Robot Jazz

June 28,1942 In the summer of 1942, the German army, stalemated on the Russian front after the failure of Operation Barbarossa  the previous year, attempted a second massive offensive, this time entitled Case Blue . This offensive would be aimed at one of the economic hearts of Russia: the Caucasus oil fields. Hitler believed that if the Wehrmacht could capture those fields, Stalin's war machine, starved of fuel, would crawl to a halt. While he did appreciate that the Soviets would fight to the last to stop this from happening, Hitler understood that this reaction provided a second opportunity for the German army: to crush Soviet reserve units, thereby militarily weakening, perhaps fatally, the Soviet army.  Lastly, Case Blue  also sought to cut the Volga River, thereby cutting off essential Lend-Lease supplies from Stalin's allies.  The initial stage of Case Blue  was a smashing success with vast amounts of territory gained, including the city of Rostov. Even t...

  You have a natural tendency to squeeze off a shot You're good fun at parties, you wear the right masks You're old but you still like a laugh in the locker room You can't abide change, you're at home on the range You opened the suitcase, behind the old workings To show off the magnum, you deafened the canyon A comfort a friend, only upstaged in the end By the Uzi machine gun, does the recoil remind you Remind you of sex? Old man what the hell you gonna kill next, yeah-yeah Old timer who you gonna kill next? Silly me, I thought we had entered a period of declining energy for this present regime. Even Trump's State of the Union address to Congress was a snoozefest, where a clearly restrained Trump announced few policy proposals of note, but instead reverted to his D-list reality TV show host act by handing out awards like candy to various guests (I was waiting for him to ask everyone to look under their seat..." You get a crypto account! And you get a crypto acc...

  As I am sure everyone has heard, Donald Trump, the losiest loser of all time, has lost yet again: A Supreme Court decision on Friday striking down President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs dealt a major blow to his economic agenda and brought new uncertainty to global markets struggling to adapt to his whipsawing trade policies. The court, in a 6-to-3 decision written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., ruled that Mr. Trump had exceeded his authority when he imposed tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading partner last year.  Trump, a man who is cognitively unable to stop digging when he digs himself into a deep hole, couldn't wait to rush to the cameras and give one of his now-famously incoherent addresses where, amongst other things, he assured the nation he could read: "I read the paragraphs...I read very well.  Great comprehension. I read everything there is to read." Of course, this is a lie. As now disgraced journalist and Epstein associate Michael Wolff recounted :...

  The last few posts of mine have been pretty bleak, I admit.  It is hard not to descend into despondency when you learn that your nation is no longer one of the good guys; that 49.8% of the population knowingly voted for the worst people possible because they thought it would line their pockets (what I have come to refer to as the Bondi Defense ).   But I have also come to realize something else: that an old Catholic admonition is correct when it warns that to despair is to sin because there is  always hope,  and hope does not disappoint.  The Trump regime, along with its allies of the moment, has proven to be a glass cannon.  Sure, they can lash out with the awesome power of the state, but such firepower is short-lived.  When met with sustained resistance, the cannon begins to crack and, ultimately, shatter. 😊😊😊😊😊 There have been many such cracks as of late, but perhaps the most noticeable has been the administration's abject defeat in...

In a congressional hearing yesterday, the putative Attorney General of the United States, Pam "Swampy" Blondi...er, Bondi, made a, well, jackass out of herself by carrying on in a most undignified fashion. You know, the standard MO for just about every figure in this administration.  During a dramatic moment when Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler D-N.Y. criticized the DoJ for failing to bring any indictments against Epstein co-conspirators, Pam Bondi went on a bizarre rant about the DOW Jones Industrial Average: “The Dow is over 50,000 right now,” Bondi said in sworn testimony before the House Judiciary Committee after Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., slammed her and the Department of Justice for the lack of indictments of possible co-conspirators of the convicted sex predator Epstein. The S&P 500 is also up and the Nasdaq is “smashing records,” while Americans’ retirement accounts are “booming,” Bondi said after celebrating the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s gains. “That’s what...

Mary Boykin Chesnut's Diary from Dixie  ends on a haunting note.  She recounts how one of her friends, with whom she often corresponded, complained that she was receiving fewer and fewer missives from her. Mary's rationale was grim: "I do not write often now, not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear, why dwell upon those things?" When I read those words, a fitting conclusion to a chronicle that began with wild patriotism but ended in ashes and blood, I sympathized with her. Inspired by her diary, I started this, well, certainly not a diary from Dixie, but rather a Blog of Breakdown, and, like her, I find it increasingly difficult to chronicle the day-by-day descent of my country into ruination.   👹👹👹👹👹 Case in point, the murder of Alex Pretti at the hands of CBP goons.  As with the murder of Renee Good, Alex, a Veterans Administration nurse, was executed in broad daylight, this time by being shot in the back roughly ten ti...