Peacekeeping vs. Peacemaking

I'm all for peacemaking™ - Colt.  Buffalo Bill, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Wyatt Earp and Teddy Roosevelt all agreed.  "God made men, but Sam Colt made men equal!"  Everyone needs a peacemaker, but peacekeeping is like burning your money to cook your beans.  It looks like it's working, but there are much better ways to eat hot beans.

The future is all proxy war!  Get your enemies to fight each other.  India and Pakistan, Ukraine and Russia, Israel and Hamas...  When America calls you a "friend" it means you are not on the bottom of the enemy list (North Korea, Iran, Libya, France, etc.), and you are entitled to BUY weapons from us to fight our less friendly friends.  That's right; no more of this "aid" sent to weaker countries.  They all have a GDP and if they want to survive, they will pay for it (like education in this country).  We'll even give you a loan at the current interest rates (thanks Fed!) that you can pay with your credit card when you get back on your feet.  We are not a charity.  We are not the world police.  We are not saving the planet from the bad guys.

Israel may have decided that one Israeli life is worth between 10 and 20 Palestinians, but we don't do that in America.  No boots on the ground.  We send one troop and lose one more life to fight Communism or Fascism or Terrorism and it just becomes another Vietnam/Iraq/Afghanistan.  From now on, it's just cruise missiles and drones.  When a war costs too much it will just be too much money.  We won't stick around and clean up either.  You can buy those services too.

"And in anger our lips shall form the truth." - Paladin (quoting Herodotus)

Evil is as Evil does

Why vote for the bad guy?  About as close as we can get to the angry guy in the wheelchair that takes Uncle Billy's money, Mr. Potter is most likely going to be our next president (again).  If you're a stinking liberal blue pill snowflake, you may be wondering how anyone could vote for this guy.  Here is a list of reasons and more than half of the voters this season will jump right on the wagon (again):

1) Piss off a democrat! Can you imagine any choice (even Sarah Palin) that would upset them more?

2) "I'm mostly evil so he's probably my best choice."  Even if you just cheat on your taxes a little bit, he's the guy that's going to make that look ok.  A bad example is the best example and he's got it in spades.

3) He has a "business" flavor to him even if he is not a good business man.  Won't this be good for the market?  My 401k needs to double twice for me to retire.

4) The wall: Someone needs to finish that, right?

5) Taxes, Welfare, Education, Health Care, Labor Unions and the Environment: Who is most likely to destroy and eliminate all of these things?

6) Social Issues: This needs to be a long paragraph that keeps democrats reading and distracted while we loot the store and bugger off to a remote island paradise (with no hurricanes).  We really don't care about social issues.

7) Immigration: Strawberry pickers, $2.50 an hour yard workers and au pairs that we can marry when we need a trade-in are ok.  Refugees can pass right on through to Canada (they have free health care).

8) Affirmative action, capital punishment, guns and drugs...

9) LGBTQ+XYZ - What's that?

Mama said there's only so much fortune a man really needs...  the rest is showing off.  Wait until you see the next Mar-a-Lago!