February 27, 2025

Got home a bit ago from taking the missus to her first cataract surgery. It went well and she is now taking a snooze, so I thought it would be a good time to ramble.

Yesterday, I unintentionally watched a portion of President Musk’s first cabinet meeting as it was being shown on my morning stock market program on CNBC. Sooo, here’s the setting of this cabinet meeting – PINO (President In Name Only) and the Cabinet, dressed in their ‘Sunday Best,’ sitting at an oblong circle of tables with their underlings sitting in a row of chairs behind them, and behind them members of the media (handpicked I’m sure, as reporters from the AP and Huffington Post have been banished for being meanies). Over in the corner at the rear of the room waiting for his introduction is Elon, wearing a black t-shirt emblazoned with “Tech Support” and his black MAGA baseball cap. After the obligatory niceties, PINO turns it over to Elon, who proceeds to take over the meeting while Donald takes a nap. It was a sight to see, I tell ya’. Elon was pretty solicitous to the Cabinet having heard that some of them are getting annoyed with his take over. Once Elon finished his oratory and allowed PINO to say a few words, DJT starts out saying that “this country has gotten fat and bloated and disgusting.” Now that’s a statement that should go down in history from the fast food King who probably served up McDonald’s 14 oz Big Arch burgers and fries for the Cabinet lunch. I say, ‘well that’s who voted for ya Sherlock.’ PINO then began his slew of false claims, misinformation, fibs, whatever you want to call them. There were too many to list here in detail, but Daniel Dale the fact checker for CNN, listed 16 that I counted related to Ukraine, the European Union, tariffs, trade with Canada, the economy, education, health, fentanyl, mail in voting, and so on. During this fibby part of the meeting PINO spoke matter of factly, but then, all of a sudden, he just got giddy as he introduced an idea that he and his Commerce Secretary cooked up – sell a “gold card” visa for $5 million as a pathway to U.S. citizenship.  He said people of wealth could buy the card or companies wanting to bring in talented people from outside the U.S. could buy the card. He thinks they’ll sell like hotcakes and bring in billions, if not trillions of dollars. To be fair, there are other countries that have a similar program, so it wasn’t invented here, but PINO thinks that people only want to come here to tRump World, especially since November 5, 2024. Luckily for me they broke back to the regularly scheduled program before I had to go plug in the popcorn popper for this “show.”

Today’s winning ‘Quote of the Day’ comes from Garry Kasparov, former world champion chess player turned activist, and that quote is: “Republicans ordered the sh-t sandwich and now complain about how it was cooked.” This was in response to an X post from Louisiana Senator Dr. Bill Cassidy mourning the death of the first child who died of measles Tuesday night. Kasparov says Republicans and the G.O.P. can’t have it both ways. Cassidy, if you will recall, after days of conflicting thoughts on RFK Jr. ended up being a deciding vote for his acceptance as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Meanwhile, anti-vaxxer Kennedy blows off this death and measles outbreak as something that happens every year. Big deal, right?

After the U.S.A. joined Russia to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine this week, I once again want to point out the hypocrisy of the flag flying, ‘Merica First’, patriot phonies, who cheer on their bone spurred Godfather wannabe as he bends over for Daddy Vladdy. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about our fathers and grandfathers who fought and died to defeat fascism and keep America a free nation looking down horrified at what they are seeing happen to the country they fought for. I’m not talking about DOGE, or the economy, or the kakistocracy, or climate change – I’m talking about America becoming an ally of any country that is run by a dictator. The Greatest Generation is up there looking down to see that the country they fought for to defeat fascists and defend democracy and freedom is now snuggled up to the biggest dictators and fascists in the world. WTF has happened they wonder?

Well the missus is up from her nappy poo so I’ll go play with her for awhile and get off this blood pressure rant. Enjoy this sun and have a great evening! Ziggyman