It’s (another) interesting incongruence of our time that a president who dodged the draft when he was young enough to “serve” is able to posture as a great warlord and be regarded as such by many of his followers. Say what you will about the Austrian gefreiter. He was an unusually brave frontsoldat who risked his own skin in the trenches of the Great War. He wasn’t a poltroon. Or a hypocrite. Nor did he steal valor, as the man who seems to think of himself as a great warlord just did.
The Greatest Warlord of All Time just posted an AI-generated image of himself in the uniform he never wore, wearing medals he never earned and rank he never achieved. The Austrian gefreiter never did that. He wore the medals he’d earned, nothing more – but nothing less. Now behold the president who never earned even a perfect attendance medal.
He pictures himself as a four-star general, with more medals on his breast than Douglas MacArthur and George S. Patton, who actually were generals of real rank but who are depicted as seconds to the Greatest Warlord Of All Time.
If Barry Obama had depicted himself similarly, the shrieks of the Fox News Chorus would have shattered glass all the way to Patagonia. Barry could never have gotten away with it. Of course, Barry would never have done it in the first place. Say what you will about Barry, he didn’t pretend to be a military man and that is a chit to his credit. Barry also didn’t start a catastrophically stupid, evil war. This is not so much praise for Barry as it is a condemnation of Trump – and his remaining followers. 
It is remarkable, isn’t it, that the “patriots” of MAGA do not condemn Trump? Not necessarily over this catastrophically stupid, evil war. It is comprehensible that a Fox News “conservative” might support it.
Supporting war – all wars – is congruent with “conservatism.”
It is incomprehensible that anyone who claims to respect the military and those who actually have “served” could abide Trump’s depiction of himself as the Greatest Warlord of All Time. It transcends embarrassing (given the fact that Trump has lost the catastrophically stupid, evil war he started). It is a mockery of everyone who actually did “serve” – and who is “serving” right now, including the service members who’ve been killed in this catastrophically stupid, evil war. What do you suppose the parents, spouses and children of those killed in this catastrophically stupid, evil war think about the image of Trump as a four star general?
It is also a mockery of two of America’s greatest generals, who actually fought and won wars. Both Patton and MacArthur led troops at the front. They were personally brave men. That Trump could even – in his own mind – imagine himself as being in the same class with such men is bad enough. The fact that he had an image created depicting himself as that and then loosed it on the world via his social media account calls into question the man’s sanity. It is far worse than the Austrian gefreiter screeching that the coming wunderwaffe would win the war that was already lost. 
Is it not ironic that this man got re-elected, in part, by pointing out that men who believe they are women are delusional, which is another way of saying they are mentally ill? What does it say about a draft-dodger who seems to believe he not only “served” but achieved the highest ranks and awards bestowed upon those who “served”?
What does it say about those who have “served” who let it slide?
Cue the Lee Greenwood song.
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Patton was the only general in WW2 that was an actual man. We’re force-fed all the jewish bs about the “holocaust” which is utter nonsense.
But where do they teach us about “Eisenhower’s Holocaust”? Does anyone talk about Eisenhower’s death camps and his slaughter of German POW’s?
Eisenhower was a filthy disgusting jew, a stain on American history that can’t be washed clean.
Patton refused to participate in Eisenhower the Satanic jew’s slaughter. He turned them free and wished them good luck. He later said “We destroyed the wrong damn army.” Patton understood the simple fact that the jews and jewish communism was the real enemy of humanity. That’s why the killed him a short time later in an “auto accident”.
https://rense.com/general46/germ.htm
what i know of eisenhower is he was a scumbag, thru and thru!
I always wondered if Paton ever figured out that Eisenhower was not the friend that he thought he was? Maybe if Eisenhower (and FDR) had not made The-Big-Three deal in Tehran (1943), history would be different. Imagine asking someone worse than Hitler (that is, Stalin) to help you? We really were fighting the wrong enemy. Instead, those who knew what to do, and knew what was going on (such as Paton) were silenced, burying the truth for someone in the future to discover.
I’m sure he knew what Eisenhower was. Look at him – he looks like the jew goblin phenotype.
There are between 23-33,000 homeless vets. I guess we need more. Don’t pester me for donations to the Wounded Warrior Project.
My entire life these idiotic wars have killed millions for no other reason than the egos of armchair warriors and profits of the MIC and to keep their perverted lives from public scrutiny.
It’s the essence of GovCo.
When you speak out against this folly you are ridiculed and shunned. A pox on all their houses.
Thanks Trump! Checked motor oil prices lately? Local O’Reilly: Valvoline SynPower 0W20 is $12.99 a quart bottle. Most 5 qt jugs well north of $40
Fuck this jew puppet, ignore him. It’s all humiliation ritual like the POS he replaced or the black dude fuckin his linebacker wife in the White House. They see you no differently than Palestinians, to be mocked and murdered. They get bombs, you get injections, same result. Concentrate on immediacy and loved ones, get ready. When all is spectacle and there is no justice, none, and not 1 fuckin thing makes any sense…Hell is soon to follow.
Trump’s boorishness is a bait – a feature – which “content creators” gobble up, hook and all. It’s entirely beside the point. Trump did not start anything, did not decide anything. He has no agency. He has no agency.
He has no agency.
That you continually insist that he does means that you either don’t understand the game, or do, and would just prefer that your readers didn’t. Either way, it isn’t helpful.
Well, Max –
I go by the facts – taken at face value – as opposed to the elliptical assertions made that they ought not to be taken at face value. That there is some other, obscure explanation.
Ok. Please substantiate that Trump’s boorishness is “bait” – i.e., some kind of deliberately contrived thing – rather than what it appears to be on the face of it; i.e., the 6th grade boorishness of an old man not right in the head. You are like my friend who watches the Devolution Power Hour religiously and believes there are “ops” and “narrative deployments.” I ask him to substantiate these vague assertions. He gives me more vague assertions, as you have done.
Neither can you prove that it’s genuine – you are taking SCRIPTED reality at face value and asking your readers to do likewise. There’s at least one other person on here who isn’t buying what you’re selling. That’s good enough for me.
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
– Karl Rove
As if “narrative deployments” and “ops” are difficult to comprehend concepts..
They would never!!!
…
Your “friend” needs to ask you to prove that what you’re watching on television is real. What’s good for the goose..
Trump’s acting credits on IMDB
Horrorween, Forbes Cover Billionaire (2011)
Marmalade, Donald Trump (2004)
Monk (TV Series), Men in the party (2002)
Zoolander, Donald Trump (2001)
Sex and the City (TV Series), Donald Trump (1999)
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (TV Series), Daniel Ray McLeech (1998)
Celebrity, Donald Trump (1998)
54, VIP Patron (1998)
Spin City (TV Series), Donald Trump (1998)
NightMan (TV Series), Donald Trump (1997)
The Associate, Donald Trump (1996)
The Nanny (TV Series), Donald Trump (1996)
Eddie, Donald Trump (1996)
Across the Sea of Time, Donald Trump (1995)
The Little Rascals, Waldo’s Dad (1994)
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (TV Series), Donald Trump (1994)
The Pickle, Donald Trump (1993)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Donald Trump (1992)
Ghosts Can’t Do It, Donald Trump (1989)
The Jeffersons (TV Series), Donald Trump (1985)
Well, Max –
What’s real (among other things) is this stupid, evil war. And $4 gas. And Trump’s asinine social media posts. You (like my friend) infer 5D Chess. I infer pathological narcissism, recklessness and stupidity. There are no “digital soldiers.” General Flim-Flam Flynn is not going to “release the Kraken.”
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/america-must-let-go-middle-east
In case you missed it, McArthur and Patton led the fedgov army troops and tanks who attacked and murdered innocent US veterans, and set fire to the “Bonus Army” camp in D.C. in 1932.
Read another site this AM written by a self proclaimed genius. Not this site! This morning bellowing how the old start wars but send the young to fight them using a poll as proof. I am in that demographic. Got to experience the hell of war. Got to watch Americans bleed out on their last chopper ride to a hospital. I am 78 now and in no way back crazy mans war he started. We’re probably gonna lose like the last few. Any one backing this war is just as nuts as he is and needs to off themselves in the name of common sense. And NO,,, it is not your right to vote others to die in your stead.
Indeed, Ken –
The whole thing literally sickens me. Whenever I see Trump – never mind hear him – I feel the urge to puke and then hit something.
You must have a phobia for grown men that wear garish orange makeup and decorate everything to look like Liberace’s bedroom!
Hi Paul,
It’s not so much a phobia as it is good taste!
Trolling Level: Expert.
I suspect it’s a diversion so people aren’t talking about what our Negotiator-In-Chief is giving away for nothing.
Just think if he had given himself Mark Milley’s fake fruit salad.
Your view on any given issue is easily predictable, just as easy as it is for MSNBC and Fox news. And just like the MSM news, you deftly side-step and ignore grievances and unpleasant facts and stick to official talking points. You have noticeably stepped back from your Israel cheerleading or even mentioning Israel at the same Israel “stepped back” from the Iran war to let the US take all the blame for it. Are you unit 8200, Langley or a subcontractor?
If they have the same views, and would pay me, I’d take any of them, whatever they are.
But your assertion is silly. Whose talking points am I echoing? Do you really believe Trump wants to be referred to as Negotiator-in-Chief? Now look at what CNN or MS Now are putting out. How does that compare to the slop you are echoing?
Re: ISR stepping back from Iran, my guess is that things are not going as smoothly as either ISR or US are saying. Trump hammered them over hitting the gas fields, and things have been noticeably cooler since then. I think ISR probably sees no resolution short of regime change, so are not interested in throwing away weapons for Trump’s (apparently) stupid negotiating. Trump apparently thinks “mowing the lawn” is sufficient. ISR has seen the results of relying on it.
I like how MacArthur has been demoted from General to corporal in the AI image. And Trump is wearing not one, but two, airborne badges. Wow! I guess if you’re gonna go for it, go big is his mantra.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/senate-panel-holds-fauci-contempt-refusing-answer-questions
Yawn. Call me when they take him away in handcuffs.
Lunch with friends last week, the guy was all excited over the Fauci hearings “they’ve got him now!”
I explained nothing, absolutely nothing, will happen to him. Still won’t believe me.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have finally achieved peak Caligula. Or maybe his horse.
Commodus. Dressed as Hercules. Fought hapless victims in the arena, like crippled veterans and ostriches. Renamed the twelve months of the year after his twelve names. Renamed Rome Commodiana. Allegedly ordered the deaths of the Quintilii because their competence made him feel threatened.
Commodus. Trump is equal parts Caligula and Commodus. Hegseth is quite Commodian as well.
It ain’t easy bein’ Commander in Chief when you’re a total dipshit who doesn’t do details:
‘President Donald Trump’s frustration over the Iran war boiled over at Camp David last week, where he demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on why he had apparently been misled on extreme munitions shortages that now threaten to limit military options with Iran. Trump vented at Hegseth that he thought the munitions issue “had been fixed.”
‘The president asserted overnight that the United States has “massive amounts” of munitions, saying in a post on Truth Social that “large amounts are being manufactured and shipped to the U.S. as needed.” The “‘leakers’ of these treasonous statements are being hunted down,” he added.
‘Hegseth defended himself and blamed his deputy, ‘Stephen Feinberg’, for the shortages and for not ensuring Trump was fully apprised of the issue.’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-hegseth-clashed-at-camp-david-over-iran-missile-depletion-concerns/ar-AA29u3G0
It’s a real-life graphic novel, folks: shallow, large-biceped alpha males throwing punches at each other — BIFF! BAM! WHAM-O! — as aliens invade the helpless empire and the death ray sputters out because a stray cat peed on it.
First thing buddy better cool your jets
Before you make your play
You gotta feed the kitty and oh yes well
There’s a matter of some hell to pay
— Boz Scaggs, Hell to Pay
We passed Caligula long ago. At least he had the sense to send an entire horse to the senate. We only send the back half 100 times.
Aunt Lindsey’s lil’ sista will play the role of Caligula’s horse.
‘The fact that [Trump] had an image created depicting himself as that and then loosed it on the world via his social media account calls into question the man’s sanity.’ — eric
Calls into question?? Eric emerges as a master of understatement, as he diplomatically leaves a scintilla of deniability for a president who’s balls-out, batshit insane.
It’s not widely known, but ol’ Hunter S Thompson’s epic story ‘A Dog Took My Place,’ ostensibly about a divorce trial, actually was an allegory about the early days at Mar a Lago and the twisted doings of Darth Tangelo, man about town, in his roistering Epstein years:
‘The Filthy Rich in America were depicted as genuinely filthy, a tribe of wild sots and sodomites run amok on their own private island and crazed all day and all night on cocaine. The very name Palm Beach, long synonymous with old wealth and aristocratic style, was coming to be associated with berserk sleaziness, a place where price tags mean nothing and the rich are always in heat, where pampered animals are openly worshipped in church and naked millionaires gnaw brassieres off the chests of their own daughters in public.’
https://archive.ph/26X7A#selection-2155.0-2159.467
As to whether that last sentence pertains personally and literally to the eminent Commander in Chief, we will not go there until the parties in question have shuffled off this mortal coil.
This site needs a ‘like’ button.
I’d click “Like”, but….
Seriously, it seems a little silly to implement a voting scheme on a site where most people are anti-voting.
The concept of “voting” for someone to rule over me is a fundamentally retarded concept.
Sure. What’s the alternative?
Not voting for someone to rule over me.
Seems obvious to you and me, clearly. Why Steve doesn’t get it is a mystery. Unless he’s paid to not get it, lol.
Morning, letmepicyou –
Yeah, Steve’s an odd duck. He’s clearly not stupid, in the low IQ sense. And yet – like a lot of high IQ people – he has a dissonant mindset. He sees the state of Israel as mmmm mmmm good. When it is clearly really bad, by any objective standard. Maybe he’s overdosed on Sean Hannity?
Morning Eric.
I’m thinking it’s more along the lines of he gets talking points in his morning briefings.
Morning, letmepicyou –
I suppose that’s possible – about Steve getting his talking points. I think it’s more likely he’s a Fox News “conservative” who buys into the Israel is Our Greatest Ally thing. It’s very difficult to reach people who hold this view. Especially if they are evangelicals. I know some of these people. They are in general good people but their religious beliefs have them convinced that it’s a moral necessity to support the state of Israel. Since I am not a believer, I am immune from this – thank God (so to speak)!
Yeah, the evangelical / dispensationalists are pretty bad, they get all their “knowledge” from their 501(c)3 “churches”.
It’s too bad you can’t be convinced to take a look at TRUE Christianity. Christian Identity (what Randall Weaver of “Ruby Ridge” fame believed – ahem). People like me that are C.I. believe the Bible isn’t a “religious” book but rather a racial one. We reject the idea of a multicultural “Christianity” completely and have a firm belief that “Biblical Israel” is the white race, and the people called “jews” are by matter of fact the enemies of not only the white race but humanity in general.
It’s a much different “belief” than the people that believe in magical apples, talking snakes, peace and love for everyone.
The movie Eyes Wide Shut was Stanley Kubrick’s warning about the ruling class elites who run the world and the kind of sick shit that they do. At the movie’s end, the parents are forced to give up their young daughter to the cult, so that she will be raised as a slave to the cult. There were allegedly twenty minutes that were shot by Kubrick but were never included in the final film. God only knows what was in those missing twenty minutes. Kubrick died before the final release of the movie.
I rewatched it recently and concluded there was no other way, given the circumstances, to have it not wrap up so abruptly. There certainly couldn’t be any examination of who exactly those people were, that is, if the director ever wanted it seen, and to stay alive. Where did you read this about them giving up the daughter?
At the end of the movie, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman characters ask the daughter to go with two strange men at the toy store. This is presumably intended to show that they are giving up their daughter to the cult.
I have read a series of articles on a youtube channel where the writer has done a detailed analysis of this movie. He has studied the movie in exhausting detail and has argued his interpretation pretty conclusively. Among other things, he has argued that the Nicole Kidman character was a member of the cult all along and subject to intense cult brainwashing. He has compared the cult brainwashing to the mkultra mind control techniques used by the CIA. When Dr. Bill (Tom Cruise character) was caught breaking into the mansion party, he was warned by Red Cloak never to reveal what he had seen to anyone or there would be dire consequences for both him and his family. Dr. Bill ended up confessing everything to his wife Alice (Nicole Kidman character). By doing this, he violated his pledge never to reveal this to anyone, thereby consigning him to suffer the dire consequences he has warned about by Red Cloak.
I can’t find the exact youtube file where he argued that the daughter had to be surrendered to the cult, but the below is a link to the youtube channel. The author of this channel has done a whole series of articles on his channel analyzing the movie. He has argued that Kubrick shot an additional twenty minutes that were not included in the final movie. Kubrick was adamant that this be included in the final cut of the movie but it was not included. Kubrick died before the final release of the movie, so there is justifiable suspicion that he was murdered in order to release the movie without these missing twenty minutes.
Here is a link to his youtube channel. You may not agree with some or all of his conclusions, but he argued his conclusions pretty consistently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBzWXzlGtA
Morning, Martin!
Kubrick was a brilliant film-maker. Eyes Wide Shut is disturbingly good. Thanks for the link to the YouTube channel. I am going to look at his videos after work today.
Hi Eric,
I just discovered his youtube channel a few weeks ago and started checking out all of his videos. He has done a very thorough job analyzing the movie. He has noticed details that I never noticed when I watched the movie myself.
Basically, the gist of his analysis is that EWS is a warning about the depravity and total control of the ruling class. He has argued that the women such as Alice (Nicole Kidman’s character) were brought into the cult at a young age and subjected to intense brainwashing using methods of torture similar to those used by the CIA. He has suggested that the evidence from the movie is that Alice has multiple personalities, causing her to dissociate from one personality to another, brought about by years of psychological abuse at the hands of the cult. And that she and Dr. Bill are forced at the movie’s end to give up their daughter to the cult, who will similarly be brainwashed into becoming a cult member. He has also argued that two of the characters at the mansion party have an uncanny resemblance to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell.
Obviously, not everyone agrees with these extreme interpretations. But the youtube channel owner argues his analysis by looking at the detailed evidence in the movie, noticing details that almost all viewers of the movie will miss.
Morning, Martin!
It’s fascinating (intricately so) stuff; I’ve had a chance to watch one video so far. I watched the movie itself years ago (pre Epstein) and I think now I need o watch it again (post Epstein). Thanks again for the recommend!
As the saying goes, he’s a legend in his own mind. What further proof do we need that it’s time for the men in white coats to put him in a padded cell. Lock him up! Lock him up!
I’m Trump’s age. Army ’64-’67. 22 months overseas, Germany and Vietnam. I can do nothing but shake my head over this nonsense of his, and wonder if Trump’s day of reckoning for the financed and direct slaughter of so many from the Caribbean to Gaza, Iran and Ukraine will come, as he demands entrance at the Pearly Gates. That is his real sin, compared to his childish AI dress-up.
I doubt he sees any of those as sins, so won’t repent anyway.
And, yes, the men who dropped the bombs and fired the munitions are responsible for the dead, He makes plain that those who lead others astray will not enjoy their “welcome”.
A more correct rendering would be Trump with Leona Helmsley and Larry Silverstein… and maybe John Gotti.
Good one RK!
Roy Cohn is waiting for him.
“Barry also didn’t start a catastrophically stupid, evil war”
Sure he did. The one in Ukraine.
Hi John,
Well, sort of. The Keeeeeeeeevvv thing is bad, certainly. But it’s far less worse than this Israel Uber Alles thing. I don’t think any Americans have died in Keeeeeeeeeeeeeev, except perhaps mercenaries. So far, at least 18 Americans have died for Israel. Hundreds wounded. In a war that has already probably set in motion an economic catastrophe.
I despise Obama. But I despise Trump more – because he is a traitor. We got what he promised we weren’t going to get. Barry was just serving his interests and everyone knew that.
Never the less, it is catastrophically stupid and evil. A war wherein the US replaced Israel, and Ukraine replaced the US
…and (((who))) controls Israel, Ukraine…. and the U.S.?
You stop right there. They are all independently acting nations working in their own people’s best interests. There is no global conspiracy – just read this site a little more and think a little less. Soon you’ll even decide which nations and people’s are best to hate. And when you do, let the hate flow through you. Many characters on this forum will show you how it’s properly done.
I think you meant the opposite. Read this site a little less and think a little more.
BTW, I agree in general. It’s hard to make a case that any country has established a foreign policy counter to their interests. Their interests may align with another country, sure, but outright traitors to their country? I’d hear the argument, but I’ve yet to hear it.
Really, Steve?
Do you think it was in Germany’s interest to declare war on the United States in 1941?
Yes, because the U.S. was Great Britain’s major supplier. Declaring war on the U.S. made U.S. flagged supply ships legitimate targets for the U boats. Absent that declaration, attacking U.S. merchant ships would have been a violation of international law.
https://tinyurl.com/bdfum32m
Where did that come from? I don’t agree with that let alone the implications.
No, I think Hitler was either trying to keep the US out of the war (most likely), or he was trying to influence the feebleminded, which unquestionably has happened in the West recently.
“It’s hard to make a case that any country has established a foreign policy counter to their interests.”
Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt made exactly that case in their 2007 book “The Israel Lobby.” They are both distinguished scholars of international politics and they were utterly flummoxed by the fact that U.S. foreign policy serves Israel’s interests over America’s interets.
There is a shorter paper of the same title on the website of the Kennedy School at Harvard if you’d rather read that.
Yeah, and if you read Mearsheimer’s latest with with even a fragment of objectivity, you have to admit that his argument is assumed to be true before engaging the argument.
Or not. Most people are no longer capable of evaluating evidence and arguments…
Obama got far more Americans killed in Afghanistan than Trump has gotten killed in Iran (so far).
Recall that the Afghanistan war was VERY quiet prior to the Obama presidency — there was ONE U.S. KIA in the initial invasion in 2001 if I recall.
Obama ramped up troop deployments to over 100,000. I know because my kid was one of them. 2,500+ Americans got killed in the escalation. Some whom we knew.
And it was all for nothing. After the military-industrial complex got its promotions and fat contracts, the war ended (after 20 years!) and we left with the Taliban back in power, armed with billions in military hardware we abandoned.
Oh… and ZOG got to test all the spyware and surveillance technology they are now using on us here at home. Because we might be “terrorists” just like the Taliban.
Even though no Taliban ever committed a terrorist attack here in the U.S. …
Your statement rests on the assumption that we have been told an accurate total of the casualties (so far) of the stupid and evil war with Iran. That is very likely a wrong assumption. I would not be surprised if the true number of casualties is 10x (or more) of what we are told.
Yes, Obomber ramping up the troop deployments in Afghanistan was stupid and evil as well, but if he actually withdrew from that war can you imagine the screaming of “TRAITOR” from the Faux Noise crowd? I have no love for Obomber as he was a CIA creation (real name Barry Sotero) but he didn’t start the vile Afghan war – that was the Shrub.
“Conservatives” used the rant about “Democrat Wars” but they need to STFU about that after Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran wars.
“Your statement rests on the assumption that we have been told an accurate total of the casualties (so far)..”
It would be relatively easy to cover up the injuries, but deaths? Dignified Transfer is a really big thing to military types, even more than stolen valor. If they were flying into Andrews, either Trump would have attended, or someone would have noticed that he didn’t. And if they were flying them into other bases? The DIE brass would probably have gone along with a coverup, but those who think military service is a matter of personal honor? Wouldn’t someone somewhere start wondering what’s up with all the bodies?
“Obama got far more Americans killed in Afghanistan than Trump has gotten killed in Iran (so far).”
To be fair, though, we didn’t have the kinds of stand-off munitions we have now. You can’t rack up a very big casualty list if you mostly keep people out of harm’s way.
It is not difficult to see why, Eric. Most who were awake were well-aware that Obama was bad news on so many levels, and was evil on an even deeper ones. But Trump? He was supposed to be our ally. Our “comrade-in-arms” so to speak. Instead, we got a wolf in sheep’s clothing. When really, if one had done a bit of digging ahead of time, they would have found that Trump was never a “Conservative”, let alone a “Republican” (not worth much, really, just the other wing of the same bird). Trump was liberal like all of the rest. He just put on a good sheep suit, so as to deceive the masses. And oh, how successful he has been, sadly.
What about Libya? Wasn’t that Obama’s?
Yeah, I was going to mention that….further Obama initially got the U.S. entangled in ISIS and was well known for his use of drone attacks even against U.S. citizens and wedding parties…..the point is, and this is well documented in Scott Horton’s books, especially Provoked, that all of these White House occupying savages are war mongers…..it’s just more obvious with T-Rump and the results more immediately obvious….he will go down in history as the one turd in the punchbowl that finally broke the dam….
One further thing,
The Clintons were one of the most blood thirsty couples to ever occupy the Casa Bianca……and it was both of those psychopaths but especially Hillbillary who were bought and motivated by death and destruction Inc…..what they did in the former Yugoslavia was dispicable
Haiti was even worse. At most, 2% of international contributions went to rebuilding Haiti. Everything else, we have no friggin’ clue. Obviously, you can’t accidentally erase a money trail..
The Clintons were a pair of evil actors but they were in a long line of evil actors, both nominally Democrat and Republican but in reality all bought by the same tottering evil infrastructure. Even Reagan, that hero of the right, was a complete disaster. Given that these actors are human, with human faults, the placing of them in positions of power amounts to a mistake if you value individual liberty.
Humans gonna human…
Don’t forget about the Arab Spring in the Middle East after the Russian and Chinese wheat crops failed, Obama’s expansion of ethanol pushed more farmers into growing field corn instead of wheat and the boys over on the Chicago commodities exchange pushed up prices in response to all the crazy quantitive easing.
While not directly because of Obama, we all remember the glee in Hillary’s voice when she heard of Qaddafi’s death.
We came, we saw, he died
Yea. I remember. She arranged for him to get a big bayonet enema. Because he was about to launch a genuinely gold-backed currency. Couldn’t have that. And now Libya is the world’s biggest open air old school slave market. And nobody knows where Qaddafi’s gold went. Well, I guess whoever got it knows.
Afghanistan was expanded under Obama and Libya, Syria, Yemen and Somalia were started. He did reduce deployment in Iraq.
-anon
Yes.
Is Trump a narcissistic ass? Yep. But, isn’t he the same guy who stated to Howard Stern that trying to avoid STDs was his own personal “Vietnam”? Then there was the AI pic of Trump leading Americans into the Revolutionary War and, as SG stated below, the one where he appeared as God.
The country is full of these egoistical men and women who believe the rest of us worship them. Unfortunately, some idiots do. Jeezy peezy they are hiding a dead Senator from us! Then there is that other guy, Fauci, who pled the fifth while having immunity knowing the courts will do nothing. We have representatives who place Israel over their very own country and people, local governments and police departments illegally rigging cameras while destroying Americans Fourth Amendment rights, and corporations stealing personal data from our most private moments to sell to third party vendors. Shall I mention the continued taxation of our personal property on a semi annual basis? Some individuals end up paying more in taxes over their lifetime than they ever paid for the asset that they are being taxed on.
They play us for fools and we let them.
Morning, RG!
As a man, I am beyond flummoxed by this. I mean this pretending to be what you’re not – and to the extent Trump routinely does.
A friend of mine is a combat vet. I would never presume to pretend I’d “served” – and I expect if I did, my friend would no longer be that. Not until I walked it back and apologize for it.
I’ll never have to make such an apology, though. Because such a thing would never cross my mind.
As you say, jeezy peasy!
I believe all this is more than narcissism but a planned, epic troll.
It’s a way to flush out those who aren’t fully on board MAGA, who may have a functioning conscience and the nugget of believing in their oath (enemies foreign and domestic).
He’s already purged some of the upper brass but to prevent a fracturing down the command and field staff as well as the ranks he needs to make sure the whole military is loyal and there’s no serious organization possible with access to trained manpower and materiel.
They’re preparing for the inevitable civil war. They know the descent of martial law will need to be swift and decisive. If they don’t succeed in the first few weeks they’ll lose. The Borg is learning from (apparent) failures in Vietnam and the Middle East.
They need to identify those in active or ready reserve that might be trouble to their plans.
-anon
Hi Anon,
I have no words.
Hi anon,
Ooh, is this the Trump is playing chess, while everyone else is playing checkers scenario?
If the military plans to handle the civil war like they are handling Iran I feel Americans chances of succeeding are pretty good.
Hi RG,
I have a friend – my oldest friend – who thinks like this. He thinks that Mark Milley and Gen. Flynn and other assorted “white hats” in the military are running an “opp” to save the country. It makes me want to run the TA in the garage with the garage doors closed until I pass out from the fumes.
No, not a 5-D chess. The thinking is just simply testing for loyalty. The military hasn’t been the friend of the huddled masses for a long time. Maybe during the Cold War it could be argued the military kind of, sort of, believed it was captialism-vs-communism, the American Way and all that. When the Wall fell and the USSR broke up they faced an existential crisis. NATO and the Pentagon should have been closed down, assets sold for scrap and maybe state National Guards kept for defense. Instead they started manufacturing reasons to exist, the terrorists that could be easily twisted to be anyone who threatens the status quo. Post 9-11 the military morphed to actively oppose real freedom and liberty and have dragged the police (who are half vets and half knuckleheads who want to cosplay operators) with them into an occupying force. Trump is just doing what his handlers demand of him, part of which is to make sure our military stays firmly in its paid mercenary lane. They flail a lot but that’s only because they’re intentionally hamstrung, wars primary job being to churn through money and keep the spigots flowing. There’s a lot of hardware and infrastructure out there though, which is potentially highly problematic if real competence ever managed to replace the bootlicking midwits and chair warmers who get promoted now.
-anon
Hi anon,
Loyalty is a rare attribute. If the Trump Administration believes that the military are loyal to him and his whims than he is dumber than I thought. Very few people are ever truly loyal. “Loyalty” is usually manufactured by two things: fear or self interest. The military will be “loyal” to him until they realize there is no retribution for fleeing his authority due to his weakened power or their own self interests can no longer be accomplished under the current regime and they will be in the crosshairs if they remain.
Interesting to think about, but how does that square with the 3-year hitch? Or the 8-year MSO?
And career are not likely to throw their pensions away either.
There is a lot civilians do not understand about the military mindset. They are more likely America First than most people. If for no other reason than they are not cheering for Iran.
Hi Steve,
Understanding Iran is what I’m seeing. I understand how I’d feel if America had been attacked. So I understand how the Iranians feel about being attacked. I also understand that they’re right to feel that way, just as we would be right if we’d been attacked. Do you blame a dog that you kick for biting you?
Agreed!
That’s what I’ve been getting at for lo these many months.
You are applying Western morality to a country which seeks to overthrow Western morality.
Morning, Steve –
“You are applying Western morality to a country which seeks to overthrow Western morality.”
You mean Israel, right?
The state that believes in and practices collective punishment; that considers children fair game because they will grow up to be enemies of the Israeli state. The state that is defined by its adherence to the tentets of Babylonian Talmudism. How very “Western” that is.
Hasbara alert.
Zio-Steve attempts to dehumanize Iranians (they’re not enlightened like us) so it becomes much easier to kill them. That’s the same play to genocide Gaza.
Morning, Mister!
Yup. Steve constantly characterizes the Iranians (and Muslims in general) as barbaric. Well, is there any analog to what Israel is doing in Gaza? Israel has admitted to having killed 70,000 people. It is probably 100,000-plus. Tens of thousands of these victims are old people, women and kids. In any event, it is vastly more than any body count that can be laid at the feet of the Iranians or Muslims in general.
It is Israel that practices genocide. It is Israel that regards non-Israelis as subhumans. It is Israel that commits war crimes and has a (rightly) indicted war criminal as its current leader and whose previous leaders were all despicable people. Begin was literally a wanted terrorist. Ehud Barak a kid-fucker.
We’ve been so gaslight we don’t even realize how badly we’ve been gaslit. Well, some of us do. More are realizing it, too.
The “Jewish state.” That’s fabulous. How a Christian state? How about a White state? That would never fly. The Oys and Veys would echo around the world.
I wish someone would make rolls of toilet paper with the Israeli flag on every sheet. I’d buy a dozen.
Ask and you shall receive.
https://toiletface.co.uk/product/israel-flag-novelty-toilet-paper/
Comment of the day.
Hi Eric,
Except everyone of those at the “top” are playing something they aren’t. They are all actors in a play. The puppets of theatre. The Master of Puppets are the guys pulling the strings that remain nameless and faceless behind them.
I used to have hope that has these men aged and died off one by one that the individuals coming up behind them would be more merciful, more honest, and less sadistic. Instead of Kissinger, Ellison, Soros, and Company we have Langley, Karp, Soros, and Company. The faces change, but the goal remains the same.
This calls for a song!
End of passion play, crumbling away
I’m your source of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear
Leading on your death’s construction
Taste me, you will see
More is all you need
Dedicated to
How I’m killing you
Come crawling faster (faster)
Obey your master (master)
Your life burns faster (faster)
Obey your Master! Master!
Master of Puppets, I’m pulling your strings
Twisting your mind, smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can’t see a thing
Just call my name, ‘cause I’ll hear you scream
Metallica – Master of Puppets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ozmU9cJDg
Master! Master!
Just call my name, ‘cause I’ll hear you scream
LOL….and that was the song I was thinking of when writing my post. 🙂
I realize it is originally about drugs, but did seem fitting for the occasion.
Perhaps Metallica’s Disposable Heroes is more apt.
I’ll say it, just color me unimpressed with professional killers adorning themselves with medals, stripes, and scrambled eggs on their hats. All for how well they direct other people’s children to die. But fuck the Orange Baboon just the same.
Amen, RG –
Me, too. At this point, nothing is going to fix this; I liken it to having fallen into a sewer. No point trying to toss out the turds. The smart thing to do is get out – and away from the turds.
Aaah, your comment, Eric, reminds me of another saying (cue a line from “Shawshank Redemption”. “Easy Peasey, Japan-easy”. How fitting.
We, as a nation, really need to adopt the Robert Heinlein political philosophy when it comes to the voting franchise and political decision makers- only those who are willing to put their lives on the line for the body politic earn the privilege of voting and leading. Period.
If you want ultimate authority, you first must prove you are willing to give the ultimate sacrifice. Camp Currie’s everywhere!
Hi Andy,
Yes, I agree this could serve. I’m a practical man as well an idealistic one. Ideally, I’d like to see a libertarian society. Realistically, I know that only a select few are capable of it. A military requirement and a property requirement would serve to keep the worst sort from destroying society via the ballot box.
Wow, that rings a bell. Something something… republic?
Unpossible though. Think of the women and children!
While it is tempting to disenfranchise the soys, military expenditures beyond that necessary to prevent invasion is a dead loss. I’d much rather have the owner of the five and dime voting than your Joe Standard E-4. But ideally, I’d listen to both, and ignore everyone else. If you don’t have a track record of running a successful business or martial training, I’m not all that interested in your opinion in how the country should be run.
A few days ago, I got an unsolicited call from the Alabama GOP. I hung up on them.
Yesterday in the mail was a Republican National Committee “survey” i.e. a plea for donations. I answered the questions my way and am sending it back on their dime no less. The first answer was NO NEW FORIEGN WARS.
This is my little form of protest. Since voting doesn’t matter it’s all I have.
Another difference between President Trump and Patton/ MacArthur is that they actually won wars.
You really have to wonder who thought it was a good idea to put out stolen valor pictures anyway.
At least if you don’t count the Fall of the Philippines speed bump and being relieved of command during the Korean War by MacArthur.
The fact that he graduated the USMA and actually rose through the ranks to command in battle not withstanding.
-anon
Excellent point. The hubris and hypocrisy are completely off the charts. Teddy Roosevelt was an out-and-out warmonger, but at least he and his sons personally went into combat (and his youngest son Quentin died in World War I).
Kennedy personally served in combat, and his older brother was killed in World War II. Truman served in combat, and so did Eisenhower.
However, as a general rule, the biggest presidential warmongers were all chicken-hawks — Lincoln, Wilson and the cripple FDR never served and LBJ rigged a bullshit rearguard “service” purely for political effect in WWII. W of course went to the Texas National Guard instead of Vietnam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0VQ6EFYfgU
Back in April Trump depicted himself as Jesus healing the sick, with a strange ball of light in his hand and surrounded by worshipful admirers.
Trump ain’t right in the head or heart.
Planned to not comment, but is this really that big of a deal? Haven’t we gotten past being offended by blasphemy? It’s not like He need some human defending Him or anything. I thought taking oneself and his religion too seriously was so Charlie Hebdo…
What in fuck is wrong with him, his military prowess would be better likened to a mall cop. Do not any of his cronies and toads mention to him “bad idea”.
You’d think Melania might say something, but then again she’s probably under strict orders to never tell him what to do, because he’s always right and there are still slots available in the ex-wives’ club.
Trump: Don’t ask me about my business, Mel.
Mel: Did you make this?
Trump: Don’t ask me about my business…
Don’t insult Mall Cops. Seriously. They get no thanks and usually protect the people in the mall. Unlike the Flock Stalkers.