One goes to bed on a quiet-ish Friday night, one wakes up on Saturday morning to discover that even though we are observing Dry January, somehow overnight, we acquired Venezuela. Like we’d drunk-ordered it from a catalog.
What was worse was running my usual Saturday errands, turning on WDET where they were carrying the presser live, and hearing the commander-in-chief rambling on about crime in Washington. Seriously, he sounded way more senile than Biden ever did. Then the baton was passed to Pete Hegseth, and he went on in the same vein, heaping hosannas on Tubby and boasting about the “lethality” of our military. He loves that word, lethality. I reflected that I’m often contemptuous of these people, often exasperated, often angry, but on Saturday? I was fearful. For all of us.
Because Cuba is next, I fear.
I really don’t have anything to say about this, because it would come out in all caps and no one wants that. We are a nation led by idiots, fools, toadies and [insert a few more insulting words here]. And honestly, what’s the point? We all know where we stand, and that the only power we have is to work and vote against it. So let’s do it.
As for the others, as Hegseth likes to say, they have fucked around, and they will find out.
How was your weekend? I spent Sunday getting Christmas out of the house, and as always, it feels like I have another room in my house now. Time to settle into 2026 and make a difference.
And this update:
It didn’t take long, did it?
Mark P said on January 4, 2026 at 4:22 pm
I am not sure we can save ourselves. And I’m not sure who can do it for us. God? Where are you?
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FDChief said on January 4, 2026 at 4:59 pm
I think it’s worth recalling the last time the wingnuts were strutting around boasting about making their own reality and how they were going to show the rest of us how “war works”.
Didn’t end up so well, did it? And that was Dick Cheney & Co., people like Paul “Stupidest Guy on the Face of the Earth” Wolfowitz, who looks like Metternich compared to this bunch of idiot grifters.
So…we’ll see. My bet is that these nimrods haven’t got a plan for the same things that screwed the Bushies in Iraq.
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tajalli said on January 4, 2026 at 6:44 pm
Recent memes have suggested that, since it seems okay to abduct presidents of other countries for trial, Canada should send in a team and abduct toad, toadies, and associated families and put them all on trial.
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Deborah said on January 4, 2026 at 6:58 pm
But it got everyone to forget about the Epstein files for a few hours, that’s what it’s all about isn’t it?
I’m so sick of holding my tongue with my Trumper relatives, I really want to give them a piece of my mind but I’ve been holding it in and I’m sick of it. The violence and the stupidity are egregious, we are getting ourselves into some serious deep shit. I’m furious.
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Jeff Gill said on January 5, 2026 at 6:59 am
On the brighter side for all the Detroit area folk here:
https://x.com/Super70sSports/status/2007964433763754275?s=20
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Peter said on January 5, 2026 at 7:35 am
Deborah, someone else said that those Epstein files must be REALLY bad to justify nabbing Maduro.
Sorry to refer to a previous entry, but it’s only January 5, and Alex’s “I don’t know how you even begin to explain to someone so stupid just how stupid they are for posting something so stupid…” is your frontrunner for comment of the year. That about sums up what we’re dealing with in one sentence.
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