The United Nations is a Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy.

Halfwits, nitwits, misfits, dipsticks, and meritless pinheads.  A vile cesspool of destructive self interested corruption. 

By Rich Kozlovich

 

I would like to start out by saying I didn't originate the title to this article.  It's is a quote from an article I read recently.  I got it from Dan Mitchell in his "Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy" series, who I think got it from the first Star Wars movie quoting Obi-Wan Kenobi (played by Alec Guinness) calling the community, Mos Eisley, a "wretched hive of scum and villainy".   And this should be the definition of the EU,ICC, UN, WEF, WHO, and a host of others international organizations and NGO's. 

That phrase is so rich in eloquently defining just how corrupt and vile the UN is I just had to use it, as the United Nations has turned out to be the Mos Eisley of international politics: 

 

"a wretched hive of scum and villainy". 

 

It's also no surprise the International Criminal Court demonstrates there's no such thing as an "international community, only national interests", most of which are based on corruption, self-interest and lies, and as far as I'm concerned, it's corrupt to the core!  Israel, as well as the United States aren't signatories of the Rome Statute agreement so the ICC has no jurisdiction in either nation, and there is no state of Palestine. 

 

When it was created there was fear this unaccountable court would become a tool of leftists and anti-Semites to attack Israel and the United States in order to promote antisemitic and leftist agendas.  They were right. They're an uncontrolled body that makes up it's own rules, and is in dire need of a good smack in the mouth, and I think it should be declared a terrorist organization.  

Recently the world's ruling class, most of them either thugs or leftist misfits, descended  on NYC to Rant at U.N. General Assembly, "North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin,  Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Vietnam’s communist dictator To Lam, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and socialist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Nepalese communist leader KP Sharma Oli will also be in attendance, as well as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron,  among others.

 

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who traditionally speaks first before the world leaders, has used the weekend prior to the event to pressure countries to adopt what is currently a 56-page international legal document known as the “Pact for the Future,” which would commit member nations to a massive global wealth redistribution plan intended to fund the U.N.’s “Agenda 2030” proposals to end poverty, racism, discrimination against women, and other social maladies...... presenting his 2024 priorities encompassing everything from global financial structures to climate control.

 

Totalitarian schemers each and every one of them.  

 

Guterres "despairs" the chaos "enveloping the world and guess who's fault it is?  You got it...It's the Jews fault!  Why?  They actually decided to make a real fight of it against Hamas, and winning, until they agreed to a cease fire, and another, and another, ad nauseum.  

 

Nothing seems to upset Guterres more than Israel winning with claims there's no end in sight for the fighting, and Israel's defense of their nation will “exponentially increase what is already a humanitarian nightmare with untold regional consequences”, calling for an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the unconditional release of all hostages.”   What he means is Hamas prisoners of war, not the innocent hostages captured by Hamas, who were starved, beaten, and murdered. 

 

Well he's not so stupid as to believe Hamas would give up those hostages unless forced to do so, and if they need humanitarian aid, let the Muslim world provide it, which they're not, which should make everyone ask why.   It's also interesting no one called for a cease fire until Israel started winning. 

 

 This Hamas war was part and parcel of Iran's "ring of fire" they created around Israel with someone attacking regularly, but this Hamas war has triggered backlash from Israel, and in spite of years of bombardment of civilian targets from Gaza and Lebanon UN “Experts” condemn Israel’s military operations in Lebanon.  All the while UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon are complicit in Hezbollah's murderous, criminal, and inhumane actions. 

 

Iran has been at war with Israel, the United States, and western civilization for almost fifty years, and no matter the provocations, nothing was done, but there's a new sheriff in town, and things are changing, changes that would have never taken place if Antony Blinken (More about Blinken here, and here.) and the entire misfit brigade of the Obama/Biden cabal was still in place.    

•  Trump’s Foreign Aid Suspension: A Good First Step to Disrupt USAID’s Terror Finance 

As for that ring of fire of Iranian proxy's around Israel.... they've been destroyed, and now Israel is destroying Iran, saving western civilization.  So, now it's time, at least in the demented minds of leftist academics and political analysts, for Israel to surrender and give the "Palestinians" whatever they want in order to stabilize the region.  Now who could find fault with that kind of logic and intelligence?   The rest of the Muslim world who think it's Iran that's the destabilizing force in the region, not Israel or the US. 

 

The fact is the UN is an antisemitic pro terrorist organization.  Hamas hostages were being held in UN compounds, they fed the lie about Gazans starving by blocking aid, they gave Hamas $1.3 billion in cash, and had does anyone have any they knew it would be used for buying weapons?  There was some "humanitarian" aid the UN didn't restrict, like the shipments of ammunition, and they even provided a bodyguard for a Hamas leader.  And no one in the UN administration noticed?  Remarkable!

 

Representative Stefanik "speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was asked to describe the UN in one word, and responded, "antisemitic,"', and has every intention to work at reviewing American funding to the UN.  I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that. 

1.  More UN 'peacekeeping' hypocrisy
2.  The Leftist History Behind The Creation of Arab ‘Palestinians’

It's also clear, at least to me, the UN is not only anti-white, anti-capitalism, anti-freedom of speech, and adamantly opposed to the US Constitution, it's anti-Christian.  There's all this false outrage over the lies about Gazan genocide, and the screams about Islamophobia, yet nothing is being done about slaughtered Christians in Nigeria,and the media is complicit in these outrages.  Here's a short list of the articles I've saved dealing with Christian persecution. Horrors for which the UN is complicit by it's lack of action, western civilization for ignoring these outrages, and the media for it's deliberate silence. 

1. Hundreds of Christians killed with ‘extreme cruelty.’
2. Over a Hundred More Christians Massacred by Islamists in Nigeria in Ongoing Genocide Campaign — Where is the Media Coverage?
3.  Beheaded for Belief: The Urgent Need to Protect Christians in the DRC
4.  Thousands of Christians Killed and Imprisoned for for Their Faith in 2024, Report Reveals
5.  6 Christians Slain by Radical Fulani Herdsmen in Nigeria
6. Study: Nearly 400 Million Christians Persecuted Globally, Islamism and Communism Main Drivers
7. Muslims Dump Killed Christian’s Body at Pakistan Hospital
8.  Yemen's Forgotten Christians
9. Where are the Christians of Bethlehem?
   
10. Killing Christians in Syria
11. ‘The Caliphate … Killed 41 Christians [Who] Were Stabbed with Knives’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians

Tell me again about all this Islamophobia I keep hearing about.  The world need to fear Islam, it's not a phobia, a delusion, it's a reality.   Lie to me again about how mankind is responsible for climate disasters that kill people all over the world.  Tell me again how the global fertility is in decline, so the UN's solution is to provide more contraceptives and more abortions.   

There are a two things we need to grasp, which would have been obvious over 50 years ago if not for the corruption of the media, and both political parties.  The UN want's to create a worldwide socialistic tyrannous system of government under their control using all their tentacles of propaganda and coercion.  

There are a two things we need to grasp, which would have been obvious over 50 years ago if not for the corruption of the media, and both political parties.  The UN want's to create a tyrannous worldwide socialistic system of government under their control using all their tentacles of propaganda, lies, and coercion.  

The covid disaster was one such effort, global warming is another, their 'Pact for the Future' would "dissolve national sovereignty" and identity, and impose mass migration from the third world to the first world, use the corrupt and fraudulent "science" of global warming to end energy development, control how food is grown.  Starvation is a powerful tool.  

Impose massive spending and debt on governments, forcible redistribute the world's wealth, and declare there's never enough money being distributed demanding more money from productive societies to give to crap hole nations run by corrupt tyrants.  

End fossil fuel production and use based on their fraudulent claims and science on global warming turning the world into medieval feudal societies.   Impose systems of welfare that places much of he world's population on government dole turning them all into the serfs of a modern system of feudalism, and call it justice.   

Have you ever wondered why the left in America is so hot to decriminalize theft, murder, rape, pedophilia, vandalism, squatter rights, and calling anyone who resists racists or white supremacists...well they got it from the far left cabal running the UN, and they're following the plan.... and it is planned.  

The World Health Organization demanded....demanded mind you.....the world give it a billion and a half dollars to handle emergencies.  Trump cut the funding to WHO dramatically, and ending their coup attempt at world domination via health crises, and given their positions of covid, probably fake.  Their Pandemic Treaty was adopted this year, but nations still  have to ratify it, and if adopted it will be an important tool to impose all the vile actions of the UN's Pact For the Future.   

Let's not be delusional, history is king, and history shows how UN got started,  and how it's always been anti-American, and FDR is largely responsible.  The UN's corruption can only  continue if the American taxpayer keep wasting billion on these monsters, and eighty years of that insanity is enough.  

House Judiciary Committee: UN Workers Resettled 77,000 Illegal Aliens on U.S. Taxpayer’s Dime   The Biden-Harris administration’s open borders policies are facing increased scrutiny after a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement report revealed an alliance with United Nations bureaucrats. The committee reported that U.S. taxpayer funding was directed to the salaries of UN bureaucrats who staffed migration....

We can withdraw from the U.N. and stop paying for its existence, but the global octopus has already spread its tentacles in every direction and all its babies have already reproduced and are embedded around the world at every government level.  Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh asks if a if a U.S. withdrawal from U.N. is a move too late?   No it isn't, better late than never, and that starts with ending the cash flow.  No cash, no octopus.   

James Bond, You Let us Down!

By Rich Kozlovich

Ian Fleming, who created James Bond, was also an intelligence agent serving in the British Royal Navy's Naval Intelligence Division during World War II playing a role in in covert operations, and his experiences played a role in the creation of the James Bond character, and the Bond stories.  As I read world events I have to wonder if he saw the fictional evil organizations he created in parallel with organizations that really do exist.  I believe he did.  

It turns out SPECTRE, a global criminal enterprise led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and SMERSH, a former Soviet counterintelligence agency, along with Quantum, a criminal syndicate are real.  Real in the sense they're representational parallels to those who really are trying to rule the world, and doing it through something called globalism.  Globalists are still trying to run the world.  The names may not be the same as Fleming's fictional organizations, but their goals are.  Let's call them the SPECTRE Cabal.

For years as I watched the world, I kept wondering what in the world are these wealthy and powerful people trying to accomplish by pushing globalism. Then I realized globalism was a front for a criminal cabal that James Bond failed to destroy, James Bond being a representative parallel character for those who are supposed to be standing for truth, justice and freedom. 

Globalism is nothing more than an effort to push the world into a socialist form of governance that would in effect be nothing more than a return to feudalism.  Whether you call them kings, or dictators, it's the rich and powerful controlling the peasants.

1. They tell us we should eat bugs to prevent global warming, and like it. 
2. They would force us to shelter in place, shut down our businesses, and accept experimental medicines to prevent the flu, all destroying the concept of individual liberties. 
3. They would tell us we have to live in clustered communities within walking distance to everything we need, making it easier to control everyone. 
4. They want to end car ownership, air travel without permission.
5. They want to eliminate cash so they can then control who could buy and sell depending on their political and/or religious views.
6. They would be the kings, and their lackeys would be the administrators who would be in charge of controlling the peasants.  In America they're called the FBI, CIA, and the Administrative state, etc.    

Starting with the United Nations, a "wretched hive of scum and villainy" if there ever was one.  I would like to start out by saying I didn't originate that phrase.  It's is a quote from an article I read.  I think I got it from Dan Mitchell in his "Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy" series, who I believe got it from the first Star Wars movie quoting Obi-Wan Kenobi (played by Alec Guinness) calling the community, Mos Eisley,  a "wretched hive of scum and villainy".   And that should be the definition not only the UN, but the EU, WEF, WHO, WTO, and a host of others.

That phrase is so rich in eloquently defining just how corrupt and vile the these groups are I just had to use it, as the United Nations and these others have turned out to be the Mos Eisley of international politics: 

 

"a wretched hive of scum and villainy". 

 

It's also no surprise the International Criminal Court demonstrates there's no such thing as an "international community, only national interests", most of which are based on corruption, self-interest and lies, and as far as I'm concerned, it's corrupt to the core!  Israel, as well as the United States aren't signatories of the Rome Statute agreement so the ICC has no jurisdiction in either nation, and there is no state of Palestine. 

 

When it was created there was fear this unaccountable court would become a tool of leftists and anti-Semites to attack Israel and the United States in order to promote antisemitic and leftist agendas.  They were right. They're an uncontrolled body that makes up it's own rules, and is in dire need of a good smack in the mouth, and I think it should be declared a terrorist organization.  

Recently the world's ruling class, most of them either thugs or leftist misfits, descended on NYC to Rant at U.N. General Assembly:

 

"North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin,  Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Vietnam’s communist dictator To Lam, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and socialist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Nepalese communist leader KP Sharma Oli will also be in attendance, as well as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron,  among others." 

 

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who traditionally speaks first before the world leaders, has used the weekend prior to the event to pressure countries to adopt what is currently a 56-page international legal document known as the “Pact for the Future,” which would commit member nations to a massive global wealth redistribution plan intended to fund the U.N.’s “Agenda 2030” proposals to end poverty, racism, discrimination against women, and other social maladies...... presenting his 2024 priorities encompassing everything from global financial structures to climate control.

 

Totalitarian schemes each and every one of them.  Their presentation of what the Pact For the Future is substantially different than reality, as described in this Pact for the Future article:

 

.....neither this Pact nor the agenda items embraced by its constituent “agreements” will surprise anyone who has been watching the clamoring effort by the UN, WEF, and WHO to consolidate power to global “experts,” especially since the Plandemic. What should alarm us is the veneer of legitimacy being conferred upon an effort to replace Western Civilization — the moral and economic aspirational model for human progress — with an unelected, unaccountable global governing body seeking to impose an ideologically warped, one-world global vision by coercion and force. 

 

Guterres "despairs" the chaos "enveloping the world and guess who's fault it is?  You got it...It's the Jews fault!  Why?  They actually decided to make a real fight of it, and were winning, at least until this latest cease fire.  That really upset Guterres claiming there's no end in sight for the fighting, and Israel's defense of their  nation, “exponentially increase what is already a humanitarian nightmare with untold regional consequences”, calling for an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the unconditional release of all hostages.”   

 

Well he wasn't so stupid as to believe Hamas would willingly give up those hostages, and if they need humanitarian aid, then let the Muslim world provide it, which they're not.  Why?   It's also interesting no one called for a cease fire until Israel started winning.  Why?

 

One of the groups who thinks they should be able to tell us how to live is the, Club Of Rome, another leftist out of control globalist movement that, "would restrict your ability to decide how you travel, what you eat, and how you live your life – all in the name of sustainability and the global economic system".   And who are they?  There are 100 members "selected from current and former heads of state and government, UN administrators, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe."   What could possibly go wrong?

One person commented the "Club of Rome are part of the vast network controlling the Blob. They are the depopulationist wing following Paul Ehrlich. They are evil to the core. Anti-humanists who must be thwarted by any and all means." 

Then there's the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Paris-based international bureaucracy is trying to become some sort of global tax enforcer for left-wing policy, which is substantially funded by American taxpayers.  

Never to be at the bottom of the list is the World Economic Forum, whose former Chairman thinks China is the finest example of good governance in the world.   

The International Monetary Fund thinks poor nations can grow faster if they raise taxes and increase the burden of government spending.

At one point W.H.O. demanded 1.5 Billion from world leader in order to handle emergencies.  They would become the de facto power over any decision as to what those emergencies are and what the world should do about them.  Which would be exactly the same "solutions" they promoted during the false covid "crisis".  A passport for tyranny.   Trump dropped funding to WHO, and now not only will they not be ruling the world, they're out of money.  Good.

• WHO Demands Slovakia Surrender Its Democracy—Prime Minister Fico Fires Back: No to the Tyrannical.
• RFK Urges Other Countries to Join the U.S. in Leaving the WHO: “We Don’t Have to Suffer the Limitations of a Dying WHO”
• RFK Jr.: U.S. and Argentina Are Building Alternative to W.H.O.

And the outlined plan for all of this?  COP 29, and that's not much different than COP 30, And they're insulted by the mere 250 billion dollars nations are willing to devote to the scientific fraud of climate change. They're wanting over a trillion a year in what can only be considered a form of reparations to third world nations for these false claims western civilization is responsible for climate change, which has caused them suffering, and western civilization needs to be punished.  

Welllll, it just ain't gonna happen folks, because in point of fact now we have a modern James Bond, and his name is Donald Trump, and he's made it clear, he's going to deal with the SPECTRE Cabal, and put an end to this corruption and this return to feudalism.   Will his efforts last? No! You have to know the left is like rust, it never sleeps, and never dies.  

While tyrants can be replaced, tyranny lives forever, and must be fought forever, so James Bond must also live forever.  

Western Society Will Be Destroyed Without a Commitment to Truth - American institutions are suffering from a collapse in public support. Among the institutions worst affected are government, the press and education. One could be forgiven for believing that government must be the most important, given its pervasiveness in our lives and its law enforcement powers; followed by the media, which -- of late -- does the government's bidding; and then perhaps education.

P&D and The Week That Was

Truth is the Sublime Convergence of History and Reality

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De Omnibus Dubitandum, (Everything is to be questioned!)

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By Rich Kozlovich

 

Well, just when you think it can't get any crazier, another week flies by and you find, you're wrong, it really can get crazier.   

The Longshoremen went on strike with their leader swearing to destroy America, and now we have a "temporary" return to work with a substantial pay increase.  But that's not the issue.  It's automation, and ultimately, that's a losing issue for the union. 

the federal prosecutor who isn't a federal prosecutor, going before a corrupt Trump hating judge is trying an end run around the Supreme Court's decision on Presidential Immunity, and as I read that I couldn't help be think of that scene in a Few Good Men where:

Lt. Weinberg: [sarcastically to Joanne with Danny present, in an empty courtroom after the trial has been adjourned for the day] "I strenuously object?" Is that how it works? Hm? "Objection." "Overruled." "Oh, no, no, no. No, I STRENUOUSLY object." "Oh. Well, if you strenuously object then I should take some time to reconsider."

All these cases against Trump are collapsing.   The review of the cases in New York aren't going well for the prosecutors with the appeals court in effect asking how can there be a crime of fraud if no one is a victim?  In Georgia the prosecutor, and her paramour may even end up in prison.  And it seems clear to me there will be a RICO investigation over all this if Trump is elected.  

Israel has in effect told Biden, Blinkin, the UN, the EU to take their advice and shove it, and declared this is a win or die war for them.  Neither Russia or Iran officially declared war on Ukraine and Israel, and the UN doesn't seem to mind that, but when Israel strikes back, they must use restraint, agree to a cease fire, and a two state solution.  Their goal? The destruction of Israel and they just can't seem to understand why Netanyahu won't go along with that.  Bibi gets it, this is a do or die war.

Robin Itzler added an interesting chuckle fest side bar in her weekly newsletter about those pagers and walkie-talkies that either seriously wounded or killed over 3000 Hezhollah fanatics.  It turns out they were invented by Irving "Al" Gross, a Jew.

As for Lebanon, it seemed to me the only answer was to break Lebanon up into separate countries, Christian and Muslim.  I asked one of my geopolitical experts who I correspond with occasionally if that was a potential?  His answer: 

Lebanese Christians are already demanding federalism. They have come to the conclusion that Greater Lebanon, which was declared in 1920 by General Henry Gouraud, French General Commissioner for the Levant, has failed. 

Are Republicans actually getting smart about debates?  Trump won't sit for an interview with 60 Minutes, and the poor little muff muffs are whining about it, at least until they apologize. 

They came to me and would like me to do an interview, but first I want to get an apology because the last time I did an interview with them, if you remember, they challenged me on the computer. They said the laptop from hell was from Russia. And I said it wasn’t from Russia, it was from Hunter [Biden]. And I never got an apology, so I’m sort of waiting. I’d love to do 60 Minutes. I do everything. … The laptop from hell was from Hunter. It wasn’t from [Russia]. … If you remember, Lesley Stahl, we got into a little bit of an argument … and they really owe me an apology. … Let’s see if they do it. I wouldn’t mind doing 60 Minutes.

 

Two things.  The Pravda media is toast, ignoring them is ascendant, attacking them is on the rise, and any debates from this point on should be orchestrated by conservatives picking the moderators, none of which should ever again be lying, corrupt Pravda media hacks.  And if they don't like it, tell them to shove it.  And even with the corruption by the media, both Kamala and Walz looked like dimwits.

Putin's again threatening to use nukes, as he's done over and over again, but recently I've discovered, at least the claim is when this broke out the US warmed Putin if he did use nukes every Russian asset around the world would be destroyed with conventional forces.  If that's true that would explain much of what he's doing lately in an attempt to show he's not afraid of such an action.  He is afraid.  His economy is in trouble, China's is in trouble, their societies are upset at their leadership.  

As for Zelenskyy (correct spelling) his con has run it's course, and his stand of no compromise will end or Ukraine will cease to exist.  Based on Europe's economic woes, and Trump's view of this whole thing, the funding is going to dry up, and soon. Biden has agreed to give him eight billion dollars, all most likely untracked, as has been the pattern, but he says he has no money for the victims of hurricane Helena.  Good thinking on Biden's part just before an election.  But given his history, Kamala's history, Walz's history, and the history of the Democrat party, why are we surprised? 

This week I have six commentaries of my own and eighteen by others, with the four permanent links.  Fall is here, winter is on the way, most of my projects are finished, and it's time to start working the ground for fall planting, and I like that, as even a newsie like me can only stand so much. 

Enjoy today's offerings, and remember warm memories never wear out their welcome in our lives.  Have a warm memory weekend.

My Commentaries

1. Mark Brown: Did He or Didn't He?
2. The Longshoreman Strike and Automation
3. Well, It's Started, The Third Lebanon War
4. Ya Just Can't Make This Stuff Up!
5. Will This Stolen Election Create a Third Party?  
6. Avoiding the Ranks of the Insane  

Commentaries

1. The Missing Factors of Jack Smith’s Latest Trump Filing By Mark Angelides
2. It's Time the Legal System Went After Obama By Susan Daniels
3. State courts should not be writing US climate laws  By Paul Driessen
4. Critically Thinking about "My Body My Choice" By John Droz, Jr.
5. A Longshoreman Strike Is Bad for America – But Worse for Kamala By James Fite
6. FEMA’s DEI Crippled Hurricane Helene Response By Daniel Greenfield
7. Here's Where the 2024 Election Stands By Robin Itzler
8. Jews Get Out, and Catholics Don't Matter By Robin Itzler
9. Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, The Democrat Party, and the Bill of Rights By Robin Itzler
10. The Greater "Threat To Democracy", Part III -- Democrats Rule Even If Republicans Win By Francis Menton
11. More On The Adams Indictment By Francis Menton
12. Growth Should Trump Envy By Dan Mitchell
13. Dependency Nation By Dan Mitchell
14. Social Security: Debunking the Debunking By Dan Mitchell
15. Never-Ending Statism Is Responsible for India’s Dismal Economic Outlook By Dan Mitchell
16. The Depressing Saga of Cuban Socialism By Dan Mitchell
17. Did Iran Make a Mistake It Can’t Take Back? By Dave Patterson
18. Cotton Candy or Salt? By Rob Pue

Permanent Links

1. 45 Communist Goals to Destroy America as Listed in the 1963 Congressional Record
2. My Seven Rules of Geopolitics
3. The John Boyd Legion of Honor
   
4. An Analysis: Senate Race 2024 and More

Constant as the North Star

You know that voice in your head that keeps you from saying the things you shouldn't say?  Yeah, well, I don't have that!    We need to question everything because everything we're told should bear some resemblance to what we see going on in reality!  Much of what we're told does not!