"If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table."

Our country is being run by a troop of howler monkeys flinging feces at everything they don't like.

Looks like they ran out of bronzer and had him plunge his face in a cavernous bowl of Cheeto dust.

People used to dress up to fly back when airplane seats were generously-spaced and you didn't donate an hour of your life to a security line treating you like a terrorist.

Also, people used to dress up to fly back when only rich people could afford to fly.

In all fairness, Trump is using the fog of dementia to commit any number of similar crimes, so Pete's move is not without precedent in this administration.

While medical privacy concerns are legitimate, the WH physician should not participate in medical dishonesty such as he displayed over this event.

This wasn't a routine examination, it was a response to an urgent medical concern that required Walter Reed's facilities.

Is his brain compromised?

In addition, the White House needs to release the actual results of his most recent MoCA as well as the one he took several years ago. If they're both above 26, great.

If not, it's time for the 25th Amendment.

If the test results show him to be healthy, why on Earth does he increasingly look and act like someone who escaped the memory care wing of an expensive assisted-living facility?

He is visibly unwell. Their inability to acknowledge the obvious undermines their credibility across the board.

MRIs are not "routine" nor are they "preventative."

When a physician is trying to rule things out, MRIs provide a useful set of additional datapoints.

But it will start with a real problem that merits investigation. Why give a MoCA and order an MRI on a person's abdomen?

Make it make sense.

It is also a pretty awful figleaf for all the lost benefits for which people are still paying taxes as if all that infrastructure still worked.

This is a one-time payout for a lifelong scam operation.

At issue is that if CIA or DIA paid them as assets to do difficult work in a combat zone, those skills aren't appropriate in peacetime. The USG should offer English language instruction, trade skill training, and affordable housing for anyone who qualified to be airlifted out of Kabul.

It is a relief that some voices on the Right are calling out the Trump administration's overt fascism and warmongering, but we will need a lot more of this kind of commentary to slow the tide of authoritarianism in America.