But such a vicarious thrill for degenerates!
 
	ETA: Here's the breakdown of aid to Colombia:
 
	
 
	*The defense industry will love this. Most of our foreign is military based (or it was last time I read about it) and, as Gore Vidal argued, should be counted as part of the defense budget as it goes to arms makers. Military industrial complex and all that.
 
	The above shows the many options Trump had other than the thrill of having the power to legally order murder. He has many cards to play. Yet, he chooses to blow up boats at sea then to play his whole deck of cards at once.
 
	I have no idea how any of our foreign aid initiatives with Colombia do good or harm. The one at the bottom sounds good, but I don't believe somebody working the fields for a drug lord can just turn in his resignation to work his own plot of land. The rest? Who fucking knows?
 
	But try manipulating those before going lethal on valid targets then never attack targets randomly then lie about it. There were bags of fentenyl and other drugs floating all around the wreckage. Then tell bigger lies to the sailors you turn into accessories to your pathological wickedness:
 
	
 
	Nothing much to add about the above. The last sentence, ironically, is so mild a retort that it's maybe across the line of dishonesty itself.
 
	I begin to wonder if we only had three TV networks focusing on the same stories with little other distraction for the public if would be united in seeing this madness and put an end to it. Everyone who watched the evening news or read the daily papers would be able to quote the above for its outlandishness. I didn't find out about the speech until today. It should have been a one-way ticket to the looney bin.
 
	There is no way back to that. It's not a new thought, but I see the fragmentation of the public in terms information gathering as another nail in the coffin of our republic.