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trump dodged Vietnam & can’t supplant cowardice w/imaginary martial virtue

Posted by Mark Small on November 2, 2026 at 12:57pm 0 Comments

Yesterday, trump delivered what some would call a “speech” in Iowa and said: "’I could have won the Vietnam War in a week, you know,’ he said. ‘They dropped whatever the hell that red c**p is that they…kept dropping it in the forest.’" [FN1] Someone corrected him... 1/20

“‘Agent Orange,’ to remind Trump of the name of the chemical herbicide the U.S. military used to destroy Vietnamese forests at the time. ‘Agent Orange,’ [t]rump said, ‘even though it's red.’" [FN2] trump declined an…

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Elon Musk is not a “war criminal” ... he’s just a criminal

Posted by Mark Small on October 25, 2026 at 7:43am 0 Comments

The Wall Street Journal reported that, last week, Elon Musk “ordered Space X to slow down its service in Ukraine, rendering some drones that stopped incoming missiles and others aimed at Russian targets useless.” [FN1] The crime of murder is “malum in se,” [FN2] 1/10

i.e., accepted as wrong across jurisdictions & its elements, generally, consist of “unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought.” [FN3] Any people killed were on the ground in Ukraine when the order to…

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U.S. citizens who remain silent about trump's war crimes against Iran are complicit in those crimes

Posted by Mark Small on October 22, 2026 at 2:08pm 0 Comments

Today trump has said the U.S. and Israel will launch new strikes against after the November 3 elections.

United States and Israeli attacks against Iran were without provocation.

The Constitution gives authority to declare war to Congress. (Const. Art. I, sec 8.)

Congress has not declared war.

The War Powers Act is a work-around.

trump has disregarded the War Powers Act & says it is unconstitutional.

The U.N. Charter, Art. 2(4) prohibits use of force against the…

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Data centers only feed TESCREAL maws derived from science ... not fiction

Posted by Mark Small on October 22, 2026 at 8:53am 0 Comments

This is not science fiction. Musk, Peter Thiel, Garry Tan and others buy into these beliefs and, in the context of one or more of the TESCREAL subsets, seek to build as many data centers as possible to achieve those ends. Do you get it? Stated somewhat differently: 12/16

Data centers are being built for bizarre desires of tech billionaires who do not care how much they foul this Earth, how fast people have to run on a rat wheel to meet the data centers’ needs, or much else. Next:…

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