Keep Your Saw Sharp
The greatest redwood is felled by the last saw cut, so will the Deep State fall.
It is virtually impossible to be insightful when things are so obvious.
There is an ideology and political movement that IS the state. They do not exist without it any more than a fish can exist out of water. The state is their life force, their sustenance, and their reason for living – and they use every tool they have or can invent to preserve and increase the power of the state.
If it prospers, they prosper.
It enriches and protects them.
They will use any tool, weaponize any rule, bend any law, abuse any trust - and lie about doing any of that - in a quest to advance their agenda. If you are part of the team, you are protected and exempt from any sort of punishment. Just look at the list of names from the top of my head who, over the past decade and a half have enjoyed total protection:
Hillary Clinton
The Clinton Foundation
Sandy Berger
Barack Obama
John Kerry
Joe Biden
James Biden
Hunter Biden
Susan Rice
Eric Holder
Loretta Lynch
Lois Lerner
Sally Yates
James Comey
Andrew McCabe (got his pension back and record expunged)
James Clapper
John Brennan
Lisa Page
Peter Strzok
Bruce Ohr
Nellie Ohr
Kevin Clinesmith (had his law license restored)
Adam Schiff
Nancy Pelosi
Paul Pelosi
Paul Pelosi, Jr.
Ilhan Omar (immigration fraud)
BLM/Patrisse Cullors (tax evasion and fundraising fraud)
ANTIFA
…and too many more to name here.
Now look at the other side, those who aren’t in the statist crime organization:
Scooter Libby
Roger Stone
Paul Manafort
Mike Flynn
George Papadopoulos
Donald Trump and the Trump kids
J6 protesters
See the difference?
Democrats get a pass from the Deep State, Republicans go to jail.
It has been that way since Watergate.
I’m told, in conversations about the adding of 87,000 public servants at the IRS, that if I don’t cheat on my taxes and do anything illegal, I have nothing to worry about.
Well, that is worthless sentiment when we face a state that, in true Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria fashion, can find the crime to fit any person. The Deep State believes in two things: 1) the process IS the punishment and 2) sentence first, trial later.
The left has armies of people whose entire careers are spent making “new” law and searching for novel ways to make laws and regulation say things they don’t’ say and apply to situations they do not.
The left has completely weaponized government to their advantage and if you can’t see it, I can only assume you are part of it. No matter how you feel about Donald Trump, if you cheered what happened at Mar-a-Lago last week, you are, simply put, an idiot for a very basic reason.
The state cares for no one.
It doesn’t care about you, only what you can do for it.
It only cares about itself.
It punishes those who oppose it, that much is true, but it also punishes those who embarrass or fail it.
Bob “Torch” Torricelli
Rod Blagojevich
Michel Cohen
Creepy Porn Lawyer
Jefferey Epstein
Ghislaine Maxwell
Harvey Weinstein
Matt Lauer
Just to name a few.
If Joe Lunchbox thinks he will stand in the dock and be treated like Hunter Biden, Mr. Lunchbox is clinically insane.
Conservatives have some advantages, most of which are beginning to make themselves known. Truth will out. Reality exists. Natural laws and natural rights exist.
But perhaps the greatest advantage is that this weaponized state is so centralized, when one part falls, it all falls. That is the greatest weakness of a totally politized state, it is just as fragile as it is powerful. The greatest of redwood trees have been felled by a single saw cut in the right place.
Any candidate who shows up at general election time without a chainsaw in hand doesn’t deserve our support.
We are going to win.
Keep your saws sharp.
I don't understand the fragility part. The trouble is in the genetic core of the behemoth. As Maestro Taranto so well noted during Obama's IRS scandal, if the apparatus does the deep state's bidding even without instruction, we've reached a scarier and more dangerous place than mere corruption.
We're clearly there. No part will fall and change the apparatchik's view of his duties and his relationship over the peasants.
King George was not sidled away to transform the US. He was thrust kicking and screaming until every part of his government was removed, collectively and individually.
I believe in the pendulum theory, and that we're so far left now all can see it. But how much correction is possible if there base is tilted that way so strongly?
Thanks for your writings. You are one of the most astute I read. Maybe a little strong for my first cup of Sunday morning coffee. But worth it.
Excellent (as always)
As you noted, there are too many fascists to list; but Steven Halper is a noteworthy villain.
The author Svetlana Lokhova deserves a footnote. Her book, entitled THE SPIDER: STEFAN A. HALPER AND THE DARK WEB OF A COUP, was published in August of 2020. Amazon.com once allowed me to pre-order it. In mid-July, all traces of that book had been scrubbed from the Amazon.com website and the representative I spoke to had no idea what I was talking about.
Tim Scott, Justice Thomas, and Candace Owens deserve mention as they are considered "race traitors' for questioning the diktats of the 4th Reich.