Thursday, November 14, 2024
The Deep State War Against Donald Trump Begins
In a video posted on X on November 7, 2024, two days after the election, Trump detailed a plan to dismantle the Deep State. In this three-minute video, Trump explained how he would take a series of measures to “shatter the Deep State.”
In this video, Trump made the same mistake JFK made when JFK said he was going to break the CIA into a thousand pieces after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. By announcing his intention in advance, JFK signed his death warrant. Trump has now declared war on the Deep State as president-elect.
Because he spoke before he was inaugurated, giving him the power to act, Trump alerted the Deep State that he represented an existential threat to its survival. The bottom line is that the Deep State cannot afford for Trump to become president on January 20, 2025.
Trump put the Deep State on notice that his first order of business was to investigate and prosecute in three areas:
1. The two assassination attempts on his life, with its indisputable charge that some in the Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security showed criminal negligence, forcing those individuals to cooperate with the special counsel;
2. The weaponization of the DOJ, the FBI, and certain intelligence agencies against President Trump’s 2016 and 2024 campaigns and Trump personally, going back to 2015, with emphasis upon exposing the truth about the “Russia collusion hoax” and the Mueller investigation farce; and
3. The voter fraud that stole the 2020 presidential election, based on the discovery of secret cryptographic algorithms embedded in State Board of Elections voter registration files to facilitate the creation, hiding, and voting of falsified “voters” to be available for use in various election fraud schemes, with particular focus on mail-in ballot irregularities.
Furthermore, one of the biggest threats to the CIA and the intelligence agencies is Trump’s unyielding determination to declassify documents that will jeopardize many agencies’ existence, including the DOJ, FBI, DHS, CIA, and NSA. The documents released will reveal many hidden intelligence agency conspiracies, including the effort to hide the Hunter laptop story from damaging Biden’s chance of victory in 2020, in particular, the statement by more than 50 former intelligence agents that the Hunter laptop was Russian disinformation. Exploring intelligence agency misdeeds and failures back to the 2012 Benghazi terror attack would be a horror show for scores of top intelligence agency officials, as well as Obama and Biden administration senior officials.The Deep State alternatives are limited: either devise a scheme that denies Trump the presidency, hopefully eliminating the Electoral College in the process, or, if nothing else works, the only other alternative will be to utilize the entire law enforcement and military power of the Deep State to assassinate Trump.
On November 10, Judge Juan Merchan granted Trump’s motion to stay the November 12 hearing at which he was to decide whether the Supreme Court’s July decision on presidential immunity requires him to vacate the guilty verdict in Trump’s criminal hush-money case. The judge’s order also put a stay on the November 26 sentencing date in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case. Trump’s lawyers argued that granting a stay for both dates was “necessary to avoid unconstitutional impediments to President Trump’s ability to govern.” Judge Merchan’s order did not specify new dates for either the decision on immunity or the sentencing.
Given that a New York County court is outside the reach of the DOJ’s policy against prosecuting cases against sitting presidents, Department of Justice’s jurisdiction, Judge Merchan can dismiss the case, delay it until Trump leaves the White House, or order Trump to appear for his sentencing and, if he does not, put out a warrant for his immediate arrest and imprisonment.
Trump’s attorney, Mike Davis, made the last possibility less likely by openly challenging New York Attorney General Letitia James during a November 7 interview. “I dare you to continue your lawfare against President Trump,” Davis said. “In his second term...because, listen here, sweetheart, we’re not messing around this time. And we will put your fat ass in prison for conspiracy against rights. I promise you that. So, think long and hard before you want to violate President Trump’s constitutional rights or any other American’s constitutional rights. It’s not going to happen again.”
If Judge Merchan ignores Davis’s warning, his decision to proceed with the sentencing, could trigger Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots that would rival or exceed 2020’s street violence. The mainstream media, parroting CIA narratives, would exploit the Trump incarceration with a frenzy of news stories pressing the electors in the Electoral College not to cast their votes for imprisoned felon Donald Trump.
With the CIA blackmailing some 40 electors to vote along with the anti-Trump electors, the Electoral College will be unable to cast enough votes to elect either Trump or Kamala Harris. The election would be thrown into the House of Representatives, with the proceedings rapidly devolving into a circus. With the Electoral College in limbo and the House of Representatives in turmoil, the mainstream media would begin pushing for a constitutional amendment to eliminate the Electoral College.
If you think getting two-thirds of the House and Senate to vote for the amendment is hard, think again. A panicked Congress faced with a country burned by Antifa and Black Lives Matter, street brawls, chaos in the cities, and, eventually, martial law may find enough GOP members of the House and Senate to reach the two-thirds vote required to send the amendment to the State legislatures for ratification. A CIA willing to blackmail Electoral College electors would undoubtedly be willing to blackmail members of Congress and senators.
Trump can take steps to prevent this worst-case scenario from becoming a reality. First, Trump can fire his entire New York legal team—a team that did not defend Trump successfully at trial—the same team that has no legal strategy to block Judge Merchan from going ahead with the sentencing hearing. Next, Trump needs to hire one or more top constitutional lawyers to prepare an emergency motion as fast as possible with the Supreme Court, requesting that sentencing be postponed until Trump’s appeals take their course.
Trump should seek to replace all the current electors in the Electoral College with a demand to be allowed to submit the new electors to extreme vetting. At the same time, Trump can demand a total forensic recount of all GOP candidates who lost their race for a House seat by less than two percent. The suspicion is that the Democrats used cryptographic algorithms to steal close down-ballot races by voting false “nonexistent voters.”
Finally, under no condition should Trump appear in a New York City courtroom (or anywhere else in New York City) until after January 20, 2025. A Trump decision to continue directing the transition from within the confines of Mar-a-Lago until Inauguration Day would be prudent.Y
Trump Must Make America the 80s Again
The Trump 2.0 administration is coming in like gangbusters with a bunch of good appointments, plus Kristi Noem – I only hope she treats the ridiculous Department of Homeland Security like she treated her uppity puppy – but 47 needs to focus on one key thing. It’s the one thing that makes everything else work. It’s the centerpiece, the keystone if you will – and why he won the Keystone State.
He must fix the economy. He must make it work for the members of the unprecedented coalition that came together to elect him. Yeah, they were tired of woke nonsense, tired of being abused, and tired of seeing America pushed around, but mostly, they were tired of seven-dollar butter. Everything else depends on him fixing the economy. If President Trump doesn’t get that right, he fails.
We basically need to reboot the 1980s.
That’s not to say that other issues aren’t important. He must keep those promises, too. But fixing the other problems is necessary, not sufficient. If Trump comes and fixes the border but allows the economy to tank, he’s going lose the midterms and then the 2028 election and, pretty soon, the people who want to chop your kids’ genitals off to conform to the delusions of local wine women are going to be in charge again.
If Trump fixes our military and restores our standing in the world but lets the economy tank, we’re going to lose the coming elections, and everything is going to go to hell around the world. China will get Taiwan. Iran will get the bomb. Israel will get shafted.
If Trump uses a firehose to clean out the DOJ and wipe away the fascists who weaponized our government against normal people and their right to speak but allows the economy to tank, we’re going to lose the next elections, and Elon Musk will be only the first of many sent to the camps.
Everything hinges on the economy. Everything.
His goal must be achieving the kind of economy we had under Ronald Reagan. And yeah, the first two years of Ronald Reagan’s reign were rough. It was difficult and painful repairing the damage of Joe Biden 1.0 – a.k.a. Jimmy Carter – and a lot of people got upset. But then America got back to work. America started kicking tail. America got out of the doldrums. When people feel prosperous, they feel good. It’s morning in America. The American 80s Golden Era wasn’t just because we were standing up to the Russians or because our music was so amazingly awesome. It was because we knew the future was bright and we were powerful and prosperous. That’s why Ronald Reagan won every state in 1984 – I still refuse to count Minnesota as an actual state.
What does President Trump need to do? He needs to make the tax cuts permanent and expand them. He needs to end taxes on tips – promises made must be promises kept. He needs to unleash the energy sector. He needs to slash regulations to allow companies to grow. And he needs to cut the deficit to help lower interest rates.
We haven’t seen or heard much yet about the economy during the transition. As of this writing, he hasn’t appointed any of his economic team. The other stuff is getting all the attention. The regime media wants to talk about innocent abuelas being tossed into the back of trucks and shipped to Ciudad Juarez. And sure, that’s awesome – I don’t care if you’re a grandmother; if you’re an illegal alien, you need to be deported. But that’s not the biggest thing. That’s not the central, essential task for the president. It will just get all the press. You’ll see all the pictures of crying illegals being sent back to their homelands, but that’s not the show.
The show is the economy. The show is making American citizens able to support themselves and their families. If President Trump fails to do that, nothing else matters. All the great stuff we’re going to see, from purging wokeness to school choice to banning mutilation to closing the border to making the military deadly again, can all be undone in a wave of a pen should the Democrats take power. If we don’t keep the House and Senate in 2026, it doesn’t quite neuter Trump, but it sure limits his possibilities. And in 2028, when Trump is not on the ticket, these lunatics are going to try to elect somebody who makes AOC look like Stephen Miller. You’ve seen them. They’ve not only learned nothing from their humiliating defeat, they’ve learned all the wrong lessons. They think the answer is to double and triple down with their petty fascism and their leftist insanity. All the stuff that Trump is going to fix will be unfixed on Day One of the Newsom presidency if he doesn’t make the economy great again.
Now, the good news is that President Trump has made the economy hum before. We had the greatest economy in 40 years before the COVID thing and the bureaucracy’s idiotic reaction to it. Trump’s a businessman, and business is important to him. He won’t set the economy on the back burner and hope it gets better while playing at foreign policy like some presidents named Bush did. Both Bushes tanked on economic issues. But Trump is good on this. He understands that the economy is central to everything. It’s a lot of us who look at the bright shiny things like transsexuals in camouflage and border jumpers flooding our city streets who forget that these things, while critical, are not the central thing.
And remember, fixing immigration, the military, and the administrative state all support a better economy. When we get immigration right, wages go up, but we also have a manageable and sensible system that brings in necessary immigrants who actually contribute to America and American prosperity. Plus, we won’t be spending hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing people who shouldn’t be here in the first place through leftist NGOs that shouldn’t exist in the first place. For the military, we need to rebuild our arsenal, particularly by building ships. These create great jobs that don’t require a degree in gender studies, the kind of jobs that kind of people who supported Donald Trump would love to do and would be paid well to do. And for the administrative state, when we cut the power of the bureaucrats, we also cut the red tape that holds our economy and our entrepreneurs back. Trump is already making a smart move by appointing Elon and Vivek to run DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, to figure out what doesn’t work in government and to slash it ruthlessly. Of course, we need a Congress that’s not going to be business as usual – and Trump won’t accept business as usual. We need fundamental change, and that fundamental change is changing America back to the kind of America those of us who are Gen Xers or late-Boomers grew up in. We need a return to the 1980s. We demand a return to the 1980s. And we can have that again. We can have that energy. We can have that feeling. We can have that economy. We can have that America. And if Donald Trump wants to succeed, he’s got to give it to us.
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Forty Percent of Young Women Voted for Trump, Proving Rights and Values Transcend Abortion
The Circle at Tufts University focuses on studying civic engagement. After the epic win by President-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 election, The Circle analyzed AP exit polling and discovered some interesting findings about the youth vote.
The significant shift in youth vote choice (+25 for President Biden over President Trump in 2020, +6 for Harris over Trump in 2024) can be examined and explained in different ways. In other analyses, we have focused on demographic shifts; for example, young men and white youth both preferred Biden in 2020 and Trump in 2024. We have also looked at the salience of issues like the economy, which was young people’s top priority and drove the youth vote for Trump.
One other way to examine and explain this shift is the partisan and ideological makeup of the electorate. Compared to 2020, young voters in 2024 were more likely to identify as conservative and as Republican. And the young moderates who cast ballots were more likely to vote for Trump.
Forty-three percent of women 18-29 voted for President-elect Trump. Vice President and selected Democrat nominee Kamala Harris was banking on young women's upset over Dobbs and the falsehood of "reproductive rights" being threatened. However, the post-election analysis shows that women in general weren't falling for that canard; they were more pissed about their grocery bills than amorphous rights being restricted.
But the analysis of the young women polled rendered even bigger revelations.
There were also more Republican young women in the 2024 youth electorate: 6 percentage points more white women and Black women compared to 2020, and 9 points more Latina women.
Young people who identify as neither major party also made up a smaller part of the 2024 youth electorate. That is especially notable because young people overall are less likely than other age groups to identify with any of the major political parties.
Like her surrogate Mark Cuban, Harris assumed that women who supported Trump were stupid or beholden to their MAGA husbands/boyfriends. But a percentage of young women saw beyond the abortion rights issue to greater concerns, like their livelihood and their safety.
It seemed Harris believed the best way to reach young women was to make abortion the epicenter of her campaign. In the 100-plus days of her candidacy, she touted the claim that a Trump victory would mean all so-called “reproductive freedoms” and “rights” would be stripped away.
And while at least 13% of registered female voters listed abortion as their top issue, there were a large number of women who didn’t share this concern. According to The Daily Mail, 40% of this demographic said their No. 1 issue was the economy. Eleven percent named immigration as their biggest worry.
Two factors were major contributors to mining and maximizing this vote. One does have to give it up to TPUSA and Charlie Kirk, who mounted a "You're Being Brainwashed Tour" of college campuses, particularly in battleground states.
Charlie Kirk helped influence the outcome of the 2024 presidential election by taking his unabashedly conservative approach to college campuses nationwide, particularly in critical swing states, his reps said Friday.
Kirk, 31, founded Turning Point USA in 2012 to organize students while seeking to "restore traditional American values like patriotism, respect for life, liberty, family and fiscal responsibility," according to the nonprofit's website.
The prominent right-wing activist has since expanded the group's reach to more than 3,500 high school and college campuses nationwide, including events as part of its "You're Being Brainwashed Tour" featuring Kirk and guests like former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
"Millions of Americans are being brainwashed and led to believe the opposite of what's real," Kirk said in a statement announcing his plan in late August. "From immigration and the economy, to science, biology, and faith, the conservative position on these topics is either completely absent, or so contorted and misrepresented that young people aren't being afforded the opportunity to make informed decisions about what they believe. This tour is about changing that."
It did indeed. Kirk telegraphed this in his 2024 RNC convention speech. Gen Zers have been told by Democrats to lower their expectations of career opportunity, relationships, home ownership—the American Dream. Harris campaigned on "Government as Savior," when this generation saw firsthand how much the government had failed them. They rightly said, hard pass.
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This is also the generation who saw their rites of passage destroyed under the Biden-Harris regime thanks to the COVID vaccine mandates and social distancing madness. Pivotal sports scholarships robbed, proms and graduations canceled. Kirk gave Gen Z a rallying cry and inspired them to not be spectators to their demise, but to take action to secure their future—a future that includes more than government dependence and murdering their creative output, which is beautifully illustrated in one's ability to reproduce.
Students for Life is another advocacy group that campaigned against the baby-killing propaganda of the Harris-Walz campaign, not just in their opposition to abortion, but in focusing their message to smart women who care more about what's between their ears than what's between their legs. Students for Life emphasized that smart women do not kill their offspring; smart women care about life across the spectrum; and smart women are, get this: environmentally conscious. The unchecked use of abortion pills could be having deleterious effects on our drinking water, not just from the mifepristone drug entering our water supply, but from the human waste resultant from an aborted fetus.
Way to snatch a talking point from the mouth of the Left.
Donald Trump has been re-elected as President of the United States!
Here is what the Pro-Life Generation is looking forward to working with his administration on…
1) Telling Planned Parenthood to go fund themselves (aka defunding them of our tax dollars)2) Committing to only appointing pro-life leaders to key public offices
3) Protecting our drinking water and women (not to mention innocent babies) across our nation from dangerous Chemical Abortion Pills
It was clear to forty percent of young women that Kamala Harris only offered death or subjugation: economically, the issue of men in women's spaces, and harm to their bodies from criminal actors. Many young women voted for a future that looked beyond "my body, my choice," and looked toward "my vote, my future."
If this trend holds and grows, the kids are going to be all right.
Solid Rule For Trump Admin 2.0: Ignore Whatever The Media Are Mad About!
President-Elect Donald Trump is naming personnel for his incoming administration at a quick clip, so naturally the news media are fiending for ways to scandalize his picks as a warm-up to undermining the rest of his term. So here’s a good tip: This time around, whatever the media are telling the public to be scared, upset, or indignant about, safely assume the opposite of whatever they’re saying is true.
At this moment they’re attempting to convince their viewers and readers (especially Democrats in Congress) that Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is a controversial one because Hegseth is most widely recognized as a morning host on Fox News. Jim Acosta on CNN spent several long minutes on Wednesday morning asking various guests if they were concerned that Hegseth is truly “qualified,” while intermittently showing video clips of Hegseth denouncing the U.S. military’s “woke” leadership. Acosta presumably finds that deeply problematic.
It’s not and Acosta is a dork. True, Hegseth isn’t a transgender like Admiral Rachel Levine, and it’s likely he’s not going to spend any time chasing non-existent white supremacists like the Defense Department’s current secretary, Lloyd Austin, is doing; but hey, he did serve in the Army National Guard with tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. Plus, he’s a graduate of Princeton and Harvard. It all must count for something if he wants to serve at the highest levels of government like that happy pair.
Our military is in a recruiting crisis, trifling with domestic “extremism,” and on standby as the Biden administration continues flirting with nuclear war in Eastern Europe. The media, though, will suggest the public take offense that Hegseth doesn’t believe women should participate in military combat. Don’t fall for it.
After President Biden was elected, the media ran headlines all over about the “adults” who were “back in charge.”
CNN: “Joe Biden’s message to Vladimir Putin? The adults are back in charge.”
The Hill: “Biden and the Border Patrol: So good to have the ‘adults’ back in charge”
Financial Times: “The grown-ups are back in charge in Washington.”
Well, four years later we know how that turned out. Voters decided they had enough of the “adults.” They couldn’t afford any more “adults.”
The truth is that there are no “adults.” What the media mean by “adults” is “officials who will conduct themselves in ways subservient to us and the permanent Washington bureaucracy.” Biden and his gang of “adults” excel at that, which is why the media moved mountains to keep him and then eventually his Democrat successor, Kamala Harris, in office.
And that’s precisely why all of the things the media will say and are saying about Trump and who he picks for his administration should be ignored, if not mocked. They squandered their credibility, and it should be a very, very long time before anyone even thinks about considering a word they say.
The media worked to divide the country and hype up fake drama for years. They manufactured racial controversy, Russia narratives, and pandemic hysteria. The fiction led us to Biden’s presidency, a dark and unseemly period of American history. It was deadly. It proved fatal when Biden forced an unproven vaccine on the masses, botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and flooded the country with obscene numbers of destitute migrants, many of whom were known criminals.
And then as we all ran out of money, Biden, with the help of Republicans, sent hundreds of millions of dollars to Ukraine. For good measure, transgenders were put on public display at every available opportunity.
The media weren’t bothered by any of it. But they expect you to be upset about Trump. Just ignore it.
Restoring Deterrence Will Prevent Endless Wars - Victor Davis Hanson
Trump must remind Americans only by deterring enemies can he prevent endless wars.
IMO... I didn't know Marines have their own Predator type 'Drones'?
On January 3, 2020, the Trump administration conducted a drone strike near Baghdad International Airport, killing Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani.
Soleimani had a long record of waging surrogate wars against Americans, especially during the Iraq conflict and its aftermath.
After the Trump cancellation of the Iran Deal, followed by U.S. sanctions, Soleimani reportedly stepped up violence against regional American bases—most of which Trump himself ironically wished to remove.
A few days later, Iran staged a performance-art retaliatory strike against Americans in Iraq and Syria, assuming Trump had no desire for a wider Middle East war.
So, Iran launched 12 missiles that hit two U.S. airbases in Iraq. Supposedly, Tehran had warned the Trump administration of the impending attacks that killed no Americans. Later reports, however, suggested that some Americans suffered concussions, while more damage was done to the bases than was initially disclosed.
Nonetheless, this Iranian interlude seemed to reflect Trump’s agenda of avoiding “endless wars” in the Middle East while restoring deterrence that prevented, not prompted, full-scale conflicts.
Yet in a second Trump administration, rethreading the deterrence needle without getting into major wars may become far more challenging. The world of today is far more dangerous than when Trump left in 2021.
An inept Biden administration has utterly destroyed U.S. deterrence abroad through both actual and symbolic disasters: the Chinese dressing down of U.S. diplomats in Anchorage; the humiliating skedaddle from Afghanistan; the brazen flight of a Chinese spy balloon across the U.S.; the invasion of Ukraine by Russia; the October 7, 2023 massacre of 1200 Israelis; the serial Houthi attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea; the visible restraint of Israeli from fully replying to Iranian missile attacks on its homeland; and renewed bellicosity on the part of both North Korea and China toward American allies such as Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Of course, a second-term Trump must radically reform the Pentagon and beef up the military while warning enemies of the consequences to follow from any unwise aggression.
But if opponents believe such admonitions remain only vocal threats, then empty verbiage surely will erode deterrence further—such as Joe Biden’s serial and empty braggadocio, “Don’t!”
Biden’s past theatrical finger-shaking translated into aggressors like Putin going into Ukraine, Iran sending missiles into Israel, and the Houthis serially hitting shipping in the Red Sea.
Given the past messes of the Iraqi, Libyan, and Syrian interventions, and the catastrophic Biden humiliation in Afghanistan, Trump in 2024 is much more emphatic about the need to avoid such overseas dead-end entanglements or even the gratuitous use of force that historically can sometimes lead to tit-for-tat entanglements.
Still, Trump’s selection of J.D. Vance as vice president, along with Tulsi Gabbard, RFK, Jr., and Tucker Carlson as close advisors, coupled with the announcements that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and prior UN Ambassador Nikki Haley will not be in the administration, may be misinterpreted by scheming foreign adversaries as proof of Trump neo-isolationism.
Moreover, the U.S. is battered by an unsustainable $37 trillion national debt and a nonexistent southern border that saw 12 million illegal aliens enter with impunity.
So, the use of force abroad is now often seen in a zero-sum fashion as coming at the expense of unaddressed American needs at home.
Moreover, a woke, manpower-short military has not achieved strategic advantages from wars abroad, while disparaging and alienating the very working-class recruits who disproportionately fight and die in them.
Recently, even as President-elect Trump’s inner circle emphasized an end to endless conflicts, Trump warned Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin not to escalate his attacks against Ukraine. Yet that advice was followed by a Russian massive drone onslaught against civilian Ukrainian targets.
Putin no doubt wishes to encourage American enemies to test Trump’s deterrent rhetoric against his campaign’s domestic promises to mind America’s own business at home.
Is there a way to square the deterrence circle?
Trump will have to speak clearly and softly while carrying a club. And for the first few months of his administration, he will be tested as never before to make it clear to Iran and its terrorist surrogates, China, North Korea, and Russia that aggression against US interests will be swiftly and quietly met with disproportionate and overwhelming repercussions.
Yet Trump will likely have to rely on drones, missiles, and air strikes and not on major engagements, to deter enemies from aggression—and his domestic critics from claiming he turned into a globalist interventionist.
He is not.
Trump remains a Jacksonian. But such deterrence entails warning from time to time the reckless and adventurous abroad that our allies have no better friend than America and our adversaries no worse enemy.
In other words, Trump must remind Americans only by periodically deterring enemies can he prevent endless wars.
https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/14/restoring-deterrence-will-prevent-endless-wars/
Iran Postpones Third Attack on Israel in Hopes of Deal With Trump
Not even 48 hours after President-elect Donald Trump smeared Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 race, the United States’ enemies began backing down and calling for an end to ongoing wars that began under the Biden-Harris Administration.
There have been calls for a ceasefire in Iran, Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to end the years-long Ukrainian-Russia war, Hamas terrorists began to back down, and now Iran is postponing its third attack on Israel in hopes of a deal with Trump.
Trump made more progress with U.S. enemies than the Biden-Harris Administration did in four years.
According to sources in Iran, the terrorist-backed country reportedly halted its “True Promise 3” attack on Israel until negotiations with Trump are made.
During a briefing, Israeli government spokesman David Mencer told reporters, “An Iran which is deterred from attacking Israel is a good thing.” He added that Israel has the right to counterattack Iran if needed but said that a nuclear Iran is “not a reality that we are prepared to live with.”
“Israel has already struck its soft underbelly,” Mencer said. “Their vulnerability has been exposed. There are lots of haughty words from the Iranian regime leaders, but they cannot cover up the fact … that Israel has greater freedom of action than ever before. The prime minister has made clear that we can go anywhere we need to go in Iran. We do not wish this conflict with Iran, but we are defending ourselves.”
Israel previously promised a “harsh response” to Israel’s recent attack on the country’s leader but decided to hold off now that Trump was elected into office. The decision follows increasingly violent rhetoric from Iranian officials who suggested a retaliation strike against the U.S. and Israel is long overdue.
The spokesperson for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Ali Mohammad Naeini, said that the region’s impending third attack would be a defensive measure instead of an escalation in the war.
Trump promised to make a better deal with Iran than former President Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal— which would have given Iran access to be an atomic entity. The president-elect also told Israel that it should destroy Iran’s nuclear program if at all threatened.
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he and Trump see "eye to eye" on Iran as the leaders begin to map out how the incoming administration will affect the U.S.' stance on Israel and Gaza.
"We see eye to eye on the Iranian threat in all its components and the danger posed by it. We also see the great opportunities before Israel, in the field of peace and its expansion, and in other fields," Netanyahu said.
Trump’s Quirky Dance Moves Are Now a Sensation — on the Gridiron
Players are celebrating touchdowns or good plays by extending their arms and moving them robotically while bending their knees.
End zone celebrations have been a part of the NFL since New York Giants wide receiver Homer Jones first spiked a football during a game against the Philadelphia Eagles in 1965. Since then, players have put plenty of imagination into their choreography after scoring a touchdown.
“The Ickey Shuffle” by Cincinnati running back Ickey Woods, “the Lambeau Leap,” at Green Bay, “the Prime Time” by Deion Sanders, “the Salsa” by Giants receiver Victor Cruz, the Atlanta Falcons’ iconic “Dirty Bird,” and more recently “The Griddy” by Minnesota receiver Justin Jefferson are just a few. Now make room for “The Trump,” and celebration mimicking the quirky dance moves of President Trump.
If you watched enough football last weekend, you might have seen several players celebrating a touchdown or a good play by extending their arms and moving them robotically back and forth while bending their knees, not necessarily in rhythm. Trump’s unique dance moves were often on display during his campaign rallies leading up to his re-election, and are now being imitated on football fields across America.
Trump is taking notice. He tweeted a video of West Virginia quarterback Nicco Marchiol doing the Trump Dance after an 8-yard touchdown run in the Mountaineers 31-24 victory at Cincinnati last Saturday. The redshirt sophomore from Chandler, Arizona, was joined by a few burly linemen who offered their version of the dance before heading to the sidelines.
Mr. Marchiol wasn’t the only college quarterback to get in on the growing phenomenon. Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning, nephew of NFL legends Peyton and Eli Manning, strutted the Trump Dance early in the fourth quarter of the Longhorns 49-17 romp over Florida in Austin.
Trump also sent a shout out to San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa who did his version of the Trump Dance after sacking Tampa Bay quarterback Baker Mayfield during the 49ers 23-20 victory Sunday. Mr. Bosa, who was joined in the brief dance by teammates Leonard Floyd, Fred Warner, and Sam Okuayinonu, was fined $11,255 by the NFL for flashing a “Make America Great Again” hat while crashing a postgame interview on Oct. 27.
“NICK BOSA IS A GREAT PLAYER,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Mr. Jones probably didn’t know that by spiking the football after scoring a touchdown he was setting a trend that would last for six decades and counting. Time will tell whether the Trump Dance replaces the Griddy as today’s most popular touchdown dance.
https://www.nysun.com/article/trumps-quirky-dance-moves-are-now-a-sensation-on-the-gridiron
Domination of Chinese-Language Media in Canada Poses National Security Threats
Columnist Gabriel Yiu of Chinese Canadian Concern Group, intervener in the Hogue Commission, argues that PRC-controlled media is fomenting division in Canada's diaspora and skewing geopolitical views.
By Gabriel Yiu
The public inquiry into foreign interference has concluded its second round of hearings, with Prime Minister Trudeau testifying for a second time. Now, with closing statements submitted to Commissioner Marie-JosΓ©e Hogue, her final report—with key recommendations for the government—is anticipated by year’s end.
This inquiry is of immense importance, offering an unprecedented view into intelligence operations and investigations conducted by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) on foreign interference, while also revealing high-level government actions and missteps.
Documents declassified for the inquiry, along with witness testimonies, confirm that earlier media reports about Chinese interference in Canadian elections were well-founded.
Further underscoring the gravity of these hearings, The Bureau reported yesterday that Commissioner Hogue will hear from two new secret witnesses—identified only as Person B and Person C—who face credible threats to their safety and that of their families. These witnesses are expected to shed further light on how Beijing’s United Front Work Department targets Chinese Canadian politicians and community associations.
The public now has access to about 2,000 documents from this inquiry, while participants have reviewed approximately 4,000. All documents referenced in the public inquiry will soon be publicly available, including some declassified “Top Secret” files.
Among these declassified top-secret documents, one report on Chinese-language media is particularly striking.
This report, labeled "Top Secret" and authored by Canadian intelligence in July of last year, is titled: “CHINA: Domination of Chinese-Language Media in Canada Poses National Security Threats.”
For those familiar with Chinese-language media, is it an exaggeration to consider it a “national security threat?”
According to the intelligence agency, it’s not just a few but the majority of Chinese-language media in Canada that fall under the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP or CPC, as cited in the CSIS document). The document presents six key judgments, though the fourth point is heavily redacted:
“Communist Party of China (CPC)-friendly narratives inundate Chinese-language media in Canada. Censorship (including self-censorship) is pervasive, and alternative voices are few or marginalized in mainstream Chinese-language media. This includes both traditional media, such as newspapers, and digital platforms like WeChat.”
“The CPC’s strategy to control media operates on two fronts: narrative control and platform control. [redacted] overt and clandestine.”
“The CPC limits opportunities for dissenting voices [redacted], provides economic incentives [redacted], and fosters self-censorship [redacted].”
“The extensive use of WeChat in Canada poses ongoing challenges. [redacted] Its platform design can amplify misinformation and disinformation that aligns with CPC interests.”
“The CPC’s influence on Chinese-language media, shaping public opinion overseas, also supports other activities, including transnational repression and influencing electoral outcomes.”
I believe the Canadian intelligence agency’s assessment is accurate. From my own experience as a commentator since the 1990s, I have observed these shifts.
Back in the 1990s, Chinese media commentary here was relatively free. Criticizing Chinese and Hong Kong politics was not an issue.
However, since Xi Jinping took power, Canada’s Chinese-language media has undergone a profound change. A well-known program, Famous Commentators Discuss Hong Kong, was abruptly canceled after two decades. On other networks, the voices that echo CCP propaganda have grown louder, including those of two commentators who previously served as overseas representatives for the CCP’s Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
This is just the surface. Behind the scenes, media owners align with the CCP for business interests. The Chinese consulate can summon media heads for questioning, reprimands, and directives.
Today, most Chinese-language media voices are pro-CCP. News about China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the world generally mirrors Chinese state media, hardly differing from what audiences in Hong Kong and mainland China see. The CCP tightly controls what can and cannot be reported.
Chinese Canadians are often presented with a sanitized view, where NATO “caused” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Philippines “instigates” South China Sea conflict, and Hong Kong “thrives” under the National Security Law, while “no Chinese hacking group targets the U.S. or Canada.”
According to CCP propaganda, the Korean War was a U.S. invasion of North Korea, with China intervening for justice. But the truth is that UN forces, including Canada, assisted South Korea against the North Korean and Chinese invasion. This rewriting of history illustrates how distorted Chinese Canadians’ worldview can become if they rely solely on Chinese-language media.
While international and Canadian outlets have covered the mass detention of Uyghurs in internment camps, Chinese-language media tells Chinese Canadians that “Western politicians with ulterior motives” are fabricating these reports to defame China.
During elections, the CCP can use proxies in the community and media to attack candidates perceived as “anti-China.”
Earlier this month, the Canadian Parliament unanimously passed a Bloc QuΓ©bΓ©cois motion supporting Taiwan’s participation in global organizations. Yet, this significant move was largely ignored by Canadian Chinese-language media, likely to avoid offending the Chinese consulate.
Similarly, during the 35th anniversary of the June 4th massacre, Hong Kong barred public gatherings due to the National Security Law. Thousands gathered in Vancouver to commemorate, yet most Chinese-language media did not cover the event.
Chinese Canadians influenced by CCP propaganda may develop skewed perceptions and can be easily incited against political figures targeted by the CCP. Those who support Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners, Hong Kong democracy advocates, or figures like a former Vancouver mayor who rebuffed the CCP are subjected to relentless attacks.
The CCP’s interference in Canada’s last two federal elections and the Vancouver municipal election has indeed become a national security concern. But how many Chinese Canadians, relying solely on Chinese-language media, are aware that they are being indoctrinated by CCP narratives?
At the inquiry, longtime media veteran Ronald Leung observed:
“Drug policy is a major topic in the Chinese community. Given China’s history, there’s a deep dislike for drug abuse... Another area of divergence is gender identity, crime and safety, the Indigenous issue, and human rights.”
“When China seeks to amplify divisions within Western countries, we see the same amplification in Chinese media in Canada.”
CCP propaganda in Western countries also fuels division and conflict. Racism, animosity towards Black and South Asian communities, and public safety concerns often spread on CCP-controlled social platforms. The goal is to alienate Chinese immigrants from the countries they live in, instilling loyalty to China and promoting a sense of identity that prioritizes China over Canada.
When Chinese individuals identify more with their homeland than with their country of residence, the CCP can readily entice those loyal to China to advance its interests across various sectors, including community, media, politics, government, academia, research, business, and intelligence.
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