{"id":160965,"date":"2026-01-25T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=160965"},"modified":"2026-01-25T01:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:00:30","slug":"another-day-another-array-of-infuriating-stupid-and-or-evil-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/25\/another-day-another-array-of-infuriating-stupid-and-or-evil-shenanigans.html","title":{"rendered":"Another day, another array of infuriating, stupid, and\/or evil shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a technique exercised by folk trying to deflect criticism, or confuse potential critics, or shift attention from particular wrongdoings, or even just turn off people so much they stop paying attention because it’s so bewildering, or so maddening, or so apparently-unstoppable.<\/p>\n

It’s a technique that, knowingly or not, the Trump Regime is practicing in spades.<\/p>\n

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Day to day, it’s nigh-impossible to focus on the latest shenanigans from Trump and\/or his coterie of lickspittles and proto-fascists. It’s shock-and-awe, news cycle style, where bright lights and loud noises are going off in too many directions, and changing from day to day, so that what seemed awful yesterday is forgotten tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Just a few instances, from the relatively small to the profoundly dangerous.<\/p>\n

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National Park Service Incites Anger By Quietly Removing Banned Signs From Civil War Site<\/div>
The NPS Has Removed Climate Change Signs From A Civil War Landmark<\/div>
www.thetravel.com\/national-park-service-removes-banned-signs-from-civil-war-site\/<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

Trump’s ostrich-head-in-the-sand approach to climate change has the NPS removing signs from the Ft Sumter site warning that rising sea levels could destroy the location. Can’t have people thinking all those re-opened coal plants might do any harm, can we?<\/p>\n

<\/a>
New York school violated civil rights law by changing name from \u2018Thunderbirds\u2019 to \u2018T-Birds,\u2019 US says<\/div>
BOHEMIA, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 A New York school district is \u201cerasing its Native American heritage\u201d and violating civil rightBOHEMIA, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 A New York school district is \u201cerasing its Native American heritage\u201d and violating civil rights law by changing its team name from the \u201cThunderbirds\u201d to the \u201cT-Birds,\u201d federal education officials say.s law by changing its team name from the \u201cThunderbirds\u201d to the \u201cT-Birds,\u201d federal education officials say.<\/div>
apnews.com\/article\/native-american-school-mascots-names-new-york-8f9135ac28e1c82838d9bc6cf1993b39<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

The long effort to get schools to stop frivolously using Native American symbols or stereotypes is now being actively opposed by the Trump Regime as somehow violating Native American rights. Bring back the “Redskins,” I guess.<\/p>\n

<\/a>
UK PM, others outraged at Trump's comments downplaying NATO allies' role during Afghanistan war<\/div>
Prince Harry and the British Prime Minister slammed Trump over his comments.<\/div>
abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/uk-pm-outraged-trumps-comments-downplaying-nato-allies\/story<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

Donald seems to get particular joy in insulting people who don’t kowtow to him properly. What better way than offending our\u00a0 allies and their war dead, after they joined with the US post-911 in the only Article 5 action NATO has ever taken.<\/p>\n

He backed off today, at least regarding UK troops<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s unclear if he simply wants to further fragment NATO unity, or because he wants to keep the UK cooperating on trade deals.<\/p>\n

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DOJ sought to probe Renee Good for criminal liability, even after her death<\/div>
A judge refused an FBI warrant that proposed investigating dead Minnesota mom for suspected assault on an officer.<\/div>
www.ms.now\/news\/doj-sought-to-probe-renee-good-for-criminal-liability-even-after-her-death-sources<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

First the\u00a0 Trump Regime yoinked investigation around Good’s killing to the FBI.\u00a0 Then they dropped it, trying instead to investigate Good (who is dead) as being criminally liable.\u00a0 That led to still more DoJ \/ FBI folk resigning in protest.<\/p>\n

But, hey, who cares, since the DoJ leadership has declared, by fiat, that Good was absolutely guilty<\/a> (ignore any other interpretations of the videos taken of her shooting), and so why bother with investigating the death? That would be a waste of good whitewash, by God!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the latest DHS shooting (of Alex Pretti) won’t even go to the FBI — the DHS (which did the shooting) will investigate the matter itself.\u00a0 Gee, wonder how that<\/em> will turn out?<\/p>\n

And that’s all just a fraction of what the Regime has done in the last day or two. Who knows what they’ll do tomorrow to distract from those misdeeds, malpractice, and crimes?<\/p>\n

And so it goes.<\/p>\n

Oh, by the way, Donald, where\u00a0are<\/em> those remaining Epstein Files?<\/p>\n

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It’s the shotgun approach to disheartening, disengaging, and deadening the electorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[350,748,10,17,358,740,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-homeland-security","category-poor-citizenship","category-race-racism","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trump-and-Co-2026-01.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133974,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/27\/even-conservatives-seem-to-be-cooling-on-trump.html","url_meta":{"origin":160965,"position":0},"title":"Even conservatives seem to be cooling on Trump","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Jul-17 9:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"A collection of right-wing populist opinion about the President's latest shenanigans. 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