ALSTEAD, N.H.-Can you stand it? Can you stand it any longer?
A young single mother, attempting to get away from a terrifying moment, was murdered by an ICE agent. There are too many cell phone video recordings capturing the scene to think that what we're seeing is created by artificial intelligence or is "fake news."
And yet, we see the princess of Homeland Security strutting up to her lectern to tell us that what we saw wasn't true. That what we really saw was a "domestic terrorist" attacking a government agent.
Could Franz Kafka have written a more bizarre story? Would we ever have imagined that George Orwell's 1984 be something we would actually live in?
To me, the domestic terrorists are dressed up in facsimile military uniforms, have their faces covered (to avoid prosecution, I think) and, like the Blackshirts of Mussolini or the Brownshirts of Hitler, go about terrorizing the local population.
Our grifter-in-chief has sent military troops into Venezuela, where he kidnapped that country's leader and first lady, then brought them back to the U.S. to stand trial. For what? Narcoterrorism? If that is the excuse for invading another country, then go after China's leader, Xi Jinping, for providing fentanyl to Americans.
He then announced that the U.S. (us) will "run" the country and take its oil, only to now learn that the money made by selling Venezuelan oil will go to "offshore" bank accounts (Cayman Islands?) and the distribution of those funds will be controlled by the grifter-in-chief himself. We can guess into whose pocket that money will go!
And now we have our weak-kneed secretary of state, Marco Rubio, going to Denmark, an original NATO signatory, to attempt to purchase Greenland. With what money? Let's see.
This Republican majority tells us it can no longer afford to support the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food stamps) for the food-insecure. They say that affordable health care plans are "bad" for the American people. So, to show they really care about them, they'll not extend the Affordable Care Act, thus putting millions of their constituents in health care jeopardy.
Yet the Republican majority will ensure that the wealthy will continue to see money flow into their lives while draining money from the poor people, the Brown people, the Black people, the aged people.
FFOTUS (First Felon of the United States) and his sycophants sit in the center of this fetid swamp creating terror. Can we stand it any longer?
David Miller
Alstead, N.H.
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