Maybe the Democrats can solve the age problem by nominating Hunter Biden. It solves the disjointed problem Trump and the Republicans throw out with their impeachment process — and they may have us convinced that Hunter Biden should not be president, but now we are in the line of having to vote a choice — Hunter Biden versus Donald Trump — the way low approval rating politicians need to frame elections — and not a judgement — the way high approval politicians seek to get elections framed.

I. I heard intimations of that inevitable ” — was an Inside Job” for the Hamas attacks of 10/7. And after mooting the late night radio host’s argument — a tad circular– really, Mossad? Foiled of every fanned attack on that country that gets threatened more than constantly — which ignores the obvious rebuttal — constant threat — and it really isn’t getting Netanyahu any political boost anyways in that “you had one job, and yet you were off in a pile of b-s instead.”

Jimmy Dore ( we can pretty much define as a Trump supporter) throws his two cents in.

I assume the former food into some the recent polling. And a sense of dread comes in when I reckon the late night radio host. He touches on PNAC document, saying it is right there that. Always a forced for connection . A caller gets in and goes into “real history” — Balfour Declaration, all very British — scares us by dragging in the Rothschild because he received a letter of support for the Zionist Movement ,and the the caller drops in the connection for today — “The Ukraine War. Zelensky — he’s Jewish. And all of the Biden fiasco Administration — they’re Jewish. Connect the dots!” The next caller gets in “I sympathise with my country even though I knew 9/11 was an Inside job!”. And we are lost in Hell.

II.

III. Rothschild?

Unfortunately, author Rothschild lets everyone but far-right conspiracy theorists off the hook too easily when he writes, “If someone has to be blamed for the genesis of the Soros conspiracy, blame it on Lyndon LaRouche.” LaRouche — known for his extremist views and multiple presidential runs — played his part in pushing baseless claims in the United States, but he is not necessarily more blameworthy than Dennis Hastert, who was speaker of the House, or Glenn Beck, who devoted three consecutive evenings of his Fox show to Soros in 2010.

IV. Yammering on, Harley Schlanger.

Point: Excuse me pointing out a harsh truth, but “Singing for peace” will be as effective as fiddling while Rome burnt

Counterpoint: Sounds like a statement based on FEAR!!!

V. Gold

There’s a parallel level of intellectual fraud as well, since gold is both an investment opportunity and an ideological cause. But the Republican Party has long played a shell game on this issue, uttering goldbug sentiments to stir the base while keeping policy securely in the hands of Wall Streeters who know there is no plausible path for a return to gold.

The Republican hypocrisy can best be seen in the 1982 Report to the Congress of the Commission on the Role of Gold in the Domestic and International Monetary Systems—a commission convened to placate the goldbug faction. On the stump, at least, President Ronald Reagan often preached the goldbug gospel. Another goldbug, the notorious conspiracy nut and extremist Lyndon Larouche, submitted a statement to the commission. Congressman Ron Paul, for whom gold and opposition to the Federal Reserve were career-long obsessions, was among the commission’s members.

But all this pro-gold sentiment was just for show. Reagan’s chief of staff, Donald Regan, and his secretary of state, George Shultz, were opposed to any return to the gold standard. Reagan adviser Murray Weidenbaum claimed that his role on the commission was a “damage-limitation function or the avoidance of economic harm.” The eminent economist Anna Schwartz, the executive director of the commission, claimed that it was hobbled by the fact that the Reagan administration had no intention to return to the gold standard.

VI. Jacques Cheminade Poster Vandalized

A bit ambiguous the message.

VII. Who is standing with RFK jr?

Adherents to every niche point view showed up for the start of the political scion’s post-partisan crusade. Devotees of the personality cult of the late Lyndon LaRouche—a perennial presidential candidate who was convicted of mail fraud—went up to attendees and asked them if they were familiar with George Washington’s Farewell Address before trying to sell them on a fringe Senate candidate in New York. Falun Gong members were promoting their own social media website that promised a “nonaddictive algorithm.” The crowd included a QAnon celebrity and a Mike Flynn acolyte. The speakers included a Native American elder giving a land acknowledgment and former presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich.

VIII. Harley Schlanger does the Mel K show. The basic one of these — Mel K, her team, other whistleblowers, proud patriots, warriors of truth and freedom, are here to bring the ‘truth to light’ through facts and logic. Her ultimate goal is to emancipate humanity from the tyrannical forces who’ve been running the show for far too long! Moving on to “fringe radio” where Activist and Historian, Harley Schlanger, rejoins the program to share what happened at the latest Jackson Hole, Wyoming annual bankers meeting. We also discuss the overall bankers plan, China, Russia, Ukraine war and more. A conversation thats hard to find elsewhere. The monologue part of it is easily found with LORG. But Topics here? Fringe Christians, bigfoot, aliens, ufo, alternative science, conspiracies, ghosts, paranormal, prophecy, prophets, parapsychology, demons, spirits, possession, alternative archeology, alternative geology, crypitids, dogman, goatman, black projects, government experiments, time travel, tesla and all things fringe!

IX. RIP, I suppose.

she also wrote three books: “How We Got to the Moon, the Story of the German Space Pioneers”; “Challenges of Human Space Exploration,” about the scientific work done by Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts on the Russian Mir space station, a predecessor to the ISS; and “Krafft Ehricke’s Extraterrestrial Imperative,” reviving the work of one of the most creative and imaginative of the German space engineers, who came to the U.S. after the Second World War — also a dear friend of Marsha’s, who died in his sixties in 1985

X. Hillary Clinton Back in the News

Somewhere in the list of people I have not thought much about is Hillary Clinton. But she still has enough juice to attract the nuts. Enter Robert Castle.

His voice cracking, he went on a tangent about Eleanor Roosevelt and John Foster Dulles, eating away at Clinton’s patience. She then tried to introduce Ugandan activist Frank Mugisha, “who’s actually on the front lines fighting for human rights, not just yelling about it.”

Bat signal to Jimmy Dore. Who identifies Castle as Jose Vega. And sells Cannabis.

Media blows in. Schiller Institute, a German-based economic and political think tank,

Huh. Credit: LaRouche Youth Movement Organizers via Storyful. lym?

XI. Countering Counterpunch!

The Larouche cohort of twitterers ‘re-tweeted the political activist Counterpunch writer Dan Kovalick’s encounter with John Fetterman — award winning dramatist Dan Kovalick. Hm. A civil enough lecture, Fetterman listened as long as He did. Ultimately he got his point in and you really can’t complain… much.

They reposition the take in with the one where Kynan T. wins another Drama Award shouting at Adam Kinszinger from the seats. Or maybe he loses one, because like Kovalick, who at least has some grounding for sympathy on his shoving, I am having trouble understanding why I or anyone are to care on this one. You really can’t just allow random shouters at a guy’s reading event — that will cavalcade into incoherence.

Then Counterpunch gives us —

In the 1970’s, the Teamsters acted as leg-breakers for the big growers forcing the largely Mexican workforce into sweetheart deals, in an effort to crush the United Farmworkers Union (UFW). The Teamsters, under General Presidents Frank Fitzsimmons and Jackie Presser, employed a bizarre, violent, fascist cult the U.S. Labor Party, led by Lyndon LaRouche to smear the new reform movement led by the Teamsters for a Democrauit tic Union (TDU) and the Ralph Nader-inspired PROD.

XII. Some podcast blips. “It can happen here” has Andrew tells Garrison about the far-right Trotsky inspired cult leader Lyndon Larouche. They recite the narrative told by Tim Wohlworth, which to be sure is better than reading the Wikipedia article.

XIII. At a Palestine “from the river to the sea” rally. Diane Sare and Daniel Burke pop in at 3:14. (Green Party shows up at 5:09.)

This multi series is in itself interesting — If you have only time for one part, watch the “Quit complaining about NATO Expansion” one — but with this — 13:28 — Larouche gets a focus as and at the 20 minute mark, we have this quote — “The Russians are irrationalists. They’re racists. They’re Russian racists. Great Russian racists. You don’t believe me? Ask the Ukrainians.”

Larouche is largely a stop-over before he brings in who he considers the chief propagandists. At 42 minutes we get the return of Putin, which I can’t help but think about in relation to the next Trump administration. There are a number of things to unpack as you roll into the vast scheme of “Color Revolution Mania”, where every bit of political unrest is viewed as a scheme of … Gay Liberationist Jews, more or less.

XIV. One of two shattering for “Moms for Liberty”.

Fisher blames his conviction on a political action committee for perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, which he had worked for but was trying to break free of what he now calls a “cult.”

“It was a political situation that happened between me and Lyndon LaRouche,” Fisher said. “It was a member of his camp, his party, that made the accusation. They pushed it through. It was really a railroad job.”

Exciting sarcasm!

But don’t worry: He says he was framed. It was part of a squabble from when he was part of the LaRouche movement back in Chicago, he claims.

XV. The sordid ugliness of New Jersey politics.

Ironically, Menendez has been the loudest voice about this as it relates to the Senate primary. He has called Murphy’s run, and the county chairs’ actions, a “blatant maneuver at disenfranchisement.” Of course, it’s one he benefited from until this year. And unless a federal lawsuit challenging the ballot line accelerates, it may be how Menendez’s successor is chosen.

IN 1996, RUSH HOLT DECIDED TO STEP AWAY from the Plasma Physics Laboratory at Princeton University and make a go at a run for Congress. Holt, whose father was once a U.S. senator from West Virginia, sought the endorsements of the five county Democratic parties in his district. Some of those endorsements were decided at a convention of elected committee members, two from each precinct, who met and deliberated on the candidates. In two of the five counties, the county chair effectively decided who got the endorsement, regardless of the committee’s viewpoint.

“In those two counties I shared the line with Lyndon LaRouche, who was running for president at the time,” Holt told me. “I didn’t fare too well in the primary. If you don’t have the column or the line, they can relegate you to a distant part of the ballot.”

Holt got the county line endorsements in his next try in 1998 and won the seat, holding it for eight terms. When he ran for Senate in 2014 in a primary against Cory Booker, he went to each chair, asking for their support. While some party chairs simply asked Holt about the issues, in many cases, he said, it was “the most old-fashioned thing you can imagine… truly a smoke-filled room with one person.”

XVI. More fretting

The California Democratic Party (CDP) has long harbored anti-Israel and antisemitic extremists. I remember attending my first CDP Arab-American Caucus meeting in the early 1990s. Someone passed out copies of The Ugly Truth About the ADL, published by Lyndon LaRouche’s Executive Intelligence Review, where I learned that “The B’nai B’rith, a pivotal player in the British Freemasonic plot to destroy the Union, was implicated in Lincoln’s assassination!”

At that time a group of Jewish and non-Jewish party activists created Democrats for Israel. We squelched all anti-Israel resolutions and platform proposals, in part because the fanatics were a tiny minority.

XVII. Mindy Pechenuk is Running

When last I noted the electoral attempts of L-PAC, it was with the decidedly disturbing crimes of Solomon Peña in a post election loss “but I won!” reprisal. Today we see that Mindy Pechenuk is making the rounds — here stumping for support of her next electoral bid on Charles Simon’s “Do Not Talk” podcast. A firm believer in Jesus Christ against the Church, and redeeming America from God’s judgement, especially in the “septic tank” he pronounces San Francisco. Mindy gets her introduction at about 10:49 or something. She pisses on Jefferson — which, come to think of it does ally her with the Antifa jackasses she so positions herself against. You could skip to the latest episode where our host asks and explores the question — End times looming? Uncover truth in prophecy and action now! Right in line with LPAC’s history of recurring money-making opportunity apocalypses.

As far back as 2001 I could see the thing was a joke, and probably not even worth noting, complaining or complimenting. Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” is Taylor Swift. Odd choice. Or maybe not. She is the biggest star in the NFL, so that’s worth something.

I imagine, and know that a quick search will get me this, there is out there a complaint — Beyonce did not get this honor a few years’ back — records sold, stand taken. The complaint would now have to be tainted by its association and relation with the same complaint by Kanye West — who has not aged well. But Swift has made herself only vaguely political — but maybe there is some racial dynamic in analyzing this. I was about to point out she didn’t make it into the NFL, but then realised it was a half time performance that solidified her position, but then further realized that football fans just ignored it.

I know I am out of step with the culture, but also know I have heard Swift songs in the background (biggest star anywhere and all that) but only recently bothered to id them to her. I had assumed my opinion was dead center neutral indifference, but actually I have an ever so slight negative “but whatever” opinion on it — but definitely negative. Maybe I am just getting her earlier work before she stumbled out of a suburban girl-hood mindset, though.

Looking down the list of Congress critters who cast a “no” vote on the expulsion of George Santos — this time out giving us a pretty even split in the Republicans (the previous expulsion vote left the NY contingent and some others wanting him gone) — and trying to think of the big names to figure out some line of demarcation for politics here, I still have no idea.

The Democrats have gone from 31 voting to keep ‘im to 2. The “everyone gets their day in court” / “keep the process going” line followed across the ideological divisions in the party back then. Today’s two outliers allow for a quicker search through on reasons — they stand out and they issued a press press release and if you want to read the stated reasoning for Democratic votes to keep Santos you only have to read two pages. And figuring out the political profile requires a quick study of only two individuals.

So. Who is Bobby Scott of Virginia? Who is Nikema Williams of Georgia? What do they have for George Santos?

Williams has the shorter statement.

George Santos is not worthy of serving in the House of Representatives. He will likely be convicted of the crimes of which he was accused. This is the People’s House – and although the House Ethics Committee findings were damning, the people of New York’s Third Congressional District should decide who represents them. I’ll always side on giving power to the voters.

Short enough. Scott? A paragraph to tell us that the man sucks, another going on about due process, another about the last vote, and –that great ballyhoo clarion call of “censure” (tsk tsk indeed) — the final paragraph starts by telling us again the man sucks and continues —

Furthermore, the proceedings were complicated by the subjective reality that an overwhelming portion of the House, and in fact most of the public, just wanted him to leave, and only expulsion, rather than reprimand and censure, could achieve that objective. In the final analysis, we have to recognize that expelling a Member is one of the most serious and solemn actions Members can take, we have to recognize that precedent will be set. Unlike both prior cases of expulsion since the Civil War, Mr. Santos has not been convicted of a crime, and few of the allegations involve conduct that occurred during his service as a Member of Congress.  And unlike the other cases, after the Committee reviewed and considered the evidence, it did not make a recommendation to expel him.

Bare and precedents and all that.

Sometimes you are lost in a weird land of causation, correlation, fixed conclusions. This historical purview comes out of fretting off of Biden’s electoral chances and what Arabs and Muslims in Michigan might do relating to policy objectives with Israel and Palestine, the current wedge issue du jour liable to spurt Colonel West and Jill Stein’s vote tallies, liable to create more non-voters, even liable to skip to Trump. A funny thing on this one. If it is the case that they shift votes — how are we going to drill it down to this one issue? Before the current war footing in Israel, we have seen a different fretting on the vote in relation to the culture issues, i.e. — epitomized by the new story (a false framing that it be — by definition of terms) of the city council in Hamtramck, Michigan “ban”ning the “Pride Flag”. (They did no such thing. They banned the Price Flag in the same sense that they banned the Oregon State flag — as in they are merely not displaying it.) Say whatever you wish about the matter –friction is exposed, a “wedge issue” comes in, and — this either would be “the” reason for faltering support to the Democratic ticket — a constituency which cast their vote for Bush in 2000 of that means anything to you — or it isn’t. It is hard to say.

These days, as the city of Portland gets negative press in this twentied in the manner it garnered positive press through the oughts and teens — some woo-hooing comes from a “right” in Target closing. Curious. Just a summer ago that seemed to be what they were aiming for — because they were selling too much trans- crap. Should Target shut down a store in Ogden, Utah would they be high-fiving a victory for Ogden or poo-pooing Ogden? Causation, correlation, politics.

I finally watched Silence of the Lambs, and am pondering the meaning of Donald Trump’s trumpeting the support of Hannibal Lector for him. Granted, the short answer is he was referring to the studiously apolitical Anthony Hopkins — why? I can’t say — any much more than I can figure why Silence of the Lambs was on his mind.

I suppose a big take away from the movie is that you can’t trust the FBI. They offered Hannibal Lector a sweet deal — annual resort visit to beautiful island and plenty of reading material under maximum surveillance of course — for the information to capture “Buffalo Bill”, but that was quickly shown to be false. From there Hannibal Lector had no other option for an escape than to do it himself, with a body count of a couple officers on the way to your scheme.

Otherwise the only conclusion is we have two doddering old men running for office, with the key difference that one of them and not the other has their ramblings going off into psychotic directions.

This re-assurance for Democrats is curious, with two fatal flaws. One is that even today if you present the map in 2016 you would be advised to bet on Hillary Clinton. It is just that her odds are 6 or 7 out of 10 and we landed in the 3 or 4 otherwise. The second is that none of the elections defeating Republicans afterward were slam dunk results. 2018 — Trump played his cards well, won Senate seats. 2020 — Republicans won a lot of House seats. Team that up with 2021 results of Virginia’s governorship and you do see issues that resonate. And they did, after all, flip the House in 2022. And on issues that garnered steam in 2023 — the single issue of Abortion did not actually mean any Republican office holder lost a seat in Ohio.

Heck. 2016, the election that set Democrats’ current sense of pessimism — Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. So we sit now. Elections will be confused more than anyone wants them to be.

Speculation is that the Dean Phillips primary challenge might harm the prospects for Chris Christie in New Hampshire. Yes. Sounds like a joke. Everybody knows the only two people who could win the nomination are Trump and Haley. And, as is the case, we wait to see if we stumble into that universe of 2 or 3 out of ten where that statement that comes across as absurd to most people paying half attention is the one we stumble into — for a suddenly altered calculus on Biden’s part.

The same podcast (the prominent neo-con Anti-Trump wavering Republican one) that kvetches on Trump’s use of the word “vermin” and the dehumanizing rhetoric turns around and without a second’s after-thought described the Congressional Republicans as “termites” biting at the foundation of Democracy big D. Which is to note I can just about always notice a “both siderism” complaint with anything, even here where the both sider-ism problem is lopsided to one side of the details drop you out.

Kind of pour into the negative poll numbers on Biden. It is a given that he has low approval numbers, but that is less significant than the internals. The old guy is bleeding support from the youth, the basis of it now appears out of the Israel – Palestine war with Hamas. The line in the polls details Trump wins the Peace vote, he keeps us out of war. Indeed, there is something viscerally supportable to some widely hurled as disgusting comments from Trump, which ran to the effect “Screw it all and let God sort it out.”. It is not serious, of course, but the sentiment is understandable – – as Biden carries out a hard path and sends out two different fund raising appeals off of them, emphasising “steadfast backing for Israel’s defense” on one and “blah etc, work for humanitarian aid to get in to Gaza and 2 State Solution”. No visceral pleasing solution out of it. And, understand, Trump wins and we won’t even have the pleasure of his isolationist glib reply — what? The guy moved the US embassy to Jerusalem.

The nightmare for Biden in this regard is Jill Stein is running, Colonel West is running — and if you want to voice backing for Palestine “from the river to the sea” — not an option for any reasonable Democrat — there you go!

And the only thing you can say on Trump’s nomination is it you set the path of unknowns that needed to answered on how it could not transpire, finally at long last there are some that have been answered against him. Nikki Haley could get it — a victory or good showing in New Hampshire, set up South Carolina, and what there is of the old Republican Establishment does their best Biden in 2020 after South Carolina act. We do see Trump finally sweat it — go off on the debates, demand they end. Is it possible he will end up wandering into one?

The problem with this one —

Surely. But. Democrats kept losing in the Age of Clinton too, and it is natural enough. The party debates swirled — they were losing differently before Bill Clinton — the presidency, and at least Gore and Kerry are now competitive, Unlike Dukakis and Mondale! But the 1997 elections were ugly for the Democratic Party. Granted, that is one year in and not three years into a term. And the Democrats won some in 1998. Even as they did not win some. But then — Trump’s Republicans did pick up Senate seats in 2018. Also, the governor of Kentucky — Beshear — who in the moment of hand wringing from Democrats staring at Biden poll numbers I shrug and say “Hell! Slot him in” — doesn’t want anyone to make a national political connection as in that event — a one to one measure on Biden voters to his and Trump voters to his opponent –, he would have lost the election. He fits a basic pattern — seen recently in Kansas and Louisiana — the preceding Republican screwed the pooch, and the Democrat that results threads a line nicely to get re-elected — usually a liberal can look at the Democrat and growl, Louisiana’s was anti-abortion — and is then duly replaced by a partisan Republican. Honestly, I think a Republican would win the Oregon gubernatorial race if the Republican Party were not batshit insane right now and the race could be shelved from any national implications.

The big problem with “The Age of Trump” is the Age continues past the time he is President — The Democrats moved on from them but lost again when rebounding back to the Age of a New Clinton. Though, naturally, Democrats lost quite often during The Age of Obama — I would have to look back to see the results of fifth and decent year elections.

The other big problem — the issue circumventing all others and makes me weary on any grand “referendum” issuing — Trump doesn’t much care of he wins, he has a House Speaker in place to re-enact the events of January 6 with better success — a different route to “winning”.

Kind of a curious dilemma with Abortion. The Dobbs decision was the correct decision, and it paved the way for the Democratic Party wins. Just as the Roe was a bad decision that paved the way for Republican wins. I do not understand this headline. The man sits securely on the Court bench. He is not in any danger of getting voted out. And why he and not Any Coney Bennett? — who, move Kavanaugh out and replace him with RBG but keep Bennett — that still results in the Dobbs decision.

I suppose the Democrats can make 2024 a referendum on Abortion, fore-square. But you are always going to need voters who deviate from the stance and this slides their discomfort level up. Enter your echo chamber at your own peril.

Hey! The Republicans had some victories! Here is Fox News to tell you about them! And… A quote from Al D’Amato? Yeah — political relevancy that one! Not too many Republicans running on the Liberal Party ticket line on New York in the Age of Trump.

The Hill published the headline “31 Democrats vote to keep Santos in Congress“, which brings up that 31 Democrats votes may to the George Santos ejection, 24 votes yah, and — as important in a vote like this, there were 19 ‘present’ votes. The article lists the 31 Democrats, but fails to list the 24 Republicans — a matter I would think would be of the same interest in assessing the politics of the situation. I think the New York Republicans, suburban neighbors to rid them of Santos, voted to get rid of him — but beyond them I have no grand purview.

The Democratic list is — naturally as I don’t walk around knowing 435 names and political identities — on a glance a mystery, though I assume if you looked into it you would figure out common denominators. I spot Henry Cuellar and Rashida Tlaib on this list — one of the most conservative figures in the Democratic caucus and the Squadiest of Squad members — which either means something for the rest of the list of doesn’t — not like AOC is there.

“Solidarity is important. For the same types of oppression we face as black people, as trans people, as Jewish people, as Asian people, it’s all the same forces and when we come together to fight for liberation we are also fighting for each other. “

Uh. Um. Erm.

I throw my hands on the air. There is no response because there is no content in this. But upon closer inspection, I do see this person failed to get gay people in — skipped right to trans — suggesting… Bill Maher was right — the Overton Window has moved so gay is the new straight, not worth mentioning in any wheel of oppression.

On Jewish people — yeah, that one gets trampled on in a hurry.