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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan we just throw a serape over the menace, chuck him in the Pen and call it a day?
For context: during our childrens formative years, we relocated to the countryside. Once settled, my son asked if he could bring a chick home from school. It was all cuteness and a wisp of feathers, so fluffy & yellow. That little bugger grew up to be a big ol Araucana rooster who we fearfully referred to as mean. We had to go into his pen with a broom, because he would come at you when you went to retrieve his feed bowl.
One day, our bad attitude rooster fled his coop. Methodically, he set off terrorizing the neighborhood - for weeks!! The neighbors complained because it chased them around their yard. After moments of this anxiety-ridden confrontation, they capitulated and went running into their houses. The kids would ride by on their bikes and the ornery bird would chase them as they fled, screaming and flailing their legs. Nearing the third week, I saw him come down our driveway. Just wanting the whole situation to end, I grabbed a newly gifted flannel blanket and threw it over him. In one fell swoop, I scooped him up and returned him to his (newly reinforced) pen.
Ive been thinking along those lines when it comes to the incompetent Grifter-in-Chief that were all stuck with. ~ How long is going to take us, to throw a blanket over this overfed, barn sour mule? I mean just what will be the final straw? Can anyone guess? Hes done so many unimaginably corrupt and inhumane things that I cant possibly imagine where the defining line will finally be drawn?
Heres our revolutionary cry! A tyrannical government taxes its constituency, but does nothing that attributes to their benefit. This self-dealing administration does not represent the needs and wishes of the people.
Taxation without representation! So why are we funding that?
Here's the articles that led to the thought process..
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1 hr ago (9:20 EST ~ 8-22-25 ~ ): Governing by Shakedown [link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/22/trump-philosophy-authoritarian-government|
As if we needed the rampant criminality to be clearly delineated: https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trump-2-0-bracing-for-criminals-corruption-and-constitutional-crises/
It would be great if SCOTUS would pass measures (with swift abandon) to protect the rule of law: ]https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2025/05/how-trump-is-using-his-power-to-profit-and-why-no-one-will-stop-him

Norrrm
(2,882 posts)Really bad prison time... Nazi war criminal... from advisor to liability
Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner died in Syria basement in 2001 - report
http://www.timesofisrael.com/nazi-war-criminal-alois-brunner-died-in-syria-basement-in-2001-report/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38586945
Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner 'died in Syria squalor'
One of his guards said Brunner, who went by the name of Abu Hussein, suffered and cried a lot in his final years, everyone heard him.
The man, identified only as Omar, said he couldnt even wash.
All he had to eat were army rations - awful stuff - and an egg or a potato. He had to choose one or the other.
(He was a 'consultant' to various torture regimes but when he became a political embarrassment/liability, his retirement plan was really bad)