Far East Cynic

Worth repeating. The great betrayal of a sacred duty.

This post appeared on the Substack Site, Lincoln Square, which is the written voice of the Lincoln Project. It’s an organization dedicated to the same cause as I am, the destruction of Donald Trump and the restoration of the United States to a functioning constitutional democracy. They published a great

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What are we trying to prove?

Regardless of your political views, there is so much that is being done that makes zero sense. Like many Americans, I am sick and tired of waking up each day to read of how our country, as a result of actions by its tyrannical government, has chosen to do something

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The broken promise — July 20th, 1969

The future was supposed to be so much better than it ultimately turned out to be. July 20th. This year was the 57th anniversary of the moon landing. I remember as a 12-year-old boy, my father picking me up that morning from Camp Tionesta Boy Scout Summer Camp, driving me

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Right, but for all the wrong reasons.

Yes, the US has too many generals and admirals, but Hegseth is not the man to fix that. Our inept Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has stated that he wants to cut 20% of the four-star officer positions and 10% of the rest of the general and flag officer community. I am

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25 Things I Would Fix About This Country If I Had the Power to Do So

And that would just be the start Without a doubt, one of the most frustrating things about living in this demented timeline is the knowledge that there are many straightforward solutions to our American “problems” that we refuse to implement. We do not do so not because they will not

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Refusing to play the tape to the end.

Supporting Elon Musk’s illegal and treasonous efforts will not help you in the end. Without a doubt, the most amazing thing I have witnessed in the last month is the abject stupidity of a heck of a lot of American citizens. These are people who claim to love America but

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The process matters.

Those Americans who think the ends justify the means are just as guilty of crimes against the Constitution as Elon Musk is. Warning notice! Profanity and an angry tone follows…… I have had it with my fellow Americans, who display a fundamental ignorance of how their government and, more importantly,

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Jared Kushner is an idiot.

For someone who graduated from Harvard, he needs to relearn his history. I lived and worked in Germany and Israel for a good deal of time from 2011 to 2020. I’m very familiar with the history of Palestine from biblical times through our current era. So, like many others, I

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Star Trek was more accurate than we thought.

The only problem is, we aren’t in The Federation. We are living in The Dominion. I am a big fan of Star Trek, having watched all the broadcast TV shows. The popular viewpoint is that Gene Rodenberry’s vision of the future was positive, with humanity finally outgrowing its destructive tendencies

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The indifference index

How Americans claim to be a caring society, but they do not really care at all. If there is one thing this election proved, it is that Americans don’t really mean what they say. They have proven beyond a doubt that they: The motto of America is now the same

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