Our military has the leaders the administration wants
And the administration has realized that means that our military does not have leaders capable of their jobs
Posts by Trying Not to Scream
A note to the administration:
It's hard to gerrymander your way into more red districts when your policies keep creating more blue voters!
Lori Chavez-DeRemer certainly had her ouster coming
As did Bondi & Noem
But Patel & Hegseth have done plenty to prove they deserve the same fate
It's as if they get to stay as role models to show how high a position an incompetent male can fail up to
Companies can now apply for refunds from the administration's illegal tariffs
Which means they are facing a sudden budget change and should reduce as much discretionary spending as possible
May I suggest ending their useless war?
The administration is fast tracking approval of psychedelics for medical use
I suspect they are less interested in the drugs' use to manage depression and are more interested in their use to distort our views of reality
The price of gas may return to pre-war prices by Labor Day
Just in time for the GOP to ignore it as a factor in the midterms
And for them to hope the voters forget who made them spend more throughout the spring & summer
Dr. Erica Schwartz has a sane view of vaccines
And her nomination to lead the CDC may well show the administration is trying to win back the public's trust
But nothing deserves to have the administration & the Kennedy names on it more than the destruction of our public health policies does!
Many countries have had difficulties extricating themselves from wars
So we shouldn't expect it to be easy for the administration
Especially since they can't seem to extricate themselves from a beef with the Pope!
Basically, Pope Leo XIV said peace is good for everyone, so let's work on having peace
And the administration said "you're wrong"
It's not important
But is it any better if the administration was presenting themselves as having medical expertise?
Oh right, we crossed that line in 2020
Injecting bleach and shit like that
I'm not saying it wasn't in poor taste
And I'm certainly not saying the administration doesn't want to be seen as godlike
But I do find the idea that the administration has so little understanding of Christianity that they didn't realize they were being portrayed as Jesus *completely* believable
Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungary's election
Let's hope the administration continues to consider him their role model!
To get them to give into US demands, the administration has to convince Iran that the US can take back the Strait of Hormuz *and* can control Netanyahu
So, I don't see Iran giving into to many US demands
We sent a crew around the Moon and brought them back to Earth successfully
It's good to know our space program has the kind of scientific understanding and accuracy that takes
I'm less sure our Dept of Health and EPA still do!
The administration wants the country to move on from the Epstein files
Apparently, FLOTUS, doesn't care what the administration wants
Though *that* has been obvious for years!
With the war with Iran out of the headlines, the administration is hoping we will stay distracted from the Epstein files
But they are hoping we are even more distracted from the attempts to rig the November elections
Ultimately, the carnage ceased
But we now have countless lost lives, billions in military expenses, higher prices on everything, and the loss of any remaining moral standing we had as a country
When I get a TACO, I prefer guac!
When the administration was asked if they were threatening to commit war crimes, they responded
"You know what's a war crime? Having a nuclear weapon. Allowing a sick country with demented leadership to have a nuclear weapons, that's a war crime."
So, that's a "yes"
A 45 day ceasefire sounds like a great idea
But even if they get one, you don't credit for pausing a war *you* started for no good reason!
The administration says "hell will reign down" if Iran doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz
I thought we had obliterated their defenses & sent them back to the Stone Age already
Is "reigning" down hell worse?
The administration wants the largest military budget in history
But they are wasting weaponry on wars of choice and tearing our armed services' personnel apart because they want more white men in charge
You don't give a gold card to a child who needs a time out!
I'm happy to see Bondi gone, but the DOJ is likely to stay very much the same instrument of revenge & chaos without her
However, firing Gen. George (the Army Chief of Staff) is likely to change how well the country can conduct war, which may well lead to *more chaos* given we are at war
We got Iran's oil, but we have our own oil
The strait of Hormuz is open, but our allies can open the Strait of Hormuz themselves
We defeated Iran, but we are still at war with Iran
These aren't koans and the administration isn't getting Zen;
they are cons and administration is getting confused!
The administration wants a “state citizenship list” from every state so *they* can determine who can vote
I'm sure they will run the elections as well as they've run the economy and the war with Iran
At the start of the war, the administration said “Now you have a president who is giving you what you want"
Yesterday they said "This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed"
So March came in with a liar and is going out with a scam
The administration keeps saying left-leaning organizations are paying protestors
But every time I hear from those organizations, they are asking for money
If the administration doesn't know the difference between giving and getting money, I understand the state of the economy they've given us
Maybe the administration didn't want people lining up in the streets expressing their anger and frustration
But if they didn't, they shouldn't have given us so much practice at the activity in the airports!
If the administration were kings, I suspect they wouldn't want the rest of us to even eat cake
Remember, the Big Bulls#!t Bill gave DHS $141B
The administration could easily have paid the TSA at any time with discretionary funds and chose not to
And now they want us to see them as the heroes & the Dems as the problem
I can't wait to hear how the Dems spiked oil prices by bombing Iran
I don't trust our military to use AI well
Because ending the war with Iran is clearly the best strategy
So, either it can't think of that, or the administration won't listen when it does!