Of several quotes from yesterday, the scariest, from trump was about one of two “N-words” that he cannot use. “We were a little bit threatened by Russia recently, and I sent a submarine, nuclear submarine, the most lethal weapon ever made ... you can’t detect it. There’s no way.... 1/5

We’re 25 years ahead of Russia and China in submarines.” [FN1] That a dumbass like trump has access to nuclear codes makes his current (& illegal) occupancy in the Oval Office quite scary. In times past, what the threat of global incineration means was understood. During the 2/5

Cuban Missile Crisis, in 1962, Pres Kennedy took to heart Barbara Tuchman’s ‘The Guns of August,’ the Pulitzer-winning account of Europe blundering into WW1. JFK vowed he would not make the same mistakes. [FN2] trump seems to want a war here in the U.S. 3/5

We should be prepared to respond if military leaders take action to remove from office people who owe their jobs to a foreign dictator. We should look to people in Brazil, Korea, Ukraine & other countries that stopped dictators by removing the dictators from power. 4/5

Footnotes:
FN1. Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, “Trump Rambles About “Two N- Words” During Massive Military Meeting,” New Republic, 9/30/25, accessed 10/1/25.
FN2. Meredith Hindley, “The Dramatist,” HUMANITIES, September/October 2012, Volume 33, Number 5, accessed 6/21/25. 5/5