war + humiliation

 War, as some people apparently needed to learn, is not about the pleasure one takes in watching things blow up. It is politics by other means. To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States.

— Timothy Snyder . June 20 2026

This attack on Iran was/is an impetuous, illegitimate, dumb war.

Maybe a fitting way to commemorate our 250th national birthday is a good old fashioned housecleaning. 

What say we begin at the top....

Sources

Image: Donald J. Trump - Truth Social https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116624042090139559, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=192752626

Timothy Snyder on Facebook June 20 at 9:24AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI-DdbAGlRo

nothing to see here

Nothing to see here ... nothing new anyway ... The sitting president has history when it comes to granting celebrity impunity — if the celebrity is the sort who lets the First Felon grab 'em by the pussy (metaphorically, I'm sure).

8 years ago, Michelle Goldberg wrote of one such celebrity: 

“Besides being a huckster and a sexist weasel, D’Souza is a felon who, in 2014, pleaded guilty to routing illegal campaign donations through a woman he was having an affair with, and the woman’s husband. (At the time, D’Souza was married and serving as president of the evangelical King’s College. His ex-wife would later accuse him of physical abuse.) For his crime, he spent eight months in a halfway house. On Thursday, Donald Trump gave him a full pardon, tweeting that D’Souza had been ‘treated very unfairly by our government.’”

He’s been telling us who he is from the start. Nothing about that has changed. What are we waiting for? For him to break the world and then escape under cover of darkness? 

I say make him pay … him and all his weasels … for every illegal act, high crime, and misdemeanor he and they committed against us all.

[h/t Pierre Whalon]

Source

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/opinion/donald-trump-dinesh-dsouza-pardon.html?action=click&contentCollection=opinion&contentPlacement=2&emc=edit_ty_20180601&module=package&nl=opinion-today&nlid=72655576l%3Dopinion-today&pgtype=sectionfront&region=rank&rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&te=1&version=highlights