Wake up politics is just an illusion for the sheeple.The New World Order is in Endgame. I guarantee you that the next president will be the one with the most royal blood in the bloodline.

Yeah, this is designed to be looked over when deleting most everything en masse.  Shoulda gone the reptilian route, though.

It is vitally necessary to move forward and to shake off the dead hand, often the fossilized dead hand, of the reactionaries; and yet we have to face the fact that there is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement. In this recent art exhibition the lunatic fringe was fully in evidence, especially in the rooms devoted to the Cubists and the Futurists, or Near-Impressionists.

Theodore Roosevelt, reviewing the International Exhibition of Modern Art Amory Show of 1913.  The chief culprit for Roosevelt’s criticism of the “lunatic fringe” is evidently this one.

One:

In another approach, in the 1990s, he poured millions into what critics called a moral crusade against Mr. Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, financing investigations by publications, notably the conservative American Spectator and his own Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, that were aimed at discrediting the Clintons.
They accused the Clintons of fraud in the Whitewater case, a failed real estate venture in the 1970s and ’80s, when Mr. Clinton was governor of Arkansas, and Mr. Clinton of sexual misconduct in liaisons with Paula Jones in Little Rock and Monica Lewinsky in the White House. They also charged that Vincent W. Foster Jr., a White House counsel and former law partner of Mrs. Clinton, had been murdered in 1993 in a Whitewater cover-up. Several investigations found that Mr. Foster had committed suicide.
The accusations, which prompted Mrs. Clinton to say on national television that her husband was the target of a “vast right-wing conspiracy,” troubled the administration for most of its tenure.

An odd mix of scurrilous rumor mongering out of the depths of the “Arkansas Project” — oh, Troopergate… oh, drug smuggling… and, you know — things that actually happened. (Monica.)

And then… Two

In 2008, Mrs. Clinton, then a Democratic senator from New York running for president, met Mr. Scaife and editors and reporters of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for an interview. The newspaper endorsed her, and Mr. Scaife, in a commentary, said: “I have a very different impression of Hillary Clinton today. And it’s a very favorable one indeed.”

This took a lot of “movement conservatives” by surprise, and in need of explanation.  They came up with “Personal Reasons” — fighting his demons of alcohol, seduced by Satan therefor and…

It is interesting to note odd headline quirks.

“billionaire who funded anti-liberal causes“

as opposed to conservative causes.  Which, granted, is that thing that unites and fits the Nixon — Limbaugh paradigm of what defines “conservative”, but is maybe a liberal bias… maybe?

All accounts were that Travis Childers, the Democratic candidate for Senate in the state of Mississippi, was sitting on his campaign waiting for the Republican Primary to take place.  Should Thad Cochran win, he would have all but ceased campaigning, seeing about no opportunity to win the race.  Should Chris McDaniel win, he would have started his march toward what may or may not be an actual race.

So, upon the primary victory of Thad Cochran, won with some black Democratic out-reach on the part of Cochran, we get this sour note.

“I certainly hated to see many members of our party cross over yesterday in a primary that quite frankly I felt like we had no business in,” Mr. Childers said.

It’s difficult to see if he has a point or not.  Certainly the Democrats who voted for Cochran in the Republican run-off had the consideration of not quite believing in Childers in beating even McDaniel, and knowing that Cochran is better than McDaniel.  And certainly some issues of self perception and reality were hashed out in Mississippi.

The Republican run-off… continues.  And it is a race for the ages!

Earlier Wednesday, in a fundraising email, McDaniel said, “Thanks to illegal voting from liberal Democrats, my opponent stole last week’s runoff election, but I’m not going down without a fight,”
He called the election “a sham, plain and simple,” citing “thousands of irregularities in the voting process.”
A top adviser to Cochran, Austin Barbour, held a press conference on Wednesday afternoon calling on McDaniel to “put up or shut up” by either coming forward with verifiable evidence of fraud or conceding defeat.
“If they have hard evidence, put it forward,” Barbour said, according to the New York Times’ Jonathan Weisman.
But a conference call between Barbour and reporters afterwards devolved into yet another circus as McDaniel supporters crashed the line.
One unidentified man asked Barbour about “Cochran harvesting black votes like black people harvesting cotton,” according to The Daily Beast’s Ben Jacobs. The phone line remained open after the call ended, where apparent McDaniel supporters speculated whether the bizarre “cotton” question came from a Cochran plant ”or maybe Obama” in order to make them look like extremists.

So the horse race question: Is there any freaking way that Travis Childers can win against this fracture, and if so… is he just going to repeat the word “Unity” from here until November?  (Of course, a Childers win would just be viewed by the “not pulling the level for this damned RINO” McDaniel voter as ungrateful blacks, switching sides again…)

Sooo… Was the Archduke Ferdinand Assassination an inside job?  There are just way too many holes and inconsistencies in the “Official” story, and too many interests who have things to gain from unleashing World War One.

Also, we see governments having done “Operation Northwoods” styles drills, acting out the scenarios of archduke assassinations.

… Interestingly enough, it probably would’ve been a “second half hour of the news hour”, and not shown as “Breaking News”… even if the “BBC in real time” idea is a good one.  (Though… it wouldn’t be on some nations’ channels.)

On a different note, I see that there’s a commemorative thingy magazine put out by Life on the checkout aisles.  The last 100 Years in pictures.  This can only mean starting with the start of World War One.  I don’t know what to make of the proliferation of these things — the other one out was one for Michael Jackson on the fifth anniversary of his death, similar to one released a couple months back.  And… why?  Is it worth noting that this “100 Years in Review after World War One” includes Sandy Hook but not Columbine?  (Or is that the fact that there needed to be something for this last decade and with the Florida Recount clogging things up about there, we might as well skip that one over?)

Hm.

“It is a time when evil has to be called evil,” said Krzysztof Szczerski, speaking for the party. “Mister prime minister, look at yourself in the mirror. You are like this alien which is sucking onto Poland and feeds on it.”

Check.  Call the prime minister Evil.  Call him a blood sucking Alien.  (What movie features blood sucking evil aliens?)

Leaving the chamber, though, did not sit well with the next speaker, Janusz Palikot, representing Your Movement.
“It’s really a serious thing when the biggest opposition party leaves when the floor is taken by the head of the third political power in the country, without which it is impossible to dismiss the prime minister,” he said. “It’s a cabaret!”

Evoke Liza Minnelli?

Mr. Tusk’s supporters did not try to hide their pleasure over the impact of the surprise maneuver.
“I am moved by the cries of the opposition,” said Slawomir Neumann, deputy minister of health. “For a few days, they have been talking about the vote of confidence for the government, but when this occurs, they say it’s too quickly. Big boys don’t cry.”

The Cure?

Oh maybe their reference points are different.  And people say our Poltiical discourse gets testy!

I’m watching the World Cup match-up between Germany and the US.  Very surreal experience … unless the other match-up in the grouping comes out to a blow-out with this game coming out to a blow-out as well, both teams are advancing, so everything’s just anti-climactic as it moves to a 1-0 Germany win.  EVERYONE WINS!  Everyone in the stands over there in Brazil, Germans, Americans … are cheering.

This was a revenge game, of course… Germany still smarting over what the US did to them during World War 2.

And then we get the celebration shots from across the country.  Big flags, Stars and stripes… and…  superhero costumes… Captain America and Wonder Woman… maybe that In These Times article complaining about superhero movies as akin to Ancient Greeks worshiping their gods was right…

And then…

The “Don’t Tread on Me” snake flag…

Wait.  What?  When you dump it into a soccer game… Does that even mean anything anymore?

Looks like a real crapshoot of an election.

The 62-year-old Johnson has been a leading progressive voice in the Republican-controlled Senate, pushing for abortion rights and becoming a hero to the pro-marijuana movement for her efforts to ease restrictions on the drug.

But the 79-year-old Rogers has become a familiar name to Democrats in Oklahoma, since he has run for office every cycle during the last decade, including president and U.S. Senate.

I kind of like Jim Rogers’s chances.

The Oklahoma Democrat, who has run for statewide office every two-year cycle since 2002, has taken more votes than a lot of candidates who actually try. In fact, he passed the 650,000-vote mark Tuesday night.

Yeah.  It’s amazing we came to the point, considering how far everyone had to reach from the primaries.

The poll shows 9.4 percent favor Midwest City resident Jim Rogers, 9.2 percent prefer state Sen. Connie Johnson and five percent support Anadarko resident Patrick Michael Hayes.

And from that front-runner status came a big fall…

Connie Johnson  43.84 percent
Jim Rogers           35.34 percent
Patrick Michael Hayes  20.82 percent

I think what really did Hayes in is that he had three names.

Everything will be decided on the fourth Tuesday in August, along with a small smattering of other contests for the Democrats to … probably mostly ignore.

In musing about the big elections taking place right now.  We see that in Oklahoma…

Eleven candidates are vying for their parties’ nominations to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Muskogee. The leading candidates are Republican 5th District Congressman James Lankford and the former speaker of the Oklahoma state House, T.W. Shannon. On the Democratic side, there are three candidates.

Or, you know… a big quasi establishment versus quasi “tea party” race (though the dynamics are more complicated that that, and they’re both positioning themselves to prove themselves to the right) that will decide the Republican nominee for the Senate — two names that need to be named because one will win and the other will lose — alongside six other Republican candidates not worth naming.  And on the Democratic side… there are three candidates… none of whom worth mentioning.

Curiously enough, the other Senate race… where James Inhofe faces four of those “not worth mentioning” primary opponents… has a Democratic candidate who is unopposed.  Matt Silverstein.  What prompted him and only him to decide to take on James Inhofe and three candidates to vie for the open seat… I don’t know.

At the moment, it looks like Connie Johnson and Jim Rogers are heading to a run off.  Naturally, the Democrats want to avoid running Jim Rogers again.

In the Thad Cochran versus Chris McDaniel race in Mississippi… things are really really surreal.

The hard feelings generated by the race were also in evidence, with both conservative groups and the N.A.A.C.P. sending out poll watchers to look for what they considered to be fraud or intimidation. The United States Justice Department also said that it was “aware of concerns about voter intimidation and is monitoring the situation.”

In downtown Hattiesburg, Miss., a trickle of Democratic voters filtered out of the Court Street United Methodist Church on Tuesday afternoon, saying they had voted for a Republican for the first time in their lives — and all of them had voted for Mr. Cochran.

[…]

The McDaniel campaign’s confidence was reflected in its Twitter feed, where Donald Trump, the pundit Mark Levin and the economist and conservative television host Larry Kudlow sent in messages of support.

Donald Trump?  (Yeah.  He figured in an Oregon race too.)