This news article came across my feed today…

Top Trump officials Miller, Noem and Rubio adopt bunker mentality with housing reserved for military officers: report

Top members of Donald Trump’s White House are reportedly living in homes typically reserved for top military brass in Washington, D.C. as they pull back from neighborhoods where their presences were often targeted for protests by the many Democrats who make the Capital region their homes.

Stephen Miller and Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently joined a growing list of Trump Cabinet secretaries and advisers who’ve chosen to live in reserved military housing, with Rubio moving onto “Generals Row” in Fort McNair and Miller also living in the area after abandoning his digs in Arlington, The Atlantic reported.

They join Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who moved into military housing earlier this year, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is alone among his compatriots in finding some precedent for his decision to move onto Generals Row alongside Rubio.

This had me remembering this recent post on BluSky by Mrs. Betty Bowers (The World’s Best Christian):

People claiming that the Epstein Ballroom™ is really just a cover for a bunker has me fondly recalling what Hitler did in his.

Heh.

Listen…I’m not about to downplay the peril my country is facing now, but for all the warnings about how it was in Germany in the 1930s, it is well to remember that this is not Germany, it is not Italy, it is not Spain, it is not Chile. There’s a reason it is a nation of many sovereign states (and a few Commonwealths) plus Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands, gathered under the umbrella of an overall federal union.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

It was the only way. The diversity of the states and the people within them made no other form of self government possible. The British King tried to impose one and could not. By that time we had become Americans. Diverse, and a bit unruly. Civil War historian Shelby Foote famously said, “Before the war it was always the United States are; after the war it was the United States is… it made us an is.” But either we are or we is, it was the only way to make a thing out of that patchwork quilt.

Listen to an American you MAGA fascists…Fascism demands total control and conformity. You failed to get it from Germany, close as your kind did come, and even then you needed the help of the Treaty of Versailles and the hyperinflation of the great depression. You failed to get it from France…they kept killing your soldiers all the way to the end of the war and maybe you don’t want to recall what they did to the collaborators afterward. And those were small, pretty homogenous nations which America is not. You are not getting servitude out of all 46 states, the 7 commonwealths, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands. Maybe you get a significant fraction of those…for a little while…but you are not putting a collar around all of it, yanking its chain and demanding obedience. It’s just not happening in the country a Russian general once spoke of, saying that the reason Americans are so good at war is because war is chaos and Americans live in chaos.

It is the way…

I think the bunkers you want to be in are somewhere in Putin’s Russia…not here…