Nobody knows quite what to make of the situation in Russia.  You know the stories, but it appears that Putin has had to negotiate with Prigozhin through Lukashenko of Belarus to get the column to turn aroun , and the backstory may be more complicated than we’ll ever know.  The Wagner Group is apparently a for profit paramilitary organization that has fought for Russia all over the Middle East.  But it reportedly operates independently from the Russian military.  The Wagner Group figured heavily in the war in Ukraine, but is being disbanded.  Apparently that’s part of the agreement that was reached to call off the march to Moscow, where the Wagner Group says it was well received by the Russian public along the way.  Strange as it may sound to us, the Group gets hardware and vehicles from the Russian military, but is otherwise not directed.  The claim is that Ukraine is viewing the fracas with near glee, believing that Putin is getting what he deserves for having invaded Ukraine in the first place. 

Prigozhin was apparently angry that his men were being shelled in Ukraine.  He reportedly goes on publicly criticizing the Russian military (particularly the Minister of Defense, who he says has never held a gun) and Putin himself.  It comes as news that you can publicly criticize Putin and live to tell about it.  There’s all kinds of speculation that Prigozhin might not.  Putin has a long memory, and those who’ve crossed him in the past have not fared well.  

We’re getting drowned in evidence of probable bribery, along with some suspicious decisions that have been made along the way.  The shell companies and complicated transfers only bamboozle people who aren’t looking.  If it gets tracked down, it could be bad.  The grifters had to know that, and accepted the risk anyway.  Glenn Beck couched it as our birthright being sold, and likened it to the Old Testament story of Esau selling his birthright to Jacob.  According to him, we’re worth about 33 cents per person.

When everything is based on “fairness and equity,” and the idiots in charge are going to abuse us for the planet’s sake, all bets are off.  Some are beginning to speculate that the big guy will have to resign soon.  So much has entered the public’s bloodstream, the mainstream may not be able to keep a lid on it.  But the insurance policy is intact, not that it would make much difference.

The deep state is willing to pursue Trump to the ends of the earth.  They’ve got more charges, and they’re very serious.  It looks like death by a thousand cuts.  New and interesting legal theories are being hatched.  They’ve just got to get rid of this guy.  We’d hate to see his lawyer fees.  They’re coming from all directions, alleging all manner of misbehavior.  They tell you what he’s done, and then play some leaked tape to prove it.  But it doesn’t.  Who approved the leaking of evidence in the first place?  They can’t believe that he has a “cult” following.  Anyone who wants to save and make great this dastardly place must be eliminated!  But the road behind is littered with the remains of those who have tried to bring Trump down.  Maybe this time… Nah.

They can’t give Bud Light away.  What did they think was going to happen?  Makes you wonder if anybody who knew of plans for the Dylan Mulvaney advertising campaign was betting the stock would plummet.  Who knew that beer drinkers would react this way upon seeing the “influencer”?  It influenced a lot of people to buy some other beer.

We’ve been overwhelmed with all the “pride” nonsense.  Who gets to decide to what cause a month is dedicated?  It’s just noise, and we refuse to acknowledge it.  Dylan Muvaney, skipping around and acting like a little girl didn’t amuse the beer-buying public.  But they had to know this was going to happen, didn’t they?  Did nobody on the inside buy puts on the futures market?  If they did, they’re rich.

Some companies are so dedicated to whatever cause, that they don’t mind losing money.  But they better not tell the stockholders. Maybe it’s ESG scores, maybe it’s insanity, but here it comes.  Some are doubling down, saying they’d do whatever cost them business again.  The very definition of insanity.  As for us, we’d just as soon not get burned up with all the weirdos. 

Mark

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This week the pretender hosted some kind of gay pride event at the White House.  It’s not the first time the people’s house has been bathed in rainbow lighting, hopefully it will be the last.  Why must we all be complicit in such behavior?  It’s universal?  No, regardless of how many times they say it, it’s not even close.  

There’s some TV commercial airing, maybe you’ve seen it.  It’s declaring pride month, or whatever, and there are about 20 or 30 logos flashed on the screen for about half a second.  Maybe they’re not all that proud after all.  Maybe they don’t want to become the next target for a boycott.

CNN wrote an article informing it’s readers that the fall in Target’s stock price had nothing to do with a consumer boycott.  It was just some right-wing publications trying to gin up emotions.  According to the article everything BUT a boycott was responsible for their cratered stock.  They never concede anything.

I’ve got to tell you about the Mexico soccer match.  Officials couldn’t get the fans to stop chanting “puto,” so they finally stopped the game with minutes remaining.  It appears all kinds of anti-discrimination wires were tripped.  There are international organizations you never heard of, and they’re not amused.  Anti-discrimination rules have been broken!  The crowd was warned, but couldn’t help themselves.  It must have been terrible! (/s)  They were calling the American goaltender a male prostitute, but a quote attributed to Yahoo sports says it translates as “faggot.”  Oh, the hurt feelings!  But wait. You mean, they’re not proud after all?   

The words that could not be spoken about the origin of COVID, turns out to be all true.  Not only that, they’re still conducting ridiculous experiments at our expense, every way you cut it.  It’s not beyond the realm of possibility that they try this again.  Why on earth are we financing off the wall “gain of function” research, illegal in this country, in some Chinese backwater?  Can somebody explain that?

Everybody knows President Trump has been indicted and arrested.  If you’ve followed it closely you know that there is every opportunity for him and his lawyers to hand these prosecutors their hind parts as the case moves forward.  Trump doesn’t look worried.  In fact he’s defiant. They’ve nearly exhausted every available avenue trying to besmirch Donald Trump.  Most of the guys who led the charge can barely show their faces, but they still stand behind whatever they said.  

Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Strozk, Page, and people we never heard of.  They must be very proud.  Seems like pride is not an attribute that you’d strive for.  It’s not going to win any points Upstairs!

There is apparently a group that Alan Dershowitz identifies that will bring spurious cases against any attorney who represents Trump.  They’ll make accusations to ruin somebody’s life, and keep them in court for the foreseeable future.  Just what a respectable lawyer signed up for.  So what’s left to make sure that Trump never gets another shot?  The mainstream media is deep in the tank, the corporations are on board.  We’re getting bombarded from all directions with this pride nonsense.  Let me be clear.  We don’t think it’s a game.  We’d rather our society not champion perversions to make God mad.  We don’t want to be Sodom or Gomorrah.  Thanks anyway.

Mark

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There have been a lot of times over the years where you think the population has lost its mind.  The anchors with furrowed brows, so transparent in their deceit.  So the long-awaited Durham Report has come out.  Presumably he got to the bottom of it.  I remember wondering at the time how much of our lives they would dare waste with nonsense.  But, as you know, the mainstream ate it up.  Boy!  Was Donald Trump in trouble this time!  Day after day, month after month, for two and a half years there was expert speculation about treasonous crimes.  It would seem appropriate if they’d have to answer for the countless hours of valuable airtime they spent trying to convince us of what they thought.  Or what they wanted us to think.  Did they really believe any of the nonsense they were reporting?

The Durham Report?  A big nothing-burger.  Some of the “experts” are still ranting.

You just can’t go by what is being preached on every network but maybe two.  The press behavior around the big guy is unconscionable by any standard.  Any questions about scandal?  They’ve made a decision somewhere that if it’s ignored it’ll go away.  But they may have miscalculated.  The stuff they’re involved in may be too big to fail. But it’s like all the people who matter are on the same page.  Not only that, they’ve squandered their credibility.

They’ve delayed the inevitable by three years, so far.  But the officials and agencies are guilty of selective targeting and untold malfeasance.  The Fake News has another misdirecting story for their audience.  Even the attempts to manipulate us have become so apparent, it’s hard to stand.

We’ve been told (by polls and experts) that half the country is pure lunatic.  That doesn’t seem right somehow.  Sure, a lot of them are caught up in some fad that they’ll hopefully outgrow.  But if reality ever dawns…  Sooner or later it will.  But surely half the country can’t be crazy!

It was some weeks ago that somebody asked a European diplomat what would happen in the event of the U. S. defaulting on it’s debt.  She said the ramifications would be so severe, that it just couldn’t and wouldn’t happen.  But here we are again, the two parties playing tough.  When you consider how much is being spent going green, or whatever, and then the military services getting involved in some of this idiotic nonsense, it’s enough to disgust everybody.  If you don’t count the ones who are giggling and congratulating themselves for having brought it about.  But no one dares say a word, or they’ve got all kinds of devastating names to call you.  

Call it what you want, but the Sports Illustrated has put some of the most beautiful women ever in it’s magazines.  In swimsuits, mostly.  But here comes word that they’ve decided to put a dude in drag on display.  In a swimsuit.  This can’t be a good move, financially.  May they reap the whirlwind that Bud Lite created.  We’re looking forward to a full blown disaster.  I guess supermodels are going broke.   

We’re finding out to our dismay, that the three letter agencies are not dealing off the top of the deck.  Do you believe the stories of the “whistle-blowers”?  They’re giving testimony that’s just devastating to whatever credibility remains in the eyes of the public.  But we didn’t even need their testimony.  It’s confirmation of what we already knew must be going on.

It’s really getting old, the news telling us things on full authority that isn’t even true, but was cooked up for the sole reason of shaping our thinking.  We hope that this can be worked out through familiar channels, but the indoctrination goes pretty deep.  

Sports Illustrated thinks they’re going to change our minds by putting some glamorous trans on the cover?  There used to be a commercial on all the time, probably margarine.  It said, “It’s not nice to fool mother nature.”   

Mark

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So they caught the guy responsible for publicizing highly classified documents. Everyone’s concerned that this young (21 yr. old) guy would have access to such ruinous documents But they got him. The news media is all over it. They want to know what they can do to help see that government secrets remain secret! Never mind that the release reveals we’ve been, uh, misled by the spokespeople of various departments and agencies. We are apparently deeper into the Ukraine war than we were given to understand. They’re talking about the agencies and spokesmen being “embarrassed.” We’re worried that government officials may be embarrassed?

It seems we may have more to worry about than the embarrassment of government officials. The news is so gruesome as it is, and we knew these buffoons weren’t to be trusted. We’ve been lied to so routinely that we no longer trust official statements anyway. But the news agencies aren’t worried about what the documents revealed, they’re wondering instead how they can help make sure this doesn’t happen again.

The Catholics are all torn up about crying statues again. This isn’t the first time, by a long shot, that statues have been caught crying blood. But now the Vatican is going to send out scientists to verify what’s going on. Like we care. They ought to be sending out plumbers.

Everybody who’s visited the Middle East is familiar with the call the Muslim prayer, blared over outdoor loud speakers to your hurting ears. Now it’s big news that you only need to go to Minneapolis to hear the phenomenon. Assuming you want to. Obama called it the sweetest sound he ever heard, or words to that effect.

The pretender has been visiting Ireland, exploring his roots, or whatever. It’s almost more that we can stand, seeing that vacant look in his eyes while being directed which way to go. Hunter is now much in evidence, to the point that we suspect that there must be some motivating factor.

When has the United States projected such weakness? We see our former allies seemingly betting on China. Even Macron went to kiss the ring. Nations that weren’t particularly friendly are making deals with the presumptive leading superpower, and it’s not the U. S. anymore. It’s hard to remember a time when everything internationally went against us. Jimmy Carter comes to mind, but he wasn’t even in the same league.

Bud Light has a tranny on the can, and they can’t figure out why their beer isn’t selling. Must be us bigots. We just don’t understand! Hopefully the board of directors realizes that they’re running a business. You don’t just insult your core audience and expect to thrive. But that’s not the only corporation that’s decided we need a push. Cruise lines, rental properties, prescription drugs… The television has become an instrument of indoctrination and you can hardly escape it. Big corporations have decided that they’re going with the clap trap, and we’ll either be drug along or they’ll call us the names they’ve made up. We’re getting used to it.

You wonder what HWA would say, thirty seven years later. He wouldn’t believe how far society has fallen. We’ve got every aberrant intellectual explaining, in kindergarten terms, why all this is good. My Dad would be denouncing our society in the most glaring terms. That’s just exactly what we intend to do. Somebody has to stand up and say, “NO!”. Nobody else dares for fear of being canceled. We will continue to slaughter their sacred cows.

Mark

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