Mark Affleck
@flick131
USAF RET (24 yrs), Cornhusker at heart, NC by choice. Married animal wrangler: 3 dogs, 6 cats, 3 guinea pigs & a turtle. 66 & just getting started!
Trump’s “low key” retreat on Iran is buried beneath fresh chaos: upend MMR policy, stir up Greenland, then humiliate Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy for defying him. It looks like deflection and a warning to every Republican: fuck with me and I will crush you. Total control is the point.
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 The executive can prosecute nearly anyone, anytime. That’s not hyperbole it’s how charging power works: near-unreviewable, and the process itself is the punishment. Trump and Blanche know this. Now DOJ runs on a $1.8B “anti-weaponization” fund. Consider this a warning.
Trump’s Vietnam deferments kept him out of the real war. Now he’s playing commander in chief with Iran: bombing, pausing, threatening, negotiating, then bombing again. No clear objective, no exit strategy and no definition of victory. This is becoming Trump’s Vietnam.
Behold the engineering behind Trump’s magnificent new Goldilocks look: lace front, industrial-strength tape and emergency side clips. Not a factual depiction, of course, just one possible explanation for how that golden hay bale survives outside. 😂
Goldilocks slapped on a bargain-bin wig and thought nobody would notice. Pathetic little fraud.
Legacy media hammered Biden’s age, every stumble and every Democratic flaw, while soft-pedaling Trump’s corruption, cognitive decline, authoritarian threats, self-dealing, lies, cruelty and policy chaos. They didn’t just miss the story. They helped shape the outcome.
“Page 129” obviously depends on version of George Orwell’s 1984 it should stop you in your tracks. its a themes about power, truth, and control feel especially relevant in the Trump era. Read it yourself and decide what you think. Available on Kindle, Apple Books, Audible, Libby, and more.
We’re always at war in the Middle East because greed is human nature and the incentives never change: oil the world can’t quit, arms makers profiting off every escalation, leaders who find war useful at home. No cabal required just self-interest all pointing one way. Don’t expect change.
Elon Musk says “money won’t matter” in the future. Then he launches X Money. That’s an odd way to prepare for a cashless, post-scarcity world. Either money matters, or it doesn’t.
“Trump 2028” isn’t a bit. Believe him Trump always tells you the plan first; the surprise is only ever why we didn’t listen. Watch the 3 hooks: 1) “elected” vs “serve” wordplay, 2) the VP hand-off dodge, 3) amend-or-force. None tested in court. That’s the tell.
It’s a grit Eric Trump using “low-T” as an insult. lmake it a masculinity slur so young men self-diagnose. And yes military-age males are simultaneously the recruitment demographic and the TRT customer base. Screening every recruit creates a patient pipeline at taxpayer expense.
Day 24: McConnell hospitalized, no diagnosis, no photo, no visitors on record. A governor is formally requesting proof of life. I’m not saying aliens took him. I’m saying the abduction theory currently has as much documentation as the official story: none. Produce the senator.
Privilege shapes perspective. Took over family business. Built it into a much larger company. That’s an impressive accomplishment, but it’s also a level of opportunity millions of migrants never had. Telling desperate people to “self deport” ignores the financial and legal reality many face.
LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS, LITERALLY TRUMP HANDS IRAN FREE BATTLE DAMAGE REPORT
The pocket veto lets one man kill a bill 358-32 and 85-5 majorities passed with zero accountability. No veto message, no override vote, just silence timed to a recess. A law backed by both parties dying because Congress adjourned is a procedural trapdoor, not democracy.
Trump says “The Strait of Hormuz is closed because of the tremendous success of my policies. Nobody has ever closed a strait more successfully than we have.”
Trump’s mind is a monarchy of one: blame is a gift he bestows, credit is a crown he keeps, and the org chart only has one name on it his. April 1, on camera, he told Vance to eat the fall if Iran failed. Truth Social isn’t a chain of command. It’s a delusion with a posting schedule.