We suspected they would go too far, because that’s what the left always does.  Once their pop-narrative enters the entire tribe of progressives, the various factions within it always try to one-up each other and highlight their support.  It’s like watching a branding effort for 7-minute-abs, 6-minute-abs, no… hold on, wait…  Yes, 5-minute-abs!

According to Marquette University Kamala “Brat” Harris is now solidly ahead of the orange man by something like four-hundred-eleventy-five points and 3 billion ballots.

MEDIA – Kamala Harris has opened up an eight-point lead over Donald Trump, according to a stunning new poll. Among likely voters, Harris is on 50 percent and Trump 42 percent, the Marquette Law School Poll published on Wednesday found. (LINK)

Trump just put out this compilation of Kamala Harris *attempting* to speak off script

And holy crap it’s brutal 🤣💀pic.twitter.com/hOk0n7O72a

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 9, 2024

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Seriously, just laugh at it.  There’s absolutely nothing there.  Ridicule is the best weapon against this silly propaganda.

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Machiavelli said, “It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.”  A prescient and oft repeated quote that is pertinent to the situation.

When our founders created the system of government for our constitutional republic, they built in layers of protection from federal control over the lives of people in the states.  Over time those protections have been eroded as the federal bureaucracy has seized power.  One of the biggest changes that led to the creation of the permanent political class was the 17th amendment.

Our founders created a system where Senators were appointed by the state legislatures.  In this original system the senate was bound by obligation to look out for the best interests of their specific states.  Under the ‘advise and consent‘ rules of Senate confirmation for executive branch appointments, the intent was to ensure the presidential appointee -who would now carry out regulatory activity- would not undermine the independent position of the states.

The nucleus of corruption amid every element of the federal institutions of government is the United States Senate.   The U.S. Senate, also known as the “upper chamber,” is the single most powerful elected element in modern federal government.

The Intelligence Branch is the most powerful branch of government.  However, the U.S. Senate is the most powerful assembly of federally elected officials.  We pretend the IC branch doesn’t exist; that’s part of our problem.  At least we admit the Senate exists.

All other elected federal corruption is dependent on a corrupt and ineffective Senate.  If we correct the problems with the Senate and reconnect the representation within the chamber to the state-level legislative bodies, we will then see immediate change.  However, there would be ZERO institutional allies in this effort.

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Earlier today, President Trump gave a press conference from Mar-a-Lago in Florida.  Unlike the Kamala/Walz heavily controlled and scripted relationship with their allies in media, President Trump and JD Vance will take any/all questions regardless of topic.

President Trump delivered some short remarks then stood in front of the media and took questions from the assembled press pool for over an hour.  WATCH:

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When reviewing the conversation, I note a lot of this sentiment…

KT Says – “Trump staffing? He hasn’t even won. Harris polls are rising as long as she’s kept on teleprompter (like Biden in the basement) is working. The assassination attempt on Trumps life is already waning and will be forgotten by election date. Wisconsin’s road map to steal ballots in counties will work unless”….

Second similar:

MimiNP56 says –  ...”As informative and fun as these posts have been, we cannot be distracted by them. Trump has not been elected, yet. We need a gameplan to get him elected. The post on the ballot issue in Wisconsin is a great example of the beginnings of such”…

You guys know I really respect, cherish and appreciate Treepers.  CTH is a website about a conversation.  I consider myself a steward and host for the topics.  The point, the purpose, the entire reason for CTH to exist, is the ¹conversation.

That said, did you ever consider that these Trump-2025 posts are not only about the intent of staffing a second term with a much more effective strategy.  Perhaps, just perhaps, the primary takeaway from reading each role, responsibility and challenge, is to understand just how f**ked up it is.

Every outline is the honest scenario of what exists in Washington, DC.  There is not a single pretense being retained.  No one knows the scale of corruption that exists by both intent and stupidity.   I can count on two hands the number of people inside Washington DC who understand the scale and scope of the problem at the root cause.  That’s not a disposable talking point just for emphasis.  That’s the truth of it.

Every what I would call “solid” elected representative that I have talked to; those who look carefully at the evidence, details, documents and citations; resigns their job – generally within a year of our conversation.

The point of telling you this?  These representatives exist and operate within a system they do not even understand.

If the people in DC don’t fathom the context of the problem that is literally outside their door, then how do you think the American people can grasp the skills needed to defeat the problem?  Think about it.

Whether Donald Trump wins or loses the November 2024 election, the reality of what needs to be done remains.  The reality of the corruption within each DC silo and the Intelligence Community manipulation that flows into all three branches of government exists with or without any Presidential election.

These outlines are not about Trump staffing 2025; that is a small part of the purpose.  The overwhelming intent is to put a detailed, granular level context, on every single position within the system.

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Only a small number of Americans understand the relationship between the U.S. State Dept (DoS) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).  However, as more people understand how these two agencies operate, then people have a much more accurate context for how both agencies are viewed by the rest of the world.

Almost every deployed CIA operative has a cover profile within the State Dept.  The foreign service missions of the DoS and CIA are so enmeshed there is literally no way to separate the functions of their agencies. [Go back to the Benghazi Attack for an operational reference] CIA/DoS have to be viewed through the prism of connection.

To better understand this concept, I use the following metaphor:

♦ 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.

The Dept of State (DoS) is so large there’s no way of addressing the inherent institutional corruption.  The Secretary of State can control a small portion of DoS operations, but that’s usually only the geopolitical stuff we see discussed on television, in print media or in press conferences.  The business functions of the DoS take place within a network of carefully guarded silos.

Perhaps, the first step in advancing an American-First policy, is to just stop the various administrative offices within the Dept of State from doing anything, literally anything.  The challenge within DoS is massive, complex and complicated.  I’m genuinely not sure what the Executive Branch mechanism is to do it, but we need to close the restaurant for a few months and do a deep cleaning.

On the back of the operation is the kitchen, the CIA.

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President Trump calls-in to Fox and Friends for an interview discussing Kamala Harris VP selection in Tim Walz. WATCH:

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President Trump also answered questions from the audience attending the Sturgis Motorcycle rally.

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President Trump has announced via Truth Social that Elon Musk will be hosting a conversation between himself and President Trump.

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— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) August 6, 2024

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(New York Times) – Former President Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday that he would be interviewed next week by Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of the social media platform X and a former skeptic who has come to embrace his candidacy.

In a post on his own social media site, Truth Social, Mr. Trump said that their conversation would happen on Monday night and that details would follow.  Representatives for the Trump campaign and for X did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Tuesday. (more)

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UPDATE: 8pm ET password removed.

Remember, in this series my goal is more to describe the needs of some critical Executive Branch positions from a very practical, non-pretending, perspective of what happens within specific offices.  This outline is going to be a little odd, because almost no one knows what the position of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is about.

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.

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 to fly airplanes would be missed again; at least that was the intent.

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Barron Trump likes to watch Adin Ross and the audience Ross creates with his podcast is very unique and young.  Old media is dead for the majority of young people and younger voters, instead it’s podcasting and live-stream content that catches their attention.

President Trump knows the value of connecting to the audience on their terms and their platforms.  This is a really cool interview that covers a lot of subjects.  There is a segment where President Trump plays the “one word” game with people Adin Ross puts on screen [44:00 mark]: it’s quite funny.

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This is a good video to put context to his familiar linguistic jingle that we keep hearing from Democrats, “our democracy.” [Citation]

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— Devout American (@AmericanDevout) August 5, 2024

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The professional elements within the top floors of the Democrat apparatus, I’m specifically mentioning the people very close to Obama, genuinely do not believe Kamala Harris stands a chance at winning. FYI, I’ll have more on this later.

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