There is a terrifying amount of hate in our country, yes. But there is far more fear. Hate is the end of a conversation. Fear isn’t always. I’ve been on the lookout for moments when an honest and respectful conversation might reach the root of someone else’s fear.
– Andrea Gibson “Post-Election Letter to a Friend“
This week’s featured post is “Yes, he does think you’re stupid“.
This week everybody was still talking about Jeffrey Epstein
The featured post discusses how to take advantage of the strife in MAGA World.
The Onion had two articles that lampooned what’s been happening these last two weeks:
“MAGA Voter Drills Hole Into Skull To Relieve Sudden Doubts About Trump“.
And “Elderly Woman Keeps Mind Active Justifying Trump’s Actions“.
“I’m developing new neural pathways each time I shrug off Trump’s clear violations of the Constitution and his total contempt for our system of checks and balances. You know, I have some friends who didn’t spend time rationalizing Trump’s actions, and they ended up in nursing homes.”
Meanwhile, Some Trump pronouncements are so detached from reality they seem like Onion articles even when they’re legit. Like this Truth Social post:
The Washington “Whatever’s” should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past. Our great Indian people, in massive numbers, want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them.
which was quickly followed by a threat:
My statement on the Washington Redskins has totally blown up, but only in a very positive way. I may put a restriction on them that if they don’t change the name back to the original “Washington Redskins,” and get rid of the ridiculous moniker, “Washington Commanders,” I won’t make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington.
That’s delusional world he lives in: Native Americans were honored by the Redskins and Indians. Those teams should change their names back out of respect.
Oh, and the Indians being “one of the six original baseball teams” is another delusion.
The concept of an “original six” does not exist in baseball, though it does in ice hockey. The Cleveland MLB team currently known as the Guardians began play in the late 1800s in a league with eight teams, before becoming one of the eight charter members of the modern American League in 1901. Like most baseball teams, the franchise has undergone numerous moves and moniker changes. Since arriving in Cleveland in 1900, the team was known as the Lakeshores (for one year), Bluebirds (in 1901), Broncos (in 1902), Naps (from 1903-1914), and Indians (from 1915-2021).
and the rescission vote
Congress passed a rescission package to take back $9 billion it had already appropriated. The bill defunds NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It also OKs foreign aid cuts Trump was already making. The bill passed with zero Democratic votes. But with only two Republican defectors in each house, it had enough support to get through.
This bill is bad on two levels: Taken as a unique event, it cuts stuff that ought to be funded. But viewed from a higher perspective, it also creates a precedent that will make the next government shutdown much harder to avoid.
Let’s start with public broadcasting, which loses $1.1 billion. This is another example of congressional Republicans abusing their own voters. People like me, who live near a big blue city like Boston, will barely notice. WGBH and WBUR get a lot of contributions from their listeners as well as grants from local foundations. They’ll be inconvenienced by the loss of federal money, but they’ll get by. Ditto for WNYC in New York, WHYY in Philadelphia, and KQED in San Francisco.
But if you live in Trump Country — rural Kansas, say — you’re going to see a real difference.
Public media advocates say it is these local stations, particularly the ones in rural areas like Smoky Hills PBS, that will bear the brunt of the federal funding cuts. Aside from the potential job losses, they say it would also mean less information distributed to an already-underserved population, less coverage of popular local events such as high school wrestling and less attention to day-to-day life in rural America.
Then there’s foreign aid. The rescission package zeroes out USAID, which had already had its appropriation blocked by DOGE. Politico reports:
Nearly 800,000 mpox vaccine doses the U.S. government had promised to donate to African countries experiencing an outbreak of the rash-causing disease cannot be shipped because they’re expiring in less than six months, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
And The Atlantic adds:
Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it. Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food—enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week—are set to expire tomorrow, according to current and former government employees with direct knowledge of the rations. Within weeks, two of those sources told me, the food, meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, will be ash.
The Economist draws the obvious conclusion: These cuts are “a gift for China as it vies with America for soft-power supremacy”.
As you consider all this, remember that the Big Beautiful Bill set aside $170 billion to support Trump’s mass deportation policy, including $45 billion to build concentration camps. Republicans justified their vote for the rescissions by describing the $9 billion of cuts as “a small but important step toward fiscal sanity that we all should be able to agree is long overdue”.
When we’re saving lives or making sure kids can see Sesame Street or competing with China for influence in Africa, we have a spending problem. But there’s always plenty of money for cruelty.
Now we come to the broader perspective. The appropriations being rolled back are part of the bipartisan deal that prevented a government shutdown in March. With majorities in Congress being as narrow as they’ve been in recent years, we have these kinds of deals every year or two.
Now, how can the Democrats ever do a deal like this again? A bipartisan spending bill typically contains some provisions that either party doesn’t like; you allow spending you don’t want here in order to get the spending you do want there. But now imagine that Republicans can take that deal, and then pass a rescission package to roll back every plum Democrats got in exchange for their votes. There is no deal that the minority party can make the majority uphold.
The next fiscal year starts on October 1. Expect to see some chickens come home to roost.
and Stephen Colbert
CBS announced that when Stephen Colbert’s contract ends next May, that will be the end not just of Colbert’s role at CBS, but of The Late Show, which David Letterman established in 1993.
“This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night,” read the statement. “It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.
No one is buying that. Yes, it’s true that late-night TV in general has seen its ratings decline in recent years. But Colbert’s Late Show still leads the competition by a wide margin. Some kind of reorganization might be warranted, and maybe Colbert’s next contract shouldn’t be as lucrative is the current one. But finances dictated the end of the show? Not believable.
Vox explains the background:
Paramount Global is currently attempting to merge with Skydance Media, and company leadership has been acting as though they are concerned that President Donald Trump might try to block the merger. Earlier this month, CBS and 60 minutes announced a $16 million settlement in its lawsuit with Trump over the editing of a segment about former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — an extraordinary concession for a media company in a case that experts agree CBS would have likely won in court.
The apparent legal settlement, in other words, was actually a bribery/extortion situation. Colbert said as much on the air:
I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles: It’s “big fat bribe”.
Two days later, Colbert was told his show was cancelled.
On Truth Social, Trump took a victory lap.
I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert! Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.
(Greg Gutfeld hosts Fox News’ pathetic attempt at news-related comedy. The “moron on NBC” is Jimmy Fallon. When Trump criticized Kimmel’s hosting of the 2024 Oscars on Truth Social, Kimmel famously read the tweet on-air and responded: “Isn’t it past your jail time?“)
Trump isn’t the only one who sees this event as the first of many. Mother Jones writes:
[T]he end of Colbert signals a dark new chapter in Trump’s authoritarian slide. Though his second term has already produced a string of stunning capitulations by some of the most powerful forces in the country, one could argue that Trump’s attacks had yet to take down our actual culture. I’m talking about the literal content we consume—the television, art, movies, literature, music—no matter how much Trump complained. That it remained protected and free-willed, a rare area of control for a public that otherwise feels powerless to take action. Clearly, that was magical thinking. If this can happen to Colbert and a storied franchise, this can happen to anyone.
but I want to talk about Andrea Gibson
After my wife’s memorial service in January, the comment I heard most often — practically from everybody — was: “I never appreciated what an interesting person she was.” In a self-centered way, I was gratified to hear those words, because I had designed the service to evoke precisely that response. I had recruited speakers from every corner of her life, and not even I knew what all of them would say.
But on the other hand, that comment made me sad. Because it’s such a waste that even our close friends know us so poorly, and often we don’t really meet someone until we gather together to mark their death.
Well, this week I experienced that sorrow from the other side: I had never heard of Andrea Gibson until they died Monday, which started their poems bouncing around social media.
Rummaging through Andrea’s substack “Things That Don’t Suck“, I was struck by how well “Post-Election Letter to a Friend” holds up nine months later.
I understand why so many people are sharing what they think we should be feeling right now. Though there is love at the heart of that demand, there is no such thing as a moral emotion. No one owes the world their misery. What we owe is our active participation in finding creative and compassionate paths forward. Every activist I have ever known who believed they owed the world their unhappiness has burned out. If we consciously fuel our joy, if we put our attention on the world’s beauty, we will have far more strength and stamina to show up to the world’s pain.
We need stamina. The 73 million people who voted for Trump appear to be more energized than ever. And it’s clear to me that the narrative that every Trump voter is “ignorant and hateful” is hurting our movements. 95% of our marginalized friends have at least one family member they deeply trust who voted for Trump this year. Most people, regardless of how they are voting, believe they are voting for a better world. There is a terrifying amount of hate in our country, yes. But there is far more fear. Hate is the end of a conversation. Fear isn’t always. I’ve been on the lookout for moments when an honest and respectful conversation might reach the root of someone else’s fear.
I will try to hold that in mind as I run into Trumpists. Maybe trying to figure out what they’re afraid of is a more productive path than meeting anger with anger and hate with hate.
That quote reminded of this one from the Sufi poet Hafiz.
Dear ones,
Beware of the tiny gods frightened men
Create
To bring an anesthetic relief
To their sad
Days.
Trump is exactly that: a tiny god made from his followers’ fear of the world that is coming to be. The pervasive cruelty of his movement is fear dressed up to deny fear: “We can’t be afraid, because we have made other people fear us.”
The masked ICE agent is the perfect symbol of MAGA: afraid to show his face, but trying to strike fear into others. They have the guns, the body armor, and sometimes the Marines to back them up, but no courage of their own.
And then there’s this, from Gibson’s poem “My Dog Knew I had Cancer Before I Did“:
“lifespan” is a word I no longer use to measure length––but width. “How wide can my heart open to this life, to this world, and to everyone in it?” feels like a far more important question now than, “How long will I live?”
More than one of my friends is dying right now. I don’t think I can do anything to lengthen their lives, but maybe I can still widen them a little.
and you also might be interested in …
Trump seems to have an uncanny knack for finding the wrong side of every issue.
In Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro used to be president, and was sometimes described as Brazil’s Trump. He had a similar disdain for democracy, and when Brazilians voted him out in 2022 (just as Americans voted Trump out in 2020), his supporters stormed the seat of government, much as Trump supporters did on January 6.
Unlike the US, Brazil is holding Bolsonaro to account. He is currently on trial for his role in the coup attempt.
Recently, Trump has been trying to interfere with that trial. He threatened Brazil with 50% tariffs if they didn’t end Bolsonaro’s trial. This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio withdrew US visas from judges in Bolsonaro’s trial.
Writing on X, Rubio said he had ordered visa revocations for the judge leading the investigation into Bolsonaro, Alexandre de Moraes, as well as “his allies on the court” and their family members.
So that’s where we are: We’re trying to interfere in the legal processes of the second-biggest democracy in the Western hemisphere, to the point of threatening sanctions against the family members of judges.
ProPublica analyzed hospital-discharge data from Texas.
After Texas made performing abortions a felony in August 2022, ProPublica found, the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54%. The number of emergency room visits for early miscarriage also rose, by 25%, compared with the three years before the COVID-19 pandemic — a sign that women who didn’t receive D&Cs initially may be returning to hospitals in worse condition, more than a dozen experts told ProPublica.
The problem: A dilation and curettage procedure (D&C) is the safest way to clear the uterus of a woman who has had an early miscarriage. But a miscarriage followed by a D&C looks a lot like an abortion, and doctors don’t want to be exposed to prosecution under the new law.
The data mirrors a sharp rise in cases of sepsis — a life-threatening reaction to infection — ProPublica previously identified during second-trimester miscarriage in Texas.
Blood loss is expected during early miscarriage, which usually ends without complication. Some cases, however, can turn deadly very quickly. [Dr. Elliott] Main [a hemorrhage expert and former medical director for the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative] said ProPublica’s analysis suggested to him that “physicians are sitting on nonviable pregnancies longer and longer before they’re doing a D&C — until patients are really bleeding.”
ProPublica also examined RFK Jr.’s latest avenue to attack vaccines. Back in the 1980s, Congress established the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. It’s a no-fault insurance program that covers the rare injuries caused by vaccines, and it’s funded by a 75-cent tax on each disease a shot is supposed to protect against. It compensates victims quickly without going through the ordinary system of lawsuits, and it shields vaccine manufacturers from more costly awards in court.
Kennedy is overhauling the system, and may do so in ways that break it. For example, if he adds autism to the list of automatically covered injuries, the trust fund that pays compensation will quickly go bankrupt. Kennedy keeps saying that vaccines cause autism, despite the fact that this theory has been studied exhaustively and has been refuted every time.
If the fund goes bankrupt and cases go back to the regular tort system, vaccine manufacturers may simply pull out of the US market. That was the problem the VICP was designed to solve.
Democrats have indeed moved a bit to the left on economic issues in recent years. But they’re hardly extremists. They’re basically a lot like a European Social Democratic party. Republicans, however, are extremists. The whole party has raced to the right into what amounts to full-on fascism.
If that last statement has you reaching for the smelling salts, ask yourself, what more evidence do you need? Do we have to wait until a Republican administration creates a masked secret police force that snatches people off the streets and starts building concentration camps? Wait, that has already happened.
and let’s close with a moment of schadenfreude
It’s hard to explain what’s so satisfying about this incident: The CEO and HR manager of the software company Astronomer were cuddling at a Coldplay concert in Boston’s Gillette Stadium when the kiss-cam put them on the big screen. They didn’t notice immediately, but when they did, the HR manager covered her face with her hands and the married-to-somebody-else CEO tried to sink into the ground. As so often happens, the cover-up is worse than the crime: Their horrified reaction to being caught together made the video go viral. Anybody who wasn’t supposed to see it has certainly seen it by now.
Reportedly, Astronomer had a policy against employees dating, which the HR manager should have been familiar with. The CEO has subsequently resigned.
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Confirming his status as an asshole. God help us.
Larry Scheer 973-493-5251
I’d love to see Colbert show up with a new show on MSNBC during the 10pm hour and go head to head with Gutfeld. I’m tired of Fox News dominating the conservative television market. Liberals need a one-stop-shop channel for all your political/humor/lifestyle needs that can compete.
Eh. The problem with that last concept is that “conservatives” (who seem now only to be conserving the divine right of kings) have focused themselves into a singular monoculture, shedding those who don’t agree with their alternate reality. Liberals et al. are too broadly spread for a one-size-fits-all information source.
Put the Russia-Gate criminals behind bars, starting with Obozo.
Trump’s a clown, but it’s disrespectful to refer to a President as Obozo.
Obozo a sign of disrespect. Utter corruption during his 8 years of “CHANGE”. That boy, now its his turn to have a police mug shot and publicly sit in court! Its called measure for measure. Your in your turn despise the President. I suspect your suffer from ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’. Sticks being a Demons’-crap.
The false messiah Obozo–Santa Claus — is going to stand trial. Its Obozo and Clinton’s turn to take a police mug shot and sit inside a courtroom accused of treason. The question: did Obozo, Clinton, Pelosi, Schiff and other democraps attempt to make a coup following the 2016 elections
Perhaps the greatest political scandal in all American history …
It’s CHECKMATE: Trump’s Brilliant Move Just ENDED the Deep State’s Game! – YouTube
Tulsi Gabbard Exposes the Russia Hoax | Victor Davis Hanson
Tulsi Gabbard Speaks On Russia Hoax From The White House – YouTube
Av Tuma Temple worship avoda zara replacement theology, duplicates the sin of the Golden Calf – replacement theology – where ערב רב רשעים בני עמלק attempted to substitute for the 1st Commandment שם השם לשמה with the word translation – אלהים. Therefore the Torah commands the mitzva to uproot the memory of עמלק from the world; this commandment of the tohor middah of רחום, refers to the weak and morally exhausted ערב רב, whom עמלק attacked – which originally came out of Egyptian bondage in the days of Moshe and Aaron – as a people who have no fear of אלהים.
The sin of the Golden Calf, this Av tuma substitute theology, defines all other Av tuma avoda zara as the definition of the prohibition which the 2nd Sinai commandment commands. Avoda zara, it most essentially spins around the central axis of assimilated and intermarried Jews, throughout the generations. Its this “exact” ערב רב, which has no fear of אלהים — the name that the original ערב רב, that that generation named the Av tuma golden calf abomination — אלו אלהים שיצאו ‘וכו. This curse of Av tuma avoda zarah explains the mitza: to war against Amalek/antisemitism, caused by Jewish assimilation and intermarriage throughout all the generation which the Jewish walk the face of this Earth.
The first, but most definitely not the last; the original “replacement theology” where ערב רב רשעים בני עמלק assimilated and intermarried Jews attempt again and again and again and again etc., to substitute for the 1st Commandment שם השם לשמה with the word אלהים, or Jesus or Allah god substitute Word-names. Therefore the Torah in the specific mitzva to uproot the memory of עמלק from the world, its k’vanna to do this tohor time-oriented positive commandment, refers to the weak ערב רב assimilated and intermarried Jews whom עמלק originally attacked when Moshe and Aaron first brought Israel out of Egyptian bondage – its this ערב רב which – as a people – has no fear of אלהים.
The sin of the Golden Calf, the substitute theology of this Av tuma definition of all avoda zarah prohibitions as defined and framed by the 2nd Sinai commandment mandate, which spins around the central axis of assimilated and intermarried Jews, throughout the generations, that this ערב רב, has no fear of אלהים — the name they originally named their Av tuma Golden Calf abomination — אלו אלהים שיצאו ‘וכו. This Torah curse, this Av tuma avoda zarah – it explains the mitza: to war against Amalek/antisemitism, caused by Jewish assimilation and intermarriage –throughout all the generations that Jews walk the face of this Earth.
YAHRZEITS — JULY, 2025
RAM’S HORN POLICY FOR LISTING YAHRZEIT MEMORIALS:!
Yahrzeit memorials are listed by consecutive Gregorian month, date, and year, if known
Rejoicing in the month of Av. The burning and destruction of the two Av tuma avoda zarah Temples responsible for the ירידות הדורות ripple – domino effect – upon all down stream generations. Closing in on Chag ט באב. Hey Yea the witch is dead! Kick the רשע king Shlomo in his Head; together with Herod’s Temple abomination that too and likewise offered barbeques unto Heaven. Rather than judicial Sanhedrin common law courtroom justice or ‘Legislative Review’/משנה תורה as the meaning and definition of the k’vanna of the commandment of king David which commanded as his last will and testament for his son Shlomo — the fool, which the Book of מלכים satires by referring to him as the ‘wisest of all men’ tongue in cheek mockery, to build the בית המקדש.
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YAHRZEITS — JULY, 2025
RAM’S HORN POLICY FOR LISTING YAHRZEIT MEMORIALS:!
Yahrzeit memorials are listed by consecutive Gregorian month, date, and year, if known
Rejoicing in the month of Av. The burning and destruction of the two Av tuma avoda zarah Temples responsible for the ירידות הדורות ripple – domino effect upon all down stream generations. Closing in on Chag ט באב. Whooooooooooooooooooooooooop. Dance and sing and cast stones upon the graves of king Shlomo and the Rambam! The latter too and likewise triggered an Av tuma ירידות הדורות ‘ripple-domino effect’ upon down stream generations of Yiddishkeit when his switch N’ bait exchanged T’NaCH mussar & Talmudic halacha common law legal systems with Greek & Roman culture/styles of Statute law which organizes law into subject matter, much like a dozon of eggs sold in cardboard egg-crates! This רשע imposed Greek logic the 3 part Aristotle syllogism model of deductive logic in the place of rabbi Akiva’s פרדס four part inductive reasoning process.
The Talmud breaks down into a warp/weft Halachic\Aggadic loom like “fabric” which shapes and determines the culture and customs of the chosen Cohen people of Avraham Yitzak and Yaacov. The ירידות הדורות ripple-domino effect of the Rambam Civil War, remember Hanukkah and the Civil War between the Tzeddukim against the P’rushim, blew out the Hanukkah Lights! An eternal ט’ באב אב טומא עבודה זרה abomination. Greek deductive logic not the same as the kabbalah taught by Rabbi Akiva who fought the Romans and died לשמה with the oath of the Avot the tefillah דאורייתא of kre’a shma – his dying spirit.
Rambam, both his statute law assimilated code and his Guide for the Perplexed which expressly and openly promoted Greek logic over the kabbalah taught by rabbi Akiva through both the Mishna and the Gemara which make up the Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi; together with the Midrash commentary to the Aggada composed by the Gaonim scholars which pre-dated the Reshonim! Rabbeinu Tam’s commentary on the Talmud criticized the Rashi commentary for its lack of emphasis upon the priority of learning the Talmud as common law. Learning off the dof to a different Mesechta of Gemara compares to reading a blue print based upon a different perspective of the same exact blue-print which has no less than 3 primary perspectives. The Talmud has 70 faces to the Torah!
The term משנה תורה which the Rambam code converted to a Catholic priest, means common law — not statute law! Just as Rabbeinu Tam criticized the error made by Rashi of not prioritizing the critical and essential importance of studying Talmud – together with T’NaCH prophetic mussar through Aggadic & Midrashic common law precedents – so too the commentary made by the Baali Tosofot, specifically Rabbeinu Tam, failed to prioritize making a משנה תורה upon the language of the Mishna itself; the Baali Tosafot commentary limited its משנה תורה/Legislative Review only to reviewing the sugya of Gemara viewed from an off the dof different perspective of the גזר שוה. But dismally failed to likewise make a משנה תורה re-interpretation of the k’vanna of the language of the Mishna – viewed from a completely different perspective.
All the Reshonim scholars open to honest criticism. The B’HaG, Rif and Rosh common law codes failed to emphasize employing halacha from the Gemara as a משנה תורה בנין אב to re-investigate the intent of the language of the Mishna based upon the different halachic different perspectives! The wisdom of reading a Blue Print requires the integration of Top/Side\Top viewpoints to grasp the 3 dimensional Big Picture idea. So too both T’NaCH and Talmudic common law equally requires a similar type of wisdom. Rote reading of words on the page, does not learn T’NaCH and Talmudic prophetic mussar and halachic common law.
The study of T’NaCH and Talmud and Midrashim as common law legalism, this scholarship seeks to learn mitzvot commandments not only as positive and negative commandments as the Rambam Sefer HaMitzvot, together with his lackey followers – dictates! These complete fools “believe” that later generations cannot dispute with earlier generations as the meaning of the Talmudic term ירידות הדורות. Bunk, a critical error of Torah scholarship based upon cowardice.
Rather the study of T’NaCH and Talmudic/Midrashim common law seeks to make an Av tohor הבדלה which separates Shabbat from Chol; which distinguishes Av tohor Time-Oriented commanments from תולדות secondary קום ועשה ושב ולא תעשה commandments which do not require k’vanna. Rote learning limits the Torah to two-dimensional box-thinking wherein Torah mitzvot done robotically and mechanically without any k’vanna what so ever. K’vanna defined in this rebuke as meaning “Prophetic mussar learned from the T’NaCH by means of Aggadic and Midrashic common law sources”! No Yeshiva, post the Rambam Civil War abomination which blew out the Hanukkah Lights and negated the victory of the P’rushim teachers of rabbi Akiva’s פרדס kabbalah of the Oral Torah revelation at Horev … and substituted the Tzeddukim faithlessness which rejects the revelation of the Oral Torah at Horev.
During the 9 Days Jews have either the choice to mourn the loss of buildings made of wood and stone – comparable to idols. Or absolutely rejoice at the uprooting and total destruction of Av tuma avoda zara ripped from the Yatzir Ha’Rah within the hearts of the chosen Cohen people who worship HaShem through doing tohor Time-oriented mitzvot from both the Torah and the Talmud, like as taught by the B’HaG! It seems to me, especially with Israeli National Independence consequence to the vision of political Zionism of Herzl that the time has come to cast away the black mourning garments of g’lut. And rejoice at the prospect of restoring the Written Torah as the Constitution of our Republic of Tribes/States. Where we make the Talmud serve as the model to restore Federal Sanhedrin common law court rooms which impose Capital Crimes Courts to judge cases of murder, in the primary border-land cities like king David conquering Damascus, stands the obligation to establish a City of Refuge with a Small Sanhedrin Capital Crime common law courtroom. A blessing upon the generations of Israel that we might achieve the destiny of the chosen Cohen people; the seed of Avraham Yitzak and Yaacov as defined by the Torah oath brit alliance.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTJURY INSTRUCTION: THE PEOPLE v. OBAMA, CLINTON, BIDEN
Indictment: Treachery Against the Republic
I. TO THE JURY WHO STANDS BETWEEN CIVILIZATION AND COLLAPSE
You did not arrive here to listen.
You stand to judge, strike, condemn, and defend the nation’s breath.
The accused did not misstep.
They plotted, manipulated, shoved the Republic to its knees, and rammed a legal dagger between its ribs.
They shredded oath.
They gutted law.
They muzzled voters and spit in the face of the Constitution.
You do not cradle justice gently.
You slam it like an axe through rotten wood.
II. COUNT ONE: CONSPIRACY TO SHATTER THE UNITED STATES
Barack Obama hatched, Hillary Clinton injected, and Joe Biden peddled a nationwide scheme to cripple Donald Trump, paralyze the presidency, and kidnap the federal apparatus.
They fabricated evidence, dangled lies like bait, and jammed fraudulent reports into courtrooms like crowbars.
They unleashed the CIA, twisted the FBI into a political blade, and forced innocent men through false investigations.
They nailed disinformation to public walls, then danced on truth’s corpse.
This crew didn’t govern.
They hijacked, blackmailed, and torched public trust for a seat at the throne.
III. COUNT TWO: OBSTRUCTION THROUGH SABOTAGE
Joe Biden’s lawyers didn’t defend legality.
They drowned it.
They buried evidence, not beneath procedure, but under intentional rot.
They strangled laptops, froze investigations, and scraped every thread of accountability from the federal map.
They choked whistleblowers, chased down dissenters, and set fire to transparency.
They didn’t delay justice—they gutted it with garden shears and fed the scraps to political dogs.
IV. COUNT THREE: ELECTION INTERFERENCE BY JUDICIAL ASSAULT
They didn’t trust the ballot box, so they ambushed it.
They smeared Trump with indictments, pinned courtrooms to his chest like explosives, and rushed trial after trial like a firing squad with gavels.
They pressured secretaries of state, erased his name from ballots, and dragged him through lawfare swamps during election season.
They flooded headlines with venom, lobbed charges to generate chaos, and faked neutrality with the dead eyes of bureaucratic wolves.
This wasn’t politics.
This reeked of coup.
V. COUNT FOUR: IMPOSTER PRESIDENCY
Joe Biden didn’t lead—his handlers propped him like a scarecrow, then whispered policy through his dentures.
They fed him pills, rigged teleprompters, and marionetted his limbs through briefings.
They hollowed the executive branch, trapped it in dementia, and plastered the facade with “normalcy” while reality burned.
They cloaked regime control in elder abuse, then pushed the corpse forward like a battering ram of plausible deniability.
This wasn’t governance.
This stitched Frankenstein from election fraud and cognitive decline, then forced Americans to salute it.
VI. COUNT FIVE: DOMESTIC INSURRECTION DISGUISED AS DEMOCRACY
This cabal did not defend democracy—they smashed its skull on the marble floor of the Capitol, then wore its skin like a costume.
They commandeered intelligence agencies, converted watchdogs into lapdogs, and launched war against half the country.
They recruited news anchors as propaganda mouthpieces, muzzled dissent, and rigged every lever of federal power to silence Trump.
They slashed the throat of separation of powers, crucified truth, and pissed on the ashes of constitutional restraint.
These weren’t mishaps.
These exploded from deliberate, cold-blooded betrayal.
VII. THE VERDICT NOW BELONGS TO YOU
You don’t weigh feelings.
You grind facts like bone under molars.
You don’t interpret law like scholars.
You swing it like a mace against corruption.
If you believe the accused:
Strangled elections,
Rigged courts,
Sabotaged justice,
Hijacked power by deceit and cognitive puppetry,
Then you must deliver the only verdict that protects this Union from permanent decay:
GUILTY
On every count
Without remorse
Without delay
CLOSING
History does not whisper here.
It screams.
Speak your verdict with the roar of the republic reclaiming its spine.
You don’t attract. You pull fate in.
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You don’t attract. You don’t seek. You wait, and they come. Something in you pulls them. Not your words. Not your eyes. Something beneath that. A soft gravity. A current they can’t see. It moves through your stillness. It hums in your silence. They notice you before you speak. Especially then. You don’t attract. You pull fate in.
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Magnetism – lonely (intense connections, but not always reciprocated or understood) and complex (the nature of these connections; both nurturing or challenging, reflecting different aspects of ourselves) to define our own identity as a person, and for others to grasp, appreciate, and understand. None-the-less, magnetism compares to how fire entices insects to fly into the flames.
Fate: Personal Destiny in a persons life walk-path. Events, relationships, and experiences astrological influences shaped through personal choices within Life’s Big Picture. Attraction – like basic instincts in animals vs. Pulling, a far more profound connection – like family which speaks to the soul. Less a physical allure, it compliments long standing emotional memories. Presence: your design shaped by your astrological chart and life experiences; and Stillness – a quiet, a grounded confidence: ‘safe space’ for others. It does not require words for it to express this ‘safe space’ sweet smelling perfume. Echoes and Memory, refers to something like your future born children. Energies we share can leave a legacy, shaping not only our lives but also the lives of those who come after us. Energy Exchange, a dynamic interaction between individuals. A healthy sharing relationship with trusted friends.
Astrology and Chinese Taoist thought work in harmony with meditation. Which contrasts the in-haled breath with the exhaled breath. Zen Buddhism refers to the ‘3rd Eye’ as a reference to a focused awareness of the 5 senses “seen” (so to speak) between the eyes during the duration of the inhaled breath. Meditation “feels” the chi expressed within the external reality of living during the duration of the exhaled breath. This meditation seeks to achieve a conscious Mind awareness both internally felt and externally experienced. Hence Taoism has the 5 breath “souls”, in conjuction with the 5 designated feelings – and they all align with the 5 elements of the Universe.
Unlike Astrology, both Chinese and Japanese healing makes its central focus – awareness of precise meridian points and lines rather that Planets and Stars shining in the Heavens above. The shared common denominator which unites the two contrasting disciplines — meditation. Both disciplines which lack meditation compare to positive and negative Torah commandments which have no tohor time-oriented commandment potential to elevate secondary commandments and halachot unto Av tohor time-oriented commandments from the Torah.
For example: The so-called daughter religions of Xtianity and Islam – both remain Av tuma avoda zarah examples of the 2nd Sinai Commandment. These religions employ their own separate but unique ‘replacement theologies’, which supplants T’NaCH, Talmud, Midrashim and Siddur – along with the power of Astrology of Planets and Stars – with Creed based belief systems. Such as belief in some pie in the sky Universal God monotheism! This theology employed to supplant T’NaCH, Talmud, Midrashim, and Siddur.
For example: The Apostle Paul declared Torah commandments like circumcision archaic and invalid. Reform Judaism pulled a similar rabbit out of its hat of magik. The Pauline rhetoric declared that Goyim “not under the Law”; an utterly absurd statement because all societies and civilization require the Order of law and government. Furthermore, the Pauline propaganda, much like Obamo’s 2008 political “CHANGE” declarations made no distinction between T’NaCH & Talmudic judicial common law Legislative Review, which has over-view of all laws passed by Legislatures or Kings; from legal statute law – decrees, issued from some Roman Senate or a Caesar bureaucratic regulatory dictatorship.
Jewish common law depends upon lateral common law courtrooms rather than Greek political rhetoric which promotes ‘Democracy’. Democracy has no place in T’NaCH and Talmudic lateral common law courtrooms. The people pay for ‘Legal Insurance’ which maintains these common law Courts – when not actively engaged in any legal dispute heard before these common law Courtrooms. The Torah refers to vertical courtrooms as bribery; a Torah abomination for the State to pay the salary of Court Justices and prosecuting attorneys.
Following the corruption made by the British Star-Courts which legalized British navel impressment of American sailors seized from American ships in High Seas ‘international waters’. The Founding Fathers attempted to address the issue of Judicial bribery by and through the State. They established the lateral jury system. But the otherwise vertical courtrooms, where the State pays the salaries of the Judges and Prosecuting Attorneys, American judicial law bi-passed the lateral jury court revolutionary approach, by imposing strict terms which limit the scope of how the jury weighs introduced legal evidence/precedents by the opposing lawyers briefs.
Lawyers do not present their legal briefs to the Jury. Rather, the vertical courts restrict presentation of these opposing legal briefs, which only the State paid judges can review. Hence while the Founding Fathers attempted to establish lateral courtrooms, later generations corrupted the revolutionary lateral jury judicial system. And replaced it with just another vertical court having bribed Judges and Prosecuting Attorneys.
Dirge Without Music
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost.
The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,—
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
Great post, as usual. Just an FYI, Andrea Gibson was non-binary.
Thanks. I knew that but glitched on the pronouns. Fixed now.
Don’t forget about the Cleveland Spiders. While not a part of the Guardians lineage (and they’ll always be the Tribe for those of us who grew up playing Little League ball and taking the annual bus caravan to the Mistake on the Lake to see them), it was the contraction of the Spiders after the 1899 season (because the owners also owned the STL NL Browns/Cardinals and sent all the good players there, leaving the Spiders to lose an MLB-record 134 games) that opened the door for the Columbus/Grand Rapids team to relocate to Cleveland as the Lake Shores in the still-minor league AL.
The right-wing authoritarian mind values, above all else, conformity to simple, well-defined norms and allegiance to the tribe.
What MAGA is afraid of is having to accept people who are different from them as being worth as much as they are, and as deserving of respect and human rights as they demand to be shown. In response to this fear, they hate The Other, and when gathered with members of their tribe, they act on this hatred.
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