they were operating less than a block from the nearest precinct, so I think it's unlikely the local gendarmes didn't know.

JL

Donny Two Dolls was asked about Harvard today and he responded with a dementia hallucination about black people in Harlem: We had riots in Harlem, in Harlem, and frankly, if you look at what’s gone on, and people from Harlem went up and they protested and they protested very strongly against Harvard. They happened to be on my side.

The "people from Harlem" protested very strongly against Harvard," and the Declaration of Independence is about unity... as explained in the 25th Amendment, Section 4, United States Constitution.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CONAN-1992/pdf/GPO-CONAN-1992-10-26.pdf

Exactly!

Elect a criminal, get a crime scene.

I know, right!? Which reminds me of the Declaration of Independence, you know, that "means exactly what it says; it's a declaration. It's a declaration of unity and love and respect, and it means a lot. And it's something very special to our country."

Just when you thought you'd witnessed the depths of Trumpian ignorance, along comes the Donald to prove there actually is no bottom.

If you were ever going to write a book about our world under Trump, I believe that you have found your opening story for chapter 1! My only complaint is that you called them “police” and they are federal agents… not the police. You can still trust the police.

* Dementia Don says China will eat the tariffs, an assertion so stupid that MAGAts are sure to believe it even after the GOP dumps them from their Medicaid free ride and they can't even afford one doll.

Speaking the letters TDS in your sentence "Please get rid of the TDS chatbot troll." is remarkably apropos. Very nice.

But there is one good piece of news:

Europe is finally getting off its ass after 80 years of protection by American. They get more social services (butter) while we have put our money into our military (guns).

This is grueling sh-- ... stuff. I hate it and I can't get away from it. Every other story on the news is about the president, whose face I can't stand to look at. Needless to say, I never click on video stories about him and I never read any quotes or transcriptions of what he says - it's 90% guaranteed to be lies and bragging, rather than facts about his policies and administration.

What is to be done? As I noted before, I'm not really comfortable with the prediction that it will soon get better, because the 'resistance' is growing and the courts are mobilized and his momentum is being slowed by poor polling and incompetent staff.

Uh-huh. I'm more compelled by your note that the consequences of gutting the federal government's competent and experienced departmental staffs are going to become more and more apparent in the next few months to years. The next Crisis that the feds usually handle -- unable to handle, sorry. People are hurt, people die, people lose faith in America, because Musk and his puppet dislike the idea of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. If the people aren't super-rich, that is.

OK, rant more or less over. Thanks, Chris, for a soundly recounted 'First 100 Days' report. Too bad all of it was horrible news.