Prickly City by Scott Stantis for February 22, 2025

We won’t be judged well…we willingly put a demented tyrant as POTUS of the most powerful country in history and the insane traitor sells out to our deadly enemy. Separated us from most of our allies and got us a new one one (putin) Rules w/o checks and balances and strips any opposition of their voice, strips the military to put in yes men…… I have a feeling that he has stepped on too many toes and this won’t end well, sorry maga!

Looks like the ghost cartoonist again masquerading as fair and balanced. Or something.

Magats are still silent about how Great it is that Their Messiah pardoned the biggest drug kingpin.

And now, they are silent about how awful it was that Ukraine invaded Russia.

And Zelenskyy is called a dictator by Dear Leader, as if magats would believe that’s a bad thing. the Putin puppets have gotta be a little confused about which LIEs to espouse. Those analysis skills don’t quite know what to do.

The Florida dude got it right in “one”!

It is interesting to note that Bennie the Italian was considered a megalomaniac while Adolf was diagnosed with multiple personality disorders and that 19 legally licensed American psychologists INCLUDING HIS NEICE has officially declared Donnie John as mentally UNHINDGED – obviously, being “crazy” is no impediment to governing – Here’s my point – all were legally ELECTED politicians putting them in office WASN’T their fault that falls on the shoulders of the idiots and morons that electedthem…

A blue whale’s AN_S can stretch over a meter wide; making it the second largest A-Hole on the planet!

The idiots in power glorify the 1950’s as our golden era, but history proves it was anything but. It will be the same for Emperor Trump’s reign: The Magats (American Nazis, whatever. Tomato, tomato…) think nothing is wrong because their convenience and privileges are not messed with. They could NOT care less if anyone else’s is in our country, or make excuses to it. We need a clean slate: Just drop every single person in politics and elect someone new for each and every seat. From Mayoral to the Three Branches. The ones we have now just aren’t doing their jobs.

“History Don’t Care At All.”

Mos Eisley

Heard on CNN this morning that some top generals are being fired… Guess this is to ensure there will be no resistance left anywhere in the country to stand against his planned dictatorship…

You folks down there better start organizing and act — or — kiss your democracy goodbye..

My thought all along!

History weeps, as it has wept before… so Krugman’s blog on substack is worth paying for. Interesting conversation with Chanos behind the paywall. Distilled; market valuations are historically high, risks of fraud are elevated, geopolitical risks are on a geometric progression and market participants are largely young people who haven’t experienced the crashes that can happen. It’s never time to get out of the market but it’s always time to be well diversified and sober about risk.

There is a great great commentary today on Frank Olsteen’s blog discussing whether a hot dog is a sandwich or not.

Who says that there will be anyone around to make such a judgment? This is a case wherein the victors will be the losers, too.

Yep, DOGE is a model of efficiency, that’s why they keep firing people only to have to get them hired back! But then, when you don’t have a clue about the government departments and what they do, it’s not surprizing.

History will basically say that Stanti essentially stood for nuthin’.

Well, there are some rumblings now from the actual PEOPLE in this country:

“Rich McCormick is a sophomore congressman in a safe Georgia Republican district, and he got positively roasted at a packed town hall on Thursday night, as constituents pressed him about Musk’s rampage through the federal government. This is a useful place to remind everyone that there are federal workers everywhere, and when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, headquartered in Atlanta, cuts 1,300 heads, the nearby Republican members of Congress might catch some [flack] for that. It’s also a useful time to remind Rich McCormick that when constituents express concern about these job cuts, he should have a better response handy than “a lot of the work they do is duplicitous with A.I.” (We think he meant “duplicative,” as in, “most rank-and-file members of Congress are duplicative.”) He’s not the only GOP member to be greetwd with an angry response recently, and the nerves might be starting to catch on among members. Ohio Rep. Troy Balderson, also serving in a safe district, said week that Musk’s orders were “getting out of control” and that, for example, “Congress has to decide whether or not the Department of Education goes away. Not the president, not Elon Musk. Congress decides.” Usually it takes six or 12 months for the incumbent’s party to recognize that they’re facing a tidal wave in the midterms after overreaching or misreading their “mandate.” Given how quickly this administration has moved, we might get there sooner.” [SLATE, 2/22/25]

History will record this time as America’s dark ages.

If you’re tired of hearing of the happenings of self-serving billionaires and what they’re trying to do to our country –

Stand Up and Do Something!

Try this:

The 1st COLLECTIVE ACTION

Historian Heather Cox Richardson

ECONOMIC BLACKOUT – 24 HOURS

Friday, 28th February 2025 12:00AM to 11:59PM

families, friends, acquaintances

TURN OFF THE ECONOMY

Show who really holds the power = US

What you CAN do:

Buy ONLY essentials or absolute necessities (Food, Medicine, Emergency Supplies).

The goal is – buy NOTHING.

(If you must spend, ONLY support small, local businesses).

SPREAD this MESSAGE:

email friends everywhere, post on social media, share, document.

WHY? Corporations, banks only care about their sacred bottom line.

YOU CAN Disrupt the economy for just ONE DAY – send a powerful message.

If they fail to listen, the next blackout will be LONGER.

MAKE HISTORY together

February 28th, 24-hour ECONOMIC BLACKOUT BEGINS

DO NOT:

No purchases in store or online.

No Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, NOWHERE!

No fast food, gas, major retailers

No credit, debit cards for non-essential spending,

WE CAN DO THIS TOGETHER!

Is gas under $2/gal yet like Trump promised he would do before the election? This question has nothing to do with Biden and only with the actual words that Trump said when Trump made the promise.

It’s a yes or no question. I have to explain the type of question it is because some people don’t understand the word YET. And the only answer that is required to a yes or no question is “Yes” or “No.”

Let’s see if you can read.

Well, I suppose it depends on who is writing the history.