Gentlemen, You've Been Doing It Wrong. 🤣

So much for all the expensive flowers, romantic candlelit dinners, and not to mention the sly safaris in search of erogenous zones. Your distant forefathers had the 411. It was all so much easier than you thought. 

~ Thank You MJA@IOTWReport for the Linkage  ~

The Public Saw the Articles. Not Influence Operation Behind Them.

REVEALED: Here Are the Mainstream Journalists on China’s Payroll 🚨

I exclusively uncovered the identities of prominent U.S. journalists flown to China by a CCP-linked influence operation seeking “favorable coverage” and “positive messages” about Beijing. 🧵

— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) July 27, 2026

The names come from Natalie Winters’ investigation matching public DOJ FARA filings (on CUSEF and its PR firm) with archived CUSEF newsletters & reports that documented the trips.

The names include:

- Ezra Klein, New York Times columnist - Matthew Yglesias, Vox co-founder - Ronald Brownstein, CNN senior political analyst - Bradford Plumer, New York Times reporter - Marjorie Miller, former Associated Press vice president

- Steve Clemons, former The Hill editor-at-large - David Rohde, MS NOW senior national security reporter - Jonathan Alter, NBC News and MSNBC political analyst - David Sweeney, former NPR managing editor - Daniel Gross, former Yahoo Finance columnist

- Marilyn Geewax, former NPR senior editor - Kathleen Deveny, former Newsweek editor - Tom Omestad, former U.S. News & World Report correspondent - Steve Chapman, former Chicago Tribune columnist - Bruce Stokes, former National Journal correspondent

- Craig Gilbert, former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Washington bureau chief - Tony Semerad, Salt Lake Tribune reporter - Shikha Dalmia, former The Week columnist - Jonathan Broder, former Newsweek senior writer

- Cristi Kempf, former Chicago Tribune associate managing editor - Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times deputy editorial page editor - Julian Pecquet, former Foreign Affairs reporter

Trip organizer CUSEF was founded by Tung Chee-hwa, a former senior official in the CCP’s United Front system, the influence apparatus Beijing uses to cultivate foreign elites and shape institutions outside China. The access went far beyond conference rooms.

Then came the coverage.......

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Like Don Quixote on a Three Legged Donkey

It seems so long ago Joe Biden raised his hand and bold face lied to God and the entire nation that he would faithfully carry out the duty of defending the Constitution and Country from enemies both foreign and domestic. He did neither.  His pack of rabid neo-marxist, racial identity adherence yelling "our democracy is in danger" placed in positions of power did not go unnoticed by anyone paying a least bit of attention.  

For the last decade or so a cottage industry had been building around the demand for analysis demonstrating how the Republican Party had become too extreme. By the time Vox got around to the subject, the American electorate had delivered control of every seat of power in Washington to the GOP. For all the lectures about how Republican voters had supposedly sequestered themselves in self-radicalizing cloisters, the self-righteous left were just as disinclined to look at themselves in the mirror, intentional or not. 

Democrat voters, fed a constant diet of how bad America is, are increasingly adopting a brand of extremism all their own. Some dem politicians seeking their party's nomination seem perfectly willing to tailor their policy preferences to their party’s ascendant minority of marxist extremists.

Bernie & AOC have devoted precious time on the campaign trail to stripping “socialism” of its stigma. Senator Lizzy  advocates changes to the criminal code and make illegal entry into the country no more serious than spitting on the sidewalk. The dems socialist 2026 bench appears so committed to radical one-upmanship that they embracing policies that have the support of no constituency whatsoever, like making D.C. the nation’s 51st state, an idea that most everyone opposes regardless of ideology, party affiliation, or region.

Convinced just months ago they finally had the country just outside their grasp because of the incompetence of the present administration, even with the media carrying their feces, dems are now in pillow biting mode over the DNC being dead broke and marxist rabble they let fester in their midst, and privately said to be entertaining the possibility they may not make the large anticipated gains in coming mid-terms'.

The dems most visible problem right now is NYC Comrade Zohran Mamdani. The premise of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote maps cleanly onto politics and Mamdani's marxist makeover of NYC.

A person (or movement) becomes immersed in an idealized narrative, in Mamdani's case utopian blueprints with underlying islamo-marxism. Don Quixote's reality was windmills become giants, inns become castles, flocks of sheep become armies. In Comrade Mamdani and the New Left politics, the equivalents are institutions, opposing voters, economic data, or bureaucratic processes that get recoded as existential threats or pure evil.

Like Quixote, Mamdani charges forward with sincere conviction, often dragging along more pragmatic useful idiots (Sancho figures) who half-believe, half-enable, and sometimes exploit the quest. The results are soon to be a mix of farce, collateral damage, occasional unintended good, and eventual collision with unyielding facts.

Opponents are no longer fellow citizens with different preferences but caricatures (giants, enchanters, traitors). Symbolic victories or rhetorical purity are pursued even when they demonstrably worsen the concrete problems the movement claims to care about. Followers and institutions adapt to the fantasy rather than correct it, because the story confers status, solidarity, or power. Some quixotic campaigns expose real injustices that complacent realists prefer to ignore or just don't give a shit. Others simply multiply chaos while congratulating themselves on their purity.

Having grown up in Europe I have seen all this before. Mamdani is a fool on a fool's errand.

Whenever political discourse treats a preferred story as more authoritative than observed outcomes, the windmills are probably nearby.

And all y'all Rayssist!  

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A Good Monday Morning

Sunday Soothingness

Just for you, because your Blog Editrix loves each and every one of you, a bit of Soothingness for your auditory nerves, a choice morsel drawn from your Beloved Editrix's personal digs.  A beautiful track from the 1967 landmark album "Surrealistic Pillow" that unleashed the Jefferson Airplane on the world, I give for your Sunday Soothingness "Embryonic Journey". Written and performed by Jorma Kaukonen.......

Take a Deep Breath and Enjoy your Sunday. 

Yes My Friends, It's The Return of Your Official Almost Semi-World Famous Irredeemable Big Ass Open Thread

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! 

Friends, Patriots, Countrymen. It is proclaimed this day, the Twenty-Fourth Day of July in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty Six by Your Beloved Blog Editrix Who Loves Each and Everyone of You, this hour of this day the opening of Your Official Week Ending Almost Semi-World Famous Irredeemable Big Ass Open Thread! All in Favor say "I".

It's been a year since the last Big Ass Open Thread and lots has happened since. So Your Beloved Blog Editrix, Who Loves Each and Everyone of You, knows y'all done got more smarter than last time we got together and knows you're anxious to share it with us all, and the the opportunity to leave your mark on history and possibly, but not likely, be admired by future generations for your wisdom.  Not to mention you're probably bursting with a backlog of accolades and tribute for your Beloved Editrix after her absence.

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We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us

Imagine being wealthy in your mid-30's, rallying up a contingent of blue-haired, skinny, mentally handicapped commies? All the while enjoying all the creature comforts provided in a western nation?

DSA podcaster Hasan Piker delivers Hitler-style rant in a Mao Zedong suit

Hasan Piker delivers Hitler-style rant in a Mao Zedong suit pic.twitter.com/0RYL3Lx5Vt

— DSA Watch (@DSA_Watch) July 19, 2026

Nazis and Guys in Dresses. WTF is going on in Maine?

He might not be Maine’s next Senator, but maybe he’ll be Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey sequel.🤣🤣 https://t.co/YmgwWUUGX2

— Diogenes Sarcastica (@KonanBarBarron) July 17, 2026

Joe Biden Announces New Upcoming Tome of 'The Continuing Adventures of Joe Biden' Memoirs

This will be Biden's third book of memoirs. His first attempt was a still unpublished book about the 2008 election and first years as VP, a copy of the manuscript which just someway kinda fell into DMF hands, called "The 2008 Campaign, the Best I can Remember ". I'm pretty sure Barky put his foot on this one. 🤣

His second book, Volume 1 - The Coal Miner's Moron. The Early Years 1942-52', was praised for its deep reflections and colorful intimate stories.  

Here is the NPR Book Review at the time...

Joe Biden to Release Volume 1 of 'JRB'- His 5 Volume Monumental Memoir: 

From his picturesque description of travel down the birth canal, to his selfless volunteering as a young boy to act as the canary in the coal mine in his hometown of Scranton PA. during the great canary shortage of '49,  Volume 1 'The Early Years 1942-52', and the volumes to follow promise never before told tales of adventure and accidental heroism, colorful characters and revealing peeks behind the scenes in the life of America's Beloved 46th President. - NPR

Volume 1 'The Early Years 1942-52'

Available now for preorder at Amazon Books, 

or for $10 out of the trunk of Hunter Biden's car. 

And the Unicorns Roamed the Fields

Great successes and catastrophes all begin the same way:

 with a big idea. 

The Great State of Louisiana, my adopted home, has a rich history of attempting a practice of utopian socialism early in the last century. One of the most notable was in 1917, when two hundred settlers from a failed "warmth of collectivism" utopian socialist community in California chartered a train to the abandoned mill town of Stables, Louisiana. They were referred to, somewhat derisively, by more strident socialists of the time as “utopian socialists” for their idealistic approach. Around this same time, model socialist communities were being established in states across the country, but most were short-lived. 

The group’s founder, Job Harriman, was a prominent lawyer who had served as Eugene Debs’s running mate on the Socialist Party ticket in the presidential election of 1900. The early years in the colony, named New Llano were tough, with no plumbing, little food, and almost no money. Kinda like living in a NYC apartment building these days.

Many colonists said oh hell no, gave up and returned to California.

At its height, the New Llano colony is estimated to have contained between eight hundred and a thousand members. Some "scholars" who regularly make bank pulling numbers out of the asses for the purpose of new books, believe as many as 10,000 people. 

As long as they bought shares and were willing to work, colonists were provided with a home, three square meals a day (or the ingredients to prepare them), free healthcare, and free education.

Despite the community’s many progressive ideals, the population never did welcome black or Asian colonists. Nope! Nope! No coloreds round here.

But when the Great Depression hit, founder Job Harriman skipped out for the comfort of California and the colony struggled to accommodate the influx of poor and destitute people who arrived looking for help. Dissension grew as long-time idealistic colonists resented as the new leaders generosity with these new arrivals to their workers paradise, many of whom could not pay for membership. 

At the height of the colony’s financial difficulties, many members staged a coup and overthrew the ones in power and took over. The unicorns escaped and the colony collapsed from debt and internal conflict. Some were more equal than others.  

Many other colonies popped up. All failed to birth a unicorn.

A Good Monday Morning

An Hilarious Look at Your Want-To-Be Future Overlord's Democratic Socialists of America Convention

A Peek Into a Past Democratic Socialists of America Convention in Atlanta. Someone Get a Net!

A look into what happened during one part of the national convention of the Democratic Socialists of America in Atlanta this weekend. pic.twitter.com/bWekVQxPWV

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) August 4, 2019

Bonus round. pic.twitter.com/qvzoqtO4kP

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 4, 2019

Resistance is Futile. Prepare to Surrender.

A Good Monday Morning!

Happy Independence Day Y'all! 😎

May The Blessings Laid Upon this Nation at it's Founding 

be Protected and Remain Forevermore!

  

This day also marks the anniversary of the fall of Vicksburg.  On July 4th, 1863, after a 47 day Union Army siege of the city, ravished by hunger and disease, the heavily fortified stronghold and the Mississippi River navigation it controlled were surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, changing the course of the war.  

Independence day was not again observed in Vicksburg until the early 1900's.

We Gather Here Today.....🤣🤣🤣

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