Tag: Weaponizing the Deep State Against Dissent

Tom’s World – 04DEC2025 – The End of “Our Democracy”

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Here’s a column by Christopher Chantrill, whom I’ve been following religiously for several years. He has several uncommon, shall we say, takes on the political landscape.

A Commoner Manifesto Pushing Back Against the Revolution of the commoners Christopher Chantrill Dec 03, 2025

“Our situation is not whether to have a republic or democracy. Our situation is what to do after the failure of the educated-class project of the last 150-200 years. Obviously, the educated class wants to hang on.”

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“Problem for any ruling class is that, at the end of the dynasty, the rulers are not sending their best: Biden, Harris, Walz: see what I mean? And so, even though they have sat majestically on the throne for decades and won world wars and saved workers and blacks and women and gays from a fate worse than death, when it comes to the crunch, they don’t have the ability and the skills and the cojones to realize that they have screwed up, that their regime is incompetent and corrupt, and that dynasties don’t last forever.”

Patriot Games

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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.

What Comes After the Kamala-fication of 2024?

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As the political system of the United States descends ever faster into farce, I find myself wondering if there any depths to which the people running this carnival ride won’t descend in order to prevent the citizens of this country from regaining control?

Think about it.  They let a dementia patient pretend to be in charge of the US nuclear arsenal while they performed brinksmanship with Vladimir Putin.  They apparently were willing to let Biden try to stay on the job until he was eighty-six years old, only his inability to remember the word “healthcare” torpedoed the only public speaking appearance they’ve allowed him in years.  They’ve now anointed an emotionally unstable nitwit to be their candidate.  And four years ago, they were willing to shut down the world economy by releasing a tepid bio-weapon against us in order to prevent Donald Trump’s reelection.

So, let’s suppose somehow Donald Trump “wins” the election.  What makes anyone think they’d be unwilling to do whatever it takes to destroy his administration?  Maybe this time they release a deadly bioweapon and all the people who refused the vaccine last time, die this time.  Or now that we’ve seen how the secret Service can be weaponized what will prevent them from finishing the job after the inauguration?

I don’t want to come across as a doom and gloom-er (well, maybe somewhat) but I think there’s a pretty strong case to be made that the people who run the Deep State are pretty damn vicious and unafraid to throw a wrench into the works that keep this country running if it will damage their adversaries.

Let’s look at the best-case scenario.  Donald Trump gets back in the White House and has a House and Senate that aren’t dead set against him and he begins implementing his plan; deporting illegal aliens and restoring fossil fuels as our energy source.  Will the powers that be allow him to defang the Deep State?  Will he be allowed to fire the people in the Justice Department, FBI and CIA who have been working against him for almost ten years?  It seems highly unlikely.

After all, we’ve reached the go-for-broke stage of this battle.  At this point there are probably a lot of people who know terrible secrets of illegal activities by people in high and middle levels of the bureaucracy.  They must be pretty frightened that at some point someone will rat them out.  That somewhere in the FBI or CIA there might be someone who wants to put an end to the endless string of unconstitutional covert actions against Donald Trump and the normal people in this country.  In such an environment I have to think that the people running things must have a policy to avoid losing power by any means necessary.

If you follow how this has been going, the actions needed to keep the lid on all this seems to be escalating.  And the rate of escalation seems to be accelerating.  By my way of looking at this, that’s a recipe for disaster.  Eventually the lies and excuses will become completely transparent.  Even the stupidest or laziest observer will realize that the whole system is a sham.

That will be the point where our situation corresponds to last stages of the Soviet Union.  “The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe them.”  At that point reality no longer controls the actions of the state and collapse will ensue without warning.  Well, at least I’ll be able to say I told you so!

Trump on the Firing Line

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So, I wanted to write a post on the assassination.  But I’m kind of at a loss.  Where to start?  Most of Donald Trump’s secret service detail looks like an aging, out of shape girl scout troop.  Then we have the anti-sniper unit, they must have been on a coffee break.  Eventually after the shooter emptied a magazine at the president, they got around to killing the guy on the roof in front of them.  I guess that was nice of them under the circumstances.  Then the press goes through some histrionics but their takeaway is that preventing retaliation by insane Trump followers is the most important mission of the security agencies.  Trump’s political enemies prosecute him in every jurisdiction where they can assemble a kangaroo court and then they hyperventilate on the television about him retaliating against them with lawfare if he wins.  What’s wrong with this picture?  We live in a permanent upside-down reality.

But we already know all this.  Basically, we are waiting to find out if Deep State will thwart the will of the people of this country and essentially prove that they can and will do whatever it takes to maintain control over our lives and enact their agenda, which is basically make us into serfs.  We’ve got four months more or less.  Maybe they’ll get lucky with the next psycho.  Maybe his aim will be better or his weapon a little more robust.  Or maybe Trump will survive to election day, and they’ll cheat him the way they did in 2020.  Or maybe they’ll let him win the election and then just stonewall his every attempt at reforming the system with crooked judges and bureaucratic obfuscation.  Who knows, they might have a more effective bioweapon this time or a deadlier RNA vaccine as a follow up.  But the chance of him fixing things seems remote.

Watching Trump on that podium and seeing his defiance after they came within an inch or two of blowing his head off, I was grateful that a man who didn’t have to put up with any of this madness cared enough about this country to try and fix the awful mess we’re in.  Trump is this enigma.  Trump is a businessman, or a salesman, or a huckster, or a con-man or a flim-flam artist depending on whether you like him or hate him.  But he’s definitely one thing.  He’s an American.  And I’m an American.  Now to a lot of people that word no longer has any meaning.  But to a lot of us it still does.  So, I recognize in Trump someone who is trying to save the world we used to live in.  He wants to stop the wholesale destruction of the way of life that we all loved and took for granted.

Now, at this point I’d give him considerably less than a fifty-fifty chance of saving this country.  He’s up against the Democrats, the Republicans, the Deep State, Wall Street, the rest of the globalists of the world and now the lunatics of the Left who want to blow his brains out.

I doubt he’ll win.  But I can’t doubt his courage.  He’s proven that under fire.

Has the Deep State Overplayed Its Hand?

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So, yesterday’s post was probably as pessimistic as I’ve ever felt.  The Supreme Court’s siding with the Biden border policy is so maddening that I could feel nothing but anger and hopelessness.  But there is a flip-side to such blatant harm being perpetrated against our sovereignty.  It could trigger an enormous groundswell of anger and support for Trump completely out of all proportion to his popularity with the other half of the country.  If the cities continue to fill up with illegal aliens who use up all the resources of these poor urban areas and contribute to crime and increase the misery of the inhabitants then maybe beyond all possibility of fraud the country could reject Biden and the Democrats so convincingly that even the oligarchs will be forced to relinquish the keys to the government.

Now granted this is a hard premise to sell.  When Trump won in 2016 the Left began a systematic campaign of sabotage against his administration that is still ongoing.  It seems unlikely that a bottom-up movement would have the organization to challenge the veritable tidal wave of voter fraud that the Left will unleash next November.  Poll watchers and lawyers will be needed to witness and accuse the cheaters while it is actually going down.  I don’t think that program is being built up.  I don’t think Trump knows how to organize an effective defense of his election.  And yet.

And yet, there is such an anger and frustration growing in this country that maybe January 6th was just a very early rumble in advance of an earthquake of unprecedented size.  Let’s say an 11.0 on the ten-point Richter scale.  If angry reactions sweep over a country that sees another fabricated Biden “victory” it might be enough to scare the Deep State into backing down.  And if it doesn’t it just might trigger the real insurrection that they stage-managed on January 6th.

Honestly, I have no certainty at all about what is most likely to happen.  We’re in completely uncharted territory.  But they’ve been goading the majority of people in this country going all the way back to when that creepy weirdo Obama got elected.  And every new incitement has been a magnitude larger than the last one.  It feels like they are intentionally pushing this thing toward an explosion of anger.  It’s entirely possible that they have a plan that depends on this explosion to allow them to sweep away the vestiges of popular government.  But as I’ve been intimating who’s to say they haven’t underestimated just how large the reaction will be to their goading.  If they do underestimate the reaction, what follows could be something like the reception that Louis XVI faced after the fall of the Bastille.  There might be a reckoning for the people who have set themselves over us and made our lives a chaotic misery.

So that’s “the other hand.”  If it turns out the master minds of the Deep State have underestimated the depth of anger and hatred, they’ve generated we may see the upending of their whole regime.  Just something to think about.  No guarantees given.

Even a Leftist Admits the Dangerous Hypocrisy

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H/T to Tim for the link on my feed.  Greenwald is a progressive.  But he’s an honest man.  He believes in the concept of equality under the law.  And he sees that the Justice Department has been weaponized against its enemies.  And he knows once equal protection has been eliminated everyone is the potential target.  He knows that the Deep State has then become an unassailable tyrant.

That’s when the FBI starts killing old crippled men and tossing them in the street as a warning.

 

Putting the Fox in Charge of the Henhouse

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Garland appoints the same guy who is currently trying to bury the Hunter Biden investigation as special counsel so he’ll have even more power to bury it.  In fact. he’ll probably use his office to investigate the people trying to get to the bottom of Hunter’s crimes.  I expect him to indict all the whistle blowers and even the Republican congressional committee members.

And now that the special counsel’s work is ongoing the congressional committee can be held off as trying to interfere in an active investigation.  What a wonderful system we live under.

Well, Maybe

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I get an e-mail whenever Curtis Yarvin writes a post in his Substack; Gray Mirror.  Now Yarvin is a lunatic but an engaging and clever lunatic.  His answer to all of the ills of our society is always the same; install a king.  So, I’m always a little daunted when I consider reading his posts, not least of all because they are usually between five and ten thousand words long.  Yikes!  Luckily this one was on the low end of that range.

It was a gentle chiding of Richard Hanania for becoming a moderate.  I guess Hanania was being attacked in the media for being an alt-right partisan in his younger days.  Well, who wasn’t?  Anyway, after a few thousand words to ridicule the concept of classical liberalism Yarvin gets down to his bottom line.  Any and all progress against the woke left is hopeless because the oligarchy protects it and the only way to get rid of the oligarchy is with a king.

Well, maybe.

So, because our representative democracy has been hijacked by an oligarchy, according to him we should welcome a dictator.  And you wonder, how did that work out for the Romans?  Julius Caesar and Augustus were pretty good.  But after that, what a nightmare.  How do you keep the king from being a madman or an incompetent?  Yarvin has this idea that it would be like some kind of CEO for the country and there would be a board of directors who could hire and fire the king.

Well, maybe

But I’m guessing that stuffing that board would be like stuffing the Supreme Court.  And truth be told the board would be the oligarchs and they would just choose one of their oligarchi-est oligarchs to run their show.  And how in hell do you get something like this started?  No, there is no way out that way.

What seems to be the case is that we are heading for a crisis.  The old system and the way that it works is reaching a breaking point.  Those in charge seem to have a plan to permanently make the voting system just a rubber stamp for their regime.  And at the same time, they want to change the class system in this country from a middle-class dominant model to a feudal system with the peasants working for the oligarchs.  And to be totally honest it sure looks like they’re way ahead getting their plan done.  A big chunk of the millennials and zoomers have serf written all over them.

Well, maybe.

But the best laid plans of oligarchs and serfs oft time go to hell in the real world.  I still think it’s too soon to just throw in the towel.  The demolition of the American economy is preceding at such a breakneck pace that it is somewhat possible that a popular revolt might miraculously sweep the Democrats completely out of power long enough to allow actual representatives of the people to make drastic reforms and restore our interests.

Well, maybe.

After reading about the FBI gunning down that old guy in Provo, Utah I’m not feeling so chipper today.  I know the radical nature of the killing should help to delegitimize the institutions like the FBI.  And it probably does.  The man as described was obviously no threat to anyone.

“Neighbors who spoke with the Deseret News described Robertson as a markedly different person than what he portrayed online. One person called him a “teddy bear” known for his woodworking who would sit in the same seat at church every Sunday; another said he was barely mobile, weighed nearly 300 pounds and was unable to walk without a cane. He would drive to church, despite it only being about 200 yards from his home, because he had so much trouble moving around.

Neighbors also described a harrowing scene, with dozens of agents converging on the Provo house, rifles drawn and hiding behind bulletproof shields as flash bangs exploded.

“I just can’t believe that this man warranted that kind of response,” said Travis Clark, who lived up the street from Robertson.”

It makes me sick to think that the FBI has become a secret police agency, no different from the Stasi and the KGB.  In fact, worse than those organizations.  At least the KGB wouldn’t have allowed BLM and Antifa to burn down their own cities.  But maybe it will be this kind of gestapo tactics that convinces a solid majority of the American people that our “leaders” are really our overlords now and need to be replaced with something better.

Maybe, maybe not.

Tough day to be optimistic.

The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth

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Damning.  Will anything come of it?