Why Trump Is Mobilizing the U.S. Military in Washington D.C.
Given that the crime rate is so much higher in the red states, what’s the fascination with punishing cities that are controlled by democrats?
Trump Certainly Has “Owned the Libs”
By exerting the absolute power that Trump believes comes along with the U.S. presidency, he has most definitely thrown most Americans into a snit.
Strangely, we preferred the representative democracy we had before.
What You Call What’s Happening in the United States if it Were Going on Elsewhere?
Good question.
It depends on what country. Sure, we wouldn’t want to see this anywhere in the developed world. In the developing world, we would probably say, “It’s just one more step towards world fascism, but in some country of dubious importance.”
Of course that would be sad, but the fact that it’s happening here in the world’s most important democracy is what makes it particularly tragic on the global stage.
Flat Earthers
This reminds me of someone I met who believes the Earth is hollow, and that there is a hole at the North Pole that leads down to an underground world. When he told me that he wants to lead an expedition up there to find it, I suggested that a less expensive way forward would be talking to the hundreds of airplane pilots who fly near the North Pole every day, or downloading publicly available satellite images.
I’m convinced that most of the people in this so-called “movement” really don’t believe what they’re espousing. If you’re in California, for instance, and the sun is starting to set, just call someone on the East Coast and ask where the sun is. When you learn that is completely dark there, you will have proved that the Earth couldn’t possibly be flat.
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What’s Happening in the World
When my wife asked me just now what is happening in the world, I told her that it’s just an extension of what we’ve been seeing. In the United States, for instance, Trump and his loyalists are using whatever tactics they can get away with, military and otherwise, to take over the U.S. federal government.
The question is how far they can go before they’re stopped, and, incredibly, no one knows.
Bringing the MAGA/Trumpist Movement to a Close
What has happened within the Republican party is shameful, but most Americans continue to believe that it can and will be put right.
What ultimately takes Trump down and dissolves the MAGA/Trumpist movement has yet to be seen, but many things look bleak until they get turned around.
Hypocrisy in the GOP
A couple of notes here:
1) Anyone who is surprised to learn that the senior political echelon in Texas is morally bankrupt is a fool.
2) This country was most certainly not founded on the bible; the founding fathers were abundantly clear on that.
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We Should All Be Alarmed that J.D. Vance Doesn’t Know How World War II Ended
“If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation,” Vance claimed during an interview with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press.I don’t have a huge problem with American ignorance in general; otherwise it would be impossible to live day-to-day in today’s United States. But enduring it at the top of our federal government is a different matter.
In this case, it’s worse for me, insofar as it’s personal. My father, a B-17 bomber pilot whose mission was destroying Nazi oil refineries, was one of 16 million military personnel who fought in the Second World War. I don’t think he’d look kindly on the idea that Germany “negotiated” a settlement after the U.S. and its allies pummeled the Third Reich into submission and its leader blew his brains out.
I miss my dad terribly, but this is one of those moments when one is actually glad that a loved one didn’t live long enough to see some incredibly embarrassing debacle.
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Governor of the Murder Capital of the United States Boasts about Supporting Trump’s Use of Military to Fight Crime
There’s an old Quaker saying that goes like this: “Concern thyself not with the speck in thine brother’s eye when thy hast a log in thine own.”
Sounds like legitimate advice for a man whose state has the nation’s highest murder rate, and is thrilled that he’s sending his National Guard troops to Washington, DC to “fight crime.”
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Wall Street Journal Slams Trump
When a right-of-center newspaper calls out a Republican president for his moral atrocities, you know something very strange is happening in the good ol’ US of A.
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