The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Sound Of A Collapsing Empire Karen Kwiatkowski T.S. Eliot wrote “...This is the way the world ends[,] Not with a bang but a whimper.” We expect a sound to accompany any collapse, an ending, a grand finale – but little did we know that the sound of the end of the US military superpower would be the sound of a weak flush. Shockingly, or predictably, or even shockingly predictably,  we discover there is a terrible toilet problem on the USS Gerald R. Ford . This carrier is the newest and most expensive warship ever built, at $13 Billion 2017 dollars, $17 Billion in today’s fiat. Among its many innovations, a vacuum-sewage system was adopted from the cruise ship industry, with pipes too narrow to accomplish their military mission. The USS Gerald Ford recently finished a strenuous, if imaginary, narcoterror operation in the Caribbean, and at this moment, is in the Mediterranean Sea attempting to join the massive US sea and air forces buildup vis a via Iran. Israel wants to dec...

  An Assembly of Generals Karen Kwiatkowski It’s rare in peacetime, a meeting of  all your flag officers in one place  – and even more rare when a country is at war. The first question we must ask our generals and admirals, and our brand spanking new Secretary of War, is “Are we at war?” This question – frankly pertinent and simultaneously impertinent – would stymie our American generals and those who lead them into harm’s way, and more commonly, down dead end streets,  over the cliffs of insanity, and into fire swamps . Like former President Joe Biden, they Simply. Don’t. Know. Obviously, this one question needs to be answered, and constitutionally explained by the Secretary of “War.” It’s the least we can ask of the young man. Then, I would imagine that, given Secretary Hegseth is the MAGA man in the Pentagon, he will give the following short speech. Thank you all for coming. I hope you packed your sh!%. Putting America First means change for the Pentagon. Some of ...