In case you haven’t been paying attention, the Republicans are going to remain in control of both the House and the Senate in a couple of weeks. Since their flawless victory over the Democrats in the fight to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the Republican base is more energized now than at any point since November 2016.
They say pictures are worth a thousand words… so, here’s one.
The Redcoats are Coming, The Redcoats are Coming!
And if you don’t think the person that is most worried about this picture is Hillary Clinton, then you haven’t been paying attention.
But, to get to Hillary, I’ll have to connect a few dots.
It is pretty obvious that Trump has begun winning over important parts of the GOP leadership, most notably Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), who shared a stage with Trump in Kentucky recently.
While on the other hand, those most in opposition to Trump like Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (D-Wisconsin) and Jeff Flake (D-McCainville) are retiring because they know they can’t win.
Trump and McConnell’s win, as I said previously, “gave spine to the spineless.” Like Trump or hate him, for the most part, the guy is a change agent.
So, McConnell rammed another 15 judges down the Democrats’ throats to allow them time to do a little chair rearrangement on the deck of their party’s Titanic before November 6th.
The early signs have come from the foreign policy front, namely Trump’s cabinet.
The great Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com feels, “the trend is moving in our direction – toward a new foreign policy for America, one that functions to protect the people of this country rather than police the world. Go not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”
The reason I can give Raimondo’s optimism an audience stems from Gareth Porter’s recent article about Trump’s cabinet sabotaging him on foreign policy.
The excerpts from Bob Woodward’s book “Fear: Trump in the White House” that Porter pulls together along with other sources paints a very probably scenario of what is going on. Trump is fighting daily with his cabinet.
I’m sure Woodward’s goal was to show Trump as weak and not in control, because that’s the narrative du jour in the hopes of creating a 25th Amendment challenge to him post mid-terms.
But, since the Democrats are going to lose the mid-terms, this book now can serve as research into the shift in policy coming from Trump starting in mid-November.
And Trump is doing just a little bit more than signaling what’s coming.
I’ve settled on the belief that he fired Nikki Haley. She was, next to Certified Crazy Person John Bolton, the biggest neoconservative and AIPAC boot-licker in the administration. I expect Bolton will be gone soon if sanctions on Iran don’t work.
I bet she got wind of his intentions and then quit before the elections out of spite because … AIPAC.
As I said the day it happened, the only way our presence at the U.N. could be worse is if Dick Cheney is made U.N. Ambassador. So, buh-bye Nimrata.
That was interesting. But, now Trump’s undercutting Secretary of Defense James Mattis publicly. He hasn’t done this before.
When the MSM was trying to drive a wedge between Trump and Mattis I didn’t believe it.
When Trump is doing it, I’m listening. That’s a real change. Calling Mattis “a sort of a Democrat” is pure signaling to his base that Mattis has been a problem in the Middle East.
Has Trump has finally made the point clear to his generals that staying in Syria and Afghanistan forever is not in the U.S.’s best interests? Firing Mattis or allowing him to resign gracefully after the mid-terms would be a big move in that direction, if Woodword’s reporting is to be believed.
Woodward paints Mattis as the biggest obstacle to that end, arguing for the standard neoconservative line of defending America by invading the world.
Trump wants us out of Syria and Afghanistan. His cabinet doesn’t. So, we’re seeing him beginning to change the cabinet. Again, this happens as fallout from the Kavanaugh win since that fight changed the game at the grassroots level making it easier for him to fire the paper-hangers and promote the fire-breathers.
Then we have Israel and Syria opening up the Quinetra crossing to and from the Golan Heights for the first time in seven years, even though the war or words between the two countries continues to be belligerent.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with Henry Kissinger on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. Try to find anything out about this in a standard search engine result. Because “Lavrov Kissinger Meeting” needed the word “TASS” added to it to get this article stub from Russian State News Service TASS.
And that is literally all you will get about this meeting outside of my commenting on it.
Because the Panopticon is real folks.
And that brings me, finally, to Trump’s revoking Hillary Clinton’s security clearance along with five others including her close aide Cheryl Mills.
Hillary and her staff have been using their clearance, like former CIA Director John Brennan to attack Trump in the press.
But, it is, lastly, the news that Ecuador reinstated Wikileaks’ publisher Julian Assange’s Internet and communications is the thing that set off my Spidey-Sense and was the catalyst for this post.
Assange has been held under an effective gag order, like Paul Manafort, for months now to keep them both from telling their story to the world. For more than a year Trump has fought an uphill battle against a deluge of distractions, most of which are untrue and some simply intelligence agency provocations designed to push him into untenable positions.
But, the noose is tightening around the conspiracy to oust Trump from power as it is outed bit by bit. With each small revelation, the picture is in focus. All that was missing was a fundamental change in the political atmosphere.
Because, make no mistake, Assange knows where all the metaphoric and literal bodies are buried.
The pressure on Ecuador’s new President to keep Assange silent must have lifted otherwise he’d still be in effective solitary confinement. And why would that pressure lift all of a sudden?
Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS ‘took the Fifth’ in Congressional testimony. Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein ignored the summons from Congress.
Everyone knows Julian Assange can put the finger on Hillary for what happened in 2016 (and so many other things).
So, putting the last piece to this puzzle together, it should be getting clearer here that some very important people are about to be indicted and/or arrested.
Containment around Hillary’s crimes has been breached and all that’s left now is for the people close to her to start turning on each other. The mid-terms were their last, best hope for a stay of execution.
But, Kanye West personally ended that hope just days after Kavanaugh was confirmed.
As the newly-empowered GOP bulldogs like Devin Nunes and John Ratcliffe take things to the next level in their investigations expect these trickles to become a torrent in the wake of the Red Tide coming on November 6th.
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Great article which really connects the dots. Let’s hope however that the Deep State doesn’t have some sort of November surprise waiting in the wings.
I will believe it when I see former suits in government shiped off to Guantanamo in orange jump suits shackled together like a scene from the movie Con Air . When these treasonous basturds are stripped of their wealth and their family have to ride the MTA bus to visit them before their neck stretching excution for their actions .
Perhaps Paul Ryan could explain how he is wealthy enough to retire at 48 when he thinks working Americans can work till 70 plus for social security . Yes I know Social Security is not a national retirement plan . I know let’s restore all the private plans that were wiped out over the last 40 years to 100 cents on the dollar with the confiscated wealth from the criminal class circle jerk that is Wall Street to K-Street to Capitol Street !
OK tell me I’m jealous and I will say to you if I stick a gun in your face and take 50% or more of your wealth that’s a crime . But if I buy the legislator and court system with lobbying efforts (legalized bribery) to confiscate 50% or more of your wealth and redistribute it to me and my crony capitalist friends that’s OK !
In fact, Social Security IS a de facto “retirement plan” in which we were FORCED to “contribute” with NO assurance that benefits would be available at retirement age, as the “rules of the game” are constantly being changed, to wit: the increase in the retirement age for younger workers and the “adjustments” for lower paid workers. Let’s not forget that the employer pays a like amount into the system for each employee, as well.
The city of Galveston Texas was the last municipality “allowed” to leave the Social Security system. The average pension payout for Galveston retirees is approximately THREE TIMES that of a Social Security distribution at normal retirement age.
The question is asked, what happens to the funds that people who die before retirement age”contribute” to the Social Security system? Why are those funds never counted in the solvency aspect of the system?
If I had my way, Social Security would be changed into a TRUE retirement system with payouts guaranteed to the recipient and their beneficiaries.
Give me my (and my employer’s) “contribution” over 50 years of employment (compounded at, let’s say 2%), and I would be a millionaire today.
Of course, that will never occur, the “rules” will keep changing for younger workers, and this “ponzi scheme” will keep going.
Let’s not forget SSDI (Social Security Disability Insurance) which foreigners are abusing to a great degree. Once a foreigner obtains his “green card” he then sends for his aged parents, who have never paid into the system, and gets them into the SSDI system, all bets are off. Contrast that with an American citizen who has to jump through many hoops in order to get deserved benefits.
“Let’s not forget that the employer pays a like amount into the system for each employee, as well.”
Try being self-employed…you get to pay the whole amount yourself.
I know and when I was in the full time workforce for a small successful company it was because we as a small group were aware of the cost of manpower on the JOB
We worked together as efficiently and productively as possible and having a fair minded employer our pay and year end bonuses reflected the work ethic we had . That is also why we had a difficult time hiring people , far to many are a pain and a drain and we had enough of that with government taxes and regulation .
I see some states are attempting to seize the estates of people on Medicaid to be “paid back” while that person who is obviously working/lower class has paid for the outrageous retirement and insurance benefits via taxes of all kinds received by the government asshat trying to steal their estate. The poor person whose estate is seized has received less benefit than he might have because of the benefits given illegals and the chain migrator fuques none of us want or need in our country. Medicare, which we all have paid for all our lives also tries to recoup from recipients in some cases.
If the plans in this story is true, expect a false flag to derail said plans. Assange assassination?
It all comes down to enough votes in the Senate to confirm a new Attorny General. To think 1 person is Responsible for this whole mess and could bring down all of western civilization. You would have thought that, that rat pediphile Sessions would have had a shred of human dignity and committed suicide long ago.
Interesting article. You have to hand it to the Orange Crusader; he’s kicking serious ass. Obviously he rope-a-doped Pocahontas into making a fool of herself. He effortlessly beat the Creepy Porn Lawyer dickless and now that $500k donated by nit wits to her legal fund may actually go to trump in that the judge found she was liable for legal fees. Not a bad week’s work. But killery doing a perp walk? Dream of it but don’t expect it. Jail is reserved for we rabble.
Hope you’re right,Tom. I don’t like Kanye much but I go along with letting a few hundred nigger dope dealers out of prison . We need the room for the Deep State bastards.
I hope the author is right, but either way Trump’s presidency has certainly been entertaining.
I’m with Boat Guy-I love optimism but I’ll believe it when I see it.
“But, Kanye West personally ended that hope just days after Kavanaugh was confirmed.”
Tom brings up something I would rather forget. Why did Kanye get a WH invite?
Kim Jong-Un, Kim Kardashian, Kavanaugh, Kanye…
It’s hard to connect the dots, am I missing something?
since you brought up kanye,here’s a great little story by jim goad over at takimag–he takes down a bunch of black liberals & exposes their hypocrisy–if you saw any clips of the cnn comments about kanye,you saw don lemon running his mouth–did you know that don lemon lives w/a white boyfriend?
From the Taki article:
i don’t watch much news so i could have missed it but is he saying hillary has already had her security clearances taken away or that they should be taken away?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2018/10/12/hillary-clintons-security-clearance-revoked-upon-request-n2528068
thanks nkit,
hillary asked that her clearances be withdrawn-right,and a hooker does it for fun–
either she’s up to no good or she was tipped that she was about to get the brennan treatment–
after you posted this i went to google to see if they had it in their search engine–
here’s a story from a few days ago where she’s still backing bill & blaming the women–
https://nypost.com/2018/10/14/hillary-bill-didnt-abuse-his-power-because-lewinsky-was-an-adult/
I think the author hit the nail on the head. I really really hope he is right. It would be a glorious day for those few remaining of us that remember what this country was mostly like before all the subversion took place over the past few decades. If you are not familiar, go to your dictionary and look up subversion. It is the right word to describe what has happened.