5 IV 2025: The new Rasputin

The bad situation of the last Romanovs was made considerably worse by their association with the part-time spiritualist, part-time sexual predator, Rasputin. The widespread fear and sometimes fact in Russia was that Rasputin had a hand in running the government.

Now we read that Laura Loomer, a publicity starved weirdo, visited our Tsar with a list of “disloyal” people in the National Security Agency. Donald, a great admirer of Loomer set about firing people on the List.

In addition, we read of Elon Musk, a mega-creep, moving in and out of the woodwork at the White House as he leads Donald’s quest for vengeance against the American government.

The blind lead the blind and they all get irregular government jobs.

Elon and Laura are not real experts fit to advise the President. They are experts because Trump says so, and Trump says so because they are bogus experts and because they fawn on him.

28 III 2025: Slap-stick security. On purpose?

The carelessness, frivolity, and mendacity of the Houthi attack and the attempts to conceal them raise lots of questions. Is this an isolated incident, or, as is likely, is not this amateurish behavior routine in the Trump regime? To use an old Nixon formulation, is not this incident a strong indication that America is a helpless giant? What does this incident tell us about America’s ability to defend itself in an all-out war or to wage a successful war against its enemies?

This suggests also that maybe we should not be so very concerned about America’s traditional enemies and worry and act about our new and most dangerous enemy, the Trump Regime which has been attacking America’s dignity, welfare and effectiveness since Trump last took office. That Trump was re-elected and is so successfully dismantling the American government with the connivance of the Republican Party makes me ask this question: Does America have a deathwish? Are we committing suicide?

28 III 2025: Kidnapping of Rumeysa Osturk

Little Marco Rubio offered some background for the snatching of Ms Osturkk. His remarks display the kiind of sophistication we’ve come to expect from Trump stooges. Marco explained:

“Every time I find one of these lunatics I take away their visa.”

“If you come into the United States as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don’t want it. We don’t want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country, but you’re not gonna do it in our country,” Rubio said.

Obviously the nationwide kidnappings by ICE are the result of a lot of thinking and soul-searching. 

And I have watched the video tape of Ms Osturk being grabbed by Tom Homan’s goons. The goons did not manage Homan’s snatch at all well. The Gestapo and K.G.B. were a lot better at this kind of thing, but masked secret police are a novelty in the U.S.A., and these boys must be given a chance to refine their technique.

Unmarked car, clumsy masked men, without badges, without uniform. What if instead of Ms. Osturk they tried to grab a gun rights nut who would open up on them no questions asked!

27 IV 2025: Gabbard and Ratcliffe, and their contempt for the American people

Ms. Gabbard and wannabe smartass Mr. Ratcliffe are threats to national security because of their manifest incompetence and because of their compulsive arrogance. They are telling lies about their failures and clearly expect to be believed. Who could believe them? Of course, the Trump junkies in the MAGA base whose appetite for lies seems boundless, and Republicans must at least pretend to believe them in order to keep the BIG LIE going. But, what about the majority of the American people who will not, cannot believe their lies? They don’t really care about the rest of the American people for whom they obviously have an boundless contempt.

26 IV 2025: Trump security people setting new standard

I’ve been watching videos of the testimony of Trump’s comedians about the awful but not surprising screw-up that leaked classified information onto an unprotected telephone line. These officials are showing their Trumpist credentials by telling one lie after another before in response to Senators’ questions. Tulsi Gabbard’s bad memory and obfuscations and evasions are breathtaking — who prepped her for this testimony? John Ratcliffe’s stout denial, “I did not transmit classified information” reminds me of Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sex with that woman.”  These very professional liars have set a new standard for the Trump administration’s Special Olympics for Liars.

4 III 2025: Won’t show no respect!

Mr. Zelensky is being generally attacked by all of Trump’s dick-lickers for being, as they see it, disrespectful to their King.

Well, no one had taught Zelensky, a courageous and honest man, the etiquette of the Regal Court of Trump. Kneel to kiss the ring. Look submissive and adoring. Never disagree with King Trump, let alone criticize him. Appear desperately attentive and awed. And show gratitude lavishly and continuously, all as exemplified by the Court Jester, J.D. Vance.

Problem is, where Zelensky comes from, respect has to be earned, by decency, honesty, and by courage and compassion, whereas in the Trumpian Court, respect is something phony, to be feigned and acted out on camera, apart from any reality. Trumpist ethics allows real respect to be given only to deceit, cunning, and corruption.

3 III 2025: Chorus ranarum

I read that, as expected, Trump’s “backers” are raising a swelling choir of toadies in support of the deified Trump and in denunciation of their new Satan, Zelensky. Tulsi Gabbard, that miracle of incompetence and obsequiousness, is virtually starting up a Putin Fanclub, playing Natasha to Trump’s Boris.

1 III 2025: Trash on parade

Trump and Vance were like two neighborhood bullies ganging up 

to attack a kid they know they can’t handle one-on-one.

I’ll say more:

Is Trump purposely backing up Putin? 

In this case Trump is a traitor.

Is Trump unaware that he’s backing up Putin? 

In this case, he is insane.

We have learned about J.D. Vance that he is absolutely Trump’s dwarf clone.

The Republican Party goes deeper every day in its bottomless pit of shame.

27 II 2025: Trump’s vendetta

A statement of George Conway is being widely quoted that says that Trump “wants to have revenge on the United States of America.” I think this is true. 

I would go further and say that Trump needs to have revenge on anyone who has in any way opposed him, disagreed with him, criticized him, ignored him, indeed, anyone who has not given him the acquiescence and praise that he knows are his due. So the target of his lifelong vendetta includes all refined, learned, idealistic, courteous, and wholesome people, in government, in business, in the arts, in society.

15 II 2025: Hey, faster with the coffee …

Andrew Bailey, Attorney General of the State of Missouri, has brought a suit against Starbucks’ DEI program, alleging that it violates anti-discrimination laws and keeps people waiting longer to get their coffee. MAGA wants to replace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with white homogeneity, white prejudice, and virtual segregation, as part of their 2025 program to lull the United States into a falsehood-induced dream of self-satisfied racism.