NEVER Trust Republicans

I found out about the death of Colin Powell via Tengrain... what can I possibly say about Colin Powell?  He was a Bronx boy (I used to work near his old home on 'Banana Kelly'), the son of Jamaican immigrants, who ended up at the pinnacle of American power.  He was the first African-American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the first African-American Secretary of State.  He also used his gravitas and trustworthiness to lie the United States into the evil, disastrous Iraq War.  He sold his soul for the Bush Maladministration, and that will forever taint his legacy.  Sure, he spoke out against Trump and all his works, but that doesn't expiate his guilt for the death toll that resulted from Bush's wars.  I'm on the record saying that I ranked Bush as a worse president than Trump until last year, when Trump accumulated an insane domestic death toll... and Secretary Powell was complicit in Bush's crimes.

Never trust Republicans, they will lead you to perdition, especially if you are perceived as trusted and honorable.  Hell, even his death due to COVID-19 complications (he was a cancer survivor, and although vaxxed, had several comorbidities), could be laid at the feet of Republican malfeasance and incompetence.