What I'm Reading: Russo/Ukrainian War

By Rich Kozlovich Tags: The World's Nine Orders 

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It turns out Ukraine is launching drones from inside Russia.  I think that's profound and provocative, as it means a lot more is going on than is being reported inside Russia and the surrounding countries many of them former Soviet Union countries.  Armenia is seeking membership in the EU, potentially forgoing their strategic partnership with Moscow, which their economy can't afford.  But it's another thorn in Putin's side.   

• Ukraine destroys warehouse of 'Russia's Amazon' in huge strike on Moscow - as Putin's war hits home 
• Ukraine graveyard for Russian ships.

These new inside Russia drone attacks would seemingly force the Russian military to start focusing on the central Asian nations, which really adds to their demographics problem.  And now Kazakhstan is asking Putin to freeze the war.  Why?  Because Ukraine's attacks are hindering their ability to export oil.... and it gets even more interesting.  It turns out Chevron has talked to Trump about this.  Why?  

 

Chevron has a 50% stake in Kazakhstan's Tengiz oil field and 15% of the Caspian Pipeline consortium.   As I've watched what's been going on in Central Asia for the last couple of years it seems to me Central Asian nations are going to be a thorn in Russia's side, in spite of their claim they want good relations with Russia, they have their own interests, and Russia's aggression again Ukraine isn't their issue.  What's their issue?  

 

Oil and economics, and that's what drives the world's problems.  Then followed by ideology, often offered as an excuse over oil and economics.

 

Science doesn't grow in a vacuum, it grows like a virus, constantly expanding and morphing into new forms.  Starting at least 25 years ago, I took the position drones and lasers were the future of warfare, and was generally laughed at.  For many years I was an avid science fiction reader, and many science fiction writers are scientists who have access to information the rest of us are unaware of, and often times they include that kind of information in their writing;  expanding and extrapolated the information into future possibilities.  They included stuff about drones, lasers, power generation, etc., and it impacted my thinking making me pay attention to the development of these things.

 

Drones are here, and war will be dramatically changing from this point on, as they're going to become cheaper to manufacture, smaller, lighter, more deadly.  Laser weapons are already being used in some form or other and at some point they'll be small enough and powerful enough to be positioned in drones, and even in satellites powered by solar energy.   We're seeing the beginning of a massive shift in power, and it will grow.  Make no mistake, space exploration is all about the militarization of space, not bases on the Moon or Mars, and has been since the launch of Sputnik.

 

All this is another drag on their forces, and now North Korea is sending another 30,000 troops to fight in Ukraine as "well as more ballistic missile launchers".    There's a lot of corrupt chicanery by Russia going on over this issue of foreign "recruits" as Zimbabwe Investigates Recruiting Pipeline to Russian Army.  Other Russian recruiting schemes have been uncovered in Kenya, South Africa, India, and most recently Peru. Ukrainian officials say at least 1,700 Africans have been conscripted into service with the Russian army how effective they would be is debatable, as even Russian troops average lifespan is just 30 minutes.

 

Everything is about geographics demographics and economics, and Russia is facing a crisis in each of those categories.  Russia has three unsolvable problems.... at least at this point.  It's a massive nation and hard to control.  Their economy is based on central planning.  They're running out of bodies to thrown at Ukraine, and it's the part of the demographics pyramid that makes the the next generation, and supports internal economics.   That is a long term problem.  

 

It will take 20 years before they can start to fix their demographic pyramid, and another twenty years to fix it entirely.   That's presuming those who are left from this generation will want children.  Since the birth rate in Russia before this war was already so low it was predicted by 2040 the ethnic Russia population would be a minority in their own nation.   As things are now, I can't imagine that changing, and ethnic Russians may well be a minority soon.  

 

Things are getting so desperate for Putin and his cabal of sycophants they're now ... once again....talking the use of nuclear bombs.  I've been following this nuclear theme from the beginning, and in the beginning I chuckled as it seemed clear even Putin isn't that stupid.....but things have changed.  Putin has demonstrated three things.  One, he really is that stupid.  Two, he will do anything to stay in power.  Three, he might actually succumb to the urging of some of his sycophant supporters to nuke Ukraine to finally destroy them, and threaten Europe so he can continue to play the bully boy.  I think the last sentence is the key point in so many of the articles analyzing his actions.  

 

His nuclear threats to Europe are being taken seriously, and now:

 

"Turkey will deploy five F-16 fighters to Estonia to participate in NATO's Baltic Air Policing Mission between August and November. The aircraft will patrol the airspace over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which lack their own fighter jets."

 

 Poland is preparing to vote on a full state of war readiness, which would:

 

"expedite the early deployment of troops, preparation of critical infrastructure and reception of allied forces. It would also simplify the implementation of defense projects related to the development of roads, railways, ports and airports."

 

What I really find confusing is his efforts lend military support to other nations like Mali.  He can't win in his own back yard and guess what, his forces in Mali were "ineffective" against Islamic militant groups.  Imagine that.

  

The next question about Putin himself; a leader who is living in a bunker makes one wonder just how secure Putin is after this massive....and I mean massive..... "special military operation" failure?  In the past I've said I believe in the background there's a Claus von Stauffenberg cabal in his military, and I think there's support by government officials.  I'm convinced he thinks there is also, which is why he's living in a bunker. 

 

Absolutely nothing he envisioned is working, at all!  His confidence level is in the toilet right along with his economy.  His resources are being depleted, including his demographic resources, he’s scared, he's confused, he's desperate, and he knows if he's overthrown he's dead, which may drive him to think he can have just a "small" nuclear military operation.   If he decides to go the nuclear route I think he will be overthrown. 

 

But there's hope.  Trump is sending Kushner and Witkoff off to Moscow, seemingly in an attempt to negotiate a peace.  Given their efforts involving Iran, I really don't think anyone should get all happy and optimistic. 

Cartoon of the Day

Life is about patterns and circles. Patterns of behavior, and the social circles prompting that behavior.  The patterns repeat over and over again because people will always be people. 

 

Thought For the Day

 By Rich Kozlovich

Over the years I've watched Donald Trump and wondered what in the world possesses him to say some of the things he says.  Well, Margaret Brennan recently interviewed conservative Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana and he had an interesting observation about President Trump that I really think explains why he says what he says, which had me chuckling by the way.   He noted:

He exists loudly. He grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought. He's not always disciplined in his messaging. 

I think that pretty says it all, except I also think he says things he knows are outrageous and enjoys watching his detractors all scream and rant. This may sound crazy, but I kinda think he gets a kick out of it. .  

Ole Joe McCarthy Just Won't Die!

Life is about patterns and circles. Patterns of behavior, and the social circles prompting that behavior.

By Rich Kozlovich 

It's strange after all these years and all the vilification, some deserved, that's been heaped on Joe McCarthy while he was alive and after he died, he's still an issue with a lot of writers and history buffs....especially of the conservative persuasion.... where unlike Howard Zinn, Nikole Hannah-Jones and Kerri K. Greenidge, facts and actual history matter to them.

 On June 30th I published this piece I'm Sorry, But Joe McCarthy Was Right! I started out saying:

Yesterday Susan Quinn post this article over at American Thinker, Do we need another Joe McCarthy?, which must have made leftists heads explode.  She went on to answer her question saying:  The short answer to the title is a no! But, aspects of McCarthy’s anti-communist campaign are worth considering when the stability of our nation is jeopardized by communist ideologues. 

Her article is well worth reading, however, I will say perhaps her short answer should be re-evaluated.  The controversy surrounding Joe McCarthy involved his character, and at best, he was not a nice person, subject to lying and making unsubstantiated accusations.   In spite of the Hollywood crowd's rants about McCarthyism, he wasn't the one who went after Hollywood.  That was the Democrats in the House on UN-American Activities Committee, which was the:

"U.S. House of Representatives investigative committee active from 1938 to 1975 that targeted alleged subversion, Communist ties, and UN-American propaganda. It became a permanent standing committee in 1945, was renamed the Internal Security Committee in 1969, and was dissolved in 1975".   

That was before Democrats became the Party of Treason.  I recommend reading the linked article, you will find it interesting.  The question everyone should be asking is why these communists were trying to hide? The answer is simple.  If they were active party members they were required to act as Stalin's Soviet agents working and spying against the United States.  

McCarthy's committee was in the Senate and his focus was on communist infiltration of the government.  While he didn't have the proof for many of his claims, the fact is the intelligence agencies did, we know that for sure with the release of the VENONA intercepts, and McCarthy .... in an overall way.... was right.  Perhaps the Senate needs to re-evaluate the worth of another such committee.  

In my article I went into a deeper explanation about all of that and how the Roosevelt administration was the most infiltrated government in history.   

On July 26th the Canada Free Press published this piece by Ray DiLorenzo,  McCarthy Was Right, saying:

There were and still are domestic enemies in the form of Marxists ready to devour our great nation. This time let's not worry about whose feelings we hurt.......Senator McCarthy is best known for his post-war struggle to make America aware that under Democrat administrations communists had infiltrated our institutions, including the United States government and our entire education system. Now, even the Smithsonian has succumbed to this infection........

Let's be clear, the search for card-carrying communists in our government was not a witch hunt. It was and should remain a legitimate pursuit of those who are actively engaged in destroying our system of government, eliminating our middle class, and creating an underclass of people subservient to an autocratic, oligarchic, privileged few....... Only this time the battle has widened. Communism and Islam have merged. They are using each other to eliminate their mutual enemies: Christianity, freedom, and the West.

The Rosenbergs were executed for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union, and the left railed against that.  But... as I said.... information gathered from the VENONA intercepts is what got them caught.  Information they didn't share with the rest of the government or the courts.  The author expands on this saying:

Among the more infamous, Alger Hiss, a Soviet spy who worked for Presidents Roosevelt and Truman in the State Department, and communists Julius Rosenberg, a U.S. Army Signal Corps engineer under Truman, along with his wife Ethel Rosenberg, were convicted of passing military and nuclear technology to the Soviets and acting as recruiters. They were executed in 1953. These cases demonstrate that Democrats repeatedly failed to eliminate Soviet infiltration from their ranks.

Liberals, of course, defended the Rosenbergs. Books were written in their defense. One such book, written in 1983, The Rosenberg File, believed in their innocence and, like many other liberals, condemned the leaving of two small children with no parents. Later, when presented with the evidence, they changed their mind. The book is still available, but with a rewritten foreword.

Khrushchev, having died in 1971, previously dictated over 300 hours of memoirs on two sets of reel-to-reel audiotape. The original set was confiscated, but his son, Sergei, made two copies of each reel and gave them to others for safekeeping. The final blow occurred in 1999 with the release of Nikita Khrushchev's complete memoirs. Khrushchev was heard praising the Rosenbergs for their effort to bring nuclear bomb technology to the Soviet people.  

If McCarthy's personal character had been more stable, and if he had gone about his investigation professionally I've often wondered what the outcome would have been.   As it is now, this latest Marxist transformation along with their Islamic allies, including elected officials in Congress, aren't trying to hide who they are, what they are, and what their goals are.  They're openly declaring they're Marxists, and they're demanding the end of the Constitution and the imposition of Soviet style tyranny.  

When Netanyahu asked what most concerned him about America he answered:

 "I'm worried about the reasons that leading Democrats have said privately – one of them said it actually publicly – on why they joined the radical fringe,"...... "And the reason is that their family's been harassed, that they're afraid of being tailed everywhere and being intimidated by this radical fringe."

Violence, threats and intimidation has always been the trend of these radicals, and if the polls are right, 29% of the population finds that acceptable, 38% finds that unacceptable and 45% doesn't care.  But among the Democrat/Independent cabal, 61% think they have a place in the Democrat party.  And we're shocked..... Right?

P&D and the Week That Was

By Rich Kozlovich

This week I've only posted three articles of my own, and in spite of my intent to only publish my own work from now on, I've included one by Joe Fried, Trump claims election fraud was covered up...Is he right?, and did so because it's absolutely excellent.  Joe's lives in Northern Ohio by the way.   

My personal censor at Blogger deleted that article, but someone must be watching him as I protested that action and it's back online the next day.  Another reason I wanted to post his piece is because for years.... years mind you.... is was obvious to me voter fraud is a major issue, and has been for many years.   

You know that little voice in your head that keeps you from saying the things you shouldn't say? Yeah, I don't have that, and it was totally obvious to me and should have been obvious to the most casual observer.  Yet for years prominent people arrogantly ridiculed my views on that.  Prominence and smarts don't necessarily go hand in hand.  But history, reality and time are on the same side....Truth! And.... watch out now... here it comes..... the autodidact bugman was right....again.  Imagine that? 

1. Don't Let The Crowds Fool You: Culture is King and Corruption is Queen
2. It's The Discipline Stupid! 
3. Election 2028: How many Declared Candidates Are There For President of the United States?

No matter what your views are on life, there are some things that are absolutely foundational.  First, life is about patterns and circles. Patterns of behavior, and the social circles prompting that behavior, and those the patterns of life repeat over and over again.  

If we go through life expecting the best behavior out of humanity, we will live lives of eternal disappointment, because people will always be people, culture is king, and corruption is queen.  That's "the basics" and everything is "the basics".  See things at their foundational level because the more complicated we perceive reality, the less clarity we will possess. 

If you pay close attention to what people say and do, they will eventually tell you who and what they really want and who they really are, because time, reality and history are on the same side; truth! 

One final thought.  Does everyone wonder why people who left nations that are disasters came to America and have worked to turn America into the disasters they left?   Victor Davis Hanson wonders about that also.   

 

Don't Let The Crowds Fool You: Culture is King and Corruption is Queen

"Around 25,000 cheering Bronx citizens attended a Trump rally, and it shocked Democrats, after all, this is New York, this can't be happening!  The governor of New York called them "a bunch of clowns", and the media insisted it doesn't mean anything."  

 By Rich Kozlovich

As my regular readers know I'm a real fan of American Thinker, which I consider one of the very best news sites in the nation.  On May 25th Monica Showalter, one of my favorite writers, posted this piece, What the Bronx voters who've flipped to Trump are saying, quoting one of the attendees:

Jerry Evans, a registered Democrat in New York City, had never attended a political rally before Thursday.  But speaking with Newsweek at Donald Trump's campaign event in the South Bronx, Evans said that he turned out to show support for the former president because he feels "very strongly about how the border's going."...... "You know, I said, why is Biden giving them the red carpet treatment?"...... "He's giving them everything—giving them housing, giving them shelter, giving them money, cash—and people who live here can't get that."

She went on to ask:

How many thousands of them in that 25,000 crowd are thinking the same thing?

No matter how many are thinking along those lines, here's what we need to ask.  Is this enlightenment permanent?   Answer?  No, it isn't!  This is just an “it's my ox that's bring gored” reaction. If their ox wasn’t being gored they’d be just fine with Biden and all the corruption, insanity and treason being promoted by the left, it's part and parcel of their culture.  Make no mistake, both the masses and the rulers are a fickle and self serving lot, and to the point of being dangerous. 

On September 5, 1651 Oliver Cromwell's forces defeated the forces of Charles II.  Later as they were marching into London the crowds cheered vigorously, and one of his followers was enthralled with the cheering.  Cromwell put a reality damper on that saying: 

“Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.”

They're shocked that academia is a cultural, intellectual, and morally corrupt mephitic ooze of inbreeding, being led by grossly overpaid, blatantly incompetent DEI racists, and leftist/Marxist/anti-American ideologues, many of whom are now being exposed as plagiarists.  A ethically, intellectually and morally deficient cabal who have been turning out graduates who can't read, write, or have a working knowledge of history, geography, or how and why America is unique in all of world history.  They're not even competent in their fields of study.  And that it's been going on for decades.

So, don't let the cheering fool you.  People without a solid moral foundation have meandering values that allow them to rationalize their acts of self interest and corruption.   Cromwell defeated a corrupt King in 1651, and then had to dissolve Parliament in 1653 for becoming corrupt for their own ends.  When dissolving Parliament Oliver Cromwell made a statement that's totally applicable to our modern day state of corruption:

It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice. Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government. Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.

Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?

Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.

Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.

I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place. Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.  In the name of God, go!

Two questions that need to be asked and answering:

• Does Cromwell's vile description of that Parliament then a fit description of the political figures sitting in positions of power and authority today? 
•  If so; do really think term limits are bad? 

Here are three quotes of my own I think are appropriate for this or any other discussion in order to define reality.  

1. The patterns of life repeat over and over again.
2. Life is about patterns and circles.  Patterns of behavior and the social circles that create that behavior.
3. History, reality, time and truth are on the same side.  
4. Truth isn't unkind. It's just the truth. 
5. People will always be people.  
6. Corruption is the offspring of power, and if that power goes unchecked, then the true child of power emerges:  Tyranny! 

Updated:     

• White House Says National Museum Of American History Found Room For Drag Queens And Crotch Harnesses, But Not The Founding Fathers 
• Congress Is No Longer Performing Its Constitutional Function 
• Besmirching American History on our Dime - Clarice Feldman|  It seems that we are paying super-woke people to denigrate our history and culture, and because of the way in which the governance of this important institution is set up, there’s little power for the White House to quickly change it.

It's The Discipline Stupid!

By Rich Kozlovich

Over at American Thinker Joseph Cotto published this piece, The Problem With Leftist Women noting:

Leftist women show a striking tolerance for infidelity that sets them apart from their conservative counterparts.

He went on to describe the differences between women with traditional values versus the hypocrisy of these leftist harridans, which exposes the real issue behind their lack of happiness.  It's their lack of discipline that creates their unhappiness.  They lack discipline because they lack stable foundational values.  Adults in many ways are just large children. 

Brats are out of control children whose parents refuse to place or enforce borders on their conduct.  Children need structure.  Borders need to be put in place and enforced in order for them to be content…… and on an emotional level they actually want those borders.   Children are bad for a reason; it's the job! It's the job of parents to straighten them out. How else can they understand their are some things that are unacceptable otherwise?   That's when values are created.  

Well…truth be told, that desire for structure, values and understanding is genetic, and that need never really goes away.  When that need isn't fulfilled you get a life filled with chaos.  

The left has created a mentality of “if it feels good do it”!  In women they promoted a mentality of “you can have it all”, and "we don't need men".  Once they embraced that they threw all the traditional values out the window, irrespective of the inevitable negative consequences.  Huge numbers of women in western civilization have bought into it, and they keep making the same wrong decisions over and over again. 

This has been the consequence of leftist schemes to destroy the foundational structure of a stable society, the family.  As a destabilized society is far more easier to take over and control, which is the real goal of leftists. 

These attitudes expressed by leftist women in this article are antithetical to what men actually want, and as time goes by men are becoming acutely aware they’re on the dirty end of the stick.  They're tired of it, and it’s genetic! 

When it comes to women, young men are stupid, but most will get over that with time.  But women are all Eve’s daughters, and for these leftist misfits, time is not on their side.   These younger men who are embracing this insanity will at some point be over 30, and when that happens the brain restructures itself, and a large number of them will become far more conservative, will find and marry women with traditional values, and these leftist women will be all alone, and hopefully their genetic code will be lost to time.

 

Trump claims election fraud was covered up...Is he right?

Joe Fried CPA Jul 22, 2026, This appeared at Joe Fried CPA Election Central

We have all heard it many times. According to “journalists,” claims made by President Trump regarding election cheating are “unfounded,” “disproven,” and/or “debunked.” However, irrefutable evidence of large-scale 2020 election fraud exists.

On Thursday night, the President outlined four specific areas of election concern. I’d like to address one of them: Corrupt Michigan voter registrations in the 2020 election. Trump said: “Even when significant evidence of fraud has been detected, it has been buried and covered up.”

The President is correct: Wide-spread evidence of Michigan fraud was detected before the 2020 election. After it was discovered and reviewed by the FBI, it was concealed by the Biden DOJ. I know this because I had access to the numerous DOJ email communications pertaining to this subterfuge.

The scandal is discovered

Shortly before the 2020 election, a woman walked into a Muskegon County (MI) election office and submitted 8 to 10 thousand voter registration applications. An alert election clerk named Ann Meisch noticed that many of the applications were extremely suspicious, with birth-dates, addresses, and signatures that did not match the information on related drivers licenses.

Meisch and co-workers made a largely unsuccessful effort to verify the information by calling phone numbers on questionable applications. The matter was then turned over to Muskegon local police and state authorities.

The police noted that “numerous forms appeared to have been completed by the same writer…” and “phone numbers on multiple forms were erroneous and signatures on multiple forms didn’t appear to match signatures on file….” They briefly investigated the matter before the probe was turned over to the FBI. It was then squelched, almost immediately, by the Biden Department of Justice.

The story went dark for almost 3 years until the Gateway Pundit (GP) published a series of articles based upon state and city police reports. Here is a short recap of the GP reporting, followed by some confidential information that has not been widely reported.

• The woman who submitted the registration applications has the name Brianna Hawkins, and was paid $1150 per week, given a rental car, and a “reloadable pay card.” Her job was to register voters and help them use the registrations to get ballots.

• The company she worked for was a Tennessee organization with the name, GBI Strategies. It had numerous branches and activities in many areas of Michigan, and in other locations in the United States.

• GBI had very close ties to high-ranking Democrats and left-leaning groups. A police investigation stated or implied that, in 2018, GBI was paid $188,000 by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, $1,571,000 by the Doug Jones for Senate Committee, and $657,000 by the left-wing New American Jobs Fund.

• During their investigation, the police found several “semi-automatic rifles joined with suppressors and optics and customized pistols.” Why they were there is a mystery.

• The police also found “dozens of new phones” and hundreds of “prepaid payment cards.” [Why hundreds? Were people being paid with the cards if they registered and voted?]

• GBI employees told police investigators that they never advocated that people vote for Joe Biden or any particular candidate. However, police saw a script in the GBI office that encouraged people to vote for Joe Biden. For example, it asked, “can I count on you to vote for Joe Biden?”

• City police went door-to-door to confirm that the registration forms possessed by GBI were fraudulent.

• Ruth Johnson, a former state senator and former secretary of state stated: “My estimate is over 800,000 ballot applications were sent to non-qualified voters in Michigan.”

Phony registrations, no ID, and no signature checking

To fully understand the scale of this corruption, and the significance of the phony registrations, you need to know how easily they can be converted into votes.

• Although Michigan law required a voter to request a ballot application, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson ignored the law, and she automatically mailed out 7.7 million ballot applications to everyone who was registered, including 4 million who were not planning to vote absentee, and those with the phony registrations obtained by GBI. No ID was required.

• The only voting safeguard in Michigan (a weak one at that) was signature matching. However, Secretary Benson unlawfully told election clerks throughout Michigan to “presume” signatures matched, and most did. Fortunately, Ann Meisch, the woman who discovered the scandal, ignored Benson’s unlawful instructions.

• Four months after the election, Benson’s instructions were ruled to be invalid by a state judge. The mainstream media ignored that ruling. No appeal was filed by Secretary Benson.

The Biden Department of Justice kills the investigation

Before the 2020 election, FBI agents knew that the real number of phony registrations could be several times larger than the 8,000 to 10,000 registrations originally reported. I read the emails and have the specific names of those agents. I will not name them here because they may still be government-restricted.

At least one official reported that the number of phony registrations could change the election results. Another agent proposed interviewing 100 individuals who served as canvassers of 2020 registration information.

Nevertheless, Richard Pilger, the man in charge of the DOJ’s Election Crimes Branch, blocked any investigation of the matter prior to election certification. He claimed that he was blocking the action based on a long-standing government policy (Justice Manual 95-85.300). However, a careful reading of the manual shows that investigations should be delayed only when they are “overt” — meaning that they would become widely known by the public and could influence the election. Interviews of individual canvassers, examination of documents, and other investigatory actions would not be barred. Pilger must have known that.

Conclusion

• Registration applications were obtained by GBI in multiple cities in Michigan and elsewhere. It is clear that some of the registrations were fabricated or obtained by trickery.

• In some instances, legitimate registrations may have been obtained, but via illegal financial inducements.

• When the Secretary of State auto-mailed ballot applications to 7.7 million registrants, the people with phony registrations also received ballot applications.

• Because 4 million voters did not expect to receive a ballot application (because they never asked for one), those applications ended up in trash cans and landfills where they were easily available to political operatives.

• The registrants (the real ones and the phony ones) could fill out the application forms and obtained ballots – without showing identification.

• Because of the unlawful instructions of Jocelyn Benson, all signatures on ballot applications were “presumed” to be legitimate.

• A review of FBI/DOJ correspondence shows that some officials were very concerned about GBI, and wanted to investigate before the 2020 election. However, Richard Pilger, the Director of the Election Crimes Branch, blocked any such investigation until after the election. Perhaps he feared that such an investigation would give credibility to President Trump’s claims of election fraud.

How many Michigan votes were created by GBI? How many were produced by Jocelyn Benson’s unlawful mass mailing of ballot applications and by her unlawful signature instructions? It is impossible to know.

That is why it was wrong to certify the 2020 Michigan election.

Election 2028: How many Declared Candidates Are There For President of the United States?

 By Rich Kozlovich 

During the run up to the 2024 election I ran a number of articles on that election.  Actually a lot of articles.  Taken together they would have amounted to an 170 page Word document. In one of them I stated:

As the 2024 Election is only eight months away we're seeing more hyperbolic lies, obfuscation, misdirection, and quite frankly, irrational and blatantly insane rhetoric supporting insane positions than I've seen in my almost 78 years.  What really surprises me is how many seemingly normal people are confused about who they think will be the best candidate for President or even Congress.  

Well, I'm 80 now, and the "hyperbolic lies, obfuscation, misdirection, and quite frankly, irrational and blatantly insane rhetoric supporting insane positions" spouted then was mild compared to the insanity we're seeing unfold today.

One series of articles dealt with all the candidates for President: Runners, Joggers, and Vocal Spectators: Election 2024, Part 1, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, and Part VII with my take on the 2024 Presidential run.  Also one with my analysis of the Senate races.  Given the fact that prediction.... especially about the future.... is really hard, I didn't do too badly. For some reason this one was been hit a lot yesterday, Runners, Joggers, and Vocal Spectators: Election 2024, Part VII.  Obviously this essay was number seven in a series, and as stated in that article it dealt with:

"Third party/Independent/Moderate Party candidates, and just plain odd characters, including some Republicans."   

Well, that got me to thinking: How many candidates are already registered to run for President in 2028?  Well, it's just a mere 337, imagine that, and we've not even had the 2026 midterm election yet.  For a bit of comparison, as of August 2015 here are how many registered candidates were running for President in 2016. At that point there were only 88.   Now, that's a really big difference.... and some big names were on that list... and don't ask me why there's such a big difference in numbers since I have no idea and I didn't create this list,  Also....don't ask me to explain what it means to be "registered" because I have no idea what that entails.  

 At any rate, I broke down this list for 2028 to make it comprehensible.  

Ace Party	1
American Independent Conservative Party	1
American Independent Party	7
Citizens' Party	2
Constitution Party	1
Democratic Party	74
Federalist Party	1
Green party	2
Independence Party	3
Independent Party	140
Independent American Party	1
Libertarian Party	6
No Party Affiliation	2
No Party Preference	1
One Earth Party	1
People Over Politics Party	2
Progressive Party	1
Republican Party	78
The Human Rights Party	1
Unaffiliated	10
United Party	1
Veteran's Party	1
	337

This is a list of "registered" candidates with no chance of getting in on debates, nominated, and most certainly not getting elected.  

Here is a list of the big name Democrats being touted, none of which have registered as far as I can tell, and truthfully, it seems to me with the possible exception of three of four, none of them will be nominated.   

Andy Beshear, governor of Kentucky^[1]

Cory Booker, U.S. senator from New Jersey^[2]

Pete Buttigieg, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation^[3]

Roy Cooper, former governor of North Carolina^[1]

Jason Crow, U.S. representative from Colorado^[4]

Andrew Cuomo, former governor of New York^[5]

Rahm Emanuel, former mayor of Chicago^[6]

John Fetterman, U.S. senator from Pennsylvania^[1][7]

Ruben Gallego, U.S. senator from Arizona^[8]

Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. senator from New York^[9]

Josh Green, governor of Hawaii^[10]

Michelle Lujan Grisham, governor of New Mexico^[11]

Kamala Harris, former vice president and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee^[3]

Maura Healey, governor of Massachusetts^[12]

Mark Kelly, U.S. senator from Arizona^[9]

Ro Khanna, U.S. representative from California^[2]

Amy Klobuchar, U.S. senator from Minnesota^[13]

Wes Moore, governor of Maryland^[3][14]

Chris Murphy, U.S. senator from Connecticut^[15]

Phil Murphy, former governor of New Jersey^[2]

Gavin Newsom, governor of California^[3]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, U.S. representative from New York^[16]

Jon Ossoff, U.S. senator from Georgia^[9]

Jared Polis, governor of Colorado^[15]

J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois^[3]

Gina Raimondo, former secretary of commerce^[17]

Bernie Sanders, U.S. senator from Vermont^[18]

Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania^[3]

Elissa Slotkin, U.S. senator from Michigan^[9]

Josh Stein, governor of North Carolina^[19]

Ritchie Torres, U.S. representative from New York^[15]

Chris Van Hollen, U.S. senator from Maryland^[20]

Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota and 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee^[19]

Raphael Warnock, U.S. senator from Georgia^[1]

Gretchen Whitmer, governor of Michigan^[3]

Here's the list of the big name Republicans being touted none of which is registered as far as I can tell, and with the exception of Vance or Rubio, none of them will be nominated, including Ted Cruz or Ron DeSantis.  But compared to the Democrat list... this is an impressive crowd.

Greg Abbott, governor of Texas^[1]

Katie Britt, U.S. senator from Alabama^[1]

Doug Burgum, secretary of the interior^[24]

Tom Cotton, U.S. senator from Arkansas^[25]

Spencer Cox, governor of Utah^[26]

Ted Cruz, U.S. senator from Texas^[27]

Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida^[25]

Byron Donalds, U.S. representative from Florida^[1]

Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence^[17]

Matt Gaetz, former U.S. representative from Florida^[1]

Marjorie Taylor Greene, former U.S. representative from Georgia^[28]

Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the United Nations^[25]

Josh Hawley, U.S. senator from Missouri^[1]

Brian Kemp, governor of Georgia^[25]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of health and human services^[26]

Kristi Noem, secretary of homeland security^[27]

Rand Paul, U.S. senator from Kentucky^[29]

Mike Pence, former vice president^[26]

Mike Pompeo, former secretary of state^[30]

Vivek Ramaswamy, 2026 Ohio gubernatorial candidate and 2024 presidential candidate^[25]

Marco Rubio, secretary of state^[25]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, governor of Arkansas^[25]

Tim Scott, U.S. senator from South Carolina^[27]

Elise Stefanik, U.S. representative from New York^[1]

J.D. Vance, vice president^[25]

Glenn Youngkin, former governor of Virginia^[25]

Since none of the big names are on the "registered" list,  you know that list will change dramatically by this time next year, and most certainly by this time in 2028, but I thought it was worth taking a look at anyway.  

P&D and The Week That Was

By Rich Kozlovich

I've posted 14 pieces this week.  I'm a bit shocked as I didn't realize how much I've posted since Sunday.  So much for not wanting to work.  While I'm still working to purge my files, and I'm well along, except the world keeps doing stuff.  They just won't stop, and the files tend to grow.   At this point I'm only wanting to post my own pieces, but here's a bonus piece from another author.   Regular readers know my views on the nation's first fascist president, Woodrow Wilson, so here's a bonus piece worth your time.  Woodrow Wilson’s War Against the Constitution.

1. Election 2026 and Voter Fraud is Real Note: As this story continues to develop I've continued to update it. RK
2. Drowning in Debt Has Deadly Consequences
3. Heresy, Hypocrisy, Persecution, and Lunacy Incorporated 
4. Well, It Turns Out He Lied. 
5. I'm Shocked, Shocked I tell you. It's Mostly Women Who Get Pregnant. Imagine That!
6. What I'm Reading: Immigration
7. What I'm Reading: Iran
8. What I'm Reading: Islam in America
9. USAID Bureaucrats and the Deep State Purge
10. What I'm Reading: Islam
11. What I'm Reading: Islam in Asia
12. What I'm Reading: Europe
13. The World as I See It! Profound, Provocative and Unfailingly Accurate
14. What I'm Reading: France

Two final points.  Here's an article about the Russian/Ukraine War that just appeared today and I think it's profound.  Ukraine destroys warehouse of 'Russia's Amazon' in huge strike on Moscow - as Putin's war hits home.   There will be more on this next week.  As you read the blather from Putin's sycophants try and remember the blather spewed out by Hitler's crowd as WWII progressed.

And I love this,  Carville: Networks Should Have Aired Trump’s Speech to Show He’s ‘Literally Crazy’.  When it comes to recognizing crazy....Carville has an edge on the rest of the world because he's certifiable.  

Election 2026 and Voter Fraud is Real

"You know that little voice in your head that keeps you from saying the things you shouldn't say? Yeah, I don't have that!"

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: My Voter Fraud Commentaries.

Is Maine reflective of all the kind of candidates being offered by the Democrats?  I think it is, as an example take Katie Porter.  While she's now out of it that doesn't change how unhinged she is and was right along.  The rest just hide their .... quirks.... better.  Otherwise people might think they're nuts.  Talking about nuts; there's James Talarico who now claims Christians are ‘Christofascists’ and Islam is a “path to truth”.  Yessir, he's really got a handle on faith, and how to win Texans over.  

Maine Democrats just had a debate with those wanting to take Planter's place as the Democrat candidate for 2026...... and to be kind.... it appears it was a remarkable clown show.  As one writer said before this debate he had trouble understanding how Planter got chosen in the first place, now he gets it.  

• Update 6:05 PM:  Here's how Planter got picked.  This Is What's Happening to the Consultants Who Made Graham Platner.  It's almost unbelievable just how incompetent the Democrat party really is. And here's the scary part that's seemingly going on all over the nations: "If Platner hadn’t been a total scumbag, he would have had a fighting chance as an outsider to win the race."  And that's the theme.... the desire for outsiders!  That's a theme being ignored by everyone except these activists.  I'll have more on that, and the DNC needs to be scared.  

Dems Find An Even Worse Candidate to Replace Graham Platner (VIDEO).  (Ya just gotta see the video) And the hits just keep on coming...... Maine, if this is your best, you have a problem.  The Maine Dem Senate debate could be summed up in seven words:

......."congratulations on your reelection, Sen. Susan Collins"........."The candidates, a motley crew of losers, were a healthy helping of milquetoast—they didn’t know anything"......

1.  Platner Proves Dems Will Put Up With Anything, Except Losing
2.  ‘Ginger Goebbels’: Jen Psaki Is ENRAGED for All of Us About the Whole Graham Platner
3.  If Only Democrats Had Some Sign of Platner’s Dubious Character
4.  Platner Is a Hilarious Symptom of Progressive Failure

Trump has declared the U.S. election system is ‘broken’ and ‘vulnerable’, and has called on the FBI to investigate ‘significant evidence of fraud’ in Michigan 2020 election. 

In 2024 I wrote:

 ........the battle in Michigan over voter fraud is hot and it's being claimed Michigan has about  500,000 on voter rolls other than eligible voters.   The "New RNC", that's working to end this corruption.   In March the RNC filed an election integrity lawsuit targeting Michigan’s handling of absentee ballots  and it appears they've won that ballot case: .......making this their tenth win against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson"for failing to follow the state's election security law.  Detroit appointed seven times more Democrat poll watchers than Republicans for its primary election, and the RNC Sues Detroit, Alleging City Did Not Hire Enough Republican Poll Watchers.  

That was in 2024, so I really get a kick out of this especially since my Michigan voter fraud file goes back to 2020.  And they're just now discovering it?  Remarkable!

• WATCH: President Trump Lays Bare Massive GBI Strategies Fake Voter Registration Scam in His Nationwide Address—The Gateway Pundit Broke The Story in August 2023

He also stated classified documents show China has actively interfered, and compromised’ at least 18 state voter rolls, which of course they're really upset over Trump’s "false allegations saying:

“This is a false allegation and serious smear that has long been proved to be unfounded. China adheres to non-interference in other countries’ internal affairs,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian told reporters during his briefing. “We never interfere in U.S. elections and have zero interest in that.”

Oh sure, they may murder a bunch of malcontents in order to harvest their organs but nothing so terrible as interfering with a U.S. election in spite of the release of the documents that proving otherwise.

 

“As the documents we are releasing show, CIA reporting explicitly stated, ‘in mid-2018, the Chinese communist party’s policy was to leverage all domestic and foreign elements that were opposed to the U.S. president in an effort to reduce the U.S. president’s votes, and make him resign or prevent his reelection,” he said.

• Trump Speech: China Hacked 220 Million U.S. Voter Files 

Let's not have any delusions, in spite of all the ranting about how the 2020 election was clean.... it wasn't ...... and even the bug man knew that right from the beginning.  Trump states the only reason for the Congress to fail to pass the SAVE America Act is because they want to be able to cheat.  I can understand that for Democrats but what's wrong with the Republicans? 

1. Rep. Jim Jordan Says Senate Republicans Must Nuke the Filibuster Now to Pass SAVE America Act Before Democrats Do It Themselves
2. POLL SHOCKER: Socialism Is Infecting The GOP As Well 
3. Hey, Republicans, Spending Is Still Out Of Control

And of course Trump got the usual support from the Pravda media, they ignored him, and was the reason the Pravda media failed to cover his speech to protect their leftist masters?  The left believes the SAVE America Act ‘belongs in the trash’  And why does it belong in the trash?  Well, I gotta tell ya, I wonder if these nitwits realize what they're saying half the time.  Democrats Sen. Elissa Slotkin from Michigan stated the Save America Act was the Republicans way of rigging the election that would prevent Democrats from winning. 

 

“The other thing that we blocked yesterday was the SAVE Act, right?” she said to loud cheers. She claimed that act “would literally allow this administration to rig our democracy so that it would be hard for any Democrat in any state to win any election.” She also claimed it would “disenfranchise all married women in the meantime.” 

 

First of all, this disenfranchising married women claim is a blatant lie, and secondly, now let me see if I understand this correctly.   She's saying that making sure the people who are voting are actually alive and American citizens with the right to vote will prevent Democrats from getting elected.    Did I get that right?  I didn't miss anything did I?

1. Michigan Democrat Slotkin Admits The Liberal Truth: Is Anyone Listening?

So, that brings us back to my original question.  Is Maine reflective of all the candidates being offered by the Democrats? Let's take a quick look at the party, who they support, what they support and who they've decided to run. 

1. The Hamas wing of the Democratic Party
2. 'Incendiary': Imam who prayed before Congress unleashes vile comment about Lindsey Graham
3. Tim Walz’s love affair with the illegal alien pedophile continues—even though the creep has been deported
4. Gov. Walz Attacks Trump for Deporting Child Rapist: “We Can’t all Be Judged by Our Worst Day.” .  To show just what a sick and warped mind Walz has is can be defined by one person's comment saying it wasn't this rapists worst day.  It was that poor ten year old child's worst day.  
5. Half of House Democrats, Including Pelosi, Vote to End Aid to Israel
6.  Of Marxists and morons 
7.  Democratic socialism is communism-lite
8.  Who are the actual racists in today's America?
9.  Bolshevik Russia and the DSA’s Democrat Party Project, Part I
10.  DSA Calls for Abolishing the Constitution
11. What Does Socialism Actually Deliver?
12.  How identity politics fuels Democratic Party schisms
13.  Bernie Sanders’ hostile takeover of the Democrat Party 
14.  Socialism is Always a Move Towards Communism -- with the Same Result
15.  Democratic Socialists of America Membership Sets Record as 58% of Democrats View Socialism Favorably
16. What’s Really In The Rebooted Democratic Socialist Platform
17. Dems Should Unite With Socialists for Election Victories 
18.  How do we explain the Democratic Socialists’ platform?
19.  Cotton: China Views Dem Socialists as 'Ideological Fellow Travelers
20.  They want reparations, and they’ve come to collect
21.  Sanctuary Massachusetts: 11 Illegal Aliens Accused of Stealing $1.4 Million in Food Stamps, Disability Benefits
22. Ro Khanna Says The Quiet Part Out Loud About His ‘Billionaire’ Tax
23. A Tale Of Two Governors
24. Democratic socialism’s rise: What they won’t tell you

So, after perusing these links I think it might be a good idea to ask and answer this question.  Why would anyone think Democrats couldn't get elected if it wasn't for voter fraud?   Believe me when I tell you all this lunacy didn't just start.  I goes back to the beginning of the 20th century. Please review, Woodrow Wilson’s War Against the Constitution.

Update 5:57 PM:  

• White House: More than Quarter of Million Foreigners Illegally Registered to Vote in Four States
• China Sought to Pay U.S. Journalists to Write Negative Stories on Trump to Sway 2020 Election

Update 9:50PM: 

• Exclusive — Nat Security Experts React to Chinese Election Influence: Revelations Should ‘Galvanize Our Resolve’