Remember, the Dow is not the economy. The Dow is a CEO happiness indicator – and on Tuesday, it took a plunge. It fell 870 points while the Felon bragged about all of the “accomplishments” he imagines during one of his many, “Ain’t I great?” speeches. (For the record: No, you ain’t.) The plunge is the result of our National Embarrassment’s threats to tax the crap out of American citizens in an effort to punish Europe for not letting him steal Greenland. Yes, of course it’s stupid, this is Donny we’re talking about. But that’s the plan. BIG tariffs, paid by Americans, until Europe surrenders Greenland.

Is that any MORE stupid than saying you’re taking Greenland from Denmark because Norway denied you a prize they don’t control? The man – and I use the term loosely – is losing his effing mind. Is the US really going to war because one madman can’t be mollified?

No. As it happens, it was TACO Wednesday yesterday. Donny spoke at Davos, where the rich divvy up the spoils. He started with firm resolve in his voice. No, he wouldn’t use military force, though, he assured our allies, they wouldn’t be able to stop us if he did. But by God, he would have Greenland. He would make a deal for Greenland. He had to make a deal for Greenland.

“I’m helping NATO and until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me.” Wait, what? Iceland? He blathered on a bit more then added, “They’re not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland’s already cost us a lot of money.”

This, of course, was old-man-losing-his-mind stuff. Anybody can misspeak. But he said Iceland four times when he meant Greenland – and he never seemed to have noticed. Look, he’s genuinely stupid. Maybe he thinks Greenland and Iceland are the same place. As a sidebar, KKKarolyin’ Levitt tried to cover for him by claiming he meant ‘Icy land,’ merely a poetic description of Greenland. Nobody (but MAGA) is buying because everybody (but MAGA) heard his actual words.

Here’s the thing: most of Donny’s “policies,” if they might EVER have worked (they wouldn’t) might only have worked, like, seventy or eighty years ago. The world is a VERY different place, now. Yes, the US has the greatest military on the planet and in history. But in the 1970’s, rich people decided they didn’t want to pay their fair share in taxes anymore and our national debt has been ballooning at an unsustainable rate ever since.

We cover it by selling that debt to the world. They buy our bonds, which we then promise to repay over time. American promises used to mean something, so people bought, meaning they hold the debt. That debt makes us FAR weaker than our military makes us strong. If they should, I don’t know, sell those bonds all at once, guess what happens. If you guessed “Stock Market plunge,” you win. No, there are no prizes. Just enjoy your good feelings. Yay, you.

So, while the most self-important and greedy people on the planet were all coming together for their economic back-patting meeting – THEY, after all, are doing great – the world started hearing about a plan from the European Union called “Sell America” and the Dow dropped 840 points. That was Europe telling our National Embarrassment, “Nice country ya got there. Be a shame if something happened to it, economically.”

But, and this point is speculation, because Donny is as dumb as any rock, someone explained it to him in private too. They went slow. They gave his dinosaur-like reflexes time to assimilate the information. “Stand down on Greenland (AND Iceland, you moron) or we crash your economy.”

The next time we saw Donny – no more speculation here – he was announcing he was over Greenland. “They” had worked out a plan. No, a framework of a plan. Well, he had a concept of a framework of a plan. You know, in the future. That’s the soundbite that will be fed into MAGA media. They have a concept of a framework of a future plan. Sure, it’s TACO but MAGA will actually believe he did something. There ARE none so blind as those who will not see.

When Donny was asked if the concept of the framework for the future plan included the US owning Greenland, he stopped dead in his tracks and said, “Uhhh…” That’s true. I’ve never seen him so stuck for a lie. He locked up for a moment before saying, “Duh, it’ll be great for everybody.” When asked how long the concept of the framework of the future plan would apply, he said, “Infinity.” At least that part is true. He doesn’t get Greenland, ever. Then Donny tucked his evil little tail and ran away. He’s outta there.

It was a pretty effective distraction. It lasted for several days. The Trump/Epstein Files never went away but they fell off the front pages for a time. So did Ukraine, where Putin was bombing the crap out of that country. But for the moment, Greenland seems to be over…

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We don’t get too many bright spots these days but here’s one: There is no statute of limitations on murder. Jonathan Ross may look like he’s getting away with the murder of Renee Good today, but the future looms. Donny won’t last forever. Ross’s murder will. All we have to do is keep an eye on him for now…

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Wow, based on social media activity, I’d say MAGA is being whipped into a frenzy again. They’re hearing that if the Dems take back one or both houses of Congress in November, cons are going to jail. That’s probably true, but if it IS true, it will be done by fair trial, with convictions based on crimes they’ve actually committed and can be proven, not on assertions and speculation. MAGA is being assured that such convictions will be “Lawfare,” yet another example where the right accuses the left of doing that which the right is actually doing.

MAGA will be loud, but they’ll be wrong. I hope the US does the right thing and convicts criminals rather than taking some political long-view that pretends Team Evil “learned their lesson” by losing an election. If criminals don’t go to jail, they don’t stop committing crimes. It’s pretty simple, really…