Putin’s Russia has been waging WWIV ever since Putin rose to power. His view is that Russia lost WWIII to the U.S. So he has been trying to recreate the Soviet empire, and more. First target on his revenge list is to topple the U.S. He, and Russians, see Trump as the U.S. Gorbachev, that is, Gorbachev was the idiot who lost the Soviet Empire, so Putin needed an American idiot who would lose the U.S. Empire. So they groomed and supported the American idiot, Trump, the Pedo in Chief.
And Putin and Russia’s attack and destruction of the U.S. has been astonishingly successful. The U.S. no longer has allies. The U.S. no longer protects NATO. The U.S. has destroyed its own democracy and Constitutional Rule of Law. The U.S. is destroying its great scientific research universities. The U.S is destroying its health care system. Etc. etc. etc. The main destroyer of the U.S. is, of course, the Pedo in Chief. But it turns out the Russians found a major group inside the country to push the destructive force to destroy the U.S. - MAGA.
Who is MAGA? The old Confederacy. And that brings us to the second war that the U.S. is losing - the Civil War. The U.S. Northern abolitionists defeated the slaver South in 1865. But not so fast. The Confederacy overthrew the victory, created the myth of The Lost Cause which perpetuated the bigoted lie that white men were superior to blacks (and browns and reds and yellows and women).
So, what does the Confederacy do to shows its violent rule? Destroys science - destroys expertise - destroys free speech - destroys dissent - destroys ethics - destroys empathy and compassion and caring - destroys the Rule of Law - destroys the arts. In other words they turn the Constitutionally based U.S. into the Jim Crow U.S. or perhaps more accurately they turn us into the corrupt and violent Russia. See, says Putin and Russia, the U.S is not special they are no better than Russia.
And, oh yes, the U.S. is also losing its idiotic war against Iran. Before we attacked Iran the Strait of Hormuz was open. The Pedo in Chief wants his gullible MAGAs to believe he won… by opening the Strait. Astonishing nitwittery.
And, oh yes, Russia is also losing its idiotic war against Ukraine. Sorry Putin. Your days could be coming to an end soon.
Dumbassery all around.
So, here we are at the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. And as the oldest and wise man of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin said, we have a Republic - if we can keep it. But we are losing it. This 4th is not much of a celebration to me. It certainly is not a celebration of the triumph and persistence of the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution is under severe assault, by the Pedo in Chief, by MAGA, by the Tech Bros, by the evangelical theocrats.
But the story is not over. Trump and MAGA, and even the greedfuck Techbros, are starting ro falter. And the greatest idea in human history is still in our souls, in our bones, in our country - All People are Created Equal. And the white supremacist Confederacy will fall again, and the Russian style corruption, incompetence, and cronyism will fall as well.
I choose to believe in The Better Angels of our Nature.
