Wednesday, September 25, 2024

An iffy 2020 steal repeat is in the works: Dark Powers are all stops out — lawfare, assassination, propaganda, censorship, fraud, cash payouts — to prevent Trump 47

Five weeks before the 2024 election, our old friend Damian Bennett has this on his mind:

Oh. Wait.
Let's begin here. Up or down, favorable or unfavorable, the polls are rubbish. If not rubbish, they are meaningless in a Potemkin election.  
  • So Many Don’t Want To Know So Much About Kamala Harris (Byron York) September 23, 2024
    [NYT Bret Stephens] appeared on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher with the MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle. ... Stephens suggested that “it would be great” if Harris would sit down with Ruhle or other journalists and answer questions. One might think Ruhle would want that, too. But she does not.  “Kamala Harris is not running for perfect,” Ruhle responded. ... After video of the exchange began to circulate, other journalists agreed with Ruhle. “This is infuriatingly disingenuous,” wrote the Atlantic’s Tom Nichols about Stephens’s suggestion. “‘We don’t know her positions’ is a straw man and Stephens knows it. I’m pretty sure I know what her administration will look like. … ‘Undecideds’ who say ‘but I want to hear more about her policies’ are not undecided. They want Harris to walk into an unwinnable policy debate with the media...’ ... “Exactly,” said the Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum. “Real moral clarity from Stephanie Ruhle,” said Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast. “This is perfect from my friend Stephanie Ruhle,” said MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.
  • Harris Repeats Call For Second Debate With Trump: 'There's More To Talk About' September 23, 2024
  • Harris' Desperation For Another Debate Says Something About State Of The Race September 23, 2024

I went back and reviewed polling for 2020. People forget election night 2020 they went to bed with President Trump 45+4 and woke up ( weeks later) with Biden 46.
So polling is meaningless in a fixed election, an election that is -- was, will be -- stolen.
Let me summarize where I am. The polls are rubbish. An iffy 2020 steal repeat is in the works. Dark Powers are all stops out -- lawfare, assassination, propaganda, censorship, fraud, cash payouts -- to prevent Trump 47, but not confident in their doings.
Little prospect of a legitimate Harris-Waltz win, what is Deep Blue's Plan B? Fabricate 'winning' votes. 
Keeping the polls cosmetically close, as if KA-mala is actually competitive, is crucial.
  • The Unknown 2024 Election Variable: PLAUSIBILITY September 17, 2024
    [Deep Blues] need the election outcome to remain close in the psyche of the American electorate. Only if the election is proclaimed to be “close”, and only if the larger American electorate will accept that foundation, can those who are injecting fraudulent ballots continue to operate with success.
We are seeing a repeat of 2020 where there was NO evidence of broad Biden supporter enthusiasm, and sometimes no evidence of Biden supporters...
...sometimes no evidence of Joe...
...compared to massive high-energy Trump rallies everywhere he went. Everything old is new again.
Now we are told to believe the most unpopular vice president in American history, who both brags on and disowns the Biden-Harris record, whose boss then her boss's boss then her own party then her party's C(ash)-suite and DNC 'journalists' schemed to sideline -- we are told to believe suddenly magically she has made this race not merely competitive, but somehow she is favored to win in a squeaker. The suddenness and the magic and the competitiveness and the favor are lies. You are being fed lies because we live in an empire of lies. What does this mean for November? It means a repeat of the 2020 stall to fabricate votes +5% north of whatever Trump legitimately wins.  Without benefit of COVID cover the steal will be blatant. It will be flagrant. And it will be valorized by corrupt institutions and bulletproofed by a corrupt press. Objections will be treated as near-criminal and certainly a danger to 'democracy'.
Is there anyone who still believes Joe Biden won 81M votes? Fewer people will own up to voting for Biden than believe in those 81M votes. At this point there are no undecided voters. There are only people waiting to vote. People who poll as undecided are not waiting on Trump because Trump is a known, and they are no longer waiting KA-mala who will remain strategically unknowable through November 5. There is no more to know or not to know. Nobody is undecided. If there are any actual soft voters, they are statistically insignificant. 

How might the Blue Powers cover their perfidy this time? Provoking a hot war? Another cooked virus? Perhaps mustering their illegal alien cartel armies to billet among the natives, to occupy and hold hostage small-town America? One or more of these as a pretext for declaring martial law? The Blue Powers have worried themselves into the open, into plain view. They no longer observe the niceties of pretense. They are ruthless. They are prepared, I believe, to do what it takes beyond the law to remain installed as the law.

Good luck, America.
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"We are not electing a mother to bring you 'joy' or a social worker to give you therapy and money"

If President Trump was really going to ‘end democracy,’ he would have done it in 2017. If Kamala Harris was really going to fix everything, she would have done it during the past four years—including sealing the border as Border Czar.
After pointing out that you ought to remember that You’re Not Voting for Donald Trump, the Conservative Caucus goes on to share some Tough Talk on Kamala Harris and Tim Walz:

The media paints Harris and Walz as caring people who are “saving democracy” and “caring for the poor and middle class,” against President Trump who is an “evil fascist who will destroy democracy.” 

Let’s not sugar coat it. We are not electing a mother to bring you “joy” or a social worker to give you therapy and money. No. We are electing the leader of the greatest country in the world with more than 330 million Americans and the strongest economy in the world. We are electing the Commander in Chief of the only nation capable of deterring WW-III which alone could end our freedom.

If Harris and Walz are elected, their actual records and actual words demonstrate they will work rapidly to end the democracy they profess to be saving. Read their own words!

Kamala Harris: “[Donald Trump] has lost his privileges and it [Trump’s Twitter/X] must be taken down."

And the bottom line is that you can’t say that you have one rule for Facebook and you have a different rule for Twitter. The same rule has to apply, which is that there has to be a responsibility that is placed on these social media sites to understand their power. They are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight and regulation.

And that has to stop.

Kamala Harris: “We have to have a buyback program and I support a mandatory buyback program.” Interviewer: “How mandatory is your gun buyback program?” Harris insisted: “It’s mandatory.”

Kamala Harris: “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible.”

Tim Walz: “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially on our democracy.”

Tim Walz: "[Communism] means that everyone is the same and everyone shares," The doctor and the construction worker make the same. The Chinese government and the place they work for provide housing and about 30 pounds of rice per month. They get food and housing." Walz spent his honeymoon in Communist China, and planned his wedding date to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square massacre.

Tim Walz: “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.” 

These statements just cover the First and Second Amendment—and Walz’s love of Communism and socialism. Imagine how much they hate the rest of our Constitution. Ending our liberties in such a short time is not an impossible or even an unlikely task given their advocacy for dictatorial powers.

Censorship is at the top of their list because if you can’t even warn people about threats to freedom, you have already lost your freedom. 

History repeats. Every Communist revolution was done with the support of many people believing their lies that they would have more freedom and money if they support the revolution. Once they helped overthrow their government, those who helped are among the first to be targeted. Why? They just helped the totalitarians take power, right? Exactly! Once they wake up that they don’t have the promised glorious freedom, the regime will worry they would lead a counter-revolution. Once conservatives are silenced, there will be nobody who can speak up for them.

It is not an exaggeration that in just four years of the radical Harris and Walz, plus a Democrat House and Senate that they could accomplish the following goals:

  1. Government, media and social media censorship of any opposition.

  2. Mandatory gun confiscation.

  3. Energy rationing and skyrocketing prices for the ‘green’ ideology.

  4. ‘Court packing’ for a permanent Democrat court majority—what’s constitutional would be ruled ‘unconstitutional,’ and what’s unconstitutional would be ruled ‘constitutional.’ DC statehood for two more Democrat Senators. 20-40 million more illegals invading even the smallest towns, and given amnesty and voting cards. 

Is that enough? There’s more.

5. Continuing military weakness that invites World War III.

6. Radical Democrat protestors burning cities to terrorize Americans into silence.

7. Tax the equity in your home before you sell your house—every year until you are forced to sell it to pay the taxes.

8. Soviet Russia-style price controls that would create food shortages and black markets.

9. An end to the Electoral College so just a few big Democrat cities would forever control the election.

Democrat politicians boast these are their goals. We should believe them.

You’ve probably heard a lot of this already. But this heavy truth is too bitter a medicine for most voters. If they only watch the liberal news, what you are saying will sound absolutely crazy. 

The media says tens of millions of illegals are all good people, that Biden and Harris are tough on crime and our enemies. That the economy is strong and prices are going down. So you are the one that will sound like the crazy one.  

As a caring conservative, I know you’ll approach voters with more of a soft-sell. You can refer to our previous edition which has talking points more suitable to talking to moderates and independents. 

One more point you can use: If President Trump was really going to ‘end democracy,’ he would have done it in 2017. If Kamala Harris was really going to fix everything, she would have done it during the past four years—including sealing the border as Border Czar.

The reason I’m telling you the unvarnished, scary truth is to encourage you in these final weeks of the election to step up even more to help us win.

The Conservative Caucus — which is holding a 50th anniversary gala in Leesburg on October 13 — goes on to list some easy things you can do to help with the victory…
 
In her Dreuz article on Kamala Harris, Evelyne Joslain leads with this sentence:
The so-called Democratic Party, were it honest, would rename itself the Neo-Marxist party…

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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

No, “You’re Not Voting for Donald Trump…”


Over at the the Conservative Caucus, we are told to remember that 

“You’re Not Voting for Donald Trump…”

You’ve probably got friends and acquaintances who hate Trump but who you think are otherwise fairly moderate or even conservative. Who could blame them? The media and Democrat politicians piled on with their dehumanizing hatred against Trump—to such a degree that two assassins have tried to kill him, and even some life-long Republicans are skeptical due to the non-stop propaganda.

Here’s how to talk to them.

“You’re not voting for Donald Trump; you’re voting to cut the cost of filling your tank and your grocery cart. ● You’re voting to crack down on crime. ● You’re voting to seal the border. ● You’re voting to deport criminal illegal aliens committing crimes in our major cities. ● You’re voting to get the economy roaring like it was until COVID. ● You’re voting for a more peaceful world. ● You’re voting to end taxing Social Security and tips.”

That’s what you are voting for, even if you can’t stand the man.

Yep…

The Conservative Caucus — which is holding a 50th anniversary gala in Leesburg on October 13 — has a follow-up editorial dedicated to explaining that "We are not electing a mother to bring you 'joy' or a social worker to give you therapy and money"
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Friday, September 20, 2024

Inadvertently Spilling the Truth: What Is the Democratic Party If Not the Party of Sophomoric Teens, Intrepid Cosplayers, and Would-Be Heroes?


Kamala Harris' cackling brings up a question I have often asked in the past 20 years.

What if Democrats — along with leftists the world over — turned out to be nothing but sophomoric individuals snorting with laughter as they stick it to the man, as they fool the grown-ups (ain't that what the 13 Rules for Radicals are all about?!), and, with the true teen-age mentality they possess, as they love to cosplay as senators, presidents, governors (remember the glee of Katie Hobbs at the Arizona inaugural after "defeating" Kari Lake?!), diplomats, filmmakers (on both sides of the camera), and — last but not least — esteemed debaters and professional journalists?

What if all that leftists love to do is cosplay as heroic individuals and knights in shining armor — fighting, among other things, to protect various minorities, to save democracy, and to defeat the West's inhumane monsters, i.e., racists, sexists, Nazis, fascists, and other Adolf Hitlers? (Thanks for the Instalink, Sarah.)

This is why leftists have dystopian fantasies (we must display our intelligence!) and are crisis creators (we must display our bravery!), and it is why those virtue-signallers can't debate and regularly refuse invitations from the right to do so (unless, perhaps, they use "neutral" moderators (sic) to assist them while said moderators attempt to demonize their opponents): the Drama Queens know that their fairy tales would be eviscerated in no time. Regularly, Dennis Prager and Larry Elder recount how they have often, over the years, suggested a debate to various leftists, famous or unknown — even one in which they are outnumbered 5 or 6 to 1 — and the leftists do not dare take them up on it. (Indeed, this is how Larry Elder "turned" Dave Rubin…)

As Jonah Goldberg wrote in Liberal Fascism,

That is how the liberal Gleichschaltung works; contrary voices are regulated, barred, banned when possible, mocked and marginalized when not. Progressive voices are encouraged, lionized, amplified — in the name of "diversity," or "liberation," or "unity," and, most of all, "progress."

No matter how sincere their tears and anger seem to be, for instance, over the melodrama of the poor members of  the gay and transgender minorities, along with their pronouns, the whole LGBTQ+ gig (not least including that ridiculous name) seems to be a joke or a prank against the bourgeois, something which all leftists seem to recognize somewhere deep inside (and I don't doubt that Dave Rubin, Brandon Straka, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Richard Grenell would agree).

Needless to say, the cosplay imagery has been used before, slightly differently, notably by Iowahawk for years now, with his oft-Instapundit-linked lefties manual on how to take over "a respected institution" and thus all of society ("while demanding respect" is a synonym for "while requesting you to shut up"), with David Burge's phrase wearing the "carcass as a skin suit" equivalent to my description of a cosplayer:
 

From London, a jokester enjoying “the wisdom of calling Donald Trump weird” writes with mirth that

When running for the Senate, [Lyndon Baines] Johnson let it be known that one of his opponents enjoyed the carnal pleasure of one of his farmyard sows. “That isn’t true,” one of LBJ’s aides said. “I know,” LBJ replied, “but I’m going to make the bastard deny it.”

I don't deny that this sounds funny or that it is worth a chuckle. At the same time, all of us — especially those raving endlessly about defending democracy — should ask, is calling your opponent a pig-humper (or, for that matter, the rapist of an unbalanced woman in a department store's changing room) truly the way to engage in debate? But Democrats and leftists don't ask that sort of questions; after all, the virtue-signallers are engaged in demonizing opponents, i.e., fighting the "bastards" that said opponents truly are… 

Margaret Thatcher once said “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” (Truth to tell, many of them had no political arguments — beyond fairy tales — to begin with.) I wish that during his debate with Kamala Harris, Donald Trump had responded to her every personal attack with calm words such as these: "I want to thank Kamala Harris for her personal attack, because that means she has no policies to offer — beyond those far left policies, of course, that she wants to hide from the American people."

The LBJ story is somewhat reminiscent of Harry Reid telling tall tales in 2012 about the Republican candidate not paying taxes and then rebuffing criticism in interviews with the words, Mitt "Romney didn't win, did he?" This is acceptable, indeed desirable, in a simplistic (i.e., in a sophomoric) worldview consisting of Deserving Dreamers Vs. Despicable Deplorables.

This explains in turn Donald Trump's mean tweets, along with his (alleged) "petty insults and his dark obsessions" — they are only mean in that they describe exactly the kind of people that he sees on the Left. Just like the boy at the end of The Emperor's New Clothes. After the boy's outburst, according to what Hans Christian Andersen seems to have expected, the boy and all the bystanders in the streets ought to have referred to the tailors as scam artists and to their ruler the emperor (in the original Danish, he is a king) as some variant of a fool. 

Alas, as Winston Churchill wrote, "Men [and women] occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

In real life, according to modern-day Western mores and thanks to the eggings-on, overt and other, of the tailors themselves and the scam artists' (willing or not) allies and sympathizers, the boy was probably vilified as a "tailorphobe" and canceled for daring to have the gall of engaging in hate speech and other types of hate-filled rhetoric. UPDATE: It turns out that I have used the Hans Christian Andersen analogy in the past, as did Mark Steyn during a September 2015 visit to Copenhagen…

The Economist's Lexington column writes, with unhidden glee, that after 

Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota and now Ms Harris’s running-mate, started calling him [Trump] “weird”, and as she and other Democrats joined in, the former president foolishly took the bait.

"Foolishly took the bait"? Is that supposed to be part of a debate in "defending democracy"? (Maybe "debate" for the Left in fact means "the bait" pronounced Italian-style?!)

In last week's editorial — the very one bemoaning Trump's "petty insults and his dark obsessions" — The Economist went on to say that 

It may seem unfair to criticise Ms Harris for being sparing about her policies. Her overriding task is to defeat Mr Trump, and it is a vital one in which guile and cunning are permitted.

A "vital [task] in which guile and cunning are permitted." In the wake of a(n in)famous Bernie Sanders quote ("No, I don't think she's abandoning her ideals. I think she is trying to be pragmatic and do what she thinks is right in order to win the election"), leave it to a "respected" MSM outlet to spill the beans and tell the truth about the basic psychology ruling the members of the Democrat Party and other leftists — not excluding (as we can see) the mainstream media outlets themselves — the world over.

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Renaming Countries and Cities Across the Planet: "There is no neutral, non-political way to refer to almost any square of the globe; Most names annoy somebody"


Already many years ago, I used to joke that the Germans are so belligerant and start so many wars because nobody calls the nation by its proper name. Even worse: every language seems to have a totally different name for the country. Thus, Deutschland in German becomes Allemagne in French, Tyskland in Danish, Germany in English, Germania in Italian which indeed sounds exactly like the English except that the word for the Germans (for the German people) is… gli Tedeschi. 

In that perspective, The Economist asks: Will India change its name to Bharat?

During the G20 summit in Delhi, on September 9th and 10th [2023], Narendra Modi, the prime minister, sat behind a nameplate inscribed with “Bharat”, the Hindi name for India.

 … Why might the BJP [the Bharatiya Janata Party] want to rebrand India?

Bharat is already a widely used synonym for India, at least within the country. The constitution begins with the phrase “India, that is Bharat”. The national anthem uses the name too. The word’s etymological roots are in Sanskrit, an ancient language from which most modern Indian tongues have emerged. Consequently, the country is referred to as Bharat in most local vernaculars. 

 … But although the name India may be associated with British rule, its use far predates that period. The ancient Greeks are believed to have called the subcontinent “Indus”, in reference to the river that flows through it. “Indus” itself comes from a Sanskrit word for the river, sindhu.


The Economist's Banyan adds that

The constitution of India begins: “India, that is Bharat, shall be a union of states.” Unable to agree on whether to use the English or Sanskrit name for the country, its authors included both. On the surface, the difference is no greater than that between Germany and Deutschland. But from the debates in the constituent assembly 75 years ago until today, India’s alternative names have been loaded with distinct meanings. One was imposed by a colonial power and is increasingly associated in India with an out-of-touch anglicised elite. The other is increasingly considered a true reflection of a proud, ancient civilisation.

As this is happening around the globe — notably in 2021 when Turkey's "Erdogan decreed that his country would henceforth be known to the rest of the world as Türkiye, as it is in Turkish" — The Economist's Johnson decided to issue A guide to renamed cities. 

Almost any place’s true name can be a matter for discussion. Three of Turkey’s neighbours officially call themselves Hellas, Sakartvelo and Hayastan—better known as Greece, Georgia and Armenia in English. Meanwhile Hindistan, the name for India in Turkish, can also mean “the country of turkeys”. There is no neutral, non-political way to refer to almost any square of the globe. Most names annoy somebody.

This is most obvious when a territory goes from belonging to one state to another. Westerners were accustomed to referring to cities in Ukraine as Kiev, Kharkov and Lvov. Some grumble at having to learn new names for them—Kyiv, Kharkiv and Lviv. But the old ones were not neutral. They were Russian, and after the country became independent many of its people wanted the Ukrainian versions to be used even in English. Outsiders’ decision to use Ukrainian place-names is now a political declaration of support for Ukraine’s very right to exist.

 … Some calls for change involve colonial names or spellings that were imposed by outsiders. India-watchers have had to adjust to Mumbai (once Bombay), Kolkata (Calcutta) and Chennai (Madras), while remembering that institutions like the Bombay Stock Exchange and the University of Madras continue to use their old monikers. Such renamings often purport to hark back to an unsullied past, but are really exercises in nationalist myth-making. Sometimes they are inarguable. Citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo (once Zaire) understandably wanted to rename their capital, Leopoldville, which recalled a Belgian ruler whose name was a byword for the worst in colonial brutality. It is now Kinshasa.

 … The Czech Republic has a one-word name in Czech (Česko), and so the Czechs have asked for their country to be called Czechia in English. This has yet to catch on.

Populists and autocrats may think they can dictate place-names, but no amount of decrees can force people to say Türkiye instead of Turkey.

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Thursday, September 19, 2024

"After America?" Radio Courtoisie's Évelyne Joslain Is Joined by Guy Millière and Erik Svane

Erik Svane, Évelyne Joslain, et Guy Millière avec son livre
à la conférence dans la mairie du 16ème arrondissment

Libre journal du nouveau monde du 18 septembre 2024 : “Après l’Amérique ? ; La campagne électorale et l’actualité brûlante aux Etats-Unis”

Patron d'émission le 18 septembre 2024

Evelyne Joslain reçoit :
  • Guy Millière, essayiste
  • Erik Svane, journaliste

Thème : “Après l’Amérique ? ; La campagne électorale et l’actualité brûlante aux Etats-Unis”

Référence : 

APRES L'AMERIQUE
APRES L'AMERIQUE
  • Millière, Guy (Auteur)
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Guy Millière a quitté le Nevada pour se rendre à Paris pour une semaine dans le cadre de la parution de son nouveau livre, APRÈS L'AMERIQUE? Sa charmante épouse, Keltoum, est aussi du voyage… 

Il a par ailleurs écrit un compte-rendu sur le livre de Evelyne Joslain, La Guerre Culturelle dans les 4 Vérités, intitulé Un livre essentiel sur la guerre qui nous est livrée :

Évelyne Joslain dit au début de son livre qu’il est le résultat de nombreuses années de recherche. Les références historiques et intellectuelles, page après page, sont innombrables, et montrent une érudition et une connaissance de l’histoire intellectuelle du monde absolument remarquables. Lire le livre permet aux lecteurs d’apprendre, de comprendre, de connaître, de se doter de repères précis et fondés qui leur permettent d’être plus lucides sur le monde dans lequel ils vivent.

 … C’est un livre essentiel, lucide, sans illusions. Je le recommande vivement à ceux qui veulent regarder la réalité en face. C’est un livre d’une immense richesse intellectuelle, à lire, à relire, et à conserver précieusement dans sa bibliothèque.


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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

"The Demonization of Donald Trump Has Repercussions," Notes Karsenty, "and It Is Time for America's MSM to Put an End to This Demonization"


«The demonization of Donald Trump has repercussions», charges one of the spokespersons of Republicans In France. And

"it is time for America's leading media put an end to this demonization of Donald Trump, that Kamala Harris put an end to it, that Joe Biden, or that the people speaking for Joe Biden, put an end to it. 

On a lighter note, Philippe Karsenty adds that 

"If I want to mix in a smidgen of humor, in the same time frame Kamala Harris has done one interview and a half. So: two assassination attempts [for one candidate], one interview and a half [for the other]. What I mean is this: there is somebody who is really putting their life at stake for American democracy — they took a bullet for democracy —"

and it ain't Kamala Harris.

«La diabolisation de Donald Trump a des conséquences», a dénoncé ce lundi sur CNEWS le porte-parole du parti républicain américain en France Philippe Karsenty.


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Monday, September 16, 2024

Wrecked by socialism, Latin America is overrun by “moochers and looters” who are gaining ground in the USA


Interviewed by John Stossel's Stossel TV, Viral Influencer Gloria Alvarez Fights Socialism throughout Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world. 

Socialism always fails! But for some reason people still want it.

They should listen to Gloria Alvarez.

She’s a viral influencer from Guatemala who watched parts of Latin America get wrecked by socialism.

Now she says the “moochers and looters” are gaining ground in the USA.

I’m encouraged people like Gloria get it.

I interviewed her last year when she was running for President of Guatemala.

One thing Gloria Álvarez, who I believe was the first person to make a PragerU video in two languages (in both English and Spanish), shares with this blog is the photo of Che Guevara wearing Mickey Mouse ears… I would like to think that the Guatemalan beauty was influenced by an internet trip to No Pasarán, but that can hardly be proven…

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

It needs to be asked if Obama's boosting of avowed enemies of America in U.S. foreign policy — which is unquestionably detrimental to the security of the United States, Israel, and the entire West — isn’t a bug but rather a feature of Democrat foreign policy since 2009


At the dawn of the Obama era, a Pentagon friend and colleague, now of blessed memory, warned me that the new administration was riddled with Islamist sympathizers and related Communist-adjacent types who were seeking to swing U.S. foreign policy in a direction more pleasing to the mullahs in Tehran and jihadists worldwide. Moreover, he predicted the emergence of a domestic front, an odd alliance of leftist radicals, terrorist fans, LGBT activists, environmentalists, and Islamists, all seeking to change America at a basic “anti-imperialist” level. I pooh-poohed his predictions as unduly alarmist, the output of a brilliant mind that was scattered by too many deployments. I was wrong.

Who Really Is Barack Obama? is the question John Schindler asks about the Apologizer-in-Chief in A Counterintelligence Inquiry (با تشکر to Glenn Reynolds and Stephen Green). As you continue reading, remember Abraham Lincoln's 1838 warning:

"At what point shall [we, the American People] expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

I [John Schindler have] been a frequent Trump critic, but his anger at the “Deep State” is understandable, particularly after 51 IC senior officials, the notorious “spies who lie” (a list which included friends of mine), decided to help swing the 2020 election against Trump by denouncing Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop – which included proof of Biden, Inc.’s being on the payroll of Chinese intelligence – as a Kremlin disinformation scheme, when it was entirely real. There’s a reason I’ve taken to calling myself a Deep State Dissident.

I’ve learned quite a bit over the past decade. Many liberals who became my superfans when I was asking necessary questions about Trump’s connections to Moscow got very upset when I did what any counterintelligence professional does and kept asking questions – not exclusively about Republicans and Russia. China now presents a far greater espionage and illicit influence threat to the United States (and the West more broadly) than Russia or any other country, but liberals don’t like to dwell on Chinese spy operations aimed at U.S. politics, since so many of these involve Democrats.

The same liberals who regard any Republican who ever shook hands with a Russian as a probable Kremlin operative think there’s nothing at all strange about Hunter Biden taking several million dollars from CEFC China Energy, a known Chinese intelligence front. (The less we say about the “Big Guy” and his ten percent, perhaps the better.) Similarly, the fact that the current Democrat vice-presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, made over 30 visits to Communist China, with some of his “educational” junkets there being funded by the Chinese foreign ministry (which is the standard cover for China’s Ministry of State Security), is considered a nothingburger by liberals. Anyone asking obvious questions in this weird case is “paranoid.”

Asking questions is the nature of counterintelligence work. Making hypotheses based on limited information constitutes the cornerstone of counterespionage. If you’re not judicious, you can wind up in the vaunted Wilderness of Mirrors alarmingly easily.

 … So, what happens when you employ a professional counterintelligence eye and look at today’s Democrats?

What jumps out immediately is the shocking extent to which foreign spies and extremists have gained a foothold at the upper echelons of the Democrats. Over the past 15 years, people possessing connections and views which would have been show-stoppers until quite recently have instead risen to the commanding heights of the Democratic party. President Bill Clinton endured a scandal relating to Chinese Communist money and his 1996 reelection campaign, a troublesome impropriety that’s been largely forgotten. But it’s not like the Clinton cabinet included people with questionable ties to Beijing and its spies.

Tim Walz and his many trips to the PRC combined with his stated affection for China and its Communist regime would have gotten more attention when Bill Clinton occupied the White House. Similarly, Walz’s dalliances with radical Islam would have been too much for 1990s Democrats to gloss over. It’s been reported that Walz, while campaigning in 2018 to be Minnesota governor, praised Asad Zaman, a senior Muslim cleric, as a “master teacher” among other accolades. Inconveniently, Zaman has pushed blatant Nazi propaganda and considered the Oct. 7 HAMAS attack on Israel a marvelous act of liberation rather than a massive war crime. Worse, Walz has hosted Zaman several times as Minnesota governor, giving $100,000 in state funds to Zaman’s organization. … Why Tim Walz is Zaman’s buddy demands an answer.

Take the case of Maher Bitar, who’s currently serving as coordinator for intelligence on the National Security Council. In other words, Bitar is the top White House official responsible for collaboration with the Intelligence Community. As such, Bitar has access to every IC secret. … While at Georgetown, Bitar held a leadership role in Students for Justice in Palestine, a radical group that can be charitably termed anti-Zionist. SJP, which boasts chapters on dozens of college campuses across the country, is another Brotherhood front that loathes Jews (and the West generally). 

 … The Beltway rumor mill has it that, if Democrats win the election, Bitar will hold a top national security post in a President Harris administration, perhaps even National Security Adviser.

How did we get to this place, which from any counterintelligence viewpoint looks highly alarming (plus pretty bonkers)? Individuals with ties to FTOs like HAMAS, no matter how tenebrous, are not supposed to possess any security clearances, much less occupy senior security jobs in Washington, DC. Where did this all go wrong?

What happened was Barack Hussein Obama.

It’s now painfully clear that since Obama took the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2009, he and his people have been running the Democratic party at the top levels. The mainstream media isn’t bothering to elide this any longer. Cadres decide everything, per Stalin’s sagacious mantra, and Obama’s chosen cadres have run the show during President Joe Biden’s presidency (since Biden was suffering from age-related decline from early in his presidency, which became impossible to hide over the last year, it’s worth pondering how much Joe was really commander-in-chief at all: but that’s another matter for another time). We should expect the same cadres will be running things if we get President Kamala Harris. Obama-Biden will then become Obama-Biden-Harris: OBH, if you like. There’s been remarkable continuity in personnel across these administrations, especially in the national security arena, which is no accident.

It's time to confront the difficult reality that Team OBH in its foreign policy has boosted avowed enemies of the United States like the Islamic Republic of Iran plus radical Islamists of many stripes, all of which have ample American blood on their hands. Why? It needs to be asked if such an outcome, which is unquestionably detrimental to the security of the United States, Israel, and the entire West, isn’t a bug but rather a feature of Democrat foreign policy since 2009.

What we can state confidently about Barack Obama is that he grew up in an international and multicultural milieu where “anti-imperialist” rhetoric was de rigueur. His youthful mentor was a Stalin-loving Communist Party member. During his 1980s student days, Obama engaged in the usual left-wing protesting (apartheid South Africa was a big issue then). He always had an affection for Islam, probably due to the father he never really knew. Obama’s political career was launched with the support of a prominent domestic terrorist. In all, from a counterintelligence perspective, it doesn’t amount to much except inviting more questions. It’s revealing that Obama’s own biographer, a Pulitzer-winning liberal, deemed his subject “not normal—as in not a normal politician or a normal human being.”

We then must judge Obama based on his policy. That’s concrete. Take Iran, a country which loomed oddly large in American foreign policy during Obama’s presidency, culminating his 2015 “Iran Deal,” formally the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. (It’s also the regime that’s currently trying to influence our election and assassinate Donald Trump.) JCPOA was the crowning achievement of Obama’s foreign policy, at least in his own mind, and his administration sacrificed a great deal on other fronts to get it. It helped that the media was so naïve and pliant

 … Therefore, Obama and Biden’s counterintelligence problems with Iran and Islamism will surely carry over into any Harris administration. The current case of Ariane Tabatabai is illustrative. Another Friend of Tehran, Tabatabai still occupies a highly sensitive senior Pentagon position with TOPSECRET//SCI clearances, despite apparently being an agent of Tehran. As this newsletter recently reported, Tabatabai remains on the job inside one of the most secretive Pentagon offices, even though her connections to an Iranian intelligence front were publicly exposed last year.

 … [The] detailed IRGC dossier [on Iran's nuclear weapons program] was the Wrong Narrative as far as the Obama administration was concerned, it might jeopardize their precious Iran Deal, thus it had to not exist. Therefore, it never existed. Until I went whistleblower right here.

Political influence on intelligence analysis is one thing. And a serious problem. The Trump administration was accused of this, asking IC analysts to spin information in a manner more pleasing to the White House. Neither was Team Trump the first administration to demand such “massaged” intelligence analysis. What the Obama White House did in [the case of the secret dossier ] is far more serious, amounting to political influence on intelligence collection. Don’t bring us intelligence we don’t want to see, at any level: that’s an order. As far as I know – as a spook but also historian who’s read (and authored) highly classified internal histories of CIA, NSA, and other U.S. intelligence agencies never seen by the public, I think I would know – no other White House has done this.

Only Obama did this. Which makes Barack Obama a worse abuser of American intelligence than Donald Trump – or any other president. A dozen years ago I learned, to my horror, that the fix was in. The fix was always in.

Therefore, I ask again: Who really is Barack Obama?

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Sunday, August 25, 2024

America has always been the secret ingredient of European integration


Forget Jean Monnet. When it comes to naming founding fathers for the EU, the list should start with President Harry Truman.

The EU: Made in America (America is an engine of European integration, intentionally or not) is the title of an Economist piece a few years ago.

One American innovation from [20th-century America] receives [little] attention: the European Union.

The EU is an American creation, as much as a European one. In the middle of the 20th century, there were more European federalists in Washington than in Brussels. Senators bashed out resolutions declaring: “Congress favours the creation of a United States of Europe.” The Marshall Plan, a torrent of post-war funding for the crippled continent, came on the condition that European countries meld themselves together. George Kennan, an American diplomat, summed up American policy: “We hoped to force the Europeans to think like Europeans, and not like nationalists.” Forget Jean Monnet. When it comes to naming founding fathers for the EU, the list should start with President Harry Truman.

 … America has always been the secret ingredient of European integration. In the aftermath of the second world war, unifying Europe made sense for America. A divided continent could hardly resist Soviet domination. Nor would it be able to fix the “German problem” that had resulted in two wars in three decades. Instead, in a novel experiment by a victorious power, America opted to try to unite a traumatised continent, even though it could be a potential rival.

Skip forward 70 years and America is now a more subtle force for European unity. State-building can be a messy business, but American history provides one of the few guides for creating a continent-sized democracy. 

 … The EU still falls far short of the federal mini-me imagined by the likes of Marshall, Kennan and Truman.

  … On paper, America wants a more capable EU. In practice, it may find such a development unsettling. At the turn of the century, the euro was talked of as a rival to the dollar. The euro’s near-collapse a decade later put paid to that idea. A stable euro zone with the ability to issue collective debt at will would be a much stronger potential challenger to the dollar’s supremacy. Where the EU does have power, such as over competition policy or privacy rules, it has delighted in whacking American firms. Such areas are rare but becoming less so. A more unified EU is a more powerful one and, almost inherently, a more independent one. America may, with time, come to regret what it has wrought.

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