Chipping away at the Deep State; it’s already starting to happen
Chipping away at the Deep State; it’s already starting to happen
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More of the “Trump Effect,” or good things already happening before he even takes office:
Iran reportedly “postponed” a third attack on Israel in hopes of reaching a deal with Trump…
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/11/13/iran-israel-attack-deal-trump/
In an effusively complimentary letter, a member of the Saudi Royals asked Trump to “finish what you started” (i.e., the miraculous Abraham Accords peace deals that were going so well before peace in the Middle East was revoked by executive order of Joe Biden.)
The mayor of New York City is quietly telling hundreds of “migrants” that their free hotel stays will end as of December 15 (not a great time to be kicked out of your hotel in New York), and the deadline to get out has been moved forward from Dec. 31.
Also, the President of South Korea is taking golf lessons in hopes of playing with Trump; the UK hopes to cut a deal with Trump to avoid new tariffs by agreeing to separate more from the EU; EU officials are talking about buying more gas from the US in hopes of getting a discount on Trump’s tariffs; and Steven Colbert revealed that he’s so upset, he’s stress-eating.
Don’t know if this another aspect of the salutary “Trump Effect,” or that Americans are finally unafraid to say how fed up they are with arrogant leftists who are always wrong telling them to shut up, or that media outlets are tired of circling down the financial toilet. But whatever the cause, we’ll take it: The Los Angeles Times has fired its entire leftwing editorial board and wants to replace them with actual journalists who will cover the incoming Trump Administration fairly and factually. Good luck finding any real journalists to hire these days.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/los-angeles-times-owner-fires-far-left-editorial/
It’s also not a good time to be a leftist at CNN or MSNBC. Seems that corporate owners will only put up with so much low-rated and money-losing ranting before they start handing the pinkoes pink slips.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/11/12/cnn-ratings-and-lots-of-firings-coming-n2181920
EPA reform…more likely than ever
When President Trump attempts to reform the EPA to get it away from radical environmental authoritarianism, he’ll now have a much clearer path. This week, in the case of Marin Audubon Society, et al v. FAA, et al, the US Court of Appeals in DC wiped out 46 years' of federal environmental regulations.
The court ruled that a body called the Council on Environmental Quality inside the Executive Office of the President has for years been writing environmental regulations and guidelines and illegally publishing them in the Federal Record, as if they had the force of law, when the CEQ has no such legal authority.
Streiff at Redstate.com has details at the link, along with the ironic news that the case was actually brought by environmentalists who wanted a regulation enforced, but it caused the judges to notice that the regulations never should have been imposed in the first place.
Look for other agencies to rush to reimpose decades’ worth of now-overturned regulations before Trump gets in, but with the SCOTUS having killed the Chevron deference that gave those agencies preferential treatment in court, the feds may be facing a tsunami of lawsuits against their ironfisted eco-dictates.
Wow
If you think Trump’s 312-226 electoral vote victory was a landslide, think of how much larger it would have been if the US Census' counting of illegal immigrants as residents didn’t give blue states 13 more electoral votes than they would otherwise have. That’s according to two new studies by the Center for Immigration Studies. It’s also more fuel for the argument that the Census should count only US citizens.
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More proof that getting your news from “The View” is like getting your prescription meds from a dude selling them out of his car trunk:
Ana Navarro on “The View” ranted that there aren’t enough criminal illegal aliens in the US for a mass deportation, and Trump will be deporting people’s family members who are legal citizens. Incoming ICE Director Tom Homan spared no feelings in denouncing that nonsense on “Hannity” on Fox News. He pointed out there are 1.5 million convicted criminal illegal aliens in the US with removal orders, not to mention thousands of gang members, and deportation of these criminals under Biden-Harris has dropped by 74%.
Homan said “The View” is “like the island of misfit toys; they don't know what they're talking about."
Speaking of “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg joined the TDS victims who are urging liberals not to attend family holiday celebrations with their Trump-voting relatives. We hate to tell them this, but their relatives are probably already praying they won’t show up. Nobody wants to hear them whine about Nazi Trump or tofu turkey at Thanksgiving.
So let’s see: They’re shaving their heads, getting anti-Trump tattoos and cutting relatives out of their lives… Nope, definitely not a cult.
Feel Good Headline of the Day! “Report: Nancy Pelosi Says She Is Doing ‘Terrible.’”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/13/nancy-pelosi-says-she-is-doing-terrible/
This can only be good for America!
The real enemy for Democrats
The Democratic Party is facing an “existential threat,” but it’s not the bad orange man. To paraphrase the comic strip “Pogo,” they have met the enemy, and it is them.
In trying to figure out what caused last week’s shellacking at the polls, some Democrats are crying, pointing fingers, having tantrums and meltdowns, and claiming the problem is that the party wasn’t “progressive” enough (How many men can you fit INTO a girl’s bathroom?!)
But other Democrats are trying to take the party back from the far-left loons and drag it back toward the center. They’ve sensed that catering to the lunatic fringe and its boutique “problems” while calling working class voters stupid bigots and Nazis for complaining about $7-a-pound butter wasn’t a smart election strategy.
Will they be successful in restoring common sense to the Democratic Party? It’s not looking good, if early reactions are any indication.
For instance, former staffers and interns of Rep. Seth Moulton are demanding an apology, and some LGBTQIA+++ activists even want his resignation over "offensive" remarks he made in an op-ed. Here’s what he said (Better cover the eyes of any children in the room):
He said the Democratic Party spends “way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face. I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”
I guess he should be afraid to say that if he wants to be a Democrat politician. He should join us over on the Republican side. We’ve been speaking obvious truths for years and not caring what lunatics say about us. It’s remarkably freeing.
DOGE
Trump kept his promise to appoint Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead DOGE, the new Department of Government Efficiency to restructure and reduce the federal bureaucracy, increase efficiency and stop wasting taxpayer money. Trump called it the “perfect gift to America on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence” and said, referring to the project that developed the atomic bomb, “It will become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time.” And remember, before all the bureaucracy, Manhattan only cost 24 bucks. But that was before Bidenflation.
Democrats who scoff at this should remember that they also scoffed at the notion that Elon Musk could fire most of Twitter’s staff, slash the budget and still have it work efficiently. Now, they’re furious because it works too efficiently.
Not alone
UPDATE! The woman who was fired by FEMA for passing over Trump supporters for hurricane aid in Florida is not going quietly. She told podcast host Roland Martin that she was told she was fired, but no paperwork has been done. She also claimed this unconscionable act was not an isolated incident that she took upon herself. She claims the agency is trying to make her a patsy and that this happened in the Carolinas, too.
We expect that this means North and South Carolina will join Tennessee and Florida in launching state investigations, since they’ll have little confidence in a federal investigation getting to the bottom of it, at least not until after January.
Chipping away at the Deep State; it’s already starting to happen
With Tulsi Gabbard’s strong commitment to freedom, individual rights and peace through strength, along with her military background (two tours in the Middle East with the National Guard), it was a foregone conclusion that President-elect Trump would find a choice spot for her in his second administration. That has happened, with Trump announcing Wednesday that she is his nominee for Director of National Intelligence (DNI). She’s an outstanding pick.
Relatively few Americans even know what the role of the DNI is, but it’s pivotal, especially at this time of reorganization and reform of the intel agencies. Yet most news stories about this, including the one linked to above, offer little clue as to what it’s for, so we’ll explain. First, the federal government has 18 (count ‘em) different intelligence agencies! We’re all familiar with the CIA, FBI and NSA, but there’s also the Defense Intelligence Agency for military intel and numerous others much more obscure. The State Department, Treasury Department and DEA have their own intelligence bureaus. The Army, Navy, Marine Corps., Air Force, Coast Guard and Space Force each have their own intelligence offices. You can learn much more about this at the DNI website.
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/what-we-do/members-of-the-ic
Of course, part of the reform of the intelligence community will almost surely be to eliminate some of these and consolidate others, but in the meantime, the Office of the DNI is intended to be the go-between, the one who coordinates communication and intelligence sharing among all of them.
As DNI, Tulsi will be at the hub of all that. In theory at least, when, say, the CIA wants to work with the FBI on a particular investigation, they’re supposed to work through the DNI. (The CIA isn’t supposed to just go in and spy on Americans, you know --- only the FBI can do that, haha.)
On their website, they provide this capsule description of the DNI’s role: The DNI “serves as the head of the U.S. Intelligence Community, overseeing and directing the implementation of the National Intelligence Program and acting as the principal advisor to the President, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council for intelligence matters related to national security. Specific duties are outlined here…
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-we-are
Obviously, for someone like Trump who himself has been targeted by multiple intelligence agencies and who wants to bring as much transparency as possible to their activities, the person in this job must be impeccably trustworthy. John Ratcliffe, Trump’s superb nominee for CIA Director, used to be the DNI himself. In Trump’s announcement on Tuesday, he said this about Ratcliffe:
“From exposing fake Russian collusion to be a Clinton campaign operation, to catching the FBI’s abuse of Civil Liberties at the FISA Court, John Ratcliffe has always been a warrior for Truth and Honesty with the American public. When 51 intelligence officials were lying about Hunter Biden’s laptop, there was one, John Ratcliffe, telling the truth to the American people.”
In 2020, Trump awarded Ratcliffe the National Security Medal, which is, Trump said, “the Nation’s highest honor for distinguished achievement in the field of intelligence and National Security.” Previously a Texas congressman, Ratcliffe really has been at the leading edge.
Investigative reporter Julie Kelly is liking what she sees at the DOJ, as she sees the “rats fleeing the ship” in anticipation of Trump’s allies coming in and the scales of justice having a chance to “recalibrate.”
For example, in an update on our “Special Counsel” Jack Smith story from Wednesday, he and his prosecution team confirmed they’ll be resigning before Trump takes office on January 20. It’s not yet clear whether or not Smith will file a confidential report summarizing their work, required under the DOJ’s rules for special counsels. Oh, well, Smith always seemed to make up his own rules. And he’s never really been a special counsel, anyway.
According to a story in THE NEW YORK TIMES, Smith now “finds himself on the defensive” (all together now: “Awwwww!!”). This is because, as we reported yesterday, Republicans Jim Jordan, House Judiciary chairman, and Barry Loudermilk, chairman of the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, have told DOJ officials working on their two Trump cases to preserve all of their communications for investigators. (Of course, the House’s sham January 6 committee was supposed to preserve all their records, too, and they chose to destroy them instead, with no repercussions so far. I digress.) The NYT writers say this is “a sure sign that a new balance of power in Washington will make Mr. Smith among those being hunted by congressional investigators and others.”
Ah, we get what you’re saying, NYT writers. It’s the REPUBLICANS who are “hunting” now, simply for wanting accountability for the man who was hunting President Trump and exploiting the legal system in every twisted way possible to stop him from becoming President again.
As Kelly details, Smith “filed unprecedented federal indictments” against the President in Washington for the events of January 6 and in Florida “related to Trump’s alleged hoarding of national defense secrets,” but that his all-out pursuit of Trump is ending with “a whimper, not a bang.” This must surprise all the cable news hosts and so-called legal experts who, she says, “hung on Smith’s every move in court, salivating over the vision of the war-crimes prosecutor [that was Smith’s background] hauling their long-time nemesis off to the gulag in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit.”
No, instead they’re going to see their “nemesis” re-inaugurated. And they won’t understand this, but if Smith turns out to be the one wearing an orange jumpsuit, it won’t be for “revenge” but for justice over his abuses of a defendant’s rights.
Rep. Jordan has also indicated that he may ask Smith to testify publicly, as Special Counsel Robert Mueller had to do after his investigation was over. (Remember how oddly confused Mueller appeared to be? It seemed that his second-in-command Andrew Weissmann might have been the actual leader.) From what she knows of Smith’s personality, Kelly anticipates that he “will lay bare his sense of superiority and air of imperviousness for all the world to see.”
She suggests they also interview Jay Bratt, who is also planning to beat a hasty retreat from the DOJ. Recall that Bratt is alleged to have threatened a defense attorney --- the one who was up for a judgeship? --- in the so-called “classified” documents case, to induce him to pressure his client to flip on Trump. Bratt also visited the Biden White House at least twice and is alleged to have pushed aggressively behind the scenes for the armed FBI raid on Mar-A-Lago, which he sure got.
Kelly goes on to note that, according to a story in POLITICO, DOJ employees are “terrified” over Trump’s return, with one attorney saying that department prosecutors are “losing their minds.” He said, “The fear is that career leadership and career employees everywhere are either going to leave or they’re going to be driven out.”
That’s exactly what needs to happen at the DOJ. And Trump isn’t even in office yet. This is what they’re calling “the Trump effect.” It’s like cockroaches scurrying to hide when the kitchen light comes on.
Prosecutors know they could be in big trouble over such abuses as withholding exculpatory evidence and violating the due process rights of J6 defendants, who often were detained for months and years without knowing the charges against them and without even being able to speak to their attorneys. As Kelly reports, “In June, the Supreme Court concluded the DOJ unlawfully applied 18 USC 1512(c)(2), obstruction of an official proceeding, in J6 cases but not before hundreds were charged and over 100 sent to prison.”
Then we have selective prosecution. Kelly writes that “no other group of political protesters in U.S. history has been subjected to the kind of federal charges levied against J6-ers.” No wonder these prosecutors are panicked; they know what they did. They might have thought they were safe, assuming they’d “get” Trump before he could come back and “get” them. But, again, a re-tooled DOJ “getting” them on things they actually did sounds more like justice, not vengeance.
RELATED STORY: In a very different take on Trump’s new term, MSNBC intel expert Jeremy Bash (Dana Bash’s ex-husband and one of those 51 officials who signed the “classic earmarks” letter about Hunter’s laptop) said on Monday that he “expects” U.S. military and intelligence leaders to undermine President Trump and disobey orders if they decide they’re “unlawful” or “political.”
These are the “institutionalists,” he said, “who will apply “checks and balances.”
Oh, really? Are these the same checks and balances they used when they disregarded Trump’s authorization for 10,000 National Guard troops at the Capitol on January 6, which would have prevented the riot that they apparently really, really wanted to have?
You have to read this. This guy personifies the very attitude that has to be swept from the DOJ and the entire intelligence community.
MORE READING: For when you have time, Trump’s Agenda47 (not to be confused with “Project 2025,” which has nothing to do with Trump) lists point-by-point the actions Trump plans to take to dismantle the Deep State. They involve establishing a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” to declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship, and abuses of power. Transparency at last! Better prepare to be shocked.
And here’s a snippet of Victoria Taft’s interview with investigative reporter Lee Smith about it…
https://x.com/VictoriaTaft/status/1856444459900350969?ref
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But The Fight For Your Financial Freedom Isn't Over. Trump’s enemies are ransacking the economy while his hands are still tied. Learn how Americans are protecting their IRA/401(k)s