Hey, nuking Iran or losing the Mid-Term Elections and becoming Lame Donald Duck?

Easy choice for the Fuehrer in Chief... and it's what Vlad has always enjoyed; the US at war in the ME.

"A return to sanity

In the 1930s through the 1960s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and JFK/LBJ put America back together after the First Republican Great Depression and built the largest and wealthiest middle class in the history of the world at the time.

Today, 45 years of Ayn Rand's ideas being put into practice by libertarian Republicans from Reagan to Bush to Trump have gutted the middle class, made a handful of oligarchs wealthier than any kings or Pharaohs in the history of the world, and brought a whole new generation of predators, hustlers, and grifters into the GOP.

And then there's Trump's war against Iran, his theft of Venezuela's oil and gold, his attacks on NATO and threats against Greenland, his cutting off weapons to Ukraine, his cashing in on the presidency in ways that clearly violate the Constitution, and his and the GOP's multiple efforts to rig our elections.

There's a popular meme going around the internet these days that says:

"If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to find out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes."

If America is to survive as a functioning democratic republic, we must repudiate the "greed is good" ideology of Ayn Rand and libertarianism, get billionaires and their money out of politics, stop Trump and his lickspittles, and rebuild our civil institutions.

That starts with waking Americans up to the incredible damage that 45 years of Rand's writings and libertarian "Reagan Republicans" have done to this country and giving Congress to Democrats who'll actually investigate and prosecute these crimes against both democracy and our nation itself.

And that starts with checking your voter registration at vote.org and making a plan today to be sure your vote is both cast and counted.

Tag, we're it!"

"The model here is straightforward: government is something to be exploited for personal gain not public service, because government is essentially an evil thing.

So, load it up with incompetents, suck up as much money as you can, and leave the mess to the Democrats:

" Three Republican presidents borrowed over $35 trillion, put it all on the national credit card, just to hand all that money to the billionaires who fund their campaigns and sustain their lavish lifestyles.

" Republicans in Congress have thrown millions off of food stamps (SNAP) and Medicaid and refuse to fix Social Security or Medicare.

" Trump just discarded many of our pollution rules, a move that will lead to more cancers and asthma among our children.

" Bob Kennedy saluted putting cancer-causing chemicals on our food supply.

" Anything Putin wants from Trump he gets.

" They're selling off public lands and destroying our park system like there's no tomorrow, while rewriting America's history into a white supremacist fantasy.

" Miller's ICE goons are murdering Americans and getting away with it while imprisoning brown-skinned people without due process.

" Trump has made billions since becoming president through crypto scams and bets on his own war proclamations.

And that's just the beginning. Which is causing millions of Americans, scratching their heads in wonder, to ask:

"Where did this anti-American-government insanity come from, and how did it come to seize control of the entire Republican Party?"

It all started with the Libertarians:" MORE at the link

Wait until they find out that they aren't going to Heaven, but that Heaven is coming to them.

In the story, a prelude to that happening is the Church falling away from the faith much as it has done in this country... having traded Red Letter Jesus for Orange White Nationalists.

JT (obviously not to be confused with JC!) is pointing out the hypocrisy of our ruling class much like JC did his; the priests he called everything but white men (!) were both the religious and the secular rulers of his time in Israel.

That didn't stop him from running the bankers out of the Temple (and the Government), which is exactly what he did.