"We Are All Greenlanders Now"
...and we are made less safe by a CABINET OF CLOWNS
Usha Jilted…JD Humiliated
At the height of the cold war, in June of 1963, President John Kennedy journeyed to West Berlin — at the time surrounded by Soviet-ruled East Germany — and delivered a powerful speech in support of democracy and freedom. His bold “Ich bin ein Berliner” —"I am a Berliner"— highlighted an incredibly moving speech .
Roll ahead sixty-some years to late March of 2025….Usha and JD Vance travel to Greenland to further the insane bully-boy fascist fantasy of donald j trump (“We have to have Greenland”). Usha’s advance team could find no Greenlander willing to photo-op with her. And…
Residents aren't the only ones snubbing the Second Lady ahead of her high-profile visit to the island; Tupilak Travel, which is based in Greenland's capital city, Nuuk, initially said it would host Usha Vance, but pulled out on Thursday.In a post on Facebook, the company said that the US Consulate called and asked if it wanted the visit, and the company initially said yes, but then backed out.
“After closer consideration, however, we have now informed the consulate that we do not want her visit, as we cannot accept the underlying agenda and will not be part of the press show that, quite, of course, comes with it. No thanks to nice visit… Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders," the company said. — The Independent
Originally Usha was to make the trip alone, but at the last minite JD decided to tag along (why not? he has nothing better to do than be part of criminally negligent group chats with Pistol Pete).
Thus rejected, their visit was confined to an American base where everyone had to at least feign a modicum of respect. During his visit to the base Vance addressed trump’s fantasy: “We cannot just ignore this place. We cannot just ignore the president’s desires.”
We cannot just ignore the president’s desires?? WTF?! Would he similarly admonish E. Jean Carroll, or any of the other women trump has been accused of forcing himself on?
But seriously…if trump follows through on these threats — and his history is when he keeps repeating these things he acts on it — we here in the US need to reject the gross imperialism and respond — “Hands Off! We are all Greenlanders now!”
Cabinet of Clowns Put Pilots at Risk
Of course you’ve seen the news of how Pistol Pete Hegseth had to show his cabinet colleagues how tough and cool he is by using a commercial channel to share attack plans, including the planes to be used and the time of attacks. You can read about it in depth here and here.
…But the most disgraceful part was the lies and attacks on the media that followed.
Hegseth got off a plane and immediately lied about sharing the classified information disclosing the time., place, and weapons of attack on Houthis…and turned the question into a scurrillous attack on the journalist whom the clown cabinet invited into the chat…
…and Waltz — the clown who invited The Atlantic’s editor Jeffrey Goldberg into the chat — went on Fox “news” to slander him as well, suggesting that Goldberg was a dishonest journalist. IMAGINE GOING ON FOX AND TALKING ABOUT DISHONEST JOURNALISTS!
If I had the chance, I’d inform these clowns that, The Atlantic is an “American journal of news, literature, and opinion that was founded in 1857 and is one of the oldest and most-respected magazines in the United States.” — Britannica
Since 1857 when it was founded by literary leaders of the day, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oliver Wendall Holmes, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, the magazine has been a beacon dedicated to “challenging assumptions and pursuing truth.”
When the founders of The Atlantic gathered in Boston in the spring of 1857, they wanted to create a magazine that would be indispensable for the kind of reader who was deeply engaged with the most consequential issues of the day. The men and women who created this magazine had an overarching, prophetic vision—they were fierce opponents of slavery—but they were also moved to overcome what they saw as the limits of partisanship, believing that the free exchange of ideas across ideological lines was crucial to the great American experiment. Their goal was to publish the most urgent essays, the most vital literature; they wanted to pursue truth and disrupt consensus without regard for party or clique. — The Atlantic, A 165-Year Tradition https://www.theatlantic.com/history/
They are still doing amazing, indispensable, work today, under the ownership of Laurene Powell Jobs, a noted philanthropist and Steve Jobs’ widow.
Ms. Jobs’ bold support of this journal puts her contemporaries like Bezos, Zuckerberg, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai, and Tim Cook — who bent the knee instead — to shame.
The Atlantic will make you smarter…and deserves your support, too. Subscribe here. It’s not free — like Outtakes and Sidebars — but it’s worth it.
