The Rosen Report

Why Clarence Thomas Should Be Impeached, But Won't Be-- Clearly Clarence Thomas is a candidate for impeachment, given his apparent conflict of interest related to wife Ginni's involvement in Trump's fascist coup attempt of January 6th, and Thomas' rulings on the Court which served to shield both her and Trump. But there are two reasons it won't happen.  The first is "electionitis." There is a belief that Trump's MAGA movement is divided into a moderate wing and an "ultra" MAGA, and that the Democrat's key to minimizing their impending losses is to carve out a moderate MAGA voting block which will crossover and vote for either centrist Democrats or anti-Trump Republicans. The Democratic Party is actually working to elect what they believe are "non-MAGA" Republicans in some places where they think they won't win, in order to weaken Trump. But there are also credible reports that Democratic operatives were working to help elect...

 On the 58th Anniversary Of Signing Into Law The US Civil Rights Act--June 29, 1964 This introduction to a two year old Facebook shared memory post will serve as Part 2 of my series on "How To Overcome Fear, And Climb Out Of The Bunker." It is easy to romanticize the leaders of the 1960's Civil Rights leaders as heroes, because in fact they were. They changed the United States and the world. How did they do it? Well, it started with confronting yesterday's MAGA, the Ku Klux Klan, which went by the name "White Citizens Councils". .  They were beaten with billy clubs, had their homes and Churches firebombed, were tear-gassed, bitten and dragged by attack dogs, hit with high pressure firehoses, arrested, tried and jailed on false charges, defamed and slandered, harassed by the FBI, lynched and murdered.  And this was for what? For wanting to register to vote. For marching peacefully. For wanting to sit anywhere on the bus, eat at any cafeteria, use a bathroom a...

The Thrill Of Defeat, The Agony Of Victory-- Some needed reality after Cassidy Hutchinson's "Bombshells" You won't want to hear this. Too bad, here it is anyway. Today's events might be the end of Trump, whether he is indicted or not. Which means our crisis of democracy has worsened.  Today's hearings seems like good news at first, but the prospects for a DeSantis Presidency just doubled. DeSantis is evil, but not mentally unstable. That makes him more dangerous than Trump in terms of the long term damage he can do. As a result, the GOP bloc that had been resigned to a Trump nomination but was nervous about him and might not have turned out, or even might have crossed over, now has a non-insane but calculatedly malignant pseudo-Christian fascist to rally around. This means that the GOP base will now orient toward the program for mass murder and dictatorship of DeSantis in Florida, the "11 point Program to Save America," of Florida Republican Senator ...

Some people object to the comparisons of Trump and Hitler, citing the difference in scale and scope of their crimes, and that the comparison itself demeans the memory of the Holocaust.  To that I say the following-- He has already caused the death of at least 800,000 people and ruined the health of millions of others through his criminal negligence on covid.  His policies on dismantling Social Security, Medicare, plans to overturn Obamacare with it's protections for pre-existing conditions, reversing Roe vs Wade, and enabling the gun lobby will cause the deaths of many more, especially the first two categories.  That is, IF he and the GOP assume total power.  Get a pencil and paper out, and do the math. It should be easy, look up the number of people with lower income or none, solely dependent on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, food stamps, etc, and project a year into the future what will happen to them when they lose these things. Count them up.  Prete...

  Clarence Thomas' recent comments regarding the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and their "hate group" designations being libelous or defamatory are revealing. (Exposés regarding "Coral Ridge Ministries Inc," and their bigoted propaganda against LGBTQ citizens rights)  It is more than another step toward press censorship.  It is Thomas openly defending various extremist organization's right to conduct hate speech, speech which is provably incitement to violence against targeted minorities and public figures. It is an atrocious legal provocation by an extreme right-wing charismatic Catholic religious bigot which is more suited for Tomas de Torquemada's Spanish Inquisition than the Supreme Court of the United States This comment by Thomas exposes his transparent political and religious bias, as these are the very groups which his wife Ginni and other Trump acolytes organized in large numbers and brought to the Capitol on buses to violently obstruct th...

  Our Posterity Has Some Questions-- (my reaction to Professor's HCR's extraordinary "tour de force" today on the history of the movement for "States Rights" and its evolution into the Confederacy. Must reading)  ["So, we have a process underway in which the Trump/GOP Red States had their "Fort Sumter" on January 6th with their violent attack on the seat of our elected national government in order to overthrow it, marching under the flag of the Confederacy. This Confederate Army, led by today's Jefferson Davis, was brought there as an anti-government violent attack force, not a peaceful assembly.  Sixteen months later, not one of the ringleaders of that modern day Confederate rebellion has been charged, only the footsoldiers. Not one person has been charged with murder for the violent deaths of Capitol police, or the incitement which caused them. Not one person has been charged with conspiracy to commit political murder in the case of the ...

Who And What Are These Men And Women Of The Runaway Supreme Court?  In my view, the five highpoints of American history were: 1) Our formation as the "United States" to declare independence from and to defeat the evil and genocidal worldwide colonial system of the British Empire. 2) Lincoln's defeat of the Confederacy and ending of slavery 3) FDR's leadership behind the New Deal and war mobilization to defeat fascism. 4) The centuries long African-American Civil Rights Movement defeat of the KKK and Jim Crow system, trailblazing for all future Civil Rights victories. 5) The greatest scientific achievement in human history, the lunar landing of 1969. The historic role and function of the US Federal government in making these achievements possible was officially nullified two days ago with the precedent setting decision on "Roe vs. Wade."  The Supreme Court of the United States is at war with the American Constitution. They are at war with the "General We...

How To Overcome Fear, And Climb Out Of The Bunker-  Part  (photo- Hamlet wavers in ending the corrupt reign of his uncle) Introduction-- Fear is normal Martha and I have a combined experience in political organizing and activism of more than 80 years, and we've learned a few things over time. We have lived an unconventional life, as those we are close to know very well.  Today, on our 35th Anniversary, we want to give you all a present, which are some hopefully useful insights for difficult and perilous times. It would be supremely selfish for us to hoard that knowledge, given the unique opportunities of the moment.  There are many folks who "know too much" regarding the nature of the threat represented by our GOP/MAGA fascist adversary, who remain in a state of political paralysis and are doing relatively nothing about it. The paralysis is born of fear, and in my view, there is no point in not addressing it, as it is pervasive and has been the primary factor suppres...

What My Gut Is Telling Me-- Looking through past November after day four of the J6 hearings All of it speaks to the fact that the US came within 40 feet of a Vice-Presidential assassination, martial law under the Insurrection Act, and an actual bloody Civil War, because of one mentally ill narcissist who happened to become President, who thinks like a mobster, and acts like a KGB agent. One man, and 70 million more in a state of mass psychosis.  So many are hoping and praying he will be indicted to defend the rule of law. Has anyone considered what's next? You've heard about the dog who chases cars? The question then becomes, "what does the dog do with the car after he catches it"? There is little doubt in my mind that if Trump is indicted he will unleash his heavily armed and violent supporters in a civil conflict. It is also likely Biden will be impeached if there is a GOP majority in the House and Senate, which if nothing else will result in paralysis of the govern...

He Knew! So we have witness testimony corroborating that Trump lied. That he knew he lost, but went with the "stolen election" line anyway.  It was clear from the moment he was first elected that he knew he was screwed, because the Presidency meant being under a real microscope, not like he was used to, and he couldn't continue to get away with a life of crime and Russian agentry. He knew that he needed to remain President into perpetuity to have a shield from criminal prosecution. He was desperate to keep power from the moment in 2016 that he knew he had won.  So what has this "Big Lie" really been all about? In plain language, he fabricated a fairy-tale for the paranoid, stupid, enraged, hate-filled, infantile, greedy, brainwashed ideological fanatics, racists, religious zealots, and borderline psychotic broken individuals who are his base. "Deplorables" doesn't even come close to covering it.  Not every single person who voted for him the first ...

The Strategic Dirty Secret Behind Putin's Praise For Czar Peter The Great--  Introduction-- Three days ago, "The Guardian" reported that jailed Russian democracy leader Alexei Navalny is missing, according to his lawyer. "We have no such prisoner here" was the response of prison authorities when the lawyer arrived to visit his client.  The Guardian cited background intelligence reports that Navalny was possibly being moved to an "ultra-max" highest level security prison, which is notorious for it's high death rate due to physical and psychological abuse of the inmates. If he is indeed being transferred to the referenced facility, and isn't dead already, it is an assassination in progress. It is intended to finish the bungled previous effort by Putin's FSB to murder him by placing the lethal nerve agent Novichok in his underwear before a flight to Berlin nearly two years ago. This, only two weeks after Russian media covered the story that Ru...

Now We Have The Makings Of A Criminal RICO Case Which Can Ensnare All Of Them, Including Fox News--- The implications of the fundraising scam revelations of potential "wire fraud." Yes, it is true that those in Trump's orbit who knew it was all a lie did have an obligation to speak out back then, and they didn't. In most cases, they are even now testifying only because they are compelled to under subpoena.  I think it is important to remember that Trump operates like a "Mob Boss," and uses the threat of blackmail, and/or being subjected to a physical security threat by heavily armed extremists in his base to enforce loyalty oaths. We know what the penalty is for violating "omerta" in organized crime groups.  Others like Barr who are protected members of the establishment are not so easily intimidated, but had their own corrupt reasons to not rock the boat, such as their desire to come back to power under another fascist Republican who is not so men...

The Twelve Minutes Of Video Which Changes Everything... We Hope--- I watched, and have read mostly everything available. I usually have some kind of political analysis, but after watching the twelve minute video, it hardly feels appropriate. It's like making "play-by-play" commentary on the funeral of a loved one. The level of hatred, ugliness, and violence, of undistilled evil which drove that mob on that day was lurking there all along below the surface. This was the vile inhumanity of a KKK lynching, except deployed against our "People's House."   Only one man in our history is evil enough, has the power enough to bring this out on this scale. This is not my America, and those people not of us. They are a disease, as is the Party which defends him and the movement which empowers him. This isn't politics, it is war..  Forgive me, but he has brought such hatred and anger out in me that sometimes I lose myself. He is making us all ill.  It is a struggle ...