Well, isn’t THIS a stupid discussion? Our Fearful Misleader took to murdering boaters, mostly in the Caribbean but there are some in the Pacific, too. Naturally, HE doesn’t do the dirty work himself. He orders the military to do it, commit the murders. Keyword, here? Murders. Yes, he’s making claims. He has never shown any evidence to support his charges that his victims are drug runners.

I’m not even suggesting they’re not. Maybe they are. But we’ve seen no evidence and when he had a couple of them in custody – THAT was an embarrassing mistake – he just sent them home. NONE of that is what cops are supposed to do with drug dealers. OG America arrested drug dealers and put them on trial before carrying out sentencing. You don’t get to end someone’s life – murder them – just by saying he was moving drugs. Not in a just and proper society.

People who understand things are trying to find a way to stop the murders but nobody has any real leverage to force a stop. So, Democrats in Congress – it HAD to be Dems – made a public statement. They reminded military members they are supposed to refuse illegal orders. It kind of surprised me when I joined the service, the amount of time spent in classrooms during basic training learning about that kind of thing. But we were ALL taught we had a duty to follow lawful orders and a duty to refuse unlawful orders.

The thing is, that’s a very difficult thing to determine, what’s lawful and what isn’t. To make certain it remains a near-impossible decision, nobody can say, for sure, if an act is lawful or not until AFTER the event – during a trial. So you refuse an order, get arrested, go to trial where you offer as your defense your belief the order was illegal. If you were right, you walk. If you were wrong, you go to jail. See? That’s a lot on the line.

Still, I’d say killing people who mean the US no harm and with no warning and no due process of law seems a pretty straight up description of an illegal order. Generals order their soldiers to kill, but they can’t legally order them to murder.

Throughout my life, from time to time, I’ve heard about some guy being arrested. He was a low-level guard at Auschwitz or some other such evil place. He managed to evade authorities for 20, 30, 50 years – then he was arrested and tried for crimes against humanity. I don’t pretend it was a daily event but it has been regular and it has been my entire life, one-time Nazis still being tried and convicted.

The guards argue they were just following the law or just following orders. Some of them argue they were forced into doing the jobs they did. In many cases, the Nazis HAD created “laws” to give their evil acts the imprimatur of legality. In many cases, these guards were “following the law.” But the law, itself, was flawed, so the acts that proceeded from it were flawed, too.

So, anyway, after the Dems reminded American military members they have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders, Donny had one of his “How DARE they defy Precious ME?” moments and declared the Democrat’s words sedition – punishable by death. I’d call that pretty bold talk for a half-brain, fat man.

It gave the Dems an opening to claim Donny is calling for the “execution of elected officials,” and he kind of is. Some MAGA nutball out there might very well respond to The Felon’s prompts. The thing is, the Dems are right. Military members ARE obligated to refuse unlawful orders. The GOP response, “If the President orders it, it’s lawful,” besides being blatantly wrong, also means there’s no debate. Nobody told the military to refuse lawful orders. They reminded them to refuse UNlawful orders.

That wasn’t sedition. It was a simple, straight-forward fact. Of course, the GOP these days considers simple straight-forward facts seditious so maybe it’s a point-of-view thing. From MY point of view, someone should just say to the Drumpfster, “Quiet, Piggy…”

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Please don’t be that stupid. Please, don’t be that stupid. PLEASE, don’t be that stupid. I hear the right is all in a dither because Zohran Mamdani is going to have “Arabic numbers” in New York schools before the year is out. New York already uses Arabic numbers, just like the rest of America. In America, Arabic numbers are just numbers.

It seems like a joke but the fact that MAGA got upset about it indicates they’re in full panic mode already. I’ll say, “Democratic Socialism is a Capitalist system,” until I’m blue in the face but MAGA won’t be able to hear me. Panic mode is often quite blinding and as we know, there are none so blind as those who will not see…

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In old movies, one could hold up a cross to fend off a vampire or other evil being. These days, I watch KKKarolyin’ Leveitt up at the podium, lying and lying and lying some more – all while prominently wearing a cross. It seems the cross doesn’t burn evil after all…

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This got real weird, real fast. So long as Marjorie Taylor Greene was a MAGA nutball intent on supporting Donny no matter how outrageous his unfathomable behavior, she was a member in good standing in the House of Billionaire’s Representatives. Then the Drumpfster chose not to release the Epstein files he had promised to release during the campaign.

That’s it’s own weird thing. ‘The Epstein Files’ used to be a hammer the GOP swung at government, trying to get them released and, as I’ve mentioned, promising to do so at the earliest possible opportunity. THEN, Donny comes to power and suddenly, the Epstein files are boring with nothing in them and the whole schmear becomes a Democrat hammer. Same files. Same implications.

So, anyway, MTG stayed on the first message, the files should be released. THAT moment, that single moment of sanity, seems to have opened a floodgate of reason in her that I had heretofore dismissed as even possible. I mean, I suspect she’s just positioning herself for a Senate run but still, suddenly, I found myself agreeing with MTG more and more – and I certainly had not gone MAGA. Message-wise, she came to me.

THAT, of course, was the last straw for Donny. He ramped up the attacks against her. Now she’s actually stepping down from her job and leaving the House. She resigned, effective January 5th, 2026. That might well lead to another Democrat in the House. Georgia will replace her with a special election. Now that California is taking five extra seats for Democrats in response to Texas’ failed attempt to take five extra seats for Republicans, the House is looking like a better and better bet for the Dems in the mid-terms.

It’s going to take some serious cheating on the part of the GOP to keep control of the House, I think. The part that bothers me? These guys can – and WILL – DO “serious cheating” and never bat an eye…