We are only two months into Trump’s second term. I hate his voice and his face, so I can only read his words or watch the short clips people put out.
When he mentioned his intention to expand our land, hot coffee came out of my nose. I thought republicans said making D.C. and Puerto Rico states was too much work. I suppose those changes are not a priority because both would be blue states.
Trump is focused on taking over peaceful nations that were allies before he took over. Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal, coexisting, isn’t in Trump’s repertoire. He’s sniffing sharpies, playing with a globe, and talking about invading Venezuela, annexing Mexico, seizing the Gaza Strip to make it some kind of tourist trap to enrich himself. They repeat the absurd until it sounds reasonable.
This would be funny if he didn’t have Musk’s money, and a cabinet made up of an assembly of zealots willing to do whatever he asks. Without them, we could provide Hair Donald with a box of crayons, a map, and close him in a room.
Yesterday on Fox News, J.D. Vance announced Trump will invade and seize Greenland. This is real.
MAGA officials continue staggering their visits to Greenland, as if that’s more subtle. This week V.P. Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, the National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and energy secretary Chris Wright are “visiting” at various times with different excuses for turning up.
It’s time for Denmark to fortify their military defenses. They need to tell U.S. officials to leave Thule airbase. If they don’t, they’ll wake up to find themselves occupied, renamed ‘Orangeland.’ We are a threat. The EU, under the guidance of Macron is preparing for war.
I think about my son who is the perfect age to be drafted. It would be so like the five-time draft dodger to reinstate the draft before starting a war in a peaceful country.
Anyway… I found my headphones and spent the last week blasting 70s music. (Led Zeppelin, Queen, Heart, etc.) It was the break I needed to reset my mind. Like most people, I have a lot on my plate. My dwindling discretionary income has coincided with several unexpected expenses. One credit card invoice ago, as I returned home from an overpriced veterinarian visit, my Honda Fit dashboard lit up. I should have called a tow truck, but it had been running okay. I could make it a few miles to find a mechanic.
So, I dropped off my smooch and rode off. As soon as I turned onto the busy street, putt, putt, putt… my foot to the floorboard, I drove as fast as I could, 20 mph in a 50 mph zone. I couldn’t turn on my emergency blinkers because in the 13 years I’ve had this car, I’ve never needed to know where the switch is. With horns blaring and fingers flying, I reached the closest garage. The sign says, “We Rebuild Corvettes.” What about subcompact cars? The owner took my keys and disappeared. I sat and got high off auto shop fumes.
When he came back he gave me the bad news. The cost of repairs would exceed the value of my car. I should junk it. I threw myself on the ground and pounded my fists. No.
It’s not dead yet!
He went into detail: A fuel injector cap came off, and engine juice (fuel?) fried my car’s brain. I’d need a new computer, which would have to be programmed for my specific model, and the cause of this saga, four fuel injectors need to be replaced.
This car is my person. Ride or die, I can’t replace it. I said something you should never say, “I’ll pay whatever it takes. This is my car.” Drama queen. 🏆
He rued the day I puttered into his garage, but felt sorry for me, told me to go home, and said he’d see what he could do. He kept the car, removed the fried car computer and sent it off to a dude he heard might repair it. If he could, I wouldn’t need to buy a new one. If he couldn’t, I’d still pay him for shipping and for his time.
Of course, it got lost in the mail. I won’t bore you with details. (haha, too late) They eventually found the package, and the man did the impossible. It took two weeks without a car and still cost more than my discretionary income savings could cover. That’s what credit cards are for; am I right? I half expected to pick up a Corvette, but it’s my same dinked up Fit, running like new, for a fraction of the price he first quoted.
Where was I going with this story? Ah, I’ve concluded that as dire as things look, we must try to save this country. We’re not dead yet. We need something big to overpower the regime, a plan with the elements of surprise, force, and momentum.
I’ll paint a picture. We put a bat in grandma’s hands, she’s fearless because of cognitive decline, and we push her down a hill toward the warmongers. What will happen? Force powered by (physics) momentum ✅ will get her there. Surprise! ✅… The resulting confusion by everyone, will possibly end with an arrest. Nursing home /prison… I’m considering which would be worse. What’s the cost differential? She lives with me. That was a joke, mom. (She doesn’t read my posts.)
Back to that line of attack. What’s missing? Why can’t she succeed? We require numbers, millions of old people. No, we need every demographic to take to the streets at the same time. Social media is owned by the man, so… we need something like a bat signal. (Dentures?)
The United States I grew up in doesn’t start wars to steal land to appease a lunatic’s lust for power. And the gaslighting Republicans like to call Democrats warmongers.
I’m making jokes, but we can’t afford to laugh at Trump. Yes, his college professors said he is stupid. Despite his clown makeup, the poor ferret on his head, his cheap suits accessorized with a ridiculously long red tie that shapes his neck flab into a labia, he is a threat to the entire planet.
Look for the lit up dentures in the sky.
A lot from Lydia 
Read a play called Tamerlane or Tamberlain about this kind of expansionism. My take Hitler:Poland as trump:Canada and we know it doesn’t stop with just one annexation.
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I don’t think I can take 46 more months of this, Lydia. Something has got to happen.
The car….in one year, I think I pay the equivalent of what my car is worth were I to sell it. The ‘tire gauge’ light has been on forever. My tires are fine. We checked. The light can stay on for all I care. Whoever heard of being under water with your vehicle?!
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46 months… something has to change for better or worse, before his term ends. He’s pushing the boundaries.
I think my tire pressure gauge light bulb finally burned out. 🤔
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I hate his voice and I hate his face too.
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Don’t ever assume he is kidding. No sense of humor.
Instigating a draft to get all of the angry young men he lied to to get elected is exactly what I expected. This is a play from the Roman Empire: they sent young men from north Africa to the north of England, for example, knowing they would be too cold and miserable to kick up a fuss.
If we want it to end early the Good Ole Perverts in congress need to grow a spine and impeach and remove, probably at least twice since Shady Lady Vance is no better (although he might shift a bit with the wind, he’s done it before). Another thing they could do, since growing a spine seems unlikely, would be to resign in big enough numbers to flip the house and senate. If all of the GOP over 80 resigned I think that would do it. Since they have given up all of their power they might as well.
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I agree! Trump doesn’t have a sense of humor. I don’t think he understands it. He means what he says.
I’ll take any of your solutions. I don’t know how many or if any republicans would resign, but I would love it if they did.
SCOTUS seems to have been shaken up by Trump’s attempt to diminish their power. That is something.
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