My home and native land

 In one of those 180-degree reversals that are a feature of his derangement, The Leader has announced that he doesn't want stinky old Canada after all.  Whatever Prime Minister Mark Carney said to him on the phone, he proclaimed again America's "golden age" without the lumber and energy Canada has to offer.  Just send eggs, OK?

This will be reassuring for the three distinguished professors who are leaving Yale for the University of Toronto.  Jason Stanley (philosophy) and the historians Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore will take up new positions next fall at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and they don't mince words about America's "descent into fascism" forcing their decision.  "I don't feel confident that American universities will manage to mobilize to protect either their students or their faculty," Professor Shore said, referring to Columbia's cowardice at the possibility of losing $400 million in government money, a tiny percentage of its $14.8 billion endowment.  She might also have cited Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts graduate student who was grabbed off the street by masked, hooded ICE thugs and shipped to a detention center in Louisiana.  Her crime was writing an editorial critical of US policy in the Middle East.  She is one of many whose student visas were suddenly cancelled, making them "illegal aliens."

I wasn't surprised at Timothy Snyder's decision to self-exile; he is already on Putin's blacklist for his unflagging support of Ukraine and he did himself no favors with this piece in today's Guardian about The Leader's renewed threats to "take" Greenland.  (Fun fact:  Denmark is a founding member of NATO, perhaps because when the Red Army was charging through Europe in 1945, one of its goals was the occupation of Denmark.)

Even Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) broke ranks to urge the US to "oppose any approach that rewards Mr. Putin for his ruthless aggression" against Ukraine.  Perhaps he has been reading Snyder's books, because he seems to know some history of Ukrainian-Russian relations in the twentieth century, although he missed an opportunity to fault the Obama administration for its inaction on the 2014 occupation of Crimea -- that would have bought him some credibility with The Leader, who wakes up every day hating Obama afresh.  As it is, he can expect nothing but Truth Social abuse.  

USAID is dead and the borders are closed but that doesn't mean the US has turned its back on the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.  Somehow financing has been found to convert commercial space in Pretoria into refugee centers for oppressed Afrikaners.  "Mission South Africa" will enable them to escape from the shame of being governed by black people.  "Don't forget us!" cry the suffering white citizens of Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia.  It's reassuring to know that certain "race-based initiatives" have survived the War on DEI.

Now to business:  "I was just informed by Prime Minister Starmer of the United Kingdom, that they caught the terrorists who attacked the beautiful Turnberry, in Scotland.  They did serious damage, and will hopefully be treated harshly."  He previously claimed that "three people were in prison."  Well, not quite.  A 33-year-old man faces a single charge of malicious mischief and was released on bail.  Two alleged accomplices, aged 75 and 66, were questioned and released.  What The Leader probably has in mind is more like this:

Kristi Noem, her overpriced watch and some of her victims at a concentration camp in El Salvador.  I'm told she ordered them to strip to their underwear to sex up the picture, possibly for a "Women of the Trump Court" calendar.

It's not the golf course they hate, it's you, Donny, but they can't get at you.  Just as people who hate Musk take it out on his shitbox cars.  Grow up and deal with it.

In this age of hyperbole it will surprise no one that "the future of civilization" is riding on the supreme court election in [checks notes] Wisconsin.  Hours after the existing supreme court ruled that sure, you can hand out million-dollar bribes (that's no hyperbole), Musk was in Green Bay with two of those big stupid golf tournament checks for a million bucks, one of them payable to -- well, did you ever? -- Nicholas Jacobs, chair of Wisconsin College Republicans.  And, said the shitbox dealer, there's plenty more where that came from so get out and vote.  It's heartbreaking, his devotion to democracy.  We will now pause and try to imagine the gnashing of teeth and the having of cows if George Soros did anything similar.

Apart from the Secretary of Health and Human Services and his fellow idiots, most people would agree that medical decisions should be made by doctors rather than businesspeople.  A proposed ballot measure in California would be a step toward codifying that in law.  My problem is with the name:  the Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act.  There should be a way to get this passed without seeming to honor a man credibly accused of murder, the very thing we accuse insurance companies of doing when they refuse to cover lifesaving procedures.  The author, a retired litigator, should have known better than to hand ammunition to the insurance industry.

The Leader now considers the Supreme Court to be his personal property despite the occasional twitch of Constitutional conscience here and there.  Since he plans to sidestep or ignore the 22nd Amendment and help himself to a third term, much as he ignored the 14th Amendment ("No person...shall hold any office...[who] shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion"), his court will have to put on a Nicholas Brothers-level display of dancing to explain why Barack Obama can't run for a third term, too.  When the time comes, I hope I can afford popcorn.  Of course, even this crew can't stop the passage of time.  He'll be 82 in 2028, and he's already lost the plot.  The Leader may have been the only person in Washington who wasn't part of the chattiest of chats about bombing Yemen two weeks ago.  What else are they keeping from him?  

And from us?  Out of the blue (and out of his ass) The Leader pulled a set of threats aimed at Iran, including "bombing the likes of which they have never seen before" -- the usual bombast.  This time he wants them to make a nuclear deal like the one Obama negotiated but -- with more gold?  Who the hell knows.  Or "secondary tariffs," whatever that means.  Everybody's getting tariffs on Wednesday, great big ones, even the boss.  Pronouncing himself "pissed off" at the way Putin is making his beautiful negotiating skills look weak, he's adding a double tariff on Russian oil.  Watch gas prices double.  Watch the markets panic.  Watch the Wharton faculty regret selling Fred a degree for his booger-eating spawn.  

We're on the road to nowhere and a blind toddler is driving the bus.