Taking a Break

 Mates, for today's blog yer Captain'll be taken a break from the daily grind of "Trumpf this" and Trumpf that". 

It can wear out one's Soul!

Have I mentioned that Trumpf's name is found 38,000 times in the Epstein Files? And only half of the files have been released. 

But I digress. I'm taking a break from all that today.

Gas prices here just jumped overnight to $4.34 per gallon, almost $2 per gallon more than before Trumpf started his little non-war.

Are we winning yet?

Anyway, where was I? Oh yes...

As yer Captain was driving home one afternoon last week, I spied a license plate on a vehicle, the sort of which I had never seen before.

There, staring back at me from the bumper of an SUV was the Jolly Roger!

On an official Tennessee license plate!

Mates, if there was ever a reason to live in Tennessee - BUT THERE'S NOT! - it would be to hang this plate off the back of me own "Flyin' Dutchman"!

It's bad enough to be represented by Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, but Marsha Blackburn? 

Lord help us!

["Stay focused, Captain!"] 

"Crusade Against Darkness!" it said on the license plate.

Sounds ominous! 

The Captain wanted to know more.

But seein' as I was headed for a gas station - did I mention...? Oh, never mind - and the other vehicle was headed for the open highway, I didn't have the opportunity to ask. 

As is the way with such vanity plates, a portion of the proceeds from the annual fee at registration go to a charitable cause. So I asked Dr. Google.

"Crusade Against Darkness" is a phrase taken from Helen Keller, an amazing woman of another generation who lost her sight due to an illness at 19 months old. Nonetheless, she did great things with her life, not the least of which was to become an advocate for people with disabilities, especially the vision-impaired. 

In 1925 she reportedly challenged the Lions Club to become "knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness". 

To this day, a major outreach of the Lions Club is to provide vision services, collect used eye glasses and make them available to children and others with vision impairments.

Here's the fun part: they chose the "Jolly Roger" as their symbol due to the eye patch!

Get it? 

Hey, that's all I've got for today. Take it or leave it.

It's Cinco de Mayo and there's a margarita calling my name!  

And for those of you who support I.C.E. and Trumpf's vile, anti-immigrant rhetoric, I better not see you at the cantina today. This is not your holiday to celebrate!

Go drink your Busch Light with your own kind!

  

 

Hold Fast!

Yer Captain hasn’t written a blog in recent weeks for the simple fact that the news cycle is moving too darn fast.

It seems President Trumpf’s entire administration is employing the Gish Gallop at an astonishing level.

CAPTAIN’S NOTE: You might recall the “Gish Gallop” from the 2024 presidential campaigns. Candidate Trumpf would fill his allotted debate time with so many half-truths and downright lies that his opponent couldn’t keep up, much less respond to them in any meaningful way.

Frankly, the Captain would have simply replied, “That’s all bullshit!” and moved on with answering the question.

The Gish Gallop is being utilized at virtually every level of government now, so much so that the mainstream media can’t keep up, and citizens are losing the capacity for outrage because there is so much with which to be outraged!

Take, for example, the campaign promises Trumpf made to his MAGA cult:

“A New Golden Age” is coming. 

Throughout his first year-and-a-half he promised us check after check – thousands of dollars coming our way!

So where is our DOGE check after Elon and his crew cleaned up all that graft and corruption? Where is our Tariff check that would ease the burden of higher food costs due to Trumpf’s erratic application of tariffs? Where is our huge income tax refund?

Turns out, his billionaire cronies are getting richer, but the rest of us? Meh.

And if you look back in our history, that almost perfectly mirrors the last “Golden Age”, later labeled “The Gilded Age” because it wasn’t golden for most people. 

Now, like then, the gap between the haves and the have-nots has only grown wider.

Significantly so!

“Root out waste, graft, and corruption”. 

DOGE was tasked with sifting through the federal budget and administration to find $2 trillion in WG&C.

They found a couple billion, laid off thousands of federal workers, and stole personal data on untold millions of Americans before they gave up.

But Trumpf HAS created a more transparent government. Right out in front of everyone he has been extorting millions of dollars from American companies and universities, forcing them to fall in line with his demands or lose government support.

He’s doing it right out in the open!

And boasting about it!

And nobody is trying to rein him in.

The national debt is currently spiraling out of control. We’re at $39 trillion now, which means we are paying $2.8 billion in interest EVERY DAMN DAY!

Yet Trumpf is spending like a drunken pirate!

[No offense to actual drunken pirates!]

>>>He tore off the East Wing of the White House (without permission) and wants to build a $400 million ballroom (to hide a secret underground bunker – which is becoming less and less secret with each passing day). He claimed to have corporate donors lined up to pay for it, but now some of his acolytes in Congress are proposing a bill to pay for the vanity project with our tax dollars.

>>>He wants to spend $100 million+ for an arch in his own honor to rival France’s Arc de Triomphe.

>>>The “non-war” Israel dragged us into in Iran has cost $60 billion so far, and there appears to be no end in sight.

>>>His kids are sitting on Boards and are investing in companies doing business with the federal government, including multi-million dollar no-bid contracts.

This goes way beyond what they hounded Hunter Biden for for an entire year!

>>>Trumpf’s son-in-law, Jared, is traveling on official government business (without being vetted) and collecting billions in foreign dollars for his venture capital firm as he travels.

Needless to say, Trumpf has not “drained the swamp” as he promised.

If anything, he has added a few more gators to it.

In plain sight.

Transparency my arse!

“Release the Epstein Files.” 

This was one of those empty promises he hoped he would never have to follow through on.

Because his name appears in the files more times than anyone else’s. 

But MAGA grabbed a hold of this one and held on, forcing a law that called for the release of the files – a law which Trumpf had no choice but to sign.

But thanks to a carefully-placed operative in the guise of the Attorney General, the files that were released (estimated to be only half of the total) were heavily redacted, blocking names of most of the perpetrators and exposing the names of some of the victims.

However... 

So far, no one in the U.S. has been charged for anything related to the Epstein files.

Except Gislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s partner in crime.

But the GOP is currently looking for an excuse to pardon and release her.

So long as she stays silent about what she knows.

And the big one: “No more wars!” “America first!” 

But in the last year-and-a-half Trumpf has bombed at least seven countries and now we are engaged in a war with Iran that has not been approved by Congress.

Speaker of the House Little Mike Johnson claims it is not a war, so Congress doesn’t have to weigh in.

Mates, we’re spending a billion dollars a day bombing another country!

What would you call it?

And what are we getting for that money? Higher gas prices, higher food prices, and because Iran is blockading the Strait of Hormuz (which was open international waters before Trumpf started this fight), the world economy has been affected.

"America First!" Woo hoo! Bleh. 

He went into this non-war (partnered with Israel) thinking Iran would shiver and surrender at the threatened might of the U.S. military.

But after weeks of trading missile strikes - many aimed at neighboring countries, Iran remains unbowed.

In fact, they are responding with short AI videos mocking the U.S.

CAPTAIN’S NOTE: We are shooting down Iran’s $50,000 drones with our $4.5 million Patriot interceptor missiles. Yer Captain’s guess is that Iran’s strategy is simply a variation of Muhammad Ali's "Rope-a-Dope", to absorb the abuse and bleed the U.S. dry in the process.

Then on Sunday night at the White House Correspondents Dinner, a person broke through security, shot a Secret Service agent (who was wearing a bullet proof vest), and headed toward the banquet hall where the dinner was being held.

He didn’t even get close to the hall before he was tackled by the Secret Service. But everyone inside scrambled for cover at the sound of gunshots, and the President and other Cabinet members were whisked away to safety.

A lot of questions were raised about this whole fiasco, most especially why seven of eight persons in the Line of Succession were all together at this event. Should the alleged assassin had been carrying a bomb and had been successful, Senate President pro-tempore Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) would be the next President of the United States!

Yikes! 

But even before the Secret Service got Trumpf’s fat ass out of his chair and off the stage, many were claiming the whole thing was staged.

Again.

Maybe it was because the President’s response to this supposed threat on his life was to hold a press conference 30-minutes later, at which he made a pitch for his ballroom again!

Maybe it was because, before the event began, his press secretary promised, “There will be shots fired!”

Oops!

Or maybe it was because talent agent Michael Glantz continued to calmly sit and eat his salad as everyone else ran for cover!         

The thing is – and the point of this post – this administration has lied to us from the very first day. We don’t know what to believe anymore.

The White House has churned out a steady stream of bullshit, the media is cowed – or co-conspirators, social media is infiltrated by foreign operatives and bots, and the real ones never take the time to get the story straight, going with whatever will achieve more clicks.

Add to that mix the growing realism of AI.

Y’know, you used to be able to identify a fake simply by counting the fingers on their hands.

Not so much today.

Here’s the thing: We don’t really know what’s going on with the war in Iran. There is supposed to be a 10-day ceasefire. Then Trumpf extended the original ceasefire to “indefinitely”.

WTF!

And Israel insists the ceasefire does not apply to them as they continue to bombard Lebanon.

CAPTAIN’S NOTE: And why are they bombing Lebanon? Israel talked us into bombing Iran! They are supposed to be working with us on that!

By the way, we haven’t heard anything new from that downed F-15 fighter pilot for whom we launched a massive recovery effort.

Or was that just a cover story to hide our sending in a SEAL Team to try to steal Iran’s nuclear stockpile? A mission Trumpf telecast weeks in advance? A mission that failed.

I mean, why do you need a squadron of fighter jets, two transport planes, and refueling planes to retrieve one downed pilot?

Are peace talks with Iran going on or not? VP Vance failed to make Iran "accept our terms". Was that because we sent along a banker and developer as the negotiating team?

Yet in recent weeks the President seems to have lost interest in the non-war that he started.

And not by coincidence, someone is cashing in on this non-war, betting on the stock market or the price of oil just minutes before the President makes a public statement (usually on a Friday afternoon) that affects the markets.

The huge amounts involved (thinks “billions of dollars”) makes it appear to be insider trading.

CAPTAIN’S NOTE: Martha Stewart, TV’s domestic goddess and bosom buddy of Snoop Dog, went to prison for five months for insider trading, having saved $46,000 by dumping some ImClone stock.

Every court ruling today is appealed, and most go all the way up to the Supreme Court, many of which are settled by the right-wing court’s “shadow docket”.

The shadow docket is supposed to be an emergency, non-argument docket, featuring rapid, often unsigned rulings on time-sensitive matters without full briefings. With this Court it has been expanded to include high-stakes policy decisions, raising concerns about transparency, accountability, and the bypassing of traditional legal procedures. 

Despite daily headlines, we don’t really know what’s going on with the White House Ballroom project.

Today, we don’t really know what’s going on with ICE detentions and deportations.

We don’t really know what going on with Trumpf’s tariffs.

We don’t really know if someone tried to shoot the President last night.

CAPTAIN’S NOTE: Although with a job approval rating hovering around 30%, it’s altogether possible.

Are you exhausted yet? 

All of this is flying at us at an alarming rate!

By the time the Captain grabs hold of one issue, does due diligence to research and verify (yes I do), then writes a compelling blog, a dozen other issues have sprung up and wilted, and that issue that at one moment was so outrageous is no longer discussed or even considered relevant.

Social media is a better forum for immediate responses, but not necessarily for well-thought-out responses.

Yer Captain often utilizes Facebook, but I try to not overdo it.

I have FB friends who post 15-20 political posts every damn day!

That gets old pretty quick.

So please understand, dear mates, yer Captain has a real job. Unlike some others I follow, I don’t get paid for this and I don’t have all day to sit and sift through the crap!

I will give you my best.

When I can.

In the meantime, Hold Fast! 

 

 

WAR! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely NOTHING!

The world is at war. Again.

(Or is that “still”?)

This time, the United States and Israel started it with a bombardment of missiles on Iran.

Make no mistake, my friends, this time WE started it!

Don’t listen to Little Marco or any of the other administration mouthpieces who are trying to convince you we only bombed them because they were about to bomb us.

Oh no. There was no “imminent threat” from Iran.

No secret “weapons of mass destruction”.

How does the Captain know this? As you might recall, we “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear missile capabilities in a bombing raid back in June 2025.

Trumpf has been crowing about that ever since!

Was he wrong? Or lying? 

So what’s this war all about?

Truth is, mates, Israel has wanted to destroy Iran for decades.

Finally, Netanyahu has found a willing sucker in Donald J. Trumpf.

Seriously, Trumpf claims this assault is only necessary because Obama and Biden wouldn’t do it years ago.

In fact, Trumpf campaigned on ending wars, not starting them!

But everyone knows that Trumpf, “the Peace President”, has been itching for war, any war.

CAPTAIN’S NOTE: Yer Captain suspects it’s just to justify changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

If yer keepin’ account, since January 2025 he has bombed seven different countries!

Countries either unable or unwilling to retaliate.

So this time, with a willing partner in Israel, Saudi Arabia lit the fuse.

We can only assume money exchanged hands between Mohammed bin Salman and Donald Trumpf.

Yes, the same Mohammed bin Salman who ordered the dismemberment and death (in that order) of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

So, to the surprise of no one, missiles began raining down on Iran over the weekend.

But wait. Despite a prolonged build-up of U.S. military assets in the Persian Gulf, the assault apparently did catch many by surprise.

Like the U.S. Congress, for example, which has the specific authority to declare war.

They were not consulted.

Perhaps Senator Susan Collins was concerned.

And Little Mike Johnson, the most uninformed Speaker of the House we've ever had, hadn’t heard anything about it.

On the other hand, war hawk Senator Lindsay Graham wet himself with joy when he heard the news! 

Apparently no one in Congress was either curious or overly concerned (besides Susan Collins) when the second aircraft carrier arrived in the Gulf.

What’s more, our allies in the area were not warned of the imminent action – as demonstrated by the fact that Kuwait shot down three U.S. fighter jets thinking they were Iranian!

After the launch, Spain announced that its military bases would not be used for U.S. airstrikes.

In typical reaction, Trumpf has promised to severe all U.S. trade with Spain.

NOTE TO SELF: Stock up on Spanish wine!

Worse still, U.S. citizens living and working in middle eastern countries were not given advance notice to evacuate.

Now the State Department is telling them, “Get out however you can!”

But without help from the U.S. Government.

Airports and commercial airspace in the region are shut down and missiles and drones are flying through the air, so good luck and god speed.

The U.S./Israeli bombardment has accomplished the sought after damage.

Ayatollah Khamenei and many of his leadership team have been killed.

Military sites have been hit.

Iranian battleships have been sunk.

But a girls school was also struck, reportedly killing as many as 160 children ages 7-12.

 

Graves being dug for the school girls killed in the aerial assault.

CAPTAIN’S NOTE: Right-wing talking heads are trying to spin this, saying the school was on a military base or that Iran was using the school children as a shield; one even argued that it was an errant Iranian missile that struck the school.

These are all lies.

Of course, most of the weaponry used in this war is ours.

We sold weapons to Iran for years, hoping they would use them against Iraq.

We still provide Israel with whatever they ask for, despite the ongoing ethnic cleansing happening in Gaza.

So these missiles are likely all ours!

In response to being attacked, Iran has lashed out in every direction: at Israel, at U.S. military bases in the region, and at other prime targets of U.S. allies.

Iran has also closed off the Straits of Hormuz, a primary shipping lane for oil.

Today Trumpf promised military escorts and “insurance” for tankers passing through the Straits.

What? Now he’s playing “Lloyd’s of London”? With our tax money!?!

Not to miss an opportunity, Israel has expanded its part of the war to include bombing Hezbollah in Lebanon as well.

Will that draw Lebanon into the war?

Members of the Australian Defense Force were on one of the U.S. bases struck by Iran.

Will that draw Australia into this war?

NATO shot down a missile headed toward Türkiye.

Will that draw NATO into the war?

And on which side will they fight?

Russia is cashing in by providing additional weapons to Iran.

China may become more involved if they don’t get their oil, some 50% of which passes through the Straits of Hormuz.

Will Trumpf insure those tankers too?

My point being, this war will not and can not be contained to Iran alone.

Wars rarely do.

Furthermore, yer Captain wonders how long this war will hold Trumpf’s attention.

At some point, he’s going to want the “War Room” curtains taken down at Mar-a-Lago. 

A very un-serious commander-in-chief, calling the shots from his golf resort 

Of course, here at home we are being told “This is not a war”.

Little Mike Johnson said so.

There’s no need for Congress to vote on War Powers.

(Especially this close to mid-term elections.)

It’s not a war.

We are also being told this is not about regime change.

We’re just trying to change the regime.

But it’s not about regime change.

We are being told that whatever it is, it could last a few more days.

Perhaps 4-6 more weeks.

Maybe longer.

We are being told to expect even more than the six military deaths we’ve already suffered.

“That often happens in war.”

Words of comfort and assurance from our commander-in-chief.

As the bombardment continues – with no apparent endgame – the Dow dropped into the low 48s.

Local gas prices are already up by 50 cents per gallon, just five days into the war!

And it’s looking unlikely that the Iranian soccer team will be able to play in the World Cup.

If the tournament is able to be held at all.

Kinda makes the Captain wonder about the value of that made-up FIFA Peace Prize they gave to Trumpf.

Also note that so far we have not been “greeted as liberators” in Iran.

There was apparently no effort to drum up local support or even to assess who would lead the country when the bombs go silent.

The Ayatollah cut off the internet to his people months ago, so they have no idea what Trumpf was tweeting late at night from his golden toilet.

Ah, if only…

But seriously, is there an endgame? How will we know this war is over? How will we know who won?

When will President Trumpf receive the Nobel Peace Prize?

I mean, how many more nations does he have to bomb to get it!!! 

Israel wants nothing less than the total destruction of Iran.

The U.S. seems to only want a pro-U.S. government and cheap oil.

But there appears to be no plan.

Trumpf is using words like “maybe” and “might” and “hopefully”.

The CIA is only now courting the Kurds to step into the fray and attack by land from the north.

The Kurds want U.S. weapons in return.

Thus weakening the Iranian military, the Iranian people can rise up against the Islamic regime.

But still, no one has been identified to lead the country.

Will Trumpf give that responsibility to Little Marco too?

Frankly, the lack of preparation on our part is mind-numbing!

For what it’s worth, Iran has already declared Ayatollah Khamenei’s son to be the new Supreme Leader of Iran, so actual regime change is not likely to happen.

You see, mates, Iran has been at war, well, pretty much since the beginning of time.

And the U.S. has been meddling in their affairs since at least WWII.

And after all this time, Iran knows how to fight a war.

They have stockpiles of weapons.

They have redundant chains of command.

There are orders to be carried out in the event of the Supreme Leader’s death.

Even if there is no one to give the order, everyone knows what to do next.

There are “sleeper cells” in the U.S. that have been activated, which will bring the war right to our doorstep.  

And as we have learned from the past, the Iranians are not afraid to die for their country or their faith.

U.S. military bases around the world and at home are wisely beefing up their defenses.

Soldiers leaving base are instructed to wear civilian clothing so as to not become a target.

But still, there is no U.S./Israel plan.

Could this all really just be a distraction from the Trumpf/Epstein Files like so many believe? 

Wait. I misspoke. There appears to be a plan.

Senior military leaders are telling our troops that Trumpf has been ordained by God to start this war, which will bring about the Biblical Armageddon – the final war, the final judgment.

I shit you not!

And if that is the plan, mates, we are all fucked!

 

 

 

I Am So Over These People!

  

 2023

 

2026

Super Bowl Redux

Yer Captain was going to avoid the post-Super Bowl halftime controversy.

I’ve already said my piece in a previous post.

Yes, me and the First Mate watched and enjoyed Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show.

I loved the music and dancing.

Overall, the show was bright and energetic.

I don’t know what the words were, but I came away with a good feeling.

The next morning, just to be fair (because yer Captain is nothing if not fair) I skimmed through a YouTube video of the Turning Point USA alternative broadcast.

It was supposed to be an All-American celebration.

What they offered was three young country singers. 

And whatever Kid Rock is these days.

Even though they were all singing in English, yer Captain didn’t understand anything they said either.

And, far from uplifting, I found the TP production to be dark and angry.

They started with a poor imitation of Jimi Hendrix’s electric guitar version of the “Star Spangled Banner”.

I don’t think they understood that when Jimi played it, it was an anti-government protest.

The Captain wonders if they even realize Jimi Hendrix was black. 

But I digress…

Almost immediately after the real halftime performance (which they claimed “nobody watched”), the Right started spinning their lies.

Some called Bad Bunny’s performance “pure smut”, filled with "choreography featuring overtly sexualized movements, including widespread twerking, grinding, pelvic thrusts and other sexually suggestive conduct."

The Captain did notice Bad Bunny adjusting his crotch on several occasions.

I, too, have worn boxer shorts. They are not at all comfortable!

Others say Bad Bunny’s performance was a “slap in the face” to the majority of Americans who don’t speak Spanish.

Perhaps you should learn a second language?

Dammit Captain! Stay focused here!

One said it was “worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction” in 2004.

Worse than a split-second nipple-slip? Wow!

CAPTAIN'S NOTE: Bad Bunny's lyrics performed during the halftime show were reviewed by television censors. Lyrics were changed and words were "bleeped" to conform to broadcast norms. 

The President himself, who bitched and moaned about Bad Bunny for weeks prior, apparently tuned in anyway. 

It was on all the televisions at his Mar-a-Largo Super Bowl party!

Take that, Turning Point USA!

Of course, his take was that it was “the worst EVER!”

Of course.

But then the Captain came across comments by Laura Loomer.

Who the hell is she again?

Anyway, this was her take:

“Illegal aliens and Latin hookers twerking at the Super Bowl.

Not a single white person or English translation at the Super Bowl.

This isn’t White enough for me.”

"THIS ISN'T WHITE ENOUGH FOR ME." 

Honey, it was a football game, not a Klan rally!

Now, yer Captain thinks she meant specifically the halftime show, but let’s go with that.

Yes, the halftime show was populated with beautiful, brown-skinned people.

Bad Bunny is from Puerto Rico and so is his music, so that was to be expected.

There is no proof that any of them were here illegally or that any of them were prostitutes, but those type accusations score points with the MAGAts.

CAPTAIN’S NOTE: As a reminder, yet again, Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.

And yes, Bad Bunny sings in Spanish.

It’s a beautiful language.

But there in the midst of it all, Lady Gaga made a guest appearance.

Last I heard, she is white.

And she sang her song in English.

Did Laura Loomer go to the bathroom and miss that? 

Or did she not watch at all?

Also, at one point the Captain distinctly heard Bad Bunny say, “God bless America!”

In English. 

Now, I think he meant ALL the Americas, but it is what it is.

And the football he carried was emblazoned with the words, “TOGETHER WE ARE AMERICA”.

 And on the jumbotron, he ended the show with the words, “THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE”.

Written large in English so even Laura Loomer could understand the message he attempted to convey during his performance.

Now let’s look at the pregame show.

Green Day headlined the pregame.

Three [older] white guys.

Singing in English. [I think.]

Green Day has sold 75 million albums worldwide, making the band one of the highest-selling groups of all time.

Their 1994 album “Dookie” is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

They were there, not because of their skin color, but because of their success.

Charlie Puth sang the National Anthem.

He’s white.

He has a long string of awards and recognition dating from 2013 to the present.

He was there, not because of his skin color, but because of his success.

Brandi Carlile sang “America the Beautiful”.

She’s white.

She is a lesbian, married to Catherine Shepherd since 2012.

Brandi has 11 Grammy awards and 28 nominations, plus a whole bunch of other awards dating back to 2016.

She was there, not because of her skin color or sexual orientation, but because of her success.

Coco Jones sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing”.

She’s black.

Because it would be awkward to have a white person sing the Black National Anthem.

Coco has one Grammy and seven nominations, among other recognition in both singing and acting.

So she was there, not solely because of her skin color, but because of her success.

All of these artists, by the way, are very popular in the Bay area where the Super Bowl was held. 

And since I brought it up, Bad Bunny has 6 Grammys and 16 nominations, including Album of the Year in 2026.

Today he’s the most popular entertainer world-wide.

That’s why he was there.

Just for comparison, the Grammy count for TP’s alternate broadcast: zero. 

Kid Rock’s career peaked 20 years ago. 

He was picked only because he has been sucking up to Trumpf recently.

But did I mention already: Trumpf watched Bad Bunny instead!

If you were looking for an “all-American celebration of faith, family, and freedom”, the real Super Bowl Halftime Show was it.

No, it wasn’t an all-white whine-fest about how hard it is to be a white male in America today.

America (even the United States) has never been about that.

This nation was built (literally) by the blood, sweat, and tears of people from every country on this planet.

Let us never forget that.

Meanwhile, the people whose names have been revealed in the Epstein Files have still not been arrested.

Let us never forget that either.