It was my good fortune to know some of those WW2 veterans. Never heard the ones who had been in actual combat ever speak of it as anything other than the most goddamn awful horror they wouldn't wish on anyone they could readily name. And they certainly didn't speak of it in the cartoonish terms used by cowards like Trump and Hegseth. Those Navajo Code Talkers from the Pacific fighting? When they returned to the Rez they went through powerful ceremonies specifically designed to rid them of the disharmony of war and reincorporate them into society..

Person woman man camera TV!

Didn't you get the memo? You're not "government employees" anymore. What you are is "help" in a subsidiary of Trump, Inc. And you will obey.

Tough business, playing catch-up with the slathering rubes. One day you're hot, next day you're ... not.

It's exactly what folks like Boaz voted for.

Deal making by a convicted felon and multiple bankrupt whose only way of succeeding lies in ripping off others. Whataguy.

Thoughts and prayers to the sclerotic vampire's victims, including those poor Iranians sufficiently desperate/naive to have actually fallen for his assurances of assistance.

Oh, well, nice day for a round of golf.

Get your wardrobe at Bass Pro or Cabella's, wear a mask, behave like one of Hitler's Brownshirts and you've nailed the role. Hell, you might even get a government signing bonus if you go the distance.

Question: What's the difference between a masked ICE thug and a run-of-the-mill thug?
Answer: ICE thugs regularly get away with murder.

Memoryholed

Every time I think this isn't rooted in scientific fact, there's Stephen Miller.

"The dog barks, and the caravan moves on"
Arab Proverb