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Tuesday, March 24, 2026

The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Tenth Edition. Finger on the nuclear trigger.

 

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.

February 20, 2026

I flew to Iraq. I was extremely brave. I said to my people, 'Am I allowed to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor?'…Someday I'm going to try. I'm going to test the law

Donald Trump.

February 21, 2026


Greenland has universal health care.  

Greenland is presently taking care of a U.S sailor evacuated from a U.S. submarine. . . by a Danish Seahawk helicopter.

Trump is completely delusional.  He should be removed.

Greenland doesn't need this, and moreover, Greenland's universal healthcare is something Americans lack.  If anything, Denmark should send a hospital ship to us.

This is patently absurd.  Frankly, at this point, anyone supporting Trump is not doing so out of faith in him, unless they're just willfully ignorant.  So outside of that, why on Earth is anyone not demanding that he be removed?

March 4, 2026

Mad King Donny is threatening to cut off all trade with Spain.

March 16, 2026

This is the first installment of this since Trump ignored his advisers and launched a war against Iran that he thought might last a few days and bring him a big victory.

It isn't.  It's wrecking the economy and there's no end in sight.   He is, of course, having a complete fit:

With Iran, Trump has met something that truly doesn't care what he thinks about anything whatsoever.  He can't bully them, he's already attacking them.  The news isn't cheery and he can't lie his way out of it.

Given this, the stress of his complete impotence here is going to get worse and worse, and probably with that, his behavior  He's threatening not to directly take on the Press, which may finally cause the US press to grow a spine.

And things may be beginning to finally happen:

A theory very close to the one I've advanced here.

We are now in a very dangerous place in the globe. Trump is an immoral man, and he's demented.  He's also getting desperate.  At some point my guess is he'll start asking Hegseth about what nuclear weapons might do here.  And he will commit, to some degree, U.S. ground forces.

March 22, 2026

In his madness and frustration over his  massive, and frankly stupid, miscalculation over Iran's reaction to being attacked in an illegal war by the US, Donald Trump is now resorting to broadcasting his illegal intentions on social media.  If Iran does not open the Straits of Hormuz, which its not going to, he's going to order US forces to illegally strike the electrical power structure of Iran.

Trump is a monster.  The 25th Amendment  must be invoked now.

With Trump reaching new levels of barbarism and insanity, we will close with this edition.

March 24, 2026

Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story

"The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."

And with this entry, which nails it, we'll go on to a new edition.

To sum it up, Donald Trump is insane.

Cont:

He looked old, and he seemed tired. His speech slurred. More than anything else, he seemed utterly unattuned to the many crises that are all piling up around his many careless decisions. He finished speaking, everybody else at the table took turns lavishing him with praise, and then it was time to head to Graceland.

We’ve made the point many times during Trump’s second term, but it bears repeating: There’s little reason to believe that any of this is an affectation. Trump is a lifelong pathological solipsist. He’s fed that solipsism by vacuum-packing himself in an information environment of buttery flattery, spending his days marinating in the most over-the-top praise both in person and online. And it hasn’t helped that, as he’s gotten older, he’s seemingly fallen prey to the same tendencies that many old people do: the strongest parts of his personality just keep getting stronger. Any day now, he seems genuinely to believe, it’s all gonna turn around. Everybody just wait and see. The golden age is mere moments away.

Last edition:

The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Ninth Edition. Trump is insane and the end of the United States as a great nation.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Thursday,, January 26, 1911.

The United States and Canada entered into their first reciprocal trade agreement.

The US, of course, wasn't governed by a senile chief executive, and for that matter, the chief executive at the time was not given unfettered powers.

Glenn H. Curtiss made the first sustained seaplane flight, taking off from San Diego Bay in his D-Hydro-Aeroplane and then landing on the Pacific Ocean off San Diego.  Meanwhile, Roger Sommer set a new record for number of passengers on an airplane, flying five passengers in France thirteen miles.

Life magazine, which came out at odd times of the week, came out.


The cover illustration was by James Montgomery Flagg, and it wasn't one of his better ones.

Last edition:

Wednesday, January 25, 1911. Honduran Revolution.

Wednesday, December 31, 1969

Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 2. The "War, what's it good for?" edition.


February 28, 2025

War, huh, yeah

What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing, uhh

War, huh, yeah

What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing

Edwin Starr.  War, 1970.

Oil is at $67.29.

It'll go up over the next several days with the US and Israel ineffectually rocketing Iran, and Iran ineffectually rocketing the entire Arabian Peninsula in a war that's going to get much, much, worse.

War, what's it good for?  Well it's good for raising the prices of everything, that's for sure.

A local headline:

Company eyes Wyoming for massive crude oil pipeline

Pipelines create a lot of work while they're being built, although usually the pipeliners are from out of state.

March 3, 2026.

Oil is at $76.08.

Wyoming oil is oddly, still under $58.00/bbl.

March 4, 2026


Obviously everything is going great.


March 6, 2026

Brent Crude:  $90/bbl.

March 9, 2026
There is no precedent for this. The sky is the limit.
Neil Atkinson, former head of oil at the International Energy Agency.

Don't worry, the American Supreme Leader has declared that this is a very small price for you schmucks to pay.


I thought we'd already ended the Iranian nuclear threat?

Well, we did, but didn't, the Dear Leader declares.  So enjoy your higher price at the pump and remember, no Trumps will be harmed in the war, so it's all okay. That's the important thing.

Wyoming crude is at $75.00/bbl.

In spite of what his admirers seem to think, everything Trump touches, just turns to shit.

Cont:

Wild market today.  Oil went up to $119/bbl and has since fallen to $90/bbl, as there's indications the administration might do something.  Some financial analysts feel that petroleum may be reaching the "demand destruction" stage. 

Cont:

I've worried, and warned, about this:


As previously noted, I assume Iran has sleeper cells.  It's surprised me that they haven't activated them, but then, once you do, you probably only get to do it once.

Let's hope they aren't activating anything, or better yet, that they don't have any.

March 11, 2026

Headline in the CST:

Trump’s claim of ‘roaring’ US economy not backed by data 

 2026 has kicked off with job losses, rising gasoline prices

Sen. Roger Marshall on high gas prices: "Freedom is not free. Americans are gonna have to make some sacrifices."

Quite a statement in support of a war Americans didn't want launched by an oligarch who doesn't even drive.

Petroleum prices are a price leader, if they go up, given as all goods that are moved in this country are moved via a petroleum fueled thing, the price of everything goes up. So does the price of farming, so  the price of food goes up.

March 13, 2026

Trump Removes Sanctions on Russia to Help Oil Flow Amid Iran Conflict

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it was “unfortunate” that the move could benefit Russia, but maintained that it was only for the short term.

The Trump administration seems to have no grasp on what it is doing at all.

March 14, 2026

It's not just oil. Here comes Hormuz inflation.

Garden supplies, birthday balloons and semiconductors could get hit by price inflation or shortages.

The gravity of this can't be overemphasized.  Crude oil is up 47%, so far.  Fuel prices are going to go up. The boneheads running the war hit a fuel loading island yesterday.  Fertilizer is going to go up, and food production down.  

It's clear Trump thought this war would be over in a few days, even though we know that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs warned against the war.  This is going to go on for months. Prices will continue to climb.

Trump hasn't really been correct on a single thing he's done in his second term so far.  This is the shit icing on the shit cake.  It's going to be extremely bad.

March 16, 2026

Something that Americans seemingly failed to take note in the Trump economy, which has been backwards looking, is that the rest of the world has been rushing into an electric future.

Contrary to what Donald Trump imagines, China is investing in wind power like crazy and now over 50% of new vehicles sold in China are electric.

The current war will accelerate those efforts everywhere but here, and as a result, we'll get further and further behind the curve.

This is what rule by demented octogenarians and their acolytes produced.

March 17, 2026

Wartime oil spike likely portends more bad than good for oil-rich Wyoming

Last edition:

Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 1. The reap what you sow edition.