My step-grandfather was in the Pacific as a soldier in the 8th Army in 1944 and 1945. After Japan surrendered, he was part of the Occupying Force, and served there until 1947. He taught himself the Japanese language. Near the end of his life, when dementia was setting in, he would speak the language to me. R.I.P.
Thank You Steve ..Yes I have had more then enough. And yes we are all on USS Abraham Lincoln. I cannot see any of them on TV without punching the air and cursing . My dog must think I'm nuts when I do this. I was thinking today what are the chances of impeaching Trump and Vance in January, if we get control of the house and the senate? Or maybe it would enough for Vance to behave himself . If he is allowd to stay on. I know, I know, I know, that we can't know what is going to happen. But I have to have my Mrs. Walter Mitty dreams ..Or I will lose my mind.
you understand trump doesn't think of sailors and soldiers as real people, with dreams and families...they are toys he uses and plays with....remember when he compared the number of dead in this WAR he created with Viet Nam? Deaths will happen, he lamented...NO, these deaths should NOT have happened. The soldiers did not sign up to be used as his toys, cannon fodder...they signed up to serve and protect the USA.
Consultants from inside the beltway fail to read the political American voter room. Time for a new group of leaders within the party.
Case in point....Simon Rosenberg, self professed and proud Zionist, who has been hanging around the DNC for years, trying to be relevant. But this Hopium Chronicles substacker is a significant reason why the Zionist movement has taken over the Israel dialogue and why the DNC took an unpopular position in the Harris campaign and lost the Arab vote, particularly meaningful in Michigan. This AIPAC infiltrating influence at the DNC has prevented the party to "read the room" and insist that the American people are not for Palestinian genocide and entering a new forever war.
It's time to clean the DNC house and get a fresh reset and people like Ken Martin and Rosenberg have ideologically overstayed their welcome and need to go. Their political beliefs will not change even though they say they are making a course correction. The party is broken but leadership is holding on for relevancy. Time will tell.
My thinking is if the leadership won't step down we need a charismatic person to really do the speaking for the party . Ignore the leaders. .. Someone needs to tell the truth about Israel and make clear again and again that being against the genocide in Gaza and the cruelty in the West Bank does not mean a person is antisemetic. We have to be able to have our opinions and not worry that we will be labeled antisemetic.
Well said.....absolutely spot on. This will mean turning against AIPAC $$$. The grassroots movement led by Mamdani, Lander, and now Lawrence and El-Sayed is a good start. Just needs momentum now.
My father served in New Guinea from 1943-45. He was an Army MD. Never talked about the war; hated it; but, carried the flag in our 650 person town's "decoration day" parade for the VFW --
One of my uncles served in the pacific. His destroyer was kamakazied. He spent about a week in the water before rescue. Most of his shipmates died. He has burns on his legs and back. He never talked about the war. He died a few years ago and at his funeral I got to read his war diary ( that I never knew he kept ) about his experience in the pacific.
There are no words to describe what he went through. He never ever spoke about it. He always displayed an American flag on his house.
The attack on Iran launched by Trump was unnecessary. The problem is, his MAGA crowd does not understand that the deal agreed upon during the Obama administration (JCPOA) had accomplished all the goals and more that Trump claims motivated him to attack Iran on 2/28. Of course, Trump ripped the agreement up in a fit of racist jealousy. So now we face the real possibility of nuclear war and the end of mankind's brief tenure as the Earth's dominant species. We all know this is true and cannot understand how MAGA supporters don't get it. Ignorance isn't the only reason, their misplaced faith in this man plays a huge role. They believe that he truly speaks for the people and knows what is best for them. They believe he embodies the will of the people, oblivious to the fact that American citizens occupy every point on the political spectrum. Those critical of Trump are "elites" using the power of the press, universities, and other institutions for nefarious reasons. They believe in the Nazi slogan, "One people, one empire, one leader," or, in the original German: "EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN FÜHRER."
Some of us feel the same way about Netanyahu's continued persecution of Palestinians. How is it some don't see the obvious: Netanyahu's war is genocidal, cruel, and based on the absurd notion that Israel has a right to govern all of the land it controlled in biblical times? How is it that they don't see that Trump is being manipulated by Netanyahu?
Facts are facts but people can refuse to see them and create their own reality. Our federal government is designed to self-correct through division of power and checks and balances. That system has failed. The Republicans in Congress refuse to do anything to rein in the monster they created. Elections are also a governmental self-correcting mechanism. If "we the people" do not throw the traitors in Congress out on November we put everyone and everything we hold dear on the path to destruction.
“In the four years of Joe Biden, the cost of food went up 25 percent, which is just stunning. Over the last year and a half, we’re at about 3 percent, which aligns with the national average. So all in, we align with that national average. And you’re right, eggs are way down more, I think you said 17 percent. I think they’re down 90 percent; berries are down, chicken breasts are down. There are outliers, and one of those is beef, but it’s down from where it was six months ago. So we’re trending in the right direction.” – USDA Sec. Brooke Rollins, two days after GOP Rep. Tom Emmer claimed that eggs cost 78 cents/dozen.
My uncle was on a ship heading to Japan to be part of the invasion of Japan. He didn’t think he would survive the invasion! Then the Atom Bomb was dropped over Hiroshima (not Tokyo) and the war was finally ended after one more Atom Bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. My uncle was gonna survive the war!
Everyone needs to watch or rewatch "FailSafe" with Henry Fonda et al. Please, please watch this -- this is what we need to focus on when these nut-jobs throw around using "nuclear" == no no no and use it to justify a war when complex treaties/negotiated agreements, etc., can work
It's a crazy fever dream. I'd like to see it burn out soon, but our sickness is deep. It's like cellulitis, and we're heading for sepsis, and if we can stop it, there will be dead tissue needing to be flushed out. no one knew a person as rotten as Trump would have been able to bully his way in to the top. How will we ever find enough sober minds to set our country right - the misinformation is so thoroughly imbedded.
My father was a WWII Lieutenant in the artillery on Guam and in the Solomon Islands. He didn't speak of the war until an August day in 1966, when he talked about The Bomb ending the war. RIP
These bombs propelled this country into the most fearsome country on earth. Like Luther’s document nailed to the church door, nothing was ever the same.
Those service members died to protect Hegseths Lord and master from being exposed as the pedophile he is. I guess Pistol Pete couldn't tell that to his 13 year old.
They say the way to a man’s heart is food. (I also think decent bathroom facilities are a path to true love.) And since Trump is blowing off the basic needs of his rank and file troops, i.e., adequate food and non-moldy showers, does it follow they will become disenchanted with him?
My step-grandfather was in the Pacific as a soldier in the 8th Army in 1944 and 1945. After Japan surrendered, he was part of the Occupying Force, and served there until 1947. He taught himself the Japanese language. Near the end of his life, when dementia was setting in, he would speak the language to me. R.I.P.
Thank You Steve ..Yes I have had more then enough. And yes we are all on USS Abraham Lincoln. I cannot see any of them on TV without punching the air and cursing . My dog must think I'm nuts when I do this. I was thinking today what are the chances of impeaching Trump and Vance in January, if we get control of the house and the senate? Or maybe it would enough for Vance to behave himself . If he is allowd to stay on. I know, I know, I know, that we can't know what is going to happen. But I have to have my Mrs. Walter Mitty dreams ..Or I will lose my mind.
you understand trump doesn't think of sailors and soldiers as real people, with dreams and families...they are toys he uses and plays with....remember when he compared the number of dead in this WAR he created with Viet Nam? Deaths will happen, he lamented...NO, these deaths should NOT have happened. The soldiers did not sign up to be used as his toys, cannon fodder...they signed up to serve and protect the USA.
Failure At the DNC
Consultants from inside the beltway fail to read the political American voter room. Time for a new group of leaders within the party.
Case in point....Simon Rosenberg, self professed and proud Zionist, who has been hanging around the DNC for years, trying to be relevant. But this Hopium Chronicles substacker is a significant reason why the Zionist movement has taken over the Israel dialogue and why the DNC took an unpopular position in the Harris campaign and lost the Arab vote, particularly meaningful in Michigan. This AIPAC infiltrating influence at the DNC has prevented the party to "read the room" and insist that the American people are not for Palestinian genocide and entering a new forever war.
It's time to clean the DNC house and get a fresh reset and people like Ken Martin and Rosenberg have ideologically overstayed their welcome and need to go. Their political beliefs will not change even though they say they are making a course correction. The party is broken but leadership is holding on for relevancy. Time will tell.
My thinking is if the leadership won't step down we need a charismatic person to really do the speaking for the party . Ignore the leaders. .. Someone needs to tell the truth about Israel and make clear again and again that being against the genocide in Gaza and the cruelty in the West Bank does not mean a person is antisemetic. We have to be able to have our opinions and not worry that we will be labeled antisemetic.
Well said.....absolutely spot on. This will mean turning against AIPAC $$$. The grassroots movement led by Mamdani, Lander, and now Lawrence and El-Sayed is a good start. Just needs momentum now.
And he has to be young ... You can love Bernie but he is old and he yells.
Yes it does..
My father served in New Guinea from 1943-45. He was an Army MD. Never talked about the war; hated it; but, carried the flag in our 650 person town's "decoration day" parade for the VFW --
One of my uncles served in the pacific. His destroyer was kamakazied. He spent about a week in the water before rescue. Most of his shipmates died. He has burns on his legs and back. He never talked about the war. He died a few years ago and at his funeral I got to read his war diary ( that I never knew he kept ) about his experience in the pacific.
There are no words to describe what he went through. He never ever spoke about it. He always displayed an American flag on his house.
Sadly, they will still vote republican. Remember, Faux news plays in military bases.
The attack on Iran launched by Trump was unnecessary. The problem is, his MAGA crowd does not understand that the deal agreed upon during the Obama administration (JCPOA) had accomplished all the goals and more that Trump claims motivated him to attack Iran on 2/28. Of course, Trump ripped the agreement up in a fit of racist jealousy. So now we face the real possibility of nuclear war and the end of mankind's brief tenure as the Earth's dominant species. We all know this is true and cannot understand how MAGA supporters don't get it. Ignorance isn't the only reason, their misplaced faith in this man plays a huge role. They believe that he truly speaks for the people and knows what is best for them. They believe he embodies the will of the people, oblivious to the fact that American citizens occupy every point on the political spectrum. Those critical of Trump are "elites" using the power of the press, universities, and other institutions for nefarious reasons. They believe in the Nazi slogan, "One people, one empire, one leader," or, in the original German: "EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN FÜHRER."
Some of us feel the same way about Netanyahu's continued persecution of Palestinians. How is it some don't see the obvious: Netanyahu's war is genocidal, cruel, and based on the absurd notion that Israel has a right to govern all of the land it controlled in biblical times? How is it that they don't see that Trump is being manipulated by Netanyahu?
Facts are facts but people can refuse to see them and create their own reality. Our federal government is designed to self-correct through division of power and checks and balances. That system has failed. The Republicans in Congress refuse to do anything to rein in the monster they created. Elections are also a governmental self-correcting mechanism. If "we the people" do not throw the traitors in Congress out on November we put everyone and everything we hold dear on the path to destruction.
How's this one for a "whopper?"
“In the four years of Joe Biden, the cost of food went up 25 percent, which is just stunning. Over the last year and a half, we’re at about 3 percent, which aligns with the national average. So all in, we align with that national average. And you’re right, eggs are way down more, I think you said 17 percent. I think they’re down 90 percent; berries are down, chicken breasts are down. There are outliers, and one of those is beef, but it’s down from where it was six months ago. So we’re trending in the right direction.” – USDA Sec. Brooke Rollins, two days after GOP Rep. Tom Emmer claimed that eggs cost 78 cents/dozen.
My uncle was on a ship heading to Japan to be part of the invasion of Japan. He didn’t think he would survive the invasion! Then the Atom Bomb was dropped over Hiroshima (not Tokyo) and the war was finally ended after one more Atom Bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. My uncle was gonna survive the war!
Everyone needs to watch or rewatch "FailSafe" with Henry Fonda et al. Please, please watch this -- this is what we need to focus on when these nut-jobs throw around using "nuclear" == no no no and use it to justify a war when complex treaties/negotiated agreements, etc., can work
I worry about the "nuclear" stuff everyday. I get the impression our Dear Leader doesn't really know what would happen if he uses them.
August 6th was the bombing of Hiroshima, not Tokyo. Did I misunderstand the statement in the introduction?
Thank-you Steve. I appreciate that you can continue to listen to these idiots everyday.
It's a crazy fever dream. I'd like to see it burn out soon, but our sickness is deep. It's like cellulitis, and we're heading for sepsis, and if we can stop it, there will be dead tissue needing to be flushed out. no one knew a person as rotten as Trump would have been able to bully his way in to the top. How will we ever find enough sober minds to set our country right - the misinformation is so thoroughly imbedded.
My father was a WWII Lieutenant in the artillery on Guam and in the Solomon Islands. He didn't speak of the war until an August day in 1966, when he talked about The Bomb ending the war. RIP
These bombs propelled this country into the most fearsome country on earth. Like Luther’s document nailed to the church door, nothing was ever the same.
Those service members died to protect Hegseths Lord and master from being exposed as the pedophile he is. I guess Pistol Pete couldn't tell that to his 13 year old.
They say the way to a man’s heart is food. (I also think decent bathroom facilities are a path to true love.) And since Trump is blowing off the basic needs of his rank and file troops, i.e., adequate food and non-moldy showers, does it follow they will become disenchanted with him?