Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸

Hegseth is what Trump tried to grab.

The buck stops here, I think Trump thought meant dollars.

Thank you for this. Between work and life I hadn't heard of Professor Jiang the Law of Asymmetry explains so much of what we're watching unfold right now. Genuinely grateful you're in my corner of Bluesky.

65,000 civilians ground to dust in Mariupol. Washington's verdict: not even worth the word 'aggression.' American deaths? Merely administrative friction for men who've never bled for anything.

Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale have confirmed it. Biff Tannen the bullying, gold-obsessed, bragging, insecure, inherited-wealth blowhard who builds a gaudy casino-hotel tower and puts his name on everything was explicitly modeled on Trump. That was 1985 who knew it would be a prophetic film.

When a government official frames the deaths of six soldiers in an indefensible position as a media inconvenience, he has not made a gaffe. He has revealed the hierarchy of values. The soldiers were not at the top. Note it. Document it. Remember it.

The Secretary of War complained that six dead soldiers placed in a position commanders called indefensible, with no warning sirens made front page news. He called covering their deaths 'making the president look bad.' They had a different word for it. They didn't get to use it.

Six soldiers died in a position their own commanders called indefensible. No warning sirens. No shelter. Hegseth called it a 'tragic thing.' Their names were Khork, Tietjens, Amor, Coady, O'Brien, Marzan. The press didn't fail them. He did.

Hegseth is no Commander. A commander who dismisses six dead soldiers in a known indefensible position as 'when a few drones get through' has forgotten the first obligation of leadership. You don't get to claim their sacrifice and minimize their deaths in the same breath. Ever.

Trump the thrice-married man has fired the allegedly unfaithful woman and her alleged partner in faithlessness. Washington's moral standards remain, as ever, selectively enforced.

Noem brought her husband to Congress while Lewandowski sat nearby. In Washington, they call that multitasking. The rest of us call it something else entirely. But what do I know, I've never needed a chaperone to not deny an affair.

The DHS Secretary who shot her dog is being replaced mid war by the senator who tried to fistfight a union leader during a hearing. Embassies are burning. Six Americans are dead. Counterterrorism is led by a child. And the circus just changed ringmasters. Welcome to the show. There are no exits.

Trump says he's replacing Homeland Security Secretary Noem with GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin Trump made the announcement on social media on Thursday, two days after Noem faced a grilling on Capitol Hill from GOP members as well as Democrats. Noem's departure caps a tumultuous tenure overseein...

Trump is replacing Noem at DHS with Markwayne Mullin.During a war. With embassies on fire. Mullin tried to fight the Teamsters president on live television. The agency responsible for preventing terrorism on American soil is now a revolving door of people whose primary skill is performative violence

Oh God yes I love the Confederacy of Dunces. I quote it often. I hadn't recognized the acronym for some reason. You have great taste in books.

McGinnis resisted police to be heard. That is protest. A senator jumping in while two officers were on top of him is not de-escalation. It is audition tape. Sheehy would not have touched that Marine one on one. Three men on one veteran and he calls it courage. Cowardice with witnesses.

Pardon my ignorance here, I haven't heard of it can you please tell me the author I'd like to read it.

Exactly. The founders built a system that favors stability over speed. Elections are meant to be the pressure valve so grievances don’t have to become uprisings.

I understand the frustration. What worries me is that every generation thinks the Constitution is being ignored, yet the document only works if people inside the system decide to honor it. The reset button isn’t a leader. It’s citizens insisting the rules matter again.

I try to stay out of the personality wars. As veterans we both know the real issue is whether our government is following the Constitution. Congress should be debating war authorizations, not leaving it to whoever happens to be president.

A Marine shouting in a hearing room is not violence. Breaking his arm is.The oath is to defend the Constitution, not silence dissent. If a senator cannot tolerate a veteran’s voice he has no business talking about honor.A Marine shouted. A senator used force. Only one of them forgot the Constitution

I could not agree with you more .

Of course no one has been able to get a script out of the book (Soderberg tried and gave up). Ignatius R. was at least plausible. These dunces are such dense and improbable cartoon villains... Stranger than fiction.

The unsettling part is not that machines may decide to fight.

It is that humans have already decided to let them.

Hegseth shot down his own drone twice. Counterterrorism is run by a 22 year old whose top credential is a UN college club The FBI purged. CIA gutted. DHS hollowed out. Preventing attacks on US soil has been dismantled by the people who just created the biggest terrorism recruitment event since Iraq

A Marine with a broken arm did more for democracy than every silent American combined. Six soldiers dead in a war you didn't authorize. 148 schoolgirls in a crater. We're scrolling. Stop waiting. Stop hoping. Get in the street. Get arrested. Make them drag us out too. Our silence is their mandate.

ON CAMERA: Brian McGinnis Dragged Out of U.S. Senate Hearing, Arm Injured During Protest | AC1B YouTube video by DRM News

Brian McGinnis a proud Marine protested Senate and said America doesn't want to send its sons and daughters to war for Israel. A senator snapped his arm. They charged the Marine. 6 Americans dead in a war no one authorized. The man with the broken arm is the only one there who honored his oath.

Thoughtful counterpoint.

Trump broke the deal constraining Iran in 2018. He praised Putin for years and withheld Ukraine aid. Now the war is about stopping drones to Russia? The man who tried to leave NATO cares about Russian military capability? He created this crisis and is bombing schoolgirls over the consequences.

I just heard your television voice.

Hegeeth, you can't reason him out of a war he believes God commanded. The UCMJ, the War Powers Act, the Constitution, congressional oversight none of those frameworks account for leadership that genuinely believes they're operating on divine authority.These people are pursuing Christian prophecy.