Shock & awe video 24-7 on cnn. I think the neo,-consninvented the release of targetting video. Wolf Blitzer reporting live atop ? Hotel in Baghdad... With bombs bursting in air.
Georgie Junior aboard ship proclaiming to the dress whites Navy, Victory with a back drop banner proclaiming " MISSION ACCOMPLISHED".

Video game hi lights and sponge bob are an all new "hegsethian" level of connecting with his followers. Lcd indeed!

That gulf war fiasco continued another 20ish years until Biden finally drew down Afghanistan to zero.
It wasnt that long ago. That "mission accomplished" finally ended with a more ctiticized end than was the critique of all the meaninglessly kia, maimed (physical/mental)for life soldiers produced...yet, Finally. Aug. 2021. The Wars end in the middle east. Then, spring 2025. One of Trumps very 1st official actions was missle strikes into Yemen. Joining up with the Saudi's to shoot big bang bottle rockets at starving brown children. Help crush a famine induced civil war. Yay team! Be all you can be???

A few short months later. Employ Elon Doge to eliminate surplus usaid. Us grown grain being shipped to try and prevent other famine induced civil unrest.
And americans cheered for it bc, dammit! America 1st!

Never mind that those tons of shipped grain were part of a contract with US farmers to help keep them solvent. Instead. All that purchased food turned to bug meal in now infested warehouses that are likely unusable for years to come... Ahhh. All this winning!

I get it tho PH. It is depressing. Still. Knowledge is the power needed to make better choices for a future that perhaps isnt so depressing. If everyone turns off and tunes out?
We only get the most blantly corrupt as the new boss... Wash, rinse repeat...
I hate to believe weve actually become that very popular Jack Nicholson meme...
" You want the truth?...."

I guess, the screenwriter was spot on.
The lead up if memory serves... Jack nicholson rambling on that joe shmo. He doesnt want to think of this stuff. He wants monday pizza, humpday happy ending. Hot dogs & football on sunday.

So heres some good news for Joe Shmo.
Trump met friday with a large collection of university AD's & Admins. Attempting to solve the nil crissis thats "ruining" college sports.

That some good Joe Shmo priorities right there!
A person can Live in that bubble & die happy. More power to ya.

Reality? Complacency is the enemy of democracy.
Its part of the equation that explains the importance of immigration. Immigrants arrive hungry. The are often the opposite of complacent.
Nothing feeds corruption like the disenfranchised. Nothing fights corruption more than an engaged electorate. And make no mistake. Only a corrupt back door deal could undo the "free market capitalism" college athlete deal known as NIL. The supreme court already ruled on this issue.

Its dam funny chit... Or maybe its irony.
All the yelling about free markets the past decades... It has always been just another boondoggle lie. A euphemism for " exploit at will"
Now the exploited flip it on its back? Steal the oppressors dime?... "FOUL!" is the cry from the highest hallowed halls of enlightenment.

Everything, everywhere, everytime. Crumbles under the weight of greed.

Ya know, somehow. Agent orange gonna try hard get him sum uh dat NIL butta! That is, the art of the deal.

Remember that old joke?
" You know its going to be a bad day when a 60 Minutes film crew arrives at you office."

Updated for 2026, You know its going to be a bad day when your secretary buzzes the intercom, Sir, Donald Trump is on line 2, he says its urgent"

Or?

DJT aka DJ grift-alot....
Spinnin the melodies that'll make you cry under a sigh.