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Will Bunch, Philly Inquirer Article Exposes "Red Caesar" Scenario For Dictatorship, Post-Constitutional Order-- If We Are Not Alarmed, We Must Be Dead.

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According to Bunch in his agaonizing recap of a "Guardian" article, there are so-called right-wing "intellectuals," including Steve Bannon, tied to think tanks and colleges like Claremont that are openly floating plans to make Trump a "Red Caesar." What is extraordinary is that they have abandoned all stealth and are proposing this openly. It is backed by billionaires and is the actual agenda of MAGA. In fact, this is more than a scenario, it is their plan, and Trump's candidacy is the linchpin for it. The article linked below is must reading, and we should get this around. Most people reading this "get it." But we are not sufficiently conveying this to others, for reasons of fear, timidity, pessimism, cynicism, or an addiction to living in a comfort zone. Or just disbelief, combined with a false belief that only a tiny handful of extremists today are advocates for dictatorship. In response to that I would remind people that the Nazis nationw...

The Ahistoric And Negligent Perfidy Of Merrick Garland: His Firing Is Needed Now, But That Alone Is Not Adequate--

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By Lance Rosen October 6, 2023 After a brief survey of my usual sources and a very coherent synopsis by my friend Thomas Clay Jr. in his morning post, it is clear that the espionage conducted by Donald Trump actually did rise to the level of treason against the United States, and that all existing legal cases and investigations of him up until now would be rightly superceded by new charges against him for exactly that.  Objectively, the damage which has been reported as the direct aftermath of his trading of nuclear secrets with Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt appears to have surpassed that of Jonathan Pollard, Aldridge Ames, and Robert Hanssen combined. The sharing of our nuclear submarine capabilities with someone who then relayed them over an unsecured line, (and subsequently shared that information with 45 additional people) has undeniably found it's way into Russian hands, and literally blew up the agreed to Australian-French submarine sale as a result, with Australia piv...

Celebrity Worship- A Symptom Of End Stage Infantilism-

Celebrity Worship- A Symptom Of End Stage Infantilism-  Many of my readers will bristle at the above headline. Good. It should cut deep, not just itch.  Without getting into specific cases, I'll make a few points and keep this short. In the 1960's, there were many celebrities, entertainers, and public figures who got behind the Civil Rights movement. Harry Belafonte was one example, Kirk Douglas was another, and many more musicians, actors, athletes like Jim Brown, Bill Russell, and writers whom we all know. They gave tons of money, got into good trouble, antagonized J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, put their physical safety on the line by marching in the South, and risked their careers. They were leaders of a movement that after 400 years of getting fucked by America took history in their own hands and decided to peacefully defy unjust laws.  They went through a lot more than we have, and realized that they needed to do something different. And after they won, they didn't sit ba...

Turn Off Your TV! --- Beware The "Entertainment Industrial Complex"

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Turn Off Your TV! --- Part I--Beware The "Entertainment Industrial Complex" Ok, not really. I mean, that is unless you want to.  TV is passé anyway these days since the advent of mobile devices. We used to relegate our "zoning out" time to our living rooms and bedrooms after work or school, for maybe an hour or two. On weekends people actually went out. Of course that was before people began to see the outside world itself as an invasion of their privacy and accumulated an arsenal of phone apps to deploy as electronic defensive shields rivaling those of the Starship Enterprise.  People would watch a movie, a game, Johnny, Jay, Dave, a sitcom like Fresh Prince, or for us "cognoscenti," PBS.   Now we can watch anything  everywhere, at work, in school, in restaurants, even in Church, and while crossing the street against the stop light in heavy traffic. We are so "connected" now we can even share videos while driving off of highway embankments and ...

Just For Emphasis-- The Impeachment Operation Is Vladimir Putin's Play, A Terrorist Attack Being Run Through His Agent Trump:

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Just For Emphasis-- The Impeachment Operation Is Vladimir Putin's Play, A Terrorist Attack Being Run Through His Agent Trump: The announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry yesterday will not amount to much of anything because there is zero evidence. Finding "evidence" isn't even the point of it. (The so-called evidence is likely stored away someplace with Trump's 11,315 missing Georgia votes) Fabricating evidence, yes, finding it, not at all. It is the continuation of Vladimir Putin's asymmetric warfare strategy against the United States begun with his operations to install Trump in the Presidency in 2016. It is also part of the same continuous operation as the infamous phone call from Trump to Zelensky in 2019 to extort Ukraine in exchange for "dirt" on the Biden family, in order to steal the election. That "dirt" on the Bidens was from the beginning a Russian intelligence fabrication. Just like Hunter Biden's laptop. The House Free...

What I See That Scares Me And Keeps Me Up At Night-- Why do the MAGAts "anti-woke" campaigns seem to be so effective?

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"What I See That Scares Me And Keeps Me Up At Night-- Why do the MAGAts "anti-woke" campaigns seem to be so effective?" September 13, 2023 To answer my own question, because most of us who are "woke" make the possibly tragic blunder of assuming that they actually give a shit about the issues they campaign on. They don't care about any of it. They grandstand for purposes of doing performance art for their dumbass moronic voters and donors. Everything they do is toward getting re-elected from the instant their vote totals are final and they get in. This does not mean in any way that they are less destructive in their real world operations, just that what they are doing has little to do with what they say it does, in most cases. They are playing to "their crowd," and their crowd spends as much time in Church as they do because the mental hospitals are too full to hold them. The MAGAt "Christian patriots" leadership are not simply c...