Green Eggs and Spam 😱🤡 ✡️🌻😱🤪 👿 

Greenland TACO: So, we’re not invading Greenland.  Trump backed off, claiming that he had achieved a monumental victory in the form of some awesome new concessions from NATO.  Putting aside that NATO doesn’t control either Denmark or Greenland, those claimed concessions return the US’s deal with Greenland, or Iceland as Trump called it four times in his rambling incoherent Davos speech, to where it was before he acted out. There are no details in writing, we’ll have to wait the usual two weeks 😊 for them, but it sounds like the deal should it ever be put down on paper will look just like the treaty that President Truman negotiated, the US: will have control over its bases; will get to reopen the closed ones it previously had: and will have a right of first refusal on the valuable minerals that are so embedded in Greenland’s ice that they can’t be economically extracted with today’s technology.  Trump’s Greenland posturing did achieve two notable things:  first, he pissed off our NATO allies most of whom rightfully no longer believe that we are a dependable ally and second, he managed to temporarily redirect attention away from more pressing domestic issues like affordability, health insurance, the violent and also evil actions of his immigration militia who’ve been separating five years olds from their parents while “accidentally” rounding up citizens while tossing pepper grenades, and that only 1% of the Epstein files have been released despite the passage of a law mandating that most of what’s in them immediately see light of day.  One more thing for the embarrassment file, Trump told Davo’s Swiss audience that if it wasn’t for the US, they’d be speaking German.  German is one of Switzerland’s official languages. That wasn’t ignoramus Trump’s first language gaffe, a while back he complimented Liberia’s president for his English skills. English is the official language of Liberia.   

Polls and Lawsuits:  Despite all of Trump’s efforts, polls indicate that the Greenland episode has done little to deflect attention away from his poor performance. He is very freaked out by yesterday’s NY Times Siena poll which indicated how much people have soured on the way he’s handling just about everything.  His response to the poll: expanding his defamation lawsuit against the NY Times to hold them “fully responsible for all their Radical left lies and wrongdoing!”  Trump is currently sporting a larger than usual dark bruise on his left hand which he said was the result of bumping into his desk. Query: does freaking out and punching the walls after seeing poll results count as an “accidental” bump or was that bruise caused by another transfusion of his monthly drug cocktail?  By the way, the litigious one isn’t just ramping up his NY Times lawsuit.  Yesterday he announced that he is initiating one against JP Morgan and its leader Jamie Dimon for debanking him in response to his urging on the insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol on January 6. As to the insurrection and Trump’s other crimes including his squirreling away of secret documents at Mar a Lago, yesterday former Special Counsel Jack Smith finally got to testify in public.  He confirmed what those of us who aren’t delusional have long known, that Trump committed lots of crimes and was the driving force behind the insurrection. Smith also said that he expects to be pursued by Trump’s DOJ goons for doing his job. Sadly, though Smith coherently spoke truth, Trump’s base and most of the Republican members of Congress are still camp Trump and some of those January Sixers, they’re now INS agents.

Peace Board:  Trump’s Board of Peace looks a lot more like a piece of 💩 than a genuine effort to rebuild Gaza in a peace sustaining manner. It’s members, or at least many of the countries who’ve agreed to sign on so far, only 18 of the 60 who’ve been invited, includes a who’s who of anti-democracy autocrats and dictators.  Putin is all in, assuming he’s allowed to use some of his frozen assets to pay his $1 billion initiation fee, something that Trump appears amenable to allow.  Norway, Sweden, and France have declined their invitations, and Canada’s invitation has been withdrawn by Trump, punishment for Prime Minister Mark Carney impressively speaking truth to power.  It’s not clear where the $1 billion “lifetime” initiation fees are going, Trump’s Mar a Lago coffers perhaps?  Even more disturbing, Trump chairmanship’s is a lifetime appointment that will extend past the end of his presidential term, it provides him with the authority to veto decisions, approve agendas, invite and remove members, and to designate his successor.  This whole fiasco gives new meaning to grift as if Trump and his for-sale pardons, a list that keeps growing and now also includes a few repeat offenders, needs an expanded definition.

More 💩:  The House, including all Republicans and Democrats Maxwell Frost, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Summer Lee, Stephen Lynch, Ayanna Pressley, Emily Randall, Lateefah Simon, Melanie Stansbury and Rashida Tlaib, voted to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt for refusing to honor a subpoena to answer questions about Jeffrey Epstein. The Bill and Hillary imbroglio is an attempt to deflect from Trump whose Epstein opacity continues to be abetted by the DOJ’s sitting on the Epstein files.  Also, regardless of what you think about Bill Clinton, who Chief of Staff Wiles said spent less time with Epstein than Trump did, there’s no reason to go after Hillary unless of course the objective is to finally “lock her up.” Notably Republican Representatives Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, Andy Biggs, and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy all refused subpoenas from the January 6^th Select Committee and haven’t suffered any penalties. Then there’s former Representative Matt Gaetz.  He has suffered a bit.  Though he hasn’t gone to jail he did leave the House in an effort to see the ethics report into his sex crimes squashed.  Alas for him, that report was released this week and it turns out that the one-time Trump nominee to serve as Attorney General did the things he was accused of doing, including having sex with a minor.  So far Gaetz remains an OANN host with one of those coveted Pentagon Pete press passes that were stripped from mainstream journalists. As to Pete, there are scurrilous, unconfirmed reports on Twitter that his wife has been caught in a compromising position with someone not named Pete.  Probably just gossipy spam given its source is Twitter whose Grok AI chatbot now permits users to “nudify” images, including those of women and minors. Musk has been getting some pushback from a few countries and is now limiting the “undress” privilege to paid subscribers.  Crickets from our administration because Musk is back to making contributions to Republican candidates and spreading kiddie porn is only a problem when committed by Democrats in pizza parlors.