Tuesday, January 27, 2026

yeah, i'm zonked.

i've been sleeping for days. i've been through two boxes of kleenex. i'm totally dehydrated.

if i did pick something up at the doctor's office on wednesday, i can understand why they were there. 

but, if that's the case, it should pass in the next day or two. if i'm still sick on monday, i'm going to need to get to a doctor. 

no signs of bubos or bleeding. my eyes look normal. i think it's a bad cold or covid.

i'm going to make some more pizza and go from there. i hope to have my head cleared in the next 24-48 hours, or i'm going to get worried.
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how can i make sense of this?

it might be that "moderate" regional actors, like egypt, who have been critical of the new regime in syria, which is clearly a fascist government, are concerned that they might destabilize their own countries. egypt doesn't align well in the normal islamic theocracy v democracy spectrum in the middle east. egypt is a totalitarian, mostly secular state that is most likely to be destabilized by islamists and would observe their rise in syria or palestine with extreme caution.

graham may be pulling somewhat of a cato in seeking to divide and conquer a little, and that's standard american policy, in a way that might escape trump or go over his head.

it is not in america's interest to have a strong islamist state in syria or to continue to allow the turks to devolve back into ottoman authoritarianism. if this is graham's way to get that across, i have to agree with him, which doesn't happen too often.

legislation with teeth to protect the kurds would apply to syria, turkey, iraq and iran.

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this is unexpected but i'll take it.

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donald trump would appear to be a poor judge of character and poor judge of people. he does not pick good friends.

ask ghislaine maxwell.
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america's new friends don't seem to be very good friends.

but america is not a good friend, and donald trump is a very bad friend.

so, you know. you get what you deserve.

the reason that the turks and saudis are both dead-set on this, despite both being in a longstanding cold war again iran, is that they worry that the precedent will be set against them. and they're right. 

i don't think that torpedoing khamenei's residence is going to topple the regime. it might, maybe, moderate it. he's a fucking stubborn old man and his time to die is already past.

i don't think removing mbs in saudi arabia would help either, as he actually appears to be more moderate than the older generation, which is still technically in charge. mbs is but a mere prince. he might even still get snubbed. it happened to bandar bush.

i do think that taking erdogan out would be helpful to the turkish people, but i don't think that's on any table except the anarchist's table, and that table is not invited to the white house.

could you imagine the germans or the danes or the french denying america access to their air space? the turks are even in nato.

with friends like these, who needs enemies?

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this would be a complete nightmare scenario. we'd be forced to adopt widespread market economics and would cease to be canada. we'd might as well let the americans conquer us.

canada's population should be relatively small to maintain our social services and way of life - it should be in the 30-35 million people range. there are already too many people here, and the government should already be trying to reduce the population.

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that didn't happen. it's 19:00 and i've been sleeping soundly since 5:00.

while the officers did have grounds to use non lethal force, and had justification to arrest him for physically resisting, and, if i was there in the crowd, and i knew he had a gun, i'd be happy to see him go away, there were no grounds to repeatedly shoot him with intent to kill at short range, and kristi noem's description of the events has no reflection on reality. and this is not the first time.

she should resign or be fired.

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