Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
Answers on a postcard – what would be the humane course of action for a government when economic policies that have now been pursued for over two years have left working class Americans living on credit – a situation that is no doubt being replicated in Europe and the UK? Would it be to raise interests rates in a recession (yes, we're in a recession, even though no one wants to acknowledge that fact) in a bid to reduce the inflation that the government has created? Well, interest rates are traditionally raised to counteract demand side inflation – when there's too much money in people's pockets – by encouraging people to save instead.
Raising the rate will only cause more pain when inflation is due to supply side issues – hugely increased prices for basic food and energy, due to energy policies that have decimated the standard of living of the West. That course of action also tightens the liquidity margins of banks holding government bonds, as they are obliged to pay out higher interest; which in turn hurts Main Street further by contracting available credit. This is economics 101, notwithstanding the fact that the world's central banks have purposefully boxed themselves into a corner over the past fifteen years. However, sensible options are off the table. The progressives are not for turning; apparently, we are teetering on the abyss of runaway global warming and we're just going to have to suck it, even though there is absolutely no evidence that man-made global warming even exists.
The same pedal to the metal approach (and consequent complete absence of compassion) is evident in their pursuit of a proxy war in Ukraine. The collective West has paid no heed to the suffering of the Ukrainian people and the gradual destruction of a nation state. They are fighting to the last Ukrainian, no matter what, despite the fact that the war could easily have been over in a fortnight and would have been had Johnson and Biden not intervened in March of last year. Even now, when China attempts to broker a peace, the United States seems to believe that they are the ones with the effective veto – not Ukraine - because they say that they believe that if Putin keeps the Donbas, there will be a domino effect on other nations. There is, once again, no evidence to support this theory.(1) And I don't think they believe it, anyway; it's a talking point that's simply for public consumption.
Likewise, with their ludicrously over-the-top 'pandemic' response, across the entire Western world. There is not a single aspect of Covid Times that they got right – masks, lock-downs, asymptomatic spread, fatality rates, treatments, 'vaccines'; you name it, they did the opposite of what should have been obvious as, contrary to the cultivated narrative, this wasn't our first rodeo and mitigations were well established. It is also inconceivable that they simply made mistake after mistake, turning away from the more sensible option each time, and the release of Midazolam Matt's 'Lock-down Files' simply confirms the obvious; governments deliberately deceived us, spending our own treasure in efforts to propagandize us and subjugate entire populations.
My point is that there is a certain type of personality that cares not for the well-being of the people, even when it is their express duty so to do. Any spark of empathy has been long extinguished. They are insulated from the hoi polloi by the poodle-like behaviour of the legacy media – those who used to hold them to account are now fellow travellers and narrative enforcers. In short, truth and decency no longer matter to them. They do what they want, make half baked, bland and disingenuous statements in that deathless vernacular favoured by politicians, and carry on regardless. There is no viable political opposition wherever you look – the US, the UK, Germany, France (where they can't even vote Macron out when he overrides parliamentary democracy)(2), Belgium, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, Canada...the list goes on. Uniparty stability is endemic. True democratic accountability, not so much.
The Deep State gravy train continues down the track; the odds of derailment are miniscule, because anyone who could accomplish such a thing has been assimilated. All except one – Donald Trump. In the entirety of the 'developed' world, love him or hate him, the only politician willing to stand up to our would-be tyrants is Orange Man Bad. And, what's more, the tyrants know it. He is the only one they worry about; not DeSantis, Pence, Pompeo, Haley or Sir Keir Something on the other side of the pond. None of them are anything other than establishment figure, malleable and controllable and inside the tent, pissing out.
Pence, the ex-VP, may simply be a spoiler like the others, but it's difficult to see him taking votes from either Trump or DeSantis. He has absolutely no chance with the Republican base and is currently running at around 6-7%. Opposition to him isn't of the undecided variety:
“He has alienated every Republican and Democrat … It’s over. It’s retirement time.”
“He didn’t have the leadership qualities to do what everyone wanted him to do on January 6. He just doesn’t have that spine.”
“I think he put a stain on himself for any normal Republican when he joined the Trump administration...”(3)
In any event, the Uniparty template is well established – it has been tweaked slightly to accommodate Trump, but its basic structure is unchanged:
America First candidate runs in the primary.
GOP leadership pushes out America First candidate in the primary.
RINO is the general election candidate.
GOP says vote for the RINO since the Democrat candidate is worse.
RINO wins.
Patriots get angry with RINO’s actions and/or votes.
Repeat ….(4)
Who gets anointed is far more to do with the character of the prospective candidates than it is with their nominal party affiliation. Clinton, a Democrat initiated the current authoritarian chapter; George W Bush (a Republican) uprated the engine, Obama (a Democrat, again) installed the supercharger and Biden's handlers have fitted the nitrous oxide and buried the accelerator in the floor.
Trump is a disruptor, he challenges the ruling class, he won't play by their rules and they absolutely hate him for it. He brings out the worst in his opponents; he provokes them into revealing their vindictiveness and mendacity. And he refuses to submit to house-training by Democrats.
He has been dumped on from a great height for the better part of seven years now, since before the 2016 election was even contested and seven months before he took office. He has been investigated continuously, unsuccessfully impeached twice (once after he left office, for which there is no constitutional authority) and the witch hunt is still in full cry. The January 6th committee, set up for the express purpose of filing criminal complaints against the former president, ran for a year and was slavered over nightly by the mainstream poodles on CNN and the like.
The committee cherry picked evidence that suited their 'insurrection' narrative and suppressed the evidence that didn't. To that end, they refused to release 41,000 hours of surveillance footage that is, in truth, public property. Simultaneously, the FBI was busting anyone vaguely Republican who was anywhere near the Capitol that afternoon and incarcerating them for up to (and now over) two years for misdemeanors. The kangaroo court, which had no subpoena power, as it was set up in breach of House rules, nonetheless pursued its mission and to hell with the rules – same old, same old. Progressives and the Never Trumpers doing what they always do. More on that shortly.
There are, at the last count, at least six criminal investigations being conducted against Trump, ranging from an accusation of rape, through incitement to insurrection, attempting to overturn a presidential election, tax fraud, all the way down to campaign finance violations. The media have been assiduous in chronicling these stories, for the avoidance of the voting public's doubt. And what has been the result of this tsunami of reputation-destroying reporting and weaponized lawfare? Granted, the smoke and mirrors serve two purposes, the first of which is to provide a pretext for whatever the regime wishes to do next. But, surely the great unwashed must have got the multiple messages by now? Well, it seems that they have, but it's not the message that the establishment was sending.
The major print newspapers' circulations are down by 20% in a single year,(5) even though the likes of the New York Times boasts a readership that is 91% Democrat.(6) Within a year of Trump's 'defeat', CNN's ratings had collapsed by nearly 70% among the key advertisers' demographic of 35-54.(7) Fox News, by contrast, has held its ground, despite being held in low regard by a large number of conservatives and, at times, it has more than twice as many viewers as CNN and MSNBC (the woke vanguard) combined.(8) And Trump himself? Fifty three per cent favorability across all voters (with 31% strongly in favor), an eleven point advantage over Biden.(9) Biden's unpopularity shouldn't have been a surprise; polling around the mid-terms demonstrated that only 9% thought the country was heading in the right direction,(10) not that these sentiments were reflected in the election results, naturally.
The shocker, for the regime at least, is that Trump seems to be made of Teflon - still. The establishment GOP, desperately keen to move on from anything populist, are busy preparing the ground for a cohort of Swamp creatures to challenge the Donald in the primaries next year, but it really isn't looking good for either them or their buddies across the aisle. At the recent CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference), Trump polled 62% to DeSantis' 22%.(11) Among Hispanic voters, the Florida Governor's natural constituency one might think, the divide is even wider; 67% - 20%.(11) Granted, DeSantis hasn't declared that he is running yet, but it's an open secret. A book, nationwide speaking engagements, an interview with the execrable Piers Morgan – this is the well trodden establishment path.
The problem with DeSantis is the lack of a populist base. That may sound counter-intuitive given his evident popularity within the state of Florida, but the fact remains that only 6% of contributions to his campaign are from small donors. The rest is from the corporate class and such entities as the Club for Growth, a lobbying group that represents the interests of U.S. multinationals and Wall Street finance players.(12) He's also dishonest, inasmuch as he won't declare his candidacy promptly and he is already vacillating on policy, as witnessed in the Morgan interview.(13) DeSantis is what the establishment thinks is maverick; in reality, he's the Tea Party made flesh, on the cusp of being seduced and subsumed by Establish Inc who (as long as Trump remains in the race) are in the business of rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic, because the America First voters can see right through them.
Politically, Americans are paying close attention to all the GOP machinations. Among Republicans, Speaker McCarthy's ratings have risen sharply since November, due to his sudden need to keep the America First wing of his Congressional caucus on board– he's up from 54% to 71%, with the 'very favorables' nearly doubling. McConnell, the leader of Senate Republicans and collaborationist-in chief, is down two points with Republicans from an already anemic 34% but, appropriately enough, up 10% with Democrats.(14)
The message to Republicans in both Houses is clear – contrary to the messaging after the mid-terms, Trump's America First agenda is a vote-winner amongst the base, not just with the MAGA faithful. Going against it is popular only with the alleged enemy. The public have also had their collective ear to the ground on another score; 55% of Americans believe that DC Republicans worked with Democrats to keep Trump from being elected in 2020 – 67% of Republicans and even 51% of Democrats.(15) It seems that
“...working people and people on fixed incomes understand the value of America First and Donald Trump in/on their lives. Every other coalition is a small segment of elite minded snobbish people who think they know better. Keep watching.”(16)
The evidence of the regime's inability to gaslight the majority of Americans on matters far and wide is also startlingly apparent. When asked about the desirability of election changes in certain states which do away with the requirement for voter ID, the populace is overwhelmingly against – 83% overall, 93% Republican, 74% Democrat and 84% Independent.(17) Nearly two thirds (64%) of Americans believe that the FBI is being weaponized;(18) that being the case, and given that it is being weaponized against anybody slightly to the right of the Far Left, it seems that Democrats are not fully on board with the regime that they helped to put into power.
By way of a demonstration that the entire January 6th regime narrative has failed to gain the required traction, a whopping 61% of respondents believe that government agents provoked the riot – this includes 57% of Democrats, which ought to be a huge red flag to the regime (but won't be).(19) The cherry on top of the dissident cake is the revelation that 60% of Americans believe that climate change is a religion that has nothing to do with climate,(20) which presumably means that they will vote for the only guy who is clearly not wedded to the concept of net zero.
Trump has set out an explicit position on most of these issues and, even when he has been less than vocal, his actions have spoken for him; he was the one that took the United States out of the Paris Climate Accords and, not insignificantly given what is rapidly heading our way, also the WHO. Membership of the WHO is an article of faith for the globalist elites, as is their supposed fealty to the global warming scam; without these foundations, all the digital horrors and mandates that will remove our individual rights become unenforceable.
The overall takeaway is that, despite all the lies, investigations, impeachments and lawfare, Trump's numbers amongst all voters are higher than in 2016 when everyone (Trump included) expected him to lose to Hillary. All of which leads me to the conclusion that, no matter what the ruling class do, it won't change the underlying data. A majority of 53% is not indicative of a fringe candidate, supported by a small minority of Far Right domestic terrorists.
You and I might conclude given the evidence, that it's time to change tack; to enact policies that benefit the common man, rather than ruining him. We might think that perhaps we should stop tossing fuel on the fire and marginalize Trump instead. We might decide that it's a good time to take our foot off the gas, slip into neutral and conduct a hot debrief. We might examine how it is that Trump's message resonates. The regime will do none of these things. They will do what they always do, which is double down because, while they are bureaucratically nimble, they are also self confessedly superior to the proles, so what we think doesn't really matter.
And also because, ultimately, they have no choice. Yes, it fits with their collective personality, so they'd still be full speed ahead regardless, but they are a long way down the road now. While it is clear that the public is not buying what they are selling, it's not like they can do anything about it, is it? Elections, in all probability for decades, but certainly in the last two cycles, haven't reflected the will of the people. The fraud has been on an epic scale and the warning signs have not been difficult to spot.
An example; in 2008 Obama beat McCain and only two states were uncalled by midnight on the night polls closed. In 2012, when Obama beat Romney, only three states were similarly unaccounted for on the night. Even in 2016, when Trump beat Hillary, the result was known during election night. By contrast, in 2020, at least seven states were late (some by days) and all of them were battleground states. Trump was well ahead in five of them on election night (Pennsylvania by 56-43) and only won one, North Carolina.(21) Of the seven states with margins of less than 3%, Biden won six of them.(22) All were late reporting, some stopped counting several nights running, some had big late night ballot drops overwhelmingly favoring Biden. People notice these things. Some, like myself, conclude that, given the time elapsed and the obviousness of it all, they must have had to create a huge number of ballots to turn defeat into victory.
Everywhere one looks, there are blatant anomalies. No candidate who polled more than 75% in the party primaries has ever lost a presidential election; Trump polled 94% and yet he lost. Presidents fighting a re-election campaign who manage to increase their vote very rarely lose. Indeed, most presidents see their votes decrease and still win (Obama was down 3.5 million in 2012). Trump, on the other hand, gained 11 million votes and lost. Candidates who win Florida, Ohio and Iowa win the election. This was an unbroken trend for sixty years. Trump won them all, Ohio and Iowa by eight points, and lost.
There are 19 bellwether counties; win 15 of these and you win the election. Trump won 18, by large margins, and lost. It wasn't even close, as he won them by an average of 16%. On a larger list of 58 bellwethers, Trump won 51 by an average of 15%, Biden won 7 by an average of 4%. There were 27 'toss-up' House elections, where it was felt that either side could win. Trump's party won them all and gained 13 seats in the House of Representatives. On the day, they held all their Senate seats, too. And yet Trump still lost.
In 2020 Biden underperformed Hillary's 2016 numbers in every urban county yet outperformed her in every metropolitan area in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia.(23) That's targeted fraud. Then there's the slush fund of people who move out of state. In Georgia, last time around, this amounted to 138,221 people. Biden 'won' the state by 12,570.(24) How about uncounted Republican ballots, by way of variety? In Pennsylvania, 2020, there were 160,000 of them.(25) Biden 'won' the state by 81,660.(26)
The 2022 mid-terms were equally egregious. Even an average mid-term election usually trims around 30 House seats and 4 Senate seats from the ranks of the incumbent President's party. In House races, most polling organisations had the Republicans gaining between 10 and 42 seats; in other words, a convincing majority and a slap in the face for the administration. (27) There were, in addition, a minimum of seven Senate races in which the GOP had a viable opportunity to add to their numbers; Washington, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New Hampshire, Georgia and Arizona. Even the left leaning polls (last time around, the average was 2% erroneously in favour of Biden's final tally) had Republicans ahead in three, tied in two and within the margin of error for the other two.(28)
And yet, when the dust settled, thirty three of the thirty four toss-ups in the House had gone the way of the regime and they had gained a seat in the Senate. The Republicans gained the House, but only by four seats. These results defy all rational explanation, both in terms of historical precedent and in terms of voter sentiment as revealed by exit polls. The Republicans said very little, glad to have been tossed a morsel from the progressive table and unable to claim that they were cheated lest they simultaneously find themselves also having to acknowledge Trump's popularity. But the people were not deceived.
Despite the fact that questioning any election, no matter how absurd the result, is now beyond the pale – with the corollary that the odds of cheating outrageously and getting away with it sky rocket as a result – the voting public understood what had occurred and the credibility of the 'system' has been fatally undermined. Again, this ought to trigger the klaxon in Democrat circles and there is some evidence that it has. The response, however, will be to once again carry on regardless, not ease up. Those responsible for what are effectively successive coups are now all in. They need to ride this train to its destination.
A savvy electorate might reasonably recoil against obvious electoral cheating and gravitate towards the nominal opposition, but there is more to this than that. Firstly, they are clearly in favor of a particular type of opposition and they are acutely aware that there is currently only one person who can deliver it. But how has that come about? While Trump did his best to enact his mandate, his presidency was a mixed bag. He is also an obviously imperfect individual whose most consequential flaw was to remain loyal to those who were betraying him. He was, perhaps, unduly influenced by officials who masqueraded as allies, but were in fact bog standard establishment stalwarts.
He was undoubtedly duped by the medical 'experts' into a 'pandemic' response that he was clearly unenthusiastic about, at least initially. Then the blue states ignored his pleas to do something about the summer of 'mostly peaceful' riots. I think it's fair to say that, even though he was aware of the Swamp, he didn't realize quite how deep it was or how unaccountable the intelligence community and the administrative state embedded in the DoJ and the DoD is.
But it seems that a working majority of the people understand what happened. They see a flawed fighter who has their back. They see how the Deep State sabotaged him at every turn. They now know that staffing an administration with like-minded individuals is a Sisyphean task. And, now that he has decided that he will set out his platform, rather than exclusively spending his time dissing his Republican rivals, he is speaking a language that no other politician is capable of. And it seems to be striking a chord. This is what he's committed to - it's worth quoting at length if we are to fully appreciate the depth of Leftist meltdown that will have been engendered:
“In addition, there must also be a complete commitment to dismantling the entire globalist neo-con establishment that is perpetually dragging us into endless wars, pretending to fight for freedom and democracy abroad, while they turn us into a third-world country and a third-world dictatorship right here at home. The State Department, the defense bureaucracy, the intelligence services, and all the rest need to be completely overhauled and reconstituted to fire the Deep Staters and put America First. We have to put America First....
The greatest threat to Western Civilization today is not Russia. It's probably, more than anything else, ourselves and some of the horrible, U.S.A.-hating people that represent us. It's the abolition of our national borders. It’s the failure to police our own cities. It’s the destruction of the rule of law from within. It's the collapse of the nuclear family and fertility rates, like nobody can believe is happening. It's the Marxists who would have us become a Godless nation worshipping at the altar of race, and gender, and environment. And it's the globalist class that has made us totally dependent on China and other foreign countries that basically hate us.
These globalists want to squander all of America's strength, blood and treasure, chasing monsters and phantoms overseas—while keeping us distracted from the havoc they're creating right here at home. These forces are doing more damage to America than Russia and China could ever have dreamed.”(29)
Trump's genius is in saying the things that ordinary conservative folk are thinking; no-one else would dare, because they are insiders. Trump isn't and it's pretty difficult to escape the thrust of his intentions. Just in case there was any residual cognitive fog in the collective progressive mind, the following statements probably blew it away:
“I am your warrior, I am your justice and, for those of you that have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution...I will totally obliterate the Deep State...”(30)
The regime is not accustomed to being challenged in this way. To be sure, in his first iteration, Trump inveighed against the Swamp and excoriated fake news, but he was never as explicit as this. It seems that the distance afforded him by his illegitimate ouster from office has lent him a perspective that he might not have arrived at had he still been head down in the trenches.
I would expect the elites to be taken aback, in the way that bullies usually are when someone finally stands up to them. Bullies don't fight that often – they don't have to, because threats usually suffice – and they are therefore vulnerable to defeat simply because this mode of opposition is so unfamiliar. I would also expect there to be a degree of puzzlement – how is it that, after all the grief they have given him, he is still standing and, more than that, egging them on as never before? The Deep State isn't yet in jeopardy, but it cannot possibly allow a direct challenge such as this to go unanswered; if it does, then its odds of survival plummet exponentially.
A cursory glance at the polling numbers reveals the direction of travel and the likelihood is that these metrics will continue to worsen, as there is no miracle cure for what ails us in the upcoming Build Back Better dystopia. Other dissident types might therefore be encouraged, control of the narrative may gradually be ceded and the social equivalent of a bank run might expose the truth; there aren't very many of them, compared to us. And so, Trump is correctly identified as an existential threat who only seems to be growing stronger as time passes. The globalist cabal can do no more than reach into their toolbox for the only implement they possess – the whack-a-mole hammer.
Their instinct is to kneecap Trump permanently. The one thing we can be certain of, even if the detail may shape shift according to the prevailing winds, is that they are going to make sure that Trump doesn't win the 2024 election. All that has gone before is merely the hors d'ouevre; the globalists plan to serve us all the main course, whether we like it or not. And so, the order of battle as I see it.
My premise is that the earlier they can take him out, the better. Less momentum may equal less outrage – or it may not, but I think they'll want to get it done soonest. However, the best tactics are formulated by the dispassionate and there is little historical evidence supporting the contention that any of the regime players are blessed in that regard. Nonetheless, it seems that four obvious opportunities present themselves:
Plan A. Disqualify Trump from running by ensuring that he acquires a criminal record. A perp walk and jail time would be a gratifying bonus.
Backup Plan. Fix the Republican primaries for (in all probability) DeSantis.
Def Con 3. Instruct the paramilitary wing of the regime (Antifa, BLM and other misbegotten thugs for hire) to reprise their 2020 campaign, throw in a few false flag incidents to make it appear that the lesser spotted 'domestic terrorists' on the Far Right really do exist after all, and arrest more Trump lieutenants on trumped up charges.
Hail Mary. If all else fails, conduct yet another round of massive fraud at the 2024 election and then brazen it out again. This would almost certainly provoke severe pushback, which makes it a win-win.
Presently, they are working to Plan A. Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan DA is currently point man, with a stated intention to 'get Trump'.(31)
“Bragg has aggressively pursued Trump and other progressive priorities so far in his tenure, including not prosecuting some low-level crimes and finding alternatives to incarceration.
He said he had helped sue the Trump administration more than 100 times, as well as led a team that sued the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which resulted in the former president paying $2 million to a number of charities and the foundation’s dissolution.”(32)
He's currently trying to sprinkle some fairy dust over a couple of time expired misdemeanors and transform them into a felony, an endeavor that seems to have stalled within the past week for reasons that are difficult to uncover. Perhaps he (and others) have finally realized that, despite the Manhattan borough being overwhelmingly Democrat, the substance of the indictment itself is so flimsy that the very same prosecutor declined to indict Trump on the very same charges a year ago.(33)
This is also the same DA who has downgraded over half the felony charges in Manhattan to misdemeanors but, in the case of Trump, is trying to upgrade misdemeanors to a federal campaign felony, which is obviously a completely opposite approach, notwithstanding the fact that federal indictments are outside his jurisdiction. The rank hypocrisy may be too rich for even a progressive's palate. The case itself revolves around 'hush money' paid to Stormy Daniels, who alleged she had an affair with Trump. However, such is the convoluted nature of Bragg's case that his novel legal theory has the effect of turning the law on its head:
“The idea that a routine private settlement, unconnected to any campaign activity, is a criminal offense because the settlement should have been paid with official campaign funds is the most preposterous, ludicrous, idiotic, indefensible, fraudulent “legal theory” conceivable. Under this “theory,” candidates must use federal campaign funds for private, personal or corporate matters—an exact inversion of federal law.”(34)
It seems that this witch hunt may well be dead on arrival, but the opportunity to see Trump being handcuffed and fingerprinted is naturally difficult for the Left to surrender. There are, however, other possibilities available. And, of course, all the huffing and puffing of the past week has served to obscure the rather more substantial allegations being leveled at the Biden crime family, namely that three of 'the big guy's' relatives were taking money from the Chinese Communist Party, with no apparent service rendered in lieu.(35) It appears that there are many more revelations to come, not that this particular piece of Congressional business will be anything other than a footnote, if that, on mainstream news channels.
The next attempt to nobble Trump comes from the Special Counsel appointed after the FBI raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago home and the manufactured furore over his possession of 'classified' documents. These documents were apparently in a locked store room, guarded by security. The details are disputed, but my understanding is that Trump is claiming that he had declassified them, which he is entitled to do as President – which he was at the time that the documents were liberated from the White House. If this argument carries the day, then any attempt to indict Trump for some flavor of obstruction would, presumably, hit the buffers.
Lest we forget, Biden himself has come a cropper in similar fashion, but with rather less in the way of mitigation. Initially, we were told that only ten (classified) documents had been found at the Penn Biden Center. It then transpires that documents have been found at three separate locations, not just one. There were a small number of (classified) documents in the garage and six more (classified) documents in the house itself. Now, apparently, nine whole boxes of documents (what's the betting that these are classified, too) have turned up at his lawyers office.(36)
Further, Trump's defense is not one that Biden can avail himself of, as a Vice President (as Biden was at the time) does not have the authority to reclassify documents. There's a Special Counsel assigned to this investigation too, but progress appears to be glacially slow. As one might expect from a Justice Department that has shown itself to be unapologetically partisan.
By way of an example; when Obama left office, he trucked 30 million pages of administration records to a warehouse in Chicago. He promised to digitalize them, as required, and post them online. Somewhat predictably, this hasn't happened.(37) Trump claims that this tranche contains classified material, including documents pertaining to nuclear weapons. Obama and the National Archives say not but, to paraphrase Many Rice-Davis, “Well, they would say that, wouldn't they?”(38) It seems unlikely that, in the absence of digital copies, the National Archive has examined every document in situ, so how would they know what's in the warehouse? But, because Obama is the latter day progressive Messiah he gets a free pass, as will Biden in all probability.
Trump, in the words of Alan Dershovitz, is subject to a special system of 'justice' that is applicable to him alone.(39) After the 2020 election, he called the Governor of Georgia, allegedly a Republican, and urged him to investigate the blatant voter fraud that had plagued the election and cost him the state. The Governor refused to do so and then leaked an edited version of the call to the press; as you do. As previously noted, among many other fraudulent abuses by the Democrats, 138,221 people who had moved out of state voted in the presidential election. Biden 'won' the state by 12,570. And Fulton County is one of the many swing state counties which stopped counting in the middle of the night (when Trump was leading). When they resumed, Biden had somehow performed an overtake; one might think that this was somewhat implausible and worthy of investigation, which was what Trump was requesting.
But, because it's Trump, the call is a clear case of election interference and must be dealt with in the most energetic fashion. To that end, a special grand jury in Fulton County has recommended a range of charges against Trump and his associates, including indictments for racketeering and conspiracy.(40)(41) That's what happens when prosecutors are wedded to the narrative that the election was "...most secure in American history...", due to the fact that "...there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised..."(42). The 'no evidence' canard is a well worn rhetorical trick, used to disguise the fact that no evidence has been sought. It's also worth noting that the straw man erected in the second half of that quote does not cater for many other forms of fraudulently stealing an election, merely the actions listed.
One might think that allowing indictments to go to trial is foolhardy if it allows Trump to finally get before a court with evidence of election fraud, but I would expect a judge to curate any embarrassing lines of inquiry that might torpedo the case's original premise that the Georgia election was a model of integrity. After all, the point is to neuter Trump, not to arrive at an outcome that is just. I would expect this case to be problematic for Trump, if it is pursued – which seems probable. Not because he has done anything wrong, but because there is the opportunity to tailor the prosecution to ensure that he is found guilty.
There are other investigations waiting in the wings. Last year, the Trump Organisation was fined $1.6 million for tax fraud and other crimes and was, predictably, sentenced to pay the maximum fine. Trump himself was not indicted and the Organisation says that it will appeal the judgement. Despite this, the New York Attorney General, one Letitia James, still has the bit between her teeth and has now assumed the roles of prosecutor, judge and jury in advance of trial;
“...our investigation uncovered the fact that Donald Trump and the Trump Organization engaged in significant fraud to inflate his personal net worth by billions of dollars to illegally enrich himself and cheat the system...”(43)
and so naturally she has filed a “sweeping lawsuit”. Additionally, the aforementioned Special Counsel has also been tasked with a second investigation into
“...what led to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and attempts to block the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election. Smith’s work does not include investigating rioters who entered Capitol ground, caused damage or inflicted injuries on police and reporters....”(44)
It seems that, as well as attempting to ensure that Trump cannot even make it as far as the primaries, these cases will bake the Deep State's mandated version of events into a judicially approved narrative. This is often a priority, even if it does little to change the views of those with functioning critical faculties. The regime does like to use the institutions of the state to legitimise itself, even if those same institutions have long been hopelessly corrupted. We saw the same imperative during the 'pandemic', where the CDC, FDA and WHO were used to justify the policy decisions made by the administration. The fact that none of the assertions relied upon in that endeavor were true is besides the point. In their mind, the sheen of legitimacy conferred by officialdom is enough to vanquish dissidents and the hesitant.
To round matters out, the DoJ is also mulling the January 6th committee's multiple criminal referrals against Trump and others for having the temerity to complain about being ousted in a coup d'état. They are as follows:
“Obstruction of an Official Proceeding (18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)), conspiracy to defraud the United States (18 U.S.C. § 371), conspiracy to make a false statement (18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1001) and to "incite," "assist" or "aid and comfort" an insurrection (18 U.S.C. § 2383).”(45)
Plus, of course, two civil case brought by the same woman which allege, firstly, that the former president raped her in 1995 (or 1996, she's not entirely sure) and, secondly, that he defamed her by denying her claim; a claim which has never been tested in a criminal court, where guilt must be established beyond a reasonable doubt.(46) A civil court has a much lower standard of proof; simply, the balance of probabilities. Technically, a finding of culpability will not occasion a criminal conviction, but would presumably inflict considerable damage to his presidential campaign.
Attempting to establish the truth of all of these allegations, whether inside a court room or without is, for this writer, almost a secondary exercise. It is clear that there is an all-out effort to nobble Trump which, if it is to be measured in terms of public acceptance or approval, is a high risk and somewhat dumbass strategy. The voting public, as can be seen from the polling, can see this lawfare for what it is. If Trump was a capo in the New York mafia, then the fact that he is a presidential candidate should provide no protection. But he's not. He's a political opponent and there is no precedent for this assault. That hasn't discouraged the progressive tendency towards a particular brand of suffocating sanctimony, nor has it cured them of their addiction to hypocrisy – they trot out the usual homilies about how 'nobody is above the law', whilst simultaneously pretending that Hunter Biden's laptop isn't stuffed with evidence of the First Family's manifest corruption.
On balance, given that the regime only needs to win once whereas Trump has to prevail in every case, it seems probable that the former president will be convicted of something, especially as any indictment filed in New York or DC is a slam dunk for the prosecution due to the overwhelming Democrat aligned jury pool. That will be the cue for an assertion that this automatically means that Trump can no longer run. This is not true, but it sounds like it should be, which is almost as good. I would expect steaming heaps of obfuscation by the mainstream media, but the fact of the matter is that there is nothing in the constitution of the United States that prevents a convicted felon from running for President.
This is unlikely to be an oversight on behalf of the Founders; they were well aware of the state's capacity for shenanigans of the type it's attempting to inflict on Trump. The only requirements are as follows:
“The candidate contesting for the position must be a natural-born citizen of the United States of America. The candidate must be 35 years or older. The candidate should be a US resident for 14 years.”(47)
But, as is often the case, there's an 'except' in the equation – several of them, in fact. First and foremost, there's the Fourteenth Amendment, section three, which states that;
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”(48)
The January 6th committee recommendations are clearly intended to square that particular circle, should the DoJ decide to prefer charges. The chances of two thirds of either House voting to obviate this condition are vanishingly small. There is another possible avenue that could prove equally effective. While, according to the constitution, a person may even run for president whilst incarcerated, the situation apropos felony convictions is far cloudier at state level:
“Apart from seeking attention for himself, Bragg's scheme against President Trump could not be more obvious. By manufacturing felony charges on cooked-up, fantastical Stormy Daniels legal theories, Bragg knows that at least 20 states have laws, which, in one way or another, prohibit convicted felons from running for public office or otherwise appearing on state-wide ballots.”(49)
Usually these prohibitions are linked to the restoration of the vote, post sentence. For example, Louisiana won't allow a run for office until a minimum of five years after the completion of a sentence, Nebraska mandates two years (plus a pardon) and Virginia requires a Governor's pardon.(50) Other states have similar requirements.
If Trump were convicted of any felony, no matter how minor, it's easy to see that he would be tied up in legal challenges for as long as is deemed necessary by the regime. The justice system will have him exactly where it wants him and it's inconceivable that it will not take full advantage. The timing of hearings and possible trials is completely within the court's gift – these could easily be manipulated to cause maximum inconvenience during campaign season.
Initial rulings that penalize Trump and which would then require the attentions of the appellate courts, if challenged, hearings that are postponed, or any number of legally acceptable delaying tactics could all be employed to make life extremely difficult, if not impossible. If the insurrection narrative is kiboshed, I would expect the felony narrative to play out as a fallback.
In the highly unlikely event that none of the myriad opportunities that the regime has granted itself are taken and they have to go to Defcon 3, they can always resume their meddling in Republican primaries. This is easier than you might think, and they've already got form for it. Last time around, the Democrats spent $53 million on their opponent's primary elections. The narrative that the Democrats wish to be consumed whole, states that they spent the money on 'fringe' candidates, ensuring that they advanced to the general election. The theory is that these types of Republicans would be easier to defeat.(51)(52) 'Fringe' in this context includes 'election deniers' and outspoken critics of Biden's open borders policy. So, to be clear, despite the near constant demonisation of anyone who dares to express these views in any shape or form (by the Democratic regime), that same regime then funded the campaigns of deplorables who espoused the very same beliefs.
Some Democrats, seemingly still sufficiently connected to the real world, to can see the dangers associated with this skullduggery. Politics is, after all, a dynamic environment and what seemed like a good idea in February might take on an entirely different complexion come November. Plus, such cynicism (were it to come to light, which it inevitably has) is not likely to play well with the electorate. Of course, one must also be aware of the probability of a double bluff as well. The Democrats say that their strategy is effective because 'far right' candidates are easier to beat,(53) when the polling clearly demonstrates that Trump (and, by implication those who espouse similar views) is leading the field comfortably.
The progressives read the same polls as everyone else and spending tens of millions of dollars in an effort to make their life more difficult is obviously not what is happening. A more cynical explanation would be one which posits that they were propping up certain candidates, so that they could take them down at the general election via the medium of ghost ballots, the better to gaslight the gullible into ignoring the polling and falling for the narrative instead, which is that Trump is a has-been and so are his ideas and that's why candidates that he endorsed were rejected by the voting public. In any event, the result of the strategy was something of a mixed bag; some won, some lost and it's difficult to divine any decisive momentum shifts.
The continual depth charging of Bernie Sanders' primary ambitions is an open secret in Democrat circles and, given that they control the election apparatus pretty much across the board in whichever state you care to mention, the temptation to push the thumb down hard on the scale is going to be hard to resist. Especially if there is Republican complicity, which seems likely.
A potentially greater threat comes from the increasing ubiquity of open primaries, whereby there is no requirement for a voter to demonstrate any party affiliation in order to vote. Quite how this has become so widespread is beyond me, as there is clearly an opportunity to dictate who both parties put on the ballot. Astonishingly, twenty four states now employ this method. As Wikipedia notes, accurately for once:
“Opponents of the open primary believe that the open primary leaves the party nominations vulnerable to manipulation and dilution. First, one party could organize its voters to vote in the other party's primary and choose the candidate that they most agree with or that they think their party could most easily defeat. Secondly, in the open primary, independent voters can vote in either party. This occurrence may dilute the vote of a particular party and lead to a nominee who does not represent the party's views.”(54)
Even states who have not opted for electoral hari kari are still vulnerable, as there is nothing to prevent a surge of newly minted 'Republican' voters of a Democrat persuasion or, alternatively, the bog standard manipulation of voter rolls as practiced in general elections. The opportunities are disturbingly manifold; all that's additionally required is the will to exploit them, which is not a quality that Democrats are traditionally short of.
However, I suspect that defeating Trump by corrupting the primary election is not likely to be a viable option, unless the regime wants to start a civil war – which cannot be entirely ruled out. When an election is relatively close – perhaps 55-45 – a momentum shift which narrows the race might be believable. A forty point gap is surely too large to bridge convincingly. However, a series of fake polls purportedly illustrating a tightening contest, plus some last minute surprise that the media can pretend actually means something (but which doesn't impact the Republican base) would be indicative of an upcoming attempt at a steal.
If the regime doesn't care whether it's believable or not, or if they actively wish it to be wholly implausible the better to provoke a reaction, then even these fig leaves of respectability won't be deemed necessary. If they have a false flag planned anyway, they may see it as a win-win – either they get their 'insurrection' (which they will relentlessly flag ahead of time), or they intimidate the masses into staying home and assuming the position.
A sensible person might reflect on the fact that, if a substantial portion of their own base believes that the party leadership is dishonest enough to collude with the opposition to influence an election, then there is at least a chance that, to this cohort, party affiliation may matter less than the desire to find common cause with like minded people in the nominal opposition. The prospect of a mass defection would then be a factor that ought to be acknowledged, but there is no sign of that happening.
If the desired outcome cannot be achieved by the end of the primary season (and I am aware that there is at least some chance that, even if Trump navigates a course through the maze of legal issues, the RNC may not chose him as their official candidate – it's clear that they won't want to), which would require them to decimate the MAGA base and inveigle DeSantis onto the ticket, they still have further options available. The Democrats won't shy from a further deployment of the shock troops of 2020 – Antifa and BLM to the fore – with perhaps an additional twist; disguising at least some of them as them as Trump supporters would be a nice touch.
Even if, this time around, the Democrats are in government (and therefore more likely to catch the political flack engendered by another summer of 'mostly peaceful' arson and other assorted mayhem), riots would serve to remind the voting public of what happens when Trump is on the ballot. The official response could then go one of two ways – either do nothing to prevent the disorder and unrest, or declare martial law and either suspend the election or go fully mail-in voting. Another win-win.
Which brings us to the Hail Mary – if all else fails, cheat again come November, 2024. This would be tantamount to an open declaration of war against the people, given the profound mistrust that already exists. It would also require a monumental effort, surely more intense than any that have gone before. The ground is certainly being prepared. Biden signed Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting (number 14109)(55) last year; ostensibly, the intention was to use all 600 federal agencies to expand the voting base. One doesn't have to be terminally cynical to view this explanation with a jaundiced eye. It is inconceivable that a sitting President, especially one as partisan as Biden, would go out of his way to instigate reforms that either benefited the opposition or promoted political parity. And, so it transpires:
“The 2021 executive order on registration was no accident, but the product of a steady pressure campaign by Demos, the socialist Left’s favorite think tank.”(56)
The clear intention is to use the state apparatus to game elections, perhaps to take some of the pressure off the ballot harvesters and other assorted miscreants who bear the greatest burden at present. If so, the combination of a non-existent southern border and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) certainly aided the cause. USCIS added 967,400 new citizens last year and will no doubt add more this year and next. Who and where they are has not been fully established as of yet, but it wouldn't be a surprise to find that they are to be found in disproportionate numbers in swing states; nor would it be a shock to discover that they vote Democrat.(57)
The Left has pumped $461 million into voter registration drives in the past decade.(58) They've obviously now become bold enough to subvert federal resources, too. And just in case there was any lingering doubt as to their intentions:
“Integrating voter registration into routine transactions with federal agencies has the potential to add millions of eligible voters to the registration rolls—a vital step towards dismantling white supremacy in our democracy and building a more representative government.”(59)
The term 'eligible voters' can mean whatever a particular state wishes it to mean. The 1993 Nationwide Voter Registration Act (a Clinton initiative) requires states to offer a simplified form of voter registration for any 'eligible' person who applies for public assistance or for a driving licence.(60) California, home of the original Motor Voter law, now designates non citizens as 'eligible' and adds them to the voter rolls. The wedge is always thinner at one end. And the Left isn't stopping there – their non profits are also flooding the election process with private money:
“Supported by groups with more than $1 billion at their disposal, according to public records, these partisan groups are working with state and local boards to influence functions that have long been the domain of government or political parties.
Registering and turning out voters - once handled primarily by political parties – and design of election office websites and mail-in ballots are being handed over to those same nonprofits, which are staffed by progressive activists that include former Democratic Party advocates, organized labor adherents and community organizers.”(61)
Twenty four states have passed laws curbing these efforts, but the ban isn't as blanketed as might have been hoped. All of this progressive activity is in addition to the existing malfeasance that has blighted the past two election cycles. So, perhaps the chances of engineering a 'victory' at the ballot box are rather better than those typically associated with a Hail Mary pass, after all.
All in all, Trump's chances of overcoming all of the obstacles that will be placed in his way do not appear to be good. And that's before we factor in the possibility that the United States (and the rest of us) may be laboring under yet another set of tyrannical diktats by the end of 2024, if the WHO amendments and Pandemic Treaty have been implemented. All it will need is a declaration that 'climate change' might potentially be a threat to minorities, or some such nonsense, and we'll all be locked-down again and voting from home.
There's also the possibility of some sort of war with Russia, even if it doesn't involve boots on the ground, which rumbles on for years (see Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria etc) and allows the imposition of martial law and the suppression of dissent of every stripe. If we've learned anything over the past three years, it is that there is very little that is too authoritarian for these regimes.
And what if, against all the odds, Trump triumphs in 2024? What then? What does that mean for the United States and, by implication, the rest of us? Can he make good on his promises; to dismantle the Deep State first amongst them? The answer must be no, with caveats. The Deep State is a many headed hydra which is embedded in every meaningful structure, treaty, supranational organisation and revolving door that permeate entire societies.
The Gordian Knot cannot be untied; it must be cut and Trump cannot do that alone, nor can he rely on political allies to assist him in the endeavor. If he looks like he is making meaningful progress, he'll be taken out, one way or the other.
Ultimately, the only solutions lie with us:
“This is not the kind of thing the right likes to hear. By temperament and principle, conservatives would rather be left alone... unlike liberals and leftists, they tend not to be ideologues. They are not trying to fundamentally change the country. They mostly want to be left alone.
But of course, they will never be left alone. The woke radicals will never stop — until someone stops them. A kind of conservative radicalism, or at least activism, is going to be required to accomplish that.”(62)
I'd be very surprised if he makes it back to the White House. If he does, what Trump can do is throw a spanner in the works and ruin the timetable. He could take the US out of the WHO again and disengage from the Paris Climate Accords once more. These actions alone would be hugely consequential and would remove the two pre-eminent Trojan Horses from the arena. Digital passports, Social Credit Scores linked to carbon footprints, the death of cash and so forth would be postponed.
He would only have delayed the inevitable and, in the process, undoubtedly provoked a response that would provide yet more evidence of the nature of the ruling class. That may prove to be Trump's greatest achievement; to be the catalyst that prompts the engagement of the grass roots, the barbarian who ripped the globalist's veil away. And, through his pig-headedness, to show us that fighting the Deep State is still possible.
Citations
(2) https://www.zerohedge.com/political/french-protests-violently-escalate-will-macrons-government-fall
(4) https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/been_there_done_that_not_doing_it_again.html
(5)https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/biggest-us-newspapers-by-circulation/
https://letter.ly/new-york-times-readership-statistics/
(8) https://rumble.com/v2del1e-poll-over-half-of-america-has-a-favorable-view-of-president-trump..html
(9) https://conservativebrief.com/biden-sinks-68252/
(13) https://www.scribd.com/document/628551868/20230227-Yahoo-Tabs-Politics
(17) Ditto
(22) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election#Results
(23) https://www.statista.com/statistics/1139251/voter-turnout-in-us-presidential-and-midterm-elections/
(25) https://www.newsmax.com/larrybell/braynard-chavez-dominion/2020/11/30/id/999315/
(26) https://edition.cnn.com/election/2020/results/state/pennsylvania/president
(30)
(32) https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/19/politics/alvin-bragg-manhattan-district-attorney-trump/index.html
(33) https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/4_ways_to_get_trump.html
(34)
(35) https://www.foxnews.com/shows/sunday-morning-futures
(38) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mandy_Rice-Davies
(39)
(40) https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/20/politics/georgia-racketeering-conspiracy-trump-willis/index.html
(42) https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/2020-election-most-secure-history-dhs/#post-update-40aa9fd8
(43) https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/4_ways_to_get_trump.html
(46) https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/23/anonymous-jury-civil-suit-rape-trump-00088543
(47) https://recordinglaw.com/can-a-convicted-felon-run-for-president/
(48) https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/section-3/
(49) https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/03/alvin_braggs_end_run_around_the_constitution.html
(51) https://nypost.com/2022/09/12/democrats-spend-53m-to-boost-far-right-gop-candidates/
(52) https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/07/democrats-spend-millions-on-republican-primaries
(53) https://www.axios.com/2022/09/18/democratic-meddling-results-republican-primaries
(54) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_primaries_in_the_United_States
(56) https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/the_democrats_plan_to_rig_the_2024_elections.html
(57) https://www.theamericanconservative.com/biden-uses-civil-rights-to-push-biased-voter-registration/
(58) Ditto
(60) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Voter_Registration_Act_of_1993