January 22, 2025

I am so disgusted I can’t even see straight. I knew that during the first few days of this new administration the King would open his mouth and spew some bulls—t that sounded like it was coming from a lunatic, sign some Executive Orders that would make me cringe, and repeatedly display that tRumpian  sneer when he was in front of the camera jacking up his MAGA minions. But, I didn’t think it would be this bad this soon. Y’all watch the ‘News’, so you know what I’m talking about. If I was a cop in America right now, I’d be thinking that maybe I’ve made the wrong career choice. The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers can beat the sh—t out of me, get convicted and sent to prison, and then pardoned by the ‘Showman in Chief,’ followed by an invitation to lunch at the White House with him on their walk out the prison door. Hopefully, this is going to come back and bite Trump and his GOP sycophants, especially those up for reelection mid-term, on the butt in the very near future.

Earlier I posted that he would probably announce the elimination of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in federal programs after his Inauguration speech on MLK Jr. Day. It was kind of him to wait until the next day to make that announcement. He has the notion that he is so powerful he can impose that same mandate in the private sector, threatening to investigate companies for civil rights violations if they don’t follow the federal government lead in eliminating these programs. Presidents’ tRump and Musk have cast DEI as illegal discrimination against white Americans. There are thousands of companies that depend on federal funding or hold government contracts that could lose those contracts if they don’t play along with this ridiculous threat. This is going to be an interesting one to watch play out.

Related to the DEI Order is the order to only recognize two genders in the USA, male or female. This Order was probably written by JD Vance, as this has been his ‘baby’ since he first became a Senator in 2023. This is an interesting Order, as Trump celebrated the inclusion of transgender women in his Miss Universe pageant in 2012 and while campaigning in 2016 said he disagreed with a North Carolina law barring trans people from using public restrooms that match their gender identity. In typical Trumpian fashion, his decisions or seeing what schtuff will stick when thrown against the wall depends on who he last talked to.

OMG! Did you ever think that at an inauguration of the President of the United States of America an ally of the newly elected Chief would throw a Hitler salute when addressing the crowd? Not once, but twice. Of course he is now trying to do damage control, saying he was not doing a Heil Hitler salute, blaming the media and left-wingers for making this up. However, some neo-Nazi and other far-right and white supremacist extremists around the country made clear online that they believed Musk had made Nazi salutes, which they approved of and thanked him for.

Finally, today the deportation project has been put into effect and with it, of course, is plenty of bravado and threats. We start with a memo from the Justice Department that threatens to prosecute state and local officials who resist the federal immigration crackdown as well as federal prosecutors who decline to prosecute those immigrant cases. And from the Border Czar, Tom Homan, “Sanctuary cities are going to get exactly what they don’t want. More agents in the communities, more people arrested, collateral arrests If that’s the game they want to play? Game on. The gloves are off.” Spoken like a true thug. When tRump hears one of his lieutenants talk like that, I would bet he doesn’t need to pop a Viagra. I’m afraid this is the rhetoric we are going to be experiencing over the next few months. At some point, however, things are going to start going downhill and hopefully, it will be a fast descent.

With that, I’m going outside to chop firewood. Tomorrow I have cataract surgery and won’t be able to chop for a week or so and it’s been colder than you know what up here on the mountain. So, my fellow Americans, until we meet again, keep the faith and “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Ziggyman.

P.S. Note the average price of gasoline today is $3.129 according to AAA. The average price per Universal Product Code (UPC) of eggs has reached a record high of $6.30 across the top 15 egg brands. This is my baseline for the promises Donnie made to cut gas and grocery costs during his campaign, “Wait until how fast we’re going to get it going, we’ll get the prices down,” says he on November 3rd.