Moderates United

They say armchair generals discuss strategy, whereas the professionals discuss logistics.

Here is a logistical question I do not know the answer to: how easily can Trump fire career “civil servants”, particularly if they are blatantly insubordinate?  Are we so insane as a nation that we have made it hard to fire people who not only do not want to do their jobs, but want to sabotage the initiatives of the person they supposedly work for?

I read in a left wing meme that Republicans had passed something that allowed individual employees of the government to have their pay cut to nothing, or effectively nothing, as part of bigger spending bills.  I don’t know if this is true, but that would be great.

And Republicans control Congress: why not pass a law making it easier to fire assholes who are torpedoing and betraying the work of the elected President?  These mother fuckers exist at the tax payer expense, and if they don’t want to do their jobs for any reason, then they need to sign non-disclosure, be forbidden from lobbying for five years, and get booted out the door.

I pondered the “politicization” of the bureaucracy governing our nation.  Here is what I concluded: the President is elected to enact an agenda which is INHERENTLY political.  He is elected to put into place his ideas, and it is the job of the bureaucracy–I keep wanting to use a word I believe Keynes invented, the Commisariat–to enact that agenda.

The President is CEO of America, Inc.  His job is to deliver good things and avoid bad things, to the extent those things properly fall under his scope of responsibilities, and in this his job is no different than the job of any other CEO.  And in any other context, insubordination and sabotage would be grounds for immediate dismissal, no questions asked.  It doesn’t matter in any company, and should not matter in our government, if the people involved agree with the policies.  I’m quite sure people who despised Obama nonetheless did their jobs.

But of course it is quite obvious that the people who work for government overwhelmingly favor MORE government, and only one party has been consistent in calling for that, even if both parties have effectively supported it.  I would hazard a guess that AT LEAST 80% of career bureaucrats are Democrats, many of them ardently so.

When I think of decimation, I think of the scene–one actually enacted in history, as I read the book, too, and know this happened–where Mel Gibson, as Lt. Col Hal Moore (who just passed away in the last week or so) in “We were Soldiers Once and Young”, tells his troops to find anything that looks suspicious, and fire 3 rounds at it on his mark.  When they do, they realize that heavily camouflaged NVA had been sneaking up on them all night long.  It turns immediately into a major firefight.

It is almost certainly the case that more than 10% of Federal employees plan to oppose Trumps agenda–which is to say the agenda the American people called for enacting when asked in the polling booths–but firing 10% would allow us to get rid of most of the most vocal, the leaders, the Never Trump’ers; and as I have said, the 10% reduction is AFTER the clearly guilty are identified and prosecuted or fired.

Everything would be much, much easier if we had either elected Hillary, or elected a John Kasich, so that we could continue to conceal the lie that much of our government betrays the true interests of most Americans on a daily basis and has for many decades.  The creep would have continued, and with no national leader with a podium to speak obvious and important truths, and full price of these lies would have continued to inch closer to fruition.

Trump is the first President in modern times with a clear mandate to reverse the Leftist erosion of our liberties, of common sense, of coherent morality, and of our nation itself.  All of those who have been working in the shadows are now exposed, and as I said, it is ugly.  Fucking ugly.  But Trump did not invent it.  He did not cause it.  He is simply the one with the balls and the mandate and the tools to fight it.

One of the odder features of the current hysteria is that as far as I know, there is NOTHING, anywhere in the public record, anywhere in anything he said on the campaign trail, that indicates an anti-gay sentiment.

The “logic” seems to go something like “if Trump opposes illegal immigration, he opposes legal immigration.  If he opposes legal immigration he is a racist, and all racists also hate gay people.”  As fucking imbecilic as that sounds, I LITERALLY–and I literally mean literally here, no exaggeration, I am not fucking with you in the slightest–think that is what these people believe.

You ask them: where did Trump say anti-gay stuff?  The exact words may vary, but they will never contain specific language said on a specific date.

And I wonder how many remember his first run for President on the Reform Party ticket?  He was asked about gays then, and he said if they are the best match for the job, they are hired, period, no other questions.  asked.  He doesn’t care.  It’s not something remotely on his radar.  COMPETENCE is on his radar.

And it literally seems like there is flow chart, in which any attack on any designated “minority” or “oppressed (in the sense Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama are oppressed) is considered an attack on everybody but white people.  Because it is an attack on everybody but white people, it constitutes “white supremacy”.  And the solution to “white supremacy” is yelling.  If the first round of yelling and name calling doesn’t work, escalate the tone. Yell louder.  Yell more.  Ratchet up the rhetoric so the “white supremacists” become KKK members, then Grand Dragons, then Hitler Lite, then Hitler, then worse than Hitler.  Then their heads explode, and we don’t hear from them any more.  But many heads remain regrettably unexploded, so we are still dealing with the Hitler meme, all of which began with mild disagreement with current immigration policies.

No sane, intelligent person can but view these hysterics with anything but contempt.  It is far, far, far, far, beneath the dignity of ANYONE who claims even a rudiment of common sense, erudition, and capacity for measure taking and sound judgment. It is quite literally a mass eruption of grotesque mental illness.

I was thinking today, though, that all this was already below the surface, and it is very, very good that it is being exposed to light now, because it has masqueraded as decency and humanitarianism for far too long.

The fangs are out.  It is ugly, and a little bit scary, but it is OBVIOUS for all to see.  And as I keep saying, even though the media makes it look like there is consensus, the lunatics, in my best estimate, cannot be more than perhaps 10% of the population, and they cannot but be driving people away from them in droves, as people of genuine good will see the vampires, werewolves, and ghouls lurking underneath the assumed angel wings, and priestly gowns.  It has all been a lie, and now it is unmasked as an OBVIOUS lie.  There is no goodness there.   There is no love of humanity, or a pursuit of better ideas.  It is the abode of the demonic, and always has been.

Demons hide many places, but they particularly prefer the dark, and darkness, in turn, loves lies.  Truth, then is both the best offense and the best defense, and we are blessed with a man running this country who tells the truth.

If you are an old warrior, you have never fought your last battle until you find the Way.

Unless you can die and be reborn regularly, you are forced to view the world as fixed lines, with tired and old eyes.

Whenever something “bad” happens, it is always useful to look for any positive aspects of it.

What did this Flynn episode make obvious?  1) that our intelligence agencies do not believe they have to operate by the rules which govern the rest of us; 2) that they are ready and willing to interfere, illegally, in domestic politics in precisely the manner they accuse the Russians of; 3) that Trump threatens their agenda, which means they HAVE an agenda, other than that of supporting the elected representative of the American people, and following his lawful directives; and 4) that the directive granting the NSA broader powers can be reversed by Trump, who is the President now.

I see no difference between Flynn, in his preparations to take office, talking with the Russians about future policy–particularly given the daily and venomous attacks on them which the complicit media was directing–and Obama telling Putin to his face “after the election I will have more flexibility.”  The election had not even been held at that point, actually, making this worse.  Obama could not know for sure he would be President.  Flynn KNEW Trump had won.

This whole thing, obviously, is a manufactured tempest in a teacup.  It is TRUMPS WORST WEEK EVER, for the 56th time.  The American people see what is going on, and it pisses us off.  TRUMP IS THE PRESIDENT.  Stop fucking with him daily.

The bonus here, is Trump can draw a line and just say NO MORE ALBERTO GONZALEZ’S.  He can say, look, you attack my people, expect retribution.  Media outlets that run continual propaganda attacks on him can be disinvited from press conferences.

And more importantly, Trump has the political cover he needs, now, in my view, to do a MAJOR house-cleaning among our intelligence service, who seemingly recognize as master neither the law nor their elected boss.  That has to change.

And, again, Trump has what neither Nixon nor Reagan had, which is not just a Republican Congress, but a wave of resurgent support for conservatism generally. Obviously, Paul Ryan is a pussy or part of the swamp, but the movement is in the direction of these assholes needing to watch their backs, or they will get voted out of office.  Americans see what the Left has done, and we are having none of it.  Trump can and should browbeat these people into doing the fucking jobs they were elected to do.

Now, obviously not every battle is worth “going nuclear” over, but clearly in the case of the intelligence community, they drew first blood, which justifies every counter-measure Trump undertakes.

That is the silver lining here.  Sometimes you need your enemies to attack you first, so you can justify the response.

I will remind any readers I may have, that Nixon formed “the Plumbers” to find and stop leaks, which were, if memory serves, among other things sabotaging his efforts to negotiate an end to the Vietnam War.  Watergate was an unauthorized operation, conducted by men who were nonetheless connected to Nixon.

But those times and these are very different.  Nixon had to face a Democrat run Congress.  He was facing continual protests over the Vietnam War.  And even though there were many silent conservatives, there was no honest conservative media.  Everyone was against Nixon, against the war, and eager to crucify him any way they could.

Now, obviously Trump faces that same sort of animus, but the American people have lost faith in our media.  They just put him in office in a defiant “fuck you” to CNN, the New York Times, ABC, NBC, CBS and all the rest.  We have his back.  We gave him a Republican Congress, and gave Republicans a clear majority of the governorships and legislatures.

Conservatism–true Liberalism–is rising.  It is ascendant.  FDR’s Democrats are dead, and everyone knows it.  The street thugs attacking Trump supporters cannot claim to stand for anything.  Despite all the noise and shouting, good ideas are surging forth everywhere and cannot be suppressed forever.

Trump has some huge battles to fight, but he has the tools and the support he needs to win them.

What do you do when the people with the most information, the most ability to wield covert influence, and the most to lose from transparency are working against you?

I would say a purge.  Trump is the CEO of American Government, Inc., and he can fire as many people as he wants.  I would start building background papers on everybody even close to the leaks, start prosecuting people, and start firing people he just doesn’t trust.

This is a serious game.  By explicity intention of the law, the CIA is not allowed to work in the United States, but when the Director is weighing in on domestic political matters, he IS working in the United States.  And that is not counting people down the line simply calling up reporters and leaking anything and everything embarrassing they can find, regardless of its effect on national security.

The Romans punished disloyalty and cowardice by decimations.  At times entire legions were ended and folded into other legions without those scars of defeat, cowardice, and treason.

Whatever is done, I think it needs to be big, or he dies of a thousand small cuts.

And ponder, too, the loyalties of those who would oppose a man like Trump.  He is not wanting anything more or less than a safe nation, a healthy economy, freedom for all, and a fair shake for all.  Who opposes an agenda like that?  Could anyone who genuinely loves this country oppose that agenda?  Yes, I get that the media portrays him as Hitler, but these people are not that stupid.  That is epic stupid.

No: these people have likely been sabotaging American interests in the pursuit of global government for decades now.  As I keep pointing out, the CIA DIRECTOR was a Communist in the immediate aftermath of the Vietnam War, after the North broke every treaty is signed, invaded the South, and began a campaign of mass murder, forced collectivization, psychological torture camps, and property confiscation.

If he could be a Communist then, what would have changed since then?  And if he kept getting promoted, can we not assume that many more thought like him?

Maybe we need to end the CIA.  Eradicate it.  Expand the DIA, or form something new from scratch.

The vibe the media has chosen to take reminds me of this Tom Waits poem “What’s he building in there”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAP_JBRBECk

Everything is sinister.  Didn’t you just KNOW that Alberto Gonzalez was covering up something SINISTER?  That’s why he had to resign, for firing people who were always fired, but in a peculiarly sinister way.  He was UP TO SOMETHING.  What was he firing them for?  What did he have to hide?

WHAT WAS HE BUILDING IN THERE?  WE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW.

And of course, there is a checklist.  First he is sinister, then she is sinister, then we are sinister, then they are sinister.  Pure evil as far as the eye can see, secrets galore, terrors and betrayals, secret treasons and dark alliances.

WHAT THE HELL IS HE BUILDING IN THERE?

But you know, Donald Trump had NO CHANCE at winning the White House either.  I think the solution is 60 Republicans in the Senate.  It’s doable, on the path we are on.  The media has become farce.  Flynn was innocent of all but perhaps a formality.

And in all seriousness, Trump does have a major problem on his hands, in that in our intelligence community, and with the FBI, he is dealing with some very smart people who are practiced at deception, covert operations, and political sabotage.  One idea, an odd one even for me, is employing some trustworthy psychics to figure out who the real players are, and what their agenda is.  That’s almost what will be needed, although Trump is certainly no dummy, and certainly  not helpless when it comes to canning and prosecuting people.

Trump, effectively, has a den of spies working against him, at all levels of his Administration.  He needs to find people he can trust, put them in key positions, and start firing, demoting, and jailing people who are actively conspiring against him.

I proposed in the past, and will propose again, a reinstitution of the Roman practice of decimation. Take the IRS.  It is an active political organ still working for the Democrats.  Trump needs to arrest and put on trial and jail everyone who broke the law, fire everyone remotely close to political activity, then fire every tenth person from top to bottom.  They will remember that.

Many agencies–the EPA is another, and perhaps even the CIA (ATF and DEA I think we should eliminate: the list of agencies needing a kick in the balls is long)–need this sort of treatment.  Call it a purge if you want, but we cannot run a government where a sizable number of the people whose salaries we the American people are paying, and who are supposed to work FOR US, and who WE ELECT, refuse to do so.

http://www.bitterharvestfilm.com/.  Quite obviously, they can choose not to show this movie, or any in the future which tell the truth about their horrific system.

Mao had his own version of this.  And his version was actually a bit worse, in that he was too fucking stupid to believe that tens of millions of people were dying, and because much of it was the result of his ignorant meddling, based on pseudo-scientific bullshit, in practices which had worked for thousands of years. He kept accusing the farmers of hiding grain under their houses.  But no, they were eating their neighbors children, and their neighbors were eating theirs.

The true story of Communism is much more disgusting, much more stomach turning, than the worst of the Nazi atrocities.  The Nazis killed people on purpose, because they loathed them. The Communists killed people out of their own psychopathic need.  And they kill people to this very day for the crime of not believing that their poverty, unfreedom and misery is anything but a utopian dream.

Put another way, within their own paradigm, the Nazis were rational. Their “science” taught them that Jews were inferior and that Germans were meant to rule the world.  Everything they did served this purpose.

Communists, in contrast, talk continually about justice, and peace, and progress and prosperity, all while destroying any hope of any of them.  They are lunatics, without any saving graces.

Nazism, at least, would have worked for the Germans, and those they saw as kin. Communism kills without hesitation, reservation, or scruple EVERYTHING in its path, all while declaiming its virtues to tortured souls forced to endure a world of continual lies.  It is the purest form of evil extant on this planet.

It is literally like 2/3rd’s of the academics, at least in the Humanities, are preaching a more or less pure form of Satanism.

I would add as well that the Nazis recognized early on the propaganda power of film, as did the Soviets.  Anyone in a position to influence our films is in a position to influence our culture.

And self evidently, the deluded lunatics in Hollywood are only too happy to help them in their global war on common sense standards of decency, on the Golden Rule, and on the very possibility of sanity.  Darkness is their vision.  That is why they call Trump “dark”: because he offers the possibility of light, and this they cannot stand, and as always, they accuse their enemies of their own vices and own intentions.

I think the turning point will be when blacks en masse realize that they don’t need white people, but that white people–Leftists, to be specific–need them.  Seriously, how much GOOD do kowtowing, confused, emotionally retarded white people do apologizing for their “privilege”?  I can see how it might be a bit of an emotional kick for black people at white universities, but does it create jobs?  Foster better parenting?  Create enthusiasm for learning?

It is a ritual order, and something in the nature of a bad religion, where the priests and priestesses are determined by birth, and people who could contribute something actually useful consigned to yearning for their own enslavement.  It’s all ludicrous.