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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Which Side Are You On In ‘Homestead,' The Epic New Apocalypse Film From Angel Studios?
[Daily Caller] The trailer for "Homestead" dropped in early January, and it looks like the most incredible apocalypse/post-apocalyptic film and television series for 2024.

From the studio that brought us "Sound of Freedom" and "After Death," Angel Studios is now inviting us into the "Homestead." The story is based on the top-selling literary and television series "Black Autumn," by Jeff Kirkham and Jason Ross, which follows two families as they navigate the fall of the American Empire via a movie that will transition into a television series.

One of the families is ultra-wealthy and prepared for the end. The other belongs to a veteran hired to protect the wealthy family. "Amidst their conflict, and as the world grows increasingly violent, evidence mounts that God may have plans of His own," the description reads.

Contains short trailer.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/08/2024 05:24 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under:

#1  family, community and love are the ultimate survival advantage

After shelter, food and bullets.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/08/2024 6:56 Comments || Top||


#3  For your reading list, from a survivor of the breakup of Yugoslavia. Yep, he said need a 'family' or team to make it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/08/2024 7:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Connections matter.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/08/2024 13:06 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
No More J6s - 'Don't allow yourself to be used by Trump's enemies'
[American Thinker] Three years ago, several hundred MAGA conservatives followed a man wearing a buffalo skull on his head into the Capitol.

Oh, I know there’s more to it — and we’ll get to that — but that will do for shorthand. Jacob Chansley, AKA QAnon Shaman. Yellowstone Wolf, etc., a professional activist of somewhat eclectic convictions and eccentric sartorial tastes, led the MAGA election fraud protestors up the steps and into the Capitol on Jan. 6, and they went straight in, without any hesitation or sign of second thoughts. Yes, there were others, but the Shaman pretty much became the avatar of the whole affair. The majority of those people, who did no harm and committed no felonies, have, in one of the most vindictive actions is recent political history, spent the last few years in prison under rough conditions, some of them in solitary, some denied counsel, most either overcharged or mischarged, and many of them still awaiting trial. That is wrong, and I am not suggesting that it isn’t wrong, or that it should not be corrected. But at the same time, it’s awfully difficult to generate any passion over people who act this stupid.

Conservatives like to accuse others of being sheep. But many of them say it while baaing.

The Jan. 6 "insurrection" was clearly a setup -- Nancy Pelosi refusing to bring in the National Guard, the doors opened by welcoming Capitol staffers and Capitol Police, unidentified masked figures racing around shouting "Let’s take the place!" This kind of thing doesn’t happen by itself. It is made to happen. The D.C. elites were desperate for their own personal Reichstag fire. When none was forthcoming, they lit it themselves.

It's not likely that Chansley was actually in on any of this. But he is part of the problem, along with QAnon, the Oath Keepers, and the attempt by the Wicked Papist Guy Fawkes and company to Seize upon and commit a Mischief upon the Person of the Ladye Governour of the state of Michigan — just in time to pull Whitmer’s fading poll numbers out of their nosedive.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/08/2024 05:46 || Comments || Link || [36 views] Top|| File under:

#1  “You can’t do this without the military. You can’t do this without the CIA and the FBI. We’re the guys with the guns.”

~ The top US military officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley, July 2021.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/08/2024 5:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Conservatives like to accuse others of being sheep. But many of them say it while baaing.

Wish I'd said that.

It wasn't that long ago, on this site, the majority (seemingly) felt that J6 was a foolish endeavor. To protest a bogus election was a bad idea. To them I say, What if they had done nothing?
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 01/08/2024 6:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Are the imprisoned J6 protestors the casualties of civil war ?

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/08/2024 6:27 Comments || Top||


#5  “You can’t do this without the military. You can’t do this without the CIA and the FBI. We’re the guys with the guns.”

BTW, who's running Afghanistan now? And that would be your military that relies upon the local communities for housing a large portion of their troops let alone civilian contractors.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/08/2024 7:47 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Who generally deals in guns and drugs? Who called the day-to-day shots for over 20 years? It wasn't DoD, I can assure you. Is a Klingon graphic actually necessary ?

Yes, a fully funded (via mil hardware) and TB approved 'stay behind' element.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/08/2024 7:52 Comments || Top||

#7  My Good Friend Just Got Indicted on Bogus Jan 6 Charges (Three Years Later)

"the Jan 6 election integrity protest"
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/08/2024 7:55 Comments || Top||

#8  Protests continue to be necessary and effective. The post J6 trucker rallies that started in Canada, moved to America, and continue to change the political landscape in Europe are an example of sucess. There were also significant spontaneous protests at Mar-A-Lago after the raid that served to galvanize MAGA thinking. As a larger example, the March For Life activities in both DC and SF served as a rallying point for good for a 40 year period without mishap.
We got suckered on J6 and the result is martyrs and prisoner/hostages. Protests should continue. Trump rallies are protests in a way. We just can’t get suckered again.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/08/2024 8:12 Comments || Top||

#9  The J6 Persecution and MSM-hyped DoJ/FBI Inquisition have had a massively daunting effect on public protests in Washington. By design! Super Hose (^ref #8 above) is right about the need to escalate increasing peaceful public demonstrations of anger and dissatisfaction with the insanity of what government is doing. The trick is to avoid the set-piece replay of J6 that they are trying to incite as "proof" of their vile defamation's of the the character of the traditional American public. The target needs to be DC but NOT at the Capitol or White House.

I-405 and three bridges can bring the Swamp to it's knees. Replay Ottawa writ large and watch the impact!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/08/2024 12:44 Comments || Top||

#10  J6 was indeed a set up. The capitol cops said so themselves and they were resentful. Pelosi knew there would be 200,000 people in DC that day and she didn't beef up security? C'mon.

And then there's Ray Epps. How many others just like him were there? All those guys running around with hoodies and masks?

It was stupid of the protesters to rush headlong into the trap.

What if they had done nothing?

Then Democrats would not be able to accuse Trump of insurrection. Technically, legally, they never could. But J6 and the mainstream media give them just enough cover to do it anyway.

It was stupid of those protester to push past the cops, knock down fences and barriers, break windows and doors. Smart people would not do that. But as stupid as they were they didn't deserve to be locked up for years in solitary without trial. That, in itself, is a far worse crime than any of the J6 protesters committed.

J6 is a black mark on American history, every bit as bad as the Reichstag Fire. Both sides were stupid but Pelosi and the Democrats are evil.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/08/2024 13:14 Comments || Top||

#11  Divide it out, the J6 event was a black flag operation. Not the protest, but the response to make it look like a riot. The people were polite, a carnival atmosphere with the Shaman dancing in front. The event went south when they kicked an old woman down the stairs and shot at folks that went to her aid. Watch the video of the opening shots. The USG forced the event to become violent.

Which leads to my second point about not having another J6 event. We wont. The people will be more prepared for when the USG fires on them without cause. The people will fire back and it will not be a one sided shoot fest like J6. It will be a fire fight with body count. You cant say, like this guy who thinks he's a great American thinker, to not be a sheep, and then say to not voice your Constitutional right to protest. Remember, even he states it was an intentional event by the USG, once fired on it was, by all military tactics and conventions, an ambush, and you only walk into an ambush once...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/08/2024 13:36 Comments || Top||

#12  J6 is a black mark on American history, every bit as bad as the Reichstag Fire. Both sides were stupid but Pelosi and the Democrats are evil.
Posted by Abu Uluqu

Do I hear Baaa?
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 01/08/2024 22:03 Comments || Top||


The World Needs More Elon Musks And Fewer Elizabeth Warrens
[Daily Caller] Are you a MAKER or a TAKER? Politicians are often takers. They take our money (and freedom) in the name of achieving goals they rarely achieve.

Elon Musk and Sen. Elizabeth Warren may be the best examples of maker and taker. They’re the stars of my video this week. Warren shouts, "Tax the rich!" She especially wants to tax Musk, the richest man in the world.(RELATED:JOHN STOSSEL: Leave It To The ’Experts’ To Follow California Off A Cliff)

In her eagerness to grab his money, she spun a scandal in the media, claiming Musk paid no taxes. She went on TV again and again to tell people that in 2018, "He paid zero! It was true. In 2018, Musk paid no federal income tax. But that was only because his pay was entirely in the form of "stock options," and that year, they gave him no income.

But at the very moment Warren launched her "zero-tax" screed, Musk was paying the U.S. government $12 billion— more tax than anyone has ever paid in history. Warren didn’t mention that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/08/2024 05:31 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There are also the rakers, those who are suspiciously good at stock trades.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/08/2024 7:50 Comments || Top||

#2  People who can do. Those who can not do, teach. Those who can not teach, administrate.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/08/2024 11:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Those who cannot administrate go to work at a "think tank" or "foundation," telling all the others what to do and how to do it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/08/2024 11:54 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ The select finalists end up at Brookings or JPL.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/08/2024 13:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Those who cannot do any of the above become gov't contractors.

OH WAIT !!!!!
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/08/2024 16:09 Comments || Top||


Economy
The Great Taking Exposes the Financial End Game
[Brownstone Institute] One of the very best exposés of the covert, very well-hidden, bellicose attempts to rob all of humanity — barring the miniscule number of psychotic individuals comprising the inimical opposition — of their material possessions and their ’immaterial’ freedom, was published fairly recently. It is accurately titled The Great Taking (2023), and was written by David Webb, one of the most courageous and finance-savvy authors I have ever come across. He introduces the book on p. 1 in uncompromising terms:

What is this book about? It is about the taking of collateral, all of it, the end game of this globally synchronous debt accumulation super cycle. This is being executed by long-planned, intelligent design, the audacity and scope of which is difficult for the mind to encompass. Included are all financial assets, all money on deposit at banks, all stocks and bonds, and hence, all underlying property of all public corporations, including all inventories, plant and equipment, land, mineral deposits, inventions and intellectual property. Privately owned personal and real property financed with any amount of debt will be similarly taken, as will the assets of privately owned businesses, which have been financed with debt. If even partially successful, this will be the greatest conquest and subjugation in world history.

We are now living within a hybrid war conducted almost entirely by deception, and thus designed to achieve war aims with little energy input. It is a war of conquest directed not against other nation states but against all of humanity.


In the Prologue of the book Webb paints a richly textured, autobiographical picture of his provenance as finance guru, obviously with exceptional intelligence and, it turned out, courage. His knowledge of finance and economics has been the result of long years of work in the field, but he recalls the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, before the start of his professional career, when he was a child, and what he calls (witnessing) the subsequent "industrial collapse" of the US in Cleveland, where the family lived, culminating in "the complete destruction of everything we had known" (p. vii). Before he gets into the details of his life, he commences the Prologue with an indirect intimation of his reasons for writing the book (p. vi):

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/08/2024 01:19 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Will we discover that local government property taxes and all mortgages have become federalized and are now the hook that will force a re-assessment of valuations and digitization of payments ?

Will I be both unable to pay the taxes or mortgage, and unable to sell the assets ?

Will the government assume ownership of everything ?

"You will own nothing and be happy."
~ Klaus Schwab


Posted by: Besoeker || 01/08/2024 1:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, you could dig for gold.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/08/2024 9:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Seems capitalism is going to have to become militant to remain viable.

Sign me up...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/08/2024 9:07 Comments || Top||

#4  And then when it all collapses we go back to start with bartering.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/08/2024 11:39 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Did Jeffrey Epstein Create the C19 Pandemic?
[Clandestine] The Biden-funded biolab company via Rosemont Seneca, studying bat coronaviruses in Ukraine circa 2014, via project PREDICT with CIA proxy, USAID.

He is the epicenter of the Deep State bio network.
Overcome with guilt, he finally committed suicide.
Not only is he the founder of Biden’s Metabiota, he is a WEF member, DoD employee, sat on the board of Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance involved in Wuhan, funded by DARPA, Gates Foundation, funded Ghislaine Maxwell’s TerraMar project with the Clintons, member of The Edge Foundation collecting microbes and housing animal viruses all over the world, AND Russia have accused him directly of being the key player in creating SARS-CoV-2 from a bat coronavirus he discovered in Ukraine.
Might help explain Jeffrey Epstein's massive, heretofore unexplained wealth.
Before I get started, I’d like to clarify that other people have dug into this subject already for years, I am not breaking any news here. However some new developments have fallen into place, specifically as it pertains to Russia and the Epstein blackmail operation, and I personally have connected some dots that I was unaware of until now, and the world needs to see it.

I might be late to the party, but this is INSANE!

So Nathan Wolfe is a virologist that calls himself the "Virus Hunter".

He wrote a book in 2012, "The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age".

He warned that Humans are becoming more susceptible to pandemics and that we will see many pandemics in the future.

He claims the only way to stop these future pandemics, it is to hunt down new animal pathogens before they can jump to humans, genetically enhance these animal pathogens to "gain the function" of infecting humans (aka bioweapon production), so we can study these human-engineered pathogens, and make vaccines for them preemptively JUST IN CASE these animal pathogens mutate this way naturally, so we have the medical deterrent on hand.
Yes, 'on hand deterrents' necessary to prevent Gain of Function.
This dude literally wrote the book on how they created SARS-CoV-2 and the "vaccines". He wrote a book preemptively justifying his future bioweapon production.

But that’s not all. He thanked 16 people for their assistance with all the information in his book, and one of the people he thanked was none other than Jeffrey Epstein himself.

What does Epstein know about virology?
My guess is he might well have known too much.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/08/2024 08:04 || Comments || Link || [35 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jeffery probably caught more than his fair share of viruses.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/08/2024 8:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Infertility vaccines? Dr Wouter Basson acquittal on all charges shortly after 9/11? Probably just a coincidence:

“Aids research was an ideal cover story [for Project Coast] because it was very topical in 1988.” At that stage, he said, “the bulk of Aids research in South Africa was done through the Medical Research Council, where some of the researchers were on our clandestine payroll.”
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/08/2024 8:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Say hello to Nathan Wolfe.

American virologist and founder of METABIOTA!

The Biden-funded biolab company via Rosemont Seneca, studying bat coronaviruses in Ukraine circa 2014, via project PREDICT with CIA proxy, USAID.

He is the epicenter of the Deep State bio network.

Not only is he the founder of Biden’s Metabiota, he is a WEF member, DoD employee, sat on the board of Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance involved in Wuhan, funded by DARPA, Gates Foundation, funded Ghislaine Maxwell’s TerraMar project with the Clintons, member of The Edge Foundation collecting microbes and housing animal viruses all over the world, AND Russia have accused him directly of being the key player in creating SARS-CoV-2 from a bat coronavirus he discovered in Ukraine....
Posted by: Las Mendalia2017 || 01/08/2024 9:02 Comments || Top||

#4  More... Expose-News: Who is Nathan Wolfe

Posted by: mossomo || 01/08/2024 14:57 Comments || Top||

#5 
Robin Monotti:



"The Epstein blackmail operation didn’t just control Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Ministers, and British Royalty; they also controlled the virologist who discovered and enhanced the virus that would eventually turn into the Covid-19 pandemic…

And Russia claim one of the main reasons they invaded Ukraine, was to stop this bioweapon production, at Nathan Wolfe’s Biolabs in Ukraine, via his company Metabiota, that was funded by the Bidens. At the biolabs the media told you didn’t exist."
Posted by: mossomo || 01/08/2024 15:29 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Iowa AG Brenna Bird: Efforts to Take Trump off the Ballot ‘Absolutely Election Interference
[Breitbart] Efforts to take former President Donald Trump off the ballot — particularly in Colorado — are "absolutely election interference," Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird told Breitbart News Saturday.

"What Colorado is trying to do, what their Supreme Court did, is absolutely election interference," Bird said. "And it is just wrong when Americans can’t vote for the presidential candidate of their choice, and he’s the leading candidate on the Republican side."

Further, Bird said these efforts show just how "scared the radical left is of President Trump."
That’s not the radical left, they’re heavies for the Democratic Party.
"They don’t want to face him in November, so they’re trying to do everything they can to get him off the ballot and to keep him busy just fighting legal battles to stay on the ballot," she explained.

LISTEN:
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/08/2024 10:15 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What do you expect in a real anti-democratic environment?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/08/2024 10:59 Comments || Top||

#2  THE COLUMN: What If Trump Weren't on the Ballot?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/08/2024 11:55 Comments || Top||


President Michelle Obama? Here's how it could happen
[The Blaze] New videos have surfaced of Joe Biden that left many netizens expressing concern over the condition of the current president.

President Biden gave a speech in Pennsylvania on Friday on the eve of the third anniversary of the riot at the U.S. Capitol building. Biden used his speech held near Valley Forge to accuse former President Donald Trump of being a threat to democracy. The speech was Biden's first political event of the election year.

"Donald Trump's campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future," Biden said. "He's willing to sacrifice our democracy, [to] put himself in power."

"Today, I make this sacred pledge to you, the defense, protection, and preservation of American democracy will remain, as it has been, the central cause of my presidency. America, as we begin this election year, we must be clear, democracy is on the ballot. Your freedom is on the ballot."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/08/2024 06:18 || Comments || Link || [32 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It won’t.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/08/2024 8:12 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ I agree. I like how it distracts some and dislike how it distracts others.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/08/2024 8:16 Comments || Top||

#3  From what we are seeing now, Biden is not long for this world.
The DC SWAMP can and will only prop up a sack of air so long before it gets deflated.

Given there is NO major voter love and little DNC donor support of Harris. Plus she is there mainly for the Black/Female votes and to counter-act Biden's well documented RACIST Political history.

Yes M. Obama will likely be on a 2024 ticket at least as VP.
So whoever is appointed as the temporary President, Lord protect them. Because by 2025-26 M. Obama will likely be President and the Obama's once again will openly be in control of the White House.

But yes I agree "Your freedom is on the 2024 ballot".
But we need a fair and honest election to have a MAGA admin.
Instead of the current LSD's group shoving us further to the LEFT, by pushing Socialism, and normalizing Mental Illness perversions, immorality and increasing the National Debt.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/08/2024 8:25 Comments || Top||

#4  It's already here...

Jill Biden Grants Sit-Down With MSNBC
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/08/2024 9:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Oh it's happening sweetheart.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/08/2024 10:57 Comments || Top||

#6  You really think Obamas want the trouble?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/08/2024 11:20 Comments || Top||

#7  You really think Obamas want the trouble?

They're not much good at anything else.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/08/2024 13:22 Comments || Top||

#8  And they don't have much of anybody else.

They could try Newsom. But that guy is so sleazy it would probably show even through the MSM.

And if Trump gets back in the White House he's likely to appoint a real AG with a real FBI director so a lot of people might go to jail.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/08/2024 13:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Really though, their best bet is to cheat like hell.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/08/2024 13:26 Comments || Top||

#10  Someone talked about Big Mike as VP candidate with Jojo being dragged along in a reprise of the basement strategy and all the ballot shenanigans they can pull. Once they drag his fetid carcass across the November finish line, it's Chicago Jesus 4.0 with Big Mike as a grinning gargoyle front-man. This does require keeping the current "Leader of the Free World" above room temperature for another 11 months and lots of AI videos in lieu of even the slightest publlic interaction. Iffy at best, but medical science can do amazing things when well-paid, just ask Mr. Science Fauci!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/08/2024 14:58 Comments || Top||

#11  Mrs. Obama has long been open about her loathing for politics and politicians, not to mention the little people they must seduce en masse. Even more than Hillary Clinton, who at least likes politicians, and understands the need for politics.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/08/2024 15:05 Comments || Top||

#12  /\ The suggestion that she might be called upon to serve white men must nearly send her into a convulsive panic.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/08/2024 16:04 Comments || Top||

#13  Serve? Wouldn't she be the Head Mother In Charge Queen of the Universe?
Posted by: Bobby || 01/08/2024 16:09 Comments || Top||

#14  A Coronation, not an election, would suit her
Posted by: Frank G || 01/08/2024 18:16 Comments || Top||



Year of the Joker. What will happen to the USA and the world after Trump wins in 2024
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Malek Dudakov

[REGNUM] In 2024, the whole world will be watching the US presidential race with bated breath. The forecasts are the most contradictory - from a confident victory of one of the candidates to complete chaos and confusion, coupled with a surge in political violence. Panic has already reigned in the camp of the Democratic Party - due to Joe Biden’s low ratings and ongoing crises. But Donald Trump’s campaign is determined to go to the end - and is confident of its victory.

Such confidence seems somewhat premature.

After all, Trump’s legal problems are worsening. In March 2024, hearings will begin on four criminal cases brought against Trump.

And right now they are trying to remove him from primaries and elections in a number of states. Although in this case, Trump will most likely be able to fight back and restore his candidacy. But this will take effort, time and money.

Nevertheless, the general trend of the presidential race is rather positive for Trump.

He is ahead of Biden in most polls released from October to December. Moreover, Trump’s lead is slowly but growing and at the end of 2023 it is 2-3 points. Things are even better in the swing states, for which the main battle in the elections is taking place - here Trump is already ahead of Biden by 5-7 points.

Therefore, Trump’s apparatchiks are already dividing the skin of the unkilled bear with all their might. And they are forming lists of the future transit team that will occupy key positions in the next Trump administration. They are also making plans for large-scale reforms that will need to be implemented in the short four-year period of Trump’s second term.

Trump's first term was unusually controversial in terms of successes.

He managed to carry out only one major reform - tax, at the end of 2017. Trump lowered taxes, which ensured good growth for the US economy over the next few years, as well as a drop in the unemployment rate to historic lows. True, many of these achievements were then crossed out by the Covid crisis.

On other issues, Trump was able to achieve only partial success.

He wanted to arrange immigration reform - with the construction of a wall, the deportation of illegal immigrants and the reduction in the intake of legal migrants by half. Trump never managed to complete the wall, but he actively deported migrants. And the situation on the US southern border was significantly better than under Biden.

Trump considers the personnel issue to be his key mistake of the first term. He trusted Vice President Mike Pence to select members of the administration. And he recruited many representatives of the political establishment who torpedoed Trump’s policies. Therefore, he was not really able to drain the notorious “Washington swamp.”

Now Trump is taking a much more responsible approach to personnel selection.

He managed to quarrel with many ex-employees; Trump simply threw others out of his social circle. That one now consists only of loyalists close to Trump in ideology and views. And they want to form Trump’s future cabinet in exactly the same way.

Moreover, we are talking not only about the highest ranks in the US government hierarchy.

Traditionally, elected presidents only change the leadership of federal structures, while lower-level apparatchiks can work in their positions for decades. They help maintain the status quo in Washington, preventing drastic changes from happening.

Now Trump’s supporters are promising to carry out real purges, firing tens of thousands of mid-level officials from all ministries, intelligence agencies and the Pentagon.

Republican think tanks like the Heritage Foundation are preparing in advance lists of candidates who can be promoted to government service.

If such a large-scale bureaucratic reform is successful, we can expect a sharp shift in Washington politics to the right.

Democrats are already in full hysteria about this, calling Trump’s proposals a de facto coup in the US capital. After all, the positions of the liberal establishment in this case will be greatly undermined.

It is precisely this purge of officials and the hiring of outside apparatchiks that Trump intends to engage in in the first 100 days of his presidency.

Only then will he focus on key reforms, having behind him a team of like-minded people who can be trusted. Trump wants to start by solving the migration crisis. He promises to immediately complete the wall on the border with Mexico, as well as to launch a military operation in the southern states to capture illegal immigrants and deport at least a million a year.

This will certainly cause a crisis in relations with Mexico. Like Trump’s other promise - to declare war on drug cartels and send US troops to northern Mexico to destroy opioid laboratories.

The drug crisis is truly devastating Americans—more than 100,000 people die from opioid overdoses in the United States every year. However, Trump's radical proposals could lead to chaos along the entire southern US border - and create a mini-Afghanistan if the cartels begin to fight back against regular American forces.

In the context of the domestic American agenda, Trump has no less extravagant ideas.

His proposals to build new private cities on uninhabited federal land caused great resonance. Moreover, Trump proposes to the residents of these cities to create a ready-made infrastructure for flying cars. And also provide them with subsidies to increase the birth rate, which has now fallen in the United States.

This seems unrealistic only at first glance.

After all, Trump is trying to give some kind of answer to the rampant crime and lawlessness in the largest US cities, which are increasingly less suitable for life. American billionaires - from Elon Musk to Silicon Valley tycoons - are already implementing their projects to create private cities for the elite. So Trump is correctly guessing the mood in society here - instead of resolving the stalemate in old megacities, simply create new ones.

In foreign policy, Trump promises the impossible - to de-escalate the situation in the Middle East and achieve a truce in Ukraine in 24 hours.

Some details can only be caught between the lines.

For example, Trump in one of his interviews proposed a plan for the division of Ukraine - with the transfer of all Russian-speaking regions to Russia. And in the Middle East, he would like to restore the Abraham Accords between Israel and the Gulf monarchies - and this time even include Iran.

There will likely be renewed efforts to reach an agreement between Serbia and Kosovo, something Trump tried to do in 2020.

He also promises to hold another round of negotiations with North Korea - who will be promised Western investment in exchange for freezing the nuclear program. But with the preservation of existing warheads and hypersonic missiles.

The prospects of all Trump's proposals will largely depend on his team.

The return of first-term advisors Steve Bannon and Stefan Miller, the ideologists of “Trumpism”, is expected. Richard Grenell could become Secretary of State, and Christopher Miller could become Secretary of Defense. They also worked in concert with Trump in his first term.

Grenell doesn’t have much reverence for Russia, but most of all he hates the European bureaucracy in Brussels. As US Ambassador to Germany, he actively supported right-wing populists rocking the boat in the European Union. And in the position of Secretary of State, he will again undermine the institutions of Brussels and fight battles with the Europeans.

Miller also suits him in spirit - it was he who, when he was head of the Pentagon at the end of Trump’s presidency, made decisions on the withdrawal of US troops from Europe.

It is not surprising that Trump's opponents on both sides of the Atlantic are calling his return to power a monumental crisis for the West. And they will make every effort to prevent this from happening.

Trump’s victory will sharply exacerbate contradictions - both within America and between the United States and Europe. Much of what Trump promised will not be implemented. But he will be able to act as a “conductor of chaos” or the Joker, undermining the already shaky liberal world order from within.

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#2  /\ Fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General C. Q. Brown along with Austin. CQ knew about the hospitalization and reportedly said nothing.

Probably informed Soetoro, so they assumed it was taken care of.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/08/2024 4:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Nothing less than a complete house-cleaning, top to bottom, will do this time.

When the left starts screeching, Trump should just smile and say "Look what you made me do."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/08/2024 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4  The establishment hacks will not be in the administration, but the entire federal bureaucracy will work against their assigned cabinet member. It will be an ugly 4 year battle royal. It is also necessary.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/08/2024 7:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Who is this guy? He is good at sliding the facts into questionable propaganda. Well done, total bullshit, but well done.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/08/2024 13:40 Comments || Top||


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The Importance of Supporting Real Science in the Battle Against Narrative Science
[LI] Dr. Matthew Wielicki: "There’s a disconnect between what the science says and what the narrative in the mainstream media is....and what certain ’activist scientists’ have been pushing." Other scientists share his concerns.

Occasionally we are asked why Legal Insurrection features so much science among the articles featuring court cases, legal analysis, and updates on our push-back against Critical Race Theory and Diversity-Equity-Inclusion in education.

While there are many reasons, perhaps the chief one is that true science is being twisted to support political narratives that are destructive, both to our nation and to humanity. For example, the Twitter Files shed light on the degree to which good information from epidemiologists and physicians was suppressed during the covid pandemic.

Federal health officials in the Surgeon General’s Office, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Health and Human Services collaborated in a "censorship enterprise called the Virality Project, which procures the censorship of enormous quantities of First Amendment-protected speech."

Disinformation warriors worked overtime to suppress "false" claims about the side effects of COVID vaccine, especially the true claims. Since the Food and Drug Administration officially (and speedily) approved COVID vaccines, any reports of side effects were automatically disinformation.

People are now challenging climate change narratives, which are proving to be just as incorrect, if on a different time scale. And this brings me to an excellent video from Prager University featuring Dr. Matthew Wielicki, a geologist and climate expert.

"there is an old adage that says if you torture data enough, it will confess." I'm so stealing that.
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#1  Disinformation warriors worked overtime

Fact Check: Photos Of Trump And Jeffrey Epstein Are Fake
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/08/2024 12:51 Comments || Top||




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