Finally, in the Chicago Tribune editorial section, an editorial was featured that has most of us former agents and White House workers cringing. The public does not understand. It isn’t Donald Trump’s tweeting. It’s not his outrageous promises, the wall or any of that. It isn’t homophobia, his hatred of Hispanics or his kind of White Supremacy crap that truly scares us.
It is the simple fact that the nation has carelessly thrown full instant control of the country’s nuclear arsenal, without supervision or control, and he can use it just as casually as he makes idiotic tweets. So, a lot of us will just begin to worry on the 20th of this month. We don’t hate him or the people who voted him in.
We are simply and quietly terrified of this potential…and we know and you don’t, or won’t believe. That part is hard too.
One remembers the same B.S. being spread by the liberals when the Gipper won the presidency. I was not afraid of Reagan pulling the trigger and neither am I afraid of Trump doing so.
In fact, if Trump had his way, he would be pulling our military out of most these unnecessary skirmishes that we are now involved in. He like Reagan, will not back down from any foreign bullies though, so he will test their mettle and stand face to face with them. I would rather have a president like that, then a Clinton or an Obama.
I like you J, and there is no question about that. Your beliefs and comments here are welcome no matter what.
Semper fi,
Jim
I like you as well James and I learned long ago, that it is a good thing to have a difference of opinion between friends. Life would be pretty dull if we all thought alike. Many times we get so involved in what we think and believe in, that we often miss the boat and fail to see the other side of the coin.
Thank you J. It is most interesting, as an anthropologist, to observe humanity and how it comes to form opinions and adopt beliefs.
Joe Campbell was so brilliant in his study of mythology and its vital nature in keeping us alive on such a hostile planet. You must
first come to believe in something or you will have nothing but misery and death. Believing in stuff that isn’t really true makes
stuff happen…and hence this civilization were are all living in. Thanks for being so candid with me.
Semper fi,
Jim
Yes Jim, believing in life itself is essential. Figuring out what is true and what is not, is quite another challenge. Most of my beliefs have all been centered around personal experience, not mythology or the opinions of others.
Opinions are like elbows, everyone has at least a couple. We know the elbows are real, because we personally deal with them on a daily basis, not so with opinions or mythology.
Thanks for that J,
Semper fi, my friend,
Jim
James He has a gunny somewhere in the fra.
Of that we can only pray Roger. I don’t go into politics much here
but I am afraid for and of Donald Trump.
Semper fi,
Jim
Do you feel more at ease with mad dog on board?
Yes,
Semper fi,
Jim