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Click to read above article This was my comment: I wrote: This is clearly a diversion. I wrote about how he does this here: Trump is throwing yet another dead cat on the table.There’s nothing that really needs to change as far as creating something like the EU. With smaller countries in Europe this made sense.…
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I discovered that the metaphor about throwing a dead cat on the table to divert media and public attention was an actual political strategy when I read this on BlueSky: I tried to use AI to make an illustration for today’s blog that wouldn’t be too upsetting. I am a cat lover and have had…
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Will Susie Wiles go from being one of Trump’s closest and trusted advisors to be vaporized by Musk’s Starlink satellite disintegration ray? This is from an AP article published the day after the election about her: She can control some of Trump’s worst impulses Wiles was able to help control Trump’s worst impulses — not…
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How long before Trump starts wearing the MAGA Panama hat? I want bragging rights for predicting this if he does. President Theodore Roosevelt wore a Panama hat when he visited the Panama Canal. Will Turmp wear his own version when he goes there if he can take it back? My hunch is that Trump felt…
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This is the CDC information about the bird flu. At present the bird, or avain, flu is not highly effective at infecting humans. Read more from the Oregon Public Broadcasting article here. This is the concerning takeaway from the article: There are two paths the virus could take to get better at infecting humans Good news is,…
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Under the influence of ketamine, by Sabrina Haake I am an admirer of Sabrina Haake who publishes a SubStack with the eponymous and rhyming title of The Haake Take. Her columns are also published on RawStory, Salon, and elsewhere. She is an attorney specializing in 1st and 14th Amendment defense. She ran unsuccessfully in an Indiana Democratic primary for Congress in 2020.In the…
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This is from the Raw Story article above: President-elect Donald Trump managed to cobble together a popular vote-winning coalition and he did so by making notable but modest gains with certain minority groups. But the problem for him, wrote Ronald Brownstein for CNN, is that he won the election with a group of voters who broadly don’t like him, and may not even agree…
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I found the Venn diagram below in a Facebook post. Then I made a version with a DonkeyHotey caricature of Trump in the middle. I was planning to end the blog without making my own version but changed my mind and made one which you can see below. Click above to enlarge. I don’t know…
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Consider how public perception might have been changed if all the articles and signs saying “Donald Trump becomes the first convicted felon to be elected president” instead said “Donald Trump becomes the first convicted rapist or sexual abuser felon to be elected president” or billboards were put up like my version of the one below:…
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There’s a part of me that I don’t really know what to make of when it comes to wishing the absolute worst for the country during the next four years so people who voted for Trump suffer. In order for this to happen lots of good people will also suffer. In fact it is the…