Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin appears to have been involved in trying to get a slate of fake electors into the hands of Vice President Mike Pence on January 6th, 2021, but Pence refused them
The text message Senator Johnson sent referred to in the Jamie Dupree post on X, who has been all over this like white on rice since last year, see here for some of the receipts, was recovered by an FBI investigation into the fake elector scheme, which resulted in convictions of Ken Chesebro and Sidney Powell, who cooperated with investigators.
Apparently they gave up Kelly (PA-16, lives in Butler!) and the Senators.
Johnson is presently screaming about being surveilled as if there had been no reason for it lol. It is said that Johnson accused Kelly in 2022 of mounting a fake elector scheme in PA in 2020, which sounds kinda like Johnson knew what was coming on all this and was trying to get out ahead of it by pointing the finger at Kelly to deflect from his own involvement.
The blonde in the photos is an aide for Johnson who took the handoff of the fake elector documents from a staff member from Rep. Mike Kelly's office which had also been unsuccessful in persuading Pence to take the documents. They did this on the streets of Washington DC on January 6th.
The video of all this is damning as hell.
Monday, October 6, 2025
Gold makes new high $3958.57, silver highest since May 2011 at $48.55
... Spot gold hit an all-time peak of $3,958.57 an ounce and has climbed 48% so far this year, adding to last year’s gain of 27%. ...
Silver climbed to $48.55 an ounce, its highest since May 2011.
Its rally is supported by the same factors as gold, as well as strong industrial demand and a tight spot market. ...
More.
Will Trump be tried for murdering drug traffickers like former Philippine president Duterte is being tried?
... Duterte was arrested in March by Philippine authorities on a warrant issued by the ICC. He is now being held at an ICC facility in the Netherlands.
Supporters of Duterte criticized the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Duterte's political rival, for arresting and surrendering the former leader to a court whose jurisdiction his supporters dispute. ...
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I suppose it depends on a future president giving Trump up to arrest by the International Criminal Court somehow.
... The strikes on Venezuelan narcoterror smuggling boats provide one possible avenue. Shortly after the U.S. Navy destroyed the first such vessel, Ken Roth, a former head of Human Rights Watch, endorsed ICC intervention. “Trump just did what the International Criminal Court has charged former Philippines Pres. Duterte with doing—ordering the summary execution of alleged drug traffickers,” Mr. Roth tweeted. Venezuela is a Rome Statute party, which in the court’s thinking gives it jurisdiction over U.S. officials and servicemen involved in the attacks. The ICC has already launched an investigation against a nonmember state (Israel) based on a single boarding of a vessel flagged by a member state, so it has all the precedents it needs.
Mr. Trump has thus far taken an incremental approach to the ICC. He revived a first-term executive order authorizing sanctions against the court and applied it against four ICC officials. None of this has significantly reduced the risk to the U.S. or led the ICC to change its ways.
The ICC’s supporters don’t see the existing sanctions as an “existential threat.” The tribunal can easily ride it out by lying low until a Democratic president lifts the sanctions, as Joe Biden did. The court takes a long view—its prosecutors and judges have nine-year terms, and its other staffers are part of a global deep state who can expect to remain at their jobs indefinitely.
International lawyers are already developing multiple lines of attack against the administration and its officials. ...
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All of our problems with Donald Trump are at root theological
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| Trump turned 6-years old when his pastor first published this in 1952 |
Sunday, October 5, 2025
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Hypocritical, disgraceful Republican Speaker of the U.S. House Mike Johnson thwarts democracy, slow-walks swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva (AZ-7), newly-elected on September 23rd
Republicans refuse to swear in newly elected Democrat, delaying success of Epstein petition
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Republican leaders refused requests from Democrats to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) on Tuesday, saying she will be sworn in when the House returns to regular session.
Grijalva, who was elected last week in a special contest [September 23rd] to replace her father, the late Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), has already vowed to sign the discharge petition as soon as she’s sworn in, and the bipartisan lawmakers pushing to release the Epstein files had hoped to launch the process as quickly as possible. ...
Although there are no votes scheduled, the House floor opened up briefly at noon on Tuesday for a pro forma session, a routine procedure allowing one chamber to pause floor activities for long stretches without the consent of the other.
Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) presided over Tuesday’s pro forma session, gaveling out and refusing to recognize Democrats shouting on the floor as they attempted to force a vote on a Democratic proposal to keep the government open. He did not swear in Grijalva.
“Historically, you do it when the House is in session other than pro forma,” Griffith said after the session when asked about not swearing in Grijalva.
Grijalva noted that Florida Republicans were sworn in during a pro forma session earlier this year, on April 2, the day after their special elections. The House had been in session the day before. ...
A shutdown would not prevent Grijalva from being sworn in. The full House was sworn in during a government shutdown when a new Congress started in January 2019. ...
“It is common practice in the House of Representatives that Representatives-elect are sworn in immediately following their decisive election, with some being sworn in as little as 24 hours after they have won,” wrote Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) . . ..
Imagine Democrats doing this to Republicans. The latter would be howling in front of the cameras about Democrats killing democracy.
"My ex had DDs" is actually good now lol
... if they constantly bring up their ex in purely negative ways ...
Speaking of Margaret Thatcher, "right-wing" candidate for Japan PM backs "hardline conservative" policies of easy money and aggressive spending of it LOL
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| "Let''s devalue the Yen and spend the hell out of it" |
Japan’s ruling party picked hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi as its head on Saturday, putting her on course to become the country’s first female prime minister in a move set to jolt investors and neighbors. ...
Takaichi, who says her hero is Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister, offers a starker vision for change than Koizumi and is potentially more disruptive.
An advocate of late premier Shinzo Abe’s “Abenomics” strategy to boost the economy with aggressive spending and easy monetary policy, she has previously criticized the Bank of Japan’s interest rate increases. ...
It's obviously the nationalism, anti-globalism, and possible militarism which really bother the writer from Reuters:
... But her nationalistic positions — such as her regular visits to the Yasukuni shrine to Japan’s war dead, viewed by some Asian countries as a symbol of its past militarism — may rile neighbors like South Korea and China. ...
Takaichi also favors revising Japan’s pacifist postwar constitution and suggested this year that Japan could form a “quasi-security alliance” with Taiwan, the democratically governed island claimed by China. ...
“We hope she will ... steer Japanese politics in an ‘anti-globalism’ direction to protect national interests and help the people regain prosperity and hope,” Sanseito said in a statement.
If Japan really wanted to scare the world, maybe it could peg the Yen to the price of plutonium, the vast majority of which in the world it owns, and start aggressively selling it to the highest bidders.
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It never occurs to homo Andrew Sullivan that Christianity in Great Britain has already been replaced by, well, himself
... The fart in a coffin [his high school classmate, PM Keir Starmer] did his best this week — and survived. Critically, he acknowledged the centrality of mass immigration to the national discourse, the way it has undermined a sense of common culture, undercut wages, begun to replace Christianity with Islam, required ever higher levels of censorship, killed Jews, and turned the cities my grandparents knew into something they wouldn’t even recognize as British. ...
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The new archbishop of Canterbury, first among equals of the Church of England, is a woman. And not just any woman, but a self-described liberal, feminist, dyslexic [one of us! one of us!], supporter of fetus-murdering and LGBT. It's not like she's Margaret Thatcher for God's sake.
That's not Christianity.
How utterly lost is the left, he asks.
How utterly lost is he.
Friday, October 3, 2025
Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth wants you to know he was just following orders
German General Anton Dostler was executed by firing squad in December 1945 after admitting he ordered the executions of fifteen captured American soldiers in March 1944 because he was ordered to do so by Field Marshal Albert Kesselring.
The latter was convicted in the Ardeatine massacre of hundreds of Italian citizens and sentenced to death in May 1947, but, incredibly, pressure exerted by the sympathetic English, including by Winston Churchill and Harold Alexander, resulted in a commutation of his sentence to life in prison by General John Harding in July 1947.
Kesselring would have died in prison, but even more incredibly was released from there in October 1952 for health reasons, and didn't die until 1960 of a heart attack.
The Kesselring affair is emblematic of the decadent trajectory of the English character still plumbing new depths even today, a trajectory America is also on. At least the Americans of the time dispatched Dostler expeditiously within months of his arrest.
The Italians hated Kesselring about as much as they hated Mussolini.
It's probably too early to guess how Pete will be remembered here. After all, he has crimes to go before he sleeps, and promises to keep.
In the absence of labor statistics because of the federal government shutdown, here's Initial Claims for Unemployment, not seasonally adjusted, for 48 states, DC, and Puerto Rico through 9/27/25
The states continue to collect their data and it gets transmitted to FRED at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank for each state. You just have to hand-tally it since the Feds won't due to the shutdown.
My result for 9/27/25 for 48 states and DC and PR reported this morning: -2,229.
MA, AZ, and Virgin Islands initial claims reporting lags by a week.
The largest downtick was in Texas at 3833.
The largest uptick was in Kentucky at 3049.
Declining initial claims is good.
Compare 9/20/25 at -14,822:
In the absence of labor statistics because of the federal government shutdown, here's Continued Claims for Unemployment, not seasonally adjusted, for 48 states, DC, and Puerto Rico through 9/20/25
The states continue to collect their data and it gets transmitted to FRED at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank for each state. You just have to hand-tally it since the Feds won't due to the shutdown.
My result for 9/20 for 48 states and DC and PR reported this morning: -21,866.
MA, AZ, and Virgin Islands continued claims reporting lags by a week.
Texas was down 4994, California 3562, Pennsylvania 2765, New Jersey 2351, New York 1439, Connecticut 1437, and Virginia 1275.
The largest uptick was in Michigan at 940, followed by Kentucky at 430.
Declining continuing claims is good.
Compare 9/13/25 at -32,092:
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