FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

 Learned a new term in the sphere of American, political assholery last night: "accelerationist". Essentially, these are cells of people who want to watch the world burn so that they can take over on downs after it is destroyed in a massive civil war. They will do things to accelerate  that like assassination, bombings, disruptions of power grids and poisoning of water supplies, in the hopes that various groups of people will blame others for these events, and react accordingly against whomever they suspect. It seems to be pretty much like Charles Manson's goal of inspiring a race war via the Tate/Lobianco murders, only they are crazier and far less showy. To me it sounds like Trump and maga really, but it's not an ideology that subscribes to any political party at all. It's more anarchy than anything else in that they hate any  dang gubmint you got.  I happened upon this as I viewed on YouTube a clip in an interview with a former FBI undercover agent, Scott Payne...

Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, tore into Jennifer Griffen, a former colleague of his at Fox where he was a weekend anchor, at a news conference about the bombing of possible Iranian nuclear sites. Now, she knows more about all this shit than Pate does, even though he's the guy that made the incredible leap from parttime anchor to underboss of the military, not her. That's the way employment works in politics, unfortunately, at least now that we have a president who himself was a former TV gameshow host. He's bigly on "Central Casting".  What happened was, Jennifer asked Pete a question he couldn't answer and so he told her something like, she was the worst journalist ever. Maybe ever since him? I'm not sure. Doesn't really matter. The point is, he had set out to ambush her and she took the bait by being called on by him. I can't believe she fell for that. Of all the insane reasons to vote for Trump, the craziest seems to be that he alone could...

 I met "Rivas" in 2016, after Trump somehow beat Hillary Clinton for the presidency. He was sort of a carpenter for my brother-in-law, a young guy learning the trade. He was Mexican, but for all intents and purposes, American as he had crossed the border with his family at the age of six. He had the same vague memories of Mexico that you might have of any place you lived at that age, some twenty years later. Your mileage may vary of course but think about coming from a village in another country to Anytown, USA, at a young age. Your folks might not even know it at the time, but your job is to be an American and learn English while they work. This is also the story with many Greeks and Slavs I worked with in the restaurant business, however in the case of those guys, they were bilingual as they translated for their parents. For whatever reason, Rivas left his language behind and went about being an American.  He wasn't a bad worker. I was used to being around hard-working ...

I've seen a lot on YouTube about a John McPhee who is known as "The Sheriff of Baghdad". He was in the 75th Rangers and later, Delta Force. He's seen a lot of action and killed untold numbers of people. War is Hell, it's a dangerous world and things must be done by men who are very  well-trained to do them. I totally get that. Thank you for your service and boy, I couldn't do that.  When you get out of Special Forces, the government issues you a podcast so that you can interview other Special Forces guys. Well, it seems that way. There's a bunch of them. I wasn't familiar with the interviewer on the REEL the algorithm sent my way, but he looked as if he were ex-SF as well. He asks John where he was from and he answers, South Side of Chicago. I'm thinking, "Oh fuck- a Sox fan..." But baseball didn't come up. The podcaster wasn't interested in inane baseball rivalries. He needed to know if Chicago was as much of a hellhole as he had...

 You see, folks, no other president could pull this off. No normal  republican president could do this- or would. No, not even a Bush. Certainly not Dwight Eisenhower, the last great republican president after Lincoln. They've only had two, ya know.  It had to be Trump.  He doesn't mind being an asshole. It comes easy to him because he is one. The old proverb: "A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit" applies to him in the abstract way, because what he is doing now is planting fiscal depravity for others to enjoy, years after he is gone. I don't know how delusional he is, but "very" seems like a good guess, and I wonder if he is cognizant of his own mortality. He might have taken then Dr. Ronnie Jackson seriously at his diagnosis that Trump would live to be 200. I bet Ronnie did. The other day Trump inexplicably said to a reporter that they shouldn't be near him, that it was dangerous. I took that to mean th...

 Saw a rerun of a spirited debate that a collection of high school students in Kansas engaged in, some five years ago. The kids were polite and smart- even the kids that were wrong were impressive. The debate was about flying the Confederate battle flag, and the issues of slavery as a cause of the war. I'd have to say that, under the first Amendment, one does have a right to display that flag. I personally see nothing wrong with displaying the Confederate battle flag or even the Nazi swastika, Or a Trump flag.  Flags show the public where one's allegiances lie. You fly the swastika, I know you're a Nazi asshole. You can't be anything else if you do that. Same with the stars and bars. That tells me that this flag-waver is a racist secessionist. A trump flag announces that you love and support a fucking moron, in anything he does. As awful as these allegiances are, it is best to keep them out in the open so that there is no mistake made about where these people's assh...