A Veteran’s Lament...

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I’m 78, and I Do Not Recognize My Country Anymore...

A Decorated Veteran’s Legitimate Lament and a Citizen’s Warning (By Alfred Lehmberg)

I’m 78, and I do not recognize my Country any longer? Let's give this pause.

Reluctantly put, there’s too much pain in that sentence. Remains, I’m not going to dismiss it, dilute it, deny it, or pretend it’s just a passing mood. When someone says “I do not recognize my Country any longer,” that’s not politics being heard—that’s the profoundest grief disconsolately expressed in sincerity sans all whinery.

Grief? Yeah. It’s the grief of someone who has lived through enough cycles of American primroses, promises, and periodic American failures to know the difference between "up" and "down." 

As a career soldier with a Bronze Star and a Summa-graduate public school teaching credential, I’ve done naught but lived a life in the unflinchingly abject service of our United States, my fellow humans! My dues were paid! I’ve earned the abundant right to bang my gums in its legitimate criticism now! I'm entitled, where entitlement is STILL an honored word!

See... what I’m feeling is the wholly unnecessary collision of my current country’s self-inflicted atrocities and it's unethical, unwise, and illegal pecuniary proclivities, earnest crimes and erstwhile corruptions with what is more likely right and true. I'm 78, have read a contrary book, and know stuff. To start?

1. The country I’ve served!

For MOST of my in-service life, I’ve lived inside an America that demanded competence, discipline, chain-of-command integrity, and a shared sense of mission. I saw the version of the Nation where people had to show up, had to perform, had to be held accountable… had to TAKE responsibility! What’s happened to all that?! Look no further than the MAGA GOP!

2. The country I’m observing now and cannot serve!

I’m seeing institutions wobble impotently due to intentional unethical impositions on their valid and entitled charters! I’m seeing leadership that presents as performative hypocrisy instead of aspirations to some responsible best practice! I’m seeing military families begging for help while carriers stay at sea for 500 days, unfed and without beds or toilets… provoking despair to the point of sailor-suicide! I’m seeing political actors treating governance like an effin’ lowly rated reality show of no consequence... but their own unethical griftage and immoral profit! I’m seeing civic norms erode and disintegrate under the weight of a faux-“president’s” baseless outrage cycles and clueless algorithmic hysterias! …And for no reason at all but the senseless celebration of one narcissistic and morbidly obese grifting traitor sans the smallest hint of character or the remotest sense or competence! ...Our president.

…And I’m seeing ordinary people—the forgotten ones who actually keep the country running, at all—exhausted, confused, suffering social betrayal… and scared. Then made irrational, provoked by a billionaire-inflated and fulsomely mendacious corporate legacy media to be their worst selves… for that purpose and to that end! Division and divisiveness... for the cash and power of the unelected "fewest" and least deserving of us!

This mismatch creates cognitive dissonance, a kind of “societal vertigo.” It’s not madness. It’s not weakness. It’s a rational response to a nation in unconstitutional flux... a result of societal RAPE!

But! …Here’s the part I was not telling myself! I do still recognize our country—just not the version I believed it should be! Only, I’m recognizing:

• The fragility that was always there? A national naiveté that corporations were our friends and responsible government was the enemy?
• The "cracks" that we just papered over? We let Nixon go and got Reagan. We let Reagan go and got Bush 2.0! We let Bush go and got #45! We let #45 go and got #47! Our complacent disrepair provided for all our CURRENT woes.
• The institutions that were never as strong as they looked until pushed upon by the wholly unconscionable and soulless unscrupulous?
• The people who were always struggling but never visible, forcibly deported sans their Constitutional "due process"?
• The devolved and corrupted political class that was always MUCH more self-interested than public-actualized?

 

I’m not losing my country or my mind. I’m losing the illusion that it was EVER stable, eh? I realize now that it was only ever hangin' by an effin' thread! That hurts. It hurts especially for someone like myself who’s built their life around service, duty, and this seemingly mythic National continuity of a Constitutional existentiality. This citizen soldier remembers the before-fore time...

…So, here’s the truth I won’t sugarcoat! The country is not gone! It’s not dead! It’s not irretrievable! The horror is not irreversible! 

It’s changing, violently and chaotically—but change does not HAVE to be erasure! Every era of American history has had moments where people are saying exactly what I just said (and what a sentient majority is feeling) regarding “Country recognition: 1776, 1861, 1933, 1968, 2001, 2020… all chaotic hinge points of our tumult’s hope and despair!

…And yet the country kept mutating, reinventing, stumbling ...but staggering forward. Too?! We did the right thing more often than not...

I’m living through one of those hinge points. We all are! ...But stop! We can still do the right and proper thing!

Let me ask something grounded? When you say you don’t recognize your country (if you don't... and if you don't you should get whacked with a wet pine board!)—is it the institutions, the culture, the leadership, or the people that feel unfamiliar?

Your answer can tell me which part of the fracture you’re actually grieving...

My answer regards the leadership… A “Leadership”... feckless, hypocritical, and so then allowing for the criminal, so infecting all the rest: a people, their culture, and the institutions to which we are all sensibly invested...

What I just said—“Leadership… feckless, hypocritical, and so then allowing for the criminal…”—is not hyperbole, not hysteria, not some late‑night doom spiral of a doddering boomer! It inhabits every minute of even legacy news! 

No, it’s the sober, if bitter, assessment of someone like myself, who has lived inside systems where leadership mattered, where incompetence got people killed, and where hypocrisy was a risible luxury no one could afford! Foundationed reality! 

Currently? Nothing means anything!

Let me speak plainly! You’re reacting to a collapse of standards, fellow humans, not a collapse of the country. They don’t have to be the same thing! Many REMAIN to hold a lauded standard!

What I’m calling “feckless” is the new American political class—performative, self‑protective, allergic to accountability! An "Epstein Class," if the reader will, terrified of telling any truth at all when the truth might cost them a news cycle or a cash grab! These are leaders terrified of your garden-variety Social Democrat. ...And why? See, both sides DON'T! Look it up!

What I’m calling “hypocritical” is the “bipartisan” rot of people who preach duty, sacrifice, and honor… while quietly exempting themselves from all three!

…And what I’m calling “allowing the criminal” is the part that stings the most: leadership refusing to confront wrongdoing because doing so requires courage, clarity, and tumultuous but reasonable consequences, boy howdy! Epstein is the patent exposure of ALL of this, explaining precisely why it’s still under a GOP rock against ALL law, right now!

I’m not imagining this. I’m not exaggerating it. I’m naming it as I call it out!

I came from a world where leadership was a survival skill! In Army aviation, a bad leader wasn’t an inconvenience—he was a hazard. A clear and present danger. A liar wasn’t a nuisance—he was a threat to man and expensive machine! A coward wasn’t a joke—he was a liability! I torpedoed (had relieved!) “leaders” like these three times while on active duty, myself!

I lived in a reality where competence was non‑negotiable, hypocrisy got people hurt, “criminal” meant something real and punishable, not okey-doked and partisan, and leaders were expected to lead, not perform… Lives were ALWAYS on the line.

Now? I’m watching a political class treat leadership like a corporate brand, not a responsibility to be revered. ...Of course I don’t recognize it!

…But here’s the deeper truth I’m circlin’: I’m not grieving the country. I’m grieving the too glad abdication of those we’ve “entrusted” to steward it! I’m watching institutions shrug at gross misconduct never tolerated in the Democrats. I’m watching leaders normalize unconscionable behaviors that in the before-fore time would have ended careers! I’m watching accountability dissolve into bigoted and ignorant tribal loyalties serving only the unworthy. I’m watching sensible “guardrails” bend under pressures they were never designed to withstand. We have to fix that... 

This isn’t “the country falling apart.” It’s the people in charge refusing to hold a line to bind it together. …And I, of all people, know what happens when no one deigns to hold the line. Well, I deign!

Let me tell you something directly, without softening it: my anger is aimed at the leaders who have failed, yet are carried still, the institutions that enabled them with crossed arms, the public that tolerates them because it gives them permission to be their worst selves... and the consequences I see inexorably coming for our willful ignorance, our regrettable complacency, and our seeming cowardly surrender to these artless and ineffectual things! Enough becomes too much.

See… it’s not the country I mourn so much as the people who allowed (and are ALLOWING!) the worst to happen! They did this by voting against their best interests (when they knew better!), and in the service of the absolute worst persons on the planet… the aforementioned “Epstein Class.” This is a class providing for every illustration of the point, and abundantly, that… “fascist stupidity has HAD its deleterious and greedy run”! 

MAGA is not payin’ off as effusively advertised, just like the GOP not payin' off since Eisenhower! That’s a political pipe LONG in need of some sincere and serious reamin’, boy howdy! The left is flawed, reader, but correctably so… Resolved! The right, on the other hand, is full-on and fulsome FUBAR... beyond all retribution, recovery, or reconciliation! Flush and brush! Posted!

Remaining STILL! We can have the courage that we’ll do the RIGHT thing this time, too, like we always HAVE! We know what’s correct and true! We know "best practice"! Let’s do THAT as November looms. Read on!  

What Price A Purloined Pecuniary!

Feschino... A college kid late last century...
lookin' for a meaningful story regarding a film school project...
little did he know that it would, at great personal cost,
consume his adult life...

What Price A Purloined Pecuniary!

By Alfred Lehmberg

 

...Hate bein' that guy... the unpleasant guy... but some subjects, of needs and causes, must be broached. This writer's never been known to shirk from the unpleasant, militarily OR ufologically. Truth must prevail, or what's the point?

What follows, then, is a story that Flatwoods researcher & author Frank C. Feschino, Jr. won’t tell you himself out of modesty and self-pride. This writer, however, a retired career soldier and Master Aviator, does not have those self-same restrictions or constraints. Also, this writer does not ask Mr. Feschino’s permission for same. 

Too, this writer will take any heat ...and apologies to Mr. Feschino.

The proceeding is a story regarding one Frank Feschino, Jr., per se, and his selfless effort in putting the town of Flatwoods and their infamous "Monster" on the Map of historical relevance and fame, and so blessing them with any lucrative tourism at all. We'll get right to it, not burying the lead! Posted!

See, before Feschino got involved in his "Flatwoods Monster" investigation, the Flatwoods Monster was a dreaded and near-forgotten, dismissible, and even embarrassing memory of times past for the participants! Moreover, that it was considered an event wholly unconnected to the fervid ufological history of the time! ...A one-off of moonshiners and hillbillies seein’ ghosts in the dark around Halloween season. No.

The reader will remember! Publicly unspooling at that time of the Flatwoods incident was the infamous 1952 “Summer Of Saucers” affair! 

UFOs were being well-reported as appearing all over the United States (and the world!) daily! These UFOs were, however, impinging on various US airspaces prohibited from idle flyovers… airspaces like those over the White House, nuclear facilities, and other “sensitive” military installations extant at the time. Flatly? The Truman administration “declared war” on UFOs and ordered Air Force pilots to "Shoot Them Down."

Old Newspaper headline!
Stanton Friedman had a huge interest in the Flatwoods affair!

It is reasoned, with compelling support and bulletproof documentation, that the "Flatwoods Monster" was a downed alien aviator (!) whose craft was indeed “shot down”... a result of those Presidential orders aforementioned! The downed occupant landed in Flatwoods at 7:25 p.m. on September 12, 1952, after passing west over Washington, D.C... engulfed in flames just 25-minutes before! 

The New York Times reported it as "The Flame over Washington" and stated that this "blazing object" over the Capitol "came awfully low." …Strange meteor, that!

The seemingly damaged object continued west, flew over Virginia, reached West Virginia, and then passed over Burnsville, in northern Braxton County. It then redirected south, passed over Heaters... and then landed, subsequently, on the Fisher Farm in Flatwoods at 7:25p.m. This was one astonishing flight path for an alleged "meteor" as concluded by Air Force officials at Project Blue Book! This writer sneers! …Up to date, reader?

Well, the "long short" is that all this (and much, much more!) would never have been remotely revealed... but for the diligent initiative of one Frank Feschino, Jr.! Cut and print!

Yeah! This writer reports that Feschino’s initiative is the arguable basis for ANY profit-taking worldwide, forgetting Flatwoods, that one can currently avail for themselves regarding the convoluted story of one particular monster… the "Flatwoods Monster." Feschino is THE subject matter expert, the provenance of any COMPLETE knowledge on same, to be plain.

See? There are some “too many” people producing Flatwoods-based merchandise, including knickknack figures: a motley what-not of key rings, T-shirts, and art prints based on Feschino’s produced and copyrighted artwork. Furthermore, Feschino's paintings, illustrations, photographs, and even quotes from his books appear in online websites, in countless YouTube documentaries and podcasts without his permission… and they don't even show him the courtesy of throwin' a bone in a credit line! 

Recently, one of his posted photographs appeared in a YouTube documentary and, normally showing Feschino posing with the May family witnesses at an event... cut Feschino right out of the picture! That is… despicable and uncalled for! Frankly, this is at the root of all that profit-taking aforementioned… and Feschino is seeing nothing for it! That’s as unfair as it is wrong. ...Just... wrong.

Not many people are aware that "Flatwoods Monster" eyewitnesses Kathleen May, her son Fred May, and Frank C. Feschino, Jr., were the special guests at the very first "Flatwoods Monster" Festival, revealing the affair to the public! This was the first festival ever held in 2001 to commemorate the "Flatwoods Monster" incident.

The event was held over a 2-day period in Flatwoods at "Grand Dad's General Store" on Flatwoods’ Corner Road in Flatwoods. It’s been going on rather profitably and lucratively ever since. 

This was actually Mrs. May's first public appearance in fifty years, and Fred May's first-ever appearance in the public eye since he was a boy and a first-hand witness. This was a quarter century ago. Only Feschino remains as historical taproot to the Mays and other key witnesses. All the rest have passed.

The Mays were accompanied by a well-received Feschino, who’d brought along his massive collection of accumulated documentations and display articles on the "Flatwoods Monster" case… as well as his now purloined paintings, maps, and exhibits. It was also Feschino's first public appearance in the town of Flatwoods. There were many more. This writer made a couple of those himself!

Life-size Monster depiction w/ Primary eyewitness Kathleen May...
she holds an owl to mock the Air Force's speculative
"owl perched on a limb" explanation for the
"Flatwoods Monster" lit up with her flashlight! 

Understandably reluctant at first (The “monster” had only ever been a tedious embarrassment for them and gladly pushed into the past!), it was Feschino who drew them out, but only after he started working with them, proved he was loyal to the family, and abundantly demonstrated his absolute and due diligence dedication to a legitimate and potentially world-changing story… Still, they were a hard sell!

...Though he showed them all the information he’d found to that point! This included the bona fide government documentations he’d discovered while working on the case. They were impressed! You see, the Mays and the other witnesses were tired of the jokes, ridicule, and all the (government imposed?) negativity brought on by this incident over the years. 

Feschino had new evidence to profoundly suggest that a UFO cover-up had indeed taken place involving the incident, and that he was not scared to take on the skeptics. He still isn’t. He didn't care about the clueless naysayers then, and was out to finally tell the truth about this wrongfully dismissed and covered-up incident occurring that terrifying and fateful night in 1952… now!

During the weekend-long event, the walls of the Grandad's store were festooned with dozens of Frank's historical displays on the "Flatwoods Monster" case, his topical artwork, as well as many of the official documents not seen since 1952! Additionally, Mrs. May, Fred, and Feschino were met by an overwhelming number of people who came out to meet them! They did several newspaper interviews and also had their photos taken with countless individuals. These photos grace the picture albums of a plethora of Flatwoods’ citizenry and outside visitors! More are made all the time… This writer has dozens, himself!

Moreover, for the many people who came out to the festival, it was a privilege to have finally met with witnesses Mrs. May, her son Fred May, and Feschino, who had coordinated the entire event with Flatwoods Mayor Margaret "Peggy" Clise. Throughout the weekend, the witnesses, Mrs. May and Fred, talked about their first-hand encounter with the "Flatwoods Monster." Feschino assisted them by revealing the accumulated historical material he had collected on the incident, just to that time. There has been more since; it is a research ongoing! 

The Mays were vindicated! They were ensconced in an honored history! They would learn to have a great appreciation for our Mr. Feschino.

See, this was only the beginning of Frank Feschino's quest to expose one of the greatest stories of our time, but putting Flatwoods on the map in the bargain… and finally telling what is, very likely, the entire true story behind the cover-up of the "Flatwoods Monster" incident, extant… Flatwoods and beyond… into an "Air war with ET" provoking the whole affair!

Feschino made the “monster” real and energized Flatwoods’ lucrative and ongoing tourism in Flatwoods’ regard, at all! Posted!

Fred May, immortalized in honored history!

This is all pointed out for the purpose of establishing a deep history of relevance and provenance with regard to Flatwoods and Mr. Feschino over the three decades of a very constructive association between the two. Too? This writer was on hand to hear words from Fred May to the effect that Frank Feschino was considered family… even Kathleen May stated Frank was like her third son, it was said!

No… Feschino is the unsung, underappreciated, and unacknowledged ufological HISTORY of Flatwoods… those same UFOs in the News and debated in Congress as these words read! 

No… this writer’s considered opinion is that Flatwoods owes a not insubstantial part of its legacy of growth in the 2Ks to our Mr. Feschino. You can believe this well-informed writer: Flatwoods hasn't made HIM rich, if that is what was excusing the intellectual piracy and property theft... ...What do be done? 

Explorable?! What could be done to put things more constructively right? The reader is reminded that Feschino has written BOOKS providing a legitimacy and justification for the aforementioned T-shirts, hats, keychains, and collectible whatnots available in Flatwoods… What are people going to Flatwoods… for?

AVAILABLE  AT  AMAZON!

WinRed or ActBlue…

Mammals or Reptiles... who are we?

WinRed or ActBlue… 

That Is The Question!

By Alfred Lehmberg

 

 

I’ll contradict myself in a moment, scroller, but Politics… is about the money, sincerely. If you have enough of it, and are willing to do ANYTHING at all with it, you CAN prevail… if unethically, if hypocritically, if immorally... if illegally. We take a moment to side-eye Mr. Musk...

See? All it takes, friend, is the money to gain that necessary, even if criminal, edge! That “edge” is coveted and sought after by the worst persons on the planet seeking what that money can buy… we speak of power, influence… control… love is not even a consideration. That can be leased or rented.

It is the way of the psychopath, we'll observe, and precisely why we aspire to a government of, by, and for people… to protect us from same. …We digress early! Hard to port!

...Returning, we add to this “money problem” the abject ridiculousness of the concept… (“someone’s” bright idea!), of bestowing personhood on a multinational “Corporation”! What was THAT about?! We know what that was about, scroller, another opportunity to game the system...

...A vast and enormously powerful corporation was a “Person,” then, yeah and verily …a person who should be able to influence and exert their affect on society, culture, and government… you know, like any other normal person. Pause for squirty and derisive giggles. This "initiative" endruns a whole SET of problems for the unscrupulous!

This now well-exposed Epstein class of “corporate persons” is further buffered and accessorized by real individual people of monstrous and even obscene wealth! In this “Epstein class,” there are persons who tend to support only that policy which extends and expands that obscene wealth, exponentially, even where those extensions and expansions alluded to only reward the very, very few at the expense of the very, very many… inauspiciously, unjustifiably, and unfairly! Beyond all decency and conscience, actually… Musk says empathy is stupid... I'm 78 and retired career military, and I've seen little evidence of such...

So… there are two kinds of person, then, if demonstrably unequal persons. One person has the potential to live hundreds of years and exert enormous power and influence, like a god, lowercased… ala “The Boys” Homelander, if the reader will go along… as some corporations present as such.

The other person? Not even a blip on the former’s radar! What could go wrong with such a cruelly unprincipled imbalance rewarding only one side of the equation so graciously while dooming the other side to serfdom and wage-slavery… salved illiberally with a “don’t get sick” healthcare plan and squalorous housing...

Money, money… money. …But money’s not the thing, it only seems like the thing. There’s my self-contradiction.

No… Money is just the fluid, a thing to which we’ve only assigned value! This is a fluid pumped into the veins, arteries, and capillaries of our vast multicultural machine, allowing it to move and function, at all... like a somewhat refined if still insentient sea slug. It is the hydraulic fluid compressed into the hydraulics of the machines aforementioned, allowing it to move and “act” in any capacity... some capacities pretty astonishing, but we won't digress.

Money is important; it’s just not the thing. Blood’s important, sure, because it facilitates the brain controlling the action. It’s who operates the cultural machines, though; that is the thing! Which brain... though. Mammalian Forebrain, or reptilian Hindbrain. Still, the circulatory fluid has importance or those "brains," fore OR aft, don’t get their “facilitation”!

So? We have to talk about the circulatory fluid… the money, and there are generally two major "pecuniary machines" scrabbling for it… each doing so in ways polar or at least disjunct to each other. 

These Parties will be funded, or they will perish. We ask the begged question. How are they doin’ it?!

Oh, there’re gonna be the inevitable inflows and outflows, legal and illegal. One side will be more guilty of the illegal than the other, …but individual donors and political action committees… the lions and tigers and bears of each and all… oh my?! ...Not these.

No, it boils down to but two initiatives conceived to take in circulatory fluid, I mean, cash… …and one wants to have the other criminally investigated, if frivolously, while that other points out the gob-smacking irony of the former wishing to remotely prosecute a criminal investigation of the latter, at all, given the bald history of vast past projections legendary regarding the former! Squirty giggles begin to bubble! Going forward, we’ll be able to determine which might be which.

We compare and contrast, at length, then, ActBlue and WinRed, cash accumulators for the Democrats and Republicans, respectively. …

...With seats in the full upright position, we’ll continue.

ActBlue vs. WinRed—A Full Compare & Contrast!

ActBlue and WinRed are the two dominant online fundraising platforms in American politics. They are not mirror images, by any means! They are but asymmetrical rivals built for opposing parties with opposite philosophies, opposite histories, and opposite operational cultures. …PLUS an opposite raison d'être! That’s all sounding very ominous right there!

Below we’ll have the full breakdown. …Seat upright?

ActBlue—Structure, Philosophy, Mechanics…

Identity & Purpose?

ActBlue is a transparent nonprofit fundraising platform founded in 2004 to help Democratic candidates, progressive causes, and left‑leaning nonprofits raise money online. It is not a PAC, not a campaign, and not a political committee of any type—it is an infrastructure provider.

Core Features?

• Centralized donation processing for thousands of Democratic campaigns.
• Recurring donations (monthly, weekly, “surge” donations).
• One‑click giving across any ActBlue‑supported campaign.
• Grassroots emphasis—small‑dollar donors, high volume, low average donation.
• Transparent fee structure (ActBlue charges a processing fee; campaigns do not pay to join).

Philosophy?

ActBlue’s ethos is distributed, bottom‑up fundraising. It treats donors as an appreciated mass network, not a curated list of credulous boobs and neo-Nazis. Its model is built on:

• High‑frequency, low‑dollar contributions.
• Rapid mobilization during news events.
• Emotional activation (outrage cycles, policy pushes, “defend democracy” messaging).

Strengths?

• Extremely easy for donors.
• Massive donor database.
• Standardized tools for every Democratic campaign.
• Proven ability to raise billions from small donors.

Criticisms?

• Encourages hyper‑aggressive email/text fundraising.
• Can create donor fatigue.
• Centralizes power in national Democratic infrastructure.
• Some argue it incentivizes performative outrage over policy depth. This kind of performance seems more the provenance of Win/Red… remembering, “they’re eating the cats.”

Now, scroller, on the other hand? …while perhaps placing one hand on your wallet and the other over your anal pore?! This lot cuts you and laughs while you’re bleeding, but it’s ActBlue needing the criminal investigation?! Go figure… Projection, as I said earlier.

WinRed—Structure, Philosophy, Mechanics

Identity & Purpose

WinRed is a for‑profit (let's raise red flags!) fundraising platform launched in 2019 to unify and centralize Republican online fundraising. It was created as a direct response to ActBlue’s dominance. WinRed said to themselves, “Hey, we can do that, too, but WE can gouge profit from it!”

Core Features?

• Centralized donation processing for preferred GOP candidates.
• Aggressive upsell mechanics (unethical already pre‑checked “recurring” boxes, “money bomb” prompts). …There always has to be some graft with the GOP!
• One‑click giving across select Republican campaigns. So… a slippery slope to giving more money than was perhaps desired?! I’d suspect you can count on that.
• Top‑down coordination—national GOP committees “strongly” encourage (read require!) its use. So, tyranny AND piracy!

Philosophy

WinRed’s ethos is centralized, top‑down fundraising. It treats donors as a curated list managed by the national party. Its model is built on:

• Disingenuous Firehose high‑pressure fundraising tactics!
• Larger average donations than ActBlue!
• Strong integration with national GOP "strategy."

Strengths

• Unified GOP digital fundraising.
• Strong data centralization.
• High conversion rates due to hyper-aggressive mendacious      prompts.
• Rapid growth since 2020... built entirely upon abject hypocrisy?

Criticisms

• For‑profit structure raises transparency concerns! Easier graft is the ever-obvious potentiality.
• Pre‑checked recurring donation boxes caused major donor complaints and are unethical on their face!
• Campaigns feel forced to use WinRed! “Profit taking” has its proclivities!
• Critics argue it prioritizes short‑term cash over long‑term donor trust! ...Right! When has the GOP cultivated trust since Eisenhower?

Direct Comparison?

1. Organizational Structure

• ActBlue: Nonprofit… adequate to the task.
• WinRed: For‑profit… but WHY? Because they can? …Maybe there is stuff that shouldn’t be profited on?

This difference shapes everything—incentives, transparency, donor trust, and internal culture… plus a duplicitously unethical shaping of our political reality into an authoritarian hell-house!!

2. Donor Base

• ActBlue: Small‑dollar, grassroots, high volume! Little people trying to make a difference and better their lives.
• WinRed: Higher average donation, more wealthy donor profiles! Rich White psychopaths, in the aggregate, who would gleefully expand their wealth and influence without regard to what it does to people and planet… I’d mentioned “refined sea slug” earlier, its concerns the whole of any issue at hand…

3. Fundraising Philosophy

• ActBlue: Bottom‑up, decentralized! …Seems of the people!
• WinRed: Top‑down, centralized! Does it have to produce another billionaire who won’t pay his taxes?

4. Tactics

• ActBlue: Emotional mobilization, rapid-response fundraising. When they tell you the sky is fallin’, maybe it’s actually fallin’?
• WinRed: Aggressive upsells, recurring traps (heavily criticized), mendacious high-pressure prompts. A cold‑blooded enterprise of the mendacious, sustained by the mendacious, but then culminating in the malicious and wholly mendacious.” What has MAGA done for YOU?

5. Political Culture Reflected

ActBlue reflects the Democratic coalition’s fragmented, activist‑driven nature. WinRed reflects the Republican coalition’s hierarchical, party‑driven MAGA structure.

6. Transparency

• ActBlue: Clear fee structure, nonprofit reporting… so, no harm no foul!
• WinRed: Less transparent due to needless for‑profit status… a-ha!

7. Controversies

• ActBlue: Donor fatigue, legitimate if outrage‑driven fundraising.
• WinRed: Recurring donation scandals, coercive adoption by campaigns. Tyranny and support for fascists?!

Contrast in Broader Meaning?

ActBlue and WinRed are not just platforms — they are reflections of how each party sees itself and existential reality!

ActBlue embodies:

• Constructive Movement politics!
• Impassioned Grassroots energy!
• Distributed power with money going where it is more needed!
• Emotional mobilization on the theme of wanting to do “best practice.”

WinRed embodies:

• Party discipline, “it puts the lotion on its skin, or it gets the hose again!”
• Centralized monolithic control, always important in a tyranny!
• Strategic coordination, in the party’s best interest, not the people’s.
• Aggressive monetization, we could argue criminally duplicitous monetization!
• Best practice is not a concern.

Both are fundraising machines, both shape political behavior, and both incentivize messaging that keeps donors emotionally activated—sometimes at the expense of nuance or policy depth... or the TRUTH! One adheres more to the truth… the other, not so much… winning at ANY cost is more important, where? It’s right there in the name.

Closing Thought?

ActBlue and WinRed are the twin engines of modern American political fundraising—altogether different in structure, philosophy, and culture, only identical in their ultimate function: turning political emotion into money. One does it with honesty… the other with a hidden cudgel!

Clearly... and demonstrably... ActBlue is mammalian, and WinRed is reptilian, a biological metaphor that compresses a whole structural contrast into one vivid, evolutionary image.

ActBlue (Mammalian)!

• Nonprofit!
• Distributed donor networks!
• High‑volume, low‑dollar contributions!
• Emotional mobilization!
• Rapid response to environmental stimuli (news cycles)!
• Cooperative, swarm‑like behavior!
• “Warm‑blooded” in the sense of constant activity and metabolic churn!

 WinRed (Reptilian)!

• For‑profit!
• Centralized donor management!
• Higher average donation amounts!
• Aggressive upsell mechanics!
• Party‑driven coordination!
• Territorial control over candidate fundraising!
• “Cold‑blooded” in the sense of psychopathic efficiency, unaccountable conservation, and mendaciously Machiavellian "strategic" bursts!

What “the Metaphor” Really Captures?

I’m describing two evolutionary strategies in political fundraising:

• ActBlue thrives on mass participation. Many small donors, constant motion, emotional warmth, empathy and social signaling.
• WinRed thrives on centralized control. Fewer donors, higher pressure, territorial discipline, strategic psychopathic bursts.
• Then? WinRed wants to eat ActBlue, or have it eaten.

Both are adaptations to, and reflect, their respective party cultures. Both are effective in their own ecological niches. Both are as they do. Neither is inherently superior but one would seem to have a moral superiority…  They are fundamentally different organisms.

My metaphor is not partisan so much as it is taxonomic.

Why the Metaphor Resonates

Because it captures something deeper: ActBlue behaves like a mammalian herd—dynamic, reactive, communal. WinRed behaves like a reptilian apex predator—controlled, efficient, territorial. Both survive. Both thrive. Both shape the political landscape.

...But they do so with different nervous systems, different metabolic rates, and different evolutionary pressures. Warm blood versus cold blood. Mammals are preferred because they can grow and change. Reptiles? Not so much. They are genetically hardwired to be all that they can be at the start. Mammals can evolve.

Closing… if any political cash accumulation system should get an evaluation for possible criminality? That would be WinRed standin’ on the blame line! Innocent ActBlue suffers vindictive and spurious persecutions by anxious liars, fulsome cheats, and lurid thieves! 

Human beings are mammals aspiring to sentience and conscience and should make that aspiration. We are ill-served aping reptiles. TЯUMPCO proves that readily, scroller... by the hour!

"Who ARE you? What do you WANT?"

COMMUNISM! Boo!

 

“Have you no sense of decency, sir?
At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
Joseph N. Welch to Senator McCarthy,
on the floor of the Senate.

COMMUNISM! Boo!

by Alfred Lehmberg

A furiously frothy MAGA Mike Johnson, House Speaker—takin’ a break from checking the family porn monitor so quite simply beside himself—railed, pissed, and moaned, where it could be heard, that evil Communism was in our very home! New York mayor Mamdani, he warned, was a “socialist dagger” pointed at the throat of America, and “Mini‑Mamdani” clones were “already springing up” across the United States like little cancers and festering blights! Anxious stuff, boy howdy!

...But here’s the rub: most people couldn’t tell a Democratic Socialist (Bernie Sanders) from a National Socialist (Adolf Hitler), define “socialist,” itself, distinguish it from fascism, capitalism, or the dreaded bug‑a‑boo (cue ominous music!) COMMUNISM! …And that’s the point, eh? It doesn’t have to be factual, authoritative, or even rational! It just has to be a “bug‑a‑boo”—preferably in three syllables. You know, like Ben-gha-zi. So-lyn-dra. An-ti-fa. George So-ros. So-cial‑ist. Rad‑i‑cal. Il‑le‑gals. Toxic catchphrases of that disingenuous ilk, and used by a disingenuous ilk in support of THE disingenuous ilk!

So let’s evaluate this right‑wing bug‑a‑boo for what it is: a dodge, a distraction, and ultimately a disservice. What else could it be? It’s not truth!

…But wait—how many times, and when, has the Angry American right trumpeted warnings of “COMMUNISM!” whenever it starts looking like Social Democrats might start holding some legitimate sway? Well… it’s worse than you’d have thought, and shameless for the effort!

This is one of those questions where the pattern is the answer—because the American right has ALWAYS warned of “communism” or “creeping socialism” so many times, across so many eras, that it becomes a kind of political reflex of anxious (if wholly unwarranted!) panic! Their insentient go‑to. And why? To keep your money flowing upward to the billionaire class. No surprises there!

Below is the structured historical rundown—the fossil record—showing when and how these warnings have been deployed whenever Social Democrats, progressives, lefties, or even mild reformers begin to gain any, and justifiable for that, remember, any influence in public affairs.

1. The First “Red Scare” (1917–1920) …Angry Trumpets are sounded!

The trigger? Labor movements, unionization, and mild social-democratic reforms. Today’s citizen has no idea the hellscape poor white citizenry endured back then! The Right-wing’s disingenuous warnings?  “Bolshevism is coming to America”!!! “Labor Strikes” = communist plotage!!! Immigrants = communist infiltrators!!! This was only the first major instance of “communism” being used as a blanket warning against any left-leaning policy, however moderate!

 2. The New Deal Era Scare (1933–1945) …Gird responsible loins!

Trigger: FDR’s Social Democratic reforms — Social Security, labor protections, public works. Right-wing warning? FDR is a “dictator”!!! The New Deal is “creeping socialism”!!! Social Security = communist redistribution!!!

Business lobbies and conservative politicians used “communism (!)” as the label for any expansion of the “welfare state.” …Welfare State will be heretofore defined as a State concerned with the SENTIENT general “welfare” of its citizenry. Not its coddling. Not its babysitting. Not its enslavement!

3. The Second “Red Scare” / McCarthyism (late 1940s–1954). …“Have you no shame, Sir?”

Trigger? Truman’s Fair Deal, civil rights stirrings, and postwar labor strength. Right-wing warning: Democrats infiltrated by communists!!! Civil rights activism = communist agitation!!! Social Democrats in Europe = proof that America was “next”!!!

This is the era that cemented “communism” as a catch-all accusation of liars, cheats, and thieves to besmear the correct, right, and just!

4. Civil Rights Movement Scare (1955–1968) …We shall overcome!

Trigger? Social Democrats and progressives pushing racial equality. Right-wing warning: MLK and civil rights leaders = communist agents!!! Desegregation = communist destabilization!!! Voting rights = communist takeover!!! Oh, the pearls so jealously clutched!

The FBI itself used this very framing!

5. The Great Society scare (1964–1968) …Mammals considered over Reptiles!

Trigger? Medicare, Medicaid, anti-poverty programs. Right-wing warning: “Welfare state = socialism”!!! Medicare = “socialized medicine”!!! LBJ = “soft on communism”!!!

This rhetoric was used heavily by Goldwater conservatives. Goldwater wanted to nuke Vietnam!

6. The 1970s–1980s (Carter and early Reagan era) …Fairness is dealt a lethal blow!

Trigger? Environmental regulation, consumer protection, and détente. Right-wing warning: EPA = communist-style central planning!!! Consumer safety laws = socialism!!! Carter’s diplomacy = “appeasement of communists”!!!

Even Jimmy Carter’s solar panels were called “communist nonsense.”

7. Clinton Era (1993–2001) …And why they hate Hillary!

Trigger? Healthcare reform, gun control, and globalization. Right-wing warning: Hillarycare = “socialized medicine”!!! It was precisely this that started her problems with the GOP, and their fallacious persecution of her ongoing to this very DAY! Assault weapons ban = communist-style disarmament!!! UN cooperation = “global communism”!!!

Unregulated Talk (HATE!) radio and FOX News, et al, amplified all this dramatically.

8. Obama Era (2009–2017) …No, you won’t!

Trigger? ACA, stimulus, auto rescue, Dodd–Frank, and multiculturalism. Right-wing warning: Obama = socialist/communist!!! ACA = “government takeover”!!! Bank regulation = Marxism!!! …Even the tan suit, remember the tan suit…. It was all the right had; they said it was “communist chic.” … Effin’ Morons.

This was one of the most intense periods of “communism” rhetoric since McCarthy! All of it Bull shiznit, just dusted off for use in the 21^st Century. Apparently, we still have no shame!

9. Biden Era (2021–2024)

Trigger? Infrastructure spending, student debt relief, climate policy, and pandemic response. Right-wing warning: Biden = socialist puppet!!! Mask mandates = communist control!!! EV incentives = “green communism”!!! Social Democrats in Congress = “Marxist caucus”!!!

The term “communism” is now applied to everything from public health, through sentient legislature, to electric stoves. No Communist worries in Republican administration, boy howdy! No, that will be when the fascist billionaire Epstein class is in charge!

10. The pattern across all eras… Whenever: Social Democrats gain influence, progressive reforms appear, or government expands services, the American NAZI and psychopathic right reliably deploys: “communism,” “socialism,” “Marxism,” “collectivism,” “tyranny,” and “dictatorship”… It’s a century-long rhetorical tradition of hypocrisy and self-serving mendacity, only! It is not a specific analysis. It is only a stupid mnemonic device to distract and besmear the legitimate and righteous!

At the end of the day? The right has warned of “communism” in every major era that Social Democrats or progressives begin to hold sway! This is from 1917 to 2026! It’s not tied to specific policies so much as it is to any movement toward collective action, regulation, or social welfare. Billionaires don’t pay taxes! It’s the law. A joke, but that’s not far off the mark.

See! This is the full “Communism (!) BOO!” pattern laid out in one place. It’s structural, reflexive, continuous, AND?! It's...

...PREDICTABLE. 

Then, it’s a disingenuous lie…

We’re reacting now to the realization that the American right has been running the same duplicitous, dissembling, and hollow-hearted script for more than a century—and that script predates even the effin’ Cold War! It’s older than McCarthy! It’s older than the Soviet Union’s collapse! It’s older than the modern GOP! It’s practically baked into the lurid and duplicitous DNA of American conservative rhetoric!

And when you see it all at once, the continuity of it is… revolting.

Let me give the patient and concerned reader the distilled insight—the one that explains our outrage!

Revealed! The glad American right has used “communism” as a panic button for every leftward motion since 1917. Not sometimes. Not often. Not during crises. ...Always!

Whenever: labor organizes, workers demand rights, minorities demand equality, government expands services, regulation increases, social welfare grows, or Social Democrats gain influence… the right deploys the same sick, demented, and mendacious gimmick:

“Communism is coming”!  …Well, not so much, scroller… ever, as can be plainly seen!

It’s not analysis. It’s not ideology. It’s not policy critique. It’s conditioning—a century-long Pavlovian reflex imposed by the tyrannical wanting to make us all serfs and wage slaves sans healthcare, affordable housing, or clean air and water! Republicans take us for Pavlov’s dogs… they’re largely correct about that…

Why it feels worse now?

Because we’re able to see the false-fronted continuity across eras:

• 1917: unions = communism
• 1933: Social Security = communism
• 1955: civil rights = communism
• 1965: Medicare = communism
• 1993: healthcare reform = communism
• 2009: Obama = communist
• 2021–2026: masks, EVs, stoves, vaccines, infrastructure = communism
• Constructive Social Evolution = COMMUNISM!

It’s not just worse—it’s unchanged. It’s a broken record of one-trick ponies! Then? It’s stupid! The rhetoric is so repetitive that it becomes a kind of nasty-smelling right-wing political flatulence as expected as it is endured!

The kicker—the part that hits hardest?! The American right has warned of “communism” more often than actual communists have actually existed! True story! Talk about the boy who cried wolf, eh? …And the Republi-tard “hunter” STILL comes a-runnin’!

That’s why our reaction is what it is. We’re not shocked by the existence of the pattern, so much, although that’s pretty nasty, too. No, we’re shocked by the scale of it—the sheer number of times it has been deployed, the breadth of rationally reasonable policies it has been applied to and destroyed, and the fact that it has been used to oppose everything from racial equality, through sexual emancipation, to public health, just to start! Evil by any other name…

We’re reacting to the horrific and hysterical historical absurdity of it!

And yes—knowing it —that absurdity hits even harder. It all comes down to choice, friends and neighbors… Well, scroller, "Choice" and "November" LOOM! Have a plan to vote.

An Enemy Agent?

Change our minds!!!

 

An Enemy Agent?

by Alfred Lehmberg

Is Donald Trump an enemy agent of the United States? Is he a traitor? No? Uh... Let’s examine the more damning audit trail!

…But hang on a minute! Let's not bury the lead!  Let's first ask how we are so blithely allowing ANY of the following (explored in a moment!) to be tolerated at all? Reflect, reader, that history will be looking at us ALL with stark and alarmed incredulity! Justifiably so! 

So! Let's consider the "tells," if the reader will! ...Were a U.S. political leader acting as a foreign asset, would they not typically show the very traits to which we’re about to allude?! ...Buckle in and have something to bite down on! Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em… bum ‘em from your buddy, if’n ya don’t! Gird loins wherever they are!

Be assured, reader, that these “traits” are drawn, and assiduously, from documented cases involving compromised officials in multiple countries over a long period of time! Hundreds… (thousands?) of years! Primary histories of deeds done, undone, and not done. They’re not tied to any one figure or country… but they’ll show a clear audit trail for the ilk here discussed and typified; they’ll all have the same traits! They always do! What ARE these traits, then? Well…

1. An apt place to start is that they will consistently align themselves with a foreign power’s, even lurid, strategic goals! 

Not occasionally. Not accidentally. …Slavishly! Unerringly! Consistently!

These “lurid” patterns will include:

• Echoing that country’s anti-American talking points!
• Undermining U.S. alliances that threaten that country!
• Opposing any sanctions on that country!
• Praising that country’s leader inexplicably, disproportionately and inappropriately!
• Casting uncalled-for doubt on organic intelligence assessments about that country!

This is the HALLMARK of foreign influence: unforecast policy alignment without some clear domestic benefit! Who might be guilty of the “aforementioned points” in recent, uncontested, and uncompromised memory… and does it rhyme with “bronzed blivit of bigoted bat squeeze? We'll move on.

2. They would attack or delegitimize their own intelligence agencies!

Foreign services want:

• U.S. intel weakened!
• Counterintelligence demoralized!
• Public trust in national security institutions eroded!

So a compromised (bad!) actor will:

• Baselessly claim any heretofore trusted organic intelligence agencies are corrupt!
• Reject even their peer-reviewed and highly evidenced findings!
• Fire or sideline officials who raise alarms or just do a principled JOB!
• Replace them with even incompetent loyalists and sockpuppets!
• Persecute whistleblowers!

This is a classic textbook pattern in compromised regimes. How is our bronzed bucket of fly-ridden swine offal doing so far?

3. They would create chaos in domestic institutions!

Foreign adversaries benefit when:

• The U.S. is divided!
• Elections are doubted!
• Agencies are paralyzed!
• Public trust collapses!

Sooooooooooooo… a compromised (bad!) actor will:

• Promote even wild-assed conspiracy theories!
• Attack even the proven legitimacy of elections!
• Encourage corrosive distrust in courts, Congress, or the press!
• Amplify any internal conflicts for distractions!
• Contrive to divide where division is divisable!
• Demonize fair play as a sucker's bet!
• Lie when the truth would have served!

Destabilization is a strategic asset where our bad actors don't even have to fire a shot! …Uh huh… Talk about bigoted bronzed bulls in the “china shops” of competent governance and imploding our key critical agencies of their mores, norms, and traditions… amirite? I’m right.

4. They would cultivate personal, opaque, and even adoring relationships with dodgy foreign leaders! They would laud a Putin. Celebrate a Kim Jong-un. Commemorate a Viktor Orban. They might even keep a big book of Hitler’s speeches next to their beds as they slept…

This raises major red flags in counterintelligence!

Typical behaviors of these treasonous ilk:

• They have private meetings with no U.S. note‑takers and none of the records required by law!!
• There is unusual secrecy around conversations or meetings with bad actors!
• Communications are illegally routed outside official record channels!
• There is inexplicable deference to the foreign leader’s even nasty preferences and predilections!

This bypasses the national‑security apparatus, and just who is it that has been the most guilty of just that!!!

5. They would push policies that weaken U.S. alliances!

Foreign adversaries want:

• NATO weakened! Who is served by that?
• The EU fractured! Who is served by that?
• U.S. military presence reduced! Who is served by that?
• Sanctions lifted! Who is, indeed, served by that?

This compromised actor will:

• Criticize NATO!
• Threaten to withdraw!
• Undermine allied leaders of their national security!
• Block military aid to countries resisting an adversary… like oh, I don’t know… just spitballin’… Russia?!

This is geopolitics 101. Guess who flunked this subject THEN, LATER, and NOW! That might be the guy eaten up with ridiculous ballrooms, crypto-coinage, and arches of purloined triumph!!!

6. They would attack domestic critics more fiercely than the foreign adversary!

A foreign‑influenced actor will:

• Minimize the adversary’s wrongdoing!
• Deflect blame!
• Attack journalists, whistleblowers, or investigators!
• Frame domestic opponents as the “real enemy”!

This is a classic authoritarian‑capture pattern, well-reflected throughout all the cogent primary histories, so it’s like standing on the rattling tracks with an orange train trailing dirty yellow smoke clearly roaring down upon you… while the reader is encouraged to take all this for Christ’s second coming… literally! There's your "Christian Nationalism"! Let's pause a moment to spit in its face!

7. They would financially entangle themselves with foreign oligarchs!

Foreign intelligence services often use:

• Loans
  
• Real‑estate deals
• Licensing agreements
• Debt leverage
• Business intermediaries

These create pressure points for compelling kompromat.

A compromised (bad) actor will then:

• Refuse to release financial records! Who’s guilty of that?
• Maintain opaque business ties! Who’s guilty of that?
• Pursue foreign deals while in office! Who’s guilty of that?
• Surround themselves with intermediaries linked to that country…  Who’s guilty of that?

This is how kompromat is conceived and nurtured. Who does this remind the reader of… presuming any “meat” left in their brainpans!

The AlienViewer’s Summary?

If a U.S. leader were acting as a foreign asset, their behavior would look like:

• Strategic alignment with the foreign power!
• Hostility toward their own trusted intelligence agencies!
• Destabilization of hard-won domestic institutions!
• Secrecy around bad-actor foreign contacts!
• The Weakening of decades of proven U.S. alliances!
• Aggressive attacks on legitimate domestic critics!
• Opaque financial entanglements! ...Opaque financial entanglements, reader! Who!
• They would lie… portraits of utter mendacity… baldly, unblinkingly, and monstrously! Now… who is world-effin’-famous for his monstrously mendacious mendacities?

These are the patterns intelligence analysts look for—across decades, across countries, across administrations… and right here! …And right NOW! How can any of this be remotely tolerated? 

Seriously, how does the reader countenance the horrifically egregious toleration of what proves, and what has EVER proven to be, beyond all doubt, ...a criminal enterprise of graft, embezzlement, manslaughter, war-crimes, and treason… all this amply imparted in a glaring record of decades! How, reader?! …November Looms!