Originally published at: DC Still Flooded With National Guard After Trump Pulls Them Out Of Other Blue Cities
National Guard troops still patrol non-state Washington D.C. after President Trump ended the deployments (or attempted deployments) in Chicago, Portland and Los Angeles. “We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by…
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In NOLA until through Mardi Gras, eh? Might that depress attendance? By locals as well as tourists?
Apropos of nothing, I have always believed that sparklers should never be used indoors.
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Brilliant move! Already destroying the international hospitality industry, Trump decides to destroy the domestic hospitality industry as well.
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OT but in reference to Josh’s AI post, from the great Terry Pratchett "Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign of it saying “End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH”, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.”
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Besides, Trump has cast his baleful gaze elsewhere:
In fact, the federal crackdown is likely to only grow in scope and intensity, as Reuters reported. And as three former DHS officials in contact with their former colleagues at the agency each described to me, the expectation among current officials is that one Democratic-led city in particular is about to become the next focus of arrests, detentions, and deportations: Phoenix.
More here:
(Anyone else noticing how leaking his administration is gwtting?)
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Remember during the 2015/2016 presidential campaign when the opinion of DJT was expressed that “he lacked the required temperament to hold the office of President of the United States?” That advice was ignored at our peril. True then, true now.
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And he’s about the BRIGHTEST among contemporary Republicans.
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Cracker Barrel Made Another Quiet Change, And It’ll Make Your Blood Boil
I’m seething just reading the headline.
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Old news from August 2025. 
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Hell, he’s destroying the economy generally. What’s one more sector?
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If you get to The Old Absinthe House, have one for me!
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Oh, that jolly, candy like button! …. 
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Well then, somebody, somewhere owes me five months of seething.
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Squirrel of the day:
(Week in wildlife: a hide-and-seek squirrel and an otter in a Christmas tree | Wildlife | The Guardian )
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The US action in Venezuela follows the 1973 toppling of the Chilean government, and the 1989 removal of Noriega in Panama. The 2022 arrest and extradition of Honduran leader, Juan Hernandez, who was involved in exporting 500 tons of cocaine to the US, is an outlier here. Juan who has a degree from NY State University in Albany, was also tried and convicted in New York City for his crimes. His main function was to preserve the extreme wealth disparity in Honduras, and certainly he did an admirable job. No wonder he was pardoned by Trump, a familiar party in New York courts. Chile had 25% of the world’s developed copper reserves at the time of the US action, Panama is strategic to global trade. Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves. More or less this is about market dominance. The US imposed sanctions on the Allende government between 1970 and 1973, and from 1988 to 1989 on the Noriega government. Venezuela sanctions run from 2017 to present under Trump and Biden. In all these cases, multinational control over the key resources was achieved.
In a way, Trump is returning to the 1980s, the period where he seems stuck and was living his best life. The 1980s was also the time that the Berlin Wall fell (1989) and the USSR collapse got in full swing. The trouble with nostalgic wars and Great Leaps Forward Into the Past is that they obscure what is really going on. The biggest crisis in Iran, for example, is not its ossified theocratic rule, but water scarcity. Similarly, China does not see Russia’s economic troubles under sanctions so much as a problem as an opportunity to regain lost territory in the east and drain Lake Baikal, which contains about a fifth of the planet’s fresh water supply.
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