President-Elect Grievance has been on a madhouse roll over the last week. There has been a lot of meaningless blather about annexing Canada or taking over the Panama Canal. And there was a hilariously faked MAGA meeting at a restaurant in Nuuk, Greenland because not only is Greenland governed by a liberal party, the second biggest political party is a Greenlandic independence party.

All of this is meant to obscure what he and his cronies are doing. These may not be the most intellectually astute people, but it’s clear that the band of traitors learned one important lesson from their failed coup on 1/6/21:  you’ve got to have all of your people in place well in advance of your attack. Which leads us to this:

Senate Majority Leader John Thune told us in a brief interview on Tuesday that Republicans have started feeling out who Democrats will help confirm on Jan. 20, immediately after Trump is sworn in. Remember that quick confirmation in the Senate will require support from all 100 senators. Senate GOP Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) called Day One confirmations a current “top priority.”

“That process is beginning,” Thune said, asked about efforts to check with Senate Democrats on confirmations they can clear on Jan. 20. He added that “as you might expect, the noms for the national security space are awfully important.”

Ya think? Except, considering those nominees include Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard, I’d say that it’s more important that those nominees be slow-walked for as long as possible. It’s no surprise that there is a rush to confirm those 2 as well as Kash Patel and Marco Rubio—you need to control the national police force as well as the national legal system to put your traitors in place and to protect them if some unpolluted legal entity indicts them. And you need an easier way to talk to Putin to get your marching orders. This is how Project 2025 gets off the ground.

The only upside is that the P-EG camp still hasn’t learned how governing works:

Now it’s beginning to become apparent that Trump is going to suffer another indignity on January 20, when he should be basking in his renewed status as national sun king. As Politico reports, people around Trump foolishly told him that he might get all or most of his Cabinet designees confirmed by the Senate by day one:

With less than two weeks until Donald Trump takes the oath of office, only a small handful of his nominees appear on track for immediate confirmation — sparking tensions between the Senate GOP and Trump’s inner circle.

At a private lunch on [January 8], Republican senators discussed whether they should — or even could, under law and Senate rules — advance Trump nominees without final FBI background checks, financial disclosures and other paperwork, according to a person in the room. …

And the nominees aren’t helping to move the process along, either:

As Cassidy intimated, the sniping is starting to bubble to the surface. Some Senate Republicans are privately bemoaning the Trump transition wasting time debating whether to conduct FBI background checks, which have long been standard procedure for high-level executive nominees. Distrustful of the FBI, Trump initially wanted to engage private firms instead, but Senate Republicans ultimately convinced him the confirmations would go smoother if he stuck with protocol.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has personally encouraged nominees in his meetings with them to get their paperwork in as fast as possible, according to a GOP official familiar with those conversations. Yet Republican aides say delays have persisted with some of them.

“If a nominee hasn’t submitted their paperwork in a timely fashion, there’s only so much the Senate can do,” said one of those GOP aides. “The Senate is doing everything we can to move forward, but there’s just a lot of bureaucracy.”

You hate to see it.

Going forward, let’s remember to look in the opposite direction of where they want us to focus our outrage. It’s time to start practicing again. And the cover photo is from my trip to Greenland last year.

This is my assessment of the incoming ship of state: