It has been raining most of the day which is something we need so badly. I had hoped to get out and do some garden and/or yard work but instead, spent a lot of time sitting on the couch with Tiger Girl, mending Owen's jeans. I decided today that Maurice has somehow, with her feline magical and technical skills, been able to insert a chip in me so that she can locate me at all times. How else can she find me whether I'm in the garden or pulling up crocosmia or hanging laundry or even in my bathroom?
Although the rain is so welcome, it does make for a dreary day. It's not cold but I get chilly. Just the damp will do that to me. But I would not be in great spirits even if the sky had been as blue as the head of a lazuli bunting.
Waking up to the news that the president bombed Venezuela and snatched the president of that country along with his wife to bring here to charge with crimes including being in possession of machine guns, can certainly affect a girl's mood and not for the better.
No, wait. It's for "possession of machine guns and destructive devices; and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices."
Now don't get me wrong. Maduro is probably one of the worst examples of human being ever to creep the earth and has committed a vast amount of crimes against humanity and I don't think anyone is denying that.
But.
The administration has used the military to abduct the leader of a sovereign nation, to order and carry out air strikes on that sovereign nation because the administration wants control of Venezuela's vast amount of oil and nobody in the world is fooled by the crap coming out of the pig's anus mouth. Or of Karoline Leavitt's machine gun mouth either.
And then Trump announced that we will be running Venezuela until such time as order can be resumed and if any of this is legal either by constitutional law or international law, please enlighten me.
I have no real idea what's going on. I don't think I'm an exception in this instance but it seems so obvious that the oil thing is huge and, let us not forget that going to war is a fantastic distraction from the Epstein files.
It's a twofer!
I know we all keep saying this but it seems impossible for anyone to believe that Trump could possibly sink lower than he already has but my god, he manages to find ways to plumb depths we never even knew existed.
Who's going to stop him? I sure hope it's not a country aligned with Venezuela ordering air strikes on Washington DC or Palm Beach, Florida because that's where the bastard spends most of his time.
I'm done. For tonight at least. I can't begin to even imagine what comes next but I will say that there have been threats made towards Mexico too.
Meanwhile, let us try to keep our balance, to remember to take care of ourselves and each other, whatever that may mean to you.
At some point, there will be an end to this situation. Perhaps not in our lifetimes (speaking to the older among us, of which I am most definitely one) but there will be. Change is the only constant.
Love...Ms. Moon
I’m sure that the Nobel Peace Prize committee has already convened to agree that, gee whiz, they picked the wrong person this time around and must immediately get the medal and moolah back from Ms Machado and give them to the rightful recipient, donald Dear Leader trump. And a Happy New Year to all. Margaret
ReplyDeleterightful recipient, donald Dear Leader trump.
Someone needs to tell the blithering idiot they don't give out Nobel Peace Prizes for STARTING wars because obviously, he has no clue.
DeleteYes, it’s another day, another version of the dozing donnie shit show. I decided to concentrate on my beautiful daughter who turned 44 today. May the anus mouth rot in HELL.
ReplyDeleteOver and out.
Happy birthday to your daughter, Debby. May she have many more.
DeleteDT can't seem to stay awake long enough to even pretend he's not sleeping anymore.
Point one; Bad Boy Donny!!! you did a wrong thing attacking and kidnapping!
ReplyDeletePoint two: he acknowledges that having machine guns and other destructive things is a crime, so why doesn't he arrest the thousands of US citizens who also own such things and randomly shoot at will any little thing that bothers them? Oh, wait, they don't also have vast amounts of oil that Donny wants.
Points well taken.
DeleteNot being American, and looking from afar … I continue to wonder – where is the opposition to Trump? Are any Democrats speaking out? I read a lot of USA news and I don’t see much, a little of Newsome and Saunders. Why is there not a concentrated targeted Democrat response to any of his actions?
ReplyDeletefear and money...
DeleteJ- we have all asked ourselves that question. It's extremely troubling. The Supreme Court has ruled in his favor on several issues which to most of us would seem to be unconstitutional so there's one thing. Another is what Linda Sue said- fear and money. Hopefully, with his popularity going downhill fast and will soon be going faster as people realize they can't afford health care anymore, perhaps the fear will dissipate. Also, unless the Democrats get a majority in the House and Senate, their voices will not matter much.
DeleteIn other words- as things stand, we are fucked.
I know Maduro is a piece of shit but you cannot waltz into another country and just kidnap their president, even though the US does have a history of doing this (Chile, President Allende, copper mines). trump is an even worse piece of shit because he kidnapped a piece of shit. Does that make sense? He better hope that nobody decides to invade the US and kidnap him and his wife, but that's different, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteFuckery abounds!
I wouldn't be opposed to another Country doing that, just sayin'. It would solve at least some of the fuckery America has going on incessantly.
DeletePixie, nothing makes sense. Nothing. The man passed reason a very long time ago.
DeleteBohemian- I've seen many, many people raise that issue, supposedly jokingly...
But not.
Better think about the jeans and the cat and the rain. I'm definitely into displacement activity today.
ReplyDeleteI practice displacement activity all the time but sometimes there's nothing strong enough to get the job done entirely.
Deleteit is about OIL, follow the money- No other reason to give two fucks about Venezuela - OIL that is all. It can go either of two ways I reckon. success and acceptance from Venezuelans or supporters of Maduro not taking it laying down...which will send USA lads with their boots to the south land to get killed and worse...The plan ultimately is the division of world powers into three major dick heads- Trump owning north and south Americas well as Greenland- Putin owning Europe and XI owning all of Asia. This is the second move- the first was Ukraine- on we go- Taiwan next?
ReplyDeleteNothing we can do about it "vote"...protest...send post cards - bullshit! It is also interesting that this untimely surprise visit to Venezuela might just obfuscate the E files forever...yeah, create a war, that'll do it!
You're right. Money, power, position. Those are the things Trump wants and I suppose he thinks he's getting them in this stupid, stupid move. I compare him to an amateur surgeon trying to remove what he thinks is essential to his plan but, having no skills or education or experience, ends up cutting blood vessels and nerves and into bone and muscle, fucking up everything horribly and not getting the original problem removed at all. Or at least what he's SAYING the original problem is.
DeleteHe has no idea what he's unleashed.
I was without internet for a week so could not wish you a Happy New Year. Had I been able to do so, I would have suggested that we as "the little people" without political power can only support our local and state politicians who agree with our sentiments, bolstering them up for the good fight in November. The Democrats are outnumbered right now, but more and more Republicans are fleeing the sinking ship like the rats they are and there is strength in numbers. There is little else we can do. AND we can cook our greens, knit our sweaters, pull the weeds, and anything else that gives us pleasure to maintain our sanity. Like Boud, that displacement activity will help us get through this.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Every time another Democrat wins an election traditionally held by a Republican, another tiny sprout of hope appears.
DeleteMany displacement activities can be almost meditative and I do think it's important to engage in those.
A president who does not respect the rule of law in his own country is not going to respect the international rule of law in another country. That makes him a menace at home and abroad.
ReplyDeleteHe thinks he IS the law. Both here and everywhere else in the world he decides he wants to be in charge of.
DeleteI liked your sentence *plumb depths we never knew existed*. that is how I felt this morning upon doing my very limited selective news reading online. No words....just...no...words EVER can describe my sentiments today- but you came close!
ReplyDeleteSusan M
There are certain words I keep overusing. Words like "horrifying," "unbelievable," "vile," and so forth. The English language cannot begin to cope with this man and what he is and what he does.
DeleteThe fact that this asshole gets away with all this without government intervention in his own country is appalling.
ReplyDeleteAnother one of those- HOW CAN THIS BE HAPPENING? topics. I mean...I thought we had ways to prevent this sort of thing. Turns out that's not really true.
DeleteEvery time I wake up I wonder, well, what has he done NOW? You can't make this fuckery up, what is illegal matters not, he's committed such a multitude of Crimes since the 1970's and not Served any Time and nobody is stopping him, so, he will not Stop until he IS stopped, that's all I can say about it. So, he Thinks he's running Valenzuela, what could possibly go Wrong? *Huge Eye Roll* And, it's ALWAYS about the $$$ and the spoils going into his Pockets and those he enriches with the illegal taking of whatever he wants. Just follow the Money, it leads to everyone involved.
ReplyDeleteYou're right. He thinks he is literally bulletproof. He has never in his life had to pay the consequences of any of his actions.
DeleteMy wildest imaginings don't equal anything the tRump comes up with. However, wishing for better things takes a real mental struggle...as the VP situation is also not encouraging, nor the cabinet. Yes to impeaching them all!
ReplyDeleteYou are so right about the VP and the cabinet. My only positive thought about that issue is that Vance just does not have whatever it is that appeals to Trump's followers. In other words, I don't think he'll make a good cult leader.
DeleteTrump and Maduro should both be eliminated..
ReplyDeleteHear! Hear!
DeleteI will not argue.
DeleteCat finds me. I think they just hear us moving about and come investigate.
ReplyDeleteAs for Trump, he fancies himself the Putin of the western hemisphere and wants power over all the countries of the Americas, telling them what they must do and kowtow to him. He's said as much, spheres of influence. Putin gets Europe, China get the east and Trump gets the west. And not just Mexico has been threatened but Cuba and Columbia as well and that nazi Steven Miller's wife is touting Greenland will be next. Wouldn't surprise me. Trump wants Greenland but that would infringe on Putin's territory. He thinks he can just waltz in and take over Venezuela, a country of mountains and jungles. Sounds like Viet Nam, Iraq, and Afghanistan all over again.
I got a little surprised the other day when I was uncovering plants and as I took the sheet off a large bird's nest fern, Maurice almost seemed to have been under the sheet, waiting for me to expose her. I was surprised. She's weird though.
DeleteI can't even begin to understand how Trump thinks he can get away with all of this except for the fact that he's always gotten away with everything.
Well, I must admit, I'd never thought about the possibility of a foreign power bombing Mar-a-Lago. But you know, that would hit Trump harder, on a personal level, than anything they could do to Washington. Not that I'm suggesting anything to any foreign powers who may be reading your blog. (Ha!)
ReplyDeleteWhere is the UN in all this?!
Where IS the UN in all of this? I really would like to think that there are things going on behind the scenes that will actually be effective in curbing this tyrant. And I ain't talking about Maduro here.
DeleteCan you imagine what would happen if that area of Palm Beach got fired on? Oh my Lord.
Oil companies are set to pour billions into Venezuela and says that we will begin exporting it. It never was about drugs. He also states that our next target is Cuba. I am sick about this.
ReplyDeleteI suppose he wants all of north, central, and south America. I wish he'd go take a little cruise down the Amazon to check out its resources and possibly disappear in a frenzy of hungry pirañas.
DeleteWell, the stage is set. Who will be kidnapped next? FL might begin to see some action in the realm of VIP disappearing.
ReplyDeleteToday, anything can and does happen.
The pearls would be clutched! I'd clutch my own but still...
Deletetrump and his merry band of muppets have really gotten themselves into a quagmire in Venezuela, they're just not smart enough to realize it. I doubt seriously if any of them have given any serious thought to the actual mechanics of "running Venezuela." We are not going to be welcomed with open arms. It's gonna take thousands of soldiers to do that, reality is a bitch and it bites hard.
ReplyDeleteI read something today about how during Trump's last term, there had been a study or something to see what the prospects for success would be if we did exactly what they did the other night. The answers were so discouraging the plan was immediately discarded. Does the word "quagmire" mean anything to these people?
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