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It’s always a bad idea to try and make Donald J. Trump your bitch. Skyy was thrown out of the White House without a security deal and without a hope for another penny from the US Government to stop Russia. I’m sure that Voldomir is yearning for the good old days when people laughed when his did his tranny stand-up comedian act in the night clubs.
It was terrible that he showed up at the Oval Office wearing a track suit instead of a business suit. Maybe he could have pulled off a Ukrainian army uniform (except that he’s a civilian) wearing medals he awarded himself. News outlets said he missed his first meeting of the day with SECTRES because he slept in. Too much vodka the night before? He validated everything that Putin said about him, which must have Putin doing backflips.
While continuing the three-year stalemate is not in the best interest of Ukraine or Russia at this point, Zelensky has a weak hand and President Trump is his last best hope of some future for Ukraine.
VDH is a year older than I am. Do I look that old? Don’t answer “yes” if you think so.
Russia is four times larger than Ukraine. They both have living-dead demographics. Russia’s is horrible, but Ukraine’s is worse. While both will enjoy about six years of increasing numbers of 18-year-old men entering fighting age, Russia can still generate three to four times more. In the long run, Ukraine especially decided not to have children. No modern nation has ever seen such a challenge while it needed to grow in power. Both are running out of fighting men, but Ukraine will run out first. Eventually, Ukraine will simply run out of Ukrainians to kill enough Russians to make a difference. The key is…can Russia sustain the losses? Traditionally, Russia has been able to maintain staggering losses and fight on.
Skyy had a chance to glimpse what America First looks like.
Editorial Note: The War in Afghanistan lasted ten years and continued largely so that unscrupulous interests in the United States could launder money into the vaults of the Democrat Party. The war ended badly, botched by Pedo Joe. In search of another endless war, the Biden regime gave Vladimir Putin the green light wink. It couldn’t have gone better. The Russians faltered and the endless World War One style stalemate ensued. Sure, people like Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX crypto) were caught laundering money from aid to Ukraine back into the Democrat Party. It grabbed the headlines for a couple of weeks and was forgotten. FTX was only the tip of an enormous iceberg.
Vladimir Putin has the blood of over a million people on his hands and I hate to admit it, but so does the United States. President Trump is trying to drain the Swamp and make things right.
Skyy won’t win an election in Ukraine and I don’t know if the USA under President Trump will grant him asylum and allow him to flee to his Florida mansion down the coast from President Trump’s.
Black Gold – Texas Tea
I have a few comments about oil and gas. Lower prices are reasonable, and expanded refining capacity is good, but if oil prices drop too low, the mom-and-pop oil companies (most of the oil companies in the US) go bankrupt. There is a fine line with drill, baby drill. During the 45th Trump Administration, President Trump browbeat the Saudis to flood the world market, and it hurt a lot of American pocketbooks. Oil is an international commodity, and the price fluctuates with supply and demand. There is no such thing as cheap American oil and expensive foreign oil. Finding a good balance might be a better strategy than crashing the market, which hurts many of the people you’d like to help.
Men’s Suits
LSP and I have been discussing men’s suits. I agree with him that British Saville Row suits are very well made and the gold standard, but traveling there for the three fittings required can be a bit much in terms of time and more than double the cost of an already pricy suit. The solution to evening out the price is to buy more suits in one fell swoop.
I’m aware of only one men’s tailor in Arizona that makes a hand-fitted suit (as opposed to an altered rack suit) – Brothers – in Phoenix, run by an Albanian Greek gentleman. And yes, he has made them for me in the past. Going back and forth from the White Wolf Mine to Phoenix for fittings isn’t as onerous as varying my flights to shoehorn in British fittings. All the same, it’s not Saville Row, is it? I am not a hunchback and can fit into a rack suit, but they’re never as lovely as a hand-cut, hand-stitched men’s suit.
I can drive to Las Vegas and have a good suit made at Brioni. Who can argue with a Brioni silk suit? Not me. But the price is harsh.
Then we come to shoes. My feet are standard, but I prefer custom-made shoes when buying men’s dress shoes. If you swing a dead cat around your head in London, it will hit a custom shoe place (I like Crocket and Jones – LSP disagrees). In Arizona – nothing.
Dear DOGE
If you put Hillary Clinton’s arrest on pay-per-view, you could cut the US National Debt in half. If you showed the (X-Rated) videos of Hillary at the Epstein Island retreat, you could eliminate it. – Signed, the VM editorial staff.
Bullet Points:
** Today is the first day of Ramadan. How do you plan to celebrate?
** (CDRSAL) NATO has a German problem. While all the “right people” will not shut up about how wonderful former Chancellor Angela Merkel was, people need to be very clear-eyed about what a complete disaster she and the German political class have been over the last two decades. They have starved what should be continental European NATO’s most potent military into irrelevance. Her disastrous, feel-good, ethno-masochistic immigration policy weakened European cohesion and fed the worst parts of European political subcultures. Yes, she made many well-meaning Germans feel good about themselves, but a sugar high rotted the teeth and poisoned the national metabolism. While willing to defend Europe to the last Pole and Germany to the last American, she decided to preen in her neo-pagan EuroGreen superiority onomastic politics by ditching clean nuclear power and, through the complete corruption of her elite, shacked herself to Russian energy oligarchs and thus the Kremlin. Germany needs to fix itself, and NATO needs to work around her and punish her until she behaves like a constructive 21st-century security partner.
** I’m not saying you’re the dumbest person in the world. If I were you, I’d hope that the dumbest person in the world doesn’t die.
** Drop some acid if you’re confused about global warming/cooling/staying the same.
** Pres. Trump’s superpower is to take positions that the vast majority of voters agree with; then, with the power of Trump’s derangement, he forces his opponents to take the opposite, less popular position!
** The Secretary of HHS offers his opinion. Is he wrong?
** I just heard from Alina Habba (Counselor to the President) that in the first week of President Trump’s second term, the most Googled search terms in Washington DC were “BleachBit” (a program used by Hillary Clinton to wipe her servers clean of any evidence) and “criminal defense attorneys”! The DC swamp is in a panic: the water level drops as the swamp drains away. And DOGE is the machete (or chainsaw) with which Trump is clearing out the dense, dank, rotting vegetation that covers every swamp anywhere, which is home to every manner of disgusting vermin!
** Dan Crenshaw was caught on a hot mic last week threatening to kill Tucker Carlson. When confronted online by peers and critics about his remark, footage of which went viral last week, the congressman denied it.
** Working for the government.
** In the Press Pool – There’s a lot of swamp water in the White House Press Pool. It’s time to add bleach. Some journalists compare the move to press oppression under the Soviet Union. The White House will choose which news outlets are included in the press pool from now on, according to a decision announced on Tuesday by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
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The Yellowstone Hotspot (USGS)

In The Swamp
EXCLUSIVE: In a secret NSA chatroom, NSA, DNI, and SpaceCom officials claim that @TulsiGabbard is “fervently anti-queer,” a “Russian agent,” and a member of the MAGA “cult.” These employees, including at least one “they/them,” are attempting to undermine Gabbard from within. pic.twitter.com/Z5HGfdSx2Y
— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) February 25, 2025
Rufo wrote that those participating were part of the NSA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the United States Space Command. They might have been from different agencies, but they had a uniformly negative picture of the former Hawaii congresswoman and former lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve.
You’d think they’d be thrilled that President Trump had selected a woman of color to be DNI. She’s announced that they’ll all be terminated, their security clearances yanked, and they can join each other in person wherever they want for a group grope somewhere like San Francisco until their money runs out. Maybe Paul Pelosi will offer them one of Nancy’s mansions for their orgy?
Even with all of the misbehavior being uncovered in various government agencies, I had not imagined a spot on my “Feds Engaging in Shenanigans” Bingo card for “Bizarre sex chat rooms within the National Security Agency.”
But here we are. When I first started reading this story, I had to ensure it wasn’t a hoax, or a Babylon Bee parody. But as I read on, I realized that I might have to give up satire, because even my eccentric mind couldn’t make this up.
Just like having sex with your cousin on a moving elevator in a skyscraper, this story is wrong on so many levels!
First, these were government workers talking dirty to each other on our dime, and that’s wrong enough to get fired over, just by itself.
Second, these people aren’t attractive Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt types, steaming up a dimly lit employee lounge in some 50 Shades of Grey fantasy situation.
No. These are cubicle-dwelling government employees. And you know what that means. Vaguely spheroid, gelatinous bodies under unflattering, buzzing fluorescent lights, the sickly pallor of their skin like one of those deep-ocean-dwelling, eyeless fish who never see the sun, or else Lizzie “Grandma Squanto” Warren.
They’re all either way too big or way too small, and the contrast between the morbidly Jabba-esque and the frail, spindly homunculi somehow makes both extremes look even worse.
And third, even if you could get past their disturbingly froggish appearance – and you absolutely cannot – there’s the nature of the sex talk. It’s not even the sexy kind of sex talk. There are no Viking warrior princesses with form-fitting metal breastplates, French maids with the seamed stockings, sorority girls getting ready for a pillow fight, or…
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Citizenship Gold Cards
If you want to be a citizen and are willing to invest $5 million, you, too, can have a gold card. We have a president who thinks like a successful CEO—getting foreigners who want to become American citizens to invest large sums in the country as a precursor. New Zealand had/has a similar program, but you must invest merely $100k in their banks to get admitted. I like this idea. Instead of the world’s poor coming with their hands outstretched, digging into our pockets, Trump invites the well-healed, who pay their own freight and create jobs.
Identify the Aircraft
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Parting Shot

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No question Zelensky stepped on it today. Trump is NOT Biden, and Zelensky tried a power play that didn’t work. The question is, will he learn?
Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) said that he needed to be replaced.
BREAKING NEWS: Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Dubinsky just called for an Emergency Session of Ukraine’s Parliament to initiate IMPEACHMENT Proceedings against President Zelenskyy after the Oval Office shouting match.
Late thought: I agree, Lindsay Graham needs to be replaced :)
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Pay-per-view: how much money would they make by offering to NOT send short video clip advertisements of Hillary’s Island Adventure to anyone paying to get on the Do Not Send list?
Citizenship Gold Cards: as one commenter said elsewhere, this is a good way to import more WEF types into America. Do we want that?
“import more WEF types into America”
False concern, IMNSHO.
The WEF types are: 1) already here, active, and influential; 2) the ones that matter can do their nefarious shit remotely — they don’t need to be in the US physically, nor to have a US passport.
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What we WOULD get are more of the 1% from places such as the PRC, India, Pakistan, MENA, and so forth, who are looking for a bolt hole for when their shithole country gets fed up enough with their bullshit (ie what they did to become the 1%) and decides to string them up. Or when their political enemies get power and decide to take away their money and influence. We don’t need more of those people either, but it’s because they tend to be plain old assholes, not because they’re globalists.
Of course not
perhaps someone could explain to me why I get the feeling that Volodymyr Oleksandrovych just set the date for his own שִׁבְעָה; in any case, pleaase don’t order food for more than about a dozen mourners, nobody from the WEF will come and our DNC he’s been supporting dare not
* LL, what’s a ‘suit’?
(Kidding…but got rid of all mine except…if I recall…a nice double-breasted black one in the just in case. My preferred nice attire is usually crisp Wranglers, a band collar white shirt, Wah vest, polished Hondo boots, and a black frock coat).
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GoldCards- Gotta be careful, you watch, someone, likely a loy-yer, thinking this works in the reverse will denounce their citizenship then demand $5 million in restitution.
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Z-skyy (h/t EdB) is toast, tail between his legs after Dad Trump told him to “Get off my lawn!”. What a proper American smack down of an arrogant disrespectful putz. That guy is rethinking his own importance on the long flight home, like a kid sent to his room…only then to make matters worse on Brett Bair’s program. And to think Biden (who?) sent him hundreds of billions of WTP’s pilfered tax money.
GoldCards – and once the value of citizenship has been established, you can start paying taxes based on the market value. Born in the USA, you get a whopping big tax when you hit the age of majority. And when inflation and/or competition increases the value you also get to pay capital gains taxes as well. Lucky you…
IDA:
1. Cavalier F-51 Mustang
2. Douglas BTD Destroyer
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Black Gold- Heard earlier PDJT is putting Keystone back in play. Fungible or not it’ll reinstate all those jobs immediately wrecked by Biden’s (who?) nasty EO.
“Black Gold – Texas Tea”
I am not a “gold bug” (written 1000 times), but…
dollar inflation has been the undoing of the upper middle class (and on down) since Richard Milhous took us off the gold standard in Aug ’71
I’m not an economist and know little to nothing of the science but I have noticed that the 5¢ candy bar has shrunken to such a degree where it can only be enjoyed by Scott Carey; we’ve become like the proverbial African nation (not meant to be racist)
I can remember pumping gas for 30¢ a gallon and sticking a quarter in the machine and getting a pack of cigarettes with a penny or two stuck inside the wrapper
I hope the visionary we currently have in the White House can bring us back to some earlier time when people, other than the uber-wealthy, can afford to purchase a fresh loaf of bread every week
it’s not just “drill baby, drill”; it’s also refine baby, refine.
Refiners won’t build anything until they’re sure they have 10 years of hassle free production. Maybe Trump x 4 and Vance x 8 will persuade them?
Ramadan- I’ll celebrate by eating pork everyday until Eid al-Fitr inshallah.
VDH vs. LL- Larry you have a full head of hair. Enough said.
Z-worthless O2 bandit who thinks he’s a GI Joe.
Russia-History has shown they will win this one too. Z had his chance.
I foresee indictments and sopenas flying at Mach 3 to the people who enabled and profited off this war (you know who you are).
-STA lethal
I am two years older than VDH. I imagined him older.
President Trump promised transparency and today he delivered. The public saw raw, real time uncensored diplomacy. Has that every happened before?
I would hire Vance to sell cars. He delivered excellent feature/advantage/benefit points! Just needs to work on his closes.
A real gut check is the situation with the NY FBI office. That is a real power play that the DOJ must win, IMO.
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Coffee is for CLOSERS!
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Cavalier Turbo Mustang III
2. Douglas BTD Destroyer
It hurts when you step on your dick……hurts even more when someone else steps on it and grinds it into the dirt!
Shoes vs. Handmade cowboy boots-worn cowboy boots most of my life, but until my mature years they were off the shelf. Finally attained the wherewithall to get a pair handmade with riding heel. Most comfortable pair of walk arounds I’ve ever owned. Caution…they’re not off the shelf priced.
nsa et al: i have very little hope they can clean up the swamp much at all. for maga to be successful there will need to be tangible results such as firing squads. the feeling i’m getting from folks out my way is that if 45/47 can’t get it done, wtp are about to step off the porch. they have nothing left to lose.
Gold price – tell me when it gets below $750. It’ll be in the ball park of a reasonable
non-bubble value then.
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Gold Card – sure, $100K sounds like a bargain in comparison, but remember that’s
like 10% of NZ GNP.
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Kennedy on Kennedy – IDK about right, but it’s certainly plausible.
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– Kle.
“If you showed the (X-Rated) videos of Hillary at the Epstein Island retreat”
Oh God, no.
I saw the encounter on NewsMax. I was surprised and pleased that VP Vance was there, and thought he handled things superbly. I could almost hear PDJT thinking “Now listen here, you scrawny little shitbag!”…..
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I’ve never owned a custom suit. Always went off-the-rack and had it fitted. Waaaay too much of a superfluous luxury to me. I’d rather spend the money on a nice Connolly leather interior for the Toyota.
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I might pay to watch her arrest, but watch her on The Island? Isn’t there something in the Constitution about “Cruel and Unusual Punishment”?
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I don’t worry about the Hot Spot. I worry about all the silos out here.
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