Everyone can clearly see the maneuvering that Donald Trump is doing with the republicans possibly having the Speaker of House gavel again in January of 2013. The Republican Party will continue to be impotent until Donald Trump is out of the picture. The word 'leverage' doesn't quite justice to what he is doing.....'extortion' would be a closer word.
I set the alarm for 4 AM. It was the clearest blood moon that I have ever seen....as this time it was almost overhead....just as the photos in the news that always appear the day after. It was the longest eclipse in almost 600 years....NASA estimating 3 1/2 hours in length.
The viral video shows the congregation at one of America's most well-known mega-churches.....shouting in unison....."Let's go Brandon." This is what they have done to us! General Michael Flynn over the weekend said....at an event at the same church....that we need one religion in America....because all the churches were split. This is getting too close to the German Church Movement of the 1930s! Meanwhile....the Wyoming GOP today voted that they no longer consider Liz Cheney to be a republican....while other republicans in our capitol are simply choosing not to testify before Congress.....because if they do so then their words would be subject to charges of perjury. When do they start airbrushing people out of photos?
I posted these thoughts in May of this year...."A radical element takes advantage of democratic institutions to slowly take over one of the political parties"....(this would be radical progressive democrats)...."time passes....and a radical element forms out of the opposition"....(this would be MAGA)...."on this the passing of time is not needed....only a match....and a formidable leader. Germany went through something similar but different in the 1930s. Oh they were so patriotic...God and country....der vaterland. Be careful evangelicals....this is not a Christian movement....Martin Niemoller found out too late what he was creating....but Bonhoffer knew very well....from the beginning....that there was something seriously wrong."
Igor Danchenko's response to the charges against him came in the form of a 'not guilty' plea. His trial is not scheduled to begin until April 22 of next year....right in the middle of the mid-term primary season. Danchenko was a sub-source for Christopher Steele's dossier....and first began to make a name for himself as he did research on plagiarism charges against Vladimir Putin's PHD dissertation. The narrative right now is....Denchenko's indictment proves that there was no Russia Hoax.....and all of us.....like the sheep we have become....automatically believe it....but this may turn out to be one of those instances of....'be careful what you ask for....you may get it".....for a trial may bring out what books have already brought out.....(unfortunately we are told not to read them)....about why our intelligence agencies were so concerned about Donald Trump's relationship with Russia.
The little vignettes above....DISPATCHES as I call them....touch on the dangers of both the Left and the Right. It seemed that everyone in Germany in the 1930s despised the Weimar government.....but the fringe element elbowed their way into power. It was similar in Russia in 1917....where the Mensheviks were purged. It was probably similar in our own Civil War where the hotheads dictated the course of events in both the North and the South.
There is a new Covid variant causing great concern as scientists in a number of countries are running tests and pooling their knowledge to as quickly as humanly possible find out the level of danger that this new and possibly wicked variant possesses....but I want to know what Tucker Carlson and Gov. DeSantis and has to say about it right now. I don't want to wait six months to a year for their immunologist expertise as usual. I mean these men and others like them are the real experts. I don't even know what these so-called scientists in South Africa....I don't even have any idea what their political leanings are! For all I know they may be liberals! Have ever they even once shown up at a CPAC convention or a Trump rally or even a Tea Party? Probably not as they usually waste their entire lives away in labs....looking into microscopes!
Being retired as I am....I did not miss many....if any of the rallies from the 2020 election....this on one of the many available Internet broadcast platforms. The choreography in each and every one of them was remarkable. Generally this would be the scene....a rural setting in many of them....right on the airport tarmac....(the power of the presidency on vivid display)....the left to right dais constructed....on the actual runway....with one section of grandstand behind it.....filled with carefully chosen people....dressed with appropriate tee-shirts....and supplied with signs. The sun would begin to set.....but just before it did....often in the beautiful twilight.... the Boeing 757 would be spotted approaching. It would land and then taxi so gently....but so quickly.....until it parked right there in view of anyone in the stands who would just have to turn their heads....and then the overture started up....not Wagner....but close to it....proud of America....the door of the jet opened and the hero exited the aircraft to cheers from the tens of thousands present. The speech is longer than anyone would normally want to hear.....but not to this gathering. The words were always about 90% the same.....and the benediction was always 100% the same. The rally served its purpose....stirring the ingredients in the pot....and keeping the sauce simmering.....but never burning. None of these rally ideas were new....for all had been tested and proven successful....at one time or another in the past....in various places of the world.
