REPOSTED BY REQUEST – CTH often describes the background DC motives with the phrase: “There are Trillions at Stake.” Here we take a look at what that really means, and how DC politics is not quite based on the ideas that frame many reference points.
With people taking notice of DC politics for the first time; and with people not as familiar with the purpose of DC politics; we end up within two different references. Perhaps it is valuable to reset the larger frames of reference and provide clarity.
Most people think when they vote for a federal politician -a House or Senate representative- they are voting for a person who will go to Washington DC and write or enact legislation. This is the old-fashioned “schoolhouse rock” perspective based on decades past. There is not a single person in congress writing legislation or laws.
In modern politics not a single member of the House of Representatives or Senator writes a law, or puts pen to paper to write out a legislative construct. This simply doesn’t happen.
Over the past several decades a system of constructing legislation has taken over Washington DC that more resembles a business operation than a legislative body. Understand this dynamic and you understand how politicians become multi-millionaires on much lesser salaries; and why ‘We The People’ are insignificant and annoying gnats to their business model. Here’s how it works right now.
Outside groups, often called “special interest groups”, are entities that represent their interests in legislative constructs. These groups are often representing foreign governments, Wall Street multinational corporations, banks, financial groups or businesses; or smaller groups of people with a similar connection who come together and form a larger group under an umbrella of interest specific to their affiliation.
Sometimes the groups are social interest groups; activists, climate groups, environmental interests etc. The social interest groups are usually non-profit constructs who depend on the expenditures of government to sustain their cause or need.
The for-profit groups (mostly business) have a purpose in Washington DC to shape policy, legislation and laws favorable to their interests. They have fully staffed offices just like any business would – only their ‘business‘ is getting legislation for their unique interests.
These groups are filled with highly-paid lawyers who represent the interests of the entity and actually write laws and legislation briefs.
In the modern era this is actually the origination of the laws that we eventually see passed by congress. Within the walls of these buildings within Washington DC is where the ‘sausage’ is actually made.
Again, no elected official is usually part of this law origination process.
Almost all legislation created is not ‘high profile’, they are obscure changes to current laws, regulations or policies that no-one pays attention to. The passage of the general bills within legislation is not covered in media. Ninety-nine percent of legislative activity happens without anyone outside the system even paying any attention to it.
Once the corporation or representative organizational entity has written the law they want to see passed – they hand it off to the lobbyists.
The lobbyists are people who have deep contacts within the political bodies of the legislative branch, usually former House/Senate staff or former House/Senate politicians themselves.
The lobbyist takes the written brief, the legislative construct, and it’s their job to go to congress and sell it.
“Selling it” means finding politicians who will accept the brief, sponsor their bill and eventually get it to a vote and passage. The lobbyist does this by visiting the politician in their office, or, most currently familiar, by inviting the politician to an event they are hosting. The event is called a junket when it involves travel.
Often the lobbying “event” might be a weekend trip to a ski resort, or a “conference” that takes place at a resort. The actual sales pitch for the bill is usually not too long and the majority of the time is just like a mini vacation etc.
The size of the indulgence within the event, the amount of money the lobbyist is spending, is customarily related to the scale of benefit within the bill the sponsoring business entity is pushing. If the sponsoring business or interest group can gain a lot of financial benefit from the legislation they spend a lot on the indulgences.
Recap: Corporations (special interest group) write the legislation. Lobbyists take the law and go find politician(s) to support it. Politicians get support from their peers using tenure and status etc. Eventually, if things go according to norm, the legislation gets a vote.
Within every step of the process there are expense account lunches, dinners, trips, venue tickets and a host of other customary financial way-points to generate/leverage a successful outcome. The amount of money spent is proportional to the benefit derived from the outcome.
The important part to remember is that the origination of the entire process is EXTERNAL to congress.
Congress does not write laws or legislation, special interest groups do. Lobbyists are paid, some very well paid, to get politicians to go along with the need of the legislative group.
When you are voting for a Congressional Rep or a U.S. Senator you are not voting for a person who will write laws. Your rep only votes on legislation to approve or disapprove of constructs that are written by outside groups and sold to them through lobbyists who work for those outside groups.
While all of this is happening the same outside groups who write the laws are providing money for the campaigns of the politicians they need to pass them. This construct sets up the quid-pro-quo of influence, although much of it is fraught with plausible deniability.
This is the way legislation is created.
If your frame of reference is not established in this basic understanding you can often fall into the trap of viewing a politician, or political vote, through a false prism. The modern origin of all legislative constructs is not within congress.
“we’ll have to pass the bill to, well, find out what is in the bill” etc. ~ Nancy Pelosi 2009
“We rely upon the stupidity of the American voter” ~ Johnathan Gruber 2011, 2012.
Once you understand this process you can understand how politicians get rich.
When a House or Senate member becomes educated on the intent of the legislation, they have attended the sales pitch; and when they find out the likelihood of support for that legislation; they can then position their own (or their families) financial interests to benefit from the consequence of passage. It is a process similar to insider trading on Wall Street, except the trading is based on knowing who will benefit from a legislative passage.
The legislative construct passes from K-Street into the halls of congress through congressional committees. The law originates from the committee to the full House or Senate. Committee seats which vote on these bills are therefore more valuable to the lobbyists. Chairs of these committees are exponentially more valuable.
Now, think about this reality against the backdrop of the 2016 Presidential Election. Legislation is passed based on ideology. In the aftermath of the 2016 election the system within DC was not structurally set-up to receive a Donald Trump presidency.
If Hillary Clinton had won the election, her Oval Office desk would be filled with legislation passed by congress which she would have been signing. Heck, she’d have writer’s cramp from all of the special interest legislation, driven by special interest groups that supported her campaign, that would be flowing to her desk.
Why?
Simply because the authors of the legislation, the originating special interest and lobbying groups, were spending millions to fund her campaign. Hillary Clinton would be signing K-Street constructed special interest legislation to repay all of those donors/investors.
Congress would be fast-tracking the passage because the same interest groups also fund the members of congress.
President Donald Trump winning the election threw a monkey wrench into the entire DC system…. In early 2017 the modern legislative machine was frozen in place.
The “America First” policies represented by candidate Donald Trump were not within the legislative constructs coming from the K-Street authors of the legislation. There were no MAGA lobbyists waiting on Trump ideology to advance legislation based on America First objectives.
As a result of an empty feeder system, in early 2017 congress had no bills to advance because all of the myriad of bills and briefs written were not in line with President Trump policy. There was simply no entity within DC writing legislation that was in-line with President Trump’s America-First’ economic and foreign policy agenda.
Exactly the opposite was true. All of the DC legislative briefs and constructs were/are antithetical to Trump policy. There were hundreds of file boxes filled with thousands of legislative constructs that became worthless when Donald Trump won the election.
Those legislative constructs (briefs) representing tens of millions of dollars worth of time and influence were just sitting there piled up in boxes under desks and in closets amid K-Street and the congressional offices. Legislation needed to be in-line with an entire new political perspective, and there was no-one, no special interest or lobbying group, currently occupying DC office space with any interest in synergy with Trump policy.
Think about the larger ramifications within that truism. That is also why there was/is so much opposition.
No legislation provided by outside interests means no work for lobbyists who sell it. No work means no money. No money means no expense accounts. No expenses means politicians paying for their own indulgences etc.
Politicians were not happy without their indulgences, but the issue was actually bigger. No K-Street expenditures also means no personal benefit; and no opportunity to advance financial benefit from the insider trading system.
Without the ability to position personal wealth for benefit, why would a politician stay in office? The income of many long-term politicians on both Republican and Democrat sides of the aisle was completely disrupted by President Trump winning the election. That is one of the key reason why so many politicians retired immediately thereafter.
When we understand the business of DC, we understand the difference between legislation with a traditional purpose and modern legislation with a financial and political agenda.
Lastly, this is why -when signing legislation- President Trump often says “they’ve been trying to get this through for a long time” etc. Most of the legislation passed by congress and signed by President Trump in his first term is older legislative proposals, with little indulgent value, that were shelved in years past.
Example: Criminal justice reform did not carry a financial benefit to the legislative bodies, and there was no financial interest funding the politicians to pass the bill. If you look at most of the bills President Trump has signed, with the exception of a few economic bills, they stem from congressional construction many years ago.
When you understand that any changes to this system will not be accepted by those who command power and affluence; when you accept their willingness to deploy military tanks around themselves in order to protect them from you; and when you realize they will use every system, including the ballot counting machines, to stop the American people from disrupting this corrupt system of self-aggrandizing elitism; you start to realize the diminished options for removing them from office…
If the House and Senate were truly bound by the Constitution, then lobbyists would be unnecessary. We are so far off base that we are now simply a corporatist façade masquerading as a representative republic.
Yup, just like Zuckerberg starting CTCL with $350 million and donating $6 million Of that to 4-5 cities in Wisconsin which violates Wisconsin law.
It’s all coming out.
Sundance, don’t feel alone because Armstrong economics is also being blocked on certain things.
Click on the “Interesting” link and it will take you to the lawsuit filed in Wisconsin along with Sidney Powell’s lawsuits which most should have read already and if you haven’t then you have no winning arguments when faced with opposition.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/tyranny/interesting/
I subscribe to AE also, but was confused by this article when I read it earlier today. The AE blog is the free subscription, which he said in the article is the one that people can see the info on those billionaires he discuses; yet, he then has to have a link for the real info on Sidney plus an “Interesting” title so he won’t be censored.
What am I misunderstanding?
dmvargha,
DC has been characterized as a bunch of folks standing in a BIG circle shoving money into the pockets of the individual in front of them.
Anything will be done to not lose ones place in the circle.
I agree with the generality, but it is very self-harming to believe that there are not also some worthy patriots in Congress, around which reformation may be made.
Where have these “worthy patriots” been for the last four years???
For that matter, where have they been for the last forty years?
Worthy patriots say “…if I wasn’t in Congress, bad people will take over completely…”
The problem with most “worthy patriots” lies in their own false premises for remaining in Congress. Their own self importance leads them to rationalize remaining in Congress so that they can “fight the rest of the bad patriots” that have taken control of Congress.
Very few “worthy patriots” have shown themselves to be up to the task and they accept that they have been ineffective in doing so. The facts of the matter show that most have failed to stop “bad people” from taking over.
In 2016 “We the People” were only just beginning to recognize how false our elected representative government had become. “We the People” began to correct the problem at that time…
The election of 2020 was a landslide win for President Trump.
“We the People” have only just begun to get involved in the fight” .
Too few named Paul or Massie, and too many named Rubio, Romney, and Crenshaw.
Please list the worthy patriots in the current Congress.
I will start with the few I know…
Devin Nunes (R-CA)
Jim Jordan (R-OH)
Matt Gaetz (R-FL)
Louie Gohmert (R-TX)
Lee Zeldin (R – NY)
That is actually quite depressing. Only five names out of six hundred thirty five is sad. Time for a total reformation.
My Congressman is Mike Kelly (R) from PA. He likes to play his part as a Trump booster and a conservative, and I suppose he is better than most Republicans.
However, he exposed himself when he wrote an editorial in the WSJ in support of the TPP. It’s possible he was mislead on the secret details of TPP, but that got my attention and I consider him window dressing for the swamp. I only vote for him because voting for a Democrat isn’t an option.
Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Steve Scalise.
Andy Biggs, Stefanik,…and I suspect the “pistol packing mama” ( sorry, to new to know her name) who confronted Beto, and was just elected.
There are others. Look at the list of representatives from the House who hepled Trumps legal team, during the impeachment.
The Senate is almost empty, but House has a rump group of warriors, that are impressive.
I assume nobody is fooled by oily McCarthy, who sometimes says the right things, but is a snake.
Dutchman, I think the “pistol packing mama” who you refer to is Lauren Boebert from my 3rd District here in Colorado.
She beat out the pitiful Scott Tipton a 5 time incumbent in the primary.
Except Mike Lee has been pushing for lots of H1B labor, and other stuff that gives jobs to foreigners — because it’s cheaper than hiring qualified Americans, esp in the tech fields. Also, Lee has flipped from voting against him in 2016 to supporting his reelection, but I still don’t trust him…
linderella – Yes, I am from Utah and even the citizens here don’t trust Mike Lee. He is in it for himself….
HI linderella-I agree on Mike Lee and one might take a closer look at Stefanik.
And before that; we had Goudy and Issa?
And before that we had Kranston?
And before that we had???
Ahh… I’m talking about patriots who actually did patriotic and courageous actions. Not those who talked tough but did nothing.
I would add Steve Chabot (R-OH)
Ok. I don’t know him at all.
Agree 100 percent , but i think the corporatist facade is funneling down to a Technocracy. Technocrats who think they are not only the smartest but can do no wrong. They are going to get it right this time.
Still Dunning Kruger just at a higher IQ level. Is Dunning Kruger a thing for smarties. I dont know i am not smart enough
The Dunning-Kruger effect can apply to anyone at any level of intelligence.
It just means they are unable to recognize their own inabilities or incompetences.
Really smart people who are not affected by this psychological phenomenon of illusory superiority can often be identified by their practice of seeking advice and guidance from others they (the smart people) deem have the expertise that they themselves lack.
Maybe you could help me with that GB?
Sorry, I’m not qualified. ? ? ?
You must be asking for help and guidance. I suggest contacting Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, or Chuck Schumer. They know everything
Suuurrrrrre they do…. ?
I prefer the Peter Principle;
In any hierarchy, individuals tend to rise to their level of incompetence,…and there they stay.
Simple, straightforward, and so true!
Hopin you had a happy, GB!
Same back at ya, Dutch!
This statement is the very reason we have the 2nd amendment. Our fore fathers warnedd us and then gave us the means by which to correct it.
yes sir
In Emergency Break Glass…
Remember the ax on the wall in the glass case….
I think it is almost time to “break glass”…
The state courts and legislators will slow roll this election investigation, the MSM will spew BS. We have seen this play before…
I prefer the Peter Principle;
In any hierarchy, individuals tend to rise to their level of incompetence,…and there they stay.
Simple, straightforward, and so true!
Hopin you had a happy, GB!
O.k., what the heck, I’ll bite.
I am sympathetic to those who vent about hanging all of D.C., and have posted such comments myself.
Generally, whether online or in person, I avoid anyone who talks about watering the tree of liberty; out of enlightened self interest, I just ASSUME they are an FBI CI, an “agent provacatuer”, and are under instructions to try to stir up unstable individuals, to justify Wrays ludicrous statements to Congress, prominently covered by msm, that “The biggest terrorist threat we face is right wing extremism”.
But, o.k. your doom saying, and suggesting 2A is the answer, and its almost time to break the glass.
WHO, exactly would one go about shooting, and how would that have ANY effect of a positive nature, in our current situation?
Now, KEEPING and even BEARING arms, which after all IS the essence of the 2A, sure and I do both.
But the subtle or not so subtle implication that our keeping and bearing arms, with hints of going farther, is somehow going to correct our current situation, where the conmunists have corrupted darn near everything, frankly escapes me.
EXPOSE the enemy, in all its guises.
By EXPOSING, DISCREDIT.
As the enemy is Discredited, it loses the power to shape public opinion and public policy.
Thats the game plan, and its gotten us through a winning season, and into the Superbowl. Its the first quarter, and now we have possesion, and are starting to move down the field.
I agree Dutchman.
The call to Water the Tree of Liberty is so very vague that it is useless.
“Breaking the glass of the fire alarm” is a new one for me.
Exactly who are these people going to shoot, when are they going to shoot them, where are they going to shoot them, and how are they going to get the shootee into position to be shot at much less shoot enough to deprive them of their lives or to shoot enough of them to change the situation we are in and make a difference.
And when the shooter is standing over the shootees with the smoking gun in hand with the shootees laying all over what then?
Details matter and the aftermath matters more.
I do believe that the enemy will not give up easily but shooting everyone and hoping for the best is not the answer.
to @Chloe & @Dutchman –
good points, just exactly who would some from our side be shooting? A great question, because it clearly shows that though the power of We the People is indomitable, there is one weakness – that power is diffused. That lack of focus sows and breeds confusion, among the ranks, among the public at large, and this confusion in turn further diffuses the perception of We the People taking such as decisive action as opening the bullet box.
A weakness, I assure you, that enemies of the Republic know full well how to exploit…
at least until they decide it’s safe to start Kristal-Nachting us in the middle of the night – at that point I think these questions become irrelevant.
The only question we’ll have to answer then – will I bend the knee and submit, or will I live Free?
v/r
The JG/Jack is Back
And this is why the Globalist will win- the Great Reset will destroy us all.
They know Americans are weak. Pearl clutchers all.
And why I say let Biden and his party take us there faster than the S-L-O-W whining and excuses coming from so called Patriots who have us slowly bleeding out.
where have you been the last four years? clutching pearls and buying popcorn? let’s jointly pontificate the purpose and meaning of the 2ed amendment as cities burn, cops murdered and areas defunded and elections stolen…My post clearly states “almost time” as in “be prepared” to stand your ground..not attack anyone else…
I seek not your approval of my opinion…nor do I extend insult towards anyone here…I merely bring caution to extraordinary times..
Amen brother well said Sir!
And the cheerleader in me says, “What do we want? TD! What’s that? TOUCHDOWN!”
Also, “V-I-C-T-O-R-Y! That’s the ‘Treepers’ battle cry!!!
There was a time when exposing corruption or criminality might result in justice being served. Those days are long gone. How does one expose the enemy when they have cover from a media that has been weaponized against the people?
How does one discredit those who commit crimes when the crime is covered-up? Even when the crime is so blatant that there is not way to hide it, the very people who are in a position to bring forth justice look the other way and fail to act.
Much of the corruption which has occurred in the past 12-14 years has been exposed. Exposure has not slowed them down, it has changed nothing. They no longer care that their blatant crime is in full daylight. They have no fear of exposure because they know there will be no consequences.
Until the enemy suffers sever consequences the destruction of our country will not stop. Using your football analogue….we are not even allowed in the stadium. it’s fourth quarter, we’re down by 85 points with 15 seconds on the clock, no time-outs. What play will we call when we have no quarterback?
I am willing to be patient and see what the courts do, but I have little faith in the courts, including SCOTUS. They cannot be allowed to get away with this treason. If it means violence….I am prepared.
It’s actually a lot more complicated in knowing “who.” It is the “how?” There is no way anyone could even organize against this sort of system. The politician is perhaps the “face” of the corruption, but the rot goes much deeper into the faceless “special interest” groups and the countries and multinational corporations that pour billions into super pacs.
So even if patriots could organize, the next feat would be to try to figure out how to defeat an unknown/faceless enemy that is the true puppet master.
I’ve read that China and Saudi Arabia are two big players in the lobby arena in D.C. There are likely a whole bunch of them.
Prior to the Revolutionary War, most colonist had no desire to take on the greatest power in the world. Few were willing to die for their country. The first patriots were a small group of about nine, called the Sons of Liberty, they grew into the Minutemen, which grew into the Continental Army.
Even after Washington took command, the Army and militias never fielded more than about 20K men at any one time and they were scattered throughout the 13 colonies. Enough history, what I am getting at….it would not take many patriots to bring the enemy to its knees.
And….yes, it would require a plan….and even a plan B. But you don’t start with the head (your unknown/faceless enemy), you start at the feet and work your way up. I would think a good place to start is with the top 2 election officials in either Georgia or Michigan along with a visit to CNN or MSNBC headquarters with concurrent visit to Twitter or Facebook Hq.
When faced with sever consequences, criminals will do extraordinary things to save their necks.
Everything starts with destroying the Ministry of Truth………………….Forget about who’s a good guy/gal.
And I’m not waving the white flag……………………100 million Patriots control this.
Thank you Treepers and CTH for fighting in this direction.
Bingo!! Has been for decades and decades. The whole thing needs to be blown up and a few true and honest men look at each piece of the machine and determine if it is important to our basic tenants.
It is so corrupted you have no idea.
SPECIAL NOTE TO SUNDANCE: YOU HAVE HIT MY FAVORITE NAIL SQUARE ON THE HEAD! THANKS. SOLDIER/COP/GRUNT, RETIRED
American Veterans/Cops, Our Plight is the Plight of the Nation!
Special Note: My brothers and sisters who are serving and/or have served in the Blue and/or in the Profession of Arms, I wanted to include each of you in this message to our President/CINC. Considering the ever increasing level of betrayal of the American people by globalists/feudalists and their minions among the politicians, the bureaucrats, the academicians, and the media that has become so obvious since Donald Trump’s election; I will simply submit to you what I submitted to the President when I became convinced he was the first and perhaps the last “Battle Captain” to occupy the office. At 77 years young and observing the general attitude of the American people, I have serviced my weapons and am prepared to stand a post. While wishing each of you God’s speed I regret to inform you that I am not convinced the American people are worthy of another drop of our sweat, much less our blood! If Donald Trump is robbed of a second term and Americans do not rise up all over this nation to strip every member of the so-called progressive movement of their power, I will have no doubt as to the attitude I have had for most of the years following the Vietnam War is still valid. In all those years I held that most (‘most’ defined as; one more than half) Americans and their rulers were/are at best a gaggle of self-serving, witless, cowards!
TO: President/CINC Donald J. Trump
Mr. President, I am writing you this letter in that it is clear that you are just as much a combat veteran as any of us serving in the combat arms, in that you are fighting the battle an old colonel warned us about in his words repeated below. In 1969 (the year “VOLAR” [all volunteer army] came to be) an old mustang (he had 34 years of service at the time, had served in every conflict since 1935 in the ranks of private through platoon sergeant and lieutenant through colonel. He was one of the few soldiers I ever knew with two awards of the combat infantry badge and two battle stars on his jump wings) honored a group of us young punks (four captains/one major all recently returned from tours in Vietnam) gathered at the downstairs bar of the Fort Gordon, GA officers’ club with a few words of wisdom and a few very intuitive predictions regarding America’s new all volunteer armed forces. In a very low, raspy, voice the mustang stated:
“1. The all volunteer army (VOLAR) was concocted by the nation’s cowardly rulers in concert with the military/industrial complex to appease a nation of cowards!
2. Considering the level of strategic and tactical incompetence demonstrated by America’s civilian and military managers (notice he said managers, not leaders) in every war/conflict in the 20th century, America’s young people unfortunate enough to serve in the military will be squandered with ever increasing frequency and at ever higher levels.
3. The principal factors determining strategy and tactics in future force development decisions and in execution of future conflicts would be those most enhancing to the profit margins of the military/industrial complex.
4. One day; after many decades with very few Americans having had any real association with the military community, the nation’s rulers will decide that not only is the all volunteer force with its legions of crippled and wasted veterans too expensive to maintain, but the nation’s lack of a ‘national character’ would permit the most cost effective disposal of all of those not deemed essential to operate an arsenal of wonder weapons designed to maintain the highest profit margins for the military/industrial complex!”
The old mustang’s final comment was just as correct then as it is today. He said;
“Gentlemen just like every period of conflict in this nation’s history, when the shooting is over the nation’s rulers will piss on us and then sweep us under a rug like a pile of dirt!”
After that night I went to my quarters and started composing a poem. Twenty years later I included the poem with a dozen lessons learned in the prelude of a yet to be published book titled: Rape, Pillage, Plunder; America You’ve Been Had! That book has not been published to date because it contains still classified material that implicated in serious crimes many senior members the Carter administration, a first term senator (J. Biden), and a state attorney general (W. Clinton). The only positive change in the American political environment since 1969 has been your election to the Presidency!
Sir, thank you for your service.
Charles W. Lauderdale
Soldier/Cop/Grunt, Retired
Excellent post Soldier/Cop. I share your sentiments regarding VOLAR. The end of conscription has allowed our ruling class to drain the blood out of our less fortunate members. Nobody in their social circle will have any relatives serving that they have to worry about as the military industrial complex is propped up on the misery of people unknown to the elites. Wars have mostly been “Rich man’s war, poor man’s fight” going back way before I was born, but it will only get worse without a draft and no check on the globalists like we currently have with President Trump. Thanks for the time you took to write this post.
Skin in the Game
I have an MBA from Harvard Business School but before that in 1965 at 18 I volunteered for 4 years in the US Army as a private. I hated Communism back in those days and still do. I served my country as spy in NSA against the USSR and its allies. Now the NSA, CIA and FBI spy on us. Maybe that’s because we have had 50 years of a volunteer military service. Military types today are thought of as useful mercenaries not civilian soldiers.
Israel and Switzerland require mandatory military service. So should we. When you serve your country you a get a sense of belonging, a sense of “I did something.” After 50 years since I was in the Army I still feel that way.
In 1861 my great grandfather enlisted in the Union Army and fought at Bull Run, Chancellorsville , Fredericksburg and Antietam. My Uncle fought the Japs in Okinawa and my kids grandfather against the Nazis. When you have that in your family there is honor and sacrifice. We need that today.
Did 1965 NSA rationalize spying under Monroe Doctrine or were they just following orders?
gsonFIT,
The Monroe Doctrine concerns North and South America. What does that have to do with the USSR and the Eurasian continent. You rationalize spying when some enemy wants to kill and destroy you.. So, you flunked Geography, History and Common Sense all in 14 words. Very talented, I must say.
We spied on the Japanese and broke their code. That allowed the US Navy to know the Japanese Navy was going to attack Midway. We ambushed their fleet of carriers and that was the turning point in the War in The Pacific. You got a problem with that?
sounds like you know a lot about the Monroe Doctrine. It has been along time for me and I am trying to research it.
But at some point the Monroe doctrine went from Geographic to forms of government. Communisim is Cuba I beleive? Not Sure. The Monroe doctrine was used as a prevention of the spread of Communisim in the West. And then police actions into Vietnam.
I was curious if it was ever mentioned ass part of NSA mission planning or if the flights were just positioned as traditional missions.
EO on my ship in the Navy in the 1980s mentioned the Monrie Doctrine as why we were following Russian subs.
Trying to get it from the source and not a book
John, first of all, THANK YOU very much for your service!
Agree 110% about honor and sacrifice. Especially Skin in the Game! What would all the SJW’s do if the draft was to be re-instituted? Wouldn’t they be the first to be out protesting? I blame a lot of this on the education system in this country…it is beyond pathetic.
Civics need to return to the curriculum, including entire semesters/marking periods of study of the US Constitution, and NOT a part of Common Core (the biggest disaster for our kids). Needs to be taught in elementary school as well as high school and students would have to take an US Constitution/Bill of Rights exam and score a 90% or greater to graduate. The USA has the largest population of “uneducated graduates” in the world. It’s disgusting what the colleges have turned out in the past 30 years.
Beyond that, I suspect VOLAR, along with endless wars with suicidal roe’s, was part of a lager program of genocide, against Deplorable.
Think of it; WHO enlisted? Primarily those with a sense if duty, honor and patriotism, and of “child bearing age”.
As with the “financial crises”, shipping manufacturing jobs overseas, and then flooding our country with fentanyl, and now these Covid lockdowns,. Is it a coincidence that the brunt of the adverse consequence strikes the middle class?
They are trying to wipe us out, because along with the Constitution, a vibrant large middle class is what makes our country a bulwark against conmunism.
And, our American exceptionalism is what makes America an impediment to their goal of World domination. Undermine our country from within, by destroying the middle class, our foundations as a Constitutional Democratic Republic, and sever our inextricable bond with God, and they remove THE obstacle to their goal.
Just cause your paranoid, doesn’t me they aren’t out to get us all, to remove usfrom the equation, “by ANY means neccesary!”
CANCEL culture, indeed. They WANT to CANCEL us, like hitting delete button.
communist to college, patriots to the grave.
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During the two past world wars our army and navy were predominately from an agricultural based civilization …Farmers generally produced large families from which provided the largest portion of our military…
Superb article.
This business is sleazier than prostitution.
I have to shower after reading this article
Yes it is Missouri Mule.
Any ideas out there as to what we do about it now?
It’s the perfect explanation for why big Healthcare has become so prominent in DC lobbying circles since the ACA passage and in the enforcement of the “mask and social distancing” requirements by local governments in the expanded Covid hoax, Healthcare Corp.s are complicit and only in it for the buck, much of which originates in DC.
I just recounted this article’s message to an “informed” acquaintance on Monday. I could not remember the 1980’s and current dollar figures for amount of lobbying money spent on congressmen, but I got the gist of it correct. He was floored. He also was new to the fact that congressmen who ostensibly “write laws” don’t, as described above. Quite interesting these past weeks since the election.
He rather wrote off my comment on Nov. 4th about Wisconsin and Michigan irregularities. I told him what was to come. He was by no means convinced. Now, he listens with riveted attention as I lay out developments that he cannot seem to find nor hear from common media outlets.
I had the same experience with a liberal anti Trump co worker who was dissing Michael Flynn. I was well versed in the actual case and people involved and he could tell I knew my stuff. I gave him CTH and Sundance’s name, and he later told me, he still reads here.
That’s awesome
It was analysis and writing of this caliber that brought me to CTH in the first place.
Tom Donahue, U.S. Chamber CEO since 1997, is nothing but a Globalist, Lobbyist. He is on board to welcome Communist Democrats to take over and destroy America, The Constitution and Freedom. He is determined to sell out American Jobs to China and other foreign countries. The US Chamber lobbies Congress with hundreds of millions of $ a year. They write the bills that Congress votes on.
The lobbying and money needs to be halted in any way it can be … and we need to look at term limits for both houses – perhaps 3, 2-year terms in the House and 2, 6-year terms in the Senate.
And no more lifetime medical, retiirement from Taxpayers! No more 6 month vacations. We pay for their haircuts, meals, etc.
I am one fed up American!
Donahue and his CofC cronies need to be hung for selling out America’s Main Street to the chicoms’ Wangfujing Street.
Yep, Donohue is a traitor and should be labeled as such in everything written about him.
And agree on term limits and no more pensions…let them save like the rest of us do. We fought a war to get away from royalty and now we are paying for just that. And put the under the same healthcare as any of us…we pay for the best plans money can buy for these prostitutes.
The real question now becomes what (if anything) can we mere citizens do about this? How do we fight this?
Incognita;
(Lets see if this comment posts)
There IS something you CAN do.
Are you p*ssed that the election fraud (along with everything else) wiped out our overwhelming landslide MAGA vote, attempting to silence our voice?
Do you now see the Republicon party leadership, for what it TRULY is; partners in crime with the enemy?
Have you vowed “I will NEVER vote “R” again? Have you thought, said or typed “if PDJT started a new party, I would join in a heartbeat?
Do you agree the Republicon party left US, a long time ago? Would you like to #walkaway?
Then DO IT! In the midst of his current battle, PDJT can not, realistically abandon the R party. He needs the ‘support’ of Republicons in congress, as limp and underhanded as it is.
However, if you simply call or go in to your county board of elections, and request a registration form, you will see it asks “contact info”, and has a signature line at the bottom. Before that it has a section “Party Affiliation”, and gives you options;
Republican party
Democrat party
Libertarian party
Green party
Independant (no party affiliation)
And possibly other “officially recognised parties”
And then it has a box to check for “Other”, and a line to write in a party name.
Check “Other” and write in America First.
And mail it in or file it with the clerk.
When enough people (2-3 percent of registered voters) register with the America First party, it becomes officially recognised, and is added to the form.
Then encourage every Trump supporter you know, online or in person, to do the same.
LEAVE the Republican party, just as we left Fux news, en mass. Without a base, the Republicon party is NOTHING, an empty shell. They have ignored us, suppressed and undermined us (tea party) and villified us.
WHY stay? So we can participate in rigged primaries? We can still vote in all general elections. Let 80 million voters, registered Republicans, Democrats and Independants register across all States as “America First”, and they will HEAR OUR ROAR.
Speaking of which, I propose the Lion as our mascot. A1 as an abreviated version of our name. I know some say “MAGA party”, but the name needs to stand the test of time.
Our platform is simple; all policies will be viewed through the prism of “Whats best for America and ALL Americans; America FIRST.
Hope this post shows up.
If we’d done what you suggested in 2016, we wouldn’t have had Donald J. Trump as the Republican nominee.
At this point, I am not willing to give up my power of voting in the primaries.
IMHO,
You are clinging to the ILLUSION of power, like a security blanket.
The big club doesn’t allow anyone IN, unless they are in on the coruption.
Why would they? Remember all the “Tea party candidates” we succeeded in electing to the House, who promptly went all “DC” on us?
Besides, there won’t be another primary for two years, and guess what. You can always change your registration back, as long as you do it sufficiently before the primary.
What you are really saying is you still believe in the Republicon party, or the hope that it can be redeemed, which is putting hope over experience.
Like the abused wife who refuses to press charges “cause I still LOVE him”!
Hell, “He” hasn’t even apologised to you, he just beats you, and kicks you, and ignores you, and yet you stay.
Sad,…IMHO
Sorry, but I’m with Peoria Jones. The system was pretty shaken when an unknown college professor named David Brat primaried Eric Cantor, who was thought invincible and in line to be next Speaker of the House. I am open-eyed about the Republican party, but right now, especially with Trump as president, it’s the system we have to work with. I’m not willing to give up the power of voting in the primaries, either. It’s the one opportunity we have to take out establishment RINOs and put in good pro-Trump MAGA candidates.
That is true. EXCEPT: what makes us think that PRIMARY elections ballots are not also run through Dominion/China/Iran/Chavez/corruption/cheat ballots?
After all, if they cheat to get their candidates in during presidential elections and the down ticket ballots, why would they not do the same for primaries?
How do you think they got their candidates into the political realm in the first place?
Why do you think there are so very few of US, who voted landslide victories twice, in the Legislatures, state or national?
Going to Prescott monday to do that very thing. Thanks Dutchman from a fellow Arizonan. I’m in utopia. Can you find me.
Timothy,
Thanks for your support! I’m North of Kingman, on good old route 66.
Darn, I requested the form by mail, for me and Spouse. Thought we might be #’s 1&2, at least in Az. Lol.
Now lets spread the word, and send a big ole mickey salute, to the Republicons who have been ignoring us for so long!
“Can you hear us NOW?”
I’LL check the map.
Look for ” utopia ” just a little south of Prescott. I’m with you Dutchman. I’ve been trying to get an appointment with Paul Gosar to discuss some veteran issues. They haven’t even answered the phone in months much less returns a single call. Mc Sally either. It’s time for a new party. Monday I make my stand. Who will join us.
Agree Dutchman! Isn’t it absolutely amazing that people balk at the term “America First”? (like traitor Mattis)
If you aren’t proud to be an American, you are free to leave.
If you don’t want to protect the country in which you live, you are free to leave.
If you think freedom is not worth fighting for, you are free to leave.
If you truly believe you are being represented by the RepubliCONS, then there is just no hope for you.
I changed my voter registration to AF…have in my calendar to switch in my state right before the primary in May 2021, just to vote. Let’s see what happens…I want to see PDJT continue to re-establish a party. If it is not AF, then purge the traitors with primaries and re-name a party. Like AMERICA FIRST or Patriot party. With 100 million + citizens, that’s a wonderful start!
I agree with you. I already registered as an independent after the last election. saw what paul ryan was doing to the party. Now I hate republicans even more. If a america first party is started by Trump this time of course I will join, But if this election fraud not fixed now it will be good bye to any other party except dems.
Yes, Sundance, why don’t you write a post (or series) about possible solutions? What you explain is well known by many and nothing new, although it is great you raise another voice given your reach. So what can we learn from the Trump experience that would inform our plan for doing something about it? When money is the source of the evil, you have to do something about the flow of the money. Is the solution to have more billionaires who are not beholden to the money, run for office? Doubt that would work.
As Trump learned and you fail to point out (but surely know), so much of that 30 year increase is not to lobby the President and 535 members of Congress, rather it is to lobby the administrative state that has grown in a similar fashion over those 30 years, which has become a power that rivals that of our elected officials. Just like laws are not written by Congress, regulations are not written by the executive agencies. Same K Street source. So electing 535 congressmen and women (or at least a majority thereof) with a Trumpian outlook would not solve the problem or staunch the money flow.
Figure out how to cut off the money and you can cut off the corruption (yes, that is the phenomena you are explaining).
Perhaps the solution is that Congress is way too underpaid, hence a need to receive that pay in a very inefficient quid pro quo fashion as you describe. $174k isn’t nearly enough to live on in Washington DC. Congress has since 2010 voted to forego the annual COLA increase to their salaries passed in 1989. Obvious they don’t need the pittance of such an adjustment when so much of that $3.1 billion is flowing their way. How disingenuous that vote is! We could triple their pay – hell take it to $500k – and the cost would be less than 10% of that lobbying expenditure. Plus that low pay causes those elected to “behave” so they can be attractive candidates to feed at the trough of that $3.1 billion once out of office (which might the next go around).
Another solution might be to finally pass the 12th Bill of Rights that never made it through ratification. One House rep per 50,000 citizens (it started out at one per 30,000). That would dilute that $3.1 billion dramatically! In Federalist No. 55, James Madison argued that the size of the House of Representatives has to balance the ability of the body to legislate with the need for legislators to have a relationship close enough to the people to understand their local circumstances, that such representatives’ social class be low enough to sympathize with the feelings of the mass of the people, and that their power be diluted enough to limit their abuse of the public trust and interests. Since our 435 are not really legislating as Sundance explains, why not dilute their power!
There have to be many ideas…but something has to be done.
I like your sentiment of action. Fuel for the argument includes the demographic shift we’ve witnessed in the past 50+ years. When I was young growing up in Pittsburgh, we knew that area was very wealthy from steel production. Later I learned that at the turn of the century (19th to 20th) the bank district in town had more money than NY and London combined. In other words, the wealth of the nation was dispersed to the industrial cities like Pittsburgh and Detroit to name just two. Other wealthy cities and regions were also well known for agriculture (Midwest cities), hubs of trade (Chicago), energy (Dallas/Houston), and advanced technology/aerospace (LA basin). In general, the wealth of the nation spanned the nation. Where it wasn’t, was also notable. It was not in DC.
Today however, the top wealthy counties are in the DC area. This is not just per capita wealth like we see in the exception of Los Alamos county NM. These are large population counties.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/washington-dc-suburbs-richest-counties
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States
From these sources, 9 of the top 20 are in the DC area. Perhaps this wouldn’t be concerning if there were “gold in them thar hills swamp.” But DC is not known for wealth creation. Rather it is the center of government and power. It is all about power, control and therefore a center of wealth redistribution. Even Silicon Valley, the info tech hub of the world comes up well short. Can this be good?
Unfortunately, the GLOBALIST U.S. Chamber of Commerce is in bed with the Communist Left, China, and every other Country in the world EXCEPT America! They helped Bush, et al destroy the American Economy so the “elites – both Left and Right” can make more money! They don’t give one lick about Americans and their ability to have a job … It’s LOBBYING ARM WRITES THE BILLS that Congress (both UniParties) pass and is sigined into law … UNTIL DONALD J. TRUMP…. Perhaps, We The People put Congress on notice and start fighting back … Tom Donahue is part/parcel. The RINO’s as part/parcel … Time to expose the RINO’s and Communist Left and elect officials who don’t want, nor need MONEY from Lobbyists. Lobbyists write all the BILLS … not some Congress Person …
Time to change how this works … #Trump2020Landslide coming soon… Trump is our Hope, along with The Last Refuge and We The People! Time willl tell. In the meantime, Pray for God to protect and defend each of us …. We are the last bastion of Freedom … Amen.
Poppadon
Which is why Mattis turned from integrity
Mattis is a traitor…pull him back into active duty and court-martial him.
Maybe when Trump is finally reelected, he can shut this down. It wouldn’t be hard. He could sign an executive order that required every legislator to disclose, under penalty of perjury all monies paid to them and their family by lobbyists and corporations. This includes monies paid by PACS. The order would also prevent legislators from pocketing excess campaign funds when they left office. All money would inure to the Federal coffers.
I believe they already have campaign finance laws, written by guess who, that DO require financial disclosure.
Thats why the Chinese bribery goes to family members, that are NOT required to disclose.
How many voters do you think research to find out where their Congresscritters get their $?
Unfortunately, the “their oughta be a LAW!” is a tendency of human nature, but it is not, in and of itself, the answer.
The problem is with WE the people. We got lazy, and just ASSUMED if the Candidate had a letter after their name, if they were “OUR” party’s candidate, and if they SAID the things we wanted to hear, that giving them our vote was sufficient.
Even when, time after time, we saw them enacting policies contrary to our interests, we continued to vote for them.
THEY aren’t listening, cause THEY DON’T CARE.
EVEN when, royally p*ssed off at the 2008 financial meltdown, we organised as the Tea party, they worked with the Embezzler in chief Obummer, to delay the momentum, and then sent in operatives for the kill shot.
And then, in the heighth of hubris, had “investigate to exhonerate” kabuki theater “hearings” and told us “just a rogue group”
when we KNOW Obummer ordered it, at the behest of McStain, relaying it from McConnell.
And still we vote R, “because the D is worse”? Like Charlie Brown and the football, we continue in the battered conservative role, cause as uncomfortable as it is, going out on our own is,…scary and unknown.
Time to pack our bags and LEAVE our abusive spouse. Lets face it, waiting till he’s passed out, tieing him to the bed and setting it on fire is justified, at this point.
So, BURN IT DOWN, it starts with a simple act, easy and pain free even. Costs no $, and little time and effort. Call and request a registration form, from your local board of elections. And tell everyone you know, to do the same.
IMHO, its time.
Diminished options for getting these leeches out is an understatement. When Americans got sick of their indifference to our needs, they *removed* our Constitutional rights to free expression, unreasonable search and seizure, freedom of peaceable assembly and, most definitely, free elections. Our elections are as fake as our news!
These TREASONOUS slugs know we won’t elect them. So they bypassed our Constitution, bypassed our elections and *installed* themselves for life.
Get em OUT!!
As much as it pains me to say, Judith, you are exactly right.
There is but one voice shouting these truths….
THE CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE
Why is that?
Because they haven’t been able to shut Sundance down!
We need 100% turnover in Congress. Primary everybody!!!!
You nailed it Sundance, we’re screwed.
Not necessarily, we just have long odds and formidable foes.
Trump winning re-election now looks like it will take another Holy Roller, but the fact he won in 2016 has energized and informed millions of us.
Holy Roller, comin’ up! Never lose faith!
What do you mean by “Holy Roller” aawlbernigf350?
I must have miss that somewhere, sorry.
Mentioned it since I was replying to Dave Casper
https://youtu.be/l661SNhh7go
Does it mean something like the good and faithful will be strong enough to “roll over the enemy?
I missed your reply to Dave Casper.
Another great post, ringing true like a silver bell.
Polident-Erect Joe Biden the Chinese Poodle (I borrowed that) made all these promises.
But he will shut that down and follow the lead of the lobbyists.
Quoting a partner of President who I have know from long ago. :”Nobody tells Donald what to do”
Buying President Trump a round of golf, a fine dinner at The Post Office?
This is how DC sees ALL Americans:
{{ chilling }} but I agree is probably true.
BOY ARE THEY IN FOR A SURPRISE THIS TIME!
Ever notice how, over the past 20 years especially, nobody has any spare time anymore? Everybody’s straight out busy just trying to make ends meet and keep the kids clothed and fed. No time to watch the politicians or question what they’re doing.
All by design.
Keep a slave so busy surviving, he doesn’t have time to look up. That was always the plan. Citizens don’t have Masters. The present illusion needs to stop before things get ugly
Possible the last 20 years firewoodstacker, up until about 5 months ago.
Then I noticed that even my most sheeplike friends and family started getting upset about the more oppressive lockdown edicts forced on them by the governor of the state they lived in.
My last “you must do what the government tells you to do ” family member finally hit the roof.
She lives in New Mexico and if now chilled to the bone because her governor has decided to shut down grocery stores for two weeks if 4 employees test positive in a 14 day time period.
The store must shut down and cleanse itself from covid virus before reopening.
Almost everyone went along last spring for the six week or so shutdown to “flatten the curve”.
My husband and I tried to tell them that we would be shut down still in September and of course they laughed at us behind our backs.
Now they are not laughing, they are not frittering their lives away.
They are focused, serious and primed to keep Pres Trump in office.
Then they are determined to start working on the rest of the problem with our government.
They have not articulated it as well as Sundance has but they are beginning to figure things out.
The foreign governments and the special interest groups who meddle in OUR government have underestimated the American people badly.
A lot of truth in that image.
Yes there is.
Third world banana republic right there.
I’ve been trying to warn people here that “Xi has invested WAY TOO MUCH of the CCP’s money into bribing/buying US Politicians over the last 20+ yrs” to fail now & Xi will strike America with Iran’s assistance!
There are Chinese troops on the ground here in Canada already on Salt Spring Island BC. just about 20 miles from Washington State! Here is a video of them:
https://www.poletical.com/salt-spring-island-chinese-military.php
This article by CD Media confirms my theory & Trump better be ready for this.
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/analysis/2020/11/26/our-nation-is-under-attack-via-acts-of-war-by-china-iran/
“It is now obviously proven the Obama administration was not only corrupt, but treasonous. They allowed the infiltration into our ranks of Islamic and Chinese agents, enemies of America. Our military and security agencies are compromised. Our law enforcement agencies are as well.”
“Chinese President Xi has made his move and will not back down, for if he fails to colonize America, he will be removed from power.”
Well, then it is our job to see that America wins, China loses, ans Xi is sent to North Korea for re-education.
I’ll take that challenge. Because it means American Jobs, American Families, American Power, American Liberty, and not supporting Anti American ideas, people or products.
I agree. Let’s be part of Stopping the Steal
–Steve Bannon says we just need to get to the state legislators, contacting them
–Every century America needs a Teddy Roosevelt to trust bust AND clean house
–We have that man, we gave him a second term, and we need to “close on the deal” as Bannon says, get him inaugurated
–We can’t give up
–Even libs know the elections are crooked now
Even Lin Wood said the same. Get involved, contact your state reps, governor’s office, anyone you can. Rallys too. Especially big ones. Also we can call them, email them, tweet them. MAKE LOTS OF NOISE.
THE SQUEAKY WHEEL GETS THE OIL!
YES! WE CANNOT GIVE UP! TRUMP WON
Xi is sent to North Korea for a re-education dirt nap.
Feet first, into a chipper. Just my impression.
I am sceptical. They do not need to “colonise” us by invasion, and in fact that would be rediculous to attempt, and directly in contradiction of their war plan.
Their plan, originally drafted in the 80’s IIRC, starts by acknowledging NO country, or combination of countries, can win a “hot war” with the United States.
It then suggests they CAN prevail, thru an asymetrical “cold” war, using economic weopons like dumping, IP theft, corruption, infiltration, CYBER attacks, and yes bio and even EMP attacks but primarily focused on infiltration, corruption and destruction of our culture.
They don’t NEED to conquer us militarily, and know they can’t occupy us. “A insurgency will outlast any occupying force”.
No, the corrupt the leadership of ALL “Democratic institutions”, not just media/entertainment and education, but churches, the AMA and Bar association, even the Boy Scouts.
So, I don’t see a “Red Dawn” scenario.
I DO see the commitment as being absolute, however. Their goal is to establish a Global government run thru corruption (which is all conmunism IS, stripped of its ideological claptrap created to distract) with them in an elevated position.
America is the single impediment to their plan, it MUST be eliminated (as an impediment) in order for them to succeed.
And they must succeed, to survive.
IF that means destroying America, so be it.
So, a Biden puppet in the WH, OR civil war, either accomplishes their goal, and enables the CCP to survive.
And thank you A2, for setting me straight on this! 😉
Yep.
God doesn’t like this math either. Patience. We will see what He does about it.
God helps those that help themselves. I’m not waiting on God to fix what is within my span of control. God gave me that span of control to do something about it. That’s my job. I’m ok with that.
I agree with you. We are here to do his work.
Beni, heard this a long time ago and it stuck with me:
We can’t do God’s work,
And He WON’T do ours.
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So true Beni, He has no hands but our hands.
Work like everything depends on you, pray like everything depends on God — Ignatius of Loyola
Yep. God didn’t put us here to be lazy. We are Partners in His Continuing Creation. Or, we are a failed opportunity. Choice is Ours.
And give thanks.
Exactly. I find it sacriligous to ask God to do what we are supposed to do. Especially when it constantly says throughout the Bible you don’t get to the Promised Land if you cower in the desert.
–You’re supposed to pray THEN get to work
Work like the Devil is at your heels, Pray like he already caught you.
check out the Presidential thread – first post – POTUS is talking directly to you.
To top it off they told him he won and he’s got dementia and actually believes them, meeting with world leaders and drawing up his cabinet.
OMG! IS GOD GOING TO LET THE WICKED GO SO FAR THAT WHEN TRUMP GETS REELECTED THEY WILL HAVE GONE TOO FAR TO EVEN SHOW THEIR FACES AGAIN? WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT NETANYAHOO? Just to name ONE, except that’s a very big one.
Putin is smart. He knows Trump has good chances of reelection. He is not going to hang his rep out like a fool.
That was a puzzle MoniQue.
The only thing I could think about some of these foreign leaders congratulating Biden before Pres Trump conceded was something going on in their own country politically that we did not understand.
It was very strange.
Once the public realizes the “Dominion” can steal their vote, there will be change. Are you saying they will not let Trump win and purge this corruption?
Linda, I agree but you left out one tiny point: Our votes are counted OUTSIDE OF THE USA !
How many knew that?
That is a National Security Issue, which opens another can of worms to deal with and give PDJT more options to direct our republic in the right direction.
They won’t. But God has different plans. He can shut doors that need to be shut and open doors that need to be open. Miracle coming!
I’ll agree with you on that! Hallelujah!
This repeat post by SD should be sent to every member of Congress telling them “now you know that we know about your corruption”.
And, with a reminder, that THEY work for US, at OUR pleasure. Every one of them can be stripped of power at the next election. And I’m gonna do my best to make that happen until or unless they learn that their job is to support America First. Absent that mindset, they don’t deserve to warm a chair at my expense.
Make it so!
They don’t CARE, and they have been clearly demonstrating theirvindifference to us, for many years. But, there IS something we can do, each and every one of us, that will send a message they WILL hear (unlike writing or calling).
CHANGE YOUR REGISTRATION.
LEAVE the Republican party, that left us a LONG time ago. Request a registration form from your local election board.
Where it says “Party affiliation” select “other” and write in “America First”.
And then mail it back, or turn it in.
When more than 2-3 percent of registered voters (in a State) register as “America First Party”, the party becomes officially recognised, and they change the forms to include the “new” party as a choice.
If 80 million americans (who support Trump) change their party registration to A1, the Republicon party is DEAD.
MAGA candidates like the ‘pistol packing mama’, or others can simply join us, but we leave all the dead wood behind.
PDJT can NOT, while under constant assault, leave the GOP to start a new party.
BUT, WE can, and he can join us, once our #’s are so great they cannot be ignored, and with one tweet destroy the Republicons, once and for all.
****Its TIME***
We should add we NOW know that China currently writes the checks, directly often like the 1.5 billion to Hunter, the Biden human vacuum cleaner or indirectly
–And that makes this big business of theirs treason
It would be very interesting to see a list of all politicians and media people who are on the CCP payroll.
That would stop a lot of Dems in their tracks.
It would stop a lot of Republicons, as well.
But, they funnel their $ thru other countries, thru various companies, thru NGO’S, CoC, $oro$ is a $ launderer for them, thru corporations, its an endless flood which starts in China, and ends in DC.
You could probably never come close to mapping all the routes, but you don’t NEED to.
Stop with the labels; Dem, Rep, Rino, Leftist, Globalist, etc.
Stpo with the excuses that anyone opposes PDJT because of hus demeanor, or ‘not Presidential”, or “personal animosity” (McConnell).
Any ENTITY or Politician that at this point opposes PDJT, or gives him backhanded support, just ASSUME they are owned by CCP.
And, are working in coordination with them, to remove PDJT from office, so they can finish their “fundamental transformation” which is to destroy America as we know it, BECAUSE America (as we know and love it) is an impediment to the CCP goal of World domination.
Oh, and since the Conmunist goal has always been worldwide (global) conmunist rule, they don’t recognise the concept of “Treason”; they never have.
Betrayal of the PARTY now, lot of blood spilt for that!
“This repeat post by SD should be sent to every member of Congress telling them “now you know that we know about your corruption”.”
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I’m surprised that people don’t yet understand the basic point in all of this.
They don’t care if “we know about your corruption”……they laugh when they see stuff like that.
They don’t care cause to this point, nobody has done a damn thing about it, why would they do anything now.
This is true of every level of government. You want to change the top down control, you have to change it at the bottom first. It takes time and patience, but it is not impossible.
But all at the same time? There was the big flood… what’ll they call this mess,
the cesspool tsunami? Whatever it’s called, it sure will be a shitty experience.
I like that idea of starting at the lowest level. If we could elect all angels through the primaries, our problems would be over, but people are very bribe-able and politics attracts the wrong kind of person. What we have to do is remove the money of the bribers.
I am going to say that President Trump will dry up the money sources of those bribing our corrupt congress by exposing the foreign influences in our election. This influence is an act of war. Clearing up elections can be part and parcel of purging congress.
Just like the assets of Iran were frozen, there could be a large number of multinational corporations that suddenly can’t make payroll.
I’ve noticed that President Trump prefers to use economic leverage to get results over military action whenever possible. Modern military action could be 100 percent cyber-activity to track the enemy and freeze their accounts.
In addition, these assets could be applied to our debt. I know the president takes the debt seriously, even though it might not seem like it with his recent pandemic relief spending.
The exact same corrupt political ecology is the norm at the state and local levels of government across the USA.
Yes. It is built into the human DNA.
Insightful and terrifying. Why we NEED President Trump’s RIGHTFULLY earned, lawfully elected second term…!!!
Yes!
That is a key point in all of this lisaginnz.
Pres Trump’s lawfully re-election must come about, what ever it takes.
This must be our focused primary goal now.
“You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out!”
-President Andrew Jackson
Interesting.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/trump-admin-removes-globalists-warhawks-defense-policy-board-dopey-madeleine-albright/
PDJT is doing things he should have done 4 years ago. It’s embarrassingly late in the day to be purging enemies.
I used to think that PDJT was a terrible judge of men, an awful picker of appointees. A very unusual flaw for a CEO.
Now I’m inclined to believe he had no allies in the Bureaucracy, very few at the top of the military, very few in Wall St or CoC, none in academia that didn’t get cancelled etc……the equation was simple….he had stuff all allies with experience to choose from. There is no Trump Party, that must change.
trump didn’t have any friends in the republican party either. all those terrible people he appointed were from the republican party. i’ll bet everyone of them were recommended by the rnc.
The problem is almost every seasoned professional bureaucrat in DC – with say 20-30 years experience – was either in the Clinton, Bush or Obama administration – and had loyalties to one or more of those.
History,
Look at where he started from. He focused on the priorities he needed to focus on.
And I submit its called the “America First Party”, and if you haven’t joined yet, its unbelievably easy.
Just call your local board of elections, and request a change of registration form.
Under party affiliation, check “other” and write in “America First”, and mail it back.
And then WORK for the new party, to convince every Trump supporter to do the same.
When they see 80 million registered voters deregistering as R’s, D’s and I’s, they will not only CARE, they will sh*t a brick.
And, at a time of HIS choosing, PDJT can tweet he is leaving the R party, joining the A1 party, and in that tweet, destroy the dupliscious Republicons, for good.
The few warriors that have shown mettle, can come on in. The globalist backstabbers and frontsuckers, will have NO Base, and without a base, their IS no party.
I know there is a legislative agenda to these progressives, but it looks like to me is the only thing they really want to do is reinvestigate Russiagate and Pres Trump business deals for the next 4 years.
They live life in fear.
Yes, they really do. It drives every aspect of their lives it seems.
Godless
Yes. All cowards live in fear. That’s why exposure is their weakness.
So true Cowboy.
Cowards also tend to run in herds, if you can find exactly what each one is afraid of being “outed” and cut them from the herd and “out it” you can finish them off one at a time.
It is a time consuming tedious business and not easy.
So sometimes it is better to poison a pack of rats outright.
Choose the right poison and take them all out at once.
That is not easy either.
Taking a good look at our situation as best as I can without all of the information it seems like we are in for a long hard fight.
But it will be worth it and we have no choice.
The rats have infested our governmnet for too long of a time and they are many and very fat and comfortable here.
What to do about the fourth estate?
I just listened to All Things Considered (its piped into the rooms like muzak) and I heard nothing about “The Kraken” and voter fraud hearings.
WHAT I heard was a DOJ person being “interviewed” (whining) about the corrupt Presidency of Trump and that was corruption obvious because Trump had abused the pardoning power for General Flynn, a criminal who in fact worked to the benefit of the criminal enterprise of Trump. (paraphrased). OMG.
The librarian-voiced-cat-lady microphone holder played along with him. This NPR lady did not mention that the DOJ wanted the case dismissed, or that it was a Obama Oval Office “muzzle job” with malice from the get-go. The FBI and DOJ were just abused in a most partisan way ever seen. It was a huge injustice. Said microphone holder lady did not try to compare the Flynn case to other high profile cases, e.g., the criminal allegations against Mrs Clinton or Mr Holder or Mr Elias. Nadda.
The information war we are enduring was on full display and that broadcast should be archived as a sample of our times and troubles. It was all so calm and measured and authorative-toned speakers talking absolute agitprop to their audience. It was political propaganda. As for the psyop that is the china virus lockdown – even worse.
We are heading to a point (I dread it) where so many millions of propagandised adults will have a complete meltdown, total cognitive dissonance. The info war will be very harmful to the whole system of social stability and I wonder if that this situation is not in fact the desired outcome.
In God We Trust
The librarian-voiced-cat-lady microphone holder played along with him.
Wow! What an incredible sentence. Imagined the video and audio in my mind very easily. You are a wordsmith!
My little mental experience ended differently though. The cat lady beat the hell out of the DOJ punk with said microphone.
My theory is that while they needed to get Flynn out, fast before he audited them, and uncovered all their crap, once they did they decided to leverage it, and got greedy.
At a certain point, they HAD him. He had pled guilty, the plea had been accepted, and ALL that was necesary was to sentence him.
And yet, the PROSECUTION kept petitioning for delays. Of COARSE he agreed, whats he gonna say “No, I want to go to prison NOW!”
The cover, excuse they gave was cooperation with ongoing trial of his partner, but that was b.s.
IIRC, even after his partner beat the rap, they continued to delay. WHY?
I think they planned to wait till Oct, 2020 and THEN sentence him, so they could have ths headline; “Trumps National Sec Advisor sentenced to 2 years, for lieing to FBI about Russian contacts” or, in the alternative, what we are seeing now “Trump pardons former Natl Sec advisor, guilty of lieing to FBI about Russian contacts”, …and it WOULDA worked, it really woulda,.. ..
And then along came Sidney, pistol packing Sidney, along came Sidney to STEAL their show!
And, if Sidney hadn’t become involved in the Flynn case, she may very well not be where she is now. The Flynn case PRIMED her for the Steal case.
Anyone who says God isn’t intervening, and doesn’t have a sense of humor,…just isn’t paying attention!
THEY created the spear, that is going to pierce their cold, black heart and deal the death blow.
Bit of an artist, too is God.
I have learned so much from Sundance about lobbyists. He breaks it down into understandable facts on why Biden is bought and sold by the Chinese.
Cause Biden is a whore and China is his Pimp?
if our laws are written by unelected lobbyists do we have a sovereign government?
Both in theory and by design (U.S. Constitution) we have a sovereign government.
In practice however…….
Sloppy crooks get caught, better crooks dont, and the best become politicians.
~ jus
This article made me ill the first time as my state of WY has some of the worst 3 stooges in DC. Enzi is leaving in Jan to be replaced by Lummis, which isnt her first time to the rodeo. BarASSo and cheney are self explanatory, but the people keep re-electing them….or does the election software do that?
I think many voters here are apathetic and ignorant to what our elected officials are doing. Sometimes I think that if you had an (R) next to a glass of water, called it conservative, it would get elected here. There are a spate of state legislators here that are a RINOs, RINO, and fortunately some have been kicked to the curb after this last election. My state rep was challenged in the primary by someone who in all reality was a dem, and since NO dem challenged him in the general, that was his general.
Where does it go from here? Good question. What else needs to happen for the people to wake up? I dont know, but hopefully many have taken notice of the corruption that was exposed by PDJT, and the election fraud that has happened right before their very eyes.
Im beyond tired of it.
Sack the city, make it a museum, save the historical artifacts. Set up the new capital in a Kansas wheat field, see who comes.
From HeshmatAlavi
On lobbyists??
LONG THREAD
IMPORTANT
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From @SidneyPowell1’s lawsuit filed in Georgia
“… the Dominion software was accessed by agents acting on behalf of China & Iran in order to monitor & manipulate elections, including the most recent US general election in 2020.”
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1331933154253352963.html
A while back I looked into the staffing of Lindsay Graham. At that time he had around 40 staff members. And a staff budget of something like $2.3 million dollars.
Google: Staff salaries of united states senators and representatives
That info is from 2011.
Look at all that money.
There is no soldier that is going to throw down their life, and that of their family for Biden
Biden will take their lives for his greed. We are not the Biden gang.
In 1856, there was NO Republican party. Not at the local, State or National level.
Over the past 20 years or more, there had been several attempts to start “abolitionist parties”, but they went no where.
In 1860, the newly formed Republican party elected its first President. It was a true, grass roots movement of evangelicals, quakers and others who believe ferventlybin abolition, and so created the party from nothing, in a mere four years.
And mind you, they had no social media, no internet, cell phones, …not sure if they even had the telegraph. It was TRUE ‘Community organising’, and a remarkable tale.
What they had, was DETIRMINATION
If they could do that, under those conditions and with those limitations,
THINK what we could do, in a much shorter time!
Its TIME! Change your registration from “Republican, Democrat, Independant or Libertarian (whatever) to “other” and write in “America First”.
And then get every Trump supporter you know, online or otherwise, to do the same.
It really is that simple.
My fellow Americans: I am re-transmitting this letter by every means possible for one reason. I believe we Americans are facing the gravest threat we have faced as a nation since the Revolution if the collective ‘left’ is permitted to take control of the federal government in January 2021. Soldier/Cop/Grunt, Retired
Original Letter presented to many of my fellow Americans in March 2017.
My Fellow Americans:
As one who has taken both the soldier’s and police officer’s oath to protect and serve the American people, I have to proceed with caution/a level of sensitivity when even thinking about commenting on the likes of J. Biden, K. Harris, L. Warren, B. Sanders, N. Pelosi, A. Schiff, J. Nadler, C. Schumer, B. Obama, J. Terry, M. Romney, and far too many others to list here. You see many years ago while serving as the police chief of a city I expressed my pent up emotions/attitude toward politicians/bureaucrats/academicians/corporate executives/media types, etc. to a hall full of citizens concerned about plans to build a jail near their neighborhood. I did not need a fortune teller to tell me I was not going to be reelected as president of the local Rotary Club after I stated to the assembled group:
“If I were you folks I would not worry too much about the folks in the orange jump suits. We know who they are, where they are, and what they are up too most of the time. If I were you I would spend my worry time on the folks in the business suits. You know the politicians/bureaucrats/academicians/big corporate executives/media types/etc. They can take every dime you have, your house, your car, and your first born child with the stroke of a pen and/or the nod of their head! As a soldier/cop who has fought communists, socialists, muslims, and just your run of the mill angry folks high on this or that; I consider them to be responsible for the fact that you are the most effectively lied to people in modern times and I consider most (‘most’ being defined as one more than half) of them to be the greatest threat to the overall well being of the American people!”
It is the attitude described above that caused me to retire to the deep woods, employ security measures learned as the commander of an infantry unit in the jungles of Vietnam, and augment the same with two large working dogs trained to USAF sentry dog standards. As I explained to the local sheriff after he asked if I really needed the level of security employed to protect my family and property from intruders, I was/am not employing the high levels of security to protect my family and property from intruders. I am employing such measures to protect intruders from me!
I promised myself that in consideration of my fellow American citizens I would not consider venturing too far off my property (except for occasional trips to Walmart and Whataburger) until Jesus returns or a true leader appears giving me cause to once again pick up a weapon and stand a post!
Soldier/Cop/Grunt, Retired
PS. Within short period after hearing Donald Trump’s inauguration address I was convinced God himself had sent the American people not only a true leader, but a fully qualified ‘Battle Captain’! I have informed my President/Commander-in-Chief that at 78 years young I am ready to pick up a weapon and stand a post.
Marjorie Taylor Greene(GA 14th) first term, looks like a really good one
My journey for truth started about 10 years ago. I live in Australia and was looking to understand how the political system works around the world and finding sources of news/blogs that aligned with my personal views and told the unbiased truth. I found CTH from visiting Aussie sites like Catallaxyfiles., quadrant, michealsmithnews and Joannenova to name a few. These sites while satisfying and informative were not enough especially when Trump started his run for president in the USA. Then I discovered breitbart, CTH, thegateway pundit and others and was appalled at how the media covers, lies and deceives about various issues. I have virtually given up on watching mainstream tv and radio and all the MSM links. I get told off by the wife for swearing if it is on. Red pilled now! I am constantly amazed by how little people know and how much they swallow the MSM BS!
Sundance constantly amazes with his insight on events and President Trump is an inspiration every day.
A relevant to this topic on Breitbart yesterday on Charles Koch on politicians not doing what he bribed them to do.
I was laughing and got ahead of myself. Here is the link.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2020/11/26/charles-koch-horrified-when-donations-didnt-buy-politicians-votes/
Please forward this article to as many people as possible. Sometimes it really is ONE person that can analyze, explain and persuade better than the ‘consensus’. Sundance is the absolute best!
The scamdemic would be a good time to require the reps and senators to stay in their own districts and states to conduct the nation’s business while their constituents watch their proceedings on zoom.
It would make it harder for the lobbyists and corrupt leadership to make the dirty “dope” deals that screw over the constituencies.
Also it would make it easier for constituents to lobby their representatives.
I would change “Trillions are at stake” to “Along with your liberty, hundreds of Trillions are at stake.”
This is not about the trillions in this fiscal year, or even the tens of trillions in the course of the next administration. It’s about the trillions robbed from us in perpetuity as the Globalists reorder the world to enslave us and our children.
Liberty for me and my children is worth fighting for. I’m sure I’m not the only one.
These bastards don’t realize the Pandora’s box they are opening. A box full of Wolverines.
One would wonder how many millions of American people still believe the Sesame Street version of passing legislation?
Congressional reform – in other words, back to the Constitution – is long overdue and NEEDED. It would also be great to include a limit of years an individual in their lifetime, can serve in Congress. For example 8 years in sum of both houses of Congress.
Sundance, I would have given this article hearts rather than a like. You are exactly correct and on point. I would like to ad it’s not just the elected whose palms get crossed- it’s also their staffers. And if K street gets you elected then K street can put you on the committees they need to push thru the bills we (I in my former years) wrote- sometimes in a hotel room. The biggest gathering of the suits I was involved in was the OBRA legislation of 1985. Oooh that sent chills down big Pharma’s spine. We even got the Chemical honchos brought in to help us squash that. Now there were some shirts and cuff links that could feed a family of 4 for a year or two. Yes Chemical companies like DuPont etc are all part of Pharma. Only entity bigger than us back then was the NRA. And nothing has ever come close again to getting Rx prices down for the American people ever again until DJT. That’s from 1985 to 2020- let that sink in. DC is broken for the people.
The lifestyle is 5 star and that is what keeps people corrupted and in the business. And that lifestyle is what we give each and every legislator to keep them on the stings of our bidding. We become friends with many. Our job is not to just write and get passed legislation to help our specific needs- it was also to keep them separated from the people who elected them- yes the deplorables, the unwashed.
I have a strong ethical -righteousness type backbone- and I eventually couldn’t shower the stench off.
When I left- I said if Jesus Himself was elected President he could not fix the debacle our government has become. So yes I am happy for Trump the disrupter!!! So much has been exposed – and I hope another term will lay bare the rest of it for the people to see. Your government left you decades ago.
Wow. I understand better than ever why they’ve gone after Trump during his entire presidency. It’s disgusting! We need term limits for these politicians and Patriots that love America serving for a limited time in these positions.
Reminds me of the Borg-resistance is futile- “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood….”