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Not everyone is as easy as BJ.

Trump's shtick, much like Old Yeller himself, has gotten old, repetitious, tired, and boring. Which only highlights this creature's status as an energy vampire of the very worst sort. And nobody needs energy vampires.

The Trump Epstein Coverup, while holding for now, is an ongoing mess that keeps dominating and damaging his presidency. Like his promise to release his tax returns, the Trump Epstein Coverup shines spotlights on promises made, promises broken, and one big question: If there's nothing to hide about Trump's association with Epstein, why is Trump sweating bullets trying to keep as much information about it as possible from seeing the light of day as he can?

And then there's Trump's War of Choice, which he initially explained as being conducted at the behest of what appears to be the single nation with which the US actually has a "special relationship" - Binyamin Netanyahu's expansionist, ethnonationalist Israel. Given that the Trump end of Netanyahu's war - Trump, of course, always blames his many failures on others - got bogged down and has remained so ever since US war planners appear to have suddenly discovered the location/vulnerabilities of the Strait of Hormuz, this cockup is another ongoing, festering problem. Such a monumental screwup cannot be playing too well with Trump's acolytes and enablers. To be sure, they're happy as pigs wallowing in their own mess if bad stuff happens to other people. But, hey, what the hell, this is affecting them, too.

Welcome to what happens when the Republican Party knowingly paralyzes and destroys the system of checks and balances so carefully created by people so much more clever - but far less venal - than they.

Happy 250th, folks.

Hi Doc Sarvis

The US should never have been an empire in the first place. The American people fought off an empire to become an independent republic. As a congressman from Illinois in 1846, Abraham Lincoln kept questioning the warmongers who pushed for war against Mexico. He would say: "Show me the spot on the map where Mexican forces went into US territory." The newspapers began calling him "Spotty Lincoln."

As a militiaman mustered into service to fight the indigenous tribes, he was elected commander and his unit apparently never engaged the enemy during months of patrols-- A. Lincoln had no blood on his hands.

During the Civil War, President Lincoln did not invade Canada and he had pretext to do so. Confederates ran an espionage and sabotage ring out of Quebec and their envoys worked out of Ontario. Raids were conducted into the northern states and a plot to burn down Manhattan emanated from Confederates in Canada. SECWAR William Seward and the cabinet were all made aware of these machinations.

Protests from all quarters couldn't stop the Spanish-American War (1898) and within four months the US became an empire.

Protests against entering the First World War initially worked, but failed.

"I don't want my son dying in some far away place for some far away reason."

The US would occupy the German Rhineland until 1923 while sending a brigade to help the White Russians and Czech Legion against the Bolsheviks.

Pacification against the Moros and resistance forces in the Philippines continued until the Imperial Japanese Army kicked us out in 1042: "I shall return."

The US wins the Second World War, establishes Bretton Woods, the Five Eyes Intelligence alliance, USCENTCOM, USEUCOM, USPACOM, USSOUTHCOM, and then sacrifices our boys "in a far away place for a far away reason" called Vietnam. Then Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Iran.

While our "empire" rapidly declined and our population pauperized under Republican Party malfeasant governance, the US amassed the most billionaires in history and Israel recorded the highest per capita number of billionaires on the planet.

Endnote: 'Twas a northern oligarch named Horace Greeley who funded CSA Jefferson Davis' post-Civil War bond granting him freedom. Jefferson Davis would outlive A. Lincoln by 20 years or so.

Read A. Lincoln's prophetic words below:


The $12 billion the US sent Israel in military funding in 2025 to murder Palestinian children could have instead paid for free or low-cost healthcare for 3.5 million children in the US.


"Thanks, hardworking American taxpayer! We have world-class universal healthcare here in Israel while you're stuck with the "Big Beautiful Bill" and medical bankruptcies.
So, keep voting for AIPAC candidates and keep sending Israel free money every year!"
Signed,
Bibi

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