Vern
@vmhutchbtv.bsky.social
Retired. Can't get me out of Vermont with a skyhook. Former state legislator and US Army veteran. Proudly a centrist. Gadfly.
"Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one." Voltaire (maybe)
https://vernsmagicalmysterytour.com/
"Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one." Voltaire (maybe)
https://vernsmagicalmysterytour.com/
Pinned
Vern
@vmhutchbtv.bsky.social
· Nov 29
The Avalon Project : Fourth Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt
avalon.law.yale.edu
"We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger." #MAGA wake up. #Ukraine is a US problem
avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century...
avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century...
Well it looks like we're back to Age of Empires. A world carved into spheres of influence... Bully boys on steroids.
Not a rules based order. Or so called: 'Utopian idealism.'
Back to robbing and conquering...How's that gonna work out for the world? For your kids?
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Not a rules based order. Or so called: 'Utopian idealism.'
Back to robbing and conquering...How's that gonna work out for the world? For your kids?
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Hegseth declares end of US 'utopian idealism' with new military strategy
The Defense secretary, speaking at the Reagan Defense Forum, outlined defense priorities that focus on the Western Hemisphere and reevaluate the U.S. relationship with Europe.
www.politico.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Well it looks like we're back to Age of Empires. A world carved into spheres of influence... Bully boys on steroids.
Not a rules based order. Or so called: 'Utopian idealism.'
Back to robbing and conquering...How's that gonna work out for the world? For your kids?
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Not a rules based order. Or so called: 'Utopian idealism.'
Back to robbing and conquering...How's that gonna work out for the world? For your kids?
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Just like the Dictator Trump told us...rapists, insane criminals, vicious gang members...
Lies and more lies. But we're not shocked. Just more resolved to oppose this right wing nonsense.
Lies and more lies. But we're not shocked. Just more resolved to oppose this right wing nonsense.
December 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Just like the Dictator Trump told us...rapists, insane criminals, vicious gang members...
Lies and more lies. But we're not shocked. Just more resolved to oppose this right wing nonsense.
Lies and more lies. But we're not shocked. Just more resolved to oppose this right wing nonsense.
The attack was, "highly lawful and lethal.” So says Senator Cotton (R).
Let the People decide.
Show us the video.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Let the People decide.
Show us the video.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Lawmakers Split After Viewing Video of Boat Strike Survivor Killings
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The attack was, "highly lawful and lethal.” So says Senator Cotton (R).
Let the People decide.
Show us the video.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Let the People decide.
Show us the video.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
"Stefanik is not alone among Republican women...feeling aggrieved by Mr. Johnson...the speaker..." who "...failed to listen...doing so was a cultural challenge for Mr. Johnson..." with "firm views about...roles men and women should play in society."
Anybody shocked?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Anybody shocked?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Republican Anger Erupts at Johnson as Party Frets About Future
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"Stefanik is not alone among Republican women...feeling aggrieved by Mr. Johnson...the speaker..." who "...failed to listen...doing so was a cultural challenge for Mr. Johnson..." with "firm views about...roles men and women should play in society."
Anybody shocked?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Anybody shocked?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Another dystopian announcement brought to you by Propaganda Central. Find five or six nasty folks, post their pictures, then go arrest 60 to 100 hard-working brown people (or more if the mood strikes you.) Rinse and repeat.
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12...
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12...
DHS Launches Operation Catahoula Crunch in New Orleans Targeting Criminal Illegal Aliens Released From Jail and Back into American Communities | Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched a federal law enforcement operation with Operation Catahoula Crunch in New Orleans, Louisiana, targeting criminal illegal aliens roaming free thanks ...
www.dhs.gov
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Another dystopian announcement brought to you by Propaganda Central. Find five or six nasty folks, post their pictures, then go arrest 60 to 100 hard-working brown people (or more if the mood strikes you.) Rinse and repeat.
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12...
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12...
"....Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement."
"The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
"The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A sickening moral slum of an administration
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"....Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement."
"The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
"The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Pigs are flying. There's ice in hell. Because the American people are expected to reconcile killing low level drug traffickers with releasing kingpin drug traffickers. Go figure.
Former Honduras president, convicted of trafficking, freed on Trump pardon
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Former Honduras president, convicted of trafficking, freed on Trump pardon
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Former Honduras president, convicted of trafficking, freed on Trump pardon
A former DEA agent called the release “devastating”: “It means any attempt to work your investigations to the highest levels is meaningless.”
www.washingtonpost.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Pigs are flying. There's ice in hell. Because the American people are expected to reconcile killing low level drug traffickers with releasing kingpin drug traffickers. Go figure.
Former Honduras president, convicted of trafficking, freed on Trump pardon
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Former Honduras president, convicted of trafficking, freed on Trump pardon
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
“He that is good for making excuses, is seldom good for anything else.” - Benjamin Franklin
www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-e...
www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-e...
New Explanation: Hegseth Did Not Order That All Boat Operators Be Killed | National Review
President Trump creates distance between himself and the second September 2 strike, but the problem is that there is no armed conflict, period.
www.nationalreview.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
“He that is good for making excuses, is seldom good for anything else.” - Benjamin Franklin
www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-e...
www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-e...
The headline is misleading. Corporate media doing what corporate media does. "Many" does not describe the imbalance. Only reading the headline, which many do, implies that the majority are criminals, the rest, just caught up as collateral damage. Shame.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
DHS swept Chicago to get ‘the worst’ criminals. Many have no record.
Aggressive tactics in Chicago have been deployed in DHS’s “Operation Midway Blitz” to round up more than 4,000 people, only a small portion of whom have major criminal records.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The headline is misleading. Corporate media doing what corporate media does. "Many" does not describe the imbalance. Only reading the headline, which many do, implies that the majority are criminals, the rest, just caught up as collateral damage. Shame.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
"You know what this reminds me most of? The Japanese Navy machine-gunning American boys as they floated in the waters of the Pacific during World War II...explain the moral difference...without reverting to repulsive logic of immoral regimes..."
Not possible.
www.nationalreview.com/2025/11/pete...
Not possible.
www.nationalreview.com/2025/11/pete...
Pete Hegseth’s ‘Kill Everybody’ Command | National Review
The secretary of war’s alleged order that led to drug boat–strike survivors’ being killed appears to be a violation of the norms of warfare.
www.nationalreview.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"You know what this reminds me most of? The Japanese Navy machine-gunning American boys as they floated in the waters of the Pacific during World War II...explain the moral difference...without reverting to repulsive logic of immoral regimes..."
Not possible.
www.nationalreview.com/2025/11/pete...
Not possible.
www.nationalreview.com/2025/11/pete...
"Terror- und Sabotagetrupps." 1942
By calling Allied special forces "terrorists," Hitler claimed they were not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Convention.
No trust.
Senate committee vows ‘vigorous oversight’ in killing of boat strike survivors
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
By calling Allied special forces "terrorists," Hitler claimed they were not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Convention.
No trust.
Senate committee vows ‘vigorous oversight’ in killing of boat strike survivors
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Senate committee vows ‘vigorous oversight’ in killing of boat strike survivors
The Republican-led committee’s pledge came after The Post reported that the defense secretary ordered that a U.S. strike on an alleged narcotics boat leave no survivors.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"Terror- und Sabotagetrupps." 1942
By calling Allied special forces "terrorists," Hitler claimed they were not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Convention.
No trust.
Senate committee vows ‘vigorous oversight’ in killing of boat strike survivors
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
By calling Allied special forces "terrorists," Hitler claimed they were not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Convention.
No trust.
Senate committee vows ‘vigorous oversight’ in killing of boat strike survivors
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
"Disruptive is not a synonym for illegal, much less criminal."
Even the right knows that going after Senator Kelly is a bridge too far...
www.nationalreview.com/2025/11/mili...
Even the right knows that going after Senator Kelly is a bridge too far...
www.nationalreview.com/2025/11/mili...
Military Lawfare Is a Red Line | National Review
Incorporating the Pentagon into the campaign against political enemies — even those who make a craven video — raises the abuse of executive power to a new level.
www.nationalreview.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"Disruptive is not a synonym for illegal, much less criminal."
Even the right knows that going after Senator Kelly is a bridge too far...
www.nationalreview.com/2025/11/mili...
Even the right knows that going after Senator Kelly is a bridge too far...
www.nationalreview.com/2025/11/mili...
It's hard to stomach. Hard to believe, even. While Secretary of Aggression, Pete Hegseth, cuts ties with the Boy Scouts....Texas is paying to form a state supported Dictator Trump Youth Movement in every high school. Shades of the 1930s.
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/25/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/25/t...
Turning Point USA talked expansion with Texas education chief
The meeting happened days before Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pledged $1 million to help establish chapters of the conservative student group on every Texas college and high school campus.
www.texastribune.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It's hard to stomach. Hard to believe, even. While Secretary of Aggression, Pete Hegseth, cuts ties with the Boy Scouts....Texas is paying to form a state supported Dictator Trump Youth Movement in every high school. Shades of the 1930s.
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/25/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/25/t...
We knew it was a sham from the git-go. Now, what happens to the trigger happy Fed who filled her full of lead? Justice now!
youtu.be/6pDJlidEjIc?...
youtu.be/6pDJlidEjIc?...
BREAKING: Charges DROPPED Against Woman Border Patrol SHOT
YouTube video by Status Coup News
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
We knew it was a sham from the git-go. Now, what happens to the trigger happy Fed who filled her full of lead? Justice now!
youtu.be/6pDJlidEjIc?...
youtu.be/6pDJlidEjIc?...
Sell Out? This shutdown was not likely to end any differently. We get it both ways. The majority of the party gets to fight on and we speak to independents who wanted the suffering to end. Dictator Trump told everybody who he cares about: billionaires. Take the win.
www.youtube.com/live/YrkPJ_P...
www.youtube.com/live/YrkPJ_P...
LIVE: House Dem. Leader Jeffries speaks after Senate Dems advance deal to end shutdown
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Sell Out? This shutdown was not likely to end any differently. We get it both ways. The majority of the party gets to fight on and we speak to independents who wanted the suffering to end. Dictator Trump told everybody who he cares about: billionaires. Take the win.
www.youtube.com/live/YrkPJ_P...
www.youtube.com/live/YrkPJ_P...
Is “Aristopopulism” the death of the enlightenment experiment in America. The resurrection of Cosimo de' Medici as Peter Thiel.
The pitch, “a proper elite that takes care of the country and governs it well, so that everyone prospers.” History is rhyming.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The pitch, “a proper elite that takes care of the country and governs it well, so that everyone prospers.” History is rhyming.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Inside the billionaire network shaping MAGA’s post-Trump future
Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Is “Aristopopulism” the death of the enlightenment experiment in America. The resurrection of Cosimo de' Medici as Peter Thiel.
The pitch, “a proper elite that takes care of the country and governs it well, so that everyone prospers.” History is rhyming.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The pitch, “a proper elite that takes care of the country and governs it well, so that everyone prospers.” History is rhyming.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Scarborough points out that MAGA folks having problems paying their car loans and healthcare costs must be excited that during this shutdown crisis Dictator Trump decides to tear down half of the White House, "...and put up the Marie Antoinette Memorial Ballroom"
Give 'em cake, Monsieur...
Give 'em cake, Monsieur...
October 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Scarborough points out that MAGA folks having problems paying their car loans and healthcare costs must be excited that during this shutdown crisis Dictator Trump decides to tear down half of the White House, "...and put up the Marie Antoinette Memorial Ballroom"
Give 'em cake, Monsieur...
Give 'em cake, Monsieur...
More of that disingenuous Victorian era clap-trap that isolating them is a way to "cure" them. Whether they want the cure or not. What's next? Work houses for the poor? Those incorrigible gold brickers....or, better yet; let them pick apples and, ...whatever.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
More of that disingenuous Victorian era clap-trap that isolating them is a way to "cure" them. Whether they want the cure or not. What's next? Work houses for the poor? Those incorrigible gold brickers....or, better yet; let them pick apples and, ...whatever.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
“None of us have an obligation to vote for a budget that funds the destruction of democracy.” Senator Chris Murphy.
Stay strong Democrats.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Stay strong Democrats.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Chris Murphy needs blue America to wake up
The Connecticut senator once looked like the future of Democratic politics. These days, he worries whether democracy has a future.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“None of us have an obligation to vote for a budget that funds the destruction of democracy.” Senator Chris Murphy.
Stay strong Democrats.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Stay strong Democrats.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Federal ICEmen play the The Imperial March as they stomp on the rights of American citizens. Even arch conservative George Will is appalled by this violation of the Constitution.
When ICE came for a U.S. citizen and Army veteran
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
When ICE came for a U.S. citizen and Army veteran
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | When ICE came for a U.S. citizen and Army veteran
George Retes is suing the federal government for unconstitutional detention.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Federal ICEmen play the The Imperial March as they stomp on the rights of American citizens. Even arch conservative George Will is appalled by this violation of the Constitution.
When ICE came for a U.S. citizen and Army veteran
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
When ICE came for a U.S. citizen and Army veteran
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Go Toronto! As an American living on the Canadian border, nothing could make me happier than seeing the Blue Jays win it all!
October 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Go Toronto! As an American living on the Canadian border, nothing could make me happier than seeing the Blue Jays win it all!
The Red party is well down the beaten path to destroying Obama Care...; may they get caught holding the political bag for their perfidy...paving the way for a single payer system.
October 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The Red party is well down the beaten path to destroying Obama Care...; may they get caught holding the political bag for their perfidy...paving the way for a single payer system.
Back in the old days, during the American Republic, one could say there was corruption in the government. Today, during the imperial presidency, one can only conclude that the government is corrupt. And that is a distinction with a difference. I cry for my lost Republic.
October 24, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Back in the old days, during the American Republic, one could say there was corruption in the government. Today, during the imperial presidency, one can only conclude that the government is corrupt. And that is a distinction with a difference. I cry for my lost Republic.