"The Middle" or the "Center": "I'm not in the top strata of economic and political power, but I'm not angry enough to do something about it."

@1

And standing an arm shot away from Dummkopf Trumpf is good-for-nothing Israeli-American oligarch Miriam Adelson.

Was that a US or Israeli inauguration event? I couldn't tell the difference.

Have fun killing Palestinians in Gaza so you all can make money from their deaths, you gang of filthy rich ethnic cleansing swine.

Rush Limbaugh dead for five years?

Wonder if anybody check the Epstein files for his name.

He lived in Florida, if I recall correctly.

$71m could feed 1.42 million American school children for 100 days (AI snapshot).

We must support the most progressive candidates in the field to take back the House and Senate in 2026.

Americans are sick and tired of the status quo which led us into the ditch we are in today.

For more granularity, see the results of the NYC Mayoral win and other elections last November.

A true socialist won in Washington State and a true communist won in Ithaca, NY.

The "center" is a myth that supports the status quo, not changes it.

For more granularity, read about the French, Russian, and Iranian Revolutions.

The status quo anywhere would love to see the "center" take over, like the short-lived White government of Kerensky in 1918.

Thanks for the informative vignette, Johnny Hotsauce.

Hi Moder8

Thanks for that info about FIFA.

Remarkable that a country blowing things up in Africa, the Caribbean, and soon the Middle East, and a nation that abducted the leader of a foreign country, wouldn't be sanctioned by FIFA and the IOC as a Rogue nation and Pariah state.

Look at Russia.

Hi A Friend:

I believe that figure.

Towards the end of the apocalyptic American Civil War, some civil servants in the Washington DC area considered an idea to help heal the wounds of the nation on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line when the war would finally end.

They created an American fraternal order called the Knights of Pythias, based on the Freemasonic Three Degrees system.

The major stipulation for any member to join was that they must have have all their limbs.

I guess the K of P didn't want members to see the horrendous injuries they inflicted on each other which would only serve to remind them of the war and ------ healing.

Freemason FDR would later initiate into the Knights of Pythias, wheelchair and all.

Sad, turning the US Military into the WH Gangster's new Murder, Inc:
en.wikipedia.org

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-17 04:29 PM | Reply | Flag: History Repeats Itself

During WWII, many of our pilots proudly painted "Murder, Inc" on the sides of their fighters and bombers, except the Tuskegee pilots who painted the tails of their planes red.

The Germans shot down such a Murder Inc-decorated bomber and got a small propaganda piece out of it, saying that all Americans were gangsters.

"Republican candidate for Texas Attorney-General Aaron Reitz says he is ready, day one, to wage a war on Americans."
Trump did a magnificent job of convincing republicans to hate America.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-17 04:28 PM | Reply: More Than We Think

Hi Clownshack

During the American Civil War which cost hundreds of thousands of lives, research and interviews revealed that many soldiers from both the North and the South fired above the heads of the enemy; they didn't want to kill their fellow Americans or kill anybody in general.

Not enough hatred.

AI Snapshot:

Total deaths: Approximately 620,000 to 750,000 soldiers died (includes deaths from battle, disease, accidents, and other causes).
Battle deaths: Around 213,000 soldiers killed in combat.
Disease deaths: Over 400,000 soldiers died from disease, which was the leading cause of death.
Wounded: About 275,000 soldiers were wounded, many with permanent disabilities.

Imagine if Faux News, CBS, and OANN were around in 1861 to generate hatred like we see today?

The above US Civil War casualty rates would have been much, much higher.

Hi Corky:

I bet young master James Talarico gets along well with everyone, even those across the aisle.

There is no well deep or wide enough for sleazy, unprincipled mouth-for-hires Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz to be chucked into forthwith.

Both of them made tidy sums of money as legal kapos and should be disbarred and ostracized nationwide for their blasphemies.

How these two miscreants smugly live with themselves is anyone's guess.

**** Idiotic Islamophobia from Lunatic Florida Republican Randy Fine ****

Muslims make up a tiny 1.34% of the US population, but 21.1% of Israel's population.

Hatemongering of Muslims in the US makes ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Gaza and the West Bank easier for Israel.

This is how billions and billions of dollars of hardworking American taxpayer funds automatically go to a country that has universal healthcare for all its residents because the poor Israelis are dealing with savage Muslims.

This vulgarity is to be expected from Republicans; but Democrats that take AIPAC money will pay a price on Election Day from the vast antiwar bloc, a movement as old as the American Revolution itself.

For more granularity, please see results of the 5 Nov 2024 and 5 Nov 1968 elections.

Dummkopf Trumpf just called California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) "Newscum" [sic] for signing a treaty with the UK.

I don't think he was disinvited.

Why is FIFA 2026 still on schedule? Who is coming from where to a murderous country that will have heavily-armed, masked ICE goons at every event?

On 19 Sep 2025, Jeremy Fistel (44) of Plano, TX was charged in Queens County, NY with making terroristic threats against NYS Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani.

Hatemongering and Islamophobia are first-rate in Texas.

Remarkably, "Okiehomie Governor Kevin "Brown Shoes" Stitt" stayed the imminent execution of a Person of Color a few months ago.

White GOP governors staying the state-sanctioned murder of black convicts is rare.

Either there is a real person underneath the GOP reptile skin and/or the term limit played a part in Stitt bucking the trend.

Brass musical instruments crafted once by American artisans in Ohio will now be made in China.

Wow.

Last century I remember being aghast at seeing a Japanese grand piano for the first time.

But is sounded and felt perfect, like a Steinway.

Then we need more of these "fortfishers" whoever or whatever they are.

The Muslim population of Texas is approximately 313,000 people or 1.1% of the state's total population; 1.34% is the total Muslim population in the US. By average the Lone Star State has less than the rest of the US.

The Islamophobia is out of control.

Faux News, AIPAC, One America News Network, Larry and David Ellison's CBS, Laura Loomer, et al and ad nauseum have done a remarkable job of hatemongering.

Well, gotta keep the weapons and money flowing to Israel somehow, I guess.

All the Republicans in Texas seem to take AIPAC money, some way more than others.

House Democrat Jasmine Crockett (TX 30 CD) takes no AIPAC money but votes to send money and weapons to Israel every chance she gets. Why she has no compassion for the 72,000 killed in Gaza is anyone's guess.

The masses outnumber the mega-oligarchs by the hundreds of millions.

The elites are culling the herd in a Malthusian manner.

That's why the Trumpf junta is against vaccinations.

Start with the darker people first.

USAID was dismantled and Dummkopf Trumpf withdrew the US from WHO.

This Malthusian strategy marries up with Vladimir Putin's desire to demographically shrink America's larger and healthier population.

Let disease, malnutrition, substance abuse, and firearms violence attrit the American population every day.

The Republicans are on board with this agenda: look at the legislation and Trumpf cabinet picks.

Last century, the white minority government of Suid-Afrika used diseases to target only black people to help "cull the herd" and make apartheid easier for them to maintain. The Afrikaaners and English were greatly outnumbered.

This operation was called "Project Coast."

For disclosing this information willingly to the public at the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, none of the BOSS intelligence operatives or biological weapons researchers were prosecuted.

**** USCG Veteran Handcuffed and Paraded Around Cruise Ship by ICE Thugs ****

"ICE agents boarded a cruise ship docked in Miami and detained a USCG veteran in a case of 'mistaken identity.'

Jose "Joey" Martinez and his wife, Tammy Verhas, were "dead asleep" in their room when federal agents dressed in all black burst into their room at around 6:30 a.m., the veteran recalled. It was about two hours before the Carnival Cruise Line guests were scheduled to disembark from the ship and go through customs in Miami, Florida.

"We were woken to a loud banging on the door and then suddenly three men entered our room with flashlights, screaming," Martinez said. "They said Jose Martinez,' and they ordered me out of bed. I didn't know who they were. I couldn't see anything because the lights are shining in my eyes."

US CBP agents ordered Martinez against a wall and handcuffed him, Martinez said, adding that he "did exactly as instructed because I didn't want anything to escalate." He told them he was an American citizen. Agents "paraded" him through the boat "in front of other guests" off the ship and placed him into a holding cell, he said."