The Diversity Officer Employment Aptitude Test

This assessment reveals if you are a good candidate.

by Stanley K. Ridgley for American Greatness

Demand for Diversity Officers may have peaked and may even be on the wane. The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion hustle is running its course and may soon be out of steam, but it’s not too late to collect your share of the loot. This means you shouldn’t delay applying for one of the lucrative positions carrying the generic title of “DEI Officer.” 

While the typical DEI position requires no expertise of any sort, it does require a collection of attitudes toward your fellow men and women, an ability to utter shameless platitudes and clichés, and embrace a clearly identifiable and primitive Manichean worldview grounded in paranoia.

If you aim to become a promising candidate for a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) position, either in the corporate world or in academia, you can easily discover if you have the necessary self-conscious virtue by taking this five-minute employment aptitude survey.

Answer “Yes” to the following statements if you agree, and add or subtract the points assigned for each question based on your Yes answer. Then score yourself by comparing your results with those in the chart at the end. Good luck!

1) I am not appreciated for my many talents. +3

2) I am inherently suspicious of others. +3

3) I believe that America is the land of opportunity. -3

4) I believe that I have access to truths denied to others. +5

5) I believe that I must work hard for my reward. -3

6) I believe in a world that is divided into oppressors and oppressed, exploiters and exploited and that these groups are easily identified by the color of their skin.  +5

7) I believe that I can work to give in-groups preferential treatment while simultaneously saying that there are no racial or gender preferences at our institution. +3

8) I believe that I should bring my “authentic self” to work, irrespective of any other considerations. +5

9) I believe, like Frederick Douglass, that in America, one can pull oneself up “by the bootstraps” to succeed. -7

10) If I fail in my job, I immediately search for the reason in causes external to me, such as the “system” or the “unearned advantages” available to other people. +7

11) If people question me and ask for evidence for what I say, I immediately attack them for their “resistance” to the truth that I offer in my story.  +5

12) I believe that “indigenous” forms of knowledge such as the “medicine wheel” and the “talking stick” should be incorporated into our scientific discourse. +7

13) I always list my pronouns in my email signature and social media profiles. +3

14) I recognize that today’s “Diversity” office resembles the Soviet Union’s old Political Commissariat, where political ideologues occupied positions to report on the political reliability of those who actually worked to accomplish the mission. -10    BONUS POINTS:  If you know this but believe it’s a good thing.  +15

15) Anyone who disagrees with the lofty goals of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” is guilty of “diversity resistance.”  +5

16) I believe that a doctorate in education, sociology, or gender studies is every bit as important and impressive as a doctorate in physics. +3

17) When people respond to my charges of “racism” in a particular company or university, with bothersome requests for evidence, examples, or proof, I complain of being attacked, invalidated, and dehumanized rather than taking the opportunity to prove my point.  +5

18) I believe that “stories” and “narratives” are just as important and as convincing as knowledge grounded in logic, reason, and the scientific method. +7

19) As women are 50 percent more likely to earn bachelor’s degrees than men, this shows we need to do everything we can to support women in higher education. +3

20) I am familiar with the racialist statement “skinfolk aren’t always kinfolk,” and I look with suspicion at persons with whom I share the superficial characteristic of race but who disagree with me. +7

21) I routinely drop the word “systemic” into conversations. +3

22) I use the terms “white supremacy” and “white privilege” comfortably and un-ironically, without awareness that they are equivalent to scapegoat devil terms such as the bourgeoisie, or Kulaks, or International Jewry, or infidels to explain all the bad that happens. +5

23) I believe that the best method for advancing our knowledge and understanding of the physical world is logic, reason, and the type of inquiry we call the scientific method. -10

24) I believe that people like Ijeomo Oluo, Paulo Freire, Ibram Kendi, and Derald Wing Sue have important things to say about our society that get to the inner truth. +5

24) I don’t pay much attention to the fantasies, “stories,” and pseudoscience of Ijeomo Oluo, Paulo Freire, Ibram Kendi, and Derald Wing Sue. -7

25) I believe in something called “diversity science,” which substantiates the basic beneficial tenets of the diversity agenda. +5

26) I believe that “diversity science” is pseudo-scientific twaddle fabricated by off campus nonprofits and imported into universities and the corporate world. -10

27) The Brazilian educationist Paulo Freire and his Pedagogy of the Oppressedinspires me to work for social justice, emancipation, and against oppression in all its forms.  +5

28) I know that Paulo Freire was a crypto-Maoist who borrowed almost all of his education theory from Mao Zedong’s murderous Cultural Revolution, which Freire greatly admired. -5 BONUS POINTS:  If you know this but believe it’s a good thing.  +15 .

29) I believe any disagreement with my worldview can be overcome with more “education.” +3

30) I divide society into “oppressors” and “oppressed,” “exploiters” and “exploited,” and I know that this is a primitive Manichean way of looking at society that resembles a medievalist world divided into “infidels” and “believers.”  +5 BONUS POINTS:  If you do this and believe it’s a good thing.  +5

31) I believe in “inclusion and belonging” as fervently as any member of Reverend Moon’s Unification Church believes in “peace and unity.” +3

32) I believe that I have attained “critical consciousness” and that those who disagree with my ideology are afflicted with “false consciousness” and must be taught to embrace a new belief system. +5

33) I believe that “critical consciousness” and “false consciousness” constitute a tautological contrivance that updates Karl Marx’s notion of “class consciousness” for race and gender sensibilities. -5  BONUS POINTS: I recognize that critical consciousness is the latest play on Plato’s cave allegory from his Republic of the 4th century B.C. -5  DOUBLE-BONUS POINTS:  If you know the foregoing and believe they are good things. +15

I don’t know who Plato is. +10

34) I believe that the poetry of Audre Lorde is profound, particularly her “master’s tools” line. +2

35) I recognize that Audre Lorde’s “master’s tools” line is pedestrian. -7

36) “Inclusion and belonging” sounds too close to a cult slogan for me to feel comfortable with it. -7

37) I believe that I should be called “Doctor” just like Jill Biden because I wrote a 120-page “dissertation” for my Ed.D. that explores my feelings about the education program I just completed, and which required zero research.  +7

38) I am thrilled—thrilled—that “I finally get to use my master’s degree” in educational leadership to bring people to critical consciousness.  +3

And we Know, On the Fringe, and more- April 26

 

Revolution of Color

Let's do a little regime change, 

one red state at a time.

by Peachy Keenan for the American Mind

Did you happen to notice that what should have been an obvious moral victory for the Right a few weeks ago—when a transgender lunatic in Tennessee murdered six Christians—became instead, a civil rights triumph for the far Left? 

Instead of seeing headlines afterwards like “Left-wing terror targets innocent people for their religious beliefs during an apparent left-wing hate crime,” we got headlines about the racist Tennessee Republicans who expelled two black state representatives. 

Somehow a wanton slaughter of Christian children was miraculously transfigured into a “we shall overcome” second coming of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X, in the comical figure of Representative Justin Pearson.

What should have been a huge blow to the left, a total PR disaster, a massacre at the hand of one of their own, became instead a win. The narrative was written and signed off before the slow-moving Right even had a chance to get its act together. 

Murderess Audrey Hale, many suggest, had likely been incited to terror by the “Transgender Day of Vengeance” that radical activists were planning in the wake of Tennessee’s new popular law banning pediatric penis removal surgery.

In response, Pearson and others incited an insurrection around gun control in the state assembly, effectively shutting it down, and were then thrown out for breaking the rules. Terrified, the assembly then let them back in after it became, somehow, inexplicably, a civil rights issue around “white supremacy,” as Pearson declared. 

Congratulations, Tennessee: you have been color revolutioned!

Never let a crisis go to waste!

Color Me Yours

Color revolutions have finally come to the United States, courtesy of our leaders. The target is clear: weak red state governments which are going to be toppled, one by one. 

The official definition of color revolution is that it’s “the term used for popular uprisings against authoritarian regimes, such as those that took place in former Soviet countries such as Ukraine and Georgia in the early and mid-2000s.”

Revolver News Editor Darren Beattie had a slightly different definition of color revolution. It’s “a regime change model favored by many in our national security apparatus, particularly against Eastern European countries, to overthrow target regimes they don’t like.” 

Each of these political uprisings involves large crowds carrying flags and banners in one color, like the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine.

Our flag color, of course, is the intersectional rainbow. The seizure-inducing Progress Pride flag—with new stripes added to the rainbow to represent black, brown, and transgender people—is the new American revolution flag. All left-wing actions will be wrapped up in it, the way Sylvester Stallone wrapped himself in the flag at the end of Rocky IV.

The handful of states still resisting the regime are dissident traitors, doing what they can to stop the onslaught of vibrant progress everywhere, all at once. They’re like the French Resistance blowing up a few train tracks here and there across the countryside—just enough to enrage the enemy, but not enough to force a surrender, let alone stop all the trains.

Rittenhouse Redux

The wily supervillains on the other side have gotten even better at flexing this muscle since they started openly revolution-flexing in 2020. The rainbow-BLM coalition, the swinging hammer arm of the Regime, now swarms anyone who disrespects the hive. Every news event becomes just one more deployment of their shock rainbow troops to flood the zone and take no prisoners.

In 2020, Floyd protests against the police quickly transformed into “Black Trans Lives Matter” parades. During the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, millions of people were shocked to find out that Kyle had not in fact sprayed bullets into a crowd of innocent protestors and killed three black people, but instead had shot three white men who chased and attacked him. 

They probably also were surprised to learn that Kyle had been in Kenosha, Wisconsin, helping protect terrified local business owners. The previous night, you will recall, peaceful BLM protestors had looted and burned to the ground half the town. They were mad about a local cop shooting serial domestic abuser Jacob Blake while he was resisting arrest, holding a knife, and attempting to kidnap his girlfriend’s children. 

What should have been a conversation about why Jacob Blake was not in jail and why rioters were allowed to burn down half of the city became, instead, incredibly, a story about a racist white kid who terrorized the noble protestors with his AR-15.

Pride Cometh

In response to the horrific shooting in nearby Nashville, what did the Franklin, Tennessee city council decide to vote on last week?

Hosting a new Pride parade through the center of town! Franklin is a quiet, idyllic little town just south of where the Covenant school shooting took place, and according to friends who fled California for new, more peaceful lives there, no one wants or needs more Pride in town.

But the mayor surrendered, naturally, and bent the knee to the trans activists, perhaps in fear they would wreak even more vengeance against a local school. He voted to break the tie and allow the upcoming parade. 

A friend in Franklin sent me this: “​​What isn’t being reported is that businesses and companies spoke out against the parade. There has been a small gay festival outside town the last two years, and it was not well attended, and very small. This is just an outside activist push. The majority of the city is pretty upset. They were upset last year when there were drag performances in town. The city is being targeted, but there is no desire among the populace for this. [The Pride parade people] wanted the whole downtown this year.” 

And that’s exactly what they’re going to get.

Audrey Hale, you did not die in vain!

Swan Song of the South

Did you happen to notice where California Governor Gavin Newsom spent his children’s spring break this year? He didn’t drag them to a fancy resort or skiing in Big Sky, but took them to Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Florida. 

I guess rich white kids from Marin are clamoring to tour the Rosa Parks Museum this year. They can’t get enough Baptist church visits! Little Dutch and Montana Newsom are super into gospel music these days, I hear.

Newsom’s tour of the Deep South tells you exactly what this color revolution will be: deep blue. “Activists today should draw inspiration from the Civil Rights Movement in ‘the rollback of progress’ in red states.”

Newsom remarked that: “At the end of the day, that’s what’s going to be required of us to address so much of the Right’s regression, so much of the rollback of the progress that we’ve all enjoyed—the national advancement of rights in the last 50 years,” he said. “We have a lot of work to do to build a movement to counter what’s happening in red states across this country.”

Newsom’s message to the ruby-red south is: your color revolution is coming, hicks. If you step out of line, if you “roll back progress” so much as an inch, you will be quashed, overthrown, humiliated, and suppressed by the revolutionaries. You will be taught a lesson, spanked in public, and ritually tarred, and feathered.

“Newsom [also] plans to visit Indiana, Southern Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota and Texas to further his effort.” You have been warned!

Newsom’s tour of the south was tied to his newly launched “Campaign For Democracy.” The copy from his official website is literally textbook color revolution boilerplate:  

“The Campaign for Democracy was founded to expose and fight rising authoritarianism across the nation. We believe that all patriotic Americans must go on offense in red states as well as blue states, bringing the fight to statehouses, local communities, electoral battlegrounds, and our nation’s capital to save the great American experiment in democracy.” [Italics are mine.]

You’re about to find out what color California really is, America, and it isn’t golden anymore.

Tucker Carlson Had One Hell of a Run

I do not believe this is the last we’ll see of Tucker Carlson, 
but if it is, it was one hell of a run.

by Carpe Diem for American Greatness

The stunning announcement on Monday that Fox News and Tucker Carlson have parted ways was about as shocking and unexpected as Michael Jordan’s first retirement.

Like everything involving Carlson, the news elicited vociferous reactions from both sides of the aisle.Talking heads on the Left rejoiced that the only individual they abhor as much as Donald J. Trump has been canceled and silenced—for now.

Most on the Right were overcome with a sense of sadness, as if we had just lost a favorite uncle. The charming, exceptionally witty and highly intelligent individual who we watched religiously over the last six years had suddenly disappeared without any warning.

The opening monologues that we made a point of never missing are now gone, creating a 15-minute void that will be difficult to fill.

How on earth could Fox Corporation let the most popular prime time cable news anchor, one who regularly averaged over 3 millions viewers per night, and one of the few bright stars on an otherwise vapid network just simply walk away?

The details, as of this writing, are nebulous and still emerging.

Maybe it had to do with the Dominion lawsuit that Fox recently settled for $787.5 million.

Maybe Carlson would be forced to issue a retraction regarding his opinion of what we were told was the safest, most secure election in history.

Maybe it’s because he released footage of January 6 that counteracted the lies and deceptions from Democrats and the propagandists in the corporate media about what really happened that day.

Or maybe, Carlson would be forced to concede editorial control over what stories he could and could not cover.

We will find out what happened soon enough, but right now, none of that even matters.

It matters not one iota that Fox News will continue to run a profitable business in the absence of Carlson.

It does not matter in the slightest that there will always be a demand for Fox as long as ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS continue to fill their airwaves with race baiting leftist malcontents and miscreants.

It does not matter that Fox will continue to reach a sizable audience, even with conservative alternatives like Newsmax, OANN, and RSBN gaining traction.

The only thing that matters is that Fox  just let the highest rated and arguably the most important conservative voice walk away without any viable replacement. 

Watching Fox without Tucker Carlson is like watching The Beatles without Paul McCartney or John Lennon. It’s like going to a steakhouse and ordering the vegan option.

There was no one better in the cable news industry than Carlson, and it really is not up for debate.

No single political commentator riled up the Left and garnered as much vitriol as Carlson did, which is why last May, the Marxists over at the New York Timesdisgorged themselves of more than 20,000 words in an effort to smear and vilify him and his viewers. Nicholas Confessore, the author of that astonishingly asinine hit piece wrote that Carlson, “has constructed what may be the most racist show in the history of cable news,” but conceded that it was, “by some measures, the most successful.”

In reality the Left is threatened by Carlson, because he exposed just how corrupt, sinister and anti-American the leaders of that benighted ideology are. He showed how much disdain the Left has for the free expression of ideas, and for blue collar Americans. He proved that belonging to a marginalized group  is not enough to make one immune from criticism. He accurately pointed out that no entity is more historically bigoted than the party that fought to keep slavery alive and continues to divide us by race and skin color every single day.

Carlson was also crucified by the Left for pointing out that the entire Black Lives Matter movement, in which people were killed and businesses were burned to the ground in the wake of the George Floyd protests, was a complete farce. He wondered rhetorically how it helps middle class Americans to allow unvetted illegal immigrants to pour across our border, and why we should deliberately destroy our economy and relinquish control of our lives to a health bureaucrat because of COVID. He challenged Republicans to be better at their jobs, and to actually pretend to care about the issues that matter to their constituents, as much as they care about what the Washington Post writes about them.

But above all else, Carlson is authentic. He knows exactly who he is.

That could not have been more evident to me than it was when I had an opportunity to sit in the studio during a live episode back in 2019. It was apparent that, unlike a lot of other hosts, Carlson really does listen to what his guests have to say, even if he does not necessarily agree with them. He does not put himself on some pedestal knowing that millions of people are watching and hanging on his every word. As I observed, he spoke as if he were just talking to myself and the other four people who were in the studio.

Without Carlson, there will no longer be any unique perspectives, combined with clarity, comedy and entertainment on Fox. Instead, we’ll just be treated to the same recycled Sean Hannity soundbites that have become as stale as a year old box of Wheat Thins.

I do not believe this is the last we’ll see of Tucker Carlson, but if it is, it was one hell of a run.

Scott Presler's Strategies Could Propel the GOP to Victory in 2024, but Are Republicans Ready to Change?

posted by Jeff Charles at RedStateVIP 

Scott Presler, a prominent conservative activist and probably the hardest-working man in Republican politics, recently made recommendations for the Republican Party to adopt new strategies in the upcoming 2024 elections. He believes that if Republicans solely rely on traditional voting methods and do not actively engage in voter registration, ballot harvesting, and Get Out the Vote (GOTV) initiatives, they will risk losing to the Democrats, who have been known to employ these tactics effectively.

In a post on Twitter, Presler acknowledges that in the 2020 elections, there were issues with machine errors in some polling locations, such as in Maricopa County, Arizona, which led to concerns about the integrity of the election process. To mitigate the impact of these issues, he advocates for the Republican Party to proactively build “robust” operations for voter registration and ballot harvesting.

Ballot harvesting is a practice in which individuals or organizations collect and deliver ballots on behalf of others, typically for voters who may have difficulty returning their ballots themselves, such as elderly, disabled, or homebound individuals. It involves collecting completed ballots from voters and delivering them to polling stations or election offices.

Proponents argue that it can increase voter turnout and accessibility, particularly among marginalized communities. However, critics, especially on the right, raise concerns about potential fraud, manipulation, and coercion in the process, as well as challenges to the transparency and security of the election process.

Ballot harvesting regulations vary by state, with some states allowing or even encouraging the practice, while others have restrictions or outright bans on it. Nevertheless, Democrats have used it to great effect during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In his tweet, the activist emphasizes the importance of focusing on GOTV initiatives, which aim to mobilize and encourage voters to cast their ballots. These initiatives typically involve grassroots efforts to reach out to voters, engage with them, and ensure that they are registered and motivated to participate in the elections. He suggested that a strong GOTV operation can be a game-changer in securing electoral victories.

Furthermore, the activist stresses the need for the Republican Party to welcome and engage with Generation Z, the youngest generation of eligible voters. He suggests that the party should appeal to Gen Z by focusing on issues that directly impact their quality of life, such as the economy, education, and job opportunities.

By prioritizing these issues and actively involving Gen Z in their efforts, he believes that Republicans can expand their base and improve their chances of success in future elections. This might be a tall order considering that the GOP has struggled to attract younger voters.

While the responses to Presler’s suggestions were mostly in agreement with his remarks, there were still plenty who opposed his ideas. They argue that ballot harvesting can open the door to potential voter fraud and manipulation, as it involves collecting and handling other people’s ballots. Some also believe that relying too heavily on GOTV initiatives and other unconventional tactics can be seen as desperate measures that undermine the integrity of the electoral process.

It is also worth noting that Presler mentioned reaching out to Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel about this and has received no response. In fact, he said he has been trying to get a response from McDaniel for “11 consecutive days” without an answer.

Despite the controversy surrounding these recommendations, it is clear Scott Presler is passionate about the Republican Party’s success in the upcoming 2024 elections. To many, it has been abundantly clear that the GOP needs to adapt to the changing times and develop new strategies to engage with voters effectively.

Whether or not his ideas gain widespread support within the party remains to be seen, but his call for a more proactive and multi-pronged approach to winning elections has sparked important discussions about the future of the Republican Party’s electoral strategies. The real question is this: Is the GOP base ready to push its leaders to start evolving their tactics?

How The Bull Moose Project Injects Teddy Roosevelt’s Fight Into The New Right

Republican’s growing embrace of populism gives the Bull Moose Project a ground-floor opportunity to carve out a vital niche.

by Samuel Mangold Lenett for The Federalist

During the Parisian leg of his post-presidential European tour, Theodore Roosevelt delivered a speech titled “Citizenship in a Republic,” in which he noted, “Credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again, and again … but who does actually strive to do the deeds.” This would go on to become one of his most famous speeches, inspiring generations of American statesmen and those hoping to emulate them.

This past week, the Bull Moose Project, a recently formed political organization, held its first-ever candidate leadership summit. Aspiring officeholders from around the country assembled to receive training on how to run their campaigns. The 50-or-so summit attendees were enthusiastic and notably young, predominantly in their early 20s, with many already in the throes of running for office. The organization, according to its website, is dedicated to training, supporting, and electing the next generation of American statesmen while further building out the burgeoning conservative populist movement. And if it wasn’t already apparent from its name, the group draws considerable inspiration from the 26th president.

Summit attendees heard from early torchbearers of the New Right in the form of current officeholders, like West Virginia Delegate Riley Keaton and Missouri State Rep. Chris Lonsdale, as well as former candidates, such as Stefano Forte of New York and Florida’s Anthony Sabatini — all of whom first ran for office in their 20s and are currently younger than 40.

Battle-tested policy experts like Mark Krikorian, the executive director at the Center for Immigration Studies; Mike Howell, the Heritage Foundation’s oversight project director; and Jeff Clark, the director of litigation at the Center for Renewing America; as well as younger think-tankers such as Thomas Hochman, a budding energy wonk; and Jake Denton a tech policy researcher at Heritage fleshed out potential policy prescriptions for the conservative populist movement. The general consensus was that an immediate course reversal with a drastic emphasis on domestic production of essentially everything, a surprisingly possible goal, is paramount not just to conservative political success but to American national survival.

But so what? An ideologically oriented organization attempting to embolden similarly inclined allies isn’t exactly new.

The reality of the situation is that the Bull Moose Project plays a unique role in the world of conservative politics. Being a young organization run by younger adults, the organization punches significantly above its weight, and the largely unoccupied space Bull Moose fills on the still-developing New Right — candidate recruitment and retention — is one that must be stepped into if the ideology is to have any hope of longevity.

Developing a farm system of candidates, so to speak, is necessary for every political movement. No one sets the ship’s course by hosting podcasts and writing white papers; people have to get elected to implement the vision. And by developing a network of like-minded individuals who eagerly await the opportunity to step into the ring, there are more chances conservative populism remains electorally viable. At the least, it retains more messengers who want to hold office.

When speaking with The Federalist, Aiden Buzzetti, the organization’s president, highlighted the importance of investing in the leadership of future generations.

He said, “The [leadership summit] brought current and future candidates together from 17 states and featured campaign and policy experts to help us achieve our goal of developing future statesmen for the conservative movement. We want to provide them with the knowledge and resources necessary to run for office and win, so they can enact legislative change that will ensure a brighter future for future generations.”

But beyond this, the Bull Moose Project has found itself wrapped up in the ongoing realignment of the Republican Party. The organization’s ability to develop a sizable following of ideologically aligned and enthusiastic activists while garnering support from some of the most influential institutions in conservative politics — like the Heritage Foundation, who sponsored the event — indicates that the organization’s “America First” approach to domestic issues is in sync with both the grassroots and the larger political framework of conservative politics. The Bull Moose Project has presented itself as yet another foil to the rapidly eroding neoconservatism of the old guard.

Opposition to this cultural and economic populism appears to be among the main criticisms of the organization. But even so, it remains unclear whether objections to the organization are inspired by revulsion to populist aesthetics or because of genuine ideological disagreement.

It is clear, however, that Bull Moose’s supporters are unfazed by the pushback from the organization’s detractors. And why ought they be? The intellectual and activist wings of the conservative movement have enthusiastically and repeatedly endorsed the New Right’s philosophical framework as the most viable option for staving off leftist insanity and as a means for the preservation of ordered liberty.

Speaking with The Federalist, Ziven Havens, the group’s policy director, said, “People attempt to mischaracterize the stances and goals of the Bull Moose Project, but our intentions are clear. We are working to equip candidates with the practical skills and policy knowledge needed to become effective leaders in their communities.”

Conventional wisdom tells us most candidates don’t succeed the first time they run for office, and factoring in the majority of the summit attendees’ youth, probable lack of political capital, and incumbent opponents, each one will likely be facing a series of uphill battles. A crucial part of running for office is being prepared for the possibility of very publicly having egg on your face. But, as Roosevelt said in Paris, if a man is to fail, “[he] at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Bull Moose’s leadership summit might yield great results; we’ll have to wait until the ballots are in to find out. But what can’t be denied is that the people behind the Bull Moose Project walked directly into the arena and have yet to look for the exit.

First Lady Melania Trump Celebrates 53rd Birthday Today

     

Happy Birthday First Lady Melania Trump  

Florida Senate Creates Amendment Nullifying “Resign to Run” Law Specifically for DeSantis

posted by Sundance at Conservative Treehouse 

The depth of effort to manipulate the American electorate, to continue the Big Club objective & illusion of choice, is remarkable when you stand back and look at the totality of it.

It is not surprising when you understand how committed the power centers are; in fact, it’s just another step in a predictable sequence of events.  However, for those who cling to disbelief out of their mistaken need to bury acceptance, the reality of the constructs become empirical data points in the awakening.

As predicted, the Florida Senate has introduced a change to the vote and candidate laws in Florida [Bill #7050, Amendment text line #1030 to 1038] specifically constructed so that Ron DeSantis can announce his 2024 presidential candidacy without resigning from office. The language will exempt anyone who is pursuing the office of President or Vice President of the United States from statutory requirements to resign-to-run.

“The amendments made to s. 99.012, Florida Statutes, by this act are intended to clarify existing law,” the new language stipulates.

“Any person seeking the office of President or Vice President of the United States is not subject to the requirements of chapter 99, Florida Statutes, which govern candidate qualifying, specifically those which require the submission of certain documents, full and public disclosures of financial interests, petition signatures, or the payment of filing fees. This section shall take effect upon this act becoming a law.” [Amendment line #1030 to 1038]

The intent of the ‘resign to run’ law, is exactly to address the issue of divided loyalties within the framework of what is happening right now.  Ron DeSantis has not been focused on the issues of Florida and has instead been focused on his own personal political and career advancement.  Changing the law is how the professional political club within Florida politics is trying to assist the group behind him.

Currently, F.S. Chapter 99 reads: (4)(a) Any officer who qualifies for federal public office must resign from the office he or she presently holds if the terms, or any part thereof, run concurrently with each other. (b) The resignation is irrevocable.  The DeSantis alliance within the Florida legislature is literally rewriting law to help him achieve the goals and objectives of the multinational corporations, Wall Street hedge funds and Sea Island billionaire donors who are trying to retain control.

This is all one long continuum that CTH has been highlighting ever since we saw it begin in 2022.  The origins of this plan date even further back into 2021, and potentially all the way back to when DeSantis first left the legislative branch in 2018 to run for the Florida Governor’s office.

If you overlay the mass resignations from the 2018 mid-term election, consider the motives and agenda of then House Speaker Paul Ryan at the same moment in time; another one of the people who would rather lose an election than lose control of the right wing of the UniParty to an America-First agenda; then a great deal of sunlight flows into the picture.

Tanking the 2018 midterms to generate an anti-Trump coalition in the House and Senate; then doing everything to lose the 2020 election from an institutional perspective; then attempting to weaken the 2022 midterm outcome, with specific focus to create a scenario where DeSantis looks like a localized election hero, presents a Big Club motive that starts to clarify.

The RNC and DNC are two private corporations inside the U.S. political system.   Together they create the two wings of the Uniparty apparatus that faces forward to the U.S. electorate via the Potemkin Village of Washington DC.  It is the financial agents behind the DC construct that really control the seats of power.

The DNC is ideologically motivated.  The RNC is financially motivated.  The DNC uses money to get power, the RNC uses power to get money.  The ideology of the DNC drives their donor activity, while the donor activity of the RNC drives their political ideology.   This is the primary difference between the two corporations.

Everything the RNC does, and that includes everything within the apparatus of the professional Republican establishment, is created to facilitate access to the maximum amount of money possible.  The RNC doesn’t have ideological goals or objectives – their quest, and the objective of the donors who control it, is the assembly of money.

From that position, everything else takes on a dimension of clarity.   The multinational corporations who weaponize the Republican political apparatus, do so in the quest for coin, bigger and bigger vaults of wealth.   Because the goal of money drives their ideology, the RNC carries no social, economic, or cultural platform that is not in alignment with the assembly of finance.

Democrats, who are ideologically striving to fundamentally change the construct of America, know the money is the objective of the Republican corporate system.  As a result the DNC side of the equation can simply purchase the acquiescence of the Republican members.  The UniParty exists within this dynamic.   Democrat ideological goals are achieved, and Republican bank accounts are fattened.

This dynamic is the source of every element of opposition we encounter, including the recent moves by Fox Corp (Rupert Murdoch) to eliminate Tucker Carlson and simultaneously fuel the Dominion System vote manipulation.   It is all connected.

There is no Republican system to collect envelopes, because the Republican apparatus is more concerned about filling their bank accounts.  It really just becomes that simple.

DeSantis has been positioned to facilitate this agenda.  He is their tool to maintain the illusion within the electoral process.  They abhor the America First economic agenda because it is nationalist in structure and does not facilitate globalist expansion and multinational corporate control.

Inside this dynamic, there are trillions at stake.  Donald Trump must be eliminated.