Has the U.S. federal government ever had less legitimacy than it has right now?
Kimberly Cheatle was forced out as the Secret Service director after perhaps the worst performance by an agency head in the history of Congressional testimony. Cheatle couldn’t answer basic and crucial questions like how many shell casings were found on the roof of the American Glass Research building where would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Crooks set up shop 10 days ago, and by the time she was done even the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee were calling for her ouster. (READ MORE: A Worthless Search for Trump Shooter’s Motive)
It came less than a day later.
But Cheatle’s resignation is almost surely a head on a platter designed to turn down the heat on a situation that has still not been remotely resolved.
How could it be after what we know about Butler?
The old axiom is never to attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. But can you really explain the basic, fundamental failures of the Secret Service in Butler by incompetence?
And will any answers be forthcoming by Cheatle’s successor at the Secret Service?
What evidence do we have that would happen?
We already see what direction the post-Cheatle Secret Service is going in: Telling Trump not to do outdoor rallies, because they can’t guarantee his safety (no s**t, Sherlock).
Here’s what we know about this government.
Federal agency heads, as a pattern, stonewall Congressional oversight. Federal prosecutors, illegally appointed, break laws to persecute ordinary citizens and political figures. The government takes in $5 trillion per year and spends $7 trillion. We’re actively prosecuting a proxy war against the nation with the largest nuclear stockpile in the world and refusing to engage in peace negotiations with that nation. Our government refuses to enforce its immigration laws, and those prominent in it act as though it’s impossible to do without rewarding those who break our laws in the first place.
And now we have a clearly incapacitated president who won’t show his face or do his job. At least the regime gave us proof of life on Tuesday with footage of Joe Biden walking to a plane. Today, supposedly, he’ll address the nation about having dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.
But Biden has canceled everything on his schedule, including a meeting with Bibi Netanyahu, other than that address. Even though his supposed COVID symptoms are gone. If you believe he had COVID rather than suffering at least a ministroke in Las Vegas last week, well, bless your heart.
We don’t know who’s running the country and we can’t hold them accountable. Some cabal of people who won’t identify themselves are the true power in American government and they don’t share the values of most of the citizenry.
And the so-called “free press” is wholly incurious about all of this. Were it not for Cheatle’s signature failure in front of House Oversight, does anyone really believe the media would have covered her testimony, other than perhaps as a “Republicans Pounce” story?
An attempt was made on Donald Trump’s life 10 days ago and the more we find out about it the more apparent it is that our government aided and abetted that attack.
That kid should not — could not — have been on that roof, much less stayed there as long as he did with the knowledge of Trump’s security coverage before blasting away at the former president at his leisure. And it is inconceivable that Trump could have been allowed on that stage given the known presence of a credible threat to his life.
At least, not without some collusion on the part of someone in the chain of command. Nobody is this incompetent.
Nothing about this is the America you grew up in. They’ve taken it from you, and they replaced it with “Our Democracy.”‘
And you should not make the mistake of believing that we’re getting what we’re getting because we’re ruled by incompetents. They aren’t incompetents. They’re prominent members of our ruling elite who went to all the best schools and fought their way up through a vicious hierarchy of political hacks to get those jobs. They might not have skills useful to the American people and they might not be good at their jobs, but don’t you make the mistake of thinking this is the best these people can do.
A few days ago, Tucker Carlson had an excellent interview with Jack Posobiec of Human Events about the Secret Service’s failures and other elements of the state of the country.
Posobiec brought up something interesting that he said he picked up on the internet somewhere, and it goes like this: The point of a system is what it does.
If your social contagion leaves 40 percent of its adherents trying to commit suicide, maybe that’s what the social contagion was designed to do.
If your mass migrant invasion leads to more than 100,000 Americans dead from fentanyl poisoning while wages are depressed and social mobility in the black and Hispanic communities stops cold, perhaps that was the point.
If your unworkable economic and governmental philosophy results in 100 million corpses, maybe that’s the intent.
And if your DEI-laden, incommunicado Secret Service which staffs a Jill Biden garden party in Pittsburgh with 12 agents and leaves just four for a Donald Trump outdoor rally with 50,000 people coming, and that results in Trump taking a bullet off his ear rather than through his temple solely through the grace of God, well, maybe this is what was intended.
But for the part where Trump’s brains neglected to splash the crowd, that is.
As Scripture notes, you’ll know them by their fruits. Give no one in power the benefit of the doubt, which you simply cannot do anymore, and things will become clearer.
You won’t enjoy what you see, for certain. But you will see it.
You’ll see chaos because there is chaos. And as a normal human being, that chaos will frighten the hell out of you.
But not them.
The cabal running this country today likes chaos. They see chaos as an opportunity. Never let a crisis go to waste, you know? Chaos is their business. Chaos requires someone to bring order, and that someone will need immense power for the project. So of course they’re fostering it because the point of a system is what it does. And if this system creates a surrealistic, nightmarish Bizarro America, then the sheep out there will bleat loudly for some new solution only the cabal can offer.
We were two inches away from civil war nine days ago. Ask yourself who was better prepared for that. Is it the “right-wing extremists” you’ve heard so much about, who are ever-present according to the chaos agents of our ruling cabal but seem awfully short on actually doing anything threatening?
Or is it the people who have been gearing up for a civil war for a decade or more?
If that bullet had found its mark on Trump’s head, there would have been reprisals. Here and there. Someone would have responded with a pot-shot at some Democrat politician or media personality. And the response to that would have been the Jan. 6 aftermath on a national scale.
It would have been a crackdown like this country has never seen. And it would have been justified, of course, on account of those ubiquitous right-wing extremists who finally showed their fangs as Trump’s body went cold.
And while I can’t tell you how that would have ended, I can tell you any remaining vestige of the America you once knew would have perished. At least for a time, you’d be stuck with “Our Democracy,” gulags and all.
We are so close to losing everything our Founding Fathers gave us. Some of us understand this. Most haven’t suffered enough. But if this illegitimate cabal behind Biden gets their way, that’s going to change.
Pray for our country, and fight like hell to save it.
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