… and that mega-wealthy Mrs. Teasdale has a LOT of money and will pay the $1 billion so that Freedonia can join his Board of Peace.
(The media has been unfair to Trump. He never said he wanted a Board of Peace. He said he was bored of peace and wanted to give himself a lifetime appointment to do something about it.)
And vitamins.
Speaking of a widespread fraud, I just saw a video clip of Trump wearing shorts and driving a golfcart towards the camera.
Rumors are ICE Barbie’s days are numbered.
Time to send Kristi back to her ranch in South Dakota. Noem. Noem on the range.
Have you no regard for the dogs and goats?
Speaking of dogs. (Trigger warning: The video shows a puppy being kicked by an ICE agent. It reportedly suffered a broken rib. The puppy, that is.):
EDIT: OK, it’s not an ICE agent, but some other Gestapo-style armed thug. Details here:
Trump Fed Kicks Schnauzer Puppy In Memphis, Because That's What Happens Now
I thought for sure you were going to say that Kristi Noem demanded to know the name of the veterinary hospital—and engaged her emergency stoplight override system so that she could get there quickly and finish it off with her 12-gauge. And before she left, her agents took into custody two Chihuahuas (on suspected cartel associations), an Australian Cattle Dog, a French Bulldog, an Icelandic Sheepdog, a German Shepherd, a Portuguese Water Dog, and a Labrador Retriever. (There had been a warrant issued for that one because of tariff remarks by Labrador’s governor.)
Still confused about the difference between Iceland and Greenland, Trump promptly ordered the Icelandic Sheepdog be sent to a prison in El Salvador.
It was a raid like nobody had ever seen before.
AND
Back in those heady days of gad school when I got to teach intro stats in the summer session, this is this sort of thing I told my students to look out for, then gave them an assignment to find examples in newspapers and magazines*. They loved it.
Dalmatians and Alsatians are safe, because the people responsible for immigration policy have not yet figured out that those are references to places.
Pretty sure German shepherds are safe, because it’s not a shithole country. Why can’t we have more dogs like Norwegian ridgebacks?
I think the reason we cannot “have more dogs like Norwegian ridgebacks” is perhaps because the Norwegian ridgeback is a dragon not a dog. (But I may be stating the obvious here. I wasn’t aware they were even a thing until I looked them up on Google.)
I know that the US is particularly lax about keeping dangerous animals as pets, but dragons?!?
OK, pedant. Elkhound then.
The ridgeback is Rhodesian.Not clear whether that qualifies as a shithole country or whether we need to accept persecuted dog refugees from Zimbabwe.
Chihuahua’s, of course, are straight to CECOT.
Ark Encounter has them in its petting zoo.
Oh. Here was me expecting them to have escaped from captivity and formed a breeding population in Florida.
Although it is true that there has been significant layoffs at the Ark Encounter, I’m not aware of any evidence that former staff writers have formed a new colony in Florida.
I’ve always thought the YEC apologetics community to be somewhat incestuous (figuratively speaking – if also somewhat fratricidal) – but this (see bolded word above) would be startling. Seems somewhat movie-version-Moonraker – repopulating the world in their own image. Or maybe Nueva Germania is a better comparator.
Oddly enough, both share with Florida a tropical New World setting.
Feel free to enjoy this supercut of broadcasters from many nations commenting on Vance being booed at the Olympic opening ceremony. I cannot verify reports that the US broadcaster edited the jeering out.
The guardrails against dictatorship are still holding, but only just:
Federal prosecutors in Washington sought and failed on Tuesday to secure an indictment against six Democratic lawmakers who posted a video this fall that enraged President Trump by reminding active-duty members of the military and intelligence community that they were obligated to refuse illegal orders, four people familiar with the matter said.
It was remarkable that the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington — led by Jeanine Pirro, a longtime ally of Mr. Trump’s — authorized prosecutors to go into a grand jury and ask for an indictment of the six members of Congress, all of whom had served in the military or the nation’s spy agencies.
But it was even more remarkable that a group of ordinary citizens sitting on the grand jury in Federal District Court in Washington forcefully rejected Mr. Trump’s bid to label their expression of dissent as a criminal act warranting prosecution.
The move to charge the lawmakers — among them, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona and Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan — was, by any measure, an extraordinary attempt by Trump appointees to politicize the criminal justice system even for a Justice Department that has repeatedly shattered norms of independence from the White House and followed Mr. Trump’s directives to prosecute his adversaries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/us/politics/trump-democrats-illegal-orders-pirro.html
@Puck_Mendelssohn or someone else with knowledge of the US justice system rmay want to confirm, but my understanding is that it is highly unusual for a grand jury to refuse to return an indictment, but it is a regular occurrence for the Trump DOJ, and for former Fox TV personality Pirro in particular.
It is unusual. Lawyers jokingly assert that a good prosecutor should be able to indict a ham sandwich. I doubt that a good prosecutor would have touched this one - which is the other half of the problem the Trump administration faces. Bullshit cases fronted by inexperienced lawyers - that’s what’s going on.