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K          “It says something – profound and troubling – about the American experiment that the Empire pursues war crimes as national policy and celebrates war criminals as national heroes.”

J          “That it does.  It celebrates war in all its manifestations.  You know what they say.  If you want a state funeral in America, first be a war criminal.”

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K          “I shared a story that I reflect on frequently.  An old experienced law professor who taught comparative law in American and European law schools for over two score years shared his settled observations about the fundamental difference in training and perspective between American-trained lawyers and European-trained lawyers.  With some exceptions, an American-trained lawyer first asks:  ‘Can we get away with it?’  With some exceptions, a European-trained lawyer first asks:  ‘Is it lawful?’.”

J          “And Trump has rejected international law in lieu of his own richly nuanced morality.  Without even attending an American law school.”

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K          “Trump is a perfect carbon copy of John McCain, Madeline Albright, Victoria ‘Fuck the EU’ Nuland, Lindsey Graham and Hillary Clinton.  He is eminently qualified for the honor.  America really is a meritocracy.”

J          “Three women among the first six honorees.  The ladies have shattered the glass ceiling.  America really is great again.”

K          “The U.S. has immanentized the eschaton.” 

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J          “He is a bully, a crook, a con man, a felon, a fraud and an alleged child diddler.  Trump the man is an outstanding and deserving selection.” 

K          “Like Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump is a vile and venal admixture of a sociopath and a psychopath who is indifferent at best whether the entire world is obliterated in a nuclear war.  He is pursuing a private agenda on the public dole.  For these and other compelling reasons and despite ferocious competition, he is most deserving of the prestigious ‘John McCain – Madeline Albright Rancid Vermin Award’ for 2026.”

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[See the e-commentary announcing the three prior recipients at Hillary Clinton:  Recipient Of The Prestigious John McCain – Madeline Albright Rancid Vermin Award for 2025! Oh, And Happy (Early) Law Day! (April 21, 2025), Lindsey Graham:  Recipient Of The Prestigious John McCain – Madeline Albright Rancid Vermin Award!  Oh, And Happy May / Law Day! (April 29, 2024) and Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland:  Recipient Of The Prestigious John McCain – Madeline Albright Rancid Vermin Award!  Oh, And Happy May / Law Day! (May 1, 2023).  Among other travesties and transgressions, Hillary Clinton, last year’s recipient, was involved in and proud of the assassination of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi because he sought to undertake oil sales in something other than American PetroDollars.  World’s Reserve Currency War I = Cold War 2.0 = WW III (?) (September 8, 2014).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned . . . I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”  Antonio Gramsci, Prison Letters

“And as for him who lacks the courage to defend even his own soul:  Let him not brag of his progressive views, boast of his status as an academician or a recognized artist, a distinguished citizen or general.  Let him say to himself plainly: I am cattle, I am a coward, I seek only warmth and to eat my fill.”  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “Live Not by Lies” written before he was arrested on February 12, 1974.

A Sunday poem during National Poetry Month from the President:  “We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran.  NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!  They’ll come down fast, they’ll come down easy and, if they don’t take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years.  IT’S TIME FOR THE IRAN KILLING MACHINE TO END!  President DONALD J. TRUMP”

LOSER:  The Failed Presidencies of Donald J. Trump, the blockbuster biography of the 45^th and 47^th occupant of the White House available in your neighborhood bookstore next month

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