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Countrymen,
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This post originated on 14NOV15 and undergoes update since then.
01 February 2017
0800 Hours Local Time
Transcript of Remarks by POTUS, For Immediate Release
POTUS: Ladies and Gentlemen, the meeting will come to order. Thank you, and welcome!
We won. Now we punch back three times harder to preserve, protect and defend our Constitution than our predecessors punched to forget, attack and destroy it.
You all do know why we are here. Our nation’s citizens are fed up with being treated like scum and their mother country treated as worthless evil. They sent us here to protect them from foreign and domestic enemies of their nation and ours. We are going to do that, exactly that and only that.
OVERVIEW: We are a country at war. We did not ask for it. We did not start it. But we are in it. We are going to win it. And we are going to win it as a country at war, a whole country at war, not the less than 1% of our citizens dribbled in to date. All of us this time. All in.
Just that small number of us, of course, so skilled and dedicated, gained a victory, thankfully. But then that victory, dearly bought, as we all do know, was hurled away by operators of a political ideology. A political ideology! The manufacture of professors, lawyers and clergymen, no less! Pathetic! Made up stuff, stupid stuff, stuff unrelated to reality. In fact, stuff directly defiant of reality. Stuff, we all do know, that has come back to bite the professors, lawyers and clergymen who made it up! And they keep feeding it to their acolytes! So we are at war with a stupid but potently delusional political ideology and individuals and groups who make and promote it.
This time, our country will buckle down as a country, a whole country, all of us, to put finished to the ideology, the monster, in fact, who cuts us so deep and costs us so dear. Imagine what all of us can do called to the task of complete victory over the ideological monster attacking us. Yes we can.
We — and, in fact, citizens of all countries — face a three-headed monster determined to devour us by arresting our and every country’s freedom. That monster is an ideology bearing the name globalism, the large-scale successor to socialism, and his three heads, his three thinking, planning centers are: trust funders, trafficking gangs and caliphists. Our Departments of Communications — a new one — National Opportunity — a renamed one — and Justice will squish this monster here at home, where he is deeply embedded. Our Departments of Treasury, State and Defense will squish this monster abroad, where also he is deeply embedded.
We did not ask for it, but we are at war. The globalist monster brought this war to us from Europe, South America and the Middle East. He utterly hates our freedom. He hates everything about us and has no intention of turning his eyes from red to blue. Now we are going to win the war here and abroad by making that monster surrender to us, lock, stock and barrel. And then he will reimburse us the expense of our labors on his behalf. We plan to hear that monster sing a happy song, you betcha, by his fundamental transformation into a lovely, little blue-eyed lamb.
Now is the time to say, “No thanks,” if you have even the slightest doubt about your doing this service for our country. Listen to what follows and decide now, today, if you are in or out, will or won’t.
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BLUF #1: You Department Secretaries and I are going to work directly together. I want to emphasize that with the utmost vigor and gravity. Department Secretaries are my go-to guys for everything. Not each of you for everything, but as a Cabinet for everything, each of you for your responsibility and expertise.
The White House bureaucracy is being stripped bare and I expect your departments, agencies, boards, commissions and committees likewise to be addressed. Strip out the study groups, tiger teams and committees. Agencies, boards, commissions and committees we will ask Congress to close or merge into a rationally-related department. Strip out stakeholders and do not use that unctuous, smarmy word in my presence. Strip out every third or every second Office Of … . Tell lobbyists and their clients to run for office. When you need something or want to talk about something, call me directly, or my Chief-of-Staff.
BLUF #2: Once decisions are made, you and I will sing the same song. For that I have two matters specifically in mind.
First: State, Treasury and Defense will work in convergence to the same objective. You three are responsible for making that happen, between yourselves, top level. No committees, no tiger teams, joint study groups and such. Just do it.
If there is conflict amongst you, bring it to me directly, any one or all of you, and I will specify the path to be taken and you will walk it together.
Second: CIA will cease work as a shadow nation and government. Every leak and every tattle will lose CIA 10% of its annual budget, amongst other responses. Try me, ladies and gentleman. Your days of manipulating others’ affairs are over. Bring me covert actions you contemplate for yea or nay, but I want to hear few, and fewer, requests. I will initiate those, to my purposes, not yours, and you — or someone else — will execute them. Capisce?
CIA was created to assist POTUS in the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and other things. That war is won and done, and other things reside in the capacities of actors inside regular Executive Departments. So, CIA is redundant and rent-seeking, as illustrated by their subversions and more of POTUSs not a few. Ladies and gentlemen, I want your agency gone and will make it happen. Scream to The New York Times and plan accordingly.
BLUF #3: My leadership style is this: after sufficient consultation, I will direct an objective and you and your people will create a strategy and execute tactics for achieving that objective in the shortest possible time with the least possible cost to us and anyone with whom we are, let us say, dancing. Your strategy and tactics do not need my pre-approval unless they aim away from the objective to which I have pointed our labors.
If you feel the need to adjust strategy or tactics, fine, do it at top level amongst yourselves. Just keep singing the same song. Contrapuntal is fine but work it towards harmonic convergence. Think circle of fifths. There will be no micro-management from the White House. You are in charge of your departments. You report directly to me.
If after experience you feel an objective needs adjustment or change, fine, tell me. It very well may. So let’s talk about whether it does or not. And top level only, you and I directly, no study groups, tiger teams, conventions, leaks, tattles, etc.
You are going to work harder than perhaps you ever have before in your life. Your compensation will be far less than your worth and your productivity. The only thanks you will get is knowing you have done your best for to preserve, defend and protect Americans’ Constitutional and Spiritual freedom. You do know you will be attacked and reviled from now until you leave office and, for some of you, for years afterwards. Our countrymen need you. That is the reason I asked you to serve in this capacity. I know you are up to it, and so do you.
BLUF#4: Our overall objective is simple: restore the wealth of our nation, both as a nation of united states and as individual citizens and families. Our means for reaching our objective are: we agree procedures with non-belligerents and with belligerents we defeat or detach from but do not manipulate them. If belligerence or resistance is met, we defeat it or we detach from it. We do not play games with it. We do not muck about in others’ business. For example, USAID activity and CIA insurgent training are going to or very near zero. Furthermore, and of highest importance, we treat belligerence or resistance as opportunity to double check the reality of our assumptions and, therefore, the validity of our objective.
BLUF #5: The entertainment budget of your department, agency, board, commission or committee stands now at zero and will not reappear. In addition, from this day your department, agency, board, commission or committee will practice zero-based budgeting. We are doing the nation’s work here, not skimming off her people’s powerlessness.
BLUF #6: As we are doing at the White House, strip from your departments, agencies, boards, commissions and committees of members of, retainers for and sympathizers with the Moslem Brotherhood and its myriad fronts, CAIR, etc. Ditto al Saud. They are the external enemy inside, confusing everything and very nearly everyone. The internal enemies are legion — in the schools, churches, foundations, media, industries and businesses — but I want to name one: Grover Norquist. He is a life-long Quisling. Show him the door, refuse his importunities, condemn., investigate and if possible prosecute his activities.
BLUF #7: We begin reassembling our nation’s faculties by eliminating qualifiers on her citizens and religions. There is one kind of American citizen: an American citizen. Anyone else residing in the country is an alien of one category or another. American citizens are not distinguished by race, ethnicity, gender, etc. No hyphens, no qualifiers. We will ask Congress to update US federal law to eliminate those distinctions and the dis-equalities at law they foster. Likewise, there is one kind of Christian, one kind of Hindu, one kind of Baha’i, one kind of Jew, one kind of Moslem. No hyphens, no qualifiers. We will ask Congress to entrain an XVIIIth Amendment to the US Constitution: The Freedom And Religion Amendment.
BLUF #8: We will ask Congress to remove affirmative action provisions from federal law. Meanwhile, effective immediately, the Executive Branch ceases affirmative action-related activities inside and outside the Three Branches of Federal Government. No caveats. Effective immediately, Executive Branch decisions on hiring, firing and promotion are based on merit alone. If private organizations, such as schools and businesses, wish to use affirmative action provisions, that is their business and none of ours. Regarding affirmative action, they will experience no pressure from us one way or another.
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Now, our Executive Branch comprises core necessities invested, through the decades, by layers of bolt-ons. Many of those bolt-ons face conditions no longer extant and are thus obsolete. Many address state rather than federal responsibilities and are thus over-reaches of federal authority.
To preserve, protect and defend our Constitution, as we swore to do, we will ask Congress to re-form the Executive Branch to face, decisively, foreign and domestic enemies of our Constitution without the expense in time, energy and money of also operating obsolete or improper departments, agencies, boards, commissions and committees. We will ask Congress to comprise the Executive Branch as Cabinet-level Departments only and an exceedingly slender White House structure. Agencies, Bureaus, Commissions and Committees we will ask Congress to abolish or fold into a rationally-related Cabinet-level Department. Le les cuisiniers mieux la nourriture.
At the White House, advisory boards will cease work and dissolve. Office of Management and Budget, Office of the Vice President, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, National Opportunity Advisor (sans National Opportunity Advisor), Office of the Chief of Staff, Office of the Press Secretary, Office of the First Lady, Office of Management and Administration, Oval Office Operations and Office of the White House Counsel will remain. The rest of the Executive Office of the President will disappear, at least from the Executive Office of the President. Some offices and functions will fold into a rationally-related Cabinet-level Department. Most will cease work and dissolve.
Now, let us go through the Departments and ABCs [Agencies, Bureaus, Commissions, Committees, also here]. You have general objectives given above. Here are specifics:
Education: your objective is prepare your department for closure. Some elements may be moved to a continuing or new department.
Housing: your objective is prepare your department for closure. Some elements will be moved to a continuing or new department.
Labor: your objective is prepare your department for closure. Some elements will be moved to a continuing or new department.
Transportation: your objective is prepare your department for closure. Some elements will be moved to a continuing or new department.
Commerce: your objective is prepare your department for closure. Some elements will be moved to a continuing or new department.
Energy: your objective is prepare your department for closure. Some elements will be moved to a continuing or new department.
Justice: your objectives are (1) deregulate/de-nanny-state, (2) restore impartiality in the federal legal system, (3) strike excessive criminalization, especially felony, (4) strike laws meant for conditions not extant, (5) prepare to accept food stamp, school lunch and related programs from Agriculture, student loans from Education and entitlement-welfare programs from Health (current Health and Human Services), (6) investigate and prosecute, under RICO and Alien Enemies Acts, the international criminal conspiracy and organization masquerading in the USA as the Democratic Party-Islam, to include its financial, legal, government personnel, foundation-NGO, media-entertainment and academic supports, (7) with Communications and National Opportunity, encourage state and local law enforcement agencies to stand up a civil defense battalion(s) under their control, tasked with (a) protecting local communications infrastructure and (b) defeating local threats of subversion or violence which exceed those agencies’ capacities, alone, to preempt or defeat, (8) prepare to hand off FBI and DEA to National Opportunity (the new name of current Homeland Security), (9) prepare for repeal of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the Higher Education Act of 1965 [also here], (10) remand funding of academic, corporate and other NGO research to schools, corporations, other NGOs or extinction and (11) prepare to integrate elements of some agencies, boards, commissions and committees. Hercules at the Augean Stables comes to mind.
Interior: your objectives are (1) deregulate/de-nanny-state, to include opening federal land to hydrocarbon production, (2) maintain National Parks and Monuments for generous use by citizens, (3) cease crony capitalist green activities, (4) hold Indian tribes to their word, (5) remove BLM from citizens’ backs, (6) prepare your department for restructuring with elements of Homeland Security, Energy and EPA, (7) remand funding of academic, corporate and other NGO research to schools, corporations, other NGOs or extinction and (8) prepare to integrate elements of some agencies, boards, commissions and committees.
Agriculture: your objectives are (1) deregulate/de-nanny-state, (2) phase out subsidies for cash crops, including biofuel, (3) hand off food stamp, school lunch and related programs to Justice, (4) de-propaganize and deregulate diet, (5) cease crony capitalist green activities, (6) guarantee abundant, healthy food-growing soil and potable water for a growing citizenship nation-wide, (7) remand funding of academic, corporate and other NGO research to schools, corporations, other NGOs or extinction and (8) prepare to integrate elements of some agencies, boards, commissions and committees.
Communications: a new department we will ask Congress to create with elements of current Transportation, Homeland Security, Energy, and perhaps other departments plus some agencies , boards, commissions and/or committees. Your objectives are (1) deregulate/de-nanny-state, (2) keep open and active national communications in electronics, liquids, gases, roads, rails, air, post, electricity and finance, (3) regulate to minimum required by objective (2), (4) with Justice and National Opportunity, encourage state and local law enforcement agencies to stand up a civil defense battalion(s) under their control, tasked with (a) protecting local communications infrastructure and (b) defeating local threats of subversion or violence which exceed those agencies’ capacities, alone, to preempt or defeat, (5) remand funding of academic, corporate and other NGO research to schools, corporations, other NGOs or extinction and (6) prepare to integrate elements of some agencies, boards, commissions and committees. Your assets will include domestic and foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence and covert lethal operations. Think of your mission as protecting our nation’s hardware, her things.
National Opportunity: the new name of current Homeland Security. Some elements will move to other departments and some elements of other departments will move to National Opportunity. Your objectives are (1) deregulate/de-nanny-state, (2) prevent illegal ingress of persons and things across the nation’s borders and through the nation’s land, cyber and air spaces, (3) prepare for repeal of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the Higher Education Act of 1965 [also here], (4) with Justice and Communications, encourage state and local law enforcement agencies to stand up a civil defense battalion(s) under their control, tasked with (a) protecting local communications infrastructure and (b) defeating local threats of subversion or violence which exceed those agencies’ capacities, alone, to preempt or defeat, (5) defeat the three-headed globalist monster trying to devour our country by arresting her freedom: trust funders, trafficking gangs and caliphists, (6) remand funding of academic, corporate and other NGO research to schools, corporations, other NGOs or extinction and (7) prepare to integrate elements of some agencies, boards, commissions and committees. Elements of CIA and Justice will move to National Opportunity. For example, FBI and DEA will move here Your assets will include domestic and foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence and covert lethal operations. Think of your mission as protecting our nation’s software, her persons.
Health: the new name of current Health and Human Services. Some of its elements will move to other departments. Your objectives are (1) deregulate/de-nanny-state, (2) hand-off entitlement-welfare programs to Justice, (3) abandon social engineering schemes, (4) restore mandatory quarantine for persons with highly infectious or not-easily-curable diseases, especially at epidemiological hot-spots, (5) facilitate rapid development and certification of de-infection drugs, (6) remand funding of academic, corporate and other NGO research to schools, corporations, other NGOs or extinction. Your assets will include domestic and foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence and covert lethal operations. Think of your mission as protecting our nation’s viability, her strength.
Treasury: your objectives are (1) deregulate/de-nanny-state, (2) with State and Defense conceive and execute statecraft guided by our fundamental strategic doctrine: against foreign hostility, defeat or detach and do not manipulate, (3) with State and Defense forge a Three Brothers Doctrine for long-term alliance between U.S., Russia and India, (4) von Clausewitz’ Trinity concept is the metric for statecraft in war and peace, use it, (5) secure the value of U.S. currency as independent of all others, (6) with State, Defense and Justice break apart foreign and domestic monopolies and cartels, (7) prepare to implement a Flat Tax and deflate the IRS, (8) prepare to integrate elements of the CIA, (9) construct ROEs to reflect the fact that in war there are no civilians, (10) remand funding of academic, corporate and other NGO research to schools, corporations, other NGOs or extinction and (11) prepare to integrate elements of some agencies, boards, commissions and committees. Your assets will include domestic and foreign intelligence, foreign counter-intelligence and foreign covert lethal operations.
State: your objectives are (1) deregulate/de-nanny-state, (2) with Treasury and Defense conceive and execute statecraft guided by our fundamental strategic doctrine: against foreign hostility, defeat or detach and do not manipulate, (3) with Treasury and Defense forge a Three Brothers Doctrine for long-term alliance between U.S., Russia and India, (4) von Clausewitz’ Trinity concept is the metric for statecraft in war and peace, use it, (5) close USAID, set budget for OECD at zero and keep it there, (6) remove U.S. from U.N. and U.N. from U.S., (7) prepare to integrate elements of the CIA, (8) announce that Monroe (U.S.-protected American Continent) and Jefferson-Bush (U.S. preemptive self-defense) Doctrines are immutable U.S. posture and Kennan (U.S. contains hostile powers) Doctrine is abolished, (9) prepare for repeal of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the Higher Education Act of 1965 [also here], (10) construct ROEs to reflect the fact that in war there are no civilians, (11) remand funding of academic, corporate and other NGO research to schools, corporations, other NGOs or extinction and (12) prepare to integrate elements of some agencies, boards, commissions and committees. Your assets will include domestic and foreign intelligence, foreign counter-intelligence and foreign covert lethal operations.
Defense: your objectives are (1) deregulate/de-nanny-state, (2) with Treasury and State conceive and execute statecraft guided by our fundamental strategic doctrine: against foreign hostility, defeat or detach and do not manipulate, (3) with Treasury and State forge a Three Brothers Doctrine for long-term alliance between U.S., Russia and India, (4) von Clausewitz’ Trinity concept is the metric for statecraft in war and peace, use it, (5) construct ROEs to reflect the fact that in war there are no civilians, (6) remand funding of academic, corporate and other NGO research to schools, corporations, other NGOs or extinction and (7) assuming alliance with Russia and India, and working with State and Treasury, propose, prepare and stand ready to execute a U.S. force structure and order of battle to (a) quieten MENA, (b) quieten Europe and (c) deflate China with the absolute minimum cost in time, money and energy to us and our opponent. It is understood that to minimize cost decisive offensive force shall be deployed at the start of operations.
Against an opponent, we will not abate attack until their General Staff and Government, or facsimile thereof, sign an unconditional surrender to us — and coalition partners we entertain, if any — and submit to military occupation until such time as we are certain they have renounced hostility towards us. Your assets will include domestic and foreign intelligence, foreign counter-intelligence and foreign overt and covert lethal operations.
Veterans Affairs: your objectives are (1) deregulate/de-nanny-state, (2) continue cleaning up your system so that it helps our Veterans of Military Service, to include arresting abuses of the VA by them and their families, (3) remand funding of academic, corporate and other NGO research to schools, corporations, other NGOs or extinction, (4) cease crony capitalist green activities and (5) prepare to integrate elements of some agencies, boards, commissions and committees. Your assets will include domestic and foreign intelligence, foreign counter-intelligence and foreign covert lethal operations. Think of your mission as protecting our nation’s history and destiny: her spirit.
ABCs: your objective is to prepare your agency, bureau, commission or committee for closure or movement to a continuing or new department.
None of this is new to you. We spoke of it when I asked you to serve. And I thank you for saying, “Yes.”
Now, my National Opportunity Council (formerly NSC) is you Cabinet Secretaries. And with luck at Congress, the Executive Branch will comprise Cabinet-level Departments only and an exceedingly slender White House.
What would you would like to discuss for the good of the order?
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OK, please allow me to introduce Vice President Mike Pence. You have met him. He knows what is going on and is battle-tested. He and I do not agree on all matters, but we do agree that our points of view benefit our nation and our administration’s governance thereof.
We are here to govern, not to rule. We are elected, transitory officers in whose palms American citizens entrusted their lives to our preserving, protecting and defending their Constitution and ours. Our watchword is selfless service. Our rallying point is our Constitution. Our ruler is the identity of Americans as American, the core of which and whom is the righteous freedom, our very nature, of Almighty God. Let’s do it, let’s get her done. And again, thank you!!!
Update 1: La Belle France:
Not sure this is complete, and IANAL, but at this point it appears to me that there are three existential categories or levels in the hierarchy of these affairs:
1- ordinary law enforcement
2- state of emergency / martial law
3- civil war
Snuffies blew past ordinary law enforcement, giving their intel the slip. So Prez ramps up to state of emergency, closing the barn door on the fire in its hay loft, to keep more fuel from being heaved in, one supposes. So far law, constitution and lawyers anticipate necessities, but can no more stuff snuffies into a state of emergency/martial law than they could organize them into ordinary law enforcement condition.
And the fire endures, burning inside the barn, so to speak, so the actual situation is civil war. Do … can … law, constitution and lawyers grasp and decisively address the dynamics of that, of civil war? One would think that is now a military, not a legal/judicial, condition, would one not?
Update 2: The attraction of Islam is the exhilaration and exhaltation of pure renunciation or detachment. Attachment brings grief, detachment brings joy. Similar to the euphoria, the ecstasy of mid-term profound fasting. Standing outside oneself in a restful, quiet way, as a gift of divine grace, is life’s most pleasurable experience and freedom, bar none. Standing outside oneself in an agitated, noisy way, ideologically forced, as an effort of will, is known of late in nations of the Latin Church as schizophrenia. Earlier it was called by a deeper describer: demonic. Snuffies are looking to be happy, more than that, ecstatic. They are getting demonic, but their motivation is the same as a saint’s. The Devil does not want to be the Devil, he wants to be God, after all.
Update 3: France Is At War … With Germany
Update 4: The Jihadis’ Master Plan To Break Us
Update 5: Three essays touching on the federal judiciary’s abandonment of responsibility to prevent Congress from its delegating power to the Executive’s bureaucracy:
George Will: Battling The Modern American Administrative State
‘“The Constitution,” Thomas notes in Department of Transportation v. Association of American Railroads, “does not vest the federal government with an undifferentiated ‘governmental power.’ ” It vests three distinguishable types of power in three different branches.’
Alan Keyes: The Next Crisis Could Be The End Of The Republic: Why We Must Impeach President Obama
Includes a bill of particulars.
The Daily Caller: Gov’t Watchdog: HUD’s Financial Books Are Impossible To Audit
Includes a bill of particulars.
Update 6: Steven Hayward: The [Maurice] Strong Over The Weak
Update 7: Henry Lamb: The Rise Of Global Governance. Related.
Update 8: James Panero: The Vengeance Of The Vandals
Update 9: Rush Limbaugh on what’s actually happening
Ed Driscoll, an example of Rush’s point. I commented:
Ed, you don’t get it. They’re not on the other side of an aisle. They’re under you and everything you cherish, making caverns and filling them with explosives to blow you and yours to oblivion. Rush recently did a segment on your kind’s ignorance of the game afoot.
Update 10: Judicial Watch sues State Department over plans to settle refugees from terrorist states in USA communities. Related.
Update 11: The Moslem Brotherhood In America: A Course In 10 Parts
Update 12: 1- Perhaps mistakenly, I was under the impression that neocons, such as Paul Wolfowitz, were/are Scoop Jackson Democrats.
2- War fighting to victory without occupation following is an historical howler. Never happens. When tried, as by The Fraud, the result is painful.
3- Occupation with the purpose of fostering representative democratic (republican) government dates from President McKinley and US victory over Spain in the Philippines. The concept/policy is linked, by McKinley himself, to “American manifest destiny,” an idea not foreign to many today and, in itself, not at all unworthy.
4- Occupation, which is unavoidable and essential following victorious war, should be for as long as it takes for the defeated belligerent to renounce belligerence, and no longer. The decease of beligerent spirit, not killing, is the purpose of war. Occupation is the second phase of war, following unconditional surrender by an enemy.
5- If Trump does not know that now, he will learn it, one way or the other. Killing bodies and removing governments is not the purpose of war. Extirpating the spirit of belligerence is. For that, occupation is ineluctably indicated.
6- Representative democratic (republican) government is not a universal good. It works only in Christian civilization and in particular those blessed with a legal substrate of English Common Law. Ergo, establishing such government in a non-Christian civilization is an irrational objective.
7- On the other hand, occupying a defeated enemy’s lands until such time as he renounces belligerence is a universal good with numerous examplars of success.
Update 13: Richard Fernandez: Faithless. Comment: Democracy is doomed and God is dead. OOOOOKAAAAA.
Update 14: Two terminological clarities one hopes to hear from Trump soon, hard, steady, indomitably and indefatigably:
1- Salafist Jihadis instead of Terrorists, Islamists, Islamic Fascists, etc
2- E Pluribus Unum as answer/rebuke to conjuring identity politics, multi-culturalism, deconstruction, justice, peace, equality, etc.
Update 15: Trump’s wives and offspring, all of them, are loyal to him. Even an old girlfriend. That tells me all I need to know. It tells me he is a man, indeed, a good man. Cruz’s family also is loyal to him so far as I can tell, and not just for ambition’s sake.
No one is ready to be POTUS. No one could be. So the electorate, men and women, discriminate between candidates on the basis of who they sense to be the most manly, and most of the time they will pick who seems (between “seems” and “is” the devil plays merry hell) the most manly because POTUS is a CIC and women, except for very rarely and then quite readably, are not constructed for combatant command.
A man is. A good man especially is. Trump and Cruz are qualified for POTUS. So is Sarah Palin, as a rare woman with proven combatant construction. Democrats’ only qualified candidate in view is Jim Webb.
Update 16: Spengler on Ted Cruz
Update 17: Hillary Clinton’s Moslem Brotherhood Connections Date From 1990s and include Grover Norquist.
Update 18: Spengler [again] on Ted Cruz.
Update 19: Ronald Reagan left liberalism when Communists infiltrated it.
Update 20: “The thinking behind the ‘Nuit Debout’ is to find new confidence in our own strength precisely because we don’t trust those who rule us any more,” 20-year-old political science student Victor said.
“When they (the government) say that they’re working for young people, it’s a huge lie. They’re just trying to halt the momentum.”
Richard Fernandez and many fine commenters on this theme: The Age Of Discontent
Update 22: Richard Fernandez: The Global World Hits A Snag
Update 23: The Surprising Weakness Of Invincible Institutions
Update 24: However, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that no such star is high on the list of those being mentioned.
Assuming those stars actually have light sufficient for a career of staring, I’m glad none is on Trump’s short list — precisely because they are political stars, careerist professional politicians!!!
I’d like in office anyone BUT a professional politician, anyone BUT one who craves the office, anyone who is NOT thinking about THEIR future. The very mind-set which produces the concept of a political star with a future I find smug, anxious, cynical, elitist, and un-American.
If you want my vote because you want your concept of a career for yourself, you don’t give a damn about my soul and you don’t deserve my vote. You deserve the sole of my boot.
Update 25: From Jolie-Pitt To The Jolly Pit Of Globaloney
Update 26: DONALD J. TRUMP CONTRACT WITH THE AMERICAN VOTER
Update 27: So here’s the modest proposal: If the government cannot fire these people, then it can assign them to other tasks in other places. By fortuitous coincidence, the recent several years have seen downsizing in two sectors known for having very large buildings, many of them located in remote and out-of-the-way areas. Those two sectors are manufacturing and retail. Places like rural Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Arkansas, and upstate New York — not to mention northern Maine, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and even Alaska — are littered with abandoned K-Marts, JC Penney’s and Sears stores, as well as abandoned factories of all sorts. These buildings can be leased for a song. Hundreds of federal employees can be assigned to each such location.
Send each such employee a memo: “Starting Monday morning at 9 AM, your job will be located at the former Sears Hometown store, 2308 11th Avenue West, Williston, North Dakota. If you report for work, you will await such assignments as may be given to you at that location. If you do not show up, your pay will be continued until your unused vacation and sick leave are exhausted, and then your pay will stop.”
Inside the former Sears or K-Mart, there can be row upon row of hundreds of desks and chairs. But I highly recommend that these employees not be provided with any computer or cell phone at taxpayer expense. Why waste the money? They can communicate with headquarters in Washington by U.S. mail. It’s not like they are doing anything productive.
Update 28: Don Surber: Kissing President Trump’s Ring
Update 29: Small-Ball Conservatism Or National Greatness
Update 30: VDH: The Method To Trump’s Madness
Update 31: Jean Yarbrough: Trump — And Tocqueville?
Update 32: Affirmative Action is a declension of the Soviet espionage term of art Active Measures. It means getting inside, subverting an adversary’s OODA Loop.
Affirmative Action/Active Measures is the battle plan of choice for the weaker side in asymmetrical warfare.
Anybody who wants special treatment because of some quality they possess is asking to be enslaved. We do not have titles of nobility in the USA.
Update 33: Dan Calabrese: Yes, Trump is a bull in a china shop…and the china shop needs to be wrecked
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
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