War Is Hell, Part 373

. . . mocking. bullying, threatening and pissing on countries that used to be friends and allies of the United States. But what a surprise! Now that he has stupidly blundered into a war with Iran, the most powerful country in the middle east (except for our puppets in Israel) he finds himself shocked, shocked to discover that he has bitten off way more than he can chew, and Iran has compromised the entire world economic system by choking off a fifth of the world’s oil supply. Of course our Celebrity Apprentice President first made sure to shut down all the clean renewable energy possibilities in the U.S.: Solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, before poking the Persian snake by killing (as of today) 1,400 Iranians. Now he wants those former friends and allies to send their warships to the Strait of Hormuz to help him look like a victorious warlord, and he’s mad because they won’t do it.

But maybe the lesson he will learn from this — if he doesn’t get us all killed — is that we need friends and allies, and compromise and diplomacy is a better way to go than bullying and tariffing. Will he learn? All signs point to “Fat Chance.”

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Can the U.S. Recover From Donald Trump?

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I laughed. A lot. I figured the best way to deal with a guy like that was to point and say, “This is who you picked? Really?” America has survived incompetent presidents before. We’ve had our share of overconfident uncles at the nuclear barbecue. We managed.

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ICE Out

. . .who’d been shoved to the pavement by masked, heavily armed federal agents. Maybe he didn’t mean it, but his act of kindness made the ICE agents look bad, so they pepper-sprayed him, gang-dragged him to the ground, beat him, took his (legal) gun, and shot him ten times. If you’ve ever been taken down and pounded by four or five bruisers in tactical gear, you know that Alex was confused and afraid in his last few seconds. My heart goes out to him.

But that’s not the worst part.

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The Students Are Revolting (Again)

In response to the Vietnam war,

…students protested on college campuses across the country. Protest spread to the “civilian” population — people who were not students, but agreed that the war was wrong and had to be stopped at any cost. I was one of the students who chanted, sat in, boycotted and marched. In 1967 I took part in the giant peace march that extended all the way across the city of San Francisco. There had been violence at some other events, but this one, while enormous, remained peaceful.

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Colin Powell, 1937 – 2021

I was meaning to leave poor Colin Powell alone today — and all future days, too — but I am just the teensiest bit weary of the continuous eulogizing that’s been going on all day.

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Powell was a young man who — like far too many of our young men — thought that the best way to solve a problem was by violence. How else do you explain his love for the military? And no matter how much his friends declare him a man of peace, a man who “understood that war was a last resort,” he spent his life in wars in various places around the world, as a young officer and as a four-star general, all of them of extremely dubious value to his country, unless you count gratuitous ass-kicking as “value.”

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American Rescue Plan vs. GOP Tax Giveaway of 2017

You may be hearing a lot of Republican bullshit

…about how President Biden’s about-to-be approved American Rescue Plan is being “shoved down the throat” of the helpless American taxpayer, who of course is totally against its many wasteful elements. But how does it stack up against the Trump Tax Giveaway Act of 2017, which was passed with no negotiation and no Democratic votes? Well, both bills cost us about the same amount – 1.9 trillion dollars. Other than that, if we put them side by side it looks like this:

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There’s More to Biden’s Covid Bill Than the Price Tag

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If you watch television, read the paper or listen to the news on the radio

…you could be forgiven if you thought there was absolutely nothing to know about President Biden’s covid relief bill other than how much it’s going to cost. One point nine trillion dollars! That’s almost two trillion dollars! So expensive! Every single news account I’ve heard or read for the past month has called it “President Biden’s one point nine trillion dollar covid relief package, emphasizing “trillion” every time. No one calls it “The American Rescue Plan,” which is its name, after all.

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GOP Prefers Fewer Voters

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the voting booth, Republicans across the nation are busy writing new laws to make it harder to vote. They did well in many state elections this past November, but they lost control of the Senate, gained seats but remain a minority in the House, and lost the White House to Joe Biden.

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Trump’s Lawyers Quit Him

“Butch Bowers” sounds like the name of the bully in an Our Gang comedy.

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But by all accounts he is, in fact, a smart, experienced ultra-competent trial lawyer who works at Miller Law Group, a super respectable law firm. So after years of crackpot sycophant attorneys like Rudy Giuliani, Sydney Powell and Lin Wood, Donald Trump finally hired excellent counsel for his upcoming (second) impeachment trial.

Except they’ve apparently all quit, days before they are supposed to file statements with the United States Senate.

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