Lucian K. Truscott IV

We live in a country that we do not recognize because last year, our fellow citizens voted for a dictator as president.

The leaders of armies in big countries are delusional ignorant fuckwits with too many gold bathroom fixtures and too much desperately unearned self-importance.

Donald Trump has been selling access to himself at private dinners for one million dollars a head. When his new ballroom is done, even the state dinners held there will be fund raisers.

I can guarantee this: No AI system would have put a headline on a column on the subject of artificial intelligence using the words “grilled cheese sandwich.”

Trump wants to put U.S. soldiers on the streets of Chicago so bad his teeth hurt.

Welcome back to 1964. Welcome back to Jim Crow. That’s where we will be if the Supreme Court puts a torch to the Voting Rights Act.

I’m sure that as a species we are not born with a death wish, but we have lived our lives for thousands of years as if we are, and that characteristic of human beings is a real tragedy.

If you think Donald Trump is going to walk away from a money faucet with that kind of dollar-flow, you haven’t been paying much attention over the last ten years.

Kristi Noem is extremely busy at the battle of Portland posing on rooftops observing a vicious antifa squad consisting of a gaggle of reporters and a guy in a chicken suit.

Trump has figured out that he doesn’t need the amateurs in the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. He’s got a professional army that is funded with taxpayer dollars at his beck and call.

What will happen if a soldier from the Texas National Guard fires his gun at a soldier from the Illinois National Guard? This is a question that has not arisen since 1860, when soldiers from South Carolina fired on Union troops stationed at Ft. Sumter.

In the court room overseen by at least one female jurist in the state of Oregon, the rule of law still prevails. For how long that will hold true is a question not only for Oregon, but for the whole nation.

Trump wants a war he can win, and he doesn’t care if it’s against Venezuela or Portland or Chicago or Memphis or New Orleans.

With what we have seen so far about the raid in Chicago, the government has moved from people’s cars to their homes in conducting illegal searches and seizures and wholesale violation of people’s Fourth Amendment rights.

With Hegseth's rantings about grooming to his assembly of America's top commanders, some history is in order of how facial hair and racism were related in the military.

In the end, the generals and admirals know that presidents come and go, but their job remains the same. The soldiers, sailors, airmen and airwomen and Marines under their command need them to do their jobs in spite of the madness at the top.