Democrats Calling for Mutiny Must Be Punished

American  Thinker 

By now everyone is aware that six Democrats in Congress created videos in which they openly encourage members of the U.S. military and Intelligence Community to mutiny against the commander in chief.  They couched their seditious statements in the pretense that they are interested only in protecting the Constitution, but their message is unmistakable: Resist President Trump’s lawful orders, and we’ll have your backs.

Americans whose minds have not been pickled by leftism are not impressed.  The Democrat instigators have been called “TikTok Traitors,” the “Seditious Six,” the “Idiot Six,” and worse.  President Trump immediately accused the lawmakers of sedition and demanded that they be arrested and stand trial for their potentially deadly provocations.  In response, the Democrat provocateurs have pretended to be outraged that the commander in chief would correctly describe their seditious actions as seditious.

Democrat word games have become so exhausting over the last thirty years.  Remember when Bill Clinton lied about his affair with twenty-two-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky by telling a grand jury, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is”?  No matter how corrupt American politicians were before Clinton’s galling equivocation, it has seemed as if rhetorical obfuscation began exponentially accelerating after that moment.  

Fast-forward to 2025, and former CIA director John Brennan is entirely comfortable going on national news shows and telling the world that he and fifty other “intelligence professionals” never lied about Hunter Biden’s “laptop from Hell” being Russian disinformation because the spies clearly stated in their 2020 pre-election op-ed defending the Bidens that the laptop’s treasure trove of criminality had merely “the hallmarks” of a Russian operation.  If Americans were confused about their attempt to blame Hunter’s crimes on the Russians, that’s because Americans are poor readers!  

Senator Elissa Slotkin — one of the “Seditious Six,” a former CIA analyst, and a protégée of John Brennan — is busy playing the same sick word games as Slick Willy and commie Brennan.  She claims that her seditious video is meant only to draw attention to President Trump’s “illegal orders,” but when she is pressed to name one such “illegal order,” she admits that she is “not aware” of any.  

If Slotkin can’t identify any of President Trump’s orders as illegal, why is she making videos encouraging rank insubordination among America’s military and intelligence personnel?  The Democrats are executing the exact same playbook that they have been using against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.  For months, Democrat governors and lawmakers have threatened federal agents with future prosecution for doing nothing more than enforcing existing immigration law and arresting criminal illegal aliens in their states.  In order to protect millions of foreign nationals from deportation, Democrats have been obstructing law enforcement operations by promising to punish officers who do their jobs.  

Threatening ICE agents with unlawful and malicious prosecutions will inevitably get people killed, because in the real world, hesitation invites disaster.  When prominent Democrats encourage military and intelligence personnel to resist orders, the consequences are potentially catastrophic.  As one astute commenter notes, “the threat of weaponized lawfare against U.S. troops is seditious psychological warfare.  It’s seditious sabotage aimed at breaking the chain of command.  It’s a seditious plot to erode trust in leaders and it undermines the oath that keeps the military united and effective.”  The Democrat strategy is nefarious and straightforward: Induce service members to question the orders of their commanding officers.  Hesitation and delay during combat will not only get Americans killed, but also directly serve enemy interests.  

Democrats’ attempts to confuse American service members also encourage our geopolitical adversaries to be more aggressive.  As Glenn Beck argues, “if a video like this were aimed at Putin’s military, we’d assume Russia was unstable or nearing a coup.”  Therefore, Democrats have severely “weakened America — signaling doubt to allies and opportunity to enemies.”  If you were a general in China’s military, would you be less or more willing to invade Taiwan after prominent Democrat officials encouraged division and subversion among America’s rank-and-file troops?  Public calls for insubordination make America appear destined for civil war at home and ill-prepared to defend its own interests or those of its allies abroad.

In describing his disgust with Democrats’ efforts to instigate a military rebellion against the Trump administration, Congressman Byron Donalds pulled no punches: “Donald Trump is the commander in chief, not Mr. Crow, not Senator Slotkin.  They are not the commander in chief!  And like I said before, they would not tolerate any Republican launching any video like that!”  

Can you imagine?  After patriotic grandparents and Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans protested the fraudulent 2020 election by walking through the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, Democrats (and useful RINO idiots Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger) spent tens of millions of dollars producing a theatrical congressional hearing meant to demonize all MAGA voters as “domestic terrorists” and “insurrectionists.”  If prominent Republicans in Congress had subsequently encouraged members of the military and Intelligence Community to disobey orders coming from installed-president Biden, the backlash against them would have been swift and brutal.  Not only would they have been expelled from Congress, but they also would have been arrested in the most publicly humiliating fashion.  In contrast, the “Seditious Six” sit for ego-stroking interviews during which they play victim.

This is what Republicans mean when they denounce “Democrat privilege” in the United States.  Time and again, Democrats do things with impunity that would land a normal Republican in prison for decades.  

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, and their fellow Russia Collusion Hoax co-conspirators will never be held accountable for manipulating intelligence to frame President Trump as a Russian spy.  Kamala Harris and other prominent Democrats who bailed out arsonists during the most destructive riots in American history will never be held accountable for putting violent repeat offenders back on the street.  Alexander Vindman will never be held accountable for undermining the Trump White House and triggering a farcical impeachment.  None of the conspirators who violated state election laws and used fraudulent mail-in ballots to pretend that Sleepy Joe Biden was the most popular presidential candidate in our nation’s history will ever be held accountable for stealing the 2020 election.  Anthony Fauci won’t be held accountable for covering up the laboratory origin of COVID or hiding the worst side-effects of the mRNA “vaccines.”  Social media companies won’t be held accountable for censoring Americans who protested the stolen 2020 election or the unconstitutional “vaccine” mandates imposed by installed-president Biden’s administration.  It appears that neither Jim Comey nor Letitia James will be held accountable for respectively committing perjury and mortgage fraud.  Democrat prosecutors and judges will never be held accountable for abusing the criminal justice system to railroad President Trump, his friends, and his voters.

In the United States, two-tiered “justice” protects Democrats and renders Republicans defenseless.

Now we will see whether six Democrats can actually get away with encouraging a military mutiny.  If past is prologue, the answer is surely “yes.”  

There’s a popular social media meme that succinctly describes our situation: When leftists say “our democracy,” what they mean is “our regime.”  Democrats have taken over so much of the permanent bureaucracy that even when they are out of power, they still command much of the American government.  They are emboldened to commit sedition and treason because they know that no left-leaning prosecutor, judge, or jury will hold them accountable.  This kind of in-your-face double-standard will eventually end the Union.  

Let’s hope, for the sake of our country’s future, that guilty Democrats begin to pay a price.  Forgive me for not holding my breath.

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Meet the Republocrats

Townhall 

A lot doesn't get done in Washington, and that's how they like it.

Dick Cheney, as vice president, was loathed by the Left. He was called Darth Vader and often compared to Peter Sellers' lunatic warmonger character, Dr. Strangelove. After 9/11, he seemed to live out of the White House bunker, where he planned U.S. wars all over the world. He was in those days considered the "extreme" of the Republican Party, and in true Kamala fashion, made the press feel that George W. Bush was almost normal in comparison to his loco vice president.

So it was strange to see Rachel Maddow, Tony Fauci, James Carville, and others who, in the day, probably loathed Cheney sitting attentively at his funeral. If you had told me that they went there to make sure that he was dead, then I would have felt better. But what were card-carrying lefties doing at the funeral of the evil, neocon, Halliburton, bad-shooting hunter who never saw a war that he didn't like? They were teaching us a very valuable lesson. There is the uniparty, and then there is Donald Trump. The Right and Left in American politics have more in common with each other than they do with Donald Trump and those who put him into office. Much of the sclerosis in Washington is baked into the system of coequal branches of government. The Founders did not want things done too quickly, so there are checks and balances that slow many things down in the federal government. But much of the slow-motion is due to our politicians not particularly liking the people whom they are supposed to serve. They like massive debt, weak voting rules, and USAID for everybody!

Let's look at voting laws. Donald Trump has correctly identified significant weaknesses in U.S. voting procedures. From foreigners voting to a lack of picture ID required, from paper ballots to weeks of voting prior to "Election Day," there is plenty of room for fraud and shenanigans. Donald Trump wants to make voting simple and easy and align it with the procedures in normal countries: proof of citizenship, picture ID, same-day voting, and paper ballots. Now, if the Republicans wanted to check the Democrats at the ballot box and continue to rule for years to come, then they would be chomping at the bit to do the president's bidding to shore up American election procedures. But they are not. The president suggested getting rid of the filibuster so as to allow the 53 Republican senators to pass legislation reflecting a more secure voting program. The leader of the party in the Senate, John Thune, does not seem particularly interested in removing the filibuster. And truth be told, it's not clear to me that even with a 50 (versus 60) vote requirement, the president's agenda on voting, guys in women's sports, and other 80/20 issues would actually pass. You see, the Democrats and Republicans—like those at the Cheney funeral—have a lot more in common with each other and really like the status quo.

When Donald Trump won his shock victory in 2016, he found that he had very few friends on Capitol Hill. People like Paul Ryan and John McCain had no interest in passing the president's MAGA program, and it was McCain who made the key vote to torpedo an end to Obamacare. Over two more election cycles, the president definitely gained more friends in the deliberative body, but there is still this uniparty view of the world that does not really like MAGA. One can look at Marjorie Taylor Greene flaming out—but making sure to quit three days after her congressional pension has fully vested. Thomas Massie and Dr. Rand Paul seem enamored with some type of libertarian fantasy world over the direct appeals of the leader of their party, Donald Trump. We always just assume that our representatives will reflexively vote according to party line, and the Democrats generally do so—except for Senator Fetterman, who is a rare breath of fresh air on the Democrats' side. The Republicans are less homogeneous in their voting. Not all are MAGA. Some are Cheney neocons who would love to get directly into the Ukraine battle. Others are Chamber of Commerce admirers who don't like the president or his voters. In the end, there are many Republicans and Democrats who like the present system even if it sits on $38 trillion in debt and is generally dysfunctional. There is a bill to curb congressional insider trading wending its way toward a vote. It will never pass. All of our reps are millionaires, and it does not matter how much or little they had before they went up those stairs and into the Capitol. When they have been in Washington for a few years, their reported wealth is measured in the millions, sometimes in the tens of millions or more. They are not giving up anything for the benefit of the American people.

As both parties meld into one and the president's agenda is left in the Capitol rotunda, there seems to be a strong case for congressional term limits. The old argument about the leaders having so many years of experience is meaningless today. Give a rep six years/three terms and a senator 12 years/two terms. Then they can go out and become lobbyists like their friends. Unfortunately, just as Congress votes itself pay raises and salaries during shutdowns, these people will not vote to end their taxpayer-funded gravy train. Other than the whites in South Africa turning power over to the blacks, nobody gives up a good gig. They are not going to vote for term limits, however beneficial it would be for the Republic. They are also not going to vote for the president's program for voter integrity, however popular it is in the country. Our senators and representatives are not interested in advancing the interests of the nation—and certainly not the program of one Donald J. Trump. They will make a lot of noise but do nothing. They just had 43 days of shutdown. They will be going on their winter vacation soon. They do nothing, and they are very proud of all of the nothing that they do. They hate DOGE because they like the patronage they dole out to friends, families, and NGOs who support them. There is nothing that they can't do with your money.

Oftentimes, when there is some scandal or outrage, one hears a senator or congressman say that tomorrow he is introducing a bill to prevent the event from occurring again. Funny that we never hear about that bill going through committee, getting marked up, being voted on, being sent over to the other branch, and finally landing on the president's desk for signature. No, it was enough to tell the press that we're going to impeach imperial judges or prevent guys with 72 arrests from getting out without bail so as to set women on fire on Chicago subways. And after all of the noise, nothing happens. I once put into Google Maps "golf courses in Washington." There seems to be one for each of our 535 elected reps. In Israel, there is one golf course near the coast.

Rachel Maddow did not take a wrong turn and find herself at the funeral of a man whose views she opposed 180 degrees. Our Left and Right are both connected to the same body, and their only goal is to stymie Donald Trump and the tens of millions of American citizens who support him. Back in the day, an admiral said that the U.S. Navy had three primary enemies: the Soviet Union, the United States Air Force, and Admiral Hyman Rickover. Today, Democrats and Republicans have only two enemies, so it's simpler: Donald Trump and MAGA voters.

Can We Just Stop With the Ukraine Stuff Now?

Townhall 

The Ukraine War needs to end, and I say that as what I am – an American, concerned with the interests of America. This brutal conflict has gone on too long, and it is not in the interests of America that it continue. Sure, there are the moral aspects – hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians have been maimed or killed, and war is generally a bad thing (not always, but generally). Putin's a bad guy; he sure is, transgressive morons and their opinions to the contrary. But let's get real – what we need to be concerned about is us. The Ukrainians and the Europeans can and will take care of themselves. This is not our fight, not our fault, and not anything we should keep expending treasure and risking blood on – both in terms of dead soldiers, should we intervene, and dead civilians, should it get out of control and we start tossing hot rocks back and forth with Putin.

Nor is it in our political interest – Donald Trump should be working on the economy, not refereeing some endless dispute between faraway people. This problem was left in a steaming pile on Trump's desk by President Eggplant, and for some reason, we have taken it upon ourselves to solve this Slavic border dispute. Now, I will get grief – again – for calling it that, but that is exactly what it is. It's a feud between various brands of Slavs, and the roots of this conflict go back a thousand years. We Americans can't understand it, and it is the height of arrogance to try. Remember in "Goodfellas" when narrator Ray Liotta explains how the killing of Joe Pesci was between the Italians and inscrutable to outsiders (he puts it in more colorful, i.e., NSFW, terms)? Well, that's what's happening here, and all our goody-goody, goo-goo attempts at fitting this square peg into our own comfortable, Manichean good guys v. bad guys round hole are ridiculous.

We can't understand their conflict, and we should not base our positions on our assessments of who is nice and who is bad. What we should do, what we must do, is base our policies on what serves America's interests. And prolonging this war does not serve America's interests.

Let's get some of the nonsense out of the way. Even if Putin took all of Ukraine, which the brave and plucky Ukrainians have kept him from doing for now, he would not then set his sights on conquering the rest of Europe. He would love to be the USSR, but he is not the USSR, which had both the capacity and the communist ideology that made invading Western Europe a real threat. I know – I was there at the end of the Cold War, in stark contrast to all the freshly minted bear-baiters of today who never found a war they were not ready to have you or your kids fight for them.

Nor are America's allies going to get some sort of message that America can't be relied upon if they need us, should we step back. The Ukrainians are not our allies. They are friendly – I trained Ukrainians, like them, and wish they could win – but we have executed no treaty requiring us to go to war and get Americans killed on their behalf. A treaty requires Senate confirmation, which means debate and a formal commitment by the American people through their representatives to put lives on the line. You don't get that because some people, who almost inevitably would not have to do the fighting nor have kids expected to do the fighting, huddle up and come to a moral judgment that we are obligated to Ukraine. And no, that Clinton made some handshake agreement to protect Ukraine when Ukraine gave up its nukes does not count. That's not a treaty; only a treaty binds the United States. Blame Clinton for misleading them and them for being misled. Actual allies – yeah, we are on the hook. Non-allies – no, sorry.

Though we have no obligations regarding this war, we have chosen to insert ourselves in it, and now the useless Europeans, the Ukrainians and the gung ho to fight Russia crew (they hate Russia in part because they think Putin helped elect Trump – yes, stupidity is a key component of their foreign policy) are all expecting Trump to make this problem go away. Trump did announce he would do it, which is now coming back to bite him on the Schumer. There's a big problem here, and it's Putin. Putin knows he might not be winning at the moment, but he is not losing, and eventually the sheer bulk of his massive empire will crush the Ukrainians. Like every Russian dictator ever, he cares nothing about the casualties he takes. He knows that, much to the chagrin of the Ukrainians and the staff of The Lincoln Project, size matters.

Putin refuses to give in, and that's a problem. There was a big to-do about an alleged peace plan that gave Russia much, even most, of what it wants. Yes, did someone expect the side with the advantage not to get its terms? The Euros then came up with their own peace plan, which basically expects not only Russia to give up its objectives but also contains a promise by the U.S. to guarantee Ukraine's security – more about that in a second. Yes, these geniuses (including American Ukrainian toe-suckers) have got together among themselves, drafted their wish list, and expect Putin to accept it. These are children. It's ridiculous. You don't negotiate with a foe with a stronger hand by demanding he give in on everything. I don't care what your professor at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service seminar on international negotiations told you – that's not going to happen.

And then there's the poison pill of U.S. involvement. We are supposed to agree to a NATO Article 5-like provision to this imaginary agreement that says America must defend Ukraine if they fight again with Russia – you know, continue the conflict that's been going on for 1,000 years. I do not know if this is one of those wink/nod handshake agreements, like the nuke protection pact, or whether it would be put up with as a treaty. If the latter, let's see that Senate debate and vote on the record about giving Ukraine and Russia the ability to bring America into a war, because that's what this provision would do.

Neither of these draft peace plans is going to go anywhere at the moment. Maybe this is the time we step away. It makes political sense – Trump 2.0 needs to be focusing entirely on affordability, and this clusterfark is taking up bandwidth and stepping on his message. Since everyone's mad at Trump – the one guy among the Ukrainians, Russians, Europeans, and the American foreign policy establishment who bears zero blame in this awful business – maybe Trump should wash his hands of it. "You critics don't like my plan? Make your own. I'm going to work on getting rents and ground beef prices down, and you brilliant people can fix this thing."

It's time to move on from Ukraine. If the parties want to fight – and if you don't make peace, you want to fight – then they can fight. Leave us out of it. It's a no-win for America, and that's what we should really care about.

He Talked About TDS on Television. Now He's Getting Death Threats.

 

Jeff Charles  | November 25, 2025 | Townhall

A psychotherapist recently went on Fox News to discuss Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) and described how many of his patients are suffering from the mental health condition.

Now he is receiving death threats, which shows that TDS is not only real but could be dangerous. Jonathan Alpert, a therapist and author, wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in which he discussed how many of his patients cite President Donald Trump as one of the reasons they are experiencing mental health problems.

During a prior appearance on Fox News, he said about 75 percent of his patients suffer from the condition.

People are now upset with his comments, according to Fox News Digital:

Alpert shared with Fox News Digital several messages he said he received via text and email over the past week. 

"Eat s--t and die you racist fascist piece of s--t… f--king uneducated MAGA scumbag," one message read.

"Pedophile protector," another said. 

"You're a lowlife, worthless fraudulent piece of s--t pedophile who decent people hope is slaughtered, and the video is posted to YouTube," a third message read.

"It’s been intense," Alpert reacted to the messages, in an interview with Fox News Digital. "I expected disagreement, but I didn’t expect the level of hostility, especially from people in the mental health field."

"What has stood out is the contradiction," he added. "Many of the people who speak the most about empathy, tolerance and inclusion reacted with the least of it. That reversal tells us something about how emotionally charged politics has become."

During his initial appearance on Fox News with host Harris Faulkner, he was asked about his experiences with patients suffering from TDS.

“So first of all, identify it for us. You're in a session, and you pick up on what?” Faulkner asked.

“Well, Harris, it doesn't take long for me to pick up on this. People are obsessed with Trump. They're fixated. They're hyper-fixated on Trump,” Alpert responded. “And they talk about some of the features of this disorder. They can't sleep. They feel traumatized by Mr. Trump. They feel restless. I had one patient who said she couldn't enjoy a vacation because any time she saw Trump in the news or on her device, she felt triggered. This is a profound pathology, and I would even go so far as to call it the defining pathology of our time.”

Alpert further explained that the president “is the trigger for many of these people” and that to be so obsessed with Trump is “simply not healthy.”

The therapist reaffirmed his claim that “three-quarters of my patients will present with a lot of these symptoms, and within probably five minutes of seeing me, their hatred for Trump comes up.”

It’s worth noting that Alpert is based in Manhattan, which makes his comments more than believable.

Faulkner asked whether other therapists could be exacerbating the problem. “When practitioners indulge their own biases, patients can become more anxious and depressed,” she said. “So you think this is working its way into your medical field?”

“My profession is a huge part of the problem,” Alpert said. “Therapists, the people who are supposed to be helping people, are actually dividing this country. If you go back a year ago, there was one psychiatrist who I actually told people on national TV, ‘If you don't like the way that your relative or friend voted, cut them out of your life.’ I remember COVID. That's not healthy. That's not how I would advise a patient at all.”

When asked about ways to treat TDS, Alpert said, “It’s important to help them separate fact from fiction. So one of the big tasks that I have is to try to educate these patients and dispel a lot of their beliefs.”

The therapist continued, explaining, “Trump is not a Nazi. He’s not rounding up the gays and shipping them off to some far away land.”

“A lot of my time as a therapist is spent trying to correct these people’s beliefs,” he added.

Alpert pointed out that “the other problem is their echo chambers. These people are on social media, and they’re only surrounding themselves with one view. It’s important that they understand the full picture.”

When a president can actually cause mental health conditions, it shows how dangerous our political climate has become. If people are legitimately suffering from mental health conditions because they don’t like the person in the White House, perhaps the government has become far too involved in our lives.

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Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner Puts Target on Republicans' Backs in Disturbing Call to Action

RedState 

Despite all of the revelations about him, including the boasts about being a communist, a cop-hater, and photos showing he had a Nazi-themed tattoo on his chest, Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner apparently is still a thing in Maine as his party shifts towards an even more aggressive and confrontational approach heading into 2026.

There has not been much polling in the Democrat primary so far, which at this early stage mainly features the Bernie Sanders-backed newcomer Platner and Maine Gov. Janet Mills. But what information is out there has shown that Platner has emerged as a formidable candidate against the Chuck Schumer-backed Mills, with both portraying themselves as the one best suited to defeat Sen. Susan Collins (R) and shake up things in the United States Senate.

Apparently with the thought in mind that doing anything other than going scorched earth on the Republican-controlled Senate and President Trump is a sign of an unwillingness to fight, Platner recently told a group of supporters during a campaign stop that he would encourage people to "yell" at any public official who didn't agree with the far-left's socialist agenda, and that they shouldn't get a moment's peace, including at restaurants:

"In the future, when we’re trying to vote on something like Medicare for All, if there are other members of the Maine delegation that don’t want to come along, we need to be able to impose costs," he said during a Saturday town hall in the southern Maine town of Windham. "We need to be able to turn people out to flood their offices. Frankly, I want people to follow them around and don’t let them have a public dinner without getting yelled at. Because that’s power. That’s real power."

Here's the audio:

If that sounds familiar to you, it should. Here's Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-43), urging  a crowd of agitators to do the same thing in the summer of 2018, almost one year to the day that a deranged Bernie Sanders supporter tried to assassinate multiple GOP lawmakers during a Congressional baseball practice, nearly succeeding with Rep. Steve Scalise (LA-01):

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Steve Scalise Has a Little Somethin' to Say After Keith Ellison Says He Knows of No 'Mean' Bernie Supporters

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Apparently, even after the targeted murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly over frustrations with the healthcare industry, the politically motivated assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk, and two attempted assassinations against then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, Platner's contribution to toning down the rhetoric is to... suggest it should intensify.

Once again, Democrats are telling us who they really are. And we should believe them.

Chaos Queen Greta: Energy Watchdogs Warn DHS, Keep the Disruptor Out

RedState 

Were the famous musical mavens Rodgers and Hammerstein around today, they may well pen a typically wonderful show tune called "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Greta?" It would no doubt be a masterpiece, and it may well focus on one thing we might do to save the United States from having to deal with this annoying, climate-scolding, Hamas-supporting twit. One way to do that would be to have the State Department make sure she never, ever gets a visa to visit the USA.

One energy advocacy group has penned a letter to the Department of Homeland Security to ask them to look into doing exactly that.

An energy worker advocacy group sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security urging it to review whether climate advocate Greta Thunberg – along with others – should be allowed entry to the nation due to safety concerns arising after recent bannings she has faced elsewhere and the pattern of “disruption” that appears to follow her.

Founder and executive director of energy group Power the Future Daniel Turner told The Center Square: “Secretary [Kristi] Noem and the Trump Administration are working tirelessly to keep America safe, and we urge them to take a hard look at whether agitators like Thunberg should be allowed onto American soil.”

Power the Future is a nonprofit dedicated to Americans working in reliable energy sources and sent the letter concerning Thunberg’s entry to the United States.

Turner told The Center Square that “everywhere Greta Thunberg goes, chaos follows.”

That's something of an understatement, given that only earlier on Tuesday, my friend and colleague Bob Hoge reported on Greta's latest escapade: Dying the waters of Venice green.

Greta has visited the USA before. In 2019, in typical grandstanding fashion, she sailed a "zero emissions" yacht across the Atlantic to attend the UN's Climate Action Summit. She made the crossing on a racing yacht, the Gitana 16, which we might note has no toilet, shower, cooking facilities, or even beds. I don't want to know what state Miss Thunberg was in when she debarked in New York, but we can well imagine that whoever met her at the dock rushed her to a (huge, carbon-spewing) hotel, where she could wash away the whiff. With water, of course, that was almost certainly heated with electricity produced by fossil fuels. 

(I really do not want to know how they solved the "no toilet" problem.)

Really, Greta, couldn't you have just stayed in Sweden and jumped on a Zoom call?

Daniel Turner of Power the Future does make a compelling case for keeping Greta the heck out of the USA.

“The United States has both the right and the obligation to evaluate whether the entry of a foreign national poses a risk to public order, infrastructure, or significant cultural and historical assets,” Turner wrote. 

“Ms. Thunberg’s ongoing involvement in actions that result in vandalism, obstruction, or arrests overseas raises legitimate questions as to whether similar disruptions could occur on U.S. soil,” Turner wrote.

Those are not just reasonable reasons to deny her a visa; they are downright compelling reasons. Greta Thunberg, to put it bluntly, is a trouble-maker, a lawbreaker, a vandal of UN World Heritage sites, a Hamas supporter; she should never be allowed to set foot in the USA, where she would certainly get up to no good.

So, how will we solve a problem like Greta? Simple: Deny her a visa. Let her be Europe's problem.

Catherine Herridge Interviews FBI Director Kash Patel

Conservative Treehouse 

Again, proceed with caution. As you will immediately pick up in the beginning of this interview, Catherine Herridge is investigating her tribe.

Some of Catherine Herridge’s sources, contacts and network are some of the same DC officials who were directly involved in the corruption. I have seen her avoid reporting on corrupt activity due to the reality of her relationships with some of the people involved.

Catherine Herridge is also VERY concerned about appearances and will never do anything that risks her access to systems and information sources.  WATCH:

CHAPTERS:

00:39 Arrival FBI HQ: What needs to be fixed?

02:44 Is the Thomas Crooks’ case a closed case?

06:21 Democratic lawmakers alleged sedition: “Is there a lawful predicate to open up an inquiry and investigation?”

08:28 Clapper, Brennan and others: Is the FBI pursuing a broader conspiracy allegedly designed to undermine President Trump?

09:56 Burn bags discovered at FBI HQ: Patel “we know” who put the burn bags containing Trump records in a secure room and whether their intent was to destroy the records or preserve them.

12:35 A 2016 CIA intelligence referral about an alleged “Clinton plan” to tie candidate Trump to Russia.

13:10 Epstein Files Transparency Act: Meeting the 30 day deadline, commitment to limited redactions.

16:05 Cracking down on Fentanyl: China Deal. How quickly will the US government know if China cheats?

19:00 Charlie Kirk assassination investigation

21:30 January 6th pipe bomber case update: “There are new developments”

22:35 Venezuela, military strikes and the impact on illegal drug flow

23:46 Use Government Jet: Director Patel required by law to use government DOJ aircraft for security and 24/7 communications

24:39 FBI HQ: Patel said he hopes “by the end of next year, we’ll have a large chunk of our workforce” at the Ronald Reagan Building

Catherine Herridge Reviews FBI Activity with Retired FBI Agent Andy Lim

posted by Sundance at Conservative Treehouse 

During the Biden administration I often thought about a Mike Vanderboegh quote when it seemed like we were under unrelenting opposition and victory was a distant hope:

“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it could not be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly will not be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.”

I found great strength in those words, the simple words, “if we do not try then how will we know it could not be done? and if we do not try, it most certainly will not be done.”  The plain spoken, no-pretending reality of our situation, as true today as then.

With that spirit and a bucket overflowing with prayer, I assembled thick binders, receipts, direct and incontrovertible evidence, to put directly into the hands of those voices who could help make a difference. I know exactly what those binders look like and I know exactly what they contain.  Ms. Herridge is holding one in her hands.  The DC proletariat hate the information within the briefs, but it’s good to see they are still out there being used as reference material….

What the collective institutions of all three branches of government have done to our nation sickens me.  But the mission to keep pushing sunlight inch-by-inch continues.

In 2020 Catherine Herridge was one of a group of DC institutional defenders who just couldn’t/wouldn’t fathom or believe the background story of corruption as told by me in documented evidence with citations and full context.

Remember, the story behind these citations only becomes visible when you walk through two parallel timelines; both must be done at the same time in order to cut through the obfuscation always present in the silo defenses:

• 1. The timeline of the actual corrupt activity, as the events took place.  And…
• 2. The timeline of when the evidence of the corrupt activity surfaced.

The former timeline shows the corruption; the latter timeline shows how they tried to hide the corruption.  The second timeline is what DC investigators focus on in order to understand how the evidence was/is discovered.

The information within the second timeline, how the evidence surfaced, is what DC tries to use in order to control the underlying information; it’s the ‘how do you know this‘ part.

Chapters:

02:00 FBI ‘Burn Bags’ evidence revealed in Comey criminal prosecution
03:50 Former FBI agent suggests a potential whistleblower wanted to see records preserved and discovered
05:10 CIA intelligence about 2016 presidential election found in storage closet near Director’s office
06:15 Connecting the dots: In 2016, CIA intelligence alleged potential ‘Clinton Plan’ to damage candidate Trump
08:00 FBI leak investigation alleges ‘investigator-level briefing” for reporters on Clinton email case
09:40 Surveillance warrant application cited media reports for national security court. Not standard.
12:10 DNI Clapper email: we all need to be on the same page. NSA Director pushes back, “took a lot of courage.”
13:30 National Security Adviser Susan Rice 2017 email: claims investigations ‘by the book.’
14:40 FBI ARCTIC FROST investigation: GOP phone toll records collected. Retired FBI agent said toll records are intrusive.
16:30 Alleged coordination FBI, DOJ and intelligence community

During the 2016 effort to weaponize the institutions of government against the outside candidacy of Donald Trump, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) was headed by Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein.  After the 2016 election Senator Feinstein abdicated her vice-chair position to Senator Mark Warner in January 2017.

While the SSCI was engaged in their part of the 2016 effort Vice-Chair Feinstein’s lead staffer was a man named Daniel Jones. Dan Jones was the contact point between the SSCI and Fusion-GPS.

After the election, and after Feinstein abdicated, Dan Jones left the committee to continue paying Fusion-GPS (Glenn Simpson) for ongoing efforts toward the impeachment insurance policy angle.

Feinstein appears to have left because she didn’t want to deal with the consequences of a President Trump, IF he discovered the SSCI involvement.

Dan Jones left because with a Trump presidency the SSCI, now co-chaired by Senator Mark Warner, needed arms-length plausible deniability amid their 2017 operations to continue the removal effort (soft coup).

The trail for this plausible deniability process and ongoing soft-coup effort first surfaces with Dan Jones appearing in the early 2017 text messages between Senator Warner and the liaison for Christopher Steele, lawyer and lobbyist Adam Waldman:

In those March 2017 text messages you can see Senator Warner attempting to set up covert “no paper trail” communication with dossier author Christopher Steele. Adam Waldman represented Chris Steele and Steele’s employer, Oleg Deripaska.

Less than a month later you can see within the text messages that Christopher Steele is in direct contact with Dan Jones. “[Chris] said Dan Jones is coming to see you” etc.

(Text Messages Between Feinstein’s replacement, Mark Warner, and Chris Steele’s lawyer/lobbyist, Adam Waldman, noting the importance of Dan Jones)

Former Feinstein staffer Dan Jones talking to Christopher Steele in April 2017 is critical to understanding what was going on after Trump won the election.

Jones raised $50 million from those who were behind the 2016 stop Trump effort, and the purpose was now the 2017 impeachment effort [SEE LINK]. Jones having left the SSCI (now outside govt.) then paid Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS to keep up their efforts. As you can see from the texts, Jones was now talking in person (“coming to see you”) to SSCI Vice-Chair Mark Warner in April 2017.

[Side-Bar: The role of Fusion-GPS in 2017 shifted, and was now weighted toward feeding a specific media narrative that would aid impeachment (through the FBI, Weissmann and Mueller obstruction angle). Fusion-GPS was now the conduit for arms-length media leaks from the usurping small group still inside the DOJ and FBI. Dan Jones was paying Fusion on behalf of those with larger interests. Fusion was feeding the media.]

So, you can clearly see the SSCI was heavily involved in the impeachment effort after the election.

Secondary documentation of the connection between the DOJ, FBI, Fusion, and Dan Jones shows up in the FBI investigative 302 notes of Bruce Ohr, released by Judicial Watch. [Pay attention to the May 8th, 2017, interview – pg 18, 19 of pdf]

The highlighted bottom portion of page 18 (May 8, 2017, interview) shows a heavily redacted text, but holds enough material to overlay with other research.

This is where Bruce Ohr is talking about Dan Jones efforts as they were currently aligned with Fusion GPS: “and had been on the staff of the [Senate Intelligence Committee]”…. “At the time of the interview [Jones] was working with the [Vice Chairman of the Committee Mark Warner]”… etc.

This part is heavily redacted because the corrupt agents within the current DOJ and FBI once again don’t want people to piece together what was happening.

This is not sources and methods being redacted. This is not national security being redacted. This is the trail of the connective tissue in/around the small group plotting that is being hidden.

At the top of page 19, the investigative notes of Ohr’s discussion continues.

Bruce Ohr is telling the FBI investigator, likely Agent Joe Pientka, about Glenn Simpson and Dan Jones visiting Christopher Steele sometime after May 8, 2017, and they were in the process of “lawyering up”.

Now before going deeper in the SSCI weeds, let me pause and explain the important specifics behind why the FBI was interviewing Bruce Ohr about Chris Steele; by overlaying what was going on in/around early 2017.

Chris Steele wasn’t alone in creating the “dossier”.  Heck, the purpose of Fusion-GPS contracting Steele; and the purpose of the FBI engaging with Steele; was the laundry value of having a known intelligence officer validate political opposition research which the FBI could use against Donald Trump.  The reality is: most of the raw material and research inside the dossier was from Glenn Simpson and Nellie Ohr at Fusion GPS.

The ‘small group’ inside the DOJ and FBI always knew the provenance of the material; the plan and intent was to utilize Fusion-GPS for their political purposes.

Everyone carrying out this operation, all of the corrupt entities within it, knew the material from Chris Steele was essentially political opposition research. Many of those same people later weaponized the research into the FISA application to give it higher import and value.

That set’s up early 2017 – where the FBI was evaluating the extent to which Chris Steele was willing to remain on public record to support a false framework about the dossier itself.  This is the same timeframe where Fusion is being paid by Dan Jones to facilitate the calls for a special counsel.  Fusion drives that narrative with structured leaks to media.

Steele’s support was a key issue because the corrupt DOJ and FBI officials were about to hand-off the dossier to Special Counsel Robert Mueller (figurehead only) as the basis for the ‘small group’ and him to launch the special counsel aspect of an ongoing operation.

If Chris Steele suddenly walked away from the dossier, and/or admitted publicly the dossier was political opposition research primarily from Glenn Simpson and Nellie Ohr, the FBI would have a shit-storm on its hands…. and they needed to evaluate the position of Steele.  Steele could be a risk if he was not supporting the team playbook. That’s the driving purpose behind all of this 2017 “re-engagement” with Steele through Bruce Ohr.

The small group in the DOJ and FBI planned to continue, pass-off and modify the Trump investigation by shifting it to a special counsel. The centerpiece of that investigation would be using the dossier as justification for a need to investigate Trump as a Russian risk. The DOJ/FBI small group needed Glenn Simpson and Chris Steele to stand by the false narrative all of the players had assembled over the prior year.

The wildcard to retain the false story was Chris Steele… Steele was an outside participant, albeit aligned with the ideology and the purpose. Evaluating Steele’s willful participation in keeping the narrative as assembled was the reason for their urgent talks; however, the “small group” couldn’t run the risk of direct talks in the same way that Mark Warner couldn’t risk of a paper trail.

Additionally, in support of the 2017 use of Chris Steele to frame the Russia narrative, the CIA, FBI, ODNI and aggregate intelligence community simultaneously pushed the December 2016 Joint Analysis Report (JAR) and the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), as evidence to support their Russia narrative.

Now, the Joint Analysis Report (JAR) and the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) construct.

If the ICA is a false political document, then guess what?  Yep, the entire narrative from the JAR and ICA is part of a big fraud (it is).  Then the construct of the special counsel probe was false (it was).

In early 2017 Adam Waldman and Dan Jones were facilitating a plausibly deniable information pipeline from Chris Steele to the SSCI and Senator Mark Warner.  At the same time, and for the same purposes, DOJ official Bruce Ohr was facilitating a plausibly deniable information pipeline from Chris Steele to the FBI/DOJ small group. The purposes were the same, everyone needed assurances Steele wasn’t going to back-out.

That corrupt planning activity is what some unknown DOJ and FBI officials were hiding behind the Bruce Ohr 302 redactions.  Now, where does the DOJ and FBI small group start to place their defensive positions?

This is where it all starts coming back together:

[…] The Senate intelligence committee examined the allegations about Downer, Mifsud and Halper, as part of its bipartisan investigation into the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia was responsible for attacking the 2016 election, and found nothing to substantiate any wrongdoing, a committee aide said. (read full article)

Again, notice how the FBI small group is utilizing the SSCI, and it is a committee aide within the SSCI that is leaking to NBC.  The small group are pulling the Senate Intelligence Committee back into the picture.  That brings Dianne Feinstein, Mark Warner, Richard Burr, Daniel Jones, Adam Waldman and James Wolfe back in.

Why go there?

Why was the FBI small group pulling the SSCI back into the picture?

Because they have to.

In 2018 the DOJ and FBI covered up the corruption evident during the 2017 pre-Mueller effort.

In 2019 the position of the small group was to force the DOJ and FBI to do it again.

Throughout the 2016 and 2017 effort, a part of one branch of the United States government, the U.S. Senate through the SSCI, was assisting the efforts of the DOJ and FBI against a candidate, president-elect and later United States President, Donald Trump.

As a result of a FOIA release in Mid December 2018, Judicial Watch revealed how the State Department was feeding “classified information” to multiple U.S. Senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee by the Obama administration immediately prior to President Donald Trump’s inauguration:

The documents reveal that among those receiving the classified documents were Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Sen. Robert Corker (R-TN).

Judicial Watch obtained the documents through a June 2018 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against the State Department after it failed to respond to a February 2018 request seeking records of the Obama State Department’s last-minute efforts to share classified information about Russia election interference issues with Democratic Senator Ben Cardin (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:18-cv-01381)).

The documents reveal the Obama State Department urgently gathering classified Russia investigation information and disseminating it to members of Congress within hours of Donald Trump taking office.  (read more)

The impeachment program was a plan, an insurance policy of sorts; a coordinated effort between corrupt politicians in the Senate and hold-over allies in the executive; however, because she didn’t want to participate in this – Senator Dianne Feinstein abdicated her vice-chair position to Senator Mark Warner.  [Background Here]

This is the pre-cursor to utilizing Robert Mueller.  A plan that was developed soon after the 2016 election.  The appointment of a special counsel was always the way they were going to hand-off and continue the investigation into Trump; but they needed a reason for it.

The continued exploitation of the Steele Dossier was critical; thus, they needed Chris Steele to be solid.  And the continued manipulation of the media was also critical; thus, they needed Fusion-GPS to continue.  [Dan Jones paid both]

While Mark Warner was communicating with Adam Waldman and Dan Jones as a conduit to Chris Steele, the FBI/DOJ team was communicating through Bruce Ohr to Chris Steele (and by extension to Nellie Ohr and Fusion GPS).

Part of Warner’s role was to weaponize the Legislative branch to advance the ‘Muh Russia conspiracy’, a fundamental necessity if a special counsel was going to have justification.

The SSCI, and the security protocols within it, were structurally part of the plan; hence the rapid information from Obama’s State Dept. to the SSCI and Senate participants in the last moments prior to departing.

♦ On March 17th, 2017, the Senate Intelligence Committee took custody of the FISA application used against Carter Page.   We know the FISA court delivered the read and return Top-Secret Classified application due to the clerk stamp of March 17, 2017.

(Page FISA Application, Link)

The FISA application (original and first renewal) was delivered to Senate Security Director James Wolfe.  Senator Mark Warner entered the basement SCIF shortly after 4:00pm on March 17, 2017, the day it was delivered (texts between Warner and Waldman):
Now, when SSCI Security Officer James Wolfe was indicted (unsealed June ’18), we could see the importance of the March 17th date again:

(Wolfe Indictment Link)

We can tell from the description within the indictment the FBI investigators are describing the FISA application.

Additionally, Wolfe exchanged 82 text messages with reporter Ali Watkins.  The FISA application is 83 pages with one blank page.

The logical conclusion was that Wolfe text Ali Watkins 82 pictures of the application.

FBI Investigators applied for and received a search warrant for the phone records of journalist Ali Watkins.  Ms. Watkins was notified in February 2018, three months after Wolfe was questioned by FBI investigators in December 2017.

However, despite the overwhelming (public) circumstantial evidence that Wolfe leaked the FISA application, he was never charged with leaking classified information.  Wolfe was only charged with lying three times to federal authorities, and he pled down to one count of lying to the FBI.

CTH made the case in mid 2018 that someone at the DOJ had influenced a decision not to charge Wolfe with the leaking of the FISA application; despite the FBI and DOJ having direct evidence of Wolfe leaking classified information.

The logical reason for the Rosenstein DOJ not to charge Wolfe with the FISA leak was because that charge would ensnare powerful Senators on the powerful committee.  Worse still, in hindsight we now see how that committee was working to aide the purposes and intents of the corrupt DOJ and FBI officials as they built their impeachment agenda.

Remember, the SSCI has intelligence oversight of the DOJ, DOJ-NSD, FBI and all associated counterintelligence operations. Additionally, when the FBI was investigating Wolfe for leaking classified documents, according to their court filings they had to inform the committee of the risk Wolfe represented.  Who did they have to inform?.. Chairman Richard Burr and Vice-Chair Mark Warner.

Think about it.  Both gang-of-eight members (Warner/Burr), who happened -as a consequence of the jaw dropping implications- to be two SSCI members who were warned by the FBI that Wolfe was compromised…. and they, along with Feinstein in 2016, were the co-conspirators who used James Wolfe.  The ramifications cannot be overstated.

Any criminal charges for leaking classified intelligence information against James Wolfe would likely result in a major scandal where the SSCI itself was outlined as participants in the weaponization of government for political intents.  Thus, the perfect alignment of interests for a dropped charge and DC cover-up.  REMEMBER:

(Source)

If it already wasn’t transparently sketchy as hell, in an act of serendipity and self-preservation, the accused Security Director James Wolfe evidenced the schemes when he threatened to subpoena members of the SSCI as part of his defense. [See Here]

[…] Attorneys for James A. Wolfe sent letters to all 15 senators on the committee, notifying them that their testimony may be sought as part of Mr. Wolfe’s defense, according to two people familiar with the matter.

[…] Mr. Wolfe’s defense lawyers are considering calling the senators as part of the proceedings for a variety of reasons, including as potential character witnesses and to rebut some of the allegations made by the government in the criminal complaint, these people say.  (link)

Immediately after threatening to subpoena the SSCI (July 27, 2018), the DOJ (Rosenstein authorizing) cut a deal with Wolfe and dropped the charges down to a single charge of lying to investigators.  However, someone in the FBI who was doing the investigative legwork wasn’t happy with that decision.

The overwhelming circumstantial evidence that Wolfe leaked the FISA application went from a strong suspicion, to damn certain (after the plea deal) when the DOJ included a sentencing motion in mid-December 2018.

On December 15th, 2018 the DOJ filed a response to the Wolfe defense teams’ own sentencing memo (full pdf), and within the DOJ response they included an exhibit (#13) written by the FBI [redacted] special agent in charge, which specifically says: “because of the known disclosure of classified information, the FISA application”… Thereby admitting, albeit post-plea agreement, that Wolfe did indeed leak the damn FISA:

 

(link to document)

Right there, in that FBI Special Agent description is the bombshell admission that James Wolfe leaked the Carter Page FISA application to journalist Ali Watkins at Buzzfeed.

We know the special agent who wrote exhibit #13 in the December filing was Special Agent Brian Dugan, Asst. Special Agent in Charge, Washington Field Office.  The same investigator who originally signed the affidavit in the original indictment against Wolfe.

So, with hindsight there was absolutely no doubt that James Wolfe leaked the 83-page Carter Page FISA application on March 17, 2017.  Period.  It’s all documented with circumstantial and direct evidence; including the admissions from the FBI agent in charge.

So, why was SSCI Security Director James Wolfe allowed to plea to a single count of lying to investigators?

Because all three branches of our government were participating in the corruption and targeting of Donald Trump.  Their fates are all tied together.  Take down one participant like James Comey and all the other participants are at risk.

There is no apple, only worms.