The Art of the Steal

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The entire planet knows that Donald Trump lusts after the Nobel Peace Prize. This week he got it—sort of.

The 2025 winner, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, presented Trump her golden medal in a golden frame at the golden White House as a "personal symbol of gratitude on behalf of the Venezuelan people."

I assume Trump's booby prize, the hastily created peace prize FIFA awarded him last month, will now be moved to a West Wing bathroom.

The Nobel Prize committee said that Machado's decision to fork over the medal doesn't change who won. The prize can't be "revoked, shared, or transferred to others."

But Trump's grin on receiving the bribe—I mean gift—showed how happy he was to be the new owner of a lightly used, second-hand medal.

Machado didn't leave the White House empty-handed. She carried away a red gift bag bearing Trump's signature in gold on the outside. As to what, if anything, was inside the swag bag, my bet is a Steven Miller Pez dispenser.

This Week's Quote

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Pedophile protector!

Ford plant worker TJ Sabula to Donald Trump, who twice mouthed an expletive and flipped him off in return

Source:  The Washington Post

A Lesbian Represents

A friend in Vermont sent me this photo taken at an anti-ICE protest in Brattleboro this past weekend. I needed the levity.

Rough Start

Image by TASFIQ UR RAHMAN NABIL from Pixabay

American forces invade Venezuela to capture its president? An ICE agent fatally shoots a woman in Minneapolis?

That's what the Trump administration brought us in just the first week of 2026.

I want to turn this year in already, but I can't find the receipt.

Our Hopes and Wishes Go With You

 

This Week's Quote

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You got to win the midterms because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be -- I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached.

Donald Trump to Republican lawmakers—and threatening the rest of us with a good time

Source:  ABC News

Fantasy History

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The White House today rolled out a new website for the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 riots.

CNN reports the new site claims the violence "was instigated by law enforcement and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It recasts the rioters as the victims that day, and depicts President Donald Trump as a hero for granting sweeping pardons for the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the deadly attack."

Sure. And George Washington grew up on the planet Venus, and currently works as a chiropractor in Poughkeepsie.