the lede of today's post is 100% true. I went to bed with a whole slate of other stuff I was planning to write about. then I woke up, looked at my phone — and all that other shit went out the window
Just reading both Dean Blundell's (Canadian) posts and Malcolm Nance's(Former US Intelligence) posts. They are saying looks like US is getting ready to invade Greenland, and Trump's latest reasoning is because he did not get the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, he certainly isn't going to get it now.
The 1500 troops stationed in Alaska supposedly ready to go into Minnesota are really going into Greenland according to Nance. He is about to go there himself. He lays out why he thinks this and what he thinks they will do when they get there. He sees this happening within the next few days.
Gail, I had already read the horrid letter to Norway in Dean's Substack and it just gets worse and worse as he talks about the Troops ready to go to "Minnesota" are really for Greenland. Malcolm says that means they are a few days out from their mission. So, if this happens, will it happen on Wednesday, the day that Trump is supposed to speak in person at Davos? Will he actually show up to gloat? Switzerland is not NATO so they have to remain neutral.
Can Europe take troops hostage then, or does Trump think he can deploy all of them and their families to where? Germany has around 39,000. Can there be housing for all of them in the US? In Russia? Sounds like not very carefully thought out actions.
My husband says that he has heard others say Nance has been wrong on things. So, he does not trust him. I am saying, we shall see. I would hope Nance would be wrong, but Jake Broe also said that even if a lot of Generals said no to invading Greenland he would shop around until he found one who would do this. I think Congress should be telling people in the military just what will happen to them when this regime is over. Show them what being court martialled looks like. Not in hero movies where the hero gets off because they are wrongfully charged, but in real life. Maybe some cases and stats.
Could the EU start manipulating the approximately trillion dollars of US debt they hold and cause our economy to crash and burn? Magic 8 Ball says YES. Does Secretary Scott Bessent understand any of this? It's clear that the Angry Toddler in Chief does not.
We are already disconnected from the world financially. There's no coming back for us, because the rest of the world has and/or is building financial and trade relationships with each other and China. We have lost every other country's trust. On top of that, we are choosing oil/petroleum based investments while the global economy is investing in environmentally sustainable energy. We temporarily have the lead in AI development, but that is changing fast, due to the way our government is weaponizing it against our own citizens. Unregulated AI is utterly horrific, but those who utilize it wisely will have huge advantages.
I highly recommend Johan's series covering the global impacts of tRump's disastrous withdrawal from solid relationships and complete isolation. This damage may be irreversible. We need to strengthen our communities immediately!
Yes Patrick. If you scroll up, you will see that I posted pieces from both of them. However, Dean has his take on the 11th Airborn, or whatever they are, Arctic Special forces, from Nance. They are traveling to Greenland this week with others and are going to interview people on the ground. Nance is now worried that there will already be US military there when they arrive. However, Europe should note the 1500, and make sure they have more. Questions arise like it US captures European soldiers, can Europe take American military stationed in their countries, who have not been removed back to the states hostage? Prisoners of war.
We’re mired in sub-zero temperatures in all of ‘Sota , can’t imagine Greenland will be much different… these ICE goons, don’t appear so violent today, many of them got balloons tossed at them late yesterday, dubious of what wet substances might have been in them.
Dean mentioned Canada would be the the real prize considering the vast land mass, coupled with several mines necessary for AI. Obtaining Greenland, plus Alaska puts Canada in a precarious position.
Yes. However, Canada is not just going to roll over, just like Ukraine did not. Trump is apparently thinking he can have the US military active on all sorts of fronts, sans any allies. We shall see.
I think the Greenlanders should be prepared to spray Americans with water, freezing them and all their equipment.
I thought I read that trump was not eligible to win the peace prize [to be] awarded in 2025 because he wasn't nominated for it by the deadline which was 1/31/2025.
It does not matter. He is ineligible because he is making war on his own people, and now elsewhere. The US military was always the wildcard to me because it has a lot of White Supremacists in it. None of them are loyal to the US constitution. I bet a lot of them are signing up now that they expect to see racist action around the planet.
If he and his ilk can be removed, I can eventually recover. Remember, I moved myself out of the US. We are selling our home, however still financially tied to the US with social security and pensions.
This is a quick, good read with links at the bottom under "ICYMI" to info about ICE, specifically who is being recruited, and what to do when ICE comes to your town or neighborhood.
Gavin McInnes, a Canadian who hopes not to be deported and the creator of the Proud Boys in 2016, developed ideas that have been adopted by ICE/Kristi (G)noem. As reported by Amanda Marcotte at Salon:
I couldn't have said it better myself! And what scares the crap out of me is he's probably going to strike Greenland and nobody will do anything about it. What the fuck has happened to the human race?
"4. They will create chaos, maintain a constant sense of conflict and danger. It will be their argument to enact new authoritarian laws, each one further limiting your freedoms and civil liberties. They will disguise them as being for your protection, for the good of the People."
OMG, I hate how accurate this Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide you posted the link to has become for the USA. I'm sick to my stomach every day...that leads to item #5.
I think the ICC needs to indict Trump if, for no other reason, so he will not be able to go to civilized countries anymore without risking arrest. Less embarrassment for Americans, less catastrophe for the rest of the world.
They must not fawn over him in Davos. That would throw fuel on the fire and he doesn't deserve any special treatment which is why he expects to achieve economic damage if they don't bow down in worship of him. Quit referring to him as the leader of the free world. He is the destroyer of the free world.
Perfect political cartoon. Trump in a straight jacket tweeting his madness to the world. How, with all of our "freedoms", is the USA in a straight jacket with the monster? Money, greed, powerful people in the Epstein files? Why are we letting this happen?
Harris should have challenged the results. Biden saying welcome back to Trump made me ill.
I hope Trump gets arrested in Europe. Maybe he can eat a raw shrimp and get a lethal case of food poisoning.
But Ellison, Zuckerberg, Thiel, and Musk aren't going anywhere. They are GDP of small countries and have amassed too much power. Gilded Age on steroids.
That's the whole problem, continuing to operate on a presumption of good faith, that all this is just misunderstandings, the we all ultimately want the same thing- what is right. No.
They. Don't. Care.
It's might over right. It's been demonstrated in EVERYTHING being done & they have also said so. They intend to seize total control & not share any power ever again. It's past time to get fking real about that.
I think he told him that a LOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG time ago.
Remember the Helsinki meeting where no one was allowed to know what was said?
Personally—and just a theory of course— I think that’s when Vlad reminded Trump that he owns him (with some evidence—snuff film, homosexual honeypot, etc).
I was up at 2am, voice to texting shit into my phone, that I could then piece together into a valid daily digest post, which I did do. How successful I was? as of yet to be seen.
If I wasn't old and out of shape, I'd be preparing to go fight for Greenland to protect their country. I suppose I can spy for Canada when it comes to that. 🤔
How do y’all reckon the history books are gonna cover this shite for the next generations? Will there be wildly different curricular materials between different states or rival districts within states? Will there emerge a schism between the cosmopolitan areas and the hillbilly backwoods that suppress any efforts to deal with all this responsibly? I ask in part because I taught history for many years and understand propaganda. And I really do care about this question.
Just as my parents’ generation would never buy a Ford, opinions about Germany began to shift after VWs became so obviously interesting (I had a ‘62 VW bus with 40hp) and then began to see how Germans had wrestled with their guilt. But I fear a huge swath of our populace will never, never admit culpability after this all comes crashing down.
The MAGA movement is actively erasing the truth about American history, because they fear it makes white citizens (and especially white men) look bad. And we can’t have that!
So many of our current troubles still trace back to our original sins: the theft of land from the red man and labor from the black man, the killings we had to do to make those thefts stick, and the lies we had to tell kids so they wouldn't be ashamed about the thefts and the killings.
Don’t overlook the manner in which capital enforced their will on miners, on slaughterhouse workers, on farmers and homesteaders, on tradesmen, on millworkers—and especially on women—until daring women and men insisted that the injustice be addressed. It’s been decades since meaningful structural work was performed to make our society more just, and now the bastards have once again taken up the whip and the chain. Things will change. That’s certain.
True Story: In my younger days in magazine publishing I joined the ad director on a sales call to the agency handling Ford. He instructed me never to mention Ford's "Jewish Problem" during the call.
If they can deny the Jan 6th insurrection, they are lost forever, unless we invest in a massive cult deprogramming program, but given their authoritarian mindset, all they will learn is to keep their racist drivel to themselves. And regurgitate it to their next generations to perpetuate it.
But the next generation, like this generation, will have access to many more online resources to learn the truth and to read and hear other perspectives and opinions.
Aren't there people who still defend Nixon? Certainly when he died, he suddenly became the Great Statesman -- China, EPA, etc. -- but that other little incident was glossed over. He was no Trump, but he did some damage, as I recall.
Nixon had plenty of faults, plenty, and also that experience with Roy Cohn, but he also had some brains, some discipline, some familiarity with the DC establishment (for better and worse), and acknowledged that the national interest demanded a certain regard for governance by a few principles. He implemented OSHA, EPA, etc.
Of course, he was also a traitor, conspiring to prolong the Vietnam War, and sent tens of thousands to die needlessly in that conflict. But he rose from a level of poverty, knew tragedy as an element of life, and could occasionally put aside his petty grievances for a moment. I think he loved his wife and family, at least. The difference between then and now is insane.
Also, Nixon in China is a really good opera. He makes for a good tragic opera character because he had layers.
He was a brilliant man who had no real reason to be as evil as he was, but he was filled with resentment, and that twisted him. That's catnip for operatic and dramatic roles. He's basically tailor-made for the stage.
Trump's not really that interesting because he's just a spoiled rich boy who's never heard no and is just a tyrant. There's not a lot of depth to him. He's not acting out of hubris or thwarted ambition or because he had a vision for how to make things better that got corrupted. He's always been spoiled and corrupt. He's always been a crook. He's always been a conman. He's always been a failure. He gets ahead by failing upwards and buying off officials, and that's just not that fun to watch.
No argument here -- Nixon looks like a Sunday school teacher in comparison to Donny. Nixon was infinitely smarter, but so is my Labrador (kinder, too). My point is not that Nixon is just as bad -- though after he resigned, I never thought it could get much worse (silly me) -- but that the whitewashing and sanewashing of unpleasant history will happen again.
Yep, I had a ‘67 and the counter-culture did invert values (‘62 had 40hp?—I forget, mine was 1500cc or 1600cc, and maybe 40 hp—half-century ago—sigh). Miss it.
War correspondent Martha Gellhorn’s piece for Collier’s, May 26 1945, began: “No one is a Nazi. No one ever was. There may have been some Nazis in the next village, and, as a matter of fact, in that town about twenty kilometers away it was a veritable hotbed of Nazidom. To tell you the truth, confidentially, there were a lot of Communists here. Oh, the Jews? Well, there weren’t really many Jews in this neighborhood. I hid a Jew for six weeks. I hid a Jew for eight weeks. All God’s chillun hid Jews.”
I saw a meme that said something to the effect of when this regime is over everyone who did will say they never voted for Trump nor believed his lies. Same vibe.
In 2017 it was observed that when pollsters tried to subgroup responses by whether the respondent had voted for Clinton or Trump, they found a significantly higher percentage of Clinton voters than there had been in November 2016. "If everybody who now says they voted for Hillary had voted for Hillary, she'd be President!" one pollster quipped.
"I heard that there were some people who belonged to that there party and some who follered along, but I never did and none of the folk I know ever did."
That reminds me of two things: the first a comment by our tour guide in Austria, in Linz town square. He pointed out the balcony from which Hitler annexed Austria, surrounded by hundreds of cheering fans. He then stated dryly that everyone there must died in the war, because no one ever admitted being part of his audience after the war. The second, being the cartoon "Family guy" where Brian the talking dog (who is the smartest of the family members) is touring Germany and asks why there is no history in the brochure from 1939-1945, to which the tour guide snaps "We were all on vacation!"
I think there will continue to be a dichotomy of opinion of this era, just like there is now. The conservatives/fascists/religiously corrupted will portray this as their long sought-after and mythical golden age, while those who value and hew to factual history will view this time with a mixture of horror, befuddlement, and a measure of disbelief.
Congress should be condemned for dereliction of duty in not impeaching this world-class lunatic. Not a word from Schumer who is busy congratulating himself for recruiting electable Democrats to run in November. By then, we'll be in full blown war with NATO.
Do what Mitch McConnell did. Figure every way you can to obstruct, including standing in front of cameras and saying, "We are obstructing." No fancy speeches, no need to inspire. Standing up for what is right can't be much harder than standing up for what is wrong. When in doubt, WWMMD?
Exactly, Frank. When the rethugs were in the minority, they were a monolith, acting as one, relentless in their obstruction. They managed to throw sand in the gears more than once.
Dems simply refuse to do that. At least some Dems keep voting to confirm all or most of Rump's nominations, and a whole bloc of them voted to approve the latest NDAA, FFS. They've caved twice on shutdowns and gotten nothing in return (no, the vote on ACA subsidies doesn't count).
But, as someone lectured me last week, expecting the Dems to act in unison isn't fair, because they've never had to do it before(!).
Yes, but the only thing they can do is filibuster and shut down the government, which is what Trump and the Republicans want because they are following the Project 2025 ideology which is install a Unitary Executive to make all decisions, i.e. a dictatorship.
Endorse impeachment. Call on our allies to block him. Mobilize the Democrats to act as one party instead of a flock of chickens outnumbered by weasels.
The Democrats already have written articles of impeachment. However the Speaker of the House is a Republican and will not bring it to a vote. We need to elect more Democrats. Trump has already said if the Dems take the house they will impeach him. The Republicans will probably try to rig or shut down the elections
I don't know when this era of MAGA is going to end, but I'm glad I won't be around 80 years after that when a new generation of fascists is neo-Trumpist rather than neo-Nazi.
Thats it. Religion is the source of all evil. If you convince yourself and other people that what you are doing is ordained by God, you have no qualms and no reason to think it through.
Truth. You can’t sympathize with people who are poor or needy or hopeless or sick because all they have to do is believe (and send cash.) God takes care of believers (Christians.) They are the chosen ones. Yikes! They really laid it on us Bible Belt kids, didn’t they? Holy shit!
It all fits. It’s the 21st century equivalent of the Crusades. Apparently, all these white Christian-nationalists have forgotten history. Success was short-lived.
Or, given the republican starving public schools of funds never learned it, because they actually think "we are a 'christiun' nation." Which we are not, and have never been.
As a retired educator, I remember that some states required all schools in the state to use same texts-instead of districts choosing the texts, as we did. It seemed odd to me that schools could not preview and select their own materials to use. Good question Neal! I too care about this question….
That's is true, but its more complicated. School boards, especially in some states, dont spend money on schools. Its true that school boards can be made up of eccentric people. That's why I volunteered to be involved in any area I could when my kids were in school. If you don't like what's going on, run for school board.
However I worked for years for a textbook publisher and a lot of work by many excellent educators goes in to writing textbooks. The reason districts select textbooks is because its easier and cheaper and because if separate schools have individual textbooks ( and they're really teaching the same thing), it makes standardized testing difficult. You have to understand that states keep reducing public school budgets that 1) school districts use actually the same textbooks for years. 2) and buying in bulk give states a better price.
Reallly excellent question, Neal. Before we get to that, however, is the task of promoting the real accounts of some of our un-pretty history that the far right is trying to bury.
I hate to say this (becauae Im always repeating myself) but television does a lot of damage. The only reason Trump is president was because he was on a game show for 12 yrs. where he played a smart businessman. His voters absolutely believe that he was a brilliant business man because he played one on TV.
True, but... I know I've often been called too idealistic (among other things), but after four decades in higher education, I'm not convinced that this is a given. At worst, it's almost complying in advance. Then again, I'm in California, not Texas or Oklahoma (apologies and condolences to the sane folks who live there). K, gotta run -- time for my PA meeting (Pollyannas Anonymous).
Having grown up in Texas and taught in school that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery, I think I can answer your question, Neal. That war was caused by the USA, of course, because the federal government refused to recognize the God-given rights of the states. It was a tragedy. The Confederate states had no choice but to secede. The North stole victory from our real heroes…oh lord, we’re in freaking trouble, aren’t we?
I worry that American history books regarding this era will have to be written in Canada and other countries. The regime is going to try to memory-hole a lot of this and it may be a decade or more before a lot of Americans will treat this as history and not partisan attacks.
Who will buy them? The purchase of books is up to the state and school boards. I sent my daughter to private schools run by fairly liberal people for Jr and senior high. My son preferred public school. But my son is way more liberal minded than my daughter.
The right-wing, red-state written textbooks, will fawn obsequiously, like a Bill O'Reilly (ghostwritten) book. Full of lies, and absolutely diametrically opposed to reality" factoids". Rather like their books are now.
Funny story, there was big adoption in CA the 4 big publishers were presenting a US History text. We were the only publisher whose text was not chosen because one of the committee members was an East Indian American and our book did not contain any mention of the contributions to the US by East Indians.
You have more power than you think over textbooks.
Sorry my comment wasn't clear, I meant that they will be as phony and propagandic as O'Reilly's false depiction of historical figures. He pretends they are accurate, they are right-wing rewrites.
This occupies my thought as well. I used to think that the teaching of history was standardized, and through normal people’s diaries and letters history had become more honest, nuanced, thorough, and true. Now, after seeing true Holocaust deniers boldly crawling out of their holes, for instance, I really wonder about the future.
It's very possible that there won't be history to be covered by history books. Just debris floating through space in slow motion: Statue of Liberty's torch, child's pacifier, someone's car keys, a piano split in half. Nobody to see it or write about it, the void humming.
Can’t some country arrest the asshole as soon as he leaves the country for all of the shit he has already done in Venezuela? Ugh, why can’t this stop????
Well, unfortunately, he knows that. He has said if the Democrats get in power he will be impeached. Im sure Miller has a plan to prevent the Democrats taking power. It has to do with declaring Minneapolis a "war zone" (which is hysterical because my best friend lives in suburb there and everything is fine and status quo). Its part of taking rights away. No voting, no Democrats.
I'm told that those military folks in Alaska standing back and standing by are slated for a trip to Greenland not Minneapolis. I hope they are wrong, but...
So let me get this straight: Norway didn’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize, so he’s punishing Denmark? I guess any territories north of Maine are interchangeable.
And, the Nobel Committee isn't part of the government of Norway. I wonder if Trump blames Obama for his not getting an Emmy Award for The Apprentice? I know, silly question, of course he does.
Trump probably thinks the Nobel Committee is appointed by the Prime Minister, which is, of course, the way HE'D do it! So, he takes his complaint to the top and says "it's all your fault, so I'm taking Greenland instead."
Dolly turned 80: Icon, Ally, Legend—Today the patron saint of rhinestone-covered radical kindness turns 80. Nine times she's come out swinging for LGBTQ+ rights: from writing "family is family" in 1991, to calling out Christians for judging, to defending trans bathroom access ("if I have to pee, I'm gon' pee"), to gifting a bejeweled guitar to Texas drag queen Brigitte Bandit during the state's anti-drag crusade. She wrote "Travelin' Thru" for Transamerica. She made sure marriage equality was policy at Dollywood after staff turned away a lesbian patron. At 80, she's still teaching us that fierce love isn't soft—it's steel wrapped in sequins.
I firmly believe that if Dolly was ten years younger, we could slap a crown on her and end this cold civil war. If she was our constitutional monarch, both sides would respect her.
What are the 8 plus wars he thinks he stopped? He keeps saying that and journalists never call him out on it, never say he’s out of his mind and deranged. WHY?
Exactly. They never ask “What the fuck is wrong with you?” I really hope I live to see the day some brave soul asks that and wins Jeff’s lifetime Pulitzer!
I saw a reel of leaders of Albania, Azerbaijan and Armenia talking to Macron and laughing it up that trump declared he ended a war between Albania and Azerbaijan when he meant Armenia. Plus he decimated the pronunciation of Azerbaijan. Oh those A countries - they are all alike! 🙄
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC):
Thailand and Cambodia:
Armenia and Azerbaijan:
Egypt and Ethiopia:
Serbia and Kosovo:
Analysts and news reports (such as BBC Verify and AP Fact Check) have noted that many of these conflicts were already de-escalating, were not active "wars" in the traditional sense, or were very short-lived.
I watch a lot, but not every day. Not one of them that I have seen, so far, has debunked that line. If someone has, then it hasn’t been often enough for me to catch it.
Journalists have called out and debunked his false claims of wars he supposedly ended, but just as with everything he says, he keeps repeating it and exaggerating it ad nauseum.
I think this drooling old sack of shit is asleep most of the time, and that his minions fight for his approval of social media posts. He's obviously incapable of focusing long enough to think about punctuation, so best case scenario is speech-to-text.
Since this method of "communication" was allowed to become normal, even nominal checks on nut-nut behavior are long gone. We have some seriously evil shits racing to the bottom, likely to justify the immense amounts of public money they are siphoning into their own offshore accounts.
Greed, hatred, venality, and self preservation as they loot the burning house they themselves set afire.
The billionaires who own most of everything are fine with all of us dying, since they only see as far as next quarter's P&L statements (if they even care about that).
This is what unchecked capitalism hath wrought, and apparently we're not even close to the breaking point.
I hope you ALL KNOW who is egging on trump, his brains not with it enough to come this out without STEVEN MILLER rehearsing him thru what he, MILLER, wants to say & is evil enough to know that no one will listen to him, but they’ll listen if it’s trump. Miller’s getting all his goals out while knowing trumps so fucked up ppl will just laugh & mock trump, while in the same time, telling the entire world what the little Nazi is & will be doing. It’s not, without trumps mind controlling, all this would go on, this little fucker is in control & he’s more fucked up than trump could ever be.
And I think Vought is hurrying to enact as much of Project 25 as he can while Donnie’s still out there entertaining everyone. All the more reason for Republicans to grow a spine and impeach NOW!
That is 100% true. Also Theil and Bondi pushing Unitary Executive control. They couldn't have made it this far without unfettered propaganda media. The worst thing that happened in the US was getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine.
Yeah but he wouldn't be able to do it if Trump wasnt immoral and self centered. And when the shit hits the fan whose fault will it be? The Jewish guy, Miller. I wonder if that occurs to him.
piggy is a 2 year old toddler, he's stuck in the phase where he's never realized he's a separate entity in the world. he still believes his tantrums will get him his way. OTHERWISE KNOWN as a mentally ill IMBECILE.
According to those who processed mentality: Idiot (2 Year old), Imbecile (7 year old) and Moron (12 year old that is equivalent to foolish/stupid), Trump is and Idiot.
the lede of today's post is 100% true. I went to bed with a whole slate of other stuff I was planning to write about. then I woke up, looked at my phone — and all that other shit went out the window
“Sleep no more; Macbeth hath murdered sleep.”
There is an old racist from Queens
Grabbing power because he has means
A Nobel he did covet
But Peace? Doesn’t love it!
Threatens war over ICE-
Covered Land misnamed Green
(To deflect from the Scandal Epstein!)
In line with what Jeff has been saying, can you call it "DistractFromEpsteinFilesLand?"
Awesome! You nailed him.
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And who is that supposed to be bonking Trump in the video? Putin? A pig? Hegseth? A Dane?
Shirtless, so Putin.
The Scott Adams lead cartoon character Dilbert, I think.
All of them?
Who is Bubba anyway?
"All the perfumes of Arabia cannot sweeten those TINY HANDS "
Paraphrasing Shakespeare
I messed up my first try.
And a shout-out to the Gatekeeper scene for Pissdrunk Pete.
Gate keeper or gravedigger ?
Gravedigger was from Hamlet. Macbeth's gatekeeper goes-on about the problems of too much drink. Comic relief.
I get my Shakespeare mixed up. I was in two improvised
Shows. Hamlet Improvised & MacBeth Improvised. The first in Hollywood, the other in Santa Monica. I played Juliet in High School.
"Here's a farmer, that hanged
himself on the expectation of plenty;"
I played Lady Macbeth twice.
Actors call MacB , the SCOTTISH PLAY, because-
reasons.
Well, it does take place in Scotland, and concerns a Scottish king....
It's considered bad luck, to say the name. Old theater superstition, like saying “ break a leg !” instead of good luck before the show.
Poor Duncan.
Yes. I remember discussing this as friends and I read it aloud together on a rainy afternoon.
Cool.
In High school. & a Santa Monica theater.
Good one.
Just reading both Dean Blundell's (Canadian) posts and Malcolm Nance's(Former US Intelligence) posts. They are saying looks like US is getting ready to invade Greenland, and Trump's latest reasoning is because he did not get the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, he certainly isn't going to get it now.
Dean Blundell
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/breaking-trump-says-hes-no-longer?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Malcolm Nance
https://substack.com/home/post/p-185064007
The 1500 troops stationed in Alaska supposedly ready to go into Minnesota are really going into Greenland according to Nance. He is about to go there himself. He lays out why he thinks this and what he thinks they will do when they get there. He sees this happening within the next few days.
If that happens, things are going to get very interesting very fast! Can't we have some boring times for a while? "Interesting times" may kill us.
They already are.
My anxiety is not helped by this craziness.
I think tens of millions of us are in that boat.
That’s right. Follow Blundell (Canadian) and Nance. They know what’s really going on.
Gail, I had already read the horrid letter to Norway in Dean's Substack and it just gets worse and worse as he talks about the Troops ready to go to "Minnesota" are really for Greenland. Malcolm says that means they are a few days out from their mission. So, if this happens, will it happen on Wednesday, the day that Trump is supposed to speak in person at Davos? Will he actually show up to gloat? Switzerland is not NATO so they have to remain neutral.
Can Europe take troops hostage then, or does Trump think he can deploy all of them and their families to where? Germany has around 39,000. Can there be housing for all of them in the US? In Russia? Sounds like not very carefully thought out actions.
My husband says that he has heard others say Nance has been wrong on things. So, he does not trust him. I am saying, we shall see. I would hope Nance would be wrong, but Jake Broe also said that even if a lot of Generals said no to invading Greenland he would shop around until he found one who would do this. I think Congress should be telling people in the military just what will happen to them when this regime is over. Show them what being court martialled looks like. Not in hero movies where the hero gets off because they are wrongfully charged, but in real life. Maybe some cases and stats.
I do Gail, everyone should… put Zev into the post as well!
Having US troops invade Greenland while he's at Davos - given the economic fallout it seems insane, but since when does that mean it wouldn't happen?
Could Europe arrest him for war crimes while he’s over there and please NOT extradite him?
Could the EU start manipulating the approximately trillion dollars of US debt they hold and cause our economy to crash and burn? Magic 8 Ball says YES. Does Secretary Scott Bessent understand any of this? It's clear that the Angry Toddler in Chief does not.
The EU is the U.S.' single biggest creditor. If they even start to cash in all the paper they hold, we're toast.
We are already disconnected from the world financially. There's no coming back for us, because the rest of the world has and/or is building financial and trade relationships with each other and China. We have lost every other country's trust. On top of that, we are choosing oil/petroleum based investments while the global economy is investing in environmentally sustainable energy. We temporarily have the lead in AI development, but that is changing fast, due to the way our government is weaponizing it against our own citizens. Unregulated AI is utterly horrific, but those who utilize it wisely will have huge advantages.
I highly recommend Johan's series covering the global impacts of tRump's disastrous withdrawal from solid relationships and complete isolation. This damage may be irreversible. We need to strengthen our communities immediately!
I've been waiting for sanctions against the US for a while now...
That would be epic!
Couldn’t he be arrested on the spot?
His take on Canada was most eye opening Linda. I’m not sure if it’s in that post but Deans been active 24-7, just like Malcolm.
Yes Patrick. If you scroll up, you will see that I posted pieces from both of them. However, Dean has his take on the 11th Airborn, or whatever they are, Arctic Special forces, from Nance. They are traveling to Greenland this week with others and are going to interview people on the ground. Nance is now worried that there will already be US military there when they arrive. However, Europe should note the 1500, and make sure they have more. Questions arise like it US captures European soldiers, can Europe take American military stationed in their countries, who have not been removed back to the states hostage? Prisoners of war.
We’re mired in sub-zero temperatures in all of ‘Sota , can’t imagine Greenland will be much different… these ICE goons, don’t appear so violent today, many of them got balloons tossed at them late yesterday, dubious of what wet substances might have been in them.
Dean mentioned Canada would be the the real prize considering the vast land mass, coupled with several mines necessary for AI. Obtaining Greenland, plus Alaska puts Canada in a precarious position.
Yes. However, Canada is not just going to roll over, just like Ukraine did not. Trump is apparently thinking he can have the US military active on all sorts of fronts, sans any allies. We shall see.
I think the Greenlanders should be prepared to spray Americans with water, freezing them and all their equipment.
The Danes are threatening to scatter Legos in their path.
I thought I read that trump was not eligible to win the peace prize [to be] awarded in 2025 because he wasn't nominated for it by the deadline which was 1/31/2025.
It does not matter. He is ineligible because he is making war on his own people, and now elsewhere. The US military was always the wildcard to me because it has a lot of White Supremacists in it. None of them are loyal to the US constitution. I bet a lot of them are signing up now that they expect to see racist action around the planet.
He literally took his wackadoodle Truth Social posts and sent them to the leaders of another country.
It’s so fucking stupid I think it broke my brain. I’m gonna need at least a day to recover from it…
I am going to need 4 or 5 years to recover.
That’s very optimistic of you. I’m not sure I’ll EVER recover!
Mass PTSD with nowhere to avoid triggers.
We’re all going to feel like we survived a war. If we do survive.
If he and his ilk can be removed, I can eventually recover. Remember, I moved myself out of the US. We are selling our home, however still financially tied to the US with social security and pensions.
He sent White House letterhead Unity.
Don't count on it!
Trump does some of his “best work” while we sleep.
How many more outrages must he commit before everything implodes?
American parents are all domestic terrorists now. "How Events in Minnesota Are Radicalizing Parents in Real Time" by Melissa Ryan:
https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/were-all-domestic-terrorists-now
This is a quick, good read with links at the bottom under "ICYMI" to info about ICE, specifically who is being recruited, and what to do when ICE comes to your town or neighborhood.
Gavin McInnes, a Canadian who hopes not to be deported and the creator of the Proud Boys in 2016, developed ideas that have been adopted by ICE/Kristi (G)noem. As reported by Amanda Marcotte at Salon:
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/16/how-kristi-noem-turned-ice-into-the-proud-boys/
I thought it would today after reading his bedtime volleys Jan.
I couldn't have said it better myself! And what scares the crap out of me is he's probably going to strike Greenland and nobody will do anything about it. What the fuck has happened to the human race?
I’m wondering what NATO would do. Does NATO send troops to defend Greenland and fight against US troops?
Any attack on a NATO country is considered an attack on them all. So yes.
First they would have to take prisoner all the US troops on European and British soil.
How ironic that Prez. Dumbfuck is mobilizing troops on MLK Day.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Nazism and the holocaust taught us nothing.
Slavery taught us nothing.
Religion teaches us nothing.
Guess we're on the same page, Lisa.
Required reading--The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide. link:
https://verfassungsblog.de/the-authoritarian-regime-survival-guide/
"4. They will create chaos, maintain a constant sense of conflict and danger. It will be their argument to enact new authoritarian laws, each one further limiting your freedoms and civil liberties. They will disguise them as being for your protection, for the good of the People."
OMG, I hate how accurate this Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide you posted the link to has become for the USA. I'm sick to my stomach every day...that leads to item #5.
Please--repost, print, share as widely as possible!
Completely predictable, yet no one with the authority is doing anything but sitting on their hands after gagging themselves. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Amazing the batshittery someone can do when they're sleep deprived and hopped up on goofballs!
High on his own supply
That is why Malcolm Nance and Dean Blundell posted that the troops that are supposedly for Minnesota are really for Greenland.
Dean Blundell
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/breaking-trump-says-hes-no-longer?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Malcolm Nance
https://substack.com/home/post/p-185064007
I saw the Chief's video.
Nosferatu as well Stephanie!
Maybe that’s why he always falls asleep during the day.
Past time to Amendment 25/impeach/remove. House Republicans, where are you? Your country is circling the drain!
I think the ICC needs to indict Trump if, for no other reason, so he will not be able to go to civilized countries anymore without risking arrest. Less embarrassment for Americans, less catastrophe for the rest of the world.
They must not fawn over him in Davos. That would throw fuel on the fire and he doesn't deserve any special treatment which is why he expects to achieve economic damage if they don't bow down in worship of him. Quit referring to him as the leader of the free world. He is the destroyer of the free world.
If they don't fawn over him he'll leave early.
You say that like it would be a bad thing.
A straight-jacket and 20cc of thorazine.
Ann Telnaes came to a similar conclusion:
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-texts-norways-pm-linking-nobel?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb05fac1a-d245-4e77-a9a3-e61826a62c86_1800x1825.jpeg&open=false
Perfect political cartoon. Trump in a straight jacket tweeting his madness to the world. How, with all of our "freedoms", is the USA in a straight jacket with the monster? Money, greed, powerful people in the Epstein files? Why are we letting this happen?
It’s not as if there weren’t people raising the alarm before the election.
Harris should have challenged the results. Biden saying welcome back to Trump made me ill.
I hope Trump gets arrested in Europe. Maybe he can eat a raw shrimp and get a lethal case of food poisoning.
But Ellison, Zuckerberg, Thiel, and Musk aren't going anywhere. They are GDP of small countries and have amassed too much power. Gilded Age on steroids.
He’s a fat tub of lard. 40cc ought to do it. I’m no doctor but what’s the worst that can happen?
The best would be weeks of unconsciousness.
that would solve it.
They. Don't. Care.
This is what their owners want. All focus on Trump and Miller while Vought destroys any semblance of government by the people for the people.
That's the whole problem, continuing to operate on a presumption of good faith, that all this is just misunderstandings, the we all ultimately want the same thing- what is right. No.
They. Don't. Care.
It's might over right. It's been demonstrated in EVERYTHING being done & they have also said so. They intend to seize total control & not share any power ever again. It's past time to get fking real about that.
Got some you can share? lol
Yup!
I still say Putin told Trump in Alaska, break NATO.
I think he told him that a LOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG time ago.
Remember the Helsinki meeting where no one was allowed to know what was said?
Personally—and just a theory of course— I think that’s when Vlad reminded Trump that he owns him (with some evidence—snuff film, homosexual honeypot, etc).
Who knows. He probably gave him money and Ivan and Igor are dressed and ready to get the money back if Trump doesn't play ball.
I was up at 2am, voice to texting shit into my phone, that I could then piece together into a valid daily digest post, which I did do. How successful I was? as of yet to be seen.
It's nice to see that you read the comments! And I'm happier than a pig in shit that you enjoyed the video!
Thank you for all of your work!
I wonder if that little butt f***ing prop is for sale on Amazon. Have to get me one
Lol, yeah, that caught my eye in the protest clips, very glad to see it here. I don't think there's anything that says it all so well.
read 'whose words'
https://www.writerscafe.org/writing/angrybuddhaguy/3124318/
i have no doubts of where i stand in this community
or really give a fuk who does care what i say
i know my last words will be FUK YOU! spoken or not
my mind is my own and it's waves you cannot change
i have sat at the table of freedoms my entire life
i am their problem
i know my destiny
to live to die a free man
not an american, a free man
It’s those damn giraffes. They’re in control They didn’t get their hand jobs this week. So, they
Lmao!! This comment made me audibly hoot in laughter lol thanks for that my friend!
Every Single Morning…..I wake up this same way…😡🤬
If I wasn't old and out of shape, I'd be preparing to go fight for Greenland to protect their country. I suppose I can spy for Canada when it comes to that. 🤔
Well, at least you’re rid of all that other shit…
Brilliant! Thx for the best writing - keep going!!
Yes, but...BITCOIN?
How do y’all reckon the history books are gonna cover this shite for the next generations? Will there be wildly different curricular materials between different states or rival districts within states? Will there emerge a schism between the cosmopolitan areas and the hillbilly backwoods that suppress any efforts to deal with all this responsibly? I ask in part because I taught history for many years and understand propaganda. And I really do care about this question.
Germany mandates by law that every schoolchild learn about the Holocaust. but we live in a much dumber country
Just as my parents’ generation would never buy a Ford, opinions about Germany began to shift after VWs became so obviously interesting (I had a ‘62 VW bus with 40hp) and then began to see how Germans had wrestled with their guilt. But I fear a huge swath of our populace will never, never admit culpability after this all comes crashing down.
I’m afraid of just that, too. 🥺 We suck, both collectively and individually, at remorse.
The MAGA movement is actively erasing the truth about American history, because they fear it makes white citizens (and especially white men) look bad. And we can’t have that!
So many of our current troubles still trace back to our original sins: the theft of land from the red man and labor from the black man, the killings we had to do to make those thefts stick, and the lies we had to tell kids so they wouldn't be ashamed about the thefts and the killings.
Don’t overlook the manner in which capital enforced their will on miners, on slaughterhouse workers, on farmers and homesteaders, on tradesmen, on millworkers—and especially on women—until daring women and men insisted that the injustice be addressed. It’s been decades since meaningful structural work was performed to make our society more just, and now the bastards have once again taken up the whip and the chain. Things will change. That’s certain.
True Story: In my younger days in magazine publishing I joined the ad director on a sales call to the agency handling Ford. He instructed me never to mention Ford's "Jewish Problem" during the call.
Amazing. And aren’t you grateful to know that? I hope you’ve shared this tidbit with everyone in your life. It says so much.
If they can deny the Jan 6th insurrection, they are lost forever, unless we invest in a massive cult deprogramming program, but given their authoritarian mindset, all they will learn is to keep their racist drivel to themselves. And regurgitate it to their next generations to perpetuate it.
life lived on bent knee is submission ... surrender ... enslavement
And they desire it, it is hard to understand the lack of courage.
But the next generation, like this generation, will have access to many more online resources to learn the truth and to read and hear other perspectives and opinions.
Aren't there people who still defend Nixon? Certainly when he died, he suddenly became the Great Statesman -- China, EPA, etc. -- but that other little incident was glossed over. He was no Trump, but he did some damage, as I recall.
Nixon had plenty of faults, plenty, and also that experience with Roy Cohn, but he also had some brains, some discipline, some familiarity with the DC establishment (for better and worse), and acknowledged that the national interest demanded a certain regard for governance by a few principles. He implemented OSHA, EPA, etc.
Of course, he was also a traitor, conspiring to prolong the Vietnam War, and sent tens of thousands to die needlessly in that conflict. But he rose from a level of poverty, knew tragedy as an element of life, and could occasionally put aside his petty grievances for a moment. I think he loved his wife and family, at least. The difference between then and now is insane.
Also, Nixon in China is a really good opera. He makes for a good tragic opera character because he had layers.
He was a brilliant man who had no real reason to be as evil as he was, but he was filled with resentment, and that twisted him. That's catnip for operatic and dramatic roles. He's basically tailor-made for the stage.
Trump's not really that interesting because he's just a spoiled rich boy who's never heard no and is just a tyrant. There's not a lot of depth to him. He's not acting out of hubris or thwarted ambition or because he had a vision for how to make things better that got corrupted. He's always been spoiled and corrupt. He's always been a crook. He's always been a conman. He's always been a failure. He gets ahead by failing upwards and buying off officials, and that's just not that fun to watch.
Nixon won a scholarship to Yale, but could not afford to travel there (and his family needed him).
No argument here -- Nixon looks like a Sunday school teacher in comparison to Donny. Nixon was infinitely smarter, but so is my Labrador (kinder, too). My point is not that Nixon is just as bad -- though after he resigned, I never thought it could get much worse (silly me) -- but that the whitewashing and sanewashing of unpleasant history will happen again.
IMO, Nixon, corrupt as he was, was was a piker compared with Dubya. And neither of them was in the same universe as Donny Demento.
Im not sure. He is doing so much damage and the worse is yet to come. He wants to be Putin or li'l putin.
Nixon was a piker compared to Trump.
Yep, I had a ‘67 and the counter-culture did invert values (‘62 had 40hp?—I forget, mine was 1500cc or 1600cc, and maybe 40 hp—half-century ago—sigh). Miss it.
My first car was a Yellow Beetle, and the license plate started with KGB.
You’d never be able to get that license plate today.
I had a ‘68 Beetle with the 1500, I think. Not the best handling car ever. But it was fun at the time.
War correspondent Martha Gellhorn’s piece for Collier’s, May 26 1945, began: “No one is a Nazi. No one ever was. There may have been some Nazis in the next village, and, as a matter of fact, in that town about twenty kilometers away it was a veritable hotbed of Nazidom. To tell you the truth, confidentially, there were a lot of Communists here. Oh, the Jews? Well, there weren’t really many Jews in this neighborhood. I hid a Jew for six weeks. I hid a Jew for eight weeks. All God’s chillun hid Jews.”
I saw a meme that said something to the effect of when this regime is over everyone who did will say they never voted for Trump nor believed his lies. Same vibe.
The reverse of how many people say they were at Woodstock. More people claim to have been there than there were attendees
In 2017 it was observed that when pollsters tried to subgroup responses by whether the respondent had voted for Clinton or Trump, they found a significantly higher percentage of Clinton voters than there had been in November 2016. "If everybody who now says they voted for Hillary had voted for Hillary, she'd be President!" one pollster quipped.
Yep, that will be the case.
I’m reading book entitled, “One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This” about the destruction and genocide in Gaza.
"I heard that there were some people who belonged to that there party and some who follered along, but I never did and none of the folk I know ever did."
The Klan was in the next town over, but none of them was here in this town.
i have many longtime friends whose parents wore the tattoo numbers of THE JEWS!
each and every time i saw it i had an overload of hatred, anger and embarrassment for my fellow man
That reminds me of two things: the first a comment by our tour guide in Austria, in Linz town square. He pointed out the balcony from which Hitler annexed Austria, surrounded by hundreds of cheering fans. He then stated dryly that everyone there must died in the war, because no one ever admitted being part of his audience after the war. The second, being the cartoon "Family guy" where Brian the talking dog (who is the smartest of the family members) is touring Germany and asks why there is no history in the brochure from 1939-1945, to which the tour guide snaps "We were all on vacation!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sacn_bCj8tQ
My usual take on this,
"We were Swiss during the war!"
People are used to saying whatever the hell they want now. Hard to imagine them ever finding their civility again.
I think there will continue to be a dichotomy of opinion of this era, just like there is now. The conservatives/fascists/religiously corrupted will portray this as their long sought-after and mythical golden age, while those who value and hew to factual history will view this time with a mixture of horror, befuddlement, and a measure of disbelief.
Congress should be condemned for dereliction of duty in not impeaching this world-class lunatic. Not a word from Schumer who is busy congratulating himself for recruiting electable Democrats to run in November. By then, we'll be in full blown war with NATO.
Schumer totally useless
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Schumer is busy concocting his next "strictly-worded letter."
Just curious, what would you have Schumer do?
Do what Mitch McConnell did. Figure every way you can to obstruct, including standing in front of cameras and saying, "We are obstructing." No fancy speeches, no need to inspire. Standing up for what is right can't be much harder than standing up for what is wrong. When in doubt, WWMMD?
Exactly, Frank. When the rethugs were in the minority, they were a monolith, acting as one, relentless in their obstruction. They managed to throw sand in the gears more than once.
Dems simply refuse to do that. At least some Dems keep voting to confirm all or most of Rump's nominations, and a whole bloc of them voted to approve the latest NDAA, FFS. They've caved twice on shutdowns and gotten nothing in return (no, the vote on ACA subsidies doesn't count).
But, as someone lectured me last week, expecting the Dems to act in unison isn't fair, because they've never had to do it before(!).
Yes, but the only thing they can do is filibuster and shut down the government, which is what Trump and the Republicans want because they are following the Project 2025 ideology which is install a Unitary Executive to make all decisions, i.e. a dictatorship.
Endorse impeachment. Call on our allies to block him. Mobilize the Democrats to act as one party instead of a flock of chickens outnumbered by weasels.
The Democrats already have written articles of impeachment. However the Speaker of the House is a Republican and will not bring it to a vote. We need to elect more Democrats. Trump has already said if the Dems take the house they will impeach him. The Republicans will probably try to rig or shut down the elections
My Democratic Representative from Illinois has been trying. So far not enough votes for the motion to pass.
Endorse immediate impeachment and removal from office pending a thorough competency hearing.
They have but, Johnson refuses to bring it to the floor for a vote.
And elections, if any, will be purely performative.
I don't know when this era of MAGA is going to end, but I'm glad I won't be around 80 years after that when a new generation of fascists is neo-Trumpist rather than neo-Nazi.
The religious right still clings to Manifest Destiny as a rationalization for whatever they want to do.
Thats it. Religion is the source of all evil. If you convince yourself and other people that what you are doing is ordained by God, you have no qualms and no reason to think it through.
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” Blaise Pascal.
Truth. You can’t sympathize with people who are poor or needy or hopeless or sick because all they have to do is believe (and send cash.) God takes care of believers (Christians.) They are the chosen ones. Yikes! They really laid it on us Bible Belt kids, didn’t they? Holy shit!
religiously corrupted ... white christian nationalist
that believe their god and their savior is of course WHITE!
odds are 50/50 their god was/is a woman not a man/their son of god was not white ...
created in 'his image' ... that makes god an entity of color?
man evolved from the black african ... white was choice #2, #3, #4 ... ??????
It all fits. It’s the 21st century equivalent of the Crusades. Apparently, all these white Christian-nationalists have forgotten history. Success was short-lived.
Or, given the republican starving public schools of funds never learned it, because they actually think "we are a 'christiun' nation." Which we are not, and have never been.
Amen!
As a retired educator, I remember that some states required all schools in the state to use same texts-instead of districts choosing the texts, as we did. It seemed odd to me that schools could not preview and select their own materials to use. Good question Neal! I too care about this question….
Indeed, that’s one of the very worst features of our school systems. You’re probably aware of the work of Mel and Norma Gabler.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/the-guardians-who-slumbereth-not/
Was not …thanks for the info!
Yeah. Thanks, Gablers.
The infamous Texas school book committee/cabal. And what they decided is picked up by other states, mostly those with education systems at the bottom.
Oklahoma would be one of those states.
That's is true, but its more complicated. School boards, especially in some states, dont spend money on schools. Its true that school boards can be made up of eccentric people. That's why I volunteered to be involved in any area I could when my kids were in school. If you don't like what's going on, run for school board.
However I worked for years for a textbook publisher and a lot of work by many excellent educators goes in to writing textbooks. The reason districts select textbooks is because its easier and cheaper and because if separate schools have individual textbooks ( and they're really teaching the same thing), it makes standardized testing difficult. You have to understand that states keep reducing public school budgets that 1) school districts use actually the same textbooks for years. 2) and buying in bulk give states a better price.
I understand all that. Typically, districts select and purchase books. But Texas mandates books at the state level for all roughly 1,100 districts.
Reallly excellent question, Neal. Before we get to that, however, is the task of promoting the real accounts of some of our un-pretty history that the far right is trying to bury.
Indeed. But I’m afraid that a LOT of folks have had their brains scrambled and reprogrammed by the worst among us, probably for three generations.
I hate to say this (becauae Im always repeating myself) but television does a lot of damage. The only reason Trump is president was because he was on a game show for 12 yrs. where he played a smart businessman. His voters absolutely believe that he was a brilliant business man because he played one on TV.
And the vapid Kartrashians are ones to be emulated.
I’ll never forget the look on Bob Kardashian’s face when OJ was acquitted. He was ashen, mouth open, could not believe it happened.
Well....it might be more accurate to say that the only reason he was on the ballot was that he was on a game show.
Well, that may be true.
At least. And we've about lost our living memory of WWII.
Yes, my dad (drafted at 19) was one of the youngest, and has been gone for two decades, and would be 100, were he still among the living.
Our Dads would not like this
True, but... I know I've often been called too idealistic (among other things), but after four decades in higher education, I'm not convinced that this is a given. At worst, it's almost complying in advance. Then again, I'm in California, not Texas or Oklahoma (apologies and condolences to the sane folks who live there). K, gotta run -- time for my PA meeting (Pollyannas Anonymous).
Excellent point.
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They won’t teach history. They will watch WWE videos and recite the 10 commandments.
Haha, that makes sense, Joe, since Demented DonOld made Linda McMahon Secretary of Diseducation
Depends on if Texas or any other unreconstructed state has a say. There'll be a lot of whitewashing of this.
It is what propagandists and gaslighters live for.
Having grown up in Texas and taught in school that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery, I think I can answer your question, Neal. That war was caused by the USA, of course, because the federal government refused to recognize the God-given rights of the states. It was a tragedy. The Confederate states had no choice but to secede. The North stole victory from our real heroes…oh lord, we’re in freaking trouble, aren’t we?
I worry that American history books regarding this era will have to be written in Canada and other countries. The regime is going to try to memory-hole a lot of this and it may be a decade or more before a lot of Americans will treat this as history and not partisan attacks.
Same. There’s a real concern that if things keep going as they are that those who are able to read and write will be disappeared.
Who will buy them? The purchase of books is up to the state and school boards. I sent my daughter to private schools run by fairly liberal people for Jr and senior high. My son preferred public school. But my son is way more liberal minded than my daughter.
Left up to the state (and the Gableroids).
The right-wing, red-state written textbooks, will fawn obsequiously, like a Bill O'Reilly (ghostwritten) book. Full of lies, and absolutely diametrically opposed to reality" factoids". Rather like their books are now.
Those books are trash, like their( ghost) author.
Absolutely.
Is his book a textbook? What subject?
Funny story, there was big adoption in CA the 4 big publishers were presenting a US History text. We were the only publisher whose text was not chosen because one of the committee members was an East Indian American and our book did not contain any mention of the contributions to the US by East Indians.
You have more power than you think over textbooks.
Sorry my comment wasn't clear, I meant that they will be as phony and propagandic as O'Reilly's false depiction of historical figures. He pretends they are accurate, they are right-wing rewrites.
Well, of course they are.
Well,I think fried pig skins will still be popular with both groups but that's about it.
chicharrónes!
MAGA couldn't eat those because you need teeth.
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Excellent ask Neal, with AI on the horizon who knows. Unfortunately Howard Zinn isn’t around anymore.
May his memory be a blessing. Few have succeeded so well opening the windows like he did.
Great question, Neal. From one former history teacher to another.
This occupies my thought as well. I used to think that the teaching of history was standardized, and through normal people’s diaries and letters history had become more honest, nuanced, thorough, and true. Now, after seeing true Holocaust deniers boldly crawling out of their holes, for instance, I really wonder about the future.
The media has been so evilly complicit. Newspapers are part of the historical record. Reality is whatever they say it is. I am not hopeful.
It's very possible that there won't be history to be covered by history books. Just debris floating through space in slow motion: Statue of Liberty's torch, child's pacifier, someone's car keys, a piano split in half. Nobody to see it or write about it, the void humming.
That’s a jolly outlook!
An empty soul of a dude
Wakes up and he's in a bad mood
"It's Greenland for me!
And I'll get it for free!
Or else I'll just whine and I'll brood."
"And nobody likes me they say
Which makes me all crabby and gray
So I'll flip them the bird
Because I don't know a word
With two syllables, I'm dumber than clay."
Brilliant Frosty😁
Thanks!!
Abso-fucking-lutely perfect!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you!!
Hahaha! Perfect!
Thank you!
Haha that’s Great Frosty!
Thank you!
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way too considerately kind
I hate to say it but I firmly believe that the only solution is for the military to refuse his,order to invade Greenland and arrest the fat pig!
While they're at it grab the little pocket Fascist Bovino. That gave me my first laugh of the day and laughs are getting harder to come by.
Bad case of little man syndrome.
I am absolutely in favor of that!
Yes. Actually, past time for that.
Can’t some country arrest the asshole as soon as he leaves the country for all of the shit he has already done in Venezuela? Ugh, why can’t this stop????
Well, unfortunately, he knows that. He has said if the Democrats get in power he will be impeached. Im sure Miller has a plan to prevent the Democrats taking power. It has to do with declaring Minneapolis a "war zone" (which is hysterical because my best friend lives in suburb there and everything is fine and status quo). Its part of taking rights away. No voting, no Democrats.
imprisonment!
first take away Trump's ability to pardon willy-nilly.
My husband agrees.
I'm told that those military folks in Alaska standing back and standing by are slated for a trip to Greenland not Minneapolis. I hope they are wrong, but...
Fucking shit show of epic proportions because a tiny dick didn’t get the bobble it wanted.
And imprison him in an igloo on the northern-most tip of Greenland.
I'm still advocating for Bikini Atoll for him, his family, and the entire administration.
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Especially if they’ll set off a duplicate of the Bravo bomb under him!
But, but, but who would do Melania’s makeup?
NOPE TOO FUKIN KIND you are!
strip him down to nothing ... set him adrift on a 10'x10' chunk of ice somewhere unknown
Only take one general to obey just like the general who followed orders to bomb the fishing boats.
They wont do that.
I know they won’t. A girl can dream.
Indeed!
So let me get this straight: Norway didn’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize, so he’s punishing Denmark? I guess any territories north of Maine are interchangeable.
And, the Nobel Committee isn't part of the government of Norway. I wonder if Trump blames Obama for his not getting an Emmy Award for The Apprentice? I know, silly question, of course he does.
Obama has been living rent-free in his tiny brain since the ill-fated White House Correspondent's Dinner.
Yup
Trump probably thinks the Nobel Committee is appointed by the Prime Minister, which is, of course, the way HE'D do it! So, he takes his complaint to the top and says "it's all your fault, so I'm taking Greenland instead."
I mean, Im going to be fair Uncle Jeff, the most sensible thing I could write today:
was to quote Lorde:
"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." — Audre Lorde
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/this-week-has-really-started-to-suck-trump-approval-in-toilet-ice-killing-people-gen-z-is-homophobic
That said though....
Dolly turned 80: Icon, Ally, Legend—Today the patron saint of rhinestone-covered radical kindness turns 80. Nine times she's come out swinging for LGBTQ+ rights: from writing "family is family" in 1991, to calling out Christians for judging, to defending trans bathroom access ("if I have to pee, I'm gon' pee"), to gifting a bejeweled guitar to Texas drag queen Brigitte Bandit during the state's anti-drag crusade. She wrote "Travelin' Thru" for Transamerica. She made sure marriage equality was policy at Dollywood after staff turned away a lesbian patron. At 80, she's still teaching us that fierce love isn't soft—it's steel wrapped in sequins.
The world needs more Dolly❤️and no Donny😵
Damn Right, Kath.
Hell, yeah!
In a world of Donnys, be a DOLLY!!! ✨✨✨
100000000%
I firmly believe that if Dolly was ten years younger, we could slap a crown on her and end this cold civil war. If she was our constitutional monarch, both sides would respect her.
the republicans would never acknowledge or respect her
why? she is a she!
Richard, I am with you 100000%
She's great. If she were 10 years younger, she could get elected Senator from Tennessee. ( She'd skin Marsha the human rats nest.🤣🤣
What are the 8 plus wars he thinks he stopped? He keeps saying that and journalists never call him out on it, never say he’s out of his mind and deranged. WHY?
Exactly. They never ask “What the fuck is wrong with you?” I really hope I live to see the day some brave soul asks that and wins Jeff’s lifetime Pulitzer!
“What the fuck is wrong with you?” ... no prize or award necessary!
this one is on ME!
Yes, one of them needs to ask him “ Sir, sir, please name the 8 wars that you stopped.I think I must have missed something… in my pants.
Guy couldn't find Azerbaijan on a map with a GPS.
I saw a reel of leaders of Albania, Azerbaijan and Armenia talking to Macron and laughing it up that trump declared he ended a war between Albania and Azerbaijan when he meant Armenia. Plus he decimated the pronunciation of Azerbaijan. Oh those A countries - they are all alike! 🙄
Hahaha! LOL! Freaked out the dog again.
Israel and Hamas (Gaza):
Israel and Iran:
Pakistan and India:
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC):
Thailand and Cambodia:
Armenia and Azerbaijan:
Egypt and Ethiopia:
Serbia and Kosovo:
Analysts and news reports (such as BBC Verify and AP Fact Check) have noted that many of these conflicts were already de-escalating, were not active "wars" in the traditional sense, or were very short-lived.
Thanks for the answer. But he never had anything to do with these wars, especially ending them, right?
Who are these "journalists" of which you speak?
I watch a lot, but not every day. Not one of them that I have seen, so far, has debunked that line. If someone has, then it hasn’t been often enough for me to catch it.
Journalists have called out and debunked his false claims of wars he supposedly ended, but just as with everything he says, he keeps repeating it and exaggerating it ad nauseum.
Evil asshole who traffics in lies
Continually whines and cries
"If you don't gimme my due
I'm gonna invade you
Unless you give me The Prize!"
We'd give you Greenland
But your hands are very small
Have Rice-a-Roni
Steve's haiku hits it on the head
The San Francisco Treat!
👏👏👏👏👏
Hahaha! Good one.
“I’m a little despot”😂😂😂. Bovines biography will be titled “The Littlest Nazi” and it’ll be illustrated in cartoons.
Seriously….We’re all screwed aren’t we?
But wait! There's more!
I’m sure there is. 🤦♀️
I think this drooling old sack of shit is asleep most of the time, and that his minions fight for his approval of social media posts. He's obviously incapable of focusing long enough to think about punctuation, so best case scenario is speech-to-text.
Since this method of "communication" was allowed to become normal, even nominal checks on nut-nut behavior are long gone. We have some seriously evil shits racing to the bottom, likely to justify the immense amounts of public money they are siphoning into their own offshore accounts.
Greed, hatred, venality, and self preservation as they loot the burning house they themselves set afire.
The billionaires who own most of everything are fine with all of us dying, since they only see as far as next quarter's P&L statements (if they even care about that).
This is what unchecked capitalism hath wrought, and apparently we're not even close to the breaking point.
We are all so sick of it.
I feel sorry for all of the translators for the European Ambassadors.
But if we all die, to whom will their services?
Why do you think Musk is so into robots?
To those in the Oval Office who change Orange Hitler’s shitty diapers:
“Thank you for your attention to this matter. In my pants.”
😂😂😂😂😂Joe!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Apropos of nothing - but I do want to remind everyone that Trump is the president who decided to stop making cents.
Ha! 🤣
Good 'un!
My two cents... it's all to avoid the Epstein files.
This meme will never get old
https://substack.com/@mnmomingb/note/c-154781439
I get what you are saying. But starting a war that kills many and tears down seems a lot worse.
Why would mango man and his minions care about any of that?
I hope you ALL KNOW who is egging on trump, his brains not with it enough to come this out without STEVEN MILLER rehearsing him thru what he, MILLER, wants to say & is evil enough to know that no one will listen to him, but they’ll listen if it’s trump. Miller’s getting all his goals out while knowing trumps so fucked up ppl will just laugh & mock trump, while in the same time, telling the entire world what the little Nazi is & will be doing. It’s not, without trumps mind controlling, all this would go on, this little fucker is in control & he’s more fucked up than trump could ever be.
And I think Vought is hurrying to enact as much of Project 25 as he can while Donnie’s still out there entertaining everyone. All the more reason for Republicans to grow a spine and impeach NOW!
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! I can’t believe we see it & they don’t, except if they’re complicit!
They most certainly ARE.
That is 100% true. Also Theil and Bondi pushing Unitary Executive control. They couldn't have made it this far without unfettered propaganda media. The worst thing that happened in the US was getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine.
And then allowing billionaires to buy up all the media outlets.
Yes!!!
Yeah but he wouldn't be able to do it if Trump wasnt immoral and self centered. And when the shit hits the fan whose fault will it be? The Jewish guy, Miller. I wonder if that occurs to him.
Miller is an anti Semitic Jew. He likely thinks that his anti Semitism will protect him. It won’t.
Nope, never does. Even if he was baptized by the Pope,
He has to be the first to go and made an example for de-throned MAGAts
To hell with giving up carbs. I need some soothing...
Hold your carbs close until this is all over.
Cheers!
piggy is a 2 year old toddler, he's stuck in the phase where he's never realized he's a separate entity in the world. he still believes his tantrums will get him his way. OTHERWISE KNOWN as a mentally ill IMBECILE.
According to those who processed mentality: Idiot (2 Year old), Imbecile (7 year old) and Moron (12 year old that is equivalent to foolish/stupid), Trump is and Idiot.
And so far, it's been working out for him. What will it finally take to end his reign of terror??!
I think not...misery loves company and I refuse to let this imbecile ruin my life