The old are meant to mentor the young & then hang up their hats as the youth - with a deep personal stake in the future, with hope untainted by age & with vibrant ideas - take on the work of building a collective reality.

To some "and so it begins" is a death knell - to others its bells of freedom.

Oh ye who know not what I've seen, nor what I've survived.

I wish you the best with your perspective.

As long as we keep our humanity alive, we can rebirth the humanity of the nation.

Brutality, cruelty, demoralization of the entire country via federal, state, local gov just isn't sustainable - the true human spirit is always intuitively draw to creativity even when fear inspires destructive force.

This is interesting.
I'm going to think about it.

JROTC with current admin makes me fear a Hitler youth vibe ... under a different admin idk, could foster some positive changes.

Leaving this here ... I really think clear values allow us to make decisions aligned with our values.

What we're witnessing is a bunch of American values - life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness - being hijacked by fear, greed & hate.

It's unsustainable.
And perhaps that's the goal.

This is one solution.

And also hard to hold someone suicidal accountable.

There's a ton of challenges & by no means do I think there is an easy solution - but if we can put someone on the moon, capture both muon energy & scattering angles & do wild stuff w DNA surely we can solve gun violence.

It's children being shot to death that bothers me.

I feel like there is a solution to this because it's a uniquely American problem if you put us in a bucket with other countries who aren't in a state of violent inner-conflict or international war.

Valid, a ban would also violate the 2nd Amendment - which is important & worthy of protection.

That being said, I do think it's worth looking at policies in countries where mass shootings aren't common headlines.

Their practices are proven, not theoretical.

The fact that more than half of the gun deaths in the US are suicides makes your comment pretty interesting.

Also, to be clear I believe in the importance of 2nd Amendment & our right to bare arms; I just think we need to make educated decisions if we want less murder in our kids' schools.

I wouldn't categorize myself or countries like the UK & Australia as stupid for believing that curtailing access to weapons used to massacre people would reduce the number of people massacred.

Australia is actually a great example of this in practice.

Amazed kids right to live is controversial lol

I hope the National Guards feel the boredom of having nothing to do - like those in CA did - & realize they are being used as pawns.

I hope when they go home they tell their neighbors about the bullshit & reality that Donald deployed them to get Epstein off the front page & it didn't even work ...

If it was public thanking we'd know who was in the Epstein Files.

Two sides of the same coin. Idk if he's self-aware enough to knows he's being dominated / submitting.

Epstein Files are hiding directly under the Donald-Putin & the US-Europe summit carpet ...

They got moved from under the DC-malarkey with the cops & national guard deployed-against-citizens carpet because it wasn't big enough to push it off the front page.

Here's a whole post about that.

No more predator, just power.

The pervert vanishes behind a red carpet & a military flyover.

That’s the trick: bury the body & it's secrets under the sound of jets & flags flapping like democracy in the wind.

control of the story.

When Epstein’s ghost crawls into the headlines, Donald loses grip on the wheel - the whole twisted parade veers toward the sex dungeon, flight logs & underage chaos.

But light a few fireworks, fly some nuclear bombers, pat a dictator's hand on live tv & the freakshow pivots.

With Epstein off the front page:

- Donald avoids scrutiny of his well-documented relationship with a convicted sex offender

- Less risk of legal exposure that could lead to further inquiries & political collapse

- Donald regains narrative control

When Epstein dominates headlines, Trump loses

Epstein & the stink of Donald covering him up vanished from the front pages.

No questions now about Donald’s 15-year friendship, girls, the flights or the files.

The so-called “client list” his own AG claimed was on her desk still hasn’t seen daylight - though she did say his name was in it.