And no, we aren't advocating that in this thread. We're advocating the use of the 25th Amendment.
The fact of the matter is that by July 20, 1944, it was too late to save Germany form complete defeat. It wasn't too late, however, to rescue German conservatism. Even as it was, the first post war West German governments were conservative.
The Republican Party is not Donald Trump's party. Just like German conservatives of the 1920s and 1930s, real conservatives made a terrible bargain with radical German populists as they were obsessed with what they thought was German decline, looked back on a mythical German past, and listened to the words of a radical and heard what they wanted to hear. They then followed along with evil thinking, most likely, that it wouldn't last forever, and at least the Nazis were addressing the Communists.
That's basically what the Republicans did.
Donald Trump spent most of his life registered as a Democrat, but at the end of they day, Trump's political party is Donald Trump. Unlike Hitler, Trump isn't a very smart man. He's a semi good salesman who mostly sells what people want to hear, and Donald Trump. He tapped into Rust Belt, Southern, rural and conservative discontent and sold it all as a movement. Truth be known, people's interest in that movement was fairly personal. People were worried about high immigration rates and wanted something done, but they weren't really for violence in the streets. And in their minds, an illegal immigrant was a guy working a construction job they couldn't get, not Maria who has been doing their shirts at the cleaners, or Jose who takes care of the sprinkler system. But, just like the German conservatives, once you have blood on your hands its hard not to have a lot more.
Indeed, it's hard not to have a lot more even if you have to endorse outright hypocrisy. Some were worried about social sexual issues, including gay marriage and transgenderism, both of which are in fact legitimate concerns. The dear leader is so worried about that such that he has Scott Bessant, a married homosexual who will support any dumb thing Trump says, in his cabinet and who has had his family photographed with Bruce Jenner post "transition". Some were worried about what they perceived as an irreligious drift in the country to such an extent they've made Trump into a near demigod even though he has no demonstrable attachment to Christianity at all. Some were worried about endless foreign wars and are now endorsing endless foreign wars.
Most people have absolutely had enough, however.
To add to it, Trump is increasingly erratic. Signs of dementia were clearly there in his first term, but now he's rocketing into insanity. He babbles absolute nonsense in the middle of the night with childish tweets that no sane adult would tolerate. If he was a member of your family you'd be seeking to have him committed.
The end result of this is completely clear. If Trump is still in office in November, the Republican Party will be destroyed. Not just defeated, but absolutely destroyed. The GOP will not regain power nationally in any serious way for a generation, assuming it simply doesn't dissolve. Local MAGA expressions, even in deeply Republican states will be put in the trash bin. Politicians who were loyal to Trump, like Mike Lee, Lindsey Graham, J. D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Chuck Gray, Megan Degenfelder, and a host of others (including John Barrasso) will find their political careers over, even if they are still in office. Some, such as Graham, Gray and Vance, will be regarded as absolute jokes.
The only way to avoid this, and it might not be avoidable at this point, is for the 25th Amendment, or his obviously bad health, to remove Trump by November. At this point there's a fairly good reason that Trump's dementia is advancing so rapidly, and his health declining so quickly, that Trump will expire of natural causes any day now. He's not well. If death arrives him and takes him to his final reward it would spare people like Vance, Rubio and Barrasso from having to have a spine. Assuming it does not, only the 25th Amendment stands a chance of saving the Republican Party.
The 25th Amendment option has to be invoked very soon if there's any chance of saving the GOP. And by soon, I mean this month. Early voting is already starting for primaries. Voters everywhere are trashing the GOP. Virginia has been flipped to the GOP in a way that the Republicans cannot recover from for a generation. Every single day that goes by makes the extinction of the Republican Party that much more inevitable.
Political parties do not last forever. The GOP is not likely to survive Trump, and if it does, it'll be a minority party the way it was after 1932, standing for. . . well pretty much nothing but a sort of milk toast conservatism. If it boots Trump now, it stands a chance of reforming itself sufficiently before November that the looming disaster can just be a bad one, rather than a catastrophic one.
Of course, booting the demented would be dictator requires courage, something most of them lack. Most of them fear MAGA. But a breach with MAGA, which has nowhere else to go. It took Soviet tanks in Berlin to free German conservatives from the Nazis. The Republicans will be freed from MAGA, but at what cost?
If nothing is done, by January 2027, it'll be way too late. Like Red Army policemen directing the traffic in Berlin, the Democratic Party will be directing the social and legislative traffic of the country. That might be what's going to happen definitively anyway. I do not see the Republicans being able to salvage their immediate electoral fortunes. The absolute stench of Donald Trump and his betrayal of democracy sticks to them too much. But at a bare minimum, the GOP can avoid the discredit of the metaphorical fighting in the streets of Berlin, which will occur in November through January as Trump and his fanatic backers maintain they didn't loose and they aren't going to recognize the results. That will occur.
And if that' occurs, a pox on the GOP in general . That's what most Americans will think as well.
And perhaps its necessary. The party of Lincoln sold its soul and became the party of Orange Mussolini. An entity like that needs to be purged to its core, with the Lees, Tubervilles, Millers and all relegated to the political dustbin and recalled in our memories the same way that Trump will be, an embarrassing disaster.
The Donald Trump Effect, voters running from candidates endorsed by the deranged octogenarian whose administration is protecting the rapist of teenagers, starting wars, and causing rising inflation, is having a noticeable nationwide, and even international, effect. Voters in special elections all over the US are dumping MAGA candidates and electing Democrats. It's an absolute certainty at this point that, unless something dramatic happens, that the Republicans are going to lose badly at the midterms and retake the House. And now it appears they're likely to take the Senate. The Cook Political Report shifted four Senate races this past week to favor Democratic and pundits are now openly saying the Democrats will take the upper house.
Of course, Democrats have a way of shooting themselves in the foot. Nonetheless the momentum is clear. Trump has lost independents, who he needs in most places for the GOP to remain in office, and he's lost Hispanics. This past week his actions were such that if he has not lost non Hispanic Catholics, its only because those voters value Trump more than the Faith or are engaging in some really self delusional thinking, keeping in mind that you never actually have to vote Democratic and that in the primaries there is usually a Republican willing to run who isn't a slave to Trump.
California Republicans refused to endorse a Governor's candidate in a convention that was just held and snubbed Trump's endorsement of one. They see the handwriting on the wall.
But still you have this.
An entire group of Wyoming candidates acts like this adoring girl. Shoot, they'd like to be squeezed by Trump too.
If Wyomingites are going to wake up, and that's unlikely, there's be a point, if we are not already at it, where voting for the GOP candidates who associate with themselves with Trump would be a no go. And some of those candidates would already be no gos.
Chuck Gray, who barely won the Secretary of State's office and only did so by lies and screeds about an imaginary pack of left wingers always oppressing him is running on being perpetually pissed off at at the left and being in deep love with Donald Trump. Reid Rasner promises to be Trump's number one fan. Megan Degenfelder has "Endorsed by Donald Trump" on her campaign signs.
All three are Catholic. If they can still stomach Trump at this point, there's literally no value they hold that they actually hold. No Democrat is going to win, so lashing themselves to Trump is either cynical or self delusional. It's inexcusable.
Degenfelder's signs out to read "Endorsed by Blasphemer Donald Trump". Gray and Rasner, who are both young enough, ought to joint the Marines and put their bodies where their mouths are.
Another far right Catholic figure in Wyoming is Rachel Rodriguez-Williams, who is now running for Secretary of State as Rachel Williams. She's never said anything about Trump of which I'm aware, but as a Freedom Caucuser she ought to fell uncomfortable with the company she's been keeping.
It'll also be interesting to see how columnists like Jonathan Lange, a Lutheran minister, approaches what is now too obvious to ignore. . . Trump doesn't care about religion at all and feels free to outright mock it. Granted, he's not Catholic, but for sincere Christians what was depicted is blasphemous irrespective of which branch of Christianity a person might be in.
And then we have this:
There's no excuse for what Gray did.
Even some Republican states are opposing giving voter data to the Federal Government, but Chuck was the first to comply.
We'll see how this plays out, but if he loses, given his position, he ought to get the maximum penalty.
Anyhow, we're in the thick of the election now, but every day, Donald Trump gets weirder and weirder. He's insane. Standing by the insanity is not excusable.
This may be showing that the bloom is actually off the Trump rose. Generally, Wyoming Republicans have been complete Trump toady's.
The five are Kevin Christensen, who called the post blasphemous, Matt McGinnis, and John Romero-Martinez. Romero-Martinez, who is a devout Catholic, added that it was not only blasphemous, but sacrilegious.
Kinney the Democratic candidate and Johnson the Libertarian also criticized the act, but less forcefully.
Johnson made the excellent point that this is one of a string of outrages.
Both Rasner and Gray are Catholic and if that's all they could muster up people who sit next to them at Mass on Sunday ought to ask them what's the matter with them.
Elsewhere this was an act that finally had a reaction. Like Johnson noted, you have to wonder where these people were all along. Trump fan Riley Gaines noted:
Seriously I cannot understand why he’d post this. Is he looking for a response? Does he actually think this?
Gaines must have been asleep for the past decade to actually post a query on Trump's character. He's self centered and narcissistic, and she seems surprised.
This trend locally and nationally shows that the wheels are really coming off of MAGA. A Turning Point USA convention that was just held was grossly under attended. Locally Republicans for the first time feel able to criticize Trump. There's a significant movement in the state to boot out the Wyoming Freedom Caucus. A bipartisan movement in the House caused the removal of a Democratic and a Republican sex abuser, bypassing the pathetic Mike Johnson. It appears the Democrats are going to take the Senate and the House.
For the Republicans, the good thing is that they are finally out of the cave to a degree. The GOP has been wrecked by Donald Trump, but this may actually give them a chance to start to rebuild it, whereas waiting until after the November election will be utterly too late.
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I recognize that a lot of young voters don't love the policy we have in the Middle East. Okay. I understand that. Don't get disengaged because you disagree with the administration on one topic. Get more involved. That's how we ultimately take the country back.
J. D. Vance.
WTF?
Vance did oppose the war. We know that as he leaked like crazy. But getting involved would mean booting the GOP into the dustbin, maybe forever.
Vance has remade himself repeatedly. A person now stating that this is how "we take the country back" is raising interesting questions about where he himself is headed. He's including himself in the "we" who are young and who oppose the policy in the Middle East.
Is Vance having a Humber Humphrey moment?
It'll be interesting to see if this is Vance's first cautious step into independence. He's not dumb, and he obviously sees and even acknowledges that the GOP is going into the dumpster. That statement would seem to be a declaration of independence from Trump.
April 17, 2026
Governor Gordon confirmed that he is not running for a third term.
While we're unlikely to mention this race again, Sheriff Harlan is running for reelection in Natrona County, Wyoming.
Rep. Harshman of Natrona County is running for Superintendent of Public Instruction. He'd make a very good choice for this position, but it puts his house district in play. A far right wing candidate was challenging Harshman as well as a Democrat.
Albert Sommers is running for the seat he lost in the last election, House District 20. It fell to a WFC member.
April 19, 2026
Yesterday was the day of dueling mail flyers for the U.S. House race. Identically sized campaign flyers for Chuck Gray and Reid Rasner arrived in the mailboxes of Natrona County residents. Apparently the Gray ones went statewide.
They were really laughable. Gray's depicts the diminutive Californian standing next to Donald Trump, looking slightly above him. Trump is something like 6'2" tall where as Gray is absolutely tiny. I'm not a very large person, 5'6", and I look down on Gray, which says something. Gray has also taken up wearing western wool shirts in an effort to make him look like a Wyomingite, but which really point out that he isn't. His campaign is based on far right MAGA platforms and sticking next to, and apparently slightly above, the demented belle of the far right ball, Trump.
Rasner, who has no chance, attacked Gray in his, and frankly some of his attacks are landing. He may carve votes away from Gray.
Locally, small business owner Neil Jeske announced he was running to take on J. R. Riggins in House District 59, which includes part of Casper and all of Mills.
Riggins is probably in trouble as he only won in that race in the first place as he was the only one running. He missed the first legislature he was supposed to serve in entirely due to heart problems. I saw him at a political event before the last legislative session and he really appeared to be out to sea.
Unfortunately, Jeske is the candidate that Natrona County doesn't need. He already is on the reduce spending and reduce regulation platform. Wyoming already has so little regulation that the state government would have to go out and regulate something in order for their to be regulation to cut, and the legislature is so cheap that Wyoming has very large financial reserves that just sit there as the state won't distribute funds to local governments, their only real way of getting them. We probably need more regulation and less financial restraint.
Jeske is apparently a truck driver. I don't know what Riggins is. At any rate, truck driving in 2026 is sort of like being a teamster in 1916. It's a real job. . . and one that's about to disappear. Hopefully somebody else will step up and run.
April 21, 2026
Based upon his campaign propaganda, Jeske, mentioned above, is a worst pick than Riggins. He's another out of state implant and of far right wing views. He's going on the don't vote for list.
Riggins, on the other hand, based on his public lands voting, appears to have risen to his position.
April 22, 2026
In the move The Hunt For Red October the pursuing Soviet submarine commander orders the safeties taken off of his torpedoes so he can hit the Red October from close range. The U.S. submarine USS Dallas deflects the aim of the fired torpedo which circles back and hits the Soviet sub. As it happens, a Soviet submariner tells his captain, "You arrogant ass, you killed us".
That's exactly what Donald Trump is doing to the GOP.
More particularly, that's what he did by demanding that Texas redistrict out of cycle.
Worried that thing were turning against him, Trump demanded that compliant Texas Governor Abbot cause the GOP controlled Texas legislature to convene and specially redistrict. Abbot, to his everlasting shame, complied.
Trump is apparently so dim that he didn't realize the same strategy could be used against him. First California did it, and now Virginia did.
Even accepting the conventional math, there are now more Democratic districts that added to the map for the fall than there are Republican ones, although only barely so. Still, the results are remarkable. In Virginia, where it was done by the voters, it will mean that Virginia returns to being an overwhelmingly Democratic state in terms of is House or Representatives delegates. Trump actually completely flipped an entire state from Republican to Democrat prior to the election itself.
The GOP, in order to keep this game up, must now have Florida do the same thing. It's not assured, however, as Florida is starting to go to the Democratic Party a bit all on its own. Redistricting may simply assure that occurs.
And ironically, the Texas result may have added Democratic seats in Texas. Texas actually has more Democratic voters than Republicans. In recent years its only been a Republican state for the same reason the rest of the South is. But Texas also has heavily Hispanic districts. Trump took them in 2024, but now that's changing.
And this from a guy who claimed to master "the art of the deal".
A note here about one state that tried to redistrict and couldn't, that being Utah.
Most Western states have a much better system than the rest of the country and require fair and balanced redistricting. Much of the rest of the country which had Democratic administrations was moving that way. Republicans, who were rapidly becoming a minority party in the 1990s, resisted it. That's why in Californian and Virginia, redistricting is being democratically. It's also the reason why in one Midwestern state that's currently done this way the legislature refused to consider redistricting even though its Republican controlled. They knew the voters, in that instance, would take it out on them.
In Utah, a court turned the effort around. It was only one seat, but that shows something interesting. Utah has a Democratic Congressional seat. Utah's the same state that sent Mike Lee to Congress for some reason, but not every district fits that mold.
And in a state like Wyoming, which of course only has one Congressional seat, this couldn't happen as it would be against the state constitution.
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Wyoming Public Radio reports that for the House race, Reid Rasner, who will go down in August like a kerosene doused biplane flying through a blast furnace, has raised $1.2 M in this campaign, the majority of which is a loan from himself. Chuck Gray has done the same and nearly approached $1M.
Committing that amount of money to a job that pays a fraction of that per year should flat out be illegal. We need to address that in our "don't vote for" list, which has been switched over to being a page on the website, rather than a thread.
But of course, what he does is issue his usual go to screeds. It's the "radical left".
To hear Chuck say, literally everything wrong, and everything that opposes him, is due to the radical left.
It's really getting tiresome. One Trick Pony Chuck probably screams at his toaster if his toast is burnt that the toaster is part of the radical left.
Being a screamer got him into his current office. . . barely. Since then, he's kept it up. His act was wearing pretty thing before he was elected. My guess is that it's worn too thin now and his having violated the law here may come back to haunt him.
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.
Footnotes:
*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:
The Al-Baqi' cemetery in Medina was razed under orders of Saudi King Abdulaziz ibn Saud in what some Muslims recall as The Day of Sorrow (Persian: روز غم Ruz-e Gham, Urdu: یوم غم Yaum-e Gham). The act was done primarily to enforce Wahhabi doctrine forbidding building structures over graves, viewing that as idolatry.
The cemetery before it was flattened. Numbered buildings are 1. Bayt al-Aḥzān (Arabic: بَيْت ٱلْأَحْزَان), House of the sorrow of Fatimah bint Muhammad 2. Mausoleum of four Shia Imams: Hasan ibn Ali (2nd), Ali ibn Husayn al-Sajjad (4th), Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir (5th), Ja'far ibn Muhammad as-Sadiq (6th) 3. Daughters of Muhammed 4. Wives of the Muhammed 5. 'Aqil and Abdullah ibn Ja'far 6. Malik and Nafi' 7. Ibrahim, the little son of the Muhammed 8. Halimah al-Sa'diyyah 9. Fatimah bint Asad 10. Uthman, the third Caliph.
The act was protested by both Sunni and Shiia clerics.
The House of Representatives passed the Turf Protection Act banning the use of White House grounds as playgrounds. It was directed specifically at the annual Easter Egg Roll which traditionally occurred on Easter Monday.
Easter Monday had been on April 17 and apparently Congress was upset about the damage to the law.
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:
Trump posted those back to back yesterday. There's been all sorts of rumors circulating that the administration has been upset with the Church.
No doubt it isn't a fan of the Church. The Church has God as its King. Maga has Donald as its.
Throughout Trump's presidency, the first legitimate one and the illegitimate second one, I've warned that support of Trump would likely kill off far right Evangelism in the US. I've also warned that those far right Evangelicals who support Trumpwould turn on Catholicism, which they don't understand and often don't even think to be a Christian religion, when in fact it's the original Christian religion. And I've failed to grasp how any thinking Catholic could really support Trump with any depth.
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.
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.
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:
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.
The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry recommended allowing up to 100,000 Jewish refugees from Europe to be resettled in Palestine but against the are becoming a Jewish state.
It was somewhat of a classic example of shutting the barn door after the horses have broken out. A Jewish migration to Palestine with the intent to make it a Jewish state was in full swing and events in the Middle East were getting very advanced on their own/ European Jewry had been made massively homeless by World War Two for obvious reasons, but in addition to that the events of the Russian Revolution and the following wars in the bloodlands had created additional incentives for Jewish populations to move.
