Fridays with Nicole Sandler
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“Friendly to Us:” NYT Buries Its Own Role in Trump’s Attacks... Cotton Swabs and Grievance Myths: Do Not Invite Republicans to Express Support... 
They did get one through the House today.
Speaker Mikey admitted he’d talked with President-Unelect/Speaker-Unelect/GOP Party leader Elmo beforehand.
As far as how scary it is what will happen with the FBI’s counterintelligence mission, Ezra Cohen has talked about separating FBIs counterintelligence from the rest of the FBIs investigations. If Ezra Cohen said that, I would guess Kash Patel has the same goal. I don’t know the full implications of such a move or what acts of government would bring about.
has Ezra Coohen thought about how often a criminal investigation turns into one involving intelligence?
Oops – that’s “Cohen”.
Do you have a link? A lot depends on HOW it was done.
The Guardian on Curtis Yarvin, an influential online thinker for JD Vance and Michael Anton. Yarvin says after inauguration, a new American “Ceasar” should shut down NY Times and Harvard. “The idea that you’re going to be a Caesar and take power and operate with someone else’s Department of Reality in operation is just manifestly absurd.”
This statement, the idea of a “Department of Reality” reflects the influence of Hegel on these people, these neo-Royalists, Clarement Institute “thinkers”. The idea of a “Department of Reality” reflects Hegel’s totalitarian phenomenology. In Hegel, human mindfulness is embedded in History within the systems of civil law and institutions. There is no existentiality or individuality, only reproducibility at the end of history, the “the worker” in Marx’s Hegelian totality, or the family going to church out of terror, confessing their sins to the state in the Orthodox White Russian terror state of Ivan Ilyin or in Christian Inquisition.
Things will go bad for us in an information civil war with philosophical terrorists, anyway, because I think there is no Nash equilibrium or game theory. 06 JAN 2001 had proximate, factual goals but also changed social reality. Search for Brian Sicknick at Google Trends. The graph signifies his “disappearance”. Camus’ “The Rebel”, is very clarifying regarding the terrible, suicidal nihilism people like Yarvin suffer from and want to make every else suffer from to. They are such piss-ants.
The “suicidal nihilism people like Yarvin suffer from and want to make every else suffer from to.”
In other words, for philosophical terrorists: “I will only be happy when no one is happy.”
Idea for T shirt: Elmo taking his dog Trump for a walk on a leash. Caption: “Heel to the Chief.”
Donnie is talking about buying Greenland again. And Panama. And a “military excursion” against the drug cartels in Mexico.
And Douthat is whining about there being no real American Fantasy. {source: https://file770.com/pixel-scroll-12-22-24-ding-dong-the-pixels-read/ ]
And he just appointed Mark Burnett to be “special envoy to the U.K.”, a role separate from Ambassador.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rqj5z1e5vo
Burnett, like Bill Barr, is a hardcore Catholic, dominionist and 7 Mountains kinda guy. Reality TV lives.
It gets him out of reach (he hopes) of people wanting those “Access Hollywood” tapes Burnett claims he has.
What is his fixation with Greenland? I can only assume this is a planted item, one which assures the planter that the plantee has received instructions and is carrying them out as seeded.
My first thought was that his interest in Greenland is his ‘drill, baby, drill’ obssession with any available fossil fuels. Then I thought that it might be that Elmo wants to get control of the Pittufik Space Base.
But, given the chaos that has kicked off before his inauguaration, who knows what the fuck the orange twatferret wants to stick down his trousers.
I am tending towards the view that his previous experience isn’t going to make him any more controlled. I think it’s going to be worse than ever. More chaos, more confusion, more infighting, fewer actual achievements. Which is to say, it’s not going to be good but it might be less bad than it could be if he actually had a political philosophy to follow rather than spontaneous self-gratification.
I despise John Bolton but he had a good point when he describes Trump as a lot of pins on a board with no overall strategy. The strings don’t join up (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/24/donald-trump-john-bolton-crisis-likely):
Bolton agreed with “a lot” of Trump’s decisions during his first term but found they had all the coherence of “a series of neuron flashes”, he said. “He doesn’t have a philosophy, doesn’t do policy as we understand that, he doesn’t have a national security strategy.
“I said in my book his decisions are like an archipelago of dots. You can try and draw lines between them but even he can’t draw lines between them. You try and incrementally get one right decision after another. At least that’s what his advisers thought: that we could string enough decisions together. But that’s not the way he looked at it.”
The only consistency I can see in Trump’s post-2024 election bullshit:
— selection of appointees based on telegenic appearance;
— amount of power based in money including grift opportunities;
— amount of combined lib pwnage and right-wing narcissistic supply any choice offers.
Good luck trying to negotiate a logical path forward using these decision factors.