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Lindsey Stirling - O Holy Night
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that
Carpenters - Merry Christmas Darling
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My sun sets to rise again.
Kenny & Dolly - Once Upon A Christmas
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I have always been dissatisfied with my gifts.Jim Brickman - The Gift (Official) ft. Collin Raye & Susan Ashton
Nope. It's the law of supply and demand. Oil production reached an all-time higher under Biden. Trump simply followed the trend. The big story is a supply glut in a slow global economy.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 14, 2025
No. Trump is an unconvicted federal criminal.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 14, 2025
Nope. The federal deficit adds to Trump's lifetime first-term debt of almost $8T. There's a baked in almost $2T deficit under Trump. His illegal tariffs will have to be refunded. pic.twitter.com/cP8ATmWh48
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 14, 2025
Trumpkin xenophobic smears of unauthorized aliens, not supported by independent statistics.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 14, 2025
Okay, this is obviously an Internet hoax. Not even Trump is that r-word. https://t.co/f6Giq3pPig pic.twitter.com/XiQCXr3BcP
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 14, 2025
Trump is so delusional that he thinks constantly lying about his 2020 loss will revert reality.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 14, 2025
False choice. They are both war criminals.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 14, 2025
Trump was a registered Democrat.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 14, 2025
Not even Taylor Swift's engagement could save the KC Chiefs season. I still carry sour grapes from KC's victory over the Vikings in the Super Bowl.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 14, 2025
Note that Trump unsuccessfully challenged Buchanan for the 2000 Reform Party nomination. Trump changed political parties more frequently than he switched wives.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 14, 2025
Paying lip service to tragedy is not leadership. Making Trump out to be a victim of Reiner's criticisms and using the tragic circumstances to promote his fake accomplishments go beyond pathetic, petty audacity. Trump is an evil excuse of a human being.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 16, 2025
Yes, Trump is that damn stupid. It's bad enough he is trying to rationalize war like Bush did on questionable WMD's, but Bush was talking about real WMD's, not an illicit drug problem with a failed decades long war on drugs which doesn't deal with the demand issue. https://t.co/k9ZWj4qxxZ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 16, 2025
The Trump Department of Propaganda "don't know much about history, Not only are Trump's tax cuts (never mind his illegal tariffs on Americans) mediocre, they're not nearly the biggest. https://t.co/oBDGxIKhD9 pic.twitter.com/XI4uGWz2Uc
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 16, 2025
Trump's numbers are not independently corroborated. We already know Trump sabotaged Senate immigration reform because he wanted to use the issue in his 2024 campaign. And by far the biggest drop was from mid- 2024 under Biden's new asylum policy.https://t.co/cC4AwL6WaX https://t.co/hqAWnOtZ7S
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 16, 2025
Misleading abuse of statistics. https://t.co/D8MTUALdeO pic.twitter.com/oKL3lo0xNH
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 16, 2025
No The Felon-in-Chief in fact issues illegal orders.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 17, 2025
As usual. Bessent is an economic illiterate Trumpkin. For one thing, there are 11 to 14 unauthorized immigrants, maybe 4% of the population. About two-thirds have been been residents for at least a decade. They are unevenly distributed across states. https://t.co/IOfqFOmC3c https://t.co/YUZyJi5FNW
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 17, 2025
Some Trumpkin wants to clone him.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 17, 2025
Nope. Trump design is tacky opulence.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 17, 2025
Trump's attacks on Venezuela are unprovoked, unconstitutional and a war crime.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 17, 2025
No. But he is easily the worst since LBJ.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 17, 2025
These are corrupt, unpaid-for, limited, temporary tax breaks enjoyed by only a fraction of working Americans. The rest of us have to pay for Trump's special interest voter bribes. Enough with Trump's bread and circus gimmicks!
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 17, 2025
I don't give a damn what a stupid Trumpkin political whore thinks. Wer've got a Felon-in-Chief trying to start an unprovoked. unconstitutional war under a fake pretense of a drug prohibition war. Our soldiers under UCMJ are not allowed to carry out illegal orders, period!
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 17, 2025
That Trump is a fickle friend.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 17, 2025
So would over 100 M other Americans and billions of others across the globe. What's your point?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 18, 2025
Rob Reiner. as an American, was entitled to his opinions. Trump is a rude selfish bastard who pisses on the graves of murder victims.
Trump is no "conservative". He averages about a $2T deficit annually. He's an imperial POTUS who has broken the law repeatedly and the Constitution.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 18, 2025
Trump's unconstitutional illegal actions against civilian boats under unproven sham pretenses of illicit drug running are impeachable war crimes, especially executing civilian survivors.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 18, 2025
Thank God for patriots like Tom Massie calling out a warmongering hypocrite "America First, my ass" Trump. We need to impeach Trump for his unconstitutional war crimes. The SOB is still trying to claim a Nobel Peace Prize! https://t.co/kkOaJYSI8T
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 18, 2025
-I love the Boss, just not his politics.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 18, 2025
Trump's actions are illegal, unconstitutional, and an unprovoked, ethically bankrupt act of war. He must be impeached and removed from office. pic.twitter.com/vQ5ul1Uf5f
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 18, 2025
I will vote libertarian. Neither duopoly candidate is acceptable.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 18, 2025
RINO Felon-in-Chief
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 18, 2025
Wrong, as usual, on all counts. We have the highest unemployment rate since the pandemic. Trump is one of the most unpopular leaders globally. Trump's unprovoked trade wars hurt American consumers & have lowered sales for American exporters. Inflation & tariffs have offset wages
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 18, 2025
Trump is in a state of denial. Voters know better than out-of-touch politicians whether their own budgets are getting stressed. Trump's unprovoked trade wars raise economic uncertainty, bad for business investment, Unemployment is on the rise. Via Yahoo Finance: https://t.co/YW8CCsnpwE pic.twitter.com/eCUoeR9YfI
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 18, 2025
Trump's decision to downgrade marijuana from a Schedule 1 to a Schedule 3 offense is a late but welcome step in the right direction. (I've never used it and don't recommend its use.) Prohibition is generally bad public policy.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 18, 2025
Whereas I am empathetic to the principle of upholding tolerance and respect for individual differences among students and/or faculty, and intolerance of bullying or other negative behaviors. I don't agree with California's focus on divisive ideological mandates. pic.twitter.com/dfIUqHqrdy
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 18, 2025
My latest essay started as a rant over Trump's abominable misconduct after losing the 2020 election; I responded contrasting it to losing my beloved academic teaching career that I split off into its own post.https://t.co/uraEr3XK5P
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 20, 2025
Well, the RINO Felon-in-Chief is right about one thing. Trump made America hell again. I was not a Biden fan, but having the boring, repetitive SOB scapegoat Biden every 5 minutes, blaming him for his own massive failures, almost has me wishing for Biden's return.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 21, 2025
Just because some poll workers didn't do their jobs right doesn't disenfranchise a lawful vote. Ockham's razor. As usual, idiot Trumpkin conspiracy theorists are grasping at conclusions not based on the evidence. pic.twitter.com/Rpde8Ipjni
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 21, 2025
Quote of the Day
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER). (Ultimate Mix, 2020) John & Yoko Plastic Ono Band + Harlem Community Choir
For the first time since late September, we have updates on weekly major stats from CDC; regional trends follow::
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The blog continues to attract typically hundreds of dubious pageviews daily. I just published my fourth one-off essay of the month and may add one over the coming week. An ISU student had loved the work I put into one of the graduate classes I taught and was aware that I had encountered some adversity during my one-year contract there. She had xeroxed a copy of McManus' "Penalty of Leadership" which had appeared in a 1915 Cadillac ad, playing tribute to my efforts, attracting jealousies among the mediocre, etc. I thought I might have republished the piece earlier in the blog but I had forgotten the author's name and had problems identifying it via Google or my blog. I eventually sifted out of my data archive (easier said than done. The essay actually started out comparing Trump's 2020 post-loss meltdown to how I had encountered amd dealt with adversity--while maintaining my dignity and respect I never really wanted to work with people I didn't respect. Oh, don't get me wrong; I have a long memory, and I'm still furious at UTEP for stealing $4K in vested retirement money from me.
AsI write my X followers recently edged back up over 200, but that could flip in a day. X occasionally teases stats like about 1.3k inpressions over the pat week.
Well, last Saturday was WWe's John Cena's retirement match. I was never really a Cena fan. The biggest issue wasn't so much Cena's inevitable loss to Gunther but how he lost. Gunther had promised to force "Never Give Up" Cena to tap out. We expected Cena to pass out but not tap out-which he did.
The inspiration for this essay was an extended personal rant on Trump's failure to accept the reality of his failed 2020 reelection campaign. While I can't say I've experienced the nature and extent of an incumbent POTUS' reelection loss. On his ego, I have experienced numerous adverse incidents in my career and life, most of which I probably won't retell. These injustices have included losing jobs and relationships under freakish, cartoonishly evil circumstances, without the support or knowledge of others. I'll simply discuss one incident in the context of unexpected positive feedback from students, which is relevant in this context. When I was a doctoral candidate and teaching fellow at UH, my department was hybrid, with PLM (production logistics) faculty alongside my MIS discipline, and the chair was PLM and had a personal dislike for me for unknown reasons. (I think he got his share of troublemaking student complaints that I probably never heard about). I never really befriended students or discussed academic politics with them. So one day he called me into his office and vented at me for unclear reasons (usually they don't want to discuss specifics under the fear of instructor reprisals against the student), He then mysteriously rebuked me: "And don't you think you're fooling me one minute by having students seeing me on your behalf!" I literally didn't know what he was talking about. In my life, I never asked for a student's help on my behalf for anything.
I suspect students saw an injustice being done against me and countered it on their own without my knowledge. I know that a similar incident happened later at UTEP. I had disciplined a student for violating my academic honesty policy. She responded by lying to the Dean of Students that I had threatened to blacklist her on the job market. I know because the corrupt, incompetent bastard called, threatening me over the fake accusation. It turned out that the student in question (I was first semester, so I never had her before) had used me as a reference without my knowledge or consent and was worried about employers contacting me. I did end up getting a postcard some weeks later from Eastman Kodak asking for feedback on the student. I wrote back, confirming that I knew the student but had no further comment; I reported it to the university.
UTEP 1990 https://rguillem.blogspot.com/2010/01/miscellany-1610.html
So any way. an east Indian descent student who took the above picture of me before I left the university (he wanted to have the photos of faculty he respected; the last I heard, he had been accepted to the UVA MBA class) had come to me asking for help; he explained he had been on the project team with said cheater in another class; and she had control over access to university resources on the project and had locked him out of resources in retribution for denying the student's lies to the Dean of Students. I had no say in my colleague's class and encouraged him to approach my colleague. I thanked him for defending me to the dean. to which he said indignantly, "I didn't do it as a favor to you; I did it because it was the right thing to do."
I had some reservations with how they typically evaluate teaching at most universities. usually the end of semester subjective ratings, simplistic single-item appraisals. It's not so much the idea of whether I believe in feedback loops (I've written about prototyping in technical communications), but I often got hostile feedback based on student expectations. For many students in the larger cities I taught in, college was just a job ticket needing to be punched, and higher standards than my colleagues' seemed to be at their expense. I remember one student complaining, "I'm acing my history course at a fraction of the time I'm spending trying to pass Dr. Guillemette's class." It was his first coding class, and he was learning new skills. Another student griped that he learned more in my class than any other professor's, but "he deserves none of the credit: I had to do it all by myself." Welcome to college, kid. One student wrote, "He has the hygiene of a frog." (I don't know frogs, but I don't think that was a good thing. I showered daily, washed and rotated clothes, etc.) Another student wrote, "If I have to endure 5 more minutes of Dr. Guillemette's atrocious chalkboard behavior, I'm going to have a primal scream."
I'll never forget my cost accounting prof at UH announcing just before evaluations, "By the way, if you ace my final, you'll get an A in the course no matter what you've done in class to date." On class evaluation days, I usually came to lecture after 15 minutes or so; I remember at UTEP a student showing up around the time as I did. I still recall overhearing another student tell him that he had missed a chance to screw me over.
I recall early in my UTEP database course. over 90% of students didn't know what a linked list was, even though data structures was a prerequisite course. So I basically took a timeout and taught a mini-course on data structures. Students griped too much course for the money, but I wasn't going to let things go on my watch.
Finally, I wanted to discuss an Asian student coed's appraisal at the end of my graduate course of human factors in information systems at Illinois State in Applied Computer Science. After UTEP breached its contract with me, Jane Carey, who had met me at one of her human factors symposia, tipped me off about a 1-year contract at ISU where a faculty member had taken a year off to bootstrap a research program at the university. I got a chance to teach a human factors course (think about fitting technology to users for their relevant task performance). Any regular reader knows my love for quotations; my daily miscellany posts start with one, and I've probably written a couple of essays on wrongfully attributed quotes.
The human factors course was my favorite course ever, reflecting my MIS research orientation. There wasn't a standard text, so I had a collection of papers available at Kinko's. One Asian coed was particularly motivated to write something like a 3-page single-spaced personal review at the end of the course, along with the Cadillac ad essay reproduced below. (A side note: my experience with people from Asia is primarily one of emphasis on education and a hard work ethic. I remember working with a Bangladeshi immigrant who said his family had disowned him for stopping at his MS vs. an MD or PhD.)
She expressed admiration for all the hard work she knew I had put into the course. She tactfully suggested the material went over the heads of most ISU graduate students. [My late Mom thought I would probably suck at teaching, given the fact that I was an overachieving student and would expect the same from my students. Not true.] Once you remember the author and the passage title, it's easy to find. But I hadn't read it in over a decade; I have a huge digital archive, and it took a while to dig it out.
A final note: when I taught a microcomputer applications course in my last semester. I assigned them an open-ended project to develop an application meaningful to themselves. You wouldn't believe how many students wanted to be told what application to do. I had wanted to do something meaningful to their own background. If pushed, I suggested something like a Blockbuster (video store) operation. My favorite was a farmer who set up an immunization schedule for his livestock.
3/13/2019 The Penalty of Leadership by Theodore MacManus
The Penalty of Leadership*
By Theodore MacManus
* This text appeared as an advertisement in The Saturday Evening Post, January 2nd, in the year 1915. Copyright, Cadillac Motor Car Company.
In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction.
When a man's work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be merely mediocre, he will be left severely alone — if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a-wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you, unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius.
Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by.
The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy — but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant.
There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as the human passions — envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains — the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
(From Sunrise magazine, January 1952; copyright © 1952 Theosophical University Press)
https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sunrise/01-51-2/s01n04p115_the-penalty-of-leadership.htm 1/1
Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas
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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.
Faith Hill - Where Are You Christmas?
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You can fool too many of the people
Amy Grant - Grown Up Christmas List
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Do not protect yourself by a fence,
Leon Redbone & Zooey Deschanel - Baby, It's Cold Outside
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I have no special talent.
Melissa Etheridge - Christmas In America
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Small opportunities are often the
Andrea Bocelli - Minuit Chrétien
The Bonehead-in-Chief thinks Democrat Congressman Henry Cuellar is being ungrateful by running for reelection to office after receiving his recent pardon. "No more Mr. Nice Guy." Nobody thinks Trump is a "nice guy". This does prove Trump expected a quid pro quo for a pardon.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 8, 2025
We live in a constitutional republic, with guaranteed individual rights vs majority. Fourth amendment restrictions don't apply just to an unlawful Trump Justice Department. Birthright citizenship was inherited from English common law. not a Fourteenth Amendment invention. pic.twitter.com/0zXp6So2dM
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 8, 2025
Well, to be honest, Trump's birthday is also Flag Day. I personally disagree with delisting national holidays like MLK Day and Juneteenth in favor of non-holidays like Teddy Roosevelt's birthday. I think it was a misguided, totally political part of Trump's anti-DEI agenda. https://t.co/p4OdryHRvs pic.twitter.com/trbmcp62w7
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 8, 2025
I would try him for war crimes.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 8, 2025
Killing your customers is not good for business. Prohibitions are bad public policy. No, obviously Trump is not delusional enough to pick a fight like a nuclear power like China over supply chain links to fentanyl production. No, unarmed ships are not legitimate military targets.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 8, 2025
No, Trump's tariffs won't replace income tax revenue. Via PBS: pic.twitter.com/qth4xpM0Ct
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 8, 2025
Incoherent economically illiterate, unconstitutional rubbish. The POTUS can NEGOTIATE trade agreements, but only Congress can authorize taxes. Period.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 8, 2025
Trump's biggest argument in 2016 was that he had bought his political opponents. It's like blaming the whore and not the john.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 8, 2025
No, Trump's Gestapo has not tracked down migrant children who didn't show up for court dates under the first Trump or Biden Administrations. They aren't necessarily missing but possibly moved without notice. https://t.co/SU6NOTYD30 pic.twitter.com/g29bwXgHvh
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 8, 2025
I have never seen another politician or wealthy person who lacked so much self-control or had treated others with so much disrespect. He routinely claims fake authority. https://t.co/ipmudJAEPr
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 8, 2025
No. Incompetent war criminals should not be in government.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 8, 2025
Why the hell is the RINO Felon-in-Chief threatening US consumers with a surtax over Mexico's alleged shortfall in water rights? It's time for SCOTUS to end Trump's stolen "right" to impose taxes for his own corrupt power grab! https://t.co/07r40kvArU
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 9, 2025
Spoken like the dumbass rich man's son he was, never having had to mow the lawn growing up. I never got the privilege of using a power mower growing up; I had to mow my family's (under a broiling south Texas sun) or my Grandfather's lawn the old-fashioned way, with a push mower.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 9, 2025
There was never an oligarch POTUS before Trump.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 9, 2025
Hegseth is an evil war criminal, an idiot who, like Trump, violated classified data procedures without consequences that military personnel or contractors would face.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 9, 2025
Musk is ignorant of modern forms of slavery in the US. When I was young, men were drafted to die in Vietnam. Many prisoners are forced to work for little if any pay. well below even a minimum wage.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 9, 2025
No. Musk is being uninformed here and ignorant of the past. Worker protections were a tonic to the spoils system, All of Trump's hyper partisanship is a double-edged sword, and I won't be surprised by a purge of Trumpkins once Trump is finally out of office.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 9, 2025
I think a very lucky Trump milked a near-tragic situation to his political benefit.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 9, 2025
Taxing other American citizens to support farmers hurt by foreign retaliatory trade responses to Trump's unprovoked, illegal, and unconstitutional tariffs is Trumpist socialism.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 9, 2025
The White House has nearly tripled its own earlier unvetted claims, and they are uncorroborated by independent sources. pic.twitter.com/IL5ea7fjd9
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 9, 2025
It's almost impossible to cite everything Trump is doing to undermine credibility. Firing a BLS statistician for reporting weak job numbers. Reporting without evidence 10 COVID-19 vaccine infant deaths. Firing IGs without due cause because he wanted his own cronies in charge
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 9, 2025
FIFA has awarded Trump a gold medal, not bad for a dude who could never play soccer because of his heel spurs. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 9, 2025
Did you anticipate my selection of 2025 Man of the Year? (I use "man" in its generic sense. a personal slap against political correctness.)https://t.co/YsT9T0d1hF
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 10, 2025
Lie upon lie. We've averaged about 3.2% GDP growth annually since WWII. Except for maybe a quarter here or there, Trump has never come close to that. His illegal trade wars have lowered trade volumes both ways, eroding our growth and standard of living, higher trade deficits.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 10, 2025
I've been softly critiquing USPS, because two relatives have worked there. I put in a stamp purchase this morning, not noticing that it had defaulted to an 8-year-old Yuma, AZ address for shipping; I had assumed it was linked to my Informed Delivery address.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 10, 2025
Knowingly false propaganda. Trump has exacerbated economic uncertainty with his illegal, unconstitutional trade wars at the expense of American consumers and workers. He fired the BLS leadership, because he didn't like the weakening job picture. Inflation is up, not down
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 10, 2025
Burgers being the topic reminds me of my capstone MBA business strategies class, where my key partner and I analyzed McDonald's. He and his future wife used to meet at McDonald's on the way between cities. We 7 kids used to celebrate First Communion and Confirmation days there
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 10, 2025
Amazon Alexa has a new, younger voice. It's almost like I'm cheating on Alexa with a younger woman.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 10, 2025
He's also the most hated man in Europe, except for maybe his hero Putin. pic.twitter.com/ASDj5n3Pve
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 10, 2025
Can you guess my selection of this year's mock award of Dems behaving badly. "Jackass of the Year"?https://t.co/1WZjHTxR8w
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 10, 2025
Trump, as usual, is utterly incompetent on virtually any topic. In part, it reflects a poor academic background;
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 11, 2025
he views everything through the prism of his xenophobia, and fires people who don't share his worldview.
Via Wikipedia: pic.twitter.com/Zgd0pyVw3l
The story is more complicated. Inflation is up from about 2.4% in the spring to 3% today, not helped by Trump's unconstitutional tariffs. Nominal wages are up, but largely offset by inflation. It's also dubious year over year if it's due to Boden or Trump. pic.twitter.com/3xloW667TJ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 12, 2025
Tariffs are paid by US importers and like all business costs are ultimately paid by US consumers. Trump's tariffs are illegal and unconstitutional. He is directly responsible for retaliatory tariffs on farm products. Unfair trade practices can be appealed under GATT/WTO.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 12, 2025
No. Trump's illegal, unconstitutional tariffs have lowered win-win trade and have introduced economic uncertainty, an economic growth killer. an unforced error that has unnecessarily exacerbated inflation.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 12, 2025
As usual, Trumpkins are lying about energy statistics. In fact, US production surged to an all-time high last year under Biden, and that ongoing trend has continued more slowly under Trump. Prices have more to do with slower global growth. higher supply.https://t.co/NjtuGCTn1t
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 12, 2025
Trump's hypocritical (America First?) meddling in the Western Hemisphere is exacerbating regional tensions. If Trump were really serious about peaceful initiatives, he would start by cutting the military budget and reuce our base empire overseas.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 12, 2025
Supersizing the general government, which the income tax enabled.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 12, 2025
Jackie Kennedy was by far classier and smarter.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 12, 2025
My tongue-in-cheek annual blog award for Republicans behaving badly has a new "winner" this year. Can you guess my selection?https://t.co/dXqPvt1AUH
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 12, 2025
I'm for charging Trump with war crimes.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 13, 2025
This country has a serious mental illness problem. The fact is, Trump's approval rating is around 43% and he got around 49% of the vote last year. That means a lot of Trump supporters have changed their minds. Maybe core Trumpkins remain supporters but it's not 77M.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 13, 2025
The midterms will reinforce the fact Trump is a lame duck.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 13, 2025
No, socialist Trump is giving farmers welfare from illegal taxes he is stealing from other Americans who buy foreign goods.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 13, 2025
No. The fact is, the job market has deteriorated under Trump; he fired BLS statisticians scapegoating them for bad numbers. Just like the climate provides an advantage for other countries to more efficiently produce tropical fruit, ill-suited jobs don't belong to Americans.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 13, 2025
The chutzpah of a political whore who knowingly stripped government workers of collective bargaining rights pretending to represent American labor.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 13, 2025
Trump used bankruptcy laws. stiffing lenders who lent to him in good faith. How many Trumpkins do you know who can use the law to their personal advantage?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 13, 2025
The states, not the federal government, registers drivers. There are no credible statistics I know linking national origin to driver safety. The xenophobic Trump Administration does what it always does: endlessly promote the same few incidents to promote their intentional bias.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 13, 2025
This is a loaded question, like did you kill your mother with an axe? The UCMJ explicitly states you cannot be tried for disobeying an illegal order. If the Felon-in-Chief issues an unconstitutional order, your sworn loyalty is to the Constitution, not the rogue POTUS
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 13, 2025
"Illegal" is an adjective, not a noun. For example, Trump's Gestapo illegally denies alleged unauthorized aliens due process under the Constitution.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 13, 2025
Nope. Trump's illegal, unconstitutional tariffs exacerbate inflation by reducing competition and supply, adding to the costs of consumer goods with no American competition and adding to the costs of over half of imports which are factors of American production.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 13, 2025
Both parties have contributed to the health care problem, including the use of tax exclusions tied to the workplace.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 13, 2025
Every photo the Narcissist-in-Chief takes is one too many.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 13, 2025
Trump is a despicable, pathological liar. Pretending Ukraine started Russia's unprovoked aggression is a sign of mental illness.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 14, 2025
GOP neo-cons like Graham led to the madness of foreign interventionism, and Trump is not only failing to end it; he is trying to expand it into the Western Hemisphere.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) December 14, 2025