I'm afraid he's right

 

Let me say up front that I'm not particularly enamored at the thought of a second term for President Trump.  I think he's too old, and too opinionated, and too brash, loud-mouthed and egotistical to make a good President in future.  I will admit that his first term was a whole lot better than I expected, and he did a number of very good things - but he also did a number of very bad things, such as choose entirely the wrong people for his team who proceeded to undermine his authority, and his wholesale cock-up of the response to COVID-19, the effects of which are still with us.

That said, I agree he has every right to run for a second term, and if he wins the popular vote, he should be allowed to serve as POTUS once again.  However, I also agree with The Good Citizen that he's very, very unlikely to be given that chance, because the process (and the US constitution, and our institutions of government) is/are being openly and maliciously manipulated to block him.  I don't believe we can have another honest election while the powers that be are in control.

Recent election interference from a weaponized Department of Justice intent on keeping Donald J. Trump from ever returning to the White House has horrified conservatives, independents, legal experts, and anyone with principles who cares about fairness, justice, and equality under the law.

They cannot fathom the banana republic transformation happening before their eyes, out in the open, and they weep for Lady Justice, who as I wrote after the shambolic New York indictment, “…hasn’t just been robbed of her blindfold, they’ve bent her over and invited every sick spook over for a gang bang.”

Watching conservatives’ confusion about recent election results and the political persecution of their favorite candidate is like watching the double-masked lockdowners waiting for Fauci to give them their next orders, except they’ll tune into the usual conservative commentariat who will never tell them the truth or risk losing their platforms that extract millions of dollars and billions of minutes of attention from these poor souls who just want their republic back.

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What reality?

The reality that anyone with half a functioning brain could see coming since they orchestrated a domestic coup against Trump and spent four years undermining his Presidency.

The reality that conservative pundits failed for years to disclose to their loyal flock—Trump is not permitted to ever return to the White House. It doesn’t matter if he’s polling at 99% with all voters, he simply has two choices: Prison, or a plea deal that prevents his name from appearing on the ballot in 2024.

This isn’t just election interference, it’s weaponized lawfare by the state for ballot rigging against the favored candidate, and it will, not, stop.

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Trump needs to keep running in order to score that plea deal that keeps him from doing time in a federal pokey and to continue the financial windfall from his supporters who instead of paying off their own credit card debt or shielding themselves from the coming collapse of the dollar by buying gold or silver will be suckered into micro-donations over the next 18 months to subsidize his legal bills for the next decade.

While most of last year the conservative punditry naively celebrated Trump’s latest MAGA rallies, and anticipated their savior’s return to power to rescue them from the open and brazen demolition of their republic-in-name-only, last summer I warned that all of this would happen:

At this point, all Americans should plan on them prosecuting Trump to keep him from running again, and/or rigging the 2024 election against whomever the opposition candidate is. Tyranny doesn’t decelerate on its own. If there are no consequences for traitors, seditionists, war criminals, and their federal government servants, there is absolutely no possibility for anything to change in the future. They will further weaponize federal agencies to make life hell for any people who even plan on resisting. This includes grandmothers touring the Capitol building, and former Trump administration officials, lawyers, followers, and supporters. Expect the political persecution to only increase in the year ahead as the next Presidential cycle nears.

They will bury him in legal proceedings even if every indictment increases his standing in the polls and improves his chances against Biden. They don’t care about any of that because they’re banking on prison or a plea deal that keeps Trump off the ballot. The regime is all-in on this play and cannot fold or run.

With either outcome, they win.

There's more at the link.

As I've said many times before in these pages, TINVOWOOT - There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This.  The entrenched powers that be are playing for all the marbles.  They know that if "their" politicians lose control of government, they face impeachment, prosecution and imprisonment for their crimes against America - therefore they dare not allow "their" politicians to be defeated.  They control enough Republicans to be sure that even if that party wins control of Congress and the Senate, their puppets will still prevent any retaliation against them.  The one thing they can't control is a rogue President from outside the "Washington system" who won't obey their rules:  therefore, they'll do whatever is necessary (I believe, up to and including murder) to prevent such a President from being installed.

I'm personally convinced that they'll try to bring down the whole American house of cards if they have to, to prevent anyone else taking over.  They'd sooner take the Samson option - "pull down the temple and die with the Philistines" - rather than lose power.  That's the primary reason I've been hammering on the subject of emergency preparedness for so long - because I sincerely believe they're willing (and may well be able) to destroy the USA as we know it, if necessary, rather than lose control of the reins of power.  It's the Götterdämmerung approach, the Ragnarök solution.  Hitler is reported to have said, towards the end of World War II, that Germany did not deserve him, and therefore should be destroyed for its lack of faith in and support for him.  That's how these people think, too.  If America won't support and sustain their hold on power, then to hell with America.  Let it burn.

James Kunstler sees it too.

Surely Merrick Garland is not running the Department of Justice, but which gloopy pseudopod of the Blob is? My guess would be some Intel Community politburo made up mostly of people you’ve never heard of. The trouble is these geniuses confuse political ****ery with the operations of law.

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Behind all these blobulations looms the specter of Mr. Trump’s attempted return to power. What would he do in the remote case that he escapes the Blob’s mendacious prosecutions? Chop the Blob into a million gelatinous fragments, expose it to enough heat to vaporize it all, and recalibrate a US government back to the task of operating the few things it might arguably be competent at. Such a program would obviate the Blob’s drive to destroy everything worth operating in the human project of remaining civilized.

Alas, Blobism has become the religion of the deranged intellectual / managerial class in America. The chief concern of this crypto-gnostic religion is summoning demons to harass those it regards as heretics to Blobism. Thus, it is well within the historic tradition of fanatical / hysterical paroxysms that shake ordinary human doings and end up needlessly and wrongfully killing a lot of people.

No doubt Blobism is a product of the Intel Community run by that mysterious politburo, with assists from partners in foreign lands such as the WEF, the WHO, the CCP, and a coterie of essentially stateless super-rich guys with axes to grind. It was designed to derange the people who do most of its on-the-ground dirty work. They already have a lot of blood on their hands with the Covid-19 trip laid on the world, the pointless war in Ukraine, which it started deliberately, and now the forced de-industrialization of the West with a crusade against farming on the side, to make sure that those who don’t die of vaccine-related immune system disorders just starve to death.

Again, more at the link.

I believe the rule of law has been sidelined, if not completely destroyed, in America's political sector.  The constitution and laws of the United States are conspicuous by their irrelevance to political operators.  They are disregarded, twisted, abused and manipulated for partisan political ends.  The rest of us are simply looking on from outside, powerless to use that constitution and those laws to restore the rule of law.  If we want to do that, it's going to have to be through other means.

Our future, as a nation and as individual Americans, is murky.  I believe we're facing very grave dangers, both internally and externally.  I think the most important thing we can do right now is to band together with other right-thinking people, to help each other to prepare for the uncertainties and dangers that lie ahead, and survive them as best we can.

I do not believe our republic, as presently structured, can survive the mess we're in.  I truly and sincerely hope we'll emerge from this crisis by returning to what our Founding Fathers wanted . . . but I also have to admit that there's enough nihilism and fanaticism out there that such a vision may be impossible.  We may find ourselves in another Thirty Years' War situation, this time driven not by religious but by political and ideological differences.  That would be disastrous, but it's by no means impossible - and it's outside our control.

LtGen. Michael Flynn warns:

Our country right now, is not at the precipice looking over the edge of the cliff, we’re in the valley of the shadow of death. We have given in and given up the moral high ground to what I truly believe is a communist takeover, a Marxist left takeover of our country through the various institutions within our country including and up to the White House.

I agree with him.

Watch what happens to President Trump.  That will tell you which side is winning.  Don't be too optimistic.  If they defeat him, they'll be coming after all of us, and they won't stop, because fanatics and extremists never stop.  They always want more power, and they always want one thing more, day after day after day.  There's no letup in them unless they're stopped in their tracks - and that may become necessary, the way they're carrying on.  They can only see the world through the biased, warped perspective of the lenses they've made for their own eyes.  They can't see reality in any other way - and those of us who do are so clearly, obviously wrong (to them) that we must be brought into line the hard way if we won't do it the easy way.

That's what leads to genocide.  Think it can't happen here?  Think again.  Remember the frontier period slogan, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian"?  Replace "Indian" with "conservative", or "Trump supporter", or "deplorable", and you get the idea.

Peter