Boy, are Allen Dulles and Dick Bissell gonna be pee-ohed.
~ James Jesus Angleton

How much did this performative nonsense cost, Leon?

This is an 80/20 urban/rural nation. What DOES make folks, rural or otherwise, sound like "dumb Hicks" is constantly blaring the alleged and weird moral superiority of rural culture. That is boolsheet, born of equal parts ignorance and fear.

When Trump gets us where he wants us, deep in war, which Trump will leave the grift for just a bit and become first in line at the enlistment office? How about trigger happy cocaine enthusiast, I Just Want Daddy's Love Don, Jr? Sorry, a year or two too old for enlisting, as is Vanky. Eric? He's eligible. As is Barren.

Invoking part of the Adams Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798?
Beyond stupid.

"Dumb hicks"

Nope, different way of life, different outlook, different concerns. Poorly informed and high on their own propagandistic supply of "heartland" nonsense. But by no means "dumb."

Not many people know this, but there was a time not too long ago - you could say roughly between the day Jesus, Jon Batiste, and Madonna took down the last velociraptor on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of America back before a lot of stuff - People don't know this. Why not? Maybe we should start a Department of Education or something? So between that time and the other one, well, wouldn't you know? The US Army goes and enlists buffaloes! Yes, no, really, four legs, horns, Buffalo Soldiers they were called, the women troops known as "Gals" and the men known either as "Bill" or"Bob." You can't get this sort of stuff from books, I'll tell you that.
~ Old Senescent

Howie Lutnick, ever a rancid piece of work, has really beclowned himself as one of the Oval Office toadies during those silly e.o. signings.

The Jeffersonian ideal - the yeoman farmer, virtually free land, democratic values blooming in The Garden - was always an aspiration. Today, there's a whole lot of agribusiness out there, with it and the remaining small-scale individual farmers happy as clams to accept their role as producers of heavily subsidized/protected crops. Until the wind starts blowing strongly south.

I don't know where Pfc Bone Spurs is going to get us into some real stinky sheet in his bottomless swamp of stupidity, but serious consideration will need to be directed to the oaths American military personnel take.

Of those oaths, none are to some combed-over, makeup slathered and senescent wannabe caudillo.

Every one of those oaths is to the Constitution.

Full stop.

"Mein ... "

Nicely done and thanks for the link.

1. Elon Musk lies a lot.
2. Elon Musk may or may not have his ketamine intake under control.
3. Adjust your evaluative instrumentation accordingly.

Always!

CORIOLANUS, thanks for posting that clip - it gave some of what he said better context,

Clarity? You want clarity? Clarity is Trump University, Trump Airlines, Trump Vodka, Trump Magazine, Trump Steaks. Trump Wine, and Trump Puke-in-a-Box Box. Clarity, such a beautiful word. And big, too: four, maybe five or six whatyamacallem sillybles. So they say. But real clarity is finding my box of strawberries. Tariff em!
~ Old Senescent

I had a half-brother from an older generation who traveled from the US to Canada so he could enlist in an army that was actually fighting fascism while the US was playing isolationism nonsense. He and other Americans enlisted in that army, saw mountains of commando action, most definitely suffered from PTSD (getting buried for a few days under a bombed building could do that), and who would undoubtedly be royally and justifiably both hugely angry and wildly disappointed at Old Senescent's behavior toward longtime allies.

What's next, gambling at Rick's Cafe Americain?

Trump definitely represents the Ugly American side of America. Plenty more just like him. Usually, they've been kept in the background, as warning and comedic relief. It's a deeply ugly look and we are going to be stuck with it for years to come, thanks to this imbecilic oaf and his deeply stupid investors and moronic hat wearing MAGAt trash "base."

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

Oh, and years and years of heroin to round it all out. I mean, is this a GREAT country or what?!?

Fat Donnie Stab-in-the-Back, still busily polishing Mad Vlad's --------.

I guess the cruelty is the point.

Good to see a positive development once in a while.

Polygraph the bejayzus out of the based-wielding thugs one encounters along the border - want to hiked on US la d where you've hiked r for decades? Nope, badged thug shows up, glaring. Polygraph those punks. Any of them pulling my illegal sheet on the border like robbery, aiding and abetting cartels?

Come primaries time Trump will have a good deal more on what's left of his mind than Thomas Massie.

How many golf days has Old Senescent put in since slithering back into the WH?

Between golf and "executive time," i.e. long naps, what with pancake makeup applications, hair gluing, and girdle cinching, there's not a lot of time for actually doing, like, a job.