#the base

And Trump goes on TV to complain about imaginary fraud in an election six years ago where the only provable fraud was Trump himself attempting to extort a state into "finding" him enough votes to win.

That's where we're at.

Highlights include:

- Trump thinks mail-in ballots are totally corrupt. But he himself along with his family vote by mail-in ballot every year.

- Trump says the 2016 election and the 2024 elections that put him in office were fine, but the 2020 election where he lost was corrupt. Obama was president in 2016, Biden was president in 2024, TRUMP was president for the alleged corrupt 2020 election. Trump is literally saying the only corrupt elections were under his watch.

- Trump says he ordered certain intelligence documents to be declassified and uploaded online to prove his claims. Literally NONE of those documents prove ... well, anything. Not a single bit of the "evidence" would stand up in a court of law, even under a judge appointed by Trump. He might as well have referenced YouTube conspiracy videos.

- Trump says because of "the Deep State" his own intelligence service hid from him the fact that China was trying to influence our elections. Except Trump's own national security expert, Miles Taylor, who served as DHS Chief of Staff in Trump's first term went online last night after Trump's speech to remind Trump that the Intelligence Community, including Taylor personally, briefed Trump EXTENSIVELY on that very threat not once but repeatedly over several years beginning in 2018 in the lead-up to the 2020 elections. There are records of those meetings. And, ironically, one of the documents released by Trump has a section that specifically notes China targeted Biden's campaign, not Trump's.

- Trump claims there are 250,000 non-citizens on voter rolls. Given that many states, including red states, refused to cooperate with Trump's various election investigation by refusing to hand over their voter rolls, it's hard to determine where Trump got that number from other than the obvious "out of his ass." And in fact, Trump's own government's sources categorically refute that number. There is no record of any non-citizen voting in our elections, certainly not in any significant volume. Those few that attempted to do so were caught and prosecuted.

Even Fox News wasn't buying it.

Again, this is a president who has confused "political asylum" with "insane asylum" and who just this week confused "transistors" for "transgenders" when ranting about the manufacture of microchips. This is a guy who thinks windmills cause cancer and who once gave a bizarre unhinged speech about electric boats and sharks. This is a guy who just last week claimed he actually spoke to Teddy Roosevelt and joked about having a "threesome" with his sons.

What I'm saying here is that maybe this guy is nuts.

Maybe he's a self-involved narcissist who is suffering from increasing dementia who spends all day imagining persecution to make himself feel better about being such an insecure louse of a human being and his utter humiliation at being defeated by someone he considers inferior.

I'll say this though: Remember all those QAnon people who were absolutely convinced JFK Jr. staged his own death in 1999 by faking being an inexperienced pilot who should never have been flying over water at night, and how he was going to miraculously return as Trump's VP in 2021 and when he didn't they still show up every year in Dallas all glassy-eyed and expectant to await the return of Republican Jesus?

I'll bet they loved every word of Trump's speech last night.

that base that erased

but couldn't erase the ink across my books typeface

the uppers and the lowers

they're still in place

the Prokeimenon

Psalm 4, in the 5th Tone

THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON, SON OF DAVID who reigned in Israel; to know wisdom and instruction, and to understand WORDS OF WISDOM, TO RECEIVE ALSO HARD SAYINGS AND THE SOLUTIONS TO DARK SAYINGS, to understand true justice, and how to direct judgment; that he might give subtlety to the simple, and to the young man discernment and understanding. For by the hearing of these a wise man will be wiser, and the man of understanding will gain direction; and will understand a parable and a dark speech, the sayings of the wise also, and any riddles. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and there is good understanding to all that practice it and piety toward God is the beginning of discernment; but the ungodly will set at nought wisdom and instruction. Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and reject not the rules of thy mother; for thou shalt receive for thy head a crown of graces, and a chain of gold around thy neck. My son, let not ungodly men lead thee astray, neither consent thou to them , if they should exhort thee, saying: Come with us, partake in blood; and let us unjustly hide the righteous man in the earth, and let us swallow him alive as hades would, and remove the memorial of him from the earth; let us seize on his valuable property, and let us fill our houses with spoils and valuable property, and do thou cast in thy lot with us, and let us all provide a common purse, and let us have one pouch. Go not in the way with them, but turn aside thy foot from their paths: for their feet run to do evil, and are swift to shed blood. For nets are not without cause spread for birds. For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil. These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life, wisdom singeth aloud in the streets, and in the broad places speaketh boldly.

For we are strangers on the earth as were all our fathers; keep our short life without sin, O our Saviour, and have mercy on us, as the Lover of mankind

Die aus den USA stammende Neonazi-Organisation „The Base“ hat sich zu dem tödlichen Anschlag auf den ukrainischen Oberst Ivan Voronych bekannt. Dies berichtet der britische Guardian. Das Mitglied des ukrainischen Geheimdienstes SBU war vergangene Woche auf einem Parkplatz in Kiew erschossen worden. Überwachungskameras hatten das Attentat aufgezeichnet.

Laut SBU wurden wenige Tage später ein Mann und eine Frau getötet, die für die Ermordung verantwortlich sein sollen. Das Versteck der beiden von Russland angeworbenen Täter sei durch verdeckte Ermittlungen und aktive Spionageabwehr in der Region Kiew entdeckt worden, so Geheimdienstchef Wassyl Maljuk.

„The Base“ wurde im Juli 2018 vom US-Amerikaner Rinaldo Nazzaro gegründet und operiert weltweit. In einem Telegram-Beitrag mutmaßlicher Mitglieder des ukrainischen Ablegers der Terrorgruppe heißt es, die Erschießung des SBU-Obersts sei nicht das Ende, sondern erst der Anfang. „Wir werden unseren Kampf fortsetzen, bis die Gerechtigkeit siegt.“ Kiew beschuldigt Moskau, in das Attentat auf Oberst Voronych verwickelt zu sein. Beweise hierfür gibt es bislang jedoch nicht. Nazzaro seinerseits wies eine direkte Verbindung zu dem tödlichen Attentat in Kiew zurück. „Ich bin nicht persönlich in diesen Vorfall eingebunden und ich weiß nicht, wer verantwortlich ist“, schrieb er auf Telegram. Laut The Guardian hatte die Gruppe seit Monaten finanzielle Unterstützung für Anschläge in der Ukraine angeboten.

Geheimdienstquellen sagten The Guardian, dass die Telegram-Beiträge echt seien und von einer ukrainischen Zelle der Terrorgruppe stammten. Die Organisation hatte vor wenigen Wochen angekündigt, in der westukrainischen Provinz Transkarpatien einen „ausschließlich weißen Staat“ zu gründen. Mitten im Ukrainekrieg kursierten Aufzeichnungen von Brandanschlägen auf ukrainische Polizei- und Militärfahrzeuge. Nazzaro arbeitete früher für die Spezialkräfte des US-Pentagons. 2018 kaufte er einem Bericht der US-Denkfabrik Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) zufolge ein größeres Gelände im Staat Washington. Dort wollte er seine Anhänger auf einen seiner Ansicht nach kommenden Rassenkrieg vorbereiten, der die Regierung der USA stürzen sollte.