and now imagine you accept this as a baseline condition of your daily life...you expose yourself to that risk with the bonus of an ever-present potential to be put into an active, kinetic warfare situation every day. regardless of whether it is active war, or the daily routine of acting in subtle defense and as a deterrent, you willingly shoulder that risk in service to the united states and in defense of its people. and then...you are faced with voting for the most important position whose decisions about peace, conflict, alliances, and adversaries shape the very conditions of your daily disposition and potentially, your survival. a position that demands judgment grounded in principle, strategic clarity, and fidelity to the national interest. yet you vote for someone whose leadership substitutes personal vanity for national strategy and treats matters of war and peace as instruments of ego or self-advancement. that you might be placed in mortal danger because a foreign government flattered a leader’s pride, bestowed symbolic favors, or appealed to personal ambition rather than to shared values and security interests on behalf of a man who simple needs to indulge his insecurities or appetites and is unmoored from principle, discipline, and constitutional responsibility. you are hoping for someone who will leverage the most nakedly corrupt and self-aggrandizing decision tree imaginable. that you could be put in harm's way because some country did not gift him a jet or put his name on a prize. that a belligerent country can run roughshod if they just tell him he's the bestest and make up a trophy to give him. that you are being actively betrayed and abandoned by that person you voted for so that he can corruptly redirect funds from taxes willingly paid by roma and me to ensure they are taken care of as the most basic, least-we-can-do-possible acknowledgment of this choice, to further entrench private wealth and corporate advantage so that they can continue to plunder the nation for all its possibly worth...is an ultimate exemplification of choosing the leopard and then being surprised when it eats your fucking face. it is repudiation of the reciprocal obligation between a nation and those who defend it...by those who defend it. i hate it. i wish it didn't happen. but, like i said, if you made the decision to vote for him with all the information available at the time, then i have nothing for you being completely fucked over by him in the most predictable manner. i will save my tears for your colleagues who knew better but have to live with your consequences of your choices.