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.
For sites like this to exist, it requires people like you chipping in a few bucks a month to keep the lights on and the people fed. Five bucks a month is not a lot to ask. If you don’t want to commit to a subscription, make a one time donation via crypto. You can send money to: Z Media LLC P.O. Box 1047 Berkeley Springs, WV 25411-3047. You can also use PayPal to send a few bucks. Thank you for your support!
This Week’s Show
Contents
- Intro
- Appointments Signal Priorities
- Political Reality
- The Issues
- The Road From Here
Direct Download, The iTunes, iHeart Radio, RSS Feed
Full Show On Spreaker
Full Show On Rumble
Full Show On Odysee
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.
There is going to be an enormous amount of money flowing into the campaign coffers of Senators from Pharma. His confirmation won’t be a lock. GOP Senators are easily purchased.
If he does get confirmed (I think he will, eventually), I bet the TV ads are the first thing to go.
TV ad’s are one thing. Vaccine regime recommendations are another, and the more important aspect of the problem (IMHO). The reason why is that State/school mandates for children attending public, or any schooling, follow such slavishly. It also doesn’t help that mothers are inherently stupid in this regard and allow their pediatrician to begin to administer such within *hours* of birth. My granddaughter for example received a “hepatitis B” shot after being born but only a few hours old. My exclamation was “are you insane”, but I was quickly shushed. This process needs to be exposed and shut down. Here… Read more »
We didn’t know much about vaccines until the last couples of years. My wife is currently pregnant, there is no way they will be giving our baby a vaccine for Hepatitis B when you can only get it through sex and intravenous drug use. We are going to review them all to see what is truly beneficial. Wish we would have done it differently for our other children.
I go by experience. My youngest has never been vaccinated, and she is one of the brightest, sweetest, healthiest kids in the elementary school. When they wanted to inject her, upon birth, with hep B, I said, as the Lord is my witness, after they insisted twice, “That shot only has an efficacy of a dozen years; I doubt she will be banging drugs or dudes in primary school.”
The “cure” for Polio is what got everybody to jump on the vaccine bandwagon. If vaccines can prevent polio, it can prevent anything!
Polio was “topped off” in the mid seventies by the eradication of Smallpox via vaccination. About that time we started to get push back from some advanced thinkers wrt vaccinations. We need to discuss this issue in light of the low point of mRNA technology and Covid vax.
Traditional jabs are nothing more than a very specific form of state-sanctioned homeotherapy of varying value.
Flu jabs are a joke because they base the formulation on flu season in Australia, which lags ours by six months. Anyone that has passed middle school biology should understand why doing so is dumb and a complete wate of time.
The coof shots are something different and far more dangerous. It appears to be some kind of genetic therapy cranked up to 11, versus a gene therapy like Humira which has very specific, mostly beneficial effects.
My wife just had our boy 4.5 weeks early and the hospital was trying to give him a hepatitis shot the second day he was out, still hooked up to oxygen and a tube. I told them I don’t think he will be sharing needles or having unprotected sex so no. All the nurses were wonderful but it’s scary how brainwashed everyone in medicine is.
BTW: you can reference several first world countries where such vaccination is *not* done wrt to hepatitis prevention.
The most important part is the vaccine immunity (how ironic) they have. Vaccine related illnesses cannot be taken to court. They have total immunity and a special court that handles these vaccine lawsuits.
It’s not quite total legal immunity, but the bar is much higher than the simple negligence that it is for any other product. It so high that it’s difficult to find a lawyer willing to take the almost certain loss, and will advise you take the payout from the vaccine fund.
As I understand it, HepB should have been one of those jabs offered depending on socio-economic conditions. If someone in the family has HepB, it may not be a bad idea, particularly if they are not clean freaks. It’s mostly useful for poor immigrants packed many to a house. Especially those who still have 3rd world standards for hygiene.
“HepB should have been one of those jabs offered depending on socio-economic conditions. “ There is no argument here. I am *not* antivax. I am pro-choice wrt vaccines and against government mandates. Let everyone decide and choose for they and theirs. But this choice must be made with informed consent. Something not promoted in the area of vaccination these days. What we have too much of—ignoring those rapacious Pharma companies for the moment—are a bunch of do gooders in the Leftist medical establishment. They know better than you do wrt your and your neighbor’s health choices. Take HPV vaccine. Another one… Read more »
My two autistic sons (now adults) received the Hep B vaccine on the day of their birth. This was done without our knowledge because there was some clause in the admission forms we signed that allowed them to do this. At that time, the vaccine contained a big slug of both mercury and aluminum, both neurotoxic, with aluminum also being a potent pro-inflammatory substance.
Sorry to hear it, man. We checked out instead of letting them be taken out of our sight. We did get a few of the vaccinations at the pediatrician that were “required”, but not many. A couple more than I would have done now, for sure. Maybe just smallpox, and then only from a single-dose ampule that don’t have those preservatives, like they do for the elite.
I’m all in favor of taking all those bastards who hide behind those sneaky clauses, and roasting them over a very slow fire.
If the populace sentiments change, then the Courts can bring the justice you seek. Many now hold such agreements invalid due to many reasons/interpretations. One common one is signature/agreement under duress. I think your wife being in labor and dropping the kid out in the street—unless you sign here *is* the common definition of duress to any thinking person. Therefore shooting up you baby because you signed a multi-page admission agreement will not prevent them from a malpractice suit.
Sorry to hear that. There is no death too painful for those who hide behind those “admission forms” they make you sign. “Just following orders” is no excuse. You deserve informed consent.
Awwwww. No more images of white septuagenarians flexing and gesticulating like East Saint Louis hood rats to flog an incontinence decoction? I may just have to burn my boob toob.
I often joke (acknowledging a bit of wry undeserved reality) that I am the “new man” formed by harsh Darwinian selection for the 21st century. My diet is complete shit—and has been since childhood. I drink. I’ve had just about every disease in childhood, but few in adulthood. Prior to Covid, not even the seasonal cold. Went through university and beyond. I remain at fit weight without effort and diet. And so forth. Everyone around me seems to drop dead or are invalided at my age. Crippled often to the level of debility. Indeed, I should be cloned for the… Read more »
Some fellas have all the luck. Seriously, you seem to have inherited a top-notch suite of genes. And that’s probably a stronger determinant of health or morbidity than diet, exercise and vice combined.
“Indeed, I should be cloned for the betterment of future generations. Wife hates me however.”
Kick her out and start banging a younger one and make some more white babies, then.
As always, X steps in with the voice of reasoned moderation…
Wait until your old lady hits menopause and then you’ll find out just how reasonable and moderate that advice really is. Literature is filled with descriptions of old women as hags and crones for a reason.
Ease up there, bud. Was just joking.
No offense taken. My wife “hates me” is an exaggeration to make a point of envy/jealosy—not shrewness. 😉
Wife and I have been together 50 years or so. A contract is a contract. It’s a “White thang”…
Yes, I know. It was a snark post on my part.
Alternatively, she chose well in husbands. Might as well see how well she does choosing his harem.
I suspect the establishment will fight the RFK nod with greater ferocity than even Gaetz. The American medical system is one of the few gifts out there that can rival the military industrial complex in scope.
Getting rid of the ads would be a very good start. It’s embarrassing to be one of only two countries on Earth that allows drug dealers to pimp their wares to kids watching Sesame Street.
And among those drugs and products are personal lubricants and penis stiffeners. **smh**
“Forced out” could be this year’s “without evidence.” As with Trump, the whole government takes Gaetz’s being around as a personal affront. He seems like a standard issue “Christian right” creep to me. He even fulfilled the sacred rite of bachelor orphan purchase. But he’s their nemesis for some reason. I guess he offends some crucial bit of etiquette that outsiders don’t know. To maintain their border, they’ll go however wild is necessary. What they’ve already done to him is insane, and we don’t even remember it. He’s a great opportunity to “flex on” Trump (and us), as the kids… Read more »
Optimistically, Musk, Ellison, Adelson et al can also make a run at buying the senate. Perhaps already have. It’s a competitive market.
That will not only drive a stake into the heart of Big Pharma but also into the heart of Big Media.
Yep, I think Tucker was the first person I’ve heard talk about the ads as bribery of the legacy media.
RFK is an interesting figure. If his voice were better, and a bug had not eaten some of his brain, and the Democrats didn’t ostracize him, he could’ve been 2024’s Bernie Sanders.
Half of the online right likes him (because he was a Democrat anti-vaxxer and joined the Trump Train) and half dislikes him (because he is, in many ways, still a Democrat).
Normally I wouldn’t like him but in this day and age, being a rebel is good enough for me.
The old party labels are not meaningful. The new labels are establishment or dissident. RFK, Jr is a dissident and should be supported.
Yep, RFK Jr is a “loon”—but he’s our loon! 😉
He’s a package. Some good, some bad. I’m thinking we need him to shake up the industry. Pre-Covid, I’d have not said this, after Covid nothing too bad/outlandish can be said about the Health Care system we have in this country. We need to break folks out of their stupor. The medical field is not your friend. Your doctor is not “god”. Your typical doctor is little more than a technician, not Dr. Science like Fauci!
I personally am taking all my doctor’s recommendations with skepticism. I don’t trust them nor the tests they use to make those recommendations. Just like the covid tests were suspect, I think much of the tests (blood tests) run by labs are likely to be suspect Most cancer treatment prescribed is likely unhelpful (see Bollinger’s Truth about Cancer). High cholesterol treatment (statins) is erroneous. When there is any hint of a ‘cold’ of flu, I take vitamins C, D, K, quercetin, zinc and iodine. First choice for a catch all medication is Ivermectin. This has obviated the need for prescription… Read more »
“Most cancer treatment prescribed is likely unhelpful”
Not sure why the downvotes. I think I got you back to zero.
I will not get between you and your doctor, but I for one *do* argue with my doctor and *did* reject (further) cancer treatment and *am* alive after 5 years. No, I did not take exotic herbs or other “alternative” treatments. I simply demanded an explanation of the procedure recommended and a best guess of recovery without such.
This is simple critical thinking. You all have good minds here, use them.
I don’t know if I related this recently, but a few months ago, I went to my cardiologist for a routine follow up. Upon reviewing my test results, he noticed that my cholesterol had dropped by half. His eyes grew wide and he asked,”do you know why that is”? I feigned ignorance and said,”No”. ”Because your on the best statin drug on the planet”! I didn’t have the heart to tell him that I had never taken the prescription in the three years I have been going to him. I actually read the side effects. Lost 57 pounds, changed my… Read more »
“He’s a package. Some good, some bad.” … That’s everybody, including the people who used to be “our” guys.
RFK Jr. is, on some issues, to the far left of even current (recent) Democrat loons. Nevertheless, he has a well-established track record as vaccine skeptic among other issues. It was a masterstroke for Trump to ally himself with such a prominent “anti-vaxxer” and now proposes to make him HHS Secretary. Trump (or his advisors) shrewdly rewarded an ally yet place him in a position where his influence is limited to health policy. I suspect his approval will be difficult, but I wish the man luck. The current medical-industrial complex has a lot to answer for and I know I… Read more »
RFK points out that he is not an anti-vaxxer. All his children were vaccinated.
Sub-
I believe RFK will get in via recess appointment.
Doing a 180 in the HHS leadership is too important for him not too. His visibility and family name are other reasons to get him in.
I also think that this appointment is as close as we will ever get to a public admission from Trump that there is something wrong with the coof jabs and he screwed up trying to rush them out.
I think everyone is missing the point. Trump very likely had far more of the national vote than was “recorded”. He has a TRUE mandate, from a country of people NOW more politically engaged than ever before, due to horrific necessity created by the folks who have totally infiltrated our gov, our schools, our media, etc. The vast majority of the country wants these evil mofos gone forever. The MSM is dead, Trump will use the new media like no president before him, the RINO’s will have no place to hide if they try ANYTHING. Thr Republican party will be… Read more »
” Trump very likely had far more of the national vote than was “recorded”.”
Proof?
“He has a TRUE mandate, …” … and then there is what’s behind the mandate: a slowly but steadily spreading delegitimization of the entire socio-econo-political system. There are many names for post-America, AINO, Anal-Empire, the GAE, and Weimerica. The latter, a contraction of Weimar and America, is highly appropriate. The Weimar Republic in Germany preceded the rise of the mustachioed corporal and was characterized by uniform loathing of the ‘republic’ all across the political spectrum. Right and left of all flavors and gradations hated the WR. It’s only support was the ~20% of the population living off tax expenditures. Every… Read more »
Wish I were as optimistic. Despite his eructions, he’s always been much more the proponent of Medicare for All or some NHS system. Putting him in charge of CMS and Obamacrap would be a disaster.
I’m starting to get a little concerned about the incoming Hinduism, to be honest. Two names floated to replace JD Vance have been subcontinentals.
Good observations. Purely by coincidence, I’m currently listening to William Gibson’s iconic “cyberpunk” novel Neuromancer (which I think defined the (sub)genre). All the more appropriate it’s narrated by a computer voice. As with any such novel, there is some kinky sex, but none so far similar to your proposal.
“[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.
Donald Kagan was a prominent Jewish figure, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that he got a write up in the Times of Israel.
Hahahaha LOL
No no, you don’t understand, that’s “the jew thing” and it makes zman mad for some reason
If you look at priorities, Z is right. Israel is subordinate to the Forever War against Russia. Yes, Neocons to a person support Israel, but that is their secondary concern. The best example is the Neocon-promoted bombing of Serbia. Benefits to Israel were tangential–maybe a little good will from the Saudis, for example–but it was a real punch to Russia’s gut. Even before the Bolshevik Revolution, American Jewry was lobbying for economic boycotts of the Czar. Some of them actually were anti-Zionist largely for religious reasons but all of them were gestating Neocons.
Bolshevism was a heavily Jewish movement, and it received major support from American Jewry through WWII. The Stalin purges were the turning point, and the 1967 Six Day War was the decisive moment, when World Jewry turned harshly against the USSR, e.g., the mass emigration of Jews from the USSR to Israel and the West in the 1970’s and 1980’s. The collapse of the USSR and the rise of Putin’s Russia did nothing to assuage the hatred Jews had developed for Russia, and that hatred is central to the war in Ukraine (and likely contributed to the bombing of Serbia… Read more »
Much agree, fighting for dominance between factions has always been the way for…everyone, really.
“Khazars” versus “Hebrews” versus “Americans”, in this case, each concerned most with drug sales on his own street corner.
Stalin was planning a major purge of Jews shortly before his death (The Doctor’s Plot purge).
The neocon lobby is about Israel, first and foremost. Why in the eff is this point even still in debate? Our host has an odd blind spot on this one, and it’s a big one. To believe this does not mean you are reflexive nose picker anti semite. It just means you are a rational noticer of thing..
Our host understands his ability to maintain this site requires not pissing off small hats.
I’m sure just reading through the comments makes the Kosher Nostra madder than a bag o’ bees.
You’re wrong. As far as blind spots, remove the plank from your eye
Lol. You assert that the motivation for the Iraq war, etc., was “anti Russia,” and cite lack of US action against Saudi Arabia as evidence. Saudi Arabia is, behind the scenes and somewhat awkwardly, an ally with Israel against Iran. Sure, Russia sides against “us” in the Middle East, but “us” does not equal “the US,” rather “us” equals Israel and the “Amen Corner” in our government. (ht/ P. Buchanan). Our actions in Iraq , Syria, etc., and our inaction in Palestine, are first and foremost in support of our “greatest ally.” The “Project for a New American Century” and… Read more »
Without the Christian Zionist component, the lobby would be considerably less powerful. The GOP is dependent on the votes of these loonies. I understand the Jewish support for Israel (the blood is thicker than water principle) but the CZ support for a group that hates their guts is nuts.
I think we would have had a much greater chance for nuclear war with the Neocons empowered by Kamala than with Trump doing Israel’s bidding. The Russians—as you’ve pointed out—have developed a weird pos- Cold war complex about lying and bluffing. Putin made this clear when he signed the order that would send missiles downrange if certain laws of war were transgressed by the Ukrainians. The decision was completely out of his hands. His statement was translated as something along the lines of, “We’ll go to heaven as martyrs and the West will go to hell as the people who… Read more »
Putin laid out his country’s nuke use plan in at least one presentation that I watched. It seemed quite reasonable. Basically, he rejects the formal USA policy of withstanding a first attack and retaliation, yet does not state that any use of nukes starts a full blown nuke war with all that entails. However, the opposite side of the coin is that such use will most likely open the theater to tactical nuke use and that is dangerous wrt escalation as Russian will not stand idly by to receive a 1st nuke strike on homeland. He noted that those provinces… Read more »
With the Russian policy on nukes as it is, it amazes me that the Ukraine would bleat about developing nukes or even dirty bombs. Although seeing them in action the last few years, I’ve come to see that they may just be the stupidest people on earth with a giant death wish. That whole region would glow in the dark if they even used one dirty bomb.
jj-
I don’t disagree.
However, I see Bibi as a highly dangerous, potentially unhinged factor in the ME mess.
I mean, the guy has been near or at the top of the Israeli power structure for over 40 years and he just can’t seem to walk away into retirement.
This implies he sees power as a sort of drug and that he is not going to give his favorite drug up willingly.
I won’t be surprised if he does something really insane in the next few months to try and widen the ME conflict.
Trump’s election broke the media, they are a busted flush who’s influence is only going to decline, and the whole “racist/fascist/nazi” charge is effectively done as well.
Yes, it hasn’t been much remarked upon yet, but crying Hitler officially jumped the shark in 2024 (finally). Hopefully crying Neville Chamberlain has also, but I’m not so sure about that one.
Most folks are ambivalent about Israel, but the hatred of the FBI is universal. The CIA is probably just as corrupt, but they aren’t breaking into folks homes at night, shooting their dogs, dragging people onto the lawn in their underwear for the cameras.
[How, in the name of all that is holy, did they get a law passed that says they can arrest people for “lying to the FBI”, while the FBI does nothing but lie to the citizens and their elected representative?]
A lot of people on our side of the divide are hot and bothered over Trump foreign policy team being filled with Israel firsters. Well, that was going to happen no matter what. So long as we stay out of some big war, who cares.
What matters is the US. Trump looks to be very tough on immigration, bringing the FBI under control and chopping away for the managerial class in various other ways. If he do any of those things, much less all three, it’s a huge win for our side. Take the win.
The den of subhuman scum aka the senate will defend the FBI harder than it defends the military. The military is just a tool of empire, while the FBI is their personal police force. Trump will reform it over their politically dead bodies. IOW he won’t. Their control over it is ironclad (or is that its control over them?), you saw who Trump’s last FBI director appointment was even after he had fired the prior one for corruption. This is also why they can’t allow the Gaetz nomination to proceed. The permanent regime, to exist, requires control of the DOJ,… Read more »
Sadly, I agree.
You danced around it: The senate does not control the FBI. The FBI is a rogue agency that does whatever it wants. The senate is scared of the FBI, that’s why they will go to the mat for them. Susan Collins doesn’t want her dog shot and her underwear drawer rifled through.
Presumably, someone is in charge of the FBI. It’s inaccurate to say that “it” does whatever it wants. There is a person, or people, with names and faces, who run this thing. It’s just as plausible, arguably even more plausible, that it’s senior senators running it as anyone else. Even if it’s not them, it’s somebody. Somebody who isn’t the president. Obviously it’s not the director, since changing him makes no difference. Even if it’s some shadowy Soros type figure controlling it, he would still have no choice but to exercise a great deal of that control, probably most of… Read more »
I agreed fully with you until this point. The FBI and IC are the de facto government of the United States at this point. Senators serve them. This has been the case since Hoover and the Brothers Dulles. We’ll see if either the IC or FBI can be neutered or dismantled from within the system they control; I’m skeptical. The green shoot from this cycle, though, has been the emergence of a rogue elite who also are afraid but want the IC/FBI checked. That will prove at best to be a heavy lift but this emerging elite is very bright.… Read more »
“Obviously it’s not the director, since changing him makes no difference.”
Well, other than all that has been tried so far is replace the old director with one of his clones. The answer will have to be sought outside those who live at FBI HQ.
If it were me, I’d task someone to look long and hard at those whistleblowers who got fired for exposing FBI corruption.
Who has Trump nominated for the DOJ? The FBI is under their purview, isn’t it? Also, the chokepoints are the inspectors general for each department. Right now they’re loyalists, a part of each agency and defending it, what they must be made is seperate and independent, as Sundance recommends. The control node for the entire ‘silo’ system- autonomous silos, operating outside the Executive’s authority, gone rogue that is, is in the Senate. Again, Sundance at Conservative Treehouse has done an exhaustive study on the structure and key positions and committees; I would defer to him to be best informed. (Although… Read more »
I did upvote because you are mostly right, though you seem to not understand dispensationalism. Dispensations by name date back to at least the 1100s, and, if you read the book of Acts, it’s already a prominent concept at the time of the original Disciples. They had already broached the idea that the rules of yesterday no longer applied to Christians of the day. Indeed, consider what Acts 11 means when it says “Christian” was first applied to the “believers” at Antioch.
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 »
All well and good, but there’s still the more fundamental question of what is the purpose of the military?
Making the US military better just so it can fight pointless wars for Israel and the neocons more effectively isn’t exactly a win.
And send good White boys to die.
Correct. I would much rather the military be an ineffective mess. The best case scenario is they go and kill muslims on behalf of the jews, the more likely worst case scenario is they shoot at me and mine one of these days. I sincerely hope the US military becomes 100 percent transexual blacks. That would make doing what needs to be done when the time comes much easier.
Yes. A less effective military would be a good thing in the long run. That’s why I am not opposed to women in combat. It makes the military weaker to have women in the combat arms and it might have added bonus of making it harder to use them due to some old fashioned concern for women. The concern is probably not likely as the old fashioned traditional males dies out in our society though. Anything to have less idiotic wars of the type we have been fighting in, especially the most recent.
I’m sure you mean mustering them out into some form of early retirement when the Services no longer need such
manpersyn power. 😏Making the US military better just so it can fight pointless wars for Israel and the neocons more effectively isn’t exactly a win. Exactly.
I’d have preferred Douglas MacGregor as SecDef or National Security Adviser. Unfortunately for him, he seems to have been red-pilled on Our Greatest Ally. Immediate disqualifier!
Yeah, MacGregor can no longer hide it. He’s a good man. He had to know that his mentioning the unmentionable would crush any chance he had to be a part of the Trump team – or any team.
It really is the proverbial ‘third rail.’ For all the troon nonsense there are still some people openly combatting it. A few of the soft HBDers have been readmitted to ‘polite’ society. But speaking honestly about Israel and Jews is just not permitted – in meatspace or online (by twitter/x, by Amren, Gayway Pundit, Conservative Treehouse, etc.).
And yet if those same positions of power and influence were just as disproportionately held by say, Chinese or Indian or Hispanics, etc, it would be pointed out and talked about openly and constantly. And rightfully so.
Jews play hardball. It’s best to think of them as an ethnic mob. A very smart and sophisticated ethnic mob, but a mob all the same. They use mob tactics.
They bribe, blackmail, threaten and, if necessary, kill. They also never forget a grudge. They also stick together.
That said, when they face another group that plays hardball, like the Chinese in China, Jews back down. They’re also terrible at actually running anything, since as a mob, they’re designed to skim the profits of people who can run a business or government. They have no skills are running anything.
Barring an Ilhan Omar-Mike Enoch Administration, it’s hard to envision any course correction on the issue.
Well, we’ll reserve a roster spot for him on the Z-team…
My gut says MacGregor was also passed over due to age.
Looking at Trump’s picks as a whole, he’s mostly going for folks in their 40s and 50s.
I believe there are multiple reasons for this. The obvious ones are bringing in a much higher energy level, breaking with the current DC gerontocracy, and to ensure that the MAGA movement outlives Trump in some form.
We cannot lose sight of the fact that–Trump’s victory notwithstanding–this is still AINO and it remains the implacable enemy of our people. It would take far more than a good presidential election result to reverse 60 years of burgeoning anti-white racism.
4 years goes by fast. It was over 9 years ago that he came down the escalator. It’s not enough time for comprehensive change. The best hope is to set back the permanent regime to where it will take longer than that same period of time for it to recover its prior position.
True. I don’t think the Regime really regained its footing after 2016, though. As hideous and destructive as throwing open the border was–and The Great Replacement is the Regime’s end game–it also reeked of desperation. The open border hurt the Regime, too. I agree with your general take but the return to the prior position is at best difficult now. Nothing can be exactly the same as it was although best efforts will be made. That is better than what we had.
I think we are going to get that extra time. At least a good share of it. Boomers and X are going to be dying off, and we are getting some seriously pissed off (for good reason) late Millenial and Z saying, “Project 2025 gave you the sads? FU. Wait until you see Project 2029, biotch!”
DOGE might be the catalyst for a lot of change. Read Vivek’s X (whatever a tweet is called now) and consider all the USSC decisions, and how broadly they will affect everything, if people with balls are willing to push it.
Yeah I wince a bit when Republicans start doing the “men in uniform” thing. The past 10 years or so has done a lot to discredit our men (and women and troons) in uniform, a discreditation which is needed from time to time. Otherwise we’re going back to a place where it’s 2003 all over again, with Fox News and Meet The Press ejaculating over anything gunpowder-related. I’d rather be patrolled by a couple Latinas on SSRIs than white boy robocops with armed-up SUVs. I’d rather lose wars of choice with lesbian admirals than a hundred Dan Crenshaws who pretend… Read more »
We’ll never be invaded, except by the brown horde crossing the border. I’m sick of glorifying the military. It’s mostly lifers who love the security or “boys with toys” types.
“Except” is doing a lot of work there. The Great Replacement is the Regime’s end game, and the open border is part of that. I would even suggest we have been invaded and conquered and TGR is the way to consolidate power.
I hope you’re right that the military has lost respect in the eyes of the masses. And I’ll grant that it is certainly possible. However, I’ve got a side-hustle covering college basketball and football for a subscription website, and said occupation requires me to attend games. Now the athletic department for the local uni constantly does military-appreciation games and parades homegrown soldiers before the crowd to show just how down it is with the masses. And I regret to report that whenever one of these soldiers is introduced at midcourt or the 50-yard-line, the crowd springs to its feet and… Read more »
Sadly, I am not surprised by this. And since most people in the country are sportsball watchers and/or freedom respecters, and most of them are dull and conformist, it’s a good base from which a govt can manufacture consent.
We’re going to have to fight our way out of this, so I’ll take as much masculine Whiteboy energy as we can stand.
That’s not going to come from the average sports fan who is a rancid tub o’ lard with a scraggly beard sporting some boon’s jersey. No Lees, Pattons or sergeant Yorks there.
Maybe, but at least they can be targets. Any bullet headed their way is not headed yours.
Making the US military better is done by removing the dross at the top, bringing the boys home and guarding the borders from foreigners.
“Making the US military better just so it can fight pointless wars for Israel and the neocons more effectively isn’t exactly a win.”
Would it be better to fight pointless wars for Europhiles like Wilson? How about all the interventions in SE Asia, Africa, and Central and South America? Weren’t those just as pointless, and also got white boys killed?
The general officer corps will have to be replaced lock, stock, and barrel. These dinosaurs are still trying to plan for the next version of WW2. The idea of continuing to rely on aircraft carriers and gaining beachheads for ground assaults is right up there with cavalry charges. Constant space-based recconnaisance and pin-point accurate hypersonic and ballistic missiles, along with cheap drones have made surface ships and troop/equipment deployment areas almost impossible to protect. Projecting power against peer opponents half way around the world would be disastrous. The world has changed and warfare with it. The US military is almost… Read more »
The good news is Hegseth doesn’t have to be approved by the senate for Trump to be able to purge the brass. Trump can do that with the stroke of a pen any day he chooses. There is no legal means to prevent the president from firing generals, any generals, all generals (and admirals). Any or all officers down to the 2nd lieutenants and ensigns if I’m not mistaken. Enlisted too, I guess.
Increasingly think Carriers exist mostly as real “red lines.”
If a carrier is sunk, there are only 2 responses: withdraw or launch nukes.
China gets this. They’re building carrier groups knowing there will never be another Battle of Midway of carriers vs carriers.
They’re floating islands of inviolate national sovereignty. A giant “Do not f with us” that moves. Billions of dollars, decades of building, thousands of personnel…RED LINE.
Can you sink it? Probably. Can you handle the total, thermonuclear armed missile response against one of your cities? Probably no.
In effect carrier groups are a present day Great White Fleet. You send them out upon the oceans of the world so as to impress upon Lesser Breeds Without the Law that they should pay due deference to your ambassadors, trade negotiators, and divers other officials. The Great White Fleet was loaded with battleships just obsoleted by HMS Dreadnought. Didn’t matter. People noticed a @#$%ton of capital ships and knew that the nation that could produce these could easily knock out a passel of Dreadnoughts. The GAE was being born. Note was taken. Attitudes adjusted. There might be an element… Read more »
There is much to what you say, but if you think the generals and admirals are thinking about carriers and beachheads, you are fooling yourselves. They are thinking about DEI and affirmative action and not doing anything to make it look like they are helping Trump.
Most all need to be cashiered because they are self-serving spineless liberal sissies, not because they are dinosaurs. They are vermin. MG Kelly e.g.
Even if there were no DEI, the I95 of the naval cursus dishonorum culminating in a cushy sinecure at Raytheon has its biggest onramp at carrier pilot skool, no? That will have to change.
I have no idea what you are getting at, and I am one of the more Obscure Reference Men here….
Cursus Honorum — The mandatory by convention career path for Roman aristos aiming for the high offices of state. There were certain offices and postings you needed to have to be in the game. Missing one or two would make you an also-ran at best.. The admirals who really matter since WWII have mostly been guys who came up through being naval aviators and flying attack aircraft off carriers. They drive the obsession with carriers and surface combatants to screen carriers because that’s where they came up and it’s where their patronage networks of underlings reside. Logic and strategic planning… Read more »
I95 most likely = allusion to Interstate 95, the primary north-south artery through the DC megalopolis. Between roughly Richmond and Baltimore, it suffers from chronic automobilesclerosis, bearing a distinct resemblance to a parking lot during commuting hours, and often outside them.
I would prefer if the US military were cut by 90%. Right now it’s a force of evil.
I would prefer every negro, tranny and girl boss be staffed to active duty and sent to Israel. Have at it.
Send them all on a suicide mission to Moscow.
This. It really needs to be dismantled outside of use at the borders.
The US is the most defensible country on the planet. A few submarines, a carrier or two (maybe), some fighters and bombers and a very deep missile defense system along with a small army and robust reserve would be more than enough. We spend nearly $1 trillion on defense (offense, really). We’d be more than fine spending $100 billion.
Take the remaining $900 billion and use it on infrastructure, building technical training schools for young men and nuclear power plants – and border patrol. We’d be the envy of the world.
Just to note that border patrol now includes both south and north. With Canada at least as woke as AINO, the flow of mestizos and particularly subcons coming from the north is a big issue that must be addressed.
Canada is a real worry. Not least because the American public and its elected officials have conclusively demonstrated profound inability to hold two ideas in their heads at the same time. Easy to imagine intense focus on fixing the Mexican border and Boomer-grade blind spot about the Canadian border coexisting.
OK, well that’s weird. If the southern border somehow gets locked down, do you think it’s going to take much to figure out that the illegals are coming from somewhere else?
Never underestimate stupidity and lethargy of government and normies. Never underestimate just how hard the NGOs will ramp up the Canada option if the Wall is completed.
Lampedusa, Naples, Beringia, Manitoba, Missoula.
Cursus negrorum…
When you spend more on defense than the next five or ten countries combined, and still can’t win a war, something is seriously wrong. If you cut the budget to $100 billion, the dopes in the Pentagon would spend it on Pride parades and diversity training, then complain they have no money for bullets and gas.
Carriers are only for projection of power. Land-based aircraft out-ranges carrier-based aircraft, except when they do stupid things like Joint Strike, where they have to nerf the land-based advantages to end up with a one-size-fits-none answer.
You would be vastly better off with strips up and down the coasts, and ones specifically placed to counter possible opfor strips in Mexico and Canada.
But that would not give much ability to fight wars of opportunity…
Ideally go in for the Cold War Scandinavian and Swiss model of dispersed assets in wartime and using stretches of highway for runways and repair and crew centres located under mountains.
ISR, drones, missiles are just too good now.
As Citizen puts it, right there. We could be goddam Hyperborea.
Add in alternative energy and space exploration, and we’d be frikkin’ Atlantis.
i confess, I think Hegseth is too good to be true. The vitriol articulated towards some of the nominees is breathtaking.
Either they are “inexperienced”, or Hitler.
I truly don’t have any great expectations for Trump, and believe there is little anyone can do to ‘fix’ the economy (inflation, low wages, manufacturing, etc.). And, like Zman and others, I’ve made note of the Israel lobby foreign policy choices. But Trump’s domestic picks seem to enrage all the right people, so I’m enjoying this. I think rfk jr is a kook except when it comes to vaccines, so I hope he slashes HHS. I’m also not convinced Tulsi Gabbard is the second coming, but if she upsets applecarts, have at it. I don’t know if even Trump realizes… Read more »
Thank you for your service to global jewry.
Fvck off, f@gg0t.
As I understand it (poorly), the SecDef has no direct authority over the military. Basically a liaison between the Joint Chiefs and the Executive, as well as being the public face of the US military to our few remaining friends and many, many enemies.
Unless he’s ready to tell Trump to fire general officers on the level of Nimitz’s officer purge after Pearl Harbor, (there’s cause, 20 years of failed wars), he’s just window dressing.
I hope he does.
Speaking as a former O3 who got out because most of the folks field grade and above are self-servin dopes, I think Hegseth has probably got things figured: Most folks who join to leave after one tour, and those that remain are fighting for pay and pension.
The number of general officers who are willing to trash Trump and embrace woke is shocking. And its not like they are any good at winning wars… I always say, when they pin on your oak leaves, they remove your heart and your brain. Prove me wrong.
Wow. You think it goes clear down to major? That’s… not good.
There are somewhat over 800 flag rank officers. OK, so many are paper pushers, nonetheless replacing all is a Herculean task. If now you select the next tier down—well, best rethink. Short of a war time situation, how do you rise those replacements up through the ranks—even if you start at Colonel?
Yeah, this is all grade inflation.
Ask any of those schlubs if they think they should be anywhere close to the rank of Farragut, then keelhaul any who say, “Yes.”
Never thought of that, “grade inflation”. Yeah, put the colonels in higher grade command.
The reason we have a “Nicholas Name” touting his GWOT bonafides in support of Hegseth is because Hegseth is an ultra Zionist who sees it as America’s divine duty to destroy the Middle East for Israel. Hegseth got Trump to pardon war criminals because stabbing a captured teen to death who was in the process of receiving medical treatment is just the American way. He is a staunch supporter of the assassination of Soleimani because assassination is as American as apple pie. Hegseth carries on another grand American tradition of being twice divorced because he had an affair on the… Read more »
Excellent points. I couldn’t believe that he ran a pro-war outfit ‘Vets for Freedom’ which advocated for MORE troops in Iraq & Afghanistan. His background shows he was a valedictorian, athlete, Princeton and Harvard Grad, yet he comes off as a dude bro degenerate with little to no intellectual bona fides. This guy has been groomed for a long time to serve the MIC and Con Inc.
Of the “controversial” 4 cabinet appointments, he’s definitely most likely to get approved. I’d rate it 1. Hegseth 2. Gabbard 3. RFKJ 4. Gaetz
It’s all a psyop. All the MIGA picks are for Mideast war, the biometric ID “for the border” is going to extend to everyone, Elon’s “judicial, eventually prosecution” DOGE will monitor the internet, Palantir surveillance by jews Ellison, Thiel, Luttnick, with Musk will dominate, And the jews aren’t going away. War in the Mideast to disrupt Islam’s resurgence is far better a necessary use than a brother war on Russia. Look, we’re headed into a Technocracy, like it or not; best we can do right now is have one that wants to cultivate white people’s talents as valuable slaves and… Read more »
“Trying to make my peace with what cards we have in a bad hand, here”
It’s not four aces, no, but neither is it 7-high. This is all relative. We are holding the best hand at the table. I mean, seriously, who else would you place your bets on?
But that does not mean we should be kicking out normie or griller or sportsballer or anyone else. We just don’t let them win. They take point, so we know when they plan to call it a day, and turn their weapons on us.
Using the military as a wedge to reinvigorate and reinsert masculine values into society works for me.
Added bonus is imagining all those real vets who’ve been in the thick of it thinking about what they’ll do to the tiktok queens, dog boys, and furries, especially those noxious troons in skirts in the Joint Chiefs and SecDef.
Your hopes will come with a higher cost than you imagine. People like to hope that the Pentagon is not dumb enough to get into a war with Iran because the GAE military is incapable of winning it. First problem is “can” never gets in the way of “should” with our ruling class. Second problem is that they are forgetting Pearl Harbor and why it happened. Losing most of their military assets in the ME will be the Pearl Harbor that justifies a flash reorganization of the military and putting the US on a war economy to reshore our industrial… Read more »
Do you really believe that there is no one, no one, in the chain of command who is as moral as you are?
Do you really believe that someone who did time, who volunteered as platoon leader, and saw brothers-in-arms blown up and otherwise splatted somehow sees things less clearly than you do?
Upon what do you base this?
“Prioritizing Ukraine over Israel is probably what spelled the end of the Biden presidency and the defeat of Harris”.
The most succinct and accurate post mortem of this election. Nothing else really needs to be said.
An important point to remember is that the Bad Orange Man can appoint all the Iran hawks he wants to appease the Bagels, but if (and that’s a big if) Hegseth is taking a wrecking ball to the military and purging the officer ranks, the war hawks will not have a tool to use as the military is in the throes of reconstituting itself. The situation is much like Mustache Guy and Big Red found themselves in in the mid-1930s, where they were busy breaking their armies to their will and thus unable to use them-yet. That’s not even considering… Read more »
Agreed. I think all the Iran war talk is overblown. Sure, the Mizrahim want it, but Trump’s no fool and he’s not about to founder his administration on a preposterous and doomed misadventure against the fanatical Shi’ites. Trump is many things, but self-destructive is not among them.
Like I said over at Sev’s joint, expecting the Trump administration to dig up Heinrich, Reinhard, Sepp, and the boys to run his foreign policy just ain’t happening, because weaning “conservatives” off of interventionist foreign policy and military dick riding is like weaning a junkie off smack. America First is a cultural shift, not a policy, and that is not something Trump can force on them cold turkey.
Listen to Hegseth’s rhetoric. He is either a committed Christian Zionist, or a cynical psychopath. He also has blamed Russia for blowing up its own pipeline, which means he is more loyal to the institutions than to the truth.
“He is either a committed Christian Zionist, or a cynical psychopath.”
Or he’s a peace-through-strength type. Was the bit about bombing Iran if they build nukes just a threat to keep them from doing so? Anyway, that was 2020. Now that Russia is in Iran’s court, I’d wonder if he’s still as much of a brinksman.
Compare the level of religious fanaticism of a Christian Zionist needed to counter the religious fanaticism of Joint Chief in a skirt and a dog mask, and see which one does less harm.
Training in weapons discipline is of far more future use to us white folks than training in bondage discipline, just sayin’.
Also agree. Trump is focusing on his own house; the MIGA picks might be either a sop to keep Intelligence from going hysterical, or an invitation to a powerful outside ally, probably both. Trump is actually playing Beltway chess!
Israel is committing suicide by picking fights with all its neighbors while hoping they can coerce the US military to save them. Iran has accurate hypersonic missiles which cannot be interdicted and a world class air defense system via Russia. And they are playing tit-for-tat. Israel attacks and they hit back harder. And Israel is losing on every front. If this keeps up, the Zionists will eventually turn to nukes. Trump’s newly appointed warhawks will pitch a hissy fit, but they are impotent and reality is a bitch. So yes, if WW3 happens, it will start in the Middle East.
Yep. We are entering a very dangerous time – and it has nothing to do with Russia or China or, even, Iran. It’s Israel getting taken over by the ultra-Orthodox at the same time as US power is fading. The crazy Jews want a Greater Israel and submission from all of their neighbors and are openly fighting for it. They also believe that the US can help them make that happen. But we can’t. We don’t have that power anymore. This means that Israel’s neighbors will fight back – and win. At that point, the crazy Jews might just go… Read more »
Agreed. I once thought the Pakis were the worst possible candidate to have nukes, but they are a distant third to Israel. The United States playing chicken with Russia of late gives it the silver although arguably American Jewry’s heavy hand in that madness makes it somewhat indistinguishable from Israel.
Talk about making somebody go defend their homeland at gunpoint…
Oh yeah. Somebody’s got to go save Israel. Who better?
Why does that make it dangerous for us? So long as the US keeps out of it, which includes not only refusing to allow Zelensky to attack civilians deep in Russia, but also stopping giving them and Israel a damn thing. Cash on the barrelhead, and you ain’t getting that cash from the US, I’m not seeing it as our problem.
Depending on the time of year, it would mostly be a problem for the Mediterranean and Europe. They are all adults. Let them work it out.
The Samon option. Supposedly Israel has the European capitals targeted with nukes if they are going down due to Muslim action. If that’s true then the USA is probably on the target list.
Doubtful. They had to recall their F-35s when they realized the Iranian air defenses could target them. Personally, I think Crevald was on dope. Or more likely, just brinksmanship.
Well, in both WW1 and WW2, we waited til everybody had exhausted themselves and then walked in to claim the prize, so yes. Let Israel and her bastard child, Islam, do the heavy lifting.
But what about the oil and natgas, the energy?
Well, America and Russia have their own, Europe has the North Sea and Romania, the UK is an island of coal.
It is the overpopulated Mideast that needs the energy. No can do if the facilities /we/ built are damaged.
“It is the overpopulated Mideast that needs the energy. No can do if the facilities /we/ built are damaged.”
Yep. Boo, hoo, right?
Don’t forget Africa. Africa being Africa has pretty much destroyed any production the West doesn’t buy from them.
Sure would be a shame to see ME and Africa starve from their own actions, yea?
Why should we turn the sand into glass? Let them take the credit they so richly deserve.
Their 92 missles are only midrange, anyways. Maybe those chickenshit Muzzies will leave Europe to go fight for their homelands, and drag the Africans with them (they did that in the Middle Ages.)
Nah, that’s wishing too much. But the Euros can then make ’em do so at gunpoint.
Being something of a fan of depopulation of the darkies, if we can get the party started in both Islam and India (via Pakistan), then I’m not exactly against it. If Africa starves as a consequence, then I’m all for it.
The Southern Tier is where the problem is. We’d just be helping Nature do her natural thing.
Immigration reform: Glad you led with this. It’s the only thing I’ve cared about for 4 decades of voting. Constant disappointments. Read somewhere that the current LEGAL “asylum seekers” are in the millions and have a backlog that would take 100+ years of adjudication even if there were no appeals. Biden put his foot on the gas by transporting 3/4 of a million AS by air (!!) Along with millions at the border. Democrats went for broke to bring in a permanent majority. The only way this reverses is if Trump ignores the niceties of the law and goes full… Read more »
If Trump concentrates on immigration and the FBI, I would be satisfied. For all the ranting I do about the Military, they are harmless. They live in their own little world of dress-up and playing soldier. If left alone they will be happy and not bother us.
Immigrants, however are going to trash the country. And the FBI and DOJ are a danger to every American on a daily basis.
“…100+ years of adjudication…”
Yes, but. That’s because the enemy wrote the rules of engagement. They can be rewritten. Might be Hoven can do it, probably Noem, though.
Whomever signs the affidavits is legally on the hook for perjury in most cases. Most of the pro-asylum groups and lawyers are not going to be willing to go to prison over it. Personally, I see that as a win. Commies in gen-pop, fake asylees gone. Most states don’t let felons vote, right?
The sentiment is good, but the numbers are not. I posted them a few days ago. We have 4000+ per judge of cases of asylum seekers to be adjudicated. Court dates now extending up to 5 years into future. That seems right given the 680 or so immigration judges currently available. My recommendation for Trump is to create as many judges as needed to adjudicate all asylum claims on an acceptable time scale, like 24 hours. We’d then not need to release IA’s upon interception, but adjudicate their claim and fly them back home without ever letting them settle in… Read more »
You don’t think that a whole crapton of those applications would be withdrawn if the people whose signatures were on the affidavits understood that with the new sheriff in town, perjury will result in prison time? Five years in prison per perjured application, served consecutively, would sure make me think long and hard about whether I could prove this person was a valid asylee.
Well, while we’re on asylum seekers…no where does it say in treaty we need to release them into the country—only give them refuge. Build camps along the border and hold them until they are adjudicated.
High immigration I staunchly oppose,
But one exception that I favor,
Is the case of menial drudge work,
That’s why they call it Manuel labor.
How many of the “controversial” nominations will actually make it through the senate approval?
Hard to say.
Trump has the possibility of using recess appointments for some positions.
The precedent for such appointments exists. Clinton had around 190, GWB had 170, and the Lightbringer still needed 30 or so with a totally compliant DC establishment.
Gaetz doesn’t have a chance and will have to be a recess appointment. I would be surprised if they even put him through a hearing, he would be lucky to get 40 votes.
Correct. The jews have made it quite clear they don’t like him, Greenblatt was just kvetching about him on x the other day. I will be very surprised if he sees any time in office whatsoever.
One trick used in the past has been to pick a nominee of great controversy to insure an easier time for a “secondary” nominee to be recommended when the first was rejected or voluntarily withdrawn.
Perhaps to much 3-D chess for a Trump, but we shall see.
Well, that’s one aspect of deal making – issue a seemingly outrageous demand to start and see what happens.
If the other side accepts, great, you’ve exceeded your goal.
If not, you start climbing down from the extreme ask, still hopeful that the other side will agree to something that still exceeds your original ask.
Eventually, you will get to your real bottom line position, which the other side should find easy to agree to, thus meeting your original goal.
If it’s a trick it took out a GOP House member. It’s safe district I suppose no loss of control issue there. In 2020 after Trump and the neocons had Iranian leader Solemani murdered in Iraq, Gaetz spoke out forcefully against it. He pissed off a lot of the true Trump believers. Maybe this is payback for that.
Here’s a weird thought — if Gaetz is blocked, is there any reason DeSantis couldn’t give him his job back? Assuming that’s how Florida does things. Which could accomplish the whole, “unreasonable demand” without costing a thing.
Maybe not. Unless Trump already has the Epstein evidence, and that’s what they failed to find in Mar-a-lago. The DOJ wanted to use that as leverage against the politically-connected. It would be at least as useful in Gaetz’s hands.
There is value in making the senators go on the record. I hope they at least bring him up for a vote. I believe it would be a mistake to withdraw him based on senatorial assurances that he’ll never pass. Make them put their money where their mouth is.
If the Gaetz nomination goes down, maybe DeSantis taps him to fill Rubio’s seat in the Senate.
Thune is in a tougher spot than McConnell. He can no longer pretend to represent the voters while at the same time obstructing Trump appointments. Not that McConnell really could either, but at least he had Trump losing the popular vote on his side. Of the “controversial” nominees, at this point to include RFKJ, Gabbard, Gaetz, and Hegseth, McConnell would have shot down all 4. With the change in environment that Thune faces, I predict 2 up and 2 down. Optimistically 3 up and 1 down. But at least 1 of those 4 is going down.
The Senate is the last bastion of traditional GOP cuckservatism. All Republicans tend to be cucks to some degree although it is in the Senate where that manifests to an extreme degree. Matt Gaetz likely will be rejected there but he very well may get a recess appointment. That possibility may in fact have been the price for John Thune to get the Leader role without Trump actively campaigning in the 2026 primaries. It is a reasonable guess Gaetz’ primary goal will be massive demoralization via leaks and to a lesser degree noisy investigations and prosecutions. While it is now… Read more »
“…Trump’s few triumphs largely have been inadvertent. Luck has a quality of its own.”
True, but note that Trump was specifically elected/comsidered as a “disruptor”, a wild card (at least such often discussed here). Nothing changes with electing the same old, same old to rule from Washington. I therefore give credit to Trump for such changes, even if unpredictable/inadvertent.
Good for Fox for covering the Laken Riley trial. It’s horrible. This guy has a lawyer paid for , and a translator cause that’s who we are
Somewhat related, the NYT is calling for a color revolution. Obama seems to be urging it on, with various media outlets saying that the Generals and Admirals are “preparing” to “act” upon Trump. Then there are the Governors like Pritzker, Polis and Newsom preparing to prevent any deportation especially of criminals of illegal aliens in their states and possibly in others. So while we have not had mass riots and such … stay tuned. There might be well spicy things coming. Obama will not go gentle into that good night of political and power irrelevance. So Trump V. Obama 2.0… Read more »
They’re upset we didn’t acknowledge the last one after they worked so hard staging it, so now the military coup is a quadrennial event.
I’m not sure who Pritzker et al could activate here. The blacks are pissed that the illegals are cutting ahead of them in the handout line. Even the legal latinos are annoyed. I don’t see the antifa meth heads and cat ladies mounting an effective street fighting force.
Of course the Chicago Police Department would charge straight into a hedge of bayonets if Pritzker convinced them their pensions were on the line.
Fun fact:
Much like the CIA, the Chicago PD is known to run its own black sites for hiding evidence and torturing suspects.
Fun indeed…
Here is an upvote for a podcast on the history and the similarities and differences between the neocons and the Israeli lobby.
I have only started ironing out the similarities and differences in the last year or so and I am sure that i am not the only one.
Neocons are Jews who want to kill Russians. Israeli lobby is Jews who want to kill Palestinians. There you go!
They are one in the same.
Obviously we won’t get everything – not by a long shot:
I am glad to finally see a pundit/analyst, say out loud that there are at least two different Jewish networks messing with Western political systems: The Neocons and the Israel Lobby. Of course, these two are allied, agree on many things, will always play ball with each other and neither of them has our best interest at heart.. but they also have their differences of opinions in what regards priorities and means to achieve their goals. I might be pointing out something obvious, but the only thing I would add is that I see a third faction/network of Jews, the… Read more »
Good post. However, I would argue that the group you call the Trotskyites are actually the Judeo-Puritans and their power source is academia. Naturally, the Jews are overrepresented in this bloc, but the group itself is not pro-Israel or neoconservative. Their raison d’etre is to subjugate the white race, and as such, they are much more concerned with domestic issues–including open borders–than foreign policy.
The Jews in that group aren’t self-loathing like the Puritans who somehow see that as a virtue.
True. This group of Jews don’t see themselves of white, perhaps even when it’s convenient to do so. They hate whitey that much.
Pleased that your edit noted Bunny Mellon’s stepson Timothy as the biggest Trump donor. Trump’s two other mega funders, Miriam Adelson and Elon Musk, represent Jewish wealth and Tech wealth. Mellon is Permanent Wealth. So Trump got the trifecta here, too.
Before Trump, Mellon was almost singlehandedly (and very generously) funding RFK Jr. So I hope Trump is motivated to ram that nomination through. Just getting all the dirt on Wuhan and Fauci out there would be a massive win.
And?
Great show. Have fun at Amren.
So it appears that the latest cope from the left is that Trump, while having won, didn’t win in a landslide. Sure, he won all the swing states, in other words, all the states that were contested. But “he has no mandate”, because Harris won something like 48% of the vote. In aggregate. I heard Sylvester Stallone proclaiming Trump “our second George Washington” at a gala at Mar-a-Lago. At first, I thought that sounded ridiculous. But given what the Donald has gone through over the last eight years, and given the fact that Washington himself never had support from the… Read more »
The Zman says the Israel lobby goes back to at least Truman, maybe FDR, but it arguably goes back much farther. During the Civil War Gen. Grant ordered Jewish war profiteers away from his camps and made some unfavorable comments about them. When he ran for President, he felt obligated to disavow those comments and avow that he was not anti-Semitic. Why would he feel obligated to do that if it wasn’t to appease powerful interests? Arguably going all the way back to George Washington’s letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Washington recognized that there was a need to… Read more »
It’s really something. Not too many years ago, I remember Jenny McCarthy being the celebrity frontman for the anti-vax people. (I know there were others before her, but she’s the one who made the biggest impression on me.) Everybody thought she was nuts.
Just another data point in my personal journey from normie who thought these people are nuts to now keeping an open mind about this stuff.
Uh oh Z, I hear Michael Anton is in the running for deputy National Security office.
If so, it will be interesting to see how he gets along with Waltz.
Anton would be a check on Waltz.
To sort the lists! He knows who knows who we all are.
As much as we’d like to see Trump and his crew administer a massive dose of radiation, various forms of incrementalism is probably the most realistic, outside of a few key areas. Here’s keeping the fingers crossed. Exploding libtard heads is a pretty good pacifier though…
Really like the first Trump presidency vs now as the “pre-season” game analogy – hopefully spot on.
Patrick Soon-Shiong: American as cornbeef and cabbage!
November use to be the month for the holy souls in purgatory, now it’s national adoption month.
Why would Tim Mellon care about Israel? He’s not a yid.
Zionism was invented by protestants.