The Stern Parenting of a Puerile U.S. President . . . A Job Fit For the US Marines...

The Gadfly is pretty certain that never in General John Kelly's wildest reflections, could he have imagined that one day, after having joined the military, dedicating his life to it, attending war college, and commanding U.S. Marine combat troops during war time in Iraq, and serving (albeit briefly) as head of Homeland Security, that his next, and likely last, tour of duty would be as his nation's highest ranked and decorated babysitter for the 71 year old, hyperactive, ADD afflicted rage toddler in The White House:

In a conference call last week, Kelly initiated a new policymaking process in which just he and one other aide — White House staff secretary Rob Porter, a little-known but highly regarded Rhodes scholar who overlapped with Jared Kushner as an undergraduate at Harvard — will review all documents that cross the Resolute desk.

The new system, laid out in two memos co-authored by Kelly and Porter and distributed to Cabinet members and White House staffers in recent days, is designed to ensure that the president won’t see any external policy documents, internal policy memos, agency reports and even news articles that haven’t been vetted.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/24/john-kelly-trump-control-241967

In other words -- the person whom Americans have installed as the leader of the most powerful nation on earth simply cannot be trusted to make well-informed, rational, adult decisions with news, information and policy documents pertaining to his extremely complicated and worldly important job of governing the nation without such complex and critical material being delicately prepared and gently spoon-fed to him by General Kelly and his staff.

Oh sure -- they'll permit little lord Donny some leeway, like allowing him to play with and wreak havoc with his electric Twitter toy, but apparently the real adult decisions that affect all Americans here at home and which advance America's foreign policies abroad are going to be made by others -- namely those who have the authentic gravitas and intellectual capabilities to actually make the more mature, and level-headed judgments that need to be, and will be in the best interests of the country.

And yet Drumpf's supporters just don't see it.  Their blind and unbending worship of him simply does not allow them to see the truth for what it is.  God forbid should they actually have to admit that they made a mistake in voting for such an amoral, pitifully unqualified and immature ass-clown to begin with, but even when the evidence is staring them right in the face, as it is now, they exhibit the very same childish behavior as their beloved leader, not unlike the unruly child who when being reprimanded and brought to heel by an elder, plugs his ears, jumps up and down stamping his feet and screaming neener! neener!! neener!!! at the top of his lungs.

It's sad, but more than that, it's scary -- scary knowing that nearly a third of your fellow citizens are are so deeply immersed in the labyrinth of Drumpf's Rasputin-like spell that they are now the proverbial lemmings -- lemmings that are willfully, almost gleefully content to follow him right over the cliff to the doomed, collective fate of possibly all Americans.




----TFG

Maybe They Can Build a Wall Around Cherokee Reservations . . .

It's only fitting . . .

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Wednesday, August 23, 2017, 1:37 PM

“Michael the Black Man,” a fixture at Trump campaign rallies over the last two years, was once a member of a cult who believes many of the President’s enemies are Cherokee Indians.

The outspoken Trump supporter goes by several aliases — Michael Woodside and Michael Symonette — was spotted in his “TRUMP & Republicans ARE NOT RACISTS” and holding his “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” sign at the President’s rally Tuesday night.

“I’m glad I was there to get the message out (about) what’s going on with the Democrats and the Cherokee Indians” who are “absolutely destroying the black man and the white man of America,” Michael told Chicago radio station WLS on Wednesday morning.

Michael — a former cult member who has previously accused Oprah Winfrey of being the devil — said he got in line at about 8 a.m. Tuesday and was the sixth person waiting.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/michael-black-man-trump-ariz-rally-ex-cult-member-article-1.3436081

It makes perfect sense.  "Michael The Black Man" left one cult to join another.  Cults these days are pretty much the equivalent of B-list celebrity fan clubs - and the C.O.D. (Cult Of Drumpf) is really no different.  It's just another mentally unstable social posse that appeals to a collection of sociopath groupies whose ideas of what constitutes "a life" revolve around the group-think activity of social-media worshiping whatever celebrity who happens to be the prevailing target of their psychotic affection on a given day.

But it truly is heartening to see that Drumpf's minority outreach efforts are producing such impressive results, even if those results turn out to be the luring of kooky and creepy poster children for psychiatric disorders from the "Oprah Winfrey Is The Devil" congregation to the vaunted MAGA cause.

Honestly though -- what's with this guy's Cherokee Indians obsession?  What in god's name happened to this poor bastard that triggered such an aberrant, schizophrenic suspicion of native American Indians, and not just any old run of the mill native American Indian, but specifically Cherokees?

It's an intriguing ponderance no doubt, but perhaps The Gadfly, and anyone else of presently sound mind, would be best off not knowing the answer to that loaded psychiatric query.




----TFG

Is Your Neighbor, Your Friend or Even a Family Member a Pod Person? . . .Yikes!

Greetings dear readers.  The Gadfly does not relish the role of disseminating unpleasant news, especially about one's self, but here goes.  The Gadfly has been diagnosed with a rare, yet devastating illness - one so onerous that it often render's it's victims in to a 'non compos mentis' state (go look that up if you must).

The illness that The Gadfly has been diagnosed with is a disorder called "Capgras."  What the fuck is "Capgras" disorder" you ask?

Well -- allow Wikipedia to expound:

Capgras delusion is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member (or pet) has been replaced by an identical impostor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion

The Gadfly first started noticing these disturbing symptoms some time around -- oh maybe November 8th of last year -- and the symptoms have steadily been increasing in frequency and intensity to this very day.  But it was only yesterday that The Gadfly, after doing a little bit of online research, was able to self-diagnose his affliction with near unquestionable certainty, and it became clear that this horrible malady was what was causing these mind-numbing feelings that something was very, very, very wrong with a lot of the people in the world around him.

And what exactly pray tell was the event which triggered The Gadfly's self-diagnostic epiphany?

The Gadfly watched this video of a focus group interview on CNN with a group of self-described Trump supporters.

Observe the dead-eye, dead-soul ramblings of people who have cashed in what remains of their minds, their life essence, their dignity, and their membership in the human race, all for the opportunity to claim membership as loyal anointed foot soldiers in the army of their chosen cult -- C.O.D. (Cult Of Drumpf):

Next up was a Trumper who claimed the entire Charlottesville protests and violence was a set-up by somebody "to make Trump look bad."

L.A. Key said, "I think a great portion of it is a conspiracy. I think it was a setup."

"From whom?"

Key said, "I think people who want to derail our president. There were buses coming in with lots of young people -- protesters coming off the same bus with some wearing Black Lives Matter and some wearing KKK shirts. They were brought in to cause a controversy."

Camerota, "Where are you getting your evidence?"

Key, "A lot of it on Facebook."

"You saw something on Facebook."

Another Trump agreed and said, "Yes." He discussed an Antifa ad on Craigslist.

Camerota, " And you trust Facebook more than news organizations?

"Oh, yes, live video from people who shot it, that were present, yes."

Camerota, "You trust your Facebook feed even though you don't know the origin --"

"They are our friends."

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/08/wacky-cnn-trump-supporter-panel-spreads

Please go watch the video at the link if you want to truly understand exactly what message The Gadfly is trying to convey to you all here.

Now, The Gadfly is going to methodically deconstruct this circus side-show for you in a moment dear readers.  But first back to The Gadfly's medical disorder . . .

Remember the famous 1950's sci-fi/horror movie "Invasion of The Body Snatchers?"  Remember when the lead character, Dr. Miles Bennell, played by actor Kevin McCarthy finally realizes that his friends his co-workers and even his wife have all had their souls and their identities and their human traits erased, only to be replaced by someone or something that was a physical duplicate of their loved one, but completely inanimate and lifeless on an innate human level?  Remember the horror of watching McCarthy's on-screen realization that aliens were taking over his species?

That was just a Hollywood movie of course - one about an extraterrestrial invasion in a sleepy little California town which has alien plant spores from outer space coming to earth, growing in to large seed pods and then consuming and reproducing duplicate replacement copies of each human they come in contact with.  Except the duplicate "humans," even though the seed pods have copied the real human's physical traits and memories, are completely devoid of any human emotions or feelings.

Those insentient beings produced from the alien seed pods? --- they're here, on earth, today, in the good 'ol U. S. of A., and they are in great numbers among us.  That video at the link above is evidence enough of it.  And therein lies The Gadfly's own Capgras diagnosis.  The Gadfly is undoubting in his belief that there are a few people in his personal sphere of acquaintances who have had their souls commandeered by alien seed pods by virtue of their undying, mindless support and defense of the short-fingered, demented vulgarian mobster squatting in the White House.

The Gadfly used to think it was kind of amusing when one of the cable tv or network news shows would put together one of these "focus" group interviews with Trump supporters.   It was amusing for about 5 minutes - but now it's just fucking terrifying.  It's terrifying to know that people with such delusional and psychotic minds are actually out there in such formidable numbers -- and not only that -- they are voting and they are procreating.

Anyhow -- let's get on with the deconstruction of the pod people's statements in that video.  It's quite simple actually:

These people are of the irrefutable conviction that the violent events in Charlottesville Virginia were a conspiracy and a frame-up job orchestrated by liberals to make Donald Trump "look bad" and -- and -- distorted and lied about by "fake news," and -- they are absolutely convinced that this is so because they saw some Youtube videos and their "friends" told them about it on Facebook and Craigslist.

That's right --- they get all of their knowledge, their news and their information about seminal, possibly even historic events occurring in our nation and our society (and one would assume the world as well) from their Facebook timeline, Craigslist postings and Youtube videos.

And about all that The Gadfly can say to that is . . . . .





God, if you really do exist, now is the time to get off your almight duff to help us all escape this Kafkaesque insanity.




----TFG

Bannon's "War" Is a War on America's Future. It Must Fail -- And Fail Miserably . . .

And there it is!! . . .

Donald Trump's former chief strategist has vowed to go to war against the president's opponents, after being fired from his job at the White House.

Steve Bannon, who has returned as head of ultra-conservative website Breitbart News, said he would fight for the agenda that won Mr Trump the election.

"I've got my hands back on my weapons," he said. "It's Bannon the Barbarian."

Mr Bannon helped shape the America First campaign message but fell foul of more moderate White House forces.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40985180

The Gadfly has contended for some time that the right wing media septic tank byproduct known as Breitbart "News," very similarly to it's mentor Fox "News," is not only not a "news" organization, it has absolutely nothing to do with the mostly honorable profession of news journalism.

Steve Bannon just admitted as much.  Bannon views Breitbart as one of his "weapons" to be used to wage "war" against Drumpf's detractors and and anyone who opposes Drumpf's agenda in addition to utilizing it to rapaciously promote his own worldview agenda.

You know who else was in the business of utilizing the mass media as a weapon to further a certain not so very nice monster's political machinations?  This guy:

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That's Joseph Goebbels.  Goebbels is famous for having employed his crafty media skills to promote another narcissistic lunatic to a then war weary nation who, at the time, had a chip on their shoulder the size of Steve Bannon's booze-soaked nose and were in perilous economic times.

Goebbels plied his trade -- now commonly referred to as propaganda -- quite effectively as history now shows.  He managed to convince a gullible nation that all or most of their nation's woes weren't from their leader's penchant for warmongering and losing, but actually the fault of the Jews, all other minorities, liberals, intellectuals, artists, and and anyone else who didn't have a place in dear Adolf's "master race" society.

Let's be clear -- The Gadfly is happy that Steve Bannon is out of the White House.  His short, alt-right presence roaming the hallowed halls that many other greater Americans have tread, will leave an indelible stain on the national honor for some quite some time.

But The Gadfly will not lie in telling you that he is a bit troubled by Bannon's return to the media "empire" known as Breitbart (The Gadfly refuses to call them "News").

At Breitbart, Steve Bannon will be free to be use his very important public platform to peddle the exact same pseudo-intellectual, alt-right conservative clap-trap and disinformation to the poorly educated, the poorly informed and the narcissistic, belligerent assholes who thought it would be funny to vote in a supremely unfit and unqualified buffoon like Drumpf for the most important job on the planet -- leader of the free world.

It remains to be seen just how influential Bannon and Breitbart actually believe themselves to actually be.  And The Gadfly wouldn't wager anything on that point only because we have already been witness to just how fleeceable and irresponsible a sizable voting bloc of the American public really are.  Either way, as with any dangerous reptile, it would be wise to keep a close eye on Bannon and his snake pit at Breitbart because -- well because snakes are snakes and they do snake-like things -- that's why.




----TFG

Proof That Nobody Has a Monopoly on Stupid . . .

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Oh fer fuck sake:

A Missouri state senator says she has no plans to resign ― despite loud calls from within her own party to do so ― after she said she hoped President Donald Trump would be assassinated.

Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal made the comment on her Facebook page Thursday morning in response to a thread she’d started out of frustration over the white supremacist violence last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“I hope Trump is assassinated!” she wrote on her page, which is not open to the public. While she deleted the post soon after, a screenshot of it nevertheless quickly gained traction, earning rebukes from across the political spectrum.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/missouri-state-senator-trump-assassination_us_59960863e4b0a2608a6b107e?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

It just goes to show you dear readers that there are some real fucking idiots in the Democrats ranks as well.  And yes, this very imbecilic woman Democrat needs to resign her office post haste as she has clearly shown that she is really no better than the alt-right assholes who cheer for the death of their adversaries.  And The Gadfly really does not give a flying fuck what her skin color is or what her ethnic or socio-economic background is.  Publicly calling for a sitting U.S. President's assassination is about as asinine as it gets and her constituents would do well to march on her office and demand she resign immediately and her supporters should abandon her like the plague.

Listen - The Gadfly despises Drumpf with every fiber of his being, but he does not want to see him harmed in any way.  Violent action such as that would not only be immoral, it would be an incredibly destructive event that would put this country in an uncontrollable tailspin toward a failed and self-immolated nation state.

And besides -- Drumpf is doing just fine as it is in digging his own political grave with his Neanderthal behavior and his actions in office without the damaging histrionics of morons like this Missouri political critter.

Just fucking enough already!!!




----TFG

In Case They Hadn't Made Their Case Clear Enough . . . .

The Gadfly officially rests his own case on the question of just how cavalierly malevolent a great many of these alt-right guys truly are.  Observe as a couple of them make the case for their side:

“I’m sorta glad that them people got hit and I’m glad that girl died,” Moore told CBS affiliate WBTV on Tuesday.

“They were a bunch of Communists out there protesting against somebody’s freedom of speech,” he added. “So it doesn’t bother me that they got hurt at all.”

Chris Barker, the imperial wizard of the group, agreed with Moore’s sentiment.

“When a couple of them die, it doesn’t bother us,” Barker told WBTV. “They’re always attacking and messing with our rallies.”

Moore said members of his group attended the rally in Charlottesville and claimed the gathering would have been “peaceful” if “the anti-fascist and the communists” hadn’t shown up.

People who call the Loyal White Knights of the KKK headquarters hear a recorded message praising Fields for “running over nine communist anti-fascists,” according to WBTV.

“Nothing makes us more proud at the KKK than we see white patriots such as James Fields Jr, age 20, taking his car and running over nine communist anti-fascist ... James Fields hail victory,” the recording says. “It’s men like you that have made the great white race strong and will be strong again.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kkk-grand-dragon-charlottesville_us_599457e1e4b009141641c054?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

"When a couple of them die, it doesn't bother us."  Let that soak in for a moment.  Then ask yourself if it mattered whether the number was "a couple", or say ..mmmm, dunno, maybe 6 million?

Fucking Hitler could not have orated on his own behalf any better had he clambered out of the pit of hell, reincarnated, and taken a seat on the couch with Fox & Friends, and blurted it out over the national tv airwaves.

That is their mindset -- openly on display -- and there are quite a few of them out there.  As horrifying of a thought that is though, and what with watching them emboldened enough to parade around publicly, bathed in their newfound arrogance to let their NaziKKKwhitespremacist freak flag fly, The Gadfly has got to feel confident that the reality is much more so along these lines:

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That is the god's honest, quintessential poster of Good vs. Evil if ever there was one.

This country of ours has fought a civil war and a world war against these absolutist retreads from political history and their beliefs - and the end result in each event was as it was fordained -- evil was defeated.  Simple as that.  But Evil is never really, and The Gadfly means really, gone - is it?  It's always lurking about out there, in the shadows, on the fringes, just waiting for an opportunity to slink out from it's dank, dark quarters and wreak mayhem against humanity.  As it has been for the hard-core right wingers - Donald Drumpf came along and they found their long awaited, alt-right sugar daddy who lent the legitimacy of the world's most powerful leadership position and whom they have anointed as their savior.  And by all available evidence - to this very moment, as The Gadfly's fingers flit across his keyboard typing this oration, Drumpf is all too content to wear that well-earned crown proudly.

Something's gotta give here.  It just has to.  And if the history of human advancement is is to be a guide in this matter -- the repetitive outcome of Good always conquering over Evil is a favorable guide to go by.

But then again -- this is America and we find ourselves where we presently are as a nation and a society because there are way too many boobs (take that any way you want) like this who turn out to vote:

It's unfortunate that this is what America is all about today, but it is what it is.

But let the alt-rightists be duly advised . . . .

Democracy knows no skin color or ethnic heritage.  It only knows that freedom, equality and justice for ALL men, women and children of our country and the world and are unmistakably the heart of who we are as a nation and a people, and are non-negotiable aspects of it's soul.

That's all.




----TFG

When a Nation's Collective Courage Cowers, Evil Breeds With Zeal . . .

In case you didn't notice dear readers, this just happened this past Friday -- prior to the ugly events in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend:

08/14/2017 12:41 pm ET | Updated 14 hours ago

WASHINGTON ― An anti-government extremist was arrested by the FBI on Friday for allegedly trying to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb outside a bank in Oklahoma City.

Jerry Drake Varnell, 23, was charged with malicious attempted destruction of a building. He was arrested in a FBI sting after he allegedly tried to set off what he thought was a bomb in a cargo van that he’d parked by the loading dock of the BancFirst bank, according to federal court filings.

“What happened in Oklahoma city was not an attack on America, it was retaliation,” Varnell allegedly wrote in a message he wanted posted on Facebook after the bombing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jerry-drake-varnell-bomb-fbi-sting_us_5991c703e4b08a2472762e0a?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

This is the kind of individual that Drumpf is giving aide and comfort to with his coddling of the alt-right cowards.

Was Timothy McVeigh's 1995 Oklahoma City bombing also "retaliation?"  "Retaliation" for fucking what might The Gadfly ask??  "Retaliation" for whatever manufactured grievances these right-wing, militia pricks have coursing through their diseased brains?

Here's this asshole's idea of "retaliation":

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That is a picture of Oklahoma City Fire Department member Chris Fields cradling a mortally injured toddler who was one of Timothy McVeigh's "retaliation" victims of his April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

That little 1 year old baby was one of 19 toddlers and babies along with 150 other Americans whose lives were snuffed out in an instant because some right wing assholes wanted "retaliation" for --- who the fuck knows? --- the grievances these losers have are as malleable on a day-to-day basis as the mush inside their musty cranial cavities.

A lot of these alt-right and militia twats have openly expressed admiration for Timothy McVeigh and his depraved deed.  Take another look - please, do it - at that picture of fireman Chris Fields tenderly carrying that dying child's mangled body and then ask yourself what kind of person would express admiration for the individual(s) who were responsible for that sick inhumanity.

Thank the gods that be that the FBI caught wind of this fuck-stick Jerry Drake Varnell's "retaliation" plans and prevented him from perpetrating yet another right-wing mass murder event.

There is a dark, horrifying sickness that is the lifeblood of this modern-day conservative movement and it is not going to go away quietly - that they have made clear.

Nazis, KKK, white supremacists and just plain old racists have hijacked the Republican party and traditional, honorable conservatism.  The Tea Party was employed as the ramming vehicle that the right wing used to bust down the doors of the mainstream GOP garrison, and once that door was open, they let in every slimy right-wing, bigoted and hate-mongering group that had been hiding in caves and under rocks (where they rightly belong) for many years where they were just waiting for their Aryan savior to come along and lend recognition and legitimacy to their pestilential ideology.

And it is quite clear now that Drumpf is indeed the white-power savior that they have desperately hungered for.  Drumpf's own words are glaring in their intent to show deference to the alt-right cretins - pithy protestations to the contrary.

Dear readers -- you all had better start paying much closer attention to this shit.  These people, like their Muslim Jihadi counterparts on the other side of the world, have shown they are more than willing to murder innocents in the name of their ideology.  If people don't start speaking up and joining together as a force of good to combat this evil in our midst, it really is just a matter of time before another Oklahoma City slaughter happens - and who knows, maybe the next one will be in your city, or perhaps The Gadfly's.

Speak up, speak out -- even if it risks offending friends and family.  To sit back in timorous quietude is the equivalent of being a passive accomplice to these alt-right goons and their toxic, ass backward worldviews.  The values and morals of a decent people and a decent society demand it.

This nation's future, yours, our children's and your grandchildren's future, is in your, our hands.




----TFG

No Pictures or Cartoons, No Videos. Just Words That Need to be Said . . .

There's something that's been sticking in The Gadfly's craw all fucking day about the ugly shit that has occurred in Virginia the past couple of days.

There were a lot of Nazi symbols and flags within the ranks of the alt-right foot soldiers last night and today.  Combined with shouted slogans taken directly from Goebbel's propaganda playbook.  They were overtly, almost gleefully, telegraphing their ideology and it was vile and it was infuriating.

What truly enraged The Gadfly weren't so much the physical acts of violence, despicable as they were, but the aftermath of the whole deal.

As some of our national political "leaders" were publicly denouncing the Charlottesville violence, what was being left unsaid, much less talked about, was the most obvious observance of all --- namely that these people who call themselves collectively the alt-right --- are indeed motherfucking Nazis.  They are new-age Nazis, which as far as The Gadfly is concerned, makes them no different one iota from old-school Nazis.  They are one and the same.

There comes a time when people have to speak up.  Speak out against this madness and these disturbed individuals and their even more disturbing movement.  Be forceful and unrepentant in your views - especially so knowing that those views stand for decency and goodness in our society.

Think about it dear readers . . . this country fought a 5 year long World War, half way around the world, to defeat these Nazi sonofabitches and their evil ideology and their evil symbols.  More than 400 thousand Americans gave their lives in that war to kick Adolf Hitler and his Aryan fuckstick bullies to the curb.  More than 50 million humans died in that war.  The sound ass whooping which America dished out to Hitler was deliberately intended to send a loud message to the world that America was at the pinnacle of the moral high ground and more than ready and able to defend herself and her friends who might be threatened by other Hitler wannabes.

And yet, unbelievably, here we are, some 75+ years later, having to fight that same fucking, wearisome enemy again -- the enemy of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, the enemy of our other brethren democracies, the enemy of our way of life, the enemy of humanity.  The enemy of a peaceful future.  Here we are facing that same insidious threat one more time -- only this time that enemy is us -- or at least a significant number of us and they reside right here in the good ol' homeland -- US of A.

Well this is one American who has had enough already of these assholes.  And if there is going to be the "taking back" of any country, the people getting this country's soul and legacy yanked out of it's hands (violently if it has to come to that) are going to be the ones who are left fondling their Swastika flags, their KKK costumes and their confederate flags.  It's going to be that venerable and inevitable story of good conquering evil --- as it should --- as it must --- as it will.

And as for our shit head little new-age Nazi friends -- The Gadfly is not sorry to say -- they're going to get their stupidly evil asses kicked to the curb one more time in world history -- and once again it will be utterly deserved.  And The Gadfly can only dream of securing any direct or indirect opportunity to be a contributing actor in that historical denouement.




----TFG

Terrorism -- Alt-Right Style . . . . .

And now they have killed in the name of their vindictive, hateful and lifeless ideology.

Almost 20 people were injured and one person has died after a car plowed into a group marching peacefully, after violent clashes at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., according to The Associated Press.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/12/542982015/home-to-university-of-virginia-prepares-for-violence-at-white-nationalist-rally

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It took our cowardly *president the better part of the whole day and a half (this shit started yesterday) to put out a statement condemning the violence -- and even when he did, he made it sound like it was a case of both sides are equally guilty -- which of course is pure fucking horse shit and he knows it.

He and his white supremacist pal Steve Bannon and his Nazi sympathizing adviser Sebastian Gorka probably needed time to formulate a statement that wouldn't upset the delicate feelings of their base --- you know --- guys like the one driving that car in the picture above.

During the campaign last year and all the way up to the election, Drumpf was continually exhorting his Neanderthal supporters to visit violence upon protesters.  It's all on fucking video and audio tape and no -- it's not "fake."

Today's events in Charlottesville, Virginia are the predictable end result of Drumpf's behavior and his words and his actions.  The blood on the hands of the driver of the car that plowed in to those peaceful protesters is just as deep red on the small hands of Drumpf himself -- and there's no way he's going to bullshit and smirk his way out of that reality.




----TFG

Drumpf's Shock Troops Have Shined Up and Put On Their Jack Boots . . .

These are the people who Drumpf has coaxed out from beneath their rocks and out of their caves.

They are the core of Drumpf's support base and they most certainly will represent a major component of his ugly legacy:

Aug 11, 2017 9:30 PM

Chanting "blood and soil,” “white lives matter” and “you will not replace us,” scores of white nationalists holding torches marched across the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville on Friday night.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-white-virginia-rally-20170811-story.html

"Blood and soil" is a 19th century German expression that was adopted by Hitler and his Nazi party as the rallying cry for their quest of a pure-bred, Aryan race of blonde-haired, blue-eyed super humans.

Now - before The Gadfly says anything else here -- let's be clear about something.  The Gadfly does not want to stifle the right of these deplorable fuckers to march and chant their cute little Nazi slogans.  The Gadfly ascribes to the old saying that is often misattributed to the great French philosopher Voltaire which says, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Having clarified that then, let it be known that The Gadfly also has rights as well.  One of those rights is the right to observe people's behavior and analyze their words and their intentions toward, and their social interactions with, other humans.  And should it come to pass that The Gadfly arrives at the conclusion that the people whom he is observing are something a great deal less than admirable or decent, then you can be unquestionably fucking sure that The Gadfly will exercise his right to say as much.

Therefore -- The Gadfly's observation is that these fuckers are indeed Nazis of the lowest order.  They are un-American. They are really the most deplorable (HRC was right), sad sack bunch of losers among our citizenry who not only do not deserve the freedoms and opportunities that this great country provides for them by virtue of their birth here, but they also deserve no respect - not in any way shape or form.

Here are some pics of their proud little Nazi rally last evening in Charlottesville, Virginia:

What's that you say?  Nothing in those pics suggests fealty to Hitler and Nazism?

How about this one then from today then where they are at it again, employing threats of and even employing outright violence to spread their message of hate and exclusion and yes - Nazism?

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Yeah - because nothing conveys reasonableness and rationality like a t-shirt with Hitler quotes - amiright?

Notice anything else odd about those first three pictures dear readers?  Not too many women in their ranks huh?

By all realistic appearances, this "protest" looks to be, to The Gadfly's discerning gaze, a gathering principally of thick-necked, even thicker skulled, visibly sexually repressed, angry white males who fancy themselves and their "master" race to be so unfairly oppressed (boo-fucking-hoo) that they broke out the ol' torch parade theme (apparently Home Depot was out of pitchforks) to air their grievances about the filthy hordes of niggers, spics, jews, wetbacks, beaners and towel-heads in their midst - along with defending the lovely heritage of civil war slavery.

And The Gadfly would wager a good portion of his hard-earned paycheck that just about every one of these adolescent, emotionally, spiritually, intellectually and socially challenged ass-clowns is a huge Trump groupie and view Drumpf as their white power savior who is going to Make America Great Again with his stupid fucking border wall, his declarations of drastically scaling back legal immigration and his Mooslim travel ban.

Let's hope all these angry, violence enamored young white boys (nothing in their behavior suggests they are worthy of being referred to as men) are equally as eager to volunteer to be in the first wave of ground troops in one of Drumpf's wars as they are to peddle their hatred and bigotry in the public square.




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**UPDATE:

During a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke said the event is in line with President Trump’s “promises.”

“This represents a turning point for the people of this country. We are determined to take our country back,” Duke said. “We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That’s what we believed in. That’s why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said he’s going to take our country back.”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/david-duke-charlottesville-rally-trump-promises

The Gadfly rests his fucking case.



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Drumpf Jong Un

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Doesn't humanity, and by proxy this planet, have enough fucking problems without having these two man-child idiots Drumpf and Kim Jong Un taunting each other like school-yard rivals with mutual nuclear annihilation?

And if that isn't disconcerting enough, now our idiot is threatening to use military force on Venezuela as well:

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday threatened military intervention in Venezuela, a surprise escalation in Washington’s response to Venezuela’s political crisis.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-venezuela-military_us_598e317ee4b0909642971b4f?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

Won't somebody please give this adolescent man-child *President of ours some toy army men and tanks to play with in the White House sandbox before he gets us all incinerated in WWIII?

Jeebus fucking kripes!

Let's hope the Mueller indictments come swiftly and with deliberate malice aforethought.




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This is Just a Preview --- Get The Popcorn Ready . . . .

Oh dear! . . .

FBI agents raided the home in Alexandria, Va., of President Trump’s former campaign chairman, arriving in the pre-dawn hours late last month and seizing documents and other materials related to the special counsel investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The raid, which occurred without warning on July 26, signaled an aggressive new approach by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and his team in dealing with a key figure in the Russia inquiry. Manafort has been under increasing pressure as the Mueller team looked into his personal finances and his professional career as a highly paid foreign political consultant.

Using a search warrant, agents appeared the day Manafort was scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee and a day after he met voluntarily with Senate Intelligence Committee staff members.

The search warrant requested documents related to tax, banking and other matters. People familiar with the search said agents departed the Manafort residence with a trove of material, including binders prepared ahead of Manafort’s congressional testimony.

Investigators in the Russia inquiry have previously sought documents with subpoenas, which are less intrusive and confrontational than a search warrant. With a warrant, agents can inspect a physical location and seize any useful information. To get a judge to sign off on a search warrant, prosecutors must show that there is probable cause that a crime has been committed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-conducted-predawn-raid-of-former-trump-campaign-chairman-manaforts-home/2017/08/09/5879fa9c-7c45-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html

The search warrant raid of Manafort's residence also serves as a warning shot by Mueller and his investigators to Drumpf and the rest of his Russian boot-licking pals that he is not playing fucking games, which no doubt is causing some restless, sleepless nights for Drumpf while he's on his 17 day golfing vacation.

The heat is on . . . .






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Malcolmsplained . . . .

Malcolm Nance knows a thing or three about Russia, counter-intelligence operations and duty to country.  Here's why:

Malcolm Wrightson Nance (born September 20, 1961) is an American author and media commentator on terrorism, intelligence, insurgency and torture. He is a former United States Navy senior chief petty officer specializing in naval cryptology.

Nance was an interpreter for Russian, and began working in the intelligence field through research into the history of the Soviet Union and its spying agency the KGB.[5] He subsequently devoted years of research to analyzing Middle East terrorism and sovereign nations with ties to the Russian Federation.[5]

Nance is an expert on intelligence and terrorism,[1] and frequently discusses the history, personalities, and organization of jihadi radicalization and al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL); Southwest Asian and African terror groups; as well as counterinsurgency and asymmetric warfare. Fluent in Arabic, he is active in the field of national security policy particularly, in anti- and counter-terrorism intelligence, terrorist strategy and tactics, torture and counter-ideology in combating Islamic extremism.

As former U.S. Navy senior chief petty officer in Naval Cryptology, he was involved in numerous counter-terrorism, intelligence, and combat operations.[6][7][8] He garnered expertise within the fields of intelligence and counterterrorism.[9][10][11] He served in the U.S. Navy for 20 years, from 1981 to 2001.[12][1] He received military decorations and speaks Arabic. He became an instructor in wartime and peacetime SERE, training Navy and Marine Corps pilots and aircrew how to survive as a prisoner of war.[13][14]

Nance took part in combat operations which occurred after the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings, was involved with the 1986 United States bombing of Libya, served on USS Wainwright during Operation Praying Mantis and participated in the sinking of Iranian missile boat Joshan, served on USS Tripoli during the Gulf War, and assisted during a Banja Luka, Bosnia air strike.[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Nance

Allow Mr. Nance to endow you die-hard Trump supporters with some reality-based observations about what is actually going on with Robert Mueller's investigation into the Trump gang's footsie playing with the Kremlin:





The Gadfly will enthusiastically stack up Malcolm Nance's credibility, professional background and patriotism credentials against Drumpf and whatever spokesperson/apologist/lackey whom he sends out to publicly defend his honor -- any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

So let's be sensible adults and acknowledge what is clear here about Mr. Mueller's investigation.

It is not a fucking exercise in child play.

It is not a fake investigation borne of "fake news."

It is not a politically partisan "witch hunt."

It is not going to go away based on the fact that multiple grand juries have now been empaneled.

You think Drumpf isn't lying in a pool of sweat beneath his silk sheets at night dear readers?  And The Gadfly isn't talking about sweat triggered by the lack of air conditioning in his boudoir.  No -- Drumpf's is the kind of sweat that comes from knowing that a straight shooting, law & order bulldog like Robert Mueller is crawling up in to his anal cavity with a caravan of counter-intelligence and financial crimes lawyers and they are going to overturn every rock they come across, peer into every crevice that's visible and follow every suspicious track they discover until they reveal the true and factual nature and extent of Donald John Trump's business and "other" dealings with a nation and government who since 1917 has been, and still is considered a hostile adversary, if not an outright enemy, of American democracy, the U.S. constitution, and the American people's way of life.

That's all.




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A Special Message to Those Who Would Prefer to Ignore The Trump/Russia Business....

Pay attention dear readers - goddammit!

Sure - you've all got busy lives.  You're middle-class, somewhat or very, comfortable - long work days  - whos got time?  Or maybe you've just thrown in the towel completely and just do not give a rat's sphincter about this Trump/Russia stuff.  Why should you give a damn about the political clown show in your nation's capital?  Amiright?

Well -- allow The Gadfly to refer you to a fellow blogger's devastatingly astute post to explain something to you on that subject . . . here's an excerpt:

Just ignore him.

Just ignore the most powerful man in the world.

Just ignore the guy sitting on a nuclear arsenal large enough to kill every living thing on the planet and render the earth uninhabitable forever.

Just ignore the guy at the head of the largest, most powerful coalition of economic, political, and military power in not only the world, but in the entire history of the human race.

Just ignore the guy who controls nearly all aspects of the world that I’ll be leaving to my son and his new wife. My grandkids. The future. Sure, let’s just ignore that guy.

Trump has direct influence over all aspects of our society, economic, social, education, military, infrastructure, law and order, technology, the environment, labor, business, commerce, poverty, healthcare, growth, war, trade, our basic rights and freedoms, and you want me to just ignore him? 

Just … ignore him?

Because, what? Maybe he’ll go away? Maybe he’ll, I dunno, go away to wherever unicorns go.

The absolutely worst, most useless, advice I ever got as a kid was being told to just ignore the bullies. Ignore them, right? Because that’s what they want, attention. And if you ignore them, they’ll just go away. Puff. Magic.

You know what? That’s wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. No bully has ever just gone away because their victims ignore them.

When the abuser has all the power, you can’t ignore them – especially when they’re smashing your face in.

Ignoring fascism is how you get more fascism.

Ignoring hate is how you get more hate.

Ignoring abuse is how you get abused.

It is time to stop this magical thinking on both sides of the political divide and face reality.

Trump isn’t going to get better.

Trump isn’t going to go away.

Trump isn’t going to just one day wake up and decide to act like a president.

He’s not suddenly going to start acting like a rational adult.

He’s not going to be magically imbued with 70 years of education and knowledge and experience in how to run government.

Your indifferent god isn’t going to reach down and fill Trump’s fluffy head with wisdom and compassion and selflessness.  This isn’t a made for TV movie, Trump isn’t going to have some life-changing moment and realize what an ass he’s been and then devote the rest of his life to making the world a better place. That’s not going to happen.

There are no such things as unicorns.

And . . .

His supporters point to his supposed wealth as evidence of leadership, of vision, of intellect. And that’s nonsense. Trump is, at best, a mediocre businessman. He was born rich and given breaks most people don’t get, those things provide a safety net for mistakes and failures that ruin others less advantaged. Those things gave Trump the ability to take risks others can’t. It wasn’t his smarts or his supposed deal making or some magical unicorn dust, it was privilege. He didn’t create his empire from nothing, he built it on a foundation of wealth and advantage and other people’s money.

Trump’s privilege and wealth are luck of birth, not evidence of superiority.

Trump’s mythical ability to make a deal is exactly that, a myth. Bullshit. Smoke and mirrors. Something he uses to con the rubes. Trump can’t make a deal unless he has everything stacked in his favor and he calls all the shots and nobody else gets to say anything. And while that nonsense might work for you when you’re building a casino in Jersey (or not), it sure as shit doesn’t work out in the real world between nations and any fool could have told you that. And did. Repeatedly.

Bluster and bombast and billions are no substitute for intellect, education, experience, quiet courage, and steady confidence under fire.

http://www.stonekettle.com/2017/08/the-later-days-of-better-nation-part-iv.html

Go read the whole thing.  It's right on the money as far as The Gadfly is concerned.




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This Is a "Fake" Post, With a "Fake" Observation From a "Fake" Blogger . . .

And it begins.

Special counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury as part of his investigation into possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia in last year’s election, sources tell the Wall Street Journal.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/robert-mueller-grand-jury-russia-probe_us_59837b30e4b0cb15b1bd6508?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

The very first benefit of empaneling a grand jury is the power of subpoena.  And these aren't the "fake" subpoenas that exist only in the delusional minds of assholes like Drumpf and his fanatical supporters.  These are big boy, serious as shit subpoenas.

Obviously everyone is innocent until proven guilty -- but with the grand jury impaneling, it signifies that Robert Mueller has not only some pretty decent evidence in his possession, but also believes he can convincingly persuade a jury of citizens, the media, and that segment of sane society who's paying attention to all of this Russian business shit and care about this country's future.

Also - watch for the conservatives to ramp up (they've already started actually) their slandering of Robert Mueller, never for a moment acknowledging the perverse spectacle of them supporting a lecherous, larcenous, duplicitous, stooge like Drumpf, while trashing the reputation and character of a guy, Mueller, who was a decorated U.S. combat marine, a real man who has served this country and the public pretty fucking admirably for decades.  As his official Wiki biography states -- Mueller has:

earned a reputation as a no-nonsense, straight-laced attorney and investigator, as well as the nickname "Bobby Three Sticks"—a nod to his name's suffix.^[2][3][4] Lauded for his non-partisan and non-political approach, he has been credited with transforming the FBI from an agency primarily focused on law enforcement into one of the world's top organizations handling counterespionage and counterterrorism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mueller

He is also a Republican who has primarily served in Republican administrations, which in a sane world would be the instant castration of the talking point that he's a Democratic partisan.  But, by virtue of the fact we have arrived at this point in our nation's history with someone like the cretinous, Napoleon-complex Drumpf with access to the nuclear codes, who knows if we have yet to truly plumb the deepest crevices of the American public's level of gullibility and asininity.

With all that said though -- The Gadfly is ready for this.  Let's get to the bottom of some of this suspicious stuff here, and, if what Mueller and his investigators find makes it necessary to take legal steps to make things right again, then by goddamn -- do it!





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