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Something really weird is going on with Donald Trump and Washington D.C. architecture.
First he started putting up gold crap all over the White House. Then he ripped down part of the White House in order to build a ballroom. After that, there was the paver application to the Rose Garden. Now he wants to put up a Triumphal Arch. This past week he had this done:
Geez, this is stupid.
Harrison Design, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Expect a major hissy fit.
I think we can confidently assume this project is dead, and that some lesser more useful construction will take place after Trump is out of office.
The judge ruled that the plaintiff was likely to prevail as the administration likely lacks the authority they tried to exercise here.
They should refund the money and Trump should pay for this destruction himself.
April 1, 2026
Trump's executive order on mail voting is set to face legal challenges
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That's the birthright citizenship case.
Trump's going to lose this case, which will be another example of the wheels coming off of his administration. His presence at the Court will not impress anyone, let alone the Justices. Trump seems to have lost any sense that he's not that impressive to about 70% of Americans.
His attendance is, frankly, appalling.
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JUSTICE NEIL GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans today are birthright citizens under your test and under your friend's test?
D. JOHN SAUER, U.S. SOLICITOR GENERAL: I think so. I mean, obviously, they've been granted citizenship by statute ...
GORSUCH: Put aside the statute. Do you think they're birthright citizens?
SAUER: No, I think the clear understanding that everybody agrees in the congressional debates is that the children of tribal Indians are not birthright citizens.
GORSUCH: I understand that's what they said. But your test is the domicile of the parents, and that would be the test you'd have us apply today, right?
SAUER: Yes, yes. So, if a tribal Indian, for example, you know, gives up allegiance to ...
GORSUCH: Are tribal members born today birthright citizens?
SAUER: I think so, on our test, if they're lawfully domiciled here. I'm not s—, I have to think that through, but that's my reaction.
GORSUCH: I'll take the yes. That's alright.
Gee Louise, this administration is really something.
Oh, I know. . . can't be true, unless you are Mike Lee in which Trump is a genius and the United States should become its own planet.
If this is correct, it should be the last possible line in the sand for American Catholics. For those for whom it isn't, there's clearly no outrage that Trump could do that would matter to them.
There would seemingly be little to celebrate this year. A demented octogenarian doesn't acknowledge climate change and will be dead as a doornail before it has a chance to bother him, not that the well funded indoor lifestyle of Trump would be much impacted anyway, unless of course it disrupted golf somehow.
But, accidentally, there might be some reason to take hope.
Trump is so bad, and his administration is so horrific, that it may very well be like the refiners fire. It's burning the stupidity out of American politics but putting it fully in place and putting it to the test. When this is over, and it will be soon, very few Republican politicians close to Trump or supporting his policies will survive the test. The Democrats are coming back into power, and a in a chastised form.
Whether they learned their lessons or not we have yet to see. The Republicans show no sign that they have, but the public has made their opinions known. They do not like land rape. They do not like selling off public lands. They are noting that the environment isn't right. The validity of science is being demonstrated by the opponents of science being put into power.
It took World War Two to drive militarism out of the Germans and Japanese. It might have taken Trumpism to wake up Americans to science and reality.
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April 21, 2026
It might be hard to find a moral person in a den of inequity
“Go to church. Find Jesus. Why is everyone so horny around here?”
Boebert following the resignations of Democrat Eric Swalwell and Republican Congressman Tony Gonzales. Apparently Swalwell's sexual misconduct was extremely well known in Congress. Gonzales' staffer whom he had an affair with committed suicide by self immolation.
These are icky people.
Of course Boebert had her own moment in the dimly lit theatre when she was caught on video getting felt up by a date after her divorce.
None of which causes me to post this thread. Rather, it's the resignation of Lori Chavez-DeRemer who was accused of abusing her power. She's also accused of having an affair with one of the members of her security detail, and her husband, Shawn DeRemer, an anesthesiologist, was barred from the department’s headquarters after allegations by at least two female staff members that he had sexually assaulted them.
This, of course, follows the resignation of Kristi Noem who was allegedly having an affair with Corey Lewandowski, although she denies it. Indeed, everything listed here in regard to Noem and DeRemer is denied. Noem, we'll recall, suffered the revelation that her husband was posting photographs of himself with huge fake boobs.
So, in answer to Bobo's question, maybe it isn't that everyone in D.C. is inordinately horny, but rather that when you elect a man to lead them all who has publicly been sexually immoral you can't really expect everyone else to be.
Have any of these people behaved any worse than Donald Trump? Well, maybe, but it's not like they're all in the clean living club had a minor trip.
And how about those Epstein files?
Dimmitude.
There is apparently an HBO series called Euphoria. I had never heard of it until this week when it hit the news as Sydney Sweeney appears topless in it, and apparently appears in dicey scenes in general as an OnlyFans, um, model?
Sweeney is an actress who must be famous for something acting related, but I don't know what it is. I've never seen her in a movie, and I'm not going to watch Euphoria because 1) it doesn't sound interesting and 2) it sounds like it's outright pornography.
I've never labeled the phenomenon, I probably should and maybe I will with this thread, but the appearance in the nude of one good looking woman undoes the work of a thousand hard working talented women. I.e., you can have 1,000 Marie Curie's and 1 Sydney Sweeney is all it takes to set the progress of women back fifty years.* It's probably has its roots in human genetics, but it's a real phenomenon. Brilliant women can make all sorts of progress in sciences, art, literature, and along comes one topless tart and the meter is set back decades.
Sweeney was quoted as saying something like when she does this stuff, and the most recent topless scenes are apparently not the only sexually explicit ones in the show, she doesn't see it as herself, but has an out of body type experience. One quote also says the most recent one, which is supposed to be an OnlyFans topless ice cream photo, isn't erotic. Well, horseshit. Playing a pornographic model in the nude is pornographic.
I feel bad for Sweeney as I suspect she has some actual talent, but I don't know that. She's not an actress on my radar obviously. She really came to public attention most recently for her jeans ads, in which she's used as cheesecake. I guess she appeared as a female boxer (a sport I really don't think women should be in, given my archaic views) and got high marks on Rotten Potatoes. She changed her appearance enormously, based on the trailer, for that role, which takes some guts. It didn't seem to be widely watched, however, which is too bad as maybe it could have broken her out of the "let's watch Sweeney's boobs" roles that she seems to be taking to get by now.
The relationship between men and women, and children.
I saw a couple of items on Twitter that dimly sort of related to topics here, one being a quote, and another a reply to the quote.
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*We will call it the Sydney Sweeney Effect and put it in our rules of human behavior when we get a chance. We probably ought to name another one the Playboy Effect, which is obviously related to it, to what we earlier noted:
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April 13, 2026.
The number of Catholics in the world: Over 1,422,000,000, with the number growing.
The number of Catholics in the United States: Between 50,000,000 and 70,000,000, with the number growing.
The number of Orthodox in the world 260,000,000
The number of Orthodox Christians in the United States: 2,600,000.
The number of Protestants in the world: 600,000,000 to 1,000,000,000.
The number of Protestants in the United States 140,000,000 to 150,000,000, of which 10 to 15% are mainline protestants, and of which the largest denomination is the American Baptist Conference, which includes 13,000,000 to 15,000,000 members.
The Catholic Church, all rites (the Roman Rite is the largest by far) is the largest single church in the world and the largest single church in the United States, in spite of the United States being a protestant nation.
The second largest church in the world are the Orthodox, meaning that the Apostolic Churches, those which go all the way back to the Apostles, far exceed the number of Protestants.
While all churches have their problems, the Catholic church is growing everywhere. Protestant churches are dying.
And then we get this:
But some have. I know plenty.
Some are just shallow political thinkers, others not, and all are conservative. I'm conservative, but I've never supported Trump.
These people are opposed to abortion (so am I), and were horrified by transgenderism (so am I). That frankly is just about it. Some buy in to the other hardcore aspects of the far right as well, being opposed to immigration, for instance, which actually requires a more nuanced thought process than they are giving it. And the Democrats made it impossible for Catholics to really support them, becoming the party of death and weirdness.
None of which meant that anyone had to support a dim, narcissistic, serial polygamist.
For those of you who supported Trump on social issues, there were and are other parties. And how much do we know about Trump and any of the positions he supposedly supports. He own track record on moral issues is poor at least in so far as his treatment of women is concerned. And we're talking about adult women. This administration outright opposition to releasing the Epstein files certainly raises questions about it being willing to support child rapists, and there's enough smoke around Trump to at least raise questions about how far in the shallow end of the pool he may have been willing to go, although nothing's been proven. His family's financial dealings this term certainly raise questions of a moral nature. His launching of an illegal war and threatening mass civilian deaths is criminal.
We could go on. He's a horrible, demented, man. Christians who are supporting him need to rethink it immediately.
Catholics supporting him have helped bring us to this.
From here on out there's no excuse for a free pass by members of the Apostolic Faiths. None. And that includes the two members in the administration, Marco Rubio and J. D. Vance. Supporting Trump is supporting this mockery of the Faith and of all Christianity.
But for the voters too. In the midterms there are already candidates who note they are "endorsed by Donald Trump". One Catholic candidate here in the state hardcore embraces Trump and another runs, on all of her signs, "Endorsed by Donald Trump".
That needs to end right now.
The 25th Amendment needs to be applied, now. Catholics cozying up to Trump need to stop, now.
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Q: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus?
Trump: I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor. And had to do with red cross as a red cross worker
Donald Trump.
If that's what he's thought, it's because he's demented.
That being what he thought is rather difficult to believe. What's more believable is that he's worried American Catholics are now waking up, if they were not already awake, to what a terrible person he is.
April 16, 2026
We'll probably close this one out and start a new one, but this story is still playing out.
Something that should be really obvious, but MAGA just won't accept, is that Donald Trump is insane. Of course, accepting that a leader who they loved is nuts would mean that some of what they're supporting is nuts. Nobody wants to acknowledge that, but it needs to occur now.
We're in really dangerous territory.
Trump Rage at Pope Darkens as Ex-Allies Warn of Worsening Mental State
As Trump’s own ex-supporters start sounding the alarm about his mental state, a former top Trump official explains why the president’s madness is now badly messing with ordinary Americans’ everyday lives.
That's from The New Republic, which those with the real Trump Derangement Syndrome, the one that keeps a supporter from acknowledging that he's gone insane no matter what he does, will disregard. But these warnings aren't in isolation by any means.
Here's one from the National Catholic Reporter:
Trump is detached from reality. The 25th Amendment exists for this moment
For the reporter to call for the 25th Amendment to be invoked is pretty extraordinary, but again those with the real TDS will just say, well, that's because he insulted the Pope. Indeed, American Catholics in the political far right are already busy dissing Pope Leo XIV as some sort of flaming left winger, which is patently absurd.
Well, here's one from Jewish bonafide somewhat left winger Robert Reich:
He is Seriously, Frighteningly, Utterly, and Completely Losing His Mind
We are in great danger
The man is going insane. We're in some sort of a race now to see if his cabinet can screw up its courage or finally do something so patently nuts that it can't be denied. What that is, at this point, is almost too horrific to imagine.
What seems clear, for those who bother to observe, is that the U.S. is going to invade Cuba, unless the military puts a stop to it. Nobody in the Administration seems ready to stop it. We're basically starving the country to death, for no reason, right now, other than its a vengeful project supported by Cuban Americans. The chances that we revive Trump's lust for Greenland at some point, and committing forces to satiate it aren't beyond possibility. Maybe one of those two acts causes somebody to say "no".
Or maybe it'll be the war against Iran. We seem to have wondered into a war that has no way out and the stress it's causing Trump is rapidly wiping out what mental faculties he had left. The thought that Iran may win, and it may, is terrifying for him. It's also destroying the political chances of J. D. Vance, which Vance likely knows, and which gives Vance, who opposed the war, the chance to be Brutus to Trump's Caesar. Still, Trump launching an act of absolute barbarity to try to force Iran to surrender, which would fail, isn't beyond possibility either.
Or maybe it'll be something benign. He says something he can't retract about something abhorrent, or walks out in the paved rose garden sans clothes, or forgets who the first lady is.
Or maybe we wake up one day having deployed nuclear weapons with MAGA wondering, for the most part, how we got there, and with some supporting it as they must or must wakeup.
We're in dangerous territory.
I'd predicted when we started this series that Trump's second term would last 18 months, from January 2025 to June 2026. We're rolling right up on that. What is clear at this point is that in November the Democratic Party is going to resume control of the House and the Senate. At that point Trump's ability to reign like a dictator will end. Knowing that, if he is still in office, he'll do everything possible to disrupt the 2026 election and steal it.. People like Chuck Gray will help him in that attempt, and are already helping him. It probably won't work. If he goes too far, it'll result in mass violence.
The fact that he'll try it, and that it will become increasingly obvious that he's doing to try it as we move towards November, will mean that there will be a fair chance that if Trump is still in office after November, he'll face impeachment and be removed in 2027. Because of that, there's also an increased chance that if my original timeline was off, the 25th Amendment will be invoked then. An impeachment of Trump, at this point might very well be followed by an impeachment of Vance, who will not want to face that.
Hitler didn't resign rather than take Germany into defeat. Comparing Trump to Hitler is something even his opponents hate to have done, but he has a very similar mindset in certain ways. Hitler was democratically elected and co opted the state as well, and believed manically in himself. Trump is like that. Stress and drugs eroded Hitler's mind, as well as the burden of evil. Trump came into office in his first time an obviously mentally unstable person and it's grown worse. He's never been a person who is personally admirable.
The longer this goes on, the worse it will become.
April 21, 2026
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I have an upcoming post related to this, but I'll start here on the topic with this excellent essay from Angry Staff Officer.
Geez, this is stupid.
Harrison Design, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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If Donald Trump's illegal occupation of the Oval Office (he's an insurrectionist and not legally qualified to occupy the office with out Congressional relief) has shown us anything, it's that much of the way American government has been working is identical to the way the British one does. . . we just figure it works this way.
Trump, who is not a very smart man, smashed that as Trump is all about Trump, and doesn't what he wants. He's therefore demonstrated where all the holes are, although frankly quite a few of them have been obvious for some time.
In this series, we'll look at what needs to be fixed, and how to fix it.
Trump sycophant Pam Bondi is out, her reputation solidified as a toady, and her legal career wrecked. Sycophant Todd Blanche is now in, at least temporarily.
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But that's not what we refer to.
Yesterday, the full-scale war between the Secretary of the Army Daniel P. Driscoll and the Secretary of Defense burst into the open with Hegseth firing Secretary of the Army loyalist and remaining solid generals including Army chief of staff, Gen. Randy George. Chief of chaplains, Maj. Gen. William Green, and the commanding general of Army Transformation and Training Command, David Hodne were also fired.
The reason for Hegseth's discontent is not openly known, although he's been at war with Driscoll for some time, but senior officers have been reportedly upset with Hegseth due to his monkeying with the promotion list. Recently two black and two female officers were reported removed from the list and there were comments that Trump would not wish to stand next to a black female officer.
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News reports this morning hold that Trump is considering canning Pam Bondi for her poor handling, if that's what she's doing, of the Epstein matter, which just won't go away.
The weird thing is that if you hang out with kiddy diddlers, brag about checking out teenage models at a pageant in the buff, talk about grabbing, well you know, people start to think you might be a kiddy diddler.
Weird, eh?
And she's gone.
According to the Daily Mail, the British tabloid, which I would not regard as fully reliable, she begged not to be canned. She probably ought to regard it as a relief, given that she's now off the sinking ship.
It's my sincere hope that she never works as an attorney again. She's been an embarrassment to a profession that's far too often embarrassed. Her conduct has been reprehensible. Frankly, I doubt that she'll practice law, however. She'll probably lectures at some university, which seems to be the place all departed politicians go, and I'm certain that she'll work on a tell all book that condemns Trump, now that he's terminated her career.
Her reputation will never recover.
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