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1. about 19 hours ago on Prickly City

   And Musk(rat) wants to be president of USA, EU and anywhere else he can gather control. I am more worried about him than Trump at this point, but it comes down to a bunch of psychopaths with delusions of grandeur.

2. about 19 hours ago on Prickly City

   There was also a concerted effort by the Nazis to control information. They gave every home a radio that tuned only to the official government channel. Modifying the radio was, of course, illegal, so information from Swiss stations was not received by the average German. Makes one sort of worry about those today who are getting most of their information from Facebook and X.

3. about 20 hours ago on Prickly City

   Since the Muskrat supports the AfD in Germany, calling it the salvation of Germany, you know where he’s headed. Moreover, he’s playing footsie with the far-Right PM Meloni of Italy and the current far-Right of Austria. Ya gotta say he thinks big—-at least with respect to internationally criminal aspirations.

4. about 24 hours ago on Doonesbury

   My husband, who is Swiss, has the same impression of events during his youth across the river from Germany in the contrast between Swiss attitudes and German. They of course got the German radio broadcasts.

5. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   Peterson is one of my “don’t miss” columns. And I love his name for Musk(rat).

6. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   Wash Post headline:Scores of career State Dept. diplomats resign before Trump’s inauguration

   Trump’s team requested numerous high-level resignations from the State Department as the president-elect prepares to make a break with the Biden administration.

   January 19, 2025

7. 2 days ago on Prickly City

   Only if the people of the nation become aware of the reality of the incoming oligarchy and act. Jen Rubin, formerly of the WashPost, addresses this point in her new substack The Contrarian.

8. 2 days ago on Prickly City

   Trump has already emptied out the State Department, demanding resignations from dozens of career employees.

   Back in the early 1800’s the British had a government referred to as “All the Talents”. Now we’re getting a government that is All the Incompetents.

9. 3 days ago on Non Sequitur

   It is a proposed answer to the Fermi Paradox.

10. 3 days ago on Non Sequitur

    Or that by the time a species has developed technological intelligence, it has only developed it to the point of species destruction, leaving no evidence of that species’ existence.