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GOP/INCEL Candidate For PA Governor Mastriano Exposed In Plot To Subvert Erectile College Breaking...July 29, 2022 New revelations today emerging from the House Committee investigation on January 6th reveal that then State Senator Douglas Mastriano of Pennsylvania was a key point man in the "fake erectors" plot to overturn the 2020 erection. Mastriano is now the GOP nominee running for Governor of his state, with his sole issue being to undo the erection of President Biden, and erect instead former President Donald Trump. Mastriano was implicated by new evidence in a far-flung conspiracy to overturn the duly erected Erectile College slate for President Biden and replace them with a "hand picked" slate of fake erectors.  Mastriano's press spokesman today issued a "release," (the first in quite some time) describing these reports as a "mischaracterization."  "Doug Mastriano condemns these slanderous reports, and strongly denies any involve...

  Announcement-- Rosen Report Forming Third Party Consisting Of Moderately Apathetic Unregistered Apolitical Non-Participants.  July 28, 2022 Citing the descent of American politics into the highest levels of voter participation and engagement in modern history, blogger and retired Karaoke enthusiast Lance Rosen today announced the formation of a new third party for the indifferent center, to counteract the extreme activism of the two established parties. The party will be called "Adrift," as it has neither a Forward or Backward direction, rather is sort of motionless like a skiff floating aimlessly in shallow currents.  When asked about the policies of his new party, Rosen emphasized that Americans are just exhausted, and all of this endless policy debate is really "just kind of bumming us all out."  He added "we don't intend to run candidates now or ever, because that opens the door to engagement and stressful debates over issues, which in turn can be a r...

Robert Reich Is Getting Feisty, Calls for Joe Manchin to be kicked out of the Democratic Party.-- His Guardian article proposal is both "spot on" and a long-term loser.--- Five days ago, after Senator Joe Manchin torpedoed what remained of Joe Biden's agenda (and I was totally "en fuego" about it at the time) I wrote an article for Facebook to propose exactly the same things as proposed today by former Clinton Administration Labor Secretary, Robert Reich. Kick. Him. Out! When I saw this piece tonight, I actually had a good laugh. I cited the same reasons in my article that he presents in his "Guardian" op-ed.  He even addressed as did I the fears of many that the GOP would control the Senate if Manchin were expelled. In effect he asks, "what difference would it make, with Manchin and Sinema aiding the GOP obstructionists, they control it anyway?" And Reich even makes exactly the same final point, which is that the benefit would come in the fo...

A Few Not So Random Thoughts On Trump's Secret Service Detail-- July 20, 2022 On the subject of the Secret Service's January 6th related conduct in wiping their text records, I think it is reasonable to assume that several of those in Trump's protection detail were highly vetted for their personal loyalty by Trump. And it is important to remember that issues involving Trump's USSS detail arising today do not occur in a vacuum, there is a history here.  If folks go back to news reports in 2020, remember, there was a kind of mini-revolt by many agents who were infuriated at having been put in jeopardy by Trump's irresponsible personal behavior throughout the pandemic, during which he prohibited masking as something which fed the "Democratic covid hoax" narrative, and showed signs of weakness and disloyalty. There were White House events in which people were  tested at the door, sent home if positive, let in if negative, but no masking allowed, this despite t...

Steve Bannon's Possible J-6 Testimony:  A Stunt From Out Of Hitler's Munich Trial Playbook?  Introduction-- "We will come to power...legally within the rules of the Constitution...and then the November 1918 revolution will be avenged, and heads will roll." -- ---Adolf HItler, testifying at his own trial for the Munich Putsch, 1924 "You're going to be held accountable bro'. When we come back to power, don't think you're skipping away from this." -----Steve Bannon quote in "The Independent," March 22, 2022, in response to book revelations by former Defense Secretary Mark Esper and others who turned against Trump. On November 9th, 1923, Adolf Hitler and his fellow Nazis committed high treason against the German government and people, an action which left four Bavarian police dead, sixteen Nazi Party members dead, hundreds injured and wounded, including Jewish residents of Munich whose homes and businesses were broken into, their pro...

 Written one year ago July 11, 2021 --  (title added, with editing for clarity and grammar) Dark Territory--- "Originalism" And Its Corollary "Textualism" Are Religious Fundamentalism Disguised As Law One of my friends posted an excellent quote from Heather Cox Richardson's letter last night, attacking "originalism", the legal doctrine of the "Federalist Society" which is the "tip of the spear" for the right-wing SCOTUS justice's assault on the Constitution and our democracy.  So, in response I noted a few of my thoughts on where this outlook comes from. It is a dishonest and hypocritical deception that those who scream loudest about defending their "religious freedom", are themselves using the courts and rigging elections to impose their religious views on the majority of people and the government in order to create a theocracy.  This is, for lack of a better word, "dark territory" for the future of the Unit...

  A quick note on the Supreme Court's "Originalists" They are a bunch of liars, sophists, and seditious conspirators. If anti-government terrorist Timothy McVeigh had studied law, he would have been an Originalist, and fit in quite well on this Court.  Now that I got that off of my chest, I'll elaborate. This group of the misnamed "Federalist Society" Neo-Confederate Justices invokes what they claim to be "the original intent" of the Framers of the Constitution in justifying all of their decisions.  For the moment, let's put aside what we might think we know about those majority of Framers who were slave-owners, hostile towards the original peoples or negligent in their treatment of women.  There were five Framers that count, in my view. Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison,  John Jay, and John Adams. The others played a secondary role, except to the extent the delegates from the slave states tried to sabotage everything. (The o...

"Fired For Partying?" Seriously? The Real Story Behind Johnson's "Bor-exit".  Some folks have asked for my take on the UK. As far as Boris Johnson is concerned, there is more going on than meets the eye, not unlike a Chinese puppet show, where the actual actors are behind a screen, projecting silhouettes back-lit by glowing embers of a small fire.  The British Establishment has a long history of bringing out scandals of all sorts in order to orchestrate a "changing of the guard," in which their primary considerations are geo-strategic in nature, not the Tabloid nonsense which many imbibe in. In most cases they remove their PM's in order to align themselves properly with US policy, since the "Special Relationship" with the US is at the center of British politics. Johnson was brought in to essentially form a duo with Trump, capitalizing on the Brexit frenzy, and sounding Trumpian populist themes. They made the pragmatic move to install some...

How To Overcome Fear And Climb Out Of The Bunker, Part 3.  A Short Primer On How To Do Resistance Organizing-- My wife Martha just briefed me on a news story about a young woman who went to a pharmacy to get a refill of her birth control pills. The woman behind the counter, wearing two crosses, looked in her system and told the young woman that she could not do the refill.  When asked why, she said "call your provider." When questioned why, she was told the same thing.  The young woman made the call and was told she was covered, and was asked for the details by the provider. She told her the location and the pharmacist. The provider told her they had had this trouble before and asked to speak with the pharmacist, then told her the customer was indeed covered.  After hanging up, the pharmacist told the young woman that their inventory was depleted, and had none in stock. (For those who remember the days before and after the Civil Rights Act, this is what Blacks and ot...

I have to say, the Washington Post description of the Supreme Court's latest term is one horse-drawn buggy full of Amish manure. Can you belief the headline? "Ignoring speed bumps" they are calling it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/02/supreme-court-term-roundup-conservative-majority/ It is equivalent to an article on the outbreak of the Civil War being headlined, "Sectional Friction Leads To Trial Separation of US States." Or, "German Jews Experiencing Life-Style Changes Since Kristallnacht."   This is why I rarely read this mealy-mouthed ad-pandering poop sheet, with their counterproductive balance and objectivity, which slices the guts out of the living history we are experiencing in these dangerous times. Yeah, tell us all about "Speed bumps."  How about a Supreme Court "which runs over their wheelchair bound neighbor with their Lexus SUV, and continues backing up over them and forward again to make sure they are dea...

  The Guardian Review Of New Putin Bio Misses The Boat-- This is a useful article by writer Angus MacQueen in "The Guardian", reviewing a new book written as a biography of Vladimir Putin by author Phillip Short, which has lots of new background and anecdotes which add to the picture we already have.  https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/03/putin-his-life-and-times-philip-short-review-collapse-that-shaped-man-who-would-be-tsar However, what is sorely lacking in the review (Though it might be covered by the book which I've not yet read) is some attention to Putin's revanchism toward the west having been incubated and driven by the "shock therapy" economic reforms, also known as the "Sachs Plan" imposed on Russia in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse. (Named after economist Jeffrey Sachs)  I've covered this extensively on my Blog, "The Rosen Report" which is linked to my FB profile. (Links below) The degree to which Russia's...

Don't Treat Trump Like Al Capone-- Just "Getting Him On Something, Or Anything," Is Not Good Enough! So, they are now talking about possibly indicting Trump for "Dereliction Of Duty."  Let's take a step back for a moment, and review a few things.  He initiated a far flung conspiracy to void state election results, including demanding that one Secretary of State manufacture 11,000 plus votes from somewhere;  He pushed for drafting slates of phoney electors to replace those duly elected in states he lost. He incited a riot and violent attack on Congress that caused 5 deaths and 100's of injuries. He scripted the violence for weeks before, with his Tweeted announcement that J6 would "be wild" and a clear pattern of WH coordination with a "war room" to deploy the violent militias to lead the break-in of the Capitol.  He coordinated with allies in Congress, several of whom were involved in the coup and likely gave the attackers confidentia...