Gras Lux
@graslux
Burkean, Hegelian, liberal swimming in an American Hobbesian flood. Quiet voice from the forgotten realms of flyover country. Find me at medium.com. 🚫: unsolicited dms will auto get blocked.
The Age of American Apparatchiks has arrived. I hear founding fathers and countless patriots turning over in their graves.
Heard the talk of Kharg again. It will be an #americangallipoli ... I already feel sorry for the troops who will be assigned take, occupy, and defend the place. Between air and sea drones .. I hope it isn't another Okinawa
The parallels with Gallipoli are very interesting. Never underestimate your opponent's resilience and inventiveness. The Russians did -- now they are in Ukraine, facing an smart, tough, resilient enemy defending their homeland.
No surprise there. Eventually history researchers will lay bare the truth of this regime. Judge Aileen Cannon rules against releasing Jack Smith Mar-a-Lago report share.google/QwRVitIHCNgK...
So sad, on our 250th, we have to see our Bill of Rights and Republic ripped to shreds by faux-patriots we actually and ironically elected ourselves. We sure got the govt some of America wanted. Reminds me of a history lesson - Boston 1770? No redcoats this time ...
"Forever" treaty about Greenland? Oh please! I am so sick of endless idiot hyperbole spewing like raw sewage into a river. This from the same guy who vowed a "forever" to marriage, how many times? Or one who drops out of treaties faster than he empties a box of fried chicken.
Gemini AI ginned up... They are already ignoring vast tracts of the Bill of Rights -- it's going to get worse. Once ICE and the DEA come for your guns, whatcha gonna do? America is the Bill of Rights - without it - we're just like Venezuela, Hungary, Russia, or China.
I suspect not one of them would so much as whimper in public and they would all gather there when he put up the massive statue of himself as the grand westward facing winged victory.
How can anyone trust a country that now walks away from signed treaties on a whim and a wave? History is strewn with broken American promises, abandoned dead allies/foreign national employees. The authors of our govt would be aghast at current events at lack of integrity.
As the Reds leverage observers and watchdogs into universities, schools, museums, nonprofits, and defense supplying businesses, it reminds me of how the Soviets used komissars throughout society as a means to encourage ideological alignment.
Two tarantulas in a bowl. Trump and Musk? (ai generated image if you couldn't tell )
What it must feel like so much of the time to be a young woman in today's America....
(went down rabbit hole) Here's more on that from the US govt ... I guess you can be married to two countries at the same time if both agree to it.... sister wives !?!!!! travel.state.gov/content/trav...
Yeah --- somewhere, sometime something changed. The oath is here for naturalized citizens. Unless exceptions really are just standard fare now... www.uscis.gov/citizenship/...
DOGE and Magats with their sledgehammer on the civil service are ensuring that the best and brightest will avoid civil service in the future. Only the most mercenary, most compliant, and most MAGA obedient will ever join the ranks of the civil service again. Utterly Disgusting.
Tariff War! Northern border states should just secede. WTH are we getting from this regime? Destruction of the automotive industry, tariff fueled inflation, imposition of theocracy and fascism that are antithetical to Americanism. Passive resistance, malicious compliance, boycott.
Well that was kinda fun and scary.... feels like I am at the receiving end of the smackdown....