By Jo Nova
Let the Swamp Drain…
For all its flaws, the US is still the largest military force on the planet and the world’s largest economy. If Trump chooses to use that power, and he appears to want to, the draining will be global. The only question is “how much”?
The Pre-inuguration Victory Rally
This is America’s vibe starting tomorrow… and I’m here for it. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/sTjQZB5pHy
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 20, 2025
Missed another bullet
Let’s not forget how close it was. As truly awful as the Kamala word-salad was, she still allegedly got 71 million votes compared to Trump’s 75 million. And if a mere 30,000 voters in Wisconsin, 80,000 in Michigan, and 120,000 in Pennsylvania had voted differently or been ballot harvested more efficiently, or were electronically hacked more competently, Kamala would have won. (270 Electoral college votes to 268).
The fate of the nation of 147 million voters depended on just 230,000 choices or 0.16%.
If the Blob had picked even a slightly less incompetent candidate, one without full blown dementia, or one able to string a whole coherent sentence together, then the advantages of state loving media, state directed tech censorship, mass immigration, electronic machines in 28 (or so) states and no voter ID would presumably have won the day.
Or if Elon Musk had not jumped all in, and spent $44 billion dollars for X…
Hopefully major election reform starts today.
Who, exactly, was in charge of 3,748 Nuclear Warheads?
When Mike Johnson got to meet President Biden he found out that Biden had no idea he had signed an EO to pause LNG exports to Europe. And Joe Biden was stunned…
Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) says: Does everyone realize what was just said here? Speaker Mike Johnson not only confirms that Joe Biden isn’t in control and signing executive orders he doesn’t understand but that to meet with Biden, The CIA Director had to be present. He just confirmed The CIA is running our country, not the president. This just confirmed another “conspiracy theory.
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 19, 2025
UPDATE: Brett Moulton points out Mike Johnson [Speaker of the House] had every legal ability to hold Biden accountable and did nothing. He could have brought forth impeachment hearings and even removed Biden from office.
And the announcements start:
- BREAKING: President-elect Donald Trump has announced that all military members who were discharged for refusing the COVID mandate will be reinstated and receive full back pay, along with a formal apology from the United States Government.
- Trump just said he WILL declassify all files related to the JFK assassination.
- “As of today, TikTok is back…”
The Swamp hobbled him once.
They won’t stop trying.
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The Swamp blackmailed every politician, journalist and obvious a few others in government on Epstein Island. And, those controlled by the swamp are still protecting the ID of all those on Epstein island and still open to blackmail by the swamp.
The only way to eliminate the power of the swamp, is to come clean about who was on Epstein island and remove the power of blackmail over them.
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Our Australian Swamp when Tony Abbott replaced Malcolm Turnbull as leader of the Liberal Party in 2009? adopted the policy of forget policy altogether, just bag the man and make him unelectable/
They then applied that policy successfully to getting rid of Tony Abbott twice, Campbell Newman and Scott Morrison.
The electorate fell for it every time.
They have now doubled down on that policy in their hunt for Peter Dutton. Just about every sentence they utter contains vilification of Peter Dutton.
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It will take Trump some time to know how much damage there is to our (the US) military. The damage is extensive in both personnel quality, especially at the top, and weapon program development being shown in the Ukraine to be both extremely expensive, and not practical, and vulnerable to modern warfare, not to mention we have no defense for the hypersonic missels that we have failed to produce.(Very very expensive programs that simply are not nearly as on the ground effective as advertised) In addition our supply lines and development potential will take time to fix. Are there unknown programs that the US has developed that may be game changers? No idea.
That video on Bidens decline is disturbingly illustrative of what was known to so many, and covered up.
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Unless or until Trump does something to tackle the blackmail honeypot of Epstein island, those who ran Epstein Island will still be running the swamp. And, if Trump doesn’t tackle those running Epstein Island, it will be clear the swamp is running Trump.
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I cannot see that the popular vote matters as much as each state. A lot of the population is in the mega cities and they all vote Democrat. But that’s not how a Federation works. Donald Trump won in 2016 while losing the popular vote.
And 200,000 volunteers of lawyers and scrutineers did their best to keep it honest, which it never is. I was intrigued that only 25% of Republicans/Conservatives approved of cheating but 75% of Democrats thought it was acceptable, as long as they won.
But he won. And a lot of the ID regulations at the base of the cheating in California will be cleaned up. And illegal migrant voting. And illegal ballot harvesting. Vance may will be much bigger margins.
It’s a new dawning. And four years from now, Vance will romp home. The youngest president since JFK.
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The federal government can’t do much about most of that, as the Constitution makes it crystal clear that the individual states control the voting process. Red states have already cleaned most of that up (and been accused of ‘voter suppression’ for doing it). The real trick is going to be moving the needle enough in blue states to get them to do the same. That is the real strength of Trump’s 2024 coalition, how it made double-digit inroads in even the bluest of states. That rightward shift probably won’t be enough to convince uniparty states like California to change, but it should put some steel in the spine of purple state politicians and might even sway a few leaders in light-blue states who can read the writing on the wall. As for the bright blue states in the Northeast and the west coast, their reckoning will be when the 2030 census comes out and congressional seats get reassigned from their shrinking states to the growing red Sun Belt states.
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Stephen Miller, one of Trump’s brilliant staffing appointments, summarises what can be expected within the first few weeks of the second Trump presidency:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQwgexRb8No
(3m 6s video)
PS A lot of Americans have made a business of creating content for TikTok, so keeping it going is yet another smart move by Trump.
https://en.as.com/latest_news/goodbye-to-tiktok-this-is-how-much-money-influencers-on-the-app-make-a-year-n/
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I think America (and most of the world) would be better off without TikTok (though like MySpace or Friendster or Vines, it will just be replaced by some other equally moronic social media site that rots people’s brains).
That said, I can’t support a ban based on nebulous, national security hand-wringing over what MIGHT happen. If they had some proof of actual Chinese perfidy already happening, then sure, they might have a case. But they don’t. I don’t see how America banning TikTok is any different than China banning Facebook or X. The purpose is the same … to empower the national security blob and dis-empower citizens. And unlike China, America can’t stop it’s citizens from using a VPN to spoof their location to some other country where TikTok still works … yet. I’m sure the blob is already planning for that as their next turn of the screw.
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I credit a huge portion of Trump’s triumphant return to his adversaries.
(Hmm … ‘Trump’s Triumph’ … make’s one wonder who is writing this screen play?)
“Defund the Police”
Lockdowns
(Your little neighborhood hardware store must shutdown, but Home depot will be allowed to stay open.)
Mandates
‘Men can be birthing persons”
Ivermectin is horse de-wormer’
“He is H!TleR’
The list of actual and rhetorical absurdities is long.
The Blob has great power, but appears to lack basic wisdom and adult supervision.
Had Trump’s opposition not lost composure, and at least faked passing adherence to their own loudly professed principles, we wouldn’t be here.
The very serious down side of this whole thing, is the stunning disassembly of the managerial intelligentsia … the underlying rot exposed and hastened by the fiasco of ‘Pandemic’.
Washing away The Blob is going to leave a lot of stains and bruises.
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Trump rally concludes with Village People singing YMCA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHkNxQVRj5U
The audio quality isn’t the best, given the acoustics in the venue, so you might prefer to listen to the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k
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I’ll bet the war against Europe continues..
“The subprime mortgage crisis hit the US economy, enhancing the EU’s economic pre-eminence. On July 18, 2008, the euro reached $1.60.
The US bankers will never forget or forgive that day. The feeling of superiority prompted European leaders to discuss replacing the dollar with Special Drawing Rights (SDR), composed of 44% dollar, 34% euro, and other currencies. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF director and potential French presidential candidate, was a key proponent. In May 2011, he was arrested in New York over sexual assault allegations. He resigned from the IMF, and criminal charges were dropped. I am sure, no connection. But the idea of replacing the dollar with SDR died, along with Strauss-Kahn’s presidential aspirations.
The dollar survived, but Americans took note: the EU wasn’t a friend. European elites seemed to be waiting for the US to stumble, craving control over international finances. Since then, US policy appears aimed at containing or even destroying the EU to prevent it from reaching supremacy.”
https://www.unz.com/ishamir/unravelling-the-mystery-of-war/
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UPDATE: The text description wasn’t showing above the Mike Johnson revelation. In any normal era this would be a blockbuster admission. See the text… The President had no idea what he was signing.
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