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  Christmas Treats, Appetizers, and Party Food

  December 10, 2024 | Menagerie | 54 Comments

  

  ^^^Nope, not my table, but isn’t it beautiful?

  How about a thread for party food and treats? Lots of people are entertaining in these last days running up to Christmas. Sometimes in our family we just have a night or two where we serve appetizers or favorite party treats, even if it is just a few of us here. Most of this is copied from last year. I took a look at it, expecting to juggle it around a bit, but I’d forgotten how much time I put into this one last year, with some really special (to me) recipes and ideas. I love all of these, as does my family, and I hope you will as well.

  I shared this recipe last year for venison meatballs.

  Of course you can use beef, but it isn’t nearly as good. I never have recipes, except for breads or cakes, so just have fun with this.

  Saute an onion and several large cloves of garlic, finely chopped, in olive oil or butter until onions begin to be translucent. Add a tablespoon or two of red wine vinegar, salt, pepper, and seasonings you like to taste. I use three onion seasoning by Epicure.

  Mix a pound and a half of ground venison with a half pound ground pork, an egg, bread crumbs or almond meal, and the onion mixture. Shape into small balls and bake at 375 until brown, which should take around 25 minutes, but check on them to be sure. Every oven is different. Drain and serve with your favorite sauce.

  Here’s the link to a recipe for mini corn muffins with a cheddar filling. Being a Southern gal, I absolutely refuse to put sugar in my cornbread, so I’ll be leaving that ingredient out, but that’s an argument for another day. These would go very well with the meatballs.

  Here’s a recipe shared with me by Treeper maryfrommarin. It’s from the cookbook Keeping the Feast, which is organized around the church’s liturgical feasts. It’s a collection of recipes from the women of St. Thomas Church, Episcopal, Abingdon, Virginia. I chose this recipe because when I was growing up, no southern hostess ever had a party or luncheon without these.

  Miss Annie White’s Cheese Biscuits

  1/2 pound cheese

  1/2 pound butter

  1/2 pound flour (about two cups)

  1 teaspoon salt

  1 teaspoon red pepper

  1 egg white

  75 whole pecans

  Grind cheese. Cream cheese and butter. Add flour, salt, and pepper. Work well. Roll thin and cut with a small biscuit cutter. Brush with egg white and place one whole pecan on top of each biscuit. Bake on cookie sheet at 425 until light brown, about 7 minutes.

  Yield: approximately 75.

  On to sweeter things.

  I am sharing some lengthier (and fancier) recipes below. I have copies of the pages from some old cookbooks, so I no longer even know where they came from, and I can’t credit the original authors. I tried to google these two recipes, and come up with similar things, but they just don’t look as good, or I’d just link them.

  

   

  First, have you ever heard of a Croquembouche Christmas tree? I hadn’t either, and while this looks so elegant and beautiful, if you read the directions, it seems quite doable. It’s made from individual cream puffs around a white foam core, put together with melted white chocolate. I have kept this recipe for years, but I haven’t made it yet. Too good to get rid of though!

  Since I’m typing this out, with the help of pictures provided by my favorite Pud, Ad rem, I am not including the recipe for pastry cream and making the cream puffs, you can google those. If I make it, I plan to just buy cream puffs, and start from there. I seriously doubt my guys would know, or care.

  Ingredients and supplies:

  white foam cone, white parchment paper or clear plastic wrap, six large white chocolate bars, shortening, white and silver edible glitter, cream puffs, serving tray.

  Wrap the cone with white parchment paper and secure with straight pins, or wrap with clear plastic wrap. Place on large serving platter. Melt 6 cups white chocolate bars and 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon shortening in saucepan over low heat.

  Beginning at the base of the cone, dip puffs into melted chocolate and position them side by side, forming a ring. Continue layers, stacking each successive ring up the tree. You may need to reheat the chocolate.

  Drizzle remaining chocolate over the tree and add edible silver and white glitter. Chill up to two hours before serving.

  Next, we have a pine cone Christmas cake. This one is really cool, and delicious. I have made it, and if you’d  like a very special dessert that just makes your table, this one is it! Practice on those pinecone petals! There’s a technique to learn.

  This one is by Rose Levy Berenbaum. There are some videos out there, I didn’t have time to go through them. The only one I watched didn’t have the recipe on it, it was part of an old news clip. You may find one though.

  Ingredients:

  18 oz unsalted butter

  1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

  10 eggs

  2 cups sugar

  1/3 cup unbleached flour

  1/4 cup brandy

  Frosting: use your favorite dark chocolate frosting here. I’m too lazy to type the steps on this one, but the recipe has chopped nuts soaked in orange liqueur or cognac folded in, if you’d like to add that.

  Melt the butter and chocolate in a double boiler. Separate the eggs into large bowls. Beat yolks lightly, gradually add sugar. Beat until fluffy, then stir into chocolate mixture, mixing well, and a beat in brandy and flour.

  Clean beaters and mix egg whites until stiff peaks form. Gently fold in about 1/4 of them to the cake mix. Then gradually add the rest, gently folding in. Do not over stir it and deflate the egg whites.

  Grease two 9×13 cake pans, line with parchment, and grease and flour parchment. Pour batter evenly into pans and smooth with spatula. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes or until cake puffs up and springs back when gently pressed. Let cake cool a few minutes on racks before unmolding, peeling off paper, and cooling on racks.

  Use butcher’s paper to make two identical pinecone oval shapes, and cut out the cakes. Crumble the cake scraps and add them and nuts if desired to the frosting. Spread a generous third of the frosting on one cake layer, top with the second, then frost the sides and top with remaining frosting.

  To make pinecone petals:

  Tape a sheet of parchment paper to counter. Set out a small metal spatula or table knife. Chop 8 ounces semi or bittersweet chocolate coarsely and melt in double boiler to temp of 120 on candy thermometer. Stir vigorously to cool the chocolate slightly and keep over hot water as you work. I did the melting in two batches to keep it from setting.

  Dab the spatula into chocolate and press down slightly on parchment, pressing down and drawing the spatula toward you into a petal shape, thinner on one end, about 1” x 3/4”. They won’t all be exactly the same size and shape, and that’s okay. Keep making petals until you’ve used all the chocolate. You need lots, and it takes awhile to make them all.

  To place the petals, start at the base, using tweezers to keep from melting the chocolate. Stagger the rows like shingles on a house. If you like, place pine nuts under some of the petals.

  The only problem with this cake is that it will break your heart when you have to cut it!

  On the Thanksgiving recipe post last year I had numerous requests for a favorite cookie recipe in our family. As I said, I got this from my Aunt Gay, but it was not her original recipe. They are called chocolate buttersweets, and I used to find the recipe, which we modified, on Pillsbury’s site, but they’ve removed the link. Here’s the original recipe.

  We always use pecans, and I do not add the coconut. I’ve had dozens of people, and that’s not an exaggeration, tell me over the years that they don’t like cream cheese, or pecans, or whatever. No one has ever been able to stop eating these, even when they say they don’t like those ingredients.

  And here’s a tip for the time and cooking challenged. These are still really good if you use Pillsbury sugar cookies, make the filling, and top with chocolate almond bark. I put a lot more filling on the cookie than shown. I add unsweetened chocolate into the almond bark. The darker, the better on the chocolate topping. And I don’t just drizzle on chocolate, I cover the cookie. Not pretty, but wow, so good.

  The recipe says to fill the cookies while warm, but actually I chill the filling and use a cookie scoop to top cold cookies. Often I make the cookies days ahead, then when I am ready, I put them out on a double layer of waxed paper, fill, and then top.

  I usually make hundreds of these a year, so it gets to be an assembly line for me, and usually I wrangle family help. Make twice, nope, three or four times what you think you want. And like I said at Thanksgiving, don’t trust family to deliver someone else’s cookie box. Not ever gonna happen, not with these cookies.

  Also, I promised Aunt Gay’s Chex Mix. She called it nuts and bolts. This is a buttery mix, so if you like your mix drier, reduce the butter and spices proportionately. The big challenge for me on this is getting the spice to stay mixed with the butter. I’ve tried everything. Any tips?

  Mix together 4 sticks melted butter (I changed from margarine), 1 tablespoon each onion salt, celery salt, and garlic salt, 3/4 teaspoon garlic powder, 4 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce. Pour the above mixture over:

  1/2 box Wheat Chex, 1/2 box Corn Chex, 1/2 box Rice Chex, 1/3 box Cheerios, 1/2 bag of pretzel sticks, 3-4 cups of nuts. I use pecan halves and cashews. You have to keep stirring the butter mixture as you are pouring. I use a big throwaway roasting pan for this. It’s a great gift!

  Bake 2 hours at 250*, stirring every 15 minutes. Nowadays I smoke mine at 250.

  This is my own wassail recipe. It makes a small crockpot full, and the non wassail fans inhaled it, and fought over the last drops! I plan to double it for Christmas. Which means I’ll double the spices too.

  Clear American Pineapple Orange Sparkling Juice, 17 Fl Oz Bottle
  Single serving bottle of apple juice
  Quart of cranberry juice (unsweetened)
  Agave nectar to taste
  Cranberries (whole, added about a cup)
  Two cinnamon sticks
  1 tablespoon allspice berries
  3 star anise

  Combine in crockpot and heat on low 3-4 hours. I also plan to add pineapple or orange slices at Christmas. You can use the sweetener of your choice, of course. This was festive and delicious. I also like to add cognac.

  I hope you find joy in your preparations and celebrations. Pause and remember the real reasons we have such a joy filled season of anticipation.

   

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  The True and Visible Mission of DOGE – What to Expect

  December 6, 2024 | Sundance | 295 Comments

  I have been waiting for someone to outline what the Dept of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is all about.  Unfortunately, perhaps due to the history of the matter, it appears few understand. So, with that in mind, and accepting the operators of DOGE may not have a fulsome comprehension of the dynamic, here is what it means.

  The last Federal Budget that passed through “regular order” was for Fiscal Year 2008, signed by President George W Bush in September of 2007.  Every budget since has been outside regular order; a series of continuing resolutions, omnibus spending packages and short-term funding mechanisms.  {CITATION}

  That is correct.  In the past 17 years, all federal spending has been ‘short-term’ or ‘stop-gap’ spending measures, generally known as “Continuing Resolutions,” where the govt (House and Senate) continue to perpetually resolve to fund the government.  The CRs as they are known, punt the spending debate by accepting a baseline of prior spending and tweaking around the edges.

  

  The key takeaway to begin thinking about DOGE is to understand that REGULAR ORDER has not been used since Fiscal Year 2008.

  Title III of the Congressional Budget Act outlines a legal timeline that each President and Congress must follow {SEE HERE}.  Prior to 2007, Continuing Resolutions were only used to resolve short term arguments about spending priorities.

  ♦ BACKGROUND – The President is required by law to submit his budget by the first Monday in February.  Yes, even when an election takes place and a President doesn’t assume office until January 20th, the first Monday in February is still the legal requirement for the new White House budget proposal.

  The Presidents’ budget is then submitted to The House of Representatives, where two weeks later the Congressional Budget Office, reviews the budget and issues an opinion as to the cost of the budget.   No later than six weeks after the President submits his budget all House committees send the House Appropriations Committee their spending proposals [April 15].

  Through May and June, each budgetary appropriations bill from the House is sent to the Senate.  The Senate receives the House appropriations bills, then reviews through the Senate Appropriations Committee (Thune just picked Susan Collins as Chair).  The Senate proposes their spending priorities based on the House bill because the House has constitutional authority to originate all spending [June 15].  The House and Senate budgets are “reconciled” using parliamentary procedures [June 30] and then sent to the President for signature.

  The fiscal year begins October 1st.

  That’s the regular order process.

  Again, regular order has not been followed since Fiscal Year 2008, signed by George W Bush in September of 2007.

  ♦ The Problem – When congress doesn’t follow regular order they end up with a series of “continuing resolutions” (CRs) where spending is decided on a short-term basis because they don’t have an agreed budget.  The problem with CRs is what’s called “baseline budgeting” where all prior spending is the baseline for the continuation of spending proposals.  The baseline accepts all previous spending priorities, then adds to them with the new spending needs.

  Baseline Budgeting means congress keeps spending on all historic programs regardless of merit or benefit.  All the prior spending just continues, and new spending is added.  That means when an omnibus spending package is created (instead of individual appropriations bills), all the previous government waste is baked into the cake, and the funds are spent again – regardless of need.

  EXAMPLE – If congress funds a trillion-dollar Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), and then doesn’t follow regular order in the next year, the TARP funds spent become part of the baseline of spending.  The trillion-dollar TARP can be spent again, and again, and again, as each subsequent year of CRs continues unfolding.

  Now, imagine what exists within the system of federal spending when most of the expenditures of the past 18 years are never filtered out.  Eighteen years of smaller, albeit not insignificant, amounts of money continually piled on top of each other.  Imagine what lays underneath all those layers and layers of unreviewed spending.  That’s where we are.

  To be fair, the House of Representatives under Republicans did pass almost all of their individual spending bills this past year and sent them to the Senate.  However, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer just ignored the bills, put them on a shelf and awaited the govt funding problem to surface so that another CR debate could take place.

  Now, you might ask yourself how this ridiculous system can be stopped or put into check.  Well, the mechanism to shut down this nonsense is in the power of a Presidential Veto.

  A President can veto a federal budget that he/she feels spends too much money and subsequently send that budget back to congress.  This is where politics comes into play because essentially if the funding runs out the Presidential veto is shutting down the government.

  Again, this has been our reality for the past 18-years as congress blames the President and the President blames congress.  Each of them playing a game of political chicken, daring the other to be blamed by the public for financial Armageddon.   Example Below:

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  Again, regular order has not been followed since Fiscal Year 2008, signed by George W Bush in September of 2007.  It’s been CR politics ever since.

  ♦ Now, along comes President Trump in term #2 which begins January 20, 2025.

  As you start to think about DOGE, remember, in the background of the transition, using OMB Budget Director Russ Vought, the first Trump budget has been organized and will be submitted to the House of Representatives by the required legal day of February 1, 2025.

  In part, it is transparently obvious why House Speaker Mike Johnson has been visiting Mar-a-Lago so much.  There is strategic budget planning afoot.

  A Republican President Donald Trump is going to submit a “regular order” budget to a Republican controlled House.

  The now Republican controlled Senate (John Thune) will be responsible for accepting each of the House Appropriations bills and responding accordingly to create a federal budget for Fiscal Year 2026.

  I highly suspect President Trump is not going to accept another failed budget and yet another CR from a Republican House and Republican Senate.

  The problem Trump faces is the Republicans will not want to be responsible for cutting out 18 years of fat from the spending process.  The democrats will wield the politics of these cuts in order to achieve electoral victory in the 2026 midterms….

  …. Enter, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and DOGE.

  That looming regular order budget, and/or the looming veto if it is not followed, is the visible purpose of DOGE.

  In essence, Elon Musk is assembling DOGE as the weapon needed to hold a UniParty congress accountable to deliver a regular order budget.

  Yes, hundreds upon hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions, can be cut out of the budget if “regular order” is followed. Each committee in congress will have to submit their spending proposal to the House Budget and Appropriations Committee, while Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are reviewing each of those proposals and putting them on BLAST!

  DOGE may start reinforcing rules within the federal government as controlled by the Executive Branch.  However, DOGE isn’t going to be going into federal agencies per se’, to cut their spending.  DOGE can just wait for the Fiscal Year 2026 spending proposals those agencies are legally required to submit congress to come to them, then review and BLAST any of the fat.

  Through this process, the Executive Branch is not in constitutional conflict with the Legislative Branch.  Congress can accept and submit any spending proposal they want, but DOGE can outline it happening in real time and pour sunlight on to it.  This is why DOGE and a Republican Congress working together is more effective.

  When you understand what I have outlined above, then what follows below from Representative Tim Burchett makes more sense.  WATCH:

   

  Burchett is saying that congress will never cut that 18-years of CR fat out of the spending bills, no matter what they say.  That 18-years of CR fat is huge. Think of the scale of 18-years of layers of spending as a result of baseline budgets and CRs.

  What Burchett is not fully absorbing, is how a VETO from President Trump is now framed against the visibility of the political BLAST that Musk can provide.

  Can you see it now?

  Last point. Perhaps, just perhaps, one of the people with strong familiarity of this issue, Matt Gaetz, is going to be a key player.

  

  Maybe there was a reason no one else wrote this.

  Love to all

  ~ Sundance

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  The Talk of “Preemptive Pardons”

  December 5, 2024 | Sundance | 24 Comments

  Anytime the professional leftists lose anything, they immediately become victims.  Whether defeated in the battle of ideas (retreat to safe spaces), defeated in the field of pop culture, or even defeated linguistically through debate (words are violence).  Whenever the professional left loses, they immediately become victims.  It’s what they do.

  The professional political left, newest version from the Chicago spawn of Dohrn/Ayers, has been waging full combat Lawfare via a weaponized government for the past 16 years.  However, Obama/Plouffe were defeated, “their kind” rose again and won the 2024 U.S. Presidential election.

  

  What we see in this “preemptive pardon” narrative, is a repeat of the victim narrative.  This time the White House discussion boils down to ‘Lawfare agents must be protected from any retaliation for their action’.  Pardons presumably provide the mechanism to protect the victims.  In the big picture of ideology, this is a continuation of the same mindset.

  Politico started the narrative with an outline {SEE HERE} saying the White House was having an internal debate as to whether Joe Biden should preemptively issue pardons to members of the J6 committee, members who constructed false impeachment accusations, members within the DOJ who fabricated political cases using the Special Counsel process, or generally people on the political left who supported/facilitated all the aforementioned false attack fronts.

  As the narrative is told, all those who supported the attacks against President-Elect Trump and his allies, now need to be protected from “retribution.”  Inherent in the argument, and within the use of pardons, is the baseline that some form of illegal activity was taking place.  Heck, if it wasn’t unlawful conduct, then no pardon would be needed.  This is the political catch-22 created by the preemptive pardon narrative.

  Various congressional people, DOJ insiders, White House liaisons, State Dept officials and underling staff are all possible recipients if Joe Biden decides to take this unprecedented approach.  However, if you look at the expressed approach indicated by President Trump and the assembly of cabinet members who would be in place to carry out such “retribution,” you will not find any indication of intent.  Quite the opposite is true.

  President Trump does not appear to be in alignment with any approach that would lead to legal indictments, arrests, charges or other legal accountability measures.  Beyond the public release of hidden, perhaps classified information that might put sunlight on the previous activity by those who weaponized their offices, there is nothing.  Sunlight on prior events, while moving forward to restore functioning law and order, appears to be the most likely approach.

  WASHINGTON DC – […] The White House officials, however, are carefully weighing the extraordinary step of handing out blanket pardons to those who’ve committed no crimes, both because it could suggest impropriety, only fueling Trump’s criticisms, and because those offered preemptive pardons may reject them.

  The deliberations touch on pardoning those currently in office, elected and appointed, as well as former officials who’ve angered Trump and his loyalists.

  Those who could face exposure include such members of Congress’ Jan. 6 Committee as Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Trump has previously said Cheney “should go to Jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee!” Also mentioned by Biden’s aides for a pardon is Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who became a lightning rod for criticism from the right during the Covid-19 pandemic.

  The West Wing deliberations have been organized by White House counsel Ed Siskel but include a range of other aides, including chief of staff Jeff Zients. The president himself, who was intensely focused on his son’s pardon, has not been brought into the broad. (Read more)

  In addition to their professional victim approach, the one constant with the Marxist left is their use of projection.  They weaponized government, so they anticipate the target of their weaponization efforts, Donald Trump, will return fire in kind.  Again, I highly doubt it.

  All outward indications are that President Trump wants to create a legacy presidency for the Gen-Z generation (Barron), similar to what was created by Ronald Reagan for the Gen-X generation.  Selecting Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff is the strongest indication of this intent.

  The appointments to White House legal counsel positions and Main Justice legal offices by President Donald Trump all appear to have one common denominator, to protect the President.  I strongly doubt there will be any effort beyond that.

  ♦BIG PICTURE – Once you understand what President Trump is assembling (the phalanx) and once you accept the mission of the DC system to defend itself by isolating a weak spot in the mechanism, then everything from the assembly of the cabinet to the process being discussed makes sense.

  Within a phalanx, if one shield drops the entire construct is compromised. The strongest shields need to surround the core with ferocity.

  The recent Supreme Court decision affirmed the President of the United States as the unitary, plenary power that controls every mechanism of the Executive Branch of government, and as long as the President is acting within his “official duty” he holds absolute power and absolute immunity.

  Think of each cabinet member as a shield in this political phalanx that surrounds the weapon, President Trump.

  Yes, the phalanx is by construct an offensive fortification used to advance upon the enemy. However, the strength of the phalanx is its ability to be impervious to attack from 360°.

  The phalanx advances, inch by inch against a larger fortification. In the transition team assembly, this is what President Trump is putting together.

  Hegseth is a key component of the phalanx, the fortification process that puts President Trump at the center of the cabinet. Each component of the cabinet protecting the center.

  The phalanx is the mechanism to carry the weapon that is President Donald Trump. The DC UniParty is looking for a weakness in the phalanx like a wolf circling a porcupine.

  President Donald Trump has turned his focus to the “war fighters,” the men and women who carry out the mission objective of the Defense Department. The nomination of Pete Hegseth represents the confrontation of a power struggle that has been decades in coming.

  The self-serving Senators are trying to block Hegseth, while maintaining a position of pretending support for President Trump. The DeceptiCon republicans in the Senate are in full circling mode, looking for a weakness to exploit.

  The schemes of the conniving Republican Senators are transparently visible in the efforts of Senator Joni Ernst, who is circling the phalanx President Trump is creating – while simultaneously inserting herself into the DOGE mission.

  Ernst is doing Mitch’s work, under the instructions from Thune and Mitch. See Ernst with clear eyes.

  One does not become unattached to corrupt intent.

  CLEAR EYES!

   

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  I did not think President-elect Trump had the accurate laser vision for the task.

  I was getting concerned.

  Then I saw this…

  Then I saw the *very specific* wording of this…

  

  The McGinley move makes a lot of sense. DOGE and the Office of Management and Budgets (OMB) are going to be joined at the hip. They are going to have to navigate the Impoundment Control Act, challenging the system that places limits on a president’s ability to unilaterally withhold funding.

  Inside that legal battle, deciding what DOGE can do without legislative approval, the OMB is going to be the execution part. McGinley will be the legal liaison focused on what technical approaches DOGE/OMB can execute. In essence, can they stop funding XXXX, thereby eliminating it?

  That said, that’s not the important part.

  The language President Trump is using to describe the role of David A. Warrington, the switched White House Counsel, is something entirely new.

  Donald Trump says: “to serve as Assistant to the President and Counsel to the President. Dave will lead the Office of White House Counsel and serve as the top attorney in the White House.”

  Normally the White House Counsel does not represent the interests of the President, the WHC represents the interests of the office.

  I would appear to me, at least as I review the details, that President Trump is now fully aware how his Presidential interests can sometimes conflict with the interests of the White House Counsel, and he is making a move to ensure that conflict doesn’t happen.

  An example of the conflict I have explained repeatedly in the “declassification of information.”

  Not kidding, it is almost as if someone very close to President Trump read something I previously outlined, because it came with a serious warning borne out of years of frustration.

  …[…] “In Term-1 the IC message to the WH Counsel was that if Donald Trump declassified any documents, they would use the DOJ (special counsel weapon) to attack the office of the president for “obstructing justice.” The WHC was fraught with fear over what would happen and demanded that POTUS Trump stop trying to declassify information/documents the IC didn’t support.”

  The way President Trump is now portraying the role of the White House Counsel is to represent his interests first and foremost, then represent the interests of the office. In a few subtle, and not so subtle ways, this makes sense.

  We can tell by the nominations to AG, DAG and DAG-NSD, that Main Justice is already positioned to defend and protect President Donald Trump. The people in charge of the silo are all loyalty-first people, aligned in the interests of President Trump.

  It would appear that President Trump is now bringing that same outlook into the White House. The White House Counsel aligning in common purpose, with the specific purpose of executing the intentions of President Donald J Trump.

  I’m glad to see this approach, because as I have repeatedly affirmed, ONLY PRESIDENT TRUMP (the person) can confront the Silo system in Washington DC.

  That’s why the phalanx makes sense.

   

  

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  Recipe for Perfect Pancakes

  December 3, 2024 | Sundance | 64 Comments

  Making good pancakes is one of the easiest processes; however, you need just the right ingredients.  Consider this recipe next time:

  2 large eggs

  1 1/4 cups whole milk

  4 tablespoons melted butter

  1/4 teaspoon salt

  1 3/4 cups flour

  2 teaspoons baking powder

  1 tablespoon sugar

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  Hopefully you guys are all making a little money.

  

  I’ve been talking about this since JD Vance was selected as the Vice President nominee.

  Don’t let the Technocrats be the only ones benefitting.

  

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  This is transparently predictable.

  Palantir benefits from DOGE.  That’s the financial mechanism to enhance the portfolio of the Technocrats.

  Palantir provides the AI technology that enhances Facial Recognition software.  The “Real ID” requirement establishes the database.  Palantir provides the tech that takes the capture (facial image) and uses AI to scour the database, delivering a return.

  

  Just as J6 targets were quickly identified using Palantir tech, so too will deportation efforts will be streamlined immensely.

  Palantir will be the preferred surveillance tool used for a myriad of purposes.

  ♦ When the AI search and filter capability is merged with facial recognition, “Real ID”, and ultimately the NSA metadata; then adding fractal computing power and imagine the search results.  My concern is it’s only a matter of time before an Obama-type administration take power again.  What will that merged system look like if weaponized?

  Palantir agreed to cooperate with the FBI and launched facial recognition AI on behalf of their federal contract with the FBI into the events of J6 attendees. The FBI arrests followed.  Palantir’s access to the DHS/TSA database, as granted by the FBI for use in their J6 targeting operation, can be looked upon as a beta test for how artificial intelligence could scour the national biometric database and deliver results.

  Three key points:

  (1) Palantir doesn’t have access to the full NSA metadata library yet. Concerningly that’s another part where Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and JD Vance can come into play in (’28).

  (2) Palantir (AI surveillance) is beta tested with various sub-silos (like FBI), under auspices of various legal authorities (like J6).

  (3) Palantir’s product, combined with Real ID and biometrics, can also be used to identify and locate illegal criminal aliens.  Thus, the Tom Homan Deportation Operation benefits from incredible targeting efficiency.  But will DHS stop using it when the deportation program concludes?

  As long as these systems are operating for good, then I look at the financial windfall to the technocrat group as no issue.  However, if those systems are weaponized for a process of targeting that violates the basic elements of our constitutional protection, then we have a problem.

  “Politically Exposed Persons” outside the Big Club should be cautious.

  Eyes wide open.

  Love to all,

  ~ Sundance

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  Truth Tellers -vs- Truth Managers: POTUS Declassification Examples

  December 2, 2024 | Sundance | 119 Comments

  Laying the groundwork for uncomfortable discussions is never easy. However, sometimes the best approach is to cite examples and then expand. Here’s two factual examples.

  ♦ EXAMPLE FACT #1 – In December 2017, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes asked the White House, specifically President Trump, to declassify the “Nunes Memo.” President Trump did not declassify the memo because President Trump was told by the concentric lawyers within the office that he should not. So, he didn’t.

  [We eventually did see the memo, albeit with negotiated redactions, because Nunes (and Kash Patel) played by the Silo rules and entered a period of negotiations with the Intelligence Community. Nunes leveraged reauthorization of FISA-702 authority, predicated on declassifying his memo. We The People subsequently saw the memo, but we were screwed by the FISA reauthorization.]

  ♦ EXAMPLE FACT #2 – In January 2020, as he exited the White House, President Trump, using his office, played by the Silo rules and asked for the Russiagate documents to be made public. They never were.

  

  This is such a great example of “Truth Management.”

  Y’all are probably familiar with this declassification letter written by Mark Meadows. But what you didn’t see before is how it was designed to fail.

  This approach is following the DC rules of the Intelligence Community (IC) Silos.

  Mark Meadows, a Truth Manager, intentionally – with purpose and intent – followed this approach because he knew it would fail.

  Meadows didn’t make a mistake; he was not mistaken in his approach; he didn’t make an error. This is purposeful.

  In January 2020, breathing a sigh of relief, the people around President Donald Trump, were managing his exit and defending the system as they exited power.

  They requested the IC Silos to release information, knowing full well the information would never be released.

  The only way this information would be guaranteed to be released to the public, is if President Trump took those file boxes personally into the Brady Room, and using his full plenary power and authority, gave them to the media and said, “I hereby designate under my official act power, that this information is of priority to the American people.”…. and literally handed it to the media.

  Giving the information to the Silo operators and saying please release this; a process that follows the rules of the IC system that is designed to protect itself; only ensures it will never reach sunlight.

  Meadows and everyone else around this moment, knew this to be true. They knew this would fail.

  Understanding these two examples is the first step in understanding how the DC Silo system works.

  ♦ In research projects about detailed granular events attached to corruption in Washington DC, eventually you reach a point where you have identified the specific people involved.

  That’s when things get sketchy.

  When doing these research projects, you discover that certain DC “insiders,” media people and current/former silo staff, names most of you know very well, are also aware of the information you are discovering.

  The “insiders” are generally positioned in such a manner as most of the information-aware public consider them “Truth Tellers.”

  Alternative media now gives the Truth Tellers a larger influence voice. This is where it gets interesting.

  When you have nailed down the story with direct, irrefutable evidence against the bad actors, you start to notice a pattern emerge about how the Truth Teller media types consistently stay away from certain names.

  If you do this long enough, and find the same outcome frequently enough, you realize most of these “Truth Tellers” are not that at all; they are, instead, Truth Managers.

  The DC Truth Managers are willfully blind to the activity of certain people they have identified as what can only be reasonably assumed to be CIA operators.

  Having spent thousands of hours on this subject, no other reasonable explanation make sense.  There are bad actors in DC that I can only believe are “CIA operators.” Why? Because earnestly after years of doing this, I cannot think of any other reason why they would be protected.

  Why is CIA operative Nellie Ohr openly discussed, yet the stronger and more important name, Mary McCord, purposefully avoided.  I have reached the conclusion that Mary McCord is factually a CIA operator.  Nothing else makes sense.

  ♦ Be careful about assigning the label “Truth Teller” toward any alternative media DC insider who is a “reformed journalist” or “former staff member” of the machine.

  There are well known voices from inside the system, that exit the corporate media world, and enter the alternative media world, only to carry on the same purpose.

  I see the information managers frequently now and identify them easily by who they *do not* talk about.

  Truth Tellers have no vested financial interest in the information, or control thereof; Truth Managers always do.

  When a current or former information manager comes across a story of corruption that involves a “CIA designated bad actor,” they never discuss that person in their information reveal. They continue the protection.

  A good rule of thumb is never to think of anyone from inside the DC information system, regardless of their disposition, as a Truth Teller.

  Every Information Manager was matriculated, and are compromised, by the system around them that is entirely based on corrupt activity.

  Hang around a one-legged tribe long enough, and inherently you begin limping.

  • Truth Teller Examples: Patel Durov, Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden and Matt Taibbi.  Pavel Durov (arrested in France) now lives in Dubai. Glenn Greenwald now lives in Brazil. Edward Snowden now lives in Russia.

  • Truth Manager Examples: John Solomon, Sean Hannity, Sara Carter, Catherine Herridge, Steve Bannon, Kash Patel, Glenn Beck, Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin and the entire Fox News lineup.  There are many more, but the financial aspect runs consistent.

  Wikileaks founder Julian Assange had to agree to stop being a Truth Teller and become a Truth Manager in order to be released from prison.  As he readily admits, part of the agreement was to give the Western Intelligence Community first right of review for any information WikiLeaks would release.  This shifts Julian Assange from Truth telling to Truth managing.  In this unique case, I don’t fault him a bit.

  ♦ In our larger discussion of information, how does Information Management surface:

  Let me give you a great example using this video shared yesterday.

  Listen carefully to what Kash Patel says at the 01:23 moment about the “Russiagate report” that was written, and how the “ICA” (Intelligence Community Assessment) was constructed with fraudulent information from the CIA.

  As Patel notes, “Gina buried it.” That’s Gina Haspel, the Trump CIA Director who replaced Mike Pompeo.

   

  Now, you might think that Patel is a Truth Teller in this segment but stand back and think about it with fresh eyes, non-pretending eyes.

  Patel knows, because he (with others) created a report that highlights a fraudulent CIA operation. A report that was absorbed by the CIA and buried.

  Put another way, Patel is talking about a body that he knows is buried. Ergo, people might say, “Patel knows where the body is buried,” right?

  But ask yourself, with the known stakes to the nation as an outcome of horrific fraud, why didn’t this self-identified “#2 in the Intelligence Community” bring this information forward regardless of outcome?

  Is Patel a “Truth Teller,” or is he a “Truth Manager,” obeying the Silo rules out of self-interest?

  New Eyes – Use them.

  What is the difference between Edward Snowden and Kash Patel?

  One is a Truth Teller the other is a “buy my books” Truth Manager.

  Of course, Kash Patel defenders will justify by saying he was just waiting to release the information he alluded to, until he was in a better position.  So, his plan to reveal the truth was to: (1) hope Trump won the election, (2) hope he would be appointed to an administration position, and then (3) hope to be able to reach into the CIA silo and somehow retrieve his work product.  Please. Just stop.

  As a “confirmed”, not “acting” FBI Director, Kash Patel *could* declassify information or documents that is the exclusive equity of the FBI Silo, but only the FBI Silo.

  If there was a joint silo operation, he cannot.

  If the information was from a source outside the FBI silo, he cannot.

  If the information is not 100% exclusive to the FBI silo, he cannot.

  Modify your outlook accordingly.

  ♦ The “continuing central power” that Patel talks about already exists.

  This is part of the problem with people who come from inside the system; and it is a problem for those who cannot spend thousands of hours understanding it.

  The IC Silo rules, are followed by people who matriculate surrounded by the IC Silo rules.

  The “central power” needed to fracture the system is the physical person of the President of the United States.

  The President is, well, Snowden-proof. The President, not the office, the actual physical person, is the power of the system. The epicenter of the system where the atom splits, is the physical President.

  Acting in his “official duty,” the President of the United States can take a document (any document) and walk into the Brady Room, hand it to a journalist and that document is automatically declassified.

  He doesn’t need a stamp on it. He doesn’t need anyone else’s approval or permission. He, the physical person, the President, can simply say, “I view this in my official capacity as President of the United States to be a vital interest to the American public,” and hand it to anyone he chooses. That’s the central power.

  Knowing this, knowing the factual reality of it, is exactly why the concentric circles around the President, intentionally and forcefully stop him from doing it. The silo system self-protects.

  If it can be done this way, then why wasn’t it done this way?

  Kash Patel, Devin Nunes, Ric Grenell, John Ratcliffe etcetera. all know this to be true. So why wasn’t it done?

  Go ask Edward Snowden.

  ♦ Impeachment is the political backstop that protects the IC Silo business model.

  Impeachment origins are amorphous by definition.

  Declassify something the IC Silo operators don’t like, and it’s a national security breach worthy of impeachment.

  These are the warnings to President Trump built into the Silo rules.   This is why the White House Counsel is so important. This is why the Nunes Memo was never declassified.  This is why President Trump relied on Mark Meadows, which ultimately culminated in an FBI retrieval operation in Mar-a-Lago.

  See the political backstop?

  Wait, are you saying there’s no point in declassifying then?

  No. Exactly the opposite.

  Strike now. The House is still in GOP hands.

  Force the Legislative Branch to impeach President Trump in the first year as the only way to stop him.

  Draw out the enemy. However, don’t YOU be so naïve that you do not take the time to understand exactly, in granular detail, what will be needed to do the actual declassifying.

  If the Legislative Branch prioritizes retention of the system and takes down Trump via impeachment, JD Vance has to be willing to continue it… And so on, and so on…

  

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4/ The "continuing central power" that Patel talks about already exists.

This is part of the problem with people who come from inside the system; and it is a problem for those who cannot spend thousands of hours understanding it.

The IC Silo rules, are followed by people who matriculate surrounded by the IC Silo rules.

The "central power" needed to fracture the system is the physical person of the President of the United States.

The President is, well, Snowden-proof. The President, not the office, the actual physical person, is the power of the system. The epicenter of the system where the atom splits, is the physical President.

Acting in his "official duty," the President of the United States can take a document (any document) and walk into the Brady Room, hand it to a journalist and that document is automatically declassified.

He doesn't need a stamp on it. He doesn't need anyone else's approval or permission. He, the physical person, the President, can simply say, "I view this in my official capacity as President of the United States to be a vital interest to the American public," and hand it to anyone he chooses. That's the central power.

Knowing this, knowing the factual reality of it, is exactly why the concentric circles around the President, intentionally and forcefully stop him from doing it. The silo system, self-protects.

If it can be done this way, then why wasn't it done this way?

Kash Patel, Devin Nunes, Ric Grenell, etc etc. all know this to be true. So why wasn't it done?

Go ask Edward Snowden.

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  In order to appropriately discuss leadership of the FBI silo as an institution of DC influence, it becomes very important for everyone to understand the current status of the FBI as the organization has self-identified.

  For those who followed the 2016 campaign of President Trump and then watched the 2017 attacks organized by the DOJ and FBI toward the incoming Trump administration, you may agree with me that a complete disassembly of the FBI is now warranted. However, first it is important to understand just how bad the corruption has become:

  

  RECAP: The FBI relationship with Antifa.  There is no way for Antifa to operate as a domestic extremist group, without the expressed support and willful blindness of the FBI.  Quite simply, if the FBI wanted to stop the violent and extremist activity of Antifa, they could do that easily.

  The objective of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was to resecure what they perceived as physical evidence President Trump controlled showing how the DOJ and FBI action in 2016 was targeting him using the power of their law enforcement and intelligence agencies.   In the background, the origination of all the DOJ/FBI/IC targeting goes back to the ’15/’16 FBI exploitation of the NSA database; this is not a contested discussion issue – it’s just continually forgotten.

  The FBI was using their access to the NSA metadata of all Americans, to conduct surveillance on political candidates that might be a threat to the power structures that exploited the secrets within the electronic records of all Americans.  The FBI was, almost certainly still is, conducting domestic surveillance and tracking Americans just like the German Stasi or Soviet KGB.  It’s still happening, but we are not supposed to talk about it, or something.

  The raid on Mar-a-Lago, just like the Robert Mueller investigation, was part of a long standing coverup operation.  The FBI was looking for what Trump took with him as evidence of the weaponized system that targeted him.  The FBI wanted that back.  The FBI was willing to use deadly force to get it back if that’s what it took.

  Using the FBI to filter security clearances – [Fourth Branch of Govt]

  A History of FBI Weaponization – [SEE HERE]

  

  The modern FBI is the police agency of a weaponized U.S government, with a direct and purposeful mandate to keep the American people under control through strict surveillance and a violent police state.

  Understand and accept this with great seriousness, there are no honorable “rank and file” inside this organization.

  Every member of the FBI is a participant in the weaponization of power and government. The members are jackboots recruited from ideological college campuses for exactly the purpose of supporting a Stasi-like police state.

  Through the past several years, we have discovered how the FBI worked inside Twitter, Facebook and social media to control information, remove content and manipulate opinion on behalf of the U.S. government – all activity political.

  We have also learned the FBI took active measures to suppress information about the Hunter Biden laptop and control any negative consequences for the Biden regime – again, political.  These are not disputed realities.

  The U.S. Dept of Justice and FBI are now political institutions that have abandoned their originating mission in order to become the domestic equivalent of the Soviet-era FSB. Their joint targeting mechanisms have been redesigned to support the interests of corrupt DC politicians, specifically the interests of Democrats.

  It was in June 2022, when Senator Chuck Grassley sent a letter [pdf HERE] to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray, notifying them of whistleblower allegations from within the FBI that senior leadership in both Main Justice and FBI are involved in a coordinated effort to cover up criminal activity related to Hunter Biden.

  The whistleblower allegations, in combination with the documented history of DOJ and FBI misconduct, culminate in Senator Grassley stating:

  “If these allegations are true and accurate, the Justice Department and FBI are – and have been – institutionally corrupted to their very core to the point in which the United States Congress and the American people will have no confidence in the equal application of the law. Attorney General Garland and Director Wray, simply put, based on the allegations that I’ve received from numerous whistleblowers, you have systemic and existential problems within your agencies.” (LINK)

  Grassley was admitting what has been visible for years.

  Senator Grassley is telling the corrupt DOJ-FBI leadership that people in the organizations are outlining the detailed behavior of their corrupt leadership.  However, with zero oversight involved, and with Democrats in charge of all committees that would be responsible for such oversight, and with institutional media in alignment and agreement with the corrupt institutional intents of the DOJ/FBI, the frustrating question becomes, “and“?

  I mean, who are we kidding?  If Republicans were in charge of the Senate Judiciary, Reform/Oversight, or Intelligence committees, do we really believe that anything would be different?   Before responding to that cynicism, remind yourself, they were for four years, January 2015 through January 2019, Republicans in charge of oversight.

  It was exactly when Republicans were in charge of Main Justice and FBI oversight that Main Justice and FBI were targeting political candidate Donald Trump.

  In July 2021, the DOJ OIG produced an absolutely <snip>ing Inspector General investigation of FBI conduct in the rape and sexual assault of U.S. Gymnasts, revealing how FBI agents facilitated Nassar’s sex crimes by taking no action despite numerous witness statements to them.

  Worse yet, the FBI never reported the sexual assaults to local law enforcement… and to top it off, the rank and vile FBI agents lied during the investigation of their conduct, and the DOJ under AG Bill Barr, and now under AG Merrick Garland, refused to prosecute the FBI liars.

  The entire IG report [Must Read pdf Here] reveals layer-upon-layer of FBI wrongdoing, misconduct and false statements in an effort to cover up their activity when the internal investigation of their conduct began.  This report is a total condemnation of the FBI rank and file.  It really is quite stunning.

  BACKGROUND on FBI – As we discovered in January of 2023, the FBI was fully aware of the terrorist who was planning to shoot the synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, and yet they did nothing.

  The FBI knowledge of the shooter, Malik Faisal Akram, who was known as Faisal Akram, was confirmed by The Daily Mail. Akram ranted, prior to his travel to the U.S, that he wished he had died in the 9/11 terror attacks. He was a regular visitor to Pakistan, and reportedly a member of the Tablighi Jamaat group set up to ‘purify’ Islam. To say the U.S. intelligence system knew Faisal Akram would be an understatement.

  The FBI was also fully aware of the Boston Marathon bombers, the Tsarnaev brothers, before they executed their plot.  The FBI took no action.  The Russian police twice warned the FBI that the Tsarnaev brothers were going to carry out a domestic terrorist attack on the USA, the FBI did nothing.

  The FBI knew about the San Bernardino terrorists, specifically Tashfeen Malik, and were monitoring her phone calls and communications before her and Syed Farook executed their attack killing 14 people and leaving 22 others seriously injured.  The FBI took no action.

  The FBI knew Colorado grocery store shooter Ahmad Alissa before he executed his attack.  The FBI took no action.

  The FBI knew in advance of the Pulse Nightclub shooter (Omar Mateen) and were tipped off by the local sheriff. The FBI knew in advance of the San Bernardino Terrorists (Tashfeen Malik). The FBI knew in advance of the Boston Marathon Bombers (the Tsarnaev brothers) tipped off by Russians.  The FBI knew in advance of the Parkland High School shooter (Nikolas Cruz). The FBI knew in advance of the Fort Hood shooter (Nidal Hasan), and the FBI knew in advance of Colorado grocery store shooter Ahmad al-Aliwi Alissa.  The FBI took no action.

  The case of the first recorded ISIS attack on U.S. soil was in Garland, Texas in 2015.

  The FBI not only knew the shooters (Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi) in advance, BUT the FBI ALSO took the shooters to the venue and were standing only a few yards away when Simpson and Soofi opened fire.  Yes, you read that correctly – the FBI took the terrorists to the event and then watched it unfold.  “An FBI trainer suggested in an interview with “60 Minutes” that, had the attack been bigger, the agency’s numerous ties to the shooter would have led to a congressional investigation.”

  Remember, shortly before the 2018 mid-term election, when Ceasar Syoc – a man living in his van – was caught sending “energetic material that can become combustible when subjected to heat or friction”, or what FBI Director Christopher Wray called “not hoax  devices”?

  Remember how sketchy everything about that was, including the child-like perpetrator telling a judge later that he was trying to walk back his guilty plea, because he was tricked into signing a confession for a crime he did not create.

  Or more recently, the goofball plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer that involved 18 suspects, twelve of them actually working for the FBI as the plot was hatched?  And we cannot forget the January 6th. DC protest turned insurrection effort, which is clearly looking like an FBI inspired and coordinated effort; and unlike Syoc, despite the numerous CCTV cameras and resources in the area, they cannot find who placed the pipe-bombs?

  Have we forgotten the Atlanta “Olympic Park Bombing”, and the FBI intentionally setting up transparently innocent, Richard Jewel?

  What about the FBI failing to investigate the assassination of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi.  Did we forget when Robert Mueller’s FBI waited 19 days after the Benghazi attack before showing up at the compound?….  Journalists from the USA were walking around the compound after 48 hours, but it took the FBI another two weeks before the first investigator arrived…. All evidence long destroyed.

  Then, there’s the entirety of the FBI conduct in “Spygate”, the demonstrably evident FBI operation to conduct political surveillance against Donald Trump using their investigative authorities; and the downstream consequences of a massive institutional effort to cover up one of the biggest justice department scandals in the history of our nation.   The original effort against Donald Trump used massive resources from the DOJ and FBI.  Heck, the coverup operation using the Mueller/Weissmann special counsel used more than 50 investigative FBI agents alone.

  And of course, the FBI still had 13 extra agents available to rush to a NASCAR racetrack to investigate a garage door pull-down rope that might have been perceived as a noose; but the serial rape of hundreds of teenage girls, eh, not-so-much effort – even when they are standing in front of the FBI begging for help.

  [At this point, I am increasingly convinced by evidence there are elements within the FBI that are enablers involved in sex trafficking, human smuggling, abduction, counterfeiting and money laundering as part of their operational mission.]

  The FBI didn’t make a mistake or drop the proverbial ball in the Olympic gymnast case, they intentionally and specifically maintained the sexual exploitation of teenage girls by doing absolutely nothing with the complaints they received.   This is not misconduct, this is purposeful.

  Then, as if to apply salt to the open wound of severe FBI politicization, what did the FBI do with the Hunter Biden laptop?

  [Notice I’ve set the issue of the disappearing Huma Abedin/Anthony Weiner laptop –in the known custody of the FBI– over there in the corner, next to missing investigation of the Awan brothers.]

  More recently, the FBI executed a search warrant on the home and office of Project Veritas and the founder James O’Keefe.  While the raid was taking place, a New York Times reporter called O’Keefe to ask him about his thoughts on getting raided. The same New York Times journalist, a few days later, then begins writing about the confidential attorney-client privileged information illegally retrieved then leaked by the FBI during their raid.

  ♦My point is this…

  What the Federal Security Service (FSB) is to the internal security of the Russian state, so too is the FBI in performing the same function for the U.S. federal government.

  The FBI is a U.S. version of the Russian “State Police”; and the FBI is deployed -almost exclusively- to attack domestic enemies of those who control government, while they protect the interests of the U.S. Fourth Branch of Government.  That is the clear and accurate domestic prism to contextualize their perceived mission: “domestic violent extremists pose the greatest threat” to their objective.

  Put another way, “We The People”, who fight against government abuse and usurpation, are the FBI’s actual and literal enemy.

  Let me be very clear with another brutally obvious example.  Antifa could not exist as an organization, capable to organize and carry out violent attacks against their targets, without the full support of the FBI.   If the FBI wanted to arrest members of Antifa, who are actually conducting violence, they could do it easily – with little effort.

  It is the absence of any action, by the FBI toward Antifa, that tells us the FBI is enabling that violent extremist behavior to continue.  Once you accept that transparent point of truth, then you realize the FBI definition of domestic violent extremism is something else entirely.

  The FBI is not a law enforcement or investigative division of the U.S. Department of Justice.  The FBI is a political weapon of a larger institution that is now focused almost entirely toward supporting a radical communist agenda to destroy civil society in the United States.

  The FBI set up the operation in Michigan to give the illusion that domestic threats were attempting to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer, everything about the events were an FBI construct.   The same thing with the January 6th events in Washington DC and the pipe bombs.  These are domestic FBI operations.  Think about the precarious nature of what this type of activity indicates.

  The current mission of the FBI appears to be preserving and protecting institutional power by protecting the administration of Joe Biden.

  Anyone who continues to push this insufferable and fraudulent “honorable FBI rank and file talking point”, is, at this point in history, willfully and purposefully operating to deceive the American people on behalf of government interests who are intent on destroying us.

  It is not a difference of opinion any longer.  Personally, I have lost the ability to sit comfortably or intellectually with anyone who pushes or accepts the ‘mistakes are  made’ nonsense.  The FBI is not making mistakes, they are doing well what is important to them.

  To me, it comes down to a simple matter of accepting what is continually staring us in the face.

  Additionally, as we watched the outcome of the Michael Sussmann trial, we should never lose sight of the fact that 40 FBI agents were involved in the Mueller-Weissmann probe to investigate the fraudulent construct created by Hillary Clinton and crew.  40 agents? And, according to the outcome of the Sussmann trial, the FBI knew it was all a ruse.

  

  This is why and how the Fourth Branch of U.S. Government is now the superseding apparatus above all other branches.  {GO DEEP} This is why and how Barack Obama, John Brennan and Eric Holder created it, cemented it, and made it impervious to any effort to remove it.

  Remember when Henry Cuellar was critical of the Biden administration open border policies that were hurting his Texas district?  Less than a month after going public with his criticisms, the FBI raids on his home and office began.  The same FBI that raided the home of James O’Keefe while coordinating their search with the New York Times.

  The Fourth Branch of Government is corrupt; heck, the J6 committee was defending the corrupt FBI, participating with the corrupt FBI, selling a joint J6 operation that involved the FBI.  The corrupt media have aligned with the corrupt FBI, and the justice institutions in/around this legal framework are self-aware and fully autonomous.

  As the Twitter files show, the DOJ and FBI, through the authority of DHS, now have the ability to monitor every single aspect of every life that might seek to challenge or destroy the corrupt system.

  In essence, Skynet -the ultimate end game of political surveillance and targeting outlined by Edward Snowden- has been activated.  We the People are the enemy of the state.

  That context brings me to the key point that every reader must keep at the forefront of everything else that unfolds for the next several years.

  ♦ NEW TOOLS – By now you probably carry in your wallet or purse a newly DHS and TSA compliant “real ID,” either in the form of a driver’s license, a passport, or a biometric alien registration id.

  If you travel, you will note your compliant ID is scanned by TSA and more recently your face is photographed, recorded and uploaded.  The database connecting your biometric identity to your personage is now complete and growing larger.

  The People Behind Donald Trump:

  Advanced autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AI) is about to merge with the surveillance authority within FISA-702.

  Think.

  A new technocracy is emerging.

  When AI search and filter capability is merged with the NSA metadata, then add fractal computing power and imagine the search results.  It is only a matter of time before an Obama-type administration take power again.  What will that merged system look like when weaponized?

  Now, think about what comes next. Oh, and you don’t have to wonder too much.

  Palantir agreed to cooperate with the FBI and launched facial recognition AI on behalf of their federal contract with the FBI into the events of J6 attendees. The FBI arrests followed.  Palantir’s access to the DHS/TSA database, as granted by the FBI for use in their J6 targeting operation, can be looked upon as a beta test for how enhanced AI could scour a large biometric database and deliver results.

  Peter Thiel’s company, Palantir, is the govt contracted exploitation software that scours the DHS/TSA system, connects to the metadata and delivers the ‘Real ID’ return result.  Palantir is the product that identifies the faces in the library assembled through the federal requirement for “read id.”

  Now, does this make sense?

  

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  The fully autonomous surveillance system is almost finished.  5G makes the data processing stream fast and in real time.  What remains is simply a hardware issue, ie. cameras.

  Additionally, the Dept of Homeland Security Deportation Operation will require the tracking and identification of millions of illegal aliens, many of them gang members.  It can be anticipated that Palantir’s AI facial recognition software may be deployed with great usefulness to identify and locate those who the taskforce needs to remove.

  Unfortunately, I am not confident this facial recognition tool will be removed from the FBI/DHS arsenal once the deportation operations are successful and concluded.  Factually, I wonder of those same technologies would then be deployed for another type of Government Target.

  This is a big picture moment to stop and think about the FBI against the backdrop of a massive surveillance weapon on the cusp of activation.

  We now have a long and historic record for how the FBI unlawfully exploit the NSA database during target operations.  The next FBI director will likely have this new AI tool/weapon, built by Palantir (Thiel), in their arsenal.

  Who do we want to control it?

   

  

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  Outline of DOGE Approach and Legislative Branch Defenses Starts to Become Visible

  November 27, 2024 | Sundance | 101 Comments

  There are four general aspects to the larger Trump legacy term that are starting to become very visible.  This is the era when political change starts to become visible in real terms.  We are all in the front row, on the cusp of a historic moment.

  ♦ The four generalized fronts are: (1) The economic front, which will be both domestic (Main St) and foreign (multinationals) as executed. (2) The IC/Justice front, which is inherently domestic. (3) The Legislative Branch front, this is where DOGE (Dept of Government Efficiency) comes into play; and lastly (4) The Dept of State confrontation with allies and enemies on all three other fronts.

  Within #3, the legislative branch battle against the executive, this is where the spending issue, the purse strings, the power center dynamic over taxpayer distribution will be fought through the Dept of Government Efficiency, or DOGE led by Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and a few key allies in both the House and Senate.

  Because the nature of the DOGE battle is centered around money, the root issue is ultimately who controls the power within Washington DC.  Control the money and you control the power.  Inside this battle over spending the historic dynamic of the UniParty will be visible.  Remember, Democrats want power, Republicans want money.

  Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer have already started to position their defenses against DOGE and Trump {SEE HERE}.  The committee chairs and vice-chairs are selected to keep the power of control of spending away from DOGE/Trump.  Republican Chair Susan Collins, appointed by Thune/McConnell will not willingly let DOGE/Trump interfere in the way the Senate assigns funds. Ultimately this distribution is their power center.

  DOGE is reported to be looking carefully at the Impoundment Control Act, challenging the system that places limits on a president’s ability to unilaterally withhold funding. According to Politico, Musk and Ramaswamy “believe the Supreme Court, which has three justices nominated by Trump, would be favorable to them.” The bottom line is the Executive v Legislative battle, where President Trump is going to try and reduce the size of government while congress keeps spending to maintain it.

  In commonly held wisdom, traditional conservatives have always said government was spending too much, and reducing spending will limit the scale and reach of government.  However, those same traditional “conservative” voices who call for spending cuts are the same people who previously called for ‘Obamacare repeal’, and when given the chance to do it – they disappeared.  The Republican wing of the UniParty is full of those false conservatives, that’s why I call them DeceptiCONS.

  One of the key people from inside the republican ranks on the upper chamber, is Senator Jodi Ernst.  Currently she is positioning herself for influence and assist with DOGE; however, Ernst is not an honest broker when it comes to actually delivering a result.  Like many of her colleagues, Ted Cruz, James Lankford and Mike Lee as examples, they talk a good game, write good op-eds, appear on Fox News, send strongly worded letters, and then do nothing.

  Musk has the tool to drag these Republican DeceptiCONS into the sunlight via Twitter and a high dose of brutal honesty.  However, before they accept the burn from sunlight, they will predictably seek comfort behind the protection of the lobbyists who fund the RNC, and the skirt of John Thune.

  The voice of Mitch McConnell looms over the entire dynamic like the universal message in 2010 Space Odyssey, “All these worlds are yours, except Europa, attempt no landing there.”  McConnell assuredly hoping to cement his legacy by creating an omnipotent and powerful Senate, far beyond the reach of any White House, temporary DOGE movement, or even voter intent.

  

  [Politico Article Here]

  I like the position that President Trump has taken amid this entire dynamic.  Remember, he previously was burned by the DeceptiCONs when he gave them the option to repeal Obamacare.

  President Trump has a priority agenda to create something much bigger than all of the component parts.  RFK JR challenging food and health, Elon Musk challenging government size/spending, while President Trump focuses on the Trump Doctrine (economics and national security).

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Poured the masonary & stucco mix on 11/20, Removed from form leaving plastic bag on the form on Friday. Leaving plastic on the form eliminated gouging and tearing of the leather when inserting in the new moccasisn

Soaked new leather moccasins in warm  water for about 15 minutes letting water totally soak in. Inserted the shoe tree forms I made in each one which took a bit of doing, Let the moccasins dry until Sunday. Sunday I wetted the top of the heel part of the moccasins and pulled up the form to stretch the upper part as the form did not reach that high.

Just removed the stretching forms awhile ago. The moccasins match the old ones according to the shape of the old moccasins.

Put them on and they fit just right to the shape of my feet. No pinching felt.

That process saved a lot of foot dicomfort from breaking them in on my feet.

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  Jack Smith Files Motion to Dismiss Case Against President Donald Trump

  November 25, 2024 | Sundance | 96 Comments

  Be of good cheer, the insufferable Lawfare attack was always going to end thusly. Special counsel Jack Smith has filed a motion to dismiss his criminal case against President-elect Donald Trump surrounding J6 and the proclaimed to subversion of the 2020 election.

  In a 6-page filing [AVAILABLE HERE] Jack Smith says, “Justice Department policy prohibits him from continuing the case.” Smith is using the election as the justification to save face.

  

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  The case was never about the merits of unlawful conduct targeting President Donald Trump.  The case was always about Main Justice, via Lisa Monaco and the crew of lawfare ideologues, trying to influence the election outcome of 2024.  The dismissal of the case was a foregone predetermined conclusion that was always going to surface after the election.

  The reality behind this non-pretending perspective is exactly why the DOJ insiders were very nervous about Matt Gaetz.

  

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