Day Like Any Day

Ends in why

45 out of 1262. Thank you!

There aren’t enough hours in it.

I have non-online duties today, but I’m almost finished with the next part of my Memories series. As fans of my old blog realize, the series is from many years ago, but it’s good to correct one’s own grammar and narrative flow issues - it’s the storyteller in me.

By the way, I do post short thoughts in Notes, but I’m going to share one right here, right now.

Question: what do you think the purpose of this nonsense is?

Of course this person knows that the three countries have been allies for decades. But he also knows that many, many, MANY Americans do not, even conservatives.

I found out how ignorant many of us are about recent history and geography when Former President Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un were conducting bluster-theater back in 2018 or thereabouts. Many conservatives back then were yelling “Nuke his ass,” oblivious to the fact that nuking Kim’s ass would literally blow back onto the asses of our allies in the region, which are (drumroll please) …

Japan and South Korea.

And, of course they did not know these two countries form a rough and very small circle around the Sea of Japan, with China and Russia nearly completing it. (I almost gave up my WiFi service when I couldn’t get some of my friends to recognize the simple implications of proximity, nuclear fallout and wind.)

So, this guy - a Biden operative - uses America’s strategic miseducation to his party’s advantage. It’s a valid tactic in that it often works.

I have some friends who think that most of the things we deem to be historical fact are false and, at first I thought this was a paranoid opinion. But if bullshit like this can be floated during a time when research is in the palms of our hands, imagine how easy it was to do before the Information Age.

But what do I know?

Oh yes. It’s my birthday … or so my mother tells me.

(Thanks to Dave Perkins)