Our fourth

 

I'm going, Saturday, and I'm not even leaving town. This will be our fourth actually, two in Sioux City, but also a real stunner right here in Sioux Center, Iowa, amidst a populace that ranks among the most Republican in the state and the country. If there are more marchers on Main on Saturday, the place to look would be the cemetery; there'll be a tsunami. 

And I'll tell you why we're going--because this morning's six o'clock rant on Truth Social takes on NATO once again, his least favorite organization--now, today, because they're not getting on the Don's bandwagon to help him with his troubles in the Straight of Homuz. Surprise, surprise. He's done nothing but bad mouth NATO since he came down the golden elevator. Besides, what we're up to is not a war, right?--it's an "excursion." It was his decision alone to start up the horror. Didn't ask the people or the people's reps in Congress. Didn't gather our long-time friends, just decided himself--along with his trusted cronies--that we'd take an excursion into Iran, annihilate whoever got in the way, pummel the heck out of their world, then leave with dozens of oil tankers in our/his back pocket--oh yeah, and on the way out leave behind a half dozen Trumpian beach resorts for the rich and famous. 

He wants to be king. 

And then there's this. Yesterday in Minnesota, the state pressed a lawsuit to force ICE to release materials pertinent to the deaths of two people who got in the way of the ICE. Why? Because Don's government has refused to do that--and refused to do the necessary investigation themselves. Why? Ask Don.

He wants to be king. Period.

And then there's publicly and brutally penning another zinger when Robert Mueller died, the man who ran the government appointed special prosecutor's office looking into Russia's involvement into the 2016 election. That the Don didn't like him is understandable, but for a man who prates about religion to say what he did ("I'm glad he's dead"), for the leader of the free world to be what he is, never stops being chilling. 

Here's David Brooks: "The selfish tyrant attaches himself to only those others who share his selfishness, who are eager to wear the mask of perpetual lying."

All of this is predicated on the lie about the 2020 election, which the Don --and his disciples--will never admit: that he lost. Sixty-some court rulings said clearly that he did.

He wants to be king. Let me count the ways.

No, I'll quit. 

It'll be our fourth--and our second in Sioux Center. 

See you at the cemetery.