"Who will pick our cotton? Who will wash our clothes?"

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“My people can’t possibly pay a minimum wage and still keep their plantations up”

Episcopal (of course) Bishop begs Trump not to deport her congregations’s servants.

"I ask you to have mercy, Mr President," the bishop said softly, evoking the "fear" that she said is felt across the country.

"The people who pick our farms and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals -- they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation," she said.

Literally Hitler

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Trump is tapping members of the LGBT community for top spots in his administration — despite Dem hysteria

“When it comes to whether you’re gay or straight, black or white and all those markers others calculate — President Trump is decision blind. He bases his decision on the kind of job he knows you will do, period,” said Bill White, a top Trump fundraiser — who was tapped to serve as the US ambassador to Belgium.

Among the picks:

  • Scott Bessent, 62, treasury secretary. If confirmed, the hedge fund manager would be the highest-ranking openly gay official in US history.

  • Ric Grenell, 58, presidential envoy for special missions. He was Trump’s director of national intelligence during his first term.

  • Tammy Bruce, 62, the new State Department spokesperson was a Fox News contributor.

  • Jacob Helberg, 35, undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment.

  • Bill White, 57, ambassador to Belgium.

  • Art Fisher, 49, ambassador to Austria.

And at least 10 other prominent LGBT Americans are slated for major administration posts, one Trump insider said.

“The velvet mafia this time around will be extensive,” he said.

Gay and lesbian officials in Trump’s first term included Randy Berry, his ambassador to Nepal, and James Abbott, who Trump tapped to serve on the Federal Labor Relations Authority.

Greenwich Time "covers" the Inauguration

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No one has ever relied on our local paper to provide accurate reporting of events occurring beyond the town’s borders, and the discontinuance of local reporting decades ago ended the papers usefulness entirely, but today’s online front page does offer a fine exposition of how GT’s corporate parent believes the news should be covered and delivered to the yokels of Greenwich. Here’s a screen shot — I assume the “Subscribe” button is some sort of nostalgic joke.

Apparently, that didn't go as planned, but she seems to have made it home anyway

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What public service, exactly, did the members of the Biden crime syndicate perform for the country that would justify pardoning them for their thievery?

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rogues gallery

In Hunter’s case, that’s easy: between his pornography albums, illustrated drug use manuals, tax fraud, and the creation and sale for millions of his artistic masterpieces, he provided us with endless hours of entertainment, but what about the others? Both Joe’s brothers, and their wives, and his grandchildren? Really? I suppose that it could be said that, by accepting millions of dollars of bribes from China, they helped lower our trade deficit with that country, but otherwise, I don’t see how they meet the criteria set forth by the Crook in Chief just yesterday when defending his pardons for Fauci et als:

High-profile Dems warned Biden against preemptive pardons before giving Fauci, Milley passes

"The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense," Biden said in a White House statement. "Our nation owes these public servants a debt of gratitude for their tireless commitment to our country." 

Exactly how out of touch am I with popular culture? Apparently, completely.

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“Do you know who I am?” Wikipedia to the rescue of the clueless.

A singer name Carrie Underwood performed at Trump’s inauguration today and, curious as to who she is, I found her on Wikipedia: as it turns out, she’s quite famous.

Carrie Marie Underwood (born March 10, 1983)[1] is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence after winning the fourth season of American Idol in 2005, returning as a judge beginning with the twenty-third season. Underwood's single "Inside Your Heaven" (2005) made her the first country artist to debut atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the only solo country artist in the 2000s to have a number-one song on the Hot 100. Bolstered by further crossover singles "Jesus, Take the Wheel" and "Before He Cheats", her debut album, Some Hearts (2005), became the best-selling debut album of all time by a solo female country artist, was ranked by Billboard the top country album of the 2000s, and earned Underwood three Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist. She followed it with Carnival Ride (2007), which sold over half a million copies in its first week and won two Grammy Awards. Her third studio album, Play On (2009), yielded the chart-topping single "Cowboy Casanova".

Underwood achieved the second best-selling release by a woman in 2012 and won a Grammy Award with her fourth album, Blown Away (2012). Her compilation album, Greatest Hits: Decade #1 (2014), broke multiple chart and sales records upon release, and spawned the Grammy-winning crossover single "Something in the Water". Her fifth studio album, Storyteller (2015), made her the only country artist to have all first five studio albums reach either numbers one or two on the Billboard 200 chart. With her sixth album, Cry Pretty (2018), she became the only woman to top the Billboard 200 with four country studio albums and had the biggest week for any album by a woman in 2018. In the 2020s, she has released her first Christmas album, My Gift (2020), won the Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album with her first gospel album, My Savior (2021), and reinforced her country pop image with her 2022 studio album, Denim & Rhinestones.

Underwood is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 42 million singles and 18 Million albums worldwide. She is the highest-certified (digital singles) female country artist and one of the 15 highest-certified female artists of all time, also being the female artist with the most number-one singles (16) on the US Country Airplay chart. Billboard ranked her the top female country artist of the 2000s and 2010s, while Pollstar ranked her amongst the 15 highest-grossing female touring artists of the past four decades. Her accolades include eight Grammy Awards, the most Billboard Music Awards (12), American Music Awards (17) and Guinness World Records (5) among female country artists, as well as inductions into the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry. Rolling Stone applauded her as "the female vocalist of her generation in any genre".

This part’s pretty funny: Time listed her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014. I don’t remember being influenced by her, ever, but I’ll bet our now-former president doesn’t either.

Oh, well.

UPDATE: I was laughing at myself in this post, but here, just to pile on, and further expose my ignorance, is a very nice tribute to the woman and her performance today — an impressive woman.

Carrie Underwood Saved the Day With This Mic-Drop Moment

And the climb back from the abyss begins

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At least I still have Grindr!

President Trump immediately shut down the CBP One app and we already have people crying at the border in front of the cameras

At exactly noon, the moment President Trump was sworn into office, the CBP One app was officially shut down.

The Trump administration Monday ended use of a border app called CBP One that has allowed nearly 1 million people to legally enter the United States with eligibility to work.

A notice on the website of Customs and Border Protection Monday just after Trump was sworn in let users know that the app that had been used to allow migrants to schedule appointments at eight southwest border ports of entry is no longer available. The notice said that existing appointments have been cancelled.

Trump learned a lot during his first administration and even more in the four years following, and he’s showing it: he’s returned to Washington fully-prepared, and ready to execute.