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Benjy Compson's avatar

This just in from the Bada Bing, I mean the Oval Office of the President of the United States- I will lie, cheat, steal and tolerate those that commit murder on behalf of my Anti Truth Neo Nationalist Socialiopath Agenda 1951

What’s indelibly etched into stone gate to the West..Point…If only the Generals had turned their collective backs to the psycho killer and madman Hegseth at Quantico…as want to do the oath commands…As I cannot help but wanna cry how many innocents have died, been raped, kidnapped, tortured by Russian pigs since Day One…not to mention how many since the day The Don King Trump rolled out the bloody red carpet for his fellow monster, I mean mobster Putin on American soil. God HELP U.S. We the Living in Kakistocracy

The G.O.P. Crasher and Trump Bible Salesman is no more Republican than Heat Miser in the flesh is Christian (the fact this ogre in chief was NOT resoundingly CONDEMNED by every single evangelical preacher for utterly, grotesquely violating the FIRST AMENDMENT in Exodus only proves South Park’s hilarious play on words [white] power Christian Principles is based on a true story). Forgive me Jay, I mean Jesus, government forces, I mean Marine Corp real American snipers are supposed to be under direct orders to mow down Tony Soprano and Johnny Sacks shake hands underneath the G.W. Bridge…I mean I cannot help but think what my honorable father (my old is buried in the big traitor to the Republic in American history..Robert E Lee’s backyard being the biggest middle finger war spoil…mat The Don be buried in the front with an upside down cross epitomizing where The Dons soul belongs) and every single one of his comrades was ordered to do, on screen, in “Why We Fight”, if you cross paths with anyone of these mobsters, I mean monsters DO NOT HESITATE.

Two things are true-well, (1) maybe family lore…my great grandfather “Vitt”, spelled Witt entered this country illegally, I mean as a stowaway…and (2) my old man returned to his grandfather’s homeland, uninvited, unwelcomed by the natives…he and his comrades being very heavily armed, like Alex Pretti (if only he could have known HE SHOULD HAVE used his gun for…to defend himself against pure white trash, fittingly dressed in sharp looking brown shirts, just following orders from the should six thousand feet under…didn’t I say the Generals should have turned their backs to the Neo Nationalist Socioliopath) and dangerous to every single person that looked just like him, up to no good, who had been raping, pillaging, torturing, murdering for fing years before Operation D Day finally commenced whose mother tongue was German. Sorry to have to tell you this Jay, but our supposedly Christian nations only immigration policy, and exemplified by our founding Holy Trinity, is already been expostulated 4,000 years ago- If a stranger sojourn amongst you, you shall NOT wax him. For you shall treat the stranger as one born in the U.S.A. For you shall love the stranger as yourself. For we were all strangers in a strange land. And please keep in mind what Viktor Frankel said of the German people. “There are two kinds of people-The decent and the indecent”. Our President is the latter and should have been arrested, indicted and convicted of inciting a white trash riot five years ago…but, by your logic, he and his disgusting crime family have more rights then my lovely gardener who crossed an invisible line in the sand without anyone’s permission in pursuit of happiness…Respectfully, I ain’t buying what you are selling and would pack like Alexi and make like an animal if any N.I.C.E. dog wandered anywhere near me…they are the enemy of good people as The Don is public enemy number one…how many more people need to be victims of the psycho killer in the Bada Bing before you can say what I will for you. GOD HELP U.S. I gotta run on and puke The Don is still our President. To paraphrase a momentary grasp of reason by the old doddering dolt Biden “For f’s sake THIS GUY CANNOT REMAIN IN WHITE POWER..and forgive me Jesus, what I wish a marine…Thanks for taking my rant onward and upward Peace through superior mental firepower

Ellen Kolb's avatar

You have at least one reader (me) who is not well-versed in the types of music you often review and mention in your wide-ranging posts. Thank you for including such material, even after your necessary coverage of grimmer topics. Exposure to broader forms of beauty makes my day.

Dave Ouzounian's avatar

The Black Tom explosion during WWI gave me some insight on US enemy alien worries in WWII. FDR, assistant secretary of the navy during the Wilson administration, told John Jay McCloy, assistant secretary of war during WWII, “We don’t want any more Black Tom’s.”

(My wife’s grandfather was first generation German. He fought for the US in Germany, and brought back a garden spigot from Wolf's Lair as a souvenir.)

Connor Dinnison's avatar

Surely a "peace board" with a Putin and a Lukashenko is no more Orwellian than a UN Security Council with a China, a Russia, a Congo and a Somalia, no?

bill walsh's avatar

Jay, if you could curse Œdipally with the élan of Sam Jackson, you too would be rolling in it.

Jay Nordlinger's avatar

Don't undersell me, my friend ...

Dave Ouzounian's avatar

Jay you Naughty Boy!

CynthiaW's avatar

"I think there are few issues more important than drug abuse."

Do you think there are few issues more important *to the President of the United States*, or even to the Federal government more generally, than drug abuse?

Al Saibini's avatar

My dad's father was an enemy alien (Italian) during WWII.

While my dad was serving in Burma and my uncle in the South Pacific.

Irwin and Cita Stelzer's avatar

From an old New Yorker: great photos! Thanks. Still considering an answer to your prior posting: "what do i want to learn, even at an advanced age?" Wigmore Hall is 125 this year! I was on their Board for a decade and started American Friends of WH: great times!

Randall Briggs's avatar

"They believe that Putin is some guardian of Christian civilization, and he has to pummel Ukraine because Jesus or something. Really, there are such people."

Yes, we have such people. They also believe that Donald Trump has to pummel blue-state America because of Jesus or something.

Carol S.'s avatar

Christianity stripped of ethics is big these days.

TP's avatar

Jay, you are worthy of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I will start calling around to see if any prior winner wishes to gift or bequeath theirs to you.

Laszlo Korossy's avatar

My first guess for the opera was Death of Klinghoffer.

Jay Nordlinger's avatar

That was a good guess.