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Trump’s New Year’s Message Shows That It Is Killing Him That America Has Moved On Trump posted his New Year’s message from his little isolated social media corner and showed a jilted ex-president who can’t move on. Trump posted on Truth Social, “HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of the Radical Left Democrats, Marxist Lunatics, China loving Coco Chow and her Obedient Husband, Mitch, and Clueless RINOS, who are working so hard to DESTROY our once great Country. More importantly, HAPPY NEW YEAR to the Incredible, Brave, and Strong American Patriots who Built, Love, and Cherish America. The REAL leaders of our Country will always remain FAITHFUL and LOYAL to you. The USA will be back, Bigger & Better & Stronger than ever before. GOD BLESS YOU ALL" (Trump could not resist mixing some good old-fashioned racism in attacking Mitch McConnell's wife Elaine Chao again. He knows his base)

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They correctly assume that their core group is so blindly mon-focused that they will believe and act on anything that is fed to them by their idols. On CNN yesterday, people were asked what they thought of Trump scamming tens of millions of dollars by claiming patently illegal deductions on his corporate and personal taxes. The overwhelming responses were "good for him" and "I wish I could do that". No sense of civic responsibility. This sure sounds like the death-knell for American society. Trump hints he may split from GOP, dooming their 2024 election chances Former President Donald Trump has shared an article suggesting that he should run as a third-party candidate if the Republican Party doesn’t choose him as its nominee for the 2024 presidential election. Trump shared the article, entitled “The Coming Split,” on his Truth Social page. The article asked, “What should we do when a majority of Republicans want Trump, but the Republican Party says we can’t have him?” “The Republican machine has no intention of letting us choose Trump again,” the article stated. “He is not a uniparty team player. They’d rather lose an election to the Democrats, their brothers in crime, than win with Trump.” https://www.alternet.org/trump-2024-2659052456/

Any such will come after the holidays so as to not get lost in the hullabaloo. That's what I've been telling my son in law for years. So far, so good. To underline this, I let him know that I was on a first-name basis with a couple of members of a social group of motorcycle enthusiasts.

And she got caught. She has a history of such agitation for right-wing groups.

That may well be so, but hope dies hard.

And doubtlessly overpaid.

Seems to me that suing the blockaders to retrieve as much of that money as possible would be the logical next step.

Second Russian Defense Sector Bigwig Dies in Two Days The former commander-in-chief of Russia’s ground forces died in a military hospital earlier this week—the second bigwig in the country’s military industrial complex to die in just two days. They are just the latest senior Russia military or political elites to drop dead unexpectedly in recent months. Alexei Maslov, a retired army general, was serving as a special representative of military-technical cooperation for Uralvagonzavod, Russia’s largest tank manufacturer, when he died “unexpectedly” last Saturday, the company announced in a statement. No cause of death was given. Maslov, who was appointed as Russia’s military representative to NATO in 2008, died just two days after Vladimir Putin abruptly canceled his first visit to Uralvagonzavod since 2019. The Russian leader was expected to fly into Yekaterinburg last week before heading to Nizhny Tagil to meet with staffers at the tank factory, where workers have been enduring 12-hour days, six days a week due to fulfill orders for the war against Ukraine. https://www.thedailybeast.com

Fox News places blame on Pete Buttigieg for 'stranded' Southwest customers Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is being blamed by Fox News for the thousands of canceled Southwest flights that left millions stranded in airports, Huffpost reports. During the busiest travel period of the year, multiple airlines suffered delays and cancellations due to a winter storm, but Southwest has and continues to suffer with the highest cancellation rate. “Mayor Pete Leaves Southwest Customers Stranded” is the headline that appeared on-screen during a Fox News "Ingraham Angle" segment, fully blaming the former 2020 presidential candidate for Southwest's shortcomings. https://www.alternet.org/fox-news-blames-pete-buttigieg/

Mark Meadows Could Be Going To Prison For A Very Long Time Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows took classified documents home with him, made copies, and handed them out to other people. From the 1/6 Committee report: Oof — Devin Nunes – Mark Meadows, classified documents given to reporters, including Jon Solomon — here about page 142 https://t.co/jBIHnpVybA pic.twitter.com/Ypos5QFH2f — Outspoken™️ (@Out5p0ken) December 27, 2022

Judge Orders Another Long Prison Term In Whitmer Kidnap Plot GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Delaware trucker described as a co-leader of the conspiracy to kidnap Michigan’s governor has been sentenced to more than 19 years in prison. Barry Croft Jr. was the fourth and final federal defendant to learn his fate, a day after ally Adam Fox was sentenced to 16 years in prison. The two men were convicted in August of conspiracy charges at a second trial in Grand Rapids.

Given all the pathos in Regina, I would think that the Riders will have no end of problems recruiting CFL free agents. They will have to rely heavily on those who cannot catch on anywhere else and American newbies.

With any luck, the soft-core Republicans who still have a functioning cerebral cortex will realize that Trump is a shameless grifter, serving only himself.

Trump’s Tax Returns Will Be Made Public On Friday Morning Donald Trump's tax returns will be made public for the American people to see on Friday morning.

Co-Leader Of Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Gets 16 Years In Prison GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — The co-leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison for conspiring to abduct the Democrat and blow up a bridge to ease an escape. Adam Fox returned to federal court Tuesday, four months after he and Barry Croft Jr. were convicted of conspiracy charges at a second trial in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They were accused of being at the helm of a wild plot to whip up anti-government extremists just before the 2020 presidential election. Their arrest, as well as the capture of 12 others, was a stunning coda to a tumultuous year of racial strife and political turmoil in the U.S.

'Our children have the right to live': Record 6,036 American kids killed or injured by gunfire in 2022' With just a few days left until the new year, 2022 has already set a grim record: so far at least 6,036 children across the United States have been killed or injured by gunfire, according to the Gun Violence Archive. As of Tuesday, 306 children under age 12 were killed by guns and another 668 were injured nationwide. For those ages 12-17, 1,328 were killed and 3,734 were injured. Those figures include the 19 kids—but not the two adults—killed in the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and come just a few weeks after the nation marked the 10th anniversary of the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. https://www.alternet.org/6036-kids-killed-injured-guns/

Watched it last night. It was a fun romp for both audiences and probably the actors, but many plot holes.

Trump's world and his imagined immunity from prosecution is crumbling around him. Like all malignant narcissists, his response is and will continue to be bluster and threat.

Putin is re-creating the paranoid furore of Joseph Stalin. On the eve of the Germans turning on Russia after the partition of Poland, Stalin was so insane that he order the execution of dozens of his top generals, and when the Germans invaded, there was such turmoil in the military that the Russian response was piecemeal and weak, to say the least. The whole Russian central command was almost nonexistent and the Germans went where they pleased with the only limiting factor being their supply lines. Putin is killing off some powerful people and even those who have been loyal to him have to start wondering when it will their turn to have an accident. This will lead them to doing whatever is necessary to survive, even if it means deposing or killing Putin. That may be a lot closer that you might think. Russians cannot access the banked money and many will start to become desperate. All this on top of even more bad news in Ukraine, as Ukrainian forces have retaken another key city and are near to taking yet another. If the Wagner group of mercenaries are not being paid, as some reports say, their loyalty will evaporate, leaving a bloodied and broken military who no longer have any faith in their commanders,