Someone in Canada has created a new song, based loosely on whatever the tune is that includes the words, “From the halls of Montezuma…” And Canada has tongue-in-cheek declared the U.S. its 11^th province. I love it. Good for them. Turnabout is fair play.

But also, what a shame, and waste of time and effort, because they’re playing right into Donald Trump’s hand. I find it hard to believe he has any intention of trying to make Canada the 51^st state. He says shit to rile people up and see what he can get away with, to distract from the serious things going on elsewhere, like in Washington and just about every federal agency and institution.

Trump is a deluded troller, an annoyance, a buzzing mosquito, an earworm, a child who has treated the Presidency the same way he’s treated everything else in his life— as a conquest to be cast aside, but not before it is drained of everything it can give him. That he was elected to return to the White House for a second term is one of the most unbelievable and shameful events in this country’s history.

He’s an unserious sham of a human being, playing fast and loose with peoples’ lives. He’s infected with the same poisonous thinking that has claimed other of his heroes—Putin, Orban and the rest. They all take a dim view of the people they “serve.” We’re all just plebes and subjects to them, not human beings with dreams and aspirations and self-awareness and much better brains. And parents who loved us.

So, you go, Canada. And Greenland. And take heart, Gaza, and Panama and western Europe… Just know that, like us here in America, you’re all being played. You’re just the latest targets, pieces in Trump’s dumb and dangerous games. Don’t let him get in your heads. And look around for things he’s trying to get you not to notice.

How dare JD Vance lecture the Europeans. He was speaking words without a full appreciation for diplomacy or history, with a skewed view of who the oppressors are. He was vomiting the playbook, the wordspeak of idealogues like Vought and Yarvin.

They’re all playing with fire, and of course will be perfectly fine with leaving it to others to extinguish the flames, clean up their messes, and find antidotes for their poisonous rhetoric.

I feel the need for a palate cleanser right now, but to ignore what’s happening in the country seems somehow irresponsible. Bad feelings abound, regarding our near future. Patel was confirmed, the rest are up to who knows what, our foreign policy is in the hands of isolationists and children and unwitting warmongers, we’re alienating our allies, and a foreigner, an immigrant and non-citizen—a poster child for the height of irony and hypocrisy—is in charge of “trimming” budgets.

Everything is being so blatantly mishandled that one can’t be blamed for feeling overwhelmed and really angry, like soon the states will be on their own because there will be no rational, responsible federal governance left to turn to. Congress is being marginalized, seemingly on the verge of irrelevance; the judiciary will hand down decisions, and Trump and the rest will likely ignore them.

Holy shit. We’re moving beyond just circling the drain. Is the dust ever gonna settle? Is all of this purely in the name of saving money?

This is advanced bridge burning, in progress. Chaos, just the way Bannon and Vought and the rest drew it up.

It’s probably time we all worked together. The name calling on both sides needs to cease. The focus must become Donald Trump and the cast of disciples and punks who think they’re running the show. Deception, delusion, lying, selfish intent, conflicts of interest, a frightening vision, and grave incompetence are our common enemies now.

We’re gonna get no help from an entrenched or paralyzed Congress.

Some, hopefully many more at this point, are understanding who Donald Trump is and what he’s always wanted: power, attention, self-enrichment, and revenge. Not exactly the aspirations one might have in mind for the Leader of the Free World.

He’s not here to tend to capable governance or address real issues affecting us all. It has become painfully clear that The Donald is merely an inept puppet, and that in decline. He’s an unserious man, motivated by greed and winning at all costs, surrounded by impostors and flunkies and evil masterminds. He’s an artist who dabbles in chaos and bullshit, a pathetic bully who’s never been qualified for the high office he now holds for the second time.

Imagine someone so bereft of compassion and a sense of humor and humility. Someone so willing to compromise the ideals of this great and unique American experiment. Someone so fully empty.

It’s not difficult to imagine, when one daily gets an eye- and earful of a person for whom everything has a price tag, and is reduced to a transaction.

We have seen the enemy, and it is not us. This is our kairos moment, our moment in time when it would behoove us all to realize that enough is enough. Donald Trump is no one’s savior. He’s just a scared little man who thinks Vlad is an upstanding guy.

And there it is. Once again, a reminder that the Trump machine depended on the gullibility of the base to propel him to the White House.

Trump was gonna work on lowering prices and stop the flow of fentanyl into the country… This is what prompted voters to put their eggs in the Trump basket again. Trouble is, this tact was pure vapor, pure sham, pure deception. The bastard even hinted as much before the election, when he admitted that bringing prices down was harder than he thought.

But now he’s back, having been successful once again at pulling the wool over millions of Americans, who, for some indecipherable reason, thought having Trump and all his baggage back in office would be a great thing.

They likely ignored all the coverage of Project 2025, because Fox News soft-peddled it and chalked it up to being just more hokum from the reactionary, bleeding heart, pants-on-fire Democrats.

Maybe it’s time we all come together and offer up a gigantic NO! to this maniac, and King Elon.

They really do need to go.