That Didn't Age Well

"The Peace President". "No More Foreign Wars". All shit bleated by the Orange Sundowner-in-Chief and his acolytes.

But no. Cadet Bone Spurs, the Aged Draft-Dodger, has no problems with sending American kids into wars around the globe. He and his Pithed Secretary of State are yammering about intervening in Columbia, Mexico, Cuba, Iran, Denmark and Lord knows where else.

Between his taste for military action and his destruction of American excellence in science and medicine, he and his MAGA morons are turning America into a shithole nation.

Which may be Pee-Wee German's idea of how to make it so nobody wants to come here. Like Russia, North Korea or Iran.

Your Sunday Morning Turbine Noise

The Mach Loop, from the last day of ops in 2025:

And Another Thought About Trump's Most Excellent Military Kidnapping

Since Trump has signed onto Putin's idea that "great powers" have the right to interfere militarily in their "near abroad" neighbors, the only thing that may keep Russia from marching into the Baltics is Article 5 of the NATO Treaty. Putin could still move into the *.-stans without much squawking from anyone that matters.

Taiwan should expect Trump and Xi to make a deal where China does nothing about Venezuela and Venezuela continues to sell cheap oil to China in exchange for Trump not doing anything when Xi makes his move on Taiwan. Xi could come up with some charges alleging that the Taiwanese government is violating Chinese law and use that as a Trumpist rationale to invade. If that were to come to pass, I'd look for it to happen very soon after the American midterm elections.

Dimwitus Maximus has added to global instability, which makes him eligible for the IgNobel War Criminal prize.

ETA:

For might makes right, And till they've seen the light, They've got to be protected, All their rights respected, Till somebody we like can be elected.

The United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of the country in an extraordinary nighttime operation that was accompanied by a flurry of strikes following months of escalating Trump administration pressure on the oil-rich South American nation.

The U.S. is now deciding next steps for Venezuela, President Donald Trump said Saturday on Fox News, adding, “We’ll be involved in it very much.”

Second paragraph, above: Yet another war/intervention for oil.

Invading another country and abducting its leader, even with the fig-leaf of a federal indictment is kidnapping. Imagine another country grapping Trump and putting him on trial-- I doubt if we'd sit still for that. But, as the old saying goes, Providence is usually on the side of the country with the biggest battalions.

Anyway, looks like the Demented Criminal's campaign for a Nobel is officially over.

It's funny that Trump and Bondi argue that Maduro's being indicted as a justification. Because Trump, himself, was indicted and convicted of 34 felonies. But hell, sell-reflection and irony are not things in this maladministration.

It's also funny that Trump pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández for pretty much the same charges he's slobbering about prosecuting Maduro.

Caturday

Chip, recovering from an ultrasound.

Because It's Friday

Winter steam.

DHS Not Bothering to Hide Their Racism

It's official policy:

They're not hiding it. Pee-Wee German and the Puppy Killer don't just want to deport "illegals". They want to deport everyone who doesn't meet their view of racial purity. At one point, it was just Loony Loomer spouting such bullshit...

...now it's DHS policy.

It's totally bonkers. I doubt if, you added up evry immigrant, legal, undocumented and naturalized, you'd not reach 100 million. So that means they'd have to deport people born here, which implies to even the casual observer that that the Trump Administration wants to deport non-white people. Can you trace your ancestry to Latin America, Africa or Asia? Then they want to deport you.

And, of course, they'll also be coming for the Jews. Nazis always do, because antisemitism is the oldest and purest form of hate.

The Peace President at Work

US President Donald Trump has warned Iran's authorities against killing peaceful protesters, saying Washington "will come to their rescue".

In a brief post on social media, he wrote: "We are locked and loaded and ready to go." He gave no further details.

Ah, yes, President "No More Foreign Wars" Bone Spurs keeps looking around for more and more wars to get into.

Funny how the guy whose dad got a doctor to write a fake excuse to get him out of doing his duty and whose only experience with violence is beating up his ex-wife and sexually assaulting other women is so eager to send our youth to come home in steel boxes.

Blotting These Down, Here

Late on this one:

It's 2026 and We're Still Here, You Batshit-Crazy COVID Anti-Vaxxers.

The Right is nuttier than a boxcar-full of almonds.

It's not just that one. I know a person who is estranged from their sibling because the sibling has some serious cancer, the first person is telling the sib to take large doses of Ivermectin and the sib is replying with "STFU".