The Pathetic List of Words Democrats Want Other Democrats to Stop Using

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When I was a kid, it was common to call someone a “retard.” Nowadays, it’s impolite and not politically correct, but it was just a part of life back then. It was never said maliciously toward someone who actually was mentally challenged, it was just the way kids talked then. It’s actually a shame that it isn’t in use today because for so many liberals, in government and the media, it is the perfect description for how they are. 

When you watch this clip (or any clip, really) of CNN’s Abby Phillip, there is no better word to describe the argument she is trying to make – the Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Democrats did not weaponize government against Donald Trump or conservatives at all. “There is NO EVIDENCE that there was some top-down order of political retribution in either the Obama or the Biden administrations,” the vacant, lazy-eyed host said. 

Of course, Obama isn’t dumb enough to write a note to the IRS of the CIA saying, “I order you to go after my enemies.” The hive mind doesn’t need to be ordered, it knows. 

But how is Obama not responsible for what happened in his own administration? How is he absolved of any responsibility for the Justice Department and the “Fast and Furious” program, which we still have never seen a lot of evidence on its origin from the DoJ (anyone at the FBI interested in doing their jobs at all, or are they too busy plotting social media vagaries and career comebacks?). Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents, do those documents still exist? Can he still be prosecuted? Seems kind of important, doesn’t it? 

But people life Phillip don’t give a damn. They will hurl allegation after allegation against the right and won’t even bother to ask basic questions of the left. Donald Trump is responsible for anything any Republican does or says, Obama and Biden are not responsible for anything their administration did or they inspired in the dead eyes of Democrats. 

And they wonder why it is the American people would rather catch penicillin-resistant syphilis than vote for or watch them. 

Now, a progressive “think” tank has compiled a list of words and phrases they don’t want these people to use anymore, as it makes them seem “out of touch” with voters. Voters, in this case, is code for normal human beings. 

First off, if you need to be told how to talk to real people like real people talk, get out of politics and get professional help. There’s something fundamentally broken in you that will likely never be fixed, but you should deal with it and stop using your position or political power as public your emotional tampon. Your parents didn’t raise you right or love you enough; you were raised so rich that reality was kept away from you; or you’re a sociopath for whom there is simply no redemption. Whatever the case, deal with it in private, not in legislation or the genital mutilation of children. 

So, what are the words and phrases? Politico reports: 

Among the blacklisted terms: privilege … violence (as in “environmental violence”) … dialoguing … triggering … othering … microaggression … holding space … body shaming … subverting norms … systems of oppression … cultural appropriation … Overton window … existential threat to [the climate, democracy, economy] … radical transparency … stakeholders … the unhoused … food insecurity … housing insecurity … person who immigrated … birthing person … cisgender … deadnaming … heteronormative … patriarchy … LGBTQIA+ … BIPOC … allyship … incarcerated people … involuntary confinement. 

Aside from some leftist “journalist” or politician, or someone mocking them, have you ever heard anyone used those terms in the wild? How many people who proclaim their devotion to the “LGBTQIA+” or “BIPOC” “communities” could even tell you what the hell those letters stand for? Maybe 5 percent? 

If you need coaching on how to talk to real people you have no business being in a position where you lead or have authority over others, even pets. You have life that is unnatural. 

We do have a lot of problems in this country, but none bigger than the fact that one of the two major political parties and their fellow travelers in the media are disconnected from reality that they need coaching on how to communicate with normal human beings. 

Note that the left refuses to entertain the idea that, like the dimwitted Abby Phillip, they’re simply wrong. That the American people know racism isn’t everywhere, that boys can’t declare themselves to be girls (or even have any idea what it is like to be one, no matter how many drugs they pump into their bodies), and we would rather pay ten cents more for an apple or head of lettuce than have one more American murdered by an illegal alien thanks to their open border policies. 

No left-wing “think” tank or focus group is going to conclude that because it will never occur to them to even ask. 

They can change the words they use, try to fool people even more about what they’re trying to do, but we see right through it all. Their denial of their unpopularity, their inability to accept reality and the refusal to change is going to end up with more of the same results for them. For us, that’s great. But watching how these people will not accept reality is, well…there used to be a word for that. 

Scientists Claim Christ's 'Loaves and Fishes' Miracle Was a Natural Fish Kill-Off. Can You Please Go Away

 

By streiff  | August 24, 2025  |  RedState

As a rule, I don't write on purely religious topics. But I do take religion seriously. Every once in a while, one of those stories bubbles up that demands a response because they are so stupidly wrong that, given the number of imbeciles running free, it is dangerous.

Since the late eighteenth century, there has been a string of scholars who have attempted to reduce Christianity to a single messianic, albeit very human figure, that would be Jesus Christ, upon whom a vast mythology has been built. In this telling, Jesus existed, but He was just a man, and his followers built upon Him a Christology that transformed Him into a divine figure after His death. Assaults have been made on this anti-Christian pursuit, most notably by Oxford professor C. S. Lewis and his "liar, lunatic, or Lord" formulation.

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. ... Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God."

The response to that has come along two separate tracks. There is a school of theologians who assert that Jesus never claimed to be divine. Divinity was, they say, an attribute foisted upon the "historical Jesus" by the First-Century Church. Why theologians would devote their professional lives to attacking the "theos" of the world's premier religion and the underpinning of civilization as we know it is a question for them to answer. That school is assisted by people like the high-functioning morons of the "Jesus Seminar," who go through the Bible tossing out inconvenient parts in their quest for, again, the "historical Jesus." 

A second line of attack has been conducted by "scientists" who are hellbent, literally, on proving that Biblical miracles are merely natural phenomena misunderstood by the bug-eating primitives seeing them. Moses parting the Red Sea didn't happen in the Red Sea and was simply a strong wind and storm surge. The demon-possessed people Jesus cures? Epileptics. The dead daughter of the temple official and the dead son of the widow? Like Monty Python's "Norwegian Blue," they were just pining for the fjords, and the locals, who dealt with death every day, up close and personal, were mistaken.

In a way, this latter type of numbskullery is worse than the first. It is easy to laugh at academics making fools of themselves, but scientists proffering "explanations" for miracles have a certain credibility. I mean, the science is settled, right?

This past week, the New York Post ran a story titled "Two of Jesus Christ's biggest miracles may be science, not divine, new study claims" that seems to be based on an October 2024 paper in "Water Resources Research" titled: "Seiche‐Induced Fish Kills in the Sea of Galilee—A Possible Explanation for Biblical Miracles?" The journal article makes the rather extraordinary claim, in the course of examining fish kills in the Sea of Galilee, that a natural effect was the basis of the Miracle of Loaves and Fishes and the Miraculous Catch of Fish. According to the paper, Christ didn't break the fish and distribute them; rather, the crowd gathered up dead fish and chowed down.

The team suggests heavy winds churned lower levels of the water, leading to an anoxic — or oxygen-deprived — state that eventually suffocated the fish, making them rise to the surface, remarkably easy to net — and literally dead in the water.

“The Sea of Galilee is a stratified lake. The upper layer is warm and oxygenated, while the lower layer is cold and lacks oxygen,” researcher Yael Amitai told The Times of Israel.

Comparable modern “fish kill” events have happened since the 1990s — and as recently as last year in the sea’s Tzalmon estuary — per the research, which used 3D modeling to scan the lake.

The natural but still rare phenomenon “may explain the appearance of large numbers of easy-to-collect fish close to the shore described in the biblical narratives,” the report added.

There are some problems with that theory. First and foremost, there were two instances in which Christ multiplied loaves and fish to feed the crowd. This is the Gospel of Mark 8:16.

16 They said to one another, “It is because we have no bread.” 17 And becoming aware of it, Jesus said to them, “Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened? 18 Do you have eyes, and fail to see? Do you have ears, and fail to hear? And do you not remember? 19 When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you collect?” They said to him, “Twelve.” 20 “And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you collect?” And they said to him, “Seven.” 21 Then he said to them, “Do you not yet understand?”

The three synoptic Gospels have basically the same version. It is late in the day, everyone is hungry, and one of the disciples recommends sending the crowd away to buy food. Jesus asks what food they have, and He is told five loaves and two fish. John's Gospel was richer in detail, as he was probably an eyewitness. According to John, Andrew produces the food they have, "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among so many people?” This has given rise to the "Miracle of Sharing," nonsense pushed by leftists. Here, the crowd is shamed by the boy offering up his small store of food, and they give up the food they have hidden, and in the end, everyone is fed—no miracle, just Marxist "to each according to his needs" garbage.

There is no mention of the crowd running down to the beach to pick up dead fish. Before moving forward, I'd like to say I've known of guys in rural Pennsylvania who go out in the morning looking for fresh roadkill deer to dress and butcher. I suspect the same kind of guy lives in rural Louisiana. None of them would touch a dead deer lying in a field. I've never heard of anyone, and I say this having served in Korea, who would pick dead fish out of the water or off the beach and eat them. It beggars the imagination to believe that thousands of First Century Jews, governed by some pretty strict dietary laws, could be convinced to pick up dead fish for dinner.

The Bible doesn't shy away from God using natural means to create miracles. The quail arriving at dusk to feed the Israelites in the desert would've provided a metaphorical base for Jesus to tell the crowd to police up the dead fish. He doesn't do that. Instead, He breaks the fish. Have you ever tried to break a dead fish? It isn't easy, though I suppose with a twisting and pulling motion, what works on a chicken's neck would work on a dead fish. Breaking the fish indicates it was probably smoked, dried, or salted, which makes sense as someone in the crown had brought it along. Even with the raw fish theory, there are a couple of other holes. Firewood is not easy to come by for thousands of people in that area, and there is no record, as far as I can tell, of First Century Jews eating sashimi. The paper doesn't address how the loaves fit into the fish kill theory, which is just as well, though not as amusing as including them would have been.

Much the same applies to the story of the Miraculous Catch of Fish. Like the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, there are two miraculous catches of fish. One, detailed in Luke's Gospel, occurs during Jesus' public ministry.

4 And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” 5 And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” 6 And when they had done this, they enclosed a great shoal of fish; and as their nets were breaking, 7 they beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. 8

The second takes place after the Resurrection, which can also be explained, as the Pharisees did, by claiming the guards fell asleep and Jesus' disciples stole his body, and is chronicled by John.

4 Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. 5 Jesus said to them, “Children, have you any fish?” They answered him, “No.” 6 He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, for the quantity of fish. 7 That disciple whom Jesus loved[a] said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his clothes, for he was stripped for work, and sprang into the sea. 8 But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards[b] off.

9 When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread. 10 Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish that you have just caught.” 11 So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; and although there were so many, the net was not torn.

`In neither case does Jesus tell his disciples to scoop up the dead fish off the surface. And Jesus cooks the fish they bring ashore.

I'm truly agnostic on fish kills in the Sea of Galilee and its surroundings. More than agnostic, I really don't give a crap. And I really don't care if you deny the divinity of Christ. We are all called to Him, and if reject Him, that's ultimately on you. But when you take a minor research paper and misuse the life of Christ to get attention, then you've shown yourself to be a deeply dishonest person.

The miracles in the New Testament were not recorded by imbeciles, and thousands witnessed them. You are welcome to deny all of the New Testament as mythology, but you are not free to make up nonsensical pseudo-scientific explanations for phenomena when you've obviously never read the document you're critiquing and expect not to be mocked.

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How Did the Left Mutate?

 

Alan Joseph Bauer | Aug 24, 2025 | Townhall

If one looks at traditional American voters, he concludes that those on the left have mutated their way to positions that have no basis in reality.

A very disturbing incident has been recently reported. Rose Lubin was a 21-year-old Border Patrol officer in Israel. She was an American but knew that she was meant to move to Israel. She did so and actually fought Hamas during the original attack in 2023. Last year, she was stabbed during her patrol in the Old City of Jerusalem and died. My wife and I read about her and went to the mourning tent set up by the city in her honor. We heard from family and friends about an amazing young woman who knew what she wanted in life. She came to Israel alone but knew that she was meant to be here. Her death apparently was in part due to the failure of a colleague to alert others that he had gone to get food.

The incident in question concerns the Atlanta neighbors of Rose’s father. There are recordings of them screaming at him and saying that his daughter deserved to die. They additionally called him by Jewish slurs. How have we as an American society gotten to the point where people are happy to see the death of a fellow American? What did Rose do that would so enrage her neighbors that they would revel in her murder in front of her mourning father? When we look at a lot of the pathologies of those on the left, we have to ask how we got here. Let’s take some of the standard positions of a 2025 Democratic voter, as the party becomes unmoored and moves continually further to the left:

*Climate crisis means that life on this planet is in danger. They will block streets, glue themselves to priceless artworks, not bring children into the world, and try to destroy the energy underpinnings of modern society. There are many accomplished scientists who say that human production of carbon dioxide—which is a fraction of that produced by natural phenomenon—is no threat to mankind. They say that the stories of coastlines disappearing and a billion “climate refugees” are bunk and have no basis in honest scientific analysis.

*They have turned on Israel to the point that they are demanding the destruction of the Jewish state and the death of the millions of Jews who live there. They have been fed a steady Qatari/Muslim Brotherhood diet of Jews as colonialists and genociders when the realities of history and the current conflict support none of their contentions. The Gazan population has grown during the present conflict and Israel’s existence from Jewish purchase of land to defensive wars makes her little different than many other countries.

*They see America as evil. While the United States has given them a standard of living never seen before by mankind, they blithely call the country of their birth racist. They claim that whites are to blame for the poverty and failures of minority communities. They do not see the U.S. as a force for good—at all. They don’t connect the amazing electronics, clothes, cars, and lifestyles they have with the unique aspects of American freedoms. They may think that such things are everywhere, but they are not and what there is is more expensive, more limited and oftentimes of inferior quality.

*They fantasize about socialism and communism. Because for many on the left, especially younger members of the group, life isn’t going so well: they are barely getting by, not making enough to own a home or live the lifestyle that their parents had—they somehow think that failed social-economic systems will give them a better outcome. One can see in NY where the commie mayoral candidate doesn’t even try to pretend that he is anything else. People always look for alternatives when life is overcast, but there is enough historical evidence on the failures of socialism and communism that their appeal should not exist.

*They have abandoned traditional religion for a pseudoscientific alternative. Covid was super dangerous, the mRNA vaccines were outstanding, people can change gender on a dime, etc. Their “scientific beliefs”—as with climate change above—do not stand up under serious scrutiny. But that is not the point. Like in all religions, theirs is belief, even if “reality” says otherwise. One can bring a thousand studies about vaccine damage and the possible link between the untested vaccines and long Covid or excess deaths. It’s like telling a devoutly religious person that there is no God.

How did we get here? Where did we get such large numbers of people whose opinions are so different from the rest and detached from objective reality? The answer is education. When one looks at political maps, the blue areas are few and far between—but they are usually big cities that can throw a state for a Democrat even if the entire rest of the state voted for the Republican. Big cities are filled with college-educated workers, as well as traditionally pro-Democratic minorities.  K-12 and certainly college and graduate education are exercises in brainwashing. One can see that much of the new left is both young and actually college trained. One often sees professors or “scholars” praising the mass rapes and murders of Hamas. If these are their teachers, why should we be surprised that the product students come out are leftwing lunatics? One sees far fewer pro-Hamas protests in the south and most of those wearing keffiyehs have abandoned whatever religion they had when they lived at home. Because religion has been downgraded in the West, Marxist teachings and the appearance of unapologetic Muslims in large numbers have simply offered the disaffected something to latch on to—even when that action involves cheering people who burned families alive.

If one goes back through 250 years of American politics, there have always been differences in opinion and approach. Liberal politicians like George McGovern and Walter Mondale were crushed by Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. They were liberals in their approach to taxes, social programs and foreign policies and the people did not want what they had to offer. They were not leftists and certainly not communists. But the left has been transmogrified into something unrecognizable from its liberal roots. It is totalitarian, highly antisemitic and anti-American. The desire for reparations from people who never owned slaves to people who never were slaves is an expression of America as an evil, racist country. The U.S. is not perfect, but it’s the best country out there. If you think otherwise, try living someplace else for a spell. You’ll be waiting for your return flight home.

The Lubin family has gone through hell, though the husband screamer has now been fired from his executive position. They lost their beloved and talented daughter to Islamic terror. Now they meet American terror in the form of their demented neighbors. The Democrats are polling like dog poop because they have lost their minds. Go watch an anti-Israel protest and see if you can find a single American flag. Listen to a Bernie Sanders rally and find if there is any praise for a country in which he has three homes.  As Israel has Arabs in the Knesset who hate the country that pays their salaries, the U.S. now has federal, state and local reps paid by the governments of places they loathe. Keep the Democrats away from the lever of powers unless you want to live in a third-world country. 

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Trump shuts down 'Five Eyes' alliance and good riddance

American  Thinker 

Amid all the other things that have rattled the deep state -- notably the search and seizure of evidence from Trump-hating John Bolton's residence and office -- President Trump has quietly shut down the 'five eyes' intelligence arrangement between the English-speaking countries -- the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, rocking the deep-state's overseas allies, too. The comity is over.

Which makes sense, given that these countries are now electing leftists, not moving in tandem with the U.S. on the policy front. It was one thing for Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher to pool intelligence about a common enemy. It's quite another for President Trump to be doing the same with the likes of Keir Starmer and Mark Carney, even if they're able to maintain civility with Trump, unlike a lot of leftists. They are simple going their own way. They have no common enemy. The same as true for whatever they've got Down Under.

But that's the broadest picture.

The secondary picture is that this alliance attempted to undercut President Trump during his first term. An alliance isn't much use if the allies have decided that you are the common enemy. More disgusting still, they have yet to admit their error, meaning, they will do it again, so bye-bye, bozos.

American Thinker's retired founder, Thomas Lifson, has been keeping an eye on this picture and has written a terrific analysis of the picture, drawing on the credible sources he knows. On his Substack, which I believe is free to read, his analysis is must-reading for all the angles and backstories that make this alliance a thing of the past.

He writes:

The “Five Eyes” intelligence sharing arrangement has put the United States’ hundred billion dollar+ intelligence budget at the service of the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, vastly benefitting the intelligence agencies of Anglosphere allies.

But, to the shock of many, the Trump administration is cutting them out of key areas of interest. Politico’s European edition reports:

U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is blocking America's closest intelligence allies from receiving updates on Russia-Ukraine peace talks in a shock move that upends decades of tight cooperation.

That effectively cuts America's Five Eyes partners — the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — out of the loop, stunning the intelligence community that has relied on the network since the end of World War II.

In a July 20 directive signed by Gabbard, reported by CBS, the U.S. intelligence community was given orders to classify all analysis and information related to the Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations as "NOFORN," or no foreign dissemination, meaning the information cannot be shared with any other country or foreign nationals.

There is no love lost between President Trump and the collective Deep State of the Anglosphere.

In concert with Deep State operatives embedded in the US intel community, spooks from half of the other four members collaborated in trying to bring down President Trump’s first campaign and then successfully hobble his first term in office.

Remember Trump campaign aide young George Papadopoulos being set up -- to provide an excuse for electronic surveillance of the Trump campaign – in a night of “heavy drinking” in a posh London wine bar? In that operation, top level Aussie diplomat/politician/spook Alexander Downer was joined by a comely undercover female FBI agent who called herself Azra Turk, who has never been publicly identified. Thefemme fatale delivered the question that yielded the statement that became the alleged basis for spying on the 2016 Trump campaign

It's a fascinating deep dive into all the reasons this alliance was not working, and Trump, to his credit, got rid of it. Read the whole thing here.

As DoJ Will Reveal, America Endured an Insurrection, Undertaken by Democrats

Townhall 

With all that we now know about Democrat's subterfuge leading up to Donald Trump’s first election and his second run in 2020, it becomes evermore likely that J6 was a major part of the effort to undermine him. The fakestream media still proclaims that Trump propagated an insurrection attempt, urged rally-goers to overthrow the U.S. government, and has sought along to become a dictator. 

Never Mind the Facts 

Independent journalist Kyle Becker observes that long before J6, the FBI illegally tracked ‘extremists’ intending to attend. Based on the Time magazine “shadow cabal” article, the phony narrative that Trump would incite a riot had been established as early as May 2020. 

Once the rally was scheduled, orchestrating a J6 riot and claiming “insurrection” became the Democrat’s grand strategy, straight from “Rules for Radicals,” the Democrat playbook, by Saul Alinsky for whom Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton became staunch advocates. 

Neither Trump nor any U.S. president, however, would ever attempt an insurrection because no one would to go down in history as having done so. Indeed, in a broadcast video, within hours of Biden’s certification, Trump said that he would step down. He called for peace, and law and order, in his speech and in his tweets to his supporters, who had no armaments and most of whom had plane reservations for that evening. Nevertheless, Leftist proclaimed that these actions meant “Overthrow the federal government, now.”

Finagling With Reality 

In advance of J6, Trump requested 10,000 National Guard troops at the Capitol. D.C. Mayor Bowser, Pentagon brass, and then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi refused. Later, Pelosi lied about her denial. 

Nearly all J6 attendees who were rounded up or later indentified were charged, at the least, with non-violent crimes and misdemeanors. Concurrently, the J6 committee intentionally buried thousands of hours of public surveillance videos, including footage exonerating many J6 defendants. 

Kyle Becker notes that court documents reveal dozens of undercover officersand FBI operatives were onsite at the Capitol. Capitol police officers were filmed on video. They opened doors, removed barriers, and acted cordially with protesters inside the Capitol building. Undercover Metropolitan Police, on video, encouraged Trump supporters to “go to the Capitol.” 

Antifa members, on video, discarded their black clothing and ski masks and changed into garb to appear as Trump supporters and create havoc. 

Evacuation Creation 

Unbeknownst to many, Congress originally was evacuated over the RNC and DNC pipe bomb threats, and not the J6 riot -- a critical detail that you’re not supposed to know. After all this time, the pipe bomber has not been apprehended despite the FBI knowing the license plate and cell phone data of the suspect. 

Nancy Pelosi as the riot commenced, hearing that Trump wanted to come to the Capitol, said, “I hope he comes. I’m gonna punch him out. This is my moment. I’ve been waiting for this… I’m gonna punch him out” and send him to jail. Pelosi's staff was in communication with Secret Service on J6. Conveniently, the Secret Service texts from J6 went "missing." 

Don't attempt to enlighten anyone on the Left. They watched and re-watched the cherry-picked, highly orchestrated, J6 Committee video, complete with Emmy-level film editing and the ferocious added soundtrack. They’re not interested in the truth; they know what they feel and what the New York Timestells them. 

Part of the Playbook 

What would it take to overthrow the U.S. government? Trump had good approval ratings from U.S. military veterans. Trump also had high approval from police forces and first responders. With popularity among combat troops, he could have closed airports, surrounded the Capitol, blocked legislators, cut off communications of Democratic leaders, and ensured that no vote or certification could occur. 

He not did, of course, do anything of the sort. 

Trump issued a video reflecting his disappointment in the apparent fraudulent election. He clearly stated that he would step down on Jan. 20, 2021. Democrats hope that you never see this video, but the internet never forgets. 

Endless False Narratives 

The J6 narrative is another in a long line of hoaxes and false narratives against Trump. Leftists need to cling to something. Nothing else is working: slandering, impeaching, indicting, and seeking to remove Trump from ballots all increased his poll numbers and, arguably, catapulted him to a second term. 

Americans largely have contempt for today’s media, and now understand that the lies never end. The fakestream media is at its lowest credibility ever. If you want to detect an insurrection, look no further than when Biden was installedas president. As the DoJ and FBI are destined to reveal, the insurrectionists all vote Democrat.

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“Pray For a Good Winter, but Plant Lots of Cabbages”

posted by Sundance at Conservative Treehouse 

Abandoned by his father to a troubled single mother; eventually raised by grandparents. He is then recruited from an Ivy league law school by shadow figures, a specific billionaire and a network of interests. He changes his name, writes a book about his life story, and with the support of the aforementioned – who eventually pays for a strategic campaign, becomes a Senator for 2 years before being quickly elevated into position in the White House.

Many people reading that paragraph are familiar with the life story of Barack Hussien Obama. However, that paragraph is not describing Obama, that paragraph describes James Donald Bowman, aka J.D. Vance.

On one side, we have an emotionally constructed political figure for the left.  On the other side, we see an emotionally constructed political figure for the right.  Each person, each emotional narrative, carrying the specific nuances to appeal to their audience; both follow the same playbook.

J.D. Vance was born James Donald Bowman in Middletown, Ohio (August 2, 1984). He then changed his name to James David Bowman. He then changed his name to James David Hamel. Eventually, in 2014, notably after Yale Law School (class of 2013, and after marrying his wife Usha, now age 30, he changed his name to write a book.

It was 2014, that’s when J.D. Vance was born.

Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy was published by Rupert Murdoch’s publishing house, Harper Collins in 2016. The book was made into a Netflix movie, [Reed Hastings] created by Imagine Entertainment and directed by Ron Howard (2020).

However, the interesting background on J.D. Vance goes back to Yale, and the Obamaesque tap on the shoulder that comes from a billionaire most are familiar with, Peter Thiel (PayPal and Palantir).

Thiel first recruited Vance into his circle while Vance was still a student at Yale Law School.  Shortly thereafter, Vance joined Thiel’s investment firm Mithril Capital, where he worked for two years before joining Revolution Ventures. Vance played a major role in Revolution’s “Rise of the Rest” seed fund whose major investors included Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.  {Citation}

J.D. Vance then launched his own venture capital firm Narya Capital in 2020, using startup money from both Peter Thiel and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

From this timeline, we can see how J.D. Vance went from no money (student loans) in 2013, to big money in 2020.  Everything came via Peter Thiel and Eric Schmidt, but mostly Thiel.

To understand J.D. Vance as an Ohio Senator, we visit the inflection points in 2013 and the subsequent relationship with billionaire Peter Thiel (Palantir Technologies).  The timeline from 2013 to now becomes important.

Billionaires Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel are key members of the steering committee of the controversial, closed-door, and overtly globalist Bilderberg conference. Newsweek once called Schmidt and Thiel the two most influential figures at Bilderberg.

Peter Thiel’s company, Palantir Tech, is the driving force of a global surveillance system using artificial intelligence (AI).

Palantir has massive contract interests in U.S. military and intelligence communities.

Keep in mind, Palantir is the current company creating the tech mechanisms for the U.S. government to conduct foreign and domestic surveillance.

The actual technology needed by the Deep State, to advance their interests, is provided by Peter Thiel. {Citation}

According to the popular narrative, J.D. Vance opposes the Intelligence Community deep surveillance state, while simultaneously being the political front for the interests of Peter Thiel and Palantir Technology.  This doesn’t reconcile.

Peter Thiel was the money and network behind the 2022 Ohio Senate race between J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan.

It was Peter Thiel who took J.D. Vance to meet President Trump in Mar-a-Lago to get the needed endorsement to launch Vance into the U.S. Senate.  Without Peter Thiel there is no Senator J.D. Vance.

It is also important to remember that prior to 2018, prior to Peter Thiel becoming aligned with the FBI as a confidential human source, and prior to Vance needing the Trump endorsement, J.D. Vance was a staunch never-Trumper.

J.D. Vance went from calling President Trump “a literal Hitler,” to appreciating Trump’s incredible leadership – a remarkable shift in opinion.   To his strategic credit, Peter Thiel was successful in gaining both the Trump endorsement and the winning outcome of the 2022 Ohio Senate race.  That success was now Senator J.D. Vance.

Within the Thiel network, you will note the aligned interests of another key financial friend and big federal contractor, Elon Musk.  Together, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel form the core of a very wealthy group of modern tech political influence agents, including another Yale Law School graduate and J.D. Vance supporter, Vivek Ramaswamy.

J.D. Vance named one of his three children Vivek.  Suffice to say, they are close.

What you have read so far is the background of how a billionaire, Peter Thiel, deeply enmeshed in the surveillance state, creates the process for the advancement of his interests.  A few dozen millions are a worthy investment if the investment creates and supports the objectives of the billionaire (Palantir Technology).

As an outcome of an influence network in 2006, Senator Barack Obama was successfully installed.  As an outcome of an influence network in 2022, Senator J.D. Vance was successfully installed.

Both Barry Sotero (Obama) and James Bowman (Vance) are mirror images of each other; the playbooks used to create both are identical.  One went through the path of community activism, the other through the military.  Both paths have a target audience.

We have long discussed the UniParty operation in Washington DC.  What was once a radical concept and controversial, is now accepted as reality.

We have also outlined the how the Fourth Branch of Government was created under Obama.  What was once conspiracy theory is now accepted as the truth.

Once we accept how both wings of the UniParty operate, we then see how the system works.  The Obama network ultimately led to the modern IC surveillance state.  The Vance network now appears to be positioned to benefit from it.

Unfortunately, much like an abuser toward the abused, our ideological enemy uses our virtues of love and trust as weapons.  We are in an abusive relationship with government.

♦ STRATEGIC OPTIMISM – In everything that happens, the geopolitical power players -including the Intelligence Community- have what are called “strategic interests.” Meaning, they plan out their future position based on current events (data), pathways and predictions.

Some of these power structures are, putting it mildly, not good. In fact, they are eroding liberty, freedom and making us serfs, while creating a system of political elites. We feel it daily.

In order to best weaken, or make them more vulnerable, the best strategy is to put them into a position where they cannot plan for the future because they cannot predict the waypoints in their path.

Having a known 2028 U.S. presidential nominee gives them the ability to plan for it. They are able to make moves to get beyond the 2024 to 2028 challenges they face; they look toward who they will be faced with as an opponent in ’28.

From that position, they conduct enemy operations against Trump’s strategy…. they essentially plan to outlast him, ignore him, put on a mask when they talk to him, etc.

President Trump, making it known who will be the ’28 nominee, gives his opposition power. Essentially making Trump’s position less strong.

Had Trump selected a “one-term” running mate (I don’t care who it would have been), the opposition would not know what to expect in 2028. They would be forced to focus every day on what Trump is doing.  The opposition cannot look forward (proactive) beyond Trump.  They are forced to react. They are kept vulnerable.

Do you want your enemies planning, or do you want them reacting to the unknown variables?

Do you want them focused on your attack, or do you want them brushing you off as irrelevant in the longer term?

Do you want them on their heels each day/week as they try to figure out what you are doing…. or do you want them to know the destination ahead, regardless of the daily or weekly policy moves?

By selecting a VP nominee that will be the 2028 presidential nominee (what 90% of short-sighted people wanted), Trump would give greater power to the ideological enemy.

For the next 3.5 years, to achieve the maximum benefit from President Trump, the deep state at home and geopolitical enemy abroad must not know what they will face in the future.

From that position of potential vulnerability, they are forced to focus on daily events and counterstrategies, while unable -by design- to compromise the future opponent.

I never resign Trump to a failed position, as long as there is a way to turn a necessary decision into a winning and more powerful position.

The problem of Peter Thiel, his network, and the potential problem J.D. Vance represents can be dealt with.

President Donald J. Trump makes it very well known, and constantly reminds people for 3 years, that if J.D. Vance sucks, flinches, is inept or doesn’t follow orders, then J.D. Vance doesn’t get the 2028 endorsement.

Thankfully, we see indications of this beginning with President Trump’s acceptance speech at the RNC Convention and continuing throughout today – including during an interview this week on Fox and Friends, where Trump noted Marco Rubio would be a good option for 2028.

For Trump supporters and all supporters of the goal to deconstruct the worst and most toxic elements of the Deep State, we should support a tenuous 2028 endorsement message.  After all, we are expecting Vice President J.D. Vance to uphold actionable policies against the interests of his benefactors.

Those benefactors, and the aligned Vance influence network, include Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Bill Ackman, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Jacob Helberg, Vivek Ramaswamy and of course, many more.

I don’t care about anything that happened prior to the 2013 inflection point, the tap on the shoulder at Yale.

James Donald Bowman, aka J.D. Vance’s background construct, as lived or as sold, is irrelevant to me.  We do not have the time to be emotionally attached to any individual. We need actionable results.

We are not going to be battered conservatives, pushed yet again into the position of Charlie Brown to Lucy’s deep state, ‘trust the plan‘ football.  The trust account of the American electorate is bankrupt.  Corruption is running amok.

The threat to J.D. Vance’s political career must be actual, loud and repeated often to keep the toxic IC and domestic Silo operators guessing. While simultaneously, every righteous attack takes down a small IC silo segment like a bite out of an elephant.

We also accept that this rather deliberate approach is likely to make Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance and the entire Thiel/Musk network quite unhappy.

♦ SURVEILLANCE STATE – The research article positions the relationship between J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel as a serious challenge – here’s why.

Since his original endorsement of Donald Trump in 2016 (a good thing), billionaire tech executive Peter Thiel has expanded his company, Palantir Technology, to be the leading edge of an AI enhanced data-processing system.

The Palantir tech is designed to use artificial intelligence (AI) to crawl through massive sets of surveillance data, phone data, facial recognition data, metadata (writ large) etc.

In essence, Palantir Tech is receiving government contracts (Defense and Intel) to use the Palantir AI tools to analyze/filter a massive amount of electronic data, and take action based on results from the data, or what might be called SIGNIT (Signals Intelligence).  There are billions at stake in this relationship.

In short, Thiel has a vested financial interest in providing AI surveillance filtration tools to the U.S. government.

Ok fine. That’s just a simple acceptance of what Thiel’s company does now. And Thiel recruited J.D. Vance, back in 2012/2013 while at Yale law school, and personally financed JD’s entry into the world of politics in 2020/2021.

Thiel leveraged his relationship with Donald Trump to get J.D. Vance the Ohio primary endorsement in 2022, and the rest is history.  Fair enough. Nothing disputed.

Here’s where things get sticky….

Thiel’s company, Palantir Tech, provides the AI metadata analytic tools used by the U.S. government in their national security efforts.  The government access to that metadata comes, in part, as an outcome of the legislative FISA authorization.

As a consequence, eliminating, say… FISA(702) surveillance processes, is against the financial interests of Peter Thiel.  If the U.S. government cannot access the dataset, the U.S. govt doesn’t need Palantir’s AI filtration tech.  That’s just the nature of the relationship.

Again, this is just a cold, factual acceptance of the situation.

Would J.D. Vance support the elimination of FISA(702), FISA Courts, or the National Security Division of the DOJ (something that forms the foundation of removing the worst elements of the Deep State), knowing that action would be adverse to the interests of his benefactor and mentor, Peter Thiel?

Again, just a question.  Perhaps he would, perhaps not; however, a review of history shows the odds are not in our favor.

I mean, there is a reason why Thiel recruited, financed, supported and guided Vance to the position he is now in, correct?

Elon Musk’s entire business model, sans X (maybe) is contingent upon government contracts and policy.

Regardless of his altruistic disposition, or lack thereof, Musk’s enterprises, Tesla and Space-X, do not exist without direct government funding or indirect govt support via policy.

Peter Thiel is essentially in the same position with Palantir Tech, unless the U.S. Government gave him permission to sell his services to foreign adversaries.  Not likely.

Many are looking at J.D. Vance as the guy, maybe one of the ‘guys’, who can finally confront the worst elements of the Deep State.  However, the worst elements of the Deep State, the surveillance and control silos, are in a synergistic relationship with Vance’s benefactors.

Will Vance willingly tear apart the surveillance state that will create a negative financial outcome for those who put him into office?  My note of caution is, ‘Don’t get your hopes up.’

I mean, seriously think about it.  Musk puts up USG satellites that monitor stuff.  The low-earth-orbit monitoring results (data signals) are returned to the USG.  The data signals are then analyzed by AI tech created by Thiel.

Another way to look at it: Elon Musk puts the camera on your face; Peter Thiel tells the govt where you went.

♦ BIG PICTURE – Are the newest group of billionaire Silicon Valley tech leaders currently supporting MAGA Trump/Vance, really a modern assembly of the Green Dragon rebels in Boston, plotting the next Tea Party rebellion?  Or are they simply just the other side of a new modern Technocratic control system, aligned with and dependent on government?

The Obama-era ‘Technocracy‘ was based on public-private partnerships with social media.  This was the origin of the surveillance state that now scours, controls, filters, censors and ultimately monetizes your social media data profile.  The operational and business model is cemented into the process now. Everyone accepts it. Terms and conditions apply, and if you don’t agree, you can’t use.

 

 

Is the pending Trump-era ‘Technocracy‘ a rebrand, pushing social media off to the side (that part is done) and bringing data processing control agents, artificial intelligence software designers, big money venture capitalists, banks and those who are creating digital id systems?  Do Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Bill Ackman, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Jacob Helberg and Vivek Ramaswamy, now occupy the empty chairs around the table of Technocracy?

Was the 5/10-year business model, in the mind of tech billionaire Peter Thiel, what led him to recruit J.D. Vance in 20? Was it a financial decision blended with ideology to guide, finance and support J.D .Vance all the way to 2022 and 2024?  Was J.D. Vance an investment?

Truly, I suspect our gut knows the answer.

That’s why my approach is to say, “Here’s the factual data – trust your instincts.”

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Around this time someone will snark, saying my assembling this perspective indicates President Trump is an idiot, or something.

NO!  President Trump is not stupid, or naïve!

CTH has painstakingly outlined how the silo process within the Deep State works.  You have more information about that process. You have more knowledge about that process.

All of us, courtesy of dozens of brilliant researchers here and in lots of other places on the internet, have a far more comprehensive understanding of how the systems within the D.C. administrative state work than any subset of professional politicians or their staff.

Are you stupid or naïve?  No.  None of us are.

However, many of us are sick and tired of having the virtue of our patriotism weaponized against us. For reference, see DHS, ODNI, CISA, TSA, The Patriot Act, or any other of the myriads of crisis-created legislative solutions, later turned into tools by bad actors that inevitably diminish freedom.

I was sitting at dinner with a good person, who happened to be the head, the tipy-top, of one of the most connected IC silos in Washington DC, and that person laughed recalling situations where they walked into their office many days and frustratingly shouted at their staff, “Who the f**k is leaking information to this guy,” meaning me.  No one was leaking anything, and the entire organization was just as surprised as the leader of it.

My point is that many ordinary Americans know far more about the interconnectedness of DC silo operations, than the people within the individual silos can fathom.  They are stuck inside a created system of compartmentalization; we are not.

The overwhelming odds are that you know more than your federal representative. That fact doesn’t make you smarter than President Donald J. Trump, it just means you have a different set of researched datapoints that create a different understanding.

Additionally, President Trump doesn’t “vet” anyone; someone else does the “vetting” for him.  That vetting helps him to make decisions, it doesn’t exclusively determine the final decision.

No one is stupid in this discussion.  No one knows all the information.  The fact-finding is a process of information assembly, that permits guidance to decision making.  That’s it.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) might have been a good decision at the time, until it starts getting weaponized later on.

Given the nature of the political landscape, Senator J.D. Vance was a good selection for Veep.  A candidate for the office of the vice presidency that positioned President Trump, and the people around him, to be able to start putting countermeasures into place to stop government weaponization, a seemingly out of control surveillance state.

Senator J.D. Vance helped to unite the various Republican clans.

Perhaps more valuable, his selection reduced the possibility of the Silicon Valley Technocrats working against OUR interests – as we look to control THEIR influence.

More importantly, Senator J.D. Vance made winning in November of 2024 slightly more likely.  That was the key value in his personage.

Perhaps Vance is a technocratic tool; perhaps he’s a MAGA ally; who really knows?

The bottom line is we must understand the context of everything that comes with Vance, nothing more.

Trust God, and for everyone else – watch them like a hawk, while you live your best life.

We won in November. We have an opportunity to start putting countermeasures and guardrails into place that will seemingly impede the efforts of the bad operators within each IC silo.  Simultaneously, we need to identify who each bad actor is. We can see DNI Tulsi Gabbard working earnestly on this effort.

This larger mission is the reversal of weaponization, and a restoration of representation that believes in freedom.  I am both optimistic and clear-eyed about the nature of the challenges we face.

“Pray for a good winter, but plant lots of cabbages.”