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Statement from Washington Litigation Group, which sued to halt Trump's shuttering of Kennedy Center: "This constant effort to add Trump's name to the Kennedy Ctr facade is the definition of insanity. This is now the 3rd attempt to deface this sacred memorial and turn it into a vanity project for one man's ego. Worse still, now Trump is taking the Center hostage and threatening to in effect kill it unless he gets his way."

Since the focus has been on the sailors of the USS Lincoln, I will comment…briefly…on my experience on an aircraft carrier. I worked on the flight deck of the USS Nimitz for the entire 6-month deployment, launching aircraft during combat operations, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. After leaving the Navy, I briefly worked as a nurse in a correctional facility (prison) I have said many times, if I had to choose…to spend another 6 months at sea, doing the work I did then, in the conditions I did that work, or spend 6 months in a medium security prison..as an inmate… I would choose the latter. It’s some of the toughest, most dangerous work on the planet. I collapsed into my “bed” each night…every night. Only a miserable fuck like Donald Trump, who has never done an hour of hard physical labor in his life…would make an ignorant ass comment like, “…not long enough..” when a reporter asked him if he felt the Lincoln deployment was too long.

Unless you held your personal phone up to a dying patient so they could gasp “I’m sorry…I love you…goodbye…” to their family on a group call you organized, you do not judge Fauci. Unless you did the same for a patient who was already unresponsive and nearing death so their loved ones could say the things they never said and you were never meant to hear, you do not judge Fauci. Unless you rationed oxygen, medical equipment and life-saving medications, because your top-rate, first-world country, and its self-aggrandizing medical system failed, you do not judge Fauci. Unless you’ve lost three patients in 45 minutes going from one bedside to the next so they did not die alone, praying the prayers a priest was meant to say because they could not come, you do not judge Fauci. Unless you’ve zipped a human being in a bag knowing no one else would ever gaze upon that face again, and placed it on a table in an office or on the floor of a refrigerated trailer meant for sides of beef, you do not judge Fauci. Unless you hold a degree in nursing or medicine, or epidemiology, or public health, or at the very least can connect the dots, the very simple dots, you do not judge Fauci. For if you lived and sit in judgment of decisions you did not make and do not understand, decisions for which you were never considered, and never would be, you are a fool and look dumb before humanity and God. And may God help you, because you clearly cannot help yourself. ~Jason M. LaForest, July 30, 2026

Send Trump some Taco Bell with extra lettuce.

They must've run out of makeup on Ear Force One