Well That Didn't Take Long

When will we (I) learn?

Yesterday

Caitlin Johnstone

offered up a new column entitled “The Incoming Trump Administration Is Already Filling Up With War Sluts” in which she details Trump’s pick for National Security Adviser Mike Walz, Elise Stefanik as US ambassador to the UN and the rumored tapping of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State.

This is extremely disappointing given all of their track records on war and foreign policy. And it seems to show without question that Trump’s anti-war, anti-censorship, anti-beltway rhetoric were simply empty election promises.

So as we suspected, we are not going to vote our way out of this as I detailed in my recent column “Taking the Power Back.”

And as

Tereza Coraggio

suggested in her recent column “Trick or Trump,” and citing my recent post, “Things Sure Feel Different This Morning,” none of the hopeful things that were mandated by this vote (according to Trump) are going to come to pass.

It sounds like one of the first things on the docket is expelling one million illegal immigrants. While that may make a lot of Trump supporters happy, I’m not sure that jack-booted thugs busting down doors in poor neighborhoods to haul people off, or dragnet-ting urban areas for brown people is going to be a very good optic for starters. Especially given the reported support given Trump by these same ethnic groups.

And given the appointments thus far, it seems U.S. hegemony is not going to change significantly. We still want to be the big bully - only difference I see is instead of supporting murder and then lying about it, we’ll be supporting murder with the gun in our hands and taunting the victims to oppose us.

Stefanik is an Israel cuck who called for the stamping out of free speech on campuses, so there goes the free-speech directive. She also famously opposed the release of Mohammed al-Qahtani back in 2022 saying that sending him back to Saudi Arabia showed "weakness on the world stage". He was held and tortured for years even though he suffered from schizophrenia and never offered any substantial information during his torture and interrogation at Guantánamo.

And then that takes me back to the Pentagon, where I rabbit-holed myself across this declassified Senate Select Committee report on interrogation of inmates at Guantánamo after 9/11 which was published in 2012 which famously had Obama tell us straight-faced that “Well, we tortured some folks…”.

I was aghast at what I read in the report, and it reminded me that the torturers were us, and these people walk among us. These are profoundly sick individuals who are completely and utterly decrepit, and they don’t belong in civilized society, much less in positions of power.

Yes, this is who makes up our Pentagon. This is who makes up our Government. These people don’t deserve our respect or our fealty.

So, reminder to self: stop pretending that any of them are going to help any of us. That isn’t the game. And though I don’t like spending time considering such things, I had to give it a wrap for myself and consider the matter closed.

Now I can return to working towards true freedom, true self-direction, and placing my attention back where it can actually do some good - on my life and my loved ones and my community.

I am sorry for all the people whose hopes will be dashed, including myself. But it seems this is what’s up. There is no cavalry coming. Perhaps some good things will come of it, but not those things that really matter.

Like the Importance of the Individual.

Doctor, heal thyself.