I hate to say it but I must agree with you.

I go to the range every week now that I am retired. Last Thursday I stopped in a gun store in Marion, NC on the way home. I have sent in there a few times just to look. On the door as you go in is Calvin pissing on Polisi sticker on the door and Trump shirts hanging on display. I am looking at stuff and some old fat fuck is filling out forms. Anyway to make a long story short I asked about the 30 cal machine gun on display and related a story about how the mechanics mounted a huge ass 50 cal on their HUMVEE when I was in Iraq. The old fat fuck into into how Cubans are ingenious on fixing things and how we need to make them the 51st state. The shop owner agreed. I asked, “hey man are you willing to signup and help with that?” The fat fuck said. " yeah sure. " So I just laughed and walked out. I have numerous gun shop stories like that. Usually I will asked, " sounds like you might have served? What unit were you with?" The response is almost always, " I was not in the military." I like to call them chickhawks because they are more than willing to send someone else into the shit but not willing to go themselves.

You know I really don’t know what I am. I just want everybody to live the the life they want. I want everybody to have healthcare. I want kids to be educated. I want our infrastructure to be the best in the world. I want national parks to instill the love of nature. I want the natural resources taken from our ground and oceans to be used to enrich the lives of everybody not just the few. I want any public service work to be the highest aspiration of a child be it military, paramedic, social worker, or school teacher. I don’t know what this makes me. I do know that I benefited from things like this when I was growing up and I think they are worthwhile. Like I said I don’t know what that makes me I just know that Project 2025 and the MAGA are evil and if we can not come together and fight it then everything I hoped for in life will be lost. We all will be lost. I don’t want to become that guy standing at a checkpoint asking, " what kind of American are you?"

Some of us can shoot back. Get armed.

Can we please keep the post about Rampart?

As an American I sadly have to agree.

I was born here and grew up here and I can tell you with no doubt that this place is far right wing evangelical. So far right that Asheville has the center for Billy Graham’s cult and Ridgecrest. No they think Catholics are not Christian. I really have no idea why he converted to Catholicism other than he is willing to change his face to get what he wants.