We are going to do this the way the Republicans do it...
That is, effectively. All we have to do is just keep saying over and over and over and over again that he’s insane, that he’s crazy, that he’s senile and demented. After a while, it will become true… Even though it is already true if you get my meaning.
And by the way, if anybody mentions to you that this is or anything else is “beneath us” I’m going to tell you to tell them that there is nothing beneath you when you’re fighting for your life and your children and grandchildren’s lives.
I will relate a story which occur occurred when I was about 13 or 14 years old: it was the anniversary of Hiroshima or Nagasaki and my father, who served four years in the Pacific theater, sat me down and said “There is a legitimate moral viewpoint that the atomic weapons should not have been detonated in a population center, and I fully understand where someone would righteously feel that way. I am here to tell you, however, and if they had not done this, that the invasion of Japan would have cost millions of Americans their lives, including mine because they were going to send the older soldiers in first as the shock troops so to speak, and you wouldn’t be here, although you would never know that, obviously . Then, after the war, there would be firing squads for generals who were found to have withheld the bomb and allowed millions of soldiers to die unnecessarily.”
My father was a humanistic, other-oriented, giving, kind person who understood the pragmatic nature of life more so than my mother who was equally loving of mankind, and was an idealist. My father accepted human frailties and weaknesses, as well as what comes with a profit-based system, whereas my mother believed that “intellectual, bright, and decent people“ should lead the world to health, education, and peace.
Of course, they would both be sick and could not stop throwing up if they saw what was going on at the present time.
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The only integrity they have is to lie, cheat, steal... aka; grift their way to power. They view compassion and empathy as weakness, and use ours to their clear advantage.
Time to fight fire with fire.
First, the asshole - Anal Fistula. It may or may not be dementia. It is insanity. Everything he does is about what gets him more money. I believe he made (I won't use the term, "earned"
over $1billion in his first 6 months in office. And there's more to come. I'm sure he will earn a few billion more, selling his new perfume.
The problem is, the feeling of being powerless against him and a Congress that is more concerned with being in Congress than with doing the job of representative or senator.
Then WW II and the bomb. My father was in the Navy at Iwo Jima. He was on one of the boats that landed marines on the island. I didn't get a sense of this until I saw the beginning of Clint Eastwood's movie, "Letters from Iwo Jima." The first minute or so of that movie showed primary footage of those boats heading towards the shore of Iwo Jima. All around those boats are splashes in the water of shells that were fired from the shore and aimed at those boats. I can only imagine that scene being magnified by hundreds if the Japanese mainland was invaded.
So I accept that the bomb was a good thing. Better them than us? Or "They started it." Or whatever justification you come up with.
But why A-bomb a city instead of a naval or military base? The same message would have been sent: F.A.F.O., as the kids say, today.
Side point. One of the few Japanese soldiers to surrender off the island, ended up on my father's boat. They communicated with hand gestures or however. Dad said he liked the guy. He ended up giving my father some coins, a pair of sandals and a small Japanese flag that had been given to him, signed by his co-workers as a "best wishes," parting gift as he had been drafted in the Japanese army.
We kept these items for years and then we found that we could take them to the Japanese embassy and they would try to find any surviving family and return them to the man or his family. If there were a disposition of these items, we would be told. If the man or his surviving family wanted to contact us, they would facilitate that.
About a year later, we heard that the items had been returned to the family. He had been a bank teller before the war. The poor bastard was probably no better or worse a person than any other guy who gets caught up in a war for which he has no responsibility. As Anal Fistula would say, he was, "A loser."
Hear Hear! 
Well said!
