Fox reported Air Force One had "minor electrical problem" about an hour out, turned around, Trump changed planes and headed out again.

At this point, no word on what the issue was, or whether DJT switched to the alternate 747 or another plane, or who's on board with him headed for Davos.

A quick check of the Chicago NBC affiliate's 10 pm news, no mention of the incident at all.

Maybe this will light a fire under Boeing to build the replacements.

U.S. military forces in the Caribbean seized control of another oil tanker linked to Venezuela as the Trump administration continues efforts to coordinate traffic through the region, the U.S. Southern Command reported on Tuesday.
The Motor Vessel Sagitta was apprehended without incident and was the seventh vessel seized by the United States as part of Homeland Security operations in the Caribbean Sea.

“The apprehension of another tanker operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean demonstrates our resolve to ensure that the only oil leaving Venezuela will be oil that is coordinated properly and lawfully,” the Southern Command stated.

The command didn’t say whether the U.S. Coast Guard took control of the tanker.

Sagitta had ended her three-year tenure serving Russia’s exports when the tanker was sanctioned by the United States on Jan. 10, 2026.

The vessel then started exporting fuel out of Venezuela under a zombie alias, according to Tanker Trackers, an independent tracker of crude oil shipments.

The sanctions were part of a sweeping action taken by the U.S. against Russia’s key sources of revenue for funding its war against Ukraine. The Biden administration sanctioned two major Russian oil producers and a number of oil-carrying vessels, including a “shadow fleet.”

The Southern Command said the U.S. Department of War’s operation was conducted with the Coast Guard and the Homeland Security and Justice departments to crush illegal activity in the region.

“As the joint force operates in the Western Hemisphere, we reaffirm that the security of the American people is paramount, demonstrating our commitment to safety and stability,” the Southern Command stated in the announcement. “These operations are backed by the full power [of] our elite joint force team deployed in the Caribbean.”

The command unit posted an unclassified video clip of the operation that showed what appeared to be aerial footage of the early morning operation.
President Donald Trump established a plan aimed at safeguarding Venezuelan oil revenue for the American and Venezuelan people after the U.S. capture and removal of former leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife on Jan. 3 to face narco-terrorism charges in New York.
The Trump administration has since taken steps to manage the production, refining, and distribution of Venezuela’s oil products.

Trump said Jan. 7 that the U.S. was expecting to receive 30 million to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil, worth up to $3 billion at current prices.
The proceeds will be controlled by the U.S. government but would benefit the U.S. and Venezuelans, according to Trump.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...age&ea_med=section-2

Trump is killing it in Davos.

From Daily Mail

Donald Trump today told European leaders they would all be speaking German 'and a little Japanese' without the US as he defended his plan to seize Greenland during his speech at Davos.

The President's remarks came as he described some parts of the continent as 'unrecognizable' as a result of 'unchecked mass immigration'.

He said: 'Certain places in Europe are not even recognizable, frankly, anymore. We can argue about it but there's no argument.

'Friends come back from different places and say, 'I don't recognize it.' And that's not in a positive way. That's in a very negative way.'

On the US economy, Trump boasted 'inflation has been defeated' in the United States.

'We’re losing more than one trillion every year, and it was wasted. In one month , I slashed our monthly trade deficit by 77 percent, and all of this with no inflation, something people said couldn't be done,' he said.

Trump called it the 'fastest and most dramatic economic turnaround in the country’s history.'

-more at linky

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfr...dkt_nbr=010502k6855u

Trump in Davos: 'When America Booms, the Entire World Booms'

President Donald Trump, speaking at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, declared that the surging U.S. economy under the first year of his second term as president benefits nations around the globe.

"The USA is the economic engine on the planet, and when America booms, the entire world booms," Trump said in a speech aired live on Newsmax and Newsmax2 from Davos, Switzerland. "It's been the history. When it goes bad, it goes bad... when America booms, the entire world booms."

Speaking on the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, Trump described an economy that is rapidly accelerating, with growth expanding, productivity rising, investment increasing, and incomes climbing.

He said inflation has been defeated and described the southern border as closed and virtually impenetrable.

Trump pointed to recent economic data as evidence of a dramatic turnaround, citing inflation of 1.6% over the past three months and a projected 5.4% growth rate for the fourth quarter.

He also highlighted stock market performance, noting 52 all-time highs since the election and an estimated $9 trillion increase in retirement accounts and savings.

He contrasted current conditions with those under former President Joe Biden, characterizing that period as one of stagflation marked by low growth and high inflation.

"America was plagued by the nightmare of stagflation, meaning low growth and high inflation, a recipe for misery, failure, and decline," said Trump. "But now, after just one year of my policies, we are witnessing the exact opposite: virtually no inflation and extraordinarily high economic growth."

Trump also emphasized investment commitments totaling $18 trillion, with expectations the final number could reach $20 trillion, a level he described as unmatched by any country at any time.

The United States economy, he said, is growing at nearly double the pace projected by the International Monetary Fund last spring, with further gains expected from his growth and tariff policies.

"And with my growth and tariff policies, it should be much higher," he said. "I really believe we can be much higher than that, and this is all great news, and it's great for all nations."

Trump closed by emphasizing the speed of the economic shift, noting that the turnaround occurred far faster than he anticipated and calling it the most dramatic economic reversal in U.S. history.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/art...&bt_ts=1769026155207

Trump cancels tariff threat over Greenland, says NATO agreed to 'framework' of future Arctic deal

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he was canceling his planned tariff on U.S. allies in Europe over US control of Greenland after he and the leader of NATO agreed to a ‘framework of a future deal’ on Arctic security.

The abrupt about-face emerged hours after Trump had insisted that he wants to “get Greenland, including right, title and ownership,” but said he would not use force to do so while deriding European allies and vowing that NATO should not try to block U.S. expansionism.

In an extraordinary speech at the World Economic Forum, the president said he was asking for territory that was "cold and poorly located.” He said the U.S. had effectively saved Europe during World War II and even declared of NATO: “It’s a very small ask compared to what we have given them for many, many decades.”

“We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force, where we would be frankly unstoppable. But I won’t do that, OK?” Trump said, later adding, “I don’t have to" and "I don’t want to use force.”

Trump often tries to increase pressure on the other side when he believes it can lead to a favorable deal, and he seemed happy to do so ahead of the forum in Davos.

The implications of his remarks were enormous, potentially rupturing an alliance that has held firm since the dawn of the Cold War and seemed among the globe's most unshakable pacts.

NATO was founded by leading European nations, the U.S. and Canada to form a bloc to counter the Soviet Union. Its other members have been steadfast in saying Greenland is not for sale and cannot be wrested from Denmark, meaning Trump's comments could yet mark the beginning of a larger geopolitical standoff.

The president has long said the U.S. will get control of Greenland no matter what it takes, arguing that Washington needs the world's largest island to counter threats in the surrounding Arctic Ocean from Russia and China. That's despite America already having a large military base there.

A Danish government official told The Associated Press after Trump's speech that Copenhagen is ready to discuss U.S. security concerns. But the official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, underscored the government’s position that “red lines”— namely Denmark’s sovereignty — must be respected.

Greenland's government responded by telling its citizens to be prepared. It has published a handbook in English and Greenlandic on what to do in a crisis that urges residents to ensure they have sufficient food, water, fuel and supplies at home to survive for five days.

“We just went to the grocery store and bought the supplies,” said Tony Jakobsen in Greenland’s capital Nuuk said, showing off the contents of bags that included candles, snacks and toilet paper.

Jakobsen said he thought Trump’s rhetoric towards Greenland was “just threats... but it’s better to be ready than not ready.”

Trump, meanwhile, urged Denmark and the rest of NATO to stand aside, adding an ominous warning.

“We want a piece of ice for world protection, and they won’t give it,” Trump said. “You can say yes, and we will be very appreciative. Or you can say no, and we will remember.”

He also called for opening “immediate negotiations” for the U.S. to acquire Greenland. In subsequent comments to reporters, he declined to name a price that might be paid, saying only, “There’s a bigger price, and that’s the price of safety and security and national security and international security.”

Trump suggests Europe is fizzling while U.S. booms

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said he was encouraged by Trump's comment about not using U.S. military force but called other parts of the speech “a way of thinking about territorial integrity that does not match the institutions we have.”

“Greenland is part of NATO. Denmark is part of NATO, and we can exercise our sovereignty in Greenland,” Løkke Rasmussen said.

In his remarks, Trump also argued that the U.S. is booming and its economy is strong, in sharp contrast to Europe.

“I want to see Europe go good, but it’s not heading in the right direction,” said Trump, who also noted, “We want strong allies, not seriously weakened ones." He said of European economies, “You all follow us down, and you follow us up.”

His arrival was delayed after a minor electrical problem on Air Force One forced a return to Washington to switch aircraft. As Trump’s motorcade headed down a narrow road to the speech site, onlookers — including some skiers — lined the route. Some made obscene gestures, and one held up a paper cursing the president.

Billionaires and top executives packed inside the forum’s Congress Hall, which held around 1,000, for Trump's keynote address. The space was filled to standing room only. Attendees used headsets to listen in six languages besides English, and the reaction was mostly polite applause.

Afterward, Trump met with the leaders of Poland, Belgium and Egypt and again repeated that the U.S. would not be invading Greenland.

“Military is not on the table," Trump said, suggesting that the parties involved would use better judgment.

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These Eurotrash dopes don't even know what they want, SMDH

https://x.com/CollinRugg/statu...033568637587513?s=20

^^^^ He’s a politician, and his lips are moving. ‘Nuf said.

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Originally posted by PASig:
These Eurotrash dopes don't even know what they want, SMDH

It's not all their fault. With his Davos speech, President Trump just upset the menstrual cycles of Stubb and all those European "male" leaders.



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I didn’t see the Treasury Secretary being such a bulldog before today.

(Can’t get the video to embed.). ——> FoxNews link

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lashed out at California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday, calling him "economically illiterate" and accusing him of prioritizing elite global gatherings over the state’s mounting fiscal, housing, and homelessness crises.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Bessent used the high-profile meeting to deliver a blistering critique of Newsom’s economic record and leadership.

"I was told he was asked to give a speech on his signature policies, but he's not speaking because what have his economic policies brought? Outward migration from California, a gigantic budget deficit, the largest homeless population in America, and the poor folks in the Palisades who had their homes burned down," the Treasury secretary said.

"He is here hobnobbing with the global elite while his California citizens are still homeless. Shame on him. He's too smug, too self-absorbed, and too economically illiterate to know anything.”

Nice job, Secretary Bessent.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...bvRIbSSkShrug%2Bc%3D

Trump Right About Arctic Security, NATO’s Rutte Says

The secretary-general also praised the president for encouraging other member states to up their defense spending.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Jan. 21 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that U.S. President Donald Trump was right about security in the Arctic.

“When it comes to the Arctic, I think President Trump is right. Other leaders in NATO are right. We need to defend the Arctic,” the former Dutch prime minister said. “We know that the sea lanes are opening up.”

Rutte said that China and Russia were becoming increasingly active in the Arctic Circle, and acknowledged that this posed a problem for the alliance.

“There are eight countries bordering on the Arctic. Seven are members of NATO. That’s Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Canada, and the U.S.,” Rutte said.

“And there’s only one country bordering on the Arctic outside NATO, and that’s Russia. And I would argue there is a ninth country, which is China, which is increasingly active in the Arctic region. So, President Trump and other leaders are right, we have to do more there; we have to protect the Arctic.”

Rutte also praised Trump for upping the contributions from many NATO member states to the alliance’s budget.

“Do you really think that without Donald Trump, eight big economies in Europe, including Spain, Italy, and Belgium—Canada, by the way, also outside Europe—would have come to 2 percent in 2025 when they were only on 1.5 percent at the beginning of the year?” Rutte said. “No way. Without Donald Trump, this would never have happened. They are all on 2 percent now.”

Rutte’s comments about NATO’s presence in the Arctic come as Trump’s stated ambition of annexing Greenland has driven a wedge between Washington and European allies.

Before departing for the summit, Trump expressed confidence that NATO and the United States would reach a deal on the Arctic island that benefits all parties.
“I think that we will work something out where NATO is going to be very happy and where we’re going to be very happy,” Trump said during a Jan. 20 White House news conference.

“We need it for national security and even world security. It’s very important.”

During his speech in Davos, the president ruled out taking the island by force but remained forthright in his insistence that the United States must acquire the territory.
“People thought I would use force, but I don’t have to use force. I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force,” Trump said.

“We want a piece of ice for world protection, and they won’t give it. They have a choice: They can say yes, and we will be very appreciative, or you can say no, and we will remember.”

Trump also said that Denmark promised to spend “over $200 million to strengthen Greenland’s defenses” and that it has “spent less than 1 percent of that.”

He was referring to a 2019 commitment from the Danish government, made during his first presidency, when the idea of the United States taking control of the territory was first raised.

Copenhagen has not disputed that the implementation of that commitment has been slow.

https://www.newsmax.com/politi...dkt_nbr=010502p7dzrg

Trump Formally Launches Board of Peace in Davos

President Donald Trump formally launched the Board of Peace on Thursday, signing the charter of the new international body during a high-profile ceremony that highlighted the administration's effort to reshape global diplomacy, with Gaza at the center of its early focus.

Trump sat at a table at the front of the stage as officials from Bahrain and Morocco were invited forward to sign and ratify the board's founding charter, with about 20 other leaders following and signing the document in front of a backdrop displaying the organization's newly unveiled logo, reports CBS News.

"The charter is now in full force, and the Board of Peace is now an official international organization," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said from the stage as she called leaders forward one by one to sign.

The Trump administration has described the board as a mechanism to implement and oversee a U.S.-brokered plan to end the war in Gaza and guide the territory's reconstruction, while also positioning the body to address conflicts beyond the Middle East.

During the ceremony, Ali Shaath, head of a U.S.-backed committee of Palestinian technocrats designated to help oversee Gaza's postwar administration, told attendees that Gaza's border with Egypt will open next week, reports The Times of Israel.

Shaath described the Rafah crossing as a "lifeline" for Gazans, saying that its prolonged closure has trapped much of the population inside Gaza and prevented many Palestinians who fled the fighting from returning home.

Under the terms of the ceasefire framework, Israel was obligated to reopen the crossing. Israeli officials have publicly opposed doing so until Hamas returns the remains of the last hostage believed to be held in Gaza, which the group has not yet done.

The ceremony followed remarks by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said Gaza is the board's immediate focus, and presentations by Steve Witkoff, Trump's special envoy, and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law.

Kushner outlined a reconstruction vision that would require Hamas to demilitarize and transfer authority to a single civilian governing body, presenting slides labeled "New Gaza" and outlining what he called demilitarization principles.

The signing ceremony took place amid lingering tensions over Israel's role in the new body. Israel did not participate in the event, though officials have said it intends to join.

A spokesman for Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who is in Davos, confirmed that Herzog did not take part in the ceremony but declined to elaborate.

The structure of the Board of Peace has drawn scrutiny from diplomats and international law experts.

A draft charter circulated to national capitals in recent weeks grants sweeping authority to its chair, including veto power, control over the agenda and invitations, and the ability to dissolve the body and designate a successor.

The document specifies that Trump shall serve as inaugural chair.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, one of Trump's closest allies in Europe, publicly embraced the initiative after receiving an invitation to join.

"If Trump, then peace," Orban wrote on Facebook. "We have, of course, accepted this honorable invitation."

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Belarus, and Pakistan have also said they plan to join. Other U.S. allies, including France, Norway, and Sweden, have said they will not participate, raising concerns that the board could undermine the United Nations.

"This is a direct assault on the United Nations," said Marc Weller, a Cambridge University professor of international law who has worked on peace negotiations, calling the initiative an attempt to reshape the international system around a single leader, reports The New York Times.

The U.N. Security Council endorsed the creation of a Board of Peace in November, welcoming the U.S.-brokered plan to end the Gaza conflict and authorizing a transitional administration to oversee redevelopment through 2027.

But the Trump administration has since portrayed Gaza as only one component of a broader mission that would overlap with the U.N.'s traditional role in maintaining international peace and security.

"I wish the United Nations could do more," Trump said earlier this week. "I wish we didn't need a Board of Peace." Asked whether he envisioned the new body replacing the U.N., Trump said it "might," while adding that the organization still has significant potential.

“Board of Fuck the Useless U.N.”

Canada’s PM Carney is such a weasel:

Trump's "Green Deal" Has Fully Shattered The Liberal World Order

By Michael Every of Rabobank
Green Stocks Land

The Greenland crisis was logically always likely to end quickly, to market approval, due to European geostrategic weakness, but still herald a new world order that markets don’t understand and won’t like once they do. That’s exactly how it’s now played out.

At Davos, President Trump ruled out the use of force but gave Europe and NATO an ultimatum on Greenland: within hours, a ‘framework deal’ was struck and threatened US tariffs on eight EU countries have been removed. This reportedly echoes the post-imperial arrangement the UK has with Cyprus. The US gains time-unlimited (Trump: “Forever”) access to areas of Greenland around military bases, as well as concessions for critical minerals, and the island will host the US Golden Dome missile defense shield. There will also be a far greater, permanent European NATO focus on its defense and the Northern Passage.

Those who say TACO all the time will cluck here. Those who see Republicans serve up ‘American Greenland’ cake at a Kennedy Centre event, Trump forcing vastly higher defense spending on all US allies, being paid tariff revenues that aren’t part of any agreed FTA, receiving trillions in pledged inwards FDI which the US will direct, and putting Iran’s nuclear programme under rubble and Venezuela’s Maduro in a New York courtroom, will argue it’s Europe that yielded, and will be forced to spend even more on Arctic defence, and to move even further under a US shield and a critical minerals processing compact, not its own independent ones.

For markets, that’s the good news. The bad news is that the liberal world order is shattered.

Trump didn’t invade – and he was never going to except in some fevered imaginations. Yet he demonstrated to Europe he could, as could others in the future, and there’s presently nothing they can do about it. That’s how the world always worked until the past few decades, and it’s how it will work again going forwards.

For example, as Europe looks north-west, this week saw the US suddenly withdraw support for the Kurdish region of Syria that has thrived in recent years as it opts to back the former-jihadi Syrian president instead: there are already reports of appalling violence being inflicted on Kurds there. If Europe noticed that development to its south-east, it’s completely powerless to do anything about it if it disagrees – which isn’t clear at all either.

Moreover, on top of trade, energy, tech, finance, and NATO/Ukraine as points of relative European geostrategic weakness, once one accepts realpolitik, consider that if Europe ever ‘pivots to China’, as some have whispered, the US can ‘pivot to Russia’ and arm it against Ukraine and Europe. If Europe thinks it has that China card in its pocket, it needs to be aware that the US still has more of them.

That’s hardly the foundation for a solid Western alliance. Indeed, even with tariff threats removed, the European establishment loves America but in private evidently wishes Trump were gone – ECB President Lagarde walked out of a Davos dinner after anti-EU barbs from US Commerce Secretary Lutnick. Equally, the US President states in public that he loves Europe and his admin that they wish its establishment was gone (see the NSS). So where to from here?

Logically, leaderships could change. November 2026 looms, as does the French presidential election in April 2027. Yet some genies aren’t so easily put back into bottles.

As such, it’s down to the realpolitik of who has the best cards. Canada’s PM Carney, who didn’t meet Trump at Davos, earlier made a much-publicized speech which stated: “Many countries are drawing the same conclusions - that they must develop greater strategic autonomy: in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains. And this impulse is understandable. A country that can’t feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself.” That sounds exactly like Trump.

Yet as George Magnus points out, Carney citing Czech anti-communist dissident Vaclav Havel’s ‘The Power of the Powerless’ to call out Trump and the polite hypocrisies of the liberal world order doesn’t sit easily with him heading to China to strike trade deals. That’s Trump’s game, played with far weaker cards. Today, the powerless are… powerless.

Indeed, Trump noted from the Davos stage: “Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.” As the Canadian press puts it, ‘At Davos, a new great game dawns for the world. Which way, Canada?’ And all of us.

In the short term, green land - because TACO, or because Europe in 2026 is Egypt of 1956. In the long term, it’s unclear – and starkly binary.

Europe and others can try to go their own way. For example, Spain just urged the EU to create a joint army. Yet that’s the same Spain that adamantly refuses to spend 5% of GDP on defence within NATO. Talk is cheap. Preparation for war, or for strategic autonomy, is mind-blowingly expensive, and the US can block these moves every step of the way. Or European disunity can block itself: the European parliament just voted for the new EU-Mercosur deal to be given judicial review, which will delay it for a year. Trump deals seem to get agreed on a handshake or a tweet.

Or Europe and others will see policy after policy directed by the US. Consider the EU just watered down its green rules to ensure it can keep flows of Qatari LNG; and symbolically, the World Economic Forum is considering moving from Davos to new places. Like Florida?

Long-term planning is going to be very hard if you don’t know who is doing it for you – the US, or Europe – or China?

Domestic politics will also twist and turn in tandem. In Australia, the opposition coalition between the Liberals and the Nationals has just shattered again for the second time in a year. This time, it may not come back together as One Nation surge in the polls.

Eyes are on the Supreme Court, which in hearing oral arguments expressed scepticism over Trump’s bid to sack Lisa Cook from the Fed, with specific mention of the importance of its independence. That Trump front matters as much, if not more, than Greenland, and potentially opens up a new world order to the same extent. If he wins there it would again mean green land at first, because “rate cuts!”, but then serious questions over what/where next.

There is also relative calm in Japan, which is also in the green following efforts to stabilize things after the wild volatility in JGB markets this week. That trend, which some try to paint as "a quarrel in a faraway land between people of which we know nothing", with no implications for sensible developed markets like Europe, is also a warning. Japan just ran its fifth consecutive annual trade deficit in 2025, and it’s that development --alongside “it’s baaack” inflation-- which is undermining its ability to stabilize its markets without relying on the kindness others.

That structural threat looms ahead for many economies and is another reason why they need to not only be ‘resilient’ but to run trade surpluses --which obviously not everybody can-- or find a bloc they can sit within that will support them. And sometimes that choice is made for them.

https://www.zerohedge.com/mark...-liberal-world-order

The stupidest ones have the most swagger.

https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/2014470891724227048

"Psychopath" is right. That nut needs to be in a straight jacket.

Well the Greenland thing is working out better than I could have imagined. I still don't like the rhetoric, but I've gotta admit that he got it done, and didn't invade anybody in the process. I'll eat my crow now.

I believe this is the same guy tell Rep. Nehls to go fuck himself

The European governments are like a bunch of 30-something unemployed freeloaders living in their parent's basements. They whine about being "independent" but they are nearly 100% dependent on the US for their defense, and they consistently never paid their committed % until Trump forced them to.

NATO which is mostly the U.S. provides their defense and they piss away all the tax revenue they would be spending on defense on socialist programs.

They can talk tough as much as they want, but they still won't move out of the basement and get a real job.

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Originally posted by 92fstech:
Well the Greenland thing is working out better than I could have imagined. I still don't like the rhetoric, but I've gotta admit that he got it done, and didn't invade anybody in the process. I'll eat my crow now.

There was never any plan to invade anyone here. How would we even do that? They're already an ally and we have a base there.

This was 100% to get these Euro bureaucrats off their lazy asses and it's working.