We're truly living in revolutionary times Mr Carter! I have zero respect for anyone's "moderate" views on either side of the aisle. There is no room for moderation in today's America, which is hanging on by a thread! Things that can't continue won't. Too much government, and to much complacency on the part of the professional Republicans, who come around talking like a conservative when they want our vote and as soon as they get to DC sell us down the river! I think there's a quiet anger, a kind of cold fury that's building in the normal center of the country as more of the BS gets exposed. Time will tell. "A Republic if you can keep it"
Excellent summation of the history of the Democratic party. Think it was Rush Limbaugh who used to say they should be prosecuted under RICO act! Keep up the good fight!
You will need several layers of permits for that and many environmental studies to see if you are damaging the environment, or if the environment can handle the planting of bananas. There will be background checks to make sure you are the right person to propagate and harvest bananas. You also have to purchase said banana trees from an approved banana tree seller. You will get no bananas.
Bravo! The first essential part of this war is getting both moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans to realize that the Left is not who they think it is.
These people are vicious partisans who will upend our entire way of living in order to seize power and "fundamentally transform" America from a "free" state to a police state. They want communism not because of the economics, but in order to maintain the power over every aspect of our lives. Communism is just a front to make them sound egalitarian -- this is all about power.
I have older friends who were teachers/doctors/professionals and such, and they don't see it. They think the Democrat party is the one they remember from the 80's and 90's. They don't understand what is happening, and do not view a lot of these alternative media and writers. They still think traditional media is authoritative (NY Times).
But I think it's starting to creep in that something has changed. Each bit of news on the next outrageous Democrat move that most people did not see is making them slowly see who their party is. The cities crumbling under the weight of crime and anti-business "progressive" movements is opening the eyes of city liberals who now have fear going to the opera at night. They won't talk about it much, because it makes them feel foolish.
Those "nice", older Republicans are also starting to see it. They don't like Trump for moral reasons, but they see the other side and are starting to get back in the arena. Many just decided to "protest" non-vote last time, but now see the danger that authoritarian Democrats present. A little late, but I'm glad they are now seeing it.
We'll see if this manifests itself in the election, or if the Democrats' ground game, ballot harvesting and mail-in cheating once again overwhelms the election and they sneak another one right past us.
But that is getting harder and harder for them, so I'm feeling a bit better.
Not only those you mentioned, but let's keep in mind that Joe Biden bragged in the past of being proud of being labeled a southern Democrat, which was a euphemism for an obnoxious bigot in favor of segregation. He identified himself as such!
Also Jimmy Carter, who was probably the worst President in the history of our country until Joe Biden, was referred to by his own Lieutenant Governor, Lester Maddox, as both "the most dishonest man I've ever known" and "the biggest racist I've ever known". Yes, I know, not quite the impression many have of him today, but 100% true nonetheless. Granted, even though both were Southern Democrats they were bitter rivals. Maddox told the story, either in a press conference or his book, I don't recall which, where he spoke of Martin Luther King staying in the same hotel as Jimmy Carter when Carter was campaigning for Governor of Georgia and King requested a private meeting for a few minutes with Carter and Carter refused, because he thought it would reflect poorly on him and impact him negatively in the polls. That's your so-called humanitarian right there. He was a two-faced, deceitful, dishonest, fake fraud.
The upcoming Presidential election will be the single most important historical event in our nation's lifetime. We damn well better get it right.
The spine of Democrats’ coalition has always been substantially formed by the alliance between the corrupt and the credulous. This is especially so today.
They need to get a real ass-kicking this November.
I don’t know about the seeming differences of the parties.
Seems ole Chomsky is becoming realized in truth with every passing month. I think there is only one party- Business party, split into republicans and democrats.
I think both dems and pubs are nervous about Trump because he embodies capitalism to the T. And the only thing you can’t have front and center if you want American capitalism (or so called “American democracy”) to continue flourishing for us at the exploitation of 90% of the rest of the world…. is having the face of capitalism itself run things. They know Trump might expose the ruthless limits of capitalism and break the system. He might just end the party for the billionaires and trillionaire cos. Which… hey I’m down for that. Go Trump
More than a handful of the signatories of that document KNEW beyond any shadow of a doubt the laptop was real. By then the FBI had had it for over a year.
The CIA has an office to review public utterances by former CIA senior officials and they reviewed the letter and knew it was a fraud. How hard do you think it was for the CIA to call the FBI who had the laptop and ask, "That laptop that's in the news, is it real?"
By then the content of the laptop was also widely known because of the NY Post articles including pictures. The notion the Russians somehow planted pics of Hunter smoking crack with whores is beyond even Russian disinformation capabilities.
The sheer boldness of those signers is a perfect example of the presence, the reality, the depth, the breadth, and the boldness of the Deep State.
Further, nobody who publicized that letter spent a second to reflect upon its truth. I'm talking about the NYT, the WSJ, and the entire MSM. Ten minutes of reflection would have exposed its untruth.
Joe Biden's conduct at that last debate wherein he vouched for the letter was inexcusable and disqualifying. He knew the laptop was real as Hunter had long since told him so.
We will look back at the Russian Hoax and the laptop hoax years from now and recognize the danger our country was (and is) in from the Deep State, the Dems, the left, and dupes like Joe Biden.
Does it surprise you these same guys thought the Afghans could hold out for more than a year after we left or that the Ukrainians would fold under Russian pressure in a week?
Everyone keeps alleging that Paxton is a crook; it’s been out there since he beat a Bushie named Dan Branch in the primary runoff and was first elected in the general.
But so far, they haven’t closed the argument.
And Karl Rove with his mudslinging against Paxton makes me suspicious.
"Watch" is all I can do, chained to NYC. That, and "listen" to waves of Pali riots on 3rd ave a few blocks from my window, every weekend. After yesterday's news, I self-diagnose mild (for now) case of depression
Yes, it is hard, but the purity of the con, the purity of the scam, makes it easy to reject it in its entirety.
The notion that afixing the words "legal expenses" to 11 invoices from a lawyer, to 11 checks to a lawyer, and to 12 general ledger entries in an acocunting shop is a felony worthy of pursuit at all, is just ridiculous.
If the man's name were Donnie Smythe, we would never have heard of this because it would never have happened.
Now, the big question is sentencing -- does that POS Judge have the cojones to sentence Trump to jail time a week before the Republican Convention?
Some historical factual tidbits to help fill all of this in-
1. LBJ was KKK- his war on poverty was about sadly one thing. His famous statement of we will have the g-d N's voting for us for the next 200 years is all you have to know. Also know that one Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a seminal paper that made him a leper in the Dem party, that warned two years after enactment of Welfare what it was doing to the black population of America. In context it was also doing the same thing in certain socio-economic enclaves of white America as well.
2. FDR, per Venona and what we have seen from the KGB archives we were able to get out of Russia after the all very clearly paint a picture that the Soviets had people at every level of government, in cells broken up working together and not only spying but worst of all influencing policy. Likely there are more than we will ever know unless we can get ahold of the GRU files, they ran most of the spy rings over here. Also, Venona has less than 1% of the cables decoded, and from my understanding they will not be trying to decode anymore.
3. McCarthy was right, so right he may not have even known it. Sad thing is there are so many very important documents that are supposed to be in certain places that aren't there to make it to many to not have suspicions .
4. What not understood then and certainly just not spoken about is because of FDR and subsequent presidents either willingly and or ignorantly, either way not good, allowing Soviet agents to penetrate up into so many of our agencies, all of our intelligent agencies and the state department, the foundations for these very important things were built on intellectually incompatible sand to older parts of our government built on the constitution- over time this infection has spread like cancer.
5. Nixon was the best Democratic president we have had over the last 60 years. Just look at the list of agencies he birthed.
6. Soviet influence did not stop with FDR- it was prevalent through Ike. Of course we know about Kim Philby and his cohorts who ended up having to flee to the USSR in the mid- 1950's.
7. Nothing you have been told about the struggle before and after WW II in China is correct. We screwed Chang Kai. We even contemplated, per Mao's wishes, Killing Chang after he fled to Taiwan. China did not have to go Communist and especially to a pedophile mad man like Mao. Very different geo political picture today if this does not happen.
8. Democratic party was born out of a difference in opinion over the French Revolution- The Dem's were the crew who saw the revolution as akin to the one in the United States- Father's of the Republican party saw it for what is was, mob violence and complete anarchy that brought forth Napoleon who would throw Europe into decades long bloody wars.
9. The amount of intellectual, political, and unconstitutional damage FDR did can not be understated. He threatened to pack the courts and after numerous private and small government tries at social security the supreme court "realized" they had mistaken all along.
10. FDR killed the gold standard, Nixon officially put it out of is it's misery.
11. Obama is a Bill Ayers disciple, just go digging into that idiots past.
12. The southern/slavery thing is much more complex and so poorly taught now that a lot of assumptions are generally applied that don't necessarily hold water. Dr. Thomas Sowell, maybe the most brilliant, factual and accurate political theorist of the last 120 years has written about much of reality of that time verse myth/legend. Even Stonewall Jackson defied VA law and taught young slave children to read and write. No one was going to tell him no, even though the war had not started and he was not yet, "Stonewall".
Lot of good stuff in your comment. Bravo and well played!
1. Moynihan as an assistant Sec of Labor when he researched and wrote his 1965 "The Negro Family: The Case For National Action." He is often referred to as THE Sec of Labor, but he was not.
Much of what LBJ put into his War on Poverty was driven by the statistical analysis underwriting that report. But, LBJ and the US failed to take action on the critical and most important finding: the absence of a black family unit sentenced many adults and children to a life of poverty and a lack of opportunity which in turn spawned a disproportionate amount of crime.
Is it any surprise to anyone that families are more stable units within which to raise children? Duh.
The numbers then -- 25% single parent households in the black community -- were worthy of a call to action, but nothing was really done. Today -- 85% -- the numbers are staggering and there is no effective program to educate black men and women on the importance of a strong family unit.
This is also a problem across the entire ethnic makeup of the US with the advent of no fault divorce.
We have thrown so much money and policy in the US at the issue of race, but we are not dealing with the single issue that could dramatically improve black success -- strong two parent families. This would also reduce crime.
2. Whilst agreeing with all you say about the Soviet penetration of American society and scumbags like Philby, the USSR ultimately failed because it was a bad system and it stifled the basic yearning of mankind: freedom.
George Kenan should have a national holiday in his honor. His Long Telegram from Moscow set out US policy that ultimately culminated in the fall of the USSR. His recommendation was simple: oppose the Soviets everywhere we can. Make every initiative launched by Moscow costly, complicated, and controversial. This is what ground down the USSR.
3. Stonewall Jackson taught at my alma mater, VMI (same place that produced Gen of the Armies George Catlett Marshall, Churchill's Architect of Victory in WWII), and had already attained some note in the Mexican War wherein he was an artillery officer firing in support of another to-be-well-known soldier, Rob't E Lee at the Battle of Chapaltupec on the road to Mexico City.
He was noted as being extraordinarily cool under fire, a laudable attribute in that line of work.
There is an arch that enters the barracks quad over which the words "You may be whatever you resolve to be" has inspired VMI cadets for a century and a half.
Jackson -- a professor of philosophy and artillery and a West Point grad -- educated more than his own slaves.
As you note, the issue of slavery is very complex. It was very much tied to the agrarian South and its cash crops. It was a huge stain upon our nation, but it was the norm of those times -- which does not make it right.
In the US today, we still buy goods from China that are produced by slave labor (Uyghurs, Turkish muslims persecuted by the Chinese), prison labor, and child labor. The problem is still real.
Containment, while in and of itself certainly had a point to it, the USSR was all ready fully aware, according to the Perestroika Deception, about its final financial fate as early as the last four to five years of Stalin's reign. That is a very interesting read and when you look at when it was written and just how man of its predictions have come true over the last 50 years- you could take very thing that ever came out of "soggy bottom" and not find that many correct predictions. Eeerie, to say the least. Soviets, well Russian's, always liked to play the long game. Rebel Yell is a great book with some great discussion about Stonewall's time in the Mexican/American war. Interesting what war did to his personality.
Moynihan's paper is actually an interesting read in that the first 99.9% of it is something of a walk, albeit not always a very sound historical one, though slavery, post slavery, Jim Crow and the black family only to get to the last like two or three pages with any truly interesting and concrete facts and this centers around what the war on poverty in particular was doing to the black community and family from a behavioral perspective.
Jefferson himself tried to get slavery outlawed in VA, in spite of owning slaves and in spite of the fact it would have bankrupted him and also pushed for it in our national Constitution. What most don't understand is along with the debt, which slaves were tied to as part of the collateral almost always, the volatility of the agriculture markets and crop prices made it impossible for many to free their slaves if or no other reason, complete financial ruin was what would be their fate. Not sure that by the 1880's slavery would have mostly been rendered moot because of the direction farming mechanization was moving.
My brother went to W&L, so I am very familiar with VMI. Been to Lexington VA many times when he was in school there. He was a Lee Scholarship recipient, who ended up with a mohawk, black finger nails and tattoos in the Mid-90's in his time there. Found his way to Pepperdine law and lives in L.A. now. Used to visit him and I even attended Fancy Dress ball once with the Black Crowes performing. My little brother used to love to have the VMI goes over to his off campus house to his parties.
To this day nobody really knows whether Anatoliy Golitsyn (author of the Perestroika Deception) was a real turncoat or sent to confuse us. The Soviets and the Russians have managed our intel info by sending us fake defectors since WWII.
[Side note: In the great game of spies and espionage it is important to remember how close the US, UK, and Stalinist Russia were during the war. We were all focused on the defeat of Germany. Also, the Brits were bloody socialists so the leap to Communism was not a great one.]
He wrote New Lies for Old in 1984 and it was a general overview of the Soviets disinformation campaign and their faux attempt to become/appear more civilized and to build ties to Russia. There was really nothing of any intel value in those observations/musings. You and I could make the same kind of predictions right now about the next 50 years in the US.
He wrote the Perestroika Deception in 1995, long after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He did NOT predict the collapse as his book came out after it.
Many people confuse the content of his 1995 work -- which was written after the fact and thus not really prescient -- and his 1984 work. He was not the soothsayer many want to believe he was.
By the time Anatoliy Golitsyn arrived in DC and was in contact w/ the CIA's James Jesus Angleton (head CIA counterintel spook), the man who should have caught Philby much earlier but whose personal relationship prevented him from being totally objective, Philby as an entity was known, but his exact identity was not. It was known there was a high level British spy in DC, but nobody knew who it was.
There is thought the Soviets wanted Philby to come to Russia so as not to risk his capture and revelation of Soviet tradecraft and bad acts. Was Anatoliy Golitsyn sent to accelerate this? Philby lived the rest of his life in Moscow.
Philby defected in 1963 - after Anatoliy Golitsyn appeared in the US -- and died in 1988, having lived 25 years in Moscow. While he was a high level British spy - one of the Cambridge Five - he was not thought to have been that valuable, but they gave him a funeral and awards when he died that made him seem like a member of the Politboro (remember those guys).
When I was at VMI in the late 1960s/early 1970s, W&L hadn't yet introduced women (95% of the women in the Commonwealth of Virginia are good looking and the other 5% just matriculated at W&L?) and the gents wore blazers and ties to class. It was a bastion of elegant, refined, traditional, pure Southern education. Lots of changes since then.
BTW, VMI in those days used to have classes on Saturdays which is why they turned out very good engineers.
AG put together much of the PD as soon as he got here- my understanding it was initially a very long internal memo. That time frame puts it in a different light, besides the fact that much of what he said the USSR had been preparing for has come to pass. For me, I like to put it in the parlance of the financial world I have occupied now for some 30 years- the USSR declared a long over-due bankruptcy, shed non-core assets(Iron Curtain, Cuba, other LA countries it was supporting) and then came back out under the same management with lots and lots of western capital, which just flooded in there after the fall. Philby and his crew were interesting, and certainly the USSR wanted them out of there, but once again, until we get a look at the GRU files from the 1930's through even the 1960's we still are very much in the dark about what was and or was not going on relative to counter-I and or soft espionage. The reality of what we do know, is enough for anyone in my mind to doubt a lot of what went down through the 1950's at the very least. Reactions to McCarthy and people who helped him out are so excessively one sided in their outcomes for the helpers as to leave little to no doubt he was not simply creating a red scare, he was uncovering way, way too much conter-intelligence actions going on throughout way to many branches of our government. I do think Pacepa's take on all of this is also very interesting and needs to be given a lot of credence because of how tight he was with Andropov. I also find it interesting that Harry Hopkins has been mentioned in by at least one, perhaps two former high ups as one of the single greatest heroes of the USSR.
Major Jordan's diaries alone to me are rather condemning of Hopkins. One of my favorite line comes from George C Marshall in his own autobiography when he said that when he and Hopkins talked to FDR, he put forth the American side and Hopkins was there to put forth the Soviet side. That is a statement that should really leaving anyone's mind rather fried. So much has been lost as to who he was- according to either Time or Newsweek I believe, he was the co-president. I think we really need to make a push to have the Venona's files decrypted using AI. I am pretty positive there is still a lot of history that needs to be rewritten- though we all ready have a lot to be re-written that very few seem to want to allow to happen or even tackle.
Great article and a great reference for the history of the Democrat party of thieves, racists and war mongers.
The Democrats have also created crushing debt for all our major cities especially the Democrat controlled ones.
These Marxists and Fascists that make up the entire political layer of the Democrat party have worked successfully at creating this mess since the 1920’s. The USA used to kill commies. Now the USA elects them to office. It will be very hard to reverse their damage. Taking control back locally is as critical as it is at the state and federal level. The enemy is inside the gate.
I suppose it sounds anachronistic and sexist but Jordan Peterson often talks about the feminine in old tales representing chaos. Guess maybe that’s why they call Democrats the mommy party. I thought it was kind of funny watching Bari Weiss interview Jerry Seinfeld and how he talked unironically about missing the “strong male” figure in culture and why that was a theme of his Poptarts movie. The adults are definitely not in charge. Liberal women are destroying the country. Many countries, in fact.
We're truly living in revolutionary times Mr Carter! I have zero respect for anyone's "moderate" views on either side of the aisle. There is no room for moderation in today's America, which is hanging on by a thread! Things that can't continue won't. Too much government, and to much complacency on the part of the professional Republicans, who come around talking like a conservative when they want our vote and as soon as they get to DC sell us down the river! I think there's a quiet anger, a kind of cold fury that's building in the normal center of the country as more of the BS gets exposed. Time will tell. "A Republic if you can keep it"
Excellent summation of the history of the Democratic party. Think it was Rush Limbaugh who used to say they should be prosecuted under RICO act! Keep up the good fight!
I agree more with you than you do with yourself.
I am going to start growing bananas.
JLM
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
You will need several layers of permits for that and many environmental studies to see if you are damaging the environment, or if the environment can handle the planting of bananas. There will be background checks to make sure you are the right person to propagate and harvest bananas. You also have to purchase said banana trees from an approved banana tree seller. You will get no bananas.
Haha. My neighbor grows bananas. I will get some of his.
We have to grow bananas in a banana republic.
JLM
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
Your neighbor will need a permit to give you bananas as that might run afoul of the centralized banana pricing authority. You should buy bananas.
Bravo! The first essential part of this war is getting both moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans to realize that the Left is not who they think it is.
These people are vicious partisans who will upend our entire way of living in order to seize power and "fundamentally transform" America from a "free" state to a police state. They want communism not because of the economics, but in order to maintain the power over every aspect of our lives. Communism is just a front to make them sound egalitarian -- this is all about power.
I have older friends who were teachers/doctors/professionals and such, and they don't see it. They think the Democrat party is the one they remember from the 80's and 90's. They don't understand what is happening, and do not view a lot of these alternative media and writers. They still think traditional media is authoritative (NY Times).
But I think it's starting to creep in that something has changed. Each bit of news on the next outrageous Democrat move that most people did not see is making them slowly see who their party is. The cities crumbling under the weight of crime and anti-business "progressive" movements is opening the eyes of city liberals who now have fear going to the opera at night. They won't talk about it much, because it makes them feel foolish.
Those "nice", older Republicans are also starting to see it. They don't like Trump for moral reasons, but they see the other side and are starting to get back in the arena. Many just decided to "protest" non-vote last time, but now see the danger that authoritarian Democrats present. A little late, but I'm glad they are now seeing it.
We'll see if this manifests itself in the election, or if the Democrats' ground game, ballot harvesting and mail-in cheating once again overwhelms the election and they sneak another one right past us.
But that is getting harder and harder for them, so I'm feeling a bit better.
Not only those you mentioned, but let's keep in mind that Joe Biden bragged in the past of being proud of being labeled a southern Democrat, which was a euphemism for an obnoxious bigot in favor of segregation. He identified himself as such!
Also Jimmy Carter, who was probably the worst President in the history of our country until Joe Biden, was referred to by his own Lieutenant Governor, Lester Maddox, as both "the most dishonest man I've ever known" and "the biggest racist I've ever known". Yes, I know, not quite the impression many have of him today, but 100% true nonetheless. Granted, even though both were Southern Democrats they were bitter rivals. Maddox told the story, either in a press conference or his book, I don't recall which, where he spoke of Martin Luther King staying in the same hotel as Jimmy Carter when Carter was campaigning for Governor of Georgia and King requested a private meeting for a few minutes with Carter and Carter refused, because he thought it would reflect poorly on him and impact him negatively in the polls. That's your so-called humanitarian right there. He was a two-faced, deceitful, dishonest, fake fraud.
The upcoming Presidential election will be the single most important historical event in our nation's lifetime. We damn well better get it right.
The spine of Democrats’ coalition has always been substantially formed by the alliance between the corrupt and the credulous. This is especially so today.
They need to get a real ass-kicking this November.
I don’t know about the seeming differences of the parties.
Seems ole Chomsky is becoming realized in truth with every passing month. I think there is only one party- Business party, split into republicans and democrats.
I think both dems and pubs are nervous about Trump because he embodies capitalism to the T. And the only thing you can’t have front and center if you want American capitalism (or so called “American democracy”) to continue flourishing for us at the exploitation of 90% of the rest of the world…. is having the face of capitalism itself run things. They know Trump might expose the ruthless limits of capitalism and break the system. He might just end the party for the billionaires and trillionaire cos. Which… hey I’m down for that. Go Trump
The Republicans are far from perfect. They have a different culture and history than the Aaron Burr Democrats. It shows.
There should be charges based on election interference of all 51 people who signed the Hunter laptop letter.
There should also be charges against the leadership of the tech companies that engaged in censorship of the NY Post story.
Bring these charges immediately.
If they have a ‘D’ in their description, sue them.
There should be hundreds of charges before July 4th.
Bring charges against Joe Biden, Mayorkus, and Cook County Democrat Merrick Garland.
More than a handful of the signatories of that document KNEW beyond any shadow of a doubt the laptop was real. By then the FBI had had it for over a year.
The CIA has an office to review public utterances by former CIA senior officials and they reviewed the letter and knew it was a fraud. How hard do you think it was for the CIA to call the FBI who had the laptop and ask, "That laptop that's in the news, is it real?"
By then the content of the laptop was also widely known because of the NY Post articles including pictures. The notion the Russians somehow planted pics of Hunter smoking crack with whores is beyond even Russian disinformation capabilities.
The sheer boldness of those signers is a perfect example of the presence, the reality, the depth, the breadth, and the boldness of the Deep State.
Further, nobody who publicized that letter spent a second to reflect upon its truth. I'm talking about the NYT, the WSJ, and the entire MSM. Ten minutes of reflection would have exposed its untruth.
Joe Biden's conduct at that last debate wherein he vouched for the letter was inexcusable and disqualifying. He knew the laptop was real as Hunter had long since told him so.
We will look back at the Russian Hoax and the laptop hoax years from now and recognize the danger our country was (and is) in from the Deep State, the Dems, the left, and dupes like Joe Biden.
Does it surprise you these same guys thought the Afghans could hold out for more than a year after we left or that the Ukrainians would fold under Russian pressure in a week?
JLM
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
You’ve nailed it!
Should be, yes, but who will be doing it? Where are the people of appropriate caliber?
Maybe some people will surprise us. I think Texas AG Paxton might be someone to watch.
He's a crook. Gov Abbott is a solid guy.
JLM
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
Everyone keeps alleging that Paxton is a crook; it’s been out there since he beat a Bushie named Dan Branch in the primary runoff and was first elected in the general.
But so far, they haven’t closed the argument.
And Karl Rove with his mudslinging against Paxton makes me suspicious.
By the bye, I have huge respect for Dan Branch, who is an exceptionally smart guy.
"Watch" is all I can do, chained to NYC. That, and "listen" to waves of Pali riots on 3rd ave a few blocks from my window, every weekend. After yesterday's news, I self-diagnose mild (for now) case of depression
It’s hard not to feel sad about this verdict and the reaction to it from ‘legacy media’ and also the pro-Hamas/Palestinian riots.
I can’t help but feel that both (multiple) events are impossible to separate — coming as they are from the same political place.
Yes, it is hard, but the purity of the con, the purity of the scam, makes it easy to reject it in its entirety.
The notion that afixing the words "legal expenses" to 11 invoices from a lawyer, to 11 checks to a lawyer, and to 12 general ledger entries in an acocunting shop is a felony worthy of pursuit at all, is just ridiculous.
If the man's name were Donnie Smythe, we would never have heard of this because it would never have happened.
Now, the big question is sentencing -- does that POS Judge have the cojones to sentence Trump to jail time a week before the Republican Convention?
JLM
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
I think the judge will sentence him to jail.
Some historical factual tidbits to help fill all of this in-
1. LBJ was KKK- his war on poverty was about sadly one thing. His famous statement of we will have the g-d N's voting for us for the next 200 years is all you have to know. Also know that one Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a seminal paper that made him a leper in the Dem party, that warned two years after enactment of Welfare what it was doing to the black population of America. In context it was also doing the same thing in certain socio-economic enclaves of white America as well.
2. FDR, per Venona and what we have seen from the KGB archives we were able to get out of Russia after the all very clearly paint a picture that the Soviets had people at every level of government, in cells broken up working together and not only spying but worst of all influencing policy. Likely there are more than we will ever know unless we can get ahold of the GRU files, they ran most of the spy rings over here. Also, Venona has less than 1% of the cables decoded, and from my understanding they will not be trying to decode anymore.
3. McCarthy was right, so right he may not have even known it. Sad thing is there are so many very important documents that are supposed to be in certain places that aren't there to make it to many to not have suspicions .
4. What not understood then and certainly just not spoken about is because of FDR and subsequent presidents either willingly and or ignorantly, either way not good, allowing Soviet agents to penetrate up into so many of our agencies, all of our intelligent agencies and the state department, the foundations for these very important things were built on intellectually incompatible sand to older parts of our government built on the constitution- over time this infection has spread like cancer.
5. Nixon was the best Democratic president we have had over the last 60 years. Just look at the list of agencies he birthed.
6. Soviet influence did not stop with FDR- it was prevalent through Ike. Of course we know about Kim Philby and his cohorts who ended up having to flee to the USSR in the mid- 1950's.
7. Nothing you have been told about the struggle before and after WW II in China is correct. We screwed Chang Kai. We even contemplated, per Mao's wishes, Killing Chang after he fled to Taiwan. China did not have to go Communist and especially to a pedophile mad man like Mao. Very different geo political picture today if this does not happen.
8. Democratic party was born out of a difference in opinion over the French Revolution- The Dem's were the crew who saw the revolution as akin to the one in the United States- Father's of the Republican party saw it for what is was, mob violence and complete anarchy that brought forth Napoleon who would throw Europe into decades long bloody wars.
9. The amount of intellectual, political, and unconstitutional damage FDR did can not be understated. He threatened to pack the courts and after numerous private and small government tries at social security the supreme court "realized" they had mistaken all along.
10. FDR killed the gold standard, Nixon officially put it out of is it's misery.
11. Obama is a Bill Ayers disciple, just go digging into that idiots past.
12. The southern/slavery thing is much more complex and so poorly taught now that a lot of assumptions are generally applied that don't necessarily hold water. Dr. Thomas Sowell, maybe the most brilliant, factual and accurate political theorist of the last 120 years has written about much of reality of that time verse myth/legend. Even Stonewall Jackson defied VA law and taught young slave children to read and write. No one was going to tell him no, even though the war had not started and he was not yet, "Stonewall".
Lot of good stuff in your comment. Bravo and well played!
1. Moynihan as an assistant Sec of Labor when he researched and wrote his 1965 "The Negro Family: The Case For National Action." He is often referred to as THE Sec of Labor, but he was not.
Much of what LBJ put into his War on Poverty was driven by the statistical analysis underwriting that report. But, LBJ and the US failed to take action on the critical and most important finding: the absence of a black family unit sentenced many adults and children to a life of poverty and a lack of opportunity which in turn spawned a disproportionate amount of crime.
Is it any surprise to anyone that families are more stable units within which to raise children? Duh.
The numbers then -- 25% single parent households in the black community -- were worthy of a call to action, but nothing was really done. Today -- 85% -- the numbers are staggering and there is no effective program to educate black men and women on the importance of a strong family unit.
This is also a problem across the entire ethnic makeup of the US with the advent of no fault divorce.
We have thrown so much money and policy in the US at the issue of race, but we are not dealing with the single issue that could dramatically improve black success -- strong two parent families. This would also reduce crime.
2. Whilst agreeing with all you say about the Soviet penetration of American society and scumbags like Philby, the USSR ultimately failed because it was a bad system and it stifled the basic yearning of mankind: freedom.
George Kenan should have a national holiday in his honor. His Long Telegram from Moscow set out US policy that ultimately culminated in the fall of the USSR. His recommendation was simple: oppose the Soviets everywhere we can. Make every initiative launched by Moscow costly, complicated, and controversial. This is what ground down the USSR.
3. Stonewall Jackson taught at my alma mater, VMI (same place that produced Gen of the Armies George Catlett Marshall, Churchill's Architect of Victory in WWII), and had already attained some note in the Mexican War wherein he was an artillery officer firing in support of another to-be-well-known soldier, Rob't E Lee at the Battle of Chapaltupec on the road to Mexico City.
He was noted as being extraordinarily cool under fire, a laudable attribute in that line of work.
There is an arch that enters the barracks quad over which the words "You may be whatever you resolve to be" has inspired VMI cadets for a century and a half.
Jackson -- a professor of philosophy and artillery and a West Point grad -- educated more than his own slaves.
As you note, the issue of slavery is very complex. It was very much tied to the agrarian South and its cash crops. It was a huge stain upon our nation, but it was the norm of those times -- which does not make it right.
In the US today, we still buy goods from China that are produced by slave labor (Uyghurs, Turkish muslims persecuted by the Chinese), prison labor, and child labor. The problem is still real.
JLM
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
Containment, while in and of itself certainly had a point to it, the USSR was all ready fully aware, according to the Perestroika Deception, about its final financial fate as early as the last four to five years of Stalin's reign. That is a very interesting read and when you look at when it was written and just how man of its predictions have come true over the last 50 years- you could take very thing that ever came out of "soggy bottom" and not find that many correct predictions. Eeerie, to say the least. Soviets, well Russian's, always liked to play the long game. Rebel Yell is a great book with some great discussion about Stonewall's time in the Mexican/American war. Interesting what war did to his personality.
Moynihan's paper is actually an interesting read in that the first 99.9% of it is something of a walk, albeit not always a very sound historical one, though slavery, post slavery, Jim Crow and the black family only to get to the last like two or three pages with any truly interesting and concrete facts and this centers around what the war on poverty in particular was doing to the black community and family from a behavioral perspective.
Jefferson himself tried to get slavery outlawed in VA, in spite of owning slaves and in spite of the fact it would have bankrupted him and also pushed for it in our national Constitution. What most don't understand is along with the debt, which slaves were tied to as part of the collateral almost always, the volatility of the agriculture markets and crop prices made it impossible for many to free their slaves if or no other reason, complete financial ruin was what would be their fate. Not sure that by the 1880's slavery would have mostly been rendered moot because of the direction farming mechanization was moving.
My brother went to W&L, so I am very familiar with VMI. Been to Lexington VA many times when he was in school there. He was a Lee Scholarship recipient, who ended up with a mohawk, black finger nails and tattoos in the Mid-90's in his time there. Found his way to Pepperdine law and lives in L.A. now. Used to visit him and I even attended Fancy Dress ball once with the Black Crowes performing. My little brother used to love to have the VMI goes over to his off campus house to his parties.
To this day nobody really knows whether Anatoliy Golitsyn (author of the Perestroika Deception) was a real turncoat or sent to confuse us. The Soviets and the Russians have managed our intel info by sending us fake defectors since WWII.
[Side note: In the great game of spies and espionage it is important to remember how close the US, UK, and Stalinist Russia were during the war. We were all focused on the defeat of Germany. Also, the Brits were bloody socialists so the leap to Communism was not a great one.]
He wrote New Lies for Old in 1984 and it was a general overview of the Soviets disinformation campaign and their faux attempt to become/appear more civilized and to build ties to Russia. There was really nothing of any intel value in those observations/musings. You and I could make the same kind of predictions right now about the next 50 years in the US.
He wrote the Perestroika Deception in 1995, long after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He did NOT predict the collapse as his book came out after it.
Many people confuse the content of his 1995 work -- which was written after the fact and thus not really prescient -- and his 1984 work. He was not the soothsayer many want to believe he was.
By the time Anatoliy Golitsyn arrived in DC and was in contact w/ the CIA's James Jesus Angleton (head CIA counterintel spook), the man who should have caught Philby much earlier but whose personal relationship prevented him from being totally objective, Philby as an entity was known, but his exact identity was not. It was known there was a high level British spy in DC, but nobody knew who it was.
There is thought the Soviets wanted Philby to come to Russia so as not to risk his capture and revelation of Soviet tradecraft and bad acts. Was Anatoliy Golitsyn sent to accelerate this? Philby lived the rest of his life in Moscow.
Philby defected in 1963 - after Anatoliy Golitsyn appeared in the US -- and died in 1988, having lived 25 years in Moscow. While he was a high level British spy - one of the Cambridge Five - he was not thought to have been that valuable, but they gave him a funeral and awards when he died that made him seem like a member of the Politboro (remember those guys).
When I was at VMI in the late 1960s/early 1970s, W&L hadn't yet introduced women (95% of the women in the Commonwealth of Virginia are good looking and the other 5% just matriculated at W&L?) and the gents wore blazers and ties to class. It was a bastion of elegant, refined, traditional, pure Southern education. Lots of changes since then.
BTW, VMI in those days used to have classes on Saturdays which is why they turned out very good engineers.
JLM
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
AG put together much of the PD as soon as he got here- my understanding it was initially a very long internal memo. That time frame puts it in a different light, besides the fact that much of what he said the USSR had been preparing for has come to pass. For me, I like to put it in the parlance of the financial world I have occupied now for some 30 years- the USSR declared a long over-due bankruptcy, shed non-core assets(Iron Curtain, Cuba, other LA countries it was supporting) and then came back out under the same management with lots and lots of western capital, which just flooded in there after the fall. Philby and his crew were interesting, and certainly the USSR wanted them out of there, but once again, until we get a look at the GRU files from the 1930's through even the 1960's we still are very much in the dark about what was and or was not going on relative to counter-I and or soft espionage. The reality of what we do know, is enough for anyone in my mind to doubt a lot of what went down through the 1950's at the very least. Reactions to McCarthy and people who helped him out are so excessively one sided in their outcomes for the helpers as to leave little to no doubt he was not simply creating a red scare, he was uncovering way, way too much conter-intelligence actions going on throughout way to many branches of our government. I do think Pacepa's take on all of this is also very interesting and needs to be given a lot of credence because of how tight he was with Andropov. I also find it interesting that Harry Hopkins has been mentioned in by at least one, perhaps two former high ups as one of the single greatest heroes of the USSR.
Major Jordan's diaries alone to me are rather condemning of Hopkins. One of my favorite line comes from George C Marshall in his own autobiography when he said that when he and Hopkins talked to FDR, he put forth the American side and Hopkins was there to put forth the Soviet side. That is a statement that should really leaving anyone's mind rather fried. So much has been lost as to who he was- according to either Time or Newsweek I believe, he was the co-president. I think we really need to make a push to have the Venona's files decrypted using AI. I am pretty positive there is still a lot of history that needs to be rewritten- though we all ready have a lot to be re-written that very few seem to want to allow to happen or even tackle.
Great article and a great reference for the history of the Democrat party of thieves, racists and war mongers.
The Democrats have also created crushing debt for all our major cities especially the Democrat controlled ones.
These Marxists and Fascists that make up the entire political layer of the Democrat party have worked successfully at creating this mess since the 1920’s. The USA used to kill commies. Now the USA elects them to office. It will be very hard to reverse their damage. Taking control back locally is as critical as it is at the state and federal level. The enemy is inside the gate.
I'm from Louisiana and, in Long's defense, he'd point out a man dressed as a woman is still a man and get run out of the party for that.
I suppose it sounds anachronistic and sexist but Jordan Peterson often talks about the feminine in old tales representing chaos. Guess maybe that’s why they call Democrats the mommy party. I thought it was kind of funny watching Bari Weiss interview Jerry Seinfeld and how he talked unironically about missing the “strong male” figure in culture and why that was a theme of his Poptarts movie. The adults are definitely not in charge. Liberal women are destroying the country. Many countries, in fact.