If the basic story unfolding in Mar-a-Lago is to be believed, RFK JR, Elon Musk and a small group of technocrats and billionaires have become the ‘kitchen cabinet’ advisors putting the Trump administration together. Rumors swirl that Melania Trump, Devin Nunes and Dan Scavino have checked out of the ridiculous “non-clown-car” hot mess until the dust settles.
Adding evidence to this possibility, the media are starting to report on some rather, well, shall we say, curious picks from the Mar-a-Lago transition group.
Everyone else, except you guys, will miss what each of the New York Post “leaked” names have in common. They are all in direct alignment with the retention of the Intelligence Community as it exists. For the IC, this is the team that lets them hunker down until ’28.
♦ Rubio at State:
Rubio would be the IC pick because, well, he is Vice-Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and a direct installment due to his efforts to support the prior Trump targeting; which included the big assist to then Vice-Chair Mark Warner. The IC has super thick black files on Rubio, they’d love to have him at State. This rumor seems ridiculous.
Actually, this rumor seems like a leak trap.
♦ Waltz as National Security Advisor.
Putting aside all of his wife’s very direct and sketchy associations with the World Economic Forum, Representative Mike Waltz is currently a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, HPSCI.
Waltz supports U.S. troops in Ukraine, wants to continue the anti-Russia narrative, and has openly pushed every narrative the IC has presented to him in briefings. Mike Waltz believes everything that comes from the Intelligence Community as gospel.
As National Security Advisor, Waltz would be awesome for the intents of the IC stakeholders. You cannot see the IC corruption around you from a position inside the IC corruption.
♦ Kash at CIA.
This is the one part of the outline of leaks that gives me hope all of these rumors are nonsense.
Kash at CIA would be as valuable as Andrew Weissmann as White House counsel. Patel has never managed anything, let alone an aggressive and massive global spy agency. However, he does like the spotlight and would be able to invest in a lifestyle more befitting his opinion of himself.
Remember,…
♦ The U.S State Dept and CIA operation is like a restaurant. The Dept of State is the front of the restaurant, with the Secretary as the Maitre D’. The CIA is the back of the restaurant, the kitchen. The Director is the Chef. The consulates are the wait staff. USAID are the food runners. The Dept of Defense are the bus boys.
The tables and chairs are assigned by the Maitre D’ according to their value. Countries viewed as more important get the best tables. The menus offered to each nation are completely different. Israel has a table in the kitchen. To get the best experience, tips (bribes) are required for everyone, from the parking valets outside, to the sommelier, to the server. Currently, Ukraine is the biggest tipper.
On the oversight aspect the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is the control mechanism to approve/install the Secretary of State. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is the control mechanism to approve/install the CIA Director. Everything therein and thereafter is a system of pretending it is something else.
If you think I didn’t previously say the IC would love to have Rubio, here’s a datapoint from July:
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Remember also, everyone has a self-interest, including the billionaire Technocrats currently housed in Mar-a-Lago for the assembly of the cabinet.
The modern technocrats exist because the IC is their main benefactor. Confronting the IC would be against the interests of the Technocrats.
These names and selections would be fatal flaws in a Trump administration from the position of confronting the IC apparatus. Quite simply, with this assembly the IC cancer just goes dormant; the cancer appears to be in remission -everyone smiles- and then the cancer reemerges again in 2028 to kill the host.
Let’s wait and see if these names and positions actually happen.
I think you have to start with the assumption that every rumor is part of a pys-op to divide and discourage. The rumors all favor the IC getting their picks in key positions which means they were probably started by the IC.
Remember the rumors about Pompeo and Haley were wrong.
Best to wait and see before heading down the gloom and doom path.
We’ll see what happens.
There may be more games afoot behind the scenes that we don’t know of.
Evil often masks itself as something good even noble and can fool even the most spiritually aware. Evil can also go dormant for long periods of time, centuries or even more, four years is nothing more than a mere short weekend holiday! Beware of the Ides of March! The euphoria of victory can trap the most righteous, the most well meaning into new dangerous unsuspecting situations! Pray like We The MAGA People are the third monkey! Godspeed President Trump and Sundance!!!
One thing to keep in mind about these appointments. Trump is a one term President. If the person accepting the position already has a secure position in government, especially if it’s an elected one, they have to weigh the long term costs of giving up that position for one that will only last a max of four years.
It seems to me few keep such positions for two full terms anyway.
The Derp State would greatly appreciate such creatures as would subvert MAGA.
Even if they served briefly, rewards await.
M
Go back and read the post again about the kitchen!
CIA in kitchen, Director is the Chef.
Important countries get the best tables in dining room. ISRAEL has a table in the KITCHEN!!!! 👀 👀
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Woody Allen steal your lunch money … again?
Duty calls?
Never did. I don’t hang out with pedos. You?
The narrative and the ops are collapsing rapidly.
Desperation is the fear of losing control of the narratives though.
If you have a problem with Sundance’s revelation, maybe you can take it up with him. Let us know how that works out.
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Uh, you sure you want to be referencing (pedo)Woody Allen, of all people?
Ayup, hence my reference to where a certain canid hails from.
Sheesh, Stuxnet was 17 years ago.
And Pegasus is today.
I initially interpreted it to mean that Israel had the worst table. But maybe you’re right…
Gaetz on who’s running the kitchen?
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1844142776830865728
😉 🎯
…and serves at the will of a POTUS with very specific policy goals and a strong willingness to fire non-performers.
Possibly. Some of these scum might be facing re-election in 2 years and see the winds changing. Some might imagine they can ride the train and stay in it with Vance….2028-2036.
Starting tomorrow morning, I’m just gonna go back to living my best life, which does not include watching this unfolding clown show.
Part of this bad clown show is getting bad actors to show their hands and big funny feet.
We are watching Derps being played.
Our understanding and patience immunizes us from panic and despair and allows us to enjoy the show.
Neither panic nor despair, here. But I’m out of clean coffee cups and the hamper is full because I’m spending too much time reading comments based upon speculation. I figure it’s a problem if I’m wearing the same clothes three days in a row:)
A woman after my own heart.
My kitchen is still a mess after more than a week being obsessed with this “entertainment.”
Same-O. Gulfo de Mexico y Playa del Carmen!
Adios y CUT THE CORD
If Rubio is a snake as suggested it may be wise to keep him close, rather than leaving him with free rein in a secret and hostile Senate intelligence committee. As SoS he is under the direction of POTUS. If he tries thwarting things from that position Trump can fire him and he’ll be out on the street, rather than holed up in the Senate, causing mischief. Bring him in house and YOU control his future.
All 3 of these worms would be good to have in isolated subordinate roles. Absolutely not the heads. They’d be easy to read where the IC trash was trying to steer you. Then do just the opposite
Maybe an Ana Paulina Luna, or Byron Donalds runs for his Senate seat?
Matt Gaetz would be a great replacement for Rubio. I still hope this is fake news and Grinell gets State. Importantly, all undersecretaries and sub secretaries everywhere should be appointed by Trump, not the Cabinet Secretaries. That was President Trump’s mistake with DoD last time.
GAETZ??? Good grief!
Good point. Still, it seems risky.
Of course we know how all of that Keeping Enemies Closer bs worked out last time. Can we dump that concept, please?
^^^ This ^^^
rubio has proved himself to be a snake on numerous occasions over the decades
Unhappily that’s how I remember him, too.
Since we don’t control who DJT is going to choose for his cabinet let’s all pray that God will give these appointees wisdom and courage.
I was hoping for Rick Grenell at State, he has more than earned it. I just pray for courage.
I’m sure DJT has some place special for Mr. Grenell.
I had read that Ric didn’t want secstate. Not sure if that’s true.
PDJT knows what’s at stake. No doubt he is aware of the tremendous info re: the Russia Hoax that Sundance has detailed.
I do trust 47 so I’m going to assume that he knows exactly what he’s doing and why.
If you look at all Trump has overcome, it’s absolutely extraordinary.
Well, I’m praying, I can tell you. We need a lot more than the next four years…
Yes, trust God and pray for PDJT. Pray for God’s direction for him in all he has to do.
Above all, walk by faith – not by sight.
To God Be the Glory!
Happy to see the healthy cross section of society represented in the new Government
Billionaires, technocrats and career politicians
Gives one hope things will change a lot.
None of them are in government yet. It is just a transition team meeting and nothing more.
Trust Sessions.
Is Secretary of State a position that needs to be confirmed by the Senate? Maybe (hopefully) President Trump is throwing Lil Marco into the limelight?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, it needs Senate confirmation.
Quicksand inbound?
Very disheartening. How is it possible that no one in the close orbit, READ: Those who have Trump’s ear, is not, has not read this site. 🤬
test – I haven’t posted in probably 7 years
It’s premature. There’s been no announcement from Trump or his team on social media. When Lee Zeldin & Elise Stefanik were selected, there was a process. Trump publicly extended the invitation, the selected publicly accepted. Lee Zeldin immediately appeared on Fox News to accept. In Ms Stefanik’s case, I saw her accept by tweet, & since she holds an elected office, she then withdrew her name for some leadership position
w/ Mike Waltz @ NatSec Adviser & Rubio @ State, the announcements came late & were in the form of a “leak.” No official, public announcement; no public acceptance or even comment – AFAIK – from the 2 principals
While we wait for the outcome, it keeps occurring to me: even if Trump makes what appear to be concessions to the IC, Deep State, NeoCons, Establishment, w/e you wanna call them – he should staff the NSC w/ the people closer to his way of thinking. EG, Tulsi would make a good member of the NSC. If Grenell doesn’t get a cabinet position, put him on the staff
Obama had people start out in the White House then move to an agency. John Brennan & Michael McFaul both started out in the White House before becoming the DCI & US Amb to Russia…. It seems a bit catastrophic to declare the game “over” at this early stage
Trump did pretty well with the IC all over him. Dormant IC probably works.
Trump is taking over as the CEO over a fundamentally and powerfully corrupt and dangerous entity, the United States federal government. It has always given me pause to consider that Donald Trump should be expected to destroy that which he is fighting so hard to join.
That said, Patel as CIA head seems quite odd.
Patel’s book Government Gangsters was good and he named all the corrupt players. I was impressed with his part in exposing the corruption.
His official appointments have been posted with great fanfare on Truth Social with the Trump/Vance transition logo. The fact that the NY Post is publishing this is a flag that perhaps he is trying to smoke out someone who is (already) leaking information.
Good to see you!!
concur.
Sundance is training us to see the movements of the DS. It’s been a valuable education but it’s nerve racking at times! The people here who have been reading SD longest seem to be the best trained judging by the calmness of their reactions.
Benny Johnson, Bernie Kerick, Clay Clark, John Rich, and General Flynn are all very enthusiastic about Patel at CIA. I suspect Bongino is too.
While we are all aflutter about these names, Gen Flynn makes a good point here around minute 15 – the most important named position isn’t even any of the ones being discussed with such fervor.
https://rumble.com/v5nc0k5-general-flynn-and-pastor-dave-scarlett-trumps-10-point-plan-to.html
For those who want to research as opposed to just clutch their pearls:
Where will all of these people land in the Cabinet? The exact place that needs to be sealed and treated where the cockroaches enter and infest.
As I was looking at these “rumors” as they have been emerging all evening, I was becoming more and more concerned.
I am praying hard. And hope that Sundance posts get spread on Twitter to alert the people who need to know that this is NOT what we need.
This is Deep State #2. A further maliciously entrenched Deep State.
🤦🏻♀️ is this going to be wrong choices like 2016?🤦🏻♀️
Nope.
Has John Demers been considered for anything.
Here We Go
Con Inc. pushing hard.
Someone needs to stop Trump from doing this-else the whole thing has been for naught -and Trump will have learned nothing. Or was this the agreement for the win??😡😡
Our very smart President Trump knows exactly what he is doing. Have any of these “appointments” been confirmed as being official, or are they from “unnamed sources?” Unless the announcement comes out under President Trump’s letterhead, it’s not official. No, they’ve come out as pronouncements – from unnamed sources – in MSM rags such as NBC and the New York Times. I don’t know about you, but to me this is not “news”….it’s innuendo, or outright lies, dressed up as “news.”
Please God, no Rubio anywhere anyplace!
Don’t forget, Trump also appoints many positions directly under the cabinet position (deputy assistants IGs, secondary heads, etc). He’ll have eyes and ears everywhere. He’ll also have replacement leverage if someone gets out of line.
In the past, he also offered positions to people so that their current positions get opened up to someone more favorable.
Buy the rumor, sell the news.
fwiw
“The American Conservative can confirm that President-elect Donald Trump’s search for secretary of State has narrowed to four candidates: Richard “Ric” Grenell, his former ambassador to Germany and acting director of national intelligence; Marco Rubio, the Florida senator and runner-up to be Trump’s vice president; Bill Hagerty, the Tennessee senator and his former ambassador to Japan; and Vivek Ramaswamy, the former presidential candidate–turned –fierce Trump surrogate. ”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/vivek-ramaswamy-dark-horse-secretary-of-state-candidate/
I think SoS would be an excellent post for Vivek.
He’s brilliant and tough -minded.
Where are ‘We the People’ in that hot mess of technocrats and billionaires who are deciding our leaders for the next four years?
Mini-bios of those people (and still reeling from the hidden list of wiley Susie’s long, intimate association with Big Pharma—hat tip to the source) would put us in the stewpot with neocons and rabid opposers to a Palestinian homeland.
No, oxi, nein, nyet, non!
I won’t have to wonder what tonight’s nightmare will be about!
sorry, a so called Palestinian state/homeland is not an option. Unless they are integrated into the existing Palestinian state aka Jordan.
The fat lady has not yet sung, Ray. The genocide must end.
President Trump has announced none of this on Truth.
Thats good news.
I hope he’s now seeing who his kitchen cabinet really is and puts them out to pasture.
Please God, help give President Trump wisdom in these matters.
Does the guy who nominates Lee Zeldin for EPA nominate Rubio for State? 🤔🤔. Could be wrong but doesn’t make sense in my book.
Intelligent, steadfast, loyal, and caring — Lee Zelden would do the country well as EPA head.
Here is another rumor that doesn’t make much sense…
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“Governor Kristi Noem to serve as his Department of Homeland Security Secretary”….
Dept of Homeland Sec. needs to be headed by older, experienced, tough as nails, and “above reproach,” leader, as was once said of Ronald Reagan.
Kristi is far too girlie for the post and far too inexperienced to be dealing with tough cookies.
I could see Harriet Hageman in the job. She’s got the steely chops needed to lead that dept. And she’s as sharp as they come; no wool going to be pulled over her eyes.
However, should the plan be to break up DHS, then Noem at the helm for a few months could give her the immersion-by-fire-experience that could toughen her up and prepare her for greater things in the distant future.
Maybe Trump team is doing one of those blue dye tests to find a leaker. You know, where they feed different info to various people and when the leak comes out they can easily track it and determine who leaked it.
Just a thought.
You guys do realize his Cabinet positions need to be approved by Senate right?
Those hoping he can just appoint a bunch of outsiders that want to tear the system down and the Senate would just rubber stamp it are living in an alternate reality. The Senate has very few MAGA types unlike the House.
Picks so far seem fine to me, especially border czar and Stephen Miller.
Trump is not going to appoint a bunch pacifist isolationists which people like Glenn Greenwald think is necessary. Peace through strength is also not neoconservatism.
If I read that insipid “…keep your enemies closer” trope ima gonna puke.
right on..😆😄😁
The DC cesspool chess continues with we the people pawns being taken.
Oh what a wicked web they weave to deceive.
Rachel Maddow warns about Mike Walz. Says he helped Trump try to overthrow the government on J6. That makes me feel a little better about him
….😁…
No one tried to overthrow the government
Walz didn’t “help’ anyone do anything. Stop listening to MSNBC.
Hmmmmm. Leak trap is interesting.
Suppose you have a three-headed duck on your transition team that you never really wanted and who doesn’t really fit, but with whom it was politically necessary to make an, um, arrangement, in order to get him and his three-headed duck friends on your side during the election. But now he’s an albatross.
Knowing he can’t keep his mouth shut, you let him, and only him, in on some “selections.” After he has leaked those selections to the press you make the real announcements. His credibility is now destroyed with his press buddies, and he knows that YOU know that he was the leaker. He’s quietly shown out the back door and everyone keeps their mouth shut about it.
Something like that?
I’m with you there, Troublemaker10.
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Rubio leaving the Senate opens his seat up for Desantis, and keeps him relevant for a 2028 Presidential run? Just moving the chairs?
I would hope that Byron Donald’s would run for an open Senate seat in Florida.
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Sundance, I agree with you 100% on Rubio as Secretary of State!
I’m not questioning your negative assessment of Mike Waltz, but what do you make of Rachel Maddow having a major meltdown tonight over Trump choosing Waltz as National Security Advisor because, she claims, Waltz lobbied against having the 2020 election certified because he claimed it was stolen from Trump, Waltz also said Trump wasn’t responsible for Jan. 6, and he wants Dulles National Airport renamed Trump National Airport?
Same question goes about Noah of WLT Report, one of the more conservative online news sites, having this gushing response to the prospect of having Kash Patel as CIA Director: “I am so excited as I write this article I can barely contain myself…current reports have him emerging as the top candidate for CIA Director and I am loving every ounce of this news!!”
Harriet Hageman would be better — at Langley.
Rubio as Sec. of State!!??? ICK.
Wake me in the morning and tell me this was just a bad dream!!
I concur, leak trap.
I am praying that God’s choices prevail!
All I could think was “WAIT…WHAT?!?” I’m now just praying that President Trump is smarter than this. I also know the rumor mill has a stake in this, too, so I shall sit back and wait.
“These names and selections would be fatal flaws in a Trump administration from the position of confronting the IC apparatus. Quite simply, with this assembly the IC cancer just goes dormant; the cancer appears to be in remission -everyone smiles- and then the cancer reemerges again in 2028 to kill the host.”
Good synopsis.
I’d like to add a few observations to the restaurant analogy to attempt to better understand the plot.
The restaurant is the centerpiece of the city, all economic activity revolves around the restaurant.
The restaurant is bleeding the city dry.
Anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear knows the restaurant is run by the mob.
The owner of the restaurant is a quaint old couple called We the People.
The owner knows there are serious problems with the restaurant but doesn’t have many hard facts to go on.
The previous business manager illuminated several of the problems and was demonized for it.
The mob installed a new business manager, causing serious stress to We the People.
The previous business manager offered to come back. The mob tried everything to get rid of him, even tried to kill him.
We the People accepted the offer and tossed out the mob installed manager.
So now where will this story go…
Will the focus be on the players, or will there be an effort to fundamentally change the restaurant?
Institutions built on an economy of deceit and manipulation cannot be renovated, they must be rebuilt.
Totally trashed! Not rebuilt.
Trying to get trump people after one another…..The only leak you should be concerned with is the one coming from your pants….
I don’t understand. If Trump is just going to pick deep state people to run things, then what was the point of this whole entire election? Why would he pick those people? And if that’s the case then nothing will change for the better. Maybe we will get a little break from the insanity but if the deep state is still running things then why did Trump bother to even run? I’m confused and seriously disappointed. I want these three letter agencies gone never mind being run by the deep state
I think PDJT’s “Achillies Heel” is his extended family. A pragmatic deal maker will make the best deal possible, and almost anyone else would take the first deal offered.
Until President Trump makes the announcement, believe nothing attributed to anonymous sources.
BINGO!
#1 we need to water board the SS Pepsi lady to find out who gave the order till kill Trump …She knows