Totally Winging It

07:08 Monday, 2 March 2026
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Add this to your existential dread bucket, Trump is totally winging it with war on Iran.

The guy doesn't have a plan. I think Netanuyahu has been flattering him, blowing warm smoke up his ass, and Trump is desperate to get Epstein out of the news cycle, so why not start a little war?

Why has there been no coherent messaging from the administration to the American people over the weekend? A big part of it may be that they simply feel unaccountable to the American people. But I think the larger part is that they don't know what to say. There is no plan, no strategy. They're totally winging it.

And China can count. I'm certain the Chinese military is counting the ordinance expended on Trump's little "wag the dog," exercise, and revising its calculations on when to seize Taiwan.

I admit that I'm a catastrophist, a "glass half-empty" kind of guy. But that's only because I'm so relieved when I'm wrong.

The world grows more dangerous day by day.

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06:52 Monday, 2 March 2026
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Receiving you five by five, Jacob.

Did a little maintenance to the marmot yesterday, correcting all the PublicationDate attributes from the unexpected and unexplained time shift. On This Day in the marmot posts should now be aligned with their canonical html pages.

I'm thinking about trying to use Claude code to clean up the Groundhog Day file, and then creating some automation to automatically post the On This Day in Groundhog Day. It requires more manual intervention than I care to do day to day. And I'm certain that every post that contained an image is irretrievably broke. Even in the marmot, I'm unable to recover some of the images I posted, apparently later finding they weren't worth keeping in the Photos library.

That just gave me an idea. I should tag every image I post in Photos, and create an album with them all in them so I don't delete them in the future, in case I ever need to find them again.

Anyway, glad to see you blogging with Tinderbox, Jacob!

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