Of course preemptive pardons pardons protect them against federal charges, not state. You can still financially bleed Fauxci in 39 willing state courts
Not looking to rekindle any Speaker debates (Johnson had the votes and the House had to convene), but the clearest evidence of Johnson's being compromised was his 180-degree on the "bipartisan border bill" (remember that? Roughly $65B for Ukes, $20B for Israel and $15B for the bill's namesake border). Claimed to have seen something in a SCIF that completely flipped his stance. My wife, an irrepressibly-polite lady, even remarked at the time that the only question was whether it was little girls or little boys. A little harsh, but it's 100% clear that Johnson is not his own man (even by DC's impossibly-low integrity standards).
Most informed citizens understand that the Biden Administration was a disaster for our country, but the true scope of harm is yet to be revealed. The massive printing and expenditure of fiat currency has masked its impact and created a false sense of wellbeing and normalcy, but those chickens will soon come home to roost. Thanks to Yellen, the Treasury must rollover about $7 trillion in short term sovereign debt this year, and finding buyers at low interest rates will be nearly impossible. Most likely, a vicious cycle of rising rates and printing expediency will ensue. The end game is either hyperinflation or jubilee. Take your pick. MSM will blame Trump. Biden gets the pass.
So much personal energy has been expended by a large swath of society to NOT acknowledge the obvious reality that was Zhou since 2020. The PLAN of pretend. That PLAN is taking jabs, and soon to experience a Mike Tyson uppercut.
Ray Dalio on falling empires. The whole Zhou debacle is just part of the chaos of the crumbling West - every leader around the world knew what was going on with him and they all played along. We are living through a significant part of history.
 NEW: Donald Trump is reportedly considering rejecting Keir Starmer’s pick for UK ambassador to the US, Lord Peter Mandelson, in what would be an extremely rare move
As well he should. Peter Mandelson is a poisonous human being, a notorious liar, corrupt, a close friend of Epstein and one of the architects of Britain's decline. The only place he should be nominated to go to is very hot and a long way down.
I would be careful with this story from Johnson- others have made what I see as a credible case that Johnson himself didn't understand the executive order given the story told in his own words. In short, the executive order targeted not LNG shipments of today and the near future but, rather, the infrastructure and contracts for the "not near future".
I hate to approach this in a more negative manner, but I’m asking myself why is Trump putting any faith at all in someone like Mike Johnson? How is he any better than Pence, when “courage under fire” is clearly not something that either of them displayed when the rubber hit the road.
Is this a situation writ large of evil triumphing when “good men do nothing”?
Mark Twain once observed that physically brave men and women could be had by the cargo load, but we are in a profound sense of poverty where morally brave men and women are required. Apparently, not much has changed.
Wonder if any of these people would have pledged their, “lives, fortunes and sacred honor” to preserve and protect the republic?
Johnson probably owes the Speakership to Trump at this point. He owes Trump majorly, and we saw that with the Rep from Ohio, Turner?, being tossed from his chairmanship at Trump's demand. Now Trump needs to do something for Massie.
Yes, Mike Turner from Dayton, home of Wright Patterson Air Force Base. It’s the world’s largest AFB and does business with many contractors. He’s a big supporter of the MIC. Recall that Turner leaked a memo in February about an URGENT! Russian space threat in an attempt to round up support for FISA renewal.
I’m not a lawyer. Much less a constitutional lawyer. But how can anything that was signed into “law” by an incapacitated individual be valid? Everything signed by that man is illegitimate. Everything.
It's like a guest of Tucker said a while back- look around you, it's all fake. The Bill of Rights has been compromised for years, and nobody mentions it. Injustice abounds in this Constitutional Republic, and has been on a large scale for years. It only raises eyebrows when the injustice happens to the Chief Executive. The First Amendment has been used to lie by the MSM for years, the MSM is just a tool of the ruling class, yet even a abridged Constitutional Right cannot be allowed to happen, and full First Amendment suppression has to happen NOW, our faithless politicians tell us. Our children cannot read, write or do arithmetic either- and THAT is just as accepted as the sun rising in the east, each day. Basically school is a huge babysitting situation, and even that was refused by a powerful Teachers Union, who desired to not work at all, even though many teachers do nothing already. Satanist clubs exist for after school activities and have for so long that it is rarely mentioned- and just accepted. Gay lifestyles not only are tolerated (we have remains of a Constitutional government here at least) but are taught in school and celebrated by "pride" flags, which often take the place of a American flag in the classroom. For some reason, today large percentages of children believe that they are in the "wrong body", and a industry has sprung up to take advantage, and people are becoming rich (and studies suggesting NO IMPROVEMENT in mental health for trans children post op exist- and a researcher after spending her funding discovering this is able to suppress this studys results) There are so many large things "off" (we are in 2 wars, as proxies, and some people think that a authoritarian government, such as Russia, isn't likely to defend itself, even though it has more nukes than us) that these "off subjects" are rarely mentioned- only "worked around" and accepted (75% percent of research funding, amounting to many billions each year, cannot be duplicated)
When people asserted, "may you live in interesting times", heretofore that statement was regarded as a curse, yet here we are in 2025
Flynn (and the Flynn story) is an enigma to me. I've read and re-read the details of his Trump 1.0 transition convos with Lavrov and his meeting w Comey's emissaries and Pence's faux outrage and they just don't make sense. There was absolutely nothing wrong w Flynn talking to Lavrov. Look at who Trump has been talking to during his 2.0 transition.
But then Flynn hired Deep State lawyers who charged him a fortune (causing him to sell his house to pay their fees) and advised him to plead guilty...when he wasn't. Which led to a huge fiasco when Flynn (apparently) realized he never should have pled guilty and tried to unwind the process. All of which pretty much wrecked his reputation. All in all, a serious train wreck.
And now Flynn is tweeting from the sidelines? None of it makes sense to me. I almost have to wonder who Flynn is really working for...
Or maybe a committee. The reason the CIA Director was there was because Johnson had been claiming for weeks that he had major NatSec concerns he had to sort out. So that part makes sense. Except, why weren't Sullivan and Blinken there, too. Or were they? It seems the room was vacated just to talk about LNG exports, although that's a NatSec matter also, in the circs.
"So, yes, we were, we ARE, in serious trouble when we have a ruling class that tries to hide this from the subject class."
Johnson knew about Biden's condition how long ago? And we find out about that now? Seems Johnson, and the other Rs who maintained the secret are also to blame.
Many of us back in 2020, when Biden was hiding in his basement and making limited speaking engagements, were aware that there was some mental acuity problem with him. It was clear that he was suffering from early stages of dementia. But the Ds moved him forward anyway, and the Rs remained silent.
I trust neither party for the truth. Both were complicit in hiding Biden's condition. And the country suffered as a result.
Were those **saviors** aware in 2019 that Biden had mental acuity problems?
re: "the Rs remained silent." No, they did not remain silent. For several months in 2020 - 2021, Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani & others raised legal questions about the 2020 vote. Thousands of everyday Americans gathered in Washington, DC on NOT JUST ONE but TWO occasions, Nov. 14 and Jan 6, sponsored by Kylie Jane Kremer, Executive Director of Women for America First (successor to Tea Party); and on numerous occasions in several states from election day until the Jan 6 event, to protest what was alleged to be a rigged voting process. https://www.c-span.org/schedule/?channel=1&date=2021-01-05&timezone-toggle=ET
As I've pointed out in the past, pulling the plug on Zhou would have led to serious POLITICAL problems. No VP without a majority vote in both Houses of Congress, leading to need for a consensus deal. Without that the Speaker (GOP) is in DIRECT line of succession to a Dem "president".
But those are political problems, not the constitutional problem of lacking an actually functional CinC in the middle of global crises. Was it all just political, or was there a DEEPER fear?
The difference: Zhou’s impending frailty and dementia made him a useful idiot, ie the Deep State could control him - while Kama was simply an idiot who could not be controlled…
Sounds like a good counter argument/disqualifier for the preemptive pardons, he doesn’t know what he’s signing.
Of course preemptive pardons pardons protect them against federal charges, not state. You can still financially bleed Fauxci in 39 willing state courts
In plain English, there was a coup d’etat some time ago, and people kept quiet about it. It was a silent conspiracy, and ultimately, treason.
Not looking to rekindle any Speaker debates (Johnson had the votes and the House had to convene), but the clearest evidence of Johnson's being compromised was his 180-degree on the "bipartisan border bill" (remember that? Roughly $65B for Ukes, $20B for Israel and $15B for the bill's namesake border). Claimed to have seen something in a SCIF that completely flipped his stance. My wife, an irrepressibly-polite lady, even remarked at the time that the only question was whether it was little girls or little boys. A little harsh, but it's 100% clear that Johnson is not his own man (even by DC's impossibly-low integrity standards).
Most informed citizens understand that the Biden Administration was a disaster for our country, but the true scope of harm is yet to be revealed. The massive printing and expenditure of fiat currency has masked its impact and created a false sense of wellbeing and normalcy, but those chickens will soon come home to roost. Thanks to Yellen, the Treasury must rollover about $7 trillion in short term sovereign debt this year, and finding buyers at low interest rates will be nearly impossible. Most likely, a vicious cycle of rising rates and printing expediency will ensue. The end game is either hyperinflation or jubilee. Take your pick. MSM will blame Trump. Biden gets the pass.
Recall Barry telling Zhou before the 2020 election: You don't have to do it, Zhou!
https://freespoke.com/search/web?q=obama%3A+You+don%27t+have+to+do+it%2C+joe&utm_source=firefox_omnibar
Remarkable video:
https://x.com/sahouraxo/status/1880757780958924938
sarah @sahouraxo
The U.S. is building a MASSIVE embassy in tiny Lebanon—the second largest embassy in the world.
Why?
To run secret prisons, spy on Lebanon and the region, and use it as a hub for flights to Cyprus.
This is not an embassy.
It’s a fortified CIA base.
Just the CIA or will Mossad be an equal partner?
So much personal energy has been expended by a large swath of society to NOT acknowledge the obvious reality that was Zhou since 2020. The PLAN of pretend. That PLAN is taking jabs, and soon to experience a Mike Tyson uppercut.
Imagine the unimaginable.
NCSWIC
https://youtu.be/xguam0TKMw8?si=SkwCrimzlTCfzSPB
Ray Dalio on falling empires. The whole Zhou debacle is just part of the chaos of the crumbling West - every leader around the world knew what was going on with him and they all played along. We are living through a significant part of history.
Politics UK @PolitlcsUK
 NEW: Donald Trump is reportedly considering rejecting Keir Starmer’s pick for UK ambassador to the US, Lord Peter Mandelson, in what would be an extremely rare move
[@DavidPBMaddox]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mandelson
As well he should. Peter Mandelson is a poisonous human being, a notorious liar, corrupt, a close friend of Epstein and one of the architects of Britain's decline. The only place he should be nominated to go to is very hot and a long way down.
I would be careful with this story from Johnson- others have made what I see as a credible case that Johnson himself didn't understand the executive order given the story told in his own words. In short, the executive order targeted not LNG shipments of today and the near future but, rather, the infrastructure and contracts for the "not near future".
I hate to approach this in a more negative manner, but I’m asking myself why is Trump putting any faith at all in someone like Mike Johnson? How is he any better than Pence, when “courage under fire” is clearly not something that either of them displayed when the rubber hit the road.
Is this a situation writ large of evil triumphing when “good men do nothing”?
Mark Twain once observed that physically brave men and women could be had by the cargo load, but we are in a profound sense of poverty where morally brave men and women are required. Apparently, not much has changed.
Wonder if any of these people would have pledged their, “lives, fortunes and sacred honor” to preserve and protect the republic?
Johnson probably owes the Speakership to Trump at this point. He owes Trump majorly, and we saw that with the Rep from Ohio, Turner?, being tossed from his chairmanship at Trump's demand. Now Trump needs to do something for Massie.
Yes, Mike Turner from Dayton, home of Wright Patterson Air Force Base. It’s the world’s largest AFB and does business with many contractors. He’s a big supporter of the MIC. Recall that Turner leaked a memo in February about an URGENT! Russian space threat in an attempt to round up support for FISA renewal.
I’m not a lawyer. Much less a constitutional lawyer. But how can anything that was signed into “law” by an incapacitated individual be valid? Everything signed by that man is illegitimate. Everything.
Forgeries all.
Wow.
It's like a guest of Tucker said a while back- look around you, it's all fake. The Bill of Rights has been compromised for years, and nobody mentions it. Injustice abounds in this Constitutional Republic, and has been on a large scale for years. It only raises eyebrows when the injustice happens to the Chief Executive. The First Amendment has been used to lie by the MSM for years, the MSM is just a tool of the ruling class, yet even a abridged Constitutional Right cannot be allowed to happen, and full First Amendment suppression has to happen NOW, our faithless politicians tell us. Our children cannot read, write or do arithmetic either- and THAT is just as accepted as the sun rising in the east, each day. Basically school is a huge babysitting situation, and even that was refused by a powerful Teachers Union, who desired to not work at all, even though many teachers do nothing already. Satanist clubs exist for after school activities and have for so long that it is rarely mentioned- and just accepted. Gay lifestyles not only are tolerated (we have remains of a Constitutional government here at least) but are taught in school and celebrated by "pride" flags, which often take the place of a American flag in the classroom. For some reason, today large percentages of children believe that they are in the "wrong body", and a industry has sprung up to take advantage, and people are becoming rich (and studies suggesting NO IMPROVEMENT in mental health for trans children post op exist- and a researcher after spending her funding discovering this is able to suppress this studys results) There are so many large things "off" (we are in 2 wars, as proxies, and some people think that a authoritarian government, such as Russia, isn't likely to defend itself, even though it has more nukes than us) that these "off subjects" are rarely mentioned- only "worked around" and accepted (75% percent of research funding, amounting to many billions each year, cannot be duplicated)
When people asserted, "may you live in interesting times", heretofore that statement was regarded as a curse, yet here we are in 2025
General Flynn tells us too......
The CIA is a malevolent force and has been for many years.
https://x.com/genflynn/status/1880412443916267661?s=46
Flynn (and the Flynn story) is an enigma to me. I've read and re-read the details of his Trump 1.0 transition convos with Lavrov and his meeting w Comey's emissaries and Pence's faux outrage and they just don't make sense. There was absolutely nothing wrong w Flynn talking to Lavrov. Look at who Trump has been talking to during his 2.0 transition.
But then Flynn hired Deep State lawyers who charged him a fortune (causing him to sell his house to pay their fees) and advised him to plead guilty...when he wasn't. Which led to a huge fiasco when Flynn (apparently) realized he never should have pled guilty and tried to unwind the process. All of which pretty much wrecked his reputation. All in all, a serious train wreck.
And now Flynn is tweeting from the sidelines? None of it makes sense to me. I almost have to wonder who Flynn is really working for...
Thanks.
The CIA is running the country.
https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1880778022954865037?s=46
Or maybe a committee. The reason the CIA Director was there was because Johnson had been claiming for weeks that he had major NatSec concerns he had to sort out. So that part makes sense. Except, why weren't Sullivan and Blinken there, too. Or were they? It seems the room was vacated just to talk about LNG exports, although that's a NatSec matter also, in the circs.
"So, yes, we were, we ARE, in serious trouble when we have a ruling class that tries to hide this from the subject class."
Johnson knew about Biden's condition how long ago? And we find out about that now? Seems Johnson, and the other Rs who maintained the secret are also to blame.
Many of us back in 2020, when Biden was hiding in his basement and making limited speaking engagements, were aware that there was some mental acuity problem with him. It was clear that he was suffering from early stages of dementia. But the Ds moved him forward anyway, and the Rs remained silent.
I trust neither party for the truth. Both were complicit in hiding Biden's condition. And the country suffered as a result.
re: "Many of us, back in 2020, ... were aware that there was some mental acuity problem with him"
Molly Ball traces the "secret history of the shadow campaign that **saved** the 2020 election" back to 2019. https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
Were those **saviors** aware in 2019 that Biden had mental acuity problems?
re: "the Rs remained silent." No, they did not remain silent. For several months in 2020 - 2021, Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani & others raised legal questions about the 2020 vote. Thousands of everyday Americans gathered in Washington, DC on NOT JUST ONE but TWO occasions, Nov. 14 and Jan 6, sponsored by Kylie Jane Kremer, Executive Director of Women for America First (successor to Tea Party); and on numerous occasions in several states from election day until the Jan 6 event, to protest what was alleged to be a rigged voting process. https://www.c-span.org/schedule/?channel=1&date=2021-01-05&timezone-toggle=ET
As I've pointed out in the past, pulling the plug on Zhou would have led to serious POLITICAL problems. No VP without a majority vote in both Houses of Congress, leading to need for a consensus deal. Without that the Speaker (GOP) is in DIRECT line of succession to a Dem "president".
But those are political problems, not the constitutional problem of lacking an actually functional CinC in the middle of global crises. Was it all just political, or was there a DEEPER fear?
Our political class believed it was better to have a President with dementia running the country than bird-brain Kamala.
The difference: Zhou’s impending frailty and dementia made him a useful idiot, ie the Deep State could control him - while Kama was simply an idiot who could not be controlled…
So Kamala was chosen just not for Dei reasons, but as insurance. How brilliant of someone.
This.