With all the talk of aircraft carriers and tankers and cargo planes and jets being sent to the Middle East to defend American interests, it would smart to keep an eye peeled for some sort of wag-the-dog fake Iranian provocation.
While Trump's parade looked like amateur hour at Dictatorville, there was no mistaking the crowded streets and sidewalks of towns and cities around the country.
This is our country. We are patriotic citizens of a democracy, and we will protect it by ensuring we remain a country that is of the people, for the people, and by the people.
Trump's regime of illegality is reminiscent of what Black people went through in the South during Jim Crow, when legal behavior by Black U.S. citizens was declared illegal.
The danger we face right now is if unrest in the streets of our cities provides Trump with the opportunity to deploy Reserve, National Guard, or active-duty soldiers to quell unrest that Trump can define as a rebellion or insurrection.
Trump’s federalization of the National Guard and deploying 2,000 of them to L.A. is a tactic meant to intimidate a city that didn’t vote for him in the largest state that didn’t vote for him.
“Warrior culture” and "lethality" are made-up macho nonsense. The soldiers serving on active duty are not engaged in a “lifestyle” as Trump so stupidly puts it. They are serving their country, no matter who they are under the uniform.
What does it say about our country that the world’s richest man and the world’s most powerful man are both gibbering idiots, each of whom needs the other to complete himself?
We too could be spending on $500 drones. Instead, we’re spending $500 million for weapons systems that we’ll still be waiting on when China decides to attack Taiwan and Putin decides that Poland looks like a good place to grow Russian wheat.
It's obscene. All of it. Musk, his billions; Trump, his hundreds of millions; crypto entities like “World Liberty Financial” that with Trump’s control of the FTC and SEC is just a license to print money.
Trump’s frustration at not being able to end the war in Ukraine is boiling over. He has changed his timeline for ending the war multiple times, and now he is changing his rhetoric about his “friend” Putin. While here at home he is taking hit after hit.
