{"id":3172,"date":"2026-01-21T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2026-01-21T20:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:00:26","slug":"the-promised-land-when-fate-looks-upon-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3172","title":{"rendered":"The Promised Land: When Fate Looks Upon You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/minnesota-in-today-s-land-of-the-free.jpg?id=62833231&amp;width=1200&amp;height=400&amp;coordinates=0,71,0,71\"><\/p>\n<p>OMG. We have landed in an inane, insane, bombastic Monty Python skit, slap-dash improvised by a sick vengeful child king churning through endless hissy fits. He wants to invade Greenland, occupy Minnesota, whitewash America, attack allies, bomb everyone, be Hitler with a shiny Peace Prize so his daddy will like him, and Jeffrey who? Still, there are heroes, often unlikely, among us. MLK Jr., surely spinning in his grave: \u201cOur lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who would&#8217;ve thought: Despite so much winning, polls <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SarahLongwell25\/status\/2013633500100927641\" target=\"_blank\">show<\/a> almost 60% of Americans say Trump&#8217;s year in office has been &#8220;a failure,&#8221; 71% say the country is &#8220;out of control,&#8221; he has a lame 37% approval and 65% say a deranged, ignorant old man who spends his time pointing at random countries on a map squealing &#8220;mine&#8221; &#8211; and\/or abducting their leaders &#8211; is &#8220;not someone they are proud to have as president.&#8221; He probs hasn&#8217;t won over many more with his rage-posting we <em>really<\/em> have to i<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/811ab298-8df4-49ec-86be-611880098f5d?j=eyJ1IjoibDhod24ifQ.5jEjeLiJZS5OfHG4v_xEBlfZCsRwcX2P4Vv9vuux9BQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">nvade <\/a>Greenland &#8211; &#8220;World Peace is at stake!&#8221; &#8211; because it only has &#8220;two dogsleds as protection&#8221; and his &#8220;very brilliant&#8221; imaginary Golden Dome system can only work at its full potential &#8220;because of angles, metes, and bounds&#8221; if Greenland is included, though just <em>4% of Americans <\/em>agree, <em><\/em>so &#8220;thank you for your attention to this matter, DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,&#8221; also Biden&#8217;s autopen.<\/p>\n<p>In the face of &#8220;the ramblings of a man who has lost touch with reality&#8221; &#8211; and whose &#8220;stunningly vindictive,&#8221; &#8220;extraordinarily dangerous&#8221; hallucinations  could \u201cincinerate the NATO alliance&#8221; and world peace with it &#8211; eight E.U. countries <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:2xajl5drezicv42kx5ex3tde\/post\/3mcsmv4ewfc2n?ref_src=embed&amp;ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.democraticunderground.com%252F100220951415\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;united in our resolve&#8221; <\/a>have pledged military support for Greenland; meanwhile, that country&#8217;s sardonic populace have designed cool new MAGA hats &#8211; Make America Go Away &#8211; and gathered over 200,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/68729abb-c48e-4f96-89c9-8ef6b34b9adc?j=eyJ1IjoibDhod24ifQ.5jEjeLiJZS5OfHG4v_xEBlfZCsRwcX2P4Vv9vuux9BQ\" target=\"_blank\">signatures <\/a>on a petition to buy California from us. Undeterred and Adderalled-up, Trump has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/1-billion-contribution-secures-permanent-seat-on-trumps-board-of-peace\" target=\"_blank\">announced <\/a> a vague new Board of Peace, &#8220;the Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled,&#8221; whose inchoate mission would be doing&#8230;something about peace, especially if as yet unnamed countries &#8211; Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s in! Putin&#8217;s invited! &#8211; pay a billion dollars for permanent membership in his secret club, and, again, &#8220;thank you for your attention to this matter!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other world news, we got the pathetic spectacle of the ever-needy boy giddily <a href=\"https:\/\/deanblundell.substack.com\/p\/the-day-trump-...\" target=\"_blank\">accepting<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/deanblundell.substack.com\/p\/the-day-trump-...\"> <\/a>a re-gifted, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelpeaceprize.org\/press\/press-releases\/the-nobel-prize-and-the-laureate-are-inseparable\" target=\"_blank\">illegitimate <\/a>Nobel Peace and Participation Prize &#8211; like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/15\/maria-corina-machado-says-she-presented-trump-with-her-nobel-peace-prize-medal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Goebbels! <\/a>&#8211; from Venezuela&#8217;s Maria Corina Machado &#8220;for the work I have done,&#8221; like bombing nine countries, more than any former president, killing 100 fishermen and turning this country into a war zone. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/heres-whats-inside-trump-branded-swag-bag-in-focus-after-machado-visit-10763381\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">gave <\/a>Machado some crappy MAGA swag but evidently stayed so miffed he wrote a juvenile, &#8220;beyond precedent, parody and reality&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg.no\/nyheter\/i\/q6AdB0\/trump-i-melding-til-stoere-foeler-ikke-lenger-noen-forpliktelse\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">letter&#8221; <\/a>to Norway&#8217;s Prime Minister &#8211; whose government  has nothing to do with the Nobel Committee and neither of them is Denmark &#8211; to whine because they didn&#8217;t give him the real prize &#8220;though I stopped 8 Wars PLUS&#8221; and he&#8217;s &#8220;done more for NATO than any other person&#8221; he no longer feels he has to &#8220;think purely of peace&#8221; so he might as well invade Greenland. Media felt obliged to note: &#8220;This story is actually not a parody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Equally terrifyingly and less entertainingly, he&#8217;s also embracing his longtime urge to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Emolclause\/status\/2012010264879596017\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">play dictator <\/a>by invading Minnesota with thousands more ICE thugs after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/15\/video\/ice-shoot...\" target=\"_blank\">murde<\/a>r of Renee Good, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Emolclause\/status\/2012010264879596017\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">play dictator, <\/a>subpoenaing Walz, Frey and other state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/20\/minnesota-democrats-subpoenas-justice-department\" target=\"_blank\">officials <\/a>and threatening to send in the military to subdue his stubbornly diverse, decent, welcoming new enemy &#8211; &#8220;a nice place, filled with nice people.&#8221; Lydia Polgreen, a foreign correspondent who&#8217;s covered civil wars in multiple countries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/19\/opinion\/trump-m...\" target=\"_blank\">describes<\/a> being stunned by &#8220;the size, scope and lawlessness of the federal onslaught (in) my once placid home state&#8221; &#8211; shops closed, empty desks in classrooms, ICE agents lurking in idling SUVs, the &#8220;quiet, yet pervasive fear&#8221; one resident deems, &#8220;fucking close to civil war.&#8221; Its &#8220;true mission&#8221;: To stage &#8220;a spectacle of cruelty,&#8221; an occupation designed to &#8220;terrorize anyone who dares defy this incursion and, by extension, (Trump\u2019s) power to wield limitless force against any enemy he wishes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don\u2019t have to speculate what American fascism looks like,&#8221; says A.G. Keith Ellison. &#8220;It\u2019s right outside the door.&#8221; Somali American journalist Mukhtar Ibrahim echoes him: &#8220;Minnesota represents everything the administration hates. It&#8217;s ground zero. If Minnesota falls, the country will fall.&#8221; With ICE\/CBP stormtroopers outnumbering local police 3,000 to 600, Stephen &#8216;Goebbels&#8217; Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StephenM\/status\/2013094893397172620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2013094893397172620%7Ctwgr%5E07a9f602ebda4301919fc11d2e13f560a692c3fd%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D5692973action%3Dedit\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">gloats, <\/a>&#8220;Only federal officers are upholding the law. Local and state police have been ordered to stand down and surrender.&#8221; His lies and hubris reflect the feds&#8217; sense they can get away with &#8220;just being<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/minnesota\/comments\/1qh5e6...\" target=\"_blank\"> pure evil&#8221;:<\/a> Detaining an older, underwear-clad, U.S citizen Hmong man, CIA allies in Laos; <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/a0809ccf-5c70-4978-aa36-ea9bd2a7c3cb?j=eyJ1IjoibDhod24ifQ.5jEjeLiJZS5OfHG4v_xEBlfZCsRwcX2P4Vv9vuux9BQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tear-gassing <\/a>a couple &#8220;human-trafficking their six kids home in their weaponized assault-SUV&#8221; so severely their six-month-old stopped breathing before her mother performed CPR; partly blinding two peaceful protesters with &#8220;non-lethal&#8221; munitions; and brutally gassing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/john-abernathy-photos-ice-minnesota_n_696c2c6ce4b043a364235a53?origin=home-latest-news-unit\" target=\"_blank\">tackling <\/a>photographers, who get back up: &#8220;The world needs to see it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, deaths <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/ice-detention-ce...\" target=\"_blank\">mount <\/a>at the $1.24 billion Texas detention center where many Minnesotans are sent. A medical examiner just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/homicide-ice-detention\" target=\"_self\">classified <\/a>the death of Geraldo Campos, the third in 44 days, as a <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/ad0276f8-53c5-4105-ac0f-dbbcf468401a?j=eyJ1IjoibDhod24ifQ.5jEjeLiJZS5OfHG4v_xEBlfZCsRwcX2P4Vv9vuux9BQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">homicide, <\/a>days after a 55-year-old Cuban died of &#8220;asphyxia due to neck and chest compression&#8221; by guards and a 49-year-old Guatemalan died of &#8220;liver and kidney failure.&#8221; Still, robotic regime mouthpiece Press Barbie insists, ICE is &#8220;doing everything correctly,&#8221; though she utterly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DTjDIM5EbA_\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">lost it <\/a>when a reporter for center-right<em> The Hill <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/left-wing-hack...\" target=\"_blank\">dared<\/a> to note 32 people have died in ICE custody, 170 U.S. citizens have been detained and Renee Good was shot in the head. He&#8217;s &#8220;a biased reporter with a left-wing opinion,&#8221; a &#8220;left-wing hack,&#8221; &#8220;a left-wing activist posing as a journalist,&#8221; she shrieked. &#8220;Shame on people like you.&#8221; Pot\/kettle. Ditto strutting Il Ducette Bovino <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/19\/us\/border-patrol-tactics-rural-california.html?campaign_id=49&amp;emc=edit_ca_20260119&amp;instance_id=169529&amp;nl=california-today%C2%AEi_id=26207366&amp;segment_id=213914&amp;user_id=24923447f205b5b21db113fe4915dd80\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">leading <\/a>the charge &#8211; hilariously, to shouts of &#8220;Coward chicken shit fuck!&#8221; and &#8220;Brown shirts!&#8221; <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"rm-embed twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"rebelmouse\" data-twitter-tweet-id=\"2012899032893440273\">\n<div style=\"margin:1em 0\"><\/div>\n<p> \u2014  (@)<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jurgen_nauditt\/status\/2012899032893440273\"><\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The Bovino hecklers stand in fine, bountiful company in Minnesota, with its &#8220;exceptionally broad solidarity&#8221; forged in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s murder. So many people have been galvanized to protest, including many who hadn&#8217;t before, the city was moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:kuzbtw5s2c2echv5bshf6ere\/post\/3mclbmulkyk2h?ref_src=embed&amp;ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.democraticunderground.com%252F100220947153\" target=\"_blank\">announce<\/a> that vehicles <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/minneapolismn.gov\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>abandoned &#8220;due to an ICE detention&#8221; and subsequently towed would be released at no cost to patriotic owners. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_cCGzQtRXm4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">resolve<\/a> is powerfully noted by Robert Arnold, who salutes the 6,000 marchers in cold rain, &#8220;and not the cinematic kind,&#8221; representing &#8220;a people who showed up when staying home would have been so much easier.&#8221; Also emblematic is the teenager insisting that, though he&#8217;s white, &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to not care just because it\u2019s not going to happen to me.&#8221; Such callousness &#8211; see Trump&#8217;s vileness on those from Somalia, &#8220;filthy, dirty, disgusting&#8230;I don&#8217;t want them in our country&#8221; &#8211; would be &#8220;irresponsible, disrespectful, actually sinful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As usual, judges have largely been on the right side of history. Most recently, a federal judge<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/judge-ice-minnesota\" target=\"_blank\"> ruled<\/a> thugs in Minnesota cannot &#8220;retaliate against, detain or attack (people) engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity&#8221;; one plaintiff <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/74a4c1f9-8d00-4c78-8ba2-26832a454b07?j=eyJ1IjoibDhod24ifQ.5jEjeLiJZS5OfHG4v_xEBlfZCsRwcX2P4Vv9vuux9BQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">testified <\/a>of the &#8220;terrifying violence&#8221; that she asked a single question &#8211; &#8220;Are you ICE?&#8221; &#8211; before goons &#8220;rushed me, grabbed me, and slammed me face-first into the snow&#8221; as other DHS louts filmed the assault for their &#8220;ongoing production of political theater.&#8221; In the face of state terror &#8211; sequentially, Good&#8217;s clearly <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/74a4c1f9-8d00-4c78-8ba2-26832a454b07?j=eyJ1IjoibDhod24ifQ.5jEjeLiJZS5OfHG4v_xEBlfZCsRwcX2P4Vv9vuux9BQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">documented <\/a>murder as she was shot three, possibly four times, the <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/d5a873cb-4c8e-4ed7-841e-98e2a654b3fd?j=eyJ1IjoibDhod24ifQ.5jEjeLiJZS5OfHG4v_xEBlfZCsRwcX2P4Vv9vuux9BQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">appalling<\/a> lies and smears from Noem, Vance, Miller et al, the despicable failures of accountability by DHS and FBI, which found a new low by then targeting Good&#8217;s widow, and the mindless, ongoing escalation &#8211; we&#8217;re left to take solace, in part, from the savage, stalwart wise guys of tragi-comedy who&#8217;ve seen us through other dark times.<\/p>\n<p>On <em>The Daily Show, <\/em>Jon Stewart has offered both helpful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1505961487143866\" target=\"_blank\">geography<\/a> lessons to moronic imperialists &#8211; &#8220;Dibs on Greenland&#8221; &#8211; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1822251445183773\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t Join ICE <\/a>videos to aspiring thugs: &#8220;Are you the type of guy who wants to go join ICE because it looks like playing <em>Halo<\/em>? Here&#8217;s a better idea: Don&#8217;t join ICE, stay home in your basement where it&#8217;s warm, and play <em>Halo<\/em>! Whatever void in your life is making you respond to those ICE ads, we&#8217;ll fill it! Stay home! It&#8217;s better for everyone! Brought to you by everyone who just wants to go outside without getting shot.&#8221; Andy Borowitz <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@borowitzreport\/note\/c-201501041\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> Greenland, along with the EU, has begun construction of a maximum-security prison for pedophiles that will house &#8220;the worst of the worst.&#8221; A Greenlandic spokesperson said the construction \u201cshould not be seen as an act of provocation, adding, &#8220;The only person who could be offended would be a pedophile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s fake Peace Prize &#8211; &#8220;Local man receives giant gold-framed second-hand soother&#8221; &#8211; led Jimmy Kimmel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CDILD8vCxL0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">suggest <\/a>pacifier analogies; he also offered his own bribes &#8211; his 1999 Emmy for Best Game Show Host and his 2015 Soul Train Award for &#8220;White Person of the Year&#8221; &#8211; if Trump would pull ICE out of Minnesota. Jimmy Fallon, meanwhile, claimed he&#8217;d gotten audio from the meeting with Machado, which mostly consisted of, &#8220;Gimme, gimme,&#8221; &#8220;Mine,&#8221; and, &#8220;Me wanty.&#8221; Along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=860859623418972\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;what a view<\/a>&#8221; GIFS, many others <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100220946649\" target=\"_blank\">posited<\/a> additional awards that Trump by all rights should receive. They include the Ten Commandments (from Moses), the All Valley Karate Championship, the Wimbledon Women&#8217;s Singles, the 4H Biggest Pig, Best In Show from Westminster Kennel Club, the Award for Unusually Quickly Healed Ear, and the 1936 Olympic Gold from his hero, Hitler. It remains to be seen if, as suggested, he&#8217;ll ask Taylor Swift for one of her Grammys. <\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump gets a 1936 Olympic medal from Hitler to go with his recycled peace prize\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"18b1a103c88313a21bc78a5c8adcbf2d\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"3eec2\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/trump-gets-a-1936-olympic-medal-from-hitler-to-go-with-his-recycled-peace-prize.jpg?id=62840776&amp;width=980\"> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">Trump gets a 1936 Olympic medal from Hitler to go with his recycled peace prize<\/small><small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\">Meme from Bluesky<\/small><\/p>\n<p>By way of resistance, others have just done their (jury) duty. Jacob Winkler, a 33-year-old homeless man in D.C., was <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.285272\/gov.uscourts.dcd.285272.1.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a> in September on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/39A\" target=\"_blank\">felony <\/a>charge after allegedly shining a toy laser beam at Trump&#8217;s helicopter as he left the White House. As with Sandwich Guy, fake US Attorney Jeanine Winebox Pirro was eager to prosecute another lowly perp &#8220;to the fullest extent of the law.&#8221; A <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.285272\/gov.uscourts.dcd.285272.1.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Statement of Probable Cause <\/a>described the gritty crime: A cop shone a flashlight at Winkler, who shone a beam at the cop, then &#8220;in the direction of&#8221; the helicopter. The cop &#8220;immediately identified&#8221; the action as a lethal danger. Winkler said he didn&#8217;t know he couldn&#8217;t point the laser there: &#8220;He points it all kinds of things,&#8221; like stop signs. Last week, a jury deliberated 35 minutes before finding him not guilty. His public defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/17\/laser-beam-trump-jeanine-pirro\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a> the feds &#8220;spent scarce resources to make a felon out of a homeless man (with) a cat toy keychain&#8230;We need to stop policing poverty and start investing in dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also the unnamed hero in Florida who registered the domain <a href=\"https:\/\/nazis.us\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">nazis.us<\/a> and redirected it to the DHS website. It still works. Go there. It shrieks &#8220;Become a homeland defender,&#8221; &#8220;America has been invaded by criminals and predators. We need YOU to get them out,&#8221; and &#8220;New Year, New Dirtbags,&#8221; which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2026\/01\/12\/new-year-new-d..\" target=\"_blank\">announces <\/a>5,000 more &#8220;criminal illegal aliens added to <a href=\"https:\/\/wow.dhs.gov\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wow.dhs.gov<\/a>, \u201cWorst of the Worst\u201d and the arrest of &#8220;over 10,000 criminal illegal aliens who were killing Americans, hurting children and reigning terror (sic) in Minneapolis.&#8221; No, wait, ICE Barbie says &#8220;brave&#8221; Gestapo have arrested <em>3,000 <\/em>&#8220;criminal illegal aliens including vicious murderers, rapists, child pedophiles and incredibly dangerous individuals.&#8221; They name <em>three<\/em>  &#8220;criminals.&#8221; No word on the other 2,997. This week their shock troops swarmed into coastal Maine in &#8220;Operation Catch of the Day.&#8221; Just what the fucking fuck. Childish sociopaths are running our government.<\/p>\n<p>Also safeguarding the worst pedophile in modern history. The DOJ has <em>again<\/em> stonewalled on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/justice-departmen...\" target=\"_blank\"> releasing<\/a> files legally mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA) to have been released by Dec. 19, a month ago. Instead, Pam Bondi, hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CattardSlim\/status\/2012400201588260910\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">posting<\/a>, &#8220;No one is above the law!&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.nysd.539612\/gov.uscourts.nysd.539612.840.0.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><u>filed a motion<\/u><\/a> to block an effort by Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie to compel her to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MeidasTouch\/status\/2012377191577718820\" target=\"_blank\">follow the law.<\/a> Autoworker T.J. Sabula wants that too, which is why he just <a href=\"https:\/\/deanblundell.substack.com\/p\/video-trump-co...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">yelled<\/a> &#8220;Pedophile protector!&#8221; at Trump as he toured a Ford plant; ever stately Trump screamed &#8220;FUCK YOU!<strong>&#8220;<\/strong> and flipped him off before launching into a vile racist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/jan\/13\/trump-economy-cost-of-living\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">speech<\/a> that blamed high living costs on&#8230;.Somalis in Minnesota. Sabula was suspended &#8211; &#8220;Know your place&#8221; &#8211; the union vowed to fight for him, a<a href=\"ttps:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/tj-sabula-is-a-patriot\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> GoFundMe <\/a>&#8211; &#8220;TJ Sabula is a patriot!!&#8221; &#8211; raised almost half a million dollars before shutting down to make room for other causes, and Sabula had &#8220;definitely no regrets whatsoever&#8230;I don&#8217;t feel as though fate looks upon you often.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, in the same spirit, the members of <em>Secret Handshake <\/em>marked what would have been Epstein&#8217;s 73rd birthday with a new &#8220;participatory public artwork&#8221; on the National Mall. Following up on their faux-bronze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-holding-hands-statue_n_68d2ba98e4b06a8b846e409a\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">besties <\/a>holding hands, they <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/new-artwork-on-national-mall-lampoons-trump-epstein-birthday-card\/\" target=\"_blank\">installed<\/a> a massive, 10-foot-tall replica of the infamous, obscene birthday card Trump sent Epstein. One side reads, &#8220;Happy Birthday to A Terrific Guy!&#8221;, the other reproduces the drawing of a naked woman, or, chillingly, girl. Next to it are mock boxes of redacted files, Sharpies, and an invitation for visitors to write &#8220;your own message&#8221; to salute the birthday of Trump&#8217;s &#8220;closest friend.&#8221; Read one, &#8220;RAPISTS LOVE RAPISTS.\u201d Their art, the group says, provides a vital, life-affirming &#8220;voice in dark times.\u201d So did Springsteen the other night when he <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/bruce-springsteen-denou..\" target=\"_blank\">appeared <\/a>unannounced at a New Jersey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lightofday.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">benefit <\/a>to dedicate his son<em>g<\/em> <em>The Promised Land<\/em>, &#8220;an ode to American possibility,&#8221; to Renee Good &#8211; &#8220;if you believe that truth still matters, and it&#8217;s worth speaking out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\"> <span class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"0a379068338eefa11e26fc5b7bfa8924\" style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"auto\" lazy-loadable=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RcqHvsqxVsY?rel=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/span> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">&#8211; YouTube<\/small> <small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RcqHvsqxVsY\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com<\/a> <\/small> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMG. We have landed in an inane, insane, bombastic Monty Python skit, slap-dash improvised by a sick vengeful child king churning through endless hissy fits. He wants to invade Greenland, occupy Minnesota, whitewash America, attack allies, bomb everyone, be Hitler with a shiny Peace Prize so his daddy will like him, and Jeffrey who? Still, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}