merry pranksters on parade

friday, august 1st, 2025

Let’s not pretend that RussiaGate was ever anything but a “treasonous conspiracy” and a “years’ long coup” as bluntly labeled by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on Friday. The election prank launched by Hillary Clinton’s campaign turned into an overt sedition op led by President Barack Obama to overthrow his elected successor, Donald Trump. DNI Tulsi Gabbard went even further and proffered criminal referrals on all this to the US Attorney General. If you think this is not extremely serious, you are not paying attention. The forces behind this coup have done and will do anything to protect their grasp on illegal & illegitimate power.

The New York Times was not paying attention in its Sunday edition. Not a word about this historic action on the paper’s website landing page. So now you know why the Harvard law professors, the Martha’s Vineyard chardonnay widows, and all the creative class hipsters of Brooklyn persist in their personal globes of political delusion. Instead, The Times dwelt on the Epstein business, still haplessly hoping to catch the Golden Golem in its golem trap. (Mr. Trump’s lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize committee for rewarding the Time’s RussiaGate coverage is still pending, by the way.)

Meanwhile, DNI Gabbard went on Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday confab and warned of more info releases coming this week. Sooner or later AG Pam Bondi will have to announce that a case based on that referral is under construction. My guess is that this is exactly what Kash Patel’s FBI has been preoccupied with for months with no leaking — you can imagine severe penalties against that. You might also note that there are no higher crimes under our law than treason, as explicitly spelled out in the DNI report. The DNI also stated flatly on Sunday, “There must be indictments.” If you think DNI Gabbard went forward without consulting some crack constitutional lawyers, you’ll be disappointed.

[The DemonKKKrat Party is a three level organization, with fuzzy borders between the levels.
1) Those who control the party are a crime syndicate.
2) The professional activists are a terrorist organization.
3) The rank and file are a death worshipping cult.]

And also meanwhile, Deputy AG Todd Blanche has applied for release of the sealed grand jury transcripts on the 2019 Epstein case from the DOJ’s Manhattan outpost (SDNY). And consider: all that info was completely segregated from the Epstein files that former FBI Director Christopher Wray controlled for years and years, meaning it was not subject to editing and manipulation. You may finally get to see the difference between the “hoax” elements of the story and the actual evidence.

The Russian meddling and collusion story might have seemed like “a thing” to many in the early January days of 2017 before Mr. Trump’s first inauguration. But when they went after the newly appointed National Security Advisor, General Mike Flynn, for having a conversation with the Russian ambassador, you had had to know that something sketchy was afoot. As this blog asked at the time: why are ambassadors from foreign lands here, if not to speak with our government officials? The story was preposterous but, of course, the news media helped run Gen. Flynn out of office and then led the cheering for the DOJ’s malicious prosecution of him afterward in Judge Emmet G. Sullivan’s DC district court.

You also have to wonder if anyone in the news media might be subject to indictment above and beyond the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press. Is there a line between that and acting as an accessory to treason? What did New York Times editor (at the time) Dean Baquet think he was doing, publishing all that patent garbage? Or the producers of CNN and other network news?

The DNI called these activities a “treasonous conspiracy” for a reason. A conspiracy charge that encompasses a skein of persons in a continuous series of crimes extends the statute of limitations to the latest criminal act for all involved. You might also wonder how wide a net the DOJ could cast. Will it include such obvious players as Senator Mark Warner, who schemed to play along on RussiaGate as Vice-chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence? Or then-Congressman Adam Schiff on the House Intel Committee when, for years, he pretended to have “proof” of (i.e., lied about) Trump-Russia collusion? Or FBI Director Wray, who hid evidence, might have tampered with evidence, and apparently lied to Congress about many of these connected matters? Or Andrew Weissmann, who virtually ran the phony Mueller Investigation as a RussiaGate cover-up op because Robert Mueller was mentally infirm? Or Lawfare Ninjas Marc Elias, Norm Eisen, and Mary McCord who appear liable for 2020 election hackery and the Jan 6 “insurrection” op (including the House J6 Committee fakery afterward) along with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi? Or former AG William Barr, who sat on the Hunter Biden laptop during Trump Impeachment No. 1, when the device was stuffed with exculpatory evidence withheld from Mr. Trump’s lawyers? Or CIA agent Eric Ciaramella, Lt. Col Alex Vindman, and Intel Inspector General Michael Atkinson, who conspired with Rep. Adam Schiff on the “Ukraine phone call” operation that was the basis of impeachment No. 1? Or DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who botched his investigation (on purpose?) of FISA court criminal irregularities, or Judge James Boasberg who presided over those criminal irregularities and issued many of them? Or Special Counsel John Durham who took years to overlook the salient elements of the RussiaGate coup? Or many other figures involved one way or another. . . McCabe, Strzok, Page, Pientka, Thibault, Baker, Rice, Yates, Rummler, Halper, Pompeo, Haines, Bruce and Nellie Ohr. . . .

Are they all rounded-up and sent to court together, like a Nuremberg proceeding? Or do they get their own separate cases? Or will the DOJ only go after the top dogs: Obama, Brennan, Clapper, and Comey?

Finally, consider this: demonizing Vladimir Putin set the stage for the Ukraine War — which was initially kicked off in 2014 under President Obama and his State Department / CIA group led by Victoria Nuland orchestrating the Maidan revolt. The official disclosures now by the DNI should make it clear that Mr. Putin did not deserve the treatment he got for years on end, and that the overall effect of it has been catastrophic for world peace. Half the people in the USA still believing all the manufactured bullshit about Mr. Putin has made it extremely difficult for President Trump to end the war in Ukraine that has killed millions.

RussiaGate had the gravest consequences, and now there can be consequences for the merry pranksters who started it and kept it going, one way or another, for a decade.

A Day In The Life.

Up at 8:30a on Friday, a humid, getting hot 82°F, forecast to hit 100+°, sunny morning. I made coffee, fired-up the Win-7 Pentium HP Desktop to let 32 million lines of code load, had a couple smokes in the garage and checked the leftover errands list. I scanned the news and weather, tuned into the "CS Show LIVE" from 6-9, and the "CP Show LIVE" from 9-12. I planned the day: STAY INSIDE IN THE AC. Already 100° and 55% HUMIDITY. Damn.

I saw this posted on the local websites and TV stations:

★★★ SEVERE HEAT ADVISORY ★★★

• HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY.
• WHAT...Heat index values up to 105 expected for the Lower Susquehanna Valley.
• WHERE...Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, Schuylkill, and York Counties.
• WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT this evening.
• IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat illnesses.
• PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay out of the sun, and stay in an air-conditioned room.
Young children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles under any circumstances. This is especially true during hot weather when car interiors can reach lethal temperatures in a matter of minutes. LOOK BEFORE YOU LOCK.
In addition to the daytime heat, overnight low temperatures will also be very warm and oppressively muggy.

Sherry called to chat for a while, and after some lab tests and errands this morning, decided to stay home, rather than come over here. Smart, in this heat. I laid down on the LR couch, but couldn't get to sleep, and Sis called to update me on Cousin Buddy's bad condition in the York Hospital. While rescanning the weather and news, I saw this:

★★★ SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ★★★

• Scattered thunderstorms will move across Central PA this afternoon and produce gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall. A few of the storms could produce damaging wind gusts.
• PENNSYLVANIA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE:
• ADAMS, BERKS, BUCKS, CARBON, CHESTER, CUMBERLAND, DAUPHIN, DELAWARE, LANCASTER, LEBANON, LEHIGH, MONROE, MONTGOMERY, NORTHAMPTON, PERRY, PHILADELPHIA, SCHUYLKILL, YORK.
• THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF CARLISLE, GETTYSBURG, HARRISBURG, HERSHEY, LANCASTER, LEBANON, NEWPORT, POTTSVILLE, AND YORK. p
• From this afternoon 1:45 PM through 9:00 PM tonight..
• Heavy rainfall is probable from late this evening through late tonight. Periods of rainfall rates of 1-2" per hour are possible with total rainfall between 2 and 4 inches.

We got a nice, moderate rainfall, but nothing as bad as what the warnings were. Meh. I settled-in to have some dinner, watch the news, an FNC show and then switched to History's "unXplained" until 1a. Lights out.

Sleeping-in until 10a on Saturday, a cloudy, 83°, very humid, windless morning, I made coffee, and had a smoke in the garage. I scanned the weather and news, tuned into local WSBA's (910am) "CP Show Podcast", for 3hrs. The WEIS Market deliver arrived at 1p, and I got all the food/produce put away. I skip both breakfast and lunch, and left for the pharmacy around 2p, to p/u 3 waiting Rxs. The rain arrived as I was on my way, and got more intense on the way home. Major t-storm cells passed thru all evening. I had dinner, watched the crappy FNC "Big Weekend Show" to get some news, and switched to MT's "Fast & Loud" and History's "History's Greatest Mysteries" until 12:45a, and unplugged.

Anything that government touches, is less efficient and more expensive.

The DemonKKKrat Party is a three level organization, with fuzzy borders between the levels.
1) Those who control the party are a crime syndicate.
2) The professional activists are a terrorist organization.
3) The rank and file are a death worshipping cult.

Awake at 2a, 3:30 and 5:15, I finally got up at 5:30 on Sunday, a so far, 0-DARK-THIRTY 72° morning, with heavy t-storms forecast all day and evening. I made Kona coffee and scanned the weather and news headlines. I was all set to watch the F-1 Belgian Grand Prix on ESPN, but when I tried, I was locked out. No way to get back into the channel. Bastards. I did a couple quick chores, went up and got ready for the day -- the long shower felt especially good in this humidity -- and looked for the F-1 Race Highlights on YT. Better than nothing.

After an early lunch, I started the first of two loads of laundry, got the recycle bin and garbage out to the curb, and enjoyed the rain from a few t-storm cells moving thru the area. I had a 2hr snooze on the LR couch, finished-up all the usual Sunday chores, and had dinner. It was another NBC (Nothing But Crap) night for TV, so I chose the least worst of the lousy offerings -- History's "unXplained Mysteries" -- until 12:30a, and bagged it for the night.

Up at 7:30a on Monday, a sunny, blue sky, humid, 81°, forecast to reach 94° or worse, morning. I tuned into the "CS Show LIVE" (He's now on vacation) from 6-9, and the "CP Show LIVE" (He's still on vacation), until 12noon, had a late breakfast, and left for my usual Monday trip of 3 errands, down south of York. Traffic was moderate, even for a weekday noon/ lunch hour, and I made good time.

No more errands, so I stayed inside as the heat of the day got much worse. By 2p, it was 96° and 60% humidity; hard for me to breather for much longer than 4-5mins. I grabbed a nice nap on the LR couch, did paperwork and just stayed-in. I watched the 6p evening news, and then switched to Motor Trend's "Iron Resurrection" until 12:30a. Lights out.

Awake at 6a, to a roll-off, massive dumpster being dropped-off on the adjacent driveway, I went back to sleep until 9a, and started the day. Already 87° and 55% humidity, forecast to hit 98°, and a lightly-clouded, very humid morning. The lawn mower crews arrived at 8:30, I made coffee, and tuned into the "CP Sow LIVE" (he's back from vacation), and scanned the weather and news. A serious ***HEAT ADVISORY*** was also posted on local websites and TV. I had nowhere that I really needed to go, except get the lab/bloodwoirk done and get to the xfinity store, and after scanning the local forecast, I'll just go Friday, when temps are down in the 70s & 80s.

The mowing crews finished-up around 12 noon, and peace and quiet returned to the area. I skipped both breakfast and lunch, due to the heat/humidity; just no appetite. I'd tuned into the usual morning 6-9 "CP Show LIVE" (He's back from vacation), did paperwork, and made only a few trips outside onto the back patio, right outside my Office-Sunroom, for an occasional smoke, as it would soon enough be 102°+ and unusable until evening. I took a 2hr nap, tuned into FNC for the news at 6p, and switched to History's "The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch" until 1a, and bagged it for the night.

Awake at 4a (no alarm), I was up and ready for an early Wednesday morning trip to Wellspan's Stony Brook Lab Facility -- bloodwork/urine tests for 3 Drs -- around 6a. Fasting for the last 10hrs, I had some black Kona Coffee (delicious wo/ Half & Half), made the 4mile trip, and was 6th in line after doing the self-register at the kiosk. Bang, zoom, I was thru and done in under 10mins, and back at my condo by 6:30, tuned into the "CS Show LIVE", and had some OJ and coffee, and just relaxed. 81°, no wind and 70% humidity, by 9a. Sucks to be me. A ***SEVERE HEAT ADVISORY*** was again posted on all southcentral PA websites and TV stations.

By 1p, it was 98° (in the shade), 35% humidity and getting worse. I stayed-in, worked on "The Document", had a nice snooze on the LR couch, and saw the new ***FLOOD WATCH*** posted. Doesn't affect me up here. I watched the 6p news, switched to History's "American Pickers" until 1a. Lights out.

Up at 8a on Thursday, a high clouds, hot and sticky, already 83° 50% humidity, morning. I wasn't feeling very well, from a sudden gut-related thing, so I emailed Sherry that we'd have to reschedule this afternoon's visit. I skipped breakfast and lunch, and laid down on the LR couch around 11a. I could hear the rain, from t-storm cells, passing thru all afternoon. Finally getting back up after 7p, I had a piece of rye toast, and got some news from NEWSMAX. By 10:30p, I was ready to crash again, and did.

Tomorrow starts a new week, here in the "Journal", and it's a clear one for me, providing I get the xfinity store visit done today. We;ll see how I feel, after today's sudden 'gut glitch'. Meh.

Hardwired to obey: Why we keep believing the lie.

The Russia collusion hoax wasn’t just a political scandal. It was a masterclass in obedience psychology. Americans didn’t believe it because it made sense. They believed it because someone in authority told them to. A man in a suit behind a podium. A woman in a studio with perfect lighting. A blue-check journalist quoting an anonymous intelligence source. The effect wasn’t rational—it was Pavlovian. Authority spoke, and the public nodded.

In 1961, psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to understand how ordinary people could be complicit in atrocities like the Holocaust. What he discovered was even more unsettling than he imagined. In his famous obedience experiment, participants were instructed to administer electric shocks to another person every time they got an answer wrong. The shocks weren’t real. The person screaming behind the wall wasn’t actually being electrocuted. But the participants didn’t know that.

What they did know is that a man in a white lab coat—a supposed scientist—was telling them to keep going.

Sixty-five percent of participants continued all the way to what they believed was a lethal voltage. No threats. No weapons. Just authority. The visual cue of a lab coat. That was enough.

Fast forward to COVID. A doctor appeared on your television and told you to stay inside. Wear a mask. Take the jab. If you hesitated, you were selfish. A threat. An enemy of the people. The same experiment was being run again, but this time, at scale. And just like Milgram’s results, most people obeyed. Not because they understood the science. Not because they evaluated the risks. But because someone in authority said so.

We are hardwired that way. Authority bias is a psychological shortcut: when someone we perceive as powerful or an expert tells us something, we assume it must be true. It doesn’t matter if they’re lying. It doesn’t matter if the facts contradict them. What matters is the lab coat, the title, and the credentials.

That’s why the unvaccinated weren’t just uncooperative—they were dangerous. Not epidemiologically, but ideologically. They disrupted the hypnosis. They didn’t fold to pressure. They were immune to shame. They were—by every authoritarian metric—divergent.

In Veronica Roth’s novel Divergent, society is sorted into factions based on personality and obedience. But some people don’t fit neatly into the system. They think differently. They resist. And because of that, they must be identified and eliminated. Not because they pose a physical threat, but because they can’t be controlled.

That’s what vaccine passports were really about. Identification. The regime needed to know who could be pressured into compliance and who would resist. Who would trust the man in the lab coat, and who would think for themselves? The unvaccinated were framed as Neanderthals and conspiracy theorists, but in reality, they were the control group—the people who refused to trade critical thought for social acceptance.

And now, years later, we see the same mechanisms playing out with the Russia collusion narrative. Despite mountains of evidence—debunked FISA warrants, the collapse of the Steele dossier, exposed media lies, and even contradictions from intelligence leaders themselves—millions still believe Trump was a Russian agent. They believe it not because it holds up to scrutiny, but because someone in authority said so.

It’s easier to cling to the illusion than confront the truth. The truth demands action, accountability, and personal responsibility. It means admitting you were deceived. That the people you trusted betrayed you. That the system you believed in is fundamentally broken.

For many, that’s too much. So they retreat into the lie. They call it democracy. They call it science. They call it national security. But it’s just obedience by another name.

The good news is that Milgram’s experiment didn’t stop at 65 percent. The other 35 percent refused. They questioned the orders. They disobeyed the man in the lab coat. They listened to their conscience. And they didn’t kill the stranger on the other side of the wall.

That 35 percent matters. It always has.

Because obedience might be natural—but so is courage. And every time we resist the narrative, every time we refuse to comply with lies, we grow that 35 percent. We wake people up. We shift the balance.

We don’t have to be prisoners of our programming. We can reject false authority. We can challenge illegitimate power. And we can remember that truth doesn’t come from a press conference—it comes from within.

The Russia hoax was a lie. The vaccine mandates were a lie. The media, the intelligence agencies, the bureaucrats—they’ve lied so often it’s no longer a scandal. It’s a pattern.

But we are not broken. We are not afraid. We are not obedient.

We are Divergent.

And we’re not going anywhere.

The Smoking Gun Obama Did Not Want You to Discover.

New findings suggest Barack Obama may have personally asked top intelligence officials to fabricate evidence meant to further the Trump-Russia collusion hoax during the final weeks of his presidency.

Victor Davis Hanson breaks down role former intelligence heads John Brennan, James Clapper, and James Comey—Obama’s "three blind mice”—played in this on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.

“There’s new evidence that Barack Obama asked intelligence, investigatory heads—like John Brennan, like James Clapper and James Comey—to "find me evidence that you haven’t found yet so that we can continue the Russian collusion hoax after it was ineffective in the campaign, Hillary lost the election. Now we want to sabotage." This is the subtext of the transition and his presidency.

"?They were so desperate to validate it. They said to Christopher Steele, ‘Just give us some proof. We can use this. We’ll give you a million dollars.’ He couldn’t even come up with a mil—he couldn’t even come up with the substantive arguments to corroborate his own dossier, so he didn’t get the million dollars.”

merry pranksters on parade

friday, august 1st, 2025

A Day In The Life.

Hardwired to obey: Why we keep believing the lie.

The Smoking Gun Obama Did Not Want You to Discover.

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