“What is the deal with –“
Wait.  Is this an old Seinfeld monolouge?  Ah, observational stand up cliches.  Yay!
“Lyndon Larouche?”
No.
“Cool Guy … or a Real Douche?”
No one is going to say “Cool Guy”.

I have a family member that’s part of his organization. My dad is a big supporter of some of his ideals, but distances himself because they really have some “cult-like” tactics for recruiting and retaining members.
He reminds me of a communist political cult called the Fourth International Posadist, who mixed Trotskyism with the belief that UFOs were alien beings from socialist planets, and that the workers of the world needed a nuclear bomb to win the class war. Both of them are just the esoteric ramblings of one person with a rag tag bunch of followers.

Another question:  Most Evil Person in the United States.  Is it… Larouche?

I actually went to one of these meetings when I was 18. I met this girl outside a train station and she asked me about a history book I was reading. We had a pretty interesting conversation about history and politics, and afterwards she tells me I should check out this political organization she was involved with.

A couple days later I show up and this meeting, and I immediately can tell that something is off. It’s in this run down house with stacks of literature piled everywhere. Everybody there looked pretty disheveled and out of it. There was some guy giving a lecture about Pythagoras, and he clearly had no clue what he was talking about, he was just parroting something that someone else told him.
I was extremely uncomfortable, but I sat there politely for a while until there was a little break from the lecture. I then bounced out there as quickly as humanly possible.
As I was walking to my car the girl who introduced me came running after me frantically yelling “where are you going?” I made up some excuse why I had to leave. I was very disturbed by how desperately she wanted keep me there.
Afterwards I did some research and found out that I was being recruited for a cult. I’m lucky that instantly creeped out by the environment and was not more impressionable at the time.

I have a friend who was a LaRouche follower, and you aren’t too far off about the economic gloom and doom. He’s also big on the concept that there a re a few super high level oligarchs that run everything, and that the political system is just a show to keep people occupied, which might not be that far from the truth.
On the other hand, I didn’t see where he was controlling my friend in any way, and he could have used a little control in his life. He had been in pretty deep, living with older members, going to classes, etc., but when I knew him he was living on his own, with no regular contact with the outfit other than an occasional phone call hitting him up for a donation.
I used to **** him off by saying LaRouche had predicted 15 of the last 3 economic downturns.

I knew a couple in the 1980’s who were deeply involved in this cult.
They had average jobs and seemed OK until I visited their home with a friend one night. They started talking about LaRouche and showed me the cult’s newsletter, which was filled with denunciations of Isaac Newton and praising Johannes Kepler.
It turned out that LaRouche has a very weird pro-German / anti-British view of the world. Newton got all the credit for inventing physics but it was really Kepler’s work!!! The Queen of England is a drug dealer!!! Nested spheres!!! Yes, I know it doesn’t make sense.
They asked me for money to support this vital Movement. I declined and left as fast as I could.

II.  Birthday Greetings from the Org.

The best way to celebrate Lyndon LaRouche’s 92nd birthday would be to
AH.  Who Cares?
Then we can launch the greatest renaissance known to mankind, one which has already begun in China, largely thanks to Mr. LaRouche’s lifelong fight to destroy the British Empire and develop mankind in the image of Prometheus.
Ah.  Surreal Comedy!  Not Seinfeld.
It’s now time for the United States to honor its greatest citizen and join the BRICS for a new world economic system, and herald in the end of Zeus and his destructive wars for a better humanity. That’s the option on the table, and Mr. LaRouche recently called on Bill Clinton to step in and pull the United States together and into this new system. In current national conditions only he has the ability to do this.
Clinton defeats Zeus?  This reminds me … it’s the 25th Anniversary of the release of Star Trek 5:  The Final Frontier.

The Danger That I See Is Chaos – Lyndon LaRouche.
So said Paramont on the release of Star Trek 5, The Final Frontier.

Day IN HISTORY.  Political extremist and failed presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche arrived at the Federal Medical Center. He is serving a 15-month sentence for mail fraud and conspiracy.

In other pronouncements:  Larouche Calls Money A Big Lie, Begs No one to give any Larouche Cardtabler any ever again.
Though interesting on that:
With the increasing development of the Internet, virtual currency has started to creep into different levels of social living, so the Internet requires a dedicated currency to meet these development requirements. Although no official product has appeared, it seems natural and inexorable to generate virtual currency. Lyndon LaRouche, a well-known economist from the United States of America, has even predicted that network virtual currency will be recognized officially to some extent in 2020 and will become legal tender.

III.  Insults.  It’s by Henry I Miller of the Hoover Institute and Gregory Conko of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

We pity the congressional aide misguided enough to believe a few harsh words spewed into the Internet ether would silence a man who’s been thumbing his nose at the government since before most modern Hill staffers (and possibly their parents) were even born.  (In relation to something like this wikipedia war.)

IV.  So.  The last big election on the calendar for the Lyndon Larouche Movement… the big vote getter of over 40 percent in 2012, in 2014 how did Bill Roberts do?

He.  Got Creamed.

McKenzie with 34% of the vote led Kumar with 33% and radio host Nancy Skinner trailed them with 26%. Bill Roberts had 7%.

Must be the political time warp… the news coverage stuck in 1976.

Bill Roberts, 33, an adherent of former U.S. Labor Party presidential nominee Lyndon LaRouche, is a fringe candidate who has not mounted a substantive campaign for the Democratic nomination.

Curious to note the next big Congressional action of the Political sphere.  There is, if you go back in the files of the Larouche Challenge, a duo who promised to go to all 435 congressional districts.  I want to know how many they’ve gotten to in this journey across America.

In the other big Election news… Jim Rogers beat Kesha Rogers in terms of percentage in the big run-off comparison.

V.  Kremlinology.

VI. People sit and listen to crap.

The top down global strategic overview was given by EIR intelligence director Jeff Steinberg to 9 embassies gathered in Ottawa, Canada on August 1, 2014. This was the inaugural meeting which should now proceed on a regular basis from this point forward.

VIII.

Dateline Lincoln Park.
“We’ll be back once we get this all straightened out with City Hall,” group spokesman Mike Lowery said.

Dateline … hm

Supporters of presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, Donielle DeToy, left, and Kevin Pearl, both of Baltimore, stand along Route 8 in Stevensville Saturday, Aug. 23, promoting their candidate’s beliefs and promoting impeachment of President Obama. They used the format of a gun show at the Kent Island American Legion to attract interest to their cause. The Legion asked them to move off the property, so they relocated across the street.

Dateline Waynesboro.

Motorists passing along U.S. 250 Friday afternoon in Waynesboro, near the Sharp Shopper, saw a protest by supporters of activist Lyndon LaRouche.
Hard to miss was the big sign of our sitting American president with a Hitler-style mustache. The group, about a half dozen protesters strong on Friday in the parking lot, wants to impeach Barack Obama.

VIII.

Insult #1:  (“Peters’ style seamlessly combines the wit of Robert Benchley, the erudition of Rebecca West, and the bizarre political theories of Lyndon LaRouche.”)

Insult #2:  Teaming up with Walter Jones, who you know... hobnobs with Lyndon Larouche.

He’s still alive?

Poor Lyndon. He may be the last man alive who thinks the Brits have the ability to control or even influence much of anything in the world. As John Le Carre has written in a number of his books, “I’m afraid we’re not worth the effort anymore.”

And…

According to Jones’ friends in the Lyndon LaRouche movement, which has claimed knowledge of some contents of those 28 pages since at least 2009, those duplicitous friends are Great Britain and Saudi Arabia.

It is well known that Gubarev was once a neo-Nazi and he has recently become involved with the LaRouchies but we would question if he or they are fascists. Fascism is not simply a far right reactionary movement, it is an organisation dedicated to smashing the organised working class to restore the rate of profit of Imperialism. He is presenting himself now as an anti-fascist and in a certain sense he is; he does not pull down statues of Lenin, nor outlaw red flags or communist parties, as the Maidan fascists do, let alone seek to smash trade unions. He is forced to fight Imperialism with almost no assistance from Russia. One interview with him in the bourgeois press says his office is plastered with posters of Guevara and Hugo Chavez. That would be highly unusual for a fascist.

The July 7 edition of the T.R. brought sad news and good news in that Abigail Pelzer was moving away. I wish to thank her for being open to free speech. Early on I wrote on farm issues but when I got the OK from Abigail to write about the issues that we in the Lyndon LaRouche movement feel very strongly about, I accepted quickly.
LaRouchies in particular are fond of inflammatory slogans; 9/11 truthers are if anything worse. These gatherings are small and if I can infiltrate one, so can Moby.

“Or maybe I’m thinking of Larouchies.”

IX. Yep.  The Putin Movement Americana continues.  Because the Russian government needs something to counteract this twitter war.

Russia on the congressional edits.

‘Poor UK economy pushing Scotts to seek independence’, on Press TV with William Jones.

‘US should seek Iran, Syria help over ISIL.  Sure.

Scotland secession dramatic blow to UK: Analyst Jeff Steinberg.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Jeff Steinberg, Executive Intelligence Review from Leesburg, about Ukraine’s defense minister warning of imminent… thermonuclear Holocaust or something.

Libya destruction result of Obama policy.

West wants a war for fear of Russia influence: Analyst Michael Billington.  West fears Russian influence, wants to drag it into war.

Western Media Reports Shockingly Dishonest on Russia’s Part in … Dennis Small.

US-Israeli split is real and widely known: Steinberg.  (Counter-points or adds some nuance to other parts of their media appearances.)

World close to thermonuclear war over Ukraine: Analyst Bill Jones.

William Engdahl states in Executive Intelligence Review of April 1997 ‘There is a vast network of private financial interests, controlled by the” … blah blah blah… Jews.  blah blah…  (See too Erica Duggan’s quote here.)

Number One.  Kesha Rogers versus Jim Rogers
So goes the standard media line on Jim Rogers.
A perennial candidate who never campaigns – Jim Rogers – is in a run-off with a state senator Connie Johnson for the Democrat nomination for U.S. Senate. Not only are Democrats not showing up to vote, they are obviously uninformed when they get there. Johnson is a viable candidate – Rogers is not. 

This is in accurate.  We see him campaigning right here.  We see him campaigning in the very same manner in previous campaigns.  Yet, when the media assess his success — passed the 650,000 vote thresh-hold, and did indeed win the Democratic nomination for Senate once — it’s always “never campaigning.”  (Damned it… it looks like the great resource of “our campaigns dot come is now … kaput.  Where am I supposed to go for an online resource of historical political elections?)

Connie Johnson … 43.84%
Jim Rogers … 35.34%
Patrick Hayes  ...  20.82%

And compare this with the primary result in the Democratic Senate seat in Texas …

David Alameel … 47%
Kesha Rogers … 21.6%
Maxey Marie Scherr  … 17.7%

And … Jim Rogers beat Kesha Rogers in comparison in the initial primary.  We are going to have to see how Jim Rogers does in the upcoming run-off.  The number to beat there is… 27.8%.

Yes, granted.  A vote for Jim Rogers isn’t a vote for any program.  Jim Rogers is purely a personality candidate … a vote for Jim Rogers is a vote for the “Old Koot”.  A vote for Kesha Rogers was a vote for … if I remember the platform correctly… The destruction of all remaining influences of Bertrand Russell?  Which is apparently enough to get you 27 point 8 percent of the vote in a Texas Democratic primary run off.

Number Two.  Kesha Rogers versus Thad Cochran.

It’s notable the way Thad Cochran managed to overturn the general rule of Republican party primary run-offs, which (as we saw in Texas with Ted Cruz, for instance), swings heavily for the more “right wing” “insurgent” against the Establishment pick.  Recognizing the rules of the primary run-off — open to registered voters of the other party if they did not vote in the initial primary, he mobilized Democratic voters.

Kesha Rogers, in theory, tried the same approach.  Though, mostly her appearances on various “Tea Party” groupings and in front of gun shows was just a way to get listings and funding — off of the auxiliary issue of “Impeach the Bum in the White House“.  They failed to cross the line in the primary run off.  I suppose because they looked into it, and didn’t grasp how much Bertrand Russell was destroying America.

The next big election… Who’s running in Michigan?   Urologist Anil Kumar has no political experience but is pouring lots of his own money into the race. Nancy Skinner, a flamboyant former radio talk show host is running, as is Bill Roberts, a follower of Lyndon LaRouche.

Number Three:  Wikipedia notation

I haven’t been watching the Larouche wikipedia team lately, but this is kind of interesting… somewhere off on capital hill some staffer does give a crap about Larouche.

A Twitter bot that watches for anonymous Wikipedia edits from a range of Congressional IP addresses lit up with activity on Monday as somebody — we don’t know who — made unusual changes to 13 wide-ranging Wikipedia articles.

The point makes sense.  It’s in relation to the crisis in the Ukraine, goes about editing the wikipedia pages of Larouche, Alex Jones, and Abby Martin, and David Icke, or another words… countering everyone’s grand appearances on that greatest of news sources… Russia Today.

Number Four:  The Post office tour.

Dateline Rhode Island.
Larouche was in Providence RI not too long ago. Met them outside the post office.
Rachel Brown is kind of hot.

Leaving aside the sort of casual sexism there, it’s interesting, as the consensus on factnet is she hasn’t been looking too great on the webcasts lately.

Dateline History
LaRouche’s Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee ( PANIC ) was the proposition’s catalyst. Outcault said LaRouche supported turning gay areas like New York’s East Village, West Los Angeles and San Francisco’s Castro district into place to quarantine gay people. Outcault distilled LaRouche’s “logic.”
“Once the gays were dead, the virus would die,” he said.
Outcault only lived one-half block from the LaRouche headquarters and protested outside.
“We walked in peace as we were called all sorts of names,” he said.

Dateline Klickitat
“This is about removing Obama prior to the outbreak of general war that we are now headed toward with Russia and China, spilling out of the Middle East and the Ukraine,” said Paul Glumaz of the LaRouche PAC.
Glumaz stood next to a table with informational fliers, eager to talk with passersby.
“This is also about getting Obama out before the financial system goes into a total crisis, so we can deal with it from a national perspective,” he said. “Obama does not represent the United States in any way. He has nothing to do with the United States.”
Interesting difference of sales pitch.  I suppose liberals have no trouble saying Bush has things to do with America and represents it.

Dateline New Jersey.

A group from the LaRouche PAC, led by Jeff Rebello of New Jersey and Justin Johnson of Texas, set up a booth in front of the Middlebury Station shopping center on Route 64 on Thursday, to gather signature to try to get President Obama impeached.
And comments:  Next time, when you go to honk your horn in support of Obama with a Hitler mustache, maybe you will reconsider how ridiculous you are making yourself look.

Huh.  Dan Schmitt, Marshalltown has a chant for you all.

Dateline… history.
The last time I saw any of the LaRouchies were a couple of old guys hanging out in front of the Walgreens at Chicago and Michigan with a sign reading “Impeach Cheney now and then his monkey.” You can probably picture the graphics. The time stamp on the picture is Halloween, 2003.
Unfortunately I know all too well about the whole LaRouchie debacle. My Dad was supposed to be Adalai’s running mate in ‘86 but all Democratic resources were focused on “contested” races. It made nationwide news and still comes up from time to time. Not sure what ever happened to Janice Hart & Mark Fairchild anymore and really don’t care either.
The last LaRouchie I saw was back in 2007. He was actually trying to bring those crazy ideas into the DuPage Democratic party. The one I recall him pushing was for a huge railroad project connecting Siberia and Alaska. I asked him who is going to use this railroad? Alaska has fewer people in it than DuPage County and probably less industry too.
Lookin’ for LaRouchies?  The couple I knew moved over to the Ron Paul campaign; one is now officially Libertarian.
–Lookin’ for LaRouchies?–  Looking to avoid them, lol. I got a bellyful in 86.  For those who think MJM is omnipotent, see how the LaRouchies hijacked his boy’s Adlai’s campaign.  The old man is still alive. Didn’t know that til today.

Dateline Otsego

Jason Knoblauch, Oneonta, right, signs up for the Lyndon LaRouche PAC this morning at a booth set up next to the Stewart’s on Route 28, Cooperstown. Frank Mathis, left, of the LaRouche PAC, said a week-long drive is encouraging people to contact their congressmen — Chris Gibson, R-19, is among them — urging them to back legislation to impeach the President. The chapter, based in New Jersey, was in town for a similar drive last October.
Every Congressional District in the nation, remember?

Hilarity Ensues.  Years ago, you see, I came across a couple of LaRouche Youth organizers trying to attract interest from passersby on a busy Manhattan street and having no luck, so I stopped and added my phone number to their little contact list. It turns out, this was the wrong thing to do, as I started receiving very confusing phone calls every few months or so. Now, I make it my business to keep up with the terminology of fringe politics, but even I couldn’t make anything of this LaRouche jibber-jabber. To wit:
Phone: Ring ring, I’m a phone, I’m ringing.
Me: [Answering phone] Hello?
Mysterious Inquisitor: So, what do you think of the Cheney junta’s Dionysian foray into the exegesis of Babylon?
Me: What? Who is this?
Mysterious Inquisitor: LaRouche Youth.
Me: Oh, goddamnit. [Hangs up phone]
Phone: Why do I exist?

Eventually I was able to determine that these LaRouche people favor the construction of some sort of high-speed hover-train that would connect two continents, although I can’t recall which two continents, exactly. Whichever ones they were, I’m sure I’m not opposed to such a thing, but on the other hand I didn’t want to receive any more cryptic phone calls than I was already getting. Thus it was that I vowed never to do anything nice for anyone ever again. Later I narrowed this down a bit and vowed to simply refrain from giving out my phone number to people associated with Lyndon LaRouche. One must always be on guard against drawing overly broad lessons.

Number Five.  So… the “got something… got nothing” game of Kremlinology with this cult.

Almost a month since Lyn’s been on camera. There’s been more and more statements published from Helga, or at least attributed to her. In today’s Policy Committee, Matt Ogden opens by referring to key points from a conversation they had with Helga. They’ve stopped giving reasons for LaRouche’s absence, sometimes not even addressing it.
Really starting to seem like, for whatever reason, Lyn’s been semi-permanently sidelined.
One immediate consequence, at least for me, is that the videos each week are profoundly boring. Haven’t made it through even a quarter of a single one. Bad for business, surely, but great for my mental health.

Just peering into a fishbowl.  Larouche has had minor surgery, and what does that mean?
Watched this just now. I noticed this sculpture too. Maybe he bought the sculptures due to this recent Zeus, Satan, British is Satanic kick. This could be a form of subliminally placing references of Satan in people’s minds. As far as his medical procedure, it is anyone’s guess, I wouldn’t read anything into it at this point

 Number Six:  Insultapalooza

Tea party:  I  wouldn’t care if they were fringe elements like the LaRouchies raving on the sidewalk, but since they’ve gotten people elected to Congress and helped shut down our government last year and cost us $24 billion, yeah, I do care.

Who supports Glass Steagall:  It’s not everyday that you see common cause between certain Wall Streeters and the LaRouchies, but the shared belief is that in order for America to remain functional, that there has to be some modicum of regulation, oversight, and reining in of loopholes. Food for thought.

Making fun of the CEC:  #1:  IN lieu of checking out the Citizens Electoral Council’s scrutiny of the British royal family’s plans to start World War III, we give you this: “The Australian Pastafarian Lobby is outraged, following news that a South Australian man was ordered by police to undergo psychiatric evaluation for wearing a colander on his head in his firearms licence photograph.”
#2:   At a much more minor level we might see alliances forming between parties such as the Bullet Train for Australia Party, the Mutual Party (formerly the Bank Reform Party), Australian Voice Party, the Building Australia Party, 21st Century Party and even Bob Katter’s Australian Party and the Australian Protectionist Party, while on the other hand Smokers’ Rights, One Nation and the Citizens Electoral Council could all form some form of politically incorrect alliance.

Election rules:  – And it keeps mischief-makers like the Larouchies — truly marginal, not only un-representative of the party, but actively trying to tear it down — from stealing the spotlight.

The SPLC has its say on one guy out there:  Ball’s lecture mingles “sovereign citizen” rhetoric with conspiracy theories promoted by perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche.

TROLL.  @Morzer: Stop poking the LaRouchie with a stick.

Portland Bike Culture.  I like bicycles and I definitely feel as though steps ought to be taken to ensure that cyclists can share the road safely with pedestrians and motor vehicles, but the bike culture in this town is like a farcical cross between a LaRouche rally and a junior high cafeteria clique, and needs to go.

But a bad video by a LaRouchie is not a reason to drop the hammer now.

On Limbaugh on “Green Fascists“:  Wow, I believe that’s actually what Lyndon Larouche believes – If that’s accurate, then I’m sort of in love with the fact that Rush is riding the Larouchie crazy-train.  Say, what say you Carl Osgood?

Number Seven:  Media appearances.

Hegla Zepp gets some mention in this as some authority or other.    Amid the threat of war in various parts of the world, how will it enhance the brave efforts of so many men and nations to create what the German-born Helga Zepp-La Rouche called “a world without war”, during a recent Schiller Institute forum in New York?

Translate that and you’ll get some references to EIR on the evils of George Sorors.

And now a rundown on 2 or so months worth of Iranian Press TV appearances.
senior editor at Executive Intelligence Review Jeff Stainberg his policy is a nightmare of inconfidence and it’s going to blow up to our blah de blah..  ISIL terrorists result of Obama’s policy…
ISIL can catalyze war among world powers: Analyst … Bill Jones, from the Executive Intelligence Review, said the Takfiri ISIL militants pose no direct but certainly an indirect threat and …
Wall St., London need war: Obama their puppet: Analyst with Mike Billington, with the Executive Intelligence Review…
US ‘advisors’ in Iraq are ‘boots on ground’  They are, as far as I understand, also special forces operators,” said Bill Jones of the Executive Intelligence Review…
Israel using Iraq as ‘diversion’ to push Syria agenda William Jones, with the Executive Intelligence Review…
Syria thwarted US regime change policy: Analyst Lawrence Freeman
Another US military intervention in Iraq is ‘a folly’: Bill Jones…
Israel’s ‘inhumane’ policies causing split with US: Analyst Jeffry Steinberg.
NATO, Russia in pre-war situation Bill Jones.
US military involvement in Asia-Pacific ‘dangerous’ Jeffrey Steinberg.
US failing to counter militancy in Nigeria: Analyst Lawrence Freeman.
US doing nothing to help Nigeria: Analyst Lawrence Freeman.
US efforts to isolate Russia, China backfire: Analyst Mike Billington.
Russia dealt with US, UK forcefully: Analyst Mike Billington.
US, UK force confrontation with Russia: Analyst Mike Billington.
US has double standards on espionage: Analyst Jeff Steinberg.
Libya, base to destabilize Africa: Douglas DeGroot.

Maybe when Larouche croaks, they can just turn the reigns over to Vladmir Putin?

Number Eight: 

Ms Duggan said: “I don’t believe there is ever going to be a proper investigation by the German authorities. It’s 11 years and even with a court order they still don’t follow the order of the court.
“Here you have an extremist group that incites racism against the British and the Jews and the authorities are quite happy to say it’s no interest of theirs and they do not need to investigate this organisation.
“We go round and round in circles. No one in Germany seems to want to admit they made a mistake. At some point we have to break out of this cycle.”
Interesting phrasing here:  Ms Duggan believes he came to harm at the hands of a branch of the LaRouche international political movement, a cult suspected of fascist and anti-Semitic beliefs.

More here, here, here, here, and here.

DOWN GOES DIANE SARE!!!

Roy Cho 91.15 percent
Diane Sare 8.85 percent

Cho will face Scott Garrett (R-5th Dist.) in this North Jersey district come November. Although Cho faces an uphill battle, he won headlines last year when rap star Ghostface Killah, a member of the legendary Wu Tang Clan,” endorsed his candidacy on Twitter.

Diane Sare faced two major hurdles toward election.  One of them… her demands for any possible campaign workers and volunteers.

Sare was first exposed to the LaRouche philosophy while she was still a student at New England Conservatory, where she studied music education and trombone performance. A random run-in at Boston’s Logan airport with campaigners set her in the direction of a follower. In her political career as a LaRouche campaign organizer, her passion for music has continued. She ran adult and children’s choirs in both New Jersey and in Washington, D.C. Anyone who works with her gets drafted into a choir too. For her, music is a part of politics.  “I consider everything political. There is no outside of politics,” said Sare.

The other major issue.  She did some last minute campaigning in the wrong state.  Still, she picked up her supporters… though… I’m not sure how she can be considered a “Youth Candidate“.

But the campaign continues.  Art Murphy and Chris Sare, from Bogota, N.J., said their goal is to visit every congressional district.

Lyndon LaRouche. Now there’s a creepy blast from the past!
Oh, and congratulations to everyone who did sign the petitions. You just put yourselves on the Lyndon LaRouche mailing list. Hahahahaha!

DOWN GOES KESHA ROGERS!

With results like these on the county by county “Did anyone out there vote in this thing?”… In Jack County, Democrat David M. Alameel running for United States senator won with 12 votes over his opponent Kesha Rogers who received 5 votes. Statewide, David Alameel won with 70 percent of the votes.  (A fuller list of county by county results here.)

Despite the last minute endorsement by Sean Stone… you know… the man who brought Larouche in to Alex Jones (according to the interview session with Jeffry Steinberg and Sean Stone.)

Time to go into the weeds with this one… Wherefore art Kesha Rogers Country?

However, while Dr. Alameel won by a wide margin, there is room for improvement. In 34 Texas counties, Texas Democrats did not get the memo that one of the Democratic candidates for US Senate wanted to impeach President Obama and held other extreme views that did not reflect the party’s core values. These kinds of results can always be fixed with better, more engaged organizing at the local level, and the first step to that correction is identifying where the problem is today. Check below the jump to make sure your home county’s Democrats did not vote to impeach President Obama!

It looks like Jefferson County is the only one with thousands of Democratic voters, and Gregg County and Calhoun County are the only ones with hundreds of Democratic voters.  It looks like Kesha Rogers should attempt to become lord of Menard County, where she trounced Alameel by a margin of 2 to 0.

Anyway, we see marisol chime in there, and herschel kurstofsky chime in here with an odd bitterness.

Still 20 percent plus is… notably more than received by Bruce Todd and Diane Sare, so we get the usual “so what does this signify” queries...

This is an insult to Hitler Mustaches!(5+ / 0-)
That look is coming back, just as sure as Lyndon LaRouche’s political career!
She’s appealing to voters (10+ / 0-)
who believe that if she wins she’ll keep Obama from running for reelection. In situations like this “low information voter” is a kind euphemism for “dumbs as a box of rocks.” Unfortunately Texas is full of rocks.
Remember when one confronted Barney Frank (2+ / 0-)
in a townhall and he said something like they had all the brains but not the usefulness of a kitchen chair or something to that extent. It was great !! He handed them well.
My first impression (0+ / 0-)
I was at an election night party in 1980. I noticed a discussion going on around a guy who was pretty passionate and argumentative. I asked someone about him and was told he was a follower of LaRouche, who had run for President.
Later I attended a Texas state Democratic convention and sat through a speech that predicted a cataclysmic economic disaster. Yes, an apocalypse.
From time to time I see LaRouche tables and converse with the crew just for the hell of it. Once a guy predicted the collapse of the Euro. I said the Euro was exchanging at $1.39. He walked away. End of discussion: entitled to his own facts.

AND further from the right…
During the 1980’s, I was involved with the Larouche movement for a few years, and I got to know it quite well. After which, I disassociated myself from it for several reasons:
1) Larouche says a lot of things that are true (Bilderbergers, NWO, etc), but the things that he says that are not true made me very uneasy.
2) His followers view him as some sort of messiah, that if only the world would adopt his point of view, then it would automatically become some sort of paradise. This is clearly an impossibility, even if everything he says is true, which I cannot accept.
3) His methods for dealing with his followers are the same ones used by the cults. For example, in 1985 or 1986 (forgot exact date), Larouche’s newspaper had a banner headline that went something like this: “NUCLEAR WAR IN 90 DAYS”. After seeing this, it became clear to me that his methods were to attempt to keep his followers “on fire” for him by making them believe that the world was coming to an end in short order unless and only he was elected President of the United States. Doomsday predictions are the order of the day in his organization. While I might even agree that some Doomsday predictions are valid, being a Bible believing Christian, I cannot accept his version of Doomsday, such as the false prediction of nuclear war in 90 days, which was utterly ridiculous.
Ye don’t say…  (Is Bitcoin the new Gold?)

Whatever the case… this one is off…

Bad day for America, why can’t you find your druthers to vote for Sanity with Kesha on even one clear day in Texas?? Are you just sitting waiting for POT to be legalized? Or just afeerd of that David Alameel Money to silence your intellect. I hope this changes by tonight.

We know it’s not a pro-pot vote, because the one advocate of legalized marijuana on the ballot — Kinky Friedman — lost to Jim Hogan.  All of them… quirky?

The defeated Rogers ran the quirkiest of several quirky races. Democratic Party ads said that she was not a “real Democrat” but was instead a follower of Lyndon LaRouche, possibly the national king of quirkiness on the Democratic side.

DOWN GOES BRUCE TODD!

Aimee Belgard  83.5 percent
Howard Kelinhendler  11.6 percent
Bruce Todd  4.8 percent

DOWN GOES MICHAEL STEGER!

Nancy Pelosi  (Democrat)   73.2 percent
John Dennis (Republican)  12.4 percent
Barry Hermanson (Green)  5.5 percent
David Peterson (Democrat) 3.6 percent
Frank Lara (Peace and Freedom)  1.9 percent
Michael Stegar (“Democrat”)  1.4 percent
Desmond Thorsson (No Party) 1.2 percent
Jim Welles (No Party)  0.8 percent

Interesting, Michael Steger has some people confused on whether the Larouche Movement had given way to a new Steger Movement…

“IMPEACH OBAMA” – When I was a Lad, We had LaRouchies, But Now We have the “Michael Steger for Congress” People.
I tell you, they sure look like LaRouchies, you know, from a distance.
I seen them on Fell, Clement, and now above the 101.
Where will they turn up next?

At least he was campaigning in the right district and state.

Then there’s this comedy gold…

POINT:  Why is the GREEN Party concerned with this? Why not focus on more important environmental issues such as human relocation and terraformation of Mars?
COUNTERPOINT:  Concerned Larouchie Citizen Nathan Norman,

NEXT ELECTION Possibility:  Michigan

Though… John Dingell endorses … not Bill Roberts.  So… probably not.  This doesn’t look like 2012, when Bill Roberts racked up over 40 percent of the primary vote in a campaign the Democrats didn’t think they had any reason to run.

Obviously, a lot of the challenges they get are from wingnuts and inexperienced hyper–partisans—not just tea partiers, but LaRouchies and … I think this is in respect to the Republicans, which begs the question… why didn’t Bill Lauten run for anything?

Other election results bring out the Larouche comparisons.  Its going to be hard for The Midget to campaign from inside federal prison like Lyndon LaRouche did! Another Fine Day in Compton.
……………………………

Wait.  What?  It’s an article in the Nation from Bob Dreyfuss, where he makes this citation of a NY Times Review of Books article, and does so in agreeance.  And…

This book was published in English by Lyndon LaRouche’s magazine Executive Intelligence Review with a preface by LaRouche. Today Executive Intelligence Review echoes Kremlin propaganda, spreading the word in English that Ukrainian protesters have carried out a Nazi coup and started a civil war.

No further comment necessary.

Wading into some more politics round about there…

President Putin’s media Trojan Horse, the Russia Today TV station, presents as commentators Nazis from Germany and the UK, and people involved in the far-right LaRouche cult group without explaining who they really are.

Curiously enough, the figure cited here…

At the same time, Borotba has been cooperating with the so-called “Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine”. Its leader, Natalya Vitrenko, is a long-time associate of LaRouche.

Yeah… Well…

In other Larouche comparisons…

In a 2011 Radio Free Europe column, Ahmari characterized the MEK as “a mostly irrelevant group as ideologically coherent as Lyndon Larouche’s cult…

AND… Because I gotta say I’ve heard more plausible bollocks from the Larouchies. Maybe you could throw in something about hedgehogs, crop-circles and chemtrails…

Like when you see LaRouchies, who draw Hitler mustaches on everything and are a walking Godwin’s Law violation because they’re mostly really serious, and really dumb. Because there’s analogies and there’s bloody stupid.

Votes will be counted on Tuesday, and the votes are rolling in as we speak.  Registered voters of Texas who did not vote in the Republican Primary in April can now vote in a Democratic Primary and take their pick of these two … “Interesting” statewide races.

For Agriculture Commission Democratic Nomination
Jay Hogan versus Kinky Friedman

For US Senate Democratic Nomination
David Alameel versus Kesha Rogers

It is a misnomer that Jim Hogan has had no campaign going.  I did see he accepted an attendance at a campaign invited alongside Kesha Rogers somewhere or other.  Don’t know what came of it, but it does fit the definition of “having a campaign”.  (A similar story happened with Alvin Greene in South Carolina in 2010 who did apparently show for a random newspaper endorsement interview… despite claims that he had no campaign).

And we see here that as David Alameel effectively looks past Kesha Rogers, Kesha Rogers makes her case with one of these…

Obama’s crimes take on genocidal proportions, much worse than Adolf Hitler’s.

Yes, I do think David Alameel is coming in on the victory.  There is no debate here, which in the theme of this  Democratic debates can be like this too. Just let the Larouchie candidate in the primary debate may be a shame.

The small doubt in my head comes out in this Charlie Rangel piece.  It’s still a bit too much of a crap-shoot for anyone’s liking — two bad statewide choices that determine who will lose in November.  Motivation a little weak.  And here we see the Larouchies online are playing up this curious angle

Remember, if your’re a Republican who did not vote in the Republican primary (and only a few percent of all voters did so) you, too, can vote in the Democratic runoff to impeach Obama

— you know… we can impeach the President.  And see here a fait accompli.

Eye roll to this play of the “race card”.

UPDATE: I wrote this as a comment on a local left-wing blog the other day, and I think it fits here as well.
Even though I’m a Cornyn backer who endorsed him early, I might consider voting for Kesha in the general election just to watch the outpouring of racism that would come from the Democrats. I can see the headlines now — “Democrats Refuse To Allow Black Woman To Caucus With Them”, “Democrats Refuse To Give Black Woman Committee Assignments”, “Democrat War On Black Women Continues”, etc.
The words and actions of Democrats if Rogers gets the nomination — much less wins the general election — will be quite illuminating.

Interesting that the Larouchies and random bloggers go there…  See marisol chiming in with a ” we definitely need more white male Democratic candidates” — and see too here.

There might be something to the 2010 coverage of South Carolina’s Alvin Greene where there wasn’t much coverage of Oklahoma’s Jim Rogers.   Maybe?  But we’re not seeing that argument advanced here.  I doubt they even think of that argument — and marisol would be too wrapped up in the idea that Kesha Rogers is a real candidate of any worth (World Historical worth, as the Larouche “Irish Brigade” blog pepper her nomination on Tuesday as a culmination of events that include Putin’s diplomacy in China and India’s formation of a government) to take that tact of how different “embarrassing candidates” are treated.

And one more interesting bit of a sales attempt:  Democrats: are you ashamed of what your party has become? Are you sick of phony Bush Democrats like David Alameel and Barack Obama? Republicans: do you want to impeach Obama? Vote for the real thing. Vote for Kesha Rogers! It may be the most effective vote you will ever cast!

And let this be your warning siren…“With voters not knowing anything about either of these two candidates, she could prevail,” said Harvey Kronberg, a longtime Texas politics watcher and editor of The Quorum Report.
It is interesting to see this daily kos poster attempt at deflating Alameel.  Curious to note the dearth of posting by him.  Other partisan spots — democratic underground — are working to get the word out as best they can.

No, not much on the hustlings of television ad buys, but she did make Iranian Press TV.  (I think pumping up Putin’s goals on Russia Today and Iranian Press TV is the main purpose of the Larouche movement right now.)  I’d like to pick up the point of thermonuclear war that you are saying. You are not the only one who is predicting that.

And in related anecdotal bits and pieces.

She was staying with an employer/friend who was funneling money to LaRouche. She and some of the cult members stayed at my house while I was working on a project. And I do say cult. The communication style was so weird. It was easy to recognize the hierarchical dominance. Some of the kids would talk, but it was easy to tell when a senior member came in the room, they would get very quiet. All of them knew the classics, could sing and play violin. And discuss fascinating, scattered topics. I think of them as Tea Party on Steroids.

And finally David Alameel speaks on Kesha Rogers… At 16:20  … “Kesha is someone who is representing… she thinks Obamacare is genocide.  Any democrat with any knowledge of what she represents, and what I represent will have an easy time to choose.”
A little too subdued.  How can that possibly compete against...

Now, what is so special about this race is that it will draw the line, whether America fights or flees. Survives or succumbs.

ITEM NUMBER TWO… Jeremiah Duggan Prompts Larouche Org to pump out nonsensical article entitled…
British Crown Declares War — On Larouche Specifically and on Humanity Generally…

This appears to be the Larouchian response to any news coverage that comes in regards  with Jeremiah Duggan … gets us this headline.

Hm.

Okay.  So what we see with this … EIR article… is Princess Diane tragedy and “cover up”, a denial of service hacking of a right wing British Party website — connected by the Larouchies by back channels over to the NSA…

all to stop Kesha Rogers from winning the Democratic nomination for Senate on Tuesday, and Vladimir Putin from carving out more of the Ukraine as Russian territory.

This is what the Larouche Movement keeps offering up to Erica Duggan.

ITEM NUMBER THREE:

Dateline Gunshow.
Supporters of US political figure Lyndon LaRouche passed out literature Saturday outside the gun show at the Paso Robles Events Center […]  The LaRouche Movement advocates establishing a human colony on Mars.
Just in case Cliff Kincaid can’t tell who the Larouchies aren’t aiming their appeals to at the moment.

Encounters on the Post Office Tour

I sometimes see them outside my local post office or at the county courthouse annex on N Shepherd.
Once at the post office they had a sign saying “Invoke the 25th Amendment.” That meant to remove Obama as incompetent. I told this guy Obama was competent. He got to talking, at last said the Euro would tank. I said Euro is exchanging at $1.39. He walked away. Entitled to his own facts.
I suspect these people live on the money the movement raises. One guy put a pen in my hand and tried to get me to sign a pledge to allow monthly withdrawals from my bank account. I refused. Apparently the movement gets too heavy-handed at times because LaRouche went to Federal prison on a conviction over fundraising.

I.  Kesha Rogers picks up an endorsement.

This week began on a high note for Kesha Rogers, who is in a runoff for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, as Lyndon LaRouche, the leader of the resilient fringe movement to which she has belonged for a decade, offered a most dire endorsement of her candidacy.
“The United States will be destroyed unless Kesha is elected in her campaign,” said the 91-year-old LaRouche, who ran for president eight times, including one campaign conducted from a prison cell. “Anyone who is opposed to her is an enemy of the United States. It’s true.”

It’s an endorsement that always seems to sink candidates.  See, for instance, John Kerry in 2004 — never quite recovered from that one.

Let the Debates commence.

POINT:  As the economy tanks, there is always the danger that impoverished voters could rally behind an FDR Democrat like Kesha Rogers or Elizabeth Warren, which would spell trouble for the 1%. Therefore, Mr. Alameel has been selected to squander a few million of his dollars (he can afford to do that) in order to stop Ms. Rogers and re-elect Cornyn.

Counterpoint:  Lyndon LaRouche and his cult followers such as Kesha Rogers might try to claim the mantle of FDR now that they think it is expedient, but LaRouche earlier attacked FDR as “fascist” and likened the economic policies of the New Deal to those of Nazi Finance minister Hjalmar Schacht. Kesha Rogers is not a Democrat and should not be running in the Democratic primary.
http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Cult.LaroucheFDR

The campaign news comes tumbling about uninterestingly.  (And sometimes interesting… is this one of the worst campaign ads ever?  And this is an interesting comment:  Rogers identifies as a “LaRouche Democrat,” but she’s managed to break further into the mainstream than her movement’s leader.)

The request for polling, and time has probably run out.

Please do the Democratic runoff between David Alameel and Kesha Rogers and ask about the LaRouche movement.

With Democrats coming out in full force against Kesha Rogers, and this being set as a marker with which to judge something:

As has been stated many times on this site: Kesha Rogers is not a Democrat.  She will face the independently wealthy David Alameel in the May runoff. Alameel has plenty of money to run a campaign and has put together a professional team to get him elected while Ms. Rogers is essentially broke and running an amateurish operation. So, the question of who is likely to win this runoff is not in question, rather it is the margin and the strength of the Texas Democratic Party. A strong performance by Alameel would be a strong statement by Texas Democrats that they are organized, informed and ready to vote in November. If Mr. Rogers has a strong showing, it could be a sign that Texas Democrats are not yet ready to compete on the big stage in November.

Maybe?  And…

With few runoffs in local races, this should be a low turnout affair – I’ll set the under/over at 200,000 votes, about what there was in the 2006 Democratic Senate primary runoff. Which is fine, since these should be the most plugged-in voters, thus the most likely to know not to vote for Kesha.

Maybe?

What is the Kesha Rogers plan to get to 50 percent plus one?  (I basically agree here that in the crapshoot of the Democratic Senate Primary contest Almeel did reasonably well getting close to 50 percent)…   Is there an opening in the way of Republicans who didn’t vote in the initial primary?  Er… no.  That would entail voters not energized in the intial primary somehow now being surprisingly energized by voting for Kesha Rogers, but here’s your … pitch from out in the ether.

The $64,000,000 question: Why would a conservative or a Republican who hadn’t been smoking too much reefer WANT to vote in a demoKKKrat primary??

The other reason is that, in real life, you want to maximally avoid choices between good and evil. Any time you have a choice between good and evil, evil can win. You want all of your choices in life to be between good and good, sort of good and really good, or really good and super good. In 1961 the US had two political parties which while markedly different in their approaches, were both reasonably patriotic. We would all be better off if that situation could be restored. If Kesha gets past the runoff, then a first step towards that objective would have been taken and you’d still have five months to make up your mind for the election in November.

And now time to play a game of “Scalia versus Rogers“… with this item.

Yet — and you must for the moment overlook the fact that she would have to get elected in order to help bring an Obama impeachment trial to reality — if she were on the November ballot, the Tea Party faction that opposed John Cornyn so strongly (well over a third of GOP primary voters just two months ago)  would have a rather humorous dilemma:
— vote for Cornyn the RINO?
— or vote for the black Democrat who wants to impeach Obama?

Hm.

DISPLAYING A picture at political rallies of President Obama with a Hitler-like moustache does seem a little over the top even in Texas. When you consider the candidate with the anti-Obama slant is a Democrat you really have to wonder.

Everything’s Bigger In Texas. ™

She has one supporter with… democratic bonafides.

Elizabeth Jennings, the secretary of the Sharpstown Democrats Club in Houston, said that Rogers’ stance on banking reform and support of NASA won her support. She added that the party shouldn’t be blindly supporting the president, who she believes has overstepped his bounds.

That’s your “Point”.  Here’s your “Counterpoint“.

She is truly insane. Please do NOT vote a straight dem ticket in TX!!
She’s ready 4 a one-way trip 2 the LOONIEFARM, or mental institution if U like.

And on no support with politicians downticket…

Watkins can also rely on Democratic support groups like Battleground Texas to be in Dallas County with their voter turnout strategies. And if businessman David Alameel can get by Kesha Rogers in the May 27 U.S. Senate runoff, Watkins will benefit from his campaign. Alameel has pledged to spend whatever it takes on his underdog effort.

Just curious… what’s an “Emergency Town Hall Meeting“?  One where the politician on the stage is the “dining room table”?
Good to see David Alameel is out on the hustlings.  Finally.  Kesha Rogers is making her into this church, and … don’t make me laugh.
For someone willing to make the argumentum ad Hitlerum you’d think she’d have a better answer when Buzz asks her to define Nazism.

Into the Llano Tea Party.

ITEM NUMBER TWO

Hm.  Why is the conservative Human Events making a reference to this here?

Paul Gallagher, on the economic staff of Executive Intelligence Review, told Watchdog.org that Dodd-Frank is “riddled with loopholes” that pose a grave, but little-known, threat to U.S. consumers.

A little embarrassing, and we see a bit more from the mouth of Washington Times Kendric Ward — noted in the past — as it counters the point made by the Conservative Commentary Magazine.

Tom Gross, probably Europe’s leading observer of the Middle East to whose work I have linked before, points out on his website that the U.S. State Department has become a “cultural partner” with the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, which this year has run from April 30 until May 5. […]
He notes, rightly, that there are many books on display that have absolutely nothing to do with Israel, Jews, or conspiracy theories. Still, no other U.S. government agency would even consider sponsoring a conference that promoted the works, for example, of racists David Duke and Louis Farrakhan, or conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche, even if it also sold books by J.K Rowling or Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys.

Also note this tiff between the conservative media org “News Busters” and some blogging at the daily kos.

It’s in regards to making Cliven Bundy a cause celebre.  And so from daily kos:

There is no similar phenomenon on the Left, not even close. We didn’t rush to embrace Lyndon LaRouche because he said mean things about George W. Bush because we’re apparently much better at sniffing out the crazies. There is no one in liberal punditry as consistently wrong as Bill Kristol, Dick Morris or Jennifer Rubin, because we don’t need to bend reality to sleep at night. And when genuine liberals go down, like Anthony Weiner, Elliot Spitzer and John Edwards, we don’t feel compelled to rally around them and invent conspiracy theories. If someone is a scumbag, party ID doesn’t rescue them from our scorn.

The text in bold is interesting, because I don’t know what the entirety of the message comes from boldening this text.  Comments in the “bottom half of the Internet” are predictable, as we move about finding points of equivalence — ranging from relatively understandable to nuts — I will point out, for example, Mumia Abu Jamal supporters are roundly dismissed by Michael Moore.

Then there’s this standard attempt at causalities… presenting.

ITEM NUMBER THREE:  Yet another in a long line of deluded stunts from out in the political fringe…. another of those “Pretend we’re ousting Obama by protesting and demanding he leave the White House”… also, all the Democratic leaders in Congress, but surprisingly (or maybe not) none of the Republican leaders.

And it’s endorsed by.,..

An Open Letter to Operation American Spring
As you undoubtedly know, Lyndon LaRouche and his political movement have been in the forefront of the drive to impeach Barack Obama as was earlier the case in respect to George W. Bush and his acting President Dick Cheney, in both cases for systemic violations of the U.S. Constitution. We therefore support the effort you are sponsoring along with Operation Overpass to impeach Barack Obama.

And I guess they’ll be stomping the grounds with this message…

American statesman Lyndon LaRouche today called on Congress to launch immediate impeachment proceedings against President Barack Obama before he starts a thermonuclear world war conflict with Russia and China.

A message relayed by none other than the blog of Direct Descendant of, Roman General, and Consul of Rome, BRITTIUS, of the Imperial Roman Army.  Impressive credentials!

On the matter of this:

Speaking to a Tea Party group late last year, retired Army general and Fox News pundit Paul Vallely insisted that he doesn’t want to see a revolution take place…but if a revolution does happen then he will be happy to lead it.
Vallely reminisced about how he once discussed plans to “surround the White House and surround the Capitol building” with 250,000 marines, adding that “it’s going to take physical presence” to make elected officials heed their demands.
“I’m not inciting a revolution but we’ve got to get more physical and stand up and protest,” Vallely insisted. “I don’t want to be criticized for starting a revolution, but I’d certainly head it if we had to. We all love a good fight if it’s worth it, right?”

Then there’s…
Tea Party Tribune Calls on Readers to Support Glass-Steagall
I have a “user collection” notion of what “The Tea Party Tribune” is.

An interesting look at how the Texas Democratic party is handling the two problematic run-offs … one being David M. Alameel versus Kesha Roers for their Senate nomination, the other being Paul Hogan versus Kinky Friedman for Agriculture Commission.

We see here Upshur County – sitting with a small county party and horrible returns in the primary, are backing with a gasp of “god help us” Kinky Friedman and then pointedly rejecting Kesha Rogers.  A reluctant acceptance of one candidate, who came in second in the primary, and the other they won’t touch with a ten foot pole.

Sooo…

When a senior Democratic Senator, Diane [sic] Feinstein, goes after Obama on the floor of the Senate for interfering with her committee’s investigation of Dick Cheney’s torture program, one has to wonder, who or what, is Obama really supporting? Will the Texas Democratic Party now attack Feinstein as ‘not a real Democrat’?

The answer is no.

All of which gets us to perhaps the stupidest fact check — KESHA ROGERS IS TOO A DEMOCRAT– since… maybe since uncovering that Chris Christie lied about Scooby Doo.  Yes.  Kesha Rogers meets the technical definition of being a member of the Democratic Party, which roughly means that she checked the line for “Democratic Party” on her registration form.  What the hell is this fact check?  Look, leaving aside the Larouche factor, charges of “Not a real Democrat” or “Not a Real Republican” are pretty boilerplate in party primary campaigns.  The Republican Incumbent just beat back the charge of “RINO” — Republican in Name Only — from a cartoonish congressman with a cartoonist definition of what it means to be a “Real” member of his party.  But such thing have to be brushed back … David Alameel … not my preference on the list of candidates, but has to be your preference now.

The Dallas Democratic Party tweeted today, “We hear Kesha Rogers is in town today. Friends don’t let friends vote Kesha Rogers in the Primary Runoff.”
Do we really want this ‘nut’ in the Senate? Texan voters…S.O.S…

Finally.  A lingering question I’ve had on the big Democratic Party primary … how did Kesha Rogers do in her home base, the county where she won two congressional nominations?  The answer is… not all that much better than statewide…

The main conclusion I’d draw from this is that people seem to have gotten the message about Kesha Rogers. None of the districts had any surprises. Even in the African-American districts, where one might be concerned that Roger’s name could earn her some votes in a low-information race, she scored only 27%, not much higher than her 20% overall. Straight up against David Alameel, she got about 35% in the African-American districts. I was already feeling pretty good about the runoff, and the data here reinforce that.

Cool!  (More impressed is this person than both I and he.)
So, if it’s not Harris County… just is where “Kesha Rogers County” in Texas?  She’s moving around the boondocks…

Rogers spent the day Friday on Judson Road near Burlington Coat Factory raising awareness of her campaign and talking to voters — many of whom pulled over because of photos bearing the image of Obama with a mustache much like the one warn by the German dictator Adolf Hitler. (As opposed the mustache warn by late 18th century Austrian explorer Adolf Hitler?)[…]
Among Gregg County Democrats, Rogers pulled in 49 percent of the vote. In Harrison County, her “Impeach Obama” campaign attracted 41.68 percent of the Democratic primary vote. She secured 31 percent in Smith County, 23 percent in Upshur County and 25 percent in Rusk County.
And what crowds!
After standing on the roadside, Rogers met with about eight supporters in Panera Bread for an informal meeting.
It was not attended by any leadership of the Gregg County Democratic party, a trend Rogers has seen commonly across the state.
Too busy meeting with Kinky Friedman.

Kesha Rogers, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. John Cornyn, will meet with supporters today at Panera Bread in Longview.

“Democratic outsider seeks FDR, JFK role in leadership“… The march from FDR to JFK continues apace.  Ignoring the history, making up your own.  And so too we continue the march into right wing radio, whose predecessors would have been joining in with Larouche to assail JFK…   Is Mark Dankof’s America YOUR America?  Probably not.

And here’s your disappointing Democratic Representative of the Moment:

 Lauren Roblez, a senior political science major from Midland and president of TSD, said the candidate running for U.S. Senate supported by the LaRouche group, Kesha Rogers, is not at all a representation of the Democratic Party.
“The group runs their candidates under the Democrats,” she said. “Kesha Rogers is part of this leftist organization that wants to impeach Obama, that’s, like, their main priority. They want to bring back JFK style policies. The National Democratic Party does not affiliate themselves with the LaRouche candidates.”
This is like a representative of the parodic view of Democratic opposition to the Kesha Rogers candidacy.  “Bring back JFK style policies”… uh huh.

“And you’re saying that President Obama is moving at the direction of the British,” said Rabb.  “Yes, he supports that,” said Rogers.
Words fail.

OK, I can listen to Kesha a lot longer than I can listen to you know who but she does come back to British Imperialism and didn’t she mention the truth about 9/11? I did not know that Larouchians are also Truthers (or is that optional?) I will take Ms. Rogers over the current batch of extremists who haunt the Democratic Party but I think she would wear thin quickly.

Meanwhile, in Illinois… with 435 Congressional districts, and a lot of one party districts, we will end up with congressional candidates from the major parties like this one (and for that matter Kesha Rogers — differing interpretation that that seen by global research), which will result in some schadenfreude.  Meet Susanne Atanus, candidate in Illinois.  The schadenfreude (response to this schadenfreude) is a tad misplaced, as explained here.

The party spotted the problem with Atanus and tried to denounce her, just as the Texas Democrats tried to keep LaRouche cultist Kesha Rogers out of the runoff in this year’s Senate race. They failed.
Ed Kilgore, responding to some of this, makes the right point.
There are so many GOP elected officials and major candidates for office espousing such views that who needs to run the risk of being accused of inflating a marginal wingnut?

Meanwhile, the other big “fact check” in the campaign contest… Kesha Rogers’s is pumping up Alameel’s Republican background, factcheck cries out.  It’s in the eye of the beholder, I suppose.

ITEM NUMBER TWO:  Rense!
Onto the Jeff Rense Show, and not taking the particular gripe of this person too seriously (Larouche is a disinformationalist agent for the Zionist Conspiracy), still worthwhile this analysis of things said.

8m – Claims Cheney covered up 9/11 that Saudis did with British backing
20m – Said European Union is a colony of the British Empire
28m – Said the only thing stopping Obama going to thermonuclear war are generals around him
29m – Rense asked about Biden taking over, but LaRouche said forget about him, it goes beyond personality
31m – Says the British Empire is the new Roman Empire – says it was designated so when we (U.S.) went to war against them
32m – Said it’s a fact that most U.S. presidents were agents of the British Empire
33m – Said President Wilson was a wild Ku Klux Klaner
34m – Said FDR was a good president
38m – Said we can defeat long period of death of civilization if we pass Glass-Steagall and have a thermonuclear fusion project

Yeah, well… we also see this from Henry Makow…
According to a report by Lyndon Larouche’s Executive Intelligence Review, the ADL is a lobbying and intelligence arm of the Rothschilds. THE HOLOMODOR (LITERALLY “KILLING BY HUNGER”).
Big figures in Jeff Rense’s universe.  (And then there’s this  response.)
Larouche and David Chase Taylor from truther should be sent off to a deserted island and both could try to scare each other day night with their ridiculous theories.

It is amusing the generational churning… see FDR turning into JFK.  Everything goes to pot no longer with Roosevelt’s death and the rise of Truman over Wallace, but with Kennedy’s death and…

Join Jason Hartman for an interesting interview with Harley Schlanger, the Western States Bureau Chief for the controversial and interesting LaRouche Pac. Harley defines the purpose of LaRouche Pac, describing it as based on the intersection of philosophy, history and science, looking at economics as physical processes and not just monetary. Lyndon LaRouche stands for a sovereign state in the United States and has been warning of the smoke and mirrors politics that have been going on since the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Lyndon Larouche hated Kennedy in the 1970s.  I don’t know when he started hating Bertrand Russell.

Harley Schlanger… also on Dr. Deagal.   2014/03/26…  As he was in February when this was posted…
It does sadden me though when Mr. Larouche calls for Rand Paul to be thrown out of office over his statements on Bill Clinton. We need all these different groups to unite to combat the autocrats.

ITEM NUMBER THREE: Diane Sare kicks off new run.

In the 5th District, seven-term U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett will run unopposed in the Republican primary and face one of two Bergen County Democrats in Roy Cho or Diane Sare in the Nov. 4 general election.

Well… she can’t poll much worse than she did in her 2011 gubernatorial bid.  It is a horribly corrupt state… she has things to work with… too bad the message gets entangled in with some British Alliance.

The big question… will Diane Sare snag the big “Mark Quick” endorsement for the third straight campaign cycle?

ITEM NUMBER FOUR:  Russia

In the grand scheme of things, more important than the side-show of the Kesha Rogers campaign in looking at the Larouche Movement…

Michael Billington impeach Barack Obama.  This is An interesting search phrase to this site, which came via the Russian search engine Yandex.

A summary of what is spiking the q rating for Michael Billington…

If you’re wondering, the American guest who advocates impeaching President Obama before he nukes Russia to avert America’s financial collapse is Mike Billington, an author and longtime active member of the Lyndon LaRouche movement who served 12 years in prison for what he claims were politically motivated reasons (prosecutors say he bilked old people out of $1.24 million).
Iran is a Russian ally. But even head-scarfed newscaster Kaneez Fatima seems uncomfortable with Billington’s commentary.

And this brings us to the main story in the field of Larouche right about now.  The Executive Intelligence Review spigot into the propaganda outlets of Russia and Iran state media, which is working overtime right about now.  The main items

West in no position to threaten Russia… says Geoffrey Steinberg.  (SIC)  And more from Jeffrey Steinberg on this “political football”.   And, the biggie of their message Obama after ‘thermonuclear war’ by provoking Russia, says Steinberg.  Obama Should be Impeached Over Crimes, says Journalist Jeffrey Steinberg.

US Stance on Ukraine not helping, says Bill Jones.  Diplomacy moving very slowly in Crimea: Analyst.  Says Bill Jones.  ‘Ukraine crisis edges near nuclear war’, says Bill Jones.  Global nuclear war likely in Ukraine, says Bill: Jones.

Criminal Obama must be impeached over Ukraine says  Analyst  Michael Billington.  Obama should be impeached over Crimea stance, says Analyst Michael Billington.
US seeks to provoke Russia over Ukraine, says Mike Billington.  Obama Antics Moving Us Toward Nuclear War, says “Expert” Billington.

“His [Obama’s] claim that is a national emergency in the United States is simply proof that Obama is declaring himself a dictator, that he’s acting outside of the constitution, outside of the Congress and that he must be impeached immediately if we are not to go with a thermonuclear confrontation with Russia in the coming days,” Mike Billington, editor for Executive Intelligence Review newsmagazine, told Press TV. […]
Billington added that the upcoming referendum in Crimea is not an issue about Ukraine rather it is an issue about a thermonuclear war between Obama and his British controllers with Russia.
“A war confrontation they desire because the entire Western civilization is in complete collapse and therefore they are pushing for a war to have the right to force Russia and China to back down to an imperial policy of looting the entire world. And this has to be reversed and the only way it can be reversed is under US constitutional law to impeach this criminal president,” the commentator pointed out.

‘US must stop supporting neo-Nazi coup in Ukraine’, says Edward Spannaus.
Interesting to note about Edward Spannaus… he’s the “secretary of the Lovettsville Historical Society“– which sounds a lot like the Leesburg Garden Club.

And working for China, French intervention in CAR keeps China out – analyst Douglas DeGroot.  And China sees peace between Koreas through denuclearization: Analyst William Jones.
Africa… with Lawrence Freeman… everything bad in Africa is the result of British Imperialism.

And now… Lyndon Larouche himownself… Obama’s US Government Must be Removed to Save Mankind.  Could Obama be impeached over the Crimea Crisis?

And, yes, we do see the EIR staff breaking out the Larouche.   Many American analysts – Lyndon LaRouche, the founder of my publication, Paul Craig Roberts, a number of others says Journalist Jeffrey Steinberg.  (Hm.  “founder of my publication”.)

ITEM FIVE:  Odds and Ends.
Wedler’s performances resemble the brainwashed productions of LaRouche Youth and their Communist predecessors. There is that same rigidity…

Hm.  Hersch Krustofsky’s facebook page.
The Blog of Internet muck raking Scandal Wizard Spike1138 exposes Webster Tarpley.  Kind of.  It’s just a reposting of a letter already seen, one found at Dennis King’s website, Tarpley trying to write off Larouche.  But never mind.  Whatever works.  You go, Scandal Wizard Spike1138… you go.

Occupy Movement disassociates…

It’s true that individuals and groups associated with the far right became involved in the movement, or tried to co-opt it, such as with calls to “End the Fed.” However, he overstates particular impact they had in the movement’s primary decision-making processes. For instance, he points out that supporters of Lyndon LaRouche supported calls within Occupy for reinstating the Glass-Steagall act — but so did a lot more left-leaning Democrats, and even the initial Adbusters call that seeded the movement. Early on, too, traditional leftists like socialists and anarchists were generally reluctant to claim the movement wholly as its own

Roger Moore on this thread is accused of being a Larouchie.  And hm.
Thom Hartmann references the “October Surprise”, Newsbuster brings up Larouche in denunciation.

Also on the Left but appearing to cater to the right is the Lyndon LaRouche crowd which publishes the Executive Intelligence Review. LaRouche wormed his way into conservative circles by attacking Jane Fonda and the environmentalists.

I. Results Are In… KESHA ROGERS GETS HER BUTT KICKED, Will Get her Butt Kicked again in May…
The Results
David M Almeel … Early Votes… 48.6 percent; total Votes 47.06 percent
Kesha Rogers … Early Votes… 21.03 percent; total Votes… 21.72 percen

All told, Kesha Rogers did not much better than Wendy Davis’s primary foe, Reynaldo “Ray” Madrigal.  The early vote total here is indicative.  The question that lingers about the “Poll Heard Round the World” (or “round Texas” at least) is whether it was accurate and the response to it caused a shift in vote totals, or whether — just as this polling unit has been in the past — it is inaccurate when it comes to polling these “low stakes” Democratic primary races.  The answer appears to be the latter.

As it were, despite the fact the Almeel is a pretty meager candidate, he did better than the Democratic Establishment (reluctant) pick of 2012, and Kesha Rogers did worse than the “Best Name of the rest of the ballot” pick — which is the dynamic that these Democratic state races apparently often come down to.  Note about this point here… on funding discreprency… this is something I’ve seen before on how candidates who’ve been little more than hobby candidates running miles ahead of the dominant party in general elections.  I remember laughing when I saw Gordon Allen Pross championing his 30 plus percent of the vote off of a mere 300 dollars in campaign expenditures against Incumbent Doc Hastings.  (also note… hm… “Tea Party”.)

In sussing out whether the SINO (“Sane In Name Only”, thank you wonkette commenter for that) has any shot whatsoever against the DINO (The rich Dentist has some Republican Politics in his background)… the first item (as explored in my last Kesha Rogers related Larouche Challenge blog post) looks like a lock for the DINO… the closer to 50 for Almeel, the further down Rogers goes in the result, the harder it is to see this get upended in a run-off.  The Second possibility is a matter I was curious about, and it looks like it is answered in this “ballot access News” post… Republican Primary voters will not be allowed to vote in the Democratic Primary run -off, which means party chicanery on that score to embarrass the Democrats will be limited to … oh… Kesha Rogers appearances on “Freedom Talk” right wing Republican radio stations.The third possibility, and I do recognize this as a flight of whimsy, but it’s worth arguing against anyway… via wonkette…
Did this lady learn grammar and sentence construction from the same people that taught Sarah Palin? We tried diagramming that first sentence but gave up after about 15 minutes of trying to un-torture the syntax.
Given that running against Cornyn is like beating your head against the wall for any Democrat, we can’t decide if we want this woman to make it past the primary. On the one hand, election integrity and elevating the discourse and blah blah blah, but on the other hand, comedy gold for us if she stays in. Tough call.

Okay.  Dear Wonkette Poster.  You need to know, win or lose, Kesha Rogers isn’t going anywhere.  For all we know, she will continue to “run” a “write me in” campaign like happened in 2010 with the (now former) Larouchie who had neglected to get on the ballot in a race against Nancy Pelosi.  But whatever the case, she will be out there… shouting out at supermarket parking lots in Texas, and appearing on Larouche webcasts.  It’s the same thing, just a smaller platform.  It’s a little like both Jay Leno and Conan O’brien: neither are right now hosting the Tonight Show, but if you really want your Jay Leno fix you know he is out on tour, and if you really want your Conan O’brien fix, you know he has a show on Basic Cable.  So there is no reason to f’ over Wendy Davis on the bellot line, particularly when there’s a good possibility Kinky Friedman will be sitting there a couple of spots down on this ballot.  And there’s no reason to slide the Overton Window over to allow Ted Cruz to look reasonably moderate.

In the May runoff, it is important that no Texas Democrat votes for Kesha Rogers.

A democrat only Ted Nugent could vote for. Oy!.

“Tea Party” support… if this blogtitle has any credibility… Hm. The only problem with the fact sheet put out by the Democratic Party is that there aren’t any facts on it regarding who Lyndon LaRouche actually is. I think it’s time the press did their homework on this issue. Then maybe the public would start trusting them again.  They trusted them… when?

National Review chimes in. At the very least, we have another couple months where someone’™s running for office in Texas calling for President Obama’s impeachment.

Daily Kos describes the vote.
Voted this afternoon. The Republican table was (9+ / 0-)right by the door at my local elementary school, but the Dem table was way across the gym.  I asked the precinct worker, did they put you way over here because they knew nobody was voting Democrat (we are in TX-22). She laughed and said there had been a few so far.

This and that.
Even when it benefits the D, identity politics makes me extremely uncomfortable. When it’s done apples-to-apples that’s one thing, but when you vote for a LaRouche loon? Ugh….
Texas Democrats use precinct caucuses for the presidential race. Any thought of doing that for the downballot races, at least until the nuts go away? It’s really hard for people like the Larouchers to get through the vetting of a caucus.
I live in Oklahoma, but our local news is in the Texas market, and I’ve never seen Alameel’s ads on television; I assume he’s only targeting the major cities/suburbs.
If Rogers wins, it will make the TDP look ridiculous, and it also shows many Democrats in Texas didn’t do their research before voting.

Weigel is more worried than he ought be.  This will blow away in May.  No effect in November.
But the “threat” isn’t that Rogers wins tonight. It’s likely that no Democrat will win 50 percent of the vote. Rogers wants to hold about 25–30 percent and make the runoff, and it’s very possible she will, giving her two months to terrify Democrats and get national attention.

Counterpoint to the Larouche Point.

I would disagree about Democrats agreeing with LaRouche 30 years ago. I was a Democrat in 1980, and I thought he was a lunatic then.

Mark Dankof Talks to Kesha Rogers: LaRouche Democrat and Texas U. S. Senate Candidate

Comedy Gold from Team Rogers/ Larouche.

Asked for his remarks on the primary election results, Lyndon LaRouche stated, “Apparently there was a systematic attempted fraud. They tried to apparently pull off fraud against the Kesha Rogers vote.”
When Kesha Rogers was reached for her remarks, she stated that her campaign had gained a clear victory:
“We have done our job and that was to change subject of the political discussion. That is just what we did. We made the impeachment of Obama the dominant subject. Now we have to finish the job. Obama must be impeached now.”

Comments of snark.
She’s a SINO. Sane in name only. Sheesh the crazy.
I might not be so quick to write this nice lady off. When I regard the roster of candidates that have been elected to public office in Texas over the past twenty years or so, it is evident to me that crazy often prevails.
I once saw the LaRouche people at the Sarah Palin graces Boston for 15 minutes rally. They were sitting at a table, where caricatures of Obama (complete with Hitler mustache), Barney Frank (done up as a pig) and Queen Elizabeth (surprisingly not a caricature though it was a guy) were passing white powder around.
It was rather surreal.
Alex Jones had LaRouche on his radio show about a year ago. He was about to turn 95 and was going on and on about how the British monarchy control everything and want to start a nuclear war. Even Jones didn’t have much to say to that.
95 and still pumping out fresh material.
Their thing about Queen Elizabeth is a smokescreen. What they mean is that London banks–i.e., the Jews, i.e., the Rothschilds–control the world.
Oddly, La Rouche used to have a cable program where he talked about the violin and tuning systems. Even more oddly, he used to have a followingamong students of the Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker.
Sort of like herpes, these LaRouche folks never go away.
I miss the old days when the La Rouchies and the Hari Krishnas would square off in the airport corridors and rumble like the sharks and the jets in West Side Story
I got a full-on dose of LaRouche from a random opponent in online chess last year. That was enough for the next decade or so, thanks.
The sad part is that an insane Larouchite running as a Democrat in Texas probably stands a greater chance of unseating Cornyn than an actual Democrat.
I look forward to reading her well-crafted policy position on the Lizard People.
If this doesn’t work out for her I’m sure she’ll get a cushy gig as a commentator on RT.
I was on the phone with some relatives from the UK the other day, and they expressed their concern about how conservative Seattle is, a conclusion that they had come to during their last visit in 2010.
“Huhwhat?” was my stupified reply.
“There were all those people downtown with Obama posters with the Hitler mustaches!” they exclaimed.
“Oh!” I realized. “LaRouchies.” And then I had to explain THAT to them and I think they got bored.
I’m trying to think who is comparable in British politics for you to use as comparison, and I’m drawing a compltet blank. Probably because they have socialized medicine with comprehensive mental illness coverage.

And so the campaign goes..

Rogers cited the Obama administration’s decision to send Secretary of State John Kerry to Kiev as proof that the administration was supporting Nazi sympathizers in the country.
Cornyn is the heavy favorite to win re-election. TPM asked how Rogers expected to win the entire race given Cornyn’s popularity and hefty war chest.
“Three million dollars couldn’t stop me from getting a bid in the race, couldn’t stop me from getting to the runoff and so you’re still going with popular opinion?” Rogers said.

As soon as you mention that this woman follows LaRouche, alarm bells go off in my head. Is she mentally unbalanced? Or just a paranoid maniac with a good mailing list? The mind reels at the poor quality of candidates for political office these days. It’s almost as though one has to act unhinged just to get on the ballot. I hope she enjoys her 15 minutes…and the clock is ticking.

LaRouche’s acolytes tend to be pretty off the wall, but she is not entirely wrong here, there ARE prominent Ukrainian neo-fascists represented in the interim government. Dmytro Yarosh, for example, is now Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. Yarosh is also known as the leader of the fascist ‘Right Sector’ organization. Or another example, the new prosecutor general of Ukraine is Oleh Makhnitsky, a member of the far-right ‘Svoboda’ political party.

I wonder if Kesha gets her news from Russia Today?

Here’s “Kesha Rogers” country.  Someone who knows Texas geography can tell me if these counties mean anything.

But, I don’t think any honest observer, left or right, could really dispute that Kesha Rogers is a more extremely extreme extremist than Chris Mapp or even the most unfashionable Tea Party affiliated candidate.

Lyndon LaRouche, we are also informed, argues that “Mankind is ruled by the powers of creative foresight and the courage to develop and advance the condition of mankind against the biological tyranny of Zeus. It is the actual commitment of Prometheus which scientifically defines the intent of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, while Obama’s presidency is nothing but a sycophancy of Zeus and his bitch the British Queen.”

. The other is that lots and lots of Texas Democrats are radically disengaged from the political process, and are voting on something very different than policy positions.

Texas Races…
For years, an elderly man named Gene Kelly — no relation to the movie dancer — would force Texas Democratic candidates into runoffs, despite a complete lack of active campaigning. […]
Democrats will have to decide whether to back Kinky Friedman against the party’s own prior judgment, or take a chance on Hogan in their primary runoff.
“They’re back to square one, forced to choose between colorful, comedic Kinky Friedman, or a complete unknown who is an unvetted candidate,” says Jones, the Rice professor.
Hogan never even set up a campaign website. He would check for coverage of the race on the Internet during his lunch break, but that was about it.

And so it goes…
One more important bit of commentary, seen here from “fightapathy” at factnet…
Catch the tail end of WORLD CRISIS RADIO with Dr. Webster the Griffin Tarpley on http://tarpley.net for brief commentary on Kesha Rogers. There, he draws the conclusion that, if a person like Kesha Rogers, who is “weighed down with all the baggage of a personality cult of Lyndon LaRouche, who runs on the platform of impeaching Obama, can come in second place in a Democratic primary, then there is real hunger for an alternative. I take it as a good sign.”
So Tarpley takes the success of an oddball as a good sign for candidates are not-as-oddball-as-Kesha, such as Tarpleyist progressives like Randy Credico and D’Arcy Richards. Ah, hope springs eternal — for everyone except Kesha, who’s going to a thermonuclear card table hell for her failure to be nominated Senatorial candidate. It would’a been awesome, Kesha. It would’a!

#2:  Dave Christie Heckles Obama.
Hm… Former Washington State 9th Congressional Candidate in what he pretends is an “Intervention“.

THE PRESIDENT: …And the fact is we’ve got a fundamental disagreement with the other side. And that’s okay — this is a democracy, that’s how it works. But we have a fundamental disagreement about what we need to do now to secure our future. And don’t get me wrong, I consider –
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Mr. Obama!
THE PRESIDENT: — I consider Republicans patriots who love this country just as much as we do.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Tell us about your plans for nuclear war with Russia!
THE PRESIDENT: I’m sorry, who’s that back there? (Laughter.) What the heck are you talking about? (Applause.)
AUDIENCE: Obama! Obama! Obama!
THE PRESIDENT: No, no, don’t worry about it. We’re okay. Have a seat. I don’t know anything about that plan. (Laughter.) I don’t know what you’ve been reading. (Laughter.) Let me return to what I was talking about. (Applause.) See, he thought happy hour started earlier. (Laughter and applause.)

This gets predictable plaudits from liberals and Democrats.  From Republicans… it’s odd that there’s some who think the crowd should be chanting “U!S!A!” like “Obama!”, like Bush supporters did to Bush hecklers.  A silly place to put the “Obama Cult” line, but whatever.

The bottom line is Dave Christie in mentioned nowhere in the news, and … some places even try to gussy him up to make him make more sense.

President Obama was speaking to the Democratic National Committee during their Winter Meeting when a heckler could be heard calling out from the back of the room, “Mr. Obama, tell us about your nuclear war in Russia!” It was originally believed that the heckler had said, “Mr. Obama, tell us about your nuclear plan in Russia!” and that is how the incident was translated to the Russian press.

Factnet notes.

Got somewhat sad when I found out Dave Christie was the poor bastard shouting at Obama. Our ideas about intervention were ludicrous and they either made us look insane or absurd and in this case, Dave Christie made Obama look calm and witty and completely in control while he made himself look like a shouting drunk. That extreme jump from “Obama Likes WallSt, WallSt funded Hitler, Obama is Hitler, Obama wants to kill everyone,” doesn’t exist anywhere outside the groupthink of these mass conspiracy groups. Then the extreme helpless attitude of what constitutes political action.

III. To a “Bilderburg Watcher“.

Figure out yourself the latest Kesha Rogers wikipedia page edit.

Tuesday is Primary Election Day in Texas, and the main statewide primaries are pretty well settled.  The Republicans have Greg Abbott, the Democrats have Wendy Davis for Governor.  On the Republican side of the Senate race, John Cornyn has easily withstood a Tea Party challenge from some wacky Republican Congress critter who has amused liberal bloggers for a while now, and who won’t have him to kick around anymore.

This leaves the Democrat’s Senatorial bid.  David Alameel and Kesha Rogers are favored to go one or two, with Alameel the putative Democratic establishment pick amongst a bunch of other “no names” by simple dent of being a self funder.  And so the thing we’re looking for as Tuesday’s election results come in.

WILL KESHA ROGERS KICK ASS, OR WILL KESHA ROGERS GET HER ASS KICKED?

Six possibilities.
Kesha Rogers Kicks Ass if one of the following three happen:#1:  Kesha Rogers wins 50 percent plus 1.  She is now the Demcoratic nominee, dragging down Wendy Davis’s already dicey chances.  We’ll have her to kick around until November.  To jump around various radio stations with the name “Freedom” in it, some Tea Party groups, and various supermarket parking lots.  And herein lay one question I have:  Will a nomination finally get Kesha Rogers onto the Alex Jones show, or is this just reserved for Lyndon Larouche?
It is the thing that… I doubt they can persuade (that’s not what they do) enough voters to support a millionaire dentist from Dallas named Alameel.
#2:  Asteroid strikes Earth, ending life as we know it, and thermonuclear war breaks out, all proving Lyndon Larouche was Right.
#3:  Rogers wins 50 percent minus 1, and comes in first, setting up a run-off against — probably Alameel — and now the Texas Democratic Party has to be a little more nervous than if…

Kesha Rogers Gets Her Ass Kicked if…

#4:  Kesha Rogers comes in second with Ahmeel (probably) coming in with 50 percent minus 1.  The difference between numbers 3 and 4 are largely psychological, but my gauge on Kesha Roger’s chances of winning a run-off are that it hinges on those fears of “Republican cross-overs” in what is apparently a semi-open process… since there is no major Republican statewide primary race that’s close, there might be a smidgeon of “dirty trick” minded voters, in addition to a smaller smidgeon attracted to that whole “Impeachment Crazy” thing.  My confidence on the improbability of this concern actually happening rises as Ahmeel approaches 50 and Rogers slings downward.

Well, as long as she doesn’t crack 50%, I’d suggest we all remain calm. For all its constraints and limitations, the state Democratic Party has managed to get the nominees it has wanted in the last three Senate primaries.

#5:  Ahmeel wins 50 percent plus one.  Ladies and gentlemen, your self-funded Democratic loser in November.  On the night after the election, the Rogers Campaign and the Larouche Movement blame “Voter Fraud” or something of the sort ala “The Boston Vault” which supposedly torpoedoed Rachel Brown’s primary campaign against Barney Frank.  But then She moves on to one or more silly debate disruption movements, but nothing more.
It is the thing that… “That poll was, to put it bluntly, nonsense,” a spokesperson for Alameel’s campaign,Suzie Dundas, told The Hill. “Our internal results are showing us doing very well.”  May turn out to be much ado about nothing, and the poll that spawned the bit of hysteria is a little curious and caveat filled.

#6:  Ahmeel wins 50 percent minus one, one of the other candidates comes in second, Rogers drops to third or worst.  This is actually the best option, I think, as it will suggest that attention paid to Rogers by the media and Party actually had an affect in ruining “Kesha Rogers Mania”, waking up a sleeper of a situation.  And it’d set up a decent primary where the voters get to decide what they want representing their party.  My best guess on the outcome, however, is number 4, though I wouldn’t be surprised at #3… meaning we’d have Kesha Rogers to kick around a bit more.

There are STILL LaRouchies around?!? My skin just started crawling!

Hm… “The Texas Democratic party 30 years ago was directly in line with what Kesha stands for,” Overton said.
Rick Perry was a Democrat back then.  And Lloyd Bentsen was Senator.    So there you go, Larouche is Rick Perry / Lloyd Bentsen Democrat, according to Larouche / Kesha Rogers figurehead Ian Overton.

Giving this for it’s money worth… in an argument about a Republican primary in Illinois being “most surreal ever”
No primary can get more surreal than the one where two LaRouchie’s won the Dem primary and the Dems had to form a new party.

Skip over to Texas 2014, and … I wouldn’t be surprised.  So it is campaign battle-lines once more, the “Stop Kesha Rogers” joint is re-established, and we get… something better from the “Lyndon Johnson Democrat” crack from the Harris Party leader in 2010… we get this.

It’s rare that the leader of a political party would wave arms in the air and send out a mass email saying don’t vote for someone on the ballot.
But that’s what Democratic Party chairman Gilberto Hinojosa is doing.
“Do not vote for Kesha Rogers,” Hinojosa stated.
She’s raised only $26,000 for her Senate campaign, according to the latest Federal Election Commission, but her challengers are not exactly household names yet either.

And here they are…

David Alameel
Maxey Scherr
Harry Kim
Michael Fjetland.

Explaining the current state of the Texas Democratic Primary Race.

Apt description:
the follower of Lyndon LaRouche – the by-now grand old man of conspiracy-minded, so-far-left-he’s-right, or so-far-right-he’s-left American politics […] who makes Steve Stockman look mealy-mouthed in her foursquare support for impeaching the president.

And so…  “I have a track record and my track record is that I have been working with Mr. LaRouche, who has never been wrong on his economic forecasting, for over ten years.”
I thought he was supposed to be right since, like, 1958 or something.
In the LaRouchian worldview, Great Britain is the seat of evil, and the British killed Kennedy and executed the cover-up that followed.
Also the Larouchies hated Kennedy until 1983, when they started liked Roosevelt and eventually Kennedy.

The “Tea Party at Perrysburg” chimes in favorably.  Just to piss on the inevitable “not tea party” commenters.  See too… I thought it strange a so-called Democrat would choose to address, ahem, the NE Tarrant County Tea Party.  But I suppose this is where one goes to up the money total of…

Her coffers are almost empty, with barely $2,500 on hand and less than $27,000 in total donations.

Interesting question.  Do they think they’re voting for Ke$ha?

Freddoso  on his Conservative Intelligence Briefing blog.

Regarding the Mary Poppins cover tune, he insisted he was ‘not making this up.’

Things to know:
Actually, Texas has closed primaries, which means you can only vote for the candidates of one particular party. You are open to pick whichever ballot you want, though.
This is sometimes referred to as “semi-open,” but in “closed” primaries you can only vote for the party you’re registered with.

Herein lies the one main route to victory for Kesha Rogers in a Senate run-off.  This cross-over Republican voters, playing your “Operation Chaos” to muck up Wendy Davis and the Democrats.  Or, even a minor number of actual “Hey!  They’re for Impeachment!” voters out of Tea Party land.  (Or, the cutsey ironic voter:
While we think impeachment is a horrible waste of time, money, energy, and political capital, we are 100% behind Kesha’s effort to impeach. Heck, if we lived in Texas we’d probably vote for her.)

(Although it is important to note that the majority of surveying for this poll took place before the best-financed candidate, David Alameel, began running ads and sending mailers.)

Debate time…
Point:  “…she favors expanding manned space explorations and colonizing Mars to prevent ‘mass extinction of the human species.’ ”
Really? That’s an “in addition”…what, exactly, does this have to do with her being an unsuitable Democratic candidate or being nuts?
Counterpoint:  The issue isn’t so much that she supports space exploration, which is a reasonable position by itself. The issue is that like many followers of LaRouche she believes that colonizing Mars soon is essential to our survival as a species.

Lyndon LaRouche is still kicking? I remember when he was passing out fliers saying that the queen of England controlled the money supply of the US. I see the idiocy has continued

This is the final straw. If true, there is no doubt that the entire state of Texas is populated with lunatics. I’m a Democrat, and frankly I’m embarrassed by what I’ve read in this article if true. Perhaps there’s something in the water…….. In fact I’m not sure this isn’t a copy/pasted Onion satire article.

In the March primary, voting for any Democrat besides Kesha Rogers works against her getting 50 percent and at least forces a runoff between the top two candidates. If it becomes a runoff between Rogers and any other candidate, it is essential that Democrats get behind whoever that candidate is.

Even if it’s the “contributed to a bunch of Republicans in the past and lacking any real Democratic or Progressive / Liberal values” guy?  The answer to that question would be … yep.

And so, come March 4, the Texas Democrats may find themselves spending money to stop an “impeach Obama and travel to Mars” candidate to prevent her from sharing a ballot with Wendy Davis. A bigger irritation than any unflattering magazine cover.

I don’t think a run-off is as much a disaster as everyone thinks it is (again… nobody’s out complaining about the 2012 run-off candidate), but we’ll see.

LaRouche publishes insanely long essays almost weekly sometimes in excess of 15,000 words and holds 3 weekly web shows. On Monday they have “the policy Committee” of which Rogers is a part, these are the candidates. On Wednesday they have “the weekly report” where they discuss weird pseudo science. On Friday the 91 year old LaRouche does a webcast where he basically stands at a podium answering questions, except he never answers the question and goes on long rants about the British and throws in racist jokes. The process repeats weekly, we are always one minute to doom and only LaRouche has the answer that can save us. So if you plan on voting for Kesha I would go look long and hard at the organization behind here.

And here I’d thought only Larouchies, some posters at laconics, and some posters at factnet watch those things.  Because… here’s what you’re getting:

 We have started to do a lot of work on this issue that Mr. LaRouche has been raising on the fight between Prometheus and Zeus, and I think this will be some really useful and interesting work to actually put out …

WHY IS KESHA ROGERS NOT PUTTING THE FIGHT BETWEEN PROMETHEUS AND ZEUS OUT DEAD CENTER IN THE CAMPAIGN?  ARE THEY HIDING THEIR RECORD???

Hm.

But the Democrats’ attempt to build a “dream team” ticket to regain control of, or at least get a foothold in, Texas politics are running into two familiar stumbling blocks. The tendency of Texas primary voters to make really bizarre, uninformed decisions at the ballot box. And the enduring political machinations of megalomaniac conspiracy theorist, Lyndon LaRouche. […]
That’s probably not the kind of rhetoric Texas Democrats want to see coming from the space on the ticket just below the electoral headliner of their ‘Battleground Texas” campaign, but unless they figure something out in a hurry, it’s probably going to be.

Point Counterpoint.  Hitler : Directly responsible for the deaths of over 14 million, imprisoned various minorities in concentration camps, planned for mass extermination of the Jewish race, and was a facist.
Obama: Has pretty sh*tty ideas on health care.
Kesha Rogers, Obama is no Hitler.

“No one is going to trust you guys, because you are sacrificial leaders and they’re sacrificing the population,” Rogers yelled. “What they’re doing right now, this policy was tried at Nuremberg.”

Thank you, Kesha Rogers, for firing another torpedo into the Democratic Party. Obviously a DINO, her and the obscene LaRouchers are nothing more than the wackjob cousins the Tea Party RINO’s try to keep hidden. Imagine, if the Tea Partiers are already so far to the right they’d fall off the edge if they breathed too heavily, how much further off the whole political landscape are the LaRouchers?

This is the stuff that comedies are made of. Can’t wait until they portray her on Saturday Night Live.
Hm.  SNL didn’t run with anything in 1986 after Illinois.

In other news…

The point man for Eurasian and Ukrainian policy in the Kremlin is Sergei Glazyev, an economist who like Dugin tends to combine radical nationalism with nostalgia for Bolshevism. He was a member of the Communist Party and a Communist deputy in the Russian parliament before cofounding a far-right party called Rodina, or Motherland. In 2005 some of its deputies signed a petition to the Russian prosecutor general asking that all Jewish organizations be banned from Russia.

Later that year Motherland was banned from taking part in further elections after complaints that its advertisements incited racial hatred. The most notorious showed dark-skinned people eating watermelon and throwing the rinds to the ground, then called for Russians to clean up their cities. Glazyev’s book Genocide: Russia and the New World Order claims that the sinister forces of the “new world order” conspired against Russia in the 1990s to bring about economic policies that amounted to “genocide.” This book was published in English by Lyndon LaRouche’s magazine Executive Intelligence Review with a preface by LaRouche. Today Executive Intelligence Review echoes Kremlin propaganda, spreading the word in English that Ukrainian protesters have carried out a Nazi coup and started a civil war.
And…  we’re on the verge of Armageddon once again.  Or is that just the Texas Democratic Party?  (“One time Presidential candidate”???)

Paul Craig Roberts?

Kesha Rogers, who advocates the president’s impeachment, is not a serious Democratic candidate.
That’s what they said about Mike Gravel, and look at where he is now.

She lost by a landslide in the 22nd Congressional District in both 2010 and 2012. LaRouche moles can sometimes win low-turnout primaries, but they are soundly rejected in general elections. Kesha Rogers is not a serious candidate now, nor was she the previous times she lost.

Are the Larouchies still around? Peter Bowen used to hang in front of the Wrigley Building with a sandwich board raving about Queen Elizabeth and Henry Kissinger. Haven’t seen those cats for a while.

In other candidates, not worth worrying about… they have a candidate against Nancy Pelosi… who made his first impression with factnet watchers here:

07-31-2012

Also notable is the fresh face! Matthew Ogden is off for some reason (which may explain the site blackout yesterday) and we have a new moderator. At least, I haven’t seen him before.  Michael Steger is the young man’s name, and I feel confidant saying he is the handsome, chiseled specimen that LPAC has needed for YEARS. Why is Matt Ogden’s dumb mug doping at me year after year and they’ve been holding onto this mountain of a hottie?

We’ll see how many single points Michael Steger gets.  It’ll be better than Shields, though he at least got a semi-endorsement from… Michael Savage.

Get out the Vote, Texas Democrats:
Because I can guarantee there are Teapublican activists and pranksters who will cross over to vote in the Democratic Party primary just to make sure this nightmare scenario does occur.
I would love to see an African-American woman run for and one day become the first African-American US Senator from my home state.
Kesha Rogers ain’t the person I want to see making that history, much less making history by getting the Democratic nomination for that US Senate seat.

Interesting to see this “disavowal” from Camp Rogers in campaigning:

Two campaign representatives for U.S. Senate hopeful Kesha Rogers stood behind a picture of President Barack Obama, defaced with a mustache to look like Adolf Hitler at the corner of 5th and Bagby Streets, today.
“We don’t want to impeach Obama for those mainstream racial bull—- reasons,” Rey Padron, a Rogers campaign representative, said. “He’s in the way of us rebuilding the country.”

Lest she lose some of the black vote.

And so it goes.

Daily Kos chimes in:  Fortunately, no one really cared about a hopelessly red House seat, so Rogers has mostly existed as a curiosity to election geeks (and German fangirls). But if she wins a Senate primary, that’ll attract national headlines—and very embarrassing attention for Texas Democrats. Fortunately, Dems will have another chance to stop Rogers in the runoff, but Alameel isn’t exactly a vibrant candidate, though at least he’s running ads, however cheesy. (Alameel spent a small fortune to take just 11 percent in the TX-33 primary last cycle.) Still, this is a nightmare no one wants, except for Lyndon LaRouche.

Will this issue come into play?  The “ sodium pentothol” issue.