Rough night last night. The incessant cold and exposures to whatever is going around has finally taken its toll – some virus is hammering at my health, and at the moment it’s winning. Working to pull myself together enough to be able to travel tomorrow.

That, and insomniac reading showed that Convict Donnie’s Project 2025-driven staff is moving ahead at warp speed. They’re tearing down the government, as promised, and quickly. Half of what they’re doing is illegal, but each illegal action just gets thrown on the to-be-litigated dumpster fire with all the others, waiting for someone to challenge the action. It’s a grim moment – who knows what’s going to be left after these anarchists tear away all protections, all checks and balances, all norms.

An analogy. Let’s say you live in a large multigenerational home, built over decades. It’s stable but unwieldy and inefficient. And it’s the only home available to you. To improve things you should tackle it a section at a time and remodel it. If you just blow it up and start over, where will you live? You’ll be shivering in the cold, waiting for a promised new/better home. Trump’s minions are doing the latter – they’re just blowing shit up with no concern for what comes next. And they’re supposedly the ones who “love America”.

I’ll say it again, 2025 is off to a rough start.