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Thursday, March 27, 2025
Monday, March 24, 2025
Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist. 78th Edition. We'd like to inform you that terrible things are being done in your name, edition.
The caption comes this week from a letter the publishers of The New Republic wrote to Stalin, when one of their reporters wrote back on atrocities being committed in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
Crowd jeers Hageman at tense Laramie town hall. She calls them ‘hysterical.’: Wyoming’s lone congresswoman faced tough questions and angry constituents Wednesday night.
Not just Laramie, but also solidly Republican Rock Springs and Evanston.
Indeed, all over the country, when Republicans show up in their home districts.
Indeed, the event in Evanston was so notable that a populist apologist felt compelled to write an Op Ed for the Cowboy State Daily.
Jonathan Lange: Barbuto’s Miscalculation Released The Flying Monkeys
Lange you may, but probably don't, recognize as Rev. Lange of the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church, who has his own blog, Only Human. He's reliably pro Trump and Pro Populist, which brings up one of the real ironies of populism, which is deeply religious people supporting a movement lead by some wildly irreligious people, as we've discussed elsewhere, so we'll only note that Trump is, in Christian terms, an adulterer living in an adulterous irregular relationship as well as being a serial liar, and Musk is an atheist. Lange came to the attention of some in the state by opposing the successful bill to make child marriage illegal.
But we digress.
What's really notable, is that even here in deep Trump country people are really reacting to DOGE and aren't happy about it.
And that's not all they aren't happy about.
A coal mine near Kemmerer is laying off 28 workers.
Tesla chargers have been vandalized with swastikas in Rock Springs.
In far Western Wyoming coal continues to fail, as it will, as coal's days are over, but that hasn't caused deeply Republican Kemmerer to say "yes, we'll sign up for the deportation frenzy" and take an immigrant concentration camp.
Interesting.
Anyhow, I'll give Hageman credit for simply going to Laramie, where she must have known that she'd encounter real hostility. But her response to a LGBTQ was really wrong headed in a city that's sought to overcome the murder of Matthew Shepard for decades.
She called the crowd "hysterical". They weren't hysterical, they were angry.
So far Hageman hasn't toured north of the Union Pacific, which is interesting. I wonder why, sincerely?
Someone else who is touring is Bernie Sanders, and AoC.
AoC is obviously considering running against the pathetic Chuck Schumer.
Also, in Colorado:
Walking the fine line of ‘all of the above’: Two Republicans from #Colorado add names to letter calling for restraint in gutting of #climate legislation — Allen Best (BigPivots.com) #ActOnClimate
One of the really interesting things that's starting to happen in the Trump world is the same thing that happened in the Socialist left world during the 20s and 30s, that being the belief that the dear leader doesn't know about what the Party is doing. I saw this on Facebook, which is just about as far to the left as Wyomingite's normally go, from somebody who is about as far to the right as possible.
So again, in our home State of Wyoming, the left wing lunacy continues to try to rob Wyoming of more original beauty. My understanding is that the Duncan Ranch was to be used for Agriculture and ag based education only. How is it that these are even being considered?!?! Anyone that knows this area can attest to its beauty yet now, that is threatened. I warned people that the State Lands and BLM would be the next spots for these to be in the crosshairs. Those who have allowed these on their private property have opened the door for them to continue to push for this failed technology. So here it is, they want to build on public ground like it's no big deal. There are already whispers of eminent domain coming into play for the future of these cancers as well. It must stop! There is absolutely nothing green about the agenda they push. Wyoming is Oil, Gas, Coal Agriculture, and Tourism. We are not some waistland where you can just stand your turbines up and collect a check. Our Natural Resources are the reason our State isn't bankrupt like the liberals who surround us. Why are we so worried about pandering to these other states that don't follow or respect our way of life? At one time a few years ago, the Natrona County Commissioners agreed 4 to 1 to allowing all of these turbines just North of Casper at 20 Mile Hill. They did so even tho there was standing room only in the courthouse in opposition. So now, there are windturbines in our back yard. It's sickening. Blinking lights at night as far as you can see. The beautiful sunrise that generations of my family has enjoyed for years is now ruined by towering monstrocies. However, when it came time to vote on those commissioners who's term was up, WE THE PEOPLE replaced them. Now, we have a commission who is strong for the people. The most recent green deal that came before these new commissioners for approval got shot down 3 to 2. They understand Wyoming doesn't want this crap in our back yard.
My point is, whoever is not standing for Wyoming, needs voted out and if we want to protect our Wyoming and our tax dollars, these projects need to be met with lots of opposition by, "We The People".
The Duncan Ranch, which this individual is worried about, justifiably, is not in Natrona County. It's in Converse County, which never saw any kind of industrial project of any kind it didn't like. And the rancher, and that's what he is, who is upset, is justifiably upset, but he's being about as green and distributist as can be, and doesn't know it.
Anyhow, these projects weren't backed by a bunch of raving environmentalist here.
Hydrogen project major wind farm at & near Duncan Ranch, seeks state approval this week
They were backed by major heavy industry. And by the county its in, which has supported every single one of these projects without question. Indeed, the only County Commission which didn't support one was the Natrona County Commission, which actually was largely made up of the same people who had supported the prior ones in the county, in spite of what the Facebook fellow says. I think there's only one new Commissioner.
Trump seems backed by billionaires.
People don't really seem happy with what's actually occurring.
By the way, one of the things that's occurring is that the Trump Administration is going to require you appear in person to apply for Social Security. . . while they're also closing Social Security offices. Rock Spring's office is being closed. Casper's isn't listed, but the entire building is suggested to be sold, which could mean that Casperites would have to probably drive three hours to Cheyenne, or five to Denver.
Not to worry, no billionaire will be harmed by this decision.
Postscript:
From Rep Hageman's newsletter:
Rock Springs Social Security Office Update
Late last week, we began receiving calls from constituents concerned by a media article reporting that the Rock Springs Social Security Office was closing. I immediately reached out to the agency and was able to confirm that the allegation was inaccurate. The agency has canceled the lease for an ancillary hearing room it no longer uses, and those hearings will now be held at an alternative location, but the office itself will remain open. You can read more about the new SSA efficiencies here.
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Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist. 77th Edition. A bridge too far?
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
DOGE is the talk of Wyoming. What are state leaders saying and doing about the Elon Musk-led cuts?
DOGE is the talk of Wyoming. What are state leaders saying and doing about the Elon Musk-led cuts?: Alongside ample praise for slashed U.S. government spending, Wyoming's governor and congressional delegation have offered sympathy and, in some cases, worked quietly to ease impacts on a state that’s half federal land.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Random snippets. Nero's Court.
Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine. (...) We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor.
French Senator Claude Malhuret.
Sunday, February 23, 2025
What's wrong with the United States? The Protestant Work Ethic.
Professor Galloway "on follow your passion".
His advice?
Don't.
More particularly, his advice is dedicated yourself relentlessly to something you are good at, and it will become your passion, in no small part as you'll make money at it.
There's plenty of evidence that's right. . . and just as much that it's wrong.
Professor Galloway is a Calvinist. He comes by it naturally as his father is from Scotland.
Oh, sure, you'll note that Galloway states he's an atheist. Well, like a lot of people who are something on an existential level, he doesn't know what he actual is. And what that is, is a Calvinist. Perhaps a cultural Calvinist, but a Calvinist.
And it was Calvin, not the Church of England, or the Lutherans, who gave us the Protestant Work Ethic.
Well, that's great, right?
Not so much.
John Calvin was as French radical Protestant reformer who was grim in his outlook and basically an asshole. One of his central core beliefs was double predestination, which held that from the moment of conception almost everyone was going to Hell.
Calvin taught that all men must work, even the wealthy, because to work was the will of God. Irrespective of their ultimate fate, which they could in no way impact, it was the unyielding duty of men (and I do men men) to toil here on Earth as part of God's plan to continue the creation of the Earth. Men were not, in his view, to become wealthy, I'd note, but were to reinvest the fruits of their labor over and over again, ad infinitum, or to the end of time.
Calvin held that using profits to help others rise from a lessor level of subsistence violated God's will since persons could only demonstrate that they were among the Elect through their own labor.
The Puritans were Calvinists, and so were the Presbyterians, the latter of which has generally slacked up on Calvinist theology a great deal. None the less, the impact of Calvinism on the US has been huge. It founded the thesis that you should work and work, well past the point where accumulation of wealth made any sense. When you look at people like Elon Must or Donald Trump who have vast sums of wealth but keep accumulating, you are seeing the Protestant work ethic at work.
You are also seeing it when you lay people off in droves. They're lessors, and their economic plight is existentially foreordained. If they were among the Elect, this wouldn't be happening to them.
Work is what it's all about.
You see that well expressed in Galloway's comments. Galloway is an opponent of Musk, but they have essentially the same view on work. Galloway presents in the grim Calvinist style. You must find productive and useful work and love it, as that's the ticket to everything.
It isn't.
Contrary to what Galloway things, for one things, there are plenty of people who have done well in their carers and know a lot about what they do and hate it. The legal profession is a poster child for this, but I've found it to be the case for medicine as well.
And women have become particularly the victim of this in recent years, diving hard into careers as, John Calvin has told them, this would affirm that they were part of the Elect, in the modified American social view, only to find that they are miserable.
And all this because Calvin was flat out wrong. His theology was wrong, and his understanding of human beings appallingly wrong.
The Catholic view has been much more nuanced than the Protestant one. Catholicism itself holds to a degree that we work, because we have to, work being one of the results of the Fall. It also hold, however, that we toil as part of a community and are never to put that aside. The accumulative nature of the Protestant Work Ethic is basically antithetical to Apostolic Christianity, although there are certainly Catholics, such as Bill Gates, who have become extremely wealthy. Largescale wealth, however, comes in Catholic theology with a heavy burden to everyone else. Unlike Calvinist, you can't really morally justify investing over and over while those less well off suffer in your presence. Indeed, that would be one of the four sins God hates.
Okay, so why is this a problem?
It's a massive problem in that deep in American culture is an anti human dedication to acquisition and toil, that's why. People are expected to work themselves to death and tolerate those among us who acquire vast wealth. Ultimately, the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, who often have simply benefitted from the circumstances of their birth takes from everyone else, makes millions miserable, and actually makes the economy less and less productive.
Society doesn't exist to generate wealth for those who can accumulate. Society exists for society. That means, at the end of the day, that some must be protected, for the good of us all, from their appetites, weather that appetite be for drugs, dissolute living, or avarice.
The fact that we have forgotten this is literally destroying the country.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Lex Anteinternet: Some Grim Predications. "He who saves his country violates no law" as the stupidest possible quote.
For those who thought the first part of this might be a little extreme as a predication:
Symbol of the Freedom Caucus, um, Nazi Germany's Sturmabteilung.Eh? With the NRA in Donny's pocket.
Yep.
The reason for this is pretty obvious. Trump has no natural affinity for firearms, although apparently his son Eric does. Trump's love for the NRA was because they loved him more than they loved their country, or anything else. The NRA was and is his tool. The NRA can thank Wayne LaPierre's leadership for that.*
But we're about to see some massive violence in American society, which gets to a couple of other predictions
Mass shootings, and by that I mean real ones, not ones where five people are shot up in a gang fight, are probably likely to break out here soon on an increased scale. Political violence is about to occur. You can't release 1,000 Brownshirts into society and not have violence break out and you can't routinely insult up to half the nation before somebody gets mad.
And sooner or later, some of that is going to be directed at Trump himself.
Of course, it already has. There's been two attempted assassinations of Trump already. That's not going to stop, it will occur again.
I'm not wishing that on him, or anyone else, but only a fool could deny that it might occur, or indeed that it will occur. The level of tension is too high in the country for this not to start playing out, and Trump is making it worse on a daily basis.
The last President this hated was Abraham Lincoln, who was perhaps ironically hated by the same people who are MAGA today. That's the last time the country was this divided, and that division resulted in John Wilkes Booth killing Lincoln. Trump isn't comparable to Lincoln in any fashion, his own demented imagination aside, except for the level of hatred they both engender, and interestingly from the same classes. It was probably nearly inevitable that somebody would take a shot at Lincoln, and it likely is the same in regard to Trump.
And frankly, like Booth going after Lincoln, the general trends fit the pattern, as do the sorts of personalities involved.
Leon CzolgoszLeon Czolgosz killed William McKinley, whom Trump suddenly discovered, as Czolgosz was an angry unemployed anarchist and a member of a despised minority.
We're about to see a dip in the economy, which I'd guess will be a massive recession, and there are going to be a lot of angry unemployed around. For that matter, there are about to be a bunch of angry unemployed former Federal (and State) employees and we seemingly have a problem with angry semi employed veterans around right now.
Charles Whitman. . . he doesn't look like an unhinged killer, does he?An angry radicalized veteran is what Lee Harvey Oswald was. Charles Whitman was also a veteran. Indeed, they'd both been Marines. The country has spent the last several decades absolutely idolizing veterans to the point where we've seen at least three mass killing performed by them and barely took notice of that fact. With the war in Afghanistan causing thousands of head injuries and a devotion to servicemen that's so profound that we excused their refusal to get vaccinated and have ignored service member presence at the January 6 insurrection, we're really setting ourselves up, something that's been amplified by the AR15 Effect.
And we're also in the process of making entire foreign and ethnic populations angry. Palestinians who naively hoped for a less pro Israel administration now have a kook who proposes to take over Gaza and make it into a sort of Club Med. Canadians openly boo the Star Spangled Banner at sporting events now every time they're held. A hockey game in Montreal this past week showed at least one American hockey player nearly in tears. The United States is experiencing a level of contempt not leveled at it since the height of the Cold War, when Communists nations and their fellow travelers displayed it. And Trump has made vague threats against Iran, which has never had a problem with murdering people.
Shirhan Sirhan.Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was a Palestinian who had formerly adored Bobby Kennedy, we might wish to remember. The current goofball Secretary of Health and Human Services' father was running for the Presidency at the time he was murdered for his support of Israel. That was at a time when the Muslim population of the United States, and the immigrant Middle Eastern population, was quite small in comparison to what it is today. And Kennedy hadn't betrayed the misbegotten trust of an Islamic population the way Trump has. Nor did Kennedy accuse anyone of eating cats and dogs, or create an environment in which Native Americans now carry their IDs out of fear of being expelled from their own country for looking too brown.
Truman's would be killers were members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, and we don't even usually think of the Puerto Ricans being all that angry.
Funny, by the way, with all the talk of adding a state, Trump doesn't mention Puerto Rico. . . I wonder why that is?
And added to that, Trump's targeted Mexican drug cartels. For years some have been convinced that John F. Kennedy was "Paddy Wacked" by the Mafia or by Irish American mobsters working for the Mafia. It seems to lack any real credibility, but if the mob had reasons to go after Kennedy, whose father had connections with bootleggers, who was going after them, surely the Mexican mobs have just as great of incentive, and frankly are much more violent.
Finally, and one that is admittedly unlikely, there are growing rumblings about a military strike on Trump.
Just the other day I saw an officer post an item which, while veiled, clearly argued that his fellow officers needed to be prepared to disobey illegal orders, basically like the members of the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York just did. Okay, that's one thing. But then this past week I saw outright cries, from civilians, that the military oath to protect the country from foreign and domestic enemies applies to Trump, as he's a domestic, and maybe, a foreign enemy.
He may in fact be a foreign enemy, I'd note. We've raised it here before, but now Time's raising it.
It is perfectly possible that Trump is a knowing Russian agent, in which case there's some sort of duty for somebody to do something, if not actually what's being urged. On this we might note that the Army kept the Venona Files for decades before anyone knew it, and didn't really trust Franklin Roosevelt to know the truth about what was in it. The Venona Files revealed that the U.S. Army was aware that people like Alger Hiss were Soviet spies, they just didn't feel they could get any traction on it, and for that matter Whitaker Chamber's efforts to enlighted FDR outright failed. The point is that the service, if Trump is a paid or compromised Russian agent, may very well know it, but be afraid at this point to act on it. I wouldn't blame them for being afraid.
But, if that's the case, and of course we don't know that it is, it's worth noting that officers will act independently if they feel they have no choice or are obligated to. That's what nearly caused the US and the USSR to nearly go to war over Berlin. The officer in charge lacked clear instructions and was headed to war with the Soviets on one occasion when JFK was President before the clear instructions came in. If the Service is stilling around with information that Trump is simply a Russian tool, and to an outside observer there's plenty of circumstantial evidence that he may very well be, it's not impossible that the service, or the CIA, might actually act.
Of course, the fact that Trump is still living is pretty good evidence that neither the military or the CIA actually have anything of this type on him or he'd already be dead. If they had something, they probably would have done something by now.
On this topic, however, we might recall France.
France's politics became enormously polarized before World War Two, much like are own are, right now. World War Two made the French far right ascendant. Petain would have recognized the Project 2025 crowd pretty easily. The Second World War put the French far right sort of in the trash can, from which its never emerged, but French politics didn't return to normal for decades. One of the thing that occured in that context is that France fought two bitter colonial wars, one in Indochina and another in Algeria, in the decade following the Second World War.
DeGaulle's decision to pull out of Algeria lead to an internal anti DeGaulle movement inside of the French Army itself, the Organisation armée secrète. The OAS not only opposed DeGaulle's decision to leave Algeria, it tried to kill him numerous times. One such fictional attempt is the plot of the excellent book Day of the Jackal, which has been made into a movie twice.The OAS was bitter about leaving Algeria, and not really happy about what happened in Indochina. Of course, Algeria was an overseas department of France, so giving it up is sort of loosely analogous to leaving American Samoa or perhaps Puerto Rico, so the analay is strained.
Having said that, it was Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, who surrendered to the Taliban, something that Trump's deluded followers were easily distracted from, including those followers who served in Afghanistan. But the fact remains we shed blood and then left, and now have a large population of veterans who served there.
And Trump is imperiling our relationship with Taiwan. "Losing" China in the 1940s, is what caused the Republican Party of that era to be shaken out of its foreign policy slumber and lead directly to the McCarthy Era, which saw the first expressions of something resembling what we're now seeing, point being, if we "lose" Taiwan, it's going to shake something up.
And Trump's course seems likely to lead us from withdrawing to an 85 year commitment to the security of Europe.
None of this means a military coup or an internal strike on the Presidency is going to happen, but all of it does put the overall violent situation that Trump has fostered into a very strange position. Men who have spent 30 years dedicated to defending the West might not really take it that well if they're told to cozy up to a side they know to be the enemy.
What would happen if the military actually acted in this fashion? I think we'd see far right riots for about a week, and that's about it. Most of the far right is a pack of paper tigers. Faced with a military action, or an action by a limited number of servicemen, they'll just accept it as the right thing to do and claim they were for it all along.
Back to civilian actors.
If all this seems far fetched, I've already seen two barely veiled calls for assassination on Blue Sky or Twitter. People outright hoping somebody will kill Trump. During the Super Bowl I heard several people either outright note what an assassination opportunity it was, or in the words of one person "what a John Wilkes Booth moment."
So where does this lead, if it happens?
If Trump survives the next attempt, he'll slap down an executive order banning wide classes of long arms and handguns, as well as orders massively curtailing civil liberties. My guess is that most semi automatic long arms will be outright banned. If Trump asks Congress to do it, the Democrats are already all in, and the dog like GOP will do exactly what Trump wants. He'll probably simply ban handguns as well.
And, as noted, he'll curtail civil liberties. In that sense, such a thing would be a gift to him.
And there's a good chance he'll do that when the next big mass shooting occurs. It's probably already being worked out.
And what's the risk to him? It's not like the NRA is going to suddenly turn its back on somebody they fanatically worshipped. Hitler, to a degree, turned on the SA, but they didn't turn on him. The NRA will roll over like a dog and come out for whatever he asks for.
If Trump doesn't survive, mass violence will break out in the Populist Storm Trooper camp who will blame the murder on the fantastical "deep state". They already believe they're freedom's vanguard in this fashion. J. D. Vance will use the event to declare an emergency and then he'll do the same thing. That will last for about a week, as noted, until Vance declares all is well.
Indeed, William McKinley, whom Trump so adores, provides an example. McKinley's Vice President was Theodore Roosevelt, who many in the GOP feared as a dangerous radical. Roosevelt wasted no time making the government his own. The Trumpite lackeys and Elon Musk will be shown the door, and we'll have National Conservatism, like it or not, and whether or not anyone voted for it.
I have now seen a pile of people quoting Trump's quote of Napoleon, "he who saves his country violates no law" as justifying assassinating him. A highway bridge has been painted with graffiti openly asking who is going to kill Elon Musk.
Which is exactly why that sort of goofball dictatorial view should not be expressed by somebody in power. If Trump feels that ignoring the law is justified as he's "saving the country", others who feel he's wrecking the country can say the exact same thing.
We're supposed to be a country of laws not men. I hope the Supreme Court remembers that here in the near future.
Now, one of his predictable loyal supporters on This Week claimed that this was just "catnip for the media". Well, there's a lot of unhinged people out there. Remember Luigi?
And beyond that, let's remember that if Trump is openly advocating illegality, those who have sworn an oath to uphold the law are put in a really difficult position in regard to Trump. What do loyal members of the government, Congress, and the military do when the illegal orders come?
Monday, February 17, 2025
Saturday, February 17, 1945. Rum and Coca Cola. Cold Comfort. Scientist leave Peenemünde. Iwo Jima.
The Andrew Sisters song Rum and Coca Cola hit the No. 1 position on the Billboard charts. It was a song I recall as my Quebecois mother liked it.
This song was in the nature of cute at the time, but frankly it's about as accidentally imperialist as possible.
When I was 19 years old, which was the drinking age at the time, this was the first mixed drink I ever ordered in a bar, for the reason it was the only one I'd ever heard of. I was out on the town with a group of my high school friends.
In my view, it's awful. I can't stand rum. Frankly, I wish I was like one of my close friends and never developed a taste for alcohol at all. I do like beer.
The SAS launched Operation Cold Comfort in Italy.
German scientists evacuated the Peenemünde Army Research Center.
One of my (Canadian) cousins lives on Peenemünde today. He's a scientist. Much of the Western world outside of the United States is still keen on science, including our recent allies, and or enemies. Now that J.D. Vance has indicated that we intend to crawl in a hole and pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist, science stands a chance again.
Scopes monkey trials anyone? American being second rate hick nation anyone?
Speaking of Canadians, who entered World War Two in 1939 when the US was still pretending that it could live on a seperate planet, Canadian troops reached the Rhine along a ten mile front.
They were all volunteers.
If I seem bitter, well yes I'm bitter that a Baby Boomer who is morally reprehensible and a South African whose sorry ass should be kicked back to Johannesburg are wrecking the nation, well yes I am.
And, if he's so nifty, why isn't that South African (who, I'll note, emigrated to Canada and incidnetally didn't have to serve in the, mostly black, South African Army as a result) making piles of cash, and producing piles of children, there?
" Infantrymen are working with engineers in road repair near Bullingen, Belgium, to keep supplies moving to the front. Rubble from houses supplies ballast fill. 17 February, 1945. Company C, 395th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division."
US troops, who were not all volunteers, launched attacks from Luxembourg and near Saarbrucken.
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"Mines and snipers in Hanweiler, Germany, forces this battalion anti-tank unit to seek another route as they move up to support their regiment which jumped off on a pre-dawn attack. They have just made the initial crossing from Sarrguemines, France, into Hanweiler, and over the Saar River. 17 February, 1945. 3rd Battalion, 253rd Infantry Regiment, 63rd Infantry Division." Men who fought for values now betrayed by Donald Trump, Elon Musk and J.D. Vance. If you doubt it, look a the values of post war voters. It's okay, we'll express those values again, but it'll be blood due to our ignorance, again.
Dutch resistance fighter Gabrielle Widner died in Königsberg/Neumark concentration camp from starvation. Unusually, she was a Seventh Day Adventist.
The Italian battleship Conte di Cavour and the unfinished Impero were sunk in Trieste harbor by the RAF.
The British landed at Ru-Ya sought of Myebon, Burma.
The U.S. Navy's Task Force 58 hit Tokyo and Yokohama. That the Japanese home island are fatally exposed is now evident.
Pre invasion bombardments continued at Iwo Jima. Counter battery fire damaged several US ships, including the USS Tennessee.
Last edition:
Friday, February 16, 1945. Corregidor.
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Some Grim Predications
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo."So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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I still think that Vance will be President within 18 months of the inauguration. Trump's clearly a demented, unhinged, fool who always had a defective narcissistic personality made worse by his declining mental status. It's really impossible to ignore at this point, although the damage he does will be lasting. Vance can't act immediately, as Trump put in sycophants and lackeys in his cabinet, but it's increasingly clear to non Maga Republicans that Trump's unhinged.
Indeed, Vance acting quicker than 18 months, maybe even with in the first six months, is becoming an increasing likelihood. The nation will breath a sigh of relief no matter what Vance is like, as he isn't Trump, and by that time all the dirty work of firing government employees will have been done.
But I also think I can, at this point, see some other things happening with a high degree of probability, all of which depend to some degree on what Vance ultimately does, that will result from his administration, or occur during it. Some will surprise his supporters. Here's what I think we're going to see, which the assumption being we're within the 18 month window, or perhaps that I'm wrong on that. Indeed, if I'm wrong, the likelihood of these predictions goes up.
Note that predicting these events isn't the same as cheering them on, or hoping for them, or even remotely wishing for them. What I hope and pray is that God deliver the United States and grant to it what is his will. I don't wish harm or disaster on anyone. I think, at the end of the day, that Donald Trump is a demented old fool who deserves pity, the nation that has chosen him as the Chief Executive is suffering from a sort of foolish dementia itself, and that all the proof that ever needs to be given on why people shouldn't be allowed to get massively rich has been given.
70% Chance
How solitary sits the city,
once filled with people.
She who was great among the nations
is now like a widow.
Once a princess among the provinces,
now a toiling slave.
Lamentations.
I'd give the following about a 70% chance of occurring.
Get ready for massive gun control (and worse).
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Symbol of the Freedom Caucus, um, Nazi Germany's Sturmabteilung.
Eh? With the NRA in Donny's pocket.
Yep.
The reason for this is pretty obvious. Trump has no natural affinity for firearms, although apparently his son Eric does. Trump's love for the NRA was because they loved him more than they loved their country, or anything else. The NRA was and is his tool. The NRA can thank Wayne LaPierre's leadership for that.*
But we're about to see some massive violence in American society, which gets to a couple of other predictions
Mass shootings, and by that I mean real ones, not ones where five people are shot up in a gang fight, are probably likely to break out here soon on an increased scale. Political violence is about to occur. You can't release 1,000 Brownshirts into society and not have violence break out and you can't routinely insult up to half the nation before somebody gets mad.
And sooner or later, some of that is going to be directed at Trump himself.
Of course, it already has. There's been two attempted assassinations of Trump already. That's not going to stop, it will occur again.
I'm not wishing that on him, or anyone else, but only a fool could deny that it might occur, or indeed that it will occur. The level of tension is too high in the country for this not to start playing out, and Trump is making it worse on a daily basis.
The last President this hated was Abraham Lincoln, who was perhaps ironically hated by the same people who are MAGA today. That's the last time the country was this divided, and that division resulted in John Wilkes Booth killing Lincoln. Trump isn't comparable to Lincoln in any fashion, his own demented imagination aside, except for the level of hatred they both engender, and interestingly from the same classes. It was probably nearly inevitable that somebody would take a shot at Lincoln, and it likely is the same in regard to Trump.
And frankly, like Booth going after Lincoln, the general trends fit the pattern, as do the sorts of personalities involved.
Leon Czolgosz
Leon Czolgosz killed William McKinley, whom Trump suddenly discovered, as Czolgosz was an angry unemployed anarchist and a member of a despised minority.
We're about to see a dip in the economy, which I'd guess will be a massive recession, and there are going to be a lot of angry unemployed around. For that matter, there are about to be a bunch of angry unemployed former Federal (and State) employees and we seemingly have a problem with angry semi employed veterans around right now.
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Charles Whitman. . . he doesn't look like an unhinged killer, does he?
An angry radicalized veteran is what Lee Harvey Oswald was. Charles Whitman was also a veteran. Indeed, they'd both been Marines. The country has spent the last several decades absolutely idolizing veterans to the point where we've seen at least three mass killing performed by them and barely took notice of that fact. With the war in Afghanistan causing thousands of head injuries and a devotion to servicemen that's so profound that we excused their refusal to get vaccinated and have ignored service member presence at the January 6 insurrection, we're really setting ourselves up, something that's been amplified by the AR15 Effect.
And we're also in the process of making entire foreign and ethnic populations angry. Palestinians who naively hoped for a less pro Israel administration now have a kook who proposes to take over Gaza and make it into a sort of Club Med. Canadians openly boo the Star Spangled Banner at sporting events now every time they're held. A hockey game in Montreal this past week showed at least one American hockey player nearly in tears. The United States is experiencing a level of contempt not leveled at it since the height of the Cold War, when Communists nations and their fellow travelers displayed it. And Trump has made vague threats against Iran, which has never had a problem with murdering people.
Shirhan Sirhan.
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was a Palestinian who had formerly adored Bobby Kennedy, we might wish to remember. The current goofball Secretary of Health and Human Services' father was running for the Presidency at the time he was murdered for his support of Israel. That was at a time when the Muslim population of the United States, and the immigrant Middle Eastern population, was quite small in comparison to what it is today. And Kennedy hadn't betrayed the misbegotten trust of an Islamic population the way Trump has. Nor did Kennedy accuse anyone of eating cats and dogs, or create an environment in which Native Americans now carry their IDs out of fear of being expelled from their own country for looking too brown.
Truman's would be killers were members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, and we don't even usually think of the Puerto Ricans being all that angry.
Funny, by the way, with all the talk of adding a state, Trump doesn't mention Puerto Rico. . . I wonder why that is?
And added to that, Trump's targeted Mexican drug cartels. For years some have been convinced that John F. Kennedy was "Paddy Wacked" by the Mafia or by Irish American mobsters working for the Mafia. It seems to lack any real credibility, but if the mob had reasons to go after Kennedy, whose father had connections with bootleggers, who was going after them, surely the Mexican mobs have just as great of incentive, and frankly are much more violent.
Finally, and one that is admittedly unlikely, there are growing rumblings about a military strike on Trump.
Just the other day I saw an officer post an item which, while veiled, clearly argued that his fellow officers needed to be prepared to disobey illegal orders, basically like the members of the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York just did. Okay, that's one thing. But then this past week I saw outright cries, from civilians, that the military oath to protect the country from foreign and domestic enemies applies to Trump, as he's a domestic, and maybe, a foreign enemy.
He may in fact be a foreign enemy, I'd note. We've raised it here before, but now Time's raising it.
It is perfectly possible that Trump is a knowing Russian agent, in which case there's some sort of duty for somebody to do something, if not actually what's being urged. On this we might note that the Army kept the Venona Files for decades before anyone knew it, and didn't really trust Franklin Roosevelt to know the truth about what was in it. The Venona Files revealed that the U.S. Army was aware that people like Alger Hiss were Soviet spies, they just didn't feel they could get any traction on it, and for that matter Whitaker Chamber's efforts to enlighted FDR outright failed. The point is that the service, if Trump is a paid or compromised Russian agent, may very well know it, but be afraid at this point to act on it. I wouldn't blame them for being afraid.
But, if that's the case, and of course we don't know that it is, it's worth noting that officers will act independently if they feel they have no choice or are obligated to. That's what nearly caused the US and the USSR to nearly go to war over Berlin. The officer in charge lacked clear instructions and was headed to war with the Soviets on one occasion when JFK was President before the clear instructions came in. If the Service is stilling around with information that Trump is simply a Russian tool, and to an outside observer there's plenty of circumstantial evidence that he may very well be, it's not impossible that the service, or the CIA, might actually act.
Of course, the fact that Trump is still living is pretty good evidence that neither the military or the CIA actually have anything of this type on him or he'd already be dead. If they had something, they probably would have done something by now.
On this topic, however, we might recall France.
France's politics became enormously polarized before World War Two, much like are own are, right now. World War Two made the French far right ascendant. Petain would have recognized the Project 2025 crowd pretty easily. The Second World War put the French far right sort of in the trash can, from which its never emerged, but French politics didn't return to normal for decades. One of the thing that occured in that context is that France fought two bitter colonial wars, one in Indochina and another in Algeria, in the decade following the Second World War.
The OAS was bitter about leaving Algeria, and not really happy about what happened in Indochina. Of course, Algeria was an overseas department of France, so giving it up is sort of loosely analogous to leaving American Samoa or perhaps Puerto Rico, so the analay is strained.
Having said that, it was Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, who surrendered to the Taliban, something that Trump's deluded followers were easily distracted from, including those followers who served in Afghanistan. But the fact remains we shed blood and then left, and now have a large population of veterans who served there.
And Trump is imperiling our relationship with Taiwan. "Losing" China in the 1940s, is what caused the Republican Party of that era to be shaken out of its foreign policy slumber and lead directly to the McCarthy Era, which saw the first expressions of something resembling what we're now seeing, point being, if we "lose" Taiwan, it's going to shake something up.
And Trump's course seems likely to lead us from withdrawing to an 85 year commitment to the security of Europe.
None of this means a military coup or an internal strike on the Presidency is going to happen, but all of it does put the overall violent situation that Trump has fostered into a very strange position. Men who have spent 30 years dedicated to defending the West might not really take it that well if they're told to cozy up to a side they know to be the enemy.
What would happen if the military actually acted in this fashion? I think we'd see far right riots for about a week, and that's about it. Most of the far right is a pack of paper tigers. Faced with a military action, or an action by a limited number of servicemen, they'll just accept it as the right thing to do and claim they were for it all along.
Back to civilian actors.
If all this seems far fetched, I've already seen two barely veiled calls for assassination on Blue Sky or Twitter. People outright hoping somebody will kill Trump. During the Super Bowl I heard several people either outright note what an assassination opportunity it was, or in the words of one person "what a John Wilkes Booth moment."
So where does this lead, if it happens?
If Trump survives the next attempt, he'll slap down an executive order banning wide classes of long arms and handguns, as well as orders massively curtailing civil liberties. My guess is that most semi automatic long arms will be outright banned. If Trump asks Congress to do it, the Democrats are already all in, and the dog like GOP will do exactly what Trump wants. He'll probably simply ban handguns as well.
And, as noted, he'll curtail civil liberties. In that sense, such a thing would be a gift to him.
And there's a good chance he'll do that when the next big mass shooting occurs. It's probably already being worked out.
And what's the risk to him? It's not like the NRA is going to suddenly turn its back on somebody they fanatically worshipped. Hitler, to a degree, turned on the SA, but they didn't turn on him. The NRA will roll over like a dog and come out for whatever he asks for.
If Trump doesn't survive, mass violence will break out in the Populist Storm Trooper camp who will blame the murder on the fantastical "deep state". They already believe they're freedom's vanguard in this fashion. J. D. Vance will use the event to declare an emergency and then he'll do the same thing. That will last for about a week, as noted, until Vance declares all is well.
Indeed, William McKinley, whom Trump so adores, provides an example. McKinley's Vice President was Theodore Roosevelt, who many in the GOP feared as a dangerous radical. Roosevelt wasted no time making the government his own. The Trumpite lackeys and Elon Musk will be shown the door, and we'll have National Conservatism, like it or not, and whether or not anyone voted for it.
The upcoming marginalization of Evangelical Christianity.
It's overdue anyhow.
The theological underpinnings of Evangelical Christianity are too thin to withstand any sort of examination by anyone who cares to do it and a Christian religion that basically holds that anything you can do is okay, as long as you do it with a member of the opposite sex, is not very Christian. But the linking of the anti democratic populist far right with Evangelical Christianity will be something that it can't endure when things blow up in this Administration's face, and that is going to happen.
Mike Johnson with his smarmy smile, and Trump closed eyed as if he is in deep thought will be what people remember when they lose their jobs and have no place to go. Health and Wealth Christianity, which is contrary to the Gospel, won't have a long shelf life when you are poor and sick and somebody on television is yelling at you. People who voted for Trump as he was "Godly" won't remember that when they're lining up for assistance that isn't there, and Musk has gone on to have five more children with three more concubines.
When the bloom is off the rose of populism, Evangelical Christianity is going to tank.
The bad thing, I suppose, is that a lot of people leaving it will just leave religion altogether.
We'll have troops coming home in body bags within a year.
I don't know from where, or when, but we will. This administration is too reckless not to get troops killed, and when inflation creeps up over 7%, which is only months away, it'll need a distraction. Nothing distracts like war.
Trump has found plenty of countries to pick on. My overall guess, however, is that he'll pick on one that seems like it can't do much, or he'll pick a fight with Iran, which really can. A war against Iran is one that we frankly can't win, as wars end when the people you attack decide they're over. The Iranians are never going to agree that we beat them.
If I'm right, the irony will be that there will be dead Americans coming home for decades, and frankly they'll be blood right here on our shores. Iran has no problem with waging a terror campaign right here, and that will itself spark a bunch of civil repression here in the US.
The United States will return to democracy, but we'll be irreparably harmed.
The populists had and continue to have a real point about rule by unelected officials. There's been complaints about that for decades. The complainers didn't understand what they were complaining about, which was the rise of a large Federal government from 1932 on, and ironically a lot of the complainers will be the fist to suffer as agencies shrink. When people in the Trump camp can't get Medicaid, and a lot of them are receiving it, or drive on pothole filled highways, they'll be getting exactly what they deserve.
But only 50% of the country was in the Trump camp during the election and only a fraction of them are hardcore. The country will come back.
But it won't be the same. Much of the damage will be permanent and those who voted for it should be reminded of it every year for the rest of their lives.
People believed that Trump was going to take on government waste, and some still believe it. Mostly he's just cutting. Trump and Musk are very wealthy men born into wealth. For them, people suffering economic deprivation is an abstraction.
The US will be eclipsed as a major power
Flag of the European Union, which may be about to eclipse us as a the Western power people listen to.
The US really entered the world stage with World War One. Under Trump, we're stepping off.
That is in fact what a lot of people want, they just don't want comes next. The world now will be a bipolar one, with the European Community standing for what the US did, and China being its main opponent (but read below). We'll dance to their tune. People who thought that Trump was going to make America great again will find that it has become just a second rate power with none, and I mean none, of the claimed things that were going to be achieved, achieved.
There's always been an element of this in American thought. There were those who were opposed to even getting ready for the Second World War. The US entered World War One when German ambitions began to hurt us to the extent we could ignore them. After World War Two the GOP went isolationist again rapidly until it began to hurt us pretty quickly.
Going isolationist again will hurt us, and quickly. I think, as noted, it'll get us in a major war with China, Russia and South Korea. The difference this time is that we're hated worldwide. We'll fight a lot of that on our own, and badly.
If there's an upside to this, and I don't really think that there is, it appears to be that Europe is going to resume its traditional role as the dominant Western force. Americans, for the first time in decades, are going to have to get used to being also rans. In fact, in this context, it might be for the first time in US history where we basically have a seat at the children's table and nobody pays that much attention to us as we're not adults. In a way, that's a lesson that we failed to learn somewhere and its time to learn it. Time to grow up.
If that's correct, and it seems likely that the National Conservatives are panicking it is, as they're sending Musk and Vance to try to lecture Europeans, it'll mean that much of the the external things National Conservatives are working on won't matter. The US view on climate change, won't matter. US tax policies, won't matter.
We'll basically be like what Brazil current is, in regard to the rest of the world.
On a related item, within a few years of Trump's death, which will be soon anyway you look at it, he'll be such a despised figure in American history that his grave will be a frequent target of vandalism. The government won't really bother, after a time, to guard it. He'll be held in contempt, including by those who now fanatically worship him. Americans will regard those who voted for him as contemptible fools, including the majority of people who voted for him, who won't admit that they did so.
50% Chance
Let all their evil come before you
and deal with them
As you have so ruthlessly dealt with me
for all my rebellions.
My groans are many,
my heart is sick.
Lamentations.
Some more remote possibilities, but not all that remote
We'll be in a type of world war.
Chinese poster from 1971. The Chinese have long memories. Americans have the memories of gnats.
And I don't mean figuratively, I mean actually.
Somewhere around here is a post that predicted, at the time it was posted, that we would be at war with China within, I thought, about five years. We aren't at that mark yet.
China wants Taiwan and have been openly planning to invade it for years. The Biden Administration was fairly openly planning on the defense of Taiwan. Japan and the Philippines expect it to occur as well.
Trump is now punishing Taiwan economically, and China is going to move to get it. The Chinese are not dumb, and my guess is that they don't figure that Trump will be around long either.
North Korean Army poster. North Korea is desperate, and it undoubtedly regards Trump as a complete doofus.
Trump's a demented doofus who is destroying the American government. This would be the ideal time for China to act. And if they do, and I think they will, North Korea will attack South Korea shortly thereafter. Whatever has gone on or is occuring in Eastern Europe, Russia will launch a massive fully mobilized campaign against Ukraine, and maybe the Balkans and Poland. You can easily see a scenario where China attacks Taiwan and North Korea attacks South Korea later that same week, and Russia has a major offensive occuring within a month.
Russian poster equating the Russian invasion of Ukraine with the Soviet victory in World War Two.
Indeed, if I led China, and the morals of the Chinese leadership, I'd do it. The balance of risks is on their sides, and will even be more on their sides after Elon Musk takes the meat cleaver to the military.
What will Trump do? Probably babble and vacillate. He'll yap for about a week on the basis that world leaders listen to him. After a week, the situation will be grave for Taiwan and we'll be in an all out war in South Korea. We'll act then, but we'll have lost a week which means when we do, we're going to take a naval pounding.
Trump, it might be noted, didn't answer his country's call when it came in Vietnam. Musk managed not to be conscripted into the South African Army by migrating to Canada.
I think our chances of winning such a war are very slim.
A war like that isn't avoidable and we'll get in it. Probably with Vance as head of state as Trump's escorted out the door babbling.
Trump's going to defy the courts
Napoleon, who claimed he was acting to save the country and went on to get a lot of people killed. Don quoted him just the other day in what is likely a prelude to ignoring the courts. Napoleon ended up in exile and was likely murdered by poisoning.
This is pretty obvious and will happen soon.
The thing is, this won't go well, and will prove to be one of those things he'll move away from quickly. Courts have a lot more power than they did in times past and they really aren't afraid of Trump. Once Federal Marshall start slapping people in prison or impounding assets, things will change.
40% Chance
Trump's revealed to be an active Russian asset.
Whitaker Chambers warned for years the US government had been penetrated by Soviet agents and was widely derided. Turns out, he was right. Chambers also did not expect democracy to be able to prevail against Communism.
There's no doubt that Trump is a Russian asset. Indeed, there's no doubt that he's working out great for Russia, the question still remains why.
There has always been something really odd here that people just haven't been able to pin down. He could just love Russia because he does, but he could be dancing to their tune as they have something on him.
If the Russians do have something on him, things can only be kept secret so long. Trump has a lot of enemies including people he now thinks are his friends. What does Musk know that hte rest of us don't?
What does the CIA and the military, or MI6?
And what does Putin?
When Putin dies, and he's an old man himself, things could suddenly change in Russia and the information open up. Or somebody else could reveal it. If it breaks open, MAGA will deny it. Indeed, there are still Democrats who pretend Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, and the Rosenbergs weren't working for the Soviets. But with enough evidence, famously fickle American public opinion can turn, and suddenly.
What Trump holds on politicos opens up.
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There are somethings in the political world that are frankly just too weird right now not to have a backstory.
It can't possibly be the case that every Republican in Congress does what Trump wants as they love him. Not hardly. And it can't be that they all do it as they feel its for their long time gain with the voters.
Politics have always been dirty and people carry secrets around with them. William G. Harding was screwing his assistant in the White House and had a prior mistress who was probably a World War One German spy. Franklin Roosevelt carried on a very long lasting affair. John F. Kennedy had the morals of an alley cat and bedded Mimi Alford in the White House when she was still a teen, or barely out of her teens.
Some of the people in Congress are compromised somehow. Some probably have received money illegally, some from illegal sources, and Trump knows about it. Some probably have turgid affairs with minors, non spouses, and members of the same sex that would kill their careers if it was revealed and Trump or his minions know about that. My guess is that in the next couple of years we should brace ourselves for lots of these stories, with lots of recognizable names.
A new conservative party will emerge
Emblem of the Progressive Party which nearly replaced the GOP.
It is, quite frankly, a perfect time for one.
There's been attempts at this for years, but now the time is ripe, as there isn't one. The Republican Party isn't a conservative party at all, it's a populist party. The National Conservative element of it isn't either, it's a Francoist contingent.
This has happened in the US before. The GOP itself came about when the Whigs collapsed. And the Progressives made a good run at the GOP for several years in a row. Had Taft bailed out of the his race with Roosevelt, there's be no Republican Party today, and frankly the Democrats would be the conservative party.
The elements of it are already there. Quite a few Republicans who had been figures lately in the GOP and backed out remain there and are active. Some Republican members of Congress, such as Lisa Murkowski, consistently talk out of both sides of their mouths about Trump. Some more cowardly Republicans in high office will privately voice the opinion that he's bat shit crazy, and then go on to support him in public.
All it really takes is enough people with conservative views to actually unite, which is easier said than done. Having said that, intelligent conservatives are disgusted by much of which is branded as conservatism today, and yet can take advantage of Elon Musk and his band of meat cleaver juveniles to do much of their dirty work for them.
None of these are pleasant
Winston Churchill noted that in the 1930s he felt like a "voice crying in the wilderness" about the dangers of Hitler. He didn't want World War Two to come, he was trying to do what he could to get ready for it or prevent it.
I feel the same way here. None of these are things I wish to happen. I'm pretty certain that some of them shall.
Ironically, all of them are avoidable, but only with great difficulty at this point. The people surrounding Trump are, by and large, small minded and unhinged. He doesn't like to hear from people who don't agree with him, which makes him a weak person. Intelligent people, which I do not feel Trump is, can listen to different views and weigh them. He can't.
Given that, really avoiding these outcomes would require somebody to act now. If there's somebody close to Trump who can give him the dope slap, which appears unlikely, that might be a means. More likely, however, it will require something external.
The most obvious external thing would be invoking the 25th Amendment. That would require, as a practical matter, a vote of 2/3s of both houses, which is almost impossible to imagine right now. If things go very badly over the next two years, however, it's a possibility. A much bigger possibility, I'd note, is that Vance boots Trump out in a little under 18 months, but if I'm right about much of this, it'll be too late to avert disaster by then.
That's a possibility, however, which if I were the Chinese I'd weigh. Which is why, if I led China, I'd attack Taiwan within the year.
There's a small chance that disaster can be averted if the Democrats, which move at the speed of the Baby Boomers, can get their act together and launch an all out assault on the GOP. So far, they're not doing it. Some of that will have to be at the state level. California and New York basically have the ability to cripple the Federal government if they wish to, and both are really Democratic states.
Remember, LORD, what has happened to us,
pay attention, and see our disgrace:
Our heritage is turned over to strangers,
our homes, to foreigners.a
We have become orphans, without fathers;
our mothers are like widows.
We pay money to drink our own water,
our own wood comes at a price.
With a yoke on our necks, we are driven;
we are worn out, but allowed no rest.
We extended a hand to Egypt and Assyria,
to satisfy our need of bread.
Our ancestors, who sinned, are no more;
but now we bear their guilt.
Servants rule over us,
with no one to tear us from their hands.
We risk our lives just to get bread,
exposed to the desert heat;
Our skin heats up like an oven,
from the searing blasts of famine.c
Women are raped in Zion,
young women in the cities of Judah;
Princes have been hanged by them,
elders shown no respect.
Young men carry millstones,
boys stagger under loads of wood;
The elders have abandoned the gate,
the young men their music.
The joy of our hearts has ceased,
dancing has turned into mourning;
The crown has fallen from our head:
woe to us that we sinned!
Because of this our hearts grow sick,
at this our eyes grow dim:
Because of Mount Zion, lying desolate,
and the jackals roaming there!
But you, LORD, are enthroned forever;
your throne stands from age to age.
*Why have you utterly forgotten us,
forsaken us for so long?
Bring us back to you, LORD, that we may return:
renew our days as of old.
For now you have indeed rejected us
and utterly turned your wrath against us.
Lamentations
I hope I'm wrong about all of this.
Footnotes
*LaPierre is yet another hawkish boomer who managed not to serve in Vietnam, first due to a student, and then due to a medical, deferment. He's also another Catholic raised person who divorced and remarried, a betrayal of what Catholics believe.
Why do I note this?
I'm finding more and more that people who can set aside serious religious vows can set aside anything.
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