www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/world/middleeast/us-eurpe-russia-ukraine-un.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU4.laf8.nlaNVonqFqW9&smid=url-share
Who is going to stand up to this motherf*cker?
Is this the will of the people? To do a 180 on eighty years of American policy? To say the good guys are Russian and the bad guys are those fighting for western interests?
Do you think I want to write about Trump and Musk? OF COURSE NOT! I'd rather go back to my regular life. I regularly think what it was like, back in the day, when politics was over there, not top of mind, when I thought the people in D.C. had a handle on it.
Not anymore.
The problem is many people did not live through the Cuban Missile Crisis. Just like they didn't live through polio and measles. So they're not aware of how bad these actors are.
You're safe until you're not. You don't get the MMR shot and are worry-free until you get measles and are hospitalized. And don't look at my generation, we all got the disease back in the fifties, those who survived have natural immunity. It's the younger, know better, ignorant generations who are paying the price.
Let's put everybody at risk. From politics to health. Let's throw truth out the window. Let's make it up as we go along. THIS IS RAW INSANITY!
It's like my entire education was worthless. What I learned was the power of analysis. Trump knows the power of the dick. He's the guy who wants to make sure he's not left out of the bathroom when the two most famous people are in there doing coke. He's worried about his image, not the country. Getting rich all the while. Did you see that Melania is going to pocket $28 million from that Amazon documentary? And that you can get your name in the credits for ten mil?
Never mind the business leaders kowtowing to this doofus.
And if you think Trump is for the underclass... You never took a sh*t on his golden toilet. You don't know rich people. Most of them want nothing to do with the hoi polloi. They live behind gates and they vacation on private islands that they fly to on private jets...
Everything is up for grabs. Everything you know is wrong, like the Firesign Theatre said.
But that was a different era, when artists questioned authority. Now they just accept it. You play music to get rich. Or you bitch that you're playing music and are not rich. For what it's worth...this is not the sixties anymore, with musicians speaking truth to power with the entire younger generation in thrall.
So...
Putin is smarter than Trump. Period. He's got a failing economy, he's nationalizing private businesses. The country is barely hanging on. And now he's paying Trump like a fiddle.
And what is end game here? Putin is aligned with China and North Korea. Are we part of that club now? Are we part of the axis of evil?
And who is going to trust America ever again. We say we have your back and then...tough noogies.
And what about Europe, sharing boundaries with Russia. Have you ever been there? These countries are oh-so-close. Like New York and Connecticut. What's to stop Putin now?
We let this guy get Crimea after the 2014 Olympics without uttering a peep.
Then he invades Ukraine and the entire globe thinks it's a fait accompli that he'll triumph, but Zelensky and the will of the people stand up to this world power. And continue to do so. Sure, with our money. But what is our money for if it not safety? If you don't draw the line over there, it will come closer to you over here.
I want to know the MAGA people who support this. Who think this is a good idea. Tell me what's in it for you. Tell me how it helps the United States.
I can't figure it out.
So we've been bitching for decades that the U.N. is worthless, beholden to minor countries with flawed agendas preventing any true progress. And now we align with THEM?
Russia is the aggressor here.
As for Trump demanding minerals from Ukraine... That's not America, we help people, we don't rape people. We want to be your ally.
So now with this alignment with Russia and the end of USAID...the front moves here. Our lines of defense over there are evaporating. They attack here next.
And who is aligned with the U.S?
Not Europe, not Canada, not Mexico... All we do is threaten our allies with tariffs, trying to extort money from them.
As for other countries not paying their fair share for the Ukrainian war effort... They're stepping up now. And is everything transactional? If you've got more, you can pay more. And that's America. And if you're always trying to balance the books you're losing sight of the goal.
As for NATO... Europe is SOL.
Trump has gone rogue. The party of Reagan...who is standing up now? Where are those on the right who will loudly proclaim this is wrong?
And it is.
Making a peace deal while leaving Ukraine out?
Musk and Vance advancing the cause of the anti-immigrant right in Germany?
Be afraid, be very afraid.
I just can't understand this. The Gulf of America was one thing. But are we now truly supposed to believe that Trump is going to annex Greenland and the Panama Canal and Canada is in play?
This guy has too much power. And for years, the Republicans have been advancing the idea of an executive presidency, with the official having more power.
Where is Congress?
Where are the American people?
Silent as history is being rewritten.
Actions have consequences. And if you think it will be easy to pull back from this alignment with Putin...
You're wrong.
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