I don’t disagree but I have been hearing that “anything and everything” helps trump. Try a coup…helps Trump. Steal documents…helps Trump. Sleep with a pornstar while your wife is pregnant…helps Trump. Charge Trump for tax fraud…helps Trump. Run Biden…helps Trump. Run Kamala…helps Trump.
Shit it may all be true but if it’s true than we wer…
I don’t disagree but I have been hearing that “anything and everything” helps trump. Try a coup…helps Trump. Steal documents…helps Trump. Sleep with a pornstar while your wife is pregnant…helps Trump. Charge Trump for tax fraud…helps Trump. Run Biden…helps Trump. Run Kamala…helps Trump.
Shit it may all be true but if it’s true than we were fucked no matter what happens or happened. Crazy to say out loud.
As the writer Mark Leibovich noted in an "Atlantic" magazine article a few months ago...while we like to think of ourselves as uniquely different with only the best intentions, perhaps we should put aside that "malarky" (my words not his), and that the majority of Americans are not what we like to thump our chests about.
~ The Christianity of my youth is not espoused in the current wave of Nationalist Christianity.
~ The reverence for intelligence and pushing forward in science and research has been doused with the fear that facts are true.
~ The 20th-century American tough guy has been hijacked by victims worrying about pronouns.
~ JFKs call almost a half century ago, "...ask now what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country," has been supplanted by the mentality of "I hate the government that gives me improved infrastructure via a Gay Sec'y of Transportation, by those Deep Staters cutting me my welfare checks, that community service I spurned because then I'd be doing that "do-gooder" Deep State stuff."
When I was growing up, few of the WW2 generation festooned themselves with patriotic symbols.
Three immigrant uncles served in WW1
My father and his two brothers served in WW2 as did my Fathers-in-Law (I am divorced)
I was accepted to the U.S. Naval Academy, but had an accident to my foot that forced me to withdraw, but my daughter eventually joined the Navy and served eight years to carry what would have been my enlistment obligation.
My brother and two cousins served during the Viet Nam era. Many of my friends as I moved through adult life also served in the military
My point is this...my family and those friends were/are proud of their duty served, but they did not overtly seeking attention for doing so. They were called and did their duty and went home to family, friends, and work.
A lasting memory I have from watching the movie, "Saving Private Ryan," with my father was at its conclusion his only remarks was ..."maybe now they'll know what we went through,"
This was the man who when we would ask him about his time in war, answered, "I got to see the Eiffel Tower,"
One other off the cuff comments he made while we watched another war movie was, "anyone who glorifies the action of combat was not there to see the results."
My father, as a Medic, survived the war in spite of being called "Old Man Wood," in his early 30s during the European campaign.
I see today, too much of the population celebrating the "Rambo" edition of Americana, who feel good about destroying things, and not so much the "Captain Miller" (Tom Hanks in 'Pvt Ryan), who just wanted to do his duty and go home to teach English and coach the baseball team.
I don’t disagree but I have been hearing that “anything and everything” helps trump. Try a coup…helps Trump. Steal documents…helps Trump. Sleep with a pornstar while your wife is pregnant…helps Trump. Charge Trump for tax fraud…helps Trump. Run Biden…helps Trump. Run Kamala…helps Trump.
Shit it may all be true but if it’s true than we were fucked no matter what happens or happened. Crazy to say out loud.
Not crazy...
As the writer Mark Leibovich noted in an "Atlantic" magazine article a few months ago...while we like to think of ourselves as uniquely different with only the best intentions, perhaps we should put aside that "malarky" (my words not his), and that the majority of Americans are not what we like to thump our chests about.
~ The Christianity of my youth is not espoused in the current wave of Nationalist Christianity.
~ The reverence for intelligence and pushing forward in science and research has been doused with the fear that facts are true.
~ The 20th-century American tough guy has been hijacked by victims worrying about pronouns.
~ JFKs call almost a half century ago, "...ask now what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country," has been supplanted by the mentality of "I hate the government that gives me improved infrastructure via a Gay Sec'y of Transportation, by those Deep Staters cutting me my welfare checks, that community service I spurned because then I'd be doing that "do-gooder" Deep State stuff."
When I was growing up, few of the WW2 generation festooned themselves with patriotic symbols.
Three immigrant uncles served in WW1
My father and his two brothers served in WW2 as did my Fathers-in-Law (I am divorced)
I was accepted to the U.S. Naval Academy, but had an accident to my foot that forced me to withdraw, but my daughter eventually joined the Navy and served eight years to carry what would have been my enlistment obligation.
My brother and two cousins served during the Viet Nam era. Many of my friends as I moved through adult life also served in the military
My point is this...my family and those friends were/are proud of their duty served, but they did not overtly seeking attention for doing so. They were called and did their duty and went home to family, friends, and work.
A lasting memory I have from watching the movie, "Saving Private Ryan," with my father was at its conclusion his only remarks was ..."maybe now they'll know what we went through,"
This was the man who when we would ask him about his time in war, answered, "I got to see the Eiffel Tower,"
One other off the cuff comments he made while we watched another war movie was, "anyone who glorifies the action of combat was not there to see the results."
My father, as a Medic, survived the war in spite of being called "Old Man Wood," in his early 30s during the European campaign.
I see today, too much of the population celebrating the "Rambo" edition of Americana, who feel good about destroying things, and not so much the "Captain Miller" (Tom Hanks in 'Pvt Ryan), who just wanted to do his duty and go home to teach English and coach the baseball team.
All great insights and goals…unfortunately our country has changed an awful lot…for the worse.
We were obsessed about money and status and everyone (even the people who objectively not..hello Elon) is a victim.