It speaks poorly of Alex Jones and mainstream politics that Alex Jones gets placed in with a list of “prominent conservatives”. Skip back to his yokking with Charlie Sheen or Billy Corgan, pumping up Ron Paul, getting vicious quotes from Alan Grayson. Yep, right-wing indeed, but able to pose as an outside rabbler. Even the thing that has proven his undoing, the habit of declaring all acts of mass violence inside-jobs so enter Sandy Hook — was an outgrowth of the a-partisan worldview — no room for anyone even vaguely your guy in the White House, disenchanted (for the umpteenth time, mind you, and it never stuck) or not.

I half think Alex Jones could go back to the roots. Punk Rock, baby. Not gonna do the Big Circuits. Let’s do… Public Access Television again, where he would be huge in public access television terms.

Skipping about into infowars dot com before it finally gets refurbished by a parodist at The Onion, his big top story is the Federal Government’s indictment of Southern Poverty Law Center. That issue where I half want to place behind a grumbling of some diced opinions on the organization while dismissing that an toto as irrelevant to the fact that it is a bogus and flagrant political act on the part of the Trump government, and half think that any opinion should be so beside the point as to state it is to give the government credence. I think The Nation published a critical piece alleging it falling into its own bureaucracy — might be some other liberal rag — and maybe it is just well that it rests on its couple of big successes in torpoeding the Aryan Nations and prosecuting actual Klan violence. But looking at them, you have the sense of trying to will TP-USA or Focus on the Family out of the mainstream political spot they reside in — or, sure — worthwhile to combat, but the terms you do so fall flat. On their big national “Hate map”, a decade or so back focus on on how they tag Portland and the Willamette Week scratched their head — a coupke of tiny black Muslim reading groups which — looking in on them, maybe they are reading conspirat-orially on the evils of Jews or something in coded manner, but hardly seemed where you can land on the troubles we see. The closing chapters in Infowars posits that this shows — proves — reveals — the SPLC Did it all. The Oklahoma City Bombing, for one. Through their infiltration and seizing control of extremist groups. I half think this is what the DOJ claim actually does say, as this administration is almost just that out of whack, but I know they fall well short and Jones is projecting it onward. The unreality moves in in looking at comments sections at YouTube videos from various commenters on the looming Onion take-over — Jones was right all along here, you just to wake up.

It is this that brings Jones back to Trump — even after the hand-wringing over Iran. That and that he could always still make claims that he has insiders in the White House — referring to whatever Roger Stone threw at him to say. The logic moves on over to Joe Rogan who — apparently was big enough to not get bleated at in a Truth Social post. Just bring him in to stand behind him as he waves freedom for psychedelics use and greet him at a UFC fight and all is forgiven — that while Iran fiasco — what the ever. Nothing sticks. I mean, even Alan Dersowitz apparently remained the Democratic Party while I wasn’t looking — how else do I explain a second “Why I’m Quitting the Democratic Party” essay? (And will be write a third one a year from now?)

A familiar sight in electioneering — the opportunities of campaign dwindle to a handful for the unpopular incumbent — Obama needs to be out campaigning for someone In 2010, but true swing states cut him off — the only place he can find are some heavily black or heavily college districts and the man running against Christine O’Donnell throws him a bone. The circumstances are maybe a little different in this election cycle, but it is a desperate special election batch with, for instance, House Speaker Johnson rolls to a Trump +25 seat and carried a voice message call from Trump to maintain a hold and a seven point victory against a generic Democratic activist. Where will Trump show up — I don’t know, we are in Biden 2022 territory where he may just go wherewithal scarily lighted doom speech and then physically disappear — yeah, he came out swinging against Massie, but that’s a primary.

Today the most important election for the current American conservative movement is taking place. Over in Hungary. Victor Orban is holding on for fear life and has brought in the big guns to rally the base — enter Vice President JD Vance, enter a call in from Donald Trump to the cheering crowd, and enter a message Hungarian patriots to vote to stop powerful foreign and international movements from coming in tell them how they should run their country. The mind reels.

Trying to assess where to campaign — various red districts dotting the US, they won’t admit they have to put in money to Texas until they have to, but the real stop gap to hold and aid future political victory is Hungary. If Hungary falls, all is lost — it will be hard to pick up the pieces and how is JD Vance going to shuffle together the political map to get to 270 electoral votes in 2028 when Hungary is automatically Newsom Country?

Today is a historically important date, down in history as the closest to a nuclear bomb dropping since, I guess 1982/3 with Stanislav Petrov waving away a computer error and Soviet freak-out in intercepting and them a taking as serious a routine American/Britain War game planning.  A “probably not, but…” protudes. … A Truth Social post is a truth social post.

Reportedly Reagan was so moved by the ‘Day After’ mini-series that he changed policies and posturing.  Not much you can drop in mass media right now.  Though, even if someone did, the weird right-wing response from various right -leaning creators was to get a ‘post Soviet invasion’ mini-series on network tv, which did not have any effect on Reagan as by that time Gorbachev was well on the way in Perostrokia and Glastnot (spelling may be off).  (You can find that ‘Amerika’ series on YouTube anyway, and laugh at the comments.)