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SUMMARY: Usually this post is called Off the Editor’s Floor, and it is a mix of thoughts, ideas, and reactions I’ve had during the week that never made it into a post. This week, though, almost all of them — at least all that I could remember — made it onto my BlueSky feed. I’m not usually that active on social media, but this week I’ve been BlueSkying it up… beyond my daily #Wordle posts and responses.
This week, we’re being snarky, sarcasticky, and profaney about Trump, his “War” Cabinet, and the Iran War. OM Goodness, I can’t even write the sentences with cold sweats and heart palpitations
KEY WORDS: Iran War, Trump, BlueSky, Military, Losers, War Dead, Florence Harding, One Tin Soldier
COMMENTS: Let us know what you think of the Iran War and how it turns out in the comments.
- Trump’s Views of our Enlisted Personnel and Military
- Somebody Stop Him!
- One Tin Soldier Road Away
- Image Attribution
Trump’s Views of our Enlisted Personnel and Military
Losers
I am an Air Force brat. We moved every two years at least until I was in high school. My mother worked federal civil service starting out in the clerical pool and ending up on the base commander’s council in charge of the motor pool. Some idiot along the way sent her to interrogation school when she was doing security clearances. My adolescence was fun.
My sister and her husband were both lifers in the Air Force. I served a stint in the Coast Guard. My father fought in Korea and served during Viet Nam. My uncle fought in both Korea and Viet Nam. My four other uncles all fought in World War II, one of them so severely injured that they feared he would die. My grandmother would only describe his wound as having his back shot off.
All of that to say that it isn’t any wonder Cadet Bone Spurs whiffs when it comes to the body bags coming back from Iran. Here’s a couple of BlueSky skeets:
To the Highest Bidder
It isn’t enough to sell himself and our national secrets to the highest bidder, Trump is now selling our troops and military hardware like he’s some Milo Minderbinder, only a lot less amusing. Trump rakes in billions, soldiers and civilians die, and we spend our tax dollars at a billion dollar-a-day clip.
How log do we stand for that? Hmmm?
Ye Olde Blogge don’t read itself! Of course, I’m out there pimping it for all I’m worth.
Somebody Stop Him!
The Wrecking Ball
If it weren’t clear before to all y’all, it should be clear to you now, that Trump means to destroy us all. And by all, I mean all of us, all of them, and all of everything. It ain’t no conscious thought, it is just what he does. He destroys. That’s how he bankrupted casinos, y’all. He’s the destroyer. He’s a wrecking ball.
He can’t help himself. He just goes until he reaches a boundary. No boundary, he keeps on going like a perverse Energizer Bunny, only he leaves the remains of wrecked lives floating in the flotsam of his wake. He uses until it is all used up and then he goes to the next thing.
The problem is that he’s the most powerful person on the planet. This ain’t no casino he’s burning his way through.
Well Republicans, he’s done wrecked our democracy, time to put your mad dog down!
Florence Harding
One of my favoritest jokes is saying Melania should pull a Florence Harding because legend has it that the First Lady poisoned President Harding with bad shrimp on a West Coast visit because he was such a degenerate philanderer — he’d fit right into the Epstein files, no doubt. Of course it isn’t true. He died of a heart attack.
The Four Options
There are four ways out of the White House. Let’s consider the likelihood that each could deliver us from our misery:
Resignation
Nixon resigned, so it could happen. It could. Stop laughing. Seriously, it’s on the table, and I’ve got to come up with a probability that Trump could resign. I can’t do it if you don’t stop laughing, get up off the floor, and sit here with me. Okay, never mind then.
Impeachment
Third time could be the charm, amirite? We’ve done it twice before and each time we got closer to removing the mo’fo’! It can’t happen until after the new Congress is sworn in. I don’t think we could get the Senators to support it. We might could get the articles through the House, though. Might could.
I mean, Trump is now threatening all of their bank accounts. That usually gets people’s attention.
Twenty-Fifth Amendment
Like I said during Trump 1.0, the effort has to be led by the Vice President. He’s the only one Trump can’t fire. Let’s face it, Jamoke Dumbass is too much of a jamoke dumbass to do it. Vance may be a sinister conniving soulless freak, but he lacks the cajones. Besides, he knows the likelihood of him becoming president goes way up if Trump dies in office. I”m surprised he and Melania aren’t hatching a plot right now.
Feet First
Given Trump’s diet and exercise habits, I think this one is the most likely. His bruised hand is probably because he’s been getting IV’s, could be for congestive heart failure, especially if it were severe enough to warrant aggressive treatment.
He had that huge angry red spot on his neck the other day. It didn’t look like no rash I ever saw. Could they have removed a melanoma?
He’s sleeping in meetings — Could be he was bored. He seems a lot more awake and alert now that he’s blowing through billions of dollars a day and killing people every goddamn day. He slurs his words. His mind wanders worse than clouds blown across the sky. There is no telling what’s going to come out of his mouth next. Gold curtains he bought in the first term, so he’s saving money on curtains for cripes sake. Saving on curtains he said.
I think he doesn’t make it out the year, but that is just me.
One Tin Soldier Road Away
As long as it is Pistol Pete and he ain’t coming back, I’m good with that. You’d never know to hear him talk that he had served in the armed forces and stationed in a combat theater. He never saw combat, but he was combat adjacent. Maybe that explains his weird caricature of machismo when it comes to soldiers and soldiering.
The way the WH keeps putting out video of bombs and missiles going off interspersed with sports and video games, you’d think they wanted us to think the Iran War was just a game or sport and not some deadly conflict in which real live people are now real live dead people.
Image Attribution
This image was found on Picryl, using a Creative Commons search
The Psy of Life 
It is well known among Christians that it is Satan who comes to kill, to steal and to destroy. Anti-Christ – Angels of Light …counterfeit Christians …all foretold in the Scriptures … all being fulfilled in our very eyes right now.
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Good point, John, and very similar to what my Desi friends say about the situation. In the Vedic tradition, this is plainly the work of Adharma — the cosmic force of disorder, injustice, and moral corruption. We are deep in the Kali Yuga, the fourth and darkest age, foretold in the ancient scriptures, where leaders are corrupt, truth is inverted, and the powerful prey upon the weak. The Asuras — demonic forces of ego, greed, and delusion — do not announce themselves. They arrive wearing the garments of dharma, speaking the language of righteousness, while systematically dismantling it. All foretold. All unfolding before our eyes.
And some of my Islamic friends describe it similarly. In Islam, this is recognized as Fitnah — the great trial and tribulation foretold in the Hadith, a time of chaos, betrayal, and the shedding of innocent blood. The Quran warns repeatedly of the Zalimun — the oppressors — those who rain destruction upon the innocent and call it justice. When a head of state is assassinated at his desk, when schoolgirls are buried in rubble near a military target, when the powerful bomb the powerless and call it liberation — the faithful recognize this. It was written. The Zalimun do not escape accountability — if not in this world, then before Allah on the Day of Judgment. All foretold. All unfolding before our eyes.
With so many religions seeing the moment so similarly, it must be portending something important, right?
Huzzah!
Jack
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You left one out. It’s a long shot, but who knows, with Trump’s record for hiring people amazing for their incompetence and ignorance the Secret Service might really blow it and somebody collect on the Fatwa Contract. The trouble then would be that Vance would then be obliged to bomb some more.
Several more GOP Senators and MOCs have decided not to run for reelection. How will they use that freedom from primary challenge?
It has occurred to me that the confusion being generated by the daily changing of the reason for attacking now is a feature, not a bug.
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