The first couple of weeks after an election, the winning side spends the time imagining all the good things that will come. The euphoria fades as political reality sets in with the roll out of nominations to the new administration. We see this with Trump, as he announces who he plans to nominate to certain posts. The good feelings are now giving way to varying levels of concern.
The big area of concern is his foreign policy team which looks like the amen corner of the Israel lobby. The only skeptic of foreign adventurism is Tulsi Gabbard, who he will nominate for the director of national intelligence. This should not come as a complete shock since Miriam Adelson provided a third of his campaign budget. She is the widow of Sheldon Adelson, who is buried in the Mount of Olives.
A reality of political life in America is that the Israel lobby wields an enormous amount of power, going back to the Johnson administration. Even Truman complained about these people, when they were in their infancy. Since the Six Day War, Israel has played an outsized role in American politics, which means being in good standing with the Israel lobby has been essential to victory.
It is not all bad news. Trump has sidelined the neocons, which are not a part of the Israel lobby, despite what some people claim. The neocons have drafted on the Israel lobby at times, but as we saw in the Biden administration, their agenda can fall afoul of the Israel lobby. Prioritizing Ukraine over Israel is probably what spelled the end of the Biden presidency and the defeat of Harris.
Trump also seems to be serious about swinging a wrecking ball through the corrupt Department of Justice. Nominating Matt Gaetz, a guy with good reason to seek some retribution, says bad times are coming for the crooks. His pick for the top assistant and the solicitor general is also a good sign. If fixing the Justice Department means more of the same in Israel, that is not the worst trade.
That is the show this week. I am heading out for the weekend, so it means everyone and his brother has demanded time from me this week. As a result I had not time to prep a show, so I just did an out off the top of my head on the trade-offs were are starting to see in Trump 2.0. That is the thing to understand. It is all about trade-offs that can advance the ball down the field.
Edit: I am told that Adelson did not come up with the full $100 million, but Tim Mellon, of the Mellon family, kicked in $170 million. I checked this and I cannot verify the former claim or the latter claim, but Mellon did give at least $100 million. This post from the NYTimes lists the major donors. Regardless, the Israel lobby played a major role in getting Trump elected, so they get paid. That is politics.
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Hopefully the RFK Jr pick sticks and he applies the wrecking ball to the pharmaceutical industry.
It is impossible to be too cynical about Big Pharma. Those corporations are straight from some cyberpunk dystopia novel, as we all saw during the panic of 20-21. If he can shove a large object up Pfizer’s ass and break it off, that alone will be worth the incoming Zionism.
Speaking as a 20yr Soldier with 4 GWOT tours here. Pete Hegseth is an excellent choice for SECDEF because he knows exactly where the ideological changes in the DoD need to happen (specifically, the ADUSs). Management of the military itself falls greatly on the service chiefs and secretaries, and Hegseth will know the trustworthy ones from this proposed review board. I, and ALL of my friends, have been broken hearted at what has been done to our military’s spirit. Hegseth is the right guy to reignite the warrior ethos. PS: It will be hilarious watching the general officer corps try… Read more »
How many of the “controversial” nominations will actually make it through the senate approval?
“[T]he neocons…are not a part of the Israel lobby, despite what some people claim.” The key “founders” of the neoconservative movement, i.e., Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Nathan Glazer, Daniel Bell, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (the one non-Jew), were almost all Jewish, and the sons of Kristol and Podhoretz are major players in the movement today, both of whom are ardent supporters and lobbyists for Israel. As for the group you call the “Kagan Cult,” the Times of Israel described the patriarch of that clan, Donald Kagan, as a “leading neo-conservative” is his obituary: https://www.timesofisrael.com/donald-kagan-leading-neo-conservative-historian-dead-at-89/ The neoconservatives are, of course, just one… Read more »
That’s just a Jew news source reporting the death of s substantive American political figure. Israel doesn’t exist in a vacuum, dude. They do observe the world around them. I know, I know…Jewluminati narrative and all that, but Times of Israel could do a culinary interest story on nachos and you water carriers would still find the nose somewhere.