WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Gen. Smedley Butler.
American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property. These pillaged assets were then used to fund terrorism and flood our streets with killers, mercenaries and drugs.
Stephen Miller, Homeland Security Advisor.
Stephen Miller, who is Jewish, has somehow managed to become the most White Racist and imperialist member of the Trump Administration, apparently forgetting that the white, Protestant, demographic he's backing, doesn't regard him as white.
Maybe Miller ought to listen to some Nick Fuentes.
Anyhow, the other day Trump said something about Venezuela stealing "our land". It made no sense, but now, with Miller's help, we know what he meant.
Geology created the Venezuelan oil industry. Imperialism created the concept that somebody else's natural resources belongs to us. Neo imperialism will get us bogged down in regional wars Miller won't be going to so that young American men can die for petroleum oil, which we have plenty of here in the US.
Trump is demented. People like Miller have his ear. This is absolutely frightening.
December 19, 2025
Trump’s handpicked buttkissers on the Kennedy Center board voted to renames it the Trump Kennedy Center
It's questionable if it can legally be renamed, and all of these "love me" type of monumental acts are going to go away as soon as Trump's illegitimate interregnum is over. The amazing things that there's such syncophantic asskissers who are willing to do things like this.
December 22, 2025
And while you are, or aren't, worrying about this:
You might want to worry that we have a seemingly unstable would be caudillo in the Oval Office and an administration that violated the deadline provisions of the law concerning release of the Epstein files.
At first the MAGAs were pointing toward the photos of Clinton, but within 24 hours they were pulling stuff back down that referenced Trump. On Sunday they sent a deputy AG around to the Sunday shows to explain that they had to do that, apparently, as women who appeared in the buff in those photos might have been complaining about it. If those women were minors, they shouldn't have released that material, but then they should have had that figured out in the first place. If they were just nude women, well, too bad. You get photographed in the house of a creep, you can't expect that not to get around.
Anyhow, he ran around sounding rather distraught. Now we know that a third oil taker in our sights in the Caribbean, and today we learn that Trump has appointed a "special envoy" to Greenland who has said something about how we should annex that territory to the US. Denmark has called in our ambassador.
Okay, how does that relate to this thread?
Trump appears to be pretty desperate right now. Nothing distracts like a war. Nicolás Maduro shows no signs whatsoever of backing down, and there are no signs whatsoever that his military is going to force him out. Trump can't back down. And what better way to change the topic at Christmas dinner from "so. . . why do you think the administration is protecting the diddler files" than by sending than by sending FA 18s over Venezuela. . . or maybe putting the Marines on the beaches?
Am I saying that is going to happen as a distraction from the embarrassing teenage girl sex story? No, I"m not, but I am saying its not impossible to imagine that.
And at this point, it's clear, Maduro is sitting there ignoring Trump. War with Venezuela, in some form, is inevitable.
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Not really properly before in this category, but administration news nonetheless, the ambassadors to Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Uganda, Fiji, Laos, the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Vietnam, Armenia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovakia, Algeria, Egypt, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Guatemala and Suriname are being removed and replaced.
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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.
Donald Trump.
The United States isn't 300 years old. . .
And that small population comment is just the sort of thing a New Yorker would say . . .
And then there's this gem. Trump wants a fleet of twenty five battleships built. Battleships have been obsolete for decades.
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It appears the "battleships" will not be battleships.
Like Greene, Boebert was a fanatic MAGA. Problem for Trump was that she, like Greene, MAGA than Trump who, at the end of the day, is only about Trump.
At some point somebody pointed out to Trump that there are people in the Epstein files whose names he shouldn't want released. Maybe that's Trump or maybe that's somebody else. Probably somebody else, but Trump already looks pretty bad in regard to hanging out with Epstein. He didn't want those files released, and so far the administration hasn't fully released them. Boebert, like Green voted to release them.
Now she and her district must pay the price.
Well, it was a Trump district. If they suffer as a result, so be it. They're getting exactly what they deserve.
"Chemtrails" for those who are unfamiliar with this, is a conspiracy theory. As Wikipedia summarizes it:
The chemtrail conspiracy theory /ˈkɛmtreɪl/ is the erroneous belief that long-lasting condensation trails left in the sky by high-flying aircraft are actually "chemtrails" consisting of chemical or biological agents, sprayed for nefarious purposes undisclosed to the general public. Believers in this conspiracy theory say that while normal contrails dissipate relatively quickly, contrails that linger must contain additional substances. Those who subscribe to the theory speculate that the purpose of the chemical release may be solar radiation management, weather modification, psychological manipulation, human population control, biological or chemical warfare, or testing of biological or chemical agents on a population, and that the trails are causing respiratory illnesses and other health problems.
Uff.
The fact that this passed committee suggest that every member of this committee needs to return to kindergarten save for Barry Crago and Karlee Provenza
So who is on it?
Bob Ide
Barry Crago (voted no).
Taft Love
Troy McKeown
Laura Pearson
John Winter
Dalton Banks
Bob Davis
John Eklund
Steve Johnson
Pepper Ottman
Karlee Provenza (voted no).
Mike Schmid
Tomi Strock
Apparently global warming coming up with some blaming that on chemtrails. How ignorant can a person be? It's amazing that they actually will acknowledge that its occuring, and man made, but has to be caused by some bat shit crazy conspiracy theory.
Don't vote for anyone on this list after this, save for Provenza and Crago. You can judge them on their merits otherwise, but they didn't fall for this whacky shit or tolerate it.
Simply amazing, and depressing.
November 7, 2025
We've dropped the infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies I'm hoping by the midterms.
Dr. "Oz".
What the crap?
Also, at this event an unidentified man collapsed beside President Donald Trump.
Dr. Oz, did go to help the man, while Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ran away from the scene. The video of Kennedy's hasty departure is impressive.
November 19, 2025
Esquire, which I don't read, but whose cover I saw declares this to be "The Age of Stupid and openly wonders if the US will survive it. It further declares that the US went from anti-intellectual, to anti-intellect.
That seems pretty correct to me.
The Atlantic has an article entitled Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid, noting "Social media has dissolved the mortar of our society and made America stupid. It's actually from 2022, and compares the US to the Biblical Babel.
So on this topic, I'm not alone.
Trump is spouting stupider and stupider stuff by the day. He insults people throughout every single day.
The country literally can't keep going this way. Stupidity will bring it to ruin, if not the entire globe to ruin.
There is some evidence, albeit not overwhelming, that thinking people have had enough.
Recently I linked in an Ezra Klein episode on Nick Fuentes. It's here:
Well worth listening to, and absolutely frightening.
I'm noting that, as it wasn't until that episode that I appreciated the degree to which the current GOP, and the populist right, is being influenced by incels. Right after that, through synchronicity, it occurred to me recently how many right wing populists are basically misogynistic, racist, losers.
Not all of them by any means. There are many very right wing thinkers out there, and some of them are in the Trump camp.
Not too many of them are really MAGA anymore however.
There are, however, a group that spend all their time hating blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and women, because if all those people, they think, were "in their place", an easy life would be provided to them.
Well, bucko, the world was never like that. Get up, get out, and get a grip.
Trump feeds into these people's sense of worth. They love him, he desires love, and therefore, well . . .therefore.
This was oddly illustrated by this on Twitter, posted by one Richard Cooper, who seems to hate women, but who also, on his Twitter feed, like to demonstrate his hatred for women, by posting pictures of barely clad women.
"Just look at the degree on that chick"
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Well, I don't know what sort of background Cooper has, but in the age of stupid, there are a lot of comments like this out there.
This one, however, actually went viral, as it sparked thousands of degreed women to post their own photos of their graduations with "look at the degree on that chick", including the extremely conservative The Catholic Engineer, whom I follow. I'm a very conservative Catholic, but The Catholic Engineer makes me look like a liberal in comparison. But she's very interesting, very willing to engage in debates, and she also is coincidentally a pretty woman.
Adding this pic to the trend too cause it's cool
They shot Inception over here
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She is some sort of aerospace engineer, which is pretty darned high test.
Anyhow, the entire concept that men don't like intelligent women is complete bs. It's long been established that generally people marry somebody of like IQ, save for the super wealthy who have lost their morals and marry bimbos. I'll note here that it would appear that our nation's (illegitimate) leader, who very clearly isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, doesn't appear to have selected all of his "wives" based on intelligence, which doesn't necessarily mean that they're not intelligent. Only Marla Maples seemed to be an exception, but of course I don't know much about any of the lineup. The current occupant of the lineup might be smart, who knows, but given his wealth and her (then fully on display) looks, it seems to be the classic trophy situation.
That's been one of the things that's been so baffling. Trump's not smart, and he behaves like a wealthy playboy, and that's stupid. There's nothing admirable about that at all, and in no prior era would anyone have thought so.
Anyhow, since the introduction of Trump into politics there's been the rise of basement dwelling incels. No, they don't control everything. There's really mad right wing conservatives who were and are upset with moral decay. There's the illiberal democrats of the National Conservative movement, many of whom are real intellectuals (and probably mostly married to really sharp women). There's the Neo Traditionalist who are trying to grope their way back to an imagined Hilaire Belloc golden age that never really existed, but which they wish did and hope might, again. There's the really scary Evangelicals of the New Apostolic Reformation who seek to make the nation a Calvinist republic. All of these are tied up together in a coalition, now seemingly starting to fray, that has been MAGA.
But an undoubted part of that is the Nick Fuentes group of populists. They're angry, they're nasty, they are anti semitic, anti women, and pretty much opposed to anyone who isn't a basement dweller. They believe the women, Indians, Jews, Blacks and, ironically in the case of Fuentes, Hispanics stole from them simply by being here. Educated women, blacks, Jews, and others have taken their jobs and maybe the girls they would have had, they believe, leaving them with no future. They found a voice in people like Fuentes and Tucker Carlson, and even people like true, but radical, intellectuals from the other camps, like Helen Anderson, who imagines that radical feminizatist still exist and are wiping out society, as she's written about here:
It's a short article. It's also incredibly wrong. I've lived through the era in which law went from mostly male to increasingly female, in terms of lawyer demographics, and it really hasn't made one darned bit of difference in the law.
As noted, things seem to be changing a bit. I'm hearing more and more people who ere MAGA adherents suddenly question it. People as MAGA as Marjorie Taylor Green are now openly at war with a mentally failing Donald Trump. A war is going on inside of MAGA about Tucker Carlson's bromance with Fuentes.
And now this. People reacted heavily to the "look at the degrees on that chick" comment, a comment which suggested, basically, that women had value only for their physical and secual attributes.
I actually went in and liked Turner's Twitter feed, as she's an evolutionary biologist, one of my favorite topics. I'm not exactly threatened by a woman having an advanced degree in that topic.
Indeed, looking back, and I now have a lot of back to look at, in my dating days, there was never one single girl I dated that wasn't really sharp. One went on to be a school teacher. Another I lost track of but she was the valedictorian of her high school class. One was working on a masters degree in geophysics and obtained it. Two were law students. And finally there's my wife, who is pretty darned smart.
Indeed, look at the degrees on those chicks.
But consider the stupidity of the nation right now. It's appalling.
We'll close out this edition of this sad trailing thread here.
December 13, 2025
First it was the screwball chemtrail stupidity, now this:
*I'm using the word Ignoramus in its original English connotation, as derived from the Latin. I.e., an ignorant person.
Not a stupid person.
To willfully believe something stupid is ignorant, particularly when done by intelligent people. Some of these people are undoubtedly highly intelligent, and I don't know that any of them are stupid, but they're willfully voting for something that is just a weird silly conspiracy theory.
