Steam Punked 0
Donald Trump has demanded that the Navy rip out new launch technology from aircraft carriers and, instead, go back to steam-powered catapults like the ones used in WWII. At my local rag, retired military officer Bree Fram looks at the bureaucratese in the military’s response to this and decodes de code.
Here’s a sample:
After years in defense acquisition, allow me to translate: This is a spectacularly bad time to change the design, and it’s going to cost a fortune.
The Toddler-in-Chief 0
Robert Reich looks at Donald Trump’s hissy-fit against Canada, which has long been one of the United States’s most dependable allies and partners until Trump decided to start a trade war of choice for no good reason except that he can’t stand it when people don’t follow his orders however–er–misguided they may be, and comments that
Trump is a peevish, angry, perverse child.
The question I ask myself is how much worse will his behavior have to get before Republicans and suck-ups around him take some action to stop him?
Sadly, my answer would be “never,” because today’s Republican Party, as the Founders feared might happen some day, has placed faction over governance.
But that’s just me.
Follow the link for the context of that excerpt.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
This “responsible gun owner” got an unload of his own politeness.
One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
The Entitlement Society 0
His biggest regret is that he got caught.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Mild language.)
Stray Thought 0
There’s a difference between interpreting the Constitution and amending it.
As far as I am concerned, today’s Supreme Supremacist Court has arrogated to itself the power to amend.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
And, as we all know, politeness is a family value.
The Bully’s Pulpit 0
In the midst of a longer post about Donald Trump’s war of choice with Iran, Atrios sums up Trump’s approach to foreign policy, or, for that matter, to just about everything:
The Rule of Lawless 0
John Young is not sanguine. Here’s tiny bit from his article:
But this administration has blown any previous standards out of the water.
The capricious use of the National Guard. The transforming of ICE into a paramilitary Legion of Goons. Nothing shames Hegseth, Stephen Miller and their boss, Conman the Barbaric.
Nor Any Drop To Drink 0
Even as the Colorado shrinks, Big Tech drinks. From El Reg:
Kleptocracy 0
Grung_e_Gene raises an interesting point: The Trump maladministration is interested, not in the public good, but only in the public’s goods
Republican Thought Police 0
The Trump maladministration again exercises its freedom of repress.
Details at the link.