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Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the left now believes it can magically rebound by destroying President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees.
Many of Trump’s picks are well outside the usual Washington, D.C./New York political, media, and corporate nexus.
But that is precisely the point — to insert reformers into a bloated, incompetent, and weaponized government who are not part of it.
Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, is already drawing severe criticism.
His furious enemies cannot go after his resume since he has spent a lifetime in private, congressional, and executive billets, both in investigations and intelligence.
Instead, they claim he is too vindictive and does not reflect the ethos of the FBI.
But what will Patel not do as the new director?
He will not serially lie under oath to federal investigators as did interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a current Patel critic.
He will not forge an FBI court affidavit, as did convicted felon and agency lawyer Kevin Clinesmith.
He will not claim amnesia 245 times under congressional oath to evade embarrassing admissions as did former Director James Comey.
He will not partner with a foreign national to collect dirt and subvert a presidential campaign as the FBI did with Christopher Steele in 2016.
He will not use the FBI to draft social media to suppress news unfavorable to a presidential candidate on the eve of an election.
He would not have suppressed FBI knowledge that Hunter Biden’s laptop was genuine — to allow the lie to spread that it was “Russian disinformation” on the eve of the 2020 election.
He will not raid the home of an ex-president with SWAT teams, surveil Catholics, monitor parents at school board meetings, or go after pro-life peaceful protestors.
Decorated combat veteran Pete Hegseth is another controversial nominee for secretary of defense.
What will Hegseth likely not do?
Go AWOL without notifying the president of a serious medical procedure as did current Secretary Lloyd Austin?
Install race and gender criteria for promotion and mandate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training?
Insinuate falsely that cabals of white supremacists had infiltrated the military –only to alienate that entire demographic and thus ensure the Pentagon came up 40,000 recruits short?
Oversee the scramble from Kabul that saw $50 billion in U.S. military equipment abandoned to Taliban terrorists?
Watch passively as a Chinese spy balloon traversed the continental United States for a week?
Allow the chairman of the Joint Chiefs to promise his Chinese communist counterpart that the People’s Liberation Army would first be informed if the President of the United States was felt to issue a dangerous order?
Rotate into the Pentagon from a defense contractor boardship and then leave office to rotate back there to leverage procurement decisions?
Oversee the Pentagon’s serial flunking of fiscal audits?
Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is certainly a maverick. He may earn the most Democratic hits, given his former liberal credentials.
But what will RFK also not do as HHS secretary?
Oversee his agencies circumventing U.S. law by transferring money to communist China to help it produce lethal gain-of-function viruses of the COVID-19 sort — in the manner of Dr. Fauci?
Organize scientists to go after critics of mandatory masking and defame them?
Give pharmaceutical companies near-lifetime exemptions from legal jeopardy for rushing into production mRNA vaccines not traditionally vetted and tested?
Leave office to monetize his HHS expertise and thus make millions from the pharmaceutical companies?
Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, former congressional representative and military veteran Tulsi Gabbard, will soon be defamed in congressional hearings.
But what has Gabbard not done?
Joined “51 former intelligence authorities” to lie on the eve of the 2020 election that the Hunter Biden laptop “had all the hallmarks” of a Russian information/disinformation operation” — in an effort to swing the election to incumbent Joe Biden?
Lied under congressional oath like former DNI James Clapper, who claimed he only gave the “least untruthful answer” in congressional testimony?
Encourage the FBI to monitor a presidential campaign in efforts to discredit it –in the manner of former CIA Director John Brennan, who lied not once but twice under oath?
Fail to foresee the American meltdown in Kabul, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, or the Houthis’ takeover of the Red Sea?
We are going to hear some outrageous things in the upcoming congressional confirmation hearings.
But one thing we will not hear about are the crimes, deceptions, and utter incompetence of prior and current government grandees.
The current crew, not their proposed Trump replacements, prompted the sick and tired American people to demand different people.
Voters want novel approaches to reform a government that they not only no longer trust but also now deeply fear.
Mark Sochor says
In addition to not being swamp creatures and loyal to Trump and his vision to restore America, they are good communicators. They should not be easily intimidated and able to defend themselves against spurious charges burped up by Democrats and feckless RINOS. The media has been neutered.
Steve Chavez says
TRUMP appointing people who will Have His Back… not Stab Him in the Back!
Richard Nuetzel says
I’m excited about our future. Wasn’t before the election.
JOSEY WALES says
And that goes for “We The People” too.
Snuffy Carter says
Rod Serling:
“America now returns to reality after 4 years of being in the Biden/Harris twilight zone. What Trump will not do: turn America into a third world country; raid the homes of former Presidents with an FBI goon squad; mutilate children with trans surgeries; and pay for babies to be killed in the womb worldwide.”
Rob A says
Stop it with the “killed in the womb.” Babies aren’t killed, they’re murdered in the womb.
JGros says
I would like to remind you what the Bible says. G-d breathes the first breath of life into his nose when the baby first breath. Before that he is not alive.
RLagrange says
I really hope Tulsi Gabbard will get the post of Director of National Intelligence. Since she will have the job of DAILY telling Trump,face to face,what the real geopolitical situation is. That to go to war against China means the US will lose. The same for going to war against Iran.
She would tell him this about JOLANI,new leader of Syria.
1. Right now videos have appeared showing Jolani’s soldiers cutting off the heads of people,of families, even of CHILDREN. Beheading children in front of their parents or viceversa. Two who have commented on this are Andrei Martynov,Russian military analyst, and Pepe Escobar,brilliant Brazilian journalist.
2. That the head of Al-Qaida in Iraq was ZARQAWI. The second in importance was? It was Jolani. Jolani is known to have personally cut off the heads of hostages. Zarqawi and Jolani did not consider Shias to be real Muslims,who are 60% of the population ,so they sent suicide bombers
who killed at least 100,000 Shia civilians.Not soldiers. Jolani helped do it.
One of those who defeated Al-Qaida in Iraq was IRAN (Shia country)it was SOLEIMANI,head of Iran 250,000 Revolutionary Guards,soldiers who are very religious. They fought Al-Qaida in Iraq and also American soldiers in Iraq,800 American soldiers were killed. Soldiers,not civilians,
3.Jolani met al-Bagradi who in 2014 founded ISIS and Jolani was? He was the SECOND in importance in ISIS.Then fought with al-Bagradi.Al-Bagradi was the CALIPH of ISIS in 2014. They conquered 40% of Iraq and 33% of Syria. Jolani later headed Al-Qaida in Syria,under the name of Al-Nusra.
ISIS got near Bagdad,it had conquered 40% of Iraq,and MOSUL,its second largest city. The Iraqi army had almost disappeared. So Iraq asked Soleimani for help. Soleimani asked for Iraqi VOLUNTEERS. 100,000 Iraqis responded,and they were
armed,funded,and led by Soleimani and other Iranians,It took them 3 years (2014-2017) and Soleimani also helped Syria defeat the terrorist army of ISIS and Al-Qaida. He convinced Putin to send Russian soldiers. 4,000 Iranian soldiers and hundreds of Russian soldiers died.Had it not been for them ISIS would have conquered in 2013.At one time only Damascus was what was left of territory under the Syrian army’s control.
Mo de Profit says
One savage replaced by another savage.
RLagrange says
I wouldn’t call Soleimani a savage.No evidence he was a terrorist.
What is a savage?
In 1620 the very religious Calvinists called Puritans arrived in Massachussets.
They were 100 men,women and children, 50 died in 1 year,ALL would have died had it not been for a tribe called the WAMPANOAG. Their chief was MASSASSOIT, he taught them how to use fish as fertilizer, how to grow
CORN, how to hunt. So in 1621they had the first THANKSGIVING.
In 1641 the Puritans were the first of the later 13 colonies to legalize slavery.
Every year,they had an election to elect a new governor. Never did they ever care about electing a governor who would prohibit slavery. Was that a holy thing to do or a savage thing to do?
The Puritans signed a peace treaty with the Wampanoags that lasted more than 50 years . However they later poisoned the SON of chief Massassoit,who had become chief.
The brother became the new chief and was called PHILIP by the Puritans. A war began. The Wampanoags and allies at the most were 3,000.
The Puritans were 40,000.
The war ended with the genocide of the Wampanoags
The WIFE and 9 year old son of Chief Philip and hundreds of other civilians ,men,women and children who were captured, were sold as what? As SLAVES to the sugar cane plantations in BERMUDA.
In 1620 the Puritans met a Wampanoag named SQUANTO. who spoke ENGLISH, he became the interpreter for chief Massassoit. who had been kidnapped along with 19 other Indians ,by English explorer and slaver Captain Thomas Hunt, who trafficked him to Spain, where he sold him in the city of Málaga.
But Indian slavery in Spain was ILLEGAL.The 20 captives were saved by local Franciscan friars. He eventually travelled to England and from there returned to his native village in America in 1619
Keith Reese says
The Pilgrims came in 1620, the Puritans came in 1630 as I recall.
RLagrange says
The Pilgrims were Puritans,of the Puritan church,the Puritans were a Calvinist group that later rebelled against the English king Charles I. Their leader was CROMWELL.
He was the leader of an army composed of Puritan believers. The war began in 1642 and ended with the execution of Charles I. Later Cromwell even later dissolved parliament and became dictator.
He was very religious,the Calvinists believe that God predestined them from eternity to go to heaven.They are the elect,and they can NEVER ever LOSE their salvation. As ruler Cromwell,who was very religious,doing God’s work in his mind:
1. Never ever outlawed slavery,neither in the British possessions in the Caribbean or in North America.
2.But he was so keen on doing God’s will that he outlawed MAKEUP for women, the THEATER, no more Shakespeare plays and celebration of CHRISTMAS.
There is a famous Calvinist who has a widely read apologetics blog called carm.org. CARM means Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry. His name is MATT SLICK.
In 2013,his daughter RACHEL, who was 19,became an ATHEIST.
According to Calvinist theology that proves she was never of the elect.Their theology is that Rachel was predestined by God from all eternity to go to HELL. Very strange theology,God chose Matt Slick from eternity to be defender of Christianity but decided to send his daughter to hell.
Lonnie Palmateer says
Thanks for the laughs! Ignorant narcissists are OH SO FUNNY.
william Osborne says
Savages are ALL they have there – extermination is the only permanent solution.
Jeff Bargholz says
Uh,
how could America possibly lose a hypothetical war with the CCP? A country with NO war experience beyond cyber crap, propaganda, infiltration and WEAKNESS? OOh yeah, it used to send meat grinder “Soldiers” Into the Korean conflict. What an impressive non- accomplishment. “Soldiers” now who’ve never served in battle, trained by more of the same?
What a joke. Trump is coming back but I notice even when Beijing Biden was puppet President, the CCP never made a move
And Iran? You’re an obvious left-wing retard.
RLagrange says
By the way,ISIS and Al-Qaida in Syria were funded and armed by the US.They wanted them in power,even though Al-Qaida had killed 3,000 civilians in New York in 2001. We know from documents and the testimony of MICHAEL FLYNN, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency under Obama. What more proof do you want? Later Flynn became National Security Advisor for 22 days under Trump,but was thrown in jail on false charges by the FBI. They threatened him.
Jolani has a 10 MILLION dollar bounty on his head by the US government.His group is on the terrorist list. I hope Tulsi Gabbard will have principles and say she in favor of having Jolani sent to trial,by the International Court of Justice,which was created in 1945 by the UNITED NATIONS. Will she?
cat says
After all this analysis of human nature you hope for a court of the UN?!?!
The UN!
Stick with stories about Squanto
RLagrange says
The UN is international law. What the US and other countries should do is:
1.Take their case to the UN security council and general assembly that
a Hitler-like criminal, Jolani,is head of a state.
2. Then have a VOTE to impose sanctions,including military,to end his regime.
3. Then if possible capture him and a trial.
But the US should not act unilaterally,but take its case and present it to the representatives of all the nations. Doing it that would be to act ACCORDING to
international law.
RLagrange says
After that install a SECULAR government in Syria, for a few years be under UN rule,then free again.
Impose sanctions on TURKEY
to respect the territory of Syria.Erdogan has raised the Turkish flag over the city of ALEPPO, 2 million people,second biggest city of Syria. He considers it part of Syria,Imperialism and colonialism,Aleppo is an ARAB city,not full of Turks.
And force ISRAEL to return the GOLAN mountains to Syria.
Evan says
Waste of time. Islamic radicals dominate the UN
Ken says
You are a dreamer and unbelievably ignorant. The UN should
Be disallowed by the U S
And refunded by the US.
Mo de Profit says
I don’t know for certain but I heard that Tulsi Gabbard was a member of the WEF.
aristotle cam says
I’ve heard you’re on the Board of Directors>
Madame DeFarge says
Mr. Comey on trial for perjury with the rest of his little friends would be quite entertaining as well as instructive to the slugs. It would change the whole perspective of the clerical help in DC.
Joe Esposito says
The new Vibe has arrived and Trump and his supporters are playing its tune.
MuggsSpongedice says
January 20 2025 will be a change in USA and the world. President Trump gets sworn in and we will see and experience the nation and world improved from the last 4 years.
Perhaps the last 4 years was our punishment for complacency.
We can never allow another globalists’ stooge puppet whores like Biden-Harris
cat says
You omitted Obama. I think we need to all stop being led. Stop falling for the latest propaganda and distractions. Obama was presented as a celebrity and almost as a deity and many swooned for him. Never swoon for anyone. And never hand over your freedom and trillions of tax payer dollars.
Perhaps we are a lost cause, all amygdala and not much rational thought.
world@70 says
All these things the new Administration will not do is the way Government is supposed to work. Although the previous Admin. has carried out all those things and none have been charged, but while Joe Biden holds the “pardon” pen it would probably amount to naught.
Rob A says
I’m interested in seeing to what extent RFK Jr. will be allowed to expose the nexus between the food industry, pharmaceutical industry, medical industry and the insurance industry. Past being prologue, I’m 100% confident that he will not be allowed to fully expose the nature and extent of that nexus.
Those four industries alone have bottomless pockets and no politician or government bureaucracy dare cross or defy them.
RFK Jr. might succeed in exposing superficial problems but that will be as far as it goes and only if said industries allow it.
Think I’m kidding? Listen to this: Do Americans know that most of the “food” items sold in American grocery stores and markets are not allowed to be sold in other countries? Why? Because most American “food” products are not natural (i.e., found naturally in nature), are ultra processed and are loaded with chemicals and toxins known to be deadly to humans and cause cancer..
Bottom line: RFK Jr. will not be allowed to threaten hundreds of billions of dollars of annual income. Moreover, it will be president Trump who quietly put a leash on him. Hundreds of billions of dollars doesn’t just talk, it screams at a deafening level.
NoWayJose says
Umm.. Short sighted.. Small minded.. and NO!..
Who makes the money that’s in their pockets?
Who really has unlimited ‘pockets’? and an enforcement apparatus that can corral, ANYONE?.. Not those industries..
Soo, buck up Chum, get some hope and optimism it just may be a new era so your past/prologue can go in the garbage.
It’s true much of our food is poisoned, but.. healthy food has always been sold too. You have to choose to eat it however..
Poetcomic1 says
Trump has been non-vindictive but if they go after his chosen cabinet HE can unleash a REAL legal tsunami on the lot of them.
cat says
And we have popcorn ready if that happens.
Rob A says
With what they tried to do to him and his family, Trump should legally go after them with zeal. Anything less would show that their blitzkrieg tactics against him got to him and made him too afraid to go after them now that he’s in the catbird seat.
NoWayJose says
No.. Your thought process is weak..
Vengeance belongs to the Lord.. They are falling of their own accord.
Becoming them helps/advances nothing..
Paul says
The federal bureaucracies must be cleaned up and cleaned out of all the corrupt deep state unelected bureaucrats. The more the left and the RINOs attack the nominees the more I want to see them installed and let loose to clean up.
Rob A says
I’m sure you understand that realistically, that’s never going to happen. The federal bureaucracy (i.e., the deep state) exists in an insular reality and literally answerable to no one but themselves.
Sure, you can make a few cosmetic changes along the periphery but when all is said and done, the federal bureaucracy will survive and go on like nothing happen.
If you want a sense of what to big to fail means, look no further than the federal bureaucracy. It’s the nearest thing to eternity and person (past, present or future) will ever know.
It’s nice to have dreams and entertain notions of what ifs until reality comes along and punches you in the face.
NoWayJose says
You’re living in the past.. and your pessimistic outlook is out of place. You need to be ‘unburdened by what has been’.. with what is coming..
Big Gov’t isn’t going to survive and do whatever it wants as you portray.. WE own it, it doesn’t own us, and if you don’t like it, get away from your keyboard and be part of DOING something about it.
Get out of the Darkness, for it has you downtrodden..
Or, I suppose stay at the keyboard.. but start spreading goodness, and fight against the Evil tide instead of joining the miserable cacophony that seeks to bring down Spirits of Hope.
Find a good church and go there, get The Hope that exists for all, and be part of the Awakening, and not what has already been.. it CAN be better, before the true darkness of the End Times… It’s not quite here, and can, at this moment, be pushed out further and a good era for our children might still be had..
Sorry, I started just wanting to punish your pessimistic spiels.. but, really, I just want you Uplifted..
I’m just not good at it.. yet.. (Forgive, they had me beaten down too, I don’t like whats happened to this point either..)
At a minimum, a light is being shown upon the many evils perpetrated against us/mankind. We are obligated to get off our duffs and do something good for our loved ones and humanity at large..
Down with the negative vibes! It can be a new Era, if we all push in the same direction, we have to DO it, with real world actions, as it won’t be done for us..
Remember, be a Force for Good!!
Rise up, brother!!
and have a Merry Christmas!!
Rob A says
I call bull! I’m a realist and see things as they are and for what they are. It’s an exercise in futility to want or wish for things to be other than what reality dictates.
There are three kinds of people that exists on this earth: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happen. It’s the people who make things happen who shape reality and write history. The latter two stand around wishing and want and do nothing of any real consequence. I have little use for people like that. They just get in the way
Lastly:
Gen. George S. Patton was once cited as saying that if everybody is thinking the same thing, then nobody is thinking. That saying works on many levels and applies to many situations and circumstances.
Lionel says
Scott Bessent, a married with kids homosexual, that worked as a key Euro hedge fund manager for George Soros is out of our fascist and woke “corporate nexus”?
Please.
lord alfred says
He won’t call out the puppet masters, the banksters.
He will kiss their ring and do their bidding!
LOL
HOY!
Spurwing Plover says
Those who don’t belong to some leftists special Interest Groups like Clinton(Bill)and Obama did those who are opposed by the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders and the Useless Nations
fsy says
Actually, RFK Jr. has been accused of some pretty wild (although presumably legal) behavior in his private life, reportedly leading to his wife’s suicide from emotional pain, but I suppose this does not relate to his job performance as Sec. of HHS. (For that matter, it may be pure slander; I don’t know.)
Rob A says
Why should it matter? Some of the greatest men in American history were far from perfect. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant had many character flaws and was a binge drinker. yet he’s one of the greatest generals in American history. George S. Patton was a brilliant battlefield tactician and yet he constantly said and did stupid things that undermined his authority, credibility, and reputation. And there are many other example great Americans who were far from perfect.
James Madison once said: ““If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” Can you name one angel serving in the government?