Hansel and Gretel : Connecting the Crumbs or Podcasts or Dots - February 2025

 

Connecting the Crumbs or Podcasts or Dots:

All you have to do is look around ... satire and humor

Elon is not 150 years old but he may become COBOL immortal!

[D]epartment [o]f [G]overnment by [E]lon DOGE

ANI News

Added 2/18/25 - Mistakes "error coding" for his birthday

GZERO Media - Ian Bremmer on Tariffs - Business Perspective

Added 2/3/25:  Policy seems strange - 25% on Canada and Mexico; 10% China

Rachel Maddow Show clip - from 2/4/2025

Added 2//5/025: Perspective on what is going on - A Coup?!

Mary Trump Media ... always something current and NEW!

Added 2/1/25: So #Trump did know about #Project2025

#Trump -Hansel and Gretel : Connecting the Crumbs or #Podcasts or Dots - February 2025

#DOGE is another #TLA +1 which is translates to

"Department of Government by #ELON"

Brooke Harrington - Trump’s “Broligarchy” of Tech Billionaires | The Daily Show

 

Brooke Harrington - Trump’s “Broligarchy” of Tech Billionaires | The Daily Show

#BROliogarchy #Billionaires - #DailyShow #Harrington #Wealth Privilege hath Responsibility - Capital Without Borders

#BROliogarchy #Billionaires - #DailyShow #Harrington #Wealth Privilege hath Responsibility -  Offshore

#Trump should read the #Constitution - says David Cay #Johnson ...

 

Another Trump perspective by a long time journalist, best selling author and now Professor.

The Mark Thompson Show

#Trump should read the #Constitution - David Cay #Johnson ...
The Mark Thompson Show (Podcast)

#Trump should read the #Constitution ... and today tried

to ignore Constitutional Article II and NOT spend dollars

appropriated by Congress as directed according to law

Peter Hegseth compared to Donald Rumsfeld -- What do you know?

 

There is a tendency for public statements to be too clever!  

Donald Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense during the 9/11 crisis!

He is famous for the line, "You don't know what you don't know."

Pete Hegseth, during 2025 Senate confirmation hearings to become Secretary of Defense, for Donald Trump, should become famous for uttering, "I know what I don't know!"

Really, how do you do that?  That says it all.  Perhaps Hegseth will use the 'defense' -- 

"That is an anonymous smear."

Peter #Hegseth compared to Donald #Rumsfield  --  What do you really know? Senate #ConfirmationHearings for head of #Defense Department.  Hope Hegseth becomes #anonymous !

"You don't know what you don't know." - Donald Rumsfield

"I know what I don't know." - Pete Hegseth

Americans are following the news less closely than they used to By Naomi Forman-Katz - PEW

 PEW - Americans are following the news less closely than they used to By Naomi Forman-Katz

In 2016, 57% of Republicans and independents who lean Rep­­ublican said they followed the news all or most of the time. In the 2022 survey, 37% said the same, a decrease of 20 points. By comparison, the share saying this among Democrats and Democratic leaners dropped by only 7 points, from 49% to 42%.

#Americans are following the #news less closely than... is the default to be #uninformed

#Americans are #StovePipes - following the #news less closely than... is the default to be #uninformed

Beware the 'Aberrant Personality' !

 

What does aberrant mean?  

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ab·er·rant

/ˈabərənt,əˈberənt/

adjective

1. departing from an accepted standard.

   "this somewhat aberrant behavior requires an explanation"

   Similar:

   deviant

   deviating

   divergent

   abnormal

   atypical

   anomalous

   digressive

   irregular

   nonconformist

   rogue

   transgressing

   strange

   odd

   peculiar

   uncommon

   freakish

   eccentric

   quirky

   exceptional

   singular

   twisted

   warped

   perverted

   Opposite:

   normal

   typical

   
   

Know anybody like that?  Whose name should be on this page?!

I say aberrant personality as it relates your first impression of of something unusual about another person.  This "impression" can be positive or negative but for some reason you reacted to noting something out of what you consider the "ordinary".  Of course this can be problematic if you have have an "aberrant personality".

Beware the 'Aberrant Personality' !  #Deviant #Eccentric #Uncommon #Odd #Transgressing - Who would you tag ?

Know any Narcissists?  Beware the 'Aberrant Personality' !  #Deviant #Eccentric #Uncommon #Odd #Transgressing - Who would you tag ?

It's so simple - It's not Socialism - It's not Communism - It's a Living Wage!

 

It is the only plank you need in your political platform!

...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. ...

 

What's a 'Living Wage'? What's a 'Poverty Wage'?

It's so simple - It's not #Socialism - It's not #Communism - It's a #LivingWage!  It is #Liberty and #Happiness