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welcome to the time machine

 

 
 

 

while searching for the ghost of christmas past we accidentally set the controls for christmas in the year 2025 and find a world controlled by the warlike factions of ELONS 


and MURDOCHS 

 
 



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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

the 40 days of trumpmas - a surreal serial poem

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Remember, remember! The fifth of trumpvember

 the 40 days of trumpmas - a serial poem

 

for 40 days the trumpeter reigns,

his lies and hate on whom he disdains,

but election day will come so soon,

we'll no longer hear the orange baboon;

 

in 39 days full of world wide problems.

we could elect him to get rid of the muslims,

but as he'll rant on trivialities of his presidential life,

what could be worse? - you could be his wife;

 

in 38 days just what will you do?

the donald has said he likes lgbtq,

but as he bullies his women and all his men too,

if youre questioning, what stops him from bullying you?

 

in just 37 days, some people are saying,

(or pleading or hoping or some even praying)

the duke of prunes will dye his forelock purple my friend,

and thus make america grape again,

 

our days are down to just 36,

before our problems the don will fix,

he will on day one do what hes said - true,

he'll wall out our enemies - and fat women too!

 

on the 35th day of trumpmas

yes just seven weeks remain!

will the polls and tallies deliver us

donald with his golden mane?

 

34 days and the vice-pipers have piped,

though pence didnt say why donalds suit shouldnt be striped,

he wouldnt defend his master's string pulling,

to make america great? - who do they think they're fooling?

 

just 33 days till the macho tornado,

unless its blown away by hurricane machado,

with women and voters he has so much to loose.

keep your mouth shut donald (unless youre changing your shoes)

 

32 days and we’ve been hit by the big blowhard,

donald spoke here in fla (oh, we had a hurricane too)

this administration gives us playing the race card, a weak economy, and unemployment

but if you want a job you could be donald’s campaign manager (unless youre a jew)

 

31 days, just a month, remains;

will the donald say hes sorry, and his baser impulses restrain?

or keep blaming bill clinton for our moral demise;

when trump speaks to us, our NO votes must be our replies!

 

election comes this time (in 30 days) each 4 years,

time for praise and tears and fears;

as polls will open in many states,

vote early, please dont vote late!

 

down to 29, just a leap february,

and theres still the donald quite

contrary;

donald donald, how does your garden grow?

quoth the master debater, "with pretty maids groped in a row"

 

just 28 days - later or soon,

and the zombies will rise, led by the big goon;

unless everyone gets a reality inoculation,

i might have to move to canada for a well deserved vacation; 

 

now just 27, less than 4 weeks,

no time for you to say 'yikes!' or 'eeeks!'

obama wants to go to mars and colonize it for man,

lets send trump tomorrow! and colonize it for orangutan!

 

26 days are all that remain,

will our democracy and economy go down the drain?

if we all keep listening to the blustering oaf,

will he give jobs and prosperity? - or just half a loaf

 

25 days - will more women speak?,

of the antics of donald who the presidency seeks,

dating 14 year old girls or groping their mothers,

how did the gop pick him over the others?,

 

24 days - were down to two dozen,

the next woman who speaks just might be your cousin,

or mother or sister, aunt, niece, even daughter,

describing the circumstance in which donald caught her,

 

23 days left and trump doesnt yet have as many accusers,

as cosby, but he assures us that they are all really losers,

sent by bankers or hillary with secret agendas,

to disrupt our election of him - our defender!,

 

22 days and we know charity begins at home,

but donalds attention is so prone to roam,

his gift that disappeared to 911 survivors from his foundation?,

oops! maybe donald spent it on a vacation,

 

21 days and trump says the election may be rig-ly,

if hes not the winner and his total's not big-ly,

tremendously higher than hillary gets,

he warns his supporters may all lose their wits,

 

20 days left and while george zimmerman still walks free,

the man who shot at HIM got 20 years - while trayvon got eternity,

trump wants us to support our cops and maintain law and order,

he'll put all the inner city dwellers in jail, and send the immigrant criminals far across the border,

 

19 days left till we all go to pretend,

to elect someone to lead us, as if on it our lives depend,

but wise man, donald trump, already really knows,

who we really voted for - a wolf in president's clothes?,

 

18 days and we bad hombres demand a rebate,

on the ill feelings left since the comments of one candidate,

the debaters have met in their final grudge match,

but only donald can say from whose hands victory will be snatched,

 

17 days and our government is corrupt with quid pro quo,

did you take latin at wharton? is that how you know?,

donald wants us to fire at them all - the bureaucrats lined up in rows,

and believe me, corruption is a subject. that donald really knows,

 

16 days - lets set term limits on all our office holders,

and put all our women in binders - or maybe in folders,

donalds endless complaints are becoming a sour whine,

have a little cheese with that, from wisconsin, where 

hillary's doing fine,

 

15 days and on stocking covered thighs did linger,

two miniature hands with two thumbs and eight tiny fingers,

they belonged to the donald who believed that he owned,

any thing that he wanted - or anyone he got alone,

 

14 days yes only two weeks,

till the duke of orange assends to the throne he seeks?,

to rule all americans, the strong and the weak?,

and dominate the globe with power that's peak?,

 

the 13th day to go - does that seem unlucky?,

not for donald whos lately been appearing quite plucky,

claiming media, polls, and parties are against him,

and rallying his multitudes with wit waxing dim,

 

on the 12th day of trumpmas donald awoke with a jerk,

promptly fired his latest campaign manager (who considered that a perk),

if youre "AAAfroAAAmurikan" and unemployed i can put you to work,

barked donald the businessman from behind his sly smirk,

 

it's the 11th and engineer casey trump is in the caboose,

i hear some of you saying oh no! what's the use,

our campaign will probably just go off the tracks,

but donald says its ok - cause he's got "the blacks",

 

just ten days left yes only one-zero,

til donald is hoping that he'll be your hero,

as new hillary emails come under investigation,

donald hopes to rename camp david to camp donald for

his vacations,

 

like a cat has nine lives we're left with only 9 days,

till we're subject to donald? and his old wicked ways,

on foreign affairs he says he'll save us from isis,

but his domestic affairs are misogyny and crisis,

 

our days are numbered - yes only eight,

till once again we make america great,

by getting rid of candidates who have nothing to add,

goodbye donald you wont make america sad,

 

just one week to go - its day minus seven,

till america's lifted above - to trumpty dump heaven?,

where for rich folks like donald opportunity abounds,

and we keep the working poor with a wall that surrounds,

 

how the time it does fly its already day 6,

till americans problems the donald will fix,

his solutions begin on trumpday number one,

dont you like them? they'll come at the barrel of a gun,

 

Five days to go, baby, One in five,

No one here gets out alive, now,

david dukes not opposed to all jews,

he backs trump - who are you going to choose?,

 

only 4 days left till the armaged-don,

he'll seize power by the horns once he has won,

and donnie will be what he longs for - a winner,

using the FBI to wreak havoc on hillary the sinner,

 

only three left, just a triad of days,

and the donald his supporters continues to amaze,

with hoopla and folderoll made up in his head,

his winning temperament will leave us all dead,

 

just a pair of days - 2 - till trump paradise,

since these words you're reading please heed my advice,

the creatures that surround us are beginning to bite,

'blacks for trump' fear the Illuminati so lets turn out their light,

 

just a single day left till our thanksgiving,

deliver us from donald and preserve the living,

forget sanity and disgard your misgivings,

but pray hard to your gods that they'll be forgiving,

since we've got the nukes why can't we use'em?,

on the road to 2016 why couldn't we lose HIM?,

 

and trumpmas now has finally come,

the tallies will count up to a winning sum,

unless the earth is struck soon by a cataclysmic comet,

to elect a candidate who just makes you want to vomit?,

we wish you a merry trumpmas at this time each 4 years,

if you have'nt voted you've lost the chance to mitigate your fears,

cause donald duck is ready to lead, forget your crocodile tears,

so you'd better get the vaseline and lubricate your rears!

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Top deportation goon gets ejected from Minnesota

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Top deportation goon gets ejected from Minnesota

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Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino will no longer be able to terrorize Minnesotans.

On Monday, the mad king Donald Trump cried uncle in Minneapolis, uncharacteristically making nice with Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and, for the first time since taking office, appearing to de-escalate his war on Democratic-run cities.

By Monday evening, The Atlantic’s Mick Miroff reported that Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino wasn’t merely being sent out of Minnesota, he was being fully demoted, with his entire social media operation dismantled.

“Bovino became a MAGA social-media star as he traveled the country with his own film crew and used social media to hit back at Democratic politicians and random critics online,” reported Miroff. “Veteran ICE and CBP officials grew more and more uneasy as Bovino worked outside his agency’s chain of command and appeared to relish his role as a political actor.”

A makeshift memorial is placed where Alex Pretti was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer yesterday, in Minneapolis, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
A makeshift memorial is placed where Alex Pretti was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis.

There is zero chance Trump cared about any official unease. What likely enraged him was how catastrophically he and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem handled the aftermath of the Border Patrol’s killing of Alex Pretti. The lies that followed were so brazen and clumsy that even many Republicans struggled to defend them. That list, apparently, included Trump himself.

And the fallout may not stop with Bovino. Miroff reported that Noem and her close adviser Corey Lewandowski, Bovino’s biggest backers inside DHS, are now themselves at risk of losing their jobs. One can only hope.

The demotion also follows Miroff’s reporting from Saturday detailing deepening recruitment and training problems inside Border Patrol and ICE, problems that the Minneapolis operation has only made worse.

“One ICE official I spoke with told me that some of the new hires, especially rehired retirees, are having second thoughts,” Miroff wrote. “Hundreds of the returning officers have been ordered to Minnesota, two officials said, where the administration is conducting the largest-ever DHS crackdown. Some officers have been so cold and miserable that they’ve already quit, and ICE officials have held calls to figure out how to deal with the sudden resignations.”

But the problem isn’t just the weather. Previous administrations were capable of deporting undocumented immigrants with criminal records without laying siege to entire cities. What’s changed is the job itself.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
“ICE agent group photo” by Mike Luckovich

“Returning officers who have come back from retirement are finding themselves in unfamiliar roles,” Miroff reported. “They spent much of their careers trying to conduct low-key ‘targeted enforcement’ operations in which they planned arrests in advance and sought to take suspects into custody in the safest and least dramatic way possible. Now they’re out in the streets wearing masks, with protesters yelling at them and video cameras rolling. ICE has changed, and the job isn’t the same.”

ICE and Border Patrol have certainly changed. Defenders will argue that this is just a temporary deviation, that these agencies can be restored to their prior norms under a future administration. Maybe that will be true someday. But it won’t be easy, because Trump and his allies didn’t just politicize these agencies, they actively selected the worst people to staff them.

Who else willingly signs up to terrorize fellow Americans while hiding behind masks, basking in confrontation as crowds scream in their faces? It takes a particular kind of damaged psyche to want that job. And as countless videos have shown, many of these people don’t just tolerate it, they revel in it.

That rot can’t be reformed away. It has to be torn out. The entire structure needs to be demolished and rebuilt from scratch, with everyone who participated in this era barred from future government service.

Related | Impeach Kristi Noem

But that reckoning can wait. For now, good riddance to Bovino. If luck holds, he’s gone for good.

Noem should be next. Perhaps she’ll spare herself the humiliation and resign before Trump does what he always does in the end: making sure loyalty is a one-way street.

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ICE Barbie Caves to Top Republican in Desperate Bid to Save Her Job

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ICE Barbie Caves to Top Republican in Desperate Bid to Save Her Job

NOEM DELIVERY
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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has finally agreed to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee as pressure intensifies following the brutal death of ICU nurse Alex Pretti at the hands of a federal agent.

Pretti, 37, was shot and killed in public by a masked federal agent in Minneapolis on Saturday. Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent on Jan. 7 in the same area.

The DHS claimed the agent shot Pretti in self-defense. Noem said Pretti “had a weapon on him, and multiple—dozens—of rounds of ammunition; wishing to inflict harm on these officers, coming, brandishing like that.”

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem departs following a news conference in the National Response Coordination Center at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters on January 24, 2026 in Washington, DC.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem departs following a news conference in the National Response Coordination Center at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters on January 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. Al Drago/Getty Images

Republicans, including Senate Chair Chuck Grassley, have been trying to get Noem to front the Judiciary Committee for months. While Noem’s testimony is not directly related to the incidents in Minneapolis, it seems the backlash to the brutal death of Pretti has expedited her appearance. It’s also likely the events will take center stage.

The 54-year-old has been under particular scrutiny after labelling Pretti and Good “domestic terrorists” after their deaths at the hands of federal agents, without providing evidence to support her claims. The Senate Judiciary Committee has the power to investigate federal officials and law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, DOJ, and DHS.

The conservative Washington Examiner reported on Monday that DHS’s Office of Legislative Affairs has agreed that Noem will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Grassley’s office confirmed to the Daily Beast on Monday that Noem is expected to testify on March 3 for one round of questioning, with each senator allotted 10 minutes for questions. The senator’s staff have “been in communication with DHS for months seeking to finalize a date” for the oversight hearing, Grassley’s office said.

Grassley, 92, said Noem previously wanted to limit her time under examination to just five minutes.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is seen in the Senate subway on Tuesday, December 9, 2025.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is seen in the Senate subway on Tuesday, December 9, 2025. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag

“She’s willing to come, but she wanted to limit it to one five-minute round, and we won’t stand for that,” Grassley told the Examiner earlier this month, noting Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel both signed off on 10 minutes of questioning.

The Daily Beast has contacted the DHS for comment.

Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who is also a member of the committee, has called for an independent investigation into the death of Pretti. He placed a hold on confirming DHS nominees earlier this month, blaming Noem’s delay in her testimony.

The top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Dick Durbin, hinted at reports that Noem’s job is not secure.

“Secretary Noem refused to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee last year and now tells us that she will be available in five weeks—should she still be DHS [Department of Homeland Security] Secretary at that time,” Durbin said in a statement on his X account.

He added, “With all of the violence and deaths involving DHS, the Secretary is apparently in no hurry to account for her mismanagement of this national crisis. And she expects us to rubber stamp her record-breaking budget in the meantime.”

Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino speaks during a press conference at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal on January 22, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino speaks during a press conference at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal on January 22, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

Bill Melugin, congressional correspondent for Fox News, said in a post on X on Sunday that he had spoken to over half a dozen federal sources in immigration enforcement, including several in senior positions, about their disappointment with the handling of the fatal shooting by DHS.

Melugin said one of his sources claimed DHS’s response to the tragedy is “making the situation worse,” while another said “we are losing this war, we are losing the base and the narrative.”

The Examiner reported on Monday that Noem’s offsider Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol’s commander of at-large operations, has been removed from his role overseeing ICE in Minneapolis after the death of Pretti.

He will return to heading Border Patrol operations in El Centro, California, from Tuesday.

The Daily Beast exclusively reported on Monday that Donald Trump sent his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minneapolis after his senior leadership team blamed Noem’s incompetence for the public backlash to a second U.S. citizen being killed by a federal agent this month.

White House Border Czar Tom Homan speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House on January 14, 2026 in Washington, DC.
White House Border Czar Tom Homan speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House on January 14, 2026 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images

Noem tried to control the narrative and put a spin on Homan being parachuted into Minneapolis to help control protests around ICE raids.

“This is good news for peace, safety, and accountability in Minneapolis. I have worked closely with Tom over the last year and he has been a major asset to our team,” Noem posted on X.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted Homan was being deployed to Minneapolis merely as Noem was too busy with other duties.

“Secretary Noem still has the utmost confidence and trust of the president of the United States, and she is continuing to oversee the entire Department of Homeland Security and all of the immigration enforcement that’s taking place across the entire country,” Leavitt said.

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