Pursue the Trump loving corridors of conspiracy land, namely Alex Jones but others, and figure out where they stand visa vie John Bolton.

Eh.  We see infowars editors hereabouts quoting Who lyrics, but long time never associated with the love of Trump.  Would the commentor be all hell bent on Bolton, rather neo-connish if you will?

Erstwhere, we see John Bolton being praised in by the liason between Trump and these sorts, Roger Stone, inteviewed by Mr. Jones.

Understand, in the past, this would not have been an issue for Team conspiratorial.  Today it’s subject to debate.  Maybe other issues overwhelm this one — the need to corner the kids of Florida rallying against guns as possible actors, for instance — but then this just reveals something about priorities.

It’s always been a little fascinating to look over the magazine rack at Fred Meyers, where you see to or three brands of “Survivalist” magazines — worth leafing through to enjoy the high level paranoia and … wannabe MacGyver meets Road Warrior figures showing how to survive the coming… Zombie / Economic / Nuclear / Economic meltdown, where apparently all of society breaks down.

Regrettably, I’ll have to go elsewhere now to leaf through and enjoy this merry splendor.  Where to?  Who knows…

In the old days of the Soviet Union, there was one choice and the Incumbent Party won with a 99 7/10% of the vote.  (Citation:  Walt Kelly’s Pogo, 1952).  These days the Incumbent wins the lion’s share, and there are several other pre-selected Incumbent supporting choices to pick from.  (The Incumbent opposing selections are barred from running.)

Also they may just switch the rules, from four year terms to six year terms, if they want to.

And here, they are… the Russian election results.

  As you see, the Communist Pavel Grudinin came in second.  A total role reversal from the Soviet days when the Communists were Numero Uno, now they’re Numero Dos.  Who are the other guys?  Oh, your Libertarians, your Greens, your Natural Law Party…

… oh, maybe not.

Note too the election map.  No clue what this shows in terms of politics.  I’d have to go back to Masha Gessen’s book to recall just where on the map that version of Nixon’s hardhat anti-protester construction worker made Department of Labor Head (Putin’s anti-protester factory boss made something or other) to denote some kind of geopolitical thingy.

Well… one American trend hasn’t picked up.

The race also included Ksenia Sobchak, a former reality TV host, and veteran nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky – they got less than 2% and about 6% respectively.

Maybe the former reality tv host can run to win in six years?

Lamb shocks Saccone to win a district for the Democrats that Trump carried by 20 points.

… a resounding victory of about 300 votes…

… the libertarian party candidate won more than those votes, for what it’s worth…

… and both parties pour money money money into a race for a congressional seat that is about to be redrawn out of existence.

… This race result itself is null.  The election results in just about nothing.

… good for Lamb, I suppose, in that he can now find a safer seat, and won’t have to be dragged down in this one…

… Lamb, who ran promising not to vote for Pelosi for speaker (I suppose there’s to be a Harold Ford / Heath Schuler out there he’ll be voting for?) and who ran by firing off an AR-15 to assert that, no, students walking out or not, he’s not going to take your gun away…

But that’s okay, because the Democratic Party doesn’t need to focus as of yet…
… Reminds me, though.  You hear about the New Zealand diplomat flummoxed by the yell out for a “Bernie Sanders / Elizabeth Warren” ticket?

Surely that would win somewhere.  Just not in this Pennsylvania district.  (Oh.  Wait.  Sanders won over Northern Vermont, or something… never firing an AR-15 but sticking around long enough on that account anyways.  Warren is going to talk incessantly about her Oklahoma roots.)

And if New Zealand’s deputy high commissioner to the United States has any better ideas for options, she didn’t seem to suggest whom…

Hillary Clinton has let it be known that it’s not her…  but we already knew that.

So the Mother Jones magazine does one on the California Secessionist Movement.  Yeah, and Southern Oregon with some Northern California becomes the state of Jefferson, Eastern Washington splits into its own state, and the rest of Oregon joins the rest of Washington — perhaps along with Vancouver and British Columbia — to form Cascadia.  (Or is Ectopia?)

The following day, a rival group of independence supporters gathered on the north side of the state capitol in Sacramento. Speaking through a bullhorn to a crowd of around 20 people and 2 dogs, Louis Marinelli, the 31-year-old cofounder of Yes California, called for “a political divorce on Valentine’s Day based on irreconcilable differences.” 

The noontime rally was the official “relaunch” of Yes California’s “Calexit” campaign, which got off to a bumpy start in late 2016. Marinelli was living in Russia at the time, sparking skepticism about his intentions. (The California National Party tweeted, “Hands off California, Putin. We won’t take orders from your puppet Moscow Marinelli.”)

Sure.  But the question that looms — when the Russian government starts cheering the secessionist movement on, playing it up hard and fast on their state “Russia TV” show, maybe even tossing in a whole bunch of facebook pages algogrithmed right at you…

What are you supposed to do then?

But now Marinelli says he has moved back to California for good. Asked if the cloud of his Russian interlude still hangs over Calexit, he laughs. “Clouds bring rain, and rain makes flowers. We’re looking forward to springtime.”

Springtime for…

Then there’s this movement:

In 2014, Silicon Valley billionaire Tim Draper floated a plan to create “Six Californias,” perfectly highlighting the state’s cultural and economic divides by establishing four affluent bluish enclaves and two poor conservative ones. (He has since downsized his plan to three Californias.)

I vote for 12 Californias.  Any fewer and it’s just bandages on the problem.  Of course, now I’d have to look at California and poke up a map.

Yes California paints independent California as a progressive utopia with universal health care, free college, lower taxes and a bare-bones military. However, Marinelli says, breaking away doesn’t just appeal to disaffected coastal liberals. He cites Yes California supporters who also back Jefferson, a nearly eight-decade effort to break off Northern California (and part of Oregon) into a new state. “A lot of people up in the Jefferson movement think that if they help Calexit become a reality, and California secedes from the union, they then can have a self-determination referendum of their own to secede from California and rejoin the American union as the 51st state. That’s kind of a workaround, right?”

Citizens of Jefferson: Don’t put the cart before the horse.  This could end up badly for you.

Polls find that about one-third of Californians support secession. (About a quarter of all Americans say states should be able to secede.) But none of California’s elected officials support it. Marcus Ruiz Evans, Yes California’s president, said the political mainstream will eventually come around.

Sooner or later, there’ll be a Ron Paul (even a left wing variant of one — say someone from the “Socialist Alternative” so hopped up about a city council woman in Seattle) gadfly figure, who’ll have his following, spew a bunch of things, then… you’ll see about one third of Californians sending his/her seccessionist speeches all about facebook.  And that’ll get us … something… of some worth.

Steve Bannon has jumped over to France over this weekend, to participate in the National Front’s big hullaboballo convention, just — I suppose — as Marine Le Pen made her appearance at America’s CPAC conference — to some embarrassment amongst some conservatives.  Except, Steve Bannon wouldn’t have made an appearance at CPAC — what with his break from the Trump Administration…

… though, correct me if I’m wrong.

The big news at the National Front conference is the decision — or plan — to scrap the name National Front.  And what do we have now instead of the boot-strapping sounding “National Front” name?

The National Rally!

I hear the crowing on the Italian election results.  They say, or so people interviewed on NPR, Italy,s always further along than everyone else in trending.  They gave us fascism first, as too a larger Communist party.  Now check us out… We are out Brexiting Britain, out Trumping America…  actually so much so, Bannon may just think to hide out there…

One problem… Who gave us the Jacobins… not Italy…