As far as the rest of what's going on around us, here in the U.S., Trump is continuing to push the envelope towards authoritarianism every week. Thom Hartmann wrote an excellent article today paralleling Hitler's SS troops with ICE. He tells it like it is and I'm afraid that by the time the American people figure out what's going on, it'll be too late. I would link the article but its paywalled, so it's of no use to the general public. Suffice to say, he's spot on.

ICE has now been deployed to a handful of major airports around the country as of last Monday, and from all accounts, they're not helping the TSA with anything, as they were supposedly sent there to do. Instead, they're milling about intimidating people, and walking up and down the concourses staring at people, or coking and joking with their cell phones, as they're mostly bored. There was one arrest at the San Francisco airport this week that went viral. According to reports, TSA notified a roving ICE patrol about a woman and her child from Ecuador. There are conflicting reports on whether she was a legal immigrant or not but it was pretty ugly. We all know where she and her child went, don't we? One of the hell-hole concentration camps to await deportation or resolution of her immigrant status. What about the little girl? According to one report I read, they put her in social services. Maybe they put her in the local kids concentration camp also.

What's worse, the feckless American media is not reporting on these arrests anymore. Only the ones that go viral on social media. There has been a lot of criticism about this from the independent media but they don't care. They will follow the party line to keep their corporate coffers going. Heil Trump.

Then there is the war or not war in Iran. We have lots of Marines and a quick reaction force from the 82nd Airborne on their way. But there are no where near the amount of soldiers needed to take on a million man army, such as the one in Iran. So, what's the plan, as so many are asking? No one seems to know, including the Führer. He's been all over the map with his waffling this week, and more and more congress people are starting to publicly ask if he is mentally sound.

As a retired soldier myself, I wonder what those young soldiers, sailors and marines are thinking as they get ready for something. What, they don't know. They're not stupid though. They know the odds of dying on the beaches of Iran, or worse, being dropped by parachute to somewhere in the middle of no man's land Iran to set up a secure perimeter to grab the enriched uranium. They'll be slaughtered and they know it.

But hey, idiots like Trump and Lindsey Graham don't care about them. It's all about getting someone to pay attention to them and not whether the families of all of those soldiers and marines are going to be welcoming their loved ones home in flag draped coffins. Some of which will be empty because the bodies will be unrecoverable.

Trump gave everyone a reprieve yesterday, extending the deadline out another ten days. How gracious of him. Some people who don't care about the Trump Gestapo, are wondering whether this is another sleight of hand like the last two instances. Is the Führer just waiting for the troops to arrive and while he's telling everyone they're working on a deal, he'll attempt to secure a beachhead with the marines once they arrive on station? I repeat, they'll be slaughtered on what ever beach they attempt to land on. Let's hope the Führer TACO's again and they all just return home as if they were out on a foreign training exercise.

I just watched a video from my favourite Austrian, Lilly, and once again, she reports about the economic situation in Austria and Germany, plus a little bit about Europe in general, from an ordinary person's perspective. She reports today that the price of fuel for cars in Austria is the about the equivalent around ten dollars per imperial gallon. For her, it's €2.18 a litre there.

Lena Petrova and Sean Foo, two financial analysts with YouTube channels, have been pointing out how bad the economy is starting to get in the U.S., while the Führer keeps telling everyone how good it is. It's good in his house as he's making a massive fortune out of all of this. For the rest of us, the price of gasoline is up about a dollar a gallon around the country. In some places it's more, and some, a little less. No matter what it is in your area of the country, it's bad. The price of food has gone up significantly lately, and I am predicting here, that we're just starting to see the tip of the iceberg.