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Week of March 29, 2026

"American officials should stop snorting cocaine off of the desks between meetings." French General Michel Yakovleff

Ginger

4/5/20266 min read

Here goes...

1. You are required to read his like a whiny 8-year-old who got mad and is taking all of his toys home.

So, Trump consults none of our allies about attacking Iran. None of them wanted the US to attack Iran let alone participate in attacking Iran. Trump says we don’t need our allies help anyway. Then when the attack is not going very well he begs our allies to bail him out. And then he gets mad – and pissy - when they say no “way Jose”.

2. The Trump DOJ is dropping thousands of criminal cases, 23,000 cases just in the first 6 months of Bondi’s term in order to direct more money to immigration enforcement. Most of the cases are the kinds of crimes Trump has been accused of.

3. “ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps.”

4. The ATF admits the bullet that hit Charlie Kirk didn’t come from the gun carried by the alleged shooter. Also, the Utah sheriff who arrested the alleged shooter resigned this week.

5. US Army Apache helicopter pilots hovered over Kid Rock’s house – for fun. The pilots were suspended (as they should have been), but Pete Kegseth, undercutting the entire chain of command, called them patriots and lifted their suspensions.

6. NYT, October 2024.

7. Trump is dismantling the US Forest Service. “They’re shuttering every single one of the ten regional offices that have governed this agency since Gifford Pinchot built the system over a century ago…”

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone.”

“The Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory, part of the Pacific Northwest Research Station, will close.”

“And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.”

8. Trump, proposing massive cuts to programs to fund his Iran war: “We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of day care”. AGAIN, if you read my last blog edition, you know I went on a long (perhaps insufferable) rant, once again, about how his supporters have forever said they want an end to foreign wars so we can spend that money here at home on Americans. And now they are apparently totally over that because Trump told them to be.

Both Hegseth and Rubio in the last week have criticized Iran for investing so much in weaponry instead of it’s people.

9. Doomscrolling break, in honor of South Caroline and the magnificent coach Dawn Staley making it back to the NCAA Championship game (even though they did get clobbered yesterday), I am bringing back the video of her after the last time she won the championship – in which some brilliant person added gospel church organ. It is so good.

10. Because of Trump's catastrophic (and just stupid) war with Iran, energy prices are skyrocketing. So, Trump…drops the existing oil sanctions against Iran…the country he attacked and we are at war with...to address the high energy price issue. So, Iran is going to make 15 billion from their oil, which of course will help their war effort against us. Do you understand yet why I call this blog Conversations in Upside Down Land?

11. I want to remind you that MAGA went berserk when Obama sent Iran $1.7 billion as part of the nuclear agreement. They lied then and continue to lie about it now. The fact is that it WAS NOT taxpayer money. It was Iran’s own money that had been frozen because of their nuclear ambitions (Trump has been telling people for years that Obama gave Iran $150 billion in tax payer money – just completely bonkers). It was one of the reasons Iran agreed to wind down its nuclear efforts. The nuclear agreement was working, by the way. But Trump hates Obama with the heat of a thousand suns and so he had to lie about the agreement and destroy it.

12. Trump’s DOJ – which is completely useless and now full of Trump loyalists, tells Trump he can keep government documents when his term is over despite laws against it stemming from Watergate.

13. A French general (Micheal Yakovleff ) after hearing about Trump’s plan to build a runway inside Iran to fly out enriched uranium - under active bombing: “American officials should stop snorting cocaine off the desks between meetings.”

14. Proven National Security Threat, and White Supremacist Secretary of “War” Pete Kegseth said: “I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength.” while speaking to a room full of generals and admirals. He’s an idiot. Actual smart people understand the value of diverse perspectives.

15. Trump killed a VA home loan program. He was warned that vets would lose their homes. He didn’t care. And now, while he is asking soldiers to risk their lives in a foreign war, vets at home are losing their homes – as predicted. As an aside, I wonder how recruiting is going.

16. Trump gave a live address this week about the war. As Crustnews points out on Threads, in the same speech Trump claimed…

- Iran is a threat, and is no longer a threat

- Iran has already been defeated, and will be defeated in 3 weeks

- The Strait of Hormuz needs to open, and will open naturally later - The USA didn't want regime change in Iran, and the USA has already forced regime change in Iran

- The USA has won the war, and the USA is close to winning the war

17. Pam Bondi is out as Attorney General and Todd Blanche is in. Out with the old Epstein client list protector and in with the new Epstein client list protector. “…to the extent that the Epstein files was a part of the past year of this Justice Department, it should not be a part of anything going forward,” Todd Blanche, Acting Attorney General

18. In this week’s edition of Why is JD Vance Such an Asshole, Vance was interviewed by Jesse Watter on Fox News: Watters: How does taking out a dictator in Venezuela help the average American? Vance: It means is we are going to be able to control the incredible natural resources of Venezuela.

So, we are just openly overthrowing governments, stealing their resources, and then bragging about it.

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19. An inspiring Easter message from the President of the United States of America

I am so curious though, do Republican Christians who support Trump just never see these things because they don't show it on Fox? If they do, do they just tell themselves it's fake? Do they look the other way or make excuses? Blame his staff? Blame the "liberal" media (it's not liberal but I digress...)? They do tend to blame absolutely everyone except Trump when these things are reported. No good Republican Christian that I know would appreciate this on Easter. They'd absolutely find it offensive. But there is never any pushback.

20. Timeline cleanse: The Easter message from astronauts on Artemis.