That Elusive Leader

Ever since the idiots in the admin have been trying to make antifa some sort of organization and to do this they need a ‘leader’ to point to if they want their accusations to appear legitimate….so far all they have done is show their ignorance.

This saga began in earnest back in Missouri with the death of a black man and the protests that followed….the government could not believe that the American people could be so audacious as to protest that massive…..so they began to look for a lie to blame for the actions taken and they came upon a little known (at that time) of a group that were already known for their confrontation….the antifa.

Thus the government set about turning this loose group of protesters into this international organization that thrived on confrontation.

Then came the Goon Platoon (ICE) into LA and the protests grew bigger and louder and the government hit upon turning antifa into the excuse for the protests and confrontation.

While trying to build their case they came upon a book written by Mark Bray, the Antifa Handbook, and he became the ‘leader’ of this group.  The problem was that the book was a history book of the anti-fascist movement not a how to book….but that did not matter they kept pushing Bray as the ‘leader’ of the group….it got so bad Bray had to take his wife and kids and go overseas to avoid all the hate that the government had generated.

Now the government had to look for a new ‘leader’ that they could blame for all the unrest…..and they finally tagged another individual as the mastermind of antifa….

President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has identified 29-year-old Portland, Oregon resident Chandler Patey as “the leader of Antifa,” according to internal DHS documents leaked to journalist Kenneth Klippenstein. Klippenstein notes that Patey and other “Antifa protestors” identified in the federal documents demonstrate the shoddy reasoning the federal government will use to just to label any protestor as a domestic terrorist.

The DHS decided that Patey leads Antifa, which Trump has designated as a “domestic terrorist organization,” because Patey has been “seen in many videos advocating the principles of [anti-fascism]” and because he allows protestors to use his bathroom and medical supplies to rinse off tear gas inflicted by federal agents at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainment facility near his downtown Portland apartment.

While Patey also provides medical equipment and gas mask filters that protestors might need after federal agents attack them for expressing their First Amendment rights, Fox News host Laura Ingraham and other right-wing media commentators have used these as a basis to claim that Patey is running an ominous-sounding “Antifa safehouse.”

In reality, Antifa is a decentralized political ideology with autonomous, local groups but no formal leaders. Antifa activists primarily oppose institutional fascism and racism in government.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/quick-hit-has-identified-the-leader-of-its-a-29-year-old-who-helps-tear-gassed-protestors/

So the lies begin again on some poor person that was a face in the crowd.

My biggest bitch is the term ‘domestic terrorist organization’…..organization implies an organized group with a leader, dues, headquarters, etc….antifa has NONE of these….more lies and bullshit from the sub-par mind of the Donny brigade.

STOP!  believing the bullshit….these are people that have had enough of racism and the fascist policies of Donny and his group of garden slugs.

You should be worried about the direction and the tactics of this government…..if not then you are NOT a true American.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Consumers Need To Bend Over

HAPPY MARDI GRAS!

This is just an FYI in case few are paying attention.

With Christmas behind us I have heard some say that it was not as expensive as predicted which was a good thing but now is the time to bend over for price hikes are coming.

Shoppers who enjoyed a brief pause in price hikes may want to brace themselves. After several months of relative calm—and holiday discounts—companies are again bumping up prices on everything from jeans to spices to software, the Wall Street Journal reports. The increases, often in the high-single-digit range, appear steeper than a typical January reset in prices, particularly for electronics, appliances, and other durable goods, economists say.

Levi Strauss, Columbia Sportswear, McCormick, and a host of smaller firms report they’re paying more for tariffs, wages, health insurance, materials, and shipping—and passing at least some of that along. Online data tracked by Harvard’s Alberto Cavallo and Adobe show the largest monthly jump in web prices in more than a decade, led by big-ticket categories.

Small businesses, facing thinner margins, are raising prices across the board or cutting products they don’t think customers will pay more for. A recent Vistage survey found more than half of small-business leaders plan near-term price increases, mostly in the 4% to 10% range, even as they worry higher tags could scare off buyers. Last week, economists at JPMorgan predicted that “inflation will re-accelerate for a time this year,” citing tariff-related costs being passed on to consumers and the “potential pass-through of the sustained weakening of the trade-weighted US dollar over the past year,” reports Reuters.

The president of Structural Systems Repair Group, a Cincinnati-based construction company, tells the Journal that tariffs pushed up steel prices 10% last year and healthcare costs for employees increased by around the same amount. “It’s not sustainable for us to tolerate that kind of increase without some sort of concession from our customers,” Bryan Erickson says.

Be prepared for the increases and think of ways to end this nightmare.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Political Polarization: Where Did It Begin?

I know in the past decade or so this subject has been examined by many…..but it is getting out of hand and deserves a closer look and often.

This is a report I read recently….it is a good look at what has been happening in this country for at least twenty years. (Personally I think it began way before their assertion)(I shall explain my disagreement later in this post)

This article posits that this polarization began in 2008 or the Obama years….

Forget Donald Trump. A new analysis suggests the U.S. public’s sharp lurch into polarization began in 2008, years before his first presidential campaign.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge’s Political Psychology Lab tracked shifts in Americans’ views across nearly four decades and found that divisions were broadly stable through the 1990s and early 2000s, before rising steadily from 2008 onward. Using more than 35,000 responses from the American National Election Studies between 1988 and 2024, they estimate that issue polarization has increased 64% since the late 1980s, with almost all of that change occurring after 2008.

The research uses a machine-learning approach to move beyond party labels and better understand what actually drives Americans’ political views. Instead of relying on whether respondents identify as Republican or Democrat, the team grouped people based on patterns in what they believe across a range of issues, from abortion and “traditional family values” to race, inequality, and health insurance. That distinction matters because in many countries politically opposite parties do not exist, says David Young, a psychology researcher at the University of Cambridge, U.K., and one of the study’s authors. “You might even want to study countries where there are no parties, like Saudi Arabia,” he says.

The paper challenges the idea that polarization is solely a Trump-era phenomenon. It points to 2008 as the “major turning point,” a year that also included the financial crisis, Barack Obama’s election, and the widespread adoption of the iPhone-era internet. “Our ability to nail down when it starts is slightly divided by the fact that we only have data points every four years,” Young says. Still, “we know that this increase starts from our 2008 data point,” he adds. “That’s our best guess at the starting point.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/91487819/political-polarization-started-a-lot-earlier-than-you-might-expect

Now my disagreement.

I say that the polarization began with the election of Reagan…..he weaponized the religious Right and emboldened every conspiracist that waddled out of the ether.

One could go back to the Goldwater years as the fodder that lit the flame of polarization.

We can say that conservatism is about free enterprise, smaller government, lower taxes, yada, yada…..but let’s be real in conservatism there is the privileged class and then us peasants…..we disguise it anyway we like but the simple fact is wealth knows best.

Thanks to Uncle Donny we see their true colors now….they no longer hide their distaste for the people.

This must be met with equal force by those that think that the people of this country are the important nay the only important issue.

Until then this slide will continue and god only knows where it will lead.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

FLASH! You Are Screwed!

As soon as Donny wiggled his way into the WH and announced his dumb ass idea of tariffs I have been trying to get people to see that the only loser in them are the consumers.

After his election and the talk about tariffs I had to make my feelings known…

The Real Cost Of Trump Tariffs

Well all the analysis has proven my predictions too be spot on…..

Americans, not overseas sellers, are paying almost all of President Trump’s tariff increases, according to a new analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The report finds that roughly 90% of the cost of the administration’s import duties is falling on US consumers and businesses, undercutting Trump’s frequent claim that foreign exporters are footing the bill, Reuters reports. From January through August 2025, Americans absorbed 94% of the tariff burden, the Fed economists estimate; that share slipped to 92% in September and October and 86% in November, though it remained overwhelmingly domestic.

The findings align with a separate assessment from the Congressional Budget Office, which said higher tariffs raise the price of imported goods, thereby lifting costs for American households and companies. The CBO estimates that foreign exporters are covering only about 5% of the tariff tab. In the near term, it says, US businesses are likely to eat around 30% through lower profit margins, while passing the remaining 70% on to consumers through higher prices. A study released last month by a research institute in Germany produced similar findings, putting the share paid by US consumers and importers around 96%.

Tariffs have been a central element of Trump’s economic strategy, deployed to generate revenue, pressure trading partners, and encourage manufacturers to move production back to the US, per Reuters. The data shows that foreign suppliers sometimes cut prices in response to tariffs, per the New York Times, but that it’s a less common reaction. In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 30, Trump said, “the data shows that the burden, or ‘incidence,’ of the tariffs has fallen overwhelmingly on foreign producers and middlemen, including large corporations that are not from the US.”

I cannot understand the support these disasters have even today with all the rising prices…..it does not bother them only thing they seem to care about is that brown skin people are been attacked.

There is a name for that…..

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Last Week At The Sh*t Show–15Feb26

Another week of good Ol’ Donny trying to talk his way out of a terrible economy….only if you are human the markets are making the wealthy much more so.

The really big news is that the Minneapolis Goon Platoon Hunting party is coming to an end.

The immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests, and two deaths is coming to an end, border czar Tom Homan said Thursday. “I have proposed and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude,” said Homan at a news conference, per the AP. Homan also sought to cast the operation in a positive light: “As a result of our efforts here Minnesota is now less of a sanctuary state for criminals.” US Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched Operation Metro Surge on Dec. 1.

Onto the next victims of the Goon Platoon.

The hissie fit (one of many for the week) was Donny got his Depends in a bunch over some bridge connecting Canada to the US…..

President Donald Trump flipped out at one of America’s largest trading partners on Monday over an international bridge project that was approved three years before he entered politics.

“As everyone knows, the Country of Canada has treated the United States very unfairly for decades. Now, things are turning around for the U.S.A., and FAST! But imagine, Canada is building a massive bridge between Ontario and Michigan,” Trump wrote on social media. “They own both the Canada and the United States side and, of course, built it with virtually no U.S. content. President Barack Hussein Obama stupidly gave them a waiver so they could get around the BUY AMERICAN Act, and not use any American products, including our Steel. Now, the Canadian Government expects me, as President of the United States, to PERMIT them to just ‘take advantage of America!'”

Trump also demanded that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney negotiate with the U.S. over the bridge project.

“I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve,” he continued. “We will start negotiations, IMMEDIATELY. With all that we have given them, we should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset. The revenues generated because of the U.S. Market will be astronomical.”

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2675239753/

Yeah that is what is important….while we struggle Donny is pissin’ and moanin’ about a damn bridge.

Seriously where does he find these incompetent twats?

Reacting to Bad Bunny’s 2026 Super Bowl halftime show, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said: “If Jesus wanted America to speak Spanish and have the Super Bowl half time show in a foreign language, he would not have written the Bible in English.”

Then there was Donny’s latest insult to a past president aand black people in general….

Somebody wakes up. Stretches. Feels insecure about their own humanity, then reaches for the oldest insult in the archive and calls Black people apes, monkeys, or jungle creatures. At this point, it’s not shocking. It’s tired and predictable as hell.

The latest version of this ritual is being played out during Black History Month. Late Thursday, Feb. 5, Donald Trump shared a video depicting the Obamas as apes, portraying other Democratic leaders as wild animals, and casting himself as the self-styled “king of the jungle.” Which is weird because this reads like fragile masculinity needing to photoshop itself into the animal kingdom just to feel like it’s at the top of something.

Donald Trump’s Ape Video Shows How America Still Dehumanizes Black People [Op-Ed]

A disturbing and pathetic person would even consider this and anyone that is not appalled is a racist and a pig.

Women voting is now in Donny’s scope….

Married women across the United States may encounter added complications when registering to vote under a Republican-supported proposal, with critics warning some could struggle to exercise their 19th Amendment right.

The issue was highlighted by X account @Headquarters, which stated: “Republicans have introduced a bill that would disenfranchise millions of women from voting if their married name doesn’t match the name on their birth certificate.”

Because many married women adopt a surname that differs from the one listed on their birth certificate, voting rights groups say the legislation could lead to extra administrative steps if further documentation is required to confirm citizenship. Under the SAVE America Act, this could leave some women unable to complete the registration process.

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/women-elections-citizenship-save-fraud-1676045

These a/holes will try anything to obstruct people from voting.

If you are a blue state then your funding is in jeopardy unless Donny name goes up…..

President Donald Trump is looking for more infrastructure he can put his name – reportedly telling New York Senator Chuck Schumer he would release stalled funding for the city’s transportation upgrades, if the senator supported renaming Penn Station and Dulles International Airport after Trump.

The president has a penchant for naming things after himself and, since returning to the White House, has used his authority to encourage Republicans and allies to rename the Kennedy Center, a fleet of battleships and the Institute of Peace in his honor.

But it appears he is also leveraging critical funding to inspire Democrats to do the same.

The White House reportedly told Schumer the president would unfreeze more than $16 billion for the long-planned Gateway Tunnel project – which will add a new rail line between New York and New Jersey – if he agreed to the renaming, Punchbowl News reported.

If threats do not work then blackmail is next….

That Was The Week That Was….in all it’s disgusting glory.

 

After a week full of idiots…..I thought this would make you smile….

This is why dogs are the best friend you can have….

I hope everyone has a great day and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

IST Saturday News Dump–14Feb26

For all my couples out there…..HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY

The end of a near perfect week….at least for me……relaxation and quality time with the pups….

Local–The last weekend before Mardi Gras Day…..parades and drunkenness is the rule.

Appears winter has slipped us by….low temps in high 50s and low 60s….highs in the mid 60s to high 70s and no rain and it has been this way for 10 days straight.

Personal–Another week off from my treatments but that down time comes to an end next week.

Enough claptrap….

The mental midget in charge of HHS has opened that mouth again….he believes a mental disease can be cured with diet.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. amplified a controversial claim this week when he told a crowd that a ketogenic diet could cure schizophrenia, a statement experts say is unsupported by current science.

Speaking at the Tennessee State Capitol as part of a national effort to promote new federal dietary guidelines, Kennedy said the American diet contributes to mental illness.

“We now know that the things that you eat are driving mental illness in this country,” he told the audience. He went on to say that “a doctor at Harvard cured schizophrenia using keto diets,” and that he had seen studies showing people can lose a bipolar diagnosis through diet changes.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Says Schizophrenia Can Be ‘Cured’ With Keto Diets — Experts Disagree

All I can say is….he is an idiot!

There was a story last week of the ocean clean-up of the plastic island…..now there is another plan to help our sick oceans….

Ocean cleanup, in this case, looks less like a charity drive and more like a full-fledged manufacturing business. As the New York Times reports, a Spanish start-up called Gravity Wave is pulling abandoned fishing nets off the seafloor and turning them into furniture, stadium seats, and other commercial products. Nonprofits, like the Ocean Legacy Foundation, are doing similar work to address so-called ghost nets—long-lasting nylon fishing gear that can linger for centuries, trapping marine life and smothering coral reefs, per the CBC. But Gravity Wave’s approach is different in that it manages the entire chain: collection, recycling, product design, and sales.

Founded in 2019 by siblings Amaia and Julen Rodríguez, Gravity Wave works with more than 7,000 fishers in 150 ports across Spain, Italy, and Greece, paying them to bring in discarded nets and other ocean plastics. The company also partners with corporate clients that fund labor-intensive cleanups to bolster their environmental image and with manufacturers that buy the recycled material. The model hasn’t been easy to build. European rules on cross-border waste shipments forced Gravity Wave to find local recyclers in each country, and many facilities initially balked at handling tough, machinery-clogging fishing nets.

Now, in an industrial zone near Valencia, the collected material ends up as turquoise plastic pellets and panels, which are cut into decorative pieces and furniture. So far, the company says it has collected 1,400 tons of nets and plastic, processing more than half. “We are showing that plastic can have a second life, and that businesses can profit while protecting the environment,” Amaia Rodríguez says. Per the Guardian, another company, OrCA, has made a business selling nylon beads made from recycled fishing nets, which can be transformed into a wide variety of products, including filament used in 3D printing.

Let’s hope this does some good.

My late wife and I use to go to eateries about once or twice a month for a fine meal…as so many others as well….but have you ever wondered where the idea of a sit down restaurant originated?

I can help with that…..

French culture is often defined by its fine cuisine—but that wasn’t always the case. Until the late 18th century, travelers who wrote about their time in Paris painted a bleak picture of the city, complaining about not only the dimly lit streets but also the poor dining options: “Wealthy people of quality feast deliciously, for they all have their own cooks,” German scholar Joachim Christoph Nemeitz wrote in his 1727 tourist guide Séjour de Paris. Without an invitation to these banquets a typical visitor to the city “does not fare well at all, either because the meat is not properly cooked, or because they serve the same thing every day and rarely offer any variety.”

Dining out in prerevolutionary France offered little excitement. Inns and lodges fed both horses and humans with no particular elegance; hotels provided little more than staples; taverns and cabarets catered mostly to drinkers; rotisseries sold precooked meats to take home; and cafés served only ice cream and liqueurs. The concept of a restaurant as we know it—a place where you can choose from a menu and enjoy a good meal—didn’t exist yet.

The pot began to stir in 1765, when French entrepreneur Mathurin Roze de Chantoiseau served up tiny cups of soup made with broth, salted poultry, and fresh eggs on little marble tables in a former bakery on Rue des Poulies, near the Louvre. Roze was also a philanthropist, and his revolutionary idea—to make good food accessible— was part of his broader egalitarian vision for French society still shackled by Louis XV’s reign.

….reads on….

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/first-restaurant-paris-france

As long as I am enlightening my readers…..do you visit a local coffee shop?

Ever wonder how this all began?

Guess what?  I can help with that as well….

Today, the idea of a coffee house brings to mind a cozy place that serves gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, with couches to lounge in while you sip. So how did the coffee house get its start? The history of the coffee house begins hundreds of years ago and certainly has changed over the years.

The first record of a public place serving coffee dates back to 1475. Kiva Han was the name of the first coffee shop. It was located in the Turkish city of Constantinople (now Istanbul).

Turkish coffee was served strong, black and unfiltered, usually brewed in an ibrik. They took coffee very seriously, too. In fact, it was such an important item during that time, that it was legal in Turkey for a woman to divorce her husband if he could not supply her with enough coffee.

https://www.thespruceeats.com/evolution-of-the-coffee-house-765825

Our airways are awash on the GLP-1 ads for weight loss and now there may be a dirty secret around these drugs…..

Ozempic and other GLP-1 agonist drugs have become an enormously popular way to lose weight. And with generic, much cheaper versions of the medications on the horizon, their use could soon grow even further.

But apart from being a clinically proven way to shed pounds — at least temporarily — along with a whole constellation of other health benefits, the drugs also turn out to be a major strain on the environment.

As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature Sustainability, researchers from the University of Melbourne investigated how the process of producing peptides — short chains of amino acids that aren’t just used for GLP-1 agonists, but plenty of other drugs and treatments as well — releases huge amounts of organic solvents and other plastic byproducts that don’t break down on their own in nature.

Fortunately, the researchers say they’ve come up with a much more environmentally friendly procedure that could make producing peptide-based treatments far more sustainable in the long-run.

So far, they’ve been manufactured using a technique called “solid phase peptide synthesis,” or SPPS, which anchors the first amino acid building block to a synthetic resin, such as polystyrene beads. Toxic solvents — including dimethylformamide, a component of paint strippers — are then used to add each amino acid one by one, which can then leak into the water supply.

https://futurism.com/health-medicine/glp-1s-environmental-catastrophe

There seems to always be some type of doping scheme at the Olympics…..this year it is ‘penisgate’….

A doping agency that usually worries about blood samples is now fielding questions about something far stranger: alleged penis injections in Olympic ski jumping, the Guardian reports. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says it will examine claims, first reported by German tabloid Bild, that some male jumpers are artificially enlarging their genitals before body scans in order to secure looser, more aerodynamic suits. The paper alleges athletes are using hyaluronic acid injections or even stuffing clay in their underwear to temporarily alter measurements, which are taken with a 3D scanner from the lowest point of the genitals.

WADA president Witold Banka, whose home country Poland is a ski-jumping power, responded with a mix of caution and humor. “Ski jumping is very popular in Poland so I promise you I’m going to look at it,” he said. Director general Olivier Niggli added that while he had not previously heard of the practice, WADA could look at whether anything is going on that would fall into a banned category. Under the agency’s code, techniques that endanger athletes and violate the “spirit of sport” are prohibited. The International Ski and Snowboard Federation has not commented, Reuters reports.

I have no words for this idea.

Continuing with the Olympic stuff….apparently there is much more going on at the Olympics that a sport or two…..

Condoms at the Olympic Village didn’t just go fast—they vanished in what one Italian outlet is calling record time. The Guardian reports that condoms handed out to athletes at the Winter Games were gone in three days, at least according to an anonymous competitor who spoke to the Italian newspaper La Stampa. “The supplies ran out,” the athlete said, adding that organizers had promised more but hadn’t said when they would arrive.

La Stampa criticized the planning, noting that organizers stocked “not even 10,000” condoms for the roughly 3,000 athletes in the village—far fewer than the 300,000 available to about 10,500 athletes at the Paris Summer Games, a supply that worked out to roughly two per athlete per day. KFI AM notes it’s the first time that the condom supply has been depleted at the Games.

Apparently it is not all work and seriousness….

Finally, another adrenaline junkie taps out…..

One of France’s top wingsuit skydivers died in a jump over the Alps after his parachute failed to deploy. Pierre Wolnik, 37, a two-time freefly world champion, leapt from a helicopter Saturday over Mont Blanc, France’s highest mountain, People reports. After the wingsuit flight, his parachute did not open for reasons that remain unclear, and he hit the ground at high speed, reports the New Zealand Herald. He was found dead in the village of Les Bossons in the Chamonix valley, according to French media. Authorities have opened an investigation.

Wolnik was considered a leading figure in wingsuit flying and was known for his daring stunts. He also worked as a videographer for the Fédération Française de Parachutisme, which paid tribute to him as a gifted teammate whose presence would stay with those who knew him. Federation president Yves-Marie Guillaud described Wolnik as a “talented young man with such a friendly smile.”

I gave up getting high on adrenaline after Vietnam…..’shrooms are better and a lot safer.

If you are celebrating Valentines I hope that you and yours have a wonderful day….and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

 

Just Another Predator Freed By Donny

Shortly after becoming the reining d/bag Donny pardon the 06 January ‘protesters’ (I think they were a bloodthirsty mob) it seems that one of these ‘just good folks’ has been nailed as a pedo.

A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned last year by President Donald Trump was found guilty of multiple state charges, including molesting a child and exposing himself to children in Florida on Wednesday.

Andrew Paul Johnson, 45, was initially arrested in Tennessee in August and extradited to Florida, where he pleaded not guilty.

Johnson now “faces up to life in prison,” William Fogie, the chief assistant state attorney for the Fifth Judicial Circuit in Florida, said. He will be sentenced in March.

The sheriff’s office revealed that they were made aware that “two juveniles had fallen victim to lewd and lascivious acts over a many-month span,” a probable cause affidavit revealed.

The document adds that the mother of one of the victims, who used to date Johnson and had lived with them, noticed that the 45-year-old had sent “inappropriate” Discord messages to her son, who was aged 11 at the time.

After noticing the messages, the mother asked his son whether the man had “done or said anything inappropriate.” That is when the child revealed that “between April 1 2024 and October 2024,” Johnson had “molested him three times,” the affidavit reveals.

The sheriff’s office also argued that Johnson tried to keep another one of his victims silent, telling the child that “since he was pardoned for storming the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, and he was being awarded $10,000,000 as a result of being a ‘jan 6’er’… that he would be putting him in his ‘will’ to take any money he had left over.”

“This tactic was believed to be used to keep [the victim] from exposing what Andrew had done to him,” the affidavit reveals.

President Trump has discussed paying restitution to defendants of the Jan. 6 attack. However, it remains unclear if he will follow through with these plans. So far, no Jan. 6 rioters have been compensated, except the family of a woman who was shot dead by police during the attacks, for which the administration agreed to pay $5 million.

https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/january-6-rioter-pardoned-trump-1677975

Just another poor person caught up in the system…..what bullshit is that?

Pay retribution to a piece of shit like him?

Why nut Donny seems to like this type of person for some reason (I have an idea but I will keep it to myself).

I hope this prick gets what is coming to him in the shower.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Will Dems Have A Shot?

Since the election of the Orange Man from Florida the DNC has been struggling with their message…..is it possible they could find it before the next election?

With an election coming soon I have been looking that the Dems and their party in the coming years.

Their biggest problem is they are mostly old farts….

A generational clash is intensifying within the Democratic Party, as younger politicians challenge a leadership class that some say refuses to cede power and risks alienating voters. Veteran lawmakers such as 88-year-old Eleanor Holmes Norton, DC’s delegate to the House of Representatives since 1991, and senators in their 70s and 80s remain fixtures in Congress—even as millennials and Generation Z members now outnumber baby boomers in the adult population but hold far fewer seats, reports Rebecca Traister for the Intelligencer. The article describes incidents such as lawmakers physically struggling to navigate the Capitol or missing votes due to illness, but then running again anyway. One former member tells of an older colleague who, when asked why he doesn’t retire, simply asked, “Well, what would I do?” The power struggle is playing out in races across the country.

In Maine, 77-year-old Gov. Janet Mills, hopes to become the oldest freshman ever elected to the Senate in her primary campaign against 41-year-old oyster farmer Graham Platner. In Massachusetts, Seth Moulton, 47, is challenging Sen. Ed Markey, 79, while in New York City, 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani ran against and defeated 67-year-old Andrew Cuomo and 71-year-old Curtis Sliwa for mayor. While some of the older Democrats are stepping aside—for example, ex-New Hampshire Rep. Annie Kuster and Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith—many aren’t. And some, like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, are seen as actively working to keep younger candidates from gaining power. “While the olds may think they are saving us by sticking around, what they are often doing is denying the future itself just when Americans most keenly long to be reminded that there is one ahead of us,” Traister writes.

So new ideas are in short supply.

Plus since the 1990s Dems have been corporate controlled….

This time analysts are saying that the Dems, who have been struggling with messaging, have found the hook they need…..and that message is economics.

Democrats say: “They’re spineless,” Cathia Krehbiel, 48, of Indianola, Iowa, said of her party’s leaders. “I just feel like there’s so much recently that’s just going abhorrently wrong. And they speak up a little bit and they roll right over.” Overall, roughly one-third of Democrats described their party negatively in the open-ended question. About 15% described it using words like weak, or apathetic, while an additional 10% believe it is broadly ineffective or disorganized. Only about 2 in 10 Democrats described their party positively, with roughly 1 in 10 saying it is empathetic or inclusive. An additional 1 in 10 used more general positive descriptors. Jim Williams, a 78-year-old retiree from Harper Woods, Michigan said he typically supports Democrats but is disappointed with the party and its murky message. He feels much worse about the Republican Party, which he said “has lost it” under Trump’s leadership. “All he does is bully and call names. They’ve got no morals, no ethics. And the more they back him, the less I like them,” the self-described independent, said of Trump.

Trump was furious. “In just 6 months, I cut costs, especially Energy and Taxes, Tremendously. Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren, on CNBC, said costs have gone up,” he wrote on Truth Social, using his long-standing offensive nickname for the senator. “She is just angry that I blew up her terrible Presidential Campaign. Call her out!!!”

Trump’s wrong. Prices are going up on just about everything. “Government data, including from the Commerce Department this week, show that prices rose in June on items heavily exposed to tariffs, such as home furnishings, toys and appliances,” The New York Times reported over the weekend. That’s Trump’s Commerce Department. He may be trying to cook the books in other areas—notably by firing the federal official tasked with collecting (recently disappointing) jobs data—but he can’t hide the fact that the economy is getting worse.

https://newrepublic.com/article/198809/mamdani-warren-democrats-2026-message-trump

In the coming 2026 midterms and the economy the way it is there should be an open door for a Dem win…..but is it?

The 2026 midterm elections should, by all rights, be good for Democrats.

That’s because midterms are almost always good for the party that doesn’t hold the presidency; that party has gained House seats in all but four midterms since the Civil War.

It’s also because President Donald Trump has been a remarkably unpopular president; Gallup last week found he now owns both the lowest early-first-term and early-second-term approval ratings since at least John F. Kennedy. (Independents, in particular, have turned sharply against Trump.)

However, there is a sizeable “but” that comes along with that right now.

It’s looking like Democrats could squander at least some of that opportunity, if they don’t do something about their brand, which is historically awful right now.

That doesn’t mean they’ll lose the midterms. But it could mean they won’t take full advantage and grow their numbers as much as they could.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/30/politics/democrats-opportunity-2026-midterms-analysis

Me?  I think if anybody can find a way to lose then the Dems are that entity….their messaging for decades has been sub-par for decades….a lot can happen between now and the election and if a way can be found then the Dems will have their asses handed to them…..yet again.

Why?

Well the top Dem senator candidates are just a repeat of the past….old farts with heavy corporate ties….so much for looking for new blood.

That is why Dems are running scared because of the rise of the Progressives…..

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Democratic party leaders have been accused of a wave of poor performances that go back far beyond last year’s chastening presidential defeat.

The party elite’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed more than 69,000 Palestinians, have turned voters and donors away from the party. As have other incidents. In Illinois, Democratic US representative Chuy García’s plan to handpick his own successor upon his retirement next year, circumventing an open election, drew howls of criticism from all sides of the political divide.

Rightwing media outlets have gone after Democrats’ low favorability ratings and the party’s apparent refusal to integrate younger members into its leadership, at a time when the Republican party made JD Vance a vice-presidential candidate last year at the age of 40.

Democrat warns US progressives against moving toward the center: ‘It lost me the election’

However, observers say that the Democratic party’s failure to secure the continuation of federal subsidies for health insurance for millions of Americans last month, a move that ended the 43-day government shutdown, could have the most lasting negative effect on the party going forward.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/progressives-democrats-swing-rust-belt-states

I say bully for them…I would like to see Progressives take over the party and move the country forward.

There will be so much more on this in the coming weeks.

Whatcha think?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

What Will It Take?

For at least a decade (it really began on 1980 and slowly burst into flames in 2010) we have heard that the US is looking at a second civil war some even think this is our second revolution…..but what will it take for these dire predictions to come to life?

There is a simulation that states we are looking at the beginnings of a new civil war….

What’s the most surefire way to achieve Civil War 2.0 in the United States? According to one wild simulation, it’s exactly what’s happening right now in Minneapolis.

In October 2024, researchers at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) at the University of Pennsylvania conducted an experiment in which a president ordered a widely condemned federal law enforcement operation in the city of brotherly love.

To carry out the operation, the simulated president tried to federalize the Pennsylvania national guard, which the governor resisted. National guard troops who sided with the state followed suit, prompting the fictional president to order acting US military troops to march on Philly.

According to CERL director Claire Finkelstein’s breakdown of the simulation, newly published in the Guardian, the experiment culminated in a “violent confrontation” between state and federal forces in a major US metropolis.

Finkelstein notes that the war gaming exercise included actual government officials and former senior military leaders, none of whom “considered the scenario unrealistic.” The results were based off the assumption that during a rapidly evolving civil emergency like this, courts would be largely ineffective at stopping federal overreach.

Though the early stages of the Philadelphia simulation closely match the brutal events citizens in Minneapolis have experienced at the hands of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the model diverges from reality in one key way: municipal and state officials don’t seem interested in attacking ICE agents anytime soon.

https://futurism.com/future-society/simulation-civil-war-games

It is a fascinating take on the events occurring today….

How long will the American people tolerate this abuse of government power?

From years ago all the rhetoric about confronting government abuse, you know those fat ass militia twats that were all talk, if this is not what they were going on about what the Hell is it?

I say keep it up do not let this become a standard for us to just stand by and ignore the abuses of Donny and his band of idiotic thugs.

I hope the spirit of 1776 has not been lost.

Thoughts?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

A Return To Yesteryear

There has been massive protests in Iran and the neocons are drooling all over themselves and they want to return the son of the late shah to a leadership roll.

It’s getting a little old at this point, but as the Deep State log rolls for another U.S. attack on Iran, it is promoting a new Iranian national savior, one with a familiar name.

Here’s a graphic seen on X, much like others showing up on social media, championing Reza Pahlavi as “the legitimate national leader of Iran.”

Because Pahlavi calls for more U.S. intervention in Iran including airstrikes, his champions are a midnight choir of failed voices from prior regime change calamities:  Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen, James Woolsey.  He is featured frequently in the warmongering of the Empire’s lapdog press, in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and on Fox News.

Pahlavi’s only claim to legitimacy is that he is the son of the late-Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who was driven from Iran in the 1979 revolution.

https://original.antiwar.com/charles-goyette/2026/02/11/1953-redux-neocons-want-to-saddle-iran-with-the-son-of-the-persian-stalin/

Once again the US is ass deep in regime change….and as usual we have a leader in mind…..one that will be subservient to the US….just another control issue of oil.

The Iranian people’s desire is nowhere in the equation…..period!

This will return Iran to the days where the secret police (the Iranian version of ICE) will keep the people inline with brutality and the only winner in the overthrow of the Iranian leadership will be Pahlavi just as his father benefited.

Plus it will give Israel more leeway to focus all its energy on the elimination of Palestine in favor of some lousy idea of a Holy Land.

This will not bring peace to the region just a momentary lull until the next Iranian revolution.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”