a retired colonel has some thoughts about the orange man's recent foolishness;

“Every boat we strike saves the lives of 25,000 Americans,” says Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.  Wouldn’t that be something if it were true! How simple the problems of our post-imperial US world would be!

The White House press conference of October 23rd centered on the President, sitting on a golden chair between Ken and Barbie.  His staff of beautiful women and slightly eggheaded men all articulately competing to flatter the President for his brilliance, his boldness, his courage, his caretaking commitment to the United States. He commended his staff as “most talented” at what they do, “naturals,” he said, reading my mind when I had assumed they were made of plastic.

I personally like to watch and listen to President Trump, his tenor, his expository confidence and an accent that mixes New York City with something else I can’t explain.  The content of what he says is also a lot of fun, and he has wholly rejuvenated the world of adjectives and fish stories.  I love the many Trump impersonators who recognize this, and use it to entertain us around the world.

Trump took a moment to lecture a Democrat legislator for using the F-word seven times in one sentence. Trump advised that Democrats do what he does: Use the word only in every seventh contact with the press.  Using the F-word is a tool, like all things, to be leveraged, as Trump sees fit.

Nixon’s War on Drugs melded long ago with Bush’s War on Terror, and with this, the latest half century of American empire is cemented by this collective understanding of the US state, and its only purpose.  A flexible, seamless bodysuit of war, designed by the Military Industrial complex and their equity and bankster partners, has been sewn up by a Congress of miseducated seamstresses, and delivered to the Executive Branch for a pittance and a pat on the head...........more...........