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In fact Chocolate City itself is where tanks were part of the force deployed in 1919 to quell a days-long race riot "within spitting distance of the White House." That event was triggered by a lethal over-reaction by whites to a sexual assault claim that grew out of an initial allegation of two "negro" males "jostling" a white woman.

But that was waaaay back in 1919, you say? That's like the Stone Age! Way before Brown vs Board of Education. And even further away from landmark civil rights legislation that leveled the playing field. And we don't even call y'all Negroes no more. Straight up ancient history. f*ck outta here!

Problem is that here in this new millennium, the Independence Day military extravaganza is a MAGA production. And that all but assures that the "Commander's" tanks will be augmented by hoards of uninvited holdovers from straight outta the Stone Age - white supremacists - who remain hyper-adrenalized by their God Emperor's painfully overt endeavors to sustain the myth of racial superiority, thus adding fuel to a subliminal rage within them over latent insecurity about just how superior they actually are. Taken together, these overly fraught ingredients - God Emperor+Tanks+White supremacists +racial polarization+Chocolate City - certainly create the potential for fireworks. But not of the type associated with typical American Fourth of July celebrations. Instead, more along the lines of the kind associated with Middle East weddings.

But while "fireworks" of a non-celebratory nature in America's Chocolate City certainly could (at the time of this writing) be cause for concern, what's of equal concern is the likelihood that all this military-themed sensory overkill might gin-up the "Commander" into putting that military might to use - in the Middle East - specifically, Iran.

As such, I'm curious as to where John Bolton (who, like the "Commander," also avoided military service in Vietnam) be seated during the "Commander's" Independence Day tin horn spectacle. What about Sean Hanni will ty (who, like John Bolton, also avoided military service)? Would Tucker Carlson (who, like Hannity, also never served) serve as a human buffer zone between those other two dickless, chicken-hawk war mongers and their easily-swayed "Commander in Chief?"

Some of this begs the question. Is it at all possible that the Abrams tanks in Chocolate City during July could ultimately lead to election-year Missiles of October over Tehran?

Right now, in the hours leading to the start of our current "Commander in Chief's" Independence Day festivities, my guess that it all depends on the seating arrangement.

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Anthony Barnes, of Boston, Massachusetts, is a left-handed leftist. "When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the (more...)
 

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