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  I have to give Epstein-in-Chief Donald Trump credit for one thing: successfully uniting a large swath of the anti-statist, anti-racist, anti-war, and pro-democracy movement like never before or, at least, since the late 1960s.  Yesterday, Americans across the land, and some non-Americans around the globe(!), turned out in record numbers to protest the corrupt, incompetent, and authoritarian regime currently ruling the nation. As USA Today  relates : "No Kings" protests swept the nation on March 28, with millions of people demonstrating their objections to President Donald Trump and his administration. The over 3,000 protests included colorful costumes, pointed chants and a myriad of signs addressing topics ranging from the Epstein files, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and calls for Trump's impeachment. ... Organizers state that 8 million people participated in the third iteration of the protests, though that number has yet to be independently verified.   In an...

  Things are happening so quickly with MAGA's illegal war that it can be a challenge to keep up with events.  As I read over my last post , I saw how I was floundering to keep up with the news.  I also saw how I unnecessarily narrowed my focus by comparing Trump's Operation Epstein Fury to Hitler's Case Blue.  The truth is that Epic Fail  is more of an amalgamation of both Hitler's greatest blunders: Operation Barbarossa  and Case Blue, as well as a smattering of other interesting parallels from World War II . In other words, this isn’t one historical blunder but a composite of every major strategic delusion of the most destructive war in human history.   Does that concern you? It should. 💥💥💥💥💥 As with Hitler believing that Stalin's Russia was so weak that a furious invasion would cause the entire country to collapse (what would come to be known as Operation Barbarosa) , Trump, who, it must be pointed out that, often read from Hitler's My New Orde...

June 28,1942 In the summer of 1942, the German army, stalemated on the Russian front after the failure of Operation Barbarossa  the previous year, attempted a second massive offensive, this time entitled Case Blue . This offensive would be aimed at one of the economic hearts of Russia: the Caucasus oil fields. Hitler believed that if the Wehrmacht could capture those fields, Stalin's war machine, starved of fuel, would crawl to a halt. While he did appreciate that the Soviets would fight to the last to stop this from happening, Hitler understood that this reaction provided a second opportunity for the German army: to crush Soviet reserve units, thereby militarily weakening, perhaps fatally, the Soviet army.  Lastly, Case Blue  also sought to cut the Volga River, thereby cutting off essential Lend-Lease supplies from Stalin's allies.  The initial stage of Case Blue  was a smashing success with vast amounts of territory gained, including the city of Rostov. Even t...

  You have a natural tendency to squeeze off a shot You're good fun at parties, you wear the right masks You're old but you still like a laugh in the locker room You can't abide change, you're at home on the range You opened the suitcase, behind the old workings To show off the magnum, you deafened the canyon A comfort a friend, only upstaged in the end By the Uzi machine gun, does the recoil remind you Remind you of sex? Old man what the hell you gonna kill next, yeah-yeah Old timer who you gonna kill next? Silly me, I thought we had entered a period of declining energy for this present regime. Even Trump's State of the Union address to Congress was a snoozefest, where a clearly restrained Trump announced few policy proposals of note, but instead reverted to his D-list reality TV show host act by handing out awards like candy to various guests (I was waiting for him to ask everyone to look under their seat..." You get a crypto account! And you get a crypto acc...

  As I am sure everyone has heard, Donald Trump, the losiest loser of all time, has lost yet again: A Supreme Court decision on Friday striking down President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs dealt a major blow to his economic agenda and brought new uncertainty to global markets struggling to adapt to his whipsawing trade policies. The court, in a 6-to-3 decision written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., ruled that Mr. Trump had exceeded his authority when he imposed tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading partner last year.  Trump, a man who is cognitively unable to stop digging when he digs himself into a deep hole, couldn't wait to rush to the cameras and give one of his now-famously incoherent addresses where, amongst other things, he assured the nation he could read: "I read the paragraphs...I read very well.  Great comprehension. I read everything there is to read." Of course, this is a lie. As now disgraced journalist and Epstein associate Michael Wolff recounted :...

  The last few posts of mine have been pretty bleak, I admit.  It is hard not to descend into despondency when you learn that your nation is no longer one of the good guys; that 49.8% of the population knowingly voted for the worst people possible because they thought it would line their pockets (what I have come to refer to as the Bondi Defense ).   But I have also come to realize something else: that an old Catholic admonition is correct when it warns that to despair is to sin because there is  always hope,  and hope does not disappoint.  The Trump regime, along with its allies of the moment, has proven to be a glass cannon.  Sure, they can lash out with the awesome power of the state, but such firepower is short-lived.  When met with sustained resistance, the cannon begins to crack and, ultimately, shatter. 😊😊😊😊😊 There have been many such cracks as of late, but perhaps the most noticeable has been the administration's abject defeat in...