I Don't Understand...

 And I don't think I want to... 

There's a Pokemon Convention/Celebration/Championship currently in San Francisco. I don't know much, if anything about it, other than being some kind of cartoon character game/creation that seems to be quite the money maker. Now, I can understand parents taking their six year olds to it, what I can't understand are all the twenty year olds lumbering about with armloads of hundreds of dollars of swag, smiling away, looking as if they were finally released from their basements for their first taste of sunshine since puberty- all for something I would have been thoroughly embarrassed to have not left in the rear view mirror years before entering freshman year of high school!

People in this country are dying from not having the money necessary for routine life saving operations, and people and babies the world over from Afghanistan to Gaza to Sudan are dying from not having the most basic nutrition and medicines to stay alive, thanks to the gutting of US Aid (.5 of 1% of the total US budget) so that a Nazi saluting billionaire could gleefully claim he eliminated government fat while not touching a single cent from our bloated military budget (soon to be well over a trillion US dollars), so that yet another billionaire could get the public's mind off his pedophile past by starting a completely unnecessary and illegal war he had already resoundingly lost a month in- and has not the slightest on how the hell he's getting us out 'cause he's just too damn busy personally handpicking matching drapes and fondling his Corinthian columns! 

I-just-don't-get-it.

My Kinda War Hero

It's nice to have more than one! We don't have a single statue, memorial or monument for Hugh Thompson; Russia doesn't have one for Vasili Arkhipov, nor does any other country in the world despite the fact that he prevented... a nuclear holocaust- probably on a worldwide scale! And no one even knows his name. I sure didn't.

1 Sick Mo-Fo!

Photo: © Stan B.

And now... DEMENTED! Woulda made a swell campaign slogan. Meanwhile- we won, we've almost won, we're winning like no one has ever seen before, in numbers no one has ever heard of, like no one would believe!

Yeah, we have seen this before- countless times before. We went in, promised to pull out fast, and didn't- now we want out, they want us to be responsible, we say not our problem, they say that's why we're making it your problem, and... here we are- AGAIN!

Lied into another fuckin' war, for no good reason whatsoever- with no way out... no way out while saving face, that is. And there's no way we can admit that: Iran wasn't two weeks from having... The Bomb (as Bibi's been claiming since- The Nineties) and that they weren't going to attack us the very next day as we slept if we didn't strike first! Lies only the dumbest of the dumb (spelled M-A-G-A) would even remotely entertain. And there's no way we coulda killed over a hundred schoolgirls on our first day, because, well, because we didn't- and the investigation we promised and we'll never have will prove us right... just-you-wait! 

And after we win (again), it's on to Cuba, and Greenland, and then finally- goddamn fuckin' Canada!

I said this guy was One Sick Fuck and to invoke the 25th when he started spouting off about having more people at his inauguration than Obama just days into his first term. One massive, indisputable Reddest of The Red Flags that this guy was... 1 SICK Mother-Fucker!!! And he's still Cryin' about it to this very week- now adding that he had even more people than MLK did in DC! And the only respite we get from this repetitive cycle of psycho war rhetoric and nostalgic personal inanities is when he regales us with tales of his personally handpicked drapes and golden Oval Office knick-knackery which eventually lulls him into his peaceful afternoon REM sleep as his Cabinet looks nervously about as daddy drools in the public eye. 

Fuck the dead Iranian school girls he killed a few weeks ago, Fuck the girls he and his Best Bud of Fifteen years had their way with years ago...

47 = 25

Photo: © Stan B.

Right now, our entire nation (and the world) is waiting to see if (when) Donald J. Trump will needlessly slaughter even more people in a country that was productively negotiating in one sided talks conducted simply to allow the US sufficient time to initiate their attack in the most effective manner possible. Not satisfied that they are unwilling to submit completely to Trump's whim, he is now set to destroy their nation to the cheers of his remaining sycophants.

He is about to commit yet more war crimes en masse and not one active member on his team is willing to confront a now mentally addled senior (who was delusional his entire life) in order to deter even more war crimes in a completely illegal and unnecessary war and prevent the needless deaths of yet thousands more..

They need to invoke the 25th Amendment as-of-yesterday- if only so that this sad excuse of death, corruption and criminality can enjoy the rest of his life explaining how Joe Biden used an autopen to an audience of six year olds... with the strictest adult supervision, of course.

Tomorrow will be too late...

No!

Donald, seen here in much happier times peeing on the graves of SS & the US Constitution.  Photo: © Stan B.

It took eighty years, but Donald finally heard the word "No," firsthand! All his life he was able to stall, able to bullshit, able to bully his way through every problem of his own creation. People might complain, but they would eventually back off, give up, submit. It was how things were done decade after decade in his incestuous circle of illicit money, lies and deceit, whether in New York real estate or DC politics.

But radical Islam doesn't give a flying shit about Donald's ways, about the fact that he's a successful businessman (with six bankruptcies and 64 failed businesses)- and US President to boot! They keep telling Donald to just leave them be, and he keeps insisting they play his game- even killing them doesn't seem to make them understand!

Donald's upset! He honestly doesn't know what to do, so he's: screaming, and cussing, and threatening some more- and promising to keep killing until they do play his game. Someone finally told Donnie- "No!" And now we all must suffer the consequences he has wrought upon us...

Why?

We are, as we speak, now sending a small contingent of soldiers and Marines to Iran, positioning them directly under constant drone and missile attack (ie- sitting ducks). Why? Why proceed with a policy that can only result in increased deaths and guaranteed escalation? This sad excuse of a delusional POTUS has no plan for victory, no plan for retreat, no plan for any semblance of sanity other than to propagate a distorted view of masculinity that masks his total lack of any semblance of true manhood. The lives of our armed forces, the citizens of this country, and anyone and everyone worldwide exist solely to serve him- all are readily expendable, whether they do so, or not.  Meanwhile, he babbles on about... Sharpies, his hand picked drapes, his majestic ballroom to be, his new coin, his Parisian dwarfing Arch...

Hitler planning his new, imaginary Berlin as Russia swarmed above.

Did Ya Hear The One About...

This almost makes me wanna work again- just so I can get the day off on Donald J Trump's... Birthday! Oh, what a cause for celebration that would be, and then vacation at Mt. Rushmore to stare contently at his beautiful, chiseled, he-man of a mug shot while counting my illegally minted Trump coins!!! Sends a chill right down my spine it does.

All this while Trump golfs our future away- the guy doesn't even bother trying to hide it anymore. Manipulating the stock market while making shit up right in our face about directly holding talks with Iran over the weekend- which so obviously never happened. Unlike the so called "talks" (ie- stall tactic) his two personal 'diplomats' (ie-real estate agents) held with them to delay the start of 'Epstein Fury,' in which Iran had actually agreed to all his terms thus making this entire debacle he can't get out of completely superfluous and unnecessary!

Yeah, but still nowhere near as bad as Obama wearing a tan suit...

Found!

 As a wise commenter remarked, "They finally found the POTUS who Trump said congratulated him on having
 'the guts' to invade Iran... it was 45!"

I Am So Pumped!

Word to the Wise- NOW is the time to buy real estate in Dubai, once in a lifetime opportunity...

Cannot wait for... Victory in Cuba!!!!

So, Let's... Review!

Herr Trump spends the first year and a half belittling and insulting our allies, telling the whole wide world far and wide that we can do whatever we want, whenever we want and we don't need no one, no where, to tell us different- thank you, very much. Then he invades Iran, riding tall on his Venezuela contact high (ignoring advice from the military leaders who knew better) only to find himself left high and dry (with jerk off buddy, BiBi), begging the very same allies he gleefully pissed and shit on to help him out for their own good! Such obvious comeuppance would usually read so wholly unimaginative and predictable, to the point of wholesale incredulity- if not happening in real time.

Most parents of whatever basic quality usually try to instill such basic lessons in life and living early in their child's upbringing- but Little Donnie was busy gagging on the silver spoon he never quite let go, an entire life that never said... "No!" 

And somehow, enough people so desperately latched on to that delusion of invulnerability that we all now find ourselves trapped in the consequences of their collaboration- the most easily foreseeable of self owns. 

So... do we declare 'Victory!' ASAP and scramble back home tail between our hurrying legs- or will our Anti-Forever War POTUS 'man up' and "stay the course" to ensure yet more death and destruction for all involved? Will Bibi panic first and usher in nukes and WW3? Will Trump's enablers blame ill-fitting clown shoes for the lack of the most basic guidance, common sense and restraint?

However it ends, a new Era of Terrorism, economic hardship, conflict and destruction has been ushered in... 

SO-MUCH-WINNING!!!

The Face Of War

Photo: © Stan B.

Faces, actually- well over 100 of them... the faces of children. I suppose that's what Popgun Pete meant when he said, "We are punching them while they are down;" that we are operating "without mercy." No accountability, no responsibility, no apology, let alone reparations. 

Trump recently went all out racist (again) stating that terrorism was due to "genetics," I wonder if those same 'laws of genetics' also apply to rapists, the people who applaud them, and to... those who rape children.

Epstein Who?

Photo: © Stan B.

Now, I ain't ever met a theocracy I liked, but Iran had already agreed not to produce nukes; so Trump upped the ante and demanded they give up their ballistic missiles too, leaving themselves basically defenseless and open to attack by someone like say... Israel, who did exactly that (again) the previous evening, allowing Big Brother Trump to come in and discombobulate after he done obliterate. We good?

"Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen."   -Donnie J!

It's Good To Learn...

Something (not exactly) new every day! Whether it's about Israel, or America, or its health care:

One Way, Or The Other...

Photo: © Stan Banos

I'm not a violence first kinda guy, cause it usually just begets more of same, and uhhh... it's pretty nasty stuff! But something like the above gets me in the type of head space that asks: If you had a chance to shoot Hitler in the head- would ya do it? Hopefully, the answer would be "yes." Then, what about all the other bad guys who kill lots of people, would ya kill all of them too had you the means and opportunity? Afterall, the net good to society would be one of innocent lives saved- that's a good thing... No? But that kill list would grow pretty long... pretty quick! And who anointed you judge and executioner? Hhmmm... 

Is Netanyahu as bad as Hitler? He hasn't killed anywhere near millions- only thousands! Estimates are around 1,200 Israelis killed as a result of 10/07 Hamas attacks. Over 50,000 Palestinians have been killed as a result of those attacks- 18,000 of them children. I'd say that's way, waaaay more than sufficient payback- not to mention the almost complete and utter devastation of Gaza resulting in massive wholescale homelessness and the complete annihilation of infrastructure: schools, hospitals, electricity, clean water and food availability. Palestinians have been bombed out of home, 'safe zones,' and refugee survivor camps- and are now being methodically starved to death. Israeli soldiers are so bored of shooting so many Palestinians, they are literally making games of what body part to aim at on any given day. 

And the man who allows, promotes and prolongs this evil is none other than Bibi Netanyahu. He both covets their land, while seeking to delay the serious criminal charges awaiting him (for previous crimes) that would most likely see him imprisoned, if ever vigorously prosecuted... So is he a bad guy- yes; a killer, yes; a man who deserves to be killed, so that others may live? He's certainly not even hinted at ceasing any of the slaughter any time soon! I'd much rather see him arrested, tried and sentenced for crimes against humanity. And bringing up The Holocaust, as some kind of excuse or license is itself about the worst slander possible of that darkest of moments!

Israel has extracted it retribution tenfold and then some- this repeated Wack-a-Mole bombing, maiming of children, and purposeful starvation complete with 'food distribution' kill zones is clearly genocide by any other name. There are no visible targets left in the dust and rubble that is now Gaza, yet Bibi remains dedicated to targeting whatever remains of life and limb. He needs to face the music (of his own making)- one way or another...

Killed minutes later....

Pray For Israel...

Please- Pray That Israel Regains Their Conscience!

They have bombed Palestinian civilians in their apartments, schools and hospitals. They have shot them in the streets as they chase them from so called safe zone to 'safe zone.' They shoot them with drones, with tanks and in predesignated target areas where they tempt them with morsels of food. They've grown so utterly bored with shooting so many Palestinian men, women and children... that they now make a game of it! 

And as if shooting and blowing them up is not enough, they are now literally starving them! Pictures are now disseminating, documenting skeletal infants reminiscent of those from Biafra and Bangladesh at the peak of their famines. There is a word for this, for this carefully planned, duly implemented and progressively expanding slaughter on every front imaginable; a word that should not be used lightly or prematurely, but when made blatantly clear and obvious- Shouted and condemned the world over! Israel, once the victim, and now perpetrator of... GENOCIDE!

The Killing Game

After lazily allowing myself to be immersed in Trump/Epstein over the weekend, I willed myself to refocus Monday AM only to hear how doctors in Gaza now see injuries to very specific body parts on any given day. Legs shots on one, abdomen on another- then head... groin, etc.

After the Israeli military set up 'food distribution areas' in highly convenient Kill Zones, seems they've have grown increasingly bored with their home-made, shooting fish in a barrel scenario, taking pot shots at desperately starving Palestinians (many of them children) willing to risk their lives for a morsel of food. Apparently, in order to remain alert, and amused, said soldiers have made a further game of it- picking specific body parts on a daily basis to pique interest and chase away the everyday doldrums of military drudgery...

Netanyahu- Mass Murderer, Serial Child Killer, War Criminal...

Obviously, this latest, unprovoked slaughter of four hundred people (130 of them, children!) is not about winning a war, it's not even about punishment, and it most definitely is not about freeing remaining hostages- it's about extermination, elimination of a people from their land so that Bibi Netanyahu can annex it!* Oh, Israel- you have learned all too well...

*All with our President's blessing!

On Murder...

Kudos to the killing of the Russian general who used chemical weapons against Ukraine! Imagine if everyone who used these nefarious weapons (or tortured countless soldiers and civilians) had to watch their backs for the rest of their lives. Wouldn't that possibly make them think twice before engaging- instead of having toothless threats issued against them as did Obama when POTUS? Aren't there already enough approved ways of killing people in war?

While we're at it- wouldn't it also be great if everyone involved in the serial murders of civilians due to denial of critical health care benefits also paid their dues... in a jail cell? Not everyone has to be killed for their crimes, but some semblance of justice is always appreciated...

Israel's Dangerous Game

Apparently, Israel, while still playing the role of eternal victim continues the ever so dangerous game of continual escalation, daring, infuriating and attacking nearly everyone around them with whom they have both legitimate and perceived grudges. They continue to rile as many hornets, tease as many wolves, slap, punch and bully as many opponents as they possibly can- and when the fury that's finally unleashed comes calling... Big Brother USA will get the call to save the day! The final sucker in this sucker's game.