Appeasement a No-Go! Larry Summers a Schmo! Elon Musk’s Big Blow! Thanksgiving Aglow!

By Robert Eringer

“Trump Offers a Ukraine Peace Plan the Kremlin Can Love” (NYTs)

Even if Zelenskyy accepted the plan tomorrow, Mad Vlad wouldn’t. Putin doesn’t want peace; he wants victory. He wants Kyiv—and all of Ukraine. And after that, he wants the Baltic republics (and Poland) back under Moscow’s boot. Peace talks, for him, are just camouflage for conquest.

Which brings us to…

“Ukraine ‘peace treaty’ is as bad as 1938 Munich’s appeasement of Nazis” (NY Post)

If those 28 points (capitulations) are the best Steve Witkoff can do, he should go back to real estate.

One can only hope that Trump—based on Putin’s absolute refusal to stop fighting under any conditions short of swallowing Ukraine whole—is merely handing the Kremlin more rope with which to hang itself before lowering the boom with more severe sanctions and Tomahawks.

“US ‘making changes’ to peace plan after crisis talks” (The Telegraph)

Some semblance of sanity restored?

“US spy jet traces mysterious patterns near Russia as top general sends ominous World War 3 warning” (Daily Mail)

A U.S. spy jet spent hours circling over the Black Sea. This is never a good sign.

Poland says Russia is prepping for war, a railway line mysteriously explodes within its borders, and Washington suddenly floats an appeasement plan that gives Mad Vlad Putin everything he failed to win on the battlefield.

When reconnaissance aircraft is flying loops, it means a cold wind has blown through the National Military Command Center at the Pentagon.

“FAA warns all pilots of risks of flying over Venezuela over ‘worsening security situation’” (AP)

Buckle up.

“Larry Summers steps back from teaching as Harvard looks into Epstein ties” (Washington Post)

It took Bill Clinton’s treasury secretary long enough to bail, given that his long-known association with Jeffrey Epstein was an open secret for years.

Meanwhile, his tenure as Harvard’s president leaves that university woke, broke, and Beijing-soaked.

Harvard was once the gold standard of American education.

Now it produces professional victims, PhDs in grievance studies, and Chinese spies—who get in because they pay cash up front, no questions asked.

“FBI missed multiple opportunities to stop Thomas Crooks before he tried to assassinate Trump” (NY Post)

Was the Biden-era FBI simply inept—or is there something behind the veil they’d rather we not see?

“Klimt Painting Becomes the Most Expensive Work of Modern Art at $236.4 Million” (WSJ)

For billionaires, blue-chip art is super-currency.

It offers anonymity, portability, historical longevity, and geopolitical neutrality.

You can’t move $236 million through TSA in cash. But you can roll up a Klimt, stick it in a cardboard tube.

And if you donate it to a museum? Immediate tax write-off.

Unlike dollars, euros, or yen, a Klimt cannot be devalued by central banks or destabilized by elections. It is a non-correlated store of value, indifferent to interest rates or geopolitical turbulence. When the world gets shaky, museum masterpieces behave like gold (and keep up with it—$4,095 per ounce yesterday).

“Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’” (Media-ite)

I asked ChatGPT for its opinion:

That’s not artificial intelligence—that’s a self-obsessed billionaire with access to server racks. Silicon Valley keeps insisting AI will soon replace writers, thinkers, and decision-makers. Based on Grok’s latest performance, it might replace your drunk cousin at Thanksgiving.

“Awkward Putin forced to watch dancing AI robot” (The Telegraph)

A pity it didn’t lunge forward and strangle the cowardly tyrant.

Would’ve been the most imaginative assassination ever.

“Company pulls AI-powered talking teddy bear toy for giving sex advice” (UPI)

“We were surprised to find how quickly Kumma would take a single sexual topic we introduced into the conversation and run with it, simultaneously escalating in graphic detail while introducing new sexual concepts of its own.”

“Secret CIA report boasted about tricking Congress in JFK probe, whistleblower says” (Axios)

I found Deep Tonsils for his take on this at a Chinese takeout near Hazardville, CT. (I suspect he still has relatives in Greenwich for Thanksgiving….)

And finally…

“This Year’s Thanksgiving Surprise: Half of the Guests Are Stoned” (WSJ)

A survival tip for those who need it: trade booze for weed. Not only will your relatives seem humorous. instead of tedious, everything will taste better. (And the cranberry sauce will be more mesmerizing than Northern Lights.)

What a week—whew!

And so should you.

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