2 POLITICAL RALLIES - WHY WASN'T ELON MUSK AT BOTH???

    On Saturday May 5, 2024, former Pres. Donald Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania to hold a massive rally - a return to the scene where a young man ended the earlier rally by shooting Trump in the ear, and nearly hitting his head.  By an inch or so, the assassin failed in his task.  Trump rose from the deck to FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT  again.  Unfortunately, a man was killed and some injured.

    I thought the rally would begin at 1 CST, and found a tv station carrying the proceedings.  It became obvious, even though the crowd was already massive, this was the warm up, and Trump would not appear for 4 more hours.  I did other things and would glance at the tv while waiting.  I only saw Elon Musk for a short time.  What was he doing?  Jumping around on the stage?  Was he trying to imitate Tim Walz, Kamala's VP running mate, who always seems to be auditioning for a cheerleader role for a football team.  Then Musk made some short, powerful statements.  If Trump does not win, it will be the last free election in America.  Freedom is the issue of this election, and freedom will end with a Democratic Party victory.  Enforcing Musk's judgement, the day or so preceding, Hillary Clinton announced that we need censorship to prevent disinformation in the election.  Of course, Clinton and the Democrats know that disinformation is any story that conflicts with the official liberal Democratic pronouncement of truth.  Lee Oswald, a lone nut, shot and killed JFK from the 6th floor building. Etc. down through the decades, just ask Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, down the decades to David Muir.  Deviation from them, from the NYT, Washington Post, the Atlantic, and that becomes the definition of disinformation.  Big tech can check for sure with the CIA and other agencies.  So we will know that any Hunter Biden laptop exposing Biden corruption must be disinformation.

   The rally continued when Trump arrived to a joyous welcome.  He gave his usual stump Trump speech, which includes humor and policy analysis, homage to the dead and wounded at the previous rally, and closing as usual, with the We will make America .... again." chants.

    Why was Musk there?  Musk is NOT an American by birth.  Why is he not in his homeland?

    The answer - I recall seeing a news film of a huge political rally in South Africa. in a stadium.  They were promoting the Economic Freedom Fighters Party led by Julius Malema, and he was there, center stage in the stadium, leadeing the large crowd in a simple song: "Kille the Boer, kill the white,"  The words are repeated a number of times, and then the chorus of rat, tat, tat, tat, tat, as he holds a rifle in his arm, and uses his voice to immitate the weapon shooting whites.  Naturally, the American mass media, infected with sociological non-sense that blacks cannot be racists, must ignore such obvious examples of virulent racism, for it knocks the absurd liberal social science theories into the trash can.  In the latest election, the AFC, the African National Congress lost its majority which it held since 1990 and now rules in coalition.  The EFF lost votes too, dropping from 10.8% to 9.5%.  But how safe would you feel if you were a white South African, and you knew 10% of the population favors putting a bullet in you?  And, by the way, white farmers are often murdered, often with their families.  The murder rate for all is among the highest in the world in South Africa.  The electric grid is grinding down, so black and brown outs are common.  It's once proud airline now sits mainly on the ground.  Train service deteriorates.  Now even tap water is failing in some large cities.  Their equivalent of affirmative action since the ANC came to power has brought many blacks into  jobs, but apparently now, jobs for which they were utterly unqualified.  Infrastructure decays.  Even hospitals have blackouts of electricity.  Crime.  A decaying society. The only possible role for Musk at the EFF rally would have been as target practice.

     Would Elon Musk have a future in South Africa?  Would any white?  And is South Africa America's future?  Kamala Harris has trouble enunciating her program, because hers is a radical program.  The internet calls the program of the EFF a socialist program.  That is like calling the Nazi program a socialist program.  Nazi stood for National Socialist German Workers Party, so socialism was part of it.  And that may be true of the EFF.  But both were virulent racist parties.  Many are reluctant to call blacks racists, even when individuals admit the do the knock out game to get back at whites, others get the money, or the phone, or the tv set from whitey.  And the excuse their racist crime and thievery as getting it back, just as the Nazis justified their dispossession of the Jews. That is not merely criminal minds, it is criminal racist minds excusing their criminality.  The Democratic Party and its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion had pushed Harvard and other posh universities to hire presidents BECAUSE they were blacks, some black women, some men.  The woman at Harvard had published little, AND she had plagiarized.  No white or Asian would have even been considered for the post with similar weak credentials.  But under DEI who cares about qualifications - with DEI the only real qualifications are race and sex.  The unacknowledged slogan of affirmative action is "Never Hire the Best Qualified Candidate" for the job.  How else did Kamala become Vice President?  How else could she become President?

      Is the future of America a crumbling, crime-ridden, chaotic South Africa?  Musk realizes that a Kamala victory means an American future as another South Africa.  Already in decline, we will quickly decay under Kamala and the Democrats - with their green power unable to provide enough energy, black and brown outs reducing industrial productivity, and interfering with our personal lives, disruptions and injuries when the electricity goes off, more DEI hires, more crime, more criminals back on the street, and millions more illegal aliens getting welfare, etc.

     Trump is not perfect, and I am sure Musk and Robert Kennedy, Jr., disagree with him on some important points - as do I.  But Trump has courage.  He knows there are elements IN THE GOVERNMENT bureaucracies who reject the views of the people, who do not want free speech, who do not want parents to have a voice in public schools, who want ever-more no win wars that keep the munition industries thriving, the big phara groups, the Dr. Fauci medicatator types, they do not trust the people of the US.  This is why Hillary demands censorship, as do the liberals who want to ban "disinformation.  They fear free speech, because they fear free men, free women, a free American people.  The only way to provide continued freedom for future Americans is to vote for Donald Trump, his human flaws will be forgiven if he IS ALLOWED TO SAVE AMERICA.

GREATER DANGER TO AMERICAN ELECTIONS, FOREIGN OR US INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES?

 Newser had a piece on foreign intelligence threatening our elections.  He is my response.  Hugh Murray

Be real, the problem of intelligence agencies trying to influence US elections - the main problem is the American intelligence agencies whose leadership is wedded to the Democratic Party. The best example, in Oct. 2020, soon before the Noveber election between Biden and Trump, the NY Post exposed the Hunter Biden laptop story with the clear exposure of Hunter's corruption, and the implied corruption of Joe Biden. Blinken, then a Dem. operative, contacted some friends in intel agencies, and soon 51 leading American intelligence agents, without ever examining Hunter's laptop, were declaring it Russian disinformation and urging big tech to suppress the NY Post story. Big tech and the big networks promptly dismissed the allegations against the Bidens as conspiracy theories, Russian disinformation. So a very important story on Biden corruption was suppressed because US intel decided it wanted Biden to win. Just like tonight on ABC nightly news with Muir, who warned Americans about conspiracy theories re FEMA and hurricane victims. The conspiracy is of course different from Muir's version. The conspiracy was of the Biden Dems to move funding in FEMA from money to help American victims of emergencies, tornados, fires, hurricanes, etc., and instead vast FEMA sums on transporting foreigners to various American town, paying for their hotels, their hospital stays, their food, etc. Because FEMA had spent so much on the invaders, little is left for American victims of storms. The American intel agencies, and the big American media are allied to the Dems, that is the source of disinformation in the media.

Bottom Line - Democrats seem to favor foreign migrants to American citizens.

THE 2024 VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE

 This will be s short post - THEY BOTH WON.  Tonight I saw Gov. Tim Walz, not trying out to join the football cheerleaders squad, but as an honest, intelligent man groping for political answers that might work.  I did not agree with most of his positions, but I grew to respect the man who is running on a major ticket, and who might become President.  He agreed with Vance on various points, and his nodding head indicated this even before he spoke.  Walz seemed sensible, warm. caring, human.

J.D. Vance, Ohio Senator had raised my ire on several issues already - lying about Haitians eating pets in Springfield, proposing additional votes for those with children, and maintaining that those without children had no stake in the nation, to name a few.  But instead of the belligerent bull dog in a china shop, Vance made his points but agreed when he could with Vance.  They both saw similar problems, and at times seemed to suggest similar proposals to solve them.  He would nod his head in agreement while Walz spoke, too.  It seemed quite friendly.

The moderators were two CBS news leaders, Nora O'Donnell, who anchors the nightly news, and Margaret Brennan who hosts the Sunday morning show Face the Nation.  Both one may assume are liberals, and Nora's nightly news will go out of its way to spotlight female achievement, and often ignore that of men.  Before the debate, I wondered if they might unleash cats to attack Vance because of his remarks about some women not having children and wanting cats.  Would they make cats screech into the microphone when Vance spoke?  Happily, the women did not bring felines.  But they did help the Democrat by not asking about the unending wars and threats of wars under Biden, compared to the relative peace under Trump.  The women seem to agree with Nance Pelosi that it is treason to question the results of the 2020 election.  And they and Walz seem to prefer censorship, denial of free speech, to even question the legitimacy of Joe Biden's election in 2020.  Happily, neither "moderator" is on the ballot.

I now have a more favorable opinion of both Vance and Walz, and that is comforting as either could beome a US President.        Hugh Murray

A friend read my email version of this blog, and did not like it.  Here is his criticism:

I didn't watch the debate but saw a few highlights afterwards.

I heard Walz say very passionately that he wanted censorship of hate speech. Beware! You'd be in jail for a long time under president/ vice president Waltz just for writing your blog!!! His personality hardly matters. Policies on the other hand do, a lot. 

There goes your First amendment.

 

Then he said, the problem is not mental health rather the guns.

There goes the Second amendment

When asked about Walz lying about being in Tiananmen square during the massacre, he said that he "grew up in a small town with 400 people where he rode his bicycle and was proud of the service". huh... what?

 

He wouldn't answer questions from Vance about their abortion bill on punishment for doctors who do not care for the baby which survives an abortion attempt, and did an awful job of providing a non answer.

 

There were a few more clips of Walz evading questions that I saw which left me in bad taste. The Dems care about shredding the constitution into pieces and taking away the last few rights that people still have. 

 

Vance pandered about being raised by a single mother and grandmother, medical bills blah blah as well but at least his policy positions were solid.

 

I'm very surprised you bought into this charade. It makes me very worried for the future.

BLUFF OR NO BLUFF? WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES?

 When the Soviets did not send troops to arrest protestors and thereby defend the Wall, and then the wall came down, there were verbal assurances that NATO would not move into Eastern Europe. Poland, and other former Warsaw Pact nations were soon enrolled in NATO, including Estonia, and Latvia, isolating Kaliningrad. In 2014 the Orange Revolution (aided by Victoria Neuland and US Dept of State and its NGOs, and soon the US Dept of Defense had a dozen biolabs in Ukraine. Some contend that the Russian speaking areas of E Ukraine were suffering discrimination. Next the invasion, and a limited war. Putin has warned, if NATO permits long range missiles to fire deeep into Russia, a red line will be crossed, and nuclear weapons may be unleashed. Bluff?

How often have the Russians made such a threat?

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ON ANOTHER ASPECT OF FOREIGN INFLUENCE ON THE AMERICAN ELECTION

The Pope is disappointed in both major candidates for President of the US - one he finds anti life; the other anti-migrant.  Of course, he is allowed to have his opinion, and to express it.

And I will express my opinion on his assessment of the candidates for US President.

I suggest that the US send the 10 million or so invaders (those whom the Pope calls migrants), that we send 10 million to Vatican City, where the Pope has an independent nation.

I should add another point, American politicians are mainly concerned with the welfare of the citizens of the nation-state, the USA.  The Pope's major concerns are global, some would say heavenly.  He leads the largest religious organization in the world.  It is not democratic, but is that the point of a religious group?  It has lasted with modifications for about 2,000 years, far longer than any large democratic state.  And allegiance to most religious institutions, at least in the modern world, tends to be voluntary, whereas allegiance to the nation state is usually mandatory.

America has laws to admit immigrants and legitimate refugees, laws continually ignored and defied by the "above the law" Biden Administration and its Border Czarina, Kamala Harris.
The US seeks to be democratic, "a democracy within a republic."  We hope to have elections where only American citizens can vote. 

Who elects the Pope?  The Pope is not elected by the millions of Roman Catholics of the world; - He is chosen only by several hundred Cardinals, many of whom are appointed by the present Pope.  I am not saying what Catholics should do - that is their tradition.  If some Catholics heartily disagreed with the process, they can leave the church.  Most Catholics remain.  I am simply pointing out that our American national institutions are different from those of the most popular religious institution on earth today.

I will stick to our more democratic institutions.  I worry that this election is most important in retaining our democratic republic.  Not since Thomas Jefferson sought to destroy Aaron Burr after their dispute concerning who would be President and VP, when Jefferson sought to prosecute (persecute) Burr for activities in Louisiana and the new western lands has there been such vindictive persecution of political rivals. The Democrats have conspired to shut Trump up, impoverish him, and put him in prison for years.  And on a smaller scale the Democrats went after Trump's allies like former NYC Mayor Giuliani, and political advisors Peter Navarro and Steven Bannon.  Pelosi's J6 Congressional inquiry was as one-sided as a Moscow show trial of the 1930s, in which Pelosi hand-picked the Republican "opposition" like then Congresswoman Liz Cheney.  Was she really to represent the Trump defense?

  I do not agree with every word that Trump says.  But he made America a better place for 2 years until Dr. Fauci's funded experiments in the Wuhan laboratory led to the Covid epidemic.  Trump understands the economy, and if anyone can, ha will build us up again.  Trump rightly distrusts the CIA types that were determined to use Ukraine for a thrust against Russia, and he knows 51 US intelligence leaders LIED about the Hunter lap-top showing Biden family corruption.  They lied to help Biden and the Democrats avoid defeat in 2020, and they will do dirty tricks to try to prevent Trump winning in 2024 (is there more to the story of the young assassin in Pennsylvania who came close to closing Trump's campaign and his life?)

Trump knows the dangers of the American Deep State, Swamp, (whatever you call it).  And he pledges to finally reveal to the public the JFK assassination files.  Trump promises the end to endless wars, no-win wars - our last major win was WWII.  Peace through strength.  No more waste on green energy, no more hatred of gas stoves, gas autos, and oil, and long tested cheap forms of energy.  Equal rights for all citizens and no more DEI discrimination.  No more men in women' s sports.  Schools that teach the 3Rs, and discipline.  He will draw on the past to make us a GREAT NATION AGAIN.     Hugh Murray

THE KAMALA HARRIS WALZ - AN UNUSUAL BREAK DANCE

You have heard of the Tennessee Waltz, and from down under, Waltzing Matilda, and earlier the Blue Danube and other Strauss waltzes.  But the Harris Walz dance is a death dance to America's freedom.  If Trump loses to Harris, he is facing up to 700 years in prison - on baseless charges.  One of his advisors, Steve Bannon, is presently in prison for refusing to answer questions about conversations between him and Trump.  Bannon invoked Executive Privilege, as he was advising the President; but the Biden-Garland Justice Dept. put him in jail, anyway.  Similarly, another Trump advisor, Peter Navarro, was imprisoned for 4 months on a similar charge.  Yet when Democrat leader of the IRS Lois Lerner refused to answer questions about her using the IRS to target conservatives, she got away with it, and got a promotion.   When former Atty Gen. Eric Holder refused to answer questions about our government supplying weapons to Mexican drug cartels, resulting in the murder of a US Agent, Holder refused to answer, and nothing happened to the Obama Atty Gen. Holder.

This November America faces the most consequential election since 1864, when Lincoln chose to run on a mixed ticket as he felt the Republicans were too weak to win alone, Lincoln dropped his Republican VP Hamlin of Maine for a Tennessee War Democrat Andrew Johnson.  The Republican/Union ticket was running against Union Gen. Mc Clellan who personally sought to continue the war, but the national Democratic Party platform called for negotiations with the Confederacy and a 2-state solution.  A Democratic Party victory might well have meant the end to the Civil War with its heavy casualties and the deal: a 2-state solution, a USA and a CSA, with the continuance of slavery in the South.  It was a most important election because the future of the nation and freedom were at stake.  So is the election of 2024.

Trump has received the endorsements of Robert Kennedy, Jr., former Dem. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, and now noted attorney Alan Dershowitz. 

And the Harris Walz ticket has recently received the endorsements of former GOP Congresswoman Lynn Cheney and her father, former GOP VP Dick Cheney.  

Who would look to the Cheneys for truth? Dick Cheney and the Weapons of Mass Destruction!  And the war to prevent their use!  His support for Kamala Harris simply makes clear that the military-industrial complex, the instigators of all the no-win wars since WWII, this lobby funding group has left the Republicans to join the Democrats as the new war party. The Dems are also the party of censorship, medictatorships (Fauci), masks, vax, stand in line and never question your betters. The Democrats ran a one-party dictatorship in the South for a century; now they want that kind of dictatorship for the entire nation. The Cheneys and Democrats will enchain America's citizens.  The HARRIS WALZ is a dance of death to freedom in America!

Don't be fooled.  The Kamala Harris Walz, no matter how sweet the sound of the music or wakeful the sound of her laugh, the Kamala Walz is a break dance - A BREAK AMERICA dance! 

More on the Progressive Party of 1948 in the South, and Buford Posey, et al.

 My memory can be wrong, but often it is clear and correct - though it may take me a day to retrieve it.  I recall a gathering in New Orleans at the home of a slightly older friend Jack P., and his wife Nydia, probably in summer of 1968.  It was a small group, about a dozen, and it was to greet Ann Braden, a civil rights and civil liberties activist at least since the 1940s.  She and her husband Carl  were living in Kentucky, and had blacks visiting their home, or about to sell it to blacks or something on the race issue, and their home was bombed.  The local authorities blamed it on the Bradens, and court cases ensued.  Ann had written a book on the subject, THE WALL BETWEEN, which I had read when young.  They were also activists against HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee.  Carl had died, but Ann was coming to NO, and Jack invited some local activists to meet her. 

 There was general chit-chat and questions, and then things changed with the arrival of Buford W. Posey from Philadelphia.  Buford first entered the national news light when in 1963 he alleged that the 3 missing civil rights workers, Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman, were murdered, and NOT as local authorities were speculating, in Havana, Moscow, or New York.  At this little meeting in NO, Buford elaborated.  He knew they were dead because he had received a phone call late into the night, to the effect: "We just killed those 3 **** and you're going to be number 4."  I don't recall the exact words but they were harsher than those in the Mississippi archives.  Buford added, he recognized the voice: it was that of a local minister.  He added, that the sheriff and authorities could have left the 3 out of custody earlier, but the authorities wanted to wait until the Sunday night religious service was over, because some of the congregation would be involved in the attack on the 3 "outside agitators."  Buford elaborated about that era.  One day a car he did not recognized pulled up in front of his home.  Buford went on the porch with his rifle, "Who are you?" he asked the stranger emerging from his car.  The stranger now seemed most nervous: "Can you put that gun down.  I'm from the Justice Department.  I have been sent here (by Bobby Kennedy) to protect you."  Buford asked, "Well, where's your gun?"  "Oh I don't have one."  Buford then told him to get out of here; I have enough trouble protecting myself without trying to protect you, too."  I think many on the Left in the South had a very different view toward weapons from the Northern Left.  Buford also said he was the only person who had lost his Mississippi citizenship; a law had been passed denying him that and the right to vote.  When someone asked him about a court case, he replied it only applied to one and was too costly to try to win just for one person.

     The Mississippi historical group maintained Buford got in trouble in 1948 when he supported Democrat Harry Truman instead of States Rights (Dixiecrat) Strom Thurmond for President.  But Ann Braden said something to Buford that he got in trouble as a Progressive, and he agreed.  Of course, they might have meant progressive rather than the Prog. Party.  I suspect he was PP.

     New Orleans had some interesting Progressives.  NO her native city, playwright Lillian Hellman was a delegated to the PP Convention that nominated Henry Wallace.  Gwen Midlo Hall was a teenage member of the Young Progressives, and she would later become a major scholar in black history.  Long before the 1963 raid on the Quorum Club on the edge of the French Quarter, there was a raid in 1949 of a Progressive Party party, in the French Quarter and about 70 were arrested for race mixing, etc.

     The Progressive Party was a popular front organization, with Communists and non-Communists, and in the South pushing for integration.  On the other side, all race mixing, mongrolization, etc. WAS COMMUNISM.  Paul Robeson was a leader of the PP, and his defense of the Soviets cost him dearly.  From the most popular black man in the world in the early 1940s, to a non-person in America by 1950.  Stalin was a dictator, even more murderous that Hitler.  Yet, for the uncomfortable question, had there been no Stalin, would there have been an end to legal segregation in the USA?  Would there have been de-colonialization of much of the world?  Would Britain still rule India, Pakistan, and half of Africa?  Would France still rule Vietnam, and the other half of Africa?  The Cold War forced change on America and the world, changes neither wanted, and some of that change was for the good.-----------Hugh Murray