The point at which he serves as razzle dazzle is over. It's no longer safe. Remove him.
And once he's removed, do a serious investigation into what his thing with Putin is. It's weird, bare minimum, but is there more there?
Some will note, and indeed people already are, that if Trump goes Vance is in. This is true.Vance has his own dangers, but he's not likely to nuke Denmark.
Regarding Vance, Vance probably is who he always was, or so it seems to me, but his philosophical underpinnings have developed enormously, whether you like them or not. It occurs to me that people who were charmed by Hillbilly Elegy were charmed by it as they didn't regard it as a call for action for a hillbilly class, but rather as a fun thing to lament over while sipping some weird tea based drink and watching Heather Cox Richardson. Nope, it was a call to arms.
Vance, or whatever your name is, its time for you to be open about your beliefs. Either the American public accepts them, which they probably do not, or they'll reject them and you can try to convince them.
Also, reconsider their harshness. It's easier to be Kevin Roberts if you are an academic. In the real world, Pope Leo XIV makes a lot more sense.
Wyoming Freedom Caucus. Go back to your homes and leave Wyoming alone.
John Barrasso. Grow a spine and start backing Wyoming.
Chuck Gray. See item on Freedom Caucus.
Wyoming Democrats. Be like what you once were, moderate Republicans. You're never getting anywhere running as the French Socialist Party.
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Wyoming voters, quit screwing yourself. I swear, the things you keep voting to support are so darned dumb it defines description. Voting for politicians who will grab Federal lands would sell them in a heartbeat. Coal is not coming back. Climate change is real and needs to be addressed.
And, if you are a new Freedom Caucus type voter, go home. We'll even buy you a box set of the Dukes of Hazzard if you leave.
Members of the Evangelical Protestant right wing community (and maybe Evangelical Protestants in general). Read some history. You guys are carrying out a historically discredited effort that's contrary to the Church.
Also, knock off the divorce doesn't matter thing. It does.
Last edition:
New Year's Resolutions for Other People, sort of.
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Seventh Edition. Night of Camp David
From Amazon:
Sound sort of familiar?
December 12, 2025
And then there's this:
Q: Can you explain what's going on with the bandages on Trump's hand?LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
Machinegun Lips Leavitt's statement is a dog that doesn't hunt. At this point, it's clear that there's something going on. The constant bruising on the hand suggest pretty strongly that Trump is frequently getting a picc line to his hand. He's getting IVs, probably, but for what?
He also recently had an MRI, and speaks of getting cognitive tests. Somebody is monitoring him pretty closely medically, and Trump himself doesn't seem to know fully why.
Cont:
A blog entry on the same topic:
The Alarming Signs of a President in Decline
December 15, 2025
Trump's a complete a**hole.
cont:
Q: A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Rob Reiner. Do you stand by it?
TRUMP: Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
December 17, 2025
The National Review:
The president of the United States is a hateful raging lunatic with all the empathy of Jeffrey Dahmer.
A prediction:
I stated here before that Trump would only last 18 months in office. He hasn't even made 12 yet, and his mind is complete mush. He has a television address tonight I'm unlikely to watch, but my first prediction, not the one I created the subtitle for, is that it'll be full of rambling praise for himself and blame upon Joe Biden.
It'll also be jam packed with lies.
The bigger prediction, however, is this. I'm going to restate the 18 month prediction as an outer date. He's really declining rapidly. He'll make it to 2026, probably, but my guess right now is not past the end of March. Part of this will depend upon how close he gets us to war with Venezuela and how utterly unhinged he becomes regarding his domestic opposition.
My next prediction is that this will completely shatter the GOP. The GOP is going to get pounded in the 2026 election and become utterly unglued. It won't go away, but it'll take it three or four years to rebuilt itself into something.
December 21, 2025
Trump: I took cognitive tests. By the way, not easy. The first question is like what is this and they show a lion, giraffe, fish and a hippopotamus. And they say which is the giraffe.
Hmmmm. . .
I don't follow Rod Dreher because I think he slipped off the rails some time ago, but there's no real denying he's one of the real intellects of the National Conservatives/Christian Nationalist whom I think largely have the levers of power in the Trump Administration right now. So I was surprised when I ran across something he posted on Twitter.
Dreher hasn't changed his views on things, and he defends Trump on some thing I think Trump is actually completely wrong on, such as the recently released National Security Strategy (which makes sense form Dreher's point of view, because of his beliefs), but regarding Trump himself, after his comments on Rob Reiner:
Something is very, very wrong with this man. A father and mother were murdered by their son, most likely, and Trump makes it about himself.
Its been obvious for years that something is deeply wrong with Trump. Indeed, given his overall character, something has been wrong with Trump for decades, but his earlier character flaws are now being overtaken by his dementia.
I note Dreher here as I think what we can begin to see pretty clearly is the move to replace Trump with Vance. We predicted that Trump would be out within 18 months, and its starting to happen right now.
Dreher, who was one of the first Christian Nationalist and National Conservatives, is outright stating that Trump is mentally ill. He's also attacking the MAGA public figures like Fuentes. Erika Kirk is endorsing Vance for President in 2028. Mitt Romney, whom conservatives regard as the last real conservative Republican candidate for the White House, is writing op eds urging taxation.
Now, not all those things are related, but some of them are. It's clear that Republicans are beginning to maneuver for the 2028 election and they're leaving Trump behind. Romney is old at 78, but he's not demented and he's younger than Biden was when he ran for reelection and he's younger than Trump, whose most radical MAGA base is urging to unconstitutionally run again in 2028.
Related to that, Vance is only in the administration as he wants to run in 2028. He's tainted with his association with Trump and the stench that creates is getting worse and he knows it. He's also the only real National Conservative who stands a chance of being elected in 2028. Indeed, there were never any others who stood a chance. Marco Rubio is a conservative, but not a National Conservative. Elise Marie Stefanik is a conservative, not a National Conservative, as well. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who doesn't stand a chance, is a far right wing populist. Kevin Roberts, who is behind the scenes and somethat close to Vance, is definitely a National Conservative but he has no chance. Stephen Miller is loathsome.
So now we're seeing the jockeying for position, but we're seeing more than that. Some Republicans are finally outright condemning Trump over things he says. Massie and Rand Paul are outright defying him with no real consequences. Republicans who don't want to be part of a 2026 and 2028 bloodbath are bailing out of Congress.
Behind the scenes, there has to be a raging debate about how much longer the GOP lets Trump carry on. He's been the functional equivalent of World War One naval dazzle camouflage which has served their interests well. . .up until now. Now he's drawing fire. He falls asleep in public. He rambles on and sounds rough, while making statements that are often downright weird. He insults vast numbers of people for petty reasons. He's causing inflation in many areas of the economy through his beliefs on taxes, while destroying the economy for those who supported him in other areas.
And he's on the verge of getting us into war.
While all that's going on, of course, his administration has now gone so far in trying to keep the government's files on perverted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein secret its reached the absurd level. Everyone knows that Trump and Epstein were friends. The lingering news story has served to remind people that Trump has a sexual track record which necessarily raises questions, given his association with Epstein, as well as John Casablancas. Old information that was re-released from the Epstein files serves to remind that one of Epstein's teenage victims ended up as a contestant in one of Trump's pageants. Trump sent Epstein, although he denies it a hand drawn birthday card featuring what appears to be the immature body of a teenage girl, with his signature drawn across where the reproduction organs are, and with a poem emphasizing enigma and shared secrets.
MAGA victims of TDS of course still desperately want to believe that there's no there, there, but something is there, if only the names of people who may have participated in the abuse of up to 1,000 girls and who are significant figures. Maybe Trump isn't listed amongst them, but there's some reason his administration is trying to desperately to keep this stuff secret.
My guess would be that Vance has no idea what it is. But Vance, Kirk, Roberts and Dreher all know that if Trump rides things out to 2028 his increasing dementia combined with the risk of scandal is just too high. If this blows up, and its starting to, it'll wreck the GOP so completely there won't be one in 2028.
Kirk and Dreher are preparing the groundwork now. Mentioning that what Trump is doing is vile is part of that. Mentioning that Vance should run in 2028 is as well.
Vance will be sworn in as the President before June.
December 22, 2025
These things are just nuts:
We need Greenland for national protection. They have a very small population…They say that Denmark was there 300 years ago with a boat. Well, we were there with boats too I’m sure.The United States isn't 300 years old. . .
And that small population comment is just the sort of thing a New Yorker would say . . .
Everyone knows they're nuts, and yet they allow him to just charge on with this lunacy.
The man is not well, and they know it.
cont:
It appears the battleships will not be battleships.
Still, Trump's absolute megalomania in which everything must be named for him is clearly a sign of mental illness.
December 23, 2025
We’re bringing down drug price by 1000%, 1200%, 1300%, 1400%. A drug that sells for $10 in London is costing $130 in New York. We are bringing it down to $20. You can do your own math. But it’s 2000%, 3000%
Donald Trump.
December 26, 2025
A Christmas rant from somebody who is clearly mentally unhinged:
By this point, it's clear that Trump, if not full blown insane, goes into fits of raving insanity. We should all be scared as there may come a day when he goes from ranting into action.
The real question at this point is why the cabinet has not removed him. His unfitness for office, or anything else, is completely apparent, so there's a reason behind that.
The reason might be J. D. Vance.
In spite of Trump's propagandized reputation, Trump isn't a lot of the things he's claimed to be. He's not smart, he's not an economic genius, he's not a conservative, and he's not a recognizable Christian. He is a good salesman, or was, who has made his name into a brand. He's also a self serving narcissists. As part of his branding, he's managed to convince a fair number of people that he is what he clearly isn't.
But he is useful for certain elements that back him. Once he's gone, the NAM, the NatCons, and the Dixiecrats really don't have everything in common by a long shot. Vance is a NatCon, not a Dixiecrat, and people like Miller might fear Vance coming in.
The mass defection from the Heritage Society suggests, however, that Vance may have lost his shot. If Trump is going to be retired people have to support Vance. The NatCons are falling apart.
December 31, 2025
Trump announced today that his dumbass triumphal arch will start construction in two months.
This likely needs to go up quicker than planned as the terminal limits of Trump's sanity/end of office/natural life are beginning to roar up into his view. This will add to the pile of rubble that will need to be hauled off and dumped in the Potomac when he's gone.
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Our Petty, Hollow, Squalid Ogre in Chief
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