Why did four million Albanians take to the streets to protest a corrupt land deal engineered by President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, while Americans who face far greater threats from the president and his family spent the weekend barbecuing and at the beach?

Why do Ukrainians fight Trump’s Russian allies even though the odds are against them? And even though the costs in life, human suffering, and economic terms are immeasurably high while Americans passively accept the far greater threat that Trump poses to our national security and that of our allies?

Snap out of it, America!

Give yourself a good hard slap across the face. Douse yourself with ice water. Wake the eff up!

Henry Kissinger once said the most powerful force in Washington is inertia. The same could be said of the entire country. We’re too comfortable. The proof is in how disproportionate our response is to the threat Trump poses to our country.

The problems are piling up under the demented and incompetent leadership of the president and his cronies. Gas prices are up. Food prices are up. Millions of Americans are unable to afford healthcare.

And the evidence of far greater problems to come is abundant.

We are in the midst of a national crisis that is every bit as much an existential threat to the nation and the well-being of its people as any battle we have faced since Appomattox.

The president is literally decaying before our very eyes. Not only can he barely walk or stand, he cannot stay awake for more than a few minutes at a time. It’s not an exaggeration. We all saw it last week in an Oval Office meeting in which he slumped in his chair and passed out while the aides around him, on live television, pretended to ignore it. Pretended, just like tens of millions of Americans do every day.

It’s Weekend at Donny’s: The Oval Office Edition, and far too few people seem to give a damn. (Who’s surprised? In the last election, despite knowing Trump was our worst president ever during his first term, far more people chose not to vote than voted for either Trump or Kamala Harris.)

We have seen the president unable to maintain a coherent thought. He couldn’t remember the name of the Washington Monument. He regularly can’t control his anger. He threatens wars and demands payoffs for insurrectionists around the clock. He posts AI slop glorifying himself as a god or a warrior or as a heavily-muscled football icon with half-naked young men dancing in tribute to his manliness.

This weekend, on the anniversary of D-Day, he launched attack after attack on Americans and the world........

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