Just came across you. My father was Abe Silberstein. His 30th yahrzeit is Dec 5.

Make your life of value. I saw your bio and some of your posts. He would have liked you.

Except that Putin is willing to come to the table. He is willing to discuss how much of Ukraine he gets now. Getting him to accept victory isn't the problem.

Trumpism is, at the core, toxic masculinity. He is going to get worse. Particularly when you don't conform.

The Feds can easily make vaccines not available. All vaccines.

Everything slightly reasonable that he says the Republicans will oppose. Everything crazy he says (which is most everything) will be implemented.

WTF NPR? He wants to tackle disease by getting rid of medication and research. That's like saying that Russia wants to tackle fighting in Ukraine.

We need a George Marshall or a Henry Stimson. We need a brilliant flexible creative mind to re-build the military in the age of drone warfare. We are going to get a Stalinesque purge of woke ideas. We will be as good as Russia 2021 when Trump is done.

The Maltese Falcon is a perfect movie in every respect.

Instead we are going to have a weak insecure ignorant man. He is a stalled major who wants to stick it to the generals. He sees his personal failure as due to DEI rather than himself. He will tear down our military to make it "straight" and white rather than build it to make it effective.

I have no suggestions, my mind isn't there yet. We have seriously considered the get out of Dodge option. But Cate is disabled and we are tied tightly to medical care that can't be walked away from.

This has been on my mind for months. I'm still working this out.

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And, no, this is not my depressed mind jumping to the worst case. My worst case is a lot worse than this.My worst case has a nuclear exchange in the Korean peninsula and between Israel and Iran.

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I see a firestorm coming. Not a "we have to organize for the next election" firestorm. Not a "we need to have marches to show solidarity" firestorm. A breakdown of supply chains and food supply firestorm. A whole bunch of wars firestorm.

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I see deportations leading to protests and resistance. Only this time it won’t be tear gas, it will be full on military gunning people down. Followed by mass arrest of enemies of the state.
He is going to do this while gutting public health.

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Russia will not stop there. Trump will sell off our support for South Korea and Taiwan. And then he will embolden Israel to be more aggressive and violent and set more of the Middle East on fire.

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The U.S., for good and for ill, is the "indispensable man". We are what has kept the world together for decades. And I frankly see Trump as set to destroy this country and loot the remains. Ukraine will be abandoned, cut off. NATO next.

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Can you imagine having no defense against Putin?