[billwhittle.com] On the eve of the 2024 Election, Bill Whittle manages to make sense of the shocking realignment that we are seeing happening right before our eyes. It's no longer about Republicans vs Democrats or Conservatives vs Liberals: the new reality is that this is an election pitting the Insiders against the Outsiders. To prove his point, Bill takes a look at the last TWENTY presidential elections to discover a shocking pattern that has been hiding in plain sight all along.
HT - Steve Green at Instapundit I've enjoyed Mr. Whittle's commentaries for years, going back to his 'Eject Eject' days.
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Well worth the time. I first saw "The Uniparty" here at the 'Burg. Whittle calls them the "Insiders", but they have the same cast and crew.
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I liked his Eject Eject Eject better. Never liked his videos.
In my state of New York last week, the DEC authorities sent a swat team to seize a man and woman’s pet squirrel and raccoon and then killed the animals. Why? Because they could. How is that different from the DOJ swatting and seizing a grandmother for walking through the US capitol building and then stuffing her in prison for the rest of her natural life on misdemeanor charges? It’s not different. They are both demonstrations of deliberate cruelty — and that’s why the squirrel story resonated so widely around the country. You know exactly what it says: we can take whatever is dear to you... your pets... your livelihood... your freedom... your life.
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[The Critic] It's delicious satire, as always, by TM
The imminent US election has been a constant source of anxiety for me. The prospect of a literal fascist returning to the White House has triggered my self-diagnosed PTSD. I haven’t been this distressed since my niece spat out the puberty blockers I smuggled into her rusks.
Donald Trump has consistently sown division and hatred. In this election campaign there have been three assassination attempts against Trump, thereby proving irrefutably that he is guilty of inciting violence.
If Trump continues to speak in public, no doubt more innocent people will be goaded into attempting to shoot him, thereby putting themselves in danger of being killed by the security services. This is reckless behaviour.
Trump’s connections to fascism are easily proven. For instance, his second wife was Marla Maples, who was born in the town of Cohutta in Georgia. Cohutta is an anagram of "Taco Hut", which is a conflation of Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. These are both examples of popular restaurants. It is in restaurants that one often finds sausages. The country most associated with sausages is Germany. And Germany was the home of the Third Reich.
Arguably, matters are even worse here in the UK. In July’s general election, I was put in an impossible position. I was never going to vote for a straight white male in the form of Keir Starmer, but the ethnic minority candidate was Rishi Sunak, an evil Tory. In the end, I spoiled my ballot by drawing a huge X in the box next to Sunak’s name. It was a small protest, but it felt good.
Kamala Harris is now the only hope for America. She is both mixed-race and female, which is far more important than "charisma" or "competence". She is half-Indian and half-Jamaican, which means that she is even more oppressed than Barack Obama. And let’s not forget that Obama’s mother was white, which always meant he was 50 per cent problematic.
If Trump wins, I don’t think I will be able to cope. In fact, if he is elected again, I will be suing anyone who votes for him as compensation for my trauma. You have been warned.
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A spoofed persona - it's actually a Brit male comedian
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Spomort Grumble4916 satire.
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We live in an age in which it is no longer possible to be funny. There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not promptly be enacted before your very eyes, probably by someone well known.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge
We're in a Schroedinger's Cat universe - is this funny or stupid? Without outside cues or some way to open the box, you can't tell if something is hilarious parody or the stupidest thing anyone ever said.
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M. Stanton Evans liked to say that “There is no absurdity that you can invent that a liberal will not state seriously.”
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Titania delivered one of the funniest lines this century: "I could be the modern day Rosa Parks -- except I wouldn't be caught dead on mass transit."
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Titania was really funny about 5 years ago when it was obviously an exaggeration of leftards
since then the leftards have gone further and further and its not that much of an exaggeration anymore
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^ The Babylon Bee nods in agreement: "Our job becomes harder"
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[Federalist] Many veterans of the Global War on Terrorism feel extreme resentment toward Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party — and here’s why.
The recent controversy regarding Donald Trump’s criticism of Liz Cheney as a warhawk who has never faced the dangers of the wars she embraces has synthesized an issue that may be opaque to non-veterans: the extreme resentment many veterans of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) feel toward Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party.
Harris and the Democrats have created a perfect storm of veteran disdain in that they have succeeded in uniting three once-inapposite groups behind Harris: the neocons who started the GWOT, the media and Democrats who undermined the veterans’ GWOT missions, and the generals who failed again and again and again at bringing the GWOT to a successful conclusion.
Interesting article, but the author misses a key point. DoD was NOT in charge of the conflicts or outcomes in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Winning" and victory were never the goals. Senior careerist military officers simply carried out the dictates of the Chief of Mission/Station, and their wet nosed agents in the field.
Same theme as the iconic 1975 embassy extraction photo in the graphic, just different actors.
[Chet Nagle's Now Hear This] What destroyed the United States that we once knew? It was a promise that did it. Our nation is experiencing exactly what Obama meant when he promised to "fundamentally change America." He and his carry-over officials have been insuring the Biden administration makes that promise come true.
To see who those officials are, see my 2023 post: The Dirty Little Secret of America’s Current Government: Obama's Third Term, here. As you read, you will learn who and how those now in power in Washington made Obama’s promise come true.
With the election only hours away, Americans on the left are being urged by mainstream media and corporate propaganda to blame all our problems on Trump. In contrast, Americans on the right are being urged by Trump to review the damage the Biden/Obama administration has done to their lives and pocketbooks in just four years. What are those issues that right-thinking Americans (and a growing number of liberals) believe are destroying America?
Election Integrity
They believe that only American citizens should vote, and that voters be required to have a state or federal photo ID. They believe that elections should take place on a single day using paper ballots, and that vote counting be finished by midnight on Election Day. In contrast to those beliefs, a Biden-appointed federal judge, Patricia Tolliver Giles, blocked Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin from removing self-identified non-citizens from Virginia voter rolls. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned her unconstitutional decision as this is being written. Will Biden’s Department of Justice end their suits against Alabama and rural Wisconsin towns who are also trying to remove non-citizens from their voter rolls, or will they continue their efforts to destroy election integrity?
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To see who those officials are, see my 2023 post: The Dirty Little Secret of America’s Current Government: Obama's Third Term, here. As you read, you will learn who and how those now in power in Washington made Obama’s promise come true.
[ZERO] It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a significant positive evolution within American society. In the early days of the Ron Paul movement I remember the hopeful groundswell of support for a new conservative epoch that adopted a little Libertarianism and a recognition that most "conspiracy theories" are actually conspiracy realities. It was the kind of catalyst that was needed to break the long running false paradigm of Neo-Cons vs Democrats; it was the beginning of the conservative rebellion we see happening today.
How do I know things have changed? For one, Neo-Cons are almost universally hated by real conservatives. So much so that it has forced those politicians to show their true colors and come out in favor of Democrat/globalist candidates like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The mask is truly off and the act is over. You’re not going to see people like Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney or Lindsay Graham taken very seriously by anyone anymore.
The return to a true conservative philosophy has been initiated and this time it doesn’t look like it will be snuffed out like the Barry Goldwater era of the early 1960s. The concept of limited government, an end to debt spending, sound money, the removal of elitist NGOs from political influence, a hard-line stance against globalism, legit border security, meritocracy, a rejection of progressive deconstruction and moral relativism, all of these things are prime conservative principles.
Such ideas have been treated as "archaic" and "barbaric" for decades because they threaten the structures that keep the establishment elites in power. Today, they are making a comeback.
Some will say that it’s all because of Donald Trump, but this is not the case. This movement was growing into a Juggernaut long before Trump, though he is certainly riding the wave as it comes to fruition. The question is, will Trump do it justice if he gets the gold this week? I predicted a Trump win in 2016 for months leading up to the election despite the army of naysayers (I also predict he will win in 2024). But, for me, his first term left a lot to be desired; the biggest problem being the elitist creepers filling his cabinet.
But hey, at least he wasn’t promoting transsexual procedures for children or trying to start World War III with Russia like the Democrats have been doing. I’ll also admit that Trump’s coalition of allies is looking FAR better this time around. Talk of Ron Paul joining the team is surprising and gives me some hope.
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No matter who wins, this will not be over. The media has learned how to spin the public into a frenzy over politics. Then, like the whores they are, the politicians run with it. Until we restore integrity into our media, this frenzy of emotion will not stop.
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Will the good guys tolerate the nonsense like they did the first time Mr. Trump was president? Or will they just go old fashioned firehoses and mass arrests of everyone rioting?
I’d do the second as soon as Mr. Trump was sworn in.
[TopSecretUmbra] Another Suspected Iranian Mole Unmasked Inside the Biden Administration: Just how many Friends of Tehran are working in top government jobs for Biden-Harris?
On the eve of America’s election, Democrats and their media wing are putting in overtime suppressing stories that are unflattering to Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. As this newsletter just reported, Walz has longstanding ties to the People’s Republic of China which are highly concerning from a counterintelligence perspective. Just don’t expect the mainstream media to investigate any of this, especially so close to the election.
However, when it comes to espionage, Democrat problems with Iran are even worse than with China. Going where the legacy media fears to tread, Top Secret Umbra has exposed the shocking extent of Iranian penetration of the current White House, which extends back to President Barack Obama’s two terms in the Oval Office. Regarding the all-important matter of cadres, President Joe Biden represents Obama’s third term, while Harris would be his fourth.
Take the astonishing case of Rob Malley, Obama’s Iran fixer, the academic-turned-bureaucrat who made the Iran Deal, formally the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a reality in 2015. Pres. Biden brought Malley back into the White House in 2021 to revive JCPOA, which Pres. Trump killed in 2018. As the top mullah-whisperer for Team Obama-Biden-Harris, Malley hoped to deliver better relations with Tehran, but that fell apart in the spring of 2023 when Malley’s top-level security clearances were yanked, and he was escorted from his office at the State Department. Malley fell under suspicion for espionage and was placed under FBI scrutiny.
It's been 18 months since Malley’s high-flying government career fell apart, but we still don’t know what happened. Repeated inquiries by Congress about the status of the FBI investigation into Malley’s misdeeds have been stonewalled by the White House. The Beltway rumor mill has it that Malley illegally downloaded classified information to his personal email, which then got hacked by Iranian spies. Making the bad situation worse, Malley then lied to the FBI about his actions.
The Biden administration is running out the clock on the Malley scandal, hoping it fades away. As it might. Malley’s been soft-landed back into elite academia, a cushy gig at Princeton, while the Democrats and their media helpers have shown no interest in ascertaining what exactly was going on between Tehran and Team OBH’s top Iran expert. At best, Malley is uncomfortably close to the mullahs and their clerico-fascist regime; at worst, he’s his generation’s Alger Hiss. It’s not like the legacy media is going to ask questions anyway.
Regrettably, the Biden-Harris administration is packed with friends and protégés of Malley’s. The absurd case of Ariane Tabatabai is illustrative. Another academic-turned-bureaucrat, the Iranian-born Tabatabai was appointed to a very sensitive job in the Pentagon by the Biden White House. As the chief of staff to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, Tabatabai enjoyed access to an astonishing array of highly classified information, particularly regarding covert action. She was unmasked in Sept. 2023 as an agent for Tehran going back a decade. Tabatabai worked for a front for Iranian intelligence called the Iran Experts Initiative, which sought to improve the regime’s image in the West. Despite this, the Biden administration kept Tabatabai in her ASD SOLIC job. After her exposure as Iran’s agent, Tabatabai visited the White House at least eight times, for (presumably classified) meetings. Just as with Malley, the administration stalled Congressional inquiries into the Tabatabai case, while the Democrats and their media wing showed no interest in the scandal. Last week, this newsletter revealed that, at last, Tabatabai has been removed from ASD SOLIC and “kicked upstairs.” She’s been named the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training, which is a promotion yet with reduced access to Pentagon secrets.
Then there’s Phil Gordon, another Democrat foreign policy maven who’s bounced between government and the Council on Foreign Relations for many years. He’s long been close to Kamala Harris and has served as the vice president’s National Security Adviser since 2022. Gordon’s been chummy with Malley for decades, while they worked together to deliver Pres. Obama his Iran Deal. Under Obama, Gordon held top jobs on the National Security Council and at the State Department. Gordon co-authored several op-eds with Ariane Tabatabai, all of them with a pro-Tehran bent. He is also close with the National Iranian American Council, an NGO which advocates for the mullah regime and is considered a front for Tehran by Western counterintelligence.
The Biden White House official who should be fretting over all these Friends of Tehran holding top jobs in the administration is Maher Bitar, who’s the NSC’s senior director for intelligence programs. As such, Bitar is the White House’s top coordinator with the Intelligence Community. Another Malley protégé, Bitar worked in plum jobs for the Obama administration. He’s anything but a hardliner on Iran. When he was a student a Georgetown University, Bitar held a leadership role with Students for Justice in Palestine, a radical activist group that’s pro-HAMAS. Since the Gaza War, SJP has organized anti-Israel protests on college campuses nationwide. It’s no mystery why Bitar isn’t purging the Biden-Harris administration of Friends of Tehran.
The real mystery here is why the Biden White House, like the Obama administrations before it, is crawling with Iranian agents and their apologists. Counterintelligence seems to exist only in theory for Team OBH, at least when Iran is involved. People who are known to be cuddly with America’s enemies shouldn’t be eligible for TOP SECRET security clearances, much less top national security jobs. But that’s exactly what’s happened since 2009 under three Democrat administrations. With so many of these troubling cases, this pro-Iranian pattern cannot be deemed a coincidence or accident, rather a design.
How many Iranian moles are operating in the upper echelons of the Biden-Harris administration? Officially, nobody knows, while nobody in the legacy media will ask. Counterintelligence experts in Washington, DC, do ask, that’s their job, albeit in hushed tones. Counterspies inside the Beltway tell me that another suspected Friend of Tehran recently was unmasked, and the implications of this case are deeply alarming for U.S. national security.
His name is Lawrence W.K. Casselle, and he’s one of the top officials in the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service. Although little known to the public, DSS are Foggy Bottom’s cops, the federal agents who guard American diplomats abroad as well as foreign government dignitaries when they visit the U.S. Importantly, DSS also provides counterintelligence oversight to the State Dept.
Casselle, a native of Las Vegas, joined the State Dept. as a Diplomatic Security special agent in 2003, following graduation from Hampton University on an ROTC scholarship, then four years on active duty with the U.S. Army as an infantry officer. Casselle’s DSS career has been very successful, with tours at home and abroad, including serving on the protective detail of then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from 2006 to 2008. He served as a Regional Security Officer in Kabul, then as senior RSO based in Belize. Casselle got important international experience in 2018-19 when he served in Baghdad as the DSS liaison to the Department of Defense’s Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (that’s the Pentagon’s term for our war against the Islamic State in the Middle East). Following that, he got the White House plum job of NSC Director for Counterterrorism (2019-20), then was promoted to be chief of staff for all DSS (2021-23).
Casselle this summer came under suspicion for his ties to Tehran. When he was serving in the Middle East, apparently during his tour in Baghdad, Casselle became close with a foreign woman. They developed a romantic relationship, IC insiders tell me, and Casselle used his powerful job and State Dept. connections to help his new friend. Inconveniently, his paramour turned out to be an operative for Iranian intelligence.
How compromised Casselle is by this scandal isn’t yet known. IC counterspies tell me that they are trying to establish how close to Tehran Casselle got during his close relationship with that Iranian spy, but the State Dept. isn’t cooperating energetically with the counterintelligence investigation. If one of Foggy Bottom’s rising stars turns out to be an Iranian mole, the embarrassment to the department will be serious. Casselle’s superiors want this mess to simply go away.
Casselle isn’t just a top U.S. diplomat, he’s African American, which puts him perfectly in tune with the Biden-Harris emphasis on DEI in the federal government.
There are dire national security consequences if Casselle went rogue. In his DSS position he holds TOP SECRET-plus security clearances, while during his two-decade career he’s held several jobs offering access to a wide array of U.S. intelligence secrets.
If Casselle was coopted by Iranian intelligence through his unwise love life, Tehran could have gotten its eyes on a massive number of American secrets from numerous agencies far beyond Main State.
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I just tried to post this. Mods please feel free to delete duplicate post.
The last case hits close to home as I know this guy. He (along w/many others..) visited my post earlier this year. He was being groomed for a top spot in the corporation.
Word from inside the Mother Ship is that his clearance has been revoked and escorted out of the building. Apparently he is not cooperating. I'd bet he's lawyered up. Shades of Hanssen as he once had a senior role in C-Intel. Hope he suffers the same fate.
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Thank you for the insight and the heads up, Billy. I just deleted it.
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DEI and it's very best. Must be a Brennan, ValJar, Clinton, Light Bringer connection in there somewhere. Dip Security is a relatively small community. Who else might have suspected him as being dirty ?
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[TopSecretUmbra] Another Suspected Iranian Mole Unmasked Inside the Biden Administration: Just how many Friends of Tehran are working in top government jobs for Biden-Harris?
