Posted on 06/23/2024 7:20:33 AM PDT by jacknhoo
A couple of quick hot points from the 2024 presidential race and Trump side of the equation.
♦ First, we can ignore all of the typical pre-debate banter about who is doing what in the lead-up to the Trump v Biden debate. Every cycle the debate narratives are pushed for clicks and attention; almost all of it is manufactured nonsense and false.
Actual, professional, presidential debate teams do not leak information about their debate prep activity to the media. The only information released is from campaign players who want the other side to see, hear and waste time preparing for imaginary nonsense. All of the pre-debate stuff, banter, punditry and column inches are one big mind game of misinformation. Ignore all of it.
♦ Second, the DC system that created Mike Pence as the best option for Trump 2016 is the same system pushing Vance, Rubio and Burgum for 2024. [Example HERE] The intent with Pence 2016 is the same intent with Vance, Rubio and Burgum ’24. I’m cautiously optimistic President Trump is well aware of this.
Seriously, how many times have you heard me repeat the warning: NEVER TRUST A NEVER-TRUMPER. Yet, time and time again people get wooed back, deny their instincts, dismiss the intellectual reality and drop their guard. Every single time the Trump supporters get burned.
This is not complicated folks. The Never-Trumpers do not change position, have an awakening, trip over some “come to Jesus” moment, engage in self-reflection, or otherwise evolve to stop thinking that Donald Trump is the end of their world. Never-Trumpers espoused that opinion, because Never-Trumpers saw value in holding that opinion. It is simple and should be accepted.
Those who claimed Trump was/is horrible, terrible, egotistical, evil and all the other adjectives to describe their sentiments, do not suddenly have a change in perspective. What changes them are changes in the instructions they are given. They begin praising Trump because there is new value in stating that opinion. NEVER, EVER Trust a never-Trumper. The stakes are too high.
♦ Third, apparently the secret service is increasing the security detail around President Trump.
Kelly O’Donnell: “Secret Service is ready to add new protectee detail for Trump running mate. USSS is also increasing size of Trump detail beyond level for formers. Official said, “The Secret Service detail has been bulked up by additional special agents and support teams to ensure the highest level of security for not only the event sites but the travel in between events.” (source)
Generally speaking, the current DC system operators, that are referred to as the ‘Biden administration’, have no motivation to protect Donald Trump other than their sense of personal responsibility to the nation President Trump represents.
Given the effort that Tucker Carlson has put into mainstreaming thoughts around the ‘killing of Trump‘, I am cautious to view any Secret Service effort through the prism of professional altruism.
I pray for the safety of President Trump and his family daily, because I am very clear-eyed about the nature of the enemy he faces.
PDJT likes this guy. He said Vivek will be in his administration. Obviously you have more inside information on Vivek than president Trump has. Bravo!!
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. There’s no mission critical situations in the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana. You could probably train a monkey to govern those states and they’d run ok.Some cities have a higher population than the entire states.
I’d have picked fewer Deep State cabinet members and veep than he did the first time around, that’s for sure.
(Not that his choices along those lines are accidental.)
And here’s hoping he’s not trying to use Kristi Noem for his cabinet or VP either. Keep them where they’re at. They are better for the people in the states they govern.
Trump needs a MAGA fighter for his VP. I would suggest Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Allen West is Trump’s best VP pick.
He is a Christian constitutional conservative, a combat veteran, a former Member of the US Congress from Florida, the Executive Director for The American Constitutional Rights Union, and a former Texas GOP Chair, who now lives in Texas.
He would also be able to chew up and spit out Kamala Harris in a debate; IMHO.
I’d be okay with Noem in his cabinet if there’s another good conservative ready to step in behind her in SD.
I’ve said it before but Trump can’t choose a white guy. He’ll lose the gains he has made with minorities. It’s just the way it is.
Vivek will likely not be picked, although he would be great imho. Regardless, he will be in the cabinet performing critical parts of the deep state take down. He’ll also be a great part in explaining and demonstrating why Trumps policies are so important and good.
If he does that well he’ll be in in the poll position for 2028, likely more so than whoever is the VP.
What evidence can you present to back up your claim that Vivek is a slimy Deep State biotech dude?
Never forget that since 9/11 the Secret Service was moved from Treasury to Homeland Security.
That means that Alejandro Mayorkas is ultimately in control of President Trump's Secret Service detail. That's not an encouraging fact.
-PJ
I and others have presented it here multiple times over the past year. Look at how he made his money. (Look deeply into that!) Look at how he made money on the Covid jabs. Just listen to his unctuous, fast-talking manner.
If Vivek Ramaswamy’s name were Pete Smith, if he had blue eyes, if he were a Southern Baptist, and everything else were the same, he would not get a lot of flak on FR.
And IF my aunt had a penis, she’d be my uncle. What’s your point?
Ramaswamy’s name isn’t Pete Smith, he doesn’t have blue eyes, he isn’t SBC. Also, he isn’t NBC. That’s a big one.
I can't see that. After a Trump term of a spectacularly successful four years, his VP will be almost certainly the frontrunner as Bush was after Reagan.
The Deep State has enormous and intrusive data collection powers that can be easily abused. A lot of reform minded politicians become strangely pliable not long after arriving in Washington. Funny how that works.
That ship sailed in 1881.
In my many years I had several occasions to be “in the room” with politicians and political appointees.
One pattern that gets obvious is that there are two kinds of phone calls they have—those they take and those they don’t take.
They take calls from people who have power over them.
There’s more than one Trump. Whether his sons would be good choices is an interesting question.
Barron not old enough.
Yes, indeed. I was at the Republican National Convention when Ronald Reagan announced George Bush as his running mate. The auditorium went wild, cheers drowning out the rest of Reagan's speech. However, I wasn't cheering. I knew that if Reagan won, whatever he accomplished would be undone if Bush were to succeed him. And I was right.
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