Oh yeah, that's the look of a sane man, right? Photo by LAURENT GILLIERON / POOL / AFP via Getty Images, posted under Fair Use Exception.
Kaitlan Collins: "Mr. President, what would you say to sex abuse survivors of Epstein who haven’t seen justice”
Donald Trump: “You know, I’ve never seen you smile”
Man, that's creepy.
I wonder how many teenage girls head that after they were raped at Epstein Island?
February 7, 2026
Trump claimed in an interview with the New York Post that Venezuela failed to get their AAA rockets off the ground during the U.S.'s raid as the US used a "discombobulator" on them.
Um. . .sure.
In a bit of a defense for the deranged prince, what the military probably was referring to was an electronic jamming system. While no doubt the most recent variants are quite advanced, such systems have been around for a very long time.
Trump's incredibly racist post depicting the Obama's as apes was taken down and blamed on a staffer.
Um. . . sure.
Trump is also claiming that the US has wanted a triumphal arch for 200 years, with is complete nonsense and which is only slightly less weird than his claim that Presidents have wanted the giant outhouse he hopes to build for 100 years.
February 9, 2026
Loss of inhibitions can be a sign of dementia.
This is definitely a "get off my lawn" moment.
February 10, 2026
Trump is clearly unhinged.
A spoiled brat and a real estate developer by trade, he sees the world through a pinhole. His mind is turning to much. He needs to be removed.
What's more, Trump is insane and everyone knows it. World leaders know it. His opponents know it. And, moreover, his supporters, know it.
He's driving us over a cliff, and everyone knows that.
He's the last pathetic gasp of the Baby Boomers, as we endure a nation by the Baby Boomers, Of the Baby Boomers, and for the Baby Boomers, enduring the legacy of a government attacked by Ronald Reagan and brought into fruition by Dixiecrats.
I've predicted that the 25th Amendment would be applied to him, and moreover, his mere presence in the White House was really a smokescreen for National Conservatives. If I was right, the moment now appears too late.
The United States has come to an end as a great nation.
It might be able to rebuild, but it won't be what it was. Nore should it be. A nation stupid enough to elect Donald Trump is no longer great.
The question is, how much damage do we allow him to do?
And I say "we" advisedly. Stuffed suits like Dr. John Barrasso and castrati Mike Johnson aren't going to do anything. His cabinet has people like scared Scott Bessent in it, who sound like they're terrified to be in public, or people who cheerfully shovel his oratorical vomit. Congress could act, but the make up the GOP in Congress is 100% eunuchs who roll over to have their bellies petted by Trump or go into the corner scared and pee.
The nation's leaders have completely failed it.
The question is not, at this point, how can this be salvaged. It cannot. The question is how much can be saved so that there's something to rebuild from when we reemerge in 2028 as a minor power, second rate nation, despised by the world.
The only thing, and it is the only thing, than can really save the nation now is mass protests. An epic strike that shut the nation down completely would be something the Republicans could not ignore.
We don't even seem to have the guts for that, however. We haven't seen anything like that since the 1960s and early 1970s.
We aren't much of a people anymore.
Ironically, however, the wet dream of Donald Trump to be remembered as somebody, darned near anybody, will also fail. He'll be remembered for being a fat, spoiled, mentally ill, child who ruined his nation with the help of ignorance. His ballroom will not get built. His Arc will not either. Greenland, which he will steal, will be set free. Melania will escape back to Europe to hide the disgrace of having associated with the man. The Trump family will bankruptcy itself into oblivion.
Cont:
Okay, something's happened.
Trump at Dovos said the United States “won’t use force” to take Greenland, but repeated his dumbass claims that the US needs it for national and international security. He said he would be “appreciative” if the world acquiesced to his desire to take over the territory. “Or, you can say no and we will remember.”
What does all that mean.
Sometime over the last 24 hours somebody got to Trump with news that if he went any further, they were invoking the 25th Amendment. It's about the only possibility.
The others might be that Congress would really move to impeach, or the military was prepared to tell him to pound sand.
But something happened. He was full batshit crazy over Greenland as of yesterday, and now he's not. He was apparently actually set to over a bridge too far and something held him back, for now.
The man needs to go. This is a chance for national redemption, but it won't last long. Those who were set to invoke the 25th, if they were, need to carry forward and do it.
Cont:
Hmmmm. . . Air Force One returned and landed due to an "electrical issue" prior to his gong to Davos.
That "electrical issue" was probably a direct communication that if he went to Davos and indicated war was coming he better stay in Switzerland.
Cont:
And I know so many people from Switzerland. Incredible place, incredible brilliant place. But I then realized that they're only good because of us.
The dimwitted emperor.
We barely dodged a bullet with this guy, remove the idiot now. Apply the 25th Amendment.
January 22, 2026
Trump at Davos:
Usually they say, 'he's a horrible dictator-type person.' But sometimes you need a dictator.
So are we really still playing around with this? Trump admits he's a dictator, and its obvious to everyone he's demented. There's no excuse left whatsoever for favoring this man remaining in office.
Let's reprise where we are, after the last several days.
Let's start off with this.
Ever since Congress demanded the Epstein files be released, most of which have not been, nearly every day brings a new horror. We started off with an invasion of a foreign power and removal of its head of state with no Congressional authorization, which is flatly illegal. In spite of the widely lauded praise for that, the raid only removed one man and his wife, while killing a bunch of people. The Socialist regime that man headed remains fully in power. Some may say its cooperating with Trump, but why would one criminal regime not cooperate with another if it benefits them both?
We were told at the time that we needed to do this as Venezuela was exporting drugs to the U.S. As soon as we kidnapped the leader, however, we were told that it was a great oil producing opportunity for the United States, and we are in fact seizing tankers and selling the oil, with the funds put in a bank in Qatar, outside those prying eyes in the U.S.
No sooner had that been accomplished than Donald Trump brought us right to the end of war with NATO, believing his own propaganda that the rest of the world would sit by if we seized Greenland, just as Germany thought nobody would fight over Poland in 1939, and Argentina thought the UK wouldn't fight over the Falklands in 1982. Indeed, the Falklands example is a particularly good one as the UK was actually moving toward an arrangement with Argentina before Argentina invaded, which ended that for all time.
While this was all going on, an ICE agent shot Renee Good three times killing her in Minneapolis. The mayor spoke out and now the mayor and the Governor are under Federal Criminal investigation by a corrupted justice system. Career Federal prosecutors are being fired, and even one of Trump's handpicked flunkies had walked out, although not over that.
Trump decided to go to Davos to lecture the Europeans, but as soon as his plane took off it returned with an "electrical problem".
Uh huh.
When he got to Davos suddenly he was no longer going to invade Greenland, but he was sticking to tariffs. . . until he suddenly didn't.
What message did the would be caudillo get when that plan returned.
There's a lot here to digest, but what we know is that Trump's actions do not benefit the United States and, as Mark Carney has stated, he's destroyed the post war order. The principal beneficiary of his actions is Russia, and nearly Russia alone The Russians may have pulled off the greatest example of spycraft of all time, but assisted by an American electorate that was made legitimately bitter by post 1973 events and made ignorant by actions of the much praised Ronald Reagan.
Reagan, to medical professionals, was showing signs of Alzheimer's in his second term. He was 83, however, and out of office when he admitted it to the public. His last public appearance, however, was in 1994, a couple of years after that, which is one that people who have viewed it lament. His appearance at that point in time wasn't any worse than Trump's right now.
Trump's behavior in the last two months has been nearly manic. Oh, let's be honest. It is manic. He very clearly, no matter what else is going on, has dementia. There's no question whatsoever. One person who knows him well, lawyer Ty Cobb, has stated:
I think there’s been a significant decline. He’s always been driven by narcissism. But I think the dementia and the cognitive decline are, you know, palpable, as do many experts, including many physicians.
Cobb also stated:
I don’t think there’s anybody outside of the United States who believes that Trump is sane.
So that's exactly where we are. We have a demented chief executive whose minions are not releasing a major file which his name shows up in, in violation of the law. His mind is complete mush and he launched us into one small war with little effect and nothing to be proud of, and nearly launched us into a major war with NATO which, in spite of our hubris, we may very well not have won (the U.S. hasn't actually won a war cleanly since the end of World War Two). Even if we had won it, which is not assured, it would have involved combat with Canada and occupying Canada would have entailed a terrorism campaign against the US that would kill Americans at home. Any such war would have besmirched our reputation forever and the world order has already been irreparably harmed to the detriment of Americans.
The man is insane and needs to be removed.
The question is why he isn't already gone. We can be quite assured that if there were sufficient votes, J. D. Vance, who sees his political fortunes evaporating by the minute and his current name likely to go down like Goering's would support it. So would Rubio, who has been mysteriously absent recently. But invoking the 25th Amendment would require the Vice President and a majority of the 15-member Cabinet ot declare the President the batshit crazy Trump unable to perform his duties. That means eight out of fifteen would have to go along with it. Those cabinet members are:
Secretary of StateMarco Rubio
Secretary of the TreasuryScott Bessent
Secretary of DefensePete Hegseth
Attorney GeneralPam Bondi
Secretary of the InteriorDoug Burgum
Secretary of AgricultureBrooke Rollins
Secretary of CommerceHoward Lutnick
Secretary of LaborLori Chavez-DeRemer
Secretary of Health and Human ServicesRobert F. Kennedy Jr.
Secretary of Housing and Urban DevelopmentScott Turner
Secretary of TransportationSean Duffy
Secretary of EnergyChris Wright
Secretary of EducationLinda McMahon
Secretary of Veterans AffairsDoug Collins
Secretary of Homeland SecurityKristi Noem
Administrator of the Environmental Protection AgencyLee Zeldin
Director of the Office of Management and BudgetRussell Vought
Director of National IntelligenceTulsi Gabbard
Director of the Central Intelligence AgencyJohn Ratcliffe
United States Trade RepresentativeJamieson Greer
Administrator of the Small Business AdministrationKelly Loeffler
So, until he's drooling and hitting on Kristi Noem, this is just going to get worse.
Congress could act, and if it was a Democratic Congress it undoubtedly would. Trump's only in office as Joe Biden moronically believed that his own dementia was somehow not there, a common trait of those who have dementia and the electorate blamed the Democrats for a lot of things, like inflation, that were outside of their control, and some things they really didn't like, like the whole transgender thing, that they were in control of. A totally befuddled Trump still knows that this November the GOP is going to be punished for the economy, for average people, getting worse, and he can't gasp that people really don't care if fat cats get fatter, which is the only sort of economic news that means anything to him. By this point in time an American electorate, which has a notoriously short memory, sees ICE in the streets, ICE shooting women in the head, Trump insulting the entire world, and their economic future going down the toilet. His plan is to try to disrupt the 2026 election, or even suspend it if he can, which he can't.
A sane group of Republican members of Congress would act right now to impeach Trump, like they did when Nixon was in office. But current Republicans in Congress are nearly all anemic castrati, with those at the top, like John Thune and John Barrasso providing prime example. Barrasso couldn't find his courage if he'd deposited in a safe deposit box. They're depending on the Democrats taking control i November so they can return to the more comfortable role of complaining about Democrats, and if the country goes in the shitter in the meantime, well at least they can hope to retain their careers.
January 24, 2026
A former Trump staffer from his first term is expressing concern that he'll launch a nuclear war, and reveals that in his first term the country came close to a war with North Korea.
January 26, 2026
While the country reeled from the shooting of Alex Pretti, the Mad King Donny was musing on the ballroom that will never be built.
Absolutely insane. Blood literally in the streets and this doddering buffoon is babbling about a structure whose refuse is going to be shoved into a big pile by a D11 and then dumped in a refuse pile.
How pathetic.
The NYT editorial from yesterday:
January 28, 2025
We stopped the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia. It was just starting and it was a bad one.
Donald Trump.
Cambodia and Armenia couldn't fight a war against each other if they both wanted to.
His mind is completely shot.
And with that really weird comment, we'll close out this portion of the roller coast ride with Mad King Donald.
February 3, 2026
King Donny hasn't seemed to notice, but his endorsement is becoming the golden kiss of death all over the country. This past week a solidly Republican Senate district in Texas voted overwhelming for the Democrat, the Trump endorsement meaning nothing. In Wyoming Megan Degenfelder is sort of nervous, rather obviously, about Trump's embrace, and she should be.
Which brings us to this:
Trump has been going after Thomas Massie as he's not a Trump toady like crazy. He's criticized the marriage before, which is pretty rich for a man of Trump's obvious disregard for the meaning of marriage.
Who knew Carolyn would also get free rent in Trump’s head when she married me! I guess that’s just one of the perks.
https://secure.thomasmassie.com/donate
Trump is clearly unhinged.
And with this latest disgusting outburst by Donald Trump, we'll close this edition.
Trump Tweet. My prediction is that gun control is coming for the very reasons that the NRA always warned us about, and the NRA is going to roll over like a pet dog. (Note, this later proved to be a bogus tweet, but Trump said things that were relatively close to it).
Killed while carrying, you don't need that gun after all.
For years and years the National Rifle Association warned us about "jack booted thugs" working for the Federal government.
It also told us that part of the reason we needed a Second Amendment was to protect ourselves against a repressive government. It runs a column on its site every couple of days extolling the virtues of being an "armed citizen".
Yesterday a Border Patrol Agent in Minneapolis took offense, apparently, along with another officer to Alex Jeffrey Pretti filming their activities. They started pushing people around and pepper spraying, actions which with municipal police forces would get the department and the officers sued. They wrestled Pretti to the ground.
He was a permitted concealed carry holder, and he was carrying a concealed handgun. According to one news source, the officers had secured his handgun before shooting him, which they did.
Apparently, once again, more than one shot was fired. Apparently, ten shots were fired.
Ten.
I know what the defenses are going to be and what is going to be claimed. Videos are always a bit difficult to discern and so we really don't know what the officers saw. Here's what a witnesses affidavit states:
I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.
I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.
The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
What we do know is what the NRA told its members, like me, is now revealed to be complete crap. Where are the outcries from firearms permit holders (and I am one). I don't blame Pretti for being armed when this group of Brownshirts is around.
The lesson is clear. Interfere with ICE at the risk of being beat up or killed.
And the message from the defenders of freedom on the right wing are clear. They never meant what they said, or they'd be outraged by the gunning down of a man who was legally carrying.
For years I've been warning that the result of the NRA's slavish support for Trump would be an irony, the Trump Administration will come after legal gun owners. It's starting:
Peaceful protesters do not have 9-millimeter weapons with two extra magazines.
Rep Van Drew, New Jersey. There you have it. What used to be a position of the left. You don't really need that gun.
It's only one step to, you don't need that gun, give it to me.
And the NRA is just going to stand there and do nothing whatsoever. They've simply become a fundraising branch of MAGA.
I'm not, I'll note, the only one who holds this view. After I first posted this I came across this:
FWIW, if I went anywhere near one of these protests, I'd be carrying.
And make no mistake. We're about to get massive gun control. The Dear Leader has decreed that only criminals carry guns in the street.
The coffins of Danish troops who died in Afghanistan following the US invocation of Article 5.
The man with no service slanders our allies.
Following the entire demented embarrassing episode over Greenland, Дональд Трамп has had an entire series of demented rages. I use the term "demented" here advisedly.
Donald Trump was of military age, and a graduate from a military school, during the Vietnam War.
Trump was initially classified as 1-A in 1966. He received four educational deferments during the war, the chickenshit policy of the draft at the time that let the upper class and middle class get a bit of a free ride to avoid the draft. In 1968 he was given a one year medical deferment for a bone spur. In 1969 he received a high lottery number, making it unlikely that he'd be called.
The real question is the bone spur item, and whether he really had one or not. He was, reportedly, in pretty good shape back then.
Trump has a track record of insulting service members, and it's pretty clear, in spite of what he's said this term in office, that he basically regards them as losers. And that comports with his world view, where the only people that matter are the rich. Rich people don't join the service often, although there are exceptions.
The Трамп rages this time insulted NATO and claimed that NATO had never done anything for the US. This brought an immediate rebuke from Denmark and the UK. Трамп tried to then say that sure, they'd sent troops, to Afghanistan when we invoked Article 5, but they'd stayed behind the lines a ways.
What a hugely ironic statement for a man who stayed so far behind the lines, he wasn't in the same country as the lines.
He's now apologized to the UK.
The man is an idiot.
FWIW, our NATO allies fully supported us in Afghanistan. Many of the same nations supported us in Iraq, twice. In the Vietnam War, the one that Дональд didn't go to, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Taiwan and South Korea sent ground troops. Spain sent medical troops. Canada sent a hospital ship.
A meme only an ignoramus could post.
Penguin stupidity
Трамп is still smarking overy his humiliation over Greenland. The man who wrote the "art of the deal" appears to have secured the exact same deal we had in the 1950s. That's some negotiating.
Anyhow, a hallmark of the Трамп administration is the use of social media, and this was released.
Penguins don't live in the Arctic. Somebody in the Trump administration is do dumb not to know that.
Nonetheless, the members of the Administration stood right up to be counted in the ranks of morons and all posted their own penguin themed memes, making the entire administration look stupid to anyone with an education, and the entire country look stupid to people who live elsewhere. A really clever retort about coveting Austria (which so far Trump hasn't) is here:
It's gone on too long
Anyone who eyes to see knows that Trump's mental status is rocketing into oblivion. Why does Congress and the Cabinet allow this madman to continue to be in office.
Well, the Cabinet you frankly can't expect much out of. Probably only Rubio is ready to flip the 25th Amendment switch, and he's been invisible recently. Scott Bessent tends to get sent instead, and always appears scared.
Congress could do something, but Republicans just can't seem to do so, so afraid of the aging senile man are they.
Helping after being insulted.
Canadian electrical service companies are sending linemen into the US to repair storm damage.
This after the demented clown in the White House says Canada (which has defeated the US twice in war, I'd note) wouldn't exist bur for the U.S.
Being neighborly is a Canadian thing. It used to be a U.S. thing, but right now being a complete asshole is a U.S. thing.
