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I passed the traitorous weasel John Brennan crossing K Street in downtown DC a few days ago. I briefly thought about uttering something ad hominem, but I do not believe it is ever right to harass public figures; and besides, some Deep-State hidden camera might catch it.
The formerly openly-Communist Brennan foisted the Steele dossier hoax and routinely lied whenever convenient. However, his greatest crime may be that along with Comey and Clapper, he gutted the intelligence and counter-intelligence capabilities of the United States to replace it with an ideologically compliant, woke, anti-American multi-headed government monster bent on “transformation” of the United States.
The ultimate sin of Donald Trump in the eyes of our elite ruling conglomerate is not rude tweets, bad manners, bad temperament, or even any populist or conservative views. It is that he has no respect for the establishment that tried to destroy him. Unlike Bush, McCain, Romney, McConnell, or Nikki Haley, Trump might fire people and/or call for the closure of agencies that no longer serve American interests.
Brennan and the rest of the fifty intelligence “professionals” who participated in the partisan lie about Hunter’s laptop should not have security clearance, employment, or any future contract work with the US government. Every DEI commissar in every agency needs to go. Agencies that are too far gone to reform (FBI? CIA?) need to be dissolved and replaced. Can any of that ever happen?
Whether Trump would actually do any of that and/or whether there could be a GOP Congress willing to fight those battles is an open question. Could there ever be mass deportations, aid cutoffs and enforced hiring restrictions to encourage voluntary departure? Might we see a completed border wall someday? Is there really any hope of legislatively gutting and defunding the DEI industry?
The nation slouches toward a Biden-Trump rematch, an outcome Americans wanted as intensely as new seasons of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo or a remake of My Mother the Car. The substance of the criticisms of Trump’s disposition, personnel handling, and persistent narcissistic distractions are all largely true, which is why we are justified in deep and intense loathing and resentment of those who have made voting for Donald Trump not just a rational but a necessary choice.
The enemy no longer bothers to conceal its control of our government agencies, newsrooms and college campuses. The abuse of media, election rules and raw financial, prosecutorial and regulatory power that will be devoted to the defeat of Donald Trump in 2024 will be brazenly and exponentially increased, simply because with the open celebrations of Hamas, perverts running school systems and the open attack on energy, economic freedom and normal values, a stealth takeover is no longer a viable option. The Eloi are waking up to their predicament.
A win for Democrats would be an obvious unmitigated disaster. But if a GOP win is merely personal vindication for Donald Trump (and temporary preservation of a sane majority on the Supreme Court) but the enemy is allowed to keep all else with no pushback, it may be just a brief delay in the well-planned demise of the United States of America.
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It is absolutely right and well and good to harass public figures who are as evil as Brennan. But you're probably right about Deep State hidden cameras, too.
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Brennan is the worst of the worst. And then CNN was stupid enough to hire him. Ick.
He may have made them an offer they couldn't refuse . . .
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Ms Haley suspended her already-finished campaign this morning. Here's part of what she said:
"It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. And I hope he does that," Haley said as she pointed to those who supported her during her White House run.
"This is now his time for choosing,"
So she did not endorse Trump. It is typical of the Republican Party to expect the conservative America First component. which has become the largest group of Republicans, to always accept the mediocrity of candidates endorsed by the globalist entity but to never accept the candidate of the ignorant MAGA folks. President Trump has made his choice, it seems to me. He chose the United States of America. He has put his life, his wealth, and his family at risk in making his choice. He has proven his ability to govern, even with the multiple knives of his own party buried in his back. He has proven his ability to win. My questions to Ms Haley are, what have you proven and who have you chosen?
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Here is what I find so remarkable about what Donald Trump has accomplished thus far, this all with the available hindsight, of course.
First, I think Trump gained insight into what was actually happening in Washington through his connections and associations in the business and entertainment world helped because he was a New Yorker. Somewhere in that milieu that included interactions with Clintons, Bushes, Obamas, and untold others, Trump gained some sense of the Leftist master plan and to him, as a true American, it was revolting. I think what Trump learned was mainly about two areas, immigration and international trade and that was the focus of his campaign in 2016.
I don't think Trump had much insight into the corruption within the federal bureaucracy beyond what one would normally expect of any large bureaucracy. Chuck Schumer obviously had a much clearer understanding of what was in place within the intelligence agencies which has been publicly revealed since Trump's election.
So what has been revealed by the Establishment with all the effort to get rid of Trump has added ten times as much to the agenda of reasons to depose our existing government and start over as Trump had in mind when he undertook this task.
The last thing I will say that is important in this regard is understanding where people stand on the issues and how carefully Trump must be in his appointments when elected.
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