As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it; we will not surrender for it, now or ever.
Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act. We will maintain sufficient strength to prevail if need be, knowing that if we do so we have the best chance of never having to use that strength.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors. ~Ronald Reagan
The situation in Ukraine remains tense, last I checked, though with the pending deployment of NATO and US troops, things seem to be backing off a little. Even the Ukrainians seem to be calling for calm, while remaining vigilant, and of course the Russians deny any untoward intentions. Worth noting, our government has said they will sanction Vladimir Putin personally, if there is a war.
Hopefully things stay calm, hopefully, as we've done so many times before we can deter war.
Once upon a time, that was the core of our military doctrine, and an important part of our character. Peace through strength, as Ronald Reagan said.
There's a threat, to this country, that I think people like Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush could not have conceived of, nor even imagined in their darkest moments.
The war-lovers of today, they're not advocating war against the Russians, or war in Afghanistan or any of a dozen other trouble spots.
No, they're advocating for war against their fellow Americans, for outright murder of the different, the ill, the minority whether racial or sexual...and not only for physical violence but for the erasure of history and knowledge, for treating teachers like criminals and education as a crime. And once that takes hold...everything else is under threat too.
And there literally are people in America who think feeding the hungry, helping the poor, etc. should be a crime. People who cannot wait to talk bad about America because Black people have rights and the poor can eat...and then they have the nerve to call others "Unpatriotic" for acknowledging our history of that our nation has flaws.
It's hard to exercise your rights, if you are not taught to understand the concept, are not taught that you have rights, and cannot read and do not know to ask to find out for yourself.
As if we could become, like Afghanistan a nation of farmers and goat herders and illiterate militiamen who claim the religion of Islam yet cannot be bothered to learn to read the holy Quran, a nation of thugs on drugs whose main contribution to the world at this point, is its participation in the Opium trade...and it needs to be noted that this came about because we, under Donald Trump, effectively abandoned Afghanistan's previous government...which at least allowed its people to aspire to be a nation known for something else.
And Afghanistan was once known for other things, as well. Just like us, though we've not come to such bad ends yet.
These fucking people would, if they are allowed to continue to degrade America...already a decades-long project...keep going until they reduce it to the current status of Afghanistan and worse.
Don't take my word for it. Listen to them.
This Arthur Chu guy? He thinks we should have been killing anybody who got infected with COVID-19 all along, and he appears to be an Antivaxxer as well. He wants to live in a country where you can be shot for leaving your house if you are sick or at risk from the virus. How the fuck he expects anyone to meet the demands of living a life or the expenses of having a home under such circumstances, I do not know. Dude basically thinks he lives in the world of The Walking Dead already.
And how, if you look at that series, did it work out for the privileged and the powerful when the government and the military started shooting anyone and everyone who might be infected?
Doing that accelerated the process and got them torn apart, too.
And here's the thing.
These fucking Republicans...they simply cannot wait to tell you, to your face, how much they hate America, and any American people over whom they do not have literal totalitarian control in terms of politics and rights.
Deep down, these jack-offs want to rule over every aspect of your life, simply so they can beat off to the idea of having power.
And their followers are fucking fine with this, so long as they get to be a better class of slave than all the other slaves.
Modern Republicans cannot wait to tell anyone who they cannot rile up with a few words and set against their political enemies for fun and profit that they hate them and would destroy them if they could. If you're not willing to throw out every single thing you ever believed before anytime there's a new version of the Shitty Republican Agenda...and the time is coming when they will drop Trump in favor of someone worse...you are these fucking people's enemy.
Back in the 1990's and early 2000's Fred Phelps and his family earned international notoriety and scorn for saying "God hates America" because gay people exist.
But today, Republicans say "We hate America and want to burn it down because people other than us and our voter base get to exist." and the media and much of the rest of the political class...who are by and large not on the Republican "get to exist" list, gamely plays along with it as if this is an entirely valid point of view.
Ronald Reagan would weep to see what his party has become. Hell, George Bush (both of 'em) basically wasn't even welcome, in the end. I'm beginning to think even the shitty old racists and dirty political fighters like Lee Atwater or Richard Nixon would not be welcome anymore, because it's not enough to be the spider manipulating the passions and petty bigotries of the mob...today one must embody them.
Not only that, you must practice them your own self, and do it enough and just the right way that the mob doesn't turn on you.
And apparently they're singing songs about this crap now.
Because the average "Conservative" never progressed mentally much past being a 13-year-old, apparently.
I remember being that age, and you know what? I remember that it sucked.
Tell me something, do you think that a political party that elevates people like Kid Rock and Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, has the character, intelligence, or strength of heart to face down the Russians and Vladimir Putin and be a modern version of Ronald Reagan telling Mr. Gorbachev to come here and open this gate and tear down this wall?
Do they have the guts and the judgment to play the chess game of armies and battle lines and fleets and SOSUS nets, or the brains to use bombers and ICBMs to deter attack instead of inviting it?
I don't fucking think so.
I think Matt Gaetz would sell us out for a bottle of fine vodka and a night with a teenage Russian girl.
And I think he'd cry like a bitch when the Chekists led him away after they'd gotten what they wanted.
And I think Republicans as a whole will happily become an anti-American fifth column, and even armed right-wing insurgents fighting a war against their own country...if the Russians merely promise to back them and say they'll give the Republicans international recognition if they break off a piece of America for themselves.
They don't understand that when the Russians are done with them, the Russians will kill them and take over directly and appoint even more subservient yes-men. It's what they did in Afghanistan in 1979, after all.
We know that playbook, we know better than this shit! You want to be honest, we've done that shit ourselves. So...you're just gonna let Russia...which we've always thought of as a piece of shit third world country with Alcoholism, a big Army, Communism and Nukes...treat us like we're Guatemala?
And the Russians have straight up lost about 65% of their Cold War-era military power. I don't know what the fuck any of these fuckers are even afraid of.
Fuck that!
You know, I'm old. I get that. I came up in a different time and was taught a different way.
But as I see it, now that these motherfucking people have come right out and said they hate America, its government, its military and most of its people...well I can remember a time when if you said such a thing you'd best be ready for a bare-knuckle brawl and getting your teeth kicked in.
So why in the hell are We The People putting up with this endless, stupid bullshit?!
I think I'm gonna go with Joe and Tony and the experts and the NATO guys and stand with the Ukrainians and I'm gonna do whatever I have to so I don't get sick or get anybody else sick.
And you know what? If you're not doing the same, I'll call you a stupid son of a bitch too, right to your face.
Don't like that? Stick it up your ass,
I'm sick of all this ridiculous bullshit, Russian-publicans. You're an American person with freedoms and advantages...even if you're poor...that much of the rest of the world does not enjoy, you're not a Russian who does what the State says to do and then drinks like a fish to make it all tolerable, fucking act like it!
Either you believe in freedom or you don't, either you're a grown ass adult person or you're not. Period.
And if you don't believe in freedom for everybody...you don't believe in freedom.
Be brave, or get the fuck out of the way of those of us who can.
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