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Showing posts with label The relationship between men and women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The relationship between men and women. Show all posts
Friday, December 5, 2025
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Sixth Edition. The demented panicked Octogenarian edition.
November 15, 2025
Rep. Thomas Massie's wife passed away, and he's remarried.
Trump hates Massie as Massie is not a toady sycophant. In that vein, he's posted:
This from a guy whose been "married" four times and has cheated on at least three out of the four of his wives, admits that he screwed around, literally, earlier, and who hung around with kiddy diddlers.
What a vile disgusting human being Donald Trump is.
Massie's first wife died a little over a year ago. They'd been married some 30 years. His second wife is somebody he's known since 2016 who has worked for Sen. Rand Paul. FWIW, marriages in that time frame are pretty common for people in Massie's situation. Theodore Roosevelt, for instance, remarried about two years after the death of his first wife, and when he did marry, it was to somebody he had known for quite some time.
Trump, on the other hand. . .
November 17, 2025
Q: Your voice sounds rough. Are you feeling alright?
TRUMP: I was shouting at people because they were stupid about something having to do with trade and a country. I blew my stack at these people
Q: Well it sounds like there's a follow up there--
TRUMP: What? I thought you said there was a polyp. I don't want to hear that!
November 18, 2025
Trump had a confrontation with Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs yesterday on Air Force One in which he once again demonstrated he has dementia
Jennifer Jacobs: “If there’s nothing incriminating in the Epstein files why not…?”
Trump: “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.”
Trump's clearing being kept in office by the NatCons as he's unintentionally running cover for them. This can only go on so long.
Also, while it didn't at first occur to me, as its so weird, this strikes me as quite misogynistic. Calling a woman "piggy" is really vile, but it does serve to illustrate Trump's history with women, really. Going into their dressing rooms, according to one of Epstein's former girlfriends, groping her in front of Epstein, etc.
cont:
There are times I look at him and I see my grandfather. I see that same look of confusion. I see that he does not always seem to be oriented to time and place. His short-term memory seems to be deteriorating. . . [Trump's] lifelong struggles with impulse control are also “deteriorating as well."
Mary Trump.
The government is in the hands of a mad man.
November 28, 2025
Trump had a full blown late night Thanksgiving meltdown.
He's now openly, and obviously, completely unstable.
This wasn't the only example of this. He also called a reporter stupid for pointing out that assailant who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington D.C. had received asylum from the Trump Administration.
There can be little doubt at this point that Trump is no longer control of himself, and probably only partially in control of the nation. NatCons behind the administration are likely largely in control, but not fully, which is in part which makes Trump doubly dangerous. A NatCon coup is basically going on while Trump retains enough authority to be legitimately dangerous.
Having allowed this to go on so long we're now in the situation where it's actually becoming increasingly difficult for the 25th Amendment to be invoked. By pretending that Trump is not deranged, the bar has been set so high that Trump's supporters will not be able to tell what he actually did that caused him to be removed. We are, therefore, really gambling now. We're gambling that his actions don't cause a war, and that the war doesn't see the use of weapons that have largely become unthinkable in modern times. We're gambling that force isn't used against American citizens. And we're gambling that Trump's disregard for the law doesn't set in on a permanent institutional basis.
And about those supporters:
60 percent of the people who constantly use the phrase “Trump derangement syndrome” and 98% of those who use it as an all-explanatory theory for any inconvenient arguments or facts, suffer from pro-Trump
Derangement syndrome. Forget the terminology. If you think any information that make you doubt yourself is crazy, you are in a bubble.
Regarding that deline, the New York Times ran a recent article with this headline.
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
President Trump has always used his stamina and energy as a political strength. But that image is getting harder for him to sustain.
The article notes that Trump has reduced his workload 39%.
Also of note, those close to Trump are begging to openly admit that they're stressed and fatigued. Poor old Mike Johnson has complained about not having a vacation in two years (yeah, well, suck it up, buttercup, I haven't had one for at least twice that long). Loyal sycophant Karoline Leavitt complained openly about stress recently.
The question now is where all this leads. Those who can invoke the 25th Amendment may simply have waited too long and now need Trump to do something that anyone would regard as fully insane. . . with the question being what that would be.
cont:
Trump is clearly vindictive and unhinged. This will set the stage up for wiping out his executive orders, and perhaps reign back in the excessive use of executive orders.
November 30, 2025
Reporter: Walz called for the release of your MRI resultsTrump: They can release it. It was perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.Reporter: What were they looking at?Trump: For what? Releasing?Reporter: no, what part of your body was the MRI looking atTrump: I have no idea. It’s just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and I aced it.
Uh huh. . .
First of all, I heard Walz's remarks, and he's right. They don't give MRI's for sport. They had some brain thing they were looking into.
And they tell the patient the result. . . if they're functioning and able to understand it.
And as for cognitive tests, the entire nation gets a dose of bat shit demented from Trump weekly.
December 3, 2025
Not a sign of dementia, but rather of age, Trump is having a hard time staying awake during daytime events.
No doubt this problem is made worse by his staying up late into the night to post rage tweets.
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The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Fifth Edition. He's not okay.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Monday, November 26, 1945. Now's the Time, Wolves and War Brides, Questionable claim about Goering, Test tube babies in Virgin hospitals, Japanese social insurance, ties for Christmas.
Recorded on this day in 1945:
The Sheridan Press reported on wolves and war brides.
The story on the big wolf is ironic in a contemporary context. Wolves were wiped out in Colorado, probably and in Wyoming, probably, until the major reintroduction effort of the 2000s began. It's been a huge success in Wyoming, for which I'm glad, in spite of my initial skepticism. An ongoing effort is occuring in Colorado, which is meeting a lot of opposition in the anti nature Freedom Caucus era.
The Rocky Mountain News, which I remember from the 70s, 80s and 90s, when it was the best, in my view, of the two Denver papers, was a bit sensationalist at the time, which I've only recently come to appreciate. It was always a "tabloid", with that sort of paper format for some reason having a reputation of that type. I've never heard of the story related by the headline here:
A little digging finds that this claim was flat out untrue.
The News also reported on, oddly enough, test tube babies, something that is way earlier than I'd have ever supposed.
The first "test tube" baby was born in 1978. That person Louise Brown, is still with us. The first example of IVF in a mammal did not occur until 1959. Apparently the proponent of this suggestion was well ahead of her time in terms of scientific knowledge.
It's notable that the suggestion had a strong eugenics characteristic. That drive is also now very much coming into fruition, with designer babies now becoming a thing.
On the underlying concern, the explosion in births and the drop in the average age for a woman to first give birth that commenced at this time shows the concern was misplaced. As a Catholic, of course, I regard IVF as both unnatural and immoral. The bizarrely pro natalist Trump administration is all in on it.
The News also reported on Japanese social insurance, something being brought in by the progressive and distributist MacArthur occupation.
The cartoons of the day.
A classic gift was suggested.
British troops swept the Sharon plain in reaction to a prior days terrorist attack.
Ezra Pound was indicted for a second time on 19 counts of treason.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Friday, November 19, 1915. Joe Hill executed.
Trade Union leader and member of the IWW was executed for the murder of John and Arling Morrison in Salt Lake City in 1914. His guilt continues to be contested, and Hill became sort of a martyr for trade union activism.
Hill was a Swede born as Joel Emmanuel Hägglund in an era when a lot of Scandinavian and Eastern European immigrants were fairly radicalized.
Hill may in fact have not been guilty of the murder he was accused of. Morrison, a former policeman and grocer, along with his son, was shot and killed by two men. Later that evening Hill arrived at a doctor's office with a gunshot wound and claimed it was sustained in a fight over a women. He refused to say more, even later. Evidence developed as late as 2011 suggest that Hill was telling the truth initially, and that he was shot by Otto Appelquist, a friend of his. Both Appelquist and Hill were lodgers of the Erickson family, and rivals for her attentions. Hill apparently told Erickson that Appelquist had shot him before going to seek medical attention, but he never revealed the details for his defense at trial, which is peculiar.
Hill, who was a songwriter himself, was famously memorialized in the balled "Joe Hill".
It's a bit much, frankly, particularly if he was shot by a fellow Swede over the affection of a Swedish American girl. That's drama, but not that sort of drama.
It's interesting that he never revealed the details of what would have been a pretty good alibi. Given the immigrant connection, he may have felt that he simply didn't want to get them in trouble.
Richard Bell Davies of the Royal Naval Air Service landed his Nieuport to rescue downed airman Gilbert Smylie in the first example of an air combat rescue mission.
He won the Victoria Cross.
The KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross to Squadron-Commander Richard Bell Davies, D.S.O., R.N., and of the Distinguished Service Cross to Flight Sub-Lieutenant Gilbert Formby Smylie, R.N., in recognition of their behaviour in the following circumstances:—
On the 19th November these two officers carried out an air attack on Ferrijik Junction. Flight Sub-Lieutenant Smylie's machine was received by very heavy fire and brought down. The pilot planed down over the station, releasing all his bombs except one, which failed to drop, simultaneously at the station from a very low altitude. Thence he continued his descent into the marsh. On alighting he saw the one unexploded bomb, and set fire to his machine, knowing that the bomb would ensure its destruction. He then proceeded towards Turkish territory.
At this moment he perceived Squadron-Commander Davies descending, and fearing that he would come down near the burning machine and thus risk destruction from the bomb, Flight Sub-Lieutenant Smylie ran back and from a short distance exploded the bomb by means of a pistol bullet. Squadron-Commander Davies descended at a safe distance from the burning machine, took up Sub-Lieutenant Smylie, in spite of the near approach of a party of the enemy, and returned to the aerodrome, a feat of airmanship that can seldom have been equalled for skill and gallantry.
He'd earlier won the DSO.
For services rendered in the aerial attack on Dunkirk, 23rd January, 1915:—
Squadron Commander Richard Bell Davies
Flight Lieutenant Richard Edmund Charles Peirse
These Officers have repeatedly attacked the German submarine station at Ostend and Zeebrugge, being subjected on each occasion to heavy and accurate fire, their machines being frequently hit. In particular, on 23rd January, they each discharged eight bombs in an attack upon submarines alongside the mole at Zeebrugge, flying down to close range. At the outset of this flight Lieutenant Davies was severely wounded by a bullet in the thigh, but nevertheless he accomplished his task, handling his machine for an hour with great skill in spite of pain and loss of blood.
He remained in the Royal Navy until retiring in 1941, at which time he joined the Royal Navy Reserve, taking a reduction in rank to Commander from Vice Admiral in order to do so. He retied a second time in 1944. He died in 1966 at age 79.
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Wednesday, November 17, 1915. Fighting in Haiti and Egypt.
Monday, November 17, 2025
Donal Trump commenting on Thomas Massie getting remarried. . .
given his vile history regarding women in general, and his own disregard for the sanctity of marriage, is like a thief commenting on private property rights, or a murderer on the value of human life.
Monday, November 3, 2025
Tuesday, November 3, 1925. Mitchell's Witness Demands Upheld, New Jersey Ballot, and the evolution of word meaning.
Mitchell was having some success with his witness list.
And Cowboys Out Our Way illustrated the evolution of a word in a somewhat ironic way.
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Saturday, October 31, 1925. Subpoena for Coolidge?
Friday, October 17, 2025
Saturday, October 17, 1925: When two ride one horse.
Hasan al-Kharrat' rebels entered Damascus.
Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Today -100: October 17, 1925: When two ride one ho...: French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand says the Locarno Conference lays the foundations for the United States of Europe. Hurrah! In Locarn...
This item contains an interesting one one regarding modification of the wedding vows in the Episcopal service.
"What a Protection Electric Light is" advertisement for Edison Mazda . The Saturday Evening Post, October 17, 1925.
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Friday, October 16, 1925. The Locarno conference ended with several agreements in place and an atmosphere of optimism.
Sunday, October 12, 2025
Friday, October 12, 1945. Operation Beleaguer.
I missed this when it started, which was October 10, so I'll note it here. This was day two of Operation Beleaguer, the Marine Corps occupation of northeastern China's Hebei and Shandong provinces from 1945 until 1949.
Members of the 1st Marine Division in China. Two Chinese women appear in this photograph, one dressed in Western clothing, even though the Marine Corps attempted to strictly prevent romances breaking out between Marines and Chinese civilians. People are people, so such interactions are essentially impossible to stop, but this particular story is very understudied, in part because Asian women were not covered by the War Brides Act, but marriages nonetheless occured. 5,132 Chinese women entered the United States as spouses of servicemen after World War Two, which included women who married Army Air Corps servicemen who had served in China during the war. This is, overall, a small number, and indeed its must smaller than the number of Japanese women who married U.S. servicemen after 1950, which reflects official policy, cultural differences, and lingering US prejudice in the period against the Chinese.
It was not a combat operation, although some combat would ultimately occur, but focused on the repatriation of more than 600,000 Japanese and Koreans that remained in China at the end of World War II to their homelands. Having said that, the looming crisis in post war China in which a seemingly defeated Communist Party began to advance in the country's civil war was not far from anyone's mind and the primary mission of force was to prevent the People's Liberation Army from accepting the surrender of Japanese soldiers in Northern China and to secure that region of China for the Nationalist Government, which had been an American ally throughout the war. Landings actually commenced as early as September 30. By the end of the operation in 1949, the 1st Marine Division would be a covering force for the evacuation of foreign nationals.
U.S. Marines had been in China well before World War Two, but in this instance the it was effectively a different Marine Corps than the one that had existed up until 1940. The Marine Corps had only been a major combat force once previously, and that had been during World War One when the 4th Marine Brigade had been part of the US Second Division. The 1st Marine Division dated back only to February 1, 1941 when the military started to enormously expand in anticipation of going to war. Given its prior history, only the Marines themselves really anticipated being a major ground combat element in the war, ultimately expanding to six divisions. Six divisions is a huge Marine Corps, but the Corps was dwarfed in size by the Army, even in terms of Pacific combat, where the Army deployed twenty two divisions.
With the end of the war the service began to return men quite rapidly to civilian status and members of the Marine Corps, the vast majority of whom were wartime volunteers, anticipated the same. Prior to the war Marines tended to be career oriented to a high degree, and frankly about as rough of set of characters as could be imagined. By 1945 most of them were toughened civilians in uniform, comparable to volunteers in the U.S. Army, and some were conscripts. Nobody anticipated being sent into China, even though prior to the war Marines had served there.
Because the military was in fact demobilizing, this would prove to be a problem for the 1st Marine Division in China, as it soon began to suffer attrition due to members being discharged. It's combat efficiency dropped, and at the same time, it became increasingly obvious that the Communists were going to win the Chinese Civil War.
While going to China was a surprise to the Marines, the found when they arrived that the Chinese were wildly enthusiastic about their appearance. No doubt their showing up meant not only that they were liberated from the Japanese, but also from the Communists and the Nationalist, at least for a time.
On this, while we're jumping way ahead of our story, it's also worth noting that this points out a problem in the "who lost China" line of the Republican Party following the evacuation of the Chinese Nationalist from the mainland. There are a lot of elements to that story, but the GOP at the time, suddenly shocked following the Berlin Blockade and then the fall of the Nationalist government in China, looked for somebody to blame.
It might be noted at first, that they should have looked at themselves. The GOP had been actively highly isolationist prior to World War Two and evcen leading up the last year before the war there were strong elements within the party that opposed entering the war. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor followed by the German declaration of war on the U.S. solved that for a time, but upon the restoration of peace, the main branch of the GOP returned to isolationism. The US didn't become isolationist as the 79th Congress remained controlled by Democrats. The 80th Congress did not, but it was somewhat ineffectual for that period (which is nothing compared to today). The 80th Congress, however, notably presided over the fall of China.
Be that as it may, some have suggested that US inaction over China was due to the penetration of the US by Soviet spies in the 1930s, and there may be a little to that, but only a little. M. Stanton Evans hinted at that in his revisionist biography of Joseph McCarthy, which is quite well done and a good read. But even there, the suggestion was that Communist elements managed to hold up arms shipments to the Nationalist. Even were that true, any follower of this site could see that in 1945 China was awash in arms and yet at the same time the Nationalist were losing battle after battle.
It is something worth exploring. Before the war with Japan, the Nationalist were winning. After the war, it just took five years for them to lose.
Anyhow,, realistically, looking at Operation Beleaguer, what really could have been done? The US was not going to be able to send U.S. troops into a Chinese Civil War right after World War Two. There was no public will for that at all and no moral within the U.S. military that would have allowed for that to have occured.
Elsewhere in China, the Shangdang Campaign ended in communist victory.
German general Anton Dostler was sentenced to death in Rome for war crimes.
The Norwegian Supreme Court upheld the death sentence imposed on Vidkun Quisling.
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