I was confronted by a political ad on YouTube the other day. Vice President Kamala Harris was looking into the camera and telling whoever would listen that Donald J. Trump, the G.O.P. presumptive nominee for the U.S. Presidency, is an “existential threat to our democracy”.
In a certain way, she is right, although not in any way that she would recognize. If you parse her words, you could say, “Well, Madame Vice President, we don’t have a democracy, we have a republic; so therefore, your assertion is a nullity”.
But Democrats always refer to our form of government as a “democracy” and we know to what they are referring.
And make no mistake, this attack ad goes way beyond word games. This isn’t even just a shot across the bow. This ad, being offered up by an official of the U.S. government almost with the air of a public service announcement is, to anyone paying attention, unmistakably, a full-on declaration of war. The gloves are off and it’s not even March as I write this.
So, I clicked off the ad. I’d seen enough after the opening salvo. No apologies here.
Look. I’ve experienced and observed U.S. presidential elections in the past. Never do I remember any candidate being accused by the opposition party, particularly by an incumbent in office that the person running for office in the opposing party is an enemy of the state.
There is no other takeaway here. The Democratic party in the person of the Vice President of these United States has essentially told the American people that the guy polling ahead of everyone else on either ballot, the odds-on, popular favorite to win the election handsomely if it were held today, is by all accounts, someone who makes all those intending to vote for him through the taint of association, “an existential threat to our democracy”.
Am I missing something here? Am I hearing this right? I believe I was just told in so many words that the person I support for the American presidency, makes me and all my compatriots who support Donald Trump, enemies—not voting citizens with a right to choose our elected representatives.
But this is not anything new to you if you have been paying attention. It’s just that Ms. Harris has done us the favor of making it blatantly official for all of us who happened to catch that ad with its opening lines.
What is new, is a very insightful interview that Tucker Carlson had recently that helps us understand better, and perhaps frames things in a way that allows us to proceed forward constructively, avoiding the all-out civil war that some crazy radicals are calling for.
Nevertheless, the gravitas of this year’s election cannot be overstated. There have never been such high stakes riding on a single election in our lifetime, in my opinion. And many others in the know share that view.
The interview I am referring to is the one Tucker had with Mike Benz:
“The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. "What I’m describing is military rule," says Mike Benz. "It’s the inversion of democracy."
What we got from Tucker is a ringside seat with one of the nation’s top analysts, retired from the State Dept., explaining how the “military-censorship complex” morphed into what is effectively the 4th and arguably the most powerful branch of government in the U.S. today.
This was the subject of an earlier article I did, but which quoted another author who names this monstrosity of a 4th branch of government as the security/surveillance state apparatus.
Professor Steve Turley did a video review of the Tucker interview and offered an outline of the 5 key takeaways that Mr. Benz described.
Benz’s logic for identifying what occurred in the 2 terms of the Obama presidency and what has since transpired provides an excellent overview of the political intrigue and outright chicanery and sedition that has troubled our nation throughout the last decade and more. (The roots go back further, but for purposes here, the Obama years tell the tale.)
According to Benz, the Brexit vote in the U.K. started—or accelerated—the cascade of interference in civil politics by the military and intelligence agencies of the Five Eyes network along with their EU allies. Top administrators/policy-makers feared that Britain's exit from the European Union could spell trouble and domino into the departure of France, Germany, etc. leaving the fold and breaking apart the EU. It was deemed an urgent enough matter to justify the immediate involvement of the military to prevent the dissolution of the EU, which could ultimately lead to the dismemberment of NATO, the enforcement arm of Western Europe’s security services.
Then, shortly after the Brexit vote, Donald Trump was elected. Trump is a hard-liner when it comes to dealing with NATO. Remember, he is the guy who has said that every European nation has to step up & pay its share. No more free ride given by the U.S. covering the lion’s share of NATO expenditures. He has underscored that sentiment this past week suggesting that the U.S. military would step aside if Putin invaded a nation that had not kept its dues current.
The censorship complex came home stateside to roost when the CIA regime-change machinery used in other nations identified as threats to U.S. interests was deployed against Trump in the whole Russian collusion hoax affair that scandalized almost the whole of his 4-year term in office. As Benz described it, Russiagate washed over the whole debate of moral ambiguities entailed in censoring your own people domestically. The rub was based on the predicate—if Trump is a Russian asset—then we don’t just have a free speech issue but it had now ramped up to a national security concern. As things developed, the American people have since learned how the complicit press went along with the CIA-produced narrative that has now inveigled itself into the American zeitgeist, but which is now de-classified to the extent that I, as a crass outsider, can talk about it somewhat intelligently.
The crux of what has stealthily occurred to and within our Republic is trundled into a Turley-catch phrase that seems somewhat redundant, maybe even a little counter-intuitive: “The Deep State is destroying democracy to save it”.
What is meant here is that democracy as it is understood today, especially in the mindscape of the permanent political class is that “democracy” is less about the will of the voters, and is more and more about the preservation of the sanctity of “democratic institutions”. And of course, that means protecting the special interests of the IMF, the military, the Federal agencies and the unelected bureaucrats who run them, the NGOs and think tanks, the mainstream media, liberal academia, etc. They are constantly shuffling the deck at their premium card table, working ever so diligently to obtain a consensus among themselves; that’s democracy in action according to today’s technocrats. Don’t spoil things by injecting some uninformed, populist opinions into the punch bowl at the elites’ party, thank you. They’re happy to flavor their own Kool-Aid.
Many influencers on the social scene today, whether they are aware of it or not, can be said to be programmed into “institutional” thinking. One step further, people can be herded into what is described as groupthink. If not remedied early on, a pathological condition can erupt into the Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).
This is where Insights #2 & #1 in the Turley outline reveal how the Obama team weaponized the domestic intelligence apparatus against the Trump insurgency of MAGA sentiments brewing in the American polity.
On point, right around this time stamp in the interview, Benz unloads the facts on how a federalized operation in the upcoming 2020 election commandeered the way that absentee ballots would be handled. This was summarized in Turley’s (Benz) telling of how Trump’s early lead in the electoral vote count was to be stripped away in the dark hours of election night as the absentee and mail-in ballots were counted.
The Deep State manipulation of vote counting; the strategy of mail-in ballots catching and then surpassing the Trump gains was planned 7 months earlier by Democrat operatives working within the Obama-led administration.
A near-perfect ballot heist was pulled off, aided and abetted by a pandemic crisis that obliged many voters to stay at home for health reasons. At the same time, states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia changed their procedures to accommodate the mail-in balloting that handily led to last-minute Biden votes capturing the final tally.
Perhaps most importantly, the #1 fact that this interview itself was able to be aired without being censored into oblivion gives those of us keen on breaking the Biden regime and his clandestine community of backers hope that the 2024 election remains free and fair enough to yield an honest outcome.
This is where Elon Musk and his purchase of Twitter/X come in. Tucker Carlson broadcasts on the backbone of the X platform. It was not so long ago that Twitter/X was the #1 social media asset of the FBI and was being used to censor conservative viewpoints and commentary. When Musk purchased Twitter and dropped that whole series of files that exposed the way Jack Dorsey, the previous CEO, allowed the FBI to oversee the company’s editorial decision-making policies, it inalterably exposed the level of rampant collusion that was happening. As we subsequently learned, the FBI influenced how the Hunter Biden laptop revelations were withheld in the last days leading up to the election for example. (For which it is claimed made the difference in the outcome of the election.)
As for Trump and his basket of deplorables today… Well, the intelligence community went to war with him and his supporters because he was not on board with the inter-agency consensus that was spewed out by the establishment's social/political icons.
This gets us back to the Harris harassment ad. Using the baseless, already de-legitimized claim that Trump is guilty of insurrection by what occurred on Jan. 6th, 2021, the argument goes; Madame Veep was reading a script provided to her by the speech writers on the Biden payroll. Her whole premise for her accusations was built on top of framing Trump guilty of insurrection and also piggybacked on Jack Smith’s pending lawsuit charging Trump with election interference for his questioning the 2020 election results.
The fact that the FBI has already officially determined that January 6th did not constitute nor rise to the level of insurrection is beside the point. And now, as of Feb. 29, the #1 lawfare strategy on which the Dems were counting on removing Trump from the Republican ticket has just been neutralized by the Supreme Court.
A pending lawsuit headed up by special prosecutor Jack Smith-hired gun for Merrick Garland’s Dept. of Justice was admitted on the docket of the Supreme Court which it agreed to hear in a case that will determine if Trump is immune to prosecution. The mere fact that it agreed to hear this case effectively takes this weaponized legalism out of Democratic reach or control, placing it firmly within the purview of the Supremes. As pointed out by Turley, it doesn’t even matter what the court ultimately decides as the possibility of the litigation of its merits interfering with the November election is now stopped.
The intervention of SCOTUS has taken the J6 lawfare weapon out of Democrat partisan hands. The next foot to drop will be the Supreme ruling that the States attempting to ban Trump from their state ballots is unconstitutional and therefore illegal.
What we should all remember is that a weaponized military-industrial censorship complex and its hive mind are still very much active behind the scenes. There are still some agency heads whose careers may take a definite turn for the worst if Trump indeed returns to the Whitehouse.
The apparent victories of this week should not in any way dissuade us from being super-vigilant through the remainder of this election year and beyond.
Something tells me that the Dems are going to have to come up with some new ads after today.