If You Want To Honor St. Patrick The Escaped Slave

 work against slavery.  

Maybe A Third "AI" Generated Fake "Proof of Life" Only Proves There Is No Real Proof Of LIfe - Question And Response

Q: Do You Think That Bibi Netanyahu Is Dead?

R: I DON'T KNOW but I have to say that it should be a rule of thumb that when the Israelis release a third "proof of life" video that has weird "AI" like elements in it, there aren't may more nails to be put in that coffin.  Each one of them has had obvious "AI" slop in it, like six fingers on one hand, the weirdness with the differences in numbers of teeth in the second one, the disappearing ring in the latest one. . . 

Of course, he could dispel any question by an indisputable appearance in public.  For example, in a televised appearance before the Israeli parliarment attested to by his political enemies or, better, in a court to answer for his crimes.   I mean the ones that the corrupt Israeli system would prosecute him for.   Or he could answer the international court's indictment of him in public.   If, in that regard, those who think he's alive and has fled Israel to save his criminal ass are right, it might be the most appropriate way for him to prove he's not dead.

Do I think the Trumpzis would try to drag out the length of time a dead Trump was held to be alive so that Thiel and his bitch, Vance wouldn't take over and start throwing disposable members of the Trump gang to the wolves as I expect them to do like immediately?   Geesh, has anyone lost a bet on them not doing anything and everything to maintain power over the crime syndicate the US government is controlled by under the Republicans?    

RMJ Has A Good Post Up Talking About Some Of The "Christian" Theological Theories Influencing Trump's Diasterous Policy

BEFORE GOING ON,  I'll point out that when I wrote about this last week I consistently typed the Bible annotating con-man's name "Schofield" which is how the family I grew up with spelled it, he didn't use the "H."    Which I mention in passing and in case anyone used what I typed to look up the topic.  I usually look up the spelling of names, there being so much variation but I've been busy, it's planting season and I've got a sick 18-year-old-cat to nurse. 

RMJ knows a lot more about that than I do, it being about as foreign from Catholicism as it's possible for something deputed to be "Christian" to be.   But it is enormously influential with tens of millions of those "white evangelicals" who are white supremacist-fascists in the Republican Party.   There are, though, other evangelicals of all identities it's not true of.  Especially when it comes to anabaptists and others who split into new denominations over a verse here and there,  it gets really complicated really fast.   

RMJ's post starts out by the news that that noted theologian,  the gay, capitalist libertarian, at times reportedly fascist-trad catho-convert Peter Thiel* giving a series of lectures in Rome - which the Catholic Church is disassociating themselves from.   Trad-cath converts, whether those who are trying to repeal Vatican II and want the liturgy to be mumured in Latin or  the wave of supposedly ex-evangelicals who are also polluting the Orthodox church in America are the worst.  Or, at least, they are supplementing the worst that was there.   Though some have accused the Catholic Church of taking Thiel in along with such as Gingrich and a host of other shady Republican-fascists,  he would apparently be posing as some kind of informal "orthodox"  for the moment.   So I'll address that part of it here. 

Peter Thiel, the MAGA-friendly tech billionaire and devout Christian, began a run of religious meetings close to the Vatican on Sunday, raising concerns among Catholics.

Lets get one thing straight,  Thiel isn't any kind of a Christian, he clearly is a worshiper of Mammon,  that is wealth, he opposes every word Jesus ever said approaching the topics of economics, justice, equality, and pretty much everything else.  He's, of course, not alone in that, a very large percentage of those who profess "Christianity" are as little believing or professing The Gospel, the Epistles, the faithful Christian tradition in favor of some perversion of all of those.  Those of us who aspire to follow Jesus had better start denouncing these Mammonist worshipers of the world and its riches or we have no one to blame when those whose knowledge of Christianity is anything from lacking to totally tacit believe that evil is what Christianity is.   Every one of the right-wing converts who I complain of above, see the Catholic Church as a large, influential, perhaps even powerful and wealthy operation that they want to take control of just as they have the government of the United States,  that's all it is to them.  And I would include many members of the Catholic hierarchy as promoting that perversion of Christianity as well as, for example, the current Patriarch of Moscow. 

Thiel, 58, has brought his series of lectures on the Antichrist to Rome. He first held these talks in San Francisco last fall, pushing the idea that a figure opposing Christ would soon emerge to create a “totalitarian one-world government.”

In his speeches, Thiel has harped against the dangers of woke policy such as environmental protections and tech industry regulations. During his San Francisco run, he called Gen Z environmental activist Greta Thunberg one of the “legionnaires of the Antichrist” and slammed Pope Leo XIV as a “woke American pope,” according to The Guardian.

LET ME ALSO ANNOUNCE HERE THAT IF I AM NOT YET WOKE I HOPE I AM WOKE VERY SOON AND PLEDGE THE REST OF MY LIFE TO WAKING EVERYONE I ENCOUNTER UP.  If Leo is "woke" HURRAY!   "Woke" is an entirely admirable thing to aspire to being,  the opposite is what the Thiels and his fellow fascist tech-bro fascists want everyone to be, a semi-conscious object to use, exploit, mark as an object of hate to organize the haters and harness them (the old-line "Southern strategy" of the Republican right's use for them) as a means of taking power and lording it over us all. 

Now, the former evangelical and self-described “small-o orthodox Christian” has taken his teachings to the Catholic Church’s backyard. Thiel reportedly partnered with Catholic universities in Rome to bring his invite-only series to the city, although two institutions alleged to be involved have denied this.

“With reference to several articles that have appeared in the press in recent days regarding an alleged event with Peter Thiel at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), we would like to clarify that this event is not organized by the University, will not take place at the Angelicum, and is not part of any of our institutional initiatives,” shared the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in a statement on its website.

The Associated Press reported that Thiel’s event was “jointly organized” by the Vincenzo Gioberti Cultural Association, an Italian Christian political organization, and the Cluny Institute at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. While cultural association confirmed its involvement, the Catholic University of America told the outlet it was “not sponsoring or hosting an event featuring Peter Thiel this month in Rome.”

As the U.S.T.A. happens to be one of the institutions which produced Pope Leo, (1984 Licentiate of Canon Law and 1987 Doctor of Canon Law)  I would think they would be unlikely to want to sponsor or be associated with a set of screeds from Thiel, who clearly hates Leo as much as he hated Francis.  So, as Buffy might put it,  survey says, LIAR.    

I would be interested to know just who made that claim to start with and if anyone at the university was in contact with Thiel and his fellow fascists.  

It’s unclear where the lectures, which will take place between March 15 and 18, are being held.

What is clear is that Catholics and Orthodox churches should be very, very careful about taking in right-wing, "ex-evangelicals" without a serious process of formation because, at the very least, they can give rise to a great deal of confusion and, at most, they are quite capable especially the billionaires and millionaires, of trying to mount a hostile takeover of it.   None of which is bound to produce anything good. 

I hope someone smuggles out recordings of what Thiel has to say,  I would expect that any Q&A wouldn't confront him about that thing which such "trads" seem to care about most these days, his sex life.  But I wouldn't count on any of that.   I wouldn't trust a "transcript" that was issued because, as can be seen above, they are liars and followers of the prince of liars.  

* Capitalist libertarianism being far more incompatible with the Gospel and Epistles than being gay, though I'm sure his fellow "christians" wouldn't see it that way.   I will say I would expect Thiel would give up gay libertarianism a lot faster than he'd give up the capitalism.  He knows that billionaires can always buy themselves liberties that governments, even theocratic ones, won't allow to the plebs.   

What About His Tattoo?

GRAHAM PLATNER has noted that when he got the tattoo in question he was young, stupid and drunk in the company of other young men (service members) who were also young, stupid and drunk and he had no idea what implications could be drawn from them.  

I have to say that most of those in Maine who have heard his explanation, as well as his decision in more sober adulthood to obliterate them are entirely OK with that explanation.   He has also noted that much of the flack from that seems to come from the corporate Democratic establishment who were so clueless and, obviously, so lacking in suitable alternatives that they had to talk the 77 year old Janet Mills into running  against him.   Don't get me wrong,  I have been thankful that Janet Mills was my governor instead of the Republican-fascist alternative, especially during Covid (her sister Dr. Dora was Maine's chief health official,  though not appointed by her sister) and in standing up to Trump.  But she has hardly been a progressive Democrat,  too much of a lawyer to be one of those, and if there is one thing that is obvious, at her age she is too old to elect as a first-time member of Congress.    Chuck Schumer drafting her TO RUN IN MAINE marks her as just another one of a series of establishment Democrats who have been selected to run for Senate and Governor only to lose to far worse Republicans.   Chuck knows about as much about Maine as he does about being an effective opposition to Trump, which is not enough to be demonstrable. 

I could give you a list of Democrats who the establishment supported but who those of us who keep track of Maine politics knew would be a diaster, James Tierney comes to mind as one who was a particularly bad choice forty years ago.   

I have followed Maine politics since the 1960s and remember them back into the 50s.   I have never seen a candidate for any office who has generated the kind of excitment that Graham Platner has.   I think his progressive populist, egalitarian, blue-collar appeal is responsible for that and it is exactly what most Democratic campaigns for higher an state-wide office have lacked.    While I can't predict what he will do if he gains the seat,  I know he'll be better than Susan Collins WHO THE DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT HAS NOT MANAGED TO DEFEAT EVEN WITH SOME GOOD CANDIDATES IN THE SAME VEIN AS JANET MILLS and I take his declaration that he has every intention to not be another Fetterman as showing he knows and disdains that kind of treason.  

I never entirely trust any politician,  having seen too many of the disappoint and a few who turned really bad but I am encouraged by Platner and those who support him.    He has my vote,  I hope he sets the pace for the beginning of the end of the Democratic establishment who have been blowing things in Maine since the 1970s,  especially the central-costal clique who have been a self-obsessed group of muddlers. 

Trump Voters Are The Approximately Over One Third Of The Country Who Are Stupid And Won't Even Learn From Hard Experience

 

I'm not making believe any more that there is any winning these white racist idiots over, WE HAVE TO CRUSH THEM, MAKE THEM UNPOPULAR, UNFASHIONABLE, WE HAVE TO MAKE BEING ONE OF THEM A STIGMA SO STRONG THOSE ON THE CUSP WILL LEARN NOT TO GO ALONG WITH THEM.   They have held far more power than their numbers for the entirety of American history, aside from the too brief period of Reconstruction, they have controlled a dangerous number of states for their entire history.   That is the terrible reality that we have to face,  there is no appealing to them, they must be defeated. 

Jim Hightower Gets It Right, Graham Platner Is Generating More Excitement Among Maine Voters Than I've Seen Since The 70s

 And Chuck Schumer is trying to put a wet blanket on it by bankrolling attacks on him.

It's time to replace Schumer, as Democratic leader and maybe as a Senator.   I wonder when the last time they had a candidate for Senate to be excited about was.  Hillary Clinton? 

More Of The White Bro Brains Forced To Display They Are As Stupid As They Are Hateful

Here's the arrogant, ignorant, likely illiterate pasty-faced white boy, Nathan Cavanaugh who teamed with the idiot Justin Fox to cancel NEH grants.  Note that challenged on his entire lack of credentials or experience, he claimed he could do that despite being an entirely inexperienced 20 something on the basis of books read and when he was asked to tell what books he'd read he said  "no books."   These white boys are so stupid they can say stupid stuff like that and not even realize how stupid they have demonstrated to the world that they are. 

Yesterday I almost claimed that Trump II was staffed by the "best and the brightest" and stopped myself and came up with "rich and the richest."   Today I'd say "worst and the whitest." 

Hate Mail

TP USA is a white supremacist, gun-violence excusing cult.  Charlie Kirk was a flaming, hate mongering racist,  his widder is a flaming, hate mongering racist amd a complete fake, phony money grubber.  Candice Owen is a total nutcase but, hey, guess what,  Charlie Kirk was the one who promoted her because she's is a Clarence Thomas level black white supremacist.  TP's alternative half-time show was a flaming racist lip-sync, everything about them is a flaming, hate mongering, white supremacist hate movement.   TP is an appropriate acronym because it's filthy with the shit it's full of. 

Charlie Kirk was more than just a racist, he was a supporter of mass gun deaths, he said:

You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry, and you won't have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It's drivel. But I am - I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.

He said that on April 5, 2023, days after a school shooting in Nashville that left three children and three adults dead, he said that after all of the school shootings that killed scores of children, he said that with full knowledge that it included the Sandy Hook shooting that murdered 20 six and seven year olds and six of their staff members,  he knew it included shootings in churches, in night clubs, in movie theaters at outdoor concerts.   

Kirk was on record as saying that all of those deaths, the six and seven year olds whose bodies were ripped apart by military guns provided to a psychopath by his gun-lovin' mother (who I expect went to hell for providing him with the guns he murdered children with) from a gun-lovin' family . . . KIRK SAID THOSE DEATHS WERE WORTH IT! 

Charlie Kirk was an evil piece of racist, sexist, LGBTQ hating shit and I expect he's having his sins burned out of him in hell.    He is no saint, he is no hero, he isn't even someone anyone should feel any ambivilance about,  he and the hate cult he started to rake in millionaire, billionaire and hateful sucker money are shear evil.   His trampy widow can join him there, as far as I'm concerned. 

Someone has to say it. 

The Reality TV Presidency That The Rich And Richest Bought Us

HEARING TRUMP'S stream of semi-consciousness before but evermoreso during his war of whim on Iran, the stream of nonsense in which he really seems to believe he can just will his history changing diaster into a victory made me wonder this morning if someone hasn't done one of those Hitler Is Told videos using the performace of Bruno Ganz as Hitler trying to will divisions of his army, either destroyed or unavailable, to fight off the advance of the Soviet Army as it was on the outskirts of Berlin, only to be told, finally,  that his dream was impossible.  Ganz's performance of Hitler forced to face reality was brilliant.   Trump's in reality when only a few reporters have hinted at reality to him, is not.  And, even told of reality,  he still claims and seems to believe that the war will end on his terms and on his timeline. 

THAT IS THE STAGE THAT AMERICA'S LIBERAL DEMOCRACY IN THE AGE OF MEDIA ADDLED AMERICA HAS ACHIEVED.    Hitler had some sane but evil and competent men around him who would, finally, tell him what was real and what was impossible,  Trump has surrounded himself with As Seen On TV idiots as big as himself or lying  Republicans such as Marco Rubio who are proving to be even more cravenly and cowardly corrupt than those who Hitler surrounded himself with.  

That it turns out that liberal democracy can, under the eutrophic elite that we have, in politics, in the law, in the media, in academia, etc.  produce such a spectacle is certainly one of the hardest lessons to be learned from the downfall of the ill-advised American empire.  Only I think most of us facing that reality will be harder than Hitlers subordinates making him face it. 

I take it as an indication that my analysis of this is at least on the right track that America's "classical liberal" liberal democracy has been constructed on destroying what I see as the last great hope of American democracy, the hard struggle to turn it from liberal democracy to egalitarian democracy, democracy based on doing to others what we would have the do to us.    THAT HAS BEEN THE MAJOR THRUST OF ALMOST ALL OF THOSE POWERS IN AMERICAN LIFE FOR THE PAST HALF A CENTURY,  the media, the law, politics and not an inconsiderable amount of academia,* as the backlash against the great struggle for racial, sexual, etc. equality that reached its peak just as Republican-fascism started to get going with the election of Nixon, started and increasingly got the upper hand.  I started noticing it by the late 1970s as the "anti-political correctness" stuff started in shock-jock radio, Andrew Dice Clay style comedy and in other venues of show business, including, of course "happy-talk news."   Though it is certain that its most potent form was in the ever ascendent "entertainment division" of the corporate and, then, "public" media was far, far more watched and consumed than anything deputed to be "news."  

I heard in listening to Lawrence O'Donnell's opening monlogue on his show last night, that he has begun to notice what I noticed and warned about decades ago, that the horrors of Trump's Iran war are seen by him, those around him and those who still believe in him in the most crude of Hollywood and game show and sports terms.  He played several videos that the Whitehouse has put out promoting Trump's Iran war, which is already a humanitarian, ecological, geo-political, economic and financial diaster (I list those in term of rising concern to Trump and his kind,  in descending order in terms of morality) as even some on his team in the Congress are beginning to admit.  

I will repeat what I said yesterday or the day before, Americans who want to have something like a decent legitimate government have to face a horrible truth that Lawrence O'Donnell hasn't yet faced,  that we have about a third or more of the citizens of the United States who are so TV and Hollywood and entertainment media addled (the kind who believed that the "Apprentics" franchise documented reality and they wanted a fascist CEO) and that they are concentrated in enough states to produce a minority-vote president, even one who, under the corrupt Constitution can become president even though he loses the vote.   After Bush II, after Trump I and, if the poll are at all to be taken seriously, EVEN NOW IN TRUMP II that third of the criminally-fascist inclined American voters seems to be a permanent feature of American life.   NO ONE WHO IS A RATIONAL PERSON OF GOOD WILL CAN MORALLY RISK THEM DETERMINING OUR GOVERNMENT EVER AGAIN.   

One of the early blog posts I wrote about this condemned what I then called the "process liberal," the kind of liberal who "only wants a level playing field" but who regularly pretend that that will mean that egalitarian democracy wins.  In current terms it is the kind of media liberal, often a lawyer who will bask in the Sorkinesque fantasy that if only things could return to some past in American political life then we could rest easy.  That is and always has been a fantasy, the kind of fantasy that is peddled by the high-brow, conventional view of American history and society.   One which can pretend that the worst of us isn't given a boost in its power by the anti-democracy features of the Constitution, worst of those the Electoral College and anti-equality constitution of the Senate, along with the enhanced power of the Senate to confirm "justices" and judges and other executive branch appointees,  judge AND ALMOST ALWAYS STOP impeachment proceedings, to act as the killing field of democratic progress, etc.   That the highest concentrations of our stupidest and cruelest are found in enough states, most with small populations though some in states such as Texas and Florida, has driven our aspiring democracy into the death of it in Trump.   

On top of that, the ever more consolidated mass media, freed to lie with impunity about, not only politicians and other public figures, but about reality itself, by a combination of the idiocy of those who wrote the First Amendment and the criminals and idiots on Supreme Courts of the past sixty years, is the engine that has driven us to catastrophe, yet again.  

O'Donnell rightly considers Trump and his goons to be stupid, they are the stupidest regime in our history and considering the stupidity of Trump I and Bush II, that is saying a mouthful.   But he is wrong in trying to use ridicule to dminish them and their thinking beause in the United States of 2026,  stupid rules as does cruelty as do do its even more dangerously potent cousins, cynicism and indifference.   That his own medium, THE MEDIA,  has been the thing that both created Trump as a public and political figue, that thwarted the person who won the 2016 vote and lost the presidency due to the corruption built into our Constitution by lying about her for decades, it is also what has created the conditions that made Trump I AND II possible, perhaps inevitable. 

And over all,  American capitalism is what has brought us here.   It bought the American imperial system that created the American empire, the American hegemony,  "The American Century, "  and it was also what contained the gradual poisons that would destroy all of that and the aspirations that American democracy might be forced to evolve into egalitarian democracy, a real democracy, a democracy with the informed, well-meaning consent of those governed under it,  in short the only really legitimate kind of goverment that is possible.   Instead, our entire past under the Constitution, in the period in which the most liberty through legalization of personal and corporate behavior in our history has been the milieu in which that history played out, has brought us to Trump II and what is either our Waterloo or the end of the world in his attack on Iran.  

In The Republican-fascist Haze Of War I Think It Would Be Irresponsible For Me To Not Speculate

I HAVEN'T YET heard anyone wonder if the shocking effectiveness of Iran's weaponry, much of it appaently had with the suspected help of Russia and China,  might not have been aided by Trump selling or trading America's most serious secrets of the kind he stole and stored at his vulgar Florida palace and New Jersey golf club.   I suspect that treason started almost immediately as he first took office in 2017 if not even earlier as he started getting confidential briefings. 

Did Trump and his crime family and gang sell or trade the information that, indirectly, may have led to Iran being able to target American, Israeli, Saudi, etc. targets with inexpensive drones?   Would anyone want to make a bet with heavy odds set against me that that question is known to be outrageous?    I'd bet a hundred bucks that I can't afford on the possibility that my speculation may prove to be right. 

The Republicans starting with the Newt Gingrich period have been on a track to be the most dangerous traitors to the country,  perhaps even more dangerous than the confederate traitors.   The billionaires and millionaires are traitors who, like Trump, care only about their wealth.  

America's Free Press Peddling Wars Of Choice Pretty Much Since The Start

 

Leon Barritt 1898

I was reminded of this famous cartoon of the two giants of the American free press fighting over which ones' tabloids sold the American People that shameful war.   Considering the two biggest disasters so far in American history have been brought to us in the past quarter of a century, and there is credible talk that this one is being considered as a nuclear war, it's time to face the horrible fact that the First Amendment could turn out to be even more dangerous than the Second one and very fast.  

There is no right to lie by a Person,  there is certainly even less of one for corporations like FOX to lie us into a Trump, into an Iran War, into a nuclear war.   Or even into financing an Israei government proving that they, in fact DO HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS DISPITE THEM AND THEIR SUPPORTERS LYING ABOUT THAT FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY BY USING THEM AGAINST REAL HUMAN BEINGS. 

A Specimen Of The Best White Boy Brains That Elon And Trump Could Assemble To Attack DEI - You have to hear how stupid he is to believe it.

This is Justin Fox, DOGE member assigned to make the National Endowment For The Humanities remove anything that isn't white-suprmacist-male-supremacist-etc. propaganda.    Considering how they targeted grants and projects with Jewish subject matter,  you can imagine  those dealing with Black People and their history in the United States and elsewhere.   Notice that these cyber-cretins apparently couldn't read any better than this one can talk THEY HAD TO RELY ON "AI" TO DO THEIR READING FOR THEM. 

In a filing on Friday, attorneys for the plaintiffs said Fox specified that he considered Jewish grants, including those focusing on the Holocaust, part of DEI.  

“For a different grant about violence against women during the Holocaust, Fox testified that ChatGPT properly classified the grants as involving DEI, and thus slated it for termination, because it was ‘specifically focused on Jewish cultures’ (as in, it was about the Holocaust) and the ‘voices of the females in that culture,’” reads the filing.

“More generally, Fox stated that he identified as DEI any grant about a specific ‘minority group,’ meaning any particular ‘ethnicity, culture . . . race or gender or religion,’” the filing went on.

“It’s a Jewish — specifically focused on Jewish culture and amplifying the marginalized voices of the females in that culture,” Fox stated about one canceled grant for a project about “violence against women during the Holocaust,” as the latest court filing described it. Fox continued, “It’s inherently related to DEI for that reason.”

When asked in a deposition about the criteria for cancellation, the NEH’s acting chair Michael McDonald said he hadn’t known that DOGE used ChatGPT in its selection process, while also noting that he didn’t agree with the assessment that the Holocaust constituted DEI. The final authority for canceling the grants rested with DOGE, not McDonald, depositions indicated.
Fox, the suit alleges, had created his own “Detection List” of identity-based traits, with separate categories for “Craziest Grants” and “Other Bad Grants,” before running the databases through the generative AI software.

His prompt, according to the lawsuit: “Does the following relate at all to DEI? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes.’ or ‘No.’ followed by a brief explanation. Do not use ‘this initiative’ or ‘this description’ in your response.” The grants that turned up were all terminated, with only a few exceptions.

Many Jewish-themed projects were among the NEH cancellations, including a grant for “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union,” a translation project that was published in book form last month. The book was singled out during the lawsuit’s discovery phase, which noted, “ChatGPT classified this grant as DEI because ‘[t]his anthology explores Jewish writers’ engagement with the Holocaust in the USSR.’”

“I find it annoyingly amusing that they weren’t bothering to read the grants themselves — that they needed a machine to give them some sense,” Sasha Senderovich, a University of Washington professor who co-translated the volume with University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign professor Harriet Murav, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Three-quarters of their NEH grant had already been paid out, Senderovich said. He believes the NEH’s decision to cancel his grant was an example of “authoritarian logic.”

This is taken from  from the Detroit Jewish News for which, for some reason,  I can't seem to get a URL to link to it. 

Why Should We Be Slaves To The Thinking Of The Framers?

THE OBJECTION TO me admitting the most obvious of truths,  that when it comes to what has legal and political potency, THE CONSTITUTION MEANS NOTHING EXCEPT WHAT IT IS MADE TO MEAN IN REALITY, asks us to lie and to pretend to believe transparent lies, to pretend that Hollywood and Broadway, Aaron Sorkin-Ken Burns, high school civics fantasy is reality when we must live under something entirely at horrific odds with that fictitious fairy tale..   

The Roberts Court lied when in  SNYDER v. UNITED STATES, claimed that the Constitution as it was concieved of by those who wrote the thing made blatant,  quid pro quo selling of politicians decisions and,  BY THEIR OWN, KNOWN BEHAVIOR, decisions by Supreme Court members legal so long as the payment followed the delivery of what was being bought.  

While, as something of a scholar on the real history of the slave-holders, crooked financiers and Indian murderers who wrote the Constitution, I have every faith that a lot of them would have done exactly that, themselves, NONE OF THEM WOULD HAVE BEEN SO CORRUPT AS TO PUT THAT INTO THE DOCUMENT, ITSELF.   To do so would have been for them to reproduce some of the worst aspects of the monarchy they had just thrown off and those in Europe which they certainly knew the real workings of.  

If you have read much of what I've written about this you would know that despite having studied the history of this I HOLD THERE IS NO REASON FOR US TO BE THE SLAVES OF THAT HISTORY OR THE LEGAL NECROMANCY OF THOSE PRETENDING WE OR THEY CAN DISCERN THE INTENT OF THOSE WHO WROTE THE DAMNED CONSTITUTION.   

Even if the founders and framers were as corrupt in their explicit intent as John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, etc. pretend to belive they are IN ORDER FOR THEM TO GET TO THE RESULT THAT THEY FAVOR, why should we be governed by that when the evil consequences for us are what those liar-lawyers in black robes claim we must live with because of their occult reading of the two-century dead minds of those corrupt slave-holders, genocidalists and crooks was?    

Even if the corrupt results that the Roberts Court gets were the consequences of well-meaning mistakes by the framers in coming up with the right words,  WE STILL ARE UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO PUT UP WITH THE CORRUPTIONS THAT ARE A RESULT OF SUCH "ERRORS."  

We, the ones who must live under the Constitution until its catastrophic consequences force us to either change it or live under those catastrophic conditions are under no intellectual, ethical or, most of all, moral obligations to put up with it.   We who live in states where there is not a reliable American-fascist majority, that is, white supremacist majority are not under any obligation to live under it because of a current inability to muster the votes in the Congress or among the often corrupt state legislatures to reform or change the damned thing.   I have said before that if it becomes obvious that it is now impossible for those of us living in less corrupt states will never have control of the federal government again, or even a good hope of that, we should break the country apart, there is nothing about the United States as an artificial entity that obligates anyone living in it to sentence their children, their great-grand-children or, as in my case, nieces and nephews, to live under the tyranny of white spremacy or, as is the case in many of the TV and social media addled in so many places, under their stupidity.  

There is nothing in the Constitution, no, not even in the Bill of Rights, that means we can not learn the hard lessons forced on us living under it, whether from Bush II or Trump I and II that there is a dangerous and politically concentrated and dangerous coalition between the media-made-stupid and the white-spremacist-haters FUELED WITH BILLIONAIRE AND MILLIONAIRE MONEY that has produce the Satyricon levels of stupid corruption that we have lived under for going on sixteen years into this quarter over century.  

If, as it is now obvious that there is somewhat over a third of the country that can force a Trump on us AND REELECT HIM DESPITE HIS DEMONSTRATED CRIMINALITY, INCOMPETENCE AND DESIRE TO SADDLE US WITH A CORRUPT MONARCH - WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE MOST CORRUPT SUPREME COURT IN OUR HISTORY* the only moral course is for the rest of us to take that as a given and face the horrible fact that much, most of what the framers based their structure of government on is not only wrong, it is fatally, dangerously wrong.   Every means of reducing the political power of the states and their voters who send dangerous criminals to the Congress, especially the Senate,  everything that leads to dangerous people like Bush II and Trump gaining the presidency EVERY MEANS OF PREVENTING THE RIGGING OF THE SUPREME COURT BY REPUBLICAN-FASCISTS AND THE MILLIONAIRES AND ILLIONAIRES THEY SERVE,  must be taken, despite what the Constitution says, either as honestly read or as corruptly distorted by entities like the Roberts Court. 

We have a moral obligation to face the terrible truth that free-speech-press absolutism AS DEFINED BY COURTS SINCE THE WARREN COURT have led us to the real life reality of what our country has become, A NATION RULED NOT BY LAWS BUT BY THE CORRUPT CRIMINALS THAT BELIEVED IN MEDIA FED LIES PRODUCES.   The Warren Court made the first and most fatal decision in that line of corruption enabling rulings in 1964, things have been going steadily down since Nixon did what he couldn't do four years before that,  win an election with media lying on his behalf.  The media, the free press as it existed then was still doing that in 1972 even as his then unprecedented criminality was becoming known.  The "justices" proved to be rather stupid about that, even though Warren, himself, as a former politician, certainly should have known better.  Lawyering and the professional habits of them lying can make even the smartest among them total idiots.  

So long as liberals and moderates and, well, I'll imagine I believe that such unicorns are real, principled conservatives buy into the nonsense that we are forever bound by whatever can be pretended the framers and founders intended we will never be safe under the Constitution.  That is the foremost lesson for the future of our present catastrophe.   We have been brought here under the rulings of the most corrupt branch of the government in American history,  the Supreme Court, through their lines of "First Amendment" and "Second Amendment" rulings.  Sullivan, Buckley v Valeo, Citizens United, Heller, and those ultimate and clearly anti-constitutional rulings, Snyder and Trump v USA.  Despite the anodyne words of the MS-Now, online-liberal lawyers,  that is the real meaning of the Constitution so long as we put up with it and the corruption that we now know is included under its framing of governance. 

* The Roberts Court is a direct result of the corrupt decision of the framers to give the almost entirely anti-democratically constituted Senate the ability, such as was made clear, under Mitch McConnel and with the connivance of Republican members of the Court, that they can pack the Court to come up with those corruptions that the Roberts Court and the Rehnquist Court before it have brought us to.  Since Bush v Gore, the Court has been as corrupt as it was since the Taney Court, and I would argue even more corrupt.  That is a direct result of the anti-democratic atrocities embedded in the Constitution and the form of government it invented.   We are under no obligation to pretend otherwise or to live with it. 

I'm Asked What I Think Of The Anti-Defamation League Saying

that bringing up the Trump regimes' use of the Israeli-Trumpzi war on Iran having a use for them to distract from the Epstein scandal,  the scandal being much enhanced by the clear cover-up, is "antisemtic."  Well, to the extent Epstein and Maxwell and Wexners' ethnicity has nothing to do with their crimes, and other than them being reported to be racist, classist, believers in the superiority of their shared ethnicity, that might be a valid complaint, though one which is about as valid as a complaint that someone noticed that IRA members tended to be Catholics or the KKK tended to be white evangelicals.  As to how you are supposed to ignore those things, I'd like an explanation. 

I would be perfectly happy to say that that trio of sex traffickers seemed to take The Law and the Prophets about as seriously as the Mafia took the Gospel and Epistles and so certainy Judaism had nothing to do with their crimes. 

I looked at the . . . well, they're calling it a study at the ADL which looks more like an hysterical screed to me.  They took the opportunity to go after a list of dissimilar groups and individuals, tarring those who are certainly not antisemites with same tar they're tarring the fascists with.  It's dragging in everything from the Nazi and Trumpzi right (you know, Israel's partner in this war) to the middle, to the left, really left and play left and a host of other things, such as those who are pointing out the utility of the war Trump and the Israeli government started to Trump's Epstein cover-up.   In the tweet that was sent my way from Oren Segal, it would seem that he considers anyone bringing up that use of the war by Trump, who has used everything up to and including acts of war - for example his Venezuela adventures- for that purpse, is an instance of "antisemitism."  What is, of course, a self-evident truth about that is that many of those who have pointed that out are as Jewish as anyone and everyone at the ADL.  

It is high on accusations and entirely lite on actual cited examples of antisemtism.   I have to wonder if they did that it would show that what they're lumping in all together is nothing like homogenous. 

As for the genuine antisemites citing THE FACT that this is a war the Israeli government has been peddling to the United States for four decades and that Trump's own Secretary of State is the one who cited the old charges of Zionists running the US government in regard to the middle-east, what the hell does anyone expect?    I don't pay attention to Fuentes, Owen, Carlson, etc. but if they want to make that accusation all they have to do is cite the facts and the claims of Marco Rubio and, at times, Trump, himself.   IS EVERYONE TO PRETEND THAT ISREAL IS NOT INVOLVED? 

I don't consider the ADL or any entity that bought into the IHRA definition of antisemitism as honest dealers because it was a transparent effort to shield criticism of Israel and Zionism and such thugs as AIPAC from the level of criticism that any country and its ideological supporters and lobbyists that is entirely legitimate,  by using what, unfortunately, through that kind of extravagant overuse and over-extension, has become an increasingly impotent accusation, antisemitism.   Which is, indeed, unfortunate because genuine antisemitism AS CAN BE SEEN IN THE EXAMPLES OF THE GENUINE THING IN THE "STUDY" ARE REAL AND A POTENT VENUE OF SPREADING HATRED.   That they, as is typical, nowadays of the universal adoption of the IHRA "definition" slander groups and individuals who are in no way haters of Jews, certainly only serves to weaken the potency of what should be an accurately and honestly used label.  But it generally isn't, these days. 

The ADL has discredited itself,  I don't trust them anymore.  I take anti-Zionist Jews entirely more seriously than I do those old standbys of a bygone era.

Update: I don't know why they asked me, maybe it's the post I did a couple of days ago about Marco Rubio's invoking of old antisemitic tropes to cover his and Trump's asses.  Odd, I don't see the ADL noticing that though it's right in line with that old Czarist forgery or the subsequent uses made of it. 

Ah, Yes, That Is Actually A Thing

 TRY GOOGLING "men who brag about not cleaning their assholes" and see what comes up.   They think wiping is too gay, or something.   

But don't feel too bad about not knowing about how puerile and putrescent they were,  the devotees of "septic masculinity," I didn't know about it till my brother recently told me about that.  He monitors the stupid fascist web a lot more than I do.   He complained to me that Trumpian surreal fascism had ruined "beforeitsnews" for him.   I couldn't stomach it to start with and I tried to avoid places where I thought I could pick up an STD from looking at the screen. 

I'll bet the intersection of the set of them and Incel-boys is nearly 100%.  

MY BROTHER CALLS THEM THE "DIRTY ASSHOLE FRAT BROS"

I DON'T KNOW IF TRUMP'S degenerat, drunk "Secretary of War,"  Kegbreath has officially announced he's one of those online real he-men who proudly announces that don't wash their anus but we have him on video from his only kept job, so far, on FOX Lies claiming he hadn't washed his hands in ten years.   It's not a stretch to think that a Trumpian he-man who would claim that wouldn't be one of the "dirty asshole bros."   You know, the kind whose younger members wonder why they can't attract Women or, those who they do attract can't get away from them fast enough. 

The most obvious thing about them is their pathological masculine fixation,  it would qualify as hilariously funny if so many of them weren't so dangerous.  

But that's a minor thing, it's now becoming clearer that after Pete Kegbreath bombed that girl's school, killing a reported 175 children and adults at that school, was an Israeli Gaza genocide style "double tap" in which after the first bomb destroys a site,  a second one is sent in to kill those who survive or are rushing to save lives.  In this case, killing many surviving children and teachers and those who went to save lives. 

The Nazi type war criminal Hegseth, and the rest of the Trump regime, among their hundreds if not thousands of crimes against humanity dismantled the Pentagon's civilian mitigation units,  those who used to be given the responsibility to try to minimize the numbers of civilians killed in bombing and missile strikes by the United States.   Apparently the As Seen On TV,  FOX Lies, piece of shit thought it was too sissy or woke to try to prevent the kinds of crimes that he is now guilty of before the entire world,  murdering school girls and their teachers and those who went to save survivors.   It is a classic war crime of the kind the United States and the allied victors against the Nazi and fascist regimes and the Japanese Imperial war machine hanged war criminals for. 

I am just about totally opposed to capital punishment, but if someday Hegseth and the rest of these criminals were hanged for their crimes against humanity,  their punishment wouldn't be at the head of my list of concerns.  

Oh, and, by the way, now that they're admitting to what that department is, again,  I have no problem with it being called what it is,  the Department of War with the head of it being the Secretary of War.  America's military hasn't done much in the way of defense since the name change was made, it's mostly attacked other places, often siding with the most homicidal of murdering, enslaving dictators on behalf of American corporations and oligarchs,  exactly what this war is all about.   

And while we're at it

 # SendKaiToo

Little Donnies daughter Kai Trump has a Youtube channel where she does videos like "I Brought My Secret Service To Erewhon" where she, I guess, has her Secret Service protection videoing her buying stuff in "the most expensive grocery store in Los Angeles" to take home and try out for the camera.   Keith Edwards asks if they're trying to bring on a French Revolution style Revoloution.  

She also has herself doing video selfies in front of fighter jets and in other places an elite brat like her can go and other such content.  

Kai Trump is 18, the age of many of those who Trump is planning on sending to die in his Iran war.   Whose death he says is blithly is just something that happens in war.   The other day an American journalist, addressing Trump floating the idea of sending in "boots on the ground" in his war of whim (His lying skank Leavitt based it on his "feeling" so that's what I'm going with) pointed out that with Kai grandfather's grandfather coming to America to dodge the draft in Bavaria to become a pimp in the old west, the foundation of the Trump fortune.   He would seem to also be the source of the Trump family's typical avoidence of serving in the military that Trump considers cannon fodder in wars he wants but doesn't want to fight for himself.  And who he has called "losers" and "suckers."  

Why does this clueless rich bitch have Secret Service protection and does she have them acting as videographers for her Youtubes?   

Send the Trump spawn, Trump.  Send the spawn of those in his regime of that age.   It's reported Trump might be considering a draft if this goes on.  I hope he does, it would sink the goddamned Republicans, especially among Republicans.  NO DEFERMENTS, THIS TIME.  None.  As we can see from Trump's draft dodging,  the rich can buy a doctor to lie for them to keep them out.  Let the military decide who is medically unfit for service once they're there.  Though I'm sure Trump would order them to exclude his spawn and that of the rich.  

We have got to get rid of the goddamned presidential system, it has reached its most typical corrupt form in Trump. 

Seen Online

 A Man, No Plan, Iran 

I Don't Mind The Opposition Of Those In The Media And Politics

to the American Antichrist that is peddling the latest Israeli-American war,  this one on Iran, using what is misnamed "Christian prophesy."   I wish the likes of Ali Velshi and Keith Olberman and the various online journalists who are saying that knew a little more about what they're talking about because it's not "Christian" it's a particular and minority species of white evangelical heresy that was invented in the 19th century and was promoted for financial and ideological reasons by late 19th and early 20th century millionaires and, inexplicably, the Oxford University Press.  

What all the bullshit coming out of Kegbreath and LadyBug Graham and Huckabee, etc. and is vaguely mouthed by the first American Antichrist president,  Trump, is a flaky heretical line of bullshit known as "dispensationalist theology" WHICH THE LARGE MAJORITY OF CHRISTIANS HERE AND AROUND THE WORLD REJECT.   

It was popularized by a petty Trump style con-man, adulterer and, after he noticed the business opportunity, hallaluliah peddler named Cyrus I. Schofield.   Schofield produced a kind of study bible that promoted the bullshit dispensationlist . . . I really can't consider it theology but that's what they call it . . . well, bullshit that has become massively popular especially around those churches denominated "evangelical" whether Calvinist or Pentecostalist or Baptist or other which has fallen for that crap.    I would recommend even those who find anything to do with Christianity offensive or tedious or boring to look into Schofield and his bullshit and the bullshit peddlers, especially the mega-church, night-club-church types who get the big bucks with the big backing of billionaires and millionaires - I would bet you that there are even a number of the "trad-catholics" and would be Orthodox,  especially the recent supposedly ex-evangelical converts, who fall for it even though it is considered heretical by both of those catholic traditions. 

One of the most interesting things about Schofield style dispensationalism is the end-times Protestant Zionist bullshit comes from that, especially their literalist reading of the Book of Revelation.   A lot of People suspect that explains the entirely inexplicable fact that the Schofield Bible, the work of an uncredentialed, uneducated American con-artist, was published by the foremost English language academic publisher, Oxford University, whose requirements of academic standing in theor authors was quite rigid.   And considering the size of the Schofield Bible and it having no track record that would lead to the publisher expecting sales to make up the cost of printing the thing,  just who put up the money for that first printing and promotion of it is a topic of great speculation.   Everyone from American robber barrons who thought the line of bilge that Schofield and his ilk were peddling would prove profitable for them to the Rothschild family who were already going big for Zionism are suspected of being the money behind it as well as the pressure for Oxford to publish it.   I'm putting my money on the early support coming from the American millionaire robber barons who mostly professed to believe in some species of Protestantism, though it wouldn't surprise me if a member of the Rothschild family was also involved along with Brits with similar financial interests.   Never underestimate the desire of such to get Jews out of their countries and into the ultimate ghetto. 

And, considering what dispensationalist theology teaches about that,  "ultimate" really means "last" as the Nazis intended the one at Warsaw to be. 

I am again calling for a serious and rigorously fought brawl among Christians for the meaning of the word "Christianity" because the political-religio-fascists here and elsewhere are discrediting those who take the teachings of Jesus, Paul, Moses and the Prophets seriously just when that vitally important theology of justice, love and mercy are most needed.   Schofield dispensationalist bullshit and "christian" Zionism are two of the most dangerous heresies current among those who mistake themselves as Christians - especially those in the Republican-facist party and those under the sway of the billionaire-oligarchs.   I certainly call on Catholics to attack those heresies because, as we can see in America and Israel's Iran crimes, the crimes of the previous American and other governments where dispesationalist superstition is politically potent, it is getting hundreds of thousands and millions killed.  It is a moral obligation to attack it and those sources of it. 

I wish that Velshi, Olbermann and others online and elsewhere would take the time to really understand that this stuff is not even real majority Christianity,  it can be attacked and made less powerful and it needs to be.   I don't think the media figures figure this is a distinction worth making but it would be a way to diminish its strength, which means learning what it's all about is worth the effort. 

In Case You Don't Know That Trump-Israel's Catastrophic War On Iran Is Going To Destroy Us

THERE IS THE "AI" BULLSHIT bubble that is going to burst very soon. 

Sam Altman: Everything You Didn't Know About His Sh*tty Past

Never, ever underestimate how stupid greed makes the ultra-rich as well as them loving to pretend to understand things that they don't begin to understand.   Billionaires are no way to run an economy,  they're such suckers who then blackmail the politicians into bailing them out.