Trump's Movement On Psychiatric Care

 President Trump has consistently advocated for expanding access to long-term psychiatric care facilities, often using outdated terminology like "insane asylums" or "mental institutions," as a strategy to address issues such as homelessness, serious mental illness, public safety, and crime. This approach has been a recurring theme in his rhetoric since at least 2019, when he linked it to preventing mass shootings by removing "mentally deranged" individuals from the streets.

So there's likely to be two big thing going on....first....to encourage states to broaden laws allowing courts to order individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) into inpatient or outpatient treatment if they pose a risk to themselves or others.

Second....implicitly support the construction or reopening of psychiatric facilities to provide "long-term institutional settings for humane treatment." In this case....a state will come up with a program....maybe to build three facilities...getting the fed funding to cover 80-percent of the cost to build (not  run).

So, I'll offer five humble thoughts:

1.  Red states will proceed on this....blue states will do nothing.  About three years into this....blue state leadership will be sued to such a level...that resisting won't be a option.

2.  At least 10-percent of the folks arrested/detained by the police for real crime....will meet a judge who questions  their defective nature, and get forced into a evaluation....so the mental holding unit will become a mental-prison.  I'm not saying this is a improvement....just a change.

3.  Drug addicts/crazies....will find this to be a one-way trip, and probably never exit.  

4.  A fair number of people in red states who show physical violence  tendencies....are going to be long-term residents of such places.

5.  Finally, people who readily ID themselves as anger-management players....are probably going to get a 90-day stay to chill out.  A lot of us know co-workers, relatives or neighbor in this group, and would probably agree....90 days in some state-park forest compound...fills a public need.

The ID Chatter

 I sat this AM...watching a  interview with a 'View' moderator. 

The guy running the show asks about requiring an ID to vote.

The View-gal sums  it up....blacks in general and  women would have a disadvantage...because they don't have IDs.

I've heard the blacks-don't-have-IDs chatter over and over....with zero evidence or studies to ever back it up.

The suggestion that some women don't have IDs?  I've never heard this suggestion before.

In the 1960s/1970s growing up in a rural area....you'd note that maybe 40-percent of the women over age 50....didn't drive, and I'd assume they didn't have an ID.  You'd also note that girls/ladies between 16 and 20....it was a 99.9-percent deal....yeah, they had a license/ID.

This still correct today?  No....there seems to be a fair number of younger women (say under the age of 25) who survive in some fashion  (probably in urbanized areas) without a car or license (or ID).  A couple of studies suggest this....but whether these are fair assessments....I can't say.

How these people set up bank accounts, or get prescription drugs?  Unknown. How they fly without an ID?  Also unknown.

I'm not necessarily buying into this discussion.  

Can anyone survive in Europe without an ID?  No.  That's the one thing I've noticed over 40-odd years.....once you make it mandatory, everyone plays in a legit way.

This leading to a Trump-mandate?  By early 2027....I think a requirement will be set, and voting can only occur if you present a  legit ID.  The amusing thing....a fair number of Democrats will proclaim this the end of the world....that these 'poor' people can't get an ID.

The Thing About Tariffs

 Last night, I read through a fair amount of social media commentary....how the tariff crap is going badly for US consumers....with consumers  paying 95-plus percent of the cost involved.

I sat for about 10 seconds....then started laughing.  It was a massive bogus story....fake news.

X-product made in France.....gets to the US, and has a 20-percent tariff attached.  The single US consumer interested in that French product...buys it (I  have no argument about this)...paying the tariff.

The problem is....what products made in  France....does the typical working class American buy?

You line up a thousand Texans....asking them  to list French products they buy, and fewer than 50 will raise their hand....mostly saying wine or cheese.  They are the ones paying  the extra cost.  The other 950? They have no relationship to the product, tariff, or cost.

The same is true of a Swiss-made pen that sells for $1,400 (with the tariff inserted). Only the consumers hyped-up on Swiss quality....will pay that much.

The same is true for a German who buys American-made products with a tariff inserted....a typical German won't be a US-product-consumer. 

Is this really so hard for a normal person to view and grasp? Or is it mostly BS-propaganda?

Greenland Invasion Worry

 Greenland's Prime Minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, gave a talk today....warning...any time now...that they needto prepare for the possibility of a military invasion.

As he said in a press conference in Nuuk that while it's "not likely there will be a military conflict, it can't be ruled out." 

I paused over the story.

Five observations:

1. On any given evening in Greenland....based on 'chatter' of excessive drinking habits....out of the 57,000 residents....probably 10-to-15 percent (say 6,000) are consuming a fair amount of booze/beer.  

You could probably walk into any bar/lounge....yell 'invasion' and the crowd would drift out to the airport to watch the invasion force land.

2.  There's probably twenty influencers/YouTube folks preparing a series....talking up the invasion and asking people over and over....what's your strategy.

3.  Some political folks are probably begging Denmark to prepare a fleeing plan....to resettle the 57,000 into Denmark.

4.  At this point, the PM has probably come to realize that there's not a single bunker in Greenland presently, and he's urgently requesting funds to build one.  The chief response?  Some funding in 2028 are possible for a 200-person bunker.

5.   There's probably some Air Force major  in the Pentagon who was asked over the weekend to draft up invasion-plan 1, and he has a 3-page plan...but insists he'd like to fly in and personally visit (with hotel stay of four weeks) to assemble a better plan.

Presently, no one at the Pentagon wants to admit.....this is  one of three locations on Earth that they never had a plan to invade.

The Only Way That Acquiring Greenland Makes Perfect Trump-Sense?

 The magnetic pole shifts every year, and the current trend....is it heading toward Siberia....meaning the Earth rotation would shift...maybe 10 to 20 degrees....with Greenland further 'south' to where NY City rests today.  You can assume the South Pole would also shift....being closer to the region where New Zealand rests today.

(I'm not saying this is imminent....like in the next 12 months, but could be on some 'occur-list' in 20 to 40 years).

Now....would anyone discuss this in a open room?  No.  I don't think anyone in the  EU leadership wants to talk over this impact.  I also don't think Trump or his team would openly discuss this 'problem'.

The sea area north of Canada then completely open for freighter-traffic?  Yeah....thus making the Panama Canal unnecessary.

Eight Humble Thoughts

 1.  If you drag up the rank-and-file regular working-class Americans...this Minneapolis-Somalian fraud-misbehavior.....doesn't sell.  

It's like you told this 6-odd million  voter group....screw you, we don't care about your hurt feelings.  

Trying to imagine this as a positive brand to sell?  It just doesn't work.

2.  Just odd....ICE comes to Memphis....maybe for 10 days.  They detain around 40,000.....NO riots/demonstrations or hostile feelings by locals.  ICE quietly leaves western Tennessee.

ICE comes to Minneapolis....has barely arrested/detained 10,000 so far, but probably one-third of those detained are not illegals (protesters for this group). If you asked me....length of this deployment will go six to eight weeks....with 10,000 Americans arrested in the group of 40,000 (I figure April numbers by then). 

What's really different  from Tennessee and Minnesota?

3.  Denmark does suggest they are sending more troops and planes to Greenland.

However, if you really dive into the discussion....it's a light-squadron of probably six to eight fighters, with at least two transport planes.   As for troops?  Somewhere between 200 and 400.

Yeah, it's a marginal presence, but enough that you can spend an hour nightly talking over public TV news in Denmark of the glorious Danish men and women protecting the Inuit people.

4. I admit....it is entertaining to view the idiocy of pronouns in people's bio text.

I've been thinking over the idea of making new pronouns out of thin air...for myself.

5.   Couple of decades ago....some guy connected to the CIA in a science role....wrote a book: "Adam and Eve Story."

The CIA came up classified the story....then to some degree declassified it.

Emphasis of the story?   Well....Earth's crust slips every 5,000-12,000 years in cataclysmic pole shifts, sliding 90 degrees over molten core in a day. This starts up  2,000mph supersonic winds shredding everything, oceans surging as 5-mile wave.

Supposed to be somewhat fictional.....some folks think it's not too much fiction.

This would explain the need for Greenland....where it'd slip  30 degrees south...with north Russia on the North Pole status.  Well....if true.

6.  I hear the term 'unhinged' about 30 times a day now.  Prior to 2020....I don't think I ever hear the term.

7.  I noticed someone brought it up....since 2025....a fair portion of the new recruits of ICE....are US-citizen-Hispanics.   

Guessing that some  protest folks  are fairly hyped-up over this detail.

8.  Not saying it's a fact....but eventually....you start to think every single Antifa-member from the west coast (Oregon-California-Washington) has deployed to Minneapolis.  

I would imagine the FBI is analyzing  cellphone traffic and noting who is not a 'local' and this is going to be a serious footnote.

Minneapolis and Don

 I  wasted 30 minutes this  AM....viewing this Don Lemon-mob-church situation in Minneapolis...watching clips and viewing social media comments. So four observations:

1.  There's enough that a DA could drag Don and 'friends' into a grand jury.  Charges?  I guess you could find some mob-action and threatening behavior charge. Would be odd...convicted and showing up in some fed-jail for 3 months, and explaining your terrible crime to the fellows there....you threatened up folks in a church.   

2. Had this been a Texas Baptist Church.....guns would have been present....with church members and mob folks  exchanging gunfire.

3.  This anti-ICE behavior....at the  present pace....probably by this next weekend, there's  going to be violence and gunfire.  Very civil-war-ish. 

4.  I'm guessing both the governor and mayor are meeting today......you can't just pretend it didn't happen.  You will end up with National Guardsmen...probably a crew of 6 to 8....at each church in the city by next Sunday.

Three Humble Thoughts

 1.  It's an odd week approaching Minneapolis.  After the mob-action, chaos, and beating of last week....three groups are destined to arrive shortly.

First, the Governor has activated 4,000 state Guardsmen....it's mostly to send a message to the mobs.

Second, the DoJ has directed more FBI to show up in Minneapolis. I assume to carry out warrants/raids on the fraud business.

Third, the President has called for 1,500 active-duty Army folks (paratroopers) to come into Minneapolis.

2.  If you reach a stage where you CANNOT define a woman....within a year, there's probably sixteen other things which you lose the ability to  define, and over the next decade....probably more than five-hundred things which are undefinable. 

As a species....how will you survive?

3.  I'm of the mind that if you mandated 'true-ID' for voting....meaning you had to show a actual address where you reside, a social security number, and all of this merging into a national database where only one John J. Jones (ssn: xxx-xx-xxxx) exists....then 35-percent of registered voters would dissolve overnight.

Overnight, you'd have CNN suggesting some alien vessel landed, and kidnapped 60-odd million people....to explain what happened.

What This Trump Era Feels Like?

 It was the best of times, 

it was the worst of times, 

it was the age of wisdom, 

it was the age of foolishness, 

it was the epoch of belief, 

it was the epoch of incredulity, 

it was the season of light, 

it was the season of darkness, 

it was the spring of hope, 

it was the winter of despair.

-- Charles Dickens

Yeah, there are two groups of people existing in Dicken's vision, and it's basically the same vision in my mind of 2026.  

People fantasize over despair, and fantastic achievement ahead....with no real  middle ground for the two groups to merge, or sit in the same pub.

The book where the quote comes from?  A Tale of Two Cities.

How does the story in the book end?  Well...there's public order to execute some guy, and an associate takes his place at the end.  The ending theme....the ending emphasizes the image of resurrection (the guy who escapes death), self-sacrifice (the doomed guy), and hope amid chaos. 

As much as the whole book, and story is 'dark' and tragic....there is some final good point of quiet triumph. 

Maybe the Trump era ends that way as well.

Footnote: I read the book originally around age 14.  It's one of the twenty-odd books that I think every kid should read by the age of 18.

Three Humble Thoughts

 1.  Not front-page news, and won't be covered by CNN....but the mother of Hunter Biden’s love-child is calling for his arrest after failing to uphold child support agreement.

From what I can figure....the court gave Hunter a $5k a month situation to pay, and he's mostly failing on that.

Does he actually have the money?  I'm not that convinced.  But the  judge is likely to dig into the banking business.  

2.  Remember Ryan Wesley Routh?  Attempted to shoot Trump in 2024.

Well....came up this week....the DOJ is seeking life in prison for Ryan Wesley Routh. 

3.   This past week....there was a oddly-worded piece from the Department of Homeland Security.  It was advising its U.S. citizens to be prepared to present proof of citizenship.

Just an odd feeling....things to come....if you intend to vote in 2028....I'm betting that this citizenship requirement comes up, and things get 'rough' for some folks.

The Ten Issues That Come If Trump Does Buy Greenland

 1.  The Greenland folks (both the Danes and Inuits) will retain Danish citizenship....but the other 5,000 residents aren't Dane or Inuit....so how exactly will  you handle this issue?

2. The Greenlanders will state an  obvious requirement....NO asylum folks...NO migrants....limited number of residents. The US will have to agree to some limit of 1,000 per year, and show a plan on housing/settling them.

3.  Status as a territory or state?

4.  Some type of ferry service has to be procured/paid-for.....say twice a week....guessing to be run by the Army Corps of Engineers.

5.  The Green news situation (TV/radio/papers/news magazines) are paid mostly out of Danish funds.  So the US has to agree to cover this for a period of time.

6.  The two banks in operation in Greenland....have to be approved under the US Treasury.

7.  Right away....the alcoholism-suicide-social problems....have to be on some top US agenda..

8.  If Greenland goes to the state-route....I expect Guam, Puerto Rico, Alberta and Manitoba to follow within a year. 

9.  Power grid for Greenland will be 'bumped-up'.....mini-nuke stations brought in, and for some period of time....electrical costs will be near zero for society.

10. Within a year.....a golf course will be developed and a 'championship' will be run each July....a 24-hour golf game.....because the sun never sets.

My Crypto Box Story

 Around the next to last year of Air Force service time (late 90s)....I was called one day to come over to the secure facility at base supply to pick up three crypto-boxes.   I noted to the guy...I had not ordered these.  He responded....some program had procured (bought) the new technology boxes.

$45,000 each.

I bring them back to the vault....placing them in a locked closet. They sat there for about 8 months (still in the box).

Some contractor comes to me....saying she has the job to implement these.  There's some 40-odd page 'plan'.    

I bring this up to my boss....he checks into the 'plan'.

Then oddly....this funny episode unfolds.

Somewhere between the development stage and production stage (roughly two years before I signed for them)....this technology had been 'passed' and the three boxes were worthless.

The two months that the contractor had spent writing the 40-odd page  'plan'?  Worthless.  

Then came the bigger issue....disposing of them.  Supply wanted various forms of 'release'.  I wasted three hours researching the requirements....completing the paperwork, and driving over to supply to deal with people  who knew little of the program or process.

As I retired.....they wanted to write a medal over the five years in the unit....so there is a line in this stupid medal paperwork....noting my complete support of the 'xyz' crypto-box program....delivering the process on time.  

The Smoke

 I watch news clips a good bit.   So yesterday...came this 2-minute clip....Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen standing there after getting out of the limo....enjoying a cigarette together with Greenland’s Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt 20 minutes before their meeting with with Vance and Rubio in Washington.

With the 20 years of service time....the one thing I always got to note....when folks were hyped-up and stressed....right before the 'peak'...they'd step outside and take a 5-minute smoke break.

In some ways, I was always impressed how a 5-minute smoke chilled out folks, and set a more calm nature.

Frankly, if I had to go and sit with Vance/Rubio for an hour....yeah, I'd probably require two smokes.

What Vision Does NBC Have For A Rockford Files 'Reboot'?

 I paused over this reading in the AM.  NBC says 'go'....produce a season of Rockford Files  for September.

Will 'Rocky' (dad) be a alcoholic in this version?

Will Evelyn "Angel" Martin (played by Stuart Margolin) still be Jim's scheming former cellmate and con artist buddy?  Or will he be a Trans-lady?

Will Beth Davenport (played by Gretchen Corbett) as Jim's lawyer be crazy-crazy?

Will the show revolve entirely around LA corruption?

My vision....just use the 1980s version and don't screw up the basic storyline. 

Humble Observations Over ICE/Arrests

 1.  I've probably watched 150 clips of car 'action' where the driver was told to exit...wouldn't....ICE guys broke the glass.  Half were migrants....but the rest were mostly women (say 6 to 1 over males).

Glass repair guys are probably getting a ton of calls....coming ahead.

2.  Once you've been in a ICE-broke-my-window situation....dealing with issues....your frustration level will double.

ICE, after yanking you out and carrying your car downtown....call the tow-service for your vehicle, and it's taken to a yard (figure the tow, and storage...being near $300).

Then you talk to your husband/spouse, and they ask if this were really necessary.

3. Lawyer fees and fine?

Figure around $1k for the lawyer fee....if you just admit you were stupid.  The fine?   Figure up around $2k to $5k. If you fight it....figure 30 to 90 days in a fed-jail.  If you tried to ram ICE?  Figure 6 months in fed-jail.

4. Bail bondsmen?

Nine out of ten of these  idiot have never been arrested or put into a bail-situation.....so getting 'Larry' (the husband) or cousin Wanda to bail you out....might require some talking.

5. After you've been arrested and convicted....say for ramming....this conviction  sticks with you and will be a job-problem (most HR folks will ask questions).

Functionally Illiterate?

 Someone did a survey of the Philadelphia area....over functional literacy.  Fifty-two percent of residents are functional illiterate. 

Then they went to the second listing....saying that 62-percent of residents function at the 6th-grade level or less.

I paused over the numbers.

It kinda means that of a hundred people finishing high school....the majority are probably only able to handle to the 6th or 7th grade level of comprehension.  Yeah, I'm suggesting near three-quarters of society.

The question to ask....can these people even handle voting?

Across the US....like this?  I wonder about that.

My question would go to the next level....of college-graduates...how many function as marginally literate (say the 9th grade level)?

Q-and-A

 1.  Can you use plural pronouns for strictly one person?

Yes, in English, you can use plural pronouns like "they," "them," "their," and "theirs" to refer to a single person. This is known as the singular "they," and it's been part of the language for centuries (dating back to at least the 14th century in works like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales). 

2.  What kind of person leaves their house in Minnesota....in the midst of winter....to campaign/demonstrate....again ICE....for 6 to 8 hours per day?

Consumed person, without any life or hobbies,  or interests....other than fighting 'evil'.

3.  What I think Trump gets out of the Greenland 'deal'?

Basically....a submarine 'base' (with a US Navy presence), and some kind of economic understanding that China can't be in the Greenland economy (ever).

4.  Isn't it just odd....narco-fast-boat deliveries have gone to near zero near both Columbia  and Venezuela?

Yeah....no one really wants to take up the profession. I expect within 30 days....a cocaine crisis in the US....where prices double.

51st State Chatter

 Yesterday, I woke up to the new scenario....that Greenland, as part of the Trump deal....might be offered statehood.  Essentially, getting to be the 51st state.

Then I kinda noticed...there are a number of folks now suggesting that Venezuela might fit better into being a 51st state.

Then I noticed that Cuba is on the tipping point....where in 30 to 60 days....the gov't may fall apart, and some were suggesting they would be a better fit for the 51st state.

Then I went back to the 2025 chatter....Alberta,  and Saskatchewan....going to independence in 2026....becoming the 51st, and 52nd states.

Then I remembered the other two Canadian provinces discussing this idea....Manitoba  and  British Columbia....wanting 51st and 52nd status.

Then I remembered the Guam suggestion....that they should get 51st state status.

Then I remembered the Puerto Rico suggestion....51st state status.

Then I remembered the 2017 American Samoa idea....51st state status.

Then I remembered the discussed idea of a Navajo Nation (parts of Utah, New Mexico and Arizona)....getting 51st state status.

Then  I remembered the ongoing discussion of Guyana (next to Venezuela) getting US state status.....getting 51st state status.

Yeah....potentially 12 states.

The growing spiral theory?  Well...once you get 'X' state as 51....the path to 52, 53, and so on....is a faster pace.  So I'm of the mind....if we arrive at Greenland as 51....the  path to Alberta as 52 is probably only six months away, and the path to Guam and Manitoba is probably 12 months away. 

A plus-side?  Transforming Cuba into a advanced nation?  It requires dependable power (nuke-energy), and it offers a 5-star hotel/tourism opportunity.  Guyana? It's about to be a major energy producer (for decades ahead).  

Being realistic?   I can probably see three new states by the end of the Trump era, and another four to six in the Vance era. 

Drones?

 For the record....President Donald Trump has directed his Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, to “immediately” determine the cause of the “drone scare” in New Jersey so he could inform the public. 

So a year into his administration....he White House has still not identified who or what was responsible for the unidentified drones.

My take?  There's only two likely scenarios.

First....the Chinese wanted to display their advanced 'tech'.

Second....several US companies have advanced 'tech' drones, and oddly...around the same time period....tested their stuff in front of the public.

Alien invasion crap?  No.

What Is With All This Fed Investigation Stuff?

 First, if you just wanted to renovate  a single bathroom in a DC fed building....by the time you finish with the simple project....you probably would have spent near $200,000.  So with the one  single Fed building....you can  figure any upgrade/improvement....would have been $500-million.

Second, at the end of 2024.....at the one-third point of  the project....they'd spent near $700-M.  

By the end of 2025, they'd spent near $500-M.  

At present, the end-total will be in the range of $2.5-B.  

Third, none of the money is congressional-given funds....it's  Fed-profits.  

You can figure that the project....probably still 30-to-40 percent to be done....will go past the $2.5-B. 

So Powell probably didn't grasp the full details of what was going on, and some investigation will reveal crappy planning.  Worth jail-time?  I doubt it....but some kind of change has to occur to prevent this from repeating.

Five Observations:

1.  The greatest human inventions that has saved more lives than vaccines?

Soap, and sanitation.

2.  I'd say it's pretty good odds.....Cuba-style gov't is likely to end in the next 100 days.  

3. I watched a NY City clip this AM....new mayor says he's got a public-toilet program....that he'll push.  Doesn't  say how many or where....just that toilets are coming.  My bet....they build three or four....for $2.5-million each, and stop right there.

4.  Russia has completed 1,417 days of war.....going now longer than the Soviet-Germany war of 1941-1945.  

5.  There are now 2,000 German companies....based in India....rather than Germany (figure cost as a factor).

Protest BS

 Over the past month, I've probably viewed a dozen hours of anti-ICE protests and journalists on some hype against ICE.

I've come to three observations:

1.  People don't fear confrontation or consequences with the police/LE/ICE or legal-system.

It seems like they are willing to detained/arrested....charged-up....go through court, and do a year in some state or fed jail.

I don't remember this attitude in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s....growing up and spending 20-odd years in the military.

2. People don't seem to have a fear of passing on, or being shot by the police.

Some seem like on a Power-Rangers adventure....fighting the forces of darkness/evil.

3.  If you do halt some protester and alert them that the guy they seem thrilled to protest over or protect....has actual assault/murder charges existing.....the protest guy/gal seems in a daze for 30 seconds.....like they weren't expecting that as  part of the thrill.

I might add...it seems out of every ten protest folks....seven are women, and from the three males....they seem to be in the age group of 18 to 25.  You don't see many 45-year-old male engineers or farmers.

When Police 'Order' You

 In 44 US states....if the police direct you (order you).....you have to comply or you will be detained.

Six states don't mandate the 'follow-the-orders': Connecticut, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia, and West Virginia.

So, when in a chaotic situation,  and the LE gives you a order....once you say 'NO'....they have the right to arrest you (charges come  next).  If these were unlawful....the judge will determine later.

Here's your problem....if you say 'NO'....you will be detained in 44 states....pay some bail (in most cases).....then have to hire a lawyer (figure $500 minimum).

Do people grasp this?  I suspect....out of a hundred adult....fewer than ten know and understand this.

Do the police have to give you ten warnings? No....usually one single warning is the given 'rule'.

Money Chatter

 Yesterday, I asked Grok/AI if Renee Good (the dead lesbian out of Minnesota) if she'd lived in Canada....as was being suggested.  Grok said 'NO'.

Well...this AM...I asked the question again.  This time....Grok said updates had occurred and in late 2024 (just after the election)....the Good couple (wife and wife)...had left KC-City....for Canada.

This move lasting long? No....about six months.  

Why moving back?  No one really says.....but the one 'path' suggested is that Ms Good was a 'poet'.  

I asked AI in particular....for Minneapolis....what job Ms Good held, and nothing comes up.

It's a odd situation....somehow, the couple survived and had some income going on but there's no identifiable work being done.   Professional protest folks?  Well....it just makes one wonder....could you survive (say $2,000 a month) off pro-protestism? 

All of this brings me to this conclusion....there must be 20,000 folks walking around America....as pro-protesters....getting paid, and probably not reporting their income situation to the IRS.

Greenland-Denmark-Trump Meeting

 Up until today.....early next week....President Trump/team were supposed to meet Greenland representatives and Danish politicians.

Well....Greenland's folks had a meeting today, and decided that they just wanted to have Trump/team in the room....not the Danes.

My humble guess is that Trump/team will still  meet with the Danes....probably the day after the Greenland meeting.

My belief?  It'll go down two possible paths. Greenland could put up a independence vote....to go separate and be their own country.  In this scenario....they would partner-up in some fashion with the US, with a special status.

The second scenario....Greenland asks for a vote....to go separate, and have a territory-to-state-status with the US (yeah, the 51st state deal).

The vote situation?  At least thirty-percent of Greenlanders probably don't want to exit Denmark (maybe even 40-percent).   

Enticement?  If the US guaranteed a 'free-ferry' twice a week (say from Virginia)....with a Costco....I think it'd help. 

Are We In The Midst Of A Chevy Chase-George Carlin-Production Of The Civil War?

 This week, I finally woke and grasped that the 1860-type Civil War is being recreated...but more of a modern Chevy Chase-George Carlin-production.

Yes....more of a comedy...than some epic Lincoln-John Brown-Confederacy-Grant-Lee production.

The lesbian-shot-dead....with forty-odd Democratic 'actors' attempting to engage and get the 'new' confederacy disturbed....finally set me straight.

Watching a 60-second clip of Governor Newsom, Governor Walz, or Seattle's new mayor (Wilson)....you can't help but laugh.

Antifa?   Even their status has fallen, and they seem to be mostly anti-capitalistic 'kids' hired to pretend to be 'thugs'.

Even the Trump 'team'....Rubio is like Norm Macdonald....blunt and to the point in ten seconds.

So yeah....we are in a civil war, and it's mostly a weird comedy-format.

Next week?  I expect a thousand Minnesota National Guardsmen activated under Governor Tim, and meeting up with a dozen US Marines sent by Trump.  The Guardsmen?  Likely to surrender....live on CNN.  

Three Observations

 1.  It just looks like an awful lot of Minnesota folks (maybe up in the 10,000 range) were in on the fraud business (not just talking about Somalians).  The amount of 'freak-out'....suggests this.

I'm also not suggesting a mere $10,000 in fraud....I'm talking about people taking fraud amounts in the $300k to $1-M range.  If I were one of them....I'd have exit plans to Costa Rica/Panama and be leaving rather quickly.

2.  Having watched five or six clips of the Ms Good in the final minute or two of decision-making and consequences.

So, she pulls up in the SUV and one single camera captures her letting a passenger out.  You can't see the passenger.  It might be her wife....it might be a friend....it might be a drug-dealer.  

Then you see this odd maneuver, which I admit....I've never seen before.....Good pulls the SUV into a parallel position on a 2-lane street.   Yeah, a blocking type maneuver.

So, I wonder.....why?  I've pondered over this.  There's no logical reason to block traffic or to conduct this maneuver.   This is the point where two ICE guys are walking up, and about to take custody of Good.  

The purpose of the wife (standing there)?  Well....she's in video-capture player position.  In  her mind....either they will take custody of Good, or  Good will escape the ICE 'bad-guys'.

Then.....I come to ponder....don't regular people have to work?  Or does protesting pay a decent wage?

3.  Trump finally said it yesterday....bombing cartel operations in Mexico is on the books. Basically....if you think about it....there will be Predator UAVs crossing the border (probably without Mexico's permission) and surveilling drug targets.  Then some armed Predator will be brought in, and  blast the target.

My best guess on the next  phrase.....the cartels will  get smart, and surveil US bases along the border, and start to attack military operations.

Five Thoughts

 1.  Auto-pen?  If you think about it....just handing out auto-pen privileges....saying everyone could have the privilege....leads to massive chaos.  It should never have come to exist.

2.  Over the past month, I think Putin now sits there....amazed at daily accomplishments of Trump, and starting to realize that Trump is as dangerous as a 11-year-old kid with 300 lawn-darts and a 100-hp go-cart.

3.  President Trump is asking the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to reimburse him more than $6.2 million in attorney fees and costs in the wake of the recently dismissed 2020 election interference case she brought against him.

My gut tells me that they won't respond, and in 30 days....Trump sue  Fulton County.   At that point, an exit will start up (county legal staff), and in the end....they will have to cough up the money....leaving them mostly broke, and the county commission discussing a new property-tax measure.

4.  If you were to create a new George Floyd situation....it has to be centered on a black male/female, and occur ONLY in spring or summer months...NOT in January.

5.  U.S. economic productivity surges 4.9-percent, making its highest level in nearly six years.  Wild stuff.

Three Bits Of Observation

 1.  If drawn to a situation where LE (includes ICE)....if you do anything threatening...you could end up dead.  If your parents or school system never brought this up....maybe it's a time for a life-lesson.

2.  Vehicular-homicide in Minnesota can get you to a max of 10 years in prison.  Had the cops not fired on the driver....and the ICE was hit (dead)....she'd be doing significant prison time.

3.  Ninety percent of Americans have never been in or involved with a protest.  Most have zero time for such things.....working to sustain their lifestyle.   

What Happens If Iran, Cuba, Greenland, And Columbia Go Trump's Way?

 Well....this could very occur over a 30-day period, and people would go NUTs over the fairly quick success.

Greenland?  I suspect a meeting is likely to occur (probably by mid-Feb) with Greenlands Premier (Jens-Frederik Nielsen), and Rubio.  A relationship discussion will occur, with  the discussion of a Compact (agreement)....ONLY between Greenland and the US (not Denmark).  Some services offered free of charge....some 'fee' paid to Greenland (likely three billion-plus a year).   Denmark will argue they don't have the power.....Nielsen will counter.....they always had the power.  In the end....around 10,000 US troops will be based out of Greenland.

In case you were interested....Denmark 'gives' Greenland around 500-to-600 million dollars per year.  If you do the math....every citizen could get an expense account of $100k a year of 'help'.

Cuba?  I think Rubio will simply show up....offer a deal where you offer free-and-open elections, and the US will stage 20-odd pocket-nuclear-reactors to finally give Cuba 24-hour round-the-clock electricity.....with half-a-billion a year staged for upgrading the grid.   I think Cuba will hype-up the election....have it before July, and go resolve their mess.  Some plaza in Havana will be renamed Plaza-de-Rubio to honor the guy....with a statue of Trump flown in from Miami.  Icing on the cake?  Trump will promise Havana a major league baseball team within three years.

Iran?  Special Forces arrive in Tehran for a 72-hour operation.....with 90-percent of the Mullah guys sent packing (probably to Moscow).  Another plaza will be named after Rubio-Trump.

Columbia?  The President of Columbia boards to some plane to leave, and the country stages a fresh new election....by mid-summer.  Another plaza will be named after Rubio-Trump.

Here's the thing....that's just for 2026.  What's on the schedule for 2027 or 2028?  This is like professional wrestling....there's more bouts to come.

Trump's Resume

I asked Grok/AI to list out all of Donald Trump's jobs/occupatios: 

- Real estate developer 

- Businessman (President of The Trump Organization since 1971) 

- Rent collector and building repair worker (Trump Management, 1968–1971) 

- Casino operator (1984–2009, including Trump Plaza, Trump's Castle, Trump Taj Mahal) 

- Hotel owner and operator 

- Golf course owner and operator (since 1999) 

- Television producer and host (The Apprentice, 2004–2015) 

- Media personality (cameos in films and TV, radio host, WWE appearances) 

- Author (19 books, including The Art of the Deal in 1987) 

- Beauty pageant owner (Miss Universe, Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, 1996–2015) 

- Airline owner (Trump Shuttle, 1988–1992) 

- Football team owner (New Jersey Generals, 1983–1985) 

- Cycling event organizer (Tour de Trump, 1989–1990) 

- Educational venture founder (Trump University, 2005–2010) 

- Charity founder (Donald J. Trump Foundation, 1988–2018) 

- Politician (45th President 2017–2021, 47th President 2025–present, presidential candidate in 2000, 2016, 2020, 2024) 

- Actor (cameos in films and TV, 1980s–2010s) 

- Professional wrestling personality (WWE, late 1980s–2007) 

- Fast food worker (McDonald's, honorary/stunt role in 2024) 

- Garbage truck driver (honorary/stunt role in 2024)

The $6-Billion Loss?

 Someone brought up today....that ultra-modern crappy air  defense system that Russia delivered to Venezuela....on credit....had a pay-back bill of $6-Billion. 

The question is....will Venezuela pay the money?

I  paused over this....what was rigged up....was a China-to-Venezuela-to-Russia deal.  China bought Venezuelan oil....likely paying in Yuan....which gave Venezuela a chance to buy Russian crap....paying with Yuan.   The Russians?  They probably then used the Yuan to buy crap from China.

So....if the cycle is stopped....China and Russia are probably both starting to worry about the finances they have rigged up.  Plus....they have to wonder....what if Trump moves onto Columbia, or Cuba.

Are we all done?  Well....there is this massive oil/natural gas find in Guyana (2024) and Maduro was thinking of consuming that. 

Five Things Out Of The Maduro Situation

 First, he's going to blab (for a deal) over election fraud in Venezuela, several Latin American countries, and probably the 2020 US election.  He'll blab over CIA operations that aren't officially supported by the Trump team.  He'll blab over training deals with Iran.  And he'll blab over financial support for US Republican and Democratic Senators (my guess is that at least 15 of them are getting cash flow).

Second, I don't think his sentence will involve more than 5 years of prison....to be released into Dubai, with X-amount of money.

Third, after all the election corruption comes out....the 2026 November election will be a problem for several states who intended to run electronically.  I suspect the Administration will mandate E-voting is too corrupted to use.

Fourth, just guessing....more than ten US senators will resign by spring....because of his capture.

Fifth, drug cartel folks probably stressed out and looking for a new avenue.

Five Problems With Society Today

1.   We have people who grew up online....that they actually do not believe reality is really real and act accordingly.

2. Probably a quarter of society finished high school/college....and if you tested them....they are maturity-wise....still a 12-year-old kid.

3.  TDS-sufferers (Trump-Delusionary-Syndrome people).....can never be cured, and will advance to VDS (Vance-Delusionary-Syndrome) or RDS (Rubio-Delusionary-Syndrome).

4.  I would imagine one out of every three Americans between twenty and thirty....are seriously into debt and probably will never own a home.

5.  I suspect if you drug-tested 1,000 adults....more than a quarter of them will have 'something' in their system....illegal.

Four Humble Thoughts

1. Pete Buttigieg comment on doing podcasts: “I've started doing some of these podcasts, that are like three hours long. Even if you intended to be on talking points for three hours, it is just not possible, which is risky!”

What exactly does Pete have to share....that takes more than 15 minutes to share?  To be honest....from the Obama/Biden eras....there just aren't people who should be talking more than 20 minutes max.

2.  I sat and watched a female trucker in a video this AM....in a snowstorm....dealing with a state patrol guy....in flip-flops.  Yeah....non-American.

3. Just a wild suggestion....by December of 2026....at least three state governors will be giving  testimony in a grand jury situation, and face up to five years of prison....for connections to the Somalian fraud business. 

4.  About once a week....I ponder....if Islam is so great, why do Muslims flee to Western countries?

Where This Iranian Revolution Is Leading Onto

Basically, the Shah (son of the original Shah)....is staging a comeback, and the bulk of society is ready to accept him, and kick the Mullahs out.  Added drama?  There is some relationship between the Shah and Israel....meaning that if the revolution is successful....this bitter Islam-versus-Israel is likely to end.

More drama?  Liwa Zainebiyoun: A Pakistani Shia militia group....sponsored by the Mullahs. Hezbollah: A Shia Islamist political party and militant group in Lebanon. Hamas....a Gaza-Islamist group.  There's at least forty-odd groups that the Mullahs sponsor....that would come to a end under the Shah's government.

Peeved public?  Since day one of the Mullah era....they have not been concerned over the economics of  the working-class Iranian.  The bulk of society have been angry for the past decade....as things continually crapped out.  The older folks remember the 1960s/1970s....when they had higher living standards than today.

Where do former Mullahs go, if chased out?  No one has spoken to this topic. Dubai, Turkey and Saudi Arabia....will NOT take them in. Lebanon?  No way.  Syria and Iraq?  No way. They might be able to enter Afghanistan or Pakistan and just disappear.  

If the revolution is successful....terrorism in the Middle East takes a big stumble, and there's virtually no money to sponsor folks.

Minnesota Fraud Thoughts

 After a week of examining all this Somalia business and fraud.....I've  come to five thoughts.

1.   I don't think any of the child care operations....some run for 10 years....were ever legit with Minnesota tax authorities, or IRS.

2.  Based on some commentary about banking with the billions.....as operation #1 got paid $10-M....they transferred the $10-M to operation #2, who transferred to operation #3, and #4.

Some people suggest five to ten layers.....which leads me to ask....did each layer report an 'income' to IRS and state tax offices?  With all this movement crap....didn't banks ever notice?  Then I wonder....the second, and third bank accounts.....did the guy have a legit ID, or a fake ID?

3.  Looking at this....was this achieved in all fifty states?

4. If some county DA was given $50,000 in campaign donations from a child center....what were they paying for, and did the DA do a 'favor' for them?

5.  Finally, I wonder....if you were handling the money....shouldn't you pack up ASAP and leave the US?

The Alien Scenario

 I read a piece yesterday....someone with the theory that one out of eight humans on Earth....are 'guests' (aliens in disguise).  Course, there is no substance to the idea.

After a while....it did come  to me....it would be fairly easy for some crowd of aliens (similar  in appearance) to just arrive....mingle...create a identity of some type....and 'vacation' in some weird fashion on Earth. Certainly....the one out of eight number....is way too high for this idea to work.

Why some  idiot alien would vacation on Earth?   I pondered upon this....remembering the movie 'West-World'.  If you were a fairly advanced culture (say a thousand years more advanced).....you probably would be entertained by Earth's wild behavior.

Arrival of Mayor Mamdani (NYC)

 So....six thoughts:

1.  If you listed 25 of his 'promises'....the city council over the next 12 months will give him a 'path' to probably no more than three 'promises'.  The rest will be blocked by the council or the Governor.

2. From the three-odd 'promises'....if you graded on delivering 'something' or being  of value (1-to-10)....most NYers will grade the guy a '5'....meaning nothing much got better (or worse).

3.  Pro-socialists will heavily promote the next 12 months, how fake-successful things were.  

4.  Around 40-percent of the police force and firemen will retire (early on  in the year).  Crime surges slightly (say 20-percent higher by the end of 2026).

5.  Democratic Party attempts to use NY City as a example of their politics, with most folks asking....what exactly improved (nothing)?

6. The city-run grocery concept is likely to be one  of the promises delivered upon....with $20-plus million minimum invested.  One single operation....which week after week....is proven to be a money-loser and consume $1-million per month in city-operations cost. My belief? It'll shutdown by city council order by end of 2027...proven to be a failure.

Note, all of this is a failure-to-deliver situation....which Trump uses to promote the November election  for the Republicans. 

My Observations Over The Series Stranger Things

In 2017....I started season one  of Stranger Things....which I admit....it had a weird sci-fi/horror theme.  Some teenagers....living in a small town....uncover supernatural mysteries involving government experiments, a parallel dimension called the Upside Down, and creatures from it. 

Every episode had  a clash between innocence and corruption.  Yeah....there were constantly government conspiracies.

I got through season one and two....without any drop in interest.  

Season three?  Marginally kept my interest, and I thought season four was mostly goofy, and lacking (I thought they'd just end it).

Season five starting?  Well....it's not on my list to  watch.  Based on reports....there's some demon/monster rape scene, and one of the kids has a storyline where he's announced his super-power (being gay in some way), and somehow....they end the series on this note.

Back about seven months ago....I quit Netflix...mostly over the weird 'tone' of their products (I  started down this path after watching 'Leave The World Behind').  

Three Theories I Have

 1.  From the WW II era to the 1990s....I  suspect high schools and colleges always put out/produced...x-number of stupid  kids (say in the IQ of 65 to 85).  The system was simply geared to produce folks, and move on.

With my theory....I think in the 1990s....the high schools and colleges doubled-up on production numbers.

Within this theory....I think  we can blame 90-percent of our current issues on 50-odd million Americans....who are simply not capable of making logical decisions and their IQ levels level-off between 65 and 85. 

The question then becomes (if I'm correct)....will the effect continue to spiral, and eventually make half the nation stupid?

2.  On my hyped-up legend BS index theory....the 'Nazi-Bell' time-travel machine is the best story with almost zero facts.

3.  Minnesota, I think....once the FBI/DoJ finishes up their investigation....will have in the region of $100-Billion in fraud....with almost none of the money being retrieved.  

But why be done at that point....there's 49 other states.  Just guessing....more than $1-trillion since 2015....was defrauded.