Dog and Pony Act

[B.See]

Sometimes I worry that Americans have been so assaulted by MAGA's non-stop 24/7 CONSPIRACY of hate, venom, lies, distortions, propaganda, quackery, batshittery, and "alternate realities" that we, as a whole, may have been irreparibly damaged, and our sense of propriety distorted, or at least to the extent that things once considered INCONCEIVABLE just 8 years ago, are met by some with almost a shrug.

I say this because, how ELSE can one explain the fact that a criminally negligent, hate peddling, pathological LIAR, who, by standards apparently LONG since lost, shouldn't have a chance in HELL of even getting elected DOG CATCHER, is, by some polls, running neck and neck with a man whose administration has done all it can to better the lives of Americans?

By what twisted, sick minded, Bizarro world HELL, could such a thing be possible? I wonder. Yet here we are, facing the real possibility that America might again wake up, come November '24, to a dog and pony act back in the Oval Office.

After all, stranger things have happened. Arf. Oh... I think I have an article here somewhere:

A Man Who Does Not Respect the Military Can Not Lead America (UPDATED)

Last Friday, a man who faces 91 felony counts (today, in a civil lawsuit, a New York judge ruled “that Donald Trump committed fraud for years….”), a man who has never served our country in the military, a man who pompously wore the title of commander in chief like a tinpot general, has once again disgraced the U.S. military — “his military” — he swore to diligently command and respect.

He did so by baselessly accusing the nation’s highest-ranking military officer of treason and, wait for it, by grotesquely suggesting that America’s top general deserves to be put to death.

Trump’s violent rhetoric was directed at the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), Army General, Mark Milley, falsely and maliciously alleging that Milley “was actually dealing with China to give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States.”

It was not the first time that Trump insulted, denigrated “his generals.”

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1. Milley Responds...

Good for him.

Gen. Milley strikes back at Trump in farewell speech: "We don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator"

In his final speech as Joint Chiefs chairman Friday, Gen. Mark Milley reminded the gathered troops that they take an oath to the Constitution, not a "wannabe dictator."

Milley's remarks came during his retirement ceremony at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Va., and come just a week after former President Donald Trump suggested he should be put to death.

The nation's top officer lauded the continued bravery of American soldiers during his speech and described how the oath they take to protect the Constitution encompasses "all enemies, foreign and domestic," placing emphasis on "all" and "and," Politico reports.

[Emile]

2. Great post B.See!

[B.See]

3. Thanks.