Lately, I find reality beginning to resemble 1980’s action movie plots. We have CIA and FBI undercover operations freely mixing into our politics. Whether it’s Russia-gate or Hunter’s laptop or any of the color revolution activities inside and outside of the United States, it just seems like there’s no longer any brakes on what intelligence agencies will do if they decide it’s in their interest.
It’s as if they’ve been reading too many Tom Clancy novels or something. And now with Donald Trump taking the initiative by selecting nominees for Attorney General and other cabinet officers who could curtail these activities it almost seems like we’re approaching some kind of showdown between the elected government and the Deep State.
It doesn’t take much imagination to see where this could go. Now the thing is, the intelligence agencies have a long-standing relationship with many of the senators who run the place. With Senator Thune selected for Senate Majority Leader I wouldn’t be surprised if they are given marching orders to veto Trump’s nominees like Matt Gaetz. What might happen might be that the Senate could veto Gaetz but Trump might make him an interim appointee. I’m guessing that a year in office might be plenty enough to fire and prosecute plenty of Trump’s enemies. And after the year I’m sure Trump will find plenty of other work for Gaetz. And likewise for Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. You can fire a lot of generals and rescind a lot of DEI and LGBTQ policies in a year.
But it’s easy to see that the GOP establishment is still alive and well in the Senate. Donald Trump has his work cut out for him and he’ll have to use every bit of the powers that the presidency possesses to bust up the Deep State. I suspect he may have to declare a national emergency just to shut the border and deport the millions of illegal aliens. And I don’t think the enemies of this country, foreign (the aliens) or domestic (governors like Gavin Newsom) will just roll over and play dead. Trump is going to have to play hardball with them. I don’t doubt that it will lead to violence. And that’s one of the biggest reasons why he has to purge the military and the Justice Department of his enemies. Otherwise, they will fight him tooth and nail every step of the way.
I think it will be fascinating to see who wins. I’m sure the FBI and the CIA will “discover” another Russia-gate to investigate. And various senators who work for Raytheon and the other defense contractors will accuse Trump of being soft on Russia for not wanting to keep the Ukraine war going for another ten years. I hope that Donald Trump has learned his lesson and will fire all of the FBI, NSA, CIA and other intelligence agency enemies he has as soon as he gets into office. And he should similarly fire as many woke generals as he can, as soon as he can. I think his presidency depends on it. And with no hint of exaggeration, his very life probably does too.
Yes. That is why he chose his Secretary of Defense, Hegseth, carefully and not from the ranks of the current flag officers of any branch. A decorated combat veteran who really supports the troops, and whom the deep state tried to push out.
Despite my feelings of resignation before the election Trump has caught my attention with his list of nominees. I think he might actually disrupt the managerial state. At least he appears to be serious about trying to do just that.
There are too many perfumed-prince careerist Generals and Admirals that got where they are today by backstabbing, politics, and ignoring the needs of the men they are supposed to lead. I knew too many of them when I was in the Service. “Duty, Honor Country” is replaced by “My Career, My Rank, My Position, my Post-retirement Employment”.
You guys who were in the service should chime in from time to time as Trump’s Secretary of Defense takes charge. It’s really hard for me to tell if anything meaningful is happening in the government, except for when the Left is howling. Then I assume it’s hurting them which is good by definition.
The fact that I was an E5 Sergeant in the USMC 50 years ago doesn’t buy me much in the way of street cred.
As a complete civilian it puts me that much less.