Esoteric Meandering Shouting Into the Void

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66006880

As if Putin didn’t have enough trouble holding his seat of power now his paid mercenary group has risen up against him.

Earlier this weekend the Wagner Group, who are a paid military group, rose up and took over the Russian staging area for their Ukraine offensive. The group claimed that Putin staged an attack on the group killing and injuring fighters.

I find this amusing considering that the invasion of Ukraine was according to Putin only going to take day to accomplish and now the Russians are getting their asses handed to them by the Ukrainian forces after over a year of fighting.

According to Trump if he were in power the conflict would never have happened because Putin was afraid of him. That’s amusing because Putin in a sociopath and has zero compunction about murdering anyone that gets in his way, Trump on the other hand is a narcissist that has never been in a physical fight in this life. I am sure that there probably would not have been a conflict because Trump would have rolled over to Putin and refused to support Ukraine in any way. He would have probably tried to perpetuate Putin’s lies to the American public and throw our military behind Russia. I don’t think he would have been successful but as Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces he could have potentially ordered his generals to strike Ukraine. This may have concluded with the military rising up against a sitting President or at least the huge fracture in out Armed Forces and weakening our standing on the world stage.

Remember Trump wanted to pull the U.S. out of NATO on the ruse that we pay to much and smaller NATO countries need to step up if they want the Americans to protect them. It always comes down to money with Donald.

I am happy that Biden is in office and sincerely hope that the Ukrainian conflict is over soon. Two pluses would be if Putin were to be removed from power in Russia and Trump ended up in federal prison. I can dream.

Thanks again for indulging me.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The rumor mill is up and running in the Republican Party. They are yammering about the “Deep State” which no one can define, name names, show existence of, or have heard of except from the people that are so negatively impacted by it. Amazing to say the least. Biden is corrupt and the charges go on and on with no proof of anything, just a lot of hot air because that is how he does things. We heard all this crap before 2016, more crap 2020, even more since 2020 and with luck the Deep State and the majority of those that believe it’s true will have slipped in the shower or something and will no longer be with us by 2024.

The DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, All members of the military regardless of rank or duty assignment and let’s include Air Traffic Control, Most college administrations are corrupt and are liars for no other reason than he said so. It is hard to imagine that the entire nation is incapable of having even one citizen, save DJT that knows how to tell the truth.

His web site, social media platform is Truth Social and it is not turned off yet cause the cows are still not in. So says the man that runs everything. The problem with all the labels is that none are correct. The web site is not about truth, it is about his imagination and what he wishes were true. He and his followers are not Patriots, they are the thugs that burned out the Jewish centers in Germany and helped Hitler put people to death because he did not like them or wanted what they had in riches. That will be our fate here should we be stupid enough not to bar him from office, not lock him up for treason, or at the very least not elect him.

Make America Great Again is a slogan that does not apply, it is referred to as Make Attorneys Get Attorneys as they seem to quit very shortly after being stiffed for payment. If you really want to put them in their place consider this, one call to arms during the revolution was “The Red Coats are Coming” I rest my case.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

It has been 78 years since the end of WWII and we once again are facing an enemy that was hopefully done away with all those years ago. Fascists are again running around making claims about how they are going to make things better.

The tactics used then were to create distrust and hate between various groups in society. The German race was superior to all others and the rest, especially the Jews, were not to be trusted. They may have created partnerships with Italy and Japan, but they did not trust or care for those peoples. 

Their dress code required that they be wrapped in the flag and sing patriotic songs, and claim their honor more vigorously than others. They were going to shape a new world order and it would last 1000 years. We know that did not happen.

The role that women had in their world was children, kitchen, church and nothing more. So we have states that have taken away reproductive rights from women, they are attempting to turn the clock back at least to the 1950’s and possibly further if they can get away with it.

The new order wants to get rid of the Constitution, its power limits what the leaders can do and ensures rights to the people, can’t have that nonsense. Claim to be patriots, which could well be why some signed up, but the truth is a long way from patriotic. Get out of the UN, make friends of our enemies and enemies of our friends, or so it seems. Remember above all else, you are superior to all others that walk the earth.

We continue to hear nonsense about the election in 2024 will be the most important one in history, and he will win and you shall all be saved. This is of course, the last thing we need is another term of daily doses of derogatory comments about all those that he hates, which is pretty much everyone outside of self, and more of how great I am. 

His crimes should put him behind bars, one of two places. Fort Leavenworth Kansas or the max facility in Colorado. If as a former Commander and Chief he can be buried in Arlington then he should be a candidate for internment in Leavenworth. Either way cut him off from everything and let him rot.

Does any of this even phase the republican party? Doesn’t seem too they go on having the time of their lives trying to shut down democrats. The followers, sheep, of DJT talk about the need to start a revolution and take the country back from, well I am not sure back from what. The definition I am hearing does not make it sound like the “Home of Brave and the Land of the Free”. Maybe it is to take it back so that we can return all citizens that are not Male, White and Rich to a state of servitude to those that are all those things and the only ones with the power, as it should be. 

These rather slow-witted individuals say that this country was founded on Christian principles and yet most of the founding fathers were masons and they only ask that you believe in something not necessarily in Christianity. If that is what you believe in, so be it, however with the attitude that violence is an answer to the current political situation, it is doubtful that you qualify as Christian, more like rogue dipshit.

Religious teachings and practices do not keep violence out of the equation of interaction with others. The wars in Africa between Christian and Muslim, the takeover of Afghanistan and Pakistan the inquisition of old all this tells us that violence is very much a part of religion. Religion is based on books written by men and we have no idea the driving force behind the writing except seeking the benefit of being the writer and therefore taking the high ground for self. 

Everyone knows how a fairy tale begins, “Once Upon a Time”, and a war story begins “You Ain’t Going to Believe this Shit, But it is True”, and a Myth begins “In The Beginning”. Take from there and see where it leads.

All the current legislation in most of the states is being written for the benefit of the party that holds the majority. Everything you can think of that puts power in the hands of those in charge is being done with hopes that it will not change at the next election. So much needs to change even before then to put this nation back on its feet. 

When we hear that is it time to stop talking and take action then it is most definitely time to start talking and communicating. That means all parties come to the meeting in their big boy pants and leave the name calling and all that at home. Resolve the issues as civilized people should. Kick the radicals out of the meeting, and do not let them make decisions as their mind set will not allow for common sense and humility to be a part of the process.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

Most of us are aware of the line in the Declaration that states “All Men are Created Equal”. Yep, we are all equipped with a heart, a brain, eyes, and all the other basic parts. The big thing that makes us different is not a physical attribute, it is status, money, call it what you will that is what makes us different. It was in the time of Washington and Jefferson, and it does today. 

Why does it matter so much? With money you are capable of leveraging power and a place at the head table. If you look you see it everywhere, the people that get seated in a restaurant when it is crowded, the people that sit in the front row at church. These are the ones that have money, and they make sure others know it and expect everyone to concede to their wishes.

So, politics is no different if you don’t have money or at least access to people that will provide money you cannot get elected.  Those that provide usually have strings attached, even people with money themselves usually have some agenda they hope to impose because they are running things. Recently we have been told that corporations are people too so when they put money on a certain pony, they expect to get the ride they paid for.

Let’s take the money out of the equation and look at the people that have either been elected or at least run for office. If you listen to some of the speeches that these people make you can easily remember people that you have known in your life that were and are a lot smarter. So why is the smart one not running, money. 

As for the corporation nonsense, let’s make it mandatory that the corporation only gets one vote. So look to see who is the CEO, all listed on the Board of Directors, and all of the ones known to be in upper management and all those individuals will have that one vote. Another way to clear the deck on this issue is to take all listed voters to a blood drive, and if you do not at least try to give blood you have no vote. That should take care of the corporation votes. Now we just need to get their money out of the picture.

If money is the only difference that makes smart people stay out of the race and stupid or limited people enter, we need to find a way to put the smart ones, the ones that know how to work with others, and the ones that make decisions based on the best for the most. We have tests and quizzes for everything else. Why not that?

Money being the reason or catalyst for all sorts of things. Saving some for the future, investing some to help with kids’ college, or whatever. Now we do have some that are interested in money for the sake of money, it is an aphrodisiac, a stimulant or it is just your ultimate goal.

We know that documents were taken that constrained secrets and that sort of thing is worth a lot of money. We know that we had a significant number of undercover people die after a list of those people was requested. It is sad that one man’s rise to power and now fall to despair has put our nation at risk because of his fixation on money.

If you believe he is alone then consider that one man is trying to buy the Supreme Court and he has managed to get one or possibly two justices so far. We have organizations that have used membership funds for personal gain. At every turn there is someone that has a hand out or in someone else’s pocket. Trust is also a commodity and it should not be for sale, it should be earned and cherished well beyond any monetary worth. Honesty is the thing that allows you to keep your head up and not be afraid to answer questions. We are all capable of being honest and trustworthy unfortunately many choose not to be for the sake of riches. If there is any truth to Scrooge then some are carrying very heavy chains.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

https://apnews.com/article/schiff-censure-house-republicans-russia-trump-318300df0f7b4f51c5b0ba5dd91edd23

Censure is a formal statement of disapproval in the form of a resolution that is adopted by majority vote. The term “censure” is not found in the Constitution, and the word does not have to appear in the resolution.

Adam Schiff was censured in the House of Representatives by the Republicans for having the temerity to investigate the former head of the Executive branch for crimes he is currently under indictment for.

Here is the charge.

“Adam Schiff launched an all-out political campaign built on baseless distortions against a sitting U.S. president,” Ms. Luna said. The censure accused him of engaging in “falsehoods, misrepresentations and abuses of sensitive information” as he sought to unearth connections between Mr. Trump and Russia.

To anyone who has been paying attention, everything Schiff accused Trump of doing has been proven to be true. This means the Republican are just mad because they got caught and the Democrats finally had the balls to call them out, not only call them out but prove that they were guilty.

The last member to be censured was Representative Paul Gosar, Republican of Arizona, in 2021, after he posted a manipulated video on his social media depicting himself killing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, and attacking Mr. Biden.

Threatening to murder a fellow member of the House seems to be a valid reason to censure someone and MTG was removed from committees for threats and outright lies so censuring Adam Schiff for provable facts seems to be an appropriate response.

The republicans not only wanted Schiff censured but they wanted him expelled and fined $17millon. Wow the redhat party really has issues with the truth. Donny Dumbass even put out a statement that any GOP house member that didn’t vote for the censure would be primaried for their seat.

How does this twice impeached, loser of the popular vote twice, federally indited on 37 counts, convicted sexual offender, have power over sitting members in the republican party? I really want to know…

The Mueller Investigation that Adam Schiff is being censured for did not exonerate Trump of anything but did have some notable convictions.

Roger Stone

Stone, a longtime Trump associate and political consultant, was indicted in January on seven charges related to lying to investigators about efforts by top Trump campaign aides to learn about WikiLeaks plans to release emails that Russian operatives had stolen from the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee. 

Michael Flynn 

Trump’s former national security adviser pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to investigators about meetings with Russians during the presidential transition. He cooperated with Mueller under a plea agreement and still awaits sentencing.

Michael Cohen 

Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer pleaded guilty in November 2018 to lying to Congress about a proposed real-estate deal in Moscow. He also pleaded guilty in August 2018 to charges related to making hush money payments to two women who claimed to have had sex with Trump. Cohen was sentenced in December 2018 to three years in prison. 

Paul Manafort 

Trump’s former campaign chairman was convicted in August of tax and bank charges. He also pleaded guilty in September to conspiracy to commit money laundering, tax fraud and failing to register to represent foreign interests, and to obstruction of justice. Manafort was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison.

Rick Gates 

Gates worked for Manafort before and during the campaign and also headed Trump’s inaugural committee. He pleaded guilty in February 2018 to conspiracy and lying to FBI agents and prosecutors. He cooperated with Mueller and awaits sentencing.

Konstantin Kilimnik 

Kilimnik is an alleged Russian spy who worked with Manafort and Gates in Kiev. He was indicted in June 2018 on charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice.

George Papadopoulos

Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, pleaded guilty in October 2017 to lying to FBI agents. He served 14 days in prison and was ordered to pay a $9,500 fine and complete 200 hours of community service.

Alex van der Zwaan 

Dutch attorney Alex van der Zwaan pleaded guilty in February 2018 to lying to FBI agents about his work for Manafort and Gates. He served 30 days in prison 

and was fined $20,000.

Richard Pinedo

Pinedo pleaded guilty in February 2018 to identity fraud for trading in bank account numbers from stolen identities that were then used by the Russians. Pinedo was sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to complete 100 hours of community service.

12 Russian nationals tied to hacking

The twelve Russians were indicted in July 2018 on charges related to a conspiracy to hack Democratic computers with the goal of influencing the 2016 election. Charges included aggravated identity theft and money laundering.

Internet Research Agency

Thirteen Russian nationals and three entities, including the Internet Research Agency, were indicted in February 2018 with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. for interfering with the election. Three were charged with conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud. Five were charged with aggravated identity theft.

Now let’s see what the Durham Report found…

Just three prosecutions resulted from Durham’s investigation. Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty, admitting that he doctored an email that was submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court as part of an application used to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. 

Prominent Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann was acquitted on charges of lying to investigators about his ties to Clinton’s presidential campaign when he brought allegations to the FBI related to the Trump investigation. 

The case against Russian analyst Igor Danchenko also ended with an acquittal. Danchenko was accused of lying to investigators about the sources of information he provided to Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer behind the controversial dossier about Trump and Russia. 

The Mueller report cost the government. The cost was said to be approximately $32million but investigation had acquired somewhere between $26 million and $42 million worth of revenue for the federal treasury. So that looks like it either cost $6million or netted $10million.

The Durham report cost $6.5million and produced nothing.

I think that the person that called for Durhams sham investigation should be censured… can we look into that.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

It seems that our representatives, some of them anyway, are again looking to reduce social security payments to make sure their rich friends do not have to pay any taxes. The fact that the majority of us live as pawns in a giant chess game is really a pain. When anything troubles the very wealthy, it is always the middle class and poor that are targeted to be the ones whose income is targeted to fix these problems.

In truth this group of congressional leaders would probably like to see the age to collect retirement raised to 70 with mandatory termination at age 69. Would not change the collection process, it would just eliminate the paying out process. 

We have lived to see a fair number of Star Trek innovations come to pass. Hopefully we will never have to deal with the one where everyone has to be put to death by a certain age. At present with the gun culture that we have going on and all the shootings that are happening on a near daily basis we will keep our population in check. Has anyone seen a news article that said X number of births recorded today with Y number of deaths natural and not so natural.?

Let’s have a look at targeted groups for reduced benefits. First start with the bottom rung, like do away with school lunches, next rung is welfare and help for the needy. Then we move on to the aged population and any help that may have gone in their direction, then veterans’ benefits, and if it were not for the people that served in uniform that lot of suit and tie bastards would not have a place to hang out and vote on these issues. Then we move on to the other social issue of social security because we are rich and don’t need it, so you don’t need it either. Beyond that we will stop building roads, taking care of bridges, providing help in the event of disaster and go have another drink with our elite buddies that do not want to pay taxes.

Every person currently serving or that has ever served in congress has made speeches and made promises and turned around and broken those promises. Many had good ideas, and a few may have really hoped that they could do some good, but because of party lines being what they are none of these people were able to accomplish much. If we put a bit of effort into talking to people on both sides of the house, we might just get something done, but we let the ranking members call the tunes and we are not allowed to cross that line for any reason.

The military is an autocratic society or was at one time. Current-day attitudes seem to be pretty open with not a great deal of respect for rank, or so it seems. The members of congress are all civilians, and their positions are titles that may require a bit of deference, but they should not have punitive powers over any other members. The reality of how they conduct themselves indicates that senior members seem to take a great deal of pleasure in bossing the junior members and do so regularly. The only ones that seem to run their mouths without engaging their brains and an ounce of common-sense wear MAGA hats.

Read a comic today that one character claimed to have gotten a letter from the government telling him he had used up his bad attitude credits and from now he had to be nice. What an idea. Would like to see the results be something like the film about a person that could never lie, that would be remarkable to say the very least.  Without telling fibs how do you answer the question, “Does this pair of pants make me look fat?”

Not everyone in the country has the resources to be self-sufficient and yet there are people that believe we all should be. Our cities are filled with more and more apartments and the hope of being independent from the marketplace is a fantasy. Some communities have garden spaces for use by local folks but again you are not going to produce enough to sustain life for very long in a small garden. Even people that have access to wilderness areas find it to be very time costly to hunt, fish, grow and preserve all that is needed to sustain. 

Farming is not easy and sometimes it is not very profitable or rewarding as man still cannot control factors such as weather. These days we have some very unusual swings in the weather that make trying to work around nature can be a bit of a problem. The point is that we are all dependent on each other whether you are at the bottom of the ladder or the top you are impacted by the same elements just maybe not to the same degree or intensity. 

It is hard to imagine that anyone sets out in life with the hope of failing so we all want to at least make some sort of mark and we all have the same destination ultimately whether we like it or not. So, the best we can do is to cooperate with each other, not get annal about our differences and celebrate our similarities. 

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The current issue with the hijack king is called election interference. With the all so relevant issue of insurrection on the table it is hard to imagine that election qualification is even an issue. For those not in the know, read the 14th Amendment and pay close attention to article 3. 

If there are any states attorney generals that are not preparing to remove him from their ballot box it has to mean our entire system has just gone down the drain. It might be possible to see this in red states, but they all want to be very careful to make sure that at some point they did not irritate, anger or cross a certain individual that has it in mind to punish all that have stood in his way and everyone else just because he can if he gets elected. 

Claiming to be all knowing and all powerful and people believing this nonsense. History has proven time and time again that no one man possesses all that much authority or power. Every dictator, every want to be king, and every power hunger monster that has ever been spawned has failed to achieve world domination. What they have done is cause an awful lot of damage, untold deaths and a place in the history books that should be studied just to keep us from allowing the same thing to happen again.

The office of President, in this country, does not grant personal powers of your ordinary despot. We do not grant control to one branch of government in such a way as they get away with whatever they wish to do. At least that is the way it was set up with the idea that it should be near impossible for the President, the Congress and the Supreme Court to all view everything in the same way and be willing to allow anyone branch or individual to have complete control. 

For all of you that put so much faith in the teachings of the Bible you still have the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost so even that level of leadership has a committee to make decisions. So, blowing smoke up your ass and telling you he is your salvation is completely out to lunch.

We saw all kinds of things in his first term that should have caused revolution in even the most loathsome segment of our population. When your neighbor’s house is on fire you try to put it out and offer comfort to those that have lost everything, at least that is the civilized thing to do. California had fires yet help from the federal level was limited, criticism was great saying they should have taken better care of the federal reserve forests. Somehow did we missed that federal does not mean state of in any case.

There was the exhortations of leaders like Putin, and the dude in North Korea, how he was doing a really good job as a ruler at such a young age. How when the Chinese voted in a President for life it was noted that we should do the same thing and save all the problems of campaigning etc. How Kim Il would give a speech and all his people would sit quietly and listen and wouldn’t it be nice if MY people would do the same. 

The king takes what he wants, your wife or daughter, or son if he so inclined. Your wife and or daughter cannot complain as under this rule they have no say, they are chattel. All this could be our fate if the man that wishes to do away with the Constitution gets another shot at the WH. 

Our system may not be perfect, and we have some problems, but if this is such a bad place to live in as it is, why are so many coming to our borders and shores looking to get in? I don’t think it is that they want to pick strawberries in Florida, it is because in spite of some rough road here and there it is better than what they came from.

Salvation is only going to be for those that made the mistake of attempting to overthrow an election to help a bad-tempered little boy with a gigantic ego. If you agreed with that process and have not been contacted reference punishment you should feel lucky and put your big boy pants on and get on with it. 

He will not be giving anyone salvation if he ends up behind bars and that is a very real possibility. If he deals his way out of that fate, then you probably will not be voting for him because he will not be allowed to run for office of any kind including dog catcher. The bottom line is this nation does not need his kind of leadership or that of a couple of the states that are attempting to pull themselves back to at least the 1950’s and earlier if possible.

If you thought those were great times, ask yourself why we had so much racial and political tension happening. It was not because all was well.