Now waitaminit! I'm a yankee.. a real one. Actual descendent of families from the oppressor race that came to the New World on the Mayflower and then the Pacer..

Do not paint my anti-monarchist ancestors with such a reprehensible stroke! My Yankee family took down fascists across Europe and also in the Pacific theater some 80+ years ago..

Ack!

(Oddly enough, to current events, I actually called this one out to my husband last mid-summer.) Can't recall the actual thing that tipped me off, but I opined that Trump was gonna go all Teddy Roosevelt and "walk softly and carry a big dick.." and he was getting ready to head into meddling in South America.

Fuckin' hell.. I was right.

He's all over the map and it doesn't help that Steven Miller - whom Steve Bannon introduced to Trump and told him, "This guy IS a fascist.." and Trump latched onto him like a limpet - is creating a domestc nightmare that is consuming the public's attention.

TV President indeed.

Daddy Warschmucks needs people around him to throw under the bus if it gets too shitty for him. Miller is the architect of the domestic terror and has created such a perfect smokescreen that the foreign intervention that makes Kegsbreath stiff and wet can roll out across the region.

I noticed that once they got Maduro, the "drug boat" interventions have seemed to stop, though am not sure on that, the press being the Administration's bitches that they are - due to the corporate consolidation opening them up to government control via leverage through the SEC and the FCC. (What spineless cunts).

Thing is, troops don't regret being troops until they're wounded and walking around in constant pain, getting fuck-all from the VA. Trump doesn't like wounded vets.. they're broken men to him and suitable for the trash heap only. Recall his dismissive attitude at the War Memorial in Europe during his last Administration? What a cocksucker.

I recall the guys that came home at the end of the Vietnam war. I was 10 at the time. Young men - kids actually - literally dumped off of planes at nearby air bases (in California) still covered in dried blood from the gunfights as they left Saigon.. and just turfed with their duffel and a "Thanks for your service.. goodbye.."

Lots of them ended up homeless and drug addicted and drinking themselves into oblivion as a way to run from their regret, PTSD and physical pain if they came home injured. I'd see them on the street.. sleeping on the sidewalk near the liquor store. One guy we knew in the neighbrhood had half a jaw and the side of his face was open with a steel band of some sort poking through the scar tissue. Dude drank a ton.

Today's army is voluntary so I imagine that the regret is going to be a lot more difficult to see, compared to the draftees of the 1960's. It'll be there though, in the quiet corners where no one is looking. Hidden and full of shame for the shit decisions they made to join up in the first place.

Those chickens coming to roost are gonna be a nightmare.

Also, have you noticed that since Bill Clinton's people told the DOJ to go ahead and release all the files they have on him, that the Trump Administration's gone silent about ol' Billy-Boy?

My bigger question is what is the SCOTUS thinking is going to happen now that even business is telling Gen-z kids to quit thinking of college and good paying jobs and instead aim a little lower and opt for the service sector or the Trades (which DO pay well, but it takes decades to get to a point where you can command a good wage and get it..)

Fun times ahead.