"To him who has the sharpest sword."

             

            

             Planet earth languishes in a gray shade on the scale between potential and probable nuclear war and devastation. The fool tyrant, King Tangerine, is trying to push us all in the direction of hellfire.

            The Trump crime family greased the skids for cronies to pocket a few million dollars but the Saudi Nuke deal is Pyrrhic and promises to be a death pact. Giving Saudi Arabia, run by MSB, the capacity to build a nuclear weapon, is a leading malevolent and stupid act since humans began to shout at each other. 

            A few learned and skilled minds around the globe agree and said so and so King Tangerine, running true to form, has now invoked a qualifier, the Abrahamic accords.

In the last months we have seen Trump next to MSB wiggling, knee touching and giggling with flirty glances like a goomar in heat as the feckless duo hatched their Faustian deal. 

We’ll see how invoking the new condition will play out, but the notion of Tangerine’s willingness to start selling nuclear trinkets to the named parties in that region remains dunderhead shortsighted and malignant. The Armageddon scenario that could unravel from the deal is perhaps the single most revealing idiot moment that Trump is just too dangerous to tolerate.

            This term has been the proof that he is, as people warned, unqualified and unfit of character and would prove to be a danger to the US and the world. 

            A man who picked a war fight with a rugged and gristly enemy, and who did so with no planning, no expectations, no calculus for duration or departure, and without consent of the people, is not the stature of man that deserves support. The fact that man is Donald Trump, with everything the world knows about him and his inability to speak truth, is all the more reason he should be deposed. The people hired him, the people must now fire him.

            This is problematic of course, but in some 15 weeks the nation has a chance to change the balance in the House and Senate that could result in, finally, a successful impeachment.  I would prefer something quicker. It is not impossible. Members of Nixon’s Republican party spoke to him at another low point in US history, and he resigned. Perhaps the castratos in the Republican caucus can make a “deal” to buy him out. Maybe war criminal Bibi Netanyahu, certainly upset with the Saudi bargain, 

has a workable idea. 

            King Pyrrhus of Epirus, an ancient Greek drove his armies in the savage Battle of Asculum, where they defeated the Romans. His own army suffered such massive losses it prompted him to say “ if we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans we shall be utterly ruined.” That is how and why the term Pyrrhic or Pyrrhic Victory has come into common use. On his deathbed he was asked to whom he would he would leave his kingdom. He echoed the words of his cousin Alexander the Great

“To him who has the sharpest sword.”  

            Marco? JD? Thune? Cassidy? Tillis? Bibi?

 

See you down the trail.

 

Independence from.....

 

    With apologies to Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson, as we reflect on 250 years of this experiment in self governance it is our right and our duty to list the long train of abuses and usurpations of Despotism and the malignant influences of empire that interfere with our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 

    Please allow a quote "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." 

    What has established Tyranny over these states? To prove let facts be submitted to a candid world. Let's declare the causes that impel us to a separation.

      Here is a starter list. Please add to it as you are moved.

INDEPENDENCE FROM....

Intellectual and ethical decline

Ignorance of history and government

Weaponized partisanship

Money in politics-the campaign industry

authoritarian and fascist impulses and practices

Politicized religion

Economic disparity of present proportion

Residual racism

Power of destructive equity investments

Algorithms 

Social media influencers and public ignorance

Opinions without knowledge

Failure of congress to govern by compromise and to serve the interests of all citizens

Worship of celebrity and celebrity culture

Destructive bureaucracy 

Presidential graft

Inadequate Housing

for profit medicine

unaffordable medical care

no term limits

   The Declaration we celebrate this season carried the lines,"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." 

    For far too long the legislative branch has failed, exceedingly! I reason we can then apply the idea of a Tyrant to congressional seniority and political "careerism" as well as those who have failed us. Court appointments have been "ideologized" and politicized. The selection of a President has been assumed by a campaign industrial complex where elections, "winning" instead of governance skill, are paramount. There is a dangerous gap between who can get elected and who is qualified and skilled to be Commander in Chief. In our lifetime we have watched a failure to meet the high minded and noble intention of the founders.

    Who is up for this? "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

      See you down the trail.