KMAG DAILY THREAD 20261014 & Antonio Gramsci

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This is tossed together as a very rough draft because of various situations added to our busy fall schedule. Hopefully it is something everyone can follow anyway.


I believe we are undergoing a once in five hundred year shift in our politics and culture, and Absurdistan has been right at the coalface of this change. It is radical in that it is a return to the ideas that birthed America in the 1600’s and during the Revolution, but it goes further. This is a world revolution. Over the next few years we will watch the countrymen of every nation assert themselves over the oligarchs and bankers who have been farming us for profit for forever.

Elizabeth Nickson


As far as I am concerned Communism is nothing more than Feudalism dressed up in sweet lies. Given that as a starting point, this passage from The Communist Manifesto makes a bit more sense:


“The bourgeoisie [middleclass], wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his ‘natural superiors,’ and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, callous ‘cash payment.’ It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.


The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers. The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.”

Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto


Rosa Koire over a decade ago described the planned Feudalist Estates in THE POST SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

…The technology that is being marketed to you is actually being used to condition you to expect to be spied on, and to spy on others.  Every totalitarian state in history has relied on data collection.  The Nazis were masters of data collection and analysis.  Your government now has technological capabilities that far exceed anything ever seen on the planet to this date.  You are in the midst of the biggest public relations scam in the history of the world.  The pretty pastel vision of life in a SmartGrowth development is a manipulation, a mask.  In fact these plans are designed to restrict your freedom of movement and choice.  

Transit villages (formerly known as cities) will be restricted to having only the population that can be supported by food grown within a 100 mile radius (called a ‘food shed’). Food sheds will dictate where you can live and when you can change your residence. Calculations, such as those done recently at Cornell University, will determine how much food can be grown within that area and then the Transit Village population will be limited to the number of people who can be fed by that land (click on the blue to go to the Cornell website). It is reasonable to expect rationing based on this mode.  If you want to move to that village you will have to apply and wait for an opening.  

The recent crash/depression is world-wide and was engineered to destroy expectations of long-term economic employment.  If people have no expectation of long-term employment they cannot plan for the future, and cannot comfortably buy a home and contract for a 30 year mortgage.  They cannot create community with long-term neighbors. With long-term employment plummeting there is a shift to a more transient life-style which is more conducive to living in SmartGrowth Transit Villages: condominiums and apartments.  Private property ownership and financial security will be phased out through excessive regulations and land use restrictions.

Do you see? According to ICLEI, if you only have one car or no car your disposable income will be at least 20% higher.  Does this mean that you will have 20% more money to spend?  No.  It means that corporations can lower your wages by 20% and still sell you the same number of goods.  A compression of the economy with a more efficient outcome for big business.  Concentrating populations into urban areas where they can be easily monitored, where their usage of energy can be regulated, and where their consumption of goods can be restricted, is a goal of UN Agenda 21…

From Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 on X

Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century.

Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most consequential – because he was the one who figured out why the revolution kept failing, and what to do instead. The man who invented the long march through the institutions.

Everything that followed — the Frankfurt School, the Fabian Society’s operational model, the WEF formation pipeline, the captured university, the HR department enforcing approved speech — is downstream of what he wrote in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy, in code, between 1929 and 1935.

1. His central question: why hasn’t it happened? The working class was supposed to rise. The contradictions of capitalism were supposed to produce the revolution. They hadn’t – not in the West. Gramsci’s answer was precise and devastating: because the ruling class does not maintain power through force alone. It maintains power through cultural hegemony – the control of the ideas, values, and frameworks through which people understand the world. The worker who accepts that the existing order is simply how things are will not revolt, regardless of his material conditions. The revolution requires cultural change first.

2. The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another.

3. The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own.

4. He also theorized the organic intellectual – the person who translates the theoretical framework into stories and assumptions that circulate through the culture without appearing ideological. The film that makes the existing order seem absurd. The journalist who frames every story within the approved assumptions. Gramsci understood that culture is politics by other means – and that the side that controls the culture wins, regardless of who wins the elections.

5. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a published, documented, widely taught strategy that the left implemented consciously across the entire Western world. The 1968 generation put it into practice in the universities. They became the professors, the journalists, the civil servants, the judges, the HR directors of the decades that followed. The march took fifty years. It worked.

6. Mussolini’s prosecutor said at his trial: “We must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years.” The brain did not stop. It produced thirty-three notebooks – smuggled out, published, and became the most widely read Marxist text in the Western academy after Marx himself. Gramsci died in 1937, six days after his release, at forty-six. He did not see the march he theorized. He did not need to.

7. Every captured institution, every transformed curriculum, every HR department enforcing approved speech, every content moderation policy suppressing the unauthorized voice – all running the program Antonio Gramsci designed in a prison cell, by a brain that was supposed to have been stopped. It wasn’t. And neither was the march.

Until now – because the distribution monopoly that made its outcomes enforceable is cracking. The counter-march has begun. It just doesn’t have a name yet.

The Most Destructive Intellectual Project of the Twentieth Century.

The Frankfurt School. You should know what it was, what it built, and why you are still living inside it.

1. The Institute for Social Research was founded in Frankfurt in 1923 and relocated to Columbia University in 1934 when Hitler came to power. The civilization they had decided to dismantle gave them refuge when another tried to kill them. They spent the next five decades producing the theoretical infrastructure for that dismantling. Western civilization itself was the problem: reason, the Enlightenment, the family, tradition, authority. Not reformed. Dismantled.

2. They called it Critical Theory – and the name is the program. Everything is to be criticized; nothing is to be built. In The Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), Adorno and Horkheimer argued that Western reason — the reason that produced Newton and the rule of law — contained the seeds of Auschwitz. Not that reason had been misused, but that reason itself, taken to its conclusion, produces the death camp. This was not a critique of institutions. It was an indictment of the civilization itself.

3. Adorno gave them the psychological weapon. The Authoritarian Personality (1950) classified conservatism, religious faith, patriotism, and the traditional family not as political positions but as symptoms of a proto-fascist personality. If you believe in the nation or the father’s authority, you are pre-fascist. The opponent was no longer wrong – he was sick. You don’t argue with a pathology. You treat it.

This made dialogue impossible. You don’t persuade someone who is wrong; you diagnose someone who is sick. Politics becomes therapy, and disagreement becomes pathology.

4. Marcuse gave them the political weapon. Repressive Tolerance (1965) argued that tolerating wrong ideas is itself oppression. True tolerance therefore requires suppressing intolerant ideas. The left decides which ideas are intolerant. Everyone else is silenced – not despite tolerance, but “in its name.” Censorship dressed in the vocabulary of liberation.

5. The generation that read Marcuse at Columbia, Berkeley, and Yale went on to run universities, media, foundations, NGOs, content moderation departments, and the EU regulatory apparatus. They implemented the argument sincerely because they had been taught it as philosophy. This was the Frankfurt School’s greatest achievement: it produced true believers.

6. French Theory picked up the tools and made them aesthetic. Foucault made the critique of power literary. Derrida made the critique of meaning philosophical. Deleuze made the critique of identity elegant. A political program became a cultural sensibility. You can argue with a program. A sensibility is in the air you breathe. By the time these ideas reached the American campus through the French conduit, they were no longer ideology. They were the water. The fish did not know they were wet.

7. A civilization stands on three pillars: truth exists and is accessible to reason; good is distinguishable from evil; and there is an inheritance worth transmitting. The Frankfurt School attacked all three – systematically and with considerable intellectual sophistication. It produced a generation that knows how to deconstruct and has forgotten how to build. That sees power everywhere and beauty nowhere.

The ultimate achievement was to make destruction feel like progress. Every inherited institution became suspect; every constraint became oppression; every act of preservation became reactionary. Deconstruction became the default, while construction became something that needed to justify itself.

The answer is not another theory.

It is the thing the Frankfurt School most feared: the builder who simply builds, the scientist who follows the evidence, the father who transmits what was transmitted to him.

The deconstruction machine runs on the assumption that nothing is worth building.

Prove it wrong.

Tell the truth, have courage, and build. 

Mike Steger of Promethean Overviews talks about the Harvard Univ Trojan Horse 300 year history of treason. (17 minutes) Sorry no transcript this week. you can use https://www.youtube-transcript.io/ to generate one.

General Blaine Holt ret goes further back to Rome and traces the lineage of ideas.

Gen Blaine Holt: Humanity’s 2,000-Year War — IF YOU CAN’T EVEN NAME WHAT THE DAMN WAR IS, YOU’RE PROBABLY IN A 5TH GENERATION WARFARE ENVIRONMENT

As a 17 minute video.

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THE ATTACK ON CHRISTIANITY

July 22, 2016 TRUMP TO REPEAL 501C-3 CLERGY-MUZZLING JOHNSON AMENDMENT

(Let’s hope Trump manages to convince Congress to keep this promise.)

The Agenda to Silence Christians

The 1954 Johnson Amendment, passed by Congress, stated that non-profits, Christian churches and organizations, could not speak in favor of any political candidate despite the prohibition stated in the First Amendment of our Bill of Rights.

This event paved the way for the increased squelching of free speech, and because of the confusion and misinformation about the law, many religious leaders have been unnecessarily self-censoring for over six decades. They are not only censoring on political candidates, but on any political subject matter. Because of their fear of the IRS, and their misunderstanding of the actual amendment, the pulpits have literally shut down their comments on anything happening in society via state or government politics. They are absolutely frozen in fear when it comes to talking about the Bible as it relates to cultural, political, fiscal, and social issues, which all fall under the category of moral issues.

In Radio Host, David Fiorazo’s book, The Cost of Our Silence, he explains what happened:

“Texas Democrat, Lyndon B. Johnson, was a powerful politician running for reelection as Senator, but two anti-communist, tax-exempt groups were opposing him and passing out literature during the campaigns. He contacted the IRS and found the group’s activity was legal, so he sought other options to fight them.

Johnson shrewdly appeared on the Senate floor on July 2, 1954, and offered his amendment to a pending, massive, tax code overhaul bill. The bill was supposed to modernize the tax code. Records indicate an absence of committee hearings on the amendment. No legislative analysis took place to examine the effect the bill and the amendment would have, particularly on churches and religious organizations. The amendment was simply created to protect Johnson…

501c3: The Devil’s Church

This is a free 210 page book. Just a bit from the first few pages. How true any of this is I do not know, but it is worth checking out.

…There are many more court cases I could cite, and I know all these quotes may be confusing for some readers, so let’s summarize these points in a simplistic manner:

  • The creator of a corporation is the State.
  • The State is the sole authority and sovereign head over the corporation.
  • The corporation is subject to the laws of the State which limits its powers.
  • The corporation has no constitutionally protected rights.
  • The corporation is an artificial person.
  • The corporation submits to a State Charter declaring it is a creature of the State.
  • The corporation is created for the benefit of the public.
  • The corporation is a State franchise.
  • The corporation is a privilege granted by the State.

It’s been far too long that pastors, evangelists, deacons, elders, missionaries, and churchgoers have sat in ignorance on this matter, so read this carefully: You have a 501c3 INCORPORATED status, which means your church is a CORPORATION of the state, and here is the message that I, lawyers, and the IRS are all trying to get you to understand about the contract you signed:

  • The creator of  is the State.
  • The State is the sole authority and sovereign head over .
  •  is subject to the laws of the State which limits its powers.
  •  has no constitutionally protected rights.
  •  is an artificial person.
  •  submits to a State Charter declaring it is a creature of the State.
  •  is created for the benefit of the public.
  •  is a State franchise.
  •  is a privilege granted by the State. ” can be replaced with “ministry” or “mission.”)

… FEMA, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, has pastors across America on their staff payroll to help herd the crowds during federal emergencies.

The following video is a local news broadcast interviewing one of the many pastors who are currently on FEMA payroll, being part of what is called the “Clergy Response Team:”…

I hope this gives everyone a bit more to think about. –GC

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Is anybody home?

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hope this gives everyone a bit more to think about. –GC

Definitely. Here is an article about 501(c)(3):
https://reachrightstudios.com/blog/501c3-church/

Tax-exemption appears to be a big issue.

A nonprofit corporation still has to pay employee taxes like social security and Medicare, and that reporting extends to honorarium payments made to visiting speakers. But they are exempt from sales tax and property tax.

What are the drawbacks of a church having 501 c 3 status?

• Restricted political involvement…

• Public disclosure of finances…

• Loss of autonomy…

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Gudthots

Seems to be an area where you have to know and understand what you are doing when using the original tax exemption for churches without a 501(c)(3)…

Churches are mandatorily excused from filing tax returns. Apart from being absolutely unnecessary for churches to file for 501c3 status, doing so needlessly puts them under legal obligations to the IRS. Steve Nestor, a senior revenue officer of the IRS, expressed surprise that churches seek the permission of the government to be excused from paying taxes they didn’t owe in the first place.

When churches file for 501c3 status, they’re applying for a status they already have. Nestor and his colleagues have wondered why churches apply to be regulated by the IRS, which most Americans wish they didn’t have in their lives. Some churches simply may not realize what an amazingly advantaged status they have.

source: https://www.upcounsel.com/how-to-start-a-church-without-501c3

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I am temporarily unable to post YouSchmoob videos. This is because YouSchmoob changed how they do links, not (for a change) because WordPiss is acting up.

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There we go…..

TheseTruths

ICE Arrests Romanian ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ Illegal Alien Couple After Hug-and-Snatch Necklace Spree Across Four States

A Romanian couple the Department of Homeland Security is calling an illegal alien “Bonnie and Clyde” is in ICE custody after Nassau County police arrested them for a series of jewelry thefts that targeted Good Samaritans, many of them elderly.

Rudi Lacatusu, 28, and Mirabela Lacatusu, 26, were arrested earlier this month and each charged with three counts of fourth-degree grand larceny, according to Nassau County police.

Police say the pair would pull over and ask someone for directions, and after the person helped, Mirabela would get out and offer a thank-you hug.

Big red flag 🚩 right there.

While her arms were around the victim, she would unclasp the necklace, and the couple would drive away.

In one Valley Stream case, a 73-year-old woman noticed her roughly $2,000 gold chain was gone only after the car had left.

In another, the woman was told it was Mirabela’s “custom” to give a gift and that refusing would offend her.

The gift was a fake. Her real chain was gone.

…News Nation’s Ali Bradley reports, “According to information provided by DHS, police linked the pair to at least 14 incidents across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland. The necklaces were valued at $2,000–$3,000 each.”

…Victims in the Nassau cases were mostly in their 70s.

One senior in Floral Park stopped the theft when the couple started to hug and grab.

…The couple has now been turned over to ICE and will be sent back to Romania.

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President Trump just announced FULL UNCONDITIONAL PARDONS for three Alaskans charged with FIXING ENGINES

“They want to put them in jail for 10 YEARS because they fixed an engine. How SICK”

“If you MURDER somebody, no problem! Unless a Republican does the murdering. Then it’s, you know, the electric chair, right?”

“I’m giving each one of the three an UNCONDITIONAL pardon.”

This is AMAZING. Biden’s EPA tried putting these mechanics in prison, but Trump is giving them their FULL FREEDOM back.

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Gudthots

cursive trains the brain to think better
and they took it away from today’s school children

cthulhu

Personally, I hate cursive. My mom can write like a penmanship textbook, but I’m more comfortable with my engineer dad’s block caps.

Gudthots

Everyone has a style that works for them.
Block is great when drafting construction diagrams.

My best note-taking style is to use 4-8 different styles on the same page. And different sized lettering. Helps me quickly find information from the page later.

Gudthots

Cool stuff…

Does Cursive Writing Help the Brain? What Science Shows
March 4, 2026

Cursive writing does appear to benefit the brain, and the evidence is stronger than you might expect. Brain imaging and electrical activity studies consistently show that handwriting, including cursive, activates more neural regions than typing and triggers brainwave patterns associated with learning and memory. The benefits span from children learning to read all the way to older adults working to maintain cognitive sharpness.

What Happens in Your Brain When You Write Cursive

Cursive writing requires your brain to coordinate several systems at once: vision, fine motor control, and the physical feedback from your hand moving across the page. Each letter flows into the next, demanding continuous spatial planning and precise finger movements. Typing, by contrast, involves pressing a single button to produce a complete letter, which requires far less coordination.

Brain imaging studies show this difference clearly. When people write by hand, areas involved in language processing, attention, and sensory feedback all light up simultaneously. A study using high-density EEG found that handwriting with a pen produced synchronized brainwave activity in the theta range (4 to 8 Hz) across parietal and central brain regions. Theta synchronization is closely linked to working memory and the ability to encode new information. In other words, the brain enters a state that’s more receptive to learning. This pattern appeared in both 12-year-old children and young adults, and it did not appear during typing tasks.

Even more striking, the handwriting condition produced a combination of theta synchronization and gamma desynchronization, a cross-frequency coupling pattern that research has connected to episodic memory formation and the brain’s ability to communicate across regions. The theta activity kicked in around one second into writing and persisted throughout the task.

source: https://scienceinsights.org/does-cursive-writing-help-the-brain-what-science-shows

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TheseTruths

“Smart” appliances. I know big companies use networks of “smart” devices as part of doing business, but it can backfire.

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Gudthots

“smart” is just another word for “brave new world”

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251 years ago, and a day:

On 13 October 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the purchase of two vessels to be armed for a cruise against British merchantmen; this resolution created the Continental Navy and is considered the first establishment of the U.S. Navy.

Gudthots

Homeopathic treatments were used (before the AMA) to help people recover from vaccine injuries. I’ve personally watched them help a dog recover from a bad reaction to a rabies vaccine. Where they went from being unable to eat their normal foods without blood, to being able to eat normal foods without digestive symptoms.

Dogs Naturally: Homeopathic Treatment For Vaccine Reactions
https://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/homeopathic-treatment-vaccine-reactions/

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BTW, did you know that mercury-free in a vaccine does not mean it is mercury-free?

Of the “old fashioned” rabies vaccines, like Imrab or similar killed virus shots, the “TF” version is going to be the least worst. TF stands for thimerosal free, the main mercury component in the vaccine stew that’s long been used as a preservative.

Ask for that. Mercury has no redeeming values once in a body!

But also know you may not have dodged the mercury bullet entirely, so no smug looks or brags to friends just yet.

Why?

It’s a little thing called “excipients,” which is a mini-combo of teeny tiny ingredients manufacturers don’t have to reveal to anyone. Mercury can hide in that catch all and you’d never know it. Sigh.

Still, while TF is not brag worthy, it’s the less-likely-to-damage version of killed rabies vaccines.

And now you have two answers.

  • One to hold out for (“Nope, none at all for my sick senior pet!”)

And one if you gotta do the deed

  • (“Gimme the least worst rabies vaccine you got. And show me the label before you draw it up into your syringe, in front of me.”)

source: https://vitalanimal.substack.com/p/vital-animal-news-april-19-2026

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Sylvia brought this video yesterday, it was very neat (it’s 12 years old but it has over 29M views)

I thought this was kind of cool. The Angel City Chorale performs Toto’s Africa. They imitate the sound of a rain storm and thunder using their hands and feet.

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Also from Sylvia, related to Kimberly Guilfoyle:

I’m not a big Kimberly Guilfoyle fan, but I am interested that John Konrad has detected a pattern. All the forces in the universe seem to be aligned against PDJT’s attempts to bring our vital maritime industry back from the dead. I think this is worth a read.

John Ʌ Konrad V
@johnkonrad
No. Defending @GavinNewsom’s ex-wife, who clearly has too much botox and rolls through DC with the loudest, proudest 🏳️‍🌈 staffer I’ve seen all year (and trust me, that’s saying something) from fraud allegations in Greece (i’ve reported on the fraud there extensively)
was NOT on my 2026 bingo card. 😂

But I gotta call them like I see them and she was the best ambassador to a key maritime nation I’ve seen in recent memory.

John Ʌ Konrad V
@johnkonrad
Apparently, the Konrad Haters Club™️ is claiming I got “owned” for defending Guilfoyle. Even several people on the right here on X agree.

But I never said she was innocent. I said there appears to be an organized operation to destroy her.

And not just her.

Two other officials at the highest levels of government, both working to shut down the shadow tanker fleet with ties to questionable Greek shipping interests, were fired this month. One from the NSC, another from Treasury.

Rubio, who oversees State and the NSC, visited Greece last week.

Meanwhile, we’re reportedly approaching a deal with Russia, and Iran’s economy is in worse shape than experts believed.

Amid all this activity, THREE key players are pushed out.

“But John, the evidence is damning!”

Fine. Let’s assume she asked for $100,000.

Worse fraud happens openly in Washington. Every month brings new allegations, investigations & FBI reports. Sitting members of Congress have faced accusations of far worse.

You can’t swing a rubber chicken in DC without hitting fraud.

Yet most scandals disappear within days. Even major stories usually produce competing accounts.

Not this time.

Virtually EVERY mainstream outlet hammered the same narrative. When some journalists didn’t join the pile-on, others pressured them to fall in line.

The question isn’t whether she’s guilty. It’s why they all attacked her RIGHT NOW instead of the hundreds of others in DC facing serious allegations.

Why the sudden feeding frenzy?

“But John, Trump fired her. She must be guilty!”

No.

Early in the administration, another official working on maritime interests and a Russian peace deal was pushed out. @dandcaldwell.

The left, the media & plenty on the right piled on simultaneously.

He fought back through a harrowing battle with cancer, was ultimately cleared, and now works at DNI.

Trump doesn’t always wait for guilt to be established. Sometimes he removes people because the media circus becomes a distraction he can’t afford.

Consider Mike Waltz.

The media piled on, Trump removed him as National Security Advisor, then nominated him for one of the world’s most prestigious diplomatic positions: Ambassador to the UN.

Why send Waltz to the UN if Trump believed all the accusations against him?

Now consider Guilfoyle.

Trump said, “I don’t like it.”

But WHAT didn’t he like?

What she allegedly did? Or what the press was doing to her?

We don’t know.

Either way, removing her ended a circus that, judging by Caldwell and Waltz, wasn’t going away.

“But John, you said you suspect she’s innocent!”

Yes.

I don’t KNOW whether Guilfoyle is guilty or innocent. I STILL don’t KNOW whether Mike Waltz knowingly leaked classified information.

But here’s what I DO know:

People in Washington who make difficult promises and actually keep them are extraordinarily rare.

And those people earn my support.

Waltz personally promised me he’d fight for the SHIPs Act & American shipbuilding long before Washington started talking seriously about rebuilding our maritime industry.

He kept every commitment.

Guilfoyle stood feet from me & promised to confront the London shipping cabal, criminal Greek shipowners @ CCP influence over strategic Greek ports.

I spoke at length with her staff. She understood how powerful those interests were & the consequences of challenging them.

She followed through anyway.

Now she’s telling me and the world that the allegations are bogus.

Am I supposed to abandon someone who looked me in the eye, made a difficult promise & kept it because the media suddenly decided she was guilty?

No.

I trust people who’ve personally told me difficult truths & took action.

That doesn’t prove innocence. But it earns the benefit of the doubt.

So slam me all you want.

I’m not backing down on my support for Guilfoyle, Caldwell, Waltz, Ortagus, Dans, Kimbrell, Wong, Ruger, Sadler, Mercogliano, Phelan, Harrison… or the dozen others I know who’ve been pushed out of critical maritime positions.