I’m highlighting the Nikki Haley cap, which can be yours if you kick in some bucks for her pitiful campaign. That cap summarizes her campaign. Just to be clear. I am not endorsing Nikki nor do I think she would make a decent President. She’s loathsome and unprincipled. The cap says it all — this campaign is about her, not America.
Look at Trump’s campaign hat.
Yes. He prominently features his name but also reiterates the message of 2016 — Make America Great Again. I recognize that anyone who runs for President is not lacking in ego. But Trump, unlike Haley, is hammering on the need to reverse the visible decline in America. Nikki is part of the John McCain, Lindsey Graham crowd who relish involving the United States in foreign wars. Trump, despite all of his faults, still has a pragmatic streak and recognizes that the United States must negotiate with other countries, including Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.
With Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy out of the race and endorsing Trump, it is safe to say that Trump will secure the nomination — jail or no jail. Nikki Haley is likely to make a strong showing in New Hampshire because it is an open primary. That means that Democrats and Independents who will vote for Joe Biden can cross over and vote for her. That is likely to happen. Keep in mind these numbers. In the 2020 Primary Trump secured 129,734 votes, which represented 84% of the vote. In 2015 Trump won 34% of Republican voters with 100,406 ballots cast for him.
The unknown is how motivated are Democrats to come out in force and vote for Haley. Even if they do it will not make a difference in subsequent contests. I think the Trump camp welcomes the challenge. Getting him out on the campaign trail and interacting with voters builds enthusiasm. All the anti-Trumpers have is their hatred of Trump. That ship has sailed. A majority of Americans, and I am including Democrats in this calculation, are increasingly alarmed by the flood of illegal migrants and the soaring deaths from drug overdoses thanks to the influx of fentanyl.
The Democrat vote is going to be split three ways — those who support Joe Biden, those who back Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the yet unnamed “savior” of the No Labels crowd. The No Labels folks genuinely believe they will peel off more Trump voters than Biden voters. I am not buying it.
What do you think?
I’m extremely skeptical about Trump improving much of anything. He has strong zionist connections and war monger connections but the alternatives in both parties are either obvious corporate/wall street puppets, possibly insane, or just plain stupid. I might vote. I might not vote. I’m not sure it matters.
Let’s call him pragmatically pro “Zionist.” But he also has been pretty firm about trying to get the US out of all these crazy foreign wars. I’m hoping the later prevails over the Zionist streak. But hey, didn’t you hear? Trump is an anti-Semite.
Right Larry, he’s not a fan of war, and maybe he gets a chance to finish the wall and implement other measures to at least stem the illegal immigration tide. Even Hispanics are against that, as it hits them hard where they work. Tougher on crime and maybe a start at cleaning up the DOJ and FBI (though that would be tough) and getting some semblance of efficiency in the military, though that one is tough too. Immigration and crime is where he’d make the most difference, and less likely to start any wars, and make Europe pay more, whether for NATO or Ukraine. A slim win, but we have to take any progress we can get at this point. And the economy will be either in the dumpster, or headed there when he takes office, so headwinds there too. Israel will end up being a lower priority, I predict, as reality will shove everything else forward.
“Israel will end up being a lower priority”
LOL.
Isn’t the purpose of the influx to lower the wages of the Hispanics?
Over time and in the end it lowers the wages of everyone. I think it’s this and the vast pool of military eligible young Hispanics that will likely serve in the military in exchange for citizenship.
Regardless of what Trump might believe in his heart of hearts, the first time around he was unable to get a supportive cabinet past the Senate. His only real ally, Gen. Flynn, was lawfared out of the way. When Trump told the Pentagon to leave Syria, they ignored him. When he told them again, they just ignored him again. When he was on the verge of normalizing relations with the DPRK, his own Sec of State torpedoed his policy.
I would certainly prefer to find out what Trump ‘really’ thinks than to see what Nikki, or any of the Dems, actually do, but I think that if he gets back in the White House, he’s no more likely to get his programs accomplished than the first time around. The swamp is still the swamp, and it will continue to be the swamp in 2025.
To be frank, I can’t name a cabinet of people who would push Trump’s stated intentions through the bureaucracy, except for those items endorsed by the MIC, Big Tech, and Big Pharma, just as during his previous term. If anyone has any suggestions, I’d love to hear them- and then I’d love to hear how you would get them confirmed by the Senate.
Jeffrey Sachs for Secretary of State.
That would fix a lot of what ails us.
How many votes do you think he’d get in the Senate?
I think Jeffrey Sachs would probably be a very good Secretary of State. Which probably pretty much guarantees there is virtually no chance of him becoming Secretary of State.
Because that’s how things work now… or should I say, how things fail to work now. Welcome to the Dysfunctional States of America! Hooray for our pretend democracy!
Douglas McGregor.
He should “fix” USA the way he did Russia back in the day. Everyine should get a taste of their own medicine.
Except it would not be “his own” medicine anymore than it was in Russia.
I continue to marvel at his miraculous transformation from a neocon who helped his tribe mates become oligarchs by raping Russia to some sort fo an elder statesman and more tragically comic: an American patriot!
Ron Paul would fix it better.
I disagree. Trump was very naive first time around. Really, he was. Naive and not too bright either. I’ve nick-named him “Dummie Don”. Mainly because he could have stopped the Steal. Mike Flynn, Patrick Byrne and Sidney Powell showed him how in December 2020, and Trump was still so reliant upon his buddy Rudy Giuliani, that he couldn’t really grasp what they were telling him.
Plus, Byrne reports in his expose ‘How Trump Lost the White House” [https://wentworthreport.com/2021/02/10/patrick-byrne-how-trump-lost-the-white-house-fateful-decision-day/], and I quote, ““You know Pat,” he said to me …, “you know…” He caught my eye and gave a little snort of humor. “You know, I could leave here and my life would be really …. fine. I could be with my family, my friends, I could be playing golf …”.
That’s Donald Trump. If he wasn’t all we’ve got at this point to stop this on-going Destruction of America, I’d be against him. He has no business being President of the United States. But it’s a weird, cockamamie, Cloud Cuckoo-Land World we’re in thanks to the evil Cabal represented by the Soros-Schwab-Gates Syndicate.
Anyway, this time around The Donald will have his eyes wide open. He’ll stop his stupid people pleasing. He’ll get serious. He’ll find his present need is for a guy like Roy Cohn, who helped him with the crooked New York builder’s unions back in the day.
This whole scenario has come down to Brass Tacks. It is EXISTENTIAL for both sides, Donald Trump versus The Deep State/Davos Rackets. When you are staring at the end of a gun pointed at you, it concentrates one’s mind wonderfully.
Assassinating Solemani and then gloating about it, supporting Isareli ambitions in its uncontrolled ambitions in acquiring more land from neighbouring states and putting it in dominant position in middle East is as good as wanting constant war for next 50 years. Anyone who supports Israel wants continuous war.
Yes I think that US immigration policy is crazy. But the immigration policy and economic model is based on what the interests of the US oligarchs who are Isareli Or isareli firsters want.
I don’t see how anyone can be America First and support the tribes control of the economic system and existence of Israel.
Totally agree Masr. Trump won’t save us. Only we can but first we need to get our doped up fat heads out of our flabby asses and learn how to be a man (and woman) again. Want role models? Great grandparents probably. Houtis. Gazans. Hezbollah. Donbass citizens.
Trump and Biden are cons since they were pre-teens. Trump is likely the lesser evil but that bar is so low it means little to me. I spit on them both.
Trump has come out against the WEF and again no one here has mentioned the danger of the WEF policies coming out of Washington. The immigration crisis and the excess ‘vaxxing” deaths are part of this movement. The globalists are attacking the US from within and I wish the people would wake up to this. They are currently destroying Germany and the EU.
Some of us have been highlighting the Rothschild, WEF/DAVOS, Bilderberg, Council for Inclusive Capitalism Wizards Behind the Curtain for some time now.
Apparently not very often but I am encouraged that Trump is aware. He is also going to have the WEF as an even bigger swamp this time -IF he wins. If he doesn’t most of us will end up dead.
Trump can say anything he wants but he never did anything he said:(
Bull Crap! He built the Wall until he was stopped. Opened up petroleum production. Veto-ed the Trans-Pacific Treason. Went to the UN and told them America would never become socialist. Got Peace in the Middle East. Worked with Putin and Xi. Was trying to find out what the fuck was going on in the Ukraine viz. Biden. I can go on…
He did everything he said he’d do what planet are you on? If you paid any type of attention at all you may have noticed he despises the Neocons who also hate him, the WEF and the Muslim Brotherhood – looks like something completely different to me. At any rate he’s shaken up the so called :”rules based order” to the point they’re all blowing a fuse……………………….
If he doesn’t end up dead first.
LOL. We are part of the WEF. Blinken and Biden and all of the neocons/neolibs. Biden bombed Germany’s pipeline:) EU is dying thanks to its fav ally, USA. Trump LOVES Big Pharma. And he’s a germophobe. That’s one of the reasons it was so easy to convince him of the scary virus. He has no ability to reason things out. He relies on covering his ass. That’s why when Dr. Birx said 2 million will die under your regime, he was like “Let’s lock it down.”:)
There was no Gaza War when Trump was President. Trump worked on a 2 state solution, while getting other Arab states to tolerate Israel. If anything, as a supporter of Israel, Trump can see Israel disappearing if they continue the murder of Palestinians.
The Senate? Kick the fossilized McConnell crew out first, then and only then can Trump get the people he, and America, needs. 2024 isn’t only a Presidential election. Lots of stuff happening.
Trump is CLUELESS like most Americans about the importance of Jerusalem. It does NOT belong to the f88king Israelis. It belongs to the Muslims, Christians and actual Jews, not Zionists. When he gave Jerusalem to the Israelis, that was like throwing down the Gauntlet to the others and he and the rest of the dumbass American masses can’t seem to grasp that simple concept. It was an Act of War. and all of his sanctions against China and Venezuela and others are always an Act of War against the people. It is obscene that we pretend like economic sanctions are no big deal. We are a disgusting lot as a Nation with zero self-awareness or other awareness. We live in a bubble and believe we know everything.
I like the no nonsense explanation
Yep. I hate that MAGA keeps saying Trump didn’t start any new wars. What a pathetic POV. He didn’t stop any wars and, I agree, he used Israel to do what they have always done, stir up shit in the ME. and Trump still LOVES Lindsey Graham. How disgusting.
Agree Trump’s last term was basically gifting Israel whatever it wanted. Kill Solemani, sure. Pull out of the JCPOA with Iran, no problem. Move the American Embassy to Jerusalem, check. Trump’s peace plan for Israel and Palestine was basically an Israeli wish list, while telling the Palestinians to f*ck themselves.
My guess is if Trump gets elected, he’ll likely continue his appeasement policies toward Israel and continue to do their bidding. Israel has been trying to get the US to attack Iran since 9/11. As Israel feeds the US bogus intelligence and has a history of false flags. War by deception is how Israel operates. And the US leadership are too stupid to realize how they are being played.
Well, let’s recall Trump’s support for the huge tax cut to the billionaires. That move makes America worse. Lets’ remember he wanted to invade Iran and Venezuela and had to be dissuaded from that. He wanted to increase torture, which only spurs more hatred. I do not know that he wants to make America great but to use office to elevate himself. He signs bills extravagantly displaying his signature, stiffs his workers, the latter of which shows he cares little about the little people. He will disappoint American supporters in the end. Have no time to expand on this, but he is as disappointing as the Demublicans or Republicrats.
Yes Trump wants a war with Iran because his masters in Israel want the US to do its dirty work. Israel is smart enough that if Trump gets elected the Israeli leadership will find a way to create an incident which drags the US into a war with Iran.
In a way he’s like Obama, a blank slate for the liberals to project their hopes, and fears.
At the end of the day, he’s just a dude with a big ego and perhaps an axe to grind against the establishment.
Like many of us, Trump’s pro Israel stance dates back to before the reincarnation of Israel as a hated fascist enterprise. He managed to get NK onside! I don’t see him having any difficulties here, especially if Bibi is gone before Trump takes over, as everyone now expects.
Trump managed to gaslight NK into nearly giving up the only lever that keeps them safe from US/ZATO predation… nuclear weapons. He tried the same tactic with Putin and Putin kept on preparing for the inevitable anyway. Stalling techniques, just like Minsk1&2 and Istanbul. He may have been genuine, but the assholes in his administration had no intention of honouring anything he did, signed or not.
If the US Congress “confirmation” system will prevent him from putting rational and competent people in his cabinet, he will fare no better than the last time. Plus his record on Israel/Syria/Iran is as suspect as the rest of the “candidates”… y’know, nepotism, weepy daughter, lunatic ZIONIST son-in-law crap.
Personally, I wouldn’t say he was pragmatic at all when it comes to zionist interests. He gave them virtually everything they wanted of him at the time – things that no president in history would do – like support the move of the capital to Jerusalem.
And I saw no foreign war he got us out of, in spite of his loud pronouncement to the contrary. His threats to move out of NATO was that – just threats in order to get Europe to pitch in more money. He would never have left NATO. He enacted huge tax reductions for the rich further increasing the wealth divide and pushing America towards a banana republic. He was in favour of more interventions in South America to maintain American interests there – wasn’t he the guy responsible for the ridiculous Juan Guaido fiasco?
Like any populist, he carried with him a magnetic personality, attracting people to his “stated” causes. But when you took a look at what he was really doing, or not doing, you saw clearly that that he was just another wolf in sheep’s clothing working on behalf of oligarchic interests, not those of the people.
Face it, America is rotten from deep, deep inside and has no chance in hell of recovering from this disease without destroying and remaking the country – which will probably happen anyway, though not as people would want.
I’m not cynical – just realistic. I wish the best for the country, but fear it is too late for real change (a nod towards Obama and his ilk).
“America is rotten from deep, deep inside and has no chance in hell of recovering from this disease without destroying and remaking the country”
Well said.Nothing good can come out of the US system. It’s broken,warped, and morally bankrupt.The best hope for the US is to be nuked back to the stone age and see if a better civilisation can be built from clot shotted, radiated zombies..
Absolutely. When the military is no longer honoring the U.S. Constitution, then all hope is lost. All hope is lost.
I have read 8 books about Trump and I’d say he isn’t a wolf in sheep’s clothing, he’s a sheep in wolf’s clothing. He doesn’t spend any time thinking and probably doesn’t know how. He just blurts out whatever comes into his head, and the really important question is, who put it there?
Trump is pro Zionist but he isn’t blind to their ambitions and realities of the situation. https://twitter.com/ifamericansknew/status/1470787815382425606
Trump at least speaks his mind
So stopping one million illegal migrants per month is “not improving much of anything ?” Stopping the slaughter in Ukraine ? Stopping Israel from starting WW3 ? Laying off millions of feds and closing entire beaucracies ? Somebody needs to wake up.
Yes, the Federal government has three million + employees not including the military. That’s a lot of people suckling on the public teat. Washington DC is a hell hole of government workers who will do anything to protect their gravy train. Does anyone with half a brain wonder why it’s impossible to get a fair trail there?
LOL. He won’t do any of that bc it is impossible:) Where do U live, Biff, in Swampsville? Who gave MIC the $Trillion when he was in power? LMAO. Trump loves him some military and its bombs. He loved murdering Soleimani. Gave him a hard on. Trump is a disgrace and big fat liar.
Just because Trump says he is going to do something, doesn’t mean he does it.
Drone warfare sinks every President of the USA.
My sentiments exactly. I don’t think I’ll vote – not that it makes any difference. Can’t support Trump a second time when he says we should “let (Gaza) play out”. Plus moving Israel’s top city to Jerusalem, his ambassadorial appointments and the nepotistic realationship to his creepy son in law who influences policy. Nuh uh.
There’s nobody who could win to vote for.
I find it amusing that in the (still) greatest, most powerful nation on earth, how tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of Americans prefer to act upon “what might or might not happen”. If you think Trump might do some good, as totally opposed to what Biden or Michelle Obama or Gavin Newson (puke, argh!!) would do and you and millions more don’t vote, then there is a chance that one of these children of Beelzebub might win and continue the destruction???
bc we DO NOT think Trump can do any good. Read the comments:) Trump is a fraud. No one gets into power unless they are SOLD OUT. REad my lips. Trump will make things worse bc he is CLUELESS. Anyone who gets in will make things worse bc it is written in stone by the oligarchs that we will be destroyed. and we have zero willpower as citizens. We are NOT revolutionaries bc we are afraid of violence. It is against the Rules Based Order to be a violent revolutionary despite the fact that our govt uses violence on us and everywhere else on the planet. of course they propagandize us to “NOT USE VIOLENCE. it’s agains the Constitition. Thou must be peacful or we will use violence to f88k U up:)”
Lol! I pressed the plus button by mistake. I actually disagree with you.
Ok, Trump is pro-Israel but that is just one aspect of his motivations. He is also war-averse. But the paramount thing right now is he is not liberal-left. The liberal left had to be stopped in order to recover the nation from a better starting point. Further left-liberal driven national decline will make matters worse, recovery will be farther away and from a lower point. Trump at least will slow down the rate of decline, while we (Westerners in general) wait for a really good leader to start the recovery of the great American nation.
U ppl are exhausting:) there is ONLY ONE PARTY: the UNIPARTY. GOP loves the liberals. They do all the liberal stuff and GOP just sits back and smirks. Wake up. and Trump is a total neocon.
Pretty much the way I see it also. Same man up against the same political parties. Trump will likely win, especially if he picks a religious, black female as VP. Those same political parties will again fight him tooth and nail and cause the country to be miserable for another four years. Regardless of who wins, it will be a lose-lose situation for the citizen.
I will not be voting this year, my vote has not counted since the advent of electronic voting. No need to waste my time and effort on a process that is just as corrupt this election, as it has been for a number of elections.
Yes, there is that worry. Remember, Trump is also an oligarch and, as Doug Macgregor and others have stated: “He has good instincts about dealing with other countries”. The problem with successful business elites (like the WEF too) is that they are not educated and their success in the private sector ensures a competence that is very limited to a business model only. (Bill Gates and his comment about supporting deforestration). They do not think like the Larry Johnsons and the Doug Macgregors or Gregory Sachs. They lack fundamental education where it is required. One can find good instincts from someone running a country store, but that background and mindset is inadequate for dealing with countries that have different cultural and strategic priorities. Hence we see Trump allowing the assassination of Iran’s Soleimani or instigating a missile attack against Syria. There really is too many of these inadequate leaders running the show ion the West. But he may still end up a better choice because he may not (only “may not”) start WW3.
“Gregory Sachs..”
Is he the good twin of Jeffrey?
I’m ready to write in a candidate as a show of protest. Cause my state’s going blue no matter. Maybe Putin he’s neither a fascist nor communist.
Voting matters. Staying home is a vote for Biden and “Old Nikki”. I think that Trump has learned a lot compared to last time. He won’t make the same mistakes twice.
Larry, given Trump lack the experience needed to be a politician (by this i mean some qualities on par with Putin and Xi), will the next Trump presidency plagued with people from the swamp, like it did before during his first tenure?
I hope not. I think he has learned some very tough lessons. He may have thought the commercial real estate was a crooked affair. Compared to politics, it’s a kid’s game. His ability to fight back against lawfare is winning him support, not sapping it.
Still has to get a cabinet confirmed by the swamp. Er… Senate. I don’t see it happening unless he goes extra-legal to do it.
That’s the point. Whatever Trump could do will likely be derailed because his appointees have to be approved by the very people he wants to get rid of.
America is cancerous and I am afraid it must be destroyed before it can be reborn.
If Trump knew what he was doing, he would simply have his supporters go annoy the shit out of these Senators when they’re on recess. Make viral tiktoks of them trying to explain why they won’t confirm so and so. Forever.
Nothing illegal about annoying public servants in public. 1st amendment.
Fuck man I should be his advisor!
Hmmm… annoying constituents vs money in the bank from people who will kill you if stop playing ball… yeah, that could work.
Where did that idea come from? Having the Senate (the Congress-legislative branch) have to approve the President’s-Executive branch cabinet???
Larry, I listen to you almost daily, deep respect for your recent positions: shows clear thinking and courage. I understand if you are hopeful regarding Trump but my advice is to be prepared to resist pressure to go along if (when) he and his “team” start taking actions in support of Empire, especially Israel. Stand firm. Push back on him.
Ok,. almost a response to my commentary too. You are right. as far as that goes, but all of these recent presidents and candidates, W.,Obama,. Hillary and Biden (of course,. Biden) are a disgrace. There is not even common sense allowed (Russiagate). All have huge holes in their competence and Americans seem to mirror their own inadequacies by electing these clowns. The clowns are no better than the average zenophobic citizens who have allowed their country to slip away from them. Maybe a Doug Macgregor at the helm may make a difference?
Do U truly believe We the People actually elected any of these ppl?? smh
Something important to note here, especially for the simple reason that nobody has even mentioned it. Regarding recent candidates.
Gary Johnson and Jill Stein in 2016. Either one would have been way better by large multiples than Trump or H. Clinton. At least some people noticed them in 2016. I know people who voted for them.
Since that election, nobody outside the duopoly/Uniparty even seems to be mentioned anywhere. At least one factor, I think, barrages of people howling “yer throwing away your vote!” because of being brainwashed about “our two party system!”. It isn’t. At least, it wasn’t designed to be… it was not supposed to be an ANY party system! If anything, it has only kind of become a de facto “two party system” by being taken over by the two rival criminal gangs we have dominating everything.
Good question and a big unknown. If he wants to “negotiate” with Iran he’d best refrain from doing stupid shit such as assassinating a popular military leader as he did with General Soleimani.
That war crime will not be overcome no matter how much bullshit and bluster drumpf spews out.
It was a cowardly, premeditated assassination and Iran has still not fully avenged it.
…and moving the embassy to Jerusalem.
There is another way to look at this. Trump’s move game him some leverage over Israel by virtue of being the first President to deliver on a promise made by all Presidents going back to Ronald Reagan. Put him in a stronger negotiating position with Israel and paved the way for his opening to Saudi Arabia.
Delivering on a bad promise that would only jeopardise the claimed belief in a two-state solution is not a praiseworthy move. Overtures to Saudi Arabia is generally about money, and the Western belief in a bulwark against the Arab world. Trump seeks adulation, and that move got him lots of it from the Evangelicals and the pro-Israel lobby.He protected MBS because MBS was worth more to him than the life of Jamal Khashoggi. Considering Trump’s constant “me, me and me”, I don’t mean he did it because Saudi Arabia was worth more to the USA. Similarly, he was proud of soldiers in Syria for their oil.
I can’t prove it, but based on what was going on at the time, I think it’s quite possible that the assassination took place without Trump’s knowledge, and when it was done, he felt he had to claim responsibility or he would be exposed as completely powerless. The Pentagon was, at the time, going its own way in Syria and Afghanistan, directly disobeying Trump’s directives. Why should assassinating an Iranian general on Iraqi soil require presidential approval all of a sudden? Not that this is going to help him with Iran, unless he puts a lot of brass in prison and comes clean, which I don’t see happening.
Only shows Trump couldn’t do other than the Deep State dictated. He was fully aware of the 59 Tomahawks launched over Xi’s chocolate cake.
He may be the cleanest dirty suit, but as noted by others, that bar is lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut. And he’s slipperier than deer guts on a doorknob. Like all politicians and corporates.
It REALLY sucks to be a voter in a “democracy” these days. All of US/ZATO has the same problem.
I agree. I’m not a Trump advocate, I’m just pointing out the futility of electing a president of the US without electing an entire congress and having the material power in the street to contain the Agencies and the Supreme Court. I don’t believe anything can be improved within the confines of legality.
Congress is terrified of the CIA and Pentagon:) How would we ever get a majority in Congress that would have the balls to stand up to that arm of the Cabal? lol. There is also the Exceptionalism mentality that runs deep and wide in America. It clouds their judgment. Iran is not the problem, nor is China or Russia or NK. The problem is USA 100%. Most Americans will never accept that fact. esp. Trump and his supporters. They still believe in US exceptionalism. what a farce.
Precisely and most of MAGA don’t even seem to understand that:( they think it was a great triumph. MAGA is not anti-war. People can say whatever but MAGA doesn’t say a damn thing about being in Syria or Iraq or what Trump did to Venezuela. They are terrified of socialism and communism and will go to war at the drop of a hat if they feel threatened:) that includes those evil Muslims in Iran. These ppl are clueless just like Trump. Birds of a feather.
Most people commenting on Trump’s prior picks seem to have amnesia about the circumstances.
When he came to office, the Russia collusion hoax was at a peak, with most of the country at least wondering whether there was anything to it. Ryan and McConnell were both clear they were looking for a way to abort his presidency. Potential members of his administration had to wonder whether they would be there long if they left another position to join.
The FBI and deep state ambushed Michael Flynn, showing the risks for appointees and undercutting critical input from Flynn, who knew the deep state well. Jeff Sessions recused himself as AG, without forewarning Trump, exposing Trump and his supporters to continued subversion by the FBI and DOJ under, effectively, Rodentstein. McConnell made clear that the Senate would refuse to confirm any alternative to Sessions (and thereby Rodenstein) which Trump tried to appoint.
It seems obvious that in the ensuing years he has been building ties and knowledge of people outside the beltway who might be potential appointees aligned with his political position, so he will have a more appropriate list to call on. There are also more members of Congress who are “MAGA” aligned and probably more will come in on his coat-tails in 2024. He is obviously far more knowledgeable now about the ways of the deep state and, since he is the most vetted person in history for the position of president and has proved his bona fides to the public over the last 8 years, he will be far more powerful to fight obstruction from the deep state, RINOs and commiecrats.
Whatever Trump’s list is, he still has to get it approved by the Senate. Please tell me how that’s going to happen.
There are some individuals, like Jeffrey Sachs, the Senate would never be able to refuse. Especially for Secretary of State. He is eminently qualified for such a position. Certainly far more than Mike Pompeo or Antony Blinken.
I think you underestimate the power of the Senate to reject cabinet nominees. They do it frequently, and the current Senate is almost entirely composed of swamp critters that don’t want the swamp to be drained. They have the power to stop Trump’s nominees, and they will use it.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
It will, to some degree, depend on the size of a Trump victory. If it is strong he will be emboldened to go scorched earth on senators attempting to obstruct his agenda. There may, for instance, suddenly be multiple versions of Senator Menendez. Most of them are dirty, and it is not hidden very deep. Just takes a willingness to start charging. Once they realize he is quite willing to haul crooked senators into court, they will fall in line. Only ones immune from that are the honest ones, whom you can probably count on one hand.
Late in Trump’s first term, when the Senate was making it difficult for him to appoint John Ratcliffe as Director of National Intelligence, Trump appointed Ric Grenell as an activist interim DNI, and the swamp decided Grenell was worse, from their point of view, than they feared Ratcliffe would be. So the Ratcliffe nomination passed. Expect Trump to make use of multiple, activist interim appointments if the Senate impedes his nominations. He now knows how to play that game.
If he’s got a difficult agency, like the FBI, he may make multiple sackings at the top until he reaches an officer willing to pursue Trump’s agenda.
He has incredible resilience and has come out stronger from the unprecedented attacks he has and is subject to. He is also a creative operator who would enter a new term with a far improved understanding of the establishment and how to beat them.
The thing is, there are three branches of the American government, the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. Trump has no way to control any of them. In theory, he is commander in chief, but the Pentagon already showed how much it cares about that. The security services are in league with the swamp, so he can’t use the FBI, the NSA, or the DHS to drain the swamp. If he did get dirt, he’d have to resort to lawfare, and he doesn’t control the judiciary either. Don’t for a moment believe that SCOTUS is Trump’s ally.
You can change the US government by electing a two thirds majority of supporters to the Congress, 67 to the Senate, having a terrible accident in the Supreme Court, and controlling an armed faction that can A) keep you safe; B) Arrest high government officials in large numbers; C) Shut down the three-letter agencies; and having enough respect from the other side’s base that they don’t start an insurrection while you’re mangling the Constitution.
Trump has NONE of that.
You frame the question wrongly. Trump did not select his team (except for Flynn, Bannon, and a few others at the start). His team was imposed on him by the Republican establishment upon the threat of supporting the impeachment by Democrats. So the question is: will Trump once again be threatened by impeachment to force his hand in selecting his team?
Of course he will. He thinks fishing at the other end of the swamp is the ticket, He thought he had it all figured out the first time around as his own “good Jews” (Sheldon Adelman, Netanyahu) versus the bad Jews: “democrats.” Must have been thrown for a loop when the Adelman widow closed her money bag and discarded him like a used Kleenex and Netanyahu congratulated Biden on his victory…
He is probably working on his revised list of “good jews” who are grateful to him for all he did for Israel to surround himself with.
Larry almost all of what you wrote above, I agree which makes you a smart person 🤣🫡
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/the-fix-is-in-trump-goes-to-prison/
I think Trump still takes New Hampshire. But it will be close. But after that? Look at the calendar. Haley is detested in her home state of South Carolina where Trump is over 50% in polling. Trump is also running away in Nevada. Haley is dead by February 8th with those two losses. She has already played the race card. She will probably double down on the vagina card shortly. But it won’t help.
On the second issue of the third-party folks? On the one hand RFK Jr. appeals to some of my tribe of anti-government people. But I still think he peels more Democrats off. And the Manchin no label nitwits have zero hope.
I also think Biden has some serious issues with the ‘Murican Muslim community. All glad handing aside, he is the motherfucker supplying the bombs killing Palestinian women and children. And if you even take a small corner of the monolithic black Dem voting bloc? Party over.
Powell at the Fed will be cutting rates to elect Biden. Biden will let the student loan deadbeats off while the Supremes ignore his violation of their previous ruling. They will probably legalize weed (and maybe heroin). In short, the entire power structure of Washington DC will be going all in to keep Trump out.
And I think my brain-dead country members for once are going to wake up and flip these motherfuckers the bird. I think Trump wins.
The good news. The bad news is that I think he will run just as much of a shit show as the first one. And it will still be better than Biden.
Rather ironic that you mention playing the “vagina” card, as she is a real cunt. And I mean that in the most perjorative sense of the word.
And if you even take a small corner of the monolithic black Dem voting bloc? Party over.
Hopefully, this powerful speech from Mark Lamont Hill about “Genocide Joe” being given the pulpit in a black church to make a campaign speech goes viral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1tSUECfVzs
Sounds like there were people in that crowd who didn’t need any convincing.
I follow Revolutionary Blackout. and Sabby Sabs. They don’t like Biden bc of Gaza primarily but they also know he has always been a racist and a warmonger. They do NOT support Biden or the Dems NOR do they support switching to GOP. bc they are smarter than that. Wish I had figured that out earlier:) altho I got it down now.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/george-soros-son-says-trump-won-t-disappear-unless-he-winds-up-in-prison/ar-BB1gXJPx?cvid=3fdb4113370240dcb3cc7347fcaf6590&ei=63
George Soros’ son has come out and said that Trump would not go away unless he is in prison. The FIX IS IN and Trump will be imprisoned in the Washington, DC case. That is the plan.
Soros has funded the case in Colorado to kick Trump off the ballot. This is a war for the very soul of the United States. No protest can be mustered to prevent this. We have to crash and burn. Only then will the blind finally see, and those who have understood will get to perhaps spread the word.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/biden-official-s-speedy-trial-remark-sparks-fury-from-donald-trump-allies/ar-BB1gXqyh
They have done everything they possibly can to stop Trump, for they KNOW he will do his best to prevent their agenda. Yet, unfortunately, either side will NOT accept the 2024 election. They are outright pushing to put Trump in prison. The Attorney General has now come out pushing for a speedy trial in DC because they think throwing Trump in prison will be the only thing that will stop him.
These people are so desperate to impose their totalitarian state that they refuse to back off. If they cannot imprison Trump, they will assassinate him. We are approaching the darkest days of our lives.
If the Supreme Court yields to this conspiracy to imprison Trump, it could be like the Dread Scott decision, where they tried to reduce the tension by claiming blacks could not be citizens of the United States and that they were, in fact, property. They thought they were cutting the baby in half to prevent a civil war. But that decision led the people to vote for Abraham Lincoln, who, by the way, was also taken off the ballot in several states. If they buy this argument that Trump was acting as a candidate and NOT as President, then they probably will think that putting him in prison will lower the tensions. That will not end well for them or the nation.
The other quirk in the election cases is that he’s accused of using legal advice and the legal system, as in means available under the law, to challenge the election. It won’t stick under appeal, but the idea is to tie him up, burn through his cash and use the publicity to cripple his campaign. Same on the documents case, where precedent is the records are whatever he says they are (thanks to Clinton and Obama) so after appeals he’ll walk in those. The Georgia case is a bad joke as well, charging him with election interference for using the means provided for under law to challenge. The New York case is bizarre as he’s charged with fraudulently obtaining loans that he’s long since paid back. Weird since nobody was hurt, and the fundamental thrust in the application was that he could and would pay them back, and he did. I haven’t heard any of his lawyers use that argument, and I’m not thinking they’re the best.
When the smoke clears, he’ll win on appeal, just be out a lot of cash. Even if convicted, I’d bet on him winning the election anyway as everybody is so pissed at Biden.
All of this is designed by the same group of knuckleheads who “knew” they could use Ukraine and sanctions to quickly destroy Russia, Instead they have made Russia stronger.
Likewise, their attacks on Trump have made him even stronger and continue to do so.
All WMD’s are working… Weapons of Mass Distraction.
Pay no attention to the Rothschild/AIPAC machine running full tilt behind the Election Kabuki Theatre. I AM surprised Soros Jr broke MSM cover, very uncharacteristic of Rothschild minions.
the Nation hasn’t had a “soul” in a 100 years. what are U talking about? We have been run by fascists since WW2. Even Col. Macgregor recently stated “US hasn’t had a Constitution since WW2.” U ppl just wish and hope and dream and plan…:)
From slaveowners to fascists. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
I think Trump will take 50 states in the Primaries. He wasn’t a bad President, especially given the whole establishment was working against him. He has a good chance to win this time because of the horrible job FJB is doing, apparently determined to F himself. Trump will get a lot of support from all groups because the establishment hates him. This is the peoples’ chance to “stick it to the man” as the old saying goes. The system isn’t working for anybody except the elites, and everybody knows it. Voting for Trump is a way to poke them in the eye and say “fuck you.”
If elected, Trump will face the same establishment types that blocked him before, but this time, maybe put Flynn back in, as he knows where the bodies are buried in the system. Remember, Flynn was the first one they went after in Trump’s term, they are afraid of him. As to the overall mood of the electorate, as Luongo said in his recent podcast,people aren’t sheep, but comfortable wolves, and when they get uncomfortable, as they are now doing, look out. People are fed up and angry with everything to do with Biden right now, and I suspect a lot will vote Trump if for no other reason than to register their dissatisfaction.
More are tossing the idea of Big Mike running, and, I have to say, Trump head to head with Big Mike (aka Michelle Obama, registered to vote as Mike until 2008) would be entertaining to say the least. Trump would flat out ask if he’s a guy, and suggest proving “she” is a woman. Holy awkward moment Batman. My sense is Biden won’t go peacefully, so Dems will get on the impeachment bandwagon if they have to, and, with no primaries, they’ll have the Superdelegates picking the candidate. All in the interest of “saving democracy” of course, and that job can’t be left to the voters.
I think the Democrats are getting desperate. I think the CIA, FBI, and the rest of the criminally cancerous intelligence establishment is also becoming desperate. I believe these scum will stop at nothing. Never rule out an attempt on his life…. I hate to say outright what everyone else is thinking.
I pray to God I am wrong….
I don’t have to choose sides. I’m just practically (not emotionally) pleased that none of these characters will make the USA great again.They’re all criminals, whether legally or morally e.g., all xenophobic, all believers in exceptionalism (and MAGA).
But, if I put on a realist cap, Trump is the ‘better’ because if he goes to jail, extra chaos, if he gets elected, extra chaos. Win-win for the world.
The USA needs mass introspection, not electioneering MAGA, to become more good than bad to itself. Regarding the world, it hasn’t been good to it in my lifetime so “MAGA” is a misnomer, only something an ‘American’ would say. Even that’s problematic, as everyone south of the USA is Latin American, and the one above is American. Maybe it would be more appropriate, in this moment of internal division, to say the Unionists are experiencing a problem.
I’m not “emotionally pleased” because there are good people everywhere, especially an extraordinary number of activists in the USA, and their pain is required for their country’s attitude adjustment.
“The USA needs mass introspection, not electioneering MAGA, to become more good than bad to itself.”
That.
“As a recent New York Times article emphasized, the notion of a jailed former President running for the White House is an absolutely extraordinary event and our country would be entering “uncharted territory.” But there is also a very real possibility that Trump would win and none of the legal experts consulted by the Times had any idea of what that would entail: “No one knows.”
America’s political system is facing an enormous crisis of legitimacy, perhaps just as serious and potentially fatal as the one that brought down the old USSR in the early 1990s. Our horrendous budget and trade deficits seem permanent but clearly unsustainable, we recently suffered the highest inflation in four decades, and three years ago we experienced the worst urban rioting since the 1960s, as well as the largest spike in the national homicide rate since record-keeping began. We have spent the last eighteen months fighting a losing proxy-war against nuclear-armed Russia on Russia’s own border, astonishingly reckless behavior that would have been unimaginable at the height of the old Cold War.
As of today, there is a serious possibility that Donald Trump will win the Presidency while campaigning from a prison cell. That astonishing prospect perfectly symbolizes the current state of the American political system.”
https://www.unz.com/runz/donald-trump-eugene-debs-and-amlo/
We are heading into very dangerous territory.
Trump would be the hands down winner with a pretty much cheat proof.
However to the globalist, mother-WEFers, the parasite class and the war whores Trump is the mother of all existential threats.
The enemy cannot afford for Trump to get back in office.
Granted he underperformed, but not being a professional parasite he did not understand how Washington works.
Trump is a CEO, being in that position requires you to delegate authority, and as CEO he expects those in whom he delegates authority to do as they are instructed, basically follow the bosses vision. Washington doesn’t work that way. In business you expect competitors or even partners to stab you in the back, but in DC you own team are the worse back stabbed.
I for one look forward to Trump 2,0 The Revenge Tour.
I’ll vote for Trump just because of justices. SC is the only conservative institution we have left. The whole bureaucracy, congress, media, education etc is all illiberal marxist democrats. And SC may save us from some of thier unconstitutional edicts. Trump did well on his judges despite other issues.
Unfortunately it appears as if Trumos picks are not impressive. You expect partisan hacks to vote against Texas regarding the decision on the border but Barrett? Roberts is compromised for sure, FoJ – Friend of Jeff, so I expect that one. The Bushes have their hands firmly up his ass.
Hopefully when things stabilize we can look at a few impeachments.
You don’t need to be a legal scholar to understand the plain language of the constitution.
What I see in America’s future is real insurrection. Growing into civil war. It won’t look like the War Between the States, but all roads seem to lead to it.
Path A) Trump is jailed, Dems win White House => insurrection.
Path B) Trump is assassinated => insurrection
Path C) Trump wins the election => coup by Pentagon and three letter agencies.
Path D) Trump loses the election => half the population won’t buy it, so => insurrection.
Path E) There is no election => insurrection.
Path F) Trump wins, the coup is thwarted, but the last eight decades of US economic/foreign policy come home to roost and Americans start starving and freezing to death. => insurrection.
I have a similar view. …. Moreover, no Trump will make peace with the ambitions of the BRICS+. Especially not with the slow death of the US dollar and China’s technological dynamism. So the spiral of violence will continue. With or without Trump. It makes no difference. In addition, Russia is now going down a path without the slightest consideration of Western interests and nothing will change. I am sorry to have to say this. The current development can only end with two outcomes. Either with a failure of the BRICS+ project (then Mordor will be upon us) or with a total demolition of the US empire and the Western model. In the latter case, a complete reconstruction would be possible. But that would only be possible with a broad social commitment from US society. I fear that this would first require a terrible catastrophe for the population. And that will happen anyway. In one form or another. …. I’m not even sure there will be another election.
I think the Old Guard in the neocon cabal are trying to work their regime-change magic all over Africa, the Middle East, central Europe and Asia, but it’s just a distraction, a delaying action, while they try to get Latin America under control. Fortress America, and I mean all of the Americas. Then we’ll really have Mordor.
They even propagate their totalitarian intentions very publicly. Through the WEF, mainstream media and NGOs. There are fewer and fewer taboos. Translation of the pictures:
“A Nazi could be hanging here.”
“Nazis kill.”
You could say it’s just a few crazy people. But this is being spread en masse in public spaces and distributed at government-organized demonstrations. It goes without saying who is meant by Nazis. All people who are against the government, the WEF, against war and against NATO.
Just a little play on words. Replace the word “Nazis” with the word “Jews”. Then it becomes clear where we stand in Germany.
It ain’t the Jews, it’s the ZIONISTS, both “Jewish” and “Christian”.
BRICS+ is a real issue, more than what most American’s seem to understand. I consider Trump to be a globalist and I have no doubt that Trump would fight BRICS with the might of the military, and bad politics. BRICS is here to stay and countries that want away from the globalist system of financial manipulation want to be a part of BRICS. The greatest threat to the American and European power systems is BRICS.
Russia and China still prefer a “softish” landing for the US/EU/ZATO ECONOMICALLY. Militarily, the US/ZATO is going to be disabled under incessantly prolonged, but contained, US-led actions. Think Ropa-Dope. Go ahead, launch your few dozens of $million$ missiles at the Houthis firing endless piles of $2,000 squibs.
Total, catastrophic collapse of the US/EU is the Rothschild game plan, to make the WEF Great Reset/Panopticon palatable to the embattled and embittered masses via the usual puppets. “there is no alternative”, “… you will be happy…”.
The BRICS+ see this clearly, and know it is not in their best long-term interests, so a total economic/political collapse is unlikely to be caused or suffered by them, despite US-led predations.
The US/EU WILL have a huge economic/debt hole to climb out of, but there will be no Versailles, Marshal Plan or even Warsaw Pact to set the stage for the next Conflict Helix cycle.
I wish I could agree, but Trump’s position on Israel, Iran and China (not to mention Latin America and Africa with all those “s*hole” countries” to which he once infamously referred) is certainly no better than Biden’s. In Russia’s case he is certainly better, but the Russians have already won this war! In other words, I don’t trust him either… It’s a sad state of affairs.
Lesser of two evils. I agree with you that Trump does not offer a panacea.
Have been watching this “lesser of two evils” game for a fair number of elections. And, while I agree with a good many of the points made above, both pro and con regarding another Trump administration, one must admit that Trump is different — how many other candidates/former Presidents (and their supporters) have been singled out, hounded and attacked by the deep state in like manner?
I will vote for Trump, and hope that Bazza McKenzie is right. In the meantime, simply rely upon all these deep state attacks as signals of their increasing desperation.
Anyone who stands against the deep state will be vilified and attacked. Just because Trump (or any other populist champion for that matter) isn’t perfect is no reason to not support him.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. We have chosen a champion, for better or worse. It’s time to call the deep state out and give Trump an opportunity to prove himself.
Hi Larry, you might find this current Counter Intel top dog corruption development out of FBI NY Office very interesting. Nikki even gets a mention.
https://rumble.com/v487548-doj-files-sentencing-submission-in-mcgonigals-dc-case-asks-for-30-months-im.html
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1748758557825155338.html
I like Trump and I’m going to vote for Trump but that doesn’t mean I trust Trump.
If we want him to drain the swamp, we must keep pressing him on that.
The last thing I want to see is for MAGA to become another Tea Party.
I cannot vote for ANY candidate who supports Israel. Biden, Trump, Cornel West, Bobby Kennedy, Jr. all support Israel and their (our) genocide against the Palestinians.
Jill Stein is possibly the only candidate who is against our genocide against the Palestinians and I have no reason to trust her.
I will write in “Heckle Fish” before I will vote for any pro-Zionists.
Trump better wake up and smell the genocide. Zionist daughter and son-in-law or no Zionist daughter and son-in-law. And purge the Zionist donors while you’re at it!
I think it’s a mess. Any speculations are purely guesswork, for I have no idea what the US Powers That Be see as a desirable outcome. And as usual THEY will be making the real decisions.
One factor is that Biden won’t be on the Primary ballot. His campaign wants write-in votes. The Democratic Primary ballot lists a bunch of nobodies, so if any Democrats bother to show up on Tuesday they’re likely to entertain themselves by pretending to be Republicans. Why they’d bother is a mystery to me, for Haley vs Trump is a contest between equally dreadful people.
Putting on my tinfoil hat for a moment, the question of “If” and “how” the Powers That Be might use the situation to their own advantage. Would a super-massive Trump “win” be to their advantage, or would it be better for them if Haley emerges “victorious”?
Back in 2020 the Corporate Media was making anguished howls about the inevitability of a Sanders candidacy until Genocide Joe pulled off his South Carolina “miracle”. All of a sudden (within a span of 2 weeks!) the story was suddenly about Unstoppable Biden.
My point is that the super-rich people who arrange proper election outcomes with their unlimited propaganda and Computer Voting Machines need only some “talking points” to explain an otherwise surprising outcome. “Victor of the SC Primary” was a thin one, but they carried off the ruse nicely for Genocide Joe.
Still wearing my tinfoil hat, I expect Genocide Joe to “win” in November. (if the opponent is DJT) Whoever his VP is at the time will most probably become POTUS before very long after that. The semi-senile old man is failing fast, and there are also many indications that the fat orange p*ssy grabber is also going downhill at a rapid rate.
As things stand now, I won’t be voting for anybody except a throwaway candidate this November. For those who plan to go for one or the other of the two geriatric losers, I’d advise making a VERY careful comparison between their respective VPs.
He is very likely to win. When it happens it is unlikely to make a significant difference. At least not in a way that most expect it. The Hollywood version of a superhero coming to rescue their world. The odds against significant material changes are too great, on both domestic and foreign front. I do not see a single candidate, with a way of thinking that would indicate clear ability to accurately understand the position of the country. The closest one is RFK junior, unfortunately the swamp won’t let him get anywhere close to the reigns of power.
Even if Trump or RFK truly understands the scope of the problem they’re facing, the question that arises is how to solve it. The American dream is gone. How do you deliver that message and chart the path forward? What is the path? How should the country view itself in relation to other powers? The world has changed greatly in the last 20 years, new vision has to account for that. How should Americans view their own culture for the past 40-60 years? What was good, what was bad?
Honest conversation has to occur before that happens, but in what format? MSM is compromised and dissenters are sidelined at the very least. I see hope but not where most are looking. It will come from a place most will never think of.
At best, he can slow down the internal decline a little, which will prolong the confrontation with Russia, Iran and China. The start of reconstruction will be delayed. The absence of an industrial base does not make it possible to break the deadlock with a world war.
The big unknown is the collapse of the dollar and its corollary the over-indebtedness bubble. When is the default on the debt? Is he able to change something about it?
Trump confused her with Pelosi. That was not a sign of dementia. It was a sign of what a cuckoo in the nest she is. I regarded her as a dem even though I knew she was part of the Bush Administration. Somehow I forgot that until she surfaced running for the republican nomination. And she has the ‘fresh from the morgue’ Pelosi appeal.
She belongs with that value-neutral ragbag of neocons currently in charge, and which include Bolton, a republican and as stark, staring bonkers as they come. She has the same wild look in the eye. Seriously, watch her. There is a panic behind that ‘steely’ gaze. It is as if she has been body snatched and the real Haley is still inside, gruesomely alive and appalled at what is being made to come out her mouth.
How any Americans, red or blue, could put a vote to this strange entity, surpasses me. She has one great value to Trump and it was what he also got from Clinton. Despite his own oddities, she makes him appear ordinary, sensible, compassionate…. hell, human. And these days in the US eschelons of power, that is saying something.
Vote Trump. He is your only hope for the return of sanity to the US and in a grand trickle down relief, to everyone else.
I’m living in Europe and for me Trump is a safe bet. He will stop the wars (hopefully!), try to get on terms with BRICS+ and thereby save the Dollar. He will leave the globalist EU to its own devices and the EU will be forced to get sane again. I have some money invested and there is no viable alternative to US markets as of yet. Europe is going down and China has been a disappointment while Russia is closed for us.
i think Trump is a scammer. His first term was ineffective. For the first two years he had both houses and yet failed to produce the infamous wall. He acts like a 5 year old and Biden like a 25 year old. Biden was challenging Trump to a push up contest. That’s what we need s junior high school solution to our nation’s problems. Trump is all about himself. I think he is also dangerous because he may truly believe that the super duper missiles the Russians have were stolen from the US. He may want to challenge Putin to show how tough he is, just like Biden. I hope i am wrong but i feel that Americans are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Kayfabe.
On another note. Just saw that Germany train drivers union calls for another multiday strike
This country is in terrible shape. But do we really see no parallel responsibility between supporting someone in the 1930s who tried to bring Germany out of a hole and committed genocide – and someone who’s trying to save the U.S. and wants to “let (Gaza) play out” ?
Trump will win, unless the DeepState employs extralegal measures. The DS law-fare game is basically over. Trump won that game too.
Trump is by far the lesser of the two evils. One has to be pragmatic about the state of America and the real possibilities, not idealistic options, that currently exist.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/11/16/donald-trump-poses-the-biggest-danger-to-the-world-in-2024
Donald Trump poses the biggest danger to the world in 2024
What his victory in America’s election would mean
The City of London is having conniptions.
And Davos remembers this .
Stock up on popcorn, this is going to be a wild ride!
The EU cats are on a hot tin roof, already in winter…
“Donald Trump poses the biggest danger to the world in 2024”
I view it as a big indicator of the state of things that something like this is posited as a serious item by a supposedly serious periodical. I’m not reading that one, by the way, simply because it requires registration to get past the opening, and frankly, I see no reason to do that in order to read a publication that has already been proving itself to be just one of a whole parade of examples of “idiocy disguised as intellect”.
But, wait! I thought the biggest danger was The Putin, attacking and invading all of Europe, while the Russian army is almost completely destroyed, and besides, even before that it was all convicts with low morale led by incompetent and inept commanders, and they were already out of everything a year and a half ago and working with shovels and scavenged chips from dishwashers? (What? You don’t think that makes any sense? What are you, a Putin apologist repeating Kremlin talking points?)
Seriously, just one of many items that can be foreseen in the period we live in is that over the next few years, a whole long list of formerly respected periodical publications and other “media outlets” are going to be just completely destroyed by their own sabotaging of any credibility they might have had once upon a time.
I predict a whole batch of books will be written by future historians about this subject, with titles like “How The Free Press Became The Fraud Press” and so on.
If we are lucky, a whole batch of books will be written by future historians … . If we are unlucky, there well be no future historians to write those books, no books, no one at all … .
The editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal just admitted at Davos that the corporate media is no longer in control of “the facts”.
I will vote for Trump not because I think he will actually turn the ship around and change anything substantive, unfortunately, it is too late. I will support him because he is by far the lesser of two evils.
GAH! TRUMP! GAAAAH! TRUMP! GAAAAH! TRUMP!
There. I believe I have pretty effectively condensed and summarized a large portion of the noise coming our way for the next nine months or so.
Nikki Haley is too awful to even believe as being a candidate for President… which, with things as they are now, naturally makes her a candidate for President. How could anybody possibly want her? Oh. Right. By being The Not-Trump (see above). Yes, things are really that stupid now.
Refer to the fact that Joe Biden somehow became the Democratic party candidate in 2020. (See this essay by Chris Hedges for a good rundown summary of what a wretched creature our President has always been… now with added dementia: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-four-horsemen-of-gazas-apocalypse )
I had hopes for RFK Jr. … and then I found he’s pretty much 100% “thumbs up for Zionism and genocide!”. Words alone cannot express my disapointment.
I don’t even know what to say about “the No Labels crowd”, AKA “the No Candidate or signs of life” crowd.
Did I mention “GAH! TRUMP!”. Ah, yes, right. Don’t worry, by the way, if you forget we’ll have plenty of reminders. (If it slips your mind, turn on MSNBC, that will be their program contents 24/7.)
All that aside, it is worth mentioning that I am completely astounded by one simple item, from the reign of The Trump. He, as President, the “Commander in Chief”, in the principle of civilian control of the military in the United States of America, issued orders to pull the military out of Syria (where it never should have been), and was ignored by the military command.
Does that not make painfully clear the reality of the US government now?
Even more so by virtue of the fact that this item was completely ignored by our “Free Press”.
I fail to understand the fear too many show about the “flood of illegal migrants.”
These people are not ‘illegal’ but simply people who for various reasons have left their no longer tenable homes to save their lives. Reasons include US sanctions, political instability, egregious exploitation, ecological disaster, and so on. Similar mass migration occurs in Europe out of Africa and West Asia.
We witness a humanitarian crisis not an invasion of illegality as these people seek refuge and asylum.
In the long run, The easiest solution is to address conditions that cause migration in the first place—American actions that create adverse conditions. In the immediate term, I don’t know what we can do, but a military solution only makes things worse, unless of course, we choose to adopt Hitler’s Final Solution.
The campaign breaks down to a good against evil race IMO. If the election is fair, no guarantees about this (I suspect a real effort to rig it too) then who wins boils down to the question can the real support of Trump overwhelm the skullduggery?
If Haley “wins” the US will be at war within days!
L.
In USA, it’s all about the hats.
I wish we had someone else to vote for. But given genocide Joe or Trump, it’s a no brainer. Who in their right mind could vote for Joe F@#%ing Biden.
Given the Democrats ability to manufacture votes, why do you think Trump can win? He won in 2020 but he isn’t the one in the White House.
We are in a desperate situation. I think Trump is our best and truthfully, only hope to crawl out of it. Remember, the opposition will never accept his election, and that’s only if he overcomes the cheating and survives to take the oath. I am deeply worried about our country just circling the drain while the insane leftists and their Deep State operators stand there applauding. I will never understand why they want to destroy the country, but they do. Just a few items here: Trump will stop the border invasion. He knows how to do it, and we are finished if we don’t. (Texas Gov. Abbott did the country a great favor with those busloads and planeloads of illegals. A political disaster for the Democrats.) As Larry wrote this morning, Trump did not know where his enemies were the first time around. Now he does. He also knows the value of so-called ‘Acting’ appointments to get around his enemies in the Senate. Ivanka and her hubby will not be in this new administration. His AG and his FBI and CIA Directors will clean out their respective seventh floors even if those same Directors are only ‘Acting.’ He certainly will pardon or commute the extremely harsh sentences of the Jan6 defendants. I don’t care if he is a rude bully guy from Queens. We’ve already tried |working with the opposition. No more. It’s get tough or die.
Cornel West’s pragmatism informs his idealism, wherein he analyzes the current messes and crises with an eye to make change that fosters working people’s values. Anti-war, anti-oligarchy, pro-justice, and a healthy, life-affirming radical revaluations of what we are doing to each other, and the natural and social environments. None of the current inatitutional structures of the state and economy are sacrosanct. Uniting divisions by identifying those areas that devalue and degrade people’s lives and being ready and willing to change those structures. The only presidential candidate that speaks in a way that doesn’t divide the 99% by minuscule differences made large by continued corporate/1% domination of the political economy.
A movement whose time has come. Will voters see it that way? For the well-being of this country (and the world), we can expect they will if they give up fear and tired political habits and delve into the logic of a new, philosophically radical (no ideology, just fully open relection on experience). We the People, not the corporations and imperial powers.
X’s and O’s, Trump is better equipped to strengthen the economy. Biden, or whoever runs against him, is not. But we know this election isn’t about money, wars, Zionist or not, this election is about Bill of Rights.
It’s not about Trump so much as whom Trump will choose as VP. That will let us know what the future of the country holds more than 4 more years of “USA” chanting from the right and “Orange Man Bad” from the left.
10 bucks says it’s Vivek. Asian-Americans will dominate the future leadership of this country and it’s time we all move on.
No one in this convo seems to acknowledge that US and the World stage is 100% different than it was in 2020. I mean in Reality Putin and Xi are running things, not Biden or Blinken or Nuland or CIA. US are fighting like mad dogs to regain control but it is not looking good for them:) Thank God. BRICS is making enormous progress quickly. They apparently had lots of stuff hammered out B4 the SMO. Even if Trump wanted to reproduce the economy B4 covid, he could not. Putin found Trump “interesting” while he was in office. I doubt he will find him to be the least bit interesting now. Putin thought “the West” was cranky but not necessarily evil. He has learned otherwise. I believe Xi Jinping is learning about this too. The entire Global South is looking to Russia and China for guidance and assistance to wrest themselves from the US evil empire’s clutches and now China has invoked Palestine for entry into UN. I mean, this is a no brainer but US/Israel will certainly block it. But we can see that both Putin and Xi are feelling their Cherios and are taking a lot more responsiblity on the World Stage. Trump won’t interpret that in any Righteous way. He will just want to sanction and bully them into submission. But that will NOT happen. US is no longer a hegemon and Trump and US power elites cannot fathom that and will not accept it so we must all die for their hubris:(
The immigration problem has an extremely easy fix that would result in budgetary cost savings. However, neither Trump nor Biden will ever use this fix. They want the cheap labor and ability to use immigrants to divide the public and drive campaign donations, plus use the issue to shovel money at contractors who feed on the funds associated with illegal immigration.
Stop overthrowing south/latin American governments. Stop threatening and corrupting their governments (they are forced to choose between silver or lead). Drop all of the illegal sanctions against these nations. Do that and the economic displacement of these people ends. Easy peasy, but too many interests want this stuff to happen. The problem is in Washington DC and on Wall St……not at the border.
Trump should listen to Vivek. He had a plan to get rid of the FBI, the Department of Education, etc. Actually had a Plan. Actually had thought about it. There must be some way to give the President control over his own Executive Branch. It exists to serve the President for God’s sake! And invite President Milei of Argentina to come to the White House and pick his brain. He has a very good brain, does Milei (see his interview with Tucker).
History’s great trends have a trajectory of their own. Trump can’t “save” America any more than anyone else can. What he can do is throw a wrench into Davos Man’s attempt to steer the trajectory towards a Neo-Liberal (for lack of a better word) target.
That America’s and the West’s trajectory has entered its descent stage and is now accelerating towards its target is obvious to everyone. The question remains where it’s gonna land. Davos Man wants it to land with its power nodes in his totalitarian hand. If he plays every card he’s got right and attracts assistance from outside, Trump can still prevent that. If he does, he’ll go down in history as the Great Disruptor.
No, he can’t save America, much less make it great again, but by breaking Davos Man’s grip on the controls he can set up a situation where at least some of the Western peoples will get a chance to save themselves.
Agreed. The key point for a future Trump presidency will be chosing the right people for his cabinet. Last time, there were a lot of people who sucked up to him, were put into important positions, and later betrayed him. Nikki is a prime example. I trust that Trump has learned from this.
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