| second: 6ixStringJoker wrote: “the dream went in a total different direction and I don't remember anything after that.” Here is where 6ix’s dream of The Thousand Year Trump Reich is going: [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: 3 more days and even though the highs won't look much better for another week at least it looks like the single digit or negative night temps are finally over for the year... hopefully. |
| 6ixStringJack: Can't take this cold anymore though, seriously. "Warmest" day we've had in over a week with a high of 19, but already back down to 17 and falling again to a low of 1 tonight. |
6ixStringJack: Had the strangest dream last night. I was out in a parking lot with people I knew (in the dream, but none I recognize in real life) going back to our car and I find this weird lizard crawling around slowly. Figured out it was a turtle or maybe a tortoise at that size without its shell. Spent the rest of the dream trying to find the shell or somebody who could take care of it while the unknown people I knew were watching it. By the time I'd found somebody who wanted to take it in, I went back and somehow they got it a new shell and had a bow wrapped around it. At that point, I was headed back to the other people to let them know the problem was taken care of, but then the dream went in a total different direction and I don't' remember anything after that.  |
6ixStringJack: Good luck, Brenda. It's just one more day now. If you're not working, just find something to occupy your mind. A TV show you wanted to catch up on, or a good book.  |
| Brenda: Hey, SIX. I am still bouncing off the walls some. I should be better tomorrow and during the test since I will actually be there. Thanks for the vote of confidence. I feel I should be okay too. But ugh! I hate being poked at. |
| second: Melania Trump’s new documentary, Melania, is looking like an opening-week box office flop.
The documentary detailing the first lady’s return to the White House is projected to make just $1 million in its first week. While documentaries generally do worse at the box office, the sheer amount of money Amazon spent—$40 million for the rights, $35 million for an aggressive marketing blitz—and the constant stream of Truth Social posts from President Trump make this a particularly pitiful showing.
Melania’s early failure comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues behind the scenes and a whopping two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. Director Brett Ratner, who made headlines after six women accused him of sexual assault and harassment during the #MeToo movement in 2017, was perhaps the most loathed person on set. [go to link] |
| second: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday denied Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s claim that, in a private call with President Donald Trump, he had backtracked on some of the remarks from his much-discussed speech in Davos, Switzerland, last week.
“To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos,” Carney told reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday morning, pushing back on Bessent’s remarks from the night before.
In his address to the World Economic Forum, Carney had declared that the established U.S.-led world order was in the “midst of a rupture.” And he pointedly warned that the “bargain” of an American hegemony “no longer works,” adding that “great powers” have exploited and weaponized economic tools like tariffs.
The speech — which came as Trump was aggressively pressuring Europe to sell Denmark-owned Greenland to the U.S. — received a rare standing ovation at Davos. [go to link] |
| second: We’re fortunate that Trump is too impatient, too addicted to violence, to pursue the salami tactics Viktor Orban used in Hungary — slicing the institutions of democracy away gradually and insidiously until there was nothing left. Trump, instead, is trying to speedrun the process, shocking and aweing the nation into submission. The siege of Minneapolis was clearly meant as a show of force that would intimidate not just undocumented immigrants, but blue states as a whole and opponents in general. It was entirely predictable that innocent people would be dragged from their cars, beaten, pepper-sprayed in the eyes, and killed. Earlier this month Trump told the GREAT PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA that THE DAY OF RECKONING AND RETRIBUTION IS COMING. This is what that promise looks like in action. [go to link] |
| second: 6ixStringJack wrote: As a citizen, I'm going to lose my medicaid that I will die without, but 20,000 illegal kids in Illinois are getting healthcare. That's the world the Democrats have created for us. 6ixStringJoker: If the Indiana Trumptards will kill you by withdrawing your medicaid, you will survive only if you stop supporting Trump and move to a blue state. |
| second: “I’m from New Hampshire and many of my Republican friends are leaving the party, too,” he said. “Minneapolis was the last straw.” | | “I assume you’re talking about the behavior of ICE and border patrol agents there, and the killings?” | | “All terrible, of course,” he said, shaking his head. “But what really finished me were the lies – Noem. Miller, Bovino, Vance, Trump.” He frowned. “They lied through their teeth. I saw the videos! Can’t trust them ever again. None of them. Pack of liars.” [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Not really though. They pad out that February bill and only make it for 29 days and every year that January bill is for 35 days just to soften the February blow, I'm sure. Come to think of it though, since delivery charges change every month, it's likely to have something to do with that as well. Having never looked into it, cynical me thinks that's so they can maximize profits, but maybe they actually do save the end user some money by billing it this way every year. Never thought of that before. |
| 6ixStringJack: If you don't count the wind chill, only 4 more nights with lows in the single positive digits and then we get nice and toasty with an overnight high of 14 degrees. My bill next month is going to be over $400. |
| 6ixStringJack: How you feelin' Brenda? Keeping the stress low? I know you're going to be fine. |
| 6ixStringJack: As a citizen, I'm going to lose my medicaid that I will die without, but 20,000 illegal kids in Illinois are getting healthcare. That's the world the Democrats have created for us. |
| 6ixStringJack: IL Statehouse candidate finds 20,000 kids without SSNs getting Medicaid [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: What is Steve Simon trying to hide? We will find out soon. Tick Tock... |
| 6ixStringJack: I know it fell out of your media cycle, so it's already been purged from your peabrain, but you've got only 4 days and 2 hours before ALL federal funding is yanked from 14 blue states and D.C.... Good luck Democrats. You'll need it. |
| 6ixStringJack: You say that, but all the video evidence shows you guys out on the street burning everybody else's shit down. Everybody sees this now. You're finished. Shut your fucking mouth before you get yourself into trouble. |
| second: Trumptards are childishly aggressive and their absurd threats and screaming shouldn’t be taken seriously. You cannot argue with Trumptards. They demand evidence, then call your sources biased. You provide primary sources, they claim they're doctored. You show them video, they say it's out of context. You give them context, they say you're cherry-picking. This isn't debate. This is a systematic refusal to allow reality to intrude on mythology. You're not arguing facts. You're arguing whether facts exist. That is from Chapter 4 — Child Development and Early Learning Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation. [go to link] Since Trumptards will forever be immature, they struggle to even get by in adulthood. So sad for them. |