Helluva Country

I wonder if I ever used that title before. It's a title you could use a lot.

I owe you an apology. I’m not tech savvy. I don’t know how to do this. I called one of my Substack friends to ask for advice, but he must be busy. He didn’t answer. What I want to do is the “paste” part of having “cut” an article, so that it then displays as a live link. I have never gotten that to work. So here’s the non-live link, and again, I’m sorry: On Conspiracy Theorist Laura Loomer's Orders, Rubio Announces Arrest of 2 Women for Supporting Iran | Common Dreams. What transferred was the title of an article. If you’re interested to read it, maybe you can “cut” what I just “pasted,” and transfer it to the URL yourselves.

But whining and begging forgiveness is not why I’m writing this post. Let me tell you what the reason is. Let’s just say that we limit our discussion of this matter, for the moment, to the conclusion that Marco Rubio announced the arrests of two people who supported Iran. And let’s say, because it’s part of what the linked article is about, that “supporting” Iran means expressing agreement with their position. Nothing presented would lead us to believe that these women transferred intelligence or resources to Iran, or did anything to attack the US. What they did was express themselves. They, and others mentioned in the article, had opinions, and they said what those opinions were. That’s the “free speech” that the SCOTUS, for example, occasionally considers a good and Constitutional thing.

For the record, I, too, “support Iran.” Perhaps that means I should expect people with heavy artillery to bang on my door, or force it open, and arrest me, too. Is Iran a perfect country with a perfect government and perfect citizens? No, of course not. No country is. And frankly, if anyone were to make a list of the most imperfect countries with the most imperfect governments, we’d be at or near the top of the list.

Iran, or N Korea, or China, or Russia, or Venezuela, or France, or S Africa, or anywhere, was doing whatever it was doing in whatever way it wanted to do it. We might like it and very much approve, or we might not. But they weren’t doing anything to us. Nor were they doing anything to our punk little sibling/ward, Israel. Israel might say they were worried about Iran. But the leader of Israel is every bit as dishonest as the leader of the USA, and trying to shift focus in order to stay out of court or prison (Hmm), and no country can attack another country because they’re worried about them.

An example of this problem is that I live in Florida, where the state government, which, by the way, loves nothing more than it loves dead Floridians, passed a “Stand Your Ground” law that does, in fact, allow Floridians to shoot each other if they feel worried about each other. Which they do. I’d tell you to ask Trayvon Martin how this gets played out, but you can’t. George Zimmerman decided, against direct police advice, to worry about Trayvon Martin, so he shot and killed him. That’s what the government of Florida likes.

But back to the issue at hand, we had zero reason to attack Iran, but the clown who lives in the White House decided (so he, too, could create a distraction to keep himself out of court and out of jail) to attack Iran. Just as he did last year, for the same non-reason. And as much as he trumpeted the “Mission Accomplished” mantra last year, he decided to give this scheme another go this year. He re-invented, and proposed to solve, an imagined problem he already invented and claimed to have solved last year.

And if two women thought Iran was being mistreated, and targeted without substantiation — well, yeah, the clown does want control of Iran’s oil, so he can sell off access to oil companies, which he expects to pay him personally (why doesn’t he just agitate to have the emoluments clauses removed from the US Constitution, since he already said that he does not, in retrospect, feel obligated to uphold the Constitution?) — then I agree with them. I wouldn’t want Iran, or any country to attack, try to invade, or take over the US, as the clown is apparently doing to Venezuela, but Iran didn’t do that, never expressed any ambition to do it, and probably couldn’t do it.

So I, too, support Iran (its complaint), and I oppose the clown, his domestic stooges, and his punk little brother who heads Israel.

I’d say “so shoot me,” but someone might well. Although I’m 76, I have always lived in what used to be a free country with a Constitution, so what am I bucking for? Yeah, I guess go ahead and shoot me if I’m no longer entitled even to an opinion. (Well, at least I got the heads up of having read Orwell in junior high school. We thought it was fiction back then.)

As I said in the title: Helluva Country. (By the way, Laura Loomer now gives orders that the Secretary of State is required to follow? Yikes! Yeah, I think “so shoot me.)