James Bikales of Politico: “Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Wednesday that the United States will sell Venezuelan oil 'indefinitely' after completing sales of the crude currently accumulating in storage there. Wright said the proceeds from those sales would be 'deposited into accounts controlled by the U.S. government' and then 'flow back into Venezuela to benefit the Venezuelan people.' Wright made the statements even as the United States the same morning seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker that was linked to Venezuela.”
Alex Tabet & Clarissa-Jan Lim of MS NOW: “An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a woman Wednesday during an operation in Minneapolis, the Department of Homeland Security said.... DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin [said,] '... one of [a number of] violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism.'... McLaughlin said the officer fired in self-defense.... In a post on X, city officials said they were still gathering details but said federal immigration enforcement agents’ presence is 'causing chaos in our city and making our community less safe.' This is a developing story.” ~~~
~~~ Minnesota Public Radio is running live updates. ~~~
~~~ New York Times live updates are here. At the top is the 18-second video of the murder, as taped by a bystander. With audio. ~~~
~~~ Marie: ABC News plays the murder video at the top of its report, embedded below. It sure looks to me as if the driver was trying to drive away from the scene after a masked officer approaches the car in a menacing way, yelling at the driver to "Get out of the fucking car." He immediately tried to break into her vehicle. The video may not be proof, but it sure doesn't show a "domestic terrorist" trying to run down officers or anyone else. Moreover, I saw video of an eyewitness who confirms what I'm seeing in the video. As RAS notes in today's Comments, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin is a proven liar. Kristi Noem has since come out with the same "domestic terrorism" charge. To be as charitable as possible, neither Noem nor McLaughlin has any idea what happened, and both should have kept their traps shut. Donald Trump has now weighed in with extensive commentary, which he too made up out of whole cloth. They all defame the victim, without any evidence: ~~~
~~~ Marie: In a press conference, Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis, just said that the DHS claim that an ICE officer shot & killed the woman in self-defense was "bullshit." To ICE, he said, "Get the fuck out of Minneapolis."
Ha Ha. RAS Found This Great Update: ~~~
~~~ It Depends on What the Meaning of “Invade” Is. George Steer & Peter Andringa of the Financial Times: “Polymarket is disputing that the mission to capture Nicolás Maduro constituted an invasion and said it will only settle a prediction contract if the US military takes control of Venezuelan territory. The decision by the prediction market has angered gamblers and added to the controversy surrounding a successful wager on the timing of Maduro’s capture that netted more than $400,000 in winnings for a mystery trader. The dispute over the definition of 'invade' highlights just one of the controversies faced by the mostly unregulated industry. Polymarket — which only recently gained regulatory approval to operate legally in the US — says on its website that it will resolve the 'Will the US invade Venezuela by . . .?' contract if the US 'commences a military offensive intended to establish control over any portion of Venezuela' by one of three dates.”
Konstantin Toropin & Jill Lawless of the AP: “The United States has seized two sanctioned oil tankers linked to Venezuela in back-to-back actions in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean, officials said Wednesday. U.S. European Command announced the seizure of the merchant vessel Bella 1 for 'violations of U.S. sanctions' in a social media post. The U.S. had been pursuing the tanker since last month after it tried to evade a U.S. blockade on sanctioned oil vessels around Venezuela. Then, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem revealed that U.S. forces also took control of the tanker Sophia in the Caribbean. Noem said in a social media post both ships were 'either last docked in Venezuela or en route to it.'”
Marie: In case you think Donald Trump gives a flying fuck about some "conservative principles" or whatever, so he wants Republicans to retain control of the Congress, I'd say that's not true. In keeping with his extreme narcissism, Trump's interest in retaining a Republican-run Congress is more personal:
Michelle Stoddart of ABC News: "... Donald Trump warned Republican members of Congress on Tuesday that if they don't win in this year's midterms, then he will 'get impeached.' Trump made the comments during a House GOP retreat at the Kennedy Center, recently renamed to include Trump's name by a board filled with his appointees. 'You got to win the midterms because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be -- I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached,' the president said." Now watch this: ~~~
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Presidential Dance News:
Nothing like making fun of our one severely disabled president for not being able to dance: ~~~
~~~ Sean James of Mediaite: “... Donald Trump ... on Tuesday morning ... [said] his wife Melania Trump 'hates' when he does his famous 'YMCA' dance.... He then gritted his teeth as he continued his impression of the First Lady... “‘Darling, it’s not presidential.." She actually said, “Could you imagine FDR dancing?." She said that to me,' he recalled. Trump ... took a few seconds to span [scan??] the crowd [of members of the House] with a 'Can you believe it?' look on his face. Several people in the audience were laughing at the comment. 'And I said, “There’s a long history that perhaps she doesn’t know,'” Trump said with a grin. That drew some more laughs. Of course, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt could not dance because he had polio.” (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Marie: The big debate during the past couple of days has been over the reason Trump attacked Venezuela and kidnapped its leader. The real reason, it turns out, is that Trump was jealous of el presidente's dance moves. Yeah, I'm getting this from a comedian, so you're likely to think this is a joke. Unfortunately, it's both a joke AND true. Thanks to RAS for the link: ~~~
~~~ Near the end of yesterday's Comments thread is terrific commentary by Akhilleus, who quite correctly incorporates Polio Bob into the dance story.
Luke Broadwater & Dylan Freedman of the New York Times: “Over the past year..., [Donald Trump has engaged in a steady campaign to rewrite the history of Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, when his supporters, believing lies of a rigged election, smashed windows and doors and assaulted law enforcement officers.... On Tuesday, the five-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack, Mr. Trump was again seeding doubt about the integrity of American elections. 'Our elections are crooked as hell,' Mr. Trump told congressional Republicans.... Mr. Trump said Republicans needed to retain control of the House because he expected to face a third impeachment trial if Democrats won. He said he would not call for this year’s election to be canceled because critics would accuse him of being a dictator.... Also on Tuesday, the Trump administration created a new page on the White House website attempting to rewrite the history of the riot, blaming congressional Democrats and former Vice President Mike Pence for standing up to falsehoods about the 2020 election and allowing it to be certified....
“It was the latest turn in a year in which Mr. Trump has attempted to rewrite election rules, take control of state and local election systems and offered support to those who promote election conspiracy theories.... A New York Times review of Mr. Trump’s public statements found more than 150 instances in the past year in which he falsely claimed he had won the 2020 election, portrayed Jan. 6 rioters as victims and denigrated investigators of the Capitol riot.” (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Sean James of Mediaite: “... Donald Trump’s White House launched a website dedicated to the January 6 Capitol Riot on Tuesday that said the Democrats 'staged the real insurrection' and claimed Capitol Police escalated the mayhem.... The key section of the website blames Democrats — and specifically, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — for making the riot into a much bigger deal than it actually was. It also falsely claimed that the Democrats rigged the 2020 election before asserting that they led a witch hunt against Trump and his supporters in the aftermath of the riot.” (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Of the many problems with the Website's (and Trump's) conspiratorial hoohah is its inconsistency: somehow the attack on the capitol was the fault of malign forces like Nancy Pelosi, Mike Pence & the police themselves, AND the attack on the capitol was a glorious day in U.S. history. ~~~
~~~ Who could have foreseen that excusing and even glorifying violent criminal narcissists for their wanton acts of violence would embolden them to demand more spoils? Well, evidently not the No. 1 violent criminal narcissist, who pardoned them and continues to glorify them. ~~~
~~~ Karoun Demirjian of the New York Times: “Five years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, several dozen rioters, including many who were jailed and later pardoned, gathered in Washington to retrace their steps and vow to keep fighting for payback, even against the Trump administration. The 'J6ers,' as they refer to themselves, have been emboldened by ... [Donald] Trump, who pardoned or commuted the sentences of nearly 1,600 people who planned or participated in storming the Capitol to protest the results of the 2020 election. During Tuesday's anniversary march, they praised Mr. Trump for setting them free, but were critical of his administration for not doing more for them. 'Retribution is what we seek,' said Enrique Tarrio, a far-right activist and leader of the Proud Boys, one of the organizers of the Jan. 6, 2021, demonstration and Tuesday’s anniversary event. 'Without accountability, there is no justice.'...
“The marchers had a range of demands, including financial restitution and prison reform. But it is not clear how closely the Trump administration is listening. No Trump administration officials were present at Tuesday’s march and rally, despite the White House unveiling a formal effort to paint the rioters as innocent victims of police provocation. Many of Mr. Trump’s allies who had promoted the event, like Stephen K. Bannon, were also noticeably absent — leaving Mr. Tarrio as the most prominent headliner.”
House Republicans Schedule Farcical Jan 6 Hearings. Hailey Fuchs of Politico: “The new Republican-led panel tasked with investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack will hold its first hearing next week, Rep. Barry Loudermilk said in an interview Tuesday — the five-year anniversary of the event. The Georgia Republican, who is the chair of the select subcommittee, said his panel was still ironing out its list of witnesses, but he anticipated the focus would be the pipe bombs left at the Democratic and Republican National Committee headquarters the day before the riots at the Capitol.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) in a New York Times op-ed: “Five years after Jan. 6, 2021, we are still caught up in a struggle between forces who are willing to use authoritarian violence outside the Constitution to take and wield power and those who stand up nonviolently for our Constitution in the streets and in the polling places. Neither side can claim victory yet. It’s still very much Jan. 6 in America.... [For] Mr. Trump and the election deniers..., Jan. 6 is a kaleidoscopic projection of wild and contradictory conspiracy theories. Sometimes they frame it as 1776, a historic day of revolutionary resistance to the 'deep state.' At other times, it’s a foreign-aligned corporate vote-rigging scheme against him.... At the same time, MAGA depicts the whole insurrection as a false flag operation organized by antifa, the F.B.I. and the speaker of the House at the time, Nancy Pelosi....
“Mr. Trump granted clemency to dozens of people who had committed or been accused of violent and horrific crimes after Jan. 6, such as plotting the murders of F.B.I. agents, resisting arrest, assault, rape, burglary, stalking, stabbing, possession of child sex abuse materials and D.U.I. homicide.... Mr. Trump ... conducted a bureaucratic purge — with firings and permanent demotions — of hundreds of experienced F.B.I. agents and federal prosecutors because they investigated and prosecuted the Jan. 6 cases assigned to them. He installed Jan. 6 insurrectionists in the highest ranks of the Department of Justice.”
Chris Geidner: “Congress’s failure not to impeach and remove Donald Trump from the presidency on January 7, 2021 could be one of the most significant failures in modern American history.... The failure ultimately, with some help from the U.S. Supreme Court, enabled Trump’s 2024 run for re-election.... Allow me to close ... with The Washington Post editorial board’s five-year old editorial calling on Pence to 'immediately' invoke the 25th Amendment. 'Mr. Trump is a menace, and as long as he remains in the White House, the country will be in danger,' the board wrote. They were right, and January 6, 2026 has — like so many days in the past year — only proven just how right they were.”
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Julianna Bragg & Marc Caputo of Axios: "The Trump administration is pressing Venezuela's interim government to dismiss all suspected spies and other intelligence agents from China, Russia, Cuba and Iran from the South American country, a U.S. official told Axios.... The move, which does not apply to regular diplomatic personnel, marks the administration's latest effort to force the oil-rich nation to meet U.S. demands following last week's raid that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro." ~~~
~~~ Julian Barnes, et al., of the New York Times: “Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, listed the Trump administration’s demands to Venezuela’s new leader, Delcy Rodríguez, in a classified meeting on Monday with senior congressional leaders.... Mr. Rubio also said he had told Ms. Rodríguez that he wanted Venezuela to reopen the oil trade with the United States, a demand that ... [Donald] Trump has made publicly.”
Stanley Reed & Chris Cameron of the New York Times: Donald “Trump said on Tuesday that Venezuela would begin handing over some of its oil supplies to the United States, a new claim by the president as he seeks to exploit the country’s vast oil reserves under threat of a naval blockade.... Mr. Trump said that Venezuela would send 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil, about two months’ worth of daily production, to the United States, and that he would control profits from the sale of the oil 'to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States.'... It is ... not clear what legal basis the United States would have to claim the oil if leaders in Caracas did not agree to Mr. Trump’s plan.” ~~~
~~~ Marie: Jen Psaki and others have said that 30MM to 50MM barrels of oil "is roughly equivalent to the amount of oil the U.S. produces every three to four days."
Ben Lefebvre, et al., of Politico: “... Donald Trump and members of his Cabinet will meet with oil company chief executives Friday at the White House to discuss plans for them to enter Venezuela and drill, four people familiar with the plans said. Besides Trump, the meeting would include Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, said a person familiar with the plan.... Wright is in Miami at an energy investor conference, where he is expected to meet with oil executives.” ~~~
~~~ One More Way We'll Pay for Another Trump Misadventure. Evan Halper of the Washington Post: “Days after sending Special Operations forces into Venezuela to arrest Nicolás Maduro, [Donald Trump] suggested that U.S. taxpayers could help foot the bill to drill the vast reserves of the Latin American nation. 'A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent, and the oil companies will spend it, and then they’ll get reimbursed by us or through revenue,' he told NBC on Monday. Using taxpayer-funded cash subsidies to incentivize oil companies to pump abroad would be unprecedented, industry analysts say. But the White House faces a steep challenge persuading firms to drill in a politically and economically unstable country that has burned them in the past by expropriating assets worth billions and then leaving U.S.-built oil infrastructure to rot.” See Ken W.'s comment at the end of yesterday's thread.
Marie: I especially like the part of Jen Psaki's opening segment yesterday where she searches in vain for the person in charge of running Venezuela. It begins at 3:45 minutes in (the part before this is on point, too):
~~~ Where's Tulsi? Warren Strobel of the Washington Post: “... Donald Trump’s top national security advisers in recent days have outdone one another, publicly extolling his bold decision to launch the risky military raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. But one key figure has been largely absent from public view: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran who for years has spoken out against costly U.S. interventions abroad, waited more than three days before commenting publicly about Operation Absolute Resolve. Her usually busy feeds on X, where she maintains official and personal accounts, were abnormally quiet until she issued a terse statement Tuesday afternoon. She has been missing in action from Fox News and other conservative broadcasts, where she’s been a frequent guest championing Trump’s priorities and excoriating his perceived enemies in a way previous intelligence chiefs avoided.”
Charlie Savage of the New York Times: “The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel produced a signed memo declaring it lawful for ... [Donald] Trump to order the military operation that seized President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela over the weekend, according to officials familiar with the matter. The specifics of the memo are unclear. But Attorney General Pam Bondi promised members of Congress in briefings this week that the administration would share the memo with lawmakers, the officials said.... The operation raised a host of legal issues about international law and presidential power. In particular, legal scholars say, it appears to have violated international law. Under the United Nations Charter, a treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate, a nation cannot use force inside the sovereign territory of another country without its consent, a self-defense rationale or the permission of the U.N. Security Council.”
Little by little, this slow-moving international drama keeps escalating: ~~~
~~~ Adam Sella, et al., of the New York Times: “Russia has dispatched at least one naval vessel to meet and escort an oil tanker that the U.S. military has been pursuing and trying to seize, according to a U.S. official briefed on the operation who requested anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter. The development deepens the confrontation between the two countries over the tanker, known until recently as the Bella 1 and now called the Marinera. The United States has been chasing the tanker for weeks after it tried to evade a partial blockade around Venezuela, while Russia has taken increasingly conspicuous steps to protect it. The tanker is sailing northeast in the Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and Britain with its location transponder active, according to ship-tracking data from MarineTraffic. From there, it could head to the Baltic Sea or around Scandinavia to Murmansk, Russia’s ice-free Arctic port.”
No Job for Old Men. Jeff Toobin of the New York Times: “Alvin K. Hellerstein, the judge assigned to conduct the trial of Nicolás Maduro..., has long been a widely admired member of the federal bench. The best way for him to honor the system to which he has devoted decades of his life would be to withdraw from the case because, at 92, he is simply too old, in my view, to preside over a matter of this magnitude.... As they do for all mortals, the years appear to have taken their toll on Judge Hellerstein.... Last year, the judge presided over [a] six-week trial [during which he repeatedly fell asleep,] especially during the afternoons.” ~~~
~~~ Marie: One witness in the case might be Donald Trump. Wouldn't it be sweet if he and Judge Hellerstein could have nap time together?
Alexander Osipvich & Caitlin Ostroff of the Wall Street Journal, republished by MSN: “Less than five hours before nighttime explosions rocked the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, an unknown trader doubled down on bets that Nicolás Maduro would soon be out as the country’s leader. The wagers on Polymarket, a popular crypto-based betting platform, netted the trader more than $400,000, a 12-fold return on investment — and fueled suspicions that someone used inside knowledge of the closely held U.S. operation to make a quick profit. Insider trading is illegal in the stock market, and regulators routinely monitor suspicious trades ahead of big corporate news.... There are fewer safeguards in place to prevent people from exploiting their inside knowledge on Polymarket.... Following news of the Maduro bets, Rep. Ritchie Torres (D., N.Y.) said he plans to introduce a bill this week to explicitly prohibit federal elected officials, political appointees and executive-branch employees from betting in prediction markets where they have relevant nonpublic information or could obtain it.” ~~~
~~~ Marie: I think I'll place a wager on Polymarket that the "unknown trader's" initials are DJTJ or DRUNK PETE.
But What Does MAGA Think??? Robyn Pennacchia of Wonkette: “As it turns out, the issue the Right had with 'interventionism' was not that it’s bad to kill people in other countries, but that they didn’t feel it benefited them enough. This kind of thing is okay because we’re doing it for oil, and because the Monroe Doctrine said that we are supposed to control the entire Western Hemisphere.... Granted, the actual Monroe Doctrine, prior to being used to justify US imperialism, was meant to prevent Europe from re-colonizing Latin American nations, but whatevs!” Among the other upsides for MAGA: some right-wing incels seem to think they will now be able to get mail-order brides out of Venezuela. Also too Maduro is going to explain to Trump how he stole the 2020 election for Joe Biden.
We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power.... These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time. -- Stephen Miller, to Jake Tapper, Monday ~~~
~~~ Katie Rogers of the New York Times: “Stephen Miller has spent the bulk of his White House career furthering hard-right domestic policies that have resulted in mass deportations, family separations and the testing of the constitutional tenets that grant American citizenship. Now, Mr. Miller..., [Donald] Trump’s 40-year-old deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, is casting his hard-right gaze further abroad: toward Venezuela and the Danish territory of Greenland, specifically. Mr. Miller is doing so, the president’s advisers say, in service of advancing Mr. Trump’s foreign policy ambitions, which so far resemble imperialistic designs to exploit less powerful, resource-rich countries and territories the world over and use those resources for America’s gain. According to Mr. Miller, using brute force is not only on the table but also the Trump administration’s preferred way to conduct itself on the world stage.”
Edward Wong, et al., of the New York Times: “Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told lawmakers that ... [Donald] Trump plans to buy Greenland rather than invade it.... Mr. Rubio made his remarks in a briefing on Monday with lawmakers from the main armed services and foreign policy committees in both chambers of Congress. The same day, Mr. Trump told aides to deliver an updated plan [for acquisition of Greenland]. The congressional briefing was focused on Venezuela, but lawmakers raised concerns about Mr. Trump’s intentions on Greenland given aggressive remarks this week by the American president and a top aide, Stephen Miller, two officials said. Mr. Rubio did not go into detail on what he meant by buying Greenland. Mr. Trump spent decades in New York as a real estate developer, and one of his top diplomatic envoys, Steve Witkoff, comes from the same background. Mr. Trump has coveted Greenland since his first term.” ~~~
~~~ Marie: This is the same Marco Rubio who in November informed key members of Congress that the administration had no plans to launch strikes inside Venezuela -- even as the administration was planning complicated strikes inside Venezuela. We should apply the legal instruction: if a witness lies once, you can consider all of his testimony to be untruthful. ~~~
~~~ Michael Birnbaum & Dan Lamothe of the Washington Post: “Danish officials are increasingly alarmed that the Trump administration has shifted toward an active effort in recent days to seize Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.... 'President Trump has made it well known that acquiring Greenland is a national security priority of the United States, and it’s vital to deter our adversaries in the Arctic region, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement on Tuesday. 'The President and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilizing the U.S. Military is always an option at the Commander in Chief’s disposal.'” An NBC News story is here. A Politico story is here. ~~~
~~~ Marie: It is ludicrous to even suggest that the U.S. must take Greenland by force or other means in order "deter our adversaries." Greenland and Denmark are already our NATO allies determined to "deter adversaries." As Birnbaum and Lamothe write, "Danish leaders say they increased spending on Arctic security by $13.7 billion in 2025 and committed to further increases in the coming years...." AND THIS ~~~
~~~⭐Jeffrey Gettleman, et al., of the New York Times: “Under a little-known Cold War agreement, the United States already enjoys sweeping military access in Greenland. Right now, the United States has one base in a very remote corner of the island. But the agreement allows it to 'construct, install, maintain, and operate' military bases across Greenland, 'house personnel' and 'control landings, takeoffs, anchorages, moorings, movements, and operation of ships, aircraft, and waterborne craft.' It was signed in 1951 by the United States and Denmark, which colonized Greenland more than 300 years ago and still controls some of its affairs.... The relatively short, straightforward defense agreement between the United States and Denmark was updated in 2004 to include Greenland’s semiautonomous government, giving it a say in how American military operations might affect the local population.... 'The U.S. has such a free hand in Greenland that it can pretty much do what it wants,' said Mikkel Runge Olesen, a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen.”
Claudia Ciobanu & Stefanie Dazio of the AP: “Several European leaders pushed back Tuesday on ... Donald Trump’s comments about seeking an American takeover of Greenland. The leaders issued a statement reaffirming the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island 'belongs to its people.' The leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom joined Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in defending Greenland’s sovereignty in the wake of Trump’s comments about Greenland, which is a self-governing territory of the kingdom of Denmark and thus part of the NATO military alliance.... Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney also expressed his support and announced a visit to Greenland early next month by Canada’s Governor General Mary Simon, who is of Inuk descent, and Foreign Minister Anita Anand.” (Also linked yesterday.) A New York Times story is here.
Barak Ravid of Axios: "The events of the last few days — in particular, Trump's renewed threats on Greenland in the aftermath of the Venezuela raid — left real doubts in Europe about whether the transatlantic alliance still exists.... Denmark has realized in recent weeks that its strategy of quiet ally-to-ally persuasion on Greenland had failed to move Trump, a Danish official told Axios. 'This is why it is such a serious situation. This is also why our allies and partners come out publicly against it and sound the alarm.'"
Chris Hayes suggested on his MS NOW show last night that one reason for real estate mogul Trump's interest in grabbing Greenland is that someone showed him a Mercator map image, which makes Greenland appear much larger than it is relative to countries closer to the Equator. Here's a map that contrasts the Mercator map with the true sizes & shapes of countries: ~~~
~~~ BTW, here's a ranking of countries by land mass. MB: I would have flunked a test on this.
Lena Sun of the Washington Post: “Vaccine experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were blindsided by a top deputy to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to unilaterally overhaul the childhood immunization schedule, according to current and former agency staff. U.S. health officials took the unprecedented action Monday to narrow the list of vaccines that the federal government routinely recommends for all children, a shift that leading public health experts and medical organizations warned could weaken protections against preventable deadly diseases. The change, which took effect immediately, means the CDC no longer broadly recommends immunization for influenza, rotavirus, hepatitis A and certain meningococcal diseases that cause meningitis.... The overhaul contradicted guidance from career scientists.... That process to alter vaccine recommendations ... did not include extensive consultation with the agency’s subject matter experts or the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel that is usually done.”
News You Can Use. Ambrosia Wojahn of the Washington Post: “Visitors to national parks who plan on covering ... Donald Trump’s face on their 2026 entrance passes may face additional fees, according to a policy document distributed to staff in late December and a parks employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media. The updated 'Void if Altered' policy explicitly prohibits changing the appearance of park passes to cover up any information. Field staff who encounter altered passes are instructed to request that stickers or coverings be removed. If stickers cannot be removed and the validity of the pass is in doubt, 'the visitor should be charged the regular entrance fee or given the option to purchase another pass.'”
Judd Legum & Rebecca Crosby of Popular Information: “In an extraordinary letter sent to a federal judge Monday evening, Attorney General Pam Bondi admitted that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has not disclosed more than 99% of the files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — despite a federal law that required full disclosure by December 19, 2025. According to the letter, the DOJ 'has now posted to the DOJ Epstein Library webpage approximately 12,285 documents (comprising approximately 125,575 pages).' Meanwhile, 'there are more than 2 million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review.' The number of undisclosed documents has nearly doubled since the last DOJ statement, on December 24, which claimed that one million Epstein-related documents had not been released.”
Alan Feuer of the New York Times: “A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the loyalist prosecutor chosen by ... [Donald] Trump in the Eastern District of Virginia to explain in writing why she had continued to lay claim to being the U.S. attorney there, even after a different judge determined that she had been unlawfully appointed to the post. The order by the judge, David J. Novak, in Federal District Court in Richmond, Va., was the most robust effort to date to press the prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, on why she has continued to serve in the job, despite a ruling disqualifying her from performing it. Judge Novak gave Ms. Halligan seven days to respond to his demands to tell him why her repeated decisions to sign court papers as the district’s top prosecutor were not 'a false or misleading statement' — a move, he suggested, that could lead to disciplinary measures. Judge Novak’s order came some six weeks after Judge Cameron McGowan Currie found that the Justice Department had violated both the Constitution and laws governing the appointment of U.S. attorneys when it installed Ms. Halligan in the post, after Mr. Trump fired her predecessor.” An Axios story is here.
Christine Chung of the New York Times: “A day after a Hampton Inn in the Minneapolis suburb of Lakeville, Minn., was accused of denying service to immigration agents, the Hilton hotel company scrubbed the franchise location from its system, and Hilton’s website was no longer displaying the hotel as a booking option. Other travel sites, including Expedia and Booking.com, had also stopped offering reservations at the Hampton Inn Lakeville Minneapolis. Hilton, which owns the Hampton Inn brand, said in a statement posted on X on Tuesday that it took the action after a conservative influencer posing as a Department of Homeland Security employee posted a video on X in which he tried to book several rooms late Monday night and was turned away. The video came hours after Homeland Security criticized the hotel company on social media, accusing it of conducting a 'coordinated campaign' to refuse service to its law enforcement officers. That post prompted Hilton and Everpeak Hospitality, which owns the Hampton Inn in Lakeville, to issue public apologies affirming that they welcomed all guests and government agencies.”
Emily Brooks of the Hill: “Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa, who represented a Northern California district, has died at 65 years old. He represented California’s 1st Congressional District since 2013, previously serving in the California state Assembly and Senate." (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Victor Mather & Kellen Browning of the New York Times: “Mr. LaMalfa’s death diminished the Republicans’ narrow majority in the House, to 218-213, with four vacancies.” (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Annie Karni of the New York Times: “The sudden death of Representative Doug LaMalfa, Republican of California, cast a pall over the first day of the new session of Congress on Tuesday, when House Republicans mourned their colleague and also watched their tiny majority dwindle to the bare minimum of 218 votes. The passing of Mr. LaMalfa, 65, who died during an emergency surgery, came on the same day that the resignation of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia took effect. That left Speaker Mike Johnson able to afford just two defections on any party-line vote, if all members are present — and in an election year, they seldom are.... On Tuesday, for example, another Republican, Representative Jim Baird of Indiana, was absent because he was hospitalized after a serious car accident.... Democrats are expected to fill two vacancies in the coming months: On Jan. 31, there will be a runoff in Texas’ 18th District to fill the seat of former Representative Sylvester Turner, a Democrat who died in March. And on April 16, New Jersey will hold a general election to fill the seat of former Representative Mikie Sherrill, who was elected governor, in a solidly blue district.”
Mark Arsenault of the New York Times: “The suspect in the shootings that killed two Brown University students and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor left behind videos that provide some new insight into what might have driven him, according to a transcript of video footage released by federal law enforcement officials on Tuesday. The suspect, Claudio Neves Valente, made the videos before taking his own life in a storage facility in Salem, N.H., and investigators found them on Mr. Neves Valente’s devices. They were recorded in Portuguese, and the authorities had the videos translated to English. In the hours before taking his own life, Mr. Neves Valente, a former Brown physics student, said he had no second thoughts about what he had done, according to a transcript of the videos.”
Rylee Kirk of the New York Times: “Michael Reagan, a son of former President Ronald Reagan who carried on his conservative legacy, died on Sunday after a battle with cancer, according to statements issued by organizations affiliated with his father. He was 80.”
Tim Weiner of the New York Times: “Aldrich Ames, the most murderous turncoat in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency, whose betrayal in working for the Soviet Union went undetected for almost a decade, died on Monday. He was 84 and had been a federal prisoner, serving life without parole, since 1994.... The son of an alcoholic C.I.A. officer, Mr. Ames failed upward through the agency ranks for 17 years until he attained a headquarters post of extraordinary sensitivity.” A CBS News obituary is here.
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Georgia Congressional Race. Rick Rojas of the New York Times: “Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia on Tuesday set a special congressional election to serve out the remainder of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s term after her unexpected resignation. Ms. Greene, a Republican who entered Congress in 2021, officially stepped down on Monday, as she said she would in an announcement on Nov. 21 that blindsided her constituents and many lawmakers in her own party who did not expect her rift with ... [Donald] Trump to escalate so intensely.... The special election will be held on March 10.”
Minnesota Governor's Race. Ernesto Londoño of the New York Times: “In the end, Gov. Tim Walz said, his decision to end his bid for a third term as Minnesota’s governor came down to this: Facing a torrent of threats and taunts from the Trump administration over a fraud scandal that has plagued the state’s social services system, he concluded that abandoning his political campaign might shield his constituents from further harm. 'I don’t think any governor in history has had to fight a war against the federal government every single day,' Mr. Walz told reporters on Tuesday in his first lengthy remarks about his decision, announced on Monday, to quit the race. The announcement came a few weeks after the White House began portraying Mr. Walz, a former vice-presidential candidate and member of Congress, as an avatar of Democratic misgovernance.... Being unburdened from the constraints and demands of a campaign, he said, would allow him to focus on fighting fraud and protecting immigrants and L.G.B.T.Q. Minnesotans in the months ahead.”
New York Congressional Race. Nicholas Fandos of the New York Times: “George T. Conway III spent most of his adult life as a Republican, and until just a few weeks ago, he was living full time in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. But as Mr. Conway, a former conservative lawyer turned leading critic of ... [Donald] Trump, sees it, extreme times call for extreme measures. So he moved to Manhattan, registered as a Democrat for the first time, and on Tuesday, he jumped without apology into the primary race for a coveted open House seat in one of New York City’s bluest districts. 'We have a criminal president who is basically running the government like a mob operation,' Mr. Conway said in an interview before declaring his candidacy. 'We need people to come in who are willing to call that out, and people with special skills.'” (Also linked yesterday.)
Tennessee. Zachary Leeman of Mediaite: “Darren Michael, associate professor at [Tennessee's] Austin Peay State University, has reportedly been reinstated and given $500,000 after being fired over posts about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.... The university confirmed to WZTV in Nashville that Michael returned to his faculty position at the end of December.”
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Israel/Palestine, et al. How to Kill More Palestinians. David Halbfinger, et al., of the New York Times: “Doctors Without Borders, the international medical aid group, said Tuesday that Israel had ordered it to cease operations in the Gaza Strip after it failed to comply with new restrictions that include registration of all Gazan employees and limits on criticism of Israel’s conduct of the war. The move threatens one of the best-known humanitarian operations in the devastated enclave. Though Israel has sought to downplay the group’s importance, Doctors Without Borders says it runs or supports more than 20 percent of the remaining hospital beds, operates clinics for people with traumatic injuries and chronic illnesses, treats malnourished children and other patients, and distributed 700 million liters of water last year. With 40 to 50 international doctors in Gaza at any time, about 1,000 permanent Palestinian workers, and another 1,000 Gaza medical workers whose Ministry of Health salaries it augments, Doctors Without Borders says it performed more than 22,000 operations and treated more than 100,000 trauma cases in 2025.”
Ukraine/Russia, et al. The U.S. -- an Unreliable Ally. Clea Caulcutt, et al., of Politico: “Europe and the U.S. presented a united front for Ukraine in Paris, hailing security guarantees with American backing and laying out a detailed plan for bolstering Kyiv long-term — including deploying British and French troops after a ceasefire. In a notable show of support, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner praised European work to hash out a plan that would provide a security guarantee to ongoing peace talks with Russia.... But the upbeat declarations in Paris will not allay the doubts swirling over the U.S. commitment to supporting Ukraine and the European continent. While it was initially hoped that Washington would commit to a joint statement on the security guarantees, the final declaration was ultimately only signed by the coalition of the willing ... — a loose group of Ukraine allies that doesn't include Washington.... Responding to a question on Washington's credibility, [Ukrainian President] Zelenskyy said the security guarantees must be backed by the U.S. Congress.”
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cancel the midterms.
Again and again with the stolen election bullshit.
But there's a reason for that, because every now and then (like yesterday), Fat Hitler promises to cancel the midterms., then, of course, he seems to back off that, but the genie is out of the bottle, so to speak. He floats this idea regularly, like a test balloon, or more like a promise of things to come (don't say he didn't warn us).
Seriously kids, at this point, we can't even look at this sort of dreadful idea as something that could never happen. He kidnapped a foreign leader to distract from his bad polling numbers. Now Himmler Miller (possibly the single most dangerous asshole to ever work in the White House) is saying, quite bluntly, that we already own Greenland and should just take it, because we can. He believes, and has every right to do so, that he can get away with anything. The Supine Court told him he can. The Traitors in Congress cheer his every fart as if they were messages from the gods.
But Fatty is deathly afraid of a blue wave in the midterms. He thinks he'll be impeached. I doubt that will happen even if we win the House and Senate by huge numbers. Democrats are not built like Republicans who take every opportunity to go after their enemies. I wish we were more like that, especially now. But in any event, should we take back control of Congress, we can at least put a halt to a lot of his most egregious efforts to dismantle the institutions of democracy and rule of law.
But he keeps saying shit like "Maybe I should cancel the midterms. Elections are all rigged. I don't know. Maybe I will." We should take him at his word. He lies about so much, but he's not lying about this. If he thinks he can get away with it, he will, especially if he thinks Democrats will win. All his beautiful wickedness (well, a lot of it) would be short-circuited.
Don't think he won't.
They suck at everything.
Even their own propaganda. Take a peek at that propaganda poster Marie has linked above that declares in bold, manly, Attila the Hun fashion, THIS IS OUR HEMISPHERE (they left out the "dammit!"). But you'd think such a bellicose, chest-thumping assertion would be accompanied by a more, shall we say, in your face, dynamic, confident image. Instead, we get grandpa after swallowing a bottle of Ambien. That guy looks like he'd be hard pressed to successfully wrest a rattle from a baby in a stroller, never mind take over half the planet.
They suck at everything. Except sucking. Some kind of a paradox there, isn't it? Maybe Bertrand Russell can help.
So I read that Eva Braun Bondi was getting all worked up about kicking her some Maduro ass. Say what? Isn't she supposed to be the dispassionate overseer of American law and order? Here she is getting all Biblical, shrieking that Maduro would suffer the "wrath of American justice!"
Wow. The wrath of American justice. Is justice wrathful? I thought the idea was to dispense justice in an objective and impartial manner. Bondi done be watching too many wrestling videos. She be like "We gonna kick the shit out of that mofo! We gonna double suplex his ass! We gon' piledrive that sumbitch into the mofo pavement right in front of the damn courthouse. Yeah!"
Well....okaaayyy...
This entire administration has been overdosing on so much faux macho crap, they can't turn it off, even for appearances.
Jesus.
Akhilleus,
Yeah, I thought grapes were wrathful...
Marie,
Thanks for the adjusted world map and for the ranked list of countries. Very eye-opening. I didn't even know there are that many countries or that some of the names I had heard were countries...If it were a test, I'd have failed it.
Might make a great cognitive test for an aspiring world leader.
Future vs Past. Long term planning is not a strength.
A country a day keeps the Epstein files away.
Don't be trying to teaching morals to these kids, this a Texas university.
"TX Professor Told To Cancel Lessons On “Woke” Plato
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That’s a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming “Contemporary Moral Problems” course, due to start next week."
"Tennessee Gov Rejects $84M To Feed Poor Children
Despite the urging of county mayors, child advocates, clergy and educators, Gov. Bill Lee has declined to secure millions of dollars in federal funding to provide food to low-income kids by the government’s Jan. 1 deadline. Lee has remained quiet about the apparent decision to forgo approximately $84 million from the federal government’s Summer EBT program, also known as SUN Bucks. In the past, the federal funding has helped feed 700,000 Tennessee kids during summer months when school is out."
It was a "law enforcement operation". Who would have thought that a gambling site couldn't be trusted to pay out.
"Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would ‘invade’ Venezuela
Prediction market disputes US raid amounted to an invasion in fight over more than $10.5mn in wagers
Polymarket is disputing that the mission to capture Nicolás Maduro constituted an invasion and said it will only settle a prediction contract if the US military takes control of Venezuelan territory.
The decision by the prediction market has angered gamblers and added to the controversy surrounding a successful wager on the timing of Maduro’s capture that netted more than $400,000 in winnings for a mystery trader. The dispute over the definition of “invade” highlights just one of the controversies faced by the mostly unregulated industry."
$10+ million in wagers!
'You got to win the midterms because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be -- I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached,' the president said.
"They'll find a reason" - Oh let us count the ways. Attacking a sovereign nation and kidnapping it's leader, murdering boaters, using the presidency for massively corrupt money making ventures, pardoning his coup coconspirators, taking bribes for pardons, illegal use of military on US soil, usurping Congressional powers of the purse, and so many more.
This sounds like one of those semi-coherent moments where Fat Hitler realizes how many crimes he has done in public and cries for his worthless minions to protect him again from the potential repercussions of his actions. It is an admission of his guilt. Not that the media will point that out.
JoeMyGod points out that DHS are known liars.
"ICE Shoots And Kills Minneapolis Woman [VIDEO]"
When the Democrats regain power they need to abolish ICE, get rid of the bullshit made up qualified immunity, and prosecute the backlog of crimes against humanity perpetrated by these thugs.
CBS News has completed its transmogrification from a journalistic mission to a propaganda arm of the Trump Crime Family. Last night, Tony whatsisname ended the evening news broadcast with a slathering encomium praising the glories of Marco Rubio.
"CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil ended the network’s evening newscast Tuesday with a 'salute' to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The segment heaped praise on Rubio, the former Florida GOP senator, for taking on a growing number of titles and responsibilities in President Trump’s administration, of which Dokoupil said, 'Whatever you think of his politics, you’ve got to admit it’s an impressive resume.'” Dokie Pill added some Rubio memes as a bit of humor, showing him as the Shah or Iran and the Michelin Man. Ha-ha. Yes. Very....humorous, I guess, maybe if you were the editor of the Joe Shit the Ragman High School newscast.
Yeah, this isn't news. This is PR. And here's the other thing. What is there to salute? The rationale here is that Rubio is AMAZING cuz he has so many jobs....he's Secretary of State, he's National Security Advisor, he's National Archivist (making sure only good shit about Fat Donald gets saved), and a couple more things, including newly crowned Viceroy of Venezuela (accent on vice). I hate to get technical here, but if you were a real journalist, wouldn't your first thought be "How in the holy hell can he do all of these incredibly demanding jobs? Each one is more than a full time position. He HAS to be dropping the ball on some or more likely all of them". So this isn't a big HAHA moment or a time to praise little Marco, it's a time to ask serious questions about what we're missing as a nation.
A big piece of the puzzle is that this is not by any stretch, a serious administration. It's all about performance, and how things look to the goobers. Fatty doesn't want a real Secretary of State. He doesn't want a real National Security Advisor. He's had those things before and they pissed him off. He wants someone he can control and tell what to do and say, and Little Marco is just the right flavor of sycophantic monkey for those requirements.
So, a salute? How about a slap?
Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow are doing backflips in their graves.
Alas, poor CBS News, I new it, Horatio.
Holy crap. The ICE thug shot her in the face three times-- of course that only takes a half a second-- We are living under an oppressive regime, and it is run by murdering monsters. Utter monsters. All of them, not just Dear Leader, who is a monster AND crazy as a hoot. Annie Oakley Puppy Murderer says it was self-defense. I don't even know what else to say.
Planet Trump
Speaking of performance, if you think about it, this whole Venezuela cluster fuck is just that. No one knows what happens next. No one really cares. All that matters to Fat Hitler is that he is the number one star in the world right now. No one else is in the headlines. It's all about him. He's getting the RATINGS. He's still, in his mind, a TV star. He doesn't give a shit about policy goals or a political agenda. He hands that stuff off to deranged psychos like Himmler Miller and Cosplay Kristi. All he cares about is money and ratings.
He thinks of himself as both the star, the executive producer, and the head writer of the Donald Show. If ratings are sagging, it's time for a blockbuster episode, something no one saw coming, like taking over a foreign country. Yeah! That's the ticket! And when the water cooler talk dies down about Venezuela....GREENLAND....
But meantime, Russia is sending half its navy to protect an oil tanker from being boarded at Drunk Pete's orders. Any chance that things could get hairy there? Who cares? It'd be great for ratings!
It's all a performance to him. And really, when you realize that to him it really is nothing but a TV show, so much makes sense. People are still trying to figure him out, parse what he's doing as a politician, and how to think about his "policy goals". He doesn't have any, outside of making money for himself. He's not a pol. He's a TV star. And stars need their names up on the marquee, so he takes over the Kennedy Center, he puts his name on other buildings, he destroys part of the White House just because he can and to show everyone he's a star. When you're a star, you can grab 'em by the pussy, blow up the White House, take over foreign countries...anything you want.
Tune in next week as he renames the earth Planet Trump. I mean, why stop at the Western Hemisphere?
The ICE shooting videos should be played and replayed on every national newscast. Not salutes to Marco Rubio, or some hagiographic bullshit about how manly the Fat Dictator is. This is Gestapo shit. Shooting a woman three times in the face???? And now they're going to try to say the ICE murderer was fighting for his life?
CBS? run by a tyrant, the resident blabby guy (Mr. Katy Tur) so why pay any attention to that network?
Bill Lee is a POS, ya see how self-righteously he refuses to feed children their only summer meal, even if he is not paying for it? Miraculous that the feds even offered TN the money, since they take great joy in being able to refuse to help anyone...
Nazi Miiller and Puppy Killer Noem both repeating the lie that the woman ICE murdered in cold blood tried to "run over" the ICE thug. Kristi thinks she looks good in a stupid western hat...
More and more I want to slice off the west and the western midwest. They are unfairly represented, and they are full of dirtbags like her.
If there were as many "domestic terrorists" in this country as Cosplay Kristi is screaming about, I'd say be careful, because every third person you meet on the street is probably planning to kill you. That woman in Minneapolis that ICE agent murdered in cold blood was just trying to get away from a scumbag who was trying to yank her door open. She was likely scared. NOT a terrorist. These fuckers are always whining about what snowflakes liberals are..Even the most sensitive, easily disturbed liberals I know can't compare in snowflakiness to the whiny cowards and scaredy cats working for ICE. These people prowl around in packs with guns drawn, heavily armored and masked, while converging on residential streets. Naturally people are going to try to get away from these thugs. They've been shown to have hair trigger startle reflex, the kind normally seen in infants, ready to shoot anything that scares them. It's bad enough that we have these thugs roaming the streets with zero accountability, but Fatty and Cosplay Kristi have $100 million that they're using to hire any fat jamoke who thinks they'd love to shoot them some immigrants, the requirements are less than most municipalities have for school crossing guards, so no wonder they're attracting weenies who love to play sheriff and shoot the bad guys, even if those bad guys are soccer moms trying to get as far away from these knuckleheads as possible.
Prediction: The asshole who murdered that lady in the car (three shots in the face? Think that was enough?) will suffer no consequences. Won't be fired, suspended, get a warning or lose a day's pay. He may even get a medal for stopping a dangerous terrorist disguised as a 37 year old lady driving a soccer mom van.
That Future v Past thought is too true. Oil, all extractive energy sources, as resources dwindle, will become increasingly expensive and outmoded even as other nations (specifically China) develop newer technologies for energy in the future. By continuing to foreground big oil and gas even as he debases and defunds renewable energy technologies, Fatty is keeping the US far behind. He's stuck in the 70's and 80's. Just look at his obsession with former media giants like 60 Minutes and Time Magazine. I used to watch 60 Minutes religiously, but not for years, probably ten or twenty years. And Time Magazine? When I was a kid, it was one of the premiere sources for great writing about news and current events. When's the last time you picked up Time Magazine? I subscribed once, but my subscription ran out probably in 1989. But Fatty is still consumed by being on Time's cover and what 60 Minutes says about him. He's stuck in a past that will never return. This is partly why late night TV comics piss him off so much. How many people do you think watch Jimmy Kimmel every night? But in Trump's tiny brain pan, Kimmel and the others are the equivalent of Johnny Carson, a guy tens of millions of tuned into every night. He wants movies like "Rush Hour" (1998) to be rebooted. He wants to spend billions on battleships, a weapon system that hasn't been relevant for 90 years.
His heyday was back then, when he saw himself as the hot real estate deal maker in NYC, even though back then he was suffering flop after flop in his business "deals". Still, he wants us all to live in the past with him, all of us inside the head of a demented pussy grabber and traitor.
No fuckin' thanks.
See, Fat Hitler is making housing available again. Though when we invade and takeover Canada they will unfortunately be US homeowners again.
"STUDY: 54% Of Canadians With US Homes Plan To Sell
Canadian snowbirds have long owned property throughout the Sunshine State. But two prominent real estate analysis firms say more Canadians are looking to sell their properties in the U.S. due to growing tensions between the countries.
Royal LePage and Realtor.com have released new analyses showing the trend. Royal LePage recently concluded a study that showed 54% of Canadians who currently own residential property in America say they’re planning to sell those homes within the next year."
Why we can't have nice things. Like truth, justice, and morality.
After one of his off the chain ICE goons murders a woman in Minneapolis, Fat Hitler (I always say I'm never surprised by the depths of his amoral evil, but I have to walk that back on a regular basis) blames the murdered woman for her own death, and instead hails the thuggish murderer as a brave hero who is "lucky to be alive".
This is yet another of those "Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?" Fatty con jobs. The video clearly shows the ICE goon twenty feet or more away from the woman's car as he fires shots into her head. If he was in danger of anything it would have been stepping on a rake, if any were present. This is murder, pure and simple. But here we have the so-called president* howling about how the murdered woman was disorderly and violent, and in need of being killed.
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How the fuck are we going to survive three more years of this?
Fat Hitler calls for an extra half trillion dollars ($1.5 T total) for his military crimes. Our Democrats better keep this from happening. We need to fight to defund and underfund all these areas that FH has been abusing.
I've heard from several sources that the FBI (fucked up bureau of incriminations) will be called in to investigate the latest ICE murder of an American citizen, the one in Minneapolis today. Oh boy, can't wait for that finding. Can anyone convince me that Kash and Carry will allow an investigation that contradicts the Fat Fascist's lies? Riiigghhht.
And Himmler Miller is actually a nice guy.
This is like saying Trump's demand that DOJ pay him several hundred million dollars for being investigated, a demand being addressed by his OWN LAWYERS who now run DOJ, will be handled with fairness and according to the law, and will be dispatched in such a way that no impartial observer could detect the tiniest bit of partiality or any appearance of a conflict of interest.
The unprecedented, obscene corruption at the heart of this government is beyond the wildest imagination of the most bug-eyed political conspiracy theorist. Phillip K. Dick, on his darkest night of the soul when god and Cthulhu and maybe Bob's Big Boy speaks to him through his pink beam hallucinations, couldn't foresee or conjure up such a collection of venal, vile, vapid, and vicious pigs as the morons and monsters that constitute this administration.
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