This is more than a little interesting and aligns with my own research and discussions. House Speaker Mike Johnson was lobbied by former CIA Director Mike Pompeo and current officials from the CIA, DNI and Intelligence Community.
This effort, and his son starting at the Naval Academy, is what changed Johnson’s mind about allowing the U.S. intelligence community to have his full support in the IC war against the American people.
The story is shared by CNN, the official outlet for perspectives and viewpoints held by the U.S. State Dept (CIA), so keep the narrative origination in mind. Here are the key points as written in the article:
WASHINGTON – […] The speaker’s embrace of Ukraine aid represents a remarkable evolution for Johnson, who voted against funding for the country as a rank-and-file member. But almost immediately after securing the speaker’s gavel, sources say he began to hear directly from critical Republican national security voices – including Donald Trump’s former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, who impressed upon him the urgent need to approve assistance for Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion.
In March, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky lobbied the speaker directly. Within minutes of the House approving a new military aid package for Ukraine on Saturday, Zelensky offered his thanks to US lawmakers, and in particular to Johnson for his decision that “keeps history on the right track.”
And more recently, Johnson received a key intelligence briefing from CIA Director Bill Burns, who painted a picture of the dire situation on the battlefield in Ukraine and the global consequences of inaction, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. The briefing left a lasting impression, and Johnson became increasingly convinced the fate of Western democracy was on his shoulders, sources close to him said.
Another factor that sources say weighed heavily on his decision-making: Johnson’s oldest son was recently accepted into the Naval Academy.
“To put it bluntly, I would rather send bullets to Ukraine than American boys. My son is going to begin in the Naval Academy this fall. This is a live-fire exercise for me as it is so many American families,” Johnson told reporters. (read more)
♦ The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is at the epicenter of all modern corrupt politics. Every element of weaponized government, each example of action taken, can be traced to an agency within the USIC.
Similar to every other person I have ever met in Congress, House Speaker Johnson was pressured by the USIC and accepted their position. Johnson then changed his mind on the priorities of the USIC, sided with them in everything they requested, and pushed all he knew about the corrupt and weaponized conduct of the USIC to the side.
Keep in mind, we know the core ideology of the USIC is political and corrupt. We also know the core motives of the USIC are weaponized against anything that would remove their power tentacles from control. We know this, because the former USIC Inspector General was an institutionally corrupt guy named Michael Atkinson.
Before becoming the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), Michael Atkinson was the chief legal counsel at the DOJ National Security Division. Atkinson was the office lawyer for the Deputy AG in charge of the DOJ-NSD. Essentially, Atkinson was the internal compliance officer within the DOJ-NSD responsible for making sure all the rules and regulations of the national security division were maintained and accurate.
Michael Atkinson was Acting DAG Mary McCord’s lawyer when she was head of the DOJ-NSD, and when she submitted the fraudulent Title-1 FISA warrant against Carter Page that was used as a surveillance tool against Donald Trump and his campaign.
Atkinson would know the granular details of the FISA application, because it was his job at the DOJ-NSD to audit every U.S. Attorney Office that submitted FISA applications – including Washington DC.
When Mary McCord left the DOJ-NSD, she went to work for Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler on the joint House committee to investigate Donald Trump. When Michael Atkinson left the DOJ-NSD, he went to work as the Intelligence Community Inspector General.
It was Atkinson who changed the rules allowing an anonymous whistleblower in the CIA (Eric Ciaramella) to make accusations against the office of President Trump. Whistleblower Ciaramella previously worked for Joe Biden when the corrupt Burisma business venture with Hunter Biden in Ukraine was set up.
Atkinson set up the system for Ciaramella to make an accusation against Trump, while keeping Ciaramella’s name hidden. This previously not permitted secrecy stopped the general public and DC people from knowing the background political motives of the claim against Trump by hiding Ciaramella.
The combination of Michael Atkinson’s work in the DOJ-NSD (Page FISA warrant), and the work he then did to set up the fraudulent CIA claims against President Trump (with Eric Ciaramella), stands as irrefutable evidence of the corrupt and weaponized activity by the Intelligence Community Inspector General. This shows how the IC is corrupt/weaponized.
The cherry on the proverbial corruption cake happened when ICIG Michael Atkinson helped construct the fraud against Trump; he then turned over all the fake whistleblower evidence to the Shiff/Nadler committee. The head of that committee was Mary McCord, Atkinsons former DOJ-NSD cohort. In essence, Atkinson gave McCord another fraudulently constructed set of documents to attack Donald Trump.
The first time McCord and Atkinson worked together, it was to conduct surveillance of Donald Trump and then hide the evidence. The second time Atkinson and McCord worked together, it was to impeach Donald Trump and then hide the evidence.
I hope everyone can see how the embeds within the Intelligence Community are completely political and working diligently to retain and operate a weaponized system. The functionaries deeply inside the mechanisms of the intelligence apparatus are the ones doing this; it’s not just the heads of the executive agencies as appointed by the Obama/Biden administration.
♦ MAIN POINT – The Intelligence Community overall is corrupt – soup to nuts. If the IC was not comprehensively corrupt, someone like ICIG Michael Atkinson could never become inspector general.
Now…. think about everything that stems from the outcomes of the Intelligence Community!! Everything about everything the IC puts into the DC system; everything that creates policy and executive/legislative action is politically motivated and corrupt.
It’s not just about renewing FISA-702 surveillance on Americans, it’s everything.
THINK!
Think about wars, borders, national security, threats domestically, threats ignored/downplayed due to ideological makeup of the IC. Instructions given to politicians, briefings to the President, advice to policymakers, positions of military assets, foreign policy, election security, DHS mandates, border impacts, and so much more.
Meanwhile, the judicial branch defers to the IC on all matters of national security. Think about the ramifications.
It’s not hard to see how fully collapsed our system is once you realize how fully corrupt the intelligence apparatus has become.
Look at the traitor’s face. He is exactly who he looks like. A demon. Look at his eyes. They are the window into his black soul.
Uh, which traitor?
Pick one, you’re right either way.
Which black soul? Or half black soul?
Johnson’s eyes look like he’s had a few ‘too many’. But his wife? Is cute.
But honey, I did this for the family…
First thing I noticed. Not generally the eyes of a man of profound faith, js…
Congress is the Keystone of the Mass Corruption Complex pyramid Ponzi scheme.
You can’t rise in the Mass Corruption Complex unless you are corrupt and other members of the corrupt institutions you join have you interlocked with them in mutual comprimat and corruption.
Witness Hunter Biden, the Princeling of the Mass Corruption Complex
In the Illegal Republic where Corruption is the Constitution, the Mass Corruption Complex known as US Congress it is required to be corrupt, to be a pervert, to be owned
The US Congress is the only place in the USA where its legal to do insider trading, and the access to Illegal Republic intelligence ensures you will be enriched and corrupted
https://www.illegalrepublic.com/p/151-mass-corruption-complex
there was some scandal with Atkinsons wife
I am trying to remember
the Illegal Republic is run by these nobodies
these backroom bandits
Tucker Carlson’s excuse / explanation is that he is “weak”.
That too – but he starts off as a corrupt traitor. End of story.
President Trump is a man of action no words. Thus far he has sacrificed his wonderful life, his fortune and his sacred honor for MAGA and he never brags about it either.
In terms of the horror show that we will face if the DemonRats don’t get defeated in November, there is nothing more important than getting our President re-elected.
Right now he is literally in the NY Belly of the Beast. PT needs our prayers, not all this in-fighting.
We’ll all have to move to Idaho!
Idaho sucks…there is a liberty hating governor and more rinos than you can imagine. Taxes are high…freedom is …..nope
Just move rural, you don’t need to change State,…just get out of the big cities, unless you are committed to being a true insurgent,
in which case keep a multi-heades screwdriver and crescent wrench, and a handful of sand in your pocket and your head on a swivel.
He needs & has asked for visible support.
I look forward to reading what you write Seneca. It matters that we understand and put our own selves in his shoes…to wear them and feel, really feel what it must be like to face an enemy such as this. because, in reality…it’s NOT PRESIDENT TRUMP THEY FEAR.
THEY FEAR YOU.
..he’s just in the way
God Bless America
While I do think that “he’s just standing in the way” is a GREAT line, I really think the biggest in a long line of miscalculations of the anti-MAGA forces, is there mistaken belief that if they can just get him, all will be well for them and they win.
He IS the only thing standing between us, and them. THATS true…
excellent.
noting: it might happen before they are “done” with him.
agreed,..shhhh.
Well I’m praying we’re a much angrier and a more awakened citizenry, to our lot with the current world regimes.
I read comments on an article on DailyMail yesterday and was astounded to find 99% knew about the uniparty, WEF, reset, even from other countries. I credit SD, and thank him, for ripping our eyes wide open.
They don’t fear you and they don’t fear Trump either….
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. But I think you’re wrong.
Amen Seneca Amen
It really is good to see you back here!
“Speaker Johnson Changed Mind on FISA/Deep State after Lobbying from Pompeo and Intelligence Community”
“Do what we say or your entire family dies.”
FIFY
Yes, I think their conversation may have been along those lines.
I think it’s more along the line of: Well speaker Johnson, would you like your family to see the pictures of you and the chicken? Needless to say the supposedly pure, Bible-thumper caved.
Geez, this war is lost by the Ukrainians, it is just a matter of time now, my guess is by October, that these SAME EUROPEANS WILL FORCE ZELENSKY TO BOW AND GROVEL BEFORE UNCLE PUTIN AS HE SETS THE TERMS!!! They were never going to be able to WIN, but hope for a bit of a stalemate for a while because the RUSSIANS ALWAYS PLAY THE GAME OF ATTRITION WHICH THEY WIN IN THE END AGAINST A UKRAINE THAT DOESNT HAVE THE NUMBERS TO KEEP UP!!! That is what is happening now, the Ukrainians DONT HAVE THE BODIES IN EFFECTIVE NUMBERS TO EVEN ESTABLISH A CONTINUING STALEMATE!!! I spent eight years in active service and saw this from the beginning when Col McGregor and others were describing what would eventually happen to a tee!!! 🥴
…and Col McGregor and Scott Ritter is right……
Not enough people listen to them that’s the problem.
Forgot the link…
https://futuredefensevisions.blogspot.com/
Congress can just make Ukraine the 51st State with a 3/4 vote, but then they will lose their laundromat.
Investigative journalist Peter Bernegger recently spent two days in jail. In this great interview with David Clements at 12:00 to 16:00 he focuses on the Congressional laundromat that is Ukraine.
https://rumble.com/v4qzk1x-23-april-2024-david-clement-live-12pm-est.html
A matter of perspective, literally HOW I am “looking” at it.
This was NEVER a war between Ukranians, or Ukraine and Russia.
It was an is a war between the Western Intelligence Military Industrial Complex,…and Russia.
And the WIMIC was very clear from the outset they never intended to “win this war with bullets and bombs, but rather with,…” well bullshyte; financial sanctions, propoganda etc.
They convinced themselves this would and could work, much like a colonel once convinced himself a light calvary brigade could storm and capture a cannon emplacement.
Into the valley of death rode the 600,…
The Russian people were supposedly going to be so crushed by the most crippling sanctions ever imposed, that they would (with helpful seeding by CIA/MI6) rise up and demand Putin be deposed.
Beyond that, the EU has adopted GND rules/regs, crippling for their farmers, all because “Climate change” restricting fertiliser and Diesel usage, etc.
Meanwhile, Ukraine, BECAUSE THEY ARE AT WAR, had special exemptions to having their produce be grown under these same requirements, as a way to “Support Ukraine”.
Of coarse, Blackrock/Vanguard/Fidelity effectively OWNS all of the produce coming out of Ukraine, having boughtthe produce before the seeds ever went into the ground.
So, it is not Ukraine that actually benefits from the exemptioms, it is Blackrock etc.
And then there are the contracts, to rebuild Ukraine after the war, unless they can work out the truly incredible deal theyhad in Afganistan; keep rebuilding the same infrastructure, over and over and then keep blowing it up, over and over and finance both the blowing up and the rebuilding.
It truly is “all about the bejamins!” and yes, people really are cynically profiting from causing massive deaths and destruction for no valid reason,…just because they CAN!
The only time Omar has ever been right…
“it’s all about the benjamin’s”… baby.
If I could waterboard just two people for the grand confession it would be Larry Fink.
Like twice?
it’s a oil war…and energy war. make no mistake about this reality.
we can discover the IC has its’ dark hands all over it.. but ultimately this is about real power at stake…more than trillions…real power.
energy
noting: green deal/reset is a lie..it’s always been a lie…the ONLY meaningful supply of energy is from gas and oil.
God Bless America
God Bless America
Excellent analysis my friend!!
I believe that the Blackrock/Vanguard/Fidelity ownership is in the form of the company stocks they hold in the mutual funds and Exchange Traded Funds that they have sold to us for our retirement programs. Many of those companies they own because they are in the various indexes that their funds try to emulate, Dow Jones Industrials, S&P 500, etc. Blackrock/Vanguard/Fidelity and other fund marketers just take a slight cut from what we earn by buying their funds.
How does that jive with Sundance statement about sanctions? That the sanctions were meant to restrict the US. To block us in? Which one is it? Genuine question.
Spend the $90B by arming 5M illegal aliens and shipping them overseas to the Ukrainian front lines. Would deter future military aged males from coming to US, would rid the US of them already here and it would provide Ukraine with much needed manpower. Granted their skills and capabilities are extremely limited but anyone can dig a hole and play defense. It flips the attrition equation.
What you meant is that anyone can be fodder; just give them a camouflage uniform, a gun, and some orders to either sit in this hole or run into those bullets. No skill needed…just false hope that you will be given riches beyond your wildest dreams, if only you did this.
The front lines will be in Idaho and Texas,
Gonzalo Lira, too, so they killed him.
Prof Mearsheimer called it 10+ years ago.
McGregor is now an Israel-hating loudmouth, tho I do agree with his Ukraine assessments.
Loudmouth? No he is rightly disgusted by Israel’s depravity
What depravity?
Frankly I confess I have not listened to McGregor since Oct. 7th, so am unfamiliar with his position on Israel.
To me, the depravity MIGHT be in seeing Oct 7 coming, and doing nothing to prevent it, because they saw it allowing it to happen as beneficial.
And, I seperate the Israeli PEOPLE, from the Israeli Govt., and both from the Isrseli I/C, which I believe is infected with the same Globullust OWG types that have infected all “western” intel agencies.
Those barstuds are totally depraved, and have NO National identity; like their marxist ancestors.
Israel did something no one has ever done: steal land back from the heart of Islam, that great thief of the world. Islam stole nations and peoples for 100s of years. Spaniards took back their lands, but that was from the Moors. NO ONE has taken land back from Arab Muslims, except Israel. Therefore, Islam will not rest till every Jew is dead. The Israelis know that and in their turn will do whatever it takes – whatever it takes – to survive.
That grim fact is the core reality of that corner of the world. Some might call it depraved or genocide, etc. But it is now kill or be killed over there. Israelis are finally realizing this. Muslims always knew it. In such a fight, no quarter can be given by either side.
Kinda sounds like what’s going on in the country…insert Trump, MAGA, Globalist.
I think you meant Hamas’ depravity
Putin is doing their work for them. More sanctions on Russia, a stronger BRICS, a weaker dollar, and us as CBDC slaves!
DONT HAVE THE BODIES IN EFFECTIVE NUMBERS TO EVEN ESTABLISH A CONTINUING STATE!!!
The moment they formed the C_IA the swamps protect program was put in place. It must be ripped out root & branch for our Constitutional Republic to reemerge from this pall that has enveloped our Great Land.
💥 💥 💥
Couldn’t have said it any better.
Respectfully, the Cancer has metasticised far beyond any chance of being able to eliminate the cancer AND save the patient.
The patient, our Constitutional Republic is a “dead man walking” actually laying in a bed, emaciated and hooked up to so much equipment barely visible and not at all recognisable.
The cancer dies when the patient dies, but 2 floors down, in OB/GYN a new baby is being birthed,…and like a second child, BECAUSE we have the knowledge OF what our founders created,..we have the “parenting knowledge” to start over from scratch and build a new Republic, from the start based on the lessons learned.
Both birth and death are painful experiences,..it is all part of the glorious cycle of life.
Vote smarter, vote harder, vote early AND often, and then watch out because since neither “side” can survive a loss, and yet one side must, inevitably lose,…the election isn’t going to be an end of friction its only going to ramp it up.
Amen. Long live MAGA.
Yes but that constitution is gonna change. No more allowing a socialist suicide party to participate in any election, ever. And make impeachment harder to start but easier to finish… see current example.
Could say exactly the same for the Department of State.
It’s not a coincidence that Pompeo headed both during PDJT’s term.
Exactly right. 2 sides of the same coin.
More like two coins with the same sides.
Respectfully, minor correction; the Fan belt inspectors were created before even the pregenitor of the Corrupt Idiot Agency, and Hoover set it up as a guardian of the elites,…and of coarse the final melding was the MOU, between the agencies…
The enemy have identified themselves. The next move is ours.
He could have, at the very least, demanded that our borders be secure. If funding Geev-Mohr-Mahneee-Zelensky is that important, and if the FISA renewal is that important, the LEAST Johnson could have insisted upon is a secure border, but he blew that too. Sadly, now is not the time to oust him, else we lose what little control we have over the House.
I wish I could sell Johnson a used car…. He’s either a dipshit, corrupt, or both.
Unless they have a replacement already lined up it is useless sacking him. Democrats will keep him their meantime. Any break in the Republicans will only make more disaffected RINO’s leave and they will become minority. First order of business is ban Trump. This is where they vote as a block, no matter what.
Call their bluff.
Let the camouflaged demoncraps go.
He is a disgusting, useless, corrupt traitor. Period, end of story.
His complete and utter capitulation either has a threat that caused it, maybe certain death for his entire family, or he was always a Pawn. I can’t decide, he does look miserable so I am inclined to go with a threat.
He has us right where he wants us. Helpless and fearful of removing him. He’s a genius strategist.
What I don’t get is if you are in a position of power, simply go on tv and tell the world about the threats. What do you have to lose? Confess to whatever horrible dirt they have on you and name names.
Evangelical Jack Hibbs is singing MJ’s praises over the Israel funding, saying it’s worth sacrificing everything else over. It’s on us to keep God’s own people alive or something.
Israel has the same issues as us. Disloyal Globalist Elites. Corrupt Courts, Corrupt Media, Corrupt Military, Obama funding terrorists and Color Revolution, a Deep State that allowed Oct. 7 just like ours perpetrated 9/11, etc.
Glick tells how in 2016, Obama offered more defense aid–if all the money was all spent at Raytheon, Boeing, etc,. It killed Israel’s own defense industries to the point of begging for bullets, which was of course Obama’s goal. She thinks Israel should rebuild those and phase out aid, although not go cold turkey during a war, I assume.
Rest in the Vine: BidenReich: “WE DIDN’T WANT TO GIVE IRAN $100 BILLION DOLLARS,
BUT TRUMP MADE US DO IT!”
I’m totally in favor of Israel becoming independent of our ugly war machine. What right do we have to dictate how they should respond to attacks on their country, their people?
Oh how I pray for leaders like Israel, who put us first.
Apparently, we’ve replaced God??
Jack Hibbs spoke to people VERY close to Mike Johnson Thursday morning .
The way it is perceived to them is through the Biblical verses That says God will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse them. That’s why Mike said
That history will show it was the right thing to do.
This is a war between good and evil at its core .
Trump said we have a majority of one ;it’s not like
We have a lot of pull with all these rinos working against us. Mike Johnson believes it was for OUR good.
I don’t like this whole situation it feels like our nation is circling the drain.
Nevertheless we are in an awfully precarious place and if we lost faith in God’s words what hope do we
have left?
Giving money to Palestine/Hamas and Zelenskiy IS cursing Israel!
I believe Johnson is hiding behind his religious cloak. God saying support Israel-Ukraine wasn’t even mentioned. No either Johnson has been the biggest con actor or there was a threat and a promise. Keeping his son out of live fire? So it’s ok to throw millions of Americans under the bus? There is nothing Johnson can say or do at this point for me to forgive what he has done. I don’t care what Pastor Jack pleads for. End of times satanic deceptions -and Pastor Jack should pull that veil away.
Sorry, I am a believer and this explanation DOES NOT HOLD WATER. I am not buying what Jack Hibb’s is selling, nor what Mike Johnson’s supposed motives were. I think Jack Hibbs has lost his way, or maybe he never had it and was successful in fooling many people.
I don’t believe Johnson had any clue what he was getting involved with. Do we even know? Was his life in danger? MTG was so eager to get rid of him, does she not know either? Congress needs to watch this video.
Idk will booting him actually give us any better bills with a different breakdown? Let’s not pretend and say Johnson may as well be coaching for the other team. How will results differ?
Under McCarthy and Johnson, all the horses who could have pulled America back from the edge of the cliff were let go in spectacular funding fashion for a big deception to the American people and our Nations survival.
DC is all lies all the time.
Why was Johnson even meeting with Pompeo let alone listening to him, why even give him the time of day life’s too short.
Does he not know what’s going on, who the bad guys are. What’s he do with his time he certainly doesn’t keep up.
President Trump’s snake story is about Pompeo. He was the head CIA guy and could have turned the tide just like the do nothing Barr. Both were swamp life guards. This thing of keeping one’s enemies closer only works if it’s for containment and not to let them run the show.
That 🤬 cliche gets me so hot. Enemies belong OUTSIDE, not IN. Only an R would believe such a nutty strategy.
I’m fine with inside, so long as “safe distancing rules’ are FIRMly established; something solid, to insure never closer than 6′, okay?
Oh no, not those 6ft circles again…
I think he met with him because Pompeo gave him an
order, oops I mean offer he couldn’t refuse.See Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Joe Rogan, discussing the Kennedy murder in 1963, and Pompeo.
Pompeo’s lawyer called Tucker and threatened him at one point, if Tucker revealed what had been told to him by an anonymous source. Worth a listen
Here is a link, don’t know if it is the whole interview or just a bit
💯💯💯👏👏
“Why was even meeting with Pompeo,..”
Duh, cause he’s currently Secretary of,…oh, er Director of, oh,..right.
Oh, he is on the board of a Corporation based in Ukraine, I remember hearing that awhile back.
Pompeo has joined the Christian Conservative club. He wrote the forward to Pastor Jacks new book-“Daze of Deception”. Something Pompeo has honed perfectly. So now he is one of the guys and can corruptly bend their minds.
Sad really.
Last bastillion of hope for this world, our country. Now being brainwashed-led down a destructive path.
“Pompeo has joined the Christian Conservative club.” Was he sponsored by Judas Pence?
How can any discerning Republican politician not see though Mike Pompeo?
He’s the UniParty’s next “Mueller.” The man with an impeccable, completely fabricated reputation.
They CAN see right through Pompeo, but what they see standing behind him, propping him up, absolutely terrifies them all.
Well, first they have to want to
And now this from Speaker Johnson to Thomas Massie:
Instead of fining democrats for waving flags, the House Sergeant at Arms just called and said I will be fined $500 if I don’t delete this video post.
Mike Johnson really wants to memory hole this betrayal of America.
Pay the $500 in pennies.
The Ukranian equivalent of a penny (kopiyka ?)
Set up a go fund me so that the public can pay the fines for Massie to keep broadcasting.
Pay the $500 and tell him to shove it up his a$$!
And only after all the backlash does Mike Johnson reverse his stance on the fine!
My guess? He didn’t issue that order, his new aide aka Handler did, this one:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/18/exclusive-emails-reveal-speaker-johnsons-top-advisers-never-trump-conniption-over-gop-groups-trump-endorsement/
Wow! Seems he needs to get a handle on his own staff first.
Now did that order come from Johnson, or from the woman who appears to be his new handler? For she would have been in charge of giving that order to be delivered.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/18/exclusive-emails-reveal-speaker-johnsons-top-advisers-never-trump-conniption-over-gop-groups-trump-endorsement/
And it means this video is powerful, give it to Trump, let them use it in ads, showing how the govt cares for Ukraine more than for our borders, our homeless, or poor.
He can never memory hole the betrayal of giving the HoR over to Hakeem Jeffries.
He’s also getting even with Massie for signing on to the motion to vacate.
They are trained monkeys waving their little flags. Sick. Sick. Sick.
Massie? Pffft!
Is that Nanzi’s sergeant?
In god’s eye better that you were never born if you support policies killing 600,000 Ukrainians.
Wonder how his son feels knowing the reason he was accepted was because his father bowed down.
They only thing required to get into Annapolis or West Point is a nomination from a member of the US Congress (Senate or House) or the Vice President of the United States. Other than that everything is “flexible”.
OMG, Karmala can get kids into our elite military academies,…what a truly horrifying thought!
So I am sure Johnson didn’t pull any strings to get his kid into Annapolis and no strings were pulled to get into the good graces of a powerful Speaker of the House. (wink wink)
The kid had already been accepted hadn’t he? And maybe the kid was the target they proposed. It is clear this guy is now entrapped, just a question of how. We know by whom.
That’s the likely situation. May God have mercy on us all. What a miserable predicament to be in
It just gets worse!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/23/mike-johnson-to-campaign-for-tony-gonzales-pro-ukraine-jim-jordan-opponent-who-called-gop-border-security-plan-unchristian/
Looks like they want to get their money’s worth out of their new Pawn.
Actually he may be doing Jim a real favor. I would see Mike Johnson’s support as akin to a Kiss of Death.
So everyone should donate $5 to his primary opponent. Brandon Herrera:
https://brandonherreraforcongress.com/
I think they’re intentionally pushing a vacate motion to get Hakeem in
They would need some R’s to either resign, switch parties or vote with Dems, in order for hakeem to get in the chair.
I continue to campaign for my second favorire candidate “somebody else”, remember he did really well in the primaries, kicking Nikki out of Nevada, lol.
Empty the chair, and LEAVE it empty!
His top advisor connected to the evil two party money cult of D C!
Yes, as well as this new aide:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/18/exclusive-emails-reveal-speaker-johnsons-top-advisers-never-trump-conniption-over-gop-groups-trump-endorsement/
Hannah Fraher is a Never Trumper.
Johnson hired her AFTER he became speaker but she had worked for him before.
She runs the ENTIRE House…what she says goes.
Think about how to eliminate the devils from the NSIC. That is the only way it is fixed. Johnson neither has the guts or patriotism to do it!!
You got a nice life and family, Mike. It would be a shame if something bad happened to it.
Left without comment.
Johnson is even sporting a “Zelenskyy beard” in one of his photos.
Thought for a minute that was SPQR (Senatus PopulusQue Romanus) under Nero.
Prove me wrong.
And just in case Johnson should be tempted to veer from his now ordained path, I believe he has been given a “minder.”
This minder:
https://patriots.win/p/17t1MjW01f/x/c/
Would be a shame if something happened to your son.
How about we just ignore these criminals? Just let them play away and we reenact the 1770-1800 debates and proceed. That would be a true two tier justice system. Are spitballs frowned upon?
The best investment would have been in Diplomacy. Belligerence and willful Blindness is accelerating the demise of the USA.
No Industry, no productive jobs (only Government and Services), back-breaking Debt.
Russia is no more going to lose in Ukraine than the USA would concede Mexico to China.
Fracked gas and oil means a declining energy future.
Well we’re definetly “fracked”!
Biden, the UK and the EU intentionally sabotaged Ukraine’s early approaches to a negotiated settlement. War was left as the only option.
Peter Beinert, Feb. ’22:
Biden’s CIA Director Doesn’t Believe Biden’s Story about Ukraine (substack.com):
In 1998, the Greyest of our Greybeards George F. Keenan also warned against NATO Expansion.
“I told you so.”
Here is NY Time’s Thom Friedman today, gone Full-Establishment War-Pig:
But HERE is Thom Freidman 25 years ago, singing a very different tune after interviewing George F. Kennan:
FOREIGN AFFAIRS; NOW A WORD FROM X
Rest in the Vine: George F. Kennan and The Limits of Your F****** Bullshit, Pal
President Putin led Russia out of the Soviet Era. Obama led America into it.
Iran is the Little Satan. Kalorama is the Big Satan.
Ukrainians voted for Peace with Russia by electing Poroshenko. So the CIA overthrew Ukraine’s voters. Sound familiar?
Ukrainians then voted for Peace with Russia again by electing Zelensky, who ran on a Peace Platform and signed a Peace Treaty with Russia.
So the CIA overthrew Ukraine’s voters again, forcing Zelensky to repudiate that Peace Treaty and use Ukrainians as Cannon Fodder–or else.
If two kids on a playground fight over a Kool Pop in Kuala Lumpur, the State Dept. sends diplomats. But not for this war. No, they quash anything that might halt the butchery. BTW, Ukraine doesn’t even bother holding elections anymore.
Oh, how they scoffed at the Evil Empire.
And then became one.
The Entire War Pig Oligarchy knew and understood NATO Expansion would cause a war, but they relentlessly pursued the policy for years. Why?
Because they knew it would cause a war.
That is, THEY WANT THIS WAR. IT IS THEIR PURPOSE. THAT’S WHY YOU OVERTHROW POROSHENKO. THAT’S WHY YOU PAY ZELENSKY TO REPUDIATE PEACE AND THE MINSK PEACE ACCORDS. THAT’S WHY YOU NEVER PROPOSE DIPLOMACY. THAT’S WHY EVEN THIS MONTH , YOU AGAIN PROMISE TO MAKE UKRAINE A NATO MEMBER.
WAR, WAR, WAR.
KILL, KILL, KILL.
DEATH, DEATH, DEATH.
Proverbs 29:16
When rulers are wicked, their people are too; but good men will live to see the tyrant’s downfall.
Yes and Amen, Lord God Almighty!
Rest in the Vine: Fresh on the Heels of Their Moscow Terror Attack Success,
the DC Deathmongers Send More Cannon Fodder Blood Money
to Butcher Even More Ukrainians For Empire
Johnson likely changed his mind after Intelligence Community showed him what they had on him and threatened him with what they could pin or fabricate on him or his family…
Mike Johnson had a chance to stand in the gap, to do the right thing. Patriots were hoping they had a man to hold the line, but sadly just another empty suit. Mike Johnson, I see your disgrace.
Just like John Roberts – when in the breach, Johnson and Roberts failed. Absolute cowards!
This is very revealing…AND NECESSARY.
noting: DC is not going to fix itself. It cannot. There are no white horses coming to save you. There never was, there never could have been. YOU ARE THE WHITE HORSES. Mount up.
God Bless America
So after their encounter did Mike Pompeo say to Mike Johnson “Was it good for you too?”
Did they use “protection”?
Did mike at least get kissed, after?
Seriously, all who are speculating on what was said to Johnson in this one security briefing,…do you really think they did not KNOW, with absolute certainty, exactly who/what they were installing as Speaker, before his name was first advanced?
Of COARSE they did, they do this for a career, not spur of the moment, or off the cuff.
And Matt Gaetz knew, Steve Bannon too,…
Probably had the blackmail lines all planned out knowing full well McJohnson would cave and do anything they demanded.
Little mike doesn’t fold like a cheap suit, he is one and a fake Christian identical to Pence… Dan Ziegler influenced MJ’s decision?
Mike Johnson makes me puke – Both of my nephews fought in Iraq, one with the Marines going from Kuwait to Baghdad against the Republican Guard in an amphibious assault vehicle (Marine version of a tank) through the desert crammed full of spent uranium – he took 16 enemy combatants. He came home to find out he was sterile and couldn’t have his own kids. My other nephew was a Army MP assigned as a bodyguard to an Iraqi politician after the fall of Saddam. He got 6 enemy combatants, the last one with a burst at 50 yds across the Haji’s forehead as he drove through a checkpoint with two artillery shells in the back seat. He kept the Haji’s knife.
Mike Johnson is an absolute coward! Congress is disgusting, every bit as bad as Biden.
Spent uranium from our tank shells?
There is some evidence that our tank shells were very very badly contaminating areas and people.
How pathetic
How absolutly pathetic
This is the “speaker”?
God Help Us.
Johnson treats Russians and Ukranians as if they are not as human as his son.
And now thanks to his effort we are going to provide long range missles to Ukraine? Is this the reason more American “advisors” (missle operators?) are going into a war zone without a declaration of war?
Johnsob does not even deserve a seat in the House.
I have tried to cease writing about what these various miscreants deserve,…so biting my tongue till it bleeds.
[Compliments of cartoonist Ben Garrison:]
I think they flattered him. “You’ll be the adult in the room. The Constitution isn’t a suicide pact, and men of your caliber know that. You’ll save defenseless American women and children from terrorists’ bombs because you understand that sometimes there is no time to get a warrant. There are very few men who truly understand their duty to God and country. Are you one of them? Because we think you are.” That’s how it went.
Mike pompayo reminds me of how you must pay to play like joining the bbb.
Business pays to get certified logo and people think they are ligit but are not at all
Pompayo is like the bbb logo play deception.🦨
“To put it bluntly, I would rather send bullets to Ukraine than American boys. My son is going to begin in the Naval Academy this fall.” – Mitt ‘Judas’ Johnson
Sales professionals will recognize the ‘false alternatives’ close – A or B?
In fact, Option C is to send neither bullets nor ‘boys’ – as in, it’s not our frickin’ problem. But by tomorrow evening, at least 60 spineless Senators will sell us down the river, just as Judas Johnson did.
Since the wheels of military logistics grind slowly, Russia has every incentive to accelerate its spring offensive. This is already happening. Did y’all see Kharkiv’s TV tower collapse? No more Zelenskian Looney Tunes for the hapless Kharkivians. No more ‘third leg’ tickling the ivories. 🙁
Incredibly, after ‘Biden’ was humiliated in his botched withdrawal from Kabul, the US is setting up a fresh smack-down for itself, as its Ukrainian proxies get their hides nailed to the wall by superior Russian forces.
We should hit $37 trillion federal debt by year-end, if not $38 trillion, with annual debt service pushing toward $1.5 trillion. Welcome to Zimbabwe, my friends – a/k/a, the ‘end game.’ Even PDJT will find that ‘Biden’ set the throttle to 100 mph, then maliciously hopped out the locomotive window as the train roars downhill to a 15 mph hairpin curve.
Got a call from the RNC today. Asking for contributions. After telling them no, I said for them to ask Mike Johnson for contributions. I told the phone person that the Republican Party has betrayed American citizens and that I would not contribute to them whatsoever.
Johnson thinks that the usa will fight the Ukrainians’ war if the Ukrainians don’t?????? It is time for serious regime change….here…..now
At this point it may no longer be accurate to refer to the Intel Agencies as “The Fourth Branch of Government.” They are now the ONLY branch of government. All the three legacy-branches exist today largely as sock-puppets and figureheads controlled by the IC. None of them – the congress, the executive, the courts – will challenge the IC in any way but always give the IC anything it demands. The IC keeps the legacy 3-branches around for PR purposes, symbolism, media exposure and for photo-ops. It is exactly the same role and same purpose why the UK still hangs onto their royal family.
Bingo. The government you see on TV is just for public consumption. They control nothing. They are all puppets manipulated by the Fascist Billionaire class. The only purpose of the TV government is to put on an act to keep the people divided enough that any revolt would be manageable. Because if people actually united and revolted, they could never survive that. And they know it.
We the people are the manipulated sock puppets.😳
i don’t know what make johnson think his kid ain’t going to ukraine if the democrats stay in power.
He’s the Speaker of the Uniparty. His kid’s not going to Ukraine under any circumstances.
“briefing from CIA Director Bill Burns, who painted a picture of the dire situation on the battlefield in Ukraine and the global consequences of inaction”
If the situation is still dire after the billions we have spent, then somebody should be explaining WHY the situation is still dire, and where the money has gone.
Enough is ENOUGH!
The laundry must continue for the uniparty and their corporation. We the people work in the laundry for the uniparty.🥹
The IC controls everything. Do you really think they are going to allow an honest vote and vote tabulation? Really? Come on people. Totalitarians never allow themselves to be voted out of power.
Remember when PDJT told the eye see he did not need a “daily briefing” from them?
The aye sea goons were flabbergasted they did not get that daily mechanism to control the CinC.
CinC PDJT is smart, he knows how to handle foreign affairs, how to stop wars, how to prevent wars, how to do peace & prosperity.
Eye see no like any that, get Big Mad.
It is simple. No Trump. No Country.
Well that settles it then, Mike Johnson is not accountable for his actions because he talked to Mike Pompeo.
Can’t blame the guy. /s
Tell me again why I or anyone else should vote for Republicans.
Well at least my $$$$ taxes will go too zelinsky, call his coke dealer too
re-up
After all of this, will Louisiana vote for him again this Nov? You bet your ass they will.
Sundance: thanks to the founders, there is one provision of the Constitution that can overcome the Supreme Court’s deference to the executive branch on questions of national security. That is the Article IV section 4 guarantee to each state that it shall have a republican form of government.
Being the only guarantee in the Constitution, the implication is that in any conflict between this provision and other constitutional provisions, all others that must give way, because if the republican guarantee ever gives way then it fails to be a guarantee.
This priority is also fully logical. Our republicanism system of government is the tree of liberty, and the survival of the tree must take priority over any particular fruit of liberty, because without the tree, all fruits of the tree will be lost in any case.
The guarantee of republican government is also exactly what the USIC and the Democrats are subverting. Here is Alexander Hamilton’s definition of republicanism, given at the constitutional debates in New York: “The true principle of a republic is, that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect in proportion as the current of popular favor is checked.”
In Baker v. Carr (369 U. S. 186, 1962) Justice Brennan opined that it would be very difficult to make a viable guarantee clause case because he could not figure out what republicanism is and could not see how the need for “discoverable and manageable standards” for adjudicating guarantee clause claims could ever be met. He reckoned it was possible, but was clueless as to where the meaning of republicanism could ever be found.
Apparently he had never heard of Hamilton’s definition of a republic, which has since been deemed both discoverable and manageable in other areas of Constitutional law, just ironically, not in the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the republican guarantee.
So it is right there, ready to be used, already discovered, easily manageable, and hence ready to be invoked under the Court’s existing jurisprudence from Baker v. Carr.
There are two most obvious ways that the current of popular favor can be blocked (creating an unrepublican form of government): elections results can be determined by election fraud instead of by an honest polling of the legal voters, and the powers of government can be weaponized against political opponents, blocking their rights to speech, association, and equal protection of the laws, keeping opposition candidates off the ballot, etcetera.
Democrats stole the 2020 election. This was proven beyond all reasonable doubt by True the Vote through their use of geo-fencing to get the receipts on just one very narrow slice of Democrat election fraud, documenting that 2000 Democrat mules, operating in five key counties, systematically stuffed far more than enough fraudulent ballots into numerous ballot drop-boxes to swing five key states from Trump to Biden, turning an Electoral College landslide for Trump into a stolen “victory” for Obama’s puppet Biden.
The full scale of election fraud had to have been vastly higher. Polling by Rasmussen found 1 in 5 of those who voted by mail admitting to voting illegally (voting in more than one state, voting a ballot in someone else’s name, etcetera), and it is well known that Democrats did much more mail-in voting than conservatives.
The biggest election risk of all, rigging of the electronic voting machines themselves, was never investigated at all because the traitor Bill Barr secretly countermanded Trump’s order that the DOJ and all federal prosecutors investigate all evidence of election fraud.
To cover up their crime, Biden/Obama and their Lavrentiy Beria Merrick Garland have officially designated everyone who questions the 2020 election as a terror threat under our post 9/11 anti-terror laws.
The republican guarantee is the legal Sword Excalibur that will, if we can just pull it from the stone that the Supreme Court has encased it in, cut through every step of this usurpation.
First, since all elections are run by the states, any election system that is unnecessarily or intentionally vulnerable to vote fraud would be systematically cut down by the guarantee clause, if it were in play, because the guarantee doesn’t just imply priority, it also requires a high degree of certainty. No substantial vulnerability to usurpation by election stealing can be allowed to stay in place.
If SCOTUS had been enforcing the republican guarantee for the last 50 years then electronic voting machines would never have been allowed, never mind the mass mailing of mail-in ballot applications, all votable by anyone just by signing the application with the name printed on it, then doing the same with the ballot, with no verification anywhere that signee is the person named.
That is an obviously intentional wide-open invitation to mass ballot fraud, on the level of CA issuing drivers licenses to illegals, then automatically sending them ballots that have hidden on them in small print that only citizens can legally vote them.
The weaponization against Trump, when conducted by the states, as in NY and GA, also plainly violates the guarantee that the state’s shall have republican governments. Leticia James ran for NY AG on a promise of finding things to charge Trump with. NY Governor Hochul assured the real estate industry that the standard real estate industry practice, where for negotiating purposes each side estimates property values either at the high end or at the low end, would not be treated as criminal for anyone but Trump.
They are patently trying to injure Trump and thereby deprive the people of NY from being able to vote for one of the leading candidates in the upcoming election, in blatant violation of the republican guarantee.
It takes a little more work to see how the guarantee clause bars the federal government from violating republicanism the same as it does the states, but not much more work. The states are all subject to two different governments. Each is subject both to its own state government and to the federal government. If either of these governments are unrepublican then the state is subject to, or “has,” unrepublican government, which guarantee clause guarantees will not be the case.
Thus Fani Willis coordinating with Merrick Garland to violate equal protection in pursuit of President Trump constitutes federal violation of the republican guarantee as well as state violation.
And lastly, to the trump card that the usurpers think they hold, where all they have to do to prevent any action by the courts against their usurpation is refuse to cooperate on the grounds that the issue at stake is a matter of national security, judgements of which the courts are bound to defer to the executive branch on, that wall is shattered by the Sword Excalibur that is the republican guarantee.
On questions of usurpation, the guardian of the tree of liberty takes full lexical priority over executive claims of national interest. There can be no national interest in usurpation. The executive cannot kill the tree of liberty in order to save it. The tree of liberty must always come first. That’s what the guarantee clause says. That is the meaning of it being the one guarantee in the entire Constitution.
Thus the courts do not have to defer to the executive’s lying excuse that concern for election integrity threatens election integrity, thereby threatening national security, because the issue here is usurpation and the question of whether the republican guarantee is upheld, and whenever republicanism is at stake, every competing legal claim must be held inferior.
We must pull this sword from the stone. I know how just by a quirk of history. My attempt to run for sheriff in Santa Clara back in 2002 was blocked by an unrepublican ballot access restriction, so I read the Supreme Court precedents and found that Brennan, writing in 1962, had missed Hamilton’s definition of republicanism (later embraced by the Court in other areas of law).
Realizing that I had found a way, within existing Court precedents, to bring the most important provision in the entire Constitution out of its current state of desuetude, I sued pro se all the way to the Supreme Court, trying to give them a chance to pull the sword from the stone, but they failed to hear me.
It will take real lawyers to pull the sword from the stone now, in time to save our republic from its current usurped state, while we still have a Supreme Court capable of doing the right thing.
An amicus brief would do it. Trump’s lawyers don’t know to use the guarantee clause. No lawyer today knows how, so there is no chance that they will put the issue properly before the court, but if just SOME lawyers can be clued in, they could put the issue before the courts via amicus, where the Supremes should ultimately give it proper force.
The path is open. I wish I could do it myself, but I’m not good enough. I can figure anything out, but I can’t get anyone to listen to me. I need people with the complementary skill sets to carry this ball.
If Sundance would be willing to post it I would be glad to write up a fuller analysis, complete with all the necessary constitutional arguments and precedents.
Great post. I think you are right, this clause is a great weapon that is lying around unused, and yet it can be applied to a great many cases that come before SCOTUS. It’s actually as fundamental to American liberty as the Bill of Rights.
There’s that name–and that Adams apple–again….Mary McCord.
Pompeo, who Tucker Carlson claims wanted to assassinate Julian Assange?
What’s the possibility that Zelensky$$ threatened to blow the Ernohodar nuclear reactor in Zaporozhie unless he got his cash?
It IS the biggest in Europe, and much of the smokey cloud would partly drift east.
The Ukes did blow that big dam & bridge farther south on the Dneiper (near Kherson) last summer.
Not to mention a number of other combat ‘quickies’ that sound more like terrorism, than careful maneuvers.