Elon Musk says we need to colonize Mars so that there will be humans who survive the next war.

Courtesy of The Guardian:  

Humans must prioritise the colonisation of Mars so the species can be conserved in the event of a third world war, SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk said on Sunday.

“It’s important to get a self-sustaining base on Mars because it’s far enough away from Earth that [in the event of a war] it’s more likely to survive than a moon base,” Musk said on stage at SXSW – just days after Donald Trump announced plans to meet the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, in an attempt to defuse rising nuclear tension. 

“If there’s a third world war we want to make sure there’s enough of a seed of human civilisation somewhere else to bring it back and shorten the length of the dark ages,” Musk said, responding to questions from his friend Jonah Nolan, co-creator of TV show Westworld.

You know just a year or so ago I would have said this is hyperbolic and a severe overreaction.

Now I am simply hoping that Musk has enough time to solidify his plans before it is too late. 

Defense Secretary Mattis tells military leaders to prepare for war.

Courtesy of Politico:  

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Monday urged military leaders "to be ready" with military options for President Donald Trump to deal with North Korea should diplomacy fail -- after Trump reprimanded his top brass last week for not providing him contingency plans quickly enough. 

"Right now it is a diplomatically led, economic sanctions-buttressed effort to try to turn North Korea off this path,” Mattis said following a speech at the annual convention of the Association of the United States Army in Washington. “Now, what does the future hold? Neither you nor I can say, so there’s one thing the U.S. Army can do, and that is we have got to be ready to ensure that we have military options that our president can employ if needed.”

On Thursday, Trump told Mattis and his top generals in a White House meeting that he wanted military options at a “much faster pace.” The president subsequently suggested to reporters that “maybe it’s the calm before the storm," sparking widespread speculation that the cryptic reference was to Korea war plans. 

Before Mattis' remarks Monday, Trump tweeted, “Our country has been unsuccessfully dealing with North Korea for 25 years, giving billions of dollars & getting nothing. Policy didn't work!”

I am at the point right now where I am just assuming that Trump is going to attack North Korea.

In some ways I think he feels he has no other choice.

He understands NOTHING about diplomacy, and does not care about the long term affects of anything that he does.

What's more he desperately needs to shut down this Russia investigation, and since he cannot fire Robert Mueller without making things worse, he has to do something huge to pull attention away from it and insulate himself from further investigations.

Just ask yourself, which Republicans are going to support trying to remove the president while he is in the middle of conducting a brand new war?

Senator Bob Corker says that Donald Trump could set the country "on the path to World War III."

Courtesy of the New York Times:  

Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged in an interview on Sunday that President Trump was treating his office like “a reality show,” with reckless threats toward other countries that could set the nation “on the path to World War III.” 

In an extraordinary rebuke of a president of his own party, Mr. Corker said he was alarmed about a president who acts “like he’s doing ‘The Apprentice’ or something.” 

“He concerns me,” Mr. Corker added. “He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation.”

During the interview Corker said that he was by no means all alone in his concern:  

Mr. Trump poses such an acute risk, the senator said, that a coterie of senior administration officials must protect him from his own instincts. “I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, it’s a situation of trying to contain him,” Mr. Corker said in a telephone interview.

And there's more:  

In a 25-minute conversation, Mr. Corker, speaking carefully and purposefully, seemed to almost find cathartic satisfaction by portraying Mr. Trump in terms that most senior Republicans use only in private. 

The senator, who is close to Mr. Tillerson, invoked comments that the president made on Twitter last weekend in which he appeared to undercut Mr. Tillerson’s negotiations with North Korea. 

“A lot of people think that there is some kind of ‘good cop, bad cop’ act underway, but that’s just not true,” Mr. Corker said. 

Without offering specifics, he said Mr. Trump had repeatedly undermined diplomacy with his Twitter fingers. “I know he has hurt, in several instances, he’s hurt us as it relates to negotiations that were underway by tweeting things out,” Mr. Corker said.

All but inviting his colleagues to join him in speaking out about the president, Mr. Corker said his concerns about Mr. Trump were shared by nearly every Senate Republican. 

“Look, except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what we’re dealing with here,” he said, adding that “of course they understand the volatility that we’re dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes by people around him to keep him in the middle of the road.”

I think we all knew, or at least thought we knew, most of this already. 

Currently we are facing a potential crisis the like of which this country has NEVER faced before.

And that is a White House occupied by clinically insane individual.

If more Republicans like Bob Corker do not recognize that and take a stand, then the claim that we are headed toward World War III will no longer be considered an irresponsible exaggeration.

Donald Trump celebrates Easter in the traditional manner by posting Tweets boasting about his election win, bitching about tax day protests, and preparing the country for World War 3.

Why would I call China a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the North Korean problem? We will see what happens!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017

First tweet for today essentially says that Trump will not insult China as long as they do what he wants.

THAT'S the holiday spirit!

Happy Easter to everyone!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017

Okay there we go, that seems appropriate.

I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017

Uh, okay.

Once again let's remind everybody that Trump's electoral college victory was the smallest in recent presidential history.

As for the tax returns, yes those will likely continue to be an issue until the American people get a chance to see why Trump is working so hard to hide them.

Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017

Citizens of this country do not have to be paid to fight for our rights.

Trump is thinking of politicians.

 And finally (For right now at least.) there was this.

Our military is building and is rapidly becoming stronger than ever before. Frankly, we have no choice!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017

That's right kids, gather up those eggs. Because you are going to need the protein in order to fight in the inevitable world war that a Trump presidency will surely lead to. 

And there you have Donald Trump's first Easter as the commander-in-chief.

Have you ever been more terrified? 

It's like Donald Trump was warning us about his presidency as far back as 2013.