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two big mysteries right now: The New York Times and Katy Tur both carrying water for the MAGAs. The article is an interesting take on Trump dissembling lunatic rant not being worthy of coverage by the NYT.

Just to be 100% accurate those would be the land based leg of the triad. The SLBM are based in Georgia on the east coast and Washington on the west coast.

Russia is trying to build a buffer on the border so Ukraine can't attack into Russia proper or hit their logistics facilities because of someone in the US National Security community's or maybe the EU's bedwetting attempts to prevent escalation. Russia always takes advantage of the hand wringing of the weaker party.

So, they fired Shoigu and hired another guy with no military experience to be their MOD. And this happened right after I wonder if new guy is trying to impress the boss.

BOOM!

This has been a crappy month

There is a phrase in the world I live in: "you can't make your opponent ten feet tall, if you want to put them six feet under." We clearly don't want to see Trump dead from this process but we do see him being punished in a way that will be a deterrent to future Presidents.

I get that people think Trump is the anti-Christ and can't be killed. But, man...

Only poors go to jail... or mob bosses after very intricate trials...or spies after very intricate trials.

Well now

Don't worry, Katie Britt is on the job as the junior senator from Alabama in charge of rounding up all the preggers ladies in the country and weeding out all the dark ones.

Not American citizens how?

I used to listen to this "the South will rise again" talk while I was in the Air Force and I would always say. "Yes, that is why all the strategic air command bases are in the North" (which isn't technically true but the ICBMs are).

The guy who will be cleaning out all the qualifying people from federal service cannot get a security clearance

so, we are about to get to position player pitching

I remember saying at the time when Jim Clyburn endorsed Joe Biden that the most conservative force in the country were middle-class African Americans (especially, women). They know the stakes. I just hope they continue to know the stakes.

Being a baptist kid in the Detroit suburbs was weird. I always felt like I was at a disadvantage talking to all the kids who had "communions" and "cattykism" and all the kids at my church were from down south. Even so, being a northern Baptist was suspect to those folks when i went and visited my in-laws in North Carolina. I made my dog tags in the military say "Protestant No Pref" just so I could maintain my distance with all the in-crowd catholics of my youth and those doctrinaire weirdo snake handlers and megachurchers in the protestant churches i'd encountered. The single best sermon of my life was the Black chaplain whose service i attended in basic training who friggin knocked it out of the park because he spoke to what to me at the time felt like being "oppressed" as a kid in that basic training life cauldron and gave great inspiration when I was ready to have that. I don't think I've ever listened to a sermon since that had that effect on me. So, yeah, white evangelical culture: not a fan. Black evangelical culture: I get why it has great value.

Southern military culture holds a lot of power over many.

Can't wait to have these conversations with people after all this stuff is fully reported to the American public. How many of our racist uncles will sheepishly apologize to us that they didn't know that mafia curious, pro-Russia failed casino owners who employed Roy Cohn and whose father was arrested at a KKK rally, and whose favorite book is the picture version of Mein Kampf. might be dictator wannabe.

Taxes, not just for the middle class

These people need an education

True, and the people who want to accumulate all that power are tech bros and oligarchs who have accumulated wealth and are used to getting their way.

Right here is the key point Eliminating the merit-based bureaucracy in favor of loyalty to the person of Trump. No longer a nation of laws but a nation of single person rule. NO THANKS! Particularly when he starts ordering those newly enfranchised government goons to go out and punish Trump's enemies.

Here is some eye opening stuff about it https://www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administration