In this position Tulsi Gabbard will be able to find out why she was put on the DHS “watch list” within the TSA. Additionally, I note that all of the nominations and appointments have come from within the group of campaign surrogates and campaign officials. Perhaps that filter disqualifies anyone else.
President Trump Announces his nomination of former Democrat Representative, former DNC Co-Chair, and former Bernie Sanders campaign spox, Tulsi Gabbard, to be Director of National Intelligence.
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I’m sorry folks, we are going to have to wait to understand the thinking behind this one. I have absolutely no idea. Mrs Gabbard has never led any organization of scale, nor held any position of intelligence review that I am aware of.
Other than being a campaign surrogate (via RFK Jr) and very close friend of Tucker Carlson, who I’m told is one of a small group organizing the cabinet appointments; together with Donald Trump Jr, Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk and Robert F Kennedy Jr. (currently living in Mar-a-Lago); I’m not sure what would be the plan for Tulsi Gabbard (maybe with guidance from Ric Grenell?). Like everyone else, I’m puzzled.
I read every sentence of that announcement carefully. I don’t see mention of a skillset attributable to IC organization or large institutional leadership. However, maybe it is Tulsi Gabbard’s inherent sense toward protecting constitutional freedom that is of great value. Gabbard does express a solid strain of Rand Paul type libertarianism.
I am aware that everyone associated with the intelligence position decision-making on the transition team believes the Intelligence Community (IC) is a worthy, important and valuable construct, unfortunately led by corrupt individuals. Newly appointed National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is one of many who hold this opinion.
The transition team earnestly believe the honorable IC ‘rank and file’ paradigm; a type of thinking/wish-casting that I dropped many years ago. As a consequence, perhaps they believe that changing the faceplates will stop the silo engineers from using the weapons within it. Frankly, I’m just not sure.
From a distance Tulsi Gabbard seems like a nice person, and I’m told she is very differential to consensus amid group settings.
Perhaps as the hub of the 17 agency intelligence silos, DNI Tulsi Gabbard will be able to organize a less harmful end result from the intelligence community.
Perhaps going in with a singular goal of changing the way information is classified would be enough sunlight to change the system, I just don’t know. I don’t even know if that’s their goal. Mrs. Tulsi Gabbard was not on my bingo card for possible ODNI candidates.
I will watch the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) confirmation hearing with great interest.
I want everyone to be successful, including ‘We the People.’
The ODNI was created as an outcome of the 9-11 Commission recommendations. In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.
Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed.
When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.
Here is the weird part. The ODNI was formed in 2004, with the intent for the office to be the pivot point of a national security radar. The DNI was intended to provide information to domestic agencies about foreign terror networks that would prevent something like 9-11 from happening again. However, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has never, not for one day, operated on this intent. This is why they are such a critical position from my perspective.
The office was new, not established yet as a functioning silo, when Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived in 2009. They quickly dispatched an idiot, James Clapper, into the operation so they could weaponize around the offices’ fulcrum point, the intelligence hub.
Prior to the DNI office existing, the CIA radar would sweep externally and then report to the Office of the President. The DNI was intended to take external radar sweep (CIA) and make it a full 360° circle, adding a sweep inside the USA that would be handled by the Dept of Homeland Security.
The DHS sweep and the CIA sweep would then be combined into a central collection hub called the ODNI. Everyone with responsibility for “national security” could access the ODNI material. Essentially and presumably, post 9-11 nothing like jihadists practicing flying airplanes would be missed again; at least that was the intent.
The weird part is that because the DNI was immediately weaponized, the office has never functioned to the purpose of its intent. No one truly knows what the office possibilities consist of because no one has ever seen anyone try to functionally control the hub.
the DNI office has never been used for good. In a strategic way, that could be used to our advantage if you are talking about leveraging silos against each other.
Example: The DNI can assemble material from any silo. Meaning the DNI can reach into any IC silo and extract anything they want. Under the original authorities given to the DNI, this authority exists. So, let’s spread the wings on this office and do exactly what it is permitted to do, only this time extract for the purpose of showing the President what is happening in every silo.
In essence, the DNI *CAN BE* deployed like a super strong cross-silo inspector general’s office. Force the other IC silos to comply with the demands of the DNI. This has never been done. But the DNI has this unique power.
The DNI can make the FBI, DOJ, DOJ-NSD, DoD, DoS and CIA provide anything and everything they demand. Instead of the other silos using blocks and threats against the office of the President, use the authority of the DNI to get them without confrontation. Then use the DNI to declassify the documents (if requested by potus), instead of the originating silo.
Can you see how the DNI office can be repurposed to be a seriously strong weapon in the toolbox of the President, against the schemes of those inside the various IC silos. The DNI becomes much more important than the CIA Director, NSA Director, FBI Director, Attorney General, etc, because the DNI can just show up and say, “give me this.” That’s the whole functional purpose of the DNI office that has never been exerted; let’s flippin’ use it.
Let’s use the office of the DNI as the central information hub that takes information from inside the corrupt silos, then provides that information to the President who puts sunlight upon it. Each corrupt silo penetrated with disinfectant. This could begin a process to pull down the shadow operations and let the American public see what has been happening inside our IC apparatus.
To accomplish this approach the National Security Advisor to the President (NSA), in this scenario, Mike Waltz, would be the person who tells the DNI exactly what they are looking for.
How does NSA Mike Waltz know what to look for? Because the National Security Advisor is the head of the National Security Council (NSC).
Now you see why I say put the strategic and scruffy people like Mike Flynn, Kash Patel, etc in a stripped down NSC.
Let the NSC monitor the silos with specific intent, then provide Trump’s NatSec Advisor Mike Waltz with details on what appears to be happening and where. With the approval of the President, the NSA Waltz then turns to DNI Gabbard and says, “POTUS wants this, go get this.”
Raw, unfiltered, unredacted information. The silo administrators end up in a fight with the DNI Gabbard, not the office of President Trump. President Trump then uses the power of his office to support the demands of DNI Gabbard.
Under this approach the DNI has a lot more power; yet funnily, it’s power they already have – yet have never utilized.
Unfortunately, the DNI needs to be confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee – so, this factors into who can achieve the position.
Obviously, President Trump has lost his enthusiasm for having bad sounding named Generals on his staff. But has still used military service as an important qualifier for some positions. Just that action of appointing people who has worn the boots of the service-members will be cathartic to the military. I’m hoping people like Gen Flynn and ohers experienced with the bureaucratic BS can be consultants for these appointees.
I’ve experienced on many occasions where large corporations will bring in certain individual adept in cleaning house of underperforming employees. They will then bring in or reassign new personnel to streamline and improve profitability. That person may not necessarily be an expert in that industry but their talents are identify and eliminate problem area and personnel. This is Donald Trumps corporate expertise in action.
YES YES YES
20 republicans confirmed Merick Effin Garland they damn well better confirm Gaetz……
They’re democrats. They just call themselves Republicans.
Garland was already a federal appellate judge. It would have been hard to argue that he wasn’t qualified. And the GOP doesn’t go after nominees because of the person’s political leanings. The Dems do, but too many GOP think if they are nice to the Dems, the Dems will be nice to them.
Frog, meet scorpion.
Don’t kid yourself. Senate Republicans just voted John Thune Majority Leader, thereby exposing their intent to thwart Trump’s agenda and expressing their contempt for their constituents.
Even if they don’t, Gaetz is the ultimate test to see who’s in and who’s out.
Gabbard has axes to grind, meaning she is unlikely to fall for the mealy mouthed prevarications of career bs artists in the IC. She is also less exposed to IC extortion, and blackmail. Most likely, if they had anything they would have played that card already.
She might be just the right cat, that’s needed in the henhouse. We’ll see.
The plan is disruption. This is a blitzkrieg, where you are inside the decision loop of the enemy and he can’t react to you fast enough before you make your next move. You don’t worry about your flanks, make him worry about his. No one knows where we attack tomorrow.
Blitzkrieg’s what’s truly happeninng here.
Separate it from Hitler — it’s a form of lightnining-fast war assault which you simply hit everyone on the main front with everything at the same time. Like “shock and awe.” No time for deep, deep dives on the nominees, as they flood through the gate. Overload the vetting system, with a smile 🙂
I like it
Tulsi was homeschooled. I believe that is why she is capable of far more independent thought and flexibility in the face of new information than most. She has led large numbers of people in the military and medical people are mentally tough. She also voted against her party when she thought they were wrong. Underestimate her at your peril.
I believe we are not seeing the truth as to who will be doing what.
I hope you are right
Trust the plan.
Two more weeks.
lol
She could be a decoy willingly taking a lot of heat away from the real nominee.
What do you mean? She IS the nominee.
Tulsi is no lightweight and compared to the vipers President Trump was surrounded by in 2016 I have no issues with any of his choices.
it’s one thing to be aware than most (CTH and sources have helped greatly) the swamps insidious tentacles and challenges President Trump is up against, but he has lived it!
If anyone doesn’t thinks the booby traps (listening devices everywhere from Trump Tower to Oval Office) aren’t being set up (think stupid plots like Russia Russia on steroids) this cabal is not going to fold up and go away.
I pictured President Trump bringing his own water and Coca Cola to the meeting with Biden because I would not accept so much as a sealed bottle of water given the 2 times they tried to kill him, not to mention the on going obstacles and persecution since 2016 and this is only stuff we know about!
I kept thinking about watching where President Trump sat or even what he touched ( think Putin with poison or how Kim Jung killed his brother in that airport or the “poison pen idea” during the Castro crisis under President Kennedy).
Am I paranoid? 🤔 Perhaps, but, those rogue intelligence agencies can’t be disbanded quickly enough.
I have faith given the lengths those treasonous, power crazed criminals have went to harm President Trump he’s assembled and is now executing a plan to get rid of them all as expeditiously as possible because it’s either them or the Trump administration and they have to come out their guns a blazing.
Trump Dream Team 2024 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
BTW Peter Strozk podcast that was posted earlier here by a CTH friend was so interesting.
Right before the election speaking about moving to Portugal, Ireland, or even Iceland if President Trump was elected even though, mind you this was a grudge if he was “focused on” Hey Peter how about treason, laws, etc,,,, Hahaha 😝
Peter was even discussing how many family members would come with him.
This was a nervous, defeated, scared Peter not the diabolical “I am an untouchable” one we saw during the 2016 hearings.
Trump said vote for me and I will drain the swamp and end the corruption in government. The American people agreed and voted him into office to do what he told us he wanted to do.
Nominating more Washington bureaucrats like Barr or Pompeo or other cocktail circuit politicians will not accomplish the mission. Nor will people who will stab him in the back.
Trump has less than 18 months to get his agenda done and expose and bring those who committed crimes to justice.
I am suspicious cat about Tulsi.
Tulsi performed only slightly better than Kamala in the 2020 Democrat primary. Tulsi withdrew in mid-March, earning only 2 delegates after 30 states’ primary elections/caucuses. Disaster. Immediately after withdrawing she endorsed Biden. My theory is that she endorsed Biden in hopes of being chosen to be Biden’s VP. She must have known, as we all did, that the Democrats would choose some kind of first! for that position. Female-of-color. When the Democrats chose Kamala, Tulsi knew her future with the Democrat party was very limited. And she was probably pissed too because Kamala is as dumb as a rock.
Fast forward to 2022, Tulsi was invited to speak at a CPAC event in Florida. A few months later DeSantis started to poll better than Trump, and Tulsi started to publicly praise DeSantis. The Mar-a-Lago raid occurred in August. In October Tulsi announced that she was leaving the Democrat party. By November there was talk of a DeSantis-Gabbard ticket.
I don’t feel like carefully documenting things that happened in 2023 other than to say a whole lot of people assumed Trump was not a viable candidate after the Mar-a-Lago raid but he came back stronger than ever. As we all know, DeSantis’ bid for the 2024 GOP nomination flopped badly so there went Tulsi’s ride.
Now she’s a Trump loyalist. Hmmm.
I do believe people can switch sides but her timeline is ….. interesting. Telling. And those Bernie and Biden endorsements, yikes. I voted for McCain in 2008 but only because I hated Obama. Likewise Romney in 2012. I would never have ENDORSED them!
I always thought Tulsi was in intelligence when she was in the military. I do think she is intelligent and well spoken. If she does have connections to CIA, but has become loyal to MAGA, she could be helpful.
What’s to say she hasn’t been a NAGA plant all along pretending to be an easily swayed bought off typical soulless Dem to mix among the crowd, as she gathers intel she can now use against them?
Military Police.
She was medical, not intelligence
the one thing that concerns me with Tulsi is that she is a WEF graduate, if I recall …
Exactly. Only time will tell.
Or CFR?
She was listed on their website. She was never part of the WEF or ever attended. Same as Vivek and others.
A lot of that performance is why she’s a Republican now. I remember that campaign well, and my commentary during the debates was that we should trade her for John Kasich because she’s more MAGA than most Republicans. I’ve used Gabbard for several years as an example of Democrats who have been abandoned by their party…swept up in The Great Realignment.
I had little doubt that her enthusiastic support for Trump would be rewarded in a significant way. But like Sundance points out, does she have the executive skills necessary to stare down the IC and advance Trump’s agenda? It’s an odd choice. RFK Jr. would almost make more sense. IDK, maybe she’s the mule needed to smuggle MAGA behind the gates. That’s a bit of a stretch though. The IC is insanely complex and parochial. She will need a loyal guide.
She was campaign arm candy, I really don’t get it.
Come on arm candy!?
Have you served let alone been deployed several times in the military.!?
If this were my daughter, wife, sister or friend I would be highly offended with your comment but I am just a offended admirer of her background and service to our country, now could I be wrong 😑 of course, but she’s much more qualified than past choices from either party.
Yeah, the Bernie support. Benefit of the doubt he wasn’t Hillary and she had to pick a side.
Her domestic policies are crap, but she isn’t in a position in which they will matter. And she has an axe to grind with the IC.
That’s a plus.
It’s been scrubbed from the internet, at least I could not find it recently, but Trump used Tulsi early on in his first term as an envoy to go meet with Assad in Syria. It really peaked my interest at the time because of the Dems I liked her. Knowing that he used her as an emissary makes me think there is more to her than we know of. It also would explain or at least demonstrate one reason the IC put her on a watch list. She was doing work for Trump.
Tulsi was performing well and gaining steam so they changed the rules to kick her out of the debates.
Clearly, Trump is looking to ensure the free flow of intelligence to him personally. That’s huge. She has some experience and knowledge of the IC agencies, too, having served on Armed Services, DHS, and Foreign Affairs committees in Congress. It’s an intriguing choice that puts Tulsi over Ratcliffe and whoever is at FBI (assuming Wray bails before being fired). I’m not sure of the details on this aspect, but I believe as DNI she would get a major say in declassification issues. My impression is that she wouldn’t be a pushover for career bureaucrats.”
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/are-we-seeing-the-shape-of-a-trump?publication_id=473679&post_id=151618430&isFreemail=true&r=ck852&triedRedirect=true
Good points. She might be the mule, right? The personable public face of the DNI and knowledgeable enough to break through the b.s., but protecting a cadre of DNI staff whose job it is to deconstruct the IC’s prevarications and communicate the truth, as best she can, to Trump. And, similarly, to accurately convey Trump’s direction to the IC.
And she will be incredibly difficult to attack. She holds her own in media appearances and does her homework. I wager 75% of that job is sitting back, listening to what you’re being told, and responding, “Well, that’s bullshit. How about you go back and try again?”
In one of the podcasts she mentioned that she was an activist and ran for local office when she was 18, she was the youngest whatever it was, I don’t remember. She prevented some environmental hazardous waterway from happening. She has been doing politics all her life. Throw in the military experience, she knows bureaucracy well. It is fun that she is a female, and we know how democrats love women until it isn’t one of their own. And Susie Wiles, not a fan, but ya know she is the First female COS.
Wiles is a career hired gun. She will dance with thr one who brung her and be quite effective in her position.
Of interest is her family’s involvement with Chis Butler and the “Science of Identity Foundation”, a Hare Krishna sect some might call a cult. Gabbard currently identifies as Hindu.
Satisfying and managing, the 85 million plus MAGA base, has been a 24/7 operation for the Blob, since 2015.
9 long years to play short games and long games, every game.
Trust no-one.
I can’t help but see plants from seeds sown long ago. The field looks full and ripe from here.
The glaring play right now appears to be using ANY political personality type, left, right or center that shows even the slightest success with the base, for the purpose of managing President Trump.
Deceit and lies. Repeat that a million times.
If they had all their plants in place the enemy would not keep trying to kill President Trump.
How do we know what President Trump has done to ensure he’s not double crossed.
This is 3 D chess, but, since my information is way below 👇 what that inner circle ⭕️ has I am choosing to trust them because I do believe with my soul their goals are in sync.
If there are some rogue players I don’t think they made it to the inner circle.
I trust President Trump and above 🙏 enough to believe he’s in good hands 🙌 or at worst, they are being played by the rest of the MAGA team to use to expose and more quickly rid these toxins out of government.
Trump Dream Team 2024!
The inner circle has no information that hasn’t been created whole cloth from the IC.
There is certainly no 3 D chess going on, nor has there ever been.
The elimination was to replace, pure and simple.
This is war and as someone here has stated we are at “Midway”.
But this I truly believe, GOD is our Creator and prayer changes everything, to align will HIS HOLY WILL.
President Trump is being used for His most excellent skill set, to clean up the Democrats mess globally and domestically.
Other than that, it’s business as usual in Dante’s D.C. Inferno Level.
May GOD continue to Bless Us.
I didn’t see that coming either, but I have not found that John Ratcliffe had a plethora of large-scale executive experience either BEFORE being DNI. I’ll match chips to see another card.
You know this how?? Listening to the right people like you?? How did he ever survive to win the presidency once again? If your trying to troll,,,,Don’t! 👀
Tulsi is a borderline communist
being a communist fellow traveller will probably help her with the City of London Communist aligned CIA MI6 loving crowd
Also, I would like to point out something that is often forgotten here:
President Trump was himself once a Democrat.
Wikipedia says “Trump registered as a Republican in 1987; a member of the Independence Party, the New York state affiliate of the Reform Party, in 1999; a Democrat in 2001; a Republican in 2009; unaffiliated in 2011; and a Republican in 2012.”
To vote in primaries in NY.
That’s what I do in Louisiana. We have jungle primaries for everything but Federal Elections. I might stay Rep. now though. The dems are off the reservation.
It could be a terrific advantage that even you can’t comfortably characterize her. The Senate may underestimate her. President Trump may have already made a deal for confirmation. Since this office has never been used as intended they won’t see her coming. I believe she was a Lt Colonel in the military. I bet she is more than capable on many fronts. I just heard her sing Amazing Grace with her parents on YT. She has gravitas.
Still is. She commands a basic training battalion in the Army Reserve.
I hope everyone re-reads this thread as it is brilliant and masterful. I hope this somehow gets to PT and his team of close advisors.
What a game plan!
Bravo
Perhaps she was selected because she is safe, loyal and will execute orders as a solidier? In Trump’s first term, the DNI was Dan Coats and then John Ratcliffe. Coats was swampy.
How is she loyal, she bailed on her own party?
RINOs mercilessly attacked and will continue to attack Trump, but he didn’t quit.
She didn’t like how she was treated and has a complete ideological transformation? I don’t by it.
She’s loyal to Tulsi. And if being loyal to Trump is to her benefit, she’ll be loyal to him.
I am not saying she is loyal, I am saying that Trunp may believe she will be loyal in this role
Loyal does not mean steadfast amid corruption. Loyal to principles I would say she is.
Her father ran for state senate as an R, got elected and immediately switched to D so it runs in the family.
She filmed an entire RESISTANCE speech where she told Americans that President Trump was UNFIT to serve as Commander In Chief. Not to mention her IMPEACHMENT statement.
It might be interesting to see if the DNI can find that CIA/NSA/DOJ-NSD file on the new Senate Majority leader, no? Probably have a lot of ammo already, all you need to do is use it.
Number 1 criteria for this pick is that PDJT will have complete confidence that Tulsi is not conning him.
The giant rocking chair boy stirs my concern. I will hope that he brought something needing attention to the President and was told to fix it, or something to that affect.
I was one that had a “what is he thinking” reaction to JD, but now I’m happy about him. So far, anyway…
You don’t need to be a serial killer profiler to see Tulsi fits the same mold as Noem, Whittaker, Nikki, and heck, even AOC. Apparently Centreal casting HR has a look they are going for.
Tucker, Musk, RFK … and tell me about that FOX guy’s credentials again??
Agree, I don’t like any of it. Reminds of the good old days of ‘mad dog mattis’
Not even close!
Leaving your party status quo when they wanted to fast track Tulsi as long as she played their game is not flaky it takes guts to walk away.
Read Lieutenant/Colonel’ Gabbord’s book, consider her military experience, and most of all ask yourself do you think President Trump knows what he’s doing!
Michael Savage interviewed Gabbard a few weeks back. She is good. From the interview I think her philosophy is mostly in line with Trump’s.
That said to me Trump is grooming the next generation of MAGA leaders with these nominations.
Excellent point.
what was Savage’s take on her?
I like Tulsi as a fighter for President Trump’s agenda. You can expect the Dems to dredge up anything from their playbook to get back at her for torpedoing Hillary and Harris, and then joining the Republican party. They will probably point out her pro-abortion views so as to get conservatives all worked up about her.
One thing, though, that you never hear her talk about is abortion. In fact, most of her time has been spent on foreign affairs and policy, not on domestic policy.
One thing, though, and she hides it well, but I believe she is looking to enhance her public image as a prelude for a run for the presidency. Maybe not in 4 years, but soon thereafter. She would make a good first female president, certainly better then the two Democrat recent attempts at it.
Interesting take. Thank you. As for abortion my wife of 47 years and I totally disagreed on the subject but we never discussed it. It never became an issue in our lives and we just agreed to disagree and respect the others belief. I don’t see where the ODNI needs needs to even take a position. Not in her job description.
Just an old man rambling a bit.
As DNI she gets to find out who put her on a terrorist watch list and ordered three air marshals to follow her.
Oh good, she can settler her personal scores and then go back to being a communist
This communist crap what has invaded the CTH I want proof like most provide when making such statements.
Proof she is a communist please!
Do you have a problem with a female future President?!
I certainly do not.
My issue has been neither side has provided a candidate I would ever consider even close to qualified.
Hillary showed the world the kind of Presidency she would have as Secretary of State.
What a disaster!
Kamala was going to be a continuation of Biden with Obama and his staff puppets stroking her enough in order to continue their destruction of this country.
Lieutenant /Col Tulsi Gabbord has many accomplishments starting in her youth serving this country so why all the criticism?!
President Trump accomplished such obstacles of epic proportions to win so I do not believe for a minute these selections are off the cuff.
This is literally his life on the line and don’t forget he’s lived in the swamp and the swamp followed him to Mara-La-Go where his cameras/security caught the FBI’s bogus raid stealing Melania’s underwear amongst other things that raid was not suppose to be doing.
Check out her involvement with Chris Butler, or should it be Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa?
I’m sorry folks, we are going to have to wait to understand the thinking behind this one.
Think…
“It will be an interesting nomination proceeding.”
“No?Ok then.”
Think…
“What about the internals of the Senate(both majority and minority) committee chairs that will have to be sat?”
Think…
“About the politics of both the public and closed doors sit downs with these committees and Tulsi.”
Think…
“About the two ways team Tulsi can track through the confirmation process.”
Think…
“About the kinds leverage there is in play with this nomination?”
Think…
“Maybe, Tulsi’s skill set is ability to ‘smell-wet-dogs’ in vast piles of data.”
The thing we will all struggle with, myself included, is letting go of the old red/blue alignments of the 1990’s and 2000’s. Those alignments are dead. We have a lot more in common with the Bernie Bros than we do with the Bushes and Obama’s. We disagree on how to deal with the problems, but if you go back to 2015, you’ll hear Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump talking about the same problems. They differ dramatically on the solutions, but both camps were vying for the 55-60% of the country (perhaps higher) that have been completely abandoned by the Uniparty.
Trump prevailed back then because a) Bernie was a sell-out and b) Trump’s solutions are very, very, traditional American.
If we’re going to have this new MAGA party and expand the coalition in 2026 and 2028, we’re going to have to take some chances on bringing in people who in the past were not “acceptable”. But “acceptable” to whom? Yeah, the same Conservative Inc. gatekeepers who have kept us all imprisoned for the last 30-35 years.
I suspect we’ll hear RFK is going to FDA, soon. That’s another one we’ll have to keep an eye on. But outside of some of the green/environmentalist stuff, the “gold under our feet” as Trump calls it, we all have been forced to live through the daily assaults of Pharma and Ag on our lives. I don’t watch much regular TV anymore, but when I do the number of Pharma commercials is staggering. And I don’t care how critical you are, over time that relentless assault has led to the most over-medicated – AND SICK AND OBESE – population on the planet.
I put guys like Glen Greenwald in the MAGA column, too. He might not even realize it yet. There are a lot more of us than we realize because the old mental traps keep us imprisoned.
I’m sorry, longer essay than I realized. But I guess the bottom line is that none of the stuff we’ve tried for the last nearly 3-decades has worked. Let’s try something new.
Good work.
I’ve wondered if RFK might be pointed at US attorney for DC and told to have fun.
You are correct. This is about disruption of the old patterns that had become fossilized.
Excellent post. I agree with everything you have said. The old alignment is gone for good. That doesn’t mean I will change my conservative views, it’s just that I have different allies now than I had in the past. The Bush/Romney part of the GOP might as well be progressives at this point.
Glenn Greenwald wrote a book called “how would a patriot act.” (2006) I never read it but he has always struck me as principled.
Many see the DNI as a figure head position. Good place for her if the expectation is she will not do much.
I’d hope the days of pulling from political insiders for Trump were behind him.
We are going to end up with the same results as last time, perhaps minus all the democrat theatrics.
I like your comment. But we will never be rid of stupid democrat tricks.
Maybe that position for her is so the other IC positions can keep an eye on her.
As mentioned many times on this blog, the SSCI (at least chair & co-chair) are IC / DS ‘approved’. Approval seems to mean some level of ‘dirty laundry’ that the candidate knows is in the possession of the IC / DS. This guarantees little or no sunlight on their activities.
Perhaps the main criteria for PDJT is to appoint those who do not have any ‘past baggage’ that could be exploited in the future. From outside the DC ecosystem?
So, TG: patriot, national guard, same position as PDJT on wars, targeted (TSA no-fly list) and therefore pissed off, …
Did the Donkeys react to her becoming an Elephant? Is she similar to FatButtBarr? OR is PDJT repeating a play from his first term – nominate, senate does not confirm, an ‘acting DNI’ is appointed without need for SSCI approval?
What if such prominent politicians could be turned against the IC / DS (double agent :))? A conditional pardon by PDJT in 2028 would be very attractive to them & perhaps a full picture of IC / DS could be mapped out.
From agency to agency. Swap them out for each other. And all they need is someone to get confirmed who can then be “acting,” as Matt Whittaker was able to be acting AG because he was confirmed as a US Attorney.
“I note that all of the nominations and appointments have come from within the group of campaign surrogates and campaign officials.”
I note more than a few have a very personal interest in rooting out the corruption at the agency they have been selected to lead.
Here is exactly what’s going on with these nominations:
Tulsi Gabbard: TARGETED as a “domestic terrorist” by the IC
Nominated for Director of National Intelligence
Pete Hegseth: TARGETED as a “christian nationalist” by the DOD
Nominated for Secretary of Defense
Matt Gaetz: TARGETED for investigation by the DOJ
Nominated for Attorney General
Each one of these nominees were politically targeted by the departments they have now been nominated to take over. BRILLIANT!
My take is this:
Considering Trump’s picks are very different than Sundance’s suggestions, I conclude Trump’s approach and goals are also different.
While Sundance looked for people that are independent, strong, and can inherently and without much advice complete their missions, the picks tell something different.
They are not there to be independent the way Barr or Wray, or Sessions thought they were towards Pres Trump. They are there to be as independent as Biden’s or Obama’s picks were. Which is not independent but responsive to the President.
Trump wants people he can call and say do this or that. Look into this and that. He doesn’t want people who will reply they’re independent and won’t listen. They’re also people who were attacked by said agencies too. So Trump’s picks are there to listen to a mission briefing, and then complete the mission. People who are too sure of themselves, too arrogant, or think are smarter than others won’t respond well to mission objectives when they’re supposed to think they’re independent bosses.
Why did Trump chose people from the campaign? They’re most trustworthy. They stuck with him when people weren’t sure he’d win, or that they’ll let him win. So despite danger to themselves, they stuck with him. They didn’t site on the sidelines then expected to be picked.
I don’t think you really need a ton of experience in a certain field to lead it. You need common sense and confidence in yourself. Many people can do the job. It’s condescending to think only certain people are groomed enough to be leaders in a certain field. Trump, in his Apprentice show, put people who won little lemonade challenges to manage his golf courses or something. If you have the motivation, and show some skill, you and many people can do it. No need for Ivy League ball-crap.
Sundance – I think you need to look at it from a slightly different perspective. It’s also a perspective of a wounded animal that’s cornered and cannot trust many, but needs to take some risks (ie Thune).
iSapiens,
Well said and mirrors my thinking, and way too much hand wringing and pearl clutching, as people who are clinging to THEIR notion of what a PDJT win would mean, are confronted with reality.
You either have faith that God put PDJT in the position, and knows EXACTLY what he is doing, or you don’t.
Can there be any doubt, in hindsight, that the 2020 election steal and 4 years of Biden, did far more to build MAGA, and position PDJT to actually drain the swamp and MAGA, than a second Trump term possibly could have?
Any doubt THAT wasn’t Gods plan?
So, chill out, sit back and enjoy the show, and thank God for having the grace to allow you to be alive, to witness such phenominal events as these!
Just one question to Sundance or whoever wishes to answer it: What has happened to Ric Grennell?
Ric wanted Secretary of State
I love your perspective and agree with it.
not surprised at all. please refer to “good cop. bad cop” to understand the dynamics needed here.
she will be the face/personality to constantly be in front of the media and online. she herself, most likely will NOT be making policy nor coordinating any actual efforts. the tasks at hand are massive, and the low-wattage media and citizens need her smiling, soothing, face to make the bitter pills go down.
Tulsi first caught my attention when ( 7+) years ago, she took a trip to Syria. She pissed a lot of people off when she got back & started calling out the BS… supposed battlefield areas that weren’t really, etc.
Think she even met with Assad, & her impression of him contradicted certain narratives that were being pushed.
Idk, but I hope that show of spunk & rebellious nature is who she really is.
Yes Trump sent her there!
My assessment is that this time around he wants upmost is loyalty ( not to himself but to America First), lots of it. He was even betrayed by his VP. No more. And these people will need to be strong because the attacks on them will be harsh. They will be worse than Hitler! Pax America -Strength and Honor.
Trump doing an inside joke.
He knows Tulsi fits the profile of long time intel agency op- similar background in many ways to Barack Kamala Mayor Pete and Vivek.
He’s daring the IC and Senate to turn her down.
Very entertaining.
Some of these assignments are not what we anticipated or wanted. Perhaps this is, once again, due to ‘outsiders’, like Musk, Vivek, and even Trump, choosing appointees without s full understanding of how things work. I have even heard commentary that Trump ‘loyalists’, who served jail time, like Bannon, Stone and Navarro, should be given positions in the new administration. Or that it’s essential that ‘outsiders’ be given these positions. The logic behind the Gabbard appointment is a mystery. I also wonder at removing Republicans from Congress, and therefore tipping the scales of the Republican majority. ???
Waiting for La. Rep. Clay Higgins for FBI. You could build a fortress around that man
i congregate to Gabbard and she will be Great,
I have concerns.
“… she is very differential to consensus amid group settings.”
If the ‘group setting’ is corrupt, then she will/may be corrupted.
She has violated her oath before. It’s always a little easier the second time. That is not a political issue. It is a character issue.
Et tu Brute?
One suggestion I’ve read about Tulsi – she’s tough enough to handle NATO, Europe, the Ukraine situation while President Trump’s China Hawks – Rubio, Gaetz, and other bad ass nominees concentrate on America’s biggest enemy – that has been destabilizing our economy, elections, politics – foisting compromised candidates like Gillum and Swallwell, destabilizing our law and order, health – bringing in drugs, causing a pandemic…and more.
She’s tougher than we thought:
Rubio is a weird choice, too. But as we all well know, nothing in life is permanent.
Rubio can be of great help with Latin America. Right now we have five different countries in this region that have communist or communist sympathetic governments. As a Cuban American. Rubio is definitely anticommunist and very friendly with Millei from Argentina. It is about time the US cares more for its neighbors in LA than for countries in the Middle East. I think an alliance with Argentina and El Salvador could be very valuable to finally bring down communist ideology in Latin America
Waiting for the Babylon Bee to say something like “The left loses its mind when Trump nominates a REAL WOMAN to an important position in government instead of a FAKE WOMAN.”
Sundance can’t see the value of Gabbard in this position? Why?
Gabbard is a non-controversial politician whose confirmation Democrats will find difficult (and awkward) to oppose. She’s appealing with few, if any (personality) edges.
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Perhaps that filter disqualifies anyone else.
This observation is spot on.
Now we can see how many understood this and decided to advance themselves. IF these people did, you know the IC did as well.
Will we discover these people are actually snakes…..once they shed their skins?
Time will tell.
Puzzled? Relax and calm down,…The administration is bringing in people who have a track record of achievements, of accomplishments and getting things done.
They are “winners”, they are patriots, they recognise the system is broken and needs to be uprooted, and they are prepared to fight to do just that.
And, ultimately they all serve “at the pleasure of the POTUS” and if they fail to perform, he WILL fire them.
Publically stated that PDJT has given RFK JR. a specific set of ‘marching orders’; goals to achieve by 2026, to address our health, etc.
I believe its reported he gave similar such orders to his negotiating team, im his first admin. that developed the Abram Accords.
This is what I believe he is doing with many of these appointees; laying out a specific set of goals, witj clear benchmarks to measure progress, a timeline, and then setting them ‘free’ to go at it.
THATS how a Boss works.
So, Gabbard has no experience in Intel, thats a GOOD thing, since almost anyone who HAS experience, is compromised.
If you view the Intel community as actually DOING things which defend and protect our country from foreign countries that wish us harm, you can not simply dismantle it, leaving us vulnersble to our adversaries, WHILE you try to rebuild it.
I think THIS may be the view of PDJT, Grennell, etc.
As for the rank and file, etc. the purging of the DEI hires, leftist loonies kneeling to BLM, that will occur in the Intel Depts, just as it is in all Depts, and similarky replacing the top management that have promulgated these rediculous policies will trickle down.
I remain positive and excited, looking forward to seeing PDJT bring in a fantastic team of Warriors, to truly do what he was unable to do the first time; DRAIN the SWAMP.
He had the American People WITH him, his enemies have already exhausted EVERYTHING in their aresenal to try to lower his popularity, which has only backfired.
In the end, the Power of a PRESIDENT is not in holding the office, its in the degree to which he has the American people behind him.
With sufficient support, he can even cowe Congress into submission.
Oh, his enemies WILL “resist we much”, and in so doing complete their own destruction, with little ability to actually slow down or derail his MAGA agenda.
I really appreciate that Sundance said he doesn’t understand this endorsement. I don’t either! E need to remember that Temps advisory team is putting this slate together. It’s okay to question when something is off and doesn’t sit right. This endorsement smells fishy! Sundance posted earlier that DNI is a CRITICAL POSITION! Not for lightweights.
I hesitate writing about all of my concerns, so I’ll just list 3.
I’ll give three reasons I don’t agree:
1. Before joining Trump and Republicans, Tulsi admired and worked for Communist Bernie Sanders. Supported LGBT etc…. 2. Tulsi is a Hindu. I do NOT discriminate against Hindu’s, but I do strongly believe America’s Presidents should be of the Christian faith. 3. Tulsi has been through 2 failed marriages. Her first was when she was 21, and the boy she married was 15. He was underage, but that was ignored for some unknown reason. Marriage lasted 4 yrs.
Christians, let’s hope and pray, homosexual Ric Grenell is not part of the Trump administration.
We need God’s blessing not His wrath and condemnation.
We are already like Sodom and Gomorrah, let’s not seek His curse.
LBGTQ+ does not have God’s approval … promoting this is part of the promised delusion.
Too late to equate God’s blessings to the lifestyles of the cabinet, candidates & advisors.
FYI, first i have posted before and been following/reading for years. Just had medical issues come up and cut back all posting on all forums, ect. If i forgot a posting rule, correct away or edit as needed. Just if possible post info so readers can get additional facts.
IMO, Gabbard is unknown, perhaps a Groomed individual just like Obama, Marco, Kamala ect. You need to do a deep dive on her and stop making snap judgements based on emotion or TV crap.. Gabbard is a non christian. I believe a Hindu that rumors had her worshiping kali and being raised in a cult. I believe it was affiliations with the Hare Krishna, a sect called the Science of Identity Foundation.
Gabbard attended a Science of Identity cult boarding school in the Philippines and has been married twice. Both husbands were reported to be members of SIF cult.
Gabbard ran for president in 2020, virtually her entire campaign staff were members of the Science of Identity, Sinavaiana Gabbard told The Independent.
God can change all of that in an individual. Paul persecuted and murdered Christians.
I can’t remember which interview it was, maybe her Joe Rogan appearance, but she stated that she had a real disdain and contempt for the current Intelligence apparatus and how it operated! She may want to go in and start making much needed reforms!!! 🤔
Maybe shes a “throwback.” In other words, she gets nominated for an important, critical and prestigious post, despite lack of qualifications, which are hammed home in the confirmation process, and she fails to get confirmed. Trump made good on his reward for her support, and the Senate claims a scalp against his nominees. And everyone moves on.
Whoever goes first will be mauled rgdlss of quals. Maybe they just want to force them to maul a nice, patriotic woman.
Tulsi and Meghan McCain are BEST FRIENDS. 😳