John Thune has endorsed Tim Scott for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Yes. You read that right. John. Freaking. Thune. Are you kidding me? This changes everything!

I used to have this idea, extrapolating the Obama as Kennedy theme that we would find ourselves in a repeating history, and get a Johnson, Nixon, and then Carter in due succession. The big question I had was whether Obama would turn out to be also Johnson, as a completed two term Kennedy would likely have been — the weirdly felt promise of one into the practice of the other. Had Hillary Clinton won in 2016, she would be Johnson, as she surreally campaigned for a moment in 2008, but as Trump is so clearly Nixon I guess Obama becomes Kennedy / Johnson. Now, of course, we are at Carter. And the real possibility looms that this time, he improbably gets a second term.

I note the utterings of the National Review, who desperately want to up charge DeSantis and warn against Trump. Things move in strange circles from that point. See the very real charge that is Biden and the Democrats who want to pull up Trump — the one guy they would beat. Yeah, well, it was their successful 2022 election strategy, so maybe they have a point. But you look over at Ann Counter with this same premise — there we get the idea that this actually the reason for the indictment in New York on Stormy Daniels business — refactoring lame case that brings a rallying effect because of its lameness. Over thinking that one, I gather.

New cars are dropping the am radio. I suppose the heyday of the saving is gone — the mass audience stars of Limbaugh and Larry King and Art Bell are passed away. Even now the major rated rated talk radio station is on the FM dial, as a divide of old audiences and general as too young shifts from am / FM to FM / not radio. And am radio makes with the sound of dust.

And I was listening to a podcast series on the life and career of Art Bell. The hosts made an interesting but quite fully formed observation. We move out of an era of harmless conspiracy mongering to rancid. The new host of coast to coast, they claim, show reactionary politics where Bell only dipped into politics a smattering of times, flashing a few libertarian biases and shoving aside party politics. And on we go to the Alex Jones and qanoners. They failed to note a dividing line, even while brushing past it. 9/11. Art Bell did the 9/11show, sure, as becomes something historical and archive placed but nothing you want to actually listen to because — yep! But they failed to note something key with Art Bell and how everyone else progress forward without him. What did Art Bell think happened on 9/11? Simply put, that a group of Islamic radicals did it. On the rest, he was more than eager to have on Popular Mechanics to do spell the rest of it.

So. No. The line that he was willing to entertain any notion, and keep close lip on what he might actually believe of it, was not entirely accurate. But maybe he was a tool of the Feds.

If we are declaring the death knell of am radio, maybe this is where pirates and hams will take over as AI programs everywhere else. A tribute to Art Bell, of sorts.

From what I can tell, Zooey Zephyr was more in the right than were the Tennessee state Representatives, though I guess punished lesser for the break in protocol and disruption of legislative business. Zephyr’s offense is a bit of an eye roll — some overheated rhetoric she would not abide by if not really taking seriously. Sure. Everyone has blood on their hands. Why stop there? They have blood in their armpits. Blood and guts pouring bout of all pores! Actually, Zephyr USA little bit like Trump, who pointed at an adversary in the press as having blood. Still, for all that, she was still able to vote.

It is hard not to be desensitized to blood metaphors, is all I am saying.

But, press and media maladies:

The expulsion is the second recent instance of a Republican-controlled legislative body moving to punish Democratic lawmakers who spoke in opposition to policies conservatives support.

And maybe at bottom this is correct. That the actual reasons stated is a mask, rationalization, excuse. But danged if they shouldn’t be reported.

I think we can do that snow storm induced “where’s your global warming now, huh Al Gore?” games on this one.

Woman stung over 75 times by bees during family photo shoot: Officials

I guess our bee shortage problem is over!

I. The Network

Roll down YouTube with the earlier yelling at Nancy Pelosi, and you get the same batch. I do not know if there is any sort of drop off on listeners / viewers for Jimmy Dore when he is out, but it does seem like whenever I pop in for a listen the guest host is doing the thing — I gather this is a matter that Vega and Sare and tag team in the old “disrupt / forced exit / next disrupt from across the room” game — will follow and plan accordingly — You want to get on Johnny Carson, not fill in host David Bremer. (Noted — Daniel Burke endorsed Dore for president, not Mate.)

From this network telling the world that Vega yelled at an ebent, everything goes viral such that (check big message board) q anon76 and q anon211 praise it to the hilt at gab.

I am pondering the current situation with Tucker Carlson in relation to the Larouchies and their current model of jabbing into news feeds. When he resurfaces at newsmax, or wherever, and brings on his list of guests (which, I will note, I have various opinions on individually) — does the one step removed from the mainstream brought by Fox and some sliding off the mix in not wanting to go one step further into a fringe open A door for more coverage — maybe less of a reticence to crop “Larouche” off the picture in describing the “left wing activists” “protesting”? It remains to be seen if this door creaks open. (Maybe here based on firmer partisan / ideological stances, Lpac can get in a side bid.)

The previous cycle had one momentary alliance with Alex Jones, which seems to have basically stopped, even if some in the fan base make a conspiratorial connection. It may be that generation ally he gets shoved to the past as we lurch onto newer exciting media.

Matt Taibbi links to a Larouche heckling, still basically in passing — and gets the hard sell — Thanks for sharing my intervention against Applebaum, Matt! What’s the best way to connect with you? My friend Jose and I have also intervened on AOC, Hakeem Jeffries, Ritchie Torres, and others. Continuing: if you look at the religious background of all these crooks there is a pattern. What would that be?

II. Not a twitterer, my uses with Twitter have been narrow and idiosyncratic: look up topics, not follow named twitterers. That includes the name of “Larouche”, glitter as it is by a Los Angeles sports fan. It appears Elon Musk is driving the entity toward people following people — the fallout being the thing is less user friendly for this user. Ah well. I am missing out on specifics on when random people laughed along at a late night infomercial from larouche or showed up Larouchies during A college campus by doing them one better — Tripling the Square! — but as for the rest — yes, Marriane Williamson is the new Larouche, and yes, Debs and Larouche ran for president from prison…

III. Comparisions

Rod Blagojevich. Galantis. Marianne Williamson. Bernie supporters. Marjorie Taylor Greene. jehova witness. The one crotchety old weirdo with a sign who goes to the same street corner everyday. Grover Furr. Lonegan. Christian Parenti. Robert Kennedy Jr.

Trump will degenerate into the Lyndon H. Larouche of the times and you folks will faithfully carry on in front of post offices until fading from memory.

Demonstrating at a Desantis event: Trump super fans are slowly morphing into LaRouche movement

I admit, I am watching Trump addressing CPAC, because it is just weird beyond description. This is way beyond “weird shit”, this is Lyndon LaRouche type stuff. Saw the L LaRouche people in 2017 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, set up on a street corner on Madison Ave, largely ignored, with a “Defend Trump” sign.

Seems we are entering the Lyndon LaRouche phase of MAGA. Next: Trump supporters standing on street corners handing out leaflets and demanding contributions.

Is this going to be a Lyndon LaRouche thing. 30 years from now teenagers in red hats outside stores. -Excuse me I would like to talk to you + About what? -I can’t really say until you read this pamphlet, but it’s really important.

I was talking about Trump with one of my coworkers and he mentioned Lyndon Larouche which might be the closest thing to a real life jump scare I’ve ever had

Many fives of them.

IV. Nancy Pelosi did not ever hear about it

I dispute these two claims. All Eyes Are on the Schiller Institute’s April 15-16 Conference for Solutions to the Breakdown Crisis”. AND. Remember this for the rest of Your LIFE! All Eyes Are On LaRouche’s USA!! You’d better get used to that phrase! Relatively speaking, no eyes are on those two things. I do find it interesting that they are classified as two things, though.

Messaging Jose Vega.

Notice: Jose Vega is not affiliated with LPAC. He is with the other one.

Nuclear leaks.

V. Remembering Jeremiah Duggan. Two stories at the Germany meetings — one for public and one for private consumption. The private one was he was an intelligence plant. That is how evil they are. And —

VI. Experiences

A guy who walked in for study — But this isn’t the end of the LaRouche Cults strange relationship to geometry. The story of circle worship goes deeper…. And has international implications.

I always knew the neo-platonic elite were backing the Larouche Shape worshiping mystery cult to undermine our freedoms.

I miss those Christmas messages from Larouche in prison that ran late night on a local radio show. Great to wrap presents to

The LaRouchies in Chicago for many years had a battered maroon Suburban equipped with loudspeakers. And apropos of nothing they would appear on the streets of the Loop cruising slowly while ranting incomprehensibly. I always waved cheerfully.

Heritage filings.

Oct Surprise predates Larouche.

I gave $10 to Lyndon LaRouche once.

So there are Lourouchites in the news again nipping at the edges of the Discourse and when I was very young and very depressed there was a cute girl who was handing out flyers on campus and I feel into a few meetings with them and folks, shit was wild

I remember the LaRouchies; they used to pester people outside my local post office years ago.

This man was almost swept into the LaRouche Movement had it not been for the place where the attempt to recruit him reeking of cat piss and mental instability, I offered him protection from (if their threats came to fruition) Infrareds attempt to get their fanbase to kill this man’s children.

VII. Old Times

You know who did? interview Larouche? Robert Novak and Tom Braden.

i have sometimes wondered if scientology may have been kept alive in order to function as a prominent bad example—to socially discredit the very idea that psychiatry ought to be open to criticism (similar to how the larouche cult is used to discredit left anti-war movements, etc)

Russian government official. Gets their money’s worth.

VIII. The Gameplan

Background: That event, in typical LaRouchite gobbledegook, was billed as “Build the New Paradigm, Defeat Green Fascism.” Beijer said he watched a six-hour livestream. “You have to read between the lines a little bit, but what’s going on is that they are very, very conscious of how the anti-war stuff is bringing in people into their movements,” he said.

Beijer pointed to comments that Helga Zepp LaRouche made at that ev??ent about how publicity stunts were driving traffic to LaRouche media.

“She was talking about how their publicity stunts, where they show up at town halls and rail against AOC and stuff like that, how that was bringing eyes and clicks and web traffic,” Beijer said. “They were also very conscious of the social media actors who were promoting them.”

The article botched A definition of “fringe political belief” — opposition. to Vietnam War? — when it could have sought a different not loaded phrase.

I have a question. Why is Mike Billington phoning us in the UK asking us to pay $100 to the la Rouche foundation with our credit cards? Is thus legit? Should he be doing this? I think you know the answer, deep in your soul.

A fraction of the LaRouche cult is using the “CPUSA 2036” slogan to rally infiltrators into the communist party, 2036 is the year they’ve set for themselves to finish their “takeover”. In reality, the effort is a petty nuisance for the party and serious confusion for non-members

The Mises Caucus is all in.

Meanwhile, 2024 — all in on Dore!

I’m a sucker for weird political fringe figures, but LaRouche people getting hyped for a Jimmy Dore presidential run is just bleak and sad, plz make it stop & go back to pamphlets about Dick Cheney’s satanic orgies

A look at Larouche discord meet.

Tour Manhattan Community College-BMCC! (Well known Cold War dove Douglas MacArthur.)

fascinating. not sure what’s going on here

Evolution?

Bruh, if you wanna see good organizing look at the larouche org. They somehow fight the uphill battle of exonerating Larouche (successfully) and make moves that grant them friendships with anarchists, communists, conservatives, & pretty much anyone.

IX. Parting — The weird thing I note with people’s selling of Robert Kennedy Jr and a who did him wrong and why — which I see too noted with Tucker Carlson: the pet cause. Fox News fired Tucker because he was too opposed to the war machine. Or one of the few voices skeptical on Faucci. Or getting to the truth on … Etc etc.

Exploring the search of “both sider” ism s relating to a partial defense of Fox in the Fox Dominion lawsuit, and the things fall apart. The liberal media of MSNBC and CNN blew the Covington Kids. Sure. And just as with Fox, the kid in a MAGA hat razzing with Black Israelites got a cash settlement, within a story not worth paying attention to in the first place. Jessie Smollet perpetuated a noxious hoax, and media outlets had to clean up after initial storyline sensationalism reporting. What I am left with in the litany after these two “what about” s I saw is the partical of where partisans diverge into two differerent camps and fall into rabbit holes depending on what disinformation conjecture they add to the narrative — something called “Russiagate”, conjectures where someone in the media realm actually took the Trump pee tape story seriously for more than two minutes.

I suppose the next track is to point to Tucker Carlson as soonly shutting down his insane Trump election denying guests. How long you indulge them is a different question needing a better answer. Look. I am old enough to remember how Bush/Kerry election denialists who dealt with in 2004 — who would not touch Bev Harris with a ten foot pole and who put it in a box for contained indulgence. The former was Al Franken, the latter was Keith Olberman– notably putting a thick sheen of “this may be insane” before such reporting. I do not know if Carlson did that with this line of guests what would have happened — enough to satisfy his audience from turning to OANN?

His chances are, unless there are more variables I am completely ignorant on, nil, but I do wonder. The race can not be properly polled. A social sanction exists in supporting George Santos, A matter of embarrassment. The silent Tory Syndrome that brought John Major to power. See too Donald Trump. James Traficant and David Duke under polled as well.

There is a decent case to make for George Santos if you are of the right eclectic political stripe. Like, if you design to take on the DEI administrators you do need gay jackasses in your corner. So cometh George Santos, fabulist and fabricator and a man with a great imagination. We want people with great imaginations, don’t we?

What else can the Republican Party run in his district?

And, well, he is one of 435. That is, in the end, how I could swallow Ron Paul.

Let us see. Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, As a Hutchinson, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tim Scott, and Larry Elder are all in it to win it. Ron Desantis and Chris Sununu are waiting around along with I guess Mike Pence and Chris Christie.

Joe Biden, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and Marianne Williamson are in it. Joe Manchin has amused people on it.

There is a curious question on Biden in the primaries. There exists apolitical effect, evident in 2012with fake candidates but also seen in other years with real candidates, of a blind “screw this” vote by registered Democrats who are not Democrats. So West Virginia votes 40 plus percent for a — mullet headed prisoner. Biden is a bizarre figure in various ways — and the mass of voters who associate his party with things that do not interest or inform them along the Appalachia Belt — drag queen story hours and the like — have only increased. Can Kennedy Jr beat Trump in West Virginia? The biggest West Virginia primary victory for the Kennedy clan since Kennedy took Humphrey in 1960!

it is kind of strange to be slapped in the face to this reality of marketing in our consumer based society: Anheuser Busch is in essence in the entertainment content business. The product means close to nothing — one bottom mass beer as good as another. But they are bought off of the image cast from the commercials. And they had a loyal fandom of the commercials. The marketing director of the Bud line of beers made comments in launching a new entertainment / commercial line with someone referred to as a trans-gendered “influencer” making the pitch. In doing so, she disparaged the previous commercial lines, the pitches that entertained the mass of consumers over the years, saying they were getting from this “fratty humor”. In essence, it is Netflix cancelling some lowbrow show with a large audience to go with a presumably critically acclaimable darling — one these low brows may deem as lecturing and hectoring. They have made the announcement that popular hits such as those “was-sup” guys, the “bud” and” weise” and “er” frogs, and the Bud Knight will be no more. From that perch the maybe a tad too violent reaction from Kid Rock and the slumping away from the product makes sense — corporate has cancelled the entertainment they used to sell. The words of getting to “inclusivity” and “for everyone” ring hollow because it is not simply introducing a new show, it is doing so while announcing the old show has been cancelled.

On the finding that the woman who made the remarks about getting away from “fatty humor” is a recovering or self hating Greek, at party functions in college with a sorority the college paper disparaged with standard takes on Greek life, there is an irony here on customer. Way back in 2004 I recall voting demographics getting split into a “beer track” vs “wine track” dichotomy. Class distinctions have that beer track, sold off”fratty humor”, not much in the frat, and the “wine track” maybe just parked temporarily in fratty beer… Sold or, in this case ceased to be sold, by the wine track.