Here Comes a Nuclear World

Quite a number of nations live under the American nuclear umbrella, where they don't need to build their own nukes because the Americans have nukes and have signed mutual-defense treaties of one flavor or another.

But, as we are seeing in real time, the United States under Trump has shown itself to be a mercurial parter to whom agreements, let alone principles, mean nothing.

So I expect that a number of nations will, in very short order, quietly start (or restart) programs to acquire nuclear weapons. Some of them might be able to do that in a matter of months or a few years.

Here Come the Gay/Trans Witch-Hunts

DHS now permits its jackbooted, Constitution-shredding thugs to open investigations on people solely because they are gay, lesbian or trans. No other reason is now needed.

Some Conservatives Are Disgusted With the Party of Trump

Bret Stephens, for one, who wrote this:

If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky. Whatever one might say about how Zelensky played his cards poorly — either by failing to behave with the degree of all-fours sycophancy that Trump demands or to maintain his composure in the face of JD Vance’s disingenuous provocations — this was a day of American infamy.
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Roosevelt and Reagan must be spinning in their graves, as are Churchill and Thatcher. It’s up to the rest of us to reclaim America’s honor from the gangsters who besmirched it in the White House.

Honor is not something that can be reclaimed easily. Being a dishonorable and treacherous person or country is a long-term stain. And it only takes one time to earn that label.

Trump demonstrated to the world yesterday that he is in thrall to Putin and that he is aligning the United States with one of the worst regimes on the globe. And the rest of the world got that message.

Also, this:

Caturday

Speck is hiding in the garage.