PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - Institute for Political Economy

Putin’s Never-Ending War Has Produced Endless Opportunities for Washington to Put Russia on the Defensive in Her Own Sphere of Influence

Corrupt Western governments use Washington’s Russian sanctions to steal Russian property

https://tass.com/world/1873115 

US Government working against Russia in Georgia and Abkhazia

https://tass.com/world/1872981 

https://tass.com/world/1873293 

No Reason to Doubt Georgia’s Words That West Pushing Tbilisi Into War With Russia – Lavrov

https://sputnikglobe.com/20241022/no-reason-to-doubt-georgias-words-that-west-pushing-tbilisi-into-war-with-russia—lavrov-1120639965.html  

Rachel Maddow and Her Audience Are the Most Stupid People on Earth

https://www.rt.com/news/607408-maddow-rt-us-media/  

As Robert Kennedy says, you can’t speak the truth except in the Russian media

https://www.rt.com/news/607766-rfk-rt-us-media-censorship/ 

Has Matt Gaetz Been Set-up for Eviction from Public Life?

Paul Craig Roberts

I have had a horrible thought. Of all of Trump’s appointees, Matt Gaetz and Robert Kennedy will be the most difficult to get confirmed. And Gaetz has resigned from the House of Representatives where he is the most effective member against the ruling establishment. Was his appointment as Attorney General a trick to get him out of public life?

Robert Kennedy’s appointment was said to be in doubt because  he would be hard to confirm, but so would Gaetz. Gaetz’s high profile powerful position  scares to death the corrupt Justice (sic) Department, the corrupt FBI, the corrupt Democrats, and the corrupt ruling elites.

Perhaps the Senate will let Trump have his appointments without confirmation as recess appointments, so non-confirmation is not an issue.

It is revealing that there were no confirmation worries about Trump’s appointments of his Zionist war cabinet. Some claim that it is not a war cabinet, that Stefanik, Waltz, Rubio, and Hegseth have been cured of their Zionism by Israel’s massacre of Palestinians. Perhaps, but I have not heard a recantation from a single one of the “die-for-Israel” crowd. Certainly, Huckabee, sent by Trump as ambassador to Israel, and Witkoff, sent by Trump as his Special Envoy to the Middle East, will not take exception to Israel’s claim to title to Palestine. So how are they going to bring about any Israeli restraint? Isn’t it curious that Trump didn’t appoint anyone inclined to rein-in Israel?

That the Democrats stood down from stealing the presidency in 2024 doesn’t mean they didn’t steal House and Senate seats. The Republicans barely did well enough to change a thin Democrat Senate majority into a thin Republican majority, and it seems there was little, if any, change in the House. In contrast, when Reagan won in 1980 the Republicans captured 12 Democrat seats in the Senate. It is suspicious that Trump’s convincing win did not carry over into Congress.

Trump is taking Republican members of Congress as appointees into his administration. Republican governors can appoint replacements until the next election, but the appointed replacements might be vulnerable as they were not elected. Matt Gaetz was secure in his base. Will his appointed replacement be as secure?

We can be thankful that Trump has appointed some officials who fight for the correct causes.  We can keep hoping that Trump will make a difference.

Tom Woods in Defense of Tulsi and Matt

The Evil Swamp Creatures Are After Them

And they will certainly be after Bobby Kennedy.

We will know who our real enemies are by the ones who lead the attack on Gabbard, Gaetz, and Kennedy.  

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/11/thomas-woods/tulsi-and-the-establishment-meltdown/ 

Chuck Baldwin Says that Zionism Is the Worm in the Trump Apple

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/11/chuck-baldwin/the-kosher-president/ 

The Electoral Focus on the Presidential Race Allowed Democrats to Steal Senate Seats in Wisconsin and Arizona.

https://x.com/shylockh/status/1855872507271639539 

In Arizona the election was stolen from Kari Lake. Somehow an unknown, Gallego, seems to have won by getting more votes in corrupt Maricopa County than Kamala. 

In Michigan and Nevada, states won by Trump, it seems the Democrats won the senate races by allocating Republican votes to third party candidates who got an astounding number of votes unrepresentative of vote counts elsewhere.

Nothing will be done about it. 

Trump’s Secretary of Defense

Really bad news for peace in the Middle East. It looks like Netanyahu appointed Trump’s war cabinet.

https://t.me/myLordBebo/50267%3C/BLOCKQUOTE%3E 

https://x.com/mtracey/status/1856552891605041359

A moving excerpt from Pete Hegseth’s book, “American Crusade, Our Fight to Stay Free” (2020):
“Simply put: if you don’t understand why Israel matters and why it is so central to the story of Western civilization—with America being its greatest manifestation—then you don’t live in history. America’s story is inextricably linked to Judeo-Christian history and the modern state of Israel. You can love America without loving Israel—but that tells me your knowledge of the Bible and Western civilization is woefully incomplete. If you’re going to crusade, you need to know the totality of your mission.

This brief section is not intended to provide a full defense of Israel; but as an aspiring American Crusader, consider it homework. A great place to start, once again, is PragerU. Check out videos such as “Why Don’t You Support Israel?,” “Israel’s Legal Founding,” and “Why Does America Spend So Much on Israel?” After that, read A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations by Benjamin Netanyahu. You’ll quickly realize the depth of connection among education, Israel, and Americanism.

If you love America, you should love Israel. We share history, we share faith, and we share freedom. We love free people, free expression, and free markets. And whereas America is blessed with two big, beautiful oceans to protect it, Israel is surrounded on all sides by countries that either used to seek, or still seek, to wipe the nation off the map.

The battle wages on Israeli soil as well. With each trip I take to Israel for FOX Nation, and on my personal time, I discover a new way in which Islamists and their leftist enablers seek to deny Jewish history and heritage. Today, Islamists in Jerusalem are attempting to claim that the Holy Temple built by King Solomon and rebuilt by Herod never existed. Apparently, they want us all to believe that Jews—from Abraham to Jesus—never sacrificed, built, or worshipped on that particular piece of real estate. “Temple denial” is yet another tool by which they seek to erase the Jews and the Jewish state. If that isn’t delusional enough, on a recent trip to Bethlehem—the birthplace of Jesus—I discovered that Palestinians now claim that Jesus was not in fact Jewish but instead a Palestinian. Try that one on for size—or watch my two FOX Nation documentaries on the subject: Battle in the Holy City and Battle in Bethlehem.”

Is Trump with America or Is He with Zionist Israel?

The New Eastern Outlook Takes a Dim View of Trump 2nd Administration

https://journal-neo.su/2024/11/13/the-trump-administration-from-no-war-hawks-to-all-war-hawks/ 

Trump to universities: Stamp out antisemitism or lose accreditation

Trump added that any colleges that permit antisemitic violence will be seen as violating the Civil Rights Law.

All American universities must end campus antisemitism or they will lose accreditation, President-elect Donald Trump promised during a rally against antisemitism in Washington.

To “defeat antisemitism and defend Jewish citizens in America,” Trump said he would inform every college president that if they do not “end antisemitic propaganda,” they would lose accreditation and federal support.

“We will not subsidize the creation of terrorist sympathizers, and we’re not going to do it – certainly on American soil,” he said.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-829167 

The Jerusalem Post is a hardline Israeli newspaper.  If this article is not a forgery, President-elect Trump has forbidden free speech to critics of Israel’s inhumane policies.  It seems Trump has bought into the propaganda that criticism of Israel is antisemitism.

Should we get ready for war with Iran?

Jury Awards $12.6 Million to Woman Fired for Refusing COVID Vaccine

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/jury-awards-12-6-million-to-woman-fired-for-not-receiving-covid-vaccine-5757873?utm_source=brightnoe&src_src=brightnoe&utm_campaign=bright-2024-11-14&src_cmp=bright-2024-11-14&utm_medium=email&est=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAceE5JjMFys3H%2BbdAvWpUcQzPZ0WlGLZbDFlFfmdQNQ%3D%3D 

Trump Picks RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-expected-to-pick-rfk-jr-as-secretary-of-health-and-human-services-5759936?utm_source=RTNews&src_src=RTNews&utm_campaign=rtbreaking-2024-11-14-4&src_cmp=rtbreaking-2024-11-14-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=digital&est=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAceE5JjMByMKG77wDxNBNQoYsGSf8AwYnR4TN9A%3D%3D 

HOPE  SPRINGS  ANEW

Paul Craig Roberts

I am astonished and delighted.  I hope it isn’t fake news.

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday said he is “thrilled to announce” Robert F. Kennedy Jr as his nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) in a statement on social media.

“For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health,” Trump wrote on platform X, along with his announcement.

“HHS will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country,” Trump wrote on Nov. 14.

If this is real, the media and Trump Transition Team certainly misled me about the impossibility of Bobby Kennedy in a power position that can bring down the criminal pharmaceutical industry.  

This is a victory even if Big Pharma, wielding its campaign contributions, forces the Senate to refuse to confirm Kennedy in office.  Trump can go to the public with the names of the bought-and-paid-for corrupt Senators and ask why Americans elect people who knowingly serve corporate criminals who knowingly damage the health of the American people.  The nomination of Kennedy is the most powerful of all of Trump’s appointments, with Matt Gaetz’s being second.

We will now see if the Republican Senate is with Trump or against Trump and the American people.  If the Senate consents to recess appointment of Trump’s team, they are with the President.  If they do not, they are against him and are part of the deadly enemy he and we must defeat.

Kennedy’s nomination restores my hope that Trump might achieve something. Trump,  Kennedy, Gaetz, and Gabbard are fighters, a rarity in a Republican administration. 

But I still have concern about what seems to be a foreign policy/military team that is too committed to Israel to achieve peace.  It will be ironic if Kennedy restores our health but Trump’s foreign policy team destroys us in war.

Trump’s Attorney General Pick Matt Gaetz Sparks Outrage at Justice Department

We Know that Matt Gaetz Is a Good Choice from the Response from a Totally Corrupt Department of Justice (sic) that Tried to Frame Gaetz, Trump, and a large number of Trump attorneys and supporters.

Let’s hope Trump remembers his Jan 6 supporters who were framed by the corrupt Justice (sic) Department and thrown in a dungeon.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20241114/us-justice-department-stunned-at-trumps-choice-of-gaetz-for-attorney-general—reports-1120882496.html 

Western Nations Continue to Play with Fire — Russian Foreign Ministry

Let’s hope Trump’s war cabinet hears the warning:

“If the Kiev regime gets permission for the aforementioned strikes, we will treat it as NATO de-facto entering a direct conflict with Russia. A response to the use of Western long-range weapons against the territory of our nation would be imminent and devastating.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/607593-moscow-devastating-response-kiev-strikes/

French prosecutor wants leader of France’s largest party jailed for five years

https://www.rt.com/news/607617-france-le-pen-embezzlement/ 

Corrupt French prosecutors have weaponized law in their effort to eliminate political competition.  Marine Le Pen is the leader of the largest political party in France. The party is kept out of power by coalitions.  The French Establishment hates the party because it speaks for the French ethnicity that gives the country its name.  The establishment brands the party “right-wing” and “racist.”

What corrupt French prosecutors are trying to do to Le Pen is what Democrat excrement like Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, Letitia James, Kathy Hochul, and Fani Willis tried to do to Donald Trump.  

The French Establishment intends to keep Le Pen from running for president:

“The prosecutors said the five-year ban on running for office should be implemented immediately, before the defense can appeal the ruling. This means that if found guilty, Le Pen would be disqualified from the presidential election in 2027.”

Realistically, What Are Trump’s Chances to Make American Great Again?

Paul Craig Roberts

No, MAGA Americans, I am not a party pooper. I am a realist.

No, I am not trying to make Trump look bad. I was Trump’s defender against all the false accusations and indictments. I insisted that we had to stand up for Trump and elect him or never again would a presidential candidate take the side of the people against the Establishment.

I warned over and over that Trump does not know Washington, and he has again proven me correct with his appointments of a war cabinet of Washington insiders, with no executive authority for Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Today (November 13) Trump’s announcements of appointees was a little better in the cases of Tulsi Gabbard and Matt Gaetz.  When I say a little, I don’t imply any criticism of these two  Americans. In Gabbard’s case, I don’t know what the executive power of the Director of National Intelligence is. Is Gabbard above the CIA, NSA, State Department, or is she a coordinator of information that she does not originate and control?

The Director of National Intelligence is a cabinet-level agency or department created in 2004 during the orchestrated hysteria of “Muslim terrorists.” It advises the president, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council. Apparently, it has taken over the CIA’s function of providing the president’s daily briefing. Where it gets its information from is unclear. Is the National Intelligence Agency just a mouthpiece for the CIA?

Regardless, Tulsi Gabbard’s voice is important, and the position gives her a voice.

The same for Matt Gaetz’s appointment as US Attorney General. Gaetz is no milk toast. He is a strong individual, the kind of person needed in such a critical office. My question is: does he have the seasoning. I certainly don’t object if he does.

I would have thought that some of Trump’s attorneys, illegally prosecuted by Biden’s  totally corrupt Attorney General, would have been a better choice. I think my choice would have been the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton. He has experience as an attorney general, and he has challenged the Biden regime criminals on several fronts.

This doesn’t mean that Gaetz can’t be successful. Perhaps Gaetz should insist that Paxton be appointed deputy attorney general. That would be a strong team, a team that could guarantee the Trump administration’s success.  If Trump is to return America to the rule of law, those who weaponized law must be punished.

Also on the 13th Trump appointed the Treasury Secretary. His name is Scott Bessent. He is a hedge fund manager who created a global investment fund. He might be a good pick. I don’t know.

Bessent is a Southerner and, thereby, possibly possesses integrity. But his background indicates a man out for himself at the expense of  other people: Yale University, George Soros Fund Management, a successful Soros destabilizer of the British pound and Japanese yen. In other words, a person out for his own benefit.

Perhaps he has reformed. But there is no indiction that he has any grasp of economic policy. Will he see his Treasury seat as a way to build relationships and to expand his opportunities to make money? Trump’s view seems to be that making money is what makes America great again.

In my day the US Treasury Department was a policy organization. Today it is a police agency at work imposing sanctions and stealing the central bank reserves of  “enemies.”

When I was in the US Treasury, I had to tell my executive secretary that I did not want any more appointments with lobbyists telling me how I was to formulate policy to serve them.

Being of years of experience, she told me: you won’t get the directorships, you won’t get the consultant fees. I told her I was there to serve the president and that was our job.

It is going to be a challenge for the administration Trump has assembled to make America great again.

Trump is there to be tough for America. War is a likely  outcome. The threatened world already sees it coming.

Mohammed bin Salman, the ruler of Saudi Arabia has been conducting naval exercises with Iran. The Saudi ruler recently had talks with Putin about preventing Israeli/US attacks on Iran. It seems that the US has lost the Saudis and is on the verge of losing a war, the loss of which will disappoint Trump supporters looking to be made great again.

My hope is that Trump can get enough done peacefully that the American people don’t give up hope, thereby empowering the ruling elite with the gift of a demoralized population.

Jack Smith is running for cover

Smith should be sentenced  to life in prison or preferably according to some to execution.  He helped anti-Americans destroy the rule of law by weaponizing law.

https://protrumpnews.com/jack-smith-resigning-before-trump-takes-office/ 

Only truth-haters listen to NPR

NPR’s audience is an audience of brainwashed people.

Elon Musk renewed calls to defund NPR following viral footage of NPR’s CEO saying “reverence for the truth” might have become a “bit of a distraction.”

“I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done,” NPR CEO Katherine Maher said.

https://wltreport.com/2024/11/13/elon-musk-suggests-defunding-media-organization-after-ceos/?utm_source=newsletter_ptn&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PTN 

Musk is right. Why are taxpayers paying for a federally funded lie machine that openly states that truth is in the way of their anti-American agenda?

The Establishment Is Disarming the Trump Insurrection

Paul Craig Roberts

It is dangerous for Trump supporters to think that the battle is over with the election victory. The battle has not begun, and it never will if Trump cannot put together a fighting administration.

There are about 4,000 political appointees in the Executive branch, 1,200 of which have to be confirmed in office by the Senate. The confirmation power gives the Senate input in controlling staffing in a presidential administration.

Trump and his transition team do not know 1,200 people, much less 4,000. Desperate to get a government underway, their inquiries will result in input from many sources, especially from the ruling establishment. At best a president and transition team can only focus on a few key areas where the president’s key agendas are. Even here Trump is not doing a great job.

Let’s start with the war front. Trump has said he can immediately stop the war in Ukraine and the Israeli-Hamas-Hezbollah-Iran war in the Middle East. But Trump’s appointees to US Ambassador to the UN, National Security Advisor, Secretary of State, US Ambassador to Israel, and Secretary of Defense are war hawks. UN Ambassador Elise Stefanik is a warmonger for Israel. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz has called for enforcing the energy sanctions on Russia and taking the handcuffs off long-range missiles provided to Ukraine. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is a warmonger.  Trump has appointed Mike Huckabee US Ambassador to Israel to the great delight of Israeli extremists.  Huckabee has said that Israel has title to Palestine. Trump has appointed Steven Witkoff Special Envoy to the Middle East. Witkoff who is Jewish is tasked with dealing with the Iranian threat, the Israel–Hamas war, the Israel–Hezbollah fighting, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

For Defense Secretary Trump has chosen Fox News co-host and commentator Pete Hegseth, a non-Woke masculine man without faith in a DEI military.  The downside is that he believes in the official narratives constructed by the military/security complex and neoconservatives of America’s Russian, Chinese, and Iranian enemies.  He describes Iran as “an evil regime” and wants to modernize the US military so that it is a match for China’s.  It seems we are in for a rise in the defense budget and no closed bases, an obstacle to Musk’s plan to cut $2.5 trillion from the budget.  Together with Stefanik, Waltz, and Rubio, Hegseth gives Trump a quattro for war.  Do any of these Trump appointees  have the flexibility to see the Russian, Iranian, Chinese, and Palestinian point of view?

In his comments about John Bolton, Trump indicated that he thinks presenting adversaries with war mongers is what will bring them to concessions. I doubt this will work with Russia, China, and Iran.

Let’s now look at the prospects for RFK Jr. and Elon Musk.  The UK newspaper, The Telegraph, reports that Trump’s advisors are distancing Trump from Bobby Kennedy.  As I predicted would happen, Trump’s advisors are questioning whether Kennedy can be confirmed.  The Big Pharma and fluoride lobbies have asserted their muscle, and it looks like Trump’s advisors are backing down.  They lack the intelligence to see that Big Pharma’s blocking of Kennedy would play into Trump’s hands.  But as we all know, Republicans simply are not fighters.  Most in Congress are RINOs and they are not going to burn their bridges with the Establishment.

The Telegraph is an unreliable newspaper as its totally incorrect coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict demonstrated.  The Telegraph’s report could be a Big Pharma plant that seeks to raise questions in the minds of those on the transition team about Bobby Kennedy.  Trump transition team member Howard Lutnick had already announced that Bobby would not be getting a job.  Instead of having executive authority as Secretary of Health and Human Services or as Director of the Food and Drug Administration, Bobby will collect data on vaccines.  It seems Big Pharma and agri-business have killed any improvement in the safety of medicines and food during Trump’s second term.

It seems that Elon Musk also is to be denied a position of executive authority.  Initial reports were  that the person ideally suited to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget was to be made head of a Commission on Government Efficiency.  The commission has now become a new cabinet department, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) jointly led by Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.  

Trump says that “these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies.”  How are they going to do that if they have no executive power over spending?

It is paradoxical that Trump begins his assault on government bureaucracy and waste by creating a new bureaucracy.  The way to control the budget is to appoint Musk Director of the Office of Management and budget.  What Trump has done is to create a new government bureaucracy that will grow and grow and grow.

Will the talent of Tulsi Gabbard also be thrown away?  She would have been a far better Secretary of State than Rubio.  What commission will she be sent offstage to chair?

It could not be more clear that this is not shaping up as a government that will renew America. All we need now is a milk toast for Attorney General, and we can write off making America great again.

Trump has picked former U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin as Head of EPA.  Zeldin has a 14 percent score from the League of Conservation Voters, an indication that environmental regulations will be loosened up to facilitate fracking, which Trump is relying on to make America the top oil and gas producer, a key part in Trump’s mind of making America great again.

So far Trump’s administration is shaping up to deliver only on the border promise.  Trump appointed Thomas Homan “Border Czar” and Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary.  But, actually, Homeland Security, an anti-American operation created during the “war on terror” hoax, is a threat to American civil liberties and should be abolished. Homeland Security is all cons and no pros.  We can have border security without it. Remember, it was the Department of Homeland Security that announced that the terrorism focus had shifted from Muslims to white American citizens, especially those “domestic terrorists” who support Trump. 

Any attempt to control the border will be beset with endless law suits.  Democrat governors and city authorities have already  pledged to shield illegal immigrants from Trump’s Agenda.  The Democrat governors of Massachusetts, California, and Illinois have announced that they will use their authority to keep borders open and immigrant invaders from being deported. 

The Woke California  Governor Newsom promised to “protect California values,” by which he means no distinction between a citizen and an illegal.  California is a sanctuary state whose law prevents cooperation between state and local police and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel. Newsom has called a special legislative session to “Trump-proof” the state’s anti-deportation rules.

Woke Illinois Governor Pritzker told Trump, “you come for my people, you have to come through me.”  “My people” are the immigrant-invaders.  Pritzker calls them Illinoisans, and says “anyone who intends to come take away the freedom and opportunity and dignity of Illinoisans” is in for a fight.

Woke Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has banned the state police from assisting in any way the deportation of illegals. Massachusetts is also a sanctuary state

In other words, the three Democrat governors do not acknowledge any difference between a US citizen and those who illegally enter the country.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/11/dem-governors-fight-trump-on-immigration/ 

Now consider the Senate Majority Leader.  Having captured the Senate and with Mitch McConnell’s retirement, a crucial position to Trump’s success is to be filled.  McConnell is holding the election of the Senate Majority Leader today.  He has presented two candidates, both non-MAGAs:  John Thune and John Cornyn.  Senator Rick Scott, more likely to be supportive of Trump’s agendas, has entered the race.  Considering that most Republican Senators are RINOs, Scott’s chances aren’t great.

Trump has not only jeopardized a peaceful foreign policy with his ill-considered appointments, but also the neoconservatives, Biden regime officials, British PM and French President are working to get Biden’s agreement to allow the long-range missiles to be fired into Russia. The Telegraph reported three days ago that “Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are expected to plot a last-ditch attempt to thwart Donald Trump’s efforts to scale back US support for Ukraine.”  As I warned, the two and one-half months between Trump’s election and his inauguration is a lot of time for enemies to commit US policy in directions Trump didn’t intend.  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/11/10/europe-plots-to-thwart-donald-trump-over-ukraine-starmer/ 

Perhaps the most crucial appointment is Attorney General.  If Trump appoints a milk toast, Trump’s administration dies that day.  Again, the confirmation argument will be used.  Anyone who might take up the Hunter Biden laptop, or look into Hillary Clinton’s dealings, or those of the DOJ officials who conspired with state and local attorneys general and prosecutors to concoct the Trump indictments, or the criminal activities of members of the ruling elite, the Epstein list, the criminal leaks to media, and a large variety of other indictable offenses is clearly off-limits.  The Establishment is not going to have themselves submitted to even a fraction of what they imposed on Trump.

Trump has declared that he hasn’t an enemies list.  It would have been better to leave the question open, as it would have provided some restraint on the attacks he is going to experience.

Woke New York Governor Kathy Hochul says she had a cordial phone conversation with Trump and is open to working with him. This is the governor who labeled Trump supporters “anti-Americans” and “anti-women,” and unleashed George Soros’ NY Attorney General Letitia James on Trump and his supporters.”  https://thepostmillennial.com/new-york-dem-gov-kathy-hochul-says-shes-open-to-working-with-donald-trump-after-cordial-phone-call  Working together, of course, means compromises, and not all the compromises will be made by Democrats and the ruling elites. There is a substantial risk that Trump will be worked directly into the Establishment.

How likely is it that Trump wants to relive the stress of his first term?  How likely is it that he can find even 200 of the 1,200 appointees who require Senate confirmation who will fight for him, putting their own careers at risk by burning bridges to the ruling establishment, an entrenched, institutionalized establishment that has not folded its tents and left the field.

The prospects for American renewal might actually be worse than reports depict. Alan Sabrosky Provides a Darker Take on the Election and Who Won.  https://www.unz.com/article/decision-in-november-2024/

Did US Deep State Allow Trump to Win?

Paul Craig Roberts

This question raised by Mike Whitney and others has caught the attention of the astute Russian journalist Ekaterina Blinova:  https://sputnikglobe.com/20241112/did-us-deep-state-allow-trump-to-win-1120861699.html 

Blinova understands that the American Deep State, if its members believe Trump’s statements, have good reasons to regard Trump as an existential threat.  Why, then, with the mechanisms in place to steal the 2024 election did the Deep State permit Trump to win?

What I find alarming is the Deep States evident confidence that Trump is more valuable to them in office than out.  Once the members of the Deep State got over their hysteria, they set about aligning their agendas with Trump’s platform of making America great again.

Trump’s emphasis on oil and gas production fits.  It can be turned to profits and continued hegemony over oil, thus protecting the US dollar. 

Trump’s boisterous approach to adversaries fits.  It can be turned to war and profits for the military/security complex.

Trump’s deportation of illegals can be blocked with law suits until the end of his four year term.

Dangerous appointees such as RFK Jr. and Elon Musk can be sidelined in advisory positions without executive authority where they can do no damage.

The British Prime Minister and French President can prevail, with the help of the Biden regime’s neoconservatives, on Biden to “take the handcuffs off,” as Trump’s national security adviser wants to do, the use of the long-range missiles provided to Ukraine.  This is already in the works and would make ending the Ukraine conflict difficult. Instead of peace, Trump would enter the White House as War President.

Any dangerous appointment can be blocked by the Senate’s non-confirmation, with lobbyists holding money over the heads of Senators. Does the money go to you or to your opponent in the next election?  Trump controls  the Republican voters, but the Deep State controls most of the Republican and Democrat members of the House and Senate.

Voters can elect, but after that it is out of their hands.  

FEMA Official Removed After “Avoid Trump Houses” Message Leaks, DeSantis Orders Investigation

This shows you what scum Democrats are:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fema-official-removed-after-avoid-trump-houses-message-leaks-desantis-orders 

Canadian Government Admits 48,780 Excess Deaths in 2022 (17% Increase in Mortality). There Is No Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Saved a Single Life in Canada During 2021-2022

https://www.globalresearch.ca/canadian-government-admits-48780-excess-deaths-2022-17-increase-mortality-no-evidence-covid-19-vaccines-saved-single-life-canada-during-2021-2022/5844539