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Coriolanus -

Your point on Kovic and Kerry well put. The anti war movement eventually generated so much fuel in part because the participation of returning troops helped in the legitimacy department. They'd been there, many complicit in horrors, and they were really angry.

I think it was probably 1966 when I went to a friend whose dad was an intel officer with the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell, KY. En route, I recall being in an airport bathroom (probably Nashville), talking with four uniformed Black soldiers sitting/standing along a wall, drinking some wine. They invited me to join them, which I did, and, boy, were they in a collective bad mood: orders to Vietnam. But what really got them going was the final solution to their sergeant problem. This sergeant, who every time they were out and about maneuvering and such got them "killed." Every time. They planned to toss a grenade at him in Vietnam in an act of self-preservation. Yeah, the wine, bad news talking, and so forth. But the fragging idea was already kicking around, even that early (pre-Tet).

Trump hires the needy because they practically beg to become complicit.
They are easily found, used, and replaced.
MAGA derives its strength from gathering together a mob of weak people in search of a tribe and chief.

But, the author cautions,

hating Newark airport is like hating Mondays, or splinters, or wet socks, or the inevitability of death's cold, cruel tap on the shoulder. Or air travel in general. The truth is, all airports are bad. You've heard. They are unlovely and unloved, designed to be passed through, and doomed by decades of disinvestment. They are a vortex of everything annoying: confined spaces, limited options, bad Wi-Fi, overpriced food, fluorescent lighting, other people. They are the opposite of vacation, even as they are inextricably linked to it. And they lay bare the fragility of this modern life, how easy it is for everything to go wrong"right now, especially. The worst airport isn't Atlanta, or Dallas, or Newark. The worst airport is whatever airport you are in.

I'm joking, of course. The worst airport is Newark.

Well, there goes Sutton's Law.
For MAGAts, the money clearly lies not in robbing banks but in looting the people's treasury.

The 4.2% protection is

Based on previous and current behavior, the IDF's primary job is to terrorize people. It's secondary job is to lie about it.

Thanks, MAGAts.

I'd make some cheap remark about Corey Lewandowski no longer being in the cockpit, but, surely, there are better ways to spend one's time.

"Personally, I don't know what the truth is."

Yeah, hard werk, that. Sheesh.

"The next Republican president will get the same treatment."

Night noises. First, the frogs croaking for mates in the night, then the effin peacocks, followed by the duck barage, and now the wild cry of the sad MAGAt.

As usual, a pease, moan, whine, rinse, repeat yippity-yappity.

Morning, Coriolanus ... Fox Conner, what an "influencer," eh? Born a couple of years before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, he was the great transitional bridge from "Old Army" to something different. When he worked with Pershing in WW1, the Army still had horse cavalry, and he went on to round out Eisenhower. Huge influence.

" ... known but to God."

Who gives a single dump what ICE wants?
How're the murder investigations going?
You know, the civilians they ICEd in MN?
One more time, loud and proud, ---- ICE.