Monday MMR September 25 2023: Make It Make Sense

And you wonder why all of his siblings came out against him.

He's a lunatic,

8% off is actually a 4% miss (4% moved from A to B) which on polls with 5% error margins is expected probably every 15th poll or so. It says nothing about their methodology, it's just how random chance works

As I said...Media and both sides. So eager to blame everyone.

Trump v2.0

…The above stuff is what Dans and the Heritage Foundation are working on. Trump himself has also laid out some of his own plans:

Use the military for the largest deportation operation of undocumented immigrants in American history.
Order the National Guard into cities with high crimes, likely against the strong objections of local officials.
Prosecute people who help minors get gender-affirming care.
Impose a 10% tariff on all imports.
Appoint special prosecutors to go after his political opponents, starting with Joe Biden.
Purge the civil service of anyone who opposes his views.

Sounds like full-bore fascism. Benito Mussolini is smiling in his grave. Some of our thoughts:

This gets pretty close to a police state. If you are brown and don't have a U.S. passport handy, you get deported?
Are we talking about martial law here, with elected officials being replaced by the semi-military?
Would doctors, nurses, psychologists, and parents be prosecuted?
A 10% tariff on all imports will cause high inflation, which won't be popular.
Vladimir Putin must be proud of his student but will he give Trump his secret recipe for polonium-flavored tea?
Now he is aiming at being a full-fledged dictator.

Of course, many of these things are illegal, but suppose Trump just does them anyway. When even John Roberts says: "Enough already" what happens when Trump then asks: "How many divisions does the Supreme Court command?" In his first term, Trump surrounded himself with people who respected the law, like John Kelly and Jim Mattis, and who tried to fend off his worst impulses. He won't make that mistake again. AG Jim Jordan, DHS Secretary Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Defense Secretary Matt Gaetz will certainly support him. As Maya Angelou put it: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." Democrats who are whining that Joe Biden is too old might want to take a look at Trump's platform. (V)

www.electoral-vote.com/evp2023/Items/Sep25-9.html

To commemorate Zelensky's appearance in Canadian Parliament, the Speaker of the House invited a Ukrainian veteran who fought against Soviet aggression to be honored by Parliament. One problem: he did it under a Nazi flag

nationalpost.com/news/speaker-anthony-rota-nazi-controversy/wcm/aeec074f-ea8a-43c8-8a90-9d2568c90132/amp/

The Speaker is now facing calls for his resignation

Thanks for the well wishes. A small explainer.

She's not terminal but she's 96, 97 next month, and since last we were here, she went from a vibrant late-80s who spent her time on 500 piece puzzles though needing help with things like cooking to a near-mute woman who got 3 of the last 4 pieces in her 24 piece puzzle over the course of the weekend.

She might hold on a few more years but I doubt I'll be back soon enough. Hell, we justified this trip to ourselves by pairing a weekend with her with a week roadtrip through the Maritimes and concluded we don't want to do that again... yeah.