Moderates United

I keep reading that even in States where they are required to conform to the will of the Electorate, the penalty for “faithlessness” is a fine. However these Electors also exist at the will of the State Assemblies and can replaced if they demonstrate an intention to be disloyal to their party and the people. This guy in Texas, for example, should just be fired and replaced by someone who does not have his head up his ass.

It occurs to me as well that as well as Republicans performed nationally at the State level, we have not been better positioned for a Constitutional Convention in a long time. I haven’t looked up the numbers, but with good deal making, much is possible.

Isn’t it interesting that the same people who were unwilling to call Alger Hiss a Soviet agent even AFTER he was found with stolen secrets, tried, and convicted of espionage; who have never really recanted “I’ve been to the future and it works; who defended and encouraged Ted Kennedy’s illegal and likely treasonous secret entreaties to the Soviet Communists; who have been supporting every enemy of this country, foreign and domestic for DECADES; now (fuck grammar, if I fucked grammar) claim to see Russians under every rock, behind every tree?  The Russians came, the Russians came.  They are only 20-30 years too late.

If we stipulate that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then I would suggest it is high time we became close friends with the Russians.  They are vastly less dangerous than the Democrats.  That much is obvious.

Milo: “The “fake news” crusade, which is an attempt to delegitimize conservative news sources as revenge for Trump’s election, will have only one result: even more damage done to the credibility of mainstream, left-wing news outlets and TV stations. Good!”


As I think about this whole thing, the absurdity that it has been advanced in public, I reach another conclusion: no one is saying the Russians told lies.  This is not the claim made.  No one is saying they hacked our voting machines.  What they are saying–this is the core claim being made by ostensibly serious people supposedly doing their jobs diligently–is that the TRUTHS they spread so influenced weak minds that they made a BAD DECISION.  This is what they are saying: we need a new election because the American people made a bad choice, because they failed to do EXACTLY what we told them to do, and the only possible explanation for that is that someone else got to them first.  It’s not that they understood perfectly well the choice in front of them and made a sane decision.  No: the vanity of our press is such that they CANNOT COMPREHEND the election of Trump in terms which preclude their own moral authority and ideational supremacy.


So Milo is absolutely right that the same people who told the press to go fuck themselves on November 8th are going to have even LESS faith in them now, and their numbers will no doubt grow, as more and more people awaken to these patent absurdities, grotesque hypocrisies, and efforts to vitiate the 1st Amendment.  Nothing in the 1st Amendment requires anyone to tell the truth about anything.  We all know that if you lie often enough, people stop listening to you, and if actual damages occur, then we have a court system.


Even though the media is adept at creating the illusion that large numbers of people hold whatever opinion they are pushing, in large and increasing numbers people are simply ignoring them.


I will add too that the very vigorousness and energy being used to attempt to invalidate this election means we PICKED THE RIGHT GUY.  If Wall Street was fine with him, none of this would be happening.

The core allegation with regard to the Russians is that they were the ones who hacked John Podesta, and released his emails.

They had nothing to do with James O’Keefe, and the resulting firing of the core of the Democrat dirty tricks team.  They had nothing to do with James Comey reopening the email probe, with Anthony Weiner propositioning an underage girl, or with Hillarys criminal background, utter lack of charisma (most people would pay NOT to hear her say anything), record of continual and long term lying about virtually everything, her failed policies in the Middle East (which she also lied about), or with Obama’s piss poor record on nearly everything.  Most Americans hate Obamacare, have seen the worst recovery since the Great Depression, feel our nation has become weak and despised internationally, and overall have rejected the DEMOCRATS period in a record number of States, in addition to returning Republican Majorities in both houses of Congress.

Most Americans did not want to go to war with Russia over non-existent American interests in the Middle East.  Indeed, many of us who have studied the issue believe that getting us to do Saudi Arabia’s dirty work for them was a core reason they funded roughly one fifth of Hillary’s campaign, in a blatant effort to fix the election for her.

And with regard to Podesta, the major revelations had to do with the dirty tricks played on Bernie–tricks Hillary plainly endorsed, since she immediately rehired the disgraced Debbie Wasserman Schultz–and the long term and successful efforts by the Democrats to manipulate the media in favor of Hillary.

From this toxic brew, we are being asked to believe that the REAL story is that the Russians, in revealing the sheer extent of Democrat corruption, somehow tilted what WAS a balanced playing field.  Bullshit.  They revealed how utterly unbalanced and crooked the media was and is; how it is a de facto propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.

And that is if we even believe they did the hacking, which I don’t.  Steve Piezcenik has gone on record as saying it was AMERICANS, and this is vastly more credible.  Why in God’s name would anyone who loves this country want that lying, cheating, backstabbing bitch in charge of our security and safety?  She treated our secrets with absolutely contempt, our troops likewise, and lied about all of it, and GOT AWAY WITH IT as far as most of the media was concerned.

We have a HUGE issue with fake news, and all of it is coming from the people spreading this fake news meme.  It is a propaganda trick cooked up in a back room by people who knew and know exactly what they are doing, and is thus clinically and precisely Orwellian.  It is a message created by aspiring authoritarians, for whom the notion of truth is completely empty. Truth for them is what works, and what works is truth.

Again, that so many people COULD fall for this bullshit is unbelievable to me.  How do we fix so much stupid?

Who smelt it dealt it.

Five words.  That is a masterpiece of concision, I must say, and I have also evoked the smell of shit.

There is no evidence of actual vote tampering by the Russians.  Indeed, all the fraud which seems to have happened favored the Democrats.  We know that cheating is and more or less always has been a part of their strategy.  If nothing else, O’Keefes videos made that obvious.  The recount in Michigan seems to have been stopped in part to avoid disclosure of the sheer extent of Democrat fraud.

So the allegations must necessarily revolve around Russians working to create narratives which favored Trump relative to Hillary.  If we are to concern ourselves with organized propaganda offensives, then, why would we not stop to ask how it was that a horrible human being, failed leader, and blatant crook like Hillary was supported so aggressively that she was even in contention for the Presidency in the first place?  Is it not possible foreign powers worked hard to ensure their narratives were on the nightly news every night?  Did not the Saudis fund something like 20% of her campaign?

It does seem like the world is shrinking, that people’s capacity for attention, for memory, for critical and logical thinking is decaying.  How else to explain the monstrosities being presented as credible ideas, and the patent willingness of imbeciles in large numbers to swallow and regurgitate them reliably?  We literally live in a world where they can change their story 180 degrees, one day to the next, and half the country fails to even notice.  One would think DoubleThink would be something you had to force on people, that you had to break them so they would accept it.  No, it turns out all you have to do is teach them the importance of being a member of the herd, and to blindly trust the leaders of that herd.  As long as they are surrounded by people mouthing and agitating the same idiotic and contradictory propaganda, they feel not just OK, but SUPERIOR.

What, really, is the point of pointing out that the many networks and publications who lied to get Hillary elected do not somehow constitute credible sources now that their lies have been exposed?  Does any sane person need to be told that?  No, of course not. And the rest can’t be told anything.  Regrettably, “the rest” constitutes a rather large number.

I will comment here simply that the current head of the CIA was a Communist in 1976, not too long before the CIA hired him.  He was asked to choose between Ford and Carter, and chose instead the Communist.  Ask yourself: is Communism an evanescent thing among diligent, disciplined, intelligent young people?  Was Communism an obviously desirable alternative to what we might broadly call “Americanism” in the immediate aftermath of the chosen loss of the war in Vietnam?  Did good things happen to the South Vietnamese, or the Cambodians?

What seems more likely: that Brennan had a moment, then became a solid and staunch believer in the American Way; or that he had an epiphany, that he could undermine the “American Way” THROUGH the American way, by becoming a Fifth Columnist?

Fuck the CIA.  With luck, Trump will eviscerate them.  Me personally, I would fire everyone promoted under Obama, fire Brennan, fire everyone he ever so much as had coffee with, and put in place career military whose loyalty to America, our Constitution, and our ideals, was beyond doubt.

I have not forsworn booze yet–at least since the last time I did–so I have decided to get drunk tonight, because it is raining.  Rain always makes me want to drink.  Perhaps so I dissolve in one of the streams.  When the drunk Russian in Nostalghia says the flooded church feels like Russia, I feel Russian too.

And it hit me, sitting on my couch, that the core malady of addicts of all sorts is the inability to find genuine deep solace, comfort and sense of safety in any other human being.  Your drug is your friend.  Your drug is reliable.  Your drug won’t let you down.  I’ve said this before, but perhaps not this way.  Or perhaps exactly this way, and I”m mimicking the drunken O’Malley brothers (the one about the two men at a bar finding all the things they share in common)

I will add I had an unpleasant truth intrusion tonight, something which I recognized immediately as absolutely valid and relevant, but which hurt me.  And it occurred to me that in a healthy person the ego expands and contracts regularly.  Not even that: the sense of self expands and contracts.  Sometimes you are acutely aware of being you–and fine with that fact, in a healthy system–and sometimes your sense of self fades completely as you partake in larger wholes.  It is an organic, natural, adaptive process.

When spiritual teachers speak of eradicating the ego, the intelligent, sane, useful ones (a minority in my view among those who aspire to claim your mind and allegiance) intend learning to loosen what amount to spasms in the emotional and perceptual body.  What came to me was a spasm, a holding, a clinging which held on in no small measure because it was unseen, unrecognized.

It came to me too that the “shadow” self has no need to hide.  It is always there, influencing your thoughts, your decisions, your actions.  What can happen, with diligence, commitment, and honesty, is that you learn to see it standing behind patterns you know intimately, and which you have to learn, once you have seen this goblin, to see differently.  Perhaps you are not the saint you thought you were.  Perhaps you are not innocent of bigotry and hate.  Perhaps some part of you wants to set fire to everything you see, but your smile at everything and everyone has blinded you to this fact.

I am a cynic in many ways, but under that cynicism, I see why people go mad, why most people stay mad, and on some level what it means to be human, living in the “human condition”.

Open the door.

Oh, Lord, may those I want to serve always need me more than I need them.  May they never go anywhere, become free, or cease in their desire to be helped.  May they be ever helpless, and may they always look to me as the God I aspire to be.  Amen.