Beware of Promising What You Can Deliver, but Really Don't Want to

 Not quite a year into the second Donald Trump presidency (It certainly seems a lot longer than that doesn't it?) a few things have become abundantly clear. First, Trump has no respect, or need for the legislative branch of government. Second, his lies and hypocrisy have become so loathsomely routine it feels like no one even notices anymore. Third, when it comes to comes to interior design, the man's tastes can only be described as that of a coked-up New Orleans pimp. And finally, no matter how much he wants it to, the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein just won't go away.

According to Ballotpedia, since January 20th of this year he has signed, 225 executive orders. In addition, he has issued 56 memoranda, and 114 proclamations. In comparison, during his first term in office, Trump signed 220 in four years. Of course, that was back when there were people around him who actually believed in the U.S. government and the separation of powers. This time he has made sure everyone in the administration is loyal to him, not the Constitution. The more slavish their devotion the better. 

Hey, what do you expect from a man who bills himself as a Christian President, but refused to place his hand on the bible when he was sworn in? (Who knows? Maybe he thought he'd burst into flames if he touched it.) 

Indeed, once he found out the congressional republican majority was riddled with cowards and sycophants who wouldn't challenge him on anything--well, almost anything--he has run wild. Besides turning an entire federal agency into a gang of unrestrained street thugs, the man is now claiming affordability, the issue he drove home last November is now a democratic hoax. A couple of days ago, after meeting with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy he told the media a solution to the war was, "complicated," and couldn't be achieved in a day. No one in the gathered media even bothered to bring up his oft repeated 2024 campaign promises to end the conflict, "within 24 hours." The attitude seemed to be, why worry about old news? 

Yes, Donald Trump is the master of plowing ahead. The philosophy being, Keep moving. No lie is too great so long as there is another one following immediately in its wake. In short, don't give them time to think.

The tactic has served Trump well over the years. 

With one exception.

Jeffrey Epstein is the itch Donald J. Trump can't scratch. And it is all his fault. He is the one who made the release of the Epstein files an issue in the first place. Much of that angry mob known as his base might not remember or care he lied about ending the Ukraine war in a day, or that he swore Haitians were running amok eating pets in Ohio. They might even forgive him for telling them, if they want affordability, they should buy their kids fewer toys and pencils. However, what they will not abide is letting the accomplices of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell remain anonymous. 

That's right. Apparently MAGA world will let Donald Trump slide on the lies, economic uncertainty, and the outright corruption, however, when it comes to a conspiracy that actually does exist, by God, no one involved walks away clean, no matter who they are. You promised us, Donald. Now give us the fucking names.

A law was signed by Trump himself which required the DOJ to release the full files by December 19th. The only authorized redactions were the names of victims and other innocent people caught up in the investigation. What has oozed out of the DOJ since then have been documents so heavily edited that in some instances entire pages have been blacked out. Now, according to Pam Bondi's DOJ, nearly a million additional documents have been discovered. The Justice Department estimates it will take weeks to go through them all before their release. 

This is all horse shit. Trump is playing his patented delaying game, hoping the whole thing will somehow go away. He doesn't seem to understand that he created this conspiracy monster--or at least nourished it, gave his blessing as it grew--and now has lost control of it. The idea, of just putting it all out there and getting it over with is apparently so frightening to him he is willing to drag the issue out until perhaps the end of his term.

It all goes to prove one thing. Promising something you can't deliver is one thing. However, promising something you can deliver but really don't want to is another. 

12-30-25

A Deadly Weekend of Chaos, Terror, Tragedy, and Cruel Narcissism

 This past weekend, for reasons none of us will ever truly understand, four different people scattered cross the nation and globe, went utterly insane. Obviously, their insanity didn't just happen overnight. Their minds, as Morrison once sang, "had been squirming like toads," for a long time. In Los Angeles, the crime appeared personal. In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, it appears pure hatred and perhaps dreams of genocide played a part. Up in Providence, RI, on the Brown University campus--well, who the fuck knows?

At Brown, a short, portly man, described in his 30's walked into the engineering building on Saturday while students were studying for final exams. By the time he made his escape two students had been shot to death and nine were wounded. Within hours of the shooting, police said they had a, "person of interest," in custody. A few hours after the announcement the authorities released the man, saying he wasn't involved. The search continues as everyone in Providence keeps their heads on a swivel.  

At Bondi Beach in the Sydney metro area, members of the Jewish community gathered the first night of Hanukkah, the traditional Festival of Lights. Sajid Akram, 50, and his son, Naveed, 24, also showed up. The elder Akram was described as a resident of Australia, while his son, who had been born there was a citizen. 

While Australia has some of the strictest gun laws in the world--you can't buy a semi-automatic assault style weapon there under any circumstances--apparently there isn't a limit on how many guns a single person can own. The elder Akram legally owned six. Last month, he and his kid made what is now a suspicious trip to the Philippines where ISIS cells are known to operate. On Bondi Beach, by the time it was over, 15 celebrants, aged 10 to mid 80s were dead. Sajid Akram was killed in the shootout, his son, Naveed was wounded and now sits under guard in a Sydney hospital.

Then, on Sunday afternoon, actor/director/political activist Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead in their Brentwood home. The causes of death for both was reported to be stabbing. Their son Nick, who has a history of mental and substance abuse issues, is being held in connection with the murders.  

On Saturday, a scant few hours after the shooting at Brown, Donald Trump posted a message at 5:44 pm, "I have been briefed on the shooting that took place at Brown University in Rhode Island. The FBI is on the scene. The suspect is in custody. God bless the victims and the families of the victims." At 6:03pm he posted, "The Brown University Police reversed their previous statement--The suspect is NOT in custody." 

While he blamed the mistake on campus cops, at least he admitted he got it wrong. However, our man in the gilded Oval Office wasn't done sending out social media posts to the nation and world.

After Rob Reiner and his wife were confirmed as the victims in LA, Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America, the Commander in Chief, posted a lengthy message to the stunned country. It began, "A sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away together with his wife Michile, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGMENT SYNDROME, sometimes known as TDS." 

The President went on to write, "He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness and with the Golden Age of America upon us like perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!"

How narcissistic and cruel do you have to be to write shit like that? How despicably vindictive and petty? How thoroughly rotten and evil? Sane and decent people will never know. The answers are simply beyond their comprehension.

However, after reading that grotesque post, one thing has become perfectly clear to some of us. If Donald J. Trump isn't the Anti-Christ, he'll do until the real one shows up.

1216-25

The End of the Beginning Starts with the Indiana State Senate

 It is unclear if Donald Trump believes in the now generally accepted constitutional concept of one person, one vote. What is clear, however, is he really doesn't believe in the equal distribution of voters in congressional districts. Faced with a catastrophic loss in next year's election the President wants to make sure republican voters hold solid majorities in as many congressional districts as possible. To that end he is actively pushing for his state level cultists to redraw the districts five years earlier than normal. He sees the polls, or at least his people do. In order to help the GOP remain in control of at least the House of Representatives it doesn't matter how geographically twisted and bizarre the districts become. All that matters is democrats are separated into unconnected political ghettos while GOP loyalists become the majorities. 

This method of what amounts to pre-election rigging was humming along perfectly until this week. Then, like the voyage of the, "unsinkable," Titanic, things went suddenly and horribly wrong. 

The current Indiana House delegation is seven republicans and two democrats. Trump's plan was to, let's say, rearrange, the district map in order to give the GOP a better than 50-50 shot to pick up those democratic seats next fall. The path for this creative political deck stacking went through the Indiana state senate chamber, where republicans hold 40 of the 50 seats.

That's where the grand scheme went sideways. 

Unlike Texas and other locales, republican Senators in Indiana didn't ask how high when the Trump administration told them to jump. Signs of trouble appeared early on as a surprising number of legislators seemed reluctant to go along with the plan. Others objected to it outright, based on their conservative principles. Donald Trump and his pals, never known for their negotiating skills, reacted as you might expect--with all the subtlety of Al Capone's Chicago Southside Gang. After a vote to redistrict the state according to Donald ended up in a tie all manner of threats began to pour in. 

Trump directed a social media post at Indiana Senate president pro tempore, Rodric Bray personally. It read, "Anyone that votes against Redistricting and the SUCCESS of the Republican Party in D.C. will be, I am sure, met with a MAGA Primary in the Spring. Rod Bray and his friends won't be in Politics for long and I will do everything within my power to make sure that they will not hurt the Republican Party and our Country again." 

Others in the senate began to receive bomb threats and swatting attacks at their homes. Then, to remove any lingering doubt about the administration's intentions, the ultra-right Heritage Foundation posted a dark warning on social media. "President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders," it began. " If the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state. Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame." 

Or, to paraphrase a line from a long-gone TV show, "Vote for Donnie and nobody gets hurt." 

On Monday, republican Indiana Senator spoke on the chamber floor, saying in part, "I fear for this institution, I fear for the state of Indiana, and I fear for all states if we allow intimidation and threats to become the norm." On Thursday, republican Senator, Spencer Deery said, "I, like a supermajority of you do not want to see another democrat Speaker of the House. But that isn't for me to decide and that isn't for anyone in this body to decide either. Living in a free Constitutional republic means we empower voters to make those decisions."

Later, the final vote was 19 yeas and 31 nays. That's right. Even if the 10 democrats in the Indiana Senate had not voted, the measure would have still failed 21 to 19. 

The defeat means that for the first time since the Trump madness gained complete control over the party of Lincoln a significant group of state politicians found not just their courage, but maybe their souls. They recognized a blatant autocratic power grab and in response told the crazy old bastard to go fuck himself. 

No, this isn't the beginning of the end for Donald Trump and his wretched political ambitions. (Redistricting plans are going full speed ahead in Missouri and North Carolina.) However, to quote Winston Churchill, it is, "...perhaps the end of the beginning."  

We can only hope.

12-12-25

Samantha Gets a Zero, Mel Gets Put on Leave, and Joe Gets Caught in the Middle

 A little while back college student, Samantha Fulnecky wrote an essay which was supposed to critique an article regarding gender roles in today's society. Fulnecky, who grew up in and later just outside Springfield, MO. Ms. Fulnecky's paper reads as if it is a sermon, best suited for a pulpit in a fundamentalist Christian church. So much so, if she was attending, let's say, Liberty University she would have probably received an outstanding grade, despite some serious grammatical and syntax issues.

Unfortunately, Samantha Fulnecky isn't attending Liberty, or any other Christian fundamentalist institution. She is enrolled at the University of Oklahoma. Her essay was written for a mid-level (She's a Jr.) psychology class, which, the last time we looked, is still considered a science. The highest score possible on the paper was 25 points. Hers received a 0.

Samantha Fulnecky immediately filed a, "discrimination," complaint with the university. She claimed, and still does, she was failed solely because she expressed her religious beliefs. Her instructor, Mel Curth wrote, in part, that he had failed her because her paper relied entirely on, "personal theology and not empirical evidence." 

It's easy to see where Curth was coming from. Ms. Fulnecky had included in her paper a line which read, "Society is pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone should be whatever they want to be is demonic and severely harms American youth." At another point she wrote that blurring gender lines is, "...detrimental to society because it puts people, further from God's original plan for humans." She also threw in the term, "Satanic," at another juncture. Obviously, that's her opinion and belief, but hardly scientific evidence for the argument.   

In response to Fulnecky's complaint the university put Curth on administrative leave. Everyone from FOX News to the Turning Point USA OU chapter threw their support behind her. Demonstrations, both pro and con were held on campus. Predictably, the internet lit up with comments, criticisms, and attacks. In other words, people who had previously never heard of Samantha Fulnecky, Mel Curth, and maybe even the subject of psychology went nuts. 

Back home in Springfield, Samantha's mom, Kristi rose to her defense. It turns out she isn't a stranger to political and religious controversy. Mrs. Fulneck is a lawyer who once defended a guy named, Joeseph Quaglin. He got 12 years for his part in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters. She also defended Jared Owens who participated in the attack. The charges against him were dropped. During the COVID pandemic she sued a Missouri health provider. Her client was upset about having to read about COVID precautions before accessing the company's virtual care site. The suit was thrown out. 

In addition to her courtroom adventures, Kristi Fulnecky served on the Springfield city council, where she made a name for herself by demanding a sign saying, "In God We Trust," hang in the council chambers. Well, that and being accused of operating an unlicensed business in the town while sitting on the council. In response she publicly complained everyone else serving in Springfield was, "liberal." She also ran for mayor but was defeated. Ultimately, she resigned from the council when her family moved to a place outside the city limits. 

At least we know Samantha comes by her martyr's syndrome honestly. Plus, we have a hint of where she gets her taste for hell raising when things don't go her way.

Actually, the biggest loser in all this is a guy named Joseph Harroz Jr. He is the President of the University of Oklahoma and would much rather be out fundraising and cheerleading for the school's football team right now. Instead, he is dealing with this shit. President Harroz now finds himself in a Kobayashi Maru style no-win scenario. There is no way he can placate both sides. By the time it is over he will be loudly condemned by either far-right politicians and Christian fundamentalists or the academic community and the political left.

Thanks to the MAGAverse and WOKE militants, any middle position has gone the way of the Stegosaurus.   

Meanwhile, Samantha Fulnecky is doing her part to tamp down the hullabaloo. She has appeared on social media in an attempt to explain her views on gender identification. She is telling anyone who will listen, she didn't mean Trans and gay people are in of themselves, "demonic." No, not at all. She simply believes the idea that gay and trans people are acceptable in society, is "demonic." 

Ah. Thanks for clearing that up, Samantha. We're sure your mother is proud.

12-9-25

Imaginary Somali Gangs and Donald Trump's Notion of Garbage

 Last month, Donald Trump had this to say about Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar (D-MN), "When I see somebody like Ilhan Omar, who I don't know at all, but I always watch her--for years I've watched her--complain about our Constitution, how she's treated badly, our Constitution, the United States of America  is a bad place, hates everybody, hates Jewish people, hates everybody. And I think she is she is an incompetent person. She's a real terrible person." 

The Congresswoman was born in Somalia. She immigrated to the United States--presumably not on her own--when she was eight years old. She is a naturalized American citizen and part of what some call, "the progressive wing," of the democratic party. That puts her politics further to the left than most democrats, who Trump doesn't like to begin with. So, it really isn't surprising he considers her, "a real terrible person."  

That breathless screed last month, however, was just the beginning. This week, as teams of ICE agents moved into Minneapolis to eradicate what has been described as, roaming gangs of illegal Somalian immigrants terrorizing the citizens of Minnesota, (read white people) Mr. Trump went further. Way further. He went full unabashed White Nationalist further.

At a cabinet meeting Donald Trump addressed the media, saying among other things, "...we're going the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These (Somalians) aren't people who work. They aren't people who say, 'Let's go, come on, let's make this place great.' These are people who do nothing but complain." Then he added, "When they come from hell and complain and do nothing but bitch, we don't want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it." Just to make sure everyone knew exactly what he was saying, Trump added, "Somalia stinks and we don't want them in our country. I can say that about other countries too." 

Ah yes, quite Presidential.

According to the AP there are approximately 116,520 Somalian immigrants living in the United States. Of that number, 64,354 live in Minnesota. They make up 1.12% of the state's population. The vast majority of them, like Ilhan Omar, are naturalized U.S. citizens.

There aren't now and never have been any reports of Somalian, "gangs," terrorizing anyone in Minnesota, or anywhere else. The only real scandal to come out of the community was a welfare/charity scam--something the Trump family has some experience with since they are banned from running charities in New York because of past, let's say, financial irregularities. Charges were brought against 78 defendants and so far, there have been 59 convictions. The AP reports the investigation remains ongoing.

Congresswoman Omar represents Minnesota's 5th district, which is located mainly in Minneapolis. Wikipedia says the ethnic demographics break down is right at 60% white, 17.1% black, 10.1% Hispanic, 6.1% Asian, with other groups under 2% each. In other words, while diverse, it is still heavily Anglo European. In the last election Ilhan Omar won over 56% of the vote in the democratic primary. In the general election, against a republican, she pulled in 74.4% of the vote. That's a lot of people, or as Donald Trump describes them, garbage, who think Ms. Omar is indeed, competent and not a terrible person.

It certainly doesn't sound like anyone in Minneapolis is being, "terrorized," by Somali gangs. Who knows? Maybe in Donald Trump's head they are but just don't realize it. After all, these are citizens of a state which elected Tim Walz as Governor--a man Trump (always the silver-tongued orator) recently described as being, "seriously retarded." 

At this point it is easy to think Trump's family history of brute racism and run-away dementia have finally caught up with him. Let's face it, when you spin so far out of control, someone like Nick Fuentes is taking credit for inspiring your words, things do feel like they've gone off pier. Now, even the whole, Haitians are eating pets in Ohio thing, seems tame by comparison. 

In the end it doesn't matter if Donald Trump truly believes what he said the other day, or if he was just making a crude bid to shore up his political base. The end result in either case should make any decent person utterly reject both him and those who believe in what he says. It is all not just unamerican, it is inhuman. It would have made, Herr Himmler proud.

12-5-25

Whiskey Pete, Scourge of the Caribbean and His Boss, Irony Impaired Donald

 On September 2nd this year there was an open boat in the waters off the coast of Trinidad in the Caribbean Sea. Reports indicate there were possibly 11 people aboard the vessel. No one really knows for sure what those people were doing on the, "ship," or where it was headed. All we can be sure of is that the location that day put it 630 miles away from the American territory of Puerto Rico and 1,762 miles from the United States mainland. Two distances which seem pretty daunting for an open boat with an unknown amount of fuel and cargo.

Secretary of Defense/War Pete Hegseth apparently had no doubts about where the boat was headed, or what it was carrying. According to Hegseth, Trump, and other in the administration all these open boats on the seas are hauling drugs and they are headed here.  With that in mind, reports say Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order instructing Admiral Frank M. Bradley to, "Kill everybody." 

Either a missile, or drone was launched and, the 11-man boat went "boom!" The whole awful event, thanks to military technology was shown live on screen.

It was at that point things went, as the movie line said, "All Medieval." Not to mention murky. It turned out the attack had left two visible survivors. What happened next depends on which unnamed source you believe. The first says, Hegseth, who was watching, personally ordered a second strike. Another claimed Bradley did it all on his own--ultimately following Whiskey Pete's initial instructions. No matter what the case, a second strike took out the two people left. That would be took out as in killed. As one observer put it, "It was the modern-day equivalent of machine-gunning helpless combatants floating in the water."

The initial official explanation for the second attack was it took place to clear the water of debris which could be a danger to other ships in the area. The more cynical among us recognized the second strike for what it really was--the elimination of witnesses. Hey, you can't claim you weren't transporting drugs if you're dead can you. 

Some began talking about the commission of war crimes. Such behavior does seem to fly in the face of the U.S. military's Law of War Manual. According to the New Republic, the manual prohibits, "declaring no quarter, or conducting operations on the basis that there shall be no survivors." The rule is there, no doubt, so we can continue to call ourselves the good guys--you know, the type who don't machine gun helpless people in the water.

Other analysts have maintained the attacks themselves and now this gruesome act, cannot be called war crimes, because legally there isn't a war. Not yet anyway. They say that since there isn't a war, only one term can be applied to what happened on September 2nd. That term is, Murder. 

Meanwhile, Donald Trump says Pete Hegseth told him, "I did not order the death of those two men," and he believes him. A little bit later, White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt told the media one of the Secretary's subordinates was the one responsible for what amounted to, the kill shot.

Trump has claimed he started all this deadly crazed shit to shut down the drug traffic from Venezuela. Everyone with a brain knows that's a cover story. What the Donald really wants is to somehow get rid of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. He has even claimed Maduro is a member of a vast drug cartel which is intentionally poisoning the population of the United States with drugs for political and social purposes. Even to the point of--and you knew this had to be coming--sending Venezuelan gang members and other monstrous deviants to the U.S. as immigrants. 

Yesterday, Donald Trump didn't do anything to dissuade those who subscribe to the narco-terrorism as a cover for forced regime change theory. It's kind of hard to do that when you issue a pardon for a guy named Juan Orlando Hernandez. Mr. Hernandez is the former President of Honduras and a current guest in the Federal Prison System. After his second term in 2022 he was extradited to the United States and in March of 2024 he was convicted, by a jury, of conspiring to smuggle 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. 

On Air Force One, the irony impaired Mr. Trump--the man behind the accusations against Maduro and the commander in chief of a military blowing up boats willy nilly in the Caribbean without any proof of criminal activity--told reporters the reason he pardoned Hernandez was this. "Many of the people of Honduras said it was a Biden setup. He was the president of the country, and they basically said he was a drug dealer. because he was the president of the country. And they said it was a Biden administration setup and I looked at the facts, and I agreed with them." At another point Mr. Trump said of Hernandez, "He was treated very harshly and unfairly."

Should someone tell him, or should we wait to see if he figures out the brute insanity of that statement on his own?

Ladies and gentlemen, while we ponder the question, the bar is open.

12-2-25

Mental and Physical Deterioration and the State of Greater Trumpistan

 According to Wikipedia, U.S. Senator, Mark Kelly (D-AZ) flew 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm as a naval aviator. In addition, he either piloted, or commanded four space shuttle missions as a NASA astronaut. During his naval service, Senator Kelly was awarded two Defense Superior Service medals, one Legion of Merit, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, four Air Medals with Combat V, two Navy Commendation medals--one with the combat V, one Navy Achievement medal, two Southwest Asia Service medals, one Navy Expeditionary medal, and two Sea Service Deployment ribbons. He has also received a NASA Distinguished Service medal. 

The short version of all that is, the guy is a fucking hero. Mark Kelly not only has, The Right Stuff, he is, The Right Stuff.

A little while ago Kelly and five other members of Congress--all of them veterans of the military, or intelligence services--posted a video reminding military personnel that under the Uniform Code of Military Justice they had the right and the duty to refuse orders that are constitutionally illegal. The word, disobey was not mentioned and nothing they said was new, or revolutionary.   

Right wing hacks, Donald Trump chief among them, immediately went what can best be described as ape shit. Trump accused the six of sedition. He called them traitors. He reminded everybody the penalty for sedition is death. He even reposted a tweet from a follower which said, "Hang them. George Washington would." Right on cue, Kelly and the rest began to be inundated with anonymous death threats. 

Then on November 24th an, "official," and lengthy message showed up on social media from Pete Hegseth's Department of War. (Department of Defense wasn't macho enough for Trump.) It read in part, "The Department of War has received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly USN (Ret.) In accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. S 688, and other applicable regulations, a thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court martial proceedings or administrative measures." Further on the message there was a warning to all military retirees that they can be still be charged in military court if they also speak out.

In other words, the Secretary of War--Defense--whatever, is threatening to put an American hero on trial. To do so he will be using regulations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice as an excuse. The reason will be because--that's right--Mark Kelly and the others cited parts of the very same Uniform Code of Military Justice--parts Hegseth and his keeper, Donald Trump don't like. 

Welcome to MAGA world.

It doesn't stop with Kelly (Who learned of his possible recall and court martial by hearing about the post.). The other five elected members of congress, Representatives, Jason Crow, Maggie Goodlander, Chris Deluzio, Chrissey Houlahan, and Senator Elissa Slotkin have all been told the FBI wants to, "interview," them. Although we probably haven't gone that far yet, if I was one of them, I'd insist on an interview in a public place located on a ground floor. After all, it's never too early to start being careful. 

So what we have here are six sitting members of the United States Congress being investigated by the DOJ--besides all the Hegseth mumbo jumbo, the FBI wants to talk to Kelly also--for exercising their right of free speech. Not to mention simply making a point, which MSN noted, is, " grounded in longstanding military law." 

We also have a President who is showing obvious signs of mental and physical deterioration that is desperately attempting to turn the American Republic into an autocratic state. A Greater Trumpistan if you will.

Donald Trump has never respected the institution of democracy, and he has certainly never understood the need for it. He has also always been an amoral narcissist of the most dangerous sort. Now, since he has surrounded himself with the sort of toadies who holed up with Herr Hitler in the bunker during the last days of WWII, he is completely untethered from any sense of constitutional restraint. Couple that with an old man who is, let's say, a tad off the normal GPS routes the rest of us follow and the end game here could be very bleak and dark indeed.  

Yes, it might not matter if republicans are finally starting to rebel against his policies and his grip on their souls. It might not even matter if the democrats win control of the House next year. 

None of it might matter, because it might be too late. As Jon Stewart observed, "He isn't building that big ballroom at the White House for the next guy."

11-26-25