If we can't get these shit heels out of office, it really will not take that long to permanently destroy the version of America I signed up to serve. MAYBE twenty years.
Which would have sounded like a long time to the seventeen year old me who enlisted back in '89, but sounds AWFULLY fucking short to 53 year old me in 2025, who got out THIRTY years ago and has a rather different perspective on what "a long time" means.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients
Jim Salter
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