The Long Con

I make no secret of my extreme dislike (some may call it hatred) for the Supreme Court and the political hacks that sit on it…..none more disliked than chief justice Roberts….

This judge has done more damage to this country than most are unaware of because it is not reported as it should be….

I recently read an excellent article on his long con….

There is no bigger con man in the United States than Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Not even President Donald J. Trump.

The con began in September 2005, during Roberts’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Articulate, handsome, and energetic at fifty years old, Roberts seemed to have been culled “straight from central casting,” as Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama actually remarked on the first day of the hearings. Roberts was also convincing—he famously promised that if confirmed, he would serve in the fashion of a baseball umpire, calling only “balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat.” Seventy-eight Senators, including twenty-two Democrats, fell for the ploy and voted to give him the lifetime assignment.

The biggest yarn Roberts told during his hearing concerned his views on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), a cornerstone of American democracy, which the Supreme Court gutted this past April in a redistricting case from the state of Louisiana (Louisiana v. Callais).

As is his prerogative as Chief Justice, Roberts assigned the task of drafting the Callais majority opinion to fellow conservative Justice Samuel Alito, who responded with a 6 to 3 ruling that held that, henceforth, Section 2 of the landmark legislation would require VRA plaintiffs to meet the nearly impossible burden of proving that redistricting maps challenged as “racial gerrymanders” were created with discriminatory intent rather than for permissible political purposes. The opinion allowed Louisiana to eliminate one majority Black Congressional district. It also effectively negated legislation passed in 1982 that had amended Section 2 to permit the Justice Department and private citizens to challenge election laws that have the effect of diluting minority voting power without proving intent.

Flash back to 2005 and it is apparent that, at best, Roberts misled the judiciary committee. In response to a question from Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy about the VRA’s constitutionality, Roberts replied, “[T]he existing Voting Rights Act—the constitutionality has been upheld. And I don’t have any issue with that.”

https://progressive.org/magazine/the-long-con-of-john-roberts-blum-20260821

The voters have had long cons played on them by politicians and we could have changed that….but we chose not to do so…..but with the Supreme Court we do not have that option and once seated they are there for life….even if they live to past one hundred…..we cannot rid ourselves of their devastating rulings.

We hear promises that reform is high on the agenda during elections and so far I have not seen shit once the elections are Over with…..have you?

I am sure we shall hear much on this issue and once the election is over nothing will materialize.

Anybody see anything differently?

Educate, Agitate

I Read, I Write, You Know

cogito ergo agito

“lego ergo scribo”

Sorry But Democrats Are Losers

In more ways than one.

Yes they lose consistently in the elections but that is not the full extent of their betrayal of the voter….once elected they fall into the same cycle of corruption and deceit.

Dems play to the working class at every election they get equally corrupt labor unions to sponsor them and they go around feeling faux sympathy for the working population….and it is a fake concern.

Working-class voters have been telling pollsters for 60 years that the political system doesn’t hear them. Democrats, over the same period, have grown more comfortable with the institutions working-class voters have increasingly less faith in.

This distrust stems from specific experiences: deindustrialization that happened on government’s watch, trade deals that economists endorsed and workers paid for, a 2008 financial crisis response that saved the banks and foreclosed on their homes, an opioid epidemic that regulators missed entirely.

To be fair, this is precisely what the new crop of reform candidates say they want to fix. The argument that the right candidate can move the needle is not crazy. Candidate quality matters. Personal trust can substitute for institutional trust, at least at the margins.

But economic-grievance politics is a very small slice of what working-class voters are telling us. The data documents a comprehensive, decades-long divergence in how working-class voters and mainstream Democrats understand fairness, government, personal responsibility and social change.

Reducing that to class war jams working-class voters into a prefabricated progressive agenda rather than taking seriously what they are actually saying.

https://www.alternet.org/democrats-working-class-2677675466

Do you agree with the ‘findings’?

I kinda disagree with the conclusion….I believe it is a class war and the Robber Barons are winning.

That brings us to the real problem….Democratic candidates….are they truly representative of what the people want? Not even close!

Just look at the most recent elections….the vote proved that few wanted Biden or Harris but yet they were part of the ‘good old boys’ club so the nod went to them….Biden won only because he was not Trump, that is not a resounding endorsement now is it?

Democratic voters want a fighter as a candidate yet they do not support a fighter instead the succumb to the blase mumbo-jumbo of centrist cowards.

These are what Dem voters say they want….

The three top attributes that Democrats want in a nominee are:

A fighter for working people (88%).
Who works across the aisle to get things done (76%)
And is authentic in his/her beliefs (72%)

Let’s look closer….

Fighter for working people, whatever the ideology: 88% of Democratic primary voters say they would “vote for someone I don’t agree with on every issue as long as they are strong and will fight for the working people of this country.” Likewise, the most appealing candidate profile was “fighter” (86% appealing):“This candidate has the guts to stand up to Trump and the MAGA wing of the Republican Party.”
Authentic: 72% of Democratic primary voters would “vote for someone I don’t agree with on every issue as long as they are authentic and true to what they believe in.” And 59% prefer a candidate who is “authentic, relatable, and down-to-earth, even if they don’t line up with you ideologically on every issue,” over one who “stands with you on most of the major issues.” Moderates (63%) and somewhats (62%) chose authenticity; only socialists chose ideological alignment (57%).
Bipartisan dealmaker: 76% of Democratic primary voters prefer a candidate “who works across the aisle to get things done, even if it means compromising sometimes,” over a candidate “who sticks to their progressive beliefs, even if it means getting less done.”

What crap!

That is what the voter wants if so then name one nominee that has done any of those three desires.

I will admit the centrist try to work across the aisle but that is only for show for they know they will not succeed….but it makes a good show….and authentic? Name me one Dem that has been ‘authentic” once they are elected….I will wait.

Let’s be honest….things will not be different this time around….the nominee will be a centrists and the desires of the working class will be just a memory once they hit the high life.

The DNC makes me sick.

Let’s be honest….Dems are as useful as breasts on a flashlight.

Instead of snuggling up to big business they crap on the working people of this country.

And sadly it will happen again and continue happening until the voter wakes the fuck up.

Educate, Agitate

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

cogito ergo agito

The Global Antifa

I am antifa!

That does not mean I am a member of some group but it does mean I hate f**king fascists ergo antifascist ergo antifa.

I have written many times about the myth of some nefarious organization whose members are organized and a threat….this concept is a constructed myth.

A quick history lesson…..

The word stands for anti-fascist, and it appears to have originated in Germany in the 1930s and then resurfaced again in the 1970s. With the election of President Donald Trump in 2016, small organizations with that name have cropped up in a few American cities. But, for the most part, labelling protesters as members of “antifa” — or, as Trump likes to say, “professional anarchists” — is often either a red herring or a false flag operation used to frighten gullible citizens.

In early June, for example, a fake Twitter account pretending to be from “antifa” called for violence. It turned out to be a scam orchestrated by white nationalists.

“Antifa,” as a code word used to rile up fear and paranoia, has been lobbed especially at Black Lives Matter activists. Trump and Attorney General William Barr have repeatedly said that demonstrators leading the protests for racial justice are antifa, even though independent analyses by National Public Radio and the The New York Times of federal arrests of protesters don’t actually show anyone with these connections.

Trump and Fox News are tireless promoters of such scare tactics. On August 31, when the President was interviewed by Fox host Laura Ingraham, he suggested that Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s campaign was being run by a secret cabal of “people you’ve never heard about, people that are in the dark shadows.” These menacing insinuations mirror the way the term antifa is used in right-wing media — not with precision or even sincerity, but as an incantation or curse. And they are obsessed with it.

(progressive.org)

Now for the Global antifa myth…..

In September 2025, Donald Trump designated “antifa” a domestic terror organization. Last month, his administration went one step further by declaring that the “extreme left” had developed the antifa network into a global threat. Marco Rubio announced at a press conference on July 16 that

Antifa militants and their comrades travel from across Europe and to the Americas to participate in each other’s attacks, to funnel propaganda and training, materials, and target information through shared encrypted channels — moving through underground networks of safe houses, and finance and sustain their operations through transnational funds.

This description sounds eerily like what global far-right networks have been doing for years. The “antidem” network, crisscrossing the Atlantic and ranging up and down the Americas, has helped far-right politicians take over parties, those parties take power, and those resulting governments coordinate anti-immigrant, anti-climate, anti-LGBT, and fundamentally anti-democratic policies. This effort is well-funded by right-wing sugar daddies like Elon Musk and Robert Shillman.

In the United States, even more extreme right-wing militants have been responsible for 152 attacks and 112 deaths between 2016 and 2025, compared to 35 attacks and 13 deaths by the extreme left (according to the right-leaning Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Fascism, not anti-fascism, is the threat, both domestically and internationally.

It’s a common Trumpian tactic: to blame adversaries for that which the accuser has perfected. Thus, according to Trump, his enemies are always lying; they’re completely corrupt; they are anti-democratic. This from the most mendacious, corrupt, and anti-democratic force in modern politics. Remember the canard that it was actually “antifa” that caused all the havoc during the obviously right-wing insurrection on January 6? What better way to throw people off the scent of a vast right-wing conspiracy than to assert that something much more sinister is percolating on the left.

In practice, the administration is engaged in a category error. It assumes that organized opposition presupposes an organization. But, as Gertrude Stein once said rather cruelly of her hometown of Oakland, there’s no “there” there. Fascism has experienced a successful rebrand in the age of Trump. Lots of people and institutions are organizing against this fascism. But what the Trump administration calls “antifa” just doesn’t exist.

The Myth of a Global Antifa

This beast called antifa does not exist….it consist of anyone who hates fascism as much as I do.

Hell antifa was even blamed for Donny’s pool ‘sabotage’……we are not the scapegoat for Donny and the thugz he travels with….

Now you know.

Educate, Agitate

I Read, I Write, You Know

cogito ergo agito

GOD! I Love This Stuff!

The conservatives are making this all too easy. The Dems have been trying to make Rush the face of the GOP and evertime one of these guys apologizes to Rush they are just helping the Dems in ways they can not imagine.

Two days after calling Rush Limbaugh a mere “entertainer” with an “incendiary” talk show, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele apologized and acknowledged the radio commentator as a “national conservative leader.”

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says he has reached out to Rush Limbaugh to tell him he meant no offense when he referred to the popular conservative radio host as an “entertainer” whose show can be “incendiary.”

“My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh,” Steele said in a telephone interview. “I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. … There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.”

Steele comments were thus:

Steele told CNN host D.L. Hughley in an interview aired Saturday night: “Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh — his whole thing is entertainment. He has this incendiary — yes, it’s ugly.”

And then the Rush fires back at Steele:

“Why are you running the Republican Party?” Limbaugh asked on his radio show. “Why do you claim you lead the Republican Party when you seem obsessed with seeing to it that President Obama succeeds? … I would be embarrassed to say that I’m in charge of the Republican Party in the sad-sack state that it’s in. If I were chairman of the Republican Party, given the state that it’s in, I would quit.”

This comedy of errors just keeps rolling along…snowballing as it slides down the political slope….GOD! I love this stuff!

Tax Cuts? Tax Cuts!

Oh crap…..we are still singing that tired old song? Repubs have been rattling this piece of crap since 2001…it promises jobs and growth and …and….and….well just about anything you want it to; but what does it really bring with it?

Not much that it promises.
What did the Bush tax cuts really bring forth?

unemployment was up

opportunity was down

poverty went up

income went down

anxiety went up

prosperity was down

And yet with all that, the Repubs just keep throwing the failed policies of the past into the fray of any stimulus plan.. Why? That is an easy question to answer. They have NO plan B to offer the people or to save the economy. And yet again they keep winning elections with no plans for the future other than to cut taxes.

Why? Another easy one to answer. The American people are so damn gullible that they believe the tax cuts that are promised will somehow benefit them and make their lives all the much better. HA HA HA! Dream on fools! It only helps those who do not need the help. Just like the newest stim plan. The average middle class worker will make an extra $13.oo per pay check–guess that means the vacation to Cancun is out of the question, huh?

The American people are ALWAYS foolish when they hear the word TAX CUT…that somehow they will benefit…they seldom do. Please Stop Lying To The American People!

Do you remember the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act? That is the recent stimulus plan that was passed by Congress with little support from the Party of “NO”, the GOP. Why no support? They wanted more tax relief. But the largest part of the plan is $288 billion is for tax relief, and is not that what the Repubs kept screaming about?

They, the GOP, got their way, they got their way on tax relief but yet they still would support the bill. Reality dictates that they would have supported the Act regardless what was put into it. It was never about the bill but rather the positioning for the next election in 2010.

Are You Listening?

To the flap trap BS of the GOP, RNC and conservatives…..you guys have an internal battle royale going on….right now between Steele and Rush…I guess these guys are the voice of conservatism right now…..if so then the GOP is in lots of trouble.

Steele is characterizing Rush as..an entertainer and ugly…Rush fires back and basically calls Steele a joke…..who will apologize first? My guess is it will be Steele.

All this name calling and capitalism promotion is doing NOTHING to help the GOP to find its way that it has lost during the Bush years. Oh yeah, they are all “fiscal conservatives”, but where was this concern on spending for the last 8 years. These guys are not concerned with the ailing economy…they trying to set up themselves for electoral victories in 201o.

The Repubs have NO idea how to fix the economy…they just know that they cannot agree with Obama and his plan. The only plan they can offer is a tax cuts…HAHAHA…what a plan…we had those for the last 8 years and look where we are now….a new plan needs to be found.

The GOP is not showing any leadership on the repair of the economy…they are showing that elections are more important than the lives of the people they should be representing.

GOP Has Declared War On Obama

From the very beginning of his administration, Pres. Obama has been fighting an uphill battle with the GOP. Regardless of the make nice words from the minority whips and leaders of both houses of congress, it is evident that it will be nothing but confrontation after confrontation. The Repubs have said it clearly that they want the president to succeed and that they are looking forward to working with him, but so far they have shown nothing but contempt for him and his attempts to try and use a bipartisan approach.

The cowards will not admit that they want Obama to fail and that they are willing to have him do so at the expense of the nation’s economy. The GOP and its talk show pundits are willing to have Americans lose jobs and homes and meals all in the name of partisan politics with the hopes that a presidential failure will return them to power in Congress.

Nothing is more important to the GOP than their position of power. And NOTHING will get in their way of their return to power, including the American people and their livelihood. The economy is being used as a weapon of mass destruction against the Dems and most importantly against Obama. They, the GOP, has no plan, other than their tired old tactics of the past, tax cuts, to offer the people, so they will attack everything tried by the new president in the hopes that something negative will stick. Even to go so far as to use a fictitious CBO report to make their case–in other words they will LIE to get their attack on.

But Wait! Did I call the Repubs cowards? Yes I did! And I will bet you would like me to justify that accussation…..alrighty then….The GOP is putting political party and the grab for power over the well-being of the economy and country…that is a cowardly thing to do. There is a time and a place for such a political war and now is neither the time or the place.

How About A Gag Order?—-Warning

Warning: This post may contain subject matter that some may find offensive. Read at your own risk.

Enough Assholes enough!

From now on both parties in the economic debate need to shut the fuck up! The stimulus plan has not divided the country–it is the media and paritsan politics. A gag order is seriously needed.

I will say that most, but not all, of the media is trying to give bot5h sides of the debate. Unfortunbately too many host are partisan and get a lot my air time than those who support the bill. The problem is that they do not present the news in away that would help the viewers understand what is going on with the bill. And some keep using the “I won” statement is just plain silly. It is hearsay or it would be posted on line by now. It is one of the main tools being used to divide the country. The economy is a trainwreck–we do not need more observers we need lots more EMS.

The division of the country is doing NO good–nothing is being accomplished, but some goddamn political game–The Dems as well as the Repubs are playing this moronic game of political tennis. They stuck a bunch of crap from the last 8 years into this bill–that is called partisanship. Incase you were wondering.

This game has got to stop if the economy is to ever get rolling again. Change has not come to Washington. It is the same shit, different adminstration—guess what? That is called partisanship!

Here is a piece of goddamn bi-partisanship–stop paying these assholes until they cease the political bullshit and work to solve the country’s problems. Here is anmother piece for the dipshits! Take all the spending parts out of the 675 pages, the parts that actually stimulate the economy, and pass them as a seperate bill. Then they can go back to playing the stupid little mindless bullshit we pay them for.

A GAG ORDER! Is the only answer. Or this slimy crap will continue ad nauseum!