We'll see. He certainly connected to his constituents. But he's just one guy, and he has a lot of brain farts that dissipate into nothing. Mike Pompeo and other swamp creatures are reportedly being considered for WH positions, while RFK Jr is already being corralled. Yikes!
"Because the GOP is now on an irreversible path to populism."
But it's not on an irreversible path to success. Whatever the reasons Trump was permitted by TPTB to win, the Uniparty are very much still in the game, they are smart, and they are ruthless. They likely decided not to protest the vote simply because they would look like blazing hypocrites. This is a (very) long war, one that IMO will take at least a decade to undo, given the decades (or is it since 1848?) that they've had slowly shifting our institutions, and corrupting the youth to believe in a totalitarianism that is named "democracy".
"That means we could be on the first steps towards liberating both parties — and therefore the nation — from the elites who have tried their best to gut this country."
And then there is the Iron Law of Oligarchy, which transcends ideology...
If we've learned nothing else, now is the time to remain vigilant and willing to criticize Trump, especially remembering the many mistakes and/or hidden intentions of Trump's first term and its denizens.
Forget Washington for a moment,Trump has the Support of the Republican States at the governmental top in each State! Just the southern gulf coast from Texas To Florida contain close to 58 million people & a total GDP of 4.5 Trillion$ dollar,a bit larger than the German Economy!
The American States are states like Austria or Poland are States. They are not little administrative centers!
It's not that simple. The word "state" implies sovereignty, which was the original meaning for each of the set of ex-British colonies, at first a confederation, and now under a federal+state power sharing system. Otherwise, they would have explicitly been changed into "provinces" (or named something equivalent) upon the activation of the (current) 1787 constitution.
The USA is a federation of Sovereign States in the Federal Republic
They are not owned by Washington.
Especially when the Federal Government itself is illegal with no mandate to act as a Central Government. How Can a Sovereign State be bound to an illegal Central Government?
More to the point,if the Republican states bypassed Washington without seceding officially who would be able to stop them?
This would be chaos & won't happen, but the idea is there for consideration!
Washington is basically weak if a sizable part of America refuses to play the Washington Game! We are entering revolutionary times,hopefully peaceful!
Agree. To proclaim the Uniparty dead is a bit premature. Trump always does Israel's bidding, so I could see a war with Iran under Trump. Remember, they were adhering to the agreement when Trump, under Israeli orders, killed the agreement and made Iran an enemy. He'll gladly continue to ship them billions of our tax dollars. Congress will still send money/weapons to Ukraine, even if they override his veto, assuming he would. Remember, this is the candidate who had warmonger Pompous on his stage and defended Sen. Lindsey Graham, another warmonger. In addition, he never mentioned the National Debt or the interest expense which will take over the entire budget eventually, like it somehow doesn't matter.
You know, I've been wondering how this disease of the brain occurs. Certainly it is a mental illness and an unprovoked derangement. We've been told, at times, that it is carefully taught; however, I've noted students everywhere always rebel against their parents and teachers, especially if they decide, for some reason valid or not, that they were taught wrong. I confess I'm stumped.
Do you have a theory where it actually comes from, how it always seems to be so sticky, and in groups festers out of control? Serious question. I've tried to find this answer many times and in many ways and never get what seems to be constructive advice, and instead, weirdly, am often ignored and even attacked for just asking the question (which one would think is quite basic in a democracy), as if there is a specific and irrefutably hostile hidden subtext. (That last part I'm getting pretty sick of, in fact.) Thank you in advance.
The Public School Systems are inferior,And deliberately so.
The students are not taught how to think critically & objectively.
They.are just given stock answers to memorize,they are programmed like an internet search engine that searches for words instead of ideas.
Because they were not taught how to think critically,they can't analyze & evaluate what they memorized! Ask them why what they memorized is true,they can't answer.
Good citizenship is based on the individual's understanding of what was memorized.The individual can't answer the question because he can't analyze what he memorized!
The Scholar the powers found to develop the Education System back in the 1920's was John Dewey.Dewey developed his methods based on his observations of teaching methods in schools In Stalinist Russia in The 1930's.
Imagine,American school teaching with Soviet methods
Granted, the schools don't work (any more, certainly). But also, we are in quite a new environmental era, in information and communication, than a century ago.
Given that, I'd say to get perception and value problems like this addressed once and for all, we need to engage people immediately, directly, interactively, and in a permanent publicly-available (i.e. web) record of (some effective kind of) rank-voted conversations, with non-hierarchical blockchain-like durability and incorruptibility. Then we might have a chance at always being able to capture the moment by pointing, immediately yet perpetually, to the latest best answers. Maybe that could "converge" knowledge so that wrongthink is barely possible.
I see Trump as a modern-day Yeltsin - an immensely brave man who has removed the communists but has no realistic prospect of remedying the damage they have caused.
Washington is running a Constitutionally illegal operation
The Federal Government,since 1913,has been operating as a giant Central Government with enormous powers which are unConstitutional! But never really challenged.
The Federal Government has a small legal Mandate in the Constitution for various powers not appropriate for any single state.
The Income tax law,Amendment 16, never received enough votes to be passed,but was pushed thru anyway. "the Law that Never Was"
The Federal Reserve Bank is most likely illegal as a private Central Bank for profit.A private Central Bank controlling Americas Finances with no Constitutional mandate to dio so! See how Washington would Like a multiple Constitutional Crisis!
Neither Party, nor Trump, care one iota about the Constitution. This is because 99% of all federal agencies are illegal. Remember, Trump fired cruise missiles at Syria, which is clearly an act of war, without Congressional Act of War nor did Syria do anything to us. So much for the Constitution. The Constitution is dead and will never be resurrected. The GOP are happy with Big Government, just so long as they are running it.
The 17th Amendment will never be repealed, just like so many other things. The IRS, Fed, CIA, NSA, and FBI are going nowhere, nor will they even be reformed. All this euphoria will start dying a quick death come January.
Amazing, just amazing, what has happened here in our country, this transformation of our landscape! This change is big and immediate as we see, and will also be over time. I assiduously avoid all MSM news, but just getting to my email is an act of "I see nothing" with the headlines of CNN, USA Today, etc... So this morning, I saw a CNN headline about Mar-A-Lago patio being a war zone right now, with the deliberations about who will be doing what and where in the next administration. At first, my heart sank a little, because that speaks to me of RINOs/uniparty and old school having a big voice "on the patio". Then I remembered it was CNN, so it's surely massively skewed reporting. Finally, I recalled RFK's likening the upcoming Trump transition and administration to be a "team of rivals", similar to Abraham Lincoln's cabinet. Glass half full with sunlight shining upon it, or a glass half empty in darkness...CNN will report it as the latter.
That's quite funny. Politicians whip up the voters to get them out and then pull the rug out from under them, just like last time. End endless wars? In 4 years, he couldn't just write Executive Orders pulling the troops home. They weren't constitutional wars, so he could end them this way. Nope. Release the JFK files? Nope.
The folks with TDS, weeping crocodile tears, should realize that the grass-roots coalition just elected has deep historical resonance in American populism, before effete elites cemented their oligarchy with the 1913 Banker's Coup d'Etat (IRS, FED, income tax, etc.)
Congratulations on your comments that were carried on Fox News. Not very often you see clear heads on any mainstream outlet.
I think you have done a very good job at boiling down the situation to its core. The devil is in the details of course and it certainly will be interesting to see how it plays out.
RFK junior bears watching as he is as serious as a heart attack about gutting the extremely corrupt Pharma complex. The Kennedy’s have a determination gene that tends to lead to a premature demise, because it is the only way to stop them from their chosen missions.
We will see if Trump tries to handcuff him as he did before. There is a lot to tear down for good and a lot to tear down and rebuild. I assume right now there are many moats being built around the vast amount of corrupt institutions that don’t want to disappear.
It isn’t going to be easy, but we don’t move anywhere as a country without some serious remodeling.
The Deep State is slowly gathering the real status/statistics of the USA economy, all to be slowly released after Jan20, all to hinder and undercut Trump and his efforts.
I recommend that you start to re-release ahead of time what has already been released and point out the anomalies and softness of them so it won't come as a total shock.
Just a few disconcerting factoids: Under normal times the elected president would face no opposition taking over from the departing administration. Can we honestly say that is going to happen with the Byden democrats?
Then can you tell me exactly how many RINO republicans and other party dissidents in congress are actually going to go full bore and support Trump?
Finally how difficult is it going to be to fill over 4,000 agency positions with people that will truly support Trump? Will any of them be really smart in areas other than politics and government charades?
Not only that, but just putting in the head of an agency does nothing to change it. I can tell you this from the DoD Agency I work for. The military general Director comes and goes, but the top civilian leadership are the ones who are there for decades and bring the new general up to speed in the way they like it. If anyone believes you can put someone in charge at the CIA and change them, they are incredibly naïve.
In his interview with Joe Rogan, President Trump mentioned that his 1st term failure was in vetting & selecting appointees. The number he stated was 10,000. If so, then this is similar to Xenophon's «Anabasis» and that general's struggled march of his 10,000 troops through hostile territories to their homes.
The problem is two-fold: 1) Trump has been a liberal most of his life and so is clueless about potential appointees. 2) He takes advice from all the wrong people.
Sorry, he is no Reagan. Not even close. Reagan never called his opponents names like a third-grader and he could laugh at himself at "roast" events. Reagan knew what to say and how to say it. Trump is just the arrogant billionaire who has always been rich and bowed down to and is all about himself. I know Reagan wasn't perfect, but he certainly knew how to act Presidential. Trump claims to admire Reagan, but apparently just cannot think twice before opening his mouth.
If it were Reagan this time he wouldn’t have won. Like it or not Trumps, personality and mouth, when you’re in a knife fight for a nation and your life you don’t platitude.
Sorry, if you cannot articulate your policy differences without calling names like a third grader, you don't belong in the White House. It just shows you have no class or character, which is why he is on Wife #3 and got caught messing around with a Porn Star.
The worst thing Reagan did was make Bush Senior his VP. Once as President, he pretty much undid everything Reagan did. Remember, he called Reagan's supply side economics, "voodoo economics". Remember how he said, Read my Lips; No new taxes and then he did anyway, which was why he wasn't reelected and we got Clinton. Then we were stupid enough to put another Bush in the White House.
No one is claiming Biden was good, but the Fed brought on the inflation, to be fair., by expanding the money supply during COVID to insane levels never seen before. Once the economy recovered, all that extra money made each dollar worth less. As for successful policies, what exactly were those? Ending the endless wars, letting the public see the JFK assassination files, which would clearly show the government was in it up to their eyeballs, or how about trashing an agreement with Iran which Iran was faithfully adhering to? Maybe it was installing alligators on his staff while claiming he wanted to drain the Swamp? How bout how the tax cuts were permanent for business but temporary for individuals? How about adding $7.2 billion to the National Debt, after claiming he was going to reduce it? How about letting T-Mobile and Sprint merge, thus destroying cellular competition? How about continuing to give Fauci a platform for his nonsense policies like claiming cloth masks work? The fact that Trump never addressed the National Debt or the interest expense which is now higher than the DoD budget, just proves he has no plans to cut spending. If he cuts taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security, all bets are off as to how high the deficit will soar. I say this because we know neither party will cut spending, nor will they until they destroy the Dollar.
I share your enthusiasm. But, ummm...
"Trump Just Curb-Stomped the Uniparty"
We'll see. He certainly connected to his constituents. But he's just one guy, and he has a lot of brain farts that dissipate into nothing. Mike Pompeo and other swamp creatures are reportedly being considered for WH positions, while RFK Jr is already being corralled. Yikes!
"Because the GOP is now on an irreversible path to populism."
But it's not on an irreversible path to success. Whatever the reasons Trump was permitted by TPTB to win, the Uniparty are very much still in the game, they are smart, and they are ruthless. They likely decided not to protest the vote simply because they would look like blazing hypocrites. This is a (very) long war, one that IMO will take at least a decade to undo, given the decades (or is it since 1848?) that they've had slowly shifting our institutions, and corrupting the youth to believe in a totalitarianism that is named "democracy".
"That means we could be on the first steps towards liberating both parties — and therefore the nation — from the elites who have tried their best to gut this country."
And then there is the Iron Law of Oligarchy, which transcends ideology...
If we've learned nothing else, now is the time to remain vigilant and willing to criticize Trump, especially remembering the many mistakes and/or hidden intentions of Trump's first term and its denizens.
You missed a big part of the Plot!
Forget Washington for a moment,Trump has the Support of the Republican States at the governmental top in each State! Just the southern gulf coast from Texas To Florida contain close to 58 million people & a total GDP of 4.5 Trillion$ dollar,a bit larger than the German Economy!
The American States are states like Austria or Poland are States. They are not little administrative centers!
No one is seceding. There is NOTHING in the Constitution which allows this. The states are NOT independent countries.
"The states are NOT independent countries."
It's not that simple. The word "state" implies sovereignty, which was the original meaning for each of the set of ex-British colonies, at first a confederation, and now under a federal+state power sharing system. Otherwise, they would have explicitly been changed into "provinces" (or named something equivalent) upon the activation of the (current) 1787 constitution.
No,who told you!
The USA is a federation of Sovereign States in the Federal Republic
They are not owned by Washington.
Especially when the Federal Government itself is illegal with no mandate to act as a Central Government. How Can a Sovereign State be bound to an illegal Central Government?
More to the point,if the Republican states bypassed Washington without seceding officially who would be able to stop them?
This would be chaos & won't happen, but the idea is there for consideration!
Washington is basically weak if a sizable part of America refuses to play the Washington Game! We are entering revolutionary times,hopefully peaceful!
siderationb!
Who said anything about Seceding?
The State's can force a Constitutional crisis by showing that the Federal Government is acting in an Unconstitutional Manner!
Agree. To proclaim the Uniparty dead is a bit premature. Trump always does Israel's bidding, so I could see a war with Iran under Trump. Remember, they were adhering to the agreement when Trump, under Israeli orders, killed the agreement and made Iran an enemy. He'll gladly continue to ship them billions of our tax dollars. Congress will still send money/weapons to Ukraine, even if they override his veto, assuming he would. Remember, this is the candidate who had warmonger Pompous on his stage and defended Sen. Lindsey Graham, another warmonger. In addition, he never mentioned the National Debt or the interest expense which will take over the entire budget eventually, like it somehow doesn't matter.
Out of nowhere comes Israel!
You have Israel Phobia?
You know, I've been wondering how this disease of the brain occurs. Certainly it is a mental illness and an unprovoked derangement. We've been told, at times, that it is carefully taught; however, I've noted students everywhere always rebel against their parents and teachers, especially if they decide, for some reason valid or not, that they were taught wrong. I confess I'm stumped.
Do you have a theory where it actually comes from, how it always seems to be so sticky, and in groups festers out of control? Serious question. I've tried to find this answer many times and in many ways and never get what seems to be constructive advice, and instead, weirdly, am often ignored and even attacked for just asking the question (which one would think is quite basic in a democracy), as if there is a specific and irrefutably hostile hidden subtext. (That last part I'm getting pretty sick of, in fact.) Thank you in advance.
The Public School Systems are inferior,And deliberately so.
The students are not taught how to think critically & objectively.
They.are just given stock answers to memorize,they are programmed like an internet search engine that searches for words instead of ideas.
Because they were not taught how to think critically,they can't analyze & evaluate what they memorized! Ask them why what they memorized is true,they can't answer.
Good citizenship is based on the individual's understanding of what was memorized.The individual can't answer the question because he can't analyze what he memorized!
The Scholar the powers found to develop the Education System back in the 1920's was John Dewey.Dewey developed his methods based on his observations of teaching methods in schools In Stalinist Russia in The 1930's.
Imagine,American school teaching with Soviet methods
Granted, the schools don't work (any more, certainly). But also, we are in quite a new environmental era, in information and communication, than a century ago.
Given that, I'd say to get perception and value problems like this addressed once and for all, we need to engage people immediately, directly, interactively, and in a permanent publicly-available (i.e. web) record of (some effective kind of) rank-voted conversations, with non-hierarchical blockchain-like durability and incorruptibility. Then we might have a chance at always being able to capture the moment by pointing, immediately yet perpetually, to the latest best answers. Maybe that could "converge" knowledge so that wrongthink is barely possible.
a very Good answer may be the Montessori Methods for young Children which have developed some fine minds.
How these methods work with 5/6 year olds is beyond me.
But they work!
I see Trump as a modern-day Yeltsin - an immensely brave man who has removed the communists but has no realistic prospect of remedying the damage they have caused.
Read my comment above & forget about Washington!
Unless you foresee secession and repudiation by those seceding of the Federal debt, I’m not sure of the relevance of your comment.
Washington is running a Constitutionally illegal operation
The Federal Government,since 1913,has been operating as a giant Central Government with enormous powers which are unConstitutional! But never really challenged.
The Federal Government has a small legal Mandate in the Constitution for various powers not appropriate for any single state.
The Income tax law,Amendment 16, never received enough votes to be passed,but was pushed thru anyway. "the Law that Never Was"
The Federal Reserve Bank is most likely illegal as a private Central Bank for profit.A private Central Bank controlling Americas Finances with no Constitutional mandate to dio so! See how Washington would Like a multiple Constitutional Crisis!
Neither Party, nor Trump, care one iota about the Constitution. This is because 99% of all federal agencies are illegal. Remember, Trump fired cruise missiles at Syria, which is clearly an act of war, without Congressional Act of War nor did Syria do anything to us. So much for the Constitution. The Constitution is dead and will never be resurrected. The GOP are happy with Big Government, just so long as they are running it.
But you left out one Factor,
The Governments & Leaders of the Sovereign States themselves.
That is why the 17th amendment must be repealed & the state's legislature's
once more return to Congress!
The 17th Amendment will never be repealed, just like so many other things. The IRS, Fed, CIA, NSA, and FBI are going nowhere, nor will they even be reformed. All this euphoria will start dying a quick death come January.
Amazing, just amazing, what has happened here in our country, this transformation of our landscape! This change is big and immediate as we see, and will also be over time. I assiduously avoid all MSM news, but just getting to my email is an act of "I see nothing" with the headlines of CNN, USA Today, etc... So this morning, I saw a CNN headline about Mar-A-Lago patio being a war zone right now, with the deliberations about who will be doing what and where in the next administration. At first, my heart sank a little, because that speaks to me of RINOs/uniparty and old school having a big voice "on the patio". Then I remembered it was CNN, so it's surely massively skewed reporting. Finally, I recalled RFK's likening the upcoming Trump transition and administration to be a "team of rivals", similar to Abraham Lincoln's cabinet. Glass half full with sunlight shining upon it, or a glass half empty in darkness...CNN will report it as the latter.
It goes deeper than many know about.
Trump may destroy the Anglo-American Establishment(Carroll Quigley) that has controlled Washington since the Wilson government in 1913!
MUHAHAHAHAHAHA
That's quite funny. Politicians whip up the voters to get them out and then pull the rug out from under them, just like last time. End endless wars? In 4 years, he couldn't just write Executive Orders pulling the troops home. They weren't constitutional wars, so he could end them this way. Nope. Release the JFK files? Nope.
I am Talking about the Federal Reserve banks control of the American financial system on behalf of WallStreet & The City of London Financial District!
Who do you think told Biden to release the 6 Billion$ to Iran?
Carroll Quigley wrote all about it in his "Anglo American Establishment"
The folks with TDS, weeping crocodile tears, should realize that the grass-roots coalition just elected has deep historical resonance in American populism, before effete elites cemented their oligarchy with the 1913 Banker's Coup d'Etat (IRS, FED, income tax, etc.)
Not one of those things you mentioned will be gone in 4 years. Guaranteed.
Of course not, but a deflection from precipitous decline is, IMHO, a nice option.
Great info, thanks!
Any chance of doing your videos on Rumble instead of YouTube? I don't like signing in there...
He is on Rumble.
Congratulations on your comments that were carried on Fox News. Not very often you see clear heads on any mainstream outlet.
I think you have done a very good job at boiling down the situation to its core. The devil is in the details of course and it certainly will be interesting to see how it plays out.
RFK junior bears watching as he is as serious as a heart attack about gutting the extremely corrupt Pharma complex. The Kennedy’s have a determination gene that tends to lead to a premature demise, because it is the only way to stop them from their chosen missions.
We will see if Trump tries to handcuff him as he did before. There is a lot to tear down for good and a lot to tear down and rebuild. I assume right now there are many moats being built around the vast amount of corrupt institutions that don’t want to disappear.
It isn’t going to be easy, but we don’t move anywhere as a country without some serious remodeling.
Thank you for clarity in a very unclear world.
Excellent post. Thank you.
Praying for more people to wake up and see what REALLY is going on.
Get ready:
The Deep State is slowly gathering the real status/statistics of the USA economy, all to be slowly released after Jan20, all to hinder and undercut Trump and his efforts.
I recommend that you start to re-release ahead of time what has already been released and point out the anomalies and softness of them so it won't come as a total shock.
Peter your the bomb. Love your writings, posts and content. Thank you for bringing sanity to economics to the populist gang. ❤️!
Just a few disconcerting factoids: Under normal times the elected president would face no opposition taking over from the departing administration. Can we honestly say that is going to happen with the Byden democrats?
Then can you tell me exactly how many RINO republicans and other party dissidents in congress are actually going to go full bore and support Trump?
Finally how difficult is it going to be to fill over 4,000 agency positions with people that will truly support Trump? Will any of them be really smart in areas other than politics and government charades?
Not only that, but just putting in the head of an agency does nothing to change it. I can tell you this from the DoD Agency I work for. The military general Director comes and goes, but the top civilian leadership are the ones who are there for decades and bring the new general up to speed in the way they like it. If anyone believes you can put someone in charge at the CIA and change them, they are incredibly naïve.
In his interview with Joe Rogan, President Trump mentioned that his 1st term failure was in vetting & selecting appointees. The number he stated was 10,000. If so, then this is similar to Xenophon's «Anabasis» and that general's struggled march of his 10,000 troops through hostile territories to their homes.
The problem is two-fold: 1) Trump has been a liberal most of his life and so is clueless about potential appointees. 2) He takes advice from all the wrong people.
https://nominees.mahanow.org/t/welcome-to-nominees-for-the-people-forum/5/2
Sorry, he is no Reagan. Not even close. Reagan never called his opponents names like a third-grader and he could laugh at himself at "roast" events. Reagan knew what to say and how to say it. Trump is just the arrogant billionaire who has always been rich and bowed down to and is all about himself. I know Reagan wasn't perfect, but he certainly knew how to act Presidential. Trump claims to admire Reagan, but apparently just cannot think twice before opening his mouth.
If it were Reagan this time he wouldn’t have won. Like it or not Trumps, personality and mouth, when you’re in a knife fight for a nation and your life you don’t platitude.
Sorry, if you cannot articulate your policy differences without calling names like a third grader, you don't belong in the White House. It just shows you have no class or character, which is why he is on Wife #3 and got caught messing around with a Porn Star.
Regan had to play ball,with Bush Senior watching him for the Deep State.Especially after the assassination attempt!
His big achievement,the Star War program that killed the USSR, would not have happened if not for the money the Defense Industry made contracting it!
The worst thing Reagan did was make Bush Senior his VP. Once as President, he pretty much undid everything Reagan did. Remember, he called Reagan's supply side economics, "voodoo economics". Remember how he said, Read my Lips; No new taxes and then he did anyway, which was why he wasn't reelected and we got Clinton. Then we were stupid enough to put another Bush in the White House.
No one is claiming Biden was good, but the Fed brought on the inflation, to be fair., by expanding the money supply during COVID to insane levels never seen before. Once the economy recovered, all that extra money made each dollar worth less. As for successful policies, what exactly were those? Ending the endless wars, letting the public see the JFK assassination files, which would clearly show the government was in it up to their eyeballs, or how about trashing an agreement with Iran which Iran was faithfully adhering to? Maybe it was installing alligators on his staff while claiming he wanted to drain the Swamp? How bout how the tax cuts were permanent for business but temporary for individuals? How about adding $7.2 billion to the National Debt, after claiming he was going to reduce it? How about letting T-Mobile and Sprint merge, thus destroying cellular competition? How about continuing to give Fauci a platform for his nonsense policies like claiming cloth masks work? The fact that Trump never addressed the National Debt or the interest expense which is now higher than the DoD budget, just proves he has no plans to cut spending. If he cuts taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security, all bets are off as to how high the deficit will soar. I say this because we know neither party will cut spending, nor will they until they destroy the Dollar.