Happy Veterans Day, 2025—Defend Our Guys Against Malign Government

Marine Reconnaissance troop on guard duty, Vietnam

Veterans, Fighting Forces Are Imperiled by Trump, Lindsey Graham, Chickenhawks, and Liars

Commentary

We salute our veterans, and we call out our veterans' enemies today, chickenhawks, who are at it again, crawling out from under rocks mocking virtues of our military forces — service, honor, guarding our freedom.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), always desperate to prove his manhood in his perverted method of chickenhawk acts, celebrates Donald Trump's killing, bringing "death" to the world, (Yahoo).

"[Donald] Trump is my favorite president. We’ve run out of bombs, we didn’t run out of bombs in World War II," Graham noted to celebrate increased killing enacted by the current administration, (Yahoo).

Vietnam veteran Don Kosterman of Fitchburg, Wisconsin
was welcomed home with other Wisconsin-area veterans 
in May 2023. Veterans are honored each year in the
 Badger Honor Flight. 
Don was in-country, Vietnam, 1965-66. 
Don Kosterman is a man of honor.

We need more war, more killing. This is how we honor our veterans and servicemen and women, Trump and Graham believe.

Our federal government now has the Department of War, a new undertaking, but a transformation in name only of the massive national security state erected by Democrats and Republicans.

War president; war footing; strutting egotism, permanent war, and a pathological inability to speak the truth—this is the government we have today to honor our veterans. 

Sixty-four years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about war as an anti-democratic, corrupting domestic force in his Farewell Address (1961), as peace is deterred, and atrocity continues.

Doesn't have to be this way.

Concludes Eisenhower:

"We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."

Vietnam veteran Patrick Newberry of Fitchburg, Wisconsin
was welcomed home with other Wisconsin-area veterans in
April 2023. The veterans were honored during the
46th Badger Honor Flight. Patrick was in-country. Vietnam 1967
(WMTV-Madison) 
Patrick Newberry is a man of honor.

But our current president betrays the presidential oath of office, substituting indecent needs of the terror state of Israel, for example, for the needs of 1.2 million low-income veterans, 40-million other elderly and disabled, whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP benefits have been fanatically opposed by Trump and Graham.

The world is a free-fire zone for President Trump; and our active-duty forces are sometimes transformed into war criminals by their commander-in-chief.

Billions of dollars for Israel, and a perverse crusade to block SNAP for our veterans the weekend before this Veterans Day, with a late assist to Trump from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). This is the terrain today.

The national security state budget surpasses $1 trillion each year, viewing with suspicion those few seeking elected office and calling out the perils to our democracy of the security state that lives through secrecy and lies, with no accountability. 

Marines like Graham Platner, oyster farmer, and Democratic Party candidate running for U.S. Senate in Maine in 2026 fight back. "I will never, ever vote to send Americans into a pointless war," vows Platner. 

Platner has drawn the enmity of Sen. Chuck Schumer and other liars in Congress for standing for freedom and truth.

Our country is a betrayal to the people who guard our freedom.

As Eisenhower warned:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted.

Veterans, thank you. 

We as the American people should honor you by ensuring you have the country you served.
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Anyone ever see a veteran in the days back home from a Honor Flight? It's wonderful; veterans glow with an expression that appears a mixture of pride, solidarity, even elation. 

I think we can match this glory, or at least come close enough, in the performance we demand from those in government.

I know we should try.

Look to independents who reject partisan blinders. Check out Army Green Beret veteran, Valhalla VFT, and other patriotic independents.
 

Wisconsin Republicans Leave Behind Deceit and Destruction

Defeated Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker (R) leaves
behind a degraded state, burnt and razed with
intent and malice. Above, Scott Walker sits on a
Harley at a 2010 event, Operation Freedom, from which
Walker's cronies embezzled $10.000s. In June 2018
Walker failed to defend Harley Davidson from attacks
made by President* Donald Trump (R).

Madison, Wisconsin —  Gov. Scott Walker (R) and Wisconsin Republicans —  an unappealing blend of Evangelicals, bigots and corrupt Trumpists — are using their tax-payer salaries, benefits and perks to take another slash at anyone who dares use food stamps, now known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the lameduck session.

Reports H. Claire Brown in The Intercept:

The new [lameduck] legislation enshrines in state law outgoing Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial policy of forcing many food stamp applicants to submit to drug testing. It also limits the incoming administration’s ability to walk back the state’s strict new work requirements for aid recipients. After Walker’s approval, Wisconsin will be the only state that requires drug testing for non-felon food stamp applicants.

One would think that Scott Walker in particular would be grateful for public assistance considering the $millions in public monies Wisconsin taxpayers have given this career politician and his family in salary, healthcare and pension.

Not Scott Walker.

The billionaire-licking Walker maintains a perverse hatred of anyone enrolled in Medicaid, SNAP and the University of Wisconsin System, all the while funneling $100 of millions in public monies to Republican-connected scams through the scandalous Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC).

Foxconn is just the logical extension of Republican corruption.

Even while the Wisconsin press remains insistent on characterizing Scot Walker and Republicans as "conservative," what is being attempted in these last weeks of Walker's tenure is the latest radical power grab of public institutions, unprecedented in modern times and with no common purpose to the Wisconsin people.

Desperate to lie to the end, Scott Walker's office said Walker is still deciding whether to sign the series of bills passed by lameduck Republicans and only Republicans, (In Session Wisconsin State Senate).

Scott Walker will sign the legislation. It's what God wants.