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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2025-01-30 at 18:45

Oh, I missed the part where he rambled for several minutes about how #helicopters can go up and down and back and forth and start and stop ... so probably the helicopter pilot was also to blame.

Who needs an #FAA investigation when you have #Trump on the job?

Yeesh.

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-helicopter-pilot/

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2025-01-30 at 18:41

I know that hoping for sensitivity, compassion, or leadership from #Trump is futile, but I could have gone all year without listening to his first official response to the DC plane crash, which, TL;DR "It's all Obama and Biden and Buttigieg's fault, not mine, because they hired terrible unqualified people under all those horrible #DEI rules, and got rid of all the great people I hired, so blame them, not me."

What an awful little man.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-consoles-nation-after-american-airlines-crash-by-playing-blame-game/

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2025-01-29 at 22:56

I know it's probably the least awful bit about #Trump now being President, but the fact he'll be President for the US Semiquincentennial in 2026 guarantees non-stop heartburn in my sensibilities as a patriot and historian. I guarantee it's going to be a madhouse of self-serving hyper-nationalism, all of it centered on the #DearLeader and his #MAGA cronies.

Ugh.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/celebrating-americas-250th-birthday/

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2025-01-29 at 22:50

[#]Trump personally sends #ElonMusk into space to rescue astronauts #Biden and #NASA abandoned there.

Or at least that's today's Hollywood blockbuster-style chunk of falsehood from the #WhiteHouse

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/the-long-planned-return-of-two-astronauts-from-space-is-now-a-political-issue/

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2025-01-28 at 23:26

I'm aghast at the #Trump proto-ban on #trans folk in the #military. Last time he lied about the costs. Now it's a more fundamental attack:

1. That #transgender stuff? Not true.

2. So trans troops are lying, not being "honorable, truthful and disciplined."

3. So requesting others respect their identity is asking folk to lie, thus not showing "humility and selflessness."

So trans folk must be kicked out, probably dishonorably, because they are, QED, evil, corrupting liars.

Jesus.

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2025-01-27 at 06:00

The #DearLeader will not be denied his coterie of lieutenants.

[#]Trump #cabinet #GOP #Republican #senate #SenateGOP

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-republicans-trump-nominees-political-consequences-rcna189288

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2025-01-26 at 17:27

Always fun to see how deeply some #Republicans are willing to brown-nose the #DearLeader #Trump.

[#]GOP #termlimits

https://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ogles-proposes-amending-22nd-amendment-allow-trump-serve-third-term

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2025-01-22 at 23:48

Seems to me that being condemned as "nasty" and "Radical Left hard line Trump hater" by #Trump himself is ... well, a pretty good endorsement of the target's virtue. cf. Matt. 5:11-12

Bravo to fellow Episcopalian Bp. #Budde for speaking truth to power.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/22/trump-bishop-mariann-edgar-budde

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2025-01-20 at 22:36

There are all sorts of reasons to think that a lot of #Trump's first-day executive orders are illegal and will be struck down by the courts.

Unfortunately, that requires (a) the courts to actually do so, all the way up to (presumably) #SCOTUS, and (b) him and/or his appointed lackeys to pay any attention to what the courts, vs the #DearLeader, say.

https://reason.com/volokh/2025/01/20/trumps-illegal-first-day-executive-actions/

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2025-01-07 at 21:35

I saw someone make a reference to this, and #Greenland, and, especially, the whole #GulfOfMexico / #GulfOfAmerica thing, calling it "Performative Imperialism": #Trump gets most of what he wants (donations, accolades) through sheer bullying bluster or acts that cost him nothing.

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2025-01-07 at 17:39

[#]Trump 's spitballing about #Canada is just that: random bloviating that (a) irritates his opponents, (b) excites his knee-jerk supporters, (c) costs him nothing, (d) lets him bully people, and (e) holds the prospect of, should some infernal twist of fate cause it to happen, making him famous for something other than his criminal record.

There's also probably some hidden way it makes him money, too. Like selling signed USA+Canada maps to the yokels for US$ 250 a pop.

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2025-01-04 at 00:30

Californians who were trying to follow up on an Amber Alert issued by the CHP were blocked when it turned out the CHP alert linked to the agency's #Xitter account for full details, and to see the alert people would need to sign into Xitter.

Completely predictable, if infuriating. Public agencies depending on #ElonMusk 's Xitter platform are doing the public a disservice.

https://www.wired.com/story/amber-alert-paywall-california/

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2024-12-09 at 22:14

One reason I love my wife is that she puts up with me saying "Hey, we've been watching a lot of 'Murder, She Wrote' reruns lately, let's do a William Windom tribute night of ST TOS 'The Doomsday Machine' and this show you've never heard of called 'My World and Welcome To It' " and then actually doing it.

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2024-12-03 at 23:09

So #Trump 's arguments that the NY state hush-money case (that he's already been convicted in) should be tossed are:

1. Joe pardoned Hunter! So Donald gets a free political persecution Get-out-of-jail card, too!

2. Donald's going to be President! He's too busy to face penalties! L'etat c'est moi!

3. Federal law enforcement won't act against the President, so nobody else should, either!

[#]AutocratsRUs

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/03/trump-hush-money-case

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2024-11-30 at 02:35

I have to say, #ElonMusk buying Hasbro would be what would be needed to get me to change out from #DnD. Sort of like it was enough for me to quit #Twitter.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robwieland/2024/11/29/could-elon-musk-become-the-master-of-dungeon-masters-by-buying-hasbro/

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2024-11-27 at 20:48

And a second milestone for the week. Today I (somewhat unexpectedly) retired.

https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2024/11/27/and-another-milestone.html

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2024-11-26 at 23:05

I realize #RandPaul is a hack who will do anything to get headlines ... but the idea of him preaching the gospel of federal law being superior to state law is ... bitterly amusing.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5007771-rand-paul-mayor-denver-deportations/

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2024-11-19 at 05:19

Every time I think #Republican politicians can't be bigger assholes, they prove me wrong. Every single time.

Looking at you (today), #NancyMace.

[#]TransRights

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4997024-mace-introduces-bill-transgender/

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2024-11-17 at 23:45

My son sent this to me, and I am so proud.

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Written by ***Dave Hill on 2024-11-10 at 20:49

"Elon Musk Criticizes Dana Carvey’s ‘SNL’ Impression, Says Show “Has Been Slowly Dying for Years”"

Is there anything so perennial, and predictable, as a thin-skinned celebrity criticizing SNL for hurting their feelings? It's almost as inevitable as people predicting the imminent demise of SNL.

[#]ElonMusk #snl

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/elon-musk-criticizes-dana-carvey-snl-impression-show-dying-1236057961/

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