@QMS
Commercial, err, 'Christmas', season either. But I do enjoy some of the weird music, heh.

Gotta wonder in what kind of political circles an attorney, err, beauty queen, runs. Especially one as stupid as she seems to be... Or maybe not stupid, maybe just stupid about being a district attorney. Heh.

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Appointing a beauty queen to be a district attorney
sounds about right for the ring master of the clown show
which the present administration performs.

Not sure if I'm ready for the Christmas commercial season.
But it is what it is.

Thanks for the OT!

@on the cusp
I never thought about her 'conversion' to Trump that way. But yea, another beauty queen...

Yea, Raul isn't doing so good. I thought maybe he'd be ok after his surgery, but the kind of cancer they say he has now? Bleh. Hoping and praying for all the best for him.

Ok, I see below you have a post about your day in court. I'm going to go read it now Have a good one, sister!

Trump surrounding himself with attractive women is his way of compensating for his shortcomings. It started with Tulsi. She is a photo op, nothing else.
That Mavericks concert was as great as any concert we have ever attended. We have been expecting retirement news for months.
Must get ready for a trial this morning, so everyone keep rolling along!

@enhydra lutris
On... off... on... I know what that's like! And the jacket, and the waterproof boots... Boots are usually muddy as heck and I refuse to wear them inside (because cleaning those floors is my chore) but taking them off and putting them back on is a pain in the keyster.

Hope the neighborhood stray settles in and finds a place. I have been super disorganized lately, am finally coming out of it, maybe. Or maybe it's a new state of mind that I had to accept? I dunno.

Have a great Friday and weekend!

Trying to get it together, as usual. Sub forty mornings lately aren't helping, my hands seriously rebel at those kinds of temperatures and I really get fed up with the' gloves on', 'gloves off' routine each time I go in and out, which is generlly often, especially in the early part of the morning.

Sad to hear about the Mavericks, good that you can catch the sign off.

Not much apolitical happening of wide interest and the political shit is all batshit, so wehre does that leave us? Football? Futball? Roundball? Actually I could really go for some Jai Alai, not so much for the desportes but for the locale, ready ready for Mazatlan, but not making that run this year (Wah!)

Gertting organized s a real PITA and time waster, but staying disorganied is as bad or sorse, meanwhile I cannot find my Jerry Garcia xmas tree ornament (also Wah!). One of the neighborhood strays is beginning to adopt our back yard despite the menagerie that haunts it nightly after dark. Not sure where it hangs between sundown and sunrise.

Ah well, stuff to do, so off I go.

be well and have a good one

@earthling1
was perfect! I think he might keep his desk cleared as well, after all, nothing important would be on it, right?

We've got the rain forecast for a week too. We need it and it usually means we won't drop below 40, even at night. I've never had to use studded tires, but I live right next to the ocean water of the Sound, and when it gets icy it's never icy long enough to need driving in... yet. Are my fingers crossed? Yes, they are!

Have a good weekend!

in the Oval Office? Or does Trump keep his desk cleared?
We have a week of rain coming starting today. Temperatures are moving away from freezing though, and that's good.
The Polar Vortex will not reach down to us here in southern Washington State but may brush across you up there.
Holding off mounting up my studded tires till it gets colder.
Thanks for the OT.

@Cassiodorus
'Our ruling class's goal, it would seem, is to make the US into the economic equivalent of Venezuela before Chavez, with a 90% poverty rate and sitting atop "vast resources"...'

I think so!

Here, I'll just quote my own comment:

The dilemma, then, is that America needs to be made a much smaller and less significant country, the country we are getting from Trump, if that same country is to wake up, but the process of becoming smaller and less significant will be dangerous for a lot of people.

Well today we have a brief and very concise summation on Naked Capitalism of how we are getting smaller. We're doing it, kids. Right here, right now. We'll be shrinking like "the President" in Rick and Morty. "Such lame shrinking":

Our ruling class's goal, it would seem, is to make the US into the economic equivalent of Venezuela before Chavez, with a 90% poverty rate and sitting atop "vast resources"...

@on the cusp
Needs to be in jail until the end of his life, whenver that is. Sheez. And his wife should get everything. Still 70% is good! As for him complaining, I might have laughed out loud, nevermind snickered!

Good job in Court!

Thanks for starting out our day with a bang, so to speak...
I had a great trial. The divorcing couple only had 1 big asset...their home and 3 acres. It is to be sold and she will receive 70% of the proceeds. 66 yr old men getting caught by their wives sexually molesting their 11 yr old g'daughters pay a price. When he complained he would have no place to live, the courtroom broke out in a lot of snickering. He will have a bed and 3 squares for at least 5 or more years for free.

@Cassiodorus
Wonder what monster will replace him?

As for ICE - guess that's an American way of saying Schutzstaffel (SS) or Gestapo, maybe? Gads

The mentalities of those in power, however, are closed, and so we read:

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants

So there it is, folks. If you can't have what you want, make it up. One has to suspect that the reason they haven't tried to invade Venezuela just yet -- besides poor preparation, the likelihood of a tough counterattack, and all that -- is that Hegseth is in trouble.