Hello, hello, hello, John Mason. How is everybody? Hope you're all well. What a week. What a week. The news came down a couple days ago that Henry Kissinger, all of a hundred years old, have finally got around to passing away. And I'm not missing him one bit. He sold himself out to any party who would hire him as a foreign policy consultant. And finally landing with Nixon as National Security Advisor. And supervising the war in the for in Southwest Asia. The continuing of the whitening of the Vietnam War into Cambodia, the constant daily unending bombardment of Cambodia, which enabled the takeover by the regime of the Khmer Rouche, and the and a horrific dictatorship of Paul Pot. And another gem from Old Henry was the was was in 1971 the the war that West Pakistan, now just Pakistan, waged on East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, and a whole genocide against the Bengalis in East Pakistan, which led to the deaths of thousands and thousands of civilians. But old Henry couldn't keep uh couldn't be bothered. He had serious business to do. He Pakistan was his conduit into the um to contact the People's Republic of China so he can open up his masterpiece in foreign relations, which was reopening full diplomatic relationships with China. And another masterpiece was his finally ceremoniously ending the Vietnam War. I don't know what you mean by ending. I mean technically we got we withdrew our forces at that time. However, the war continued. And another masterpiece of Old Henry was the overthrow of the democratically and constitutionally elected government in Chile, El Salvador Allende. And the old uh tendency in foreign policy for the US at the time was that any uh administration that got duly elected by the public in any corner of the world that uh wanted to do what was right for the uh people rather than for some American-based corporations, was ipso facto communist and had to be overthrown. Allende wanted to make the economy work for the people of his country. That's all. And because of that Kissinger and Nixon did everything they could to have the CIA engineer the overthrow of Allende's government, finally settling on the commander-in-chief of the army, which Allende himself appointed Augusto Pinochet. And that led to a violent uh coup d'etat, which murdered uh Allende. I don't know, we still don't know how he died, how he was killed, but after that was a brutal dictatorship where like several thousands of people were killed and tortured by the regime. And that became a role mall for some of some of our citizens on the left and on the on the right, on the right in this country, on the right. So and but still, old Henry, after he retired, got fetted and whined and dyed and celebrated and honored as a foreign policy genius, which old diplomats simply must emulate. Well, well he's gone finally at a hundred, so let's see what happens to him next. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Okay, and another fun fact which came down today, praise be and hallelujah, George Santos has finally formally been expelled from the House of Representatives. See, apparently the Republican caucus finally decided they couldn't stand him. And after his big he was expelled in spite of all his big talk and I'll fight to the end, I'll go down fighting talk. And just like Madison Cathorne of North Carolina, he he he talked so he was gonna talk about the sex lives of the other uh members of the Republican caucus. And and and George Santos still has his supporters among such people magas as Marjorie Taylor Green. George Santos, the guy who got elected to Congress, um with a false background, a false employment history and top financial institutions, who falsely bragged about his academic record, who falsely bragged about his his athletic record, his family background, saying that his mother died at one year, then later on at another year. The entire fortune of a woman and left her penniless, who and who took his campaign donors' money. Money which was supposed to go to his campaign, nothing else. And he spent it all on clothes and luxury items and spa treatments and and OnlyFans. Now what's he gonna do now? Of course, he'll probably random rave, of course, like the other guy, the orange guy. And and maybe he'll put together a podcast like the other mega losers, like uh Roger Stone and uh and the some others. Roger Stone and Steve Bannon and all the others. And now here's a little fun fact. There's a scandal going on in Florida where the where the husband where the uh Christian Ziegler, the Florida, uh Florida State Committee chair, has has been accused of sexual battery by this woman who's by this woman who said uh she had a three-way affair with Zig Zygler, with Zygler, and uh and his wife, Bridget Zygler, his wife, who by the way was a co-founder of Moms for Liberty. Oh yeah, the moralizing little old skanks who want to uh raid the school boards and dictate uh what what kids should read and what teachers should teach. Uh trying to ban all intelligent discussion of sexuality or transgender issues or trans or uh LGBTQ issues or or racial or African American history. And there I don't and both those moralizing jerks are caught up in a sex scandal. Isn't that lovely? I just personally I'm not monogamous myself in my personal life, but what gets me is the hypocrisy. These buttheads who are preaching morality and be a virgin to the day you die, they're just they're just hypocrites. They're the same ones that as soon as you they talk about that, you next thing you know, you find them in the in the middle of some juicy, delicious sex scandal. It's infuriating, but it can be can be a lot of pornographic fun in the right context. So that's my rant for now, for now, or is to come. I ain't biting my time for nothing. Advertisements. 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I'll be selling copies of my works, of my books, and have my notary kit available to provide notary services like putting the seal on your deed or your mortgage or whatever. I hope to see you there. Support handcrafted local craftspeople, buy some nice handcrafted stuff from for your friends, and have a good time doing it. That's Dirty Franks, 13th in Pine, this Sunday, December the 3rd from 2 to 7 p.m. Okay? That's it for now. For now, but more is to come. Gotta rest up during this Shabbat and get ready for the week. Please be well. Shabbat shalom. Bye.
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