What the hell is Greg Landsman's problem?
The derisive nickname "Genocide Greg" might have been an understatement.
I was 17 years old when I pulled the plug on my Army enlistment. Among the factors was being radicalized against the Iraq War while posting on Democratic Underground’s forums.
A million people died in a war that then-President George W. Bush and his blood-soaked cronies lied the country into.
I have no doubt there would be a nondescript stretch of highway in Marion County bearing my name if I had gone through with my enlistment, which went from intelligence officer to paratrooper after I copped to smoking weed “a handful of times” at MEPS.
It was a foundational political moment in my life when there were no consequences for a $1 trillion war that Bush put on the country’s credit card to finance tax cuts for America’s beautiful corporations.
I didn’t trust any pro-war Democrat back then, and that’s continued into today, where the current White House occupant makes Bush look like Seneca in comparison.
So you can imagine my, albeit unspurprised disgust, to see Cincinnati Congressman Greg Landsman not only defending Trump’s illegal invasion of Iran, but hilariously trying to push the narrative that Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu give a single damn about bombing a girl’s school in Tehran.
From Isaac Chotiner of The New Yorker:
You mentioned that some tragic things have already happened. I was thinking about the girls’ elementary school that was bombed in Iran, resulting in a hundred and sixty-eight deaths. Do you have a sense that the Prime Minister of Israel or the President of the United States cares about things like that?
I would hope so, yeah, I do. I would hope so.
Well, I would hope so, too.
Yeah, you know, look, I don’t know Donald Trump. I’ve never met the man.
All I meant, Congressman, is we’re putting the war in the hands of two people, and I asked you if you think that they would care about a girl’s school being bombed, and you—
Yeah. I mean, but again, I would certainly hope. But the people who are making these decisions, the folks who are on the ground actually executing these decisions, I believe they do care. And yeah, they care. And yeah, they care. ♦
“I would certainly hope,” too, Greg!
And sure, you can laud Landsman for “voting his conscience,” but I would argue that he does not have one if he can’t even muster the strength to condemn the stone-cold murder of more than 150 children.
And in his defense, at least he went full freak in his defense of Trump’s invasion, which almost seems more honorable than the rest of Ohio’s Democratic Congressional delegation mewling about Trump shirking constitutional guardrails.
But this is an example of why leftists were correct about Democrats who defended Israel’s genocide in Gaza. If you can’t condemn Israel for bombing Gaza’s single IVF clinic, then how can you be trusted to defend anything important at home?
“I don’t know Donald Trump.”
Sure, maybe so, but Landsman doesn’t need to meet Trump to know that he’s an insane, corrupt, wannabe despot that would have ended the American Experiment in 2020 if not for his habitual incompetence.
But what can be expected from a man who proudly touted graduation from the Wexner Foundation’s Heritage Program?
I understand that charges of dual loyalty are problematic at best. But like Landsman, I am also old enough to understand that these types of wars led by these types of men never benefit the American working class, whom, Landsman at least pretends to care about.
Hoping that the conflict “remains limited” but also “creates an entirely new Middle East” is insane for anyone to believe, but it’s especially insane for someone who, at least theoretically, opposes Trump and is old enough to remember the Iraq War.
Spending a trillion dollars and killing a million Iraqis didn’t create “an entirely new Middle East,” as Netanyahu confidently boasted it would. Why would this war, led by even dumber and more incompetent maniacs, be any different?
Given that, it’s unclear what would drive Landsman’s blood thirst other than an allegiance to Israel, no matter the financial or international damage to America’s already tattered image.
If Landsman can’t oppose this, then he’s no use to Democrats in Ohio.
How about some positivity to close the day? Announcing a partnership with CATUS APPAREL
We’ve been talking a lot about Jeffrey Epstein and Leslie Wexner and human trafficking in these parts.
It goes without saying that most sane people are against human trafficking—unless you’re Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski, who took the opportunity to gripe about the resources spent looking for a reporter’s missing mother in Tucson for some reason.
Recently, I met with Alex Sigrist, the son of State Rep. Mark Sigrist (D-Grove City), about his new non-profit, Citizens Against Trafficking in the United States (CATUS).
He has a noble and modest goal of raising $1,000 by the end of the year to offer as a college scholarship to a formerly incarcerated survivor of human trafficking.
Alex is selling C.A.T.U.S. clothing, with all proceeds going to that goal, no matter how big that number gets. He’s also not taking a single penny to pay himself. It’s all going to benefit survivors of human trafficking.
I’d be honored if anyone purchased some of his merchandise or made a direct donation to the cause.
You can also help spread awareness by following C.A.T.U.S. on Instagram, Facebook or TikTok.
I remain confident the Patriots Caucus can help him reach his goal of $1,000 by the end of the year, so expect to see C.A.T.U.S. pitched in periodic banner ads going forward.
