HAPPY NO KINGS DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
Charlotte, North Carolina:
Chicago, Illinois:
CBS News: Crowds gathered across America and the world:
Outside the US Embassy in Berlin, Germany
London, England
Saturday, October 18, 2025
NO KINGS RALLY ACROSS AMERICA (and the world).
Chicago, Illinois:
Outside the US Embassy in Berlin, Germany
London, England
THERE IS NOTHING MORE AMERICAN THAN "NO KINGS!"
From the original town that emphatically said NO! to King George.
We now say NO! to King Donnie!
And there are millions and millions of us saying that today all over America!
Boston's Old State House from which the Declaration of Independence was read on July 18, 1776.
Friday, October 17, 2025
REMINDER:
TRUMP IS A HIGHLY UNPOPULAR POTUS.
Americans blame Republicans more than Democrats for the government shutdown."
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From what I've read, this weekend's "No Kings" marches across the country (and even the world), has Trump and his courtiers worried.
The millions and millions of Americans across this country will show MAGA and the world how unpopular and disliked Trump and his administration is.
Trump thinks his minority MAGA represents America. MAGA does not.
The anti-Trump and anti-authoritarians are the majority in America.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
THIS IS TODAY'S SHAMEFUL, DISGUSTING REPUBLICAN PARTY
The outlet came to the conclusion by scanning public records and media reports, and determined that eight of the 11 participants in the chat appeared to range from 24 to 35. The ages of three other participants weren't publicly available.
In fact, the report noted, one chat member is a 27-year-old state senator in Vermont."
POLITICO: "US Capitol police are reportedly investigating after a US flag bearing a swastika was discovered inside the office of Republican House member Dave Taylor of Ohio.
Trump's Conservative Party:
These are not "kids." These are grown men and women, and they represent today's Republican Party under the leadership of their corrupt leader, Donald J. Trump.
Disgusting.
The image, obtained by Politico, shows a modified flag featuring red and white stripes arranged in the form of a swastika – which is virtually synonymous with the Nazis’ genocidal regime.
The flag was displayed on what appears to be a cubicle wall behind Angelo Elia, one of Taylor’s staff members, during a virtual meeting."
When Republicans show you what they are, believe them.
Trump's Conservative Party:
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
THIS ISN'T SHOCKING: TRUMP'S YOUTH
These are NOT a "few bad apples." These repulsive young people are the future of the Republican Party: Fascists. (They didn't think they'd be exposed, but here they are in all their ugliness):
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape
🚨 YOUNG REPUBLICAN LEADERS EXPOSED IN 2,900-PAGE LEAK — SLURS, SLAVERY, GAS CHAMBERS 🚨
Jim Heath:
Young Republican leaders joked about gas chambers. Used racial slurs. Called rape “epic.” Praised slavery. And said outright: “We love Hitler.”
POLITICO just obtained 2,900 pages of private Telegram chats that reveal how some of the GOP’s rising stars talk behind closed doors — and it’s worse than anyone imagined.
These aren’t anonymous trolls. These are vice chairs, national committeewomen, and future party leaders — and their messages are soaked in hate.
They:
– Referred to Black Americans as “monkeys” and “the watermelon people”
– Used racial slurs like “n–ga” and “n–guh” dozens of times
– Joked about rape, slavery, and suicide
– Called rape “epic” and said slavery had its political upsides
– Fantasized about putting political opponents in gas chambers
Peter Giunta, then–chair of the New York State Young Republicans, said:
“Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”
“I’m going to create some of the greatest psychological torture methods known to man.”
Joe Maligno, legal counsel for the group, responded:
“Can we fix the showers?”
Annie Kaykaty, national committeewoman, chimed in:
“I’m ready to watch people burn now.”
William Hendrix, Kansas Young Republicans Vice Chair, used the words “n–ga” and “n–guh” more than a dozen times
Bobby Walker, New York’s vice chair at the time, called rape “epic.”
And they all knew it was a risk. They talked about what would happen if these chats leaked. They worried. Then they kept typing.
This is not an isolated scandal. It’s the inevitable result of a party shaped by Trump — where cruelty is the currency, and the next generation is even more radical than the last.
What you’re seeing here isn’t the fringe.
It’s the future.
"The young guy in this photo is Bobby Walker a leader of Young Republicans.
The older guy is Mike Johnson leader of the Republican held House.
Bobby says "rape is epic".
Mike is the one who sent the entire House on a 6-week vacation to protect the child molesters who are in the Epstein files." --L. Spencer
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
SHAME ON MIKE JOHNSON AND ALL WHO SUPPORT HIM.
When the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America makes a statement like the one quoted below, it should chill the blood of every American who cherishes our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the rule of law.
Mike Johnson has betrayed his oath of office and showed us that he doesn't know what it means to be an American and to believe in the 1st Amendment to the Constitution. Does he even know what it is?
The First Amendment gives Americans the right to protest and assemble, and it prohibits the government from abridging the right of people to assemble peacefully for social, economic, political, or religious goals.
When one hears Johnson attacking Americans, implying they're enemies of the state for exercising their Constitutional rights, one wonders who Johnson is actually loyal to. It appears he's chosen a convicted felon/sexual assaulter, and friend of notorious pedophiles over the U.S. Constitution, and it also appears that he's sworn an oath to a man, not the rule of law, which is guaranteed to every American by our Constitution
History will harshly judge Johnson and deliver to him the resounding ignominy he so richly deserves.
Monday, October 13, 2025
TRUMP’s CORRUPT DoJ
Vice President Vance accused ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos of caring about a “fake scandal” regarding White House border czar Tom Homan on Sunday.
Stephanopoulos, during Sunday morning’s edition of “This Week,” asked Vance whether Homan kept or returned a reported $50,000 bribe. Vance deflected, saying the media is “going after” Homan “because he’s doing the job of enforcing the law.”
Armand Domalewski:
There is absolutely zero chance JD Vance would describe a Biden administration official accepting a $50,000 cash bribe in a paper bag as "fake scandal"
“There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.” — George Conway
TRUMP FORGOT HE WAS POTUS ON JAN. 6, 2021!
Remember how MAGA and certain commenters at P.E. wondered who was actually in charge when Biden was POTUS?
Where’s that concern now? Trump is so confused and doddering that he is unaware that HE was the POTUS on J6, not Biden!
He’s calling for something to be done about what HE was doing on J6, and calling what HE did a “ scam!”
Who’s running the country? Melania? Or The Heritage Foundation? Trump has lost his marbles.
“Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT
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Sunday, October 12, 2025
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Thursday, October 9, 2025
THIS IS THE WHO MAGA ADMIRES:
The novelist’s dissection of power’s corruption: dominance dehumanizes the oppressor first. Cruelty isn’t just an act—it’s a degenerative disease of the soul. True strength protects; only weakness delights in degradation.
*Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones.
*Trump is a convicted felon, adjudicated sexual assaulter, serial adulterer, liar, cheat, and fraudster who partied with child sex-traffickers/rapists, Epstein and Maxwell, for 15+ years, and whose name is in the Epstein files.
Donald & Melania Trump partying with convicted child sex-traffickers
and rapists, Epstein & Maxwell.
Donald Trump with his long-time friend, Ghislaine Maxwell,
a convicted child sex-trafficker and rapist.
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
This was a pretty accurate assessment of Bondi’s appearance at the Senate’s Oversight Committee hearing yesterday:
BRUCE LINDNER:
Until yesterday, I had always assumed Pam Bondi was just another corrupt sycophant who oozed out of the Florida muck and found herself caught up in the even more corrupt world of Donald Trump.
Boy, was I wrong.
Her performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday came as a real revelation to me. Seeing her perform her shtick removed the scales from my eyes.
She’s a pro. A natural-born crook. Rather than being the lone semi-rational one of Trump’s appointees, she’s every bit as corrupt as the man she sat there and lied for for nearly five hours.
Thirty minutes or so into it her appearance before the committee, I posted online; she’s “devious, deceptive, dishonest, manipulative, lying, arrogant, evasive gutter trash.”
Little did I know at that time, those were her more positive attributes. As the hearing dragged on, and she refused to answer even the most innocuous questions, she became more and more belligerent. Virtually every question asked of her by a Democrat was met with a personal insult.
In fact, later in the afternoon, some sharp-eyed reporter got a close look at her hand-written notes, revealing not only the canned response to a specific question, but also a pre-written insult to each particular Senator asking the question. There was one custom-tuned for Richard Blumenthal, one for Dick Durbin, one for Peter Welch, a string of backhanded snark for Amy Klobuchar.
But she saved her best venom for Adam Schiff, who, along with his sharp staff, was having none of it. He fired back at her a list of questions from the panel that she had up to that point, refused to answer. That’s when her composure started to crack.
During an exchange with Peter Welch about Tom Homan accepting a $50,000 bribe from undercover FBI agents last year, things got particularly testy:
Senator Welch: "First of all, is there a tape that has audio and video of the transfer of the $50,000?”
Bondi: "You would have to talk to Director Patel about that.”
Welch: "No, I'm talking to you.”
Bondi: "I don't know the answer.”
Welch: “You do know the answer."
Bondi: "Don't call me a liar!"
Such a lovely person. She has all the charm of a cobra, the same dedication to ‘truth and justice’ as the crook who appointed her, and she’s the chief law enforcement officer of the land.
In her defense, if she WASN’T as vile, as corrupt, as offensive as she displayed to the world yesterday, she would be of no use to Donald Trump. Her poisonous persona and skills at evasion and insult is her secret sauce.
Just like her boss.
I’m sure he gave her two thumbs up after her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday.
BONDI HAD HER RESPONSES TYPED UP BEFORE ANYONE EVEN ASKED A QUESTION
Apparently, she doesn't have the chops to come up with answers to difficult questions regarding her job.
This is what Trump's personal lawyer who plays at being the U.S. A.G. brought to the hearings, because she hasn't the ability to think on her feet:
IMO, she's nothing more than a weak little Trump lackey with the personality of a 10-year-old spoiled brat.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
TODAY, TRUMP'S PERSONAL ATTORNEY, PAM BONDI, WAS QUESTIONED BY US SENATORS.
She was defensive, arrogant, uncooperative, and rude, which is usually how incompetent, weak people behave under hard questioning.
And this is a reminder about her "integrity:"
Grok's answer to the inquiry about Bondi's "integrity:"
TRUMP CONSIDERS PARDONING MAXWELL?
"WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday left the door open to a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of helping the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.
Trump also said that Sean "Diddy" Combs, who was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison over his conviction on prostitution-related charges, had requested a pardon.
On the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Maxwell's bid to overturn her conviction, Trump, when asked whether he would set Maxwell free himself through a pardon, said he would speak to the Department of Justice."
NOTE: Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's procurer and groomer of sex-trafficked underage girls, also participated in the sexual abuse of those underage girls along with her boyfriend, Epstein.
That Trump is going to "look at it" -- Maxwell's request for a pardon -- is beyond disgusting, it is an insight into Trump's depraved mind.
The ONLY correct response to a child sex-trafficker and rapist asking for a pardon is: ABSOLUTELY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY NO! THERE WILL BE NO PARDON!
But Trump has again shown that the woman he wished well when she was arrested for her despicable crimes still has some sort of hold on him.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
Monday, October 6, 2025
REMEMBER WHEN TRUMPUBLICANS KEPT SAYING PRES. JOE BIDEN WAS SENILE?
And I remember when certain people wondered who's in charge, because they thought former President Biden was demented.
This is dementia on display.
This is dementia https://t.co/YsUBuuVUYZ
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) October 5, 2025
Sunday, October 5, 2025
Saturday, October 4, 2025
TRUMP’S AMERICA:
The Colorado Sun:
🚨 ICE agents stopped a Colorado family at GUNPOINT, shattered a car window over their newborn, and ignored a mother’s screams:
“There’s a baby in here!”
They didn’t care.
She shielded her infant from flying glass; ICE never showed a warrant, just said: “It’s at the office.”
Colorado law bans ICE arrests outside courthouses.
They did it anyway.
No cause. No explanation. No rights.
Jose Aguilera is still being held in ICE detention.
His wife Maya is still waiting for a warrant.
His baby could’ve been killed.
DONALD TRUMP HATES A MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
Donald Trump at Charlie Kirk’s Memorial Service: “He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponents and I don't want the best for them.”
Donald Trump at Charlie Kirk’s Memorial Service: “He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponents and I don't want the best for them.” @Acynpic.twitter.com/VyZgVJnWZX
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) October 2, 2025
Friday, October 3, 2025
GUEST POST BY DAVE MILLER
What do we do?
The twin phrases “we’ve never been
here before” and “we’ve never seen anything like this” are out of date almost
as soon as they are spoken or written. Think about it. In just a few weeks
here’s what we’ve seen, in no particular order.
• The US is bombing small boats and killing people in
the Caribbean suspected of, with no direct evidence, transporting drugs to the
US.
• The Trump Administration continues to order and deploy
US troops to cities across the country, mostly over the objections of local
city and state leaders and in violation of the US Constitution.
• Hundreds of US Military leaders were brought to the US
for essentially a photo op so President Trump could drone on about his
predecessors Obama and Biden.
• The Department of Defense has been renamed the
Department of War.
• Russia is regularly bombing civilians and flying
incursions into NATO with nary a word from the US.
• We’ve restored medals to the perpetrators of the
massacre of hundreds of women children at Wounded Knee.
• Healthcare prices for 2026 are starting to roll out
and the news is not good. Seniors and others are seeing increases of over 20%
due to reduction of support from the federal government.
• A grieving Christian woman, Erika Kirk, forgave the
killer of her husband and urged others to do so while leaving hate behind
because it’s commanded by Jesus in scripture and it’s “what Charlie would
want”. Immediately afterwards, a US President, at the funeral says “I
disagree”, “I hate my opponents” and “I don’t want what’s best for them”. All
the while, his supporting Christian leaders remained silent and cheered him on.
• A MAGA supporting man shot and killed numerous
worshippers and firebombed a Mormon church on the same day another man shot up
a waterfront restaurant in North Carolina.
• At the Ryder Cup golf tournament, a US announcer egged
on fans by using the F-word as they cussed at and threw beer on the wife of
European golfer Rory McIlroy. Meanwhile on the course, other US fans heckled
and abused competing golfers as they simply tried to make their shots.
• A US President is demanding a publicly held US
corporation, Microsoft, fire an executive because that person, Lisa Monaco, has
criticized him.
• The Dems continue their wilderness sojourn with no
plan, no new ideas and nothing to motivate their base, let alone gain new
supporters.
• A US Attorney General has said certain speech in the
US in not protected under the First Amendment. Few GOP political leaders spoke
up in opposition to her statement or the president’s support of her.
I’ve lived through the political
violent spasms of the 1960s, Watergate, the Reagan drubbings of the Dems, the
balanced budgets of the Clinton years, a stupid war in Iraq, a financial
meltdown in the aughts and the disastrous Covid-19 pandemic.
Never in my life have I felt our
country was coming apart at the seams, until now. And it is not just evidenced
within our political leadership. It has filtered down to the personal level as
even people with whom we converse daily have decided honorable, fair and
legitimate dialogue is no longer valuable. Instead in its place, we get
juvenile nicknames, snark, whataboutisms and few serious ideas on how to really
improve America.
Meanwhile, rather than focus on
the real issues, the US Congress and President Trump, unable to come up with a budget
plan for all America, have decided to shut down the US Government.
But hey, we're owning the other
side, and apparently, that’s what matters.
Thursday, October 2, 2025
I don't know who wrote this.
"Donald Trump walked into Quantico Tuesday expecting a rally. He got a funeral.
The generals sat in perfect silence, faces locked in the kind of grim stillness that comes from years of watching idiots talk and choosing not to react. Trump, of course, couldn’t handle it. “I’ve never walked into a room so silent before,” he confessed, his voice trembling somewhere between wounded pride and panic.
Then came the kicker, “If you want to applaud, you applaud.”
This wasn’t leadership. This was a washed-up Vegas act begging the crowd to clap. The Commander-in-Chief turned into the Clapper-in-Chief, reduced to prodding the nation’s top brass like a sad carnival barker who forgot his punchline.
A campaign rally in uniform.
Instead of strategy, Trump delivered his usual medley of grievances: Barack Obama ruined everything, Joe Biden ruined it twice as hard, and only Donald J. Trump, self-proclaimed “two-term, maybe three-term president” could save America. It was less a military briefing than an episode of The Apprentice: Pentagon Edition.
The generals, trained to withstand battlefield chaos, sat stone-faced through the barrage of nonsense. They have endured artillery fire with more enthusiasm.
Enter Pete Hegseth, America’s Pastor-in-Arms. Trump’s “Secretary of War” took the podium with the intensity of a man who thinks Tom Clancy novels are actual military doctrine. He promised “fire and brimstone,” called for purges of “fat generals,” and announced he wants the next war to look exactly like the Gulf War, because apparently it’s still 1991 and CNN is running that same grainy footage of tanks in the desert.
But Hegseth wasn’t done. He led them in prayer. Yes, prayer. The nation’s top generals, summoned by presidential ego, now folded into a forced altar call like extras at a megachurch revival. The separation of church and state? Obliterated. Constitution? Shredded. Jesus, apparently, is now Commander-in-Chief. Trump can play Vice.
Weakness on parade.
Trump likes to brag about firing generals who “aren’t warriors.” But on Tuesday, the real firing squad was silence. Not one clap. Not one cheer. Just the steady hum of contempt vibrating off the brass like feedback from a dead microphone.
These men and women have seen actual combat. They’ve buried soldiers. They’ve lived with the weight of real command. And now they’re expected to cheer for a man who brags about moving “a submarine or two” like it’s a toy in a bathtub, or who lectures about “two N-words” as though nuclear strategy were a stand-up routine.
No wonder they didn’t clap.
The pin-drop presidency.
What happened at Quantico wasn’t just awkward. It was diagnostic. Trump’s presidency is a hollow shell propped up by applause, and when the applause disappears, so does he.
And Hegseth? He’s the zealot-in-chief, delivering sermons about war and Christ in equal measure, a man confusing the Book of Revelation with the Pentagon’s operations manual. Together, they make quite the duo: one desperate for claps, the other desperate for amens.
The generals gave them neither. Instead, they gave silence, the most cutting judgment of all."
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Trump calls American citizens the "enemy within."
Trump declared that American citizens (most likely those who don't agree with him and his policies and who exercise their right to protest his government) "the enemy within," and added that they are harder to "take out" because they don't wear uniforms.
Trump is speaking about Americans in American cities.
What do you think the phrase "take out" means?
I wasn't sure the word "treason" was appropriate in the meme below, but the definition says this:
"In the U.S., treason is defined in the Constitution as levying war against the United States."
Threatening to "take out" (which means, in a threat, to kill, destroy, or incapacitate a person) American citizens, for whatever reasons Trump decides on, is levying war against his own citizens, i.e., the United States. So, it would appear that "treason" is an appropriate word there.
We've never heard such mortal threats against U.S. citizens, from their own president. Ever!
Our fellow Americans are NOT the "enemy within." Only a deranged tyrant would say such a thing.
Qualms From Quantico?
Qualms From Quantico?
by Bill Kristol
“There was little that was surprising in yesterday’s speeches at Quantico from President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. We already knew that Trump is a demagogue whose clownish solipsism shouldn’t mask the danger of his authoritarianism. We already knew that Hegseth is a Fox & Friends personality whose pathetic desperation to want to appear tough shouldn’t overshadow the damage he can do to our military.
Their speeches were predictably depressing and dangerous. My fellow Bulwarkians and I discussed them here and here. And JVL analyzed some of the implications of Trump’s speech here.
So I won’t dwell today on how alarmed we should be by Trump’s wish to deploy the military to fight a “war” against the enemy “within.” And I won’t dwell on how repulsed we should be by Hegseth’s apparent yearning for armed forces that resemble the Soviet military more than the American.
Instead, I want to mention a couple of aspects of yesterday’s news from which we can take some hope.
First, the general and flag officers at Quantico rose to the occasion. They listened in dignified and even stone-faced silence to Hegseth and Trump. Retired Army general Mark Hertling wrote ahead of the gathering that he hoped “the loudest message” the senior officers send “is no message at all—only that they have the quiet, disciplined silence of professionals who know their oath is to the Constitution, not to a man.”
That was the message they sent. It was impossible not to see it. And it was impressive.
I was also impressed by the many younger veterans who stepped up afterwards on social media to express disapproval of what Trump and Hegseth had to say. I was particularly struck by this post from a leader of the group Veterans for Responsible Leadership, reacting to Hegseth’s boast that “America’s warriors . . . kill people and break things for a living.”
This is a disgraceful message. There was a soldier that I served with in the army that later was killed in Mosul, Iraq that said the reason he joined the military was because he believed that it was the greatest force for good that the world has ever known. He said the military not only taught its soldiers to be lethal, but it also taught us to be compassionate and empathetic and care about not only the American people but also freedom-loving and -seeking people from all over the globe. This is the true warrior ethos that so many of us veterans know and love. I’m thinking about him a lot tonight and will be damned if sons of bitches like Trump and Hegseth will transform our great military into something resembling the Russians’. His memory and service must not be in vain.
Obviously, there are post-9/11 veterans who have been sympathetic to Trump and Hegseth. But I’m confident that many understand, especially after yesterday, that Trump’s vision of America—and Hegseth’s of the military—is not what they and their comrades-in-arms signed up and sacrificed for.
Yesterday also saw a notable contribution to our public discourse from a veteran of a different generation, a man who served a tour in the Army over six decades ago and then continued his public service with a distinguished career as a U.S. federal district court judge. William G. Young, a Ronald Reagan appointee to the federal bench in Massachusetts now a senior judge, wrote a long and careful opinion in American Association of University Professors et al. v. Marco Rubio, finding that in one of the early ICE arrests this year the Trump administration had trampled on the free speech rights of an immigrant.
But Young chose to go beyond his important legal analysis of free speech jurisprudence to discuss the larger meaning of “our magnificent Constitution.” And so he addressed the practice of ICE agents’ wearing masks:
Can you imagine a masked Marine? It is a matter of honor—and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.
This remark was especially striking in the context of the speeches by Trump and Hegseth. For what they want, in a way, is to turn the U.S. military into an institution more like ICE: an internal police force, unconstrained by many laws or norms, bullying and intimidating people here at home on behalf of the current administration in Washington.
I have considerable confidence that the current crop of general and flag officers do not want a kind of a military that looks like or behaves like ICE, and that they would resist it. But what of the military leadership three years from now? The Washington Post recently described efforts by Hegseth to shape the next generation of senior officers. “Even at the one- and two-star level, the secretary’s team is scrutinizing old relationships and what officials have said or posted on social media, as they determine whom to send forward for a higher rank or assignment,” the paper reported.
What will the officer corps look like in three years? Can we be confident that Trump and Hegseth won’t succeed in turning the U.S. military into something more like ICE? The thought seems incredible. But that ICE would be doing what it is now doing on our streets would have been shocking just a year ago.
The opinion of Judge Young and the silence of the generals at Quantico offer some grounds for hope. But military officers and district court judges alone won’t save us. And it’s perhaps worth noting that neither the judge nor the senior officers were elected to their offices. At the end of the day, free government can’t be preserved without the commitment and courage of elected officials. So the question is: Can more of our elected officials rise to the occasion? Which means, can more of the American people rise to the occasion? That’s the question with which Judge Young concludes his opinion:
I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected. Is he correct?
Is he correct?”
WORDS FAIL ME.
Trump yesterday addressing America's military brass:
"We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, the president of the United States said."
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