Author Archives: Curtiswselby
They say not to write a blog from a tired space, but I suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome, so frankly, everything I do is from a tired space. Likely I'm not doing the greatest job of search engine optimization. But I know there are others like me. Passionate about life.
The Holy Books
Does Anyone Really Believe Companies Have Quit Lying?
Is Anyone Innocent Once They Become Head of State
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Both Bush’s, Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden might be as guilty of warcrimes as Putin.
We Are Sheilding Russia from Prosecution
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Because we don’t want to stand trial ourselves.
Gaslighting Voters, Oklahoma Republicans Are Being Lied To
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu provides us five factors that establish victory. The first factor is the comparative morality of the two sovereigns. I’m going to make an effort to finish this series. As always, the previous posts will be linked here.
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/5158
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/4981
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/5189
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/5265
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/5308
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/5348
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/5390
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https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/5213
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This will by my eleventh post on this subject, though some of the posts were rather indirect. I intend for this one to be the last in this series, at least for now. If I can’t prove anything, hopefully I will at least have informed and elevated people’s thinking. If I can…well, honestly, it will only matter to the 18 people who are steady readers. But I would like to thank those readers. I’d also like to thank my Momma and Elvis.
I will post here the links of the articles I’m going to be citing most.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/06/nvhl-a06.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/13/trump-gop-enforcers-state-chairs-499456
And just for good measure, a site with multiple podcasts where Erik Prince is either the guest or the topic. I haven’t listened to any of them yet, but I thought I’d share with the community. Listen in good health.
https://www.owltail.com/people/YHhHQ-erik-prince/appearances
One Big Happy Family
Party unity is arguably beneficial. When I was younger, I would get fairly upset about how the “RINO’s” would side with the Democrat’s. Don’t get me wrong, I know there has to be compromises for anything to get accomplished, but all too often I felt betrayed. Senator so and so voted for the tax bill I thought detrimental to the poor, Congress Person Such and Such would vote for something I thought would hurt the military. Many of my views have altered since those days. Ironically, NOW is when the Republicans have finally rallied around the flag. But is that a good thing, like I want it to be? Or is the flag just wrapping up a bunch of crap?
Jacob Crosse of the World Socialist Web Site reports: “Viktor Orban, leader of the far-right Fidesz party and prime minister of Hungary since 2010, was given a standing ovation by pro-Trump Republicans after delivering a fascist and anti-Semitic speech Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas.”
Likely I have lost even some of my more open-minded readers.
Yes, I know, this story is reported in maybe a dozen mainstream Western news outlets. Why in the world is the Kapitalist Curtis Selby quoting from the lying cocialistka?
“Orban was the featured speaker on the conference’s opening day. Less than three weeks earlier, on July 23, he gave a neo-Nazi speech at the 31st Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp in Baile Tusnad, Romania.
“In that earlier rant, Orban likened “migration” to “population replacement or inundation” and recommended the notorious white supremacist book The Camp of the Saints.
“He then launched into an attack on “race-mixing,” saying countries where “European and non-European peoples live … are no longer nations: they are nothing more than a conglomeration of peoples.”
That “neo-Nazi speech” is posted here: http://31st Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp in Baile Tusnad, Romania.
Read it for yourself and make up your own mind.
“In an obscene allusion to the Nazi Holocaust, Orban said of German government calls for reduced gas consumption, “I do not see how it will be enforced, although, as I understand it, the past shows us German know-how on that.”
“Orban’s speech prompted the resignation of 20-year adviser, Zsuzs Hegedus, who said the speech was a “pure Nazi text.”
“Trump invited Orban to his New Jersey golf resort last weekend and ostentatiously posed for photographs, saying it was “great spending time with my friend.”
“High-ranking state officials speaking at the conference include Texas Governor Greg Abbott, along with his Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson and Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt.” You read that right. Our near and dear Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt.
While I am not inspired by the article to join the socialist party, I think some of their last paragraphs are interesting:
“The Democratic Party will not defend democratic rights. It is more terrified of the growing upsurge of the working class than the threat of fascism. The January 6 Committee is being used to promote right-wing war hawks such as Liz Cheney and promote the illusion that the coup was the work of just Trump and a few “crazies.”
“This is a lie. The attempted coup and the ongoing moves toward dictatorship arise from the mortal crisis of American and world capitalism. Both parties are controlled by the same corporate-financial oligarchy that is seeking to impose its crisis on the backs of the working class.
“The only social force capable of defending democratic rights and defeating fascism is the working class, united on a socialist program and perspective against the source of inequality, war and dictatorship, the capitalist system.”
Where you been at? Hanging out with the Prince of Afghanistan!
On one hand, I don’t mean to jump on the bandwagon and tell you that “all Republicans are racist”! Honestly, I’m not saying anyone is racist, I’m simply reporting who was where and what was said. Where someone is, and at what time, can make a difference. And while, if we are clever, we can cover some of our digital trail, but there are still paper trails, and people trails, that tell us where people were at.
Ok Curtis, you are being cryptic, and after all the words I’ve read, will you just get to the point? I have one more thing to share, and then after that it will be easy to make the point clear. I may not have smoking guns, but I have established motive (there are unscrupulous people who want power). Now I’m going to establish these people have the opportunity and may even have been at the scene of the crime.
We know Erik Prince, the primary person I’ve covered in this series, as at that CPAC. Where has he been since we left him? Let’s rewind just a very little bit, to 2008.
If you remember, the Al-Nisour massacre had tarnished Erik Prince’s reputation in the eyes of many. Evidently, he changed his focus to Afghanistan. Attempting to shift focus off the disaster that was the American exit from Afghanistan, Biden’s press secretary trashed Prince for profiteering off of American allies scrambling to leave in the wake of a revived Taliban newly armed with flush new American weapons.
“White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki described Prince, 52, as having no “heart and soul” and accused him of profiting off “people’s agony and pain.” In response, the former US Navy SEAL reminded Fox News’s Tucker Carlson that his team had once saved Delaware Democrat’s life.” She was denouncing him for “$6,500 evacuation flights from Kabul” that he charged these allies for exiting ahead of the chaos.
Prince response is telling. Kunal Dey of meaww.com reports “
Biden was brought to safety alongside then senators John Kerry and Chuck Hagel in the February 2008 rescue mission. Kerry went on to become President Obama’s secretary of state, while Biden became vice president and Hagel was chosen as the defense secretary.
“They were on a congressional visit to Afghanistan in the winter and the US Army helicopter got lost in a snowstorm and sat down in Taliban territory on the side of a mountain,” Prince recounted to [Tucker] Carlson. “US military launched a ground convoy to get them and they got lost. And the Blackwater guys launched and we did not get lost and we rescued them from Taliban territory. That was the winter of ’08.”
“According to Fox News, the former US Navy SEAL officer spent years overseeing special operations and even pitched plans to end the war in Afghanistan to two presidents, but was reportedly ignored. Prince questioned the actual strength of the US military as the Taliban swiftly took control of Kabul post-withdrawal. “When it reveals that it’s defeated by people using 70-year-old weapons that are living in a mindset of the sixth century, maybe the US military is not quite as capable as they espouse themselves to be,” he said.”
We know his company was very active in Afghanistan, from 2008 till, frankly, the very end when we withdrew. The picture he paints is of a super competent Blackwater (or whatever he calls it), and a military hampered by incompetent politicians. I’m not here to debate that, feel free to make up your own mind about that. But what else was going on in 2008 Afghanistan? And how could it possibly be important to Oklahoma?
Ya’ll remember Bennett. The guy I started blogging about when an insider told me some stuff, and pointed out where to turn for some of the information? He was in Afghanistan in 2008. Just a coincidence? Maybe.
But Politico talks about how it has been a part of the strategy to elect party chairs of a less traditional bent. Instead, the current Republican Party State Chairs are not just sideline bench warmers.
Taking the Fight to the Enemy
You can read the article about the nationwide movement of State Party Chairs fighting for Trump. But my purpose has nothing to do with other states. I’m focusing on Oklahoma. “In Oklahoma, the newly installed party chair is endorsing a primary challenge to GOP Sen. James Lankford, the home state incumbent who crossed Trump by voting to uphold results of the November election.”
The Politico assesses the various Chair Folks thus: “Open warring by state party chairs against elected officials was once rare, and disagreements were typically kept discreet in the interest of party unity. Top party leaders were tasked with party-building efforts and fundraising, and were accustomed to showing deference to home state senators and governors, or working assiduously to advance their political interests.”
“That dynamic has served to elevate the importance of party chairs as political actors — in some cases rivaling those who are actually on the ballot. The chairs have significant latitude in their states — from candidate recruitment, to deciding which candidates to invite to plum speaking engagements, to how to allocate money for voter registration and other programs. Several state Republican parties canceled their presidential nominating contests entirely in 2020, insulating Trump from long-shot challengers.”
“Party chairs, that’s one of their main jobs to recruit candidates, so oftentimes party chairs will recruit them in their image or ideological worldview,” Thomas said, “So I think it’s safe to say, like in Oklahoma, they’re not going to be recruiting candidates that look like [Utah Sen.] Mitt Romney.”
“In addition, he said, “Party chairs can decide where to invest in things like voter registration and all that. So, if they have a particular incumbent they don’t like that doesn’t line up with the Trump world view, they can penalize incumbents and potential challengers as well.”
“But public criticism of Trump is almost unheard of at any level within the ranks of state party leadership — and largely isn’t tolerated within a party operation Trump has spent more than four years molding. The attention the chair of the Oklahoma GOP, John Bennett, is now getting for supporting a primary challenge to U.S. Sen. James Lankford is only the most recent example.”
The Punchline
Ok, so Trump has been smart enough to replace many of the state Republican Chairs with loyalists (I notice the article is rather scant on just HOW he was able to accomplish this…comments welcome). Bennett was in Afghanistan the same time Erik Prince was running black ops that, in the end, may not have obtained victory, but did save some lives (at the cost, in most cases, of $6500 per flight).
So, what is it my inside source revealed? Let’s start with this meeting:
At this meeting, my source conveyed to me that there was a special surprise guest speaker. It was none other than Erik Prince. They conveyed that they witnessed Erik and Bennett talking together quite a lot, and acting as though they knew each other quite well. They tell me that there used to be quite a few photos from quite a few of these folks’ social media, but in the months since the election, everything has been deleted except for this advertisement. Don’t be surprised by this, Bennett is only slightly more professional than I am in his posting of social media, and much quicker on the delete button, as I demonstrated in a previous post. Allow me to remind you.
And let me remind you that on my posts we have photos of Bennett with both General Flynn and Roger Stone. Both endorse him. Both have gone on the Evangelist circuit, and Bennett himself is a pastor. Both Flynn and Prince have been on the boards of communication companies. Bennett has stated on Facebook that he has communications resources, the ability to train recruits, and the ability to build a network. Here is where he shared this. https://www.facebook.com/TheConservativeContinuum/videos/820498845670129
I suggest listening to the whole thing, but if you can’t take the time, skip ahead to 55 minutes. And Erik Prince has been into recruiting and training mercenaries for twenty plus years. If you don’t believe me, check into these books.
They are fictional, but when you combine the ideology with the things I have written, surely you can figure it out for yourself. Whether at the direction of Trump, Prince, Flynn, or hell, maybe even Roger Stone as well, there are efforts to build an army. The poor, the angry, the upset in Oklahoma are being recruited for a Civil War. If they can’t win by the peaceful means, they intend to win via a military conquest. Read the whole thing. Every piece. Think of the nuances. Maybe Trump is not the mastermind (I honestly kinda doubt it), but someone is planning either the full overthrow of the government, or at the least, to split the Nation in two and rule the half that will obey.
Are these posts proof? Perhaps not. Without the photos posted to Facebook, perhaps there isn’t. But I have a witness. So, believe me or not. But there are people who intend to lead you in a Civil War. And maybe some of them do have your best interests at heart. But most don’t.
Read it. Listen to the things said. And make up your own mind.
You Don’t Matter
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Only the military-industrial complex matters. The function of government is not protecting Americans, rather, making money for the big corporations.
Why Become an Entrepreneur
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She says it best
Who do We Lie to?
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Friends, or foes?
I Am Not a Crook
You’re Tired Blogger has neither gone back to dating, nor has he disappeared to the monastery. Rather, he has been writing a series of articles relaying some revelations from an Oklahoma Republican Party insider who has guided me to some revelations that I would have never thought to read about in the most bizarre fiction. I will leave the links below.
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/5434
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/5189
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/5265
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/5308
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/5348
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/5390
https://wordpress.com/post/tiredmidnightblogger.com/5213
In this post, I’m going to discuss Roger Stone, and his connection to Michael Flynn. Besides my discussions with my source, I’m going to be relying on these sites for the information about Roger Stone:
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/roger-stone-52165.php
I’d Buy That for a Dollar
I guess I need to turn in my Republican card, because I’d heard of this guy before, but I never knew anything about him before my source started telling me some things. Since the twenty or so people who actually read these posts are on a journey with me, let’s learn who Roger Stone is.
According to thefamouspeople.com “Roger Stone is an American political consultant, author, lobbyist, and convicted felon. He was born into a middle-class family in Connecticut, U.S., and raised in New York City. His mother was a small-town journalist, while his father was a well driller and small business owner. He was interested in politics ever since he was in elementary school. He became the vice president of his high-school student government, after ousting the former president through manipulative means. He was a conservative ever since his younger years. He dropped out of university to work for the ‘Richard Nixon Committee’ in 1972. He has worked on the presidential campaigns of former presidents, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and…Donald Trump. His philosophy, “Attack, attack, attack and never defend,” turned out to be hugely successful. He launched a lobbying firm in Washington, D.C. and attracted many clients owing to his connections with the ‘White House.’ He is described as a dirty trickster, as he used many fake conspiracies for the Donald Trump campaign. He was sentenced to 40 months in prison after being charged with witness tampering and spreading false statements in connection with the 2016 Trump campaign.”
U.S. News & World Report gives us a few more tantalizing details. Of the “10 Things to know about Roger Stone,” a couple of the points are irrelevant, but others are pretty intriguing. Does anyone else miss David Letterman’s Top 10 Lists?
2. He became a Republican at the age of 12, after reading Barry Goldwater’s “The Conscience of a Conservative.”
3. Stone dropped out of George Washington University; while he was there he became the youngest player in the Watergate scandal at age 19.
5. Stone co-founded the National Conservative Political Action Committee in 1978, after seeing how difficult it was for Republican candidates to raise money.
6. He was called “The Godfather” and “The Prince of Darkness” in the Republican Party.
7. Stone has been acquainted with President Donald Trump since the 1980s, when he worked for Trump’s casino business as a lobbyist.
8. He has a tattoo of President Richard Nixon on his back, which he got in Venice Beach, California.
9. Stone ran for governor in Florida in 2014, and his platform focused on gay rights and legalizing marijuana.
10. He was banned from appearing on CNN and MSNBC in 2016 after calling out Ana Navarro on Twitter and attacking other media personalities through the platform. His account was suspended in April 2017.
Time to Get Stoned
As has been pointed out by a reader, there are quite a few accusations against Trump and his team that are nearly devoid of solid evidence. Sadly, this is very true. It is among the largest obstacles one faces when attempting to learn and evaluate the political climate we live in.
“A growing number of prominent Christian leaders are sounding alarms about threats to democracy posed by ReAwaken America rallies where Donald Trump loyalists Michael Flynn and Roger Stone and rightwing pastors have spread misinformation about the 2020 elections and… distorted Christian teachings.
“The falsehoods pushed at ReAwaken gatherings have prompted some Christian leaders to warn that America’s political and spiritual health is threatened by a toxic mix of Christian nationalism, lies about Trump’s loss to Joe Biden, and ahistorical views of the nation’s founding principle of the separation of church and state.
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“Several well-known Christian leaders, including the president of the Christian social justice group Sojourners and the executive director of a major Baptist group, have called on American churches to speak out against the messages promoted at ReAwaken America rallies that have been held in Oklahoma, Arizona, Texas, California, South Carolina and other states.”
The Guardian continues: “This ReAwaken tour is peddling dangerous lies about both the election and the pandemic,” Adam Russell Taylor, the president of Sojourners, told the Guardian. “Jesus taught us that the truth will set us free, and these lies hold people captive to these dangerous falsehoods. They also exacerbate the toxic polarization we’re seeing in both the church and the wider society.”
“Taylor added he was deeply concerned about “a conflation between Christianity and a nationalistic form of patriotism” at the “tour rallies which are promoting a more overt form of Christian nationalism”.
“Amanda Tyler, the executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, which has organized Christians against Christian nationalism, said: “Christian nationalism is a threat to the church because those peddling it wrap this ideology in biblical language and imagery. Christian nationalism is wrong as a matter of Christian ethics. The Bible is not confined to a nation much less a party or list of policy positions.”
“She added: “The ReAwaken America tour is a gross distortion of Christianity and it’s up to Christian leaders in the areas the tour visits to speak out against this ideology.”
Well…maybe all of these people have found Christ. Maybe the ReAwaken America movement is being defamed. But let’s see what else the Guardian has to say about it.
“Stone revved up the crowd with at times bizarre conspiratorial claims. “There is a satanic portal above the White House, you can see day and night. It exists. It is real. And it must be closed. And it will be closed by prayer,” he said.
“The “portal”, Stone told a rapt crowd, first appeared after Joe Biden “became president and it will be closed before he leaves”.
Where have I heard stuff like this before?
Am I crazy, or is he crazy? Did he find Jesus, or did he find mushrooms? Comments welcome, ’cause I know already where I stand on this one.
The Guardian then shares the thoughts of an old friend of ours, retired General Michael Flynn:
“But retired Lt Gen Flynn, a staunch ally of Trump’s who told the rightwing network Newsmax in December 2020 that Trump should deploy the military to “rerun the election” in swing states Biden won, is the tour’s most highly promoted draw.
“At a ReAwaken event in Texas in November, for instance, Flynn sparked strong criticism by claiming that America should have just “one religion”.
“If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion,” Flynn said. “One nation under God and one religion under God, right? All of us, working together.”
“At the South Carolina rally, Flynn proclaimed that the US has a “biblical destiny”, and posited that the US was built on a “set of Judeo-Christian principles”.
“Flynn’s views alarm Taylor of Sojourners. “Flynn has a warped understanding of religion and American history,” Taylor said.”
“The Trump loyalist and multimillionaire Patrick Byrne, the former CEO of Overstock, told the Guardian last year the America Project, an advocacy group he founded that boasts Flynn as a special adviser and spokesman, put up “tens of thousands of dollars” to help launch the rallies in 2021, and that he has attended some himself.
“Flynn’s central role at the ReAwaken events was cited in a hard-hitting April op-ed in the Times of San Diego by the Rev Melinda Teter Dodge.
“Tragically, late last month, proclaimed church leaders and religious zealots descended upon San Diego county, and twisted this scriptural truth for specific political purposes. In speaking to thousands of vulnerable attendees, this group spewed dangerous falsehood after falsehood about…the 2020 election,” she wrote.
“The event at a church in San Marcos was the latest stop on disgraced, retired General Michael Flynn’s ‘ReAwaken America Tour,’ a nationwide series of megachurch engagements featuring a who’s who of far-right religious extremists, Trump aides, QAnon conspiracy theorists, and other reckless figures. At every stop along the way, the Christian nationalist tour has left in its wake a trail of dangerous disinformation that leads to bigotry, hate, and, at its most extreme, violence.”
So, we have proof that both Michael Flynn and Roger Stone are doing the lord’s work, whipping up the masses into a fury. Which honestly, wouldn’t bother me, if I were honestly convince the election was stolen. But thus far, I don’t see convincing evidence. I’ve recently found some things that have weakened my certainty of that, but I still have enough doubt that I don’t wish to see my nation torn apart without definitive proof. Oh yeah…I keep promising to tie this to Oklahoma. Well, if I wanted to be a weasel, I’d just say that it is enough that these folks are running around my state preaching hate from the pulpits. But I have at least one more to share on this painful topic. Hopefully I can soon move on and wash my hands of this disgusting perversion of Christ’s church.
Keep reading for more Tired Blogging. Maybe next time I will find the portal to Oz….
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