… The Intelligence Community and Big Corporate Interests Control Government.  That’s the inescapable conclusion for anyone who watched the grand pantomimes being displayed in the past 24 hours.

There’s a debate amid the newly awakened and many who do not want to believe it; but there is no denying that Trump 2.0 is revealing even more layers of how far astray the Republic has gone.

Institutional Democrats hate Trump, and institutional Republicans are lukewarm, at best, in defending Trump.  Both wings of the DC UniParty fear Trump.  Extreme efforts at control are always a reaction to fear.  I make my case not on supposition, but on empirical reference points that most should understand.

Within the politics of it, the DNC wants power. The RNC wants money. The DNC uses money to get power. The RNC uses power to get money. The ideology of the DNC drives their donor activity. The donor activity of the RNC drives their ideology. This is the only current difference between the two clubs, two wings of the same vulture.

Multinational corporations do not like capitalism because within the process of capitalism they do not have control over the financial outcomes.  Capitalism breeds competition: multinationals abhor competition, they are totalitarian in ideology and want the entire pie under their control.  Multinational corporations do not like capitalism; underline it, emphasize it, do not forget it.

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President Trump is delivering remarks from the White House Brady Press briefing room in the aftermath of a terrible aviation disaster.

The FAA said the midair crash occurred before 9 pm EST. American Airlines Flight 5342 was inbound to Reagan National at an altitude of about 400 feet (122 meters) and a speed of about 140 mph (225 kph) when it rapidly lost altitude over the Potomac River, according to data from its radio transponder. The Canadian-made Bombardier CRJ-701 twin-engine jet, manufactured in 2004, can be configured to carry up to 70 passengers.

A few minutes before landing, air traffic controllers asked the arriving commercial jet if it could land on the shorter Runway 33 at Reagan National and the pilots said they were able. Controllers then cleared the plane to land on Runway 33. Flight-tracking sites showed the plane adjust its approach to the new runway.

Less than 30 seconds before the crash, an air traffic controller asked the helicopter if it had the arriving plane in sight. The controller made another radio call to the helicopter moments later: “PAT 25 pass behind the CRJ.” Seconds after that, the two aircraft collided.

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There are three big Senate confirmation hearings this week, starting with HHS nominee RFK Jr on Wednesday, and then DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard and FBI nominee Kash Patel on Thursday.

Robert F Kennedy Jr will have two days in front of two different committees (Wed and Thursday).  Gabbard will have her Senate Intel Committee hearing and Kash Patel will have his hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee.  None of the three are sure things with each of them having about a 50/50 chance of confirmation out of committee as current opposition is aligned.

♦ Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F Kennedy Jr starts the week Wednesday at 10:00am EST in front of the Senate Finance Committee.  Kennedy’s opposition group consists of one of the largest lobbying groups in Washington DC, Big Pharma and Big Agriculture.

RFK Jr’s goal of reshaping HHS, FDA and USDA faces significant opposition from the lobbying groups who have paid for influence on policy and regulations and the Senators who have received funding to turn that lobbying into legislation and regulation.  On the positive side, the general public sentiment is supportive of the MAHA agenda. Public pressure could be the factor that secures the nomination, but nothing is certain.

♦ Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard represents the biggest internal threat to the Intelligence Community power and control structure within Washington DC.  However, recent reports now reflect that former Senate Intel Committee Chair Richard Burr is her guide in the nomination process.

As SSCI Chairman Burr was in favorable position with the IC in ’17, and ’18, but then after two years of passive support for the Trump targeting operation, he began to get wobbly in the eyes of the Seven Ways from Sunday group. They then carried out an operation to remove Burr via public leaks and investigative ends around Burr’s stock purchases and financial arrangements.  Burr was softly excommunicated from his status and replaced with Marco Rubio.

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The promises of an America-First agenda in combination with clearing out the bureaucracy is underway as the first five days of the administration culminate.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has put a pause on most foreign aid with the exception of Egypt and Israel as the State Dept begins reevaluating spending priorities.  Coinciding with this announcement, President Trump removed over a dozen Inspectors General from various DC agencies.

WASHINGTON DC – Secretary of State Marco Rubio halted spending Friday on most existing foreign aid grants for 90 days. The order, which shocked State Department officials, appears to apply to funding for military assistance to Ukraine.

Rubio’s guidance, issued to all diplomatic and consular posts, requires department staffers to issue “stop-work orders” on nearly all “existing foreign assistance awards,” according to the document, which was obtained by POLITICO. It is effective immediately.

It appears to go further than President Donald Trump’s recent executive order, which instructed the department to pause foreign aid grants for 90 days pending review by the secretary. It had not been clear from the president’s order if it would affect already appropriated funds or Ukraine aid.

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During a press conference following a review of the devastated area, President Trump questioned why he was being told by Los Angeles residents that it would take 18 months for permits to begin the rebuilding process.

Los Angeles area officials are not permitting residents to clear their own lots after the fire.  Under the auspices of “hazardous material concern” the LA officials are telling residents they must wait for local officials to clear the area.  This ridiculous impediment resulted in President Donald Trump confronting Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass over the timing of when displaced residents can legally return to their properties to clear out debris after the recent fires.

President Trump drowned Karen Bass in buckets of common sense.  WATCH:

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Several videos below.

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It will be interesting to watch how this unfolds with new Intelligence Community heads moving into position to support or shape the request.

This specific Executive Order [SEE HERE] approach runs counter to my personal, albeit controversial, opinion on how the declassification of sensitive documents should be handled in order to deliver the highest level of transparency. However, this approach does keep the lawyers in charge of the executive office in legal control of the mechanics.  The order essentially requires the nation’s security organizations to create plans to release the records.

Within the video, the first two executive orders are related to David Sacks and the Crypto/AI positions of the Trump administration. The rest of the Executive Orders are AVAILABLE HERE.  Full Press Conference:

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Don’t get your hopes up.  In my humble opinion this declassification request approach leads to nothing. Perhaps I will be wrong. I hope so, but prior experience shows big initial headlines and empty results.

FIRST, look at the XO:

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1.  Policy and Purpose.  More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events.  Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth.  It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.

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I’m not sure why now.  Why not when it mattered?

During a conversation with Bari Weiss to discuss the future of the Republican party, the future of the legislative effort and the future of President Trump’s agenda, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson outlines the moment when he knew Joe Biden was not in charge of the executive branch.

Walking the audience back to the moment in January 2024, Speaker Johnson outlines the details of his meeting with Biden.  Video prompted to 29:24 when the discussion takes place.  WATCH:

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Simultaneous to this a host of progressive media outlets are now outlining the details of the disconnect.

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Not a surprising appointment all things considered.  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has appointed Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to replace Senator Marco Rubio, pending Rubio’s resignation from his Senate seat which will follow his confirmation.

This will provide an opportunity to position DeSantis loyalist, his Chief of Staff, James Uthmeier, as Florida Attorney General to replace Moody. This also positions congressman Byron Donalds to run for Florida Governor, supporting the MAGA coalition.

Moody will take up a pro-DeSantis position in the Senate in preparation for a head-to-head contest between Ron DeSantis and JD Vance in 2028 for the GOP presidential nomination. As senator, Ashley Moody will be unlikely to challenge any of the Trump agenda and will likely support it given the stakes for Ron. All in all, a predictable outcome.

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The alligator emojis will be happy, so too will the MAGA coalition.

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Today a set of President Trump nominees will begin the confirmation process with key hearings in the U.S Senate.

Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi (day #1); Secretary of State nominee, Marco Rubio; Secretary of Transportation nominee, Sean Duffy; Central Intelligence Director nominee, John Ratcliffe; Secretary of Energy nominee Chris Wright; and Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell T. Vought, will all be appearing in their related committees on Capitol Hill.

Bondi starts at 9:30am EST. Rubio, Duffy, Ratcliffe and Wright will be at 10:00am EST. Vought will be at 1:00pm EST.

Due to the simultaneous hearing overlap, we will post individual breakout threads on each nominee along with hearing livestreams. You can pick the ones to watch or switch back and forth.

Bondi, Rubio and Ratcliffe will be interesting to watch; however, each is in alignment with the dark elements of the Deep State and essentially a shoo-in for their respective departments. On the other hand, Russel Vought is the one most likely to face fierce opposition, in part due to the OMB controlling the purse strings of the executive.

The Senate will not like Vought interfering with their spending programs. The business of selling DC policy for personal financial gain requires a compliant OMB to organize the check writing. The Senators will demand strict adherence to their financial decision-making, and if Vought takes an independent executive position, there could be masks dropped and trouble in the confirmation process.

The Wednesday forecast is for a mostly sunny, happy, reach-across-the-aisle kinda day, with a chance of scattered thunderstorms later in the afternoon when Vought approaches the Eastern coastline.

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Appearing on the increasingly insufferable former news channel, both Senator Mullin and Senator Hegseth now see an increasingly optimistic future for Defense Secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth’s hearing clearly showcased a worn-out playbook of resistance being deployed by the Democrats in the Senate.  Their foot stomping was childish and is increasingly positioning the Democrat Party as irrelevant in the larger picture of U.S politics.  Perhaps we are finally beyond the end of an error.  We can hope.

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In the larger dynamic of American government, which more people now thankfully see as a grand pantomime, and while Mullin and Cotton are on the right side -at least optically- of the Hegseth nomination, their alignment with a perspective that government provides some larger value in the lives of Americans is still grossly out of place.

The mechanisms, systems and institutions of U.S. government, must be severely unmeshed from defining and influencing permitted activity by the American people.  The bureaucracy must be destroyed, if we are to have any reemergence of liberty.  This is a core issue now visible in the eyes of an awakened majority.

While I am thankful that Markwayne Mullin and Tom Cotton support the removal of the Marxism mindset from the military, that is only one facet of the larger governmental outlook that needs to be confronted.

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