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.

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[Now we must focus on the very important chairmanships of the senate committees that John Thune will decide.]

In the first ballot the results were: Thune 23, Cornyn 15, Scott 13.

Scott was removed and the Senators went to the second ballot between Thune and Cornyn.

As expected, the Scott coalition split 50/50. Thune picked up 6 votes from Scott’s group.  Cornyn picked up 7 votes from Scott’s group.

Final Vote:  John Thune 29, John Cornyn 24.

It was always going to be this way.  Remember, the Senate is a silo -by design- isolated from influence of the American public.

If we want to change the dynamic, we must repeal the 17th amendment and return to the original constitutional construct: Senators appointed to represent the interests of each state, by State Legislature.

The Senate was designed to represent the interests of the State, not ‘the people’; that’s the job of the House of Representatives.

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Deadline for Swamp Draining, July 4th, 2026! It’s in the announcement.

President Trump has announced the creation of a new department. The Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE (tongue in cheek head nod to the Dogecoin cryptocurrency created by Musk).  Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will be tasked with reducing the size and scope of government and completing the agenda by July 4th, 2026.

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President Trump has confirmed his intention to use Florida Rep (Daytona) Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor.

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Mike Waltz serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).

In the role of Nat Sec Advisor, Waltz would presumably represent the power of the president toward every element of the National Security apparatus and Intelligence Community.

The Nat Sec Advisor is a very powerful position, if used correctly.  The absolute power of the President toward the intelligence community in the executive branch is carried by the Nat Sec Advisor (NSA).  The NSA has the ability to reach into every silo and control every element of every decision therein.

The NSA organizes the finding memos which authorize all covert intelligence operations globally and domestically.  The NSA can shut down bad things in the IC, cancel black-op operations, and essentially hold omnipotent power within the executive branch over every aspect of the 17 intelligence agencies who operate therein.  The NSA can also determine what is, and what is not, a national security matter.

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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.

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The leaders of the specific transition teams, generally become administration officials within those agencies.  Therefore, it is worth paying close attention to who is assigned to lead the silo changeover in the transition process.

Remember Howard Lutnick is in charge of personnel, while Linda McMahon is overseeing policy.

♦ The State Department

Brian Hook, former State Department policy planner and special envoy for Iran, has been tapped to lead the State Department transition team.

♦ The Pentagon

Robert Wilkie, former Veterans Affairs secretary in the first Trump administration, is leading the Defense Department’s transition team.

♦ The White House National Security Council

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There is no reason to believe President Trump will ask Jerome Powell to resign; however, with trillions at stake and the power system (bankers) generally in charge of the government, the media has been manufacturing and pushing a hostile narrative about it for quite some time.

Powell’s term on the Fed Board of Governors ends in mid-2026. The president nominates, and the Senate confirms, the FED Board’s chair and two vice chairs for four-year terms. President Trump picked Jerome Powell, then a governor, to be chair, succeeding Janet Yellen when her term was up in 2018. Powell’s term as chair extends to February 2022.

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At the news conference announcing the Fed’s decision to lower interest rates by a quarter point Powell was questioned if he would leave his post if asked by Trump, he answered simply, “No.”

Asked if the president could fire or demote him or other Fed governors, Powell simply replied: “Not permitted under the law.”

The Follow up is below.

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In Florida, Judge Ailleen Cannon threw out the “classified documents case” against President Trump, citing in her opinion that Special Counsel Jack Smith had no constitutional authority to target and charge President Trump. Did you notice the missing DOJ appeal effort?

In the J6 case President Trump was accused of conspiring to illegally overturn the 2020 election. Charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. However, the Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, again threw a wrench into the Lawfare strategy.

President Trump wins a massive electoral and popular vote landslide election. Within 12-hours the DOJ announce that technical legal processes block them from targeting a president-elect and sitting president.

The non-pretending reality of the issue is that Jack Smith and the Lawfare attacks were always going to end up in appeal to the Supreme Court, and the high court had already put its opinion on record. The election result provides the DOJ an excuse, a plausible justification to save face.

(Via NBC) – Justice Department officials have been evaluating how to wind down the two federal criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office to comply with long-standing department policy that a sitting president can’t be prosecuted, two people familiar with the matter tell NBC News.

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There is a video segment going viral from CNN that deserves some special attention. Within the video CNN’s Jake Tapper asks CNN election guru John King to show where Kamala is doing better than Joe Biden. The result catches Tapper by surprise.

However, there’s a big underpinning reality behind this.

Kamala Harris did not “underperform” Joe Biden, what the data actually shows is the missing fraudulent ballots from the 2020 election. WATCH:

All of the counties where Kamala did better than Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/nd4d4kXQ4B

— Anthony (@Catholicizm1) November 6, 2024

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Now that we know the basic 2024 raw vote total, we are able to put a scale on the number of fraudulent mail-in ballots from the 2020 election.

Based on 2024 vote/ballot data, 18 million ballots are missing when compared to 2020.

In 2024 there are 18 million fewer votes. That’s the approximate scale of ballot fraud from 2020. (see graphic below)

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The FBI has set up a command center in Washington DC where they are monitoring the USA election and prepared to respond to any issues they deem as threats to the new democracy they control.  I wonder what Washington DC process generated the authority, within this operation.

The USPS, Secret Service, Dept of Homeland Security, Federal Communications Commission and the Dept of Justice are all participating partners with the FBI as established within the Washington DC field office command center.

Check out the videos.  The mostly female agents sit around watch cable TV news, and respond to what exactly?

WASHINGTON DC – […] The National Election Command Post at FBI Headquarters in Washington is staffed 24/7 with about 80 people on duty from 12 agencies. It’s set to remain open through Saturday, but could be extended if necessary, FBI officials said.

Deputy Assistant Director James Barnacle said the center is poised to address a wide range of potential threats from foreign interference to home-grown terrorism or violence.

“The FBI is well positioned to respond to threats that would come in or information that would come in that would affect our election security,” Barnacle said. “Those threats include criminal threats such as threats to election workers, foreign malign influence, cyber threats and acts of domestic violence.” (read more)

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