Welcome to Daylight Savings time…..another of those promises from Donny the Plebeian that he has forsaken.

Opening statement:  This is for all my friends….Sue is improving but still in hospital…..Thank You for all the well wishes for her recovery…..your words are much appreciated.

Now on to the Sh*t Show.

Couple stories from the wealth of stupid that is coming from DC these days….

The most absurd report is that an idiot GOPer nominates Trump for the Peace Prize….again.

“No one deserves it more,” Republican US Rep. Darrell Issa said in a post on X Monday, announcing that he is nominating President Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize. Issa, who represents California’s 48th District, tells Fox News that Trump’s election last year “tangibly kickstarted the cause of peace in numerous regions of the world, and we are already seeing the benefits.” Trump was nominated for the prize multiple times during his first term, with one nomination coming from a right-wing Norwegian lawmaker.

“Not since Ronald Reagan has an American president better represented the national resolve of peace through strength or the fundamental case for a world without war,” Issa says. Jonathan Wilcox, Issa’s deputy chief of staff, tells the Hill that Issa recently led a delegation to the Middle East and “observed first-hand and from several heads of state that the spirit of peace and moving away from conflict is real and multilateral.” The Nobel Committee says nominations can be submitted by members of national governments and national assemblies, as well as certain college professors and previous Peace Prize winners

Every word of Issa statement is total bullshit.  I believe this is the second time some dullard has tried to nominate Trump.

Then there it is on a again Trump face on Rushmore….Again.

The House bill was introduced on January 28 by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL13). The bill does not appear to have a title. No Senate companion version appears to have been introduced yet.

The bill attracted 38 cosponsors but never received a committee vote. Rep. Johnson subsequently introduced the bill in 2022 and 2023, with the 2023 version even receiving a hearing before the House Natural Resource Committee’s Subcommittee on Federal Lands. Still, no version has received a vote.

https://thefulcrum.us/governance-legislation/trump-mount-rushmore-bill

Another complete waste of time and energy….and besides that an humorless joke.

Next is the GOP money thing….this one is new.

President Trump’s face could end up on the $250 bill—and the $100. After longtime South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson proposed a new $250 bill featuring Trump’s face last week, first-term Texas Rep. Brandon Gill put forth legislation, called the “Golden Age Act of 2025,” that would see Trump replace Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill. “There has been no one who has done more to bring America into the golden age than President Trump,” Gill said in a Monday statement, per the Hill. “Featuring him on the $100 bill is a small way to honor all he will accomplish these next four years.”

It’s been almost a century since faces on US currency have been altered. Andrew Jackson last replaced Grover Cleveland on the $20 note in 1929, per Fox News. On X, Gill shared a photo of his idea, showing Trump’s official portrait on the $100 bill. His legislation states the Treasury secretary should present a preliminary design to the public no later than the end of next year, and that all $100 bills feature Trump beginning in 2029. A press release makes no mention of the 1866 law that prevents any living person from being depicted on US currency. Wilson has said his legislation would amend that law, per the State.

Not much more ludicrous than this idea.

Then there is new EO that is in essence strip mining of our forests….

President Trump on Saturday issued an executive order aimed at increasing logging in a big way. He directed federal agencies to look into how they might bypass environmental regulations including endangered species protections in order to boost timber production across 280 million hectares of public lands including national forests, the New York Times reports. The move is intended to decrease US reliance on foreign timber, the Guardian reports.

Experts were warning the move could lead to increased air and water pollution as well as devastate forests and animal habitats. “This Trump executive order is the most blatant attempt in American history by a president to hand over federal public lands to the logging industry,” says one wildfire scientist who warns that, yes, fires could increase due to the impact logging has on the microclimate of forests.

“This is a particularly horrific move by Trump to loot our public lands by handing the keys to big business,” says the public lands policy director for the Center for Biological Diversity. “Clearcutting these beautiful places will increase fire risk, drive species to extinction, pollute our rivers and streams, and destroy world-class recreation sites.” However, the Seattle Times spoke to experts who don’t think the executive order can do much to get around federal laws protecting trees.

Since the report the Trump administration is trying to walk this back.

Since not all is Trump’s doing there are a couple of silly and yet disturbing reports….like Speaker of the House residence…

In 2021, Steve Berger, an evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state as “a delusional lie” and called multinational institutions “demonic,” set off on an ambitious project. His stated goal: minister to members of Congress so that what “they learn is then translated into policy.” His base of operations would be a six-bedroom, $3.7 million townhouse blocks from the U.S. Capitol.

Recently, the pastor scored a remarkable coup for a political influence project that has until now managed to avoid public scrutiny. He got a new roommate.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has been staying at the home since around the beginning of this year, according to interviews and videos obtained by ProPublica.

The house is owned by a major Republican donor and Tennessee car magnate who has joined Berger in advocating for and against multiple bills before Congress.

https://www.propublica.org/article/mike-johnson-evangelical-pastor-steve-berger-roommates

And you do not think that this will bias Johnson’s actions?

This is a state GOP issue but if it is successful I can see it making it’s way to DC….

In an unprecedented move to funnel more public tax dollars toward groups that oppose abortion, Republican lawmakers in Missouri are advancing a plan to allow residents to donate to pregnancy resource centers instead of paying any state income taxes.

The proposal would establish a 100% tax credit, up from 70%, and a $50,000 annual cap per taxpayer. The result: Nearly all Missouri households — except those with the highest incomes — could fully satisfy their state tax bill by redirecting their payment from the state to pregnancy centers.

The move comes four months after Missouri voters reversed one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans, and just as clinics have begun performing the procedure again after overcoming Republican obstacles.

https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-pregnancy-resource-centers-anti-abortion-tax-credit-bill

Then there is threat of criminal offense against anyone, especially students, that will not kiss Israel’s ass….

Donald Trump threatened American students with arrest for taking part in “illegal” protests in his latest controversial move.

The US president said on Tuesday that all federal funding will stop for colleges and schools that allow “illegal” protests and that agitators will be imprisoned or sent back to the country they came from.

“American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.

Students have a long history in America and other countries around the globe in taking part in demonstrations, some which are declared “illegal”, and in pushing for change.