My wife, who has a stronger stomach than me, is listening to the orange asshole

a few gems...

the Gulf of Mexico will be renamed the gulf of America

he's still on his mission to eliminate windmills

he's ranting about Biden and all the judges he had confirmed

he's pissed about Biden preventing the offshore drilling.

in other words, just more of the same inanity from the king of inanity.

update:

more insanity.

the orange idiot said, "if we don't get the hostages back before the inauguration, all hell is going to break loose".

he needs to justify his lame duck presidency with violence, because that's all he has. mr. let's end all wars, bullshit bullshit bullshit, is going to bomb someone because, at the end of the day, he's a psychopath and he needs to kill to satisfy is urges. of course he would never do it himself because he's a coward.

He's a broken human made so by his psychopath father and unloving mother

He hates all things that even hint at control over him and drives away any relationship that has a hint of love. ( though he desperately wants it)

He chases windmills and becomes angry when he attains them because they hold no substance.

He has shallow superficial relationships because he’s incapable of love, because he was never given any and feels unfulfilled

So why Panama?

What is really bind the fucked up halfwittery of trump wanting to get the canal back?

Is it some late night fever dream conjured whole clothe from his addled brain?

Or like most things he does, it it a personal grudge or perhaps was the mad monk whispering in his ear about one of his personal grudges?

I give you Jeff Tiedrich to explain it all…

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/oh-look-elderly-golfer-is-a-geopolitical

“ on Saturday, Donny threatened to invade Panama and take back the Canal. we all had fun mocking the shit out Donny’s bluster, but he didn’t come up with the idea all by his lonesome.

this clusterfuck-to-come has the ketamine-addled cortex of President-Elect Elon Musk all over it — because you know who depends on global shipping lanes, don’t you?


The electric car manufacturer Tesla is to halt most production at its factory near Berlin for two weeks because of delays in deliveries of parts because of attacks on ships in the Red Sea.

Shipping delays in the Red Sea, caused by attacks by Iranian-backed Houthi militants, has caused Tesla to suspend most production at its German factory from 29 January to 11 February.

Tesla lost a shitload of money when Houthis shut down the Red Sea. now that President-Elect Musk is soon to have access-by-proxy to an army, he’s gonna make sure this pernicious fuckery doesn’t happen again.

but he’s going to start in America’s own back yard — because Tesla uses the Panama Canal, too.


isn’t it amazing, the things you can find on the internet?

suddenly, Donny’s anger over an increase in canal access fees makes sense — because there’s a 100% certainty that Donny had no idea that money changes hands when ships use the Canal — but of course the Space Nazi is all too aware of anything that affects his bottom line.

of course, there is also Donny’s own personal revenge motive

Trump companies accused of tax evasion in Panama

I know, right? I, too, am shocked — shocked! — to learn that Donny is an international tax cheat. so it turns out that Donny is hella pissed at Panama for his own reasons — but that’s just icing on the cake. that’s just something President Musk can use to stoke Donny’s rage.

if you want an insight into what the next 4 years will be like

just look at twitter: the content, the bailing of advertisers, the constant tech issues and the massive cuts to the staff.

It's time for some Woody. Y'all have a great night.

just a factoid for all of us to chew on...

In France just before the Revolution of 1789, the proportion of national wealth held by the top 10 percent was about 90 percent, and the fraction possessed by the top 1 percent was as much as 60 percent

https://www.cadtm.org/The-evolution-of-wealth-inequalities-over-the-last-two-centuries#:~:text=In%20France%20just%20before%20the,as%20much%20as%2060%20percent.


In the first quarter of 2024, almost two-thirds percent of the total wealth in the United States was owned by the top 10 percent of earners. In comparison, the lowest 50 percent of earners only owned 2.5 percent of the total wealth

https://www.statista.com/statistics/203961/wealth-distribution-for-the-us/#:~:text=U.S.%20wealth%20distribution%20Q2%202024&text=In%20the%20first%20quarter%20of,percent%20of%20the%20total%20wealth.

we are not quite their yet, but we aren't getting better. And it's only going to get worse under the orange asshole.

I had a truly terrifying dream last night.

the orange asshole was giving his "state of the union" address and announced he was suspending the Constitution. At which point, armed thugs came into the immediate area, rounded up all the press and marched them out.

needless to say I woke up in a sweat.

everyones talking about the orange asshole removing the birthright for prez. aka 14th Amdmt. but....

there is sooooooooo much more to the 14th amendment than just birthright.

I think the birth right issue is a smoke screen.

here is the 14th amendment and let me know if you think he's really talking about birthright or something else?


Fourteenth Amendment
Section 1

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Section 3

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section 4

The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section 5

The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Trump's FBI Pick Successfully Hacked by Foreign Spies

(only the best people)

Trump’s FBI Pick Successfully Hacked by Foreign Spies

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-fbi-pick-successfully-hacked-by-foreign-spies/ar-AA1vfHjH

Iranian hackers have reached their tentacles into the incoming Trump Administration after the President-elect’s FBI chief top pick, Kash Patel, was targeted by a cyber attack, according to reports.

CNN cited two sources, one of which stated that “at least some of Patel’s communications” had been infiltrated. Trump’s team wouldn’t go into specifics about the reports, but transition spokesman Alex Pfeiffer told the network: “Kash Patel was a key part of the first Trump administration’s efforts against the terrorist Iranian regime and will implement President Trump’s policies to protect America from adversaries as the FBI Director.”

Indeed, Patel was involved in the first Trump administration’s National Security Council as an adviser to the acting director of national intelligence and as chief of staff to former Defense Secretary Chris Miller.

Trump himself has been told by the bureau in the past that he is “one of the top targets” of Iran, and the alleged recent cyber attack marks just one of many in recent months.

more at link....

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we now live in a world that's a parody of The Onion.

If the tarrifs go through and that orange asshole has promised

Not only will primary industries will cripple and some destroyed, but the various dozens upon dozens of ancillary support industries do to.

For example take a coffee shop. Coffee either goes up or becomes too expensive. The suppliers for this company no longer have a client, the cut back or also close.

Or say some business that depends on items from China. They lay off people. The various places and businesses that support and supply that business cut back and lay off staff. Everything from business supplies, IT supplies, places the employees would go to eat at lunch, or hang out after work for happy hour. And each and every aspect of that effect those businesses are effected as well

Further, entertainment industry takes a plunge. Out of work people don’t have extra money to see a band, etc

And it goes on and on and on.

These tariffs will effectively cripple this country