1. Susan Rice.
2. Mamdani's snow shovelers and the 2-ID requirement.
3. Trump's re-tariffing gimmick.
4. Our war with Iran.
5. Photograph of Prince Andrew.
I'm not judging these stories to be inconsequential. I just have nothing to add, nothing that fits my approach to blogging anyway. I like them as items to list. The list signifies that I feel some pressure. They're nagging at me. But I'm resisting. Feel free to talk about them in the comments. They're actually all good topics. I'm just not feeling the value of my own yammering on them. Maybe you think I've already said too much, what with that one word.
The oldest appearance of the word is an entry in the 1926 "Wise-crack Dictionary": "Gimmick, device used for making a fair game crooked."
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Friendly reminder that it's hard to shovel snow in New York than it is to vote.
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1. Susan Rice.
To paraphrase the noted moral philosopher Dennis Green, she is what we thought she is.
2. Mamdani's snow shovelers and the 2-ID requirement.
Both an own goal and evidence that theater kids aren't as attuned to moral philosophy as Dennis Green.
3. Trump's re-tariffing gimmick.
The difference between gimmick and shtick can be vanishingly small when you're dealing with Le Grande Orange.
4. Our war with Iran.
Ongoing since 1979.
5. Photograph of Prince Andrew.
See Dennis Green.
Bridge Owner Donated $1 Million to MAGA Group Before Trump Blasted Competitor ~ NYT
"Less than a month after the billionaire owners of the Ambassador Bridge donated $1mn to a Super Pac supporting Donald Trump, the president threatened to shut down a rival bridge that also connects Canada to the US."
Worth noting that the sole link between Detroit and Ontario right now is the privately-owned Ambassador Bridge. The family that owns the bridge are major Trump/Republican donors. Everything that this administration does just reeks of financial corruption.
I'm sure that Trump would be willing to work out some "deal" involving his own family business interests and the Canadian government, while simultaneously stealing from the people of Michigan. Fortunately, I suspect Carney will say "no" to any such proposal. The 2026 mid-terms can't come fast enough.
Iran is the only one of consequence. The rest have very short shelf lives.
Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It’s on the way!!! ~ President DJT
Here’s what happened:
Danish coast guard evacuated a sick sailor from a US sub to Nuuk. He is being treated in Greenland (by its free healthcare system).
In Grandpa’s dementia ridden mind this is something that only the fantastic Governor of Louisiana can fix with a boat. After all, Louisianians have great experience with arctic conditions.
Since both US hospital ships are under repair, one even in dry dock, a river boat is being refitted in all haste.
I'd be happy if we never heard another word about the spares ever again.
Rice should be the most consequential when you consider how long she had power as the de facto executive. I suppose it’s too easy to believe Obama and Biden were in charge…
The President making demands about board representation of a publicly traded corporation. The tax-cuts-at-all-costs cult needs to be taken behind the woodshed.
"So what are you not having?"
I will add another thing you aren't talking about:
Family of 12 year old in Tumbler Ridge shooting has to cancel the FUNERAL of their 12 year old girl because of death threats.
Leftists in Canada are just as evil as leftists in the US.
Armed man shot and killed outside Mar-a-lago.
The Left never quits.
A man was shot and killed at Mar-a-lago this morning.
"The man, who the agency said was “in his early 20s,” was confronted near the north gate of the Mar-a-Lago complex, and was carrying what appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel canister, the Secret Service said." (From a NYT article.)
I didn't know which photo of Andrew, formerly known as the prince, the list was mentioning so I went to the Times to see if I could find it and found this.
Rice, an Obama surrogate, threatening revenge and retribution against businesses that conformed to Trump's agenda (e.g. end DEI) is a huuuge story. Note: she sits on the Netflix BOD, the same Netflix that gave the Obamas a >$50m "production" deal. Netflix will never see a dime from me, and I hope their aquisition ambitions fail.
"2. Mamdani's snow shovelers and the 2-ID requirement,"
Snow, WHITE snow, showing its racist, supremacist mindset will bring life to a standstill, attempting to control us. White, racist snow.
Black-colored snow is carbon polluted. Rainbow-colored snow reflects an oil spill. White-colored snow is pure and unadulterated. #NoJudgment #NoLabels
No one is talking about Joe Biden's allowing and encouraging illegals to drive commercial semi-trucks on our roads (giving them free access to licenses without oversight) and the deadly consequences... - 200,000 of these illegals.
Deadly accidents are happening all over the place.
Th corrupt loyal Communist puppet governor of PA should be outed for his allowing most of the illegals to drive commercial trucks.
Susan Rice is sufficiently low on the totem pole that the D's can dismiss her as just an overzealous believer spouting off. But high enough on the totem pole that the little people can't take the chance of dismissing her. CC, JSM
Labeling Trump’s use of tariffs a “gimmick” is leftist editorializing worthy of a WaPo headline writer. Not neutral. Opinionated. So this IS blogging about it albeit briefly.
No great loss, and there should be no pressure. This is what the Sunday shows are for.
Netflix has a Rice rash. Needs to attend to it.
Like rice on...
Susan rice scourge of benghazi
Organizer of lawfare strategies
Holder of the autopen
Things I’m not talking about … lest I be forced to give Trump and/or Republicans a win.
There are plenty of angles to pursuit
On Mamdani—it’s because he’s not calling for volunteers, he’s calling for short-term employees. They’ll be paid relatively exorbitantly, will have to file taxes for their snow-shoveling income, and an administrative apparatus will swing into action to manage all the paperwork.
Much potential for graft.
Now would be a good time for elected Democrats to disassociate themselves from Susan Rice's revanchisme. They won't, of course. The base wants the show trials and ambitious backbenchers are only too willing to provide them.
I wouldn't assume corruption in the Detroit-Windsor Bridge matter, given our ongoing war with Canada. The pleasure of tweaking the moose's nose or pulling its tail outweighs any merely financial benefit. The same goes for Canadians poking the eagle.
The pic of andrew resembles a harry potter charscter
They told him he couldbt tinker but a blanket tariff cant be wrong
Wishing other opinionators would give a second thought to whether or not their yammerings were needed on every single story out there!
"I don't understand why they [Iran] haven't capitulated." - Witkoff
"We made them an offer that we didn't think they could refuse." — what Trump is thinking.
That's the real logical base of that saying, it's like "All the news that's fit to print" really means, if you expand it out like an algebraic equation to its logical base is really "All the news we see fit to print."
Iran knows that if they give up nukes, which they are willing to do, BTW, and missiles, and allies in the region, that they will be destroyed by Israel the minute they are vulnerable, because it will never be enough as long as they exist. Just like Russia thought that they could be our friend if they gave up communism and dissolved the Soviet Empire.
Iran knows that there is only one way they have a fighting chance, and that is to fight now. Witkoff is somehow forgetting all of the lies the US has told, all the promises that we went back on the moment we got the advantage that we made the promise to get.
If Iran capitulates, in Witkoff's words, by giving up all of its sovereign defenses, or China and Russia allow it to fall, they will deserve what is coming to them.
The neocons see reasonableness as weakness and restraint as a reason to attack, just like another leader we all remember from about 80 or 90 years ago.
One forgets how velayat al fagih rule by clerics wirk
I wonder if Susan Rice's threats are effective. Personally, I think the Republicans ought to post videos explaining who she is and playing her words as she spoke them.
Also seems like a weird thing for someone on the board of a company (Netflix) engaged in a tricky merger. If I were a stockholder I would not be happy.
The artist formerly know as Prince. LOL
"Rice served on Netflix’s board from 2018 to 2021, and rejoined in 2023 after leaving the Biden administration."
So, its a Leftwing anti-Trump business. Not surprising.
Not much to say about "Our war with Iran". Better wait till there's an actual, y'know, war.
Not this, that, or another.
I wonder if they are starting to put together the evidence that you can diagnose someone as a psychopath strictly by looking at the images?
The photograph of Andrew, another one of many where he looks remorseless and without conscience, is disturbing. The guy isn't interested in even faking it, put some humanity on your face, dude. Humanity he doesn't possess. To this day he acts like he is a victim. What a depraved psychopathic pair, Fergie and Andrew.
Maybe Andrew has a learning disability, where the parts of the brain responsible for empathy, conscience and moral decision-making (ventromedial prefrontal cortex (shame, guilt) and the right supramarginal gyrus (differentiating self from others)) are affected? He can use it in his defense, especially in UK, where half of the population identifies as neurodivergent. Let's blame the queen for not providing special needs learning environment for him.
What Is Velayat-e Faqih? https://share.google/S8Vi6VeErCSH4kuoU
Maybe someone with an agenda is selecting the photos you get to see.
Too many photos where he looks like the poster child of depravity. Throughout the years.
Kak again is wrong. The privately owned Ambassador Bridge is not the sole link between Detroit and Ontario. The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is my primary route to Windsor, Ontario.
What are the odds
It should also be noted that using the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron only adds five minutes to the trip to Detroit from either Toronto or Buffalo.
"The President making demands about board representation of a publicly traded corporation."
So Trump is a democrat leftist Senator now???
Peachy said...
“No one is talking about Joe Biden's allowing and encouraging illegals to drive commercial semi-trucks on our roads (giving them free access to licenses without oversight) and the deadly consequences... - 200,000 of these illegals.
Deadly accidents are happening all over the place.”
I had to drive from Cincinnati to Cleveland last week. I-71 is a major truck corridor. That was definitely on my mind as I drove up and back.
I used to tell the S/O, who kind of has a fear of large trucks driving near, I used to tell her that they were highly trained professionals, and she shouldn't worry. Well, not any more.
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