Casablanca’s Captain Renault Resurrected

by Philip A. Faruggio / December 3rd, 2025

Remember the famous line by Claude Rains as Captain Renault in Casablanca? After being told by his Nazi handlers to close Rick’s Cafe he relayed the ultimatum to Rick (played by Humphrey Bogart). Rick questioned why his cafe was being shutting? Renault simply answered, “I’m shocked to find that there’s gambling going on in here!” — this as he then took his chips from the croupier.

The actions by my government since September of blowing up a score of speedboats from the sky is more than a war crime. You see, we are NOT at war with Venezuela, and this was another example of extra-territorial massacres, just as the Israelis have been doing since God knows how long. Trump and his crew, led by Little Marco (Rubio) and Pistol Pete (Hegseth) and a cast of characters too lame to ever be in any government, just continues to leave a trail of tears on the open waters.

Shame on them and shame on any politician, and of course any American who supports this evil.

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Philip A Farruggio is regular columnist on itstheempirestupid website. He is the son and grandson of Brooklyn NYC longshoremen and a graduate of Brooklyn College, class of 1974. Since the 2000 election debacle Philip has written over 500 columns on the Military Industrial Empire and other facets of life in an upside down America. He is also host of the It’s the Empire… Stupid radio show, co produced by Chuck Gregory. Philip can be reached at paf1222@bellsouth.net. Read other articles by Philip.