A stupid person is in control of the US

I am horrified by this incompetent man who is running the country.

The White House Doctors have just reported that | am in “PERFECT HEALTH,” and that | “ACED” (Meaning, was correct on 100% of the questions asked!), for the third straight time, my Cognitive Examination, something which no other President, or previous Vice President, was willing to take. P.S., | strongly believe that anyone running for President, or Vice President, should be mandatorily forced to take a strong, meaningful, and proven Cognitive Examination. Our great Country cannot be run by “STUPID” or INCOMPETENT PEOPLE!

We should not allow our country to be run by “STUPID” or INCOMPETENT PEOPLE!, which is why Trump should be impeached and his entire administration dismissed, ultimately to be arrested and tried. He is providing the evidence himself: you do not ask people to take a cognitive test unless you suspect there may be a cognitive problem, and asking them to take the test three times suggests that there is a deep problem here.

He is in cognitive decline. He’s also in poor health, to the point that he is tweaking his medication against all medical advice. He’s taking 4 times the recommended daily dose of aspirin.

They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart. I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?

I know a little bit about this, with my history of cardiac problems. Initially they had me taking baby aspirin, low dose aspirin, but then the doctors decided, on the basis of evidence, that this wouldn’t help. So guess what I did? I stopped taking it. I didn’t quadruple the dose.

He’s a stupid, ignorant old man.

Yet somehow this man holds unfettered power; he can, basically on a whim, without congressional approval, invade a foreign country and snatch up the elected leader of that country. Venezuela sets an ugly precedent. I guess we couldn’t complain if the EU swept in and scooped up our president (please do, we’ll welcome you with flags and parades).

Worse, he’s declaring that this sudden snatch-and-grab means we’re now in charge, that we “run” Venezuela, and he has admitted that the motive was simple greed, to steal their oil. We tried this in Iraq, at the cost of a million lives and trillions of dollars. Are we supposed to believe that this will work this time?

I need a stronger word than “worse,” because now Stephen Miller is talking about taking over Greenland.

One of President Donald Trump’s closest aides, Stephen Miller, questioned Denmark’s claim on Greenland and suggested the U.S. could seize it without pushback, stoking concern among European allies.

Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper, Miller sidestepped questions of whether the U.S. will use military force to take Greenland, a territory of Denmark, and said the president has been “clear for months” that the U.S. should have it.

“Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,” Miller said in the Jan. 5 interview.

We are so fucked. The whole world is fucked.

Why 99% of scientists believe in evolution

The answer is a lot simpler than Nathaniel Jeanson thinks. It’s because creationism is bullshit.

The gentleman to the left is Nathaniel Jeanson, a guy who went to all the trouble of getting a PhD from Harvard, only to use his diploma to lend some authority to his young earth creationist beliefs. He’s not a serious person. He is employed by Answers in Genesis, and made a short video to answer the question, “Why 99% of Scientists Believe in Evolution”. He’s going to fail.

Why work so hard to keep creation science out?

We don’t. Creation science is so patently silly that we don’t have to work very hard at all to keep it out of our classrooms. It’s also so trivial that…what would we do? A single semester is 15 weeks long, with about 45 hours of lecture time. There isn’t enough substance in creationism to fill that amount of time, while evolution is so data- and concept rich that we can’t cover it adequately in a multi-year program.

The answer is simple. Evolutionists must believe that scientists become evolutionists if that’s what they’re taught.

Well, yes. We teach students to evaluate the evidence and see the utility of sound, testable explanations, and then when we teach them about evolution, they should accept it. We also think that if you’re properly taught about calculus or chemistry, they should accept mathematics or chemistry.

What is Jeanson’s problem here? Does he think it’s abnormal that students can learn?

I see no other explanation for the evolutionists’ behavior. Evolutionists must believe with all their heart that students adopt the position that they’re taught.

What behavior? I teach the subject I’m trained to teach, and that I have long experience in studying. What other explanation does he need?

As for the idea that students adopt the position they’re taught…he’s clearly never been a teacher. Students resist learning new ideas. Teaching is hard work on both the instructor’s side and the students’ side, and no, we don’t expect students to accept as fact everything we tell them. They have to think it through critically, and test ideas against the evidence.

In short, there is a simple explanation for why 99% of scientists reject my young earth creation position in favor of evolution. It’s because evolution is all they’re ever taught.

That claim falls with a loud clunk. A simpler explanation: we reject your young earth creationism because it’s bogus and unsupported by any credible evidence.

It’s also not true that evolution is all they’re taught. Most of my students were brought up Christian, have read at least bits and piece of the Bible, are soaking in a credulous culture where Noah’s Ark, for instance, is a familiar meme. Most scientists are entirely familiar with the mythology common in their society, and we’ve heard it all. It just doesn’t hold up to any critical scrutiny.

Is this all you’ve got, Nathaniel? Accusing everyone who disagrees with you of having been indoctrinated into a dogma, while you yourself are employed at a business that demands unquestioning obedience to a statement of faith?

Speaking of disease…

Another little change in national health policy has occurred.

States will no longer be required to report how many children they vaccinate to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), according to a December 30 letter to state health officials.

Maybe if we pretend that infectious disease no longer exists, it will stop happening. Crawl under your bed, close your eyes, and the horrible monster will disappear.

This is just the first phase, though. Over a year ago, Florida was pioneering the way forward.

As Florida moves to become the first in the United States to drop all childhood vaccine requirements, critics have warned of the plan’s potentially deadly public health consequences.

The move would scrap all required vaccine mandates for children, including those required for school attendance, such as polio, diphtheria, rubeola, rubella, pertussis, mumps and tetanus.

The state’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, a longtime vaccine skeptic, on Wednesday compared school vaccine mandates to slavery, calling them “immoral” intrusions on parents’ rights.

“Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body? I don’t have that right. Your body is a gift from God,” he said.

Children won’t be dying, if we stop reporting on it. Brilliant.

On a related note, I just saw this comment from Gwen Pearson that fits perfectly.

If you have ever dealt with lice, you know that they’re terribly difficult to get rid of, especially if one of the kids’ playmates is constantly recontaminating your family with the problem — if it’s happening at school, everyone in the classroom must take steps to eradicate the nits and lice. It’s the same story with measles, or whooping cough, or polio. Awareness is key, and our government wants to blind us.

It’s a pit of disease as well as ignorance

Nobody should be surprised by this:

Today (1/1/26) the Kentucky Department for Public Health announced that an unvaccinated, out-of-state individual with measles visited the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky, on December 29, 2025. Local and regional health departments are scrambling to warn and inform the public.

It’s only what should be expected, given Ken Ham’s beliefs about disease prevention.

During the Covid pandemic and lockdown, Ken Ham railed against mask mandates, was involved in lawsuits against OSHA vaccine requirements and was ambivalent about vaccines. When writing about vaccine mandates and Covid lockdowns, Mr. Ham said:

Certainly, people died from the virus, although I think we are all confused at what the actual statistics are. People die every day from all sorts of diseases. But once a person dies, God’s Word tells us they will spend eternity in heaven or hell. So how essential is the church, the body of Christ (of which AiG is a part of), for people’s well-being? It is vital.

Once again, I’m wishing I believed in Hell…but only for Christians like Ken Ham.

Not even cool enough to be cyberpunk

Guess where I’ve been this morning?

I had a blood vessel pop in my eye a while back, and I had a follow-up check-up today. My eyes are still there. I still have an annoying blind spot in my right eye, just north of center, and it’s never going to go away, right up to the day I die. Oh well.

My eyes are still good enough that I can see that annoying tuft of hair rising up vertically front and center in my scalp. I’m turning into Tintin. An old, bearded, gray Tintin. So it goes.

Now I have to stop for a while — I got the usual pupil dilation eyedrops. Everything is blurry with bright star-like fringes around it, and it hurts to look at the screen.

Jesus has been arrested

It’s about time.

Jesus was running a camp for the homeless in Alabama — which sounds exactly like what the reincarnated Jesus would do — when the cops rousted him and his followers, broke up the camp, and arrested many of the people there. Personally, I don’t like the cult thing, but there ought to be a better way to deal with the poor and homeless than arresting for the crime of existing while destitute.

The religious group leader, who described himself to WBRC 6 as “the only begotten son of the living God,” recalled waking up to the warrant being executed after hearing a noise.

Now that part is just weird, but people are allowed to believe weird stuff. It’s not criminal.

The leader also told the outlet that he felt that the authorities’ approach was heavy-handed.

Yes, it was, and totally inappropriate. We live in one of the richest countries in the world, and it is obscene that so many people are forced to live in tents in a forest while Elon Musk is squatting on $700 billion dollars.

But I must remind the current incarnation of “the only begotten son of the living God” that his earlier incarnation was treated rather more harshly than he is. Not that that excuses the cops or the landowner, but we should keep in mind how the unchecked power of the state could be used.

Let Jesus go.

The scandals keep dribbling out

Swankiest little whorehouse in Palm Beach

Everything Trump says is, at best, a half-truth. He’s been claiming that he kicked Epstein out of Mar-A-Lago because he was poaching his employees, which is partly true. What he doesn’t mention is that this was after years of privileged access to resort employees. We have more details published in the Wall Street Journal.

Per the report published on Tuesday, Trump sent young women who worked for the Palm Beach resort to Epstein’s home for massage sessions, a perk afforded to some members of the Florida club. The resort kept up this practice for years, even though Epstein was not a member of the club.

The outlet reported that “the house calls went on… even as spa employees warned each other about Epstein.” Employees told the paper that Epstein “known among staff for being sexually suggestive and exposing himself during the appointments.”

Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell is known to have used the resort to recruit women and girls for the late sex trafficker. One of Epstein’s most vocal accusers, Virginia Giuffre, was pulled into Epstein’s orbit while working at Mar-a-Lago. Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier this year, had refuted accusations that Trump was involved in Epstein’s sex crimes.

The president said earlier this year that Epstein’s poaching of employees like Giuffre was part of the reason their friendship came to an end. The report dug into the much-discussed falling out between Trump and Epstein in 2003. Per employees who spoke to the outlet, Trump barred Maxwell and Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after an 18-year-old employee returned from a house call and said that Epstein “pressured her for sex.”

Mar-A-Lago was a pedophile hunting ground for years and years, and even if Trump didn’t directly rape any young women, he was an enabler who turned a blind eye to Epstein/Maxwell calling up and asking to have women delivered for “massages”.

I’m ready for 2025 to end

It’s New Year’s Eve. Goddamn, this has been an awful year.

There is nothing magical about this date, it’s just another day in a long series of them, we’re just going to change the number of the year, but there are things I’ll be wishing to happen (while having low expectations that anything will happen.)

For 2026, I would like to see the rule of law creep back. I want white nationalism to be repudiated. I want vengeance: I want the fascists in government arrested and locked away.

Is that too much to ask?

If not, throw in the end of capitalism, the collapse of the AI bubble, and the death of Trump.