Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Mid Week at Work. Some Agrarians.
The Agrarian's Lament: "Sheep Are In My Blood": San Diego Woman Fell In L...: "Sheep Are In My Blood": San Diego Woman Fell In Love With Ranching With Wyoming Help
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Sunday, May 19, 1946. Food protests in Japan.
Protests against the Japanese government occurred in the form of the People's Rally for Obtaining Food.
The news did appear in the Rocky Mountain News, but the aversion of a rail strike is what was on the front page.
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Friday, May 3, 1946. War Crime Trials in Tokyo and the Battle of Alcatraz
Wednesday, May 19, 1926. Bad coinage idea.
The first and only US coin, so far, to feature a sitting President, the United States Sesquicentennial Half Dollar was issued.
Hopefully this break in tradition will never be repeated.
Zhang Renjie became the first Chairman of the Kuomintang. His influence would later decline and he immigrated to the United States in 1937.
The French Air Force bombed Damascus.
Last edition:
Saturday, May 15, 1926.
Monday, May 18, 2026
The Agrarian's Lament: Massie of Kentucky.
The Agrarian's Lament: Massie of Kentucky.: Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky, under constant attack from demented New York real estate developer Donald Trump, milled h...
Massie of Kentucky.
Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky, under constant attack from demented New York real estate developer Donald Trump, milled his own lumber, chiseled stone, and formed iron to hand build his own house.
Massie actually is what Republicans claim to want to be, but aren't. He's a far cry from Chuck Gray who went right to work for his daddy's radio station.
And he's sure a lot closer to Lincoln than Trump is.
Sunday, May 17, 2026
Wednesday, May 17, 1876. Gen. Terry's command leaves Ft. Abraham Lincoln.
Gen. Alfred H. Terry left a substantial detachment from Ft. Abraham Lincoln. The large detachment included companies from the 6th and 17th Infantry regiments and the entire 7th Cavalry, the latter under the command of Lt. Col. Custer.
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Monday, May 15, 1876. President Grant established the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation
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Wednesday, May 10, 1911. Madero takes Juarez in spite of himself.
King Donald's War, Part 5. Quagmire. The $25,000,000,000 and thirteen American lives later, "So we (but not Donald) were in Vietnam for 18 years. Iraq, many, many years....I've been doing this for...six weeks" Edition.
Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 4. Economics in the Dementia Ward.
The History of the Patrol Cap.
The Feral Week of May 3, 2026.
Friday, May 15, 2026
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Sunday, May 10, 2026
The Agrarian's Lament: The Agrarian Week of May 3, 2026.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
The Aerodrome: The week in aviation for May 3, 2026.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
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Thursday, May 7, 2026
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Discount airline Spirit dissolves.
It was a victim of high aviation fuel, something brought about by Donald Trump's illegal attack on Iran.
Last edition:
he Best Post of the Week of May 3, 2026.
Saturday, May 16, 2026
The Manchurian Candidate. It's like Donald Trump and MAGA really are the Reds.
The hammer and cycle in red. . . it might as well be the symbol of the Trump presidency.
We've remarked before on how the GOP has adopted the color red, the color of the far left, as it's own. That's beginning to seem more appropriate than ever.
Our dim illegitimate chief executive has gone to China and returned. In the process, it seems clear that he's getting ready to abandon Taiwan.
Trump's entire trip to China was a complete and utter humiliation for the United States. An embarrassment of the highest order. But it fits a pattern.
Trump loves Russia's Putin. He's super impressed with Xi. He's kind of a bit of a fan boy to Kim Jong Un. He loved Orban who was a Putin ally.
If our adversaries from former Communist states had conspired to place into office a man to act as a sleeper agent, they could not have succeeded more wildly than Donald Trump has done without being one. . . presumably. He's brought a US that was already in trouble down from a world power to a second rate collapsing nation. It's utterly incredible.
Women Wearing Hair Scarves in the 1940s & 1950s
When I was young I recall my mother commonly doing this, which would have been in the 60s and 70s.
Women Wearing Hair Scarves in the 1940s & 1950s
Friday, May 15, 2026
The huge hosting space the Federal Government already has in Washington, D.C.
The Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium.
It has a 1,000 person capacity, more than Trump's absurd proposed ballroom.
China is Closing In on Taiwan.
With China having just been visited by our extraordinarily weak, and increasingly demented chief executive, this really bears watching.
Trump's illegal war on Iran has depleted US weapons reserves massively and wasted them on hard ground targets, something military analysts know is ineffective. We have less of an ability to counter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan now than at any point since. . . well. . . probably 1947.
The likelihood of it happening his high.
The likelihood of Trump doing utterly nothing if it does happen is also high.
In 1949, when mainland China fell to the Communists, Republicans howled over "who lost China?" In 2026 or 2027 when Taiwan falls, they'll probably just kneel to their beloved, Donald Trump.
The question will be, why?
Monday, May 15, 1876. President Grant established the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation
President Grant established the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation near Palm Springs, California.
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Wednesday, May 10, 1876. Opening of the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine.
Thursday, May 14, 2026
The 25th Amendment Watch List, Sixteenth Edition: The Addled.
May 12, 2026
Drugs coming by sea, by ocean, by water. A lot of people say, What do you mean by sea? Is it see? Like vision? No, it’s sea. SEA.
Donald Trump on the maritime transportation of illegal drugs. Absolutely nobody was confused on this topic, maybe other than Trump.
We have a man who is doing a great job. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail.
Ummm. . .
We're building a beautiful ballroom. I'm very good at ballrooms.
The ballroom, which will either never be built or will be ripped down, is a Trump obsession.
A new name I came up -- dumbocrat. I think that could be a good one. I've come up with some extraordinary names. But I was talking about Hakeem Jeffries. He's a low IQ person. He's a dumb guy.
Trump has an obsession on intelligence like only a man who isn't intelligent can have.
Without you, we have Somalia. A fine place where we have a congresswoman who brilliantly came over to the country by marrying her brother. That was the first law she broke. She comes from a country where they have nothing but crime, bedlam, filth. Elan Omar.
Ilhan Omar has been married three times, and none of her husbands were her brother.
This accusation taps into the deeply racist nature of a lot of MAGA in particular and the American far right in general. This has laid under the surface following the 1960s for years, but it resurfaced with the rise of Barack Obama which caused this demographic to flip out. Trump tapped into it early with his clams that Obama, who was born in Hawaii, was born in Kenya.
Funny thing here is that Obama and Trump share a common item here in that both of them were born to a couple in which one of them was an immigrant. In Trump's case, however, the immigrant was a white Christian, as opposed to Obama's. This item here really shows something that's deeply ingrained in the MAGA movement. It really doesn't like anyone who isn't white and it really doesn't like anyone who isn't culturally Christian.
Otherwise, it's perfectly okay with people like Trump, who marry foreign women of a certain appearance and then divorce them later on, and whose Christianity is a variant of it that doesn't really require any actual effort or adherence to the Gospel.
The people that did it -- these people did not work for me. They said they work for me. They come from a different part of the country. But they were good. The people that worked for me recommended it and they recommend we do it this way. But I recommended it to them because I'm very good at construction.
Tide D Bowl.
No Republican has ever spoken to me about Cuba, which is a failed country and only heading in one direction - down! Cuba is asking for help, and we are going to talk!!! In the meantime, I’m off to China! President DJT
Donald Trump.
We'll address the super creepy "Trump babies" in another thread.
A note here. Trump's 18 month mark will be July 20, 2026. If I'm right, we're now in the final phases of his administration as he'll be removed by the 25th Amendment by then.
May 13, 2026
Trump, who came to office principally because he promised to deport the 10M to 12M illegal aliens in the US, most of whom are Hispanic, now wants to annex Venezuela, with a population of 31M, and make it a state.
Let's not pretend he's joking, he isn't.
The population of the US is currently 20% Hispanic. Annexation of Venezuela and making its citizens US citizens would convert the country to being a 30% Hispanic country overnight. MAGA has a strongly nativist anti Hispanic bias. It'll amusing how they bend that to supporting this, but they will.
The entire thing is amusing about King Donny. He's so dim that all he ever thinks about is the cash value of something, and Venezuela has oil. He apparently doesn't realize that Venezuela, which is a large country which would probably come in as more than one state if it did, is also a Socialist one. The Republican Party would be effectively dead, and the US would be far more left wing than it currently is.
This won't happen, as it would require the cooperation of Congress. At least I don't think it would. But the fact that MAGA will support this just shows how dim that movement is.
MAGA politicians, including Harriet Hageman and John Sycophant Barrasso, should be quizzed on this, and don't let them weasel out of answering or tell you its a joke. It isn't.
On issues closer to home:
Wyoming Cattle Ranchers Worried Over Trump Proposal To Lower Tariffs On Beef Imports
Farmers and ranches who supported Trump were reading something into him that just isn't there and will regret it.
May 14, 2026
This item raises some really good and interesting points.
Bare minimum, as the wheels come off the Trump administration he's getting increasingly erratic. Richardson proposes some darker motives, but even if there not there, there appears to be a dedicated effort to say things now to distract as things get worse and worse.
Last edition:
Ballroom Batshit. A demented president goes full bonkers. The 25th Amendment Watch List Fifteenth Edition and Court Watch Part VI.
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