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KMAG DAILY THREAD 20261007 — America in the Balance

Will the Supreme Court Complete the Destruction of the USA?

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I had another article ready to go and then I saw this video.


And so, this is the seeding ground of the literal destruction of American sovereignty.


Robert Gouveia Esq.

Rough Transcript – BEGIN

The DOJ filed an instant appeal saying, “We’re going to overturn this lower level judge who just found that the laws that make it criminal to vote in an election if you’re a non-citizen are unconstitutional.”

Now, this case is a very strange one. It comes out of Chelsea Michelle Anne Cox’s prosecution for voting illegally in the election…

And the judge who’s behind this is also a curious person saying he just decided that this criminal charge is not valid because the prosecution is unconstitutional… The holding essentially is saying, “No, the feds can’t prosecute these crimes. Only states can prosecute these things.” which means that certain states that don’t hardly prosecute any of these crimes will just continue to not do that. And so if you have a state like California or Michigan or you have Arizona where these blue secretaries exist and blue attorneys general exist and you have non-citizens voting, no one’s going to do anything about it.

…the judge who did this is a Biden judge. But there’s a very curious recommendation here. So his name is David S. Leibowitz appointed by Joe Biden March 1, 2024. And he is a lawyer from Florida, now the district judge. He was a law clerk some time ago. Was actually a US attorney for the Southern District of New York, one of the most corrupt locations in the planet. and he got recommended by Marco Rubio in 2021. Of course, Joe Biden is the president at that time and you know that’s being generous to him and Rubio recommended him. Remember that we have this thing called the blue slip or the red slip. So nominees need to kind of pass through these senators. They can sign off on them or not. We’ve got a big problem with that because Chuck Grassley won’t actually overrule any of the blue slips. So, a lot of our US attorneys have been prevented from actually being able to take office, but Rubio recommended this guy and he was nominated part of a bipartisan package… And it’s about that money, man. So Leibowitz, this guy, this judge is the nephew of a guy called Norman Brahman. He’s a billionaire with a car dealership and he’s a Rubio benefactor. Okay? So he donated 5 to10 million,5 and 10 million to Rubio back in 2016. So that’s why Rubio comes out and wants to nominate him. …

[Gouveia goes into more history of the judge’s family & Rubio. — GC]

So it’s a very curious thing. You know, this is a recommendation for somebody who’s been very supportive of the Rubio’s. And what’s curious about this is the judge, I don’t think was really capable of articulating the rationale for this holding. And so what he did, –this is why this is a little bit concerning, — is he actually went and appointed an amicus. So a friend of the court to come in and do some analysis.

Now the guy who came in and did the analysis who was ultimately going to be really the source of the judge’s decision is called Paul Clement.And so let me show you where this was. And Paul Clement right now memorandum of a court appointed amicus curier. So friend of the court Paul Clement is a very highly respected reputable lawyer across the United States. Background on him is he’s somebody who worked for George W. Bush and was very well-versed with the Supreme Court, the solicitor general from 2005 to 2008 and is now what some people call like the Secret Service whisperer. So when he writes an article, everybody’s like, “Oh, what did Paul Clement say?”

Now, he ultimately has handled gobs of cases in front of the Supreme Court. Joined the DOJ February 2001, handled a ton of these cases, became future acting AG, and then gave notice of his resignation back in 2008, goes and teaches at Georgetown, all sorts of stuff. Then they created this law firm in Washington DC and led the challenge to overturn affordable healthcare and more.

The reason I’m sharing this with you is because he is also saying that this federal law is unconstitutional. The judge basically just copied and pasted his entire theory into his order. So, lots of stuff. Trump was also considering him to be on the Supreme Court. Of course, the DOJ is appealing this outcome, but these are all the cases that he’s appeared on in front of the Supreme Court. Tons. I mean, just gobs.


[Gouveia shows a long list of cases where Clement appeared before the Supreme Court. This is why Clement is so dangerous. He is well known and respected by the Supreme Court. — GC]

So like the level of experience and reputation he has is a very extensive litany as we can see. So the judge appointed him and said what do you think Paul and then Paul came out and he wrote this memo.

It’s a 53 page memo and in it he fleshes out both sides of the argument but largely he’s saying that the law is unconstitutional. And the main theory here before we take a look at the judge’s order is that in order to find it valid, you’d have to combine various aspects of the constitution to do it. He says the law says, this is from Paul Clement, that it shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election for president. But the constitution requires the federal government to employ in federal elections the state’s qualifications. And so the states get to decide what the qualifications are. And so this would contravene the rule that the states, not the federal government, determine voter qualifications. He goes through the history and he says back in 1874, the Supreme Court said that citizenship has not in all cases been made a condition in order to vote and that some states allowed aliens to vote back in 1874. And then by the time Congress passed this new section 611 in 1996, that was all a distant memory.

And the main counterargument is that the contrary arguments have considerable force. Right? So in other words, they say if you look at the text, if you look at the history from Paul Clement, he writes this new law passed by Congress is a voter qualification and as we know the constitution overrides a statute. So it goes beyond Congress’s authorities.

Now the counterargument he says, well you can also conclude that Congress can regulate voter qualifications. More narrowly, an argument could be made that Congress is sweeping power over immigration paired with the necessary and proper clause, allow it to prohibit voting by aliens, even if it must otherwise take the state voter qualifications as a given. And perhaps most prominently, 611, the new law that criminalizes this, could be construed as simply a federal enforcement mechanism that is constitutional when applied in states that prohibit noncitizen voting. Right?

So the idea is if the states say that a non-citizen is prohibited from voting, the feds can enforce that and this is basically enabling a prosecution based on a state’s prior authority. They set the qualifications when that is violated. Then the feds can prosecute and basically extend their jurisdiction over it. But the problem of course is then the states if this is upheld the states really could just allow non-citizens to vote and based on his precedent right he’s saying that historically there’s an argument to be made that they can do that he writes section 611 could on that reading operate not as a verboten federal voting qualification but as a permissible effort by the federal government to criminalize unlawful voting by individuals who are aliens.

Now, that said, 611’s unless clause, which carves out only a narrow exception for alien voting in non-federal elections when permitted by state law, complicates that reading. And so, on balance, he says, it seems that the better view is that because 611 was intended to criminalize alien voting regardless of state law, it’s a voter qualification and therefore it’s unconstitutional. So if that’s right, then Congress can’t do it and they overstep their constitutional bounds and that now anyone voting in federal elections, all of these prosecutions that we’ve been talking about here,

you know, hundreds of them now are all illegal.

So that means there’s no repercussions, especially if the states decide not to prosecute. Absolutely wild.

Now here in addition to that is more from the judge. Now the court sincerely thanks this guy for undertaking their appointments. Basically he says you guys go figure this out. You know this is complicated so I’ll just whatever you say. And council performed their duty. They did it pro bono. So he did all that work for free and they’ve acted with the finest tradition of the federal bar. It’s like, wow, you do all that for free in order to invalidate criminal prosecutions of non-citizens. Amicus was not appointed to assist either party. Both were well represented by experienced counsel and they were appointed only to provide me, the judge, with a thorough and candid view of all the relevant legal authorities.

So, the judge just takes it and runs with it. And he says ultimately, this is an unusual criminal case. There’s an old law here from uh the the Congress saying it’s illegal to vote as a non-citizen. Of course, a bunch of people are being prosecuted.

The DOJ, this is going to be a major battle. And he says it’s probably not constitutional. They cite to a main case. That case is very, very weak is what he says. And because the original meaning of the constitution says, states set the qualifications. So like literally the states if they set the qualifications and the federal government can’t interject as to whether citizens or not can vote. The takeaway is that they can just change their rules. California already wants to do this. They’re already enabling non-citizens to vote in city elections in LA. So if this is the president that holds, they can change it across the entire state. Non-citizens can vote. And what are the federal prosecutors going to do about it? Nothing. because the enforcement of that is illegal.

So if the constitution says that the only way to fix that is will be with an amendment and we know that’s never going to happen.

So the best reading of this underpins that this criminal case means this law is a voter qualification matter and the constitution does not authorize Congress to set those except for very specific provisions. Congress has no power who can vote and who cannot vote in federal elections. It’s crazy. which is of course why they wanted this invasion to come in so that they could vote and then once they can vote the non-citizens will have the ability to then elect certain you know people who are very sympathetic to their causes will have mass amnesty then they’ll become citizens and everything is just cooked. They say this is so fundamental.

When you’re prosecuted based on an illegal law, that prosecution cannot stand. And so after careful consideration, this law is unconstitutional as applied. Chelsea Cox, this illegal voter cannot be prosecuted for a violation of an unconstitutional law.

This is from the judge and it’s backed by Paul Clement, which makes me extremely nervous about this because that will have sway with some of the conservative judges on the Supreme Court. And if Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts are already people who are perfectly happy with birthright citizenship applying to all people essentially, even if you break the law to come in here, they may latch on to this argument.

So long story short, the whole law he says is unconstitutional. And so the motion to dismiss the indictment or the information she was not indicted is all valid pure issue of law saying that there are a bunch of Supreme Court cases, some of which the government is relying on and it’s a little separate.

The government’s main argument comes from a 1970 case and they say, “Yeah, Congress may set voter qualifications in federal but not state elections.” And so at the state level, yeah, they can maybe set non-citizens to vote for their state government, but at the federal level, Congress can ultimately set rules across the the board, but there it was different. This is not about a criminal prosecution. So that case is really not on point. And then we got to turn to other cases. So he does that and applying that guidance, it’s not as clear as he may otherwise say the other side argues. So, we can’t ignore these other prior cases.

The parties spill a lot of ink about how they should apply this other case from 2013. And in urging the court to disregard Scalia’s analysis, the government is dismissive of the dicta. They say it’s dicta on dicta, which is, you know, commentary basically added into the opinion that doesn’t relate to the final holding. But I’m not saying any of that holds.

He’s really just flying through the president and then saying it’s really a constitutional matter. The Constitution commits to the states and the states alone the power to set voter qualifications in federal elections, not just state. He says you can just go back and read the debates and it was all to them. Three clauses will address all of this. Article one says that voters in elections shall have the qualifications requisite for electors. 17th amendment came out in 1913 uses the same rule. The electors in each state you’ll have the qualifications and article 2 addresses presidential elections for the electoral college. And so read together those are the voter qualification rules and the constitution. This is a statute so it can’t override the constitution.

In federal congressional elections voters qualifications are a function of each state rules. The reading of these clauses is reinforced by our constitutional order setting a bunch of other cases. And the design is no accident. We don’t want the feds to set qualifications like maybe all you know like only like you know white Christians can vote or something. So the states get to decide that and now apparently that is extended across the board to non-citizens. So this is a voter qualification law. It sets a standard. Can’t do that. The Constitution says that belongs to the states and nothing in the actual Constitution allows Congress to do that. So, if this spreads or this is upheld by the Supreme Court, it’s going to be a voting free-for-all. Your citizenship may not matter for anything at all. First problem with the argument is the language of 611. It’s a voter qualification. And again, it doesn’t matter if it’s between state or federal elections. That’s the argument. Congress said it’s for federal elections, but they say it’s it applies to all elections, not just states. So there is no real distinction between the state setting qualifications for state office versus federal office.

But they say no, we have the elections clause. This is the big one. Saying we can protect the integrity of federal elections. elections clause as we know says times, place and manner of holding elections for senators and reps in Congress shall be prescribed by the state legislature thereof, right? But the Congress may at any time by law make or alter those regulations except from choosing senators.

Now, that’s what we all would latch on to and say, well, Congress did that. The time, places, and manner, so manner, who can vote means you can say non-citizens are prohibited. So while these clauses expressly commit the states on authority to who can vote, the elections clause gives it about how they can vote. It’s manner. It’s not who. Okay? So it’s manner but it doesn’t mean the actual qualification. So the argument is outside of the elections clause, right? So the federal government can’t set uniform standards across the nation and otherwise the states get to decide. So, all said and done, this is now unconstitutional. Can Florida prohibit and punish this? Yeah, Florida can and Florida has, but many other states never will and wouldn’t want to.

Anyways, this is the problem. Okay, the federal government is now coming in to say, “These are illegal aliens voting, so we’re going to prosecute that.” But can the federal government actually remove the defendant from the states? Well, they’re going to have to go through immigration proceedings now. And Congress can’t could draft an enforcement statute with criminal penalties. If the state decided to prohibit non-citizens from voting, then they could pass like a criminal law. You violated a state qualification and now we’re prosecuting you for that. But that’s not what we have. And so, this is a rare case. And ultimately, he says based on what Paul Clement and the other amicus sent over to him, this law is unconstitutional. Her case is dismissed. All other pending motions are denied as moot and all other penalties are vacated signed by Rubio’s recommended judge, David S. Lieowitz, out of Florida.

And this and he’s got the support of Paul Clement, who’s not a random person. And so this will ultimately go up, I would imagine, to the Supreme Court probably quickly. And we’ll see how Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts weigh in on this. But the DOJ instantly as soon as that order came down filed a notice of appeal because every single other defendant who’s been charged with this will now use it in their defense.

And yeah, Florida as the state may be prosecuting these people, but other states are not. We have non-citizens who are being charged in blue states all over the place and they’re facing criminal charges. they’re going to take this decision and file the exact same motion and say my case should be dismissed as well.

So, it’s a shocking development in that according to this judge and Paul Clement and others who have a lot of Paul Clement has a lot of gravitas in, you know, right-wing circles saying it’s illegal, can’t prosecute these people. Only states can and states won’t. So, all of the non-citizens voting will basically illegal for them to do that. if you extrapolate this out. So, this will have to go to the Supreme Court of the United States. No doubt about it. They’re going to

take it up to the 11th Circuit. We’ll see what the 11th Circuit does, but this will spread like wildfire.

Every single person who’s a non-citizen who got charged under the statute. And there’s now well over a hundred. And that will turn into a battle for our elections and our sovereignty where we get invaded by millions and millions of non-citizens. they vote and there’s nothing we can do about it at the federal level. If the states don’t want to enforce it then or even look into it or even pass laws that say, “Oh, if the qualification authority is with us, then we’ll just make it legal.” What are you going to do about it? Amend the Constitution? Obviously, you’re not going to do that.

And so, this is the seeding ground of the literal destruction of American sovereignty.

When millions of non-citizens can come in here and vote and there’s nothing the federal government can do about it, we start to ask ourselves, what is citizenship? What does it even mean? Is it even worth a damn? Not really. And what kind of sane nation would actually sit around and allow this to happen?

So big problem out of Florida. And I thought, you know, this will be something that the Supreme Court will deal with. Then I saw the amicus from Paul Clement and I thought, “Oh, that’s great.” Because on these issues, the Supreme Court will read into that and they may find his arguments persuasive. So, we’ll keep our eye on this one and see what comes next. But this is an extensive extensive concern. Hopefully the 11th Circuit reasons through this appropriately and America can protect our sovereignty.

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TheseTruths commented yesterday

 Reply to  Gail Combs

 October 6, 2026 01:05

This is what I came across during a discussion yesterday. If the Constitution says the states have the authority to decide whether illegals can vote, and if SCOTUS upholds that, we are in royal trouble. It would also mean that every prosecution for illegals having voted would be null and void.

I think this is the law that they are arguing is unconstitutional. [It is -GC]

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/611

18 U.S. Code § 611 – Voting by aliens

(a)It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, unless—
(1)the election is held partly for some other purpose;
(2)aliens are authorized to vote for such other purpose under a State constitution or statute or a local ordinance; and
(3)voting for such other purpose is conducted independently of voting for a candidate for such Federal offices, in such a manner that an alien has the opportunity to vote for such other purpose, but not an opportunity to vote for a candidate for any one or more of such Federal offices.
(b)Any person who violates this section shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
(c)Subsection (a) does not apply to an alien if—
(1)each natural parent of the alien (or, in the case of an adopted alien, each adoptive parent of the alien) is or was a citizen (whether by birth or naturalization);
(2)the alien permanently resided in the United States prior to attaining the age of 16; and
(3)the alien reasonably believed at the time of voting in violation of such subsection that he or she was a citizen of the United States.

I have no confidence in SCOTUS ruling in a way to protect the country.

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Second comment:

Yes, word needs to get out, but I don’t know what can be done. SCOTUS is supposed to rule based on lawyers’ arguments. If there is no Constitutional basis for the federal government’s stopping illegals from voting, I don’t know what the lawyers can do. IMO an argument could be made about original intent, but if specific wording can’t be found in the Constitution…

We know how three justices will vote, and I have no confidence in some of the others.

It makes no sense to allow foreign invaders to vote who have entered the country illegally. That would transform the country into something other than was intended.

Amendment XIV, Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. 

No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

My ability to vote is not literally taken away by anyone else’s voting, but my ability to elect the people I think most qualified is diluted if invaders can come in and flood the ballot box. We know that many are sponsored by foreign countries and donors for the express purpose of altering and taking over the United States. That abridges our ability to elect those whom we choose to protect us and our country.

The Guarantee Clause
Article IV, Section 4:

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and 

shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

Illegals’ voting is a step beyond invasion.

KMAG DAILY THREAD 20260401 & ELECTION INTEGRITY

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It is my suspicion that POTUS Trump does not expect the Save America Act to pass. AND he has plans to use an EO to make sure we have safe elections. If you look you can see the evidence surface.

(Yeah, Mama’s in a mood…)

In the mean time POTUS is letting the traitors in the Senate and Congress reveal themselves.

Peter Ticktin is one of the Lawyers for Tina Peters. Ticktin is also a high school classmate of President Donald Trump. Early in the following video he says a group of very smart lawyers have put together an EO for POTUS Trump.

Why We Vote Ep. 166: Peter Ticktin on Constitutional Law, Executive Power, and Election Legitimacy

CannCon and Ashe in America are joined by attorney Peter Ticktin for a wide-ranging discussion on constitutional law, executive authority, and the legal frameworks surrounding election legitimacy. The conversation explores how the Constitution is interpreted in modern legal battles, the limits of federal power, and how legal strategies are being used to challenge or defend election outcomes.

Peter breaks down complex constitutional arguments into plain terms, walking through the role of the executive branch, the judiciary, and the tension between state and federal authority. The discussion also touches on legal precedent, the importance of due process, and how courts approach politically sensitive cases.

Throughout the episode, the panel examines how legal narratives shape public perception and why understanding constitutional structure is critical in evaluating election-related disputes. It is a deep dive into law, power, and the ongoing debate over how America governs itself.

ROUGH TRANSCRIPT

31:48 – 34:10 — Peter Ticktin:

FL is a free state (Canncon) Colorado is a captured state (Ashe)

We are the peg holding the rest of the world up. They have not gone to the depths of where this thing is going to go. It is not going to be a situation where if they were to win where it would be same-o same-o, just a different party running it. It does not work that way.

Within a matter of months of them taking over power, they would be picking us up in truck loads. This is the end of our society as we know it…. We either get the Executive Order or I am telling you it is going to be Martial Law…

Trump was close to doing something last time but he just did not have the power. This time before anyone is sworn in, it will be martial law because we were not able to stop it in a civil way. There is no way that Trump will sit there and say Oh, Golly Jee we lost again because we let them cheat. It will not be that way this time because we will all be dead meat. There will be no coming back from it…

34:30 Ashe:

So the E.O. is intended to create a national emergency so we can make these structural changes… We can not have real elections until we tell the truth about elections…

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Brave AI

In January 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security officially designated election infrastructure as a critical infrastructure subsector under the existing Government Facilities sector, recognizing that its incapacitation would have a devastating effect on the nation. Link 1

 This designation covers physical and virtual systems including voter registration databases, voting machines, polling places, and vote tabulation locations. Link 2

The designation does not grant the federal government authority to regulate, oversee, or manage elections, which remain the responsibility of state and local governments. Link 3

 Instead, it prioritizes cybersecurity assistance and enables the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to provide voluntary, no-cost services such as threat monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and incident response support to election officials who request them. States: Rescind Electoral Critical Infrastructure Designation–Secretaries of State Allege Federal Intrusion into States’ Affairs

[Looks like the states realized they could lose control of their fake elections. — GC]

Key components of the designation include:

  • Legal Basis: Defined by the Patriot Act and Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21) as systems vital to national security, economic security, or public health. 
  • Scope: Encompasses IT infrastructure for managing elections, storage facilities, and networks used for counting, auditing, and reporting results. 
  • Collaboration: Facilitates the Election Infrastructure Subsector Government Coordinating Council (EIS-GCC) to coordinate between federal, state, and local stakeholders. 
  • Threat Response: Allows for sanctions and closed-door discussions regarding sensitive vulnerabilities to protect against cyber threats and foreign interference. 

From Cornell Law
ArtI.S4.C1.3 Congress and the Elections Clause

By providing Congress power to preempt state election procedures, the Framers sought to prevent states from thwarting the federal government’s operation by using state law to manipulate or preclude elections for the House of Representatives.9 For example, during the Constitutional Convention Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania expressed concern that “the States might make false returns and then make no provision for new elections,” 10 while Alexander Hamilton observed in the Federalist Papers that “Nothing can be more evident than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the national government, in the hands of the State legislatures, would leave the existence of the Union entirely at their mercy.” 11 Despite the Elections Clause providing Congress power to preempt state law governing elections, Congress did not exercise this power until 1842 when it passed a law requiring that Representatives be elected on a district basis.12 Congress subsequently added contiguity, compactness, and substantial equality of population to districting requirements.13

In the Court’s 1997 decision, Foster v. Love, the Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision that, 👉under the Elections Clause, federal law preempted a Louisiana statute governing congressional elections.14 The Foster Court noted that while states can prescribe regulations governing the Times, Places and Manner of holding elections, “Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations.” 15 The Court stated…

So Congress does have power over federal elections and they exercised that power in the Patriot Act despite what Brave AI said.

Starting Point:

U.S. Election Systems as Critical Infrastructure


On January 6, 2017, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson designated U.S. election systems as part of the nation’s critical infrastructure, a decision that was later affirmed by current DHS Secretary John Kelly. Since the designation was announced, state and local election officials across the country have raised questions about the day-to-day impact of the designation and how it will benefit their work to conduct accessible, accurate and secure elections. This document details DHS’s critical infrastructure designation and what election administrators can expect moving forward. It also provides a glossary of terms frequently used in conjunction with correspondence and discussions about critical infrastructure designation….

So at the end of his term Obama designated US Election Systems as critical infrastructure. 😂

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If YOU THOUGHT KONNECH WAS BAD…

DOMINION VOTING MACHINES MADE IN CHINA

SACRAMENTO REGISTRAR OF VOTERS

Election 2020

A Limited Case Study

“A secure and resilient electoral process is a vital national interest and one of our highest priorities.”

OVERVIEW

In December 2020 our cyber election team was invited by Mrs. Courtney Bailey-Kanelos, the Registrar of Voters in Sacramento County, California to review Sacramento’s election system, and to audit the 2020 election results.  The cyber election team was offered a $1.00 contract by the Registrar of Voters to perform the work (see Exhibits).  The cyber election team accepted, and placed a technician on a plane to Sacramento within 24 hours.

ENVIRONMENT

Unfortunately, if one has spent any time in Washington, DC, one understands that the town is filled with people who have extremely sharp elbows, and frequently put their own agendas above the interests of the American people.  In this instance, a bad actor got word that a technician was on a plane headed to Sacramento, and proceeded to blow-up phones in Sacramento.  Before the cyber election team’s tech landed in Sacramento, the audit effort had been squashed, as others in the County were now involved and the brakes put on the planned contract.  Obviously, this was a great disappointment.

LIMITED CASE STUDY

The cyber election team’s technician did, however, receive a tour of the election facility by Mrs. Bailey-Kanelos, who was and continues to be extremely gracious in all dealings.  The cyber election team’s technician was escorted to every part of the building by Mrs. Bailey-Kanelos and allowed to take photographs of anything he wished.

In this brief document, we will post some of these photographs, and explain their significance, as they demonstrate how an election official, with the best of intentions, can expose this complicated election system to bad actors and potential manipulation…


The password for accessing the Dominion ballot printing software and printing ballots is taped to the laptop for any user to see and use.


In the following video, Mark Cook said this information was key since similar passwords were used in other states.


Feb 5, 2026 CNN Intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard’s office obtained and tested voting machines in Puerto Rico

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence obtained voting machines from Puerto Rico and probed them for security vulnerabilities, the office said in a statement to CNN Wednesday.

The extraordinary move comes amid Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s broader search for voter fraud at the behest of President Donald Trump, who has falsely claimed that the 2020 election was rigged despite numerous court rulings and audits debunking the claim. Gabbard was present as FBI agents executed a search warrant in Fulton County, Georgia, last week related to the 2020 election.

The ODNI claimed in its statement to have found “extremely concerning” cybersecurity and operational deployment practices with the voting machines in Puerto Rico but did not provide detailed evidence….

Mark Cook provides that evidence in the following video.


Why We Vote Ep. 167: Garland & Tamara Favorito on Fulton County Case, Seized Ballots, and Election System Vulnerabilities

CannCon and Ashe in America are joined by Garland and Tamara Favorito for a deep dive into a major evidentiary hearing in Fulton County tied to the federal case surrounding 2020 election records. The conversation begins with firsthand insights from inside the courthouse, where discussions center on the FBI’s seizure of election materials, Fulton County’s legal response, and the implications of those records potentially being used as evidence.

The episode expands into broader election integrity efforts, including newly passed legislation, ongoing investigations, and the challenges of transparency in election systems. The panel also explores concerns around computerized voting systems, vulnerabilities in tabulation processes, and efforts to demonstrate potential manipulation during legislative hearings.

Throughout the discussion, Garland and Tamara emphasize citizen involvement, highlighting the importance of public testimony, grassroots action, and direct participation in hearings to push for accountability. The episode closes with a strong argument for returning control of elections to the people, focusing on simplicity, transparency, and trust in the voting process.

VERY ROUGH PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT

4:45 to 33 minutes — Garland and Tamara Favorito:

Fulton County is trying to get back the ballots seized by the FBI. Do the county officials actually even have STANDING??? That is the matter before the court in this hearing. It should be an open and shut HELL NO! But not in the Amerika judicial system. [Remember all those “numerous court rulings” cited by CNN? Well the courts found citizens had NO STANDING and thus there never were any actual trials in most cases. –GC]

VERY IMPORTANT BOMB SHELL:

Please watch this video from 1 hour to 1 hour and 30 minutes. Yes, it is long, but it is the election fraud smoking guns explained so a 10 year old could understand it. It explains why Colorado went ballistic when Tina Peters had a forensic image captured before the ‘Trusted Build’ by Dominion.

Interview of Mark Cook. His website is Great American Rebirth that I quoted above.

37 minutes Mark Cook:

He states he is a Subject Matter Expert in Election Cyber Security & THREAT ASSESSMENT with 40 years in IT & 6 in Elections. He says: I have absolute proof of backdoors built in to voting machines….

1:01:30 He gives a demo of the backdoors.

“…Tina Peters forensic image… God bless her, she allowed citizens to see what is in their black box voting machines. This is why she is being tortured…”

1;06;45 Mrs. Courtney Bailey-Kanelos, the Registrar of Voters in Sacramento County, California invited Mark Cook to CA and HE GETS A TOUR of the voting machines. See the article above.

He explains sequel [sql] server tools in simple terms.

1;07;10 Sequel Server Management is a stand alone that gets directly into the database bypassing the software that is suppose to keep it secure.

[Now think about that for a minute and think about those voting machines DHS grabbed from Puerto Rico…😂 — GC]

1:20:00 They can CHANGE the outcome of the election and there is NO RECORD!

1:25:45 Then Mark demonstrates something else using flash drives. He plugs in a flash drive and does NOTHING ELSE. He doesn’t hit enter or anything. He just holds up hands. He is NOT typing. The flash drive pulls up another backdoor. It starts flipping numbers in the database AND WILL NOT LEAVE A TRACE. (Change tracking is disbled. It comes that way from the factory & when Dominion sets it up for the county, they do not turn tracking ON!)

END 1:29:14

Canncon makes the point that Mark’s demo is slowed way down to make the changes visible. It actually happens fast, in about a second or so.

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Name: USB Flash Drive #4 (backside)

Discussion: Back side of USB Flash Drive #4, showing a unique identifier, probably assigned by the county.


PRELIMINARY FINDINGS: SUMMARY from SACRAMENTO Case Study

  • Given the photographic evidence above, and the information provided by the voter registrar, our cyber election team concludes that it would have been trivial to:
    • print unlimited ballots while unsupervised;
    • connect the election system to an external network or the Internet during the election;
    • introduce new software, firmware, voted ballots into critical election equipment via USB or portable hard drive;
  • Numerous election officials and warehouse workers have unfettered access to key election systems and ballots.
  • Sacramento refused to address numerous security concerns as required by Grand Jury prior to the 2020 Election, and instead stated they would address them after the election (see Exhibits).

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MORE EVIDENCE OF ELECTION FRAUD

ALL Our Elections Are Stolen: That’s Why Nothing Works Without Money Printing

This is how they do it. This is how to stop it.

She gets into Fractal/Omega tech.

Inside the Criminal Gangs Planning to Steal 2026

What are you doing about it?

..In late winter, I wrote a series on election fraud. The day after the last, the man I had written about Saturday, Peter Bernegger, a freaking hero, was arrested. Later that week another subject, Christina Bobb, Trump’s lawyer, and the Republican National Committee’s voter fraud expert, had to fly to Arizona and turn herself in.

The left can no longer win on the merits of their ideas, much less their actions. They have created one catastrophe after another. The only way they can win elections is steal them. And they have developed three hundred separate, specific, methodologies to do it. In my opinion, and that of others closer to the coal face….

Is Katie Hobbs, Arizona’s Governor, owned by the Sinaloa Cartel? Are 25% of Arizona’s Judges Corrupt?

Several crime syndicates steal our elections: the Chinese, Venezuelans, the British Empire, Luciferians, the Left. In Arizona, it’s the cartels.

U.S. intercepted Ukraine government messages discussing plot to route money to Biden re-election

Newly-unclassified documents show that in 2022 Ukrainian officials discussed diverting hundreds of millions of U.S. tax dollars — earmarked for clean energy — back to Biden’s ill-fated 2024 campaign. There is no evidence the intercepted allegations were investigated during the Biden administration.

He Found Ghost Records Inside Social Security. Their Numbers Were Still Active. | Frank Bisignano

………..

Democrats on world voter ID from DataRepublican

FULL THREAD

Democrats TEACH voter identification and election integrity … just not in America

The Democratic Party has an international arm called the National Democratic Institute (NDI). It’s funded by $181M/year in US tax dollars. Its board includes Stacey Abrams, Donna Brazile, and Tom Daschle.

But in regards to today’s SAVE America Act debate… did you know that the NDI has taught and supervised election processes all over the world?

For 40 years, NDI has told every developing country on earth that voter ID is essential for election integrity. They’ve recommended biometric systems… yes, that’s right, NDI recommended biometric systems, which goes way beyond SAVE America Act! They praised fingerprint verification. Tracked ID card issuance rates.

Meanwhile, Democrats call the SAVE Act “Jim Crow 2.0.”

Same party. Same people. Opposite positions.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread

NDI’s own 2001 guide emphasizes the importance of only citizens voting. It further says voter ID cards “introduce an additional safeguard into the system” and describes photo ID and fingerprints as standard election infrastructure.


In one of their PDFs, the complaint in Nicaragua wasn’t that voter ID existed. It was that the government wasn’t issuing ID cards FAST ENOUGH. They even called the issuance of temporary IDs as ignoring “the far more fundamental problem.”

In Morocco, NDI praised the switch to requiring just ONE photo ID at the polls, calling it “a positive development.” The SAVE Act requires one photo ID. Democrats call that Jim Crow.

In Bangladesh, NDI praised voter photo ID cards as giving “a sense of empowerment and belonging to the disadvantaged and marginalized people of the country, particularly women.”

Stacey Abrams, NDI board member, calls the same requirement discriminatory at home.

Chuck Schumer: “The SAVE Act would impose Jim Crow-type laws to the entire country.”

NDI (his party’s own arm): “Individuals who wish to participate in an election must somehow prove their identity, demonstrating that they are who they say they are.” And also must demonstrate citizenship

The biggest irony: NDI vice chair Stacey Abrams co-led the Nigeria 2023 election observation mission. Its final report called biometric voter ID “the most important contribution to raising confidence in electoral integrity.” She called Georgia’s voter ID law “Jim Crow in a suit.

The biggest irony: NDI vice chair Stacey Abrams co-led the Nigeria 2023 election observation mission. Its final report called biometric voter ID “the most important contribution to raising confidence in electoral integrity.” She called Georgia’s voter ID law “Jim Crow in a suit.

NDI has observed elections in 100+ countries. If they observed a US election, they’d flag 14 states with no voter ID requirement as failing basic election integrity standard… by their own published criteria.

The Democratic Party tells the world voter ID is democracy. Then tells Americans it’s Jim Crow.

THREAD END.

When all the different threads are pulled together, I think POTUS Trump will have the evidence he needs for his E.O. on Election Integrity.

2026.02.03 Daily Thread: The World According To Trade(Bait)

I start this one with more strict and loose constructionist principles. Going to do reminders each week until you pass your test.

Strict Constructionist – Literal and narrow reading (interpretation) of the document that limits the powers of the federal government to what it provides.

Loose Constructionist – Views it as a “living document” that is interpreted broadly that adapts to society as it evolves and its needs change..

First, I covered the two primary views of the Constitution and laws in general in our country. Next I covered the views throughout Christianity from the same perspectives using the ruling authority, the Bible. Today I will cover their Constitutional application with treaties, which means we return to federal documents and powers.

Wut? Yes, treaties. Since we are in the era of taking on government efficiency, why not?

😂

That statement may have gone over any a head reading this. You will learn why I said it later.

By reviewing this I hope you will see that very few treaties have been interpreted in a strict constructionist sense unless it is useful to do so by those in or seeking power. The rest of the time they are interpreted as loose as a goose’s diarrhetic bowel movement.

Sorry for that word image, but it was the most descriptive I could come up with to match a loose constructionist view of treaties, well, in about everything they did in federal government before PDT hit the scene.

Today’s scripture will stay with the nasty descriptive theme since I already went “there”. It comes from Proverbs 26:11,

Like a dog that returns to its vomit,
So is a fool who repeats his foolishness. (NASB)

We should heed that warning as a nation and quit believing we can do things opposed to God’s way and get away with it. We continue to exist because God wills us to exist. Turn from evil, do what is good in His sight.

Treaties

The definition of a treaty that I am referencing in this post with an assist from Merriam Webster follows,

An agreement or arrangement made by negotiation

See, that wasn’t hard. In this context it is a contract in writing between two or more political authorities (such as states or sovereigns) formally signed by representatives duly authorized and usually ratified by the lawmaking authority of the state.

It will probably be best for us to initially stick with American domestic treaties or else we will be here for awhile. So lets drill down on those relating to Pocahontas Warren’s kinfolk since they have been back in the news.

Native American Indian Treaties

How many treaties (contractual agreements) with native Indians are there? When were these agreements first violated by American governments?

There have been around 370 of them. We do not know how many were violated; we just know that a lot were and it started immediately per historical accounts. Most of the violations were never addressed and remedied. We also know the vast majority of the treaties were related to lands the native Americans held and were given in the original treaty agreements. Add in we know the SCOTUS has consistently ruled in favor of treaty provisions being honored through the years. And finally, we know that rarely has that latter point actually happened and been enforced, at least not long term.

So, which do you think that reflects, strict or loose constructionist approaches? Yup, loose in real life application while being strict at the SCOTUS level decisions. See how that works? Those in power on the ground basically do what they want until called out on it through the judiciary and the issues eventually make it to SCOTUS. If the ruling works in the powers that be’s favor they will be strict in their actions going forward, making it more difficult to over turn. If it works better to be loose, they keep doing the dirty anyway, at least until they cannot any longer. If there are no triggers to insure the activity in question stops or is changed after the highest court/SCOTUS ruling – they keep doing it like they did in the examples above with our native Indian population.

Let’s face it, the only real reason they made treaties was to root them off land, to stop or slow down the violence against settlers, and to pretend they were being legal until the government had sufficient military to handle any future resistance. They obviously had no intention of honoring treaties as written long term. They thought they could eventually interest the native Indians into assimilating into society. Over time the poverty they induced into reservations became a drain on resources. That also was intentional as they hoped many would leave and then assimilate. Over time they also found that they had uses for some of the natives’ land that was unanticipated when the treaties were first signed.

As the laws became more defined and case law took root, it became more difficult to outright take away the lands and relocate the tribes. Instead, they began corrupting tribal leadership, who then made deals to lease land to corporate and government interests. Sometimes a small amount of cash flow would come to tribal members, but never commiserate with what the lessors and corrupted leaders generated. Most times the non-leader tribal members received nothing. This left them as destitute and powerless as ever. Using corruption helped the government and businesses give the appearance it was all in compliance with established law and the treaties without actually being so. Loose constructionism combined with corruption won despite strict constructionist rulings from the judiciary as to treaty intent and administrative expectations.

As you might surmise, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has been completely corrupt for two centuries. It was intended and established to be that way. It was lipstick on the pig by the Secretary of War Calhoun of that day when it first was introduced. The following archived article accurately described how it exists in more current times.

Why the Indian Bureaucracy Should Be Dismantled

As a result is it any wonder it ended up being placed under the purview of DOGE recently? From earlier this year,

https://www.12news.com/article/news/regional/native-america/tribal-nations-concerned-trumps-cuts-have-the-potential-violate-trust-responsibilities/75-b9dc14a4-fe80-4d65-b5e1-077c2ae1737d

#47 misses very little.

The current official status between BIA and DOGE is that BIA is undergoing a thorough review of their operations, finances and policies. Once complete, #47’s admin will make a decision on what happens next. However, in this guy’s world you are either a citizen or not. There should be no protected classes of citizens and should not have been two centuries ago. The nasty BIA needs to be disbanded with the land and business ownership concerns of tribes being mediated and brought into compliance with everybody and everything else in this country.

Which may be one good reason why #47 vetoed this very recently.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/state/2025/12/31/trump-vetoes-bill-to-protect-miccosukee-village-in-everglades/87970455007

As well he should have.

Native Indian Music & Movie Corner

Some of the real thing,

Country folks singing about them are more my style

Warning of graphic violence on the next one. Not many who saw this film will ever forget it. Perhaps a reminder of the real world in those days? You decide.

Maybe it is good those days are over.

Conclusion

This is just one element of American society that has historically been a pit of corruption, but allowed to exist because nobody really wanted to deal with it as well as because there was so much loot and business opportunities exchanging hands between criminals. Their aim was to keep the gravy train going. But #47 knows about it and eventually it will be addressed.

For what it is worth, you probably can guess how most native Indians vote. Yup, Dem. In the last election it was 57% for Harris and 39% for #47. Among their number the criminals and those who exist on government hand outs always vote Democrat. Those who seek to build lives for themselves and families in the American way without handouts tend to vote GOP. It is really that simple and it also seems simple that we should give all a path toward achieving the American Dream by working like the rest of us and cut out the graft, theft, bail outs and special treatment. Time for all of the little birdies to fly away from the nest.

It is two centuries past time for native American Indians to assimilate into American society and for the BIA to be exterminated like the rats nest it is. Level the playing field with all protected classes and remove the special privileges. The accommodation period in America should have long been ended; it is the corrupt, greedy politicians who have kept it alive. Native American Indian tribe ancestors were a conquered people, just like loyalist British. The African and Irish slaves were freed. Indentured servanthood no longer exists. Claims for reparations and special treatment for native Indian citizens today are bullshiz just like they are for ancestors of African and Irish slaves. Reservations are current versions of Democrat plantations of old.

The Declaration of Independence is clear;

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That is the guiding doctrine and law of our land. Time for all citizens to act like it and the non-citizens granted legal permission to reside here to act like it.

Remember Wolf’s site rules. Note and label all AI. Please be kind to one another, we are all in this together. May God richly bless America and all of you.

Trust Trump and the plan.

2025.12.30 Daily Thread – American Stories: When in the Course of human events – Part 36

Today, we celebrate the culmination of a successful year recounting life in America. Thank you, POTUS Donald J. Trump and fellow patriots. It is also fitting that we end the stories of individual signers of the Declaration of Independence at this point as we have entered into our 250th year of existence as the United States of America. I will not spend any more time on this lead, most readers will agree this man deserves all of the attention due him.

Because of his accomplishments and the value of this signer to our nation, please provide enough time to read if interested in this series. There was no way to do this quickly. Do not miss the conclusion.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas, T, Big T, Tommy, Tomás, TJ, Tom Terrific. I have a friend named TJ, so if I get sloppy that is what I will use. Thought I would get those out of the way early. Regardless, Thomas Jefferson was a big deal. His lasting legacy still is.

The biographies, documents and stories about Thomas Jefferson are plentiful. Since he is the last signer to discuss, I want to focus on some personal aspects and events of his life that express more about what he valued and who he was as a person in addition to the usual bio summary. Those are what formed his world views and led to his work that we value so highly even today.

Thomas Jefferson was born in 1743 on his family’s Shadwell Plantation. He was the third of ten children of Peter and Jane Randolph Jefferson. His father was a planter, surveyor, justice of the peace, sheriff, Colonel and member of the House of Burgesses. Peter was not well educated, but increased his understanding through reading many books. In 1745 Peter moved the family to Tuckahoe Plantation following the death of close friend, William Randolph III, who had named Peter guardian of his children. They remained there until 1753, when they returned to Shadwell.

Peter and Jane provided a privileged life to their family. They ate on fine dishware, frequently entertained, enjoyed classic books and music, and attended dances. The family was considered prosperous and cultured. While at Tuckahoe, Peter also oversaw the development of his plantation at Shadwell, traveling there as needed while managing the affairs of the Tuckahoe plantation. They owned 60-80 slaves for the farming and household needs.

While living with the Randolph children, Peter made sure Thomas was educated by tutors and schools. He thrived in his education. He studied languages, classics, science, history and other subjects while reading everything he could find. He and his family were friends with native Americans and they would visit frequently with the chief of the Cherokees, Ostenaco, in their home when he came to trade in Williamsburg. It was also there when he first came to know a man he admired, Patrick Henry.

In 1757 his father passed away and the estate was divided between Thomas and his brother, Randolph. He was 14 at the time and had a guardian, John Harvie, Sr. Harvie was a friend and business associate of Peter, who was also named executor of his estate. All of the children received an inheritance with Thomas inheriting over 5000 acres that included the ground that his famous Monticello would be built upon beginning in 1772. His mother received a life estate on the Shadwell home along with property that Thomas leased from her until her death.

At this point Thomas had grown tall (6′ 2″) and gangly while preferring to use the written word since he was not an eloquent speaker. In 1761 at age 18 he entered William & Mary College. The first school year he admitted to spending too much money and partying. Realizing this mistake, in his second year he committed to studying 15 hours per day, sleeping and eating for 6 hours, and practicing violin the remaining three hours.

He studied math and philosophy. He was taught British empiricism by William Small, which is the view that experience, especially of the senses, is the only source of knowledge. This is the same professor who was close associates with Francis Fauquier and professor George Wythe whom we discussed in the previous part. The four became a close knit group of friends who explored ideas together for five years. Jefferson later wrote that in their presence he “heard more common good sense, more rational and philosophical conversations than in all the rest of my life.”

What a group! Small was a Scottish physician who had emigrated to Virginia to teach there, who had background in medicine and philosophy. He was ten years older than Jefferson. Fauquier was 59 years old and serving as the Lt. Governor of the colony. He was raised in great wealth and was a renaissance man of the world who had interests and experiences in industry, science, arts and charities. We reviewed George Wythe in the previous part. He was in his mid 30’s, established in his law practice as well as being a professor. Young Thomas must have felt he struck gold with mentors. However, due to his upbringing and intelligence he added great value to the group.

He finished his formal studies in 1762 and joined the Wythe law practice to read the law working as a clerk. He followed that by opening his own law practice that focused primarily on land transactions. He was not oriented to being a great litigator, but to be a scholar.

The Next Phase

In 1768 he made the decision to build Monticello on a tall bluff on his property as well as to run for office in the House of Burgesses. A politician was born. A few years later in 1772 he married a wealthy widow, Martha Wayles Skelton. Her inherited land and slave holdings were double the size of his, thus making them quite wealthy. The couple had six children, but only two daughters survived to adulthood. They lived in a smaller structure Thomas built in 1772 while the much grander Monticello main house was under construction. Unfortunately, Martha did not live long enough to move into it. She passed away at age 33 in 1782. Thomas completed it soon after her death that same year.

Thomas stayed involved in law and politics while venturing into expressing views about the rights of colonists. He felt that the colonies were bound to Great Britain voluntarily and only through loyalty to the King. This led to a personal position paper he wrote being published in 1774 without his permission that was titled, A Summary View of the Rights of British Americans. This increased his prominence in Virginia and set him up as a strong advocate for independence from Parliamentary authority. The colonial leadership responded by sending him to represent the state at the Second Continental Congress in early 1775.

Jefferson was introverted and shy when all of the debates were flowing. John Adams wrote about his silence, yet, clear dedication to independence. His role soon became that of a drafter of Congressional resolutions. He was chosen to be a member in a committee that included Adams and B that was to draft the document that reflected the positions of Congressional members as to why independence from Great Britain was necessary. As the author, he chose to provide an “expression of the American mind” from the general “originality of principle or sentiment” that he heard from the words of all Americans, not just those in the Congress. This expression included the text covering the charges against King George III. It only took him a few days to prepare the draft. The members then began editing and revising only about 20% of the document. What they did not touch, which is included in its entirety, were these famous and arguably most important words in our nation’s history.

We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Chills. Some 250 years later these words reverberate as loudly now as they did then.

As we know our founding fathers soon voted to approve and sign the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson was only 33 years old. What many did not realize at that time was that he was somewhat saddened that the members found it necessary to modify any of the draft document at all. He meant every single word he wrote.

Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny

Thomas headed back to Virginia in October 1776 with legal system, education, and separation of church and state reforms in mind. He was met with great resistance on education and separation of church and state. It took a decade until 1786 to get a religious freedom statute approved. Jefferson considered the Revolutionary War period as the start of a worldwide battle to free all people of the world from power hungry institutions and oppressive governments. His proposed state reforms mirrored what he envisioned for the country with its independence from Great Britain.

He was elected Governor of the state in 1779, however, he and the state were surprised and unprepared for a British invasion that sent him quickly escaping as troops approached. The press caught wind of him leaving and called him a coward, a subject over which he fought the rest of his life. There was a formal inquiry into his actions that were repudiated by the General Assembly. Jefferson blamed Patrick Henry for the accusations and he never got over it. It hurt him deep in his being as he had respected Henry for much of his life. Three years later his wife, Martha, died while giving birth to their third daughter. Those two difficult events made a huge impression during this dark period in his life.

After Martha’s death he agreed to become a minister (ambassador) to France with B’s return to Philadelphia. He acknowledged that nobody could actually replace B and his impact, that he would just serve as his successor. During the period he deeply studied the cultures of the European nations and sent many artifacts, books and documents home to Monticello. After five years there soliciting better relations, trade and investment into America, he returned at the request of President Washington to serve as the first Secretary of State under the new Constitution. He was immediately at odds with Alexander Hamilton in that he felt Hamilton was for a powerful central government and favored the British too highly.

Due to the rise of the Federalists that included the dominant personalities of Adams and Hamilton, Jefferson united with friend James Madison in the founding of the rival Democratic-Republican (D-R) Party to counter their views. The D-R members believed in a decentralized central government, states rights, strict interpretation of the Constitution, and individual rights. The Federalists were generally the opposite and aligned with Great Britain even after the war while the D-R’s were aligned with France. The D-R’s referred to themselves as the Republican Party and historians often call them Jeffersonian Republicans to avoid confusing them with the more recent GOP.

Thomas ran for POTUS in 1796 against John Adams and lost by 3 electoral votes. That made him the Vice President to Adams under the rules of that time. They were two formerly close friends who had become increasingly agitated with each other’s positions and unwilling to compromise. The situation was awkward and contentious. Since Thomas and the D-R’s were opposed to a central federal bank, they were also at odds with Alexander Hamilton, who was its biggest proponent.

Four years later Adams and Jefferson ran against each other again with Jefferson coming out on top. Rather than discuss the convoluted mess that delivered that victory to Jefferson, I have linked a summary below. Just know that toughening the immigration laws by Adams and the Federalists with the Alien and Sedition Acts killed their chances and there was much political intrigue over those years that eventually led to the infamous duel between Hamilton and Aaron Burr.

https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/election-1800

Presidency

I will now focus on Jefferson’s accomplishments during that first and second term. The first term was named the “revolution of 1800” by TJ himself. He came rolling into office like POTUS Trump did in his second term. Change was the order of the day. He wanted to reduce the scope and size of the federal government and empower citizens to control it. After the Alien and Sedition Acts that infuriated all non-Federalist Americans, he first sought reconciliation. Which is what was intended with his famous quote, “We are all republicans: we are all federalists.” In Jefferson’s mind the era had devolved into a “reign of witches” to go along with open calls of state succession. He offered the olive branch to all in an effort to bring the country together. It helped that he had a strong, loyal Cabinet that knew their roles well. His close ally James Madison was secretary of state, Albert Gallatin was secretary of treasury, Levi Lincoln (and later John Breckinridge and Caesar Rodney) was attorney general, Henry Dearborn was secretary of war, and Robert Smith was secretary of the navy. Again, just like PDT’s second term.

He had the MAGA type ideas when it came to establishing the roles of the judicial branch. Less than a week before his election, Adams and the Federalists created 16 federal judge positions to eliminate the SCOTUS justices having to travel. Jefferson was offended they added this additional judicial level without consulting him and was soon able to fire all of them when they abolished their circuit courts. All of the related events led to the famous case of Marbury v. Madison in the court of Chief Justice John Marshall. Yes, the same student and protege of Jefferson’s friend, George Wythe. The decision ruled that the law that was passed by Congress to permit the judges was unconstitutional. That ruling gave judicial review authority to the federal judiciary to overturn unconstitutional Congressional laws. It was a big deal then and now.

Jefferson went after SCOTUS associate justice Samuel Chase for many violations from the bench. Chase seemed to have a vendetta against Jefferson and his allies due to the removal of the federal judges. He was abusive to parties in many cases before the court. Jefferson called for impeachment. The Senate failed to secure the required two thirds vote which prompted him to conclude that impeachment was inadequate to address judicial abuses. He later referred to it as “not even a scare-crow.”

Which is one reason why politicized federal judges still get by with the lawfare BS they do today as well as We the People having to endure the idiocy of the leftist justices on SCOTUS.

He had a desire to reduce the size of the Navy to reduce costs. However, he sent it to handle the extortion of the nations of northern Africa in the Barbary War. Despite the costs involved it led to the resolution of the issue and the end of the tribute system those nations imposed. The American public was very supportive and appreciative.

He hated the snobbishness of the aristocrats and was vocal about his dislike of Washington and Adams mimicking British monarchal ceremonies and practices. From his election and on each anniversary date he would walk to his office rather than have any extravagant special events or processions. One of Britain’s new diplomats, Anthony Merry along with his wife, paid him a visit in 1803 all decked out with a plumed hat and ceremonial sword. The Merry Affair was born. Jefferson greeted him while wearing informal clothes with a pair of slippers on his feet. 😂 Later at the formal dinner in honor of the visit, he seated them amongst everybody else instead of preferred seating as his guests. He did similar things with the Spanish dignitaries that visited. Word got around in Europe. They were not amused.

In his mind he was not being rude or obnoxious, he was sending a message. He was making a point that he lived in his own life and expected in all American lives – We the People are all equal.

Louisiana Purchase

Granted, $24 worth of trinkets in exchange for Manhattan was a masterpiece deal from the century before. But what Jefferson and team negotiated with Napoleon was probably the deal of all time. An exchange of $15 million for nearly 828,000 square miles of land (approximately 4 cents per acre) is an astounding deal. It doubled the size of the nation overnight. Over time 15 more states would form from the acquired territory. Not only was it highly valued for natural resources, in so doing he closed off an unrestricted foreign port of entry into the continental U. S. at New Orleans while taking control of Mississippi River navigation.

However, it did not come easy in getting done. He had to pull a legal and political slight of hand move over which other elected officials and American people had to give him a pass. He had personal misgivings in doing the deal quickly, which was required by Napoleon, since TJ was a strict constructionist in regards to the Constitution. We will cover what that entails in a future thread.

He faced opposition from the usual Federalist opponents who had cost concerns as well as opposing geographic expansion of the country in general. However, the majority of elected officials and public supported it greatly. So, he got it done.

Because of it and other high points, his second term election victory was a blow out landslide. He took all of the states except Connecticut and Delaware to go with 73% of the popular vote and an electors advantage of 162-14 over Charles Pinckney of South Carolina, who also was a former minister to France. It remains the largest winning margin in American history. This illustrates how popular Jefferson and the D-R party had become along with how far the Federalists had fallen in the view of the public. He was the first and only former Vice President to be elected to two terms as President until Richard Nixon did so.

The Federalists had lost all leverage with the public over their opposition to the Louisiana Purchase, to TJ’s gunboat Navy, and allegations about his relationship with slave Sally Hemings. None of that mattered to the vast majority of We the People of that day. The D-R’s had jettisoned Aaron Burr from their ranks by that point and replaced him on the ballots with New Yorker George Clinton. The party also handily won control of both the Senate and House.

His second inaugural address was focused on the conditions on the ground. He sought peace and neutrality with the major foreign powers, but especially with Great Britain and France as they were warring against each other. He continued to seek even more support for the Louisiana Purchase even after completing the transaction. He wanted more peaceful relations with the native Indian tribes with efforts to educate more of them in an attempt to help them assimilate. He also sought to bring to an end the personal attacks he faced in the press, proving once again, that the fake media existed then as well as now. His words below will remind many readers of what we have seen for decades now.

During this course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science, are deeply to be  regretted.

Our fellow citizens have looked on, cool and collected… they gathered around their public functionaries, and when the constitution called them to the decision by suffrage, they pronounced their verdict, honorable to those who had served them, and consolatory to the friend of man, who believes he may be intrusted with his own affairs…our wish, as  well as theirs, is, that the public efforts may be directed honestly to the public good.

His second term was a series of ups and downs dealing with issues of the day. Exploration and development of purchased territory, road building, improvement in relations with Indians, supporting the continued exploration by Lewis & Clark all the way to the Pacific, ending the Barbary War, dealing with Aaron Burr’s sedition and treason, trying to navigate through the war between Britain and France without damage to America, banning the importation of slaves, and so on dominated his time. When he finished his term, he endorsed his long term friend James Madison over his VP Clinton. He spent much effort calming the waters of party politics that this endorsement churned up to ensure Madison’s and the party’s victories over the Federalists in 1808.

However, one period stood out as troublesome. The Brits never stopped harassing American merchants with attacks on shipping and impressment of sailors into service in the British Navy as they fought France. But France also did likewise to a somewhat lesser degree as the Napoleonic Wars raged on. In 1806 Jefferson and Congress easily passed the Non-importation Act in an attempt to stop Great Britain from doing those activities. It cut trade off with them with specific, popular products. It did not work, Britain ignored it. Faced with continued pressure, Jefferson and Congress easily passed a stronger version, the Embargo Act of 1807, that also stopped American firms from importing or exporting with both Great Britain and France, albeit with loopholes as well as lax subsequent enforcement. Jefferson was pushing to increase domestic manufacturing and production of many of the products that were imported. He wanted more time to get that done.

Great Britain and France worked around that by trading in other countries near America that were not included in the embargo, who would then sell the goods to American merchants. The Act was marginally successful at best and the public grew to hate it due to price increases and lack of availability of some products. Most of the public actually supported smuggling to import the needed items. Laws and their enforcement were ignored. After the Federalist Party rebounded from the fallout and gained a handful of seats in Congress in the 1808 elections, the Act was repealed in 1809 with Jefferson’s support when Madison became POTUS.

The issues became moot in 1812 when America declared war against Great Britain and war time restrictions on trade took hold. With the war’s peace settlement, Congress passed the Tariff of 1816 to protect American manufacturing for a three year period. An extension was requested, but southern politicians objected due to their trade connections to Great Britain. A decade after the war the issue was eventually addressed through Senator Henry Clay’s and Senator John Calhoun’s American Systems which did employ more structured tariffs.

But that tariff structure chafed the south even more in the lead up to rebellion a few decades later. With their agrarian based economy the movement of agricultural products to Great Britain was a lifeblood for prosperity. They did not take to the tariffs well.

Jefferson’s Presidency and standing were still so admired by the people that Jeffersonian Republicans won the Presidency for 24 of the following 28 years. He retired from public life back to Monticello where he frequently met with leaders in government and other walks of life as they sought his counsel, wisdom and companionship. His last major public service achievement was the successful founding of the University of Virginia at the age of 76. Per monticello.org, he led the legislative campaign for its charter, secured its location, designed its buildings, planned its curriculum, and served as the first rector.

Winding Down

His later years were dedicated to trying to pay his debts. Complicating it were the negative effects that the Louisiana Purchase had on property values in the east during the rush to purchase inexpensive land in the west. There were fewer buyers remaining in the east. He had difficulty selling his property for enough to repay debts. He also had co-signed on notes to help a couple of friends, one of whom had passed away; which cost him even more.

When the British burned the Capitol Building in the War of 1812 the entire 3000 books in the Library were burned with it. Jefferson sold his personal 6500 book library to replace it as he had planned to give it to Congress at his death anyway. An agreed price of $23,950 was negotiated and both houses of Congress approved the purchase despite the usual Federalist opposition. They hated his political positions and thought many of the books would reflect them. Jefferson was able to repay two debts of his friends he had cosigned from a large portion of the proceeds. Despite his cash problems, he found enough funds in his remaining years to purchase an additional 2500 books before his death. He often said he could not live without reading books.

When he died he left all of the 5000 acre Monticello property and personal collections to his daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph. She could not afford to maintain the Monticello property, so it was eventually sold in 1827 to a Charlottesville druggist for $7500. After a failed business venture on the property he later sold it to the Levy family who owned and maintained it for 90 years, which was a blessing. At that point it was sold to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in 1923 for $500,000 and a full restoration was completed afterwards. All but 500 acres of the original land that is retained by the organization was sold over the years.

The link below is a summary history of the property.

https://www.easterndata.com/a-brief-history-of-monticello/

Elephants In The Room

So let’s address one of the elephants in the room – the Jefferson Bible. It was one of his most controversial actions taken by him later in life and it brought heated responses, mostly negative. Basically he did not want anything to do with the miracles and deity of Jesus, but wanted everything to do with His moral positions, wisdom, and philosophical compassion for humanity. He saw his Biblical revision as a rational expression of the philosophy he personally valued, which is why he kept it private. He felt religion should remain privately held by an individual.

George Whitefield he wasn’t. Whitefield taught the Calvinist view that salvation comes from the blood sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross for our sins and His subsequent resurrection conquering death. Whitefield preached the opposite of Jefferson’s beliefs, that we could never do enough good works to earn God’s favor, that the deity of Jesus Christ as Son of God, his sacrifice on the Cross, and subsequent resurrection conquering death were essential to Christian beliefs. That was the prevailing belief then and now of traditional Protestant Christianity. On the other hand Jefferson was the anti-Calvinist who believed that good works earned acceptance by the Creator or Being as he called Him at times. The inherent problems with that view is that it contradicted the Word of God in many ways, so he cut the related parts of the Bible out in response. I have not checked, but I doubt these words are still in his revision. Ephesians 2:8-9 says,

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Needless to say it would be hard to claim to be a disciple of Jesus when you are only a disciple of the doctrine of Jesus that matched your views, so he did not claim it.

As a result it appears that TJ was a powerful, effective instrument used for the Godly purposes of moving America forward. Many of his words and actions indicate he was a deist as some were who were influenced by Enlightenment period views. However, there were contradictory statements made by TJ throughout his years that indicated he did accept Christ as his personal Savior, however, only God knows the hearts and minds of man. That determination is outside of our purview – thankfully.

https://www.history.com/articles/thomas-jefferson-bible-religious-beliefs

Next up was the even bigger elephant in our culture’s views involving the issue of intimate relations with slaves and in particular, one Sally Hemings. Despite the scandal it caused at the time, this one resolved quickly in this era with the following public release from Monticello.org in 2018;

https://www.monticello.org/slavery/jefferson-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-a-brief-account/monticello-affirms-thomas-jefferson-fathered-children-with-sally-hemings

Additional information was released by Monticello later and the pertinent statement is below.

Many of the enslaved house servants were members of the Hemings family. Elizabeth Hemings and her children were a part of the (Martha) Wayles estate and tradition says that John Wayles was the father of six of Hemings’s children and, thus, they were the half-brothers and sisters of Jefferson’s wife Martha. Jefferson gave the Hemingses special positions, and the only slaves Jefferson freed in his lifetime and in his will were all Hemingses, giving credence to the oral history. Years after his wife’s death, Jefferson fathered at least six of Sally Hemings’s children. Four survived to adulthood and are mentioned in Jefferson’s plantation records. Their daughter Harriet and eldest son Beverly were allowed to leave Monticello during Jefferson’s lifetime and the two youngest sons, Madison and Eston, were freed in Jefferson’s will.

Historical accounts have Sally’s parents being an African woman and a British sea captain. Many accounts said she was attractive, however, portraits made in the years since her death are speculative in nature since no period portraits are known to exist. After TJ’s death, Sally moved to Charlottesville to live with two sons. She died there in 1835.

Another elephant we discussed in an earlier part, which was his on and off and on again friendship with John Adams. We have Benjamin Rush to thank for the final reconciliation of the two. In their latter years they both realized they were being too hard headed in their positions and expressions during their day in politics and governing. They were able to share humor about themselves in their many letters to each other. It is fitting they both died on July 4, 1826, two hours apart some 50 years after the signing our Declaration of Independence.

Conclusion

Jefferson was asked his opinion of the most important things he accomplished in his life. Per Monticello.org; “He was the primary draftsman of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statue of Religious Freedom, nor could others claim the position as the Father of the University of Virginia.”

It goes on to say, “He had dedicated his life to meeting the challenges of his age: political freedom, religious freedom, and educational opportunity. While he knew that we would continue to face these challenges through time, he believed that America’s democratic values would become a beacon for the rest of the world. He never wavered from his belief in the American experiment.”

“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves. . . .”
Thomas Jefferson, 2 July 1787

It is time to take in his achievements. He was President of the United States – 2 terms, Vice President, Secretary of State, Minister to France, Governor of Virginia, Co-founder Democratic-Republican Party, Member and Representative to the Continental Congress and Virginia State Legislature, Colonel in the Virginia Militia, author, architect, attorney, farmer, scientist and patriarch of a large clan. He will be forever remembered for the Louisiana Purchase during his first term – it had a monumental affect on America.

Yet, per his instructions all he wanted to be remembered for was etched on his grave marker:

HERE WAS BURIED
THOMAS JEFFERSON
AUTHOR OF THE
DECLARATION
OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
OF THE
STATUTE OF VIRGINIA
FOR
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
AND FATHER OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
BORN APRIL 2, 1743 
DIED JULY 4. 1826

We will remember this great patriot for as long as America exists. There are insufficient words to express our gratitude. There are major reasons he was honored in our nations capital with this,

But wait, one more thing…

Remove the radical differences in personalities, then compare the lives and achievements of Thomas Jefferson and Donald Trump. The parallels are eye opening.

Both were/are practical, well educated, very stable geniuses. Both were raised in prosperous homes. Both were/are workaholics. Both were builders who had/have famous estates. Both were/are incredible visionaries. One is a master of spoken words, the other was a master of written words. Both believed/believe in a decentralized and limited government, the rights of states, in individual liberty and rights, in freedom of religious expression, in law and order. Both sought/seek peaceful relations with foreign countries. Both valued/value deep thought and intelligence. They both had multiple female “attractions” and children from multiple women. Both were/are healthy and were raised in ecumenical Protestant backgrounds. One fleeced the Louisiana Purchase territory from Napoleon while the other is working on acquiring or controlling Greenland and even Canada. Both did not hesitate to use their military to go after criminals and foreign aggressors when needed. The similar comparisons go on and on.

However, the most interesting is who their obvious enemies were/are. That would be the Federalists for TJ, with the Dem controlled Uniparty of today for the Donald. Their enemies used/use identical tactics and strategy. They both expressed/express irrational hatred of the men. They smear, defame and oppose anything either TJ or the Donald wanted/want to do or accomplished/accomplish regardless of how good it was/is for We the People. The Federalists never did like or trust average Americans at all. Their early leader, John Adams, expressed as much well before the revolution, moving his family once to avoid interaction with common folks. They used them as sheeple like the Dems/uniparty do today. Both political groups wanted/want to be treated as the betters in society, above We the People. To achieve their ends they enlisted the fake news media in their attacks just like today. The propaganda, lies and smears were done the same way. They used/use lawfare, activated politicized judges, and played/play dirty politics the same then as they do now.

The results have been the same as well. Both Jefferson and Trump got stronger as they withstood the personal attacks. We the People grew in number and had their backs the entire time. Their popularity grew/grows.

We can only look forward to the same result for the Donald and MAGA as Jefferson had with the D-R’s and populism then. Jefferson turned the American Experience on its head and the movement controlled the nation for two decades after he had passed away. The Federalist Party died with the War of 1812 due primarily to the weight of their relationships with the British enemy, but also due to central government overreach and taxation. The D-R’s began a run of control that was not without bumps and bruises, but pushed America forward. As a party they died later. The politics of the day evolved with the development and needs of the country. The two political parties were replaced by the Democrat Party in the 1830’s that arose from the remnants of the Jeffersonian Republicans as well as the formation of the relatively short lived Whigs in the 1930’s and 1940’s.

That tells us that there is no guarantee that the current Dems or even the GOP will survive the MAGA movement. I am OK with that. It’s the American Way.

Long live Donald J. Trump, but longer live MAGA in the spirit of the great Donald Trump and the great Thomas Jefferson.

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I want to archive these videos from Mike Benz, Promethean Action & the Transition Integrity Project interviews, since it documents the switch from the Fabian model (gradual) to a Color Revolution after the Cabal lost complete control of the USA under D.J. Trump.

Published September 25, 2020 (17 minutes) Have a barf bag ready…

The White House is pushing back against its own FBI director who disputed President Trump’s claims about widespread voter fraud. This as Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transition of power should he lose the election. Fmr. KY Secretary Of State Trey Grayson (R) is a member of the Transition Integrity Project, and he discusses what the Trump administration might pull come November.


Nils Gilman of the Berggruen Institute Discusses the Transition Integrity Project on Al Jazeera
(5 minutes)

Transition Integrity Project – The Thinking Conservative

This is a good compilation of information, including a 33 minute audio interview of Nils Gilman by KGNU’s Liz Lane. It also includes a pointer to the 22 page PDF: Transition Integrity Project Report


The Daily Beast — The Left Secretly Preps for MAGA Violence After Election Day

The progressive coalition Fight Back Table has been meeting to game out what happens if Joe Biden doesn’t win by a landslide. It’s not pretty.

Last week, a coalition of leading progressive groups gathered on Zoom to begin organizing for what they envision as the post-Election Day political apocalypse scenario.

Put together by the Fight Back Table—an initiative launched after the 2016 election to get a constellation of lefty organizations to work more closely together—the meeting dealt with the operational demands expected if the November election ends without a clear outcome or with a Joe Biden win that Donald Trump refuses to recognize. 

Sources familiar with the discussions described them as serious with a modestly panicked undertone. A smaller FBT session last fall had talked about post-election planning, but those discussions were tabled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the first time they were bringing the matter to the 50-plus organizations that make up the coalition. To formalize the effort, they gave it a name: the “Democracy Defense Nerve Center.” 

Over the course of two hours, participants broached the question of what the progressive political ecosystem can functionally do in a series of election scenarios. They began charting out what it would take to stand up a multi-state communications arm to fight disinformation, a training program for nonviolent civil disobedience, and the underpinnings of what one official described as “mass public unrest.” And they pored over a report from the Transition Integrity Project, a bipartisan group formed in 2019, that analyzed various election-season scenarios and made clear the type of ratfuckery, corruption, and chaos that potentially was ahead. 

“The potential for violent conflict is high,” the report noted….

The co-founder of the Transition Integrity Project, Brooks has conducted war games [Washington Post Article] to play out the range of Election Day and post-Election Day scenarios. And virtually all the outcomes, save one—a Biden landslide—have ended up facilitating a nightmarish fallout…

In real life, former (now aggrieved) associates of the president have warned  [The Atlantic] that he will use extraordinary means to hold on to power. And Biden himself has openly worried that Trump might move to contest the election results if they don’t go his way. Beyond that, there has been very little said about what plans the Democratic nominee or his team have in store. Under law, Biden is restricted from coordinating with outside groups like those involved with the Democracy Defense Nerve Center….

The progressive leaders helping spearhead the Democracy Defense Nerve Center harbor no such illusions. Though conversations have just now begun dealing with the operational details of how to navigate life after Election Day, few if any anticipate a scenario in which Trump bends to elite opinion. Instead, the larger game plan is to apply pressure through mass mobilization….

While the sheer number of groups and volunteers involved in the effort has given organizers hope, there is some fear that they may not all be operating from the same playbook. Two sources involved with the FBT discussions said they worry Biden would concede a contested election too early, with an eye toward ensuring a peaceful transition of power. Inside the coalition, there is dispute over whether Biden should even concede if he wins the popular vote but loses the Electoral College, à la Clinton in 2016 and Gore in 2000. 

Under that scenario, Eldridge said, his organization would not support mass mobilization. “I support the national popular vote,” he explained. “Our organization does advocacy for the popular vote… Unfortunately, the Electoral College is the system that we have.”

But the Transition Integrity Project noted that there would be immense pressure on Biden to fight it out if, for the third time in 20 years, the Democratic candidate won the popular vote but didn’t take office. In a simulation they ran, Team Biden “encouraged Western states, particularly California but also Oregon and Washington, and collectively known as ‘Cascadia,’ to secede from the Union” unless structural reforms were made. In exchange for Trump getting the presidency, for instance, Republicans would need to agree to abolish the Electoral College, give Puerto Rico and D.C. statehood, and divide California into five states for better Senate representation….

I included the Daily Beast article to show the type of Fear Mongering that was going on in the progressive sphere. Is there any doubt that some of those spooked by such reports might help set up peaceful MAGA on Jan 6th?

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As I have theorized for years, the Brits never gave up their attempts at taking over the USA. In 1913 they managed a ‘soft coup’ by installing the Federal Reserve Central Bank and passing the 16th Amendment to transfer American wealth to that central bank. Once the central bank was in place they moved to gain control of the media in 1915 (LINK), and shortly thereafter they started their very profitable endless wars.

One core feature of the Cabal is their contempt and hatred of the middle class. A class that challenges their absolute rule of the world.

KARL MARX & COMMUNISM


Notice that the target of Karl Marx is the bourgeoisie–the middle class, and NOT the aristocracy or Ruling Elite.

“The bourgeoisie, 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


A second point that a lot of people miss is that the goals of the Fabian Socialists and the Marxist Communists are the same. Just the methods are different. The Fabians favor a gradual take over, like we have experienced here in the USA, while the Communists favor bloody revolution. Both are inventions of the Brits.


“You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. The October Revolution was not what you call in America the “Russian Revolution.” It was an invasion and conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen suffered horrific crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in the entirety of human history. It cannot be understated. Bolshevism was the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant of this reality is proof that the global media itself is in the hands of the perpetrators.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


Funny how we have the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews pounded into our heads as kids but you very seldom hear about the slaughter of Russians, the worst Democide of the 20th Century. After all sympathy for the Russian people would not fit the Cabal’s twin goals, Communism as the reason for the CIA to over throw governments and Communism taught to US students as the best form of government. (Logic? We don’t need no stinkin’ logic!)

DEMOCIDE: DEATH BY GOVERNMENT

By R.J. Rummel

169,202,000 Murdered: Summary and Conclusions [20th Century Democide]

II 128,168,000 VICTIMS: THE DEKA-MEGAMURDERERS

4. 61,911,000 Murdered: The Soviet Gulag State
5. 35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Ant Hill
6. 20,946,000 Murdered: The Nazi Genocide State
7. 10,214,000 Murdered: The Depraved Nationalist Regime

III 19,178,000 VICTIMS: THE LESSER MEGA-MURDERERS

8. 5,964,000 Murdered: Japan’s Savage Military
9. 2,035,000 Murdered: The Khmer Rouge Hell State
10. 1,883,000 Murdered: Turkey’s Genocidal Purges
11. 1,670,000 Murdered: The Vietnamese War State
12. 1,585,000 Murdered: Poland’s Ethnic Cleansing
13. 1,503,000 Murdered: The Pakistani Cutthroat State
14. 1,072,000 Murdered: Tito’s Slaughterhouse

I wonder what the total is for the CIA’s murder of Americans via the forever wars and drugs?

Click here to see the deadliest wars for Americans

Drug overdoses 1999–2024

The Cabal has had a plan in place for well over a century. A plan to re-establish a feudal society. That is what Agenda 21 is. A modern version of feudalism with the transnational corporations taking the place of the Aristocracy. LINK As an example of implementation: November 29, 2012 The Demise of Christchurch City New Zealand Since then we have seen similar activity here in the USA.

I wrote a lot about this back in 2014 at Tony Heller’s old website because Global Warming was the ‘Fear’ the Cabal was using to push their agenda.

Rothschild/Aristocracy connection to Agenda 21:

World Bank Carbon Finance Report for 2007

The carbon economy is the fastest growing industry globally with US$84 billion of carbon trading conducted in 2007, doubling to $116 billion in 2008, and expected to reach over $200 billion by 2012 and over $2,000 billion by 2020
http://www.carbonplanet.com/navigating_the_carbon_economy (Now dead)

Actual World Bank Carbon Finance Report for 2007

State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2007 — Washington, D.C. – May 2007 

Footnotes:

3. New Carbon Finance, “UK in Pole Position as Carbon Funds Surge – but More Funds required”. Press release 4 April 2007, www.newcarbonfinance.com. 

38. Analysis from new Carbon Finance estimates that in the last six months, nearly US$4.7 billion of new capital had entered the market at the end of March 2007 (Source: New Carbon Finance, “UK in Pole Position as Carbon Funds Surge – but More Funds required”. Press release 4 April 2007, www.newcarbonfinance.com). Most of the newly raised money was of private origin and was targeted to the sell-side (project development and carbon asset creation). The remainder (about 15%) sits on the buy-side for direct purchases by public and private compliance buyers, compliance funds and investor funds targeted at the compliance segment. The same source estimated in addition that even more funds are required to bring to the market enough emission reductions to satisfy the appetite of compliance buyers. 

Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after ‘Danish text’ leak: Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement – Guardian UK

…The draft hands effective control of climate change finance to the World Bank; would abandon the Kyoto protocol – the only legally binding treaty that the world has on emissions reductions; and would make any money to help poor countries adapt to climate change dependent on them taking a range of actions.

The document was described last night by one senior diplomat as “a very dangerous document for developing countries. It is a fundamental reworking of the UN balance of obligations. It is to be superimposed without discussion on the talks”….

If you bother to look you find Shell Oil’s finger prints all over CAGW.
Shell is also very much entangled with the Banksters. The Rothschilds and Rockefellers are major shareholders

Shell Oil wanted to push natural gas. Ged Davis, the Shell Oil VP who wrote the Sustainability Scenarios for the IPCC, shows this in the “Sustainable Development (B1)” part of the February, 1998 Climategate e-mail which asks for comments on the attachment: “Draft Paper for the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios by Ged Davis.

Another Shell Oil exec Doug McKay was at the IPCC scenario meetings. McKay was also Senior Financial Analyst with the World Bank. Robert Watson worked for the World Bank while Chair of the IPCC.

Then you have Shell Oil, BP and a Rockefeller Foundation funding the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia. Marlan Downey, “Former President of the international subsidiary of Shell Oil, founder of Roxanna Oil; former President of Arco International” on the Advisory Board of Richard The Liar* Muller’s consulting firm, Muller & Assoc. (Muller is known for the so-called BEST temperature Data set.)

Who owns Shell?
The Dutch royal family (The House of Orange) is still reportedly the biggest shareholder in Royal Dutch Shell, although the size of its stake has long been a source of debate. Another major stockholder is the Rothschilds. The Rothschild Investment Trust was formed in 1988 and united the Rockefellers and Rothschilds as did the merger of their two banks. The Queen of England was also a major stockholder.


SHELL and WWF:

Prince Bernhard of the Dutch Royal Family, a Nazi, is the Founding President of the World Wildlife Fund. (WWF) HRH The Duke of Edinburgh served as International President of WWF for 16 years until his retirement at the end of 1996. John H. Loudon, Better known as “the Grand Old Man of Shell”, headed Royal Dutch Shell from 1951 to 1965. He was President of WWF from 1976 to 1981.

Ruud Lubbers served three terms as Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1982 and 1994, thus becoming the longest serving Dutch Prime Minister…. He continued in Parliament as Senior Deputy Leader, and later Parliamentary Leader of the Christian Democratic Alliance. He became President of WWF International on 1 January 2000.


Then we look at the Shell Board of Directors. (This is from 2014. There are new members now.)

Peter Voser
Chief Executive Officer
… a member of the Swiss Federal Auditor Oversight Authority from 2006 to December 2010. In 2011…

Josef Ackermann
Non-executive Director
… He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Zurich Insurance Group Limited and of Zurich Insurance Company Limited, positions he has held since March 2012.

…he held a variety of positions in corporate banking, foreign exchange/money markets, treasury and investment banking. In 1990, he was appointed to SKA’s Executive Board, on which he served as President between 1993 and 1996. He joined Deutsche Bank’s Management Board in 1996 with responsibility for the investment banking division and, from 2006 and 2002 respectively until May 2012, he was Chairman of the Management Board and of the Group Executive Committee of Deutsche Bank AG. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG, the Board of Directors of Investor AB and a number of advisory boards. He also has various roles in several foundations and academic institutions….

Charles O. Holliday
Non-executive Director
… He served as Chief Executive Officer of DuPont from 1998 to January 2009, and as Chairman from 1999 to December 2009…. He previously served as Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Chairman of The Business Council, Chairman of Catalyst, Chairman of the Society of Chemical Industry – American Section, and is a founding member of the International Business Council. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank of America Corporation and a Director of Deere & Company.

Gerard Kleisterlee
Non-executive Director
…He is Chairman of Vodafone Group plc, a member of the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG, and a Director of Dell Inc.

Christine Morin-Postel
Non-executive Director
…. she was Chief Executive of Société Générale de Belgique, Executive Vice-President and a member of the Executive Committee of Suez S.A., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Crédisuez S.A. and a Non-executive Director of Pilkington plc, Alcan Inc. and EXOR S.p.A. She is a Non-executive Director of British American Tobacco plc.

Sir Nigel Sheinwald GCMG
Non-executive Director
…He was a senior British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the USA from 2007 to 2012. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1976 and served in Brussels (twice), Washington and Moscow and in a wide range of policy roles in London. He served as British Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the European Union in Brussels from 2000 to 2003. Prior to his appointment as British Ambassador to the USA, he served as Foreign Policy and Defence Adviser to the Prime Minister and Head of the Cabinet Office Defence and Overseas Secretariat. He retired from the Diplomatic Service in March 2012….

Linda G. Stuntz
Non-executive Director
She is a founding partner of the law firm of Stuntz, Davis & Staffier, P.C., based in Washington, D.C. Her law practice includes energy and environmental regulation as well as matters relating to government support of technology development and transfer. From 1989 to 1993, she held senior policy positions at the U.S. Department of Energy, including Deputy Secretary. She played a principal role in the development and enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 1992.

From 1981 to 1987, she was an Associate Minority Counsel and Minority Counsel to the Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. She chaired the Electricity Advisory Committee to the U.S. Department of Energy from 2008 to 2009, and was a member of the Board of Directors of Schlumberger Limited from 1993 to 2010. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Raytheon Company. [Raytheon does mostly government contracts G.C.]

Jeroen van der Veer
Non-executive Director
….He was Vice-Chairman and Senior Independent Director of Unilever (which includes Unilever N.V. and Unilever plc) until May 2011 and is Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. and of ING Group. He also has various roles in several foundations and charities.

Gerrit Zalm
Non-executive Director
…He is Chairman of the Board of Management of ABN AMRO Bank N.V., a position he has held since February 2009. Before joining ABN AMRO, he was the Minister of Finance of the Netherlands from 1994 until 2002, Chairman of the VVD Liberal Party in the Lower House (2002) and Minister of Finance from 2003 until 2007. During 2007 until 2009 he was an adviser to PricewaterhouseCoopers (2007), Chairman of the trustees of the International Accounting Standards Board (2007-2010), an adviser to Permira (private equity fund) (2007-2008) and Chief Financial Officer of DSB Bank (2008). Prior to 1994, he was head of the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, a professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and held various positions at the Ministry of Finance and at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. ….

Rather well connected to governments, NGOs and various banks, were they not? The present lot exhibit more ‘Woke’ credentials.

The Bankers/Cabal have already captured the corporations.

The Network of Global Corporate Control

 …we find that only 737 top holders accumulate 80% of the control over the value of all TNCs [Trans National Corporations] …This means that network control is much more unequally distributed than wealth. In particular, the top ranked actors hold a control ten times bigger than what could be expected based on their wealth…

…In detail, nearly 4/10 of the control over the economic value of TNCs in the world is held, via a complicated web of ownership relations, by a group of 147 TNCs in the core, which has almost full control over itself. The top holders within the core can thus be thought of as an economic “super-entity” in the global network of corporations. A relevant additional fact at this point is that 3/4 of the core are financial intermediaries….


The Leveraged Buyouts/Hostile Takeovers during Reagan’s Admin. dismembered and killed wealthy, no-debt mid-level American corporations and transferred the accumulated wealth to the Banksters/Cabal. Worse, this meant ‘American’ corporations were no longer actually American. Thus this was a very important move by the Cabal.

Under Reagan

…A leveraged buyout (or LBO, or highly-leveraged transaction (HLT), or “bootstrap” transaction) occurs when an investor, typically [a] financial sponsor, acquires a controlling interest in a company’s equity and where a significant percentage of the purchase price is financed through leverage (borrowing).👉The assets of the acquired company are used as collateral for the borrowed capital,👈 [BEFORE it was acquired] sometimes with assets of the acquiring company. Typically, leveraged buyout uses a combination of various debt instruments from bank and debt capital markets…

The leveraged buyout boom of the 1980s was conceived by a number of corporate financiers, most notably Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. and later his protégé Henry Kravis. Working for Bear Stearns at the time, Kohlberg and Kravis, along with Kravis’ cousin George Roberts, began a series of what they described as “bootstrap” investments…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveraged_buyout

What they did was take corporations WHICH HAD NO DEBT, like the one I worked for, 👉 borrowed against the assets — THAT THEY DID NOT OWN!!👈 — and used that money to buy stock in the corporation so they could take control. (I do not know why this was not ILLEGAL!)

…Both economic and regulatory factors combined to spur the explosion in large takeovers and, in turn, large LBOs. The three regulatory factors were the Reagan administration’s relatively laissez-faire policies on antitrust and securities laws, which allowed mergers the government would have challenged in earlier years; the 1982 Supreme Court decision striking down state antitakeover laws (which were resurrected with great effectiveness in the late eighties); and deregulation of many industries, which prompted restructurings and mergers. The main economic factor was the development of the original-issue high-yield debt instrument.

The so-called “junk bond” innovation, pioneered by Michael Milken of Drexel Burnham, provided many hostile bidders and LBO firms with the enormous amounts of capital needed to finance multi-billion-dollar deals…. http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/TakeoversandLeveragedBuyouts.html


This led to a feeding frenzy that was started…

…In January 1982, [by] former US Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and a group of investors[who] acquired Gibson Greetings, a producer of greeting cards, for $80 million, of which only $1 million was rumored to have been contributed by the investors. By mid-1983, just sixteen months after the original deal, Gibson completed a $290 million IPO and Simon made approximately $66 million.The success of the Gibson Greetings investment attracted the attention of the wider media to the nascent boom in leveraged buyouts. Between 1979 and 1989, it was estimated that there were over 2,000 leveraged buyouts valued in excess of $250 billion…..—WIKI

NOTE THIS WAS IN JANUARY 1982. What happen before then???

𝗢𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟯𝟬, 𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟭, 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗝𝗿. 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝗹𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻. 😵

Did that shooting influence the Reagan administration’s failure to prosecute the buyouts under Anti-Trust? The possibility certainly sheds a different light on that shooting…

The 1980’s leveraged buyout feeding frenzy allowed the Transnational Financiers to GUT American industry. But even more important it got a transnational foot into the door of US Politics. I will address that below.

….Of mergers and acquisitions each costing $1 million or more, there were just 10 in 1970; in 1980, there were 94; in 1986, there were 346. A third of such deals in the 1980’s were hostile. The 1980’s also saw a wave of giant leveraged buyouts.

Mergers, acquisitions and L.B.O.’s, which had accounted for less than 5 percent of the profits of Wall Street brokerage houses in 1978, ballooned into an estimated 50 percent of profits by 1988...

THROUGH ALL THIS, THE HISTORIC RELATIONSHIP between product and paper has been turned upside down.

Investment bankers no longer think of themselves as working for the corporations with which they do business. These days, corporations seem to exist for the investment bankers…. In fact, investment banks are replacing the publicly held industrial corporations as the largest and most powerful economic institutions in America.…

THERE ARE SIGNS THAT A VICIOUS spiral has begun, as each corporate player seeks to improve its standard of living at the expense of another’s. Corporate raiders transfer to themselves, and other shareholders, part of the income of employees by forcing the latter to agree to lower wages.

January 29, 1989 New York Times

The 1980’s leveraged buyout feeding frenzy was followed by the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO), on 1 January 1995.  The take-over of US corporations by the transnationals, helped set up the transfer of US manufacturing to third world sweat shops. These transnationals and financiers, (see The Network of Global Corporate Control above) would have zero loyalty to the USA since the actual control of corporations was transferred FROM stockholders/corporate boards TO the financiers/cabal. Thus we see that corporations can now be used as a WEAPON.

Even the IMF agrees:

Convergence, Interdependence, and Divergence Sept 2012


…New convergence and strengthened interdependence coincide with a third trend, relating to income distribution. In many countries the distribution of income has become more unequal, and the top earners’ share of income in particular has risen dramatically. In the United States the share of the top 1 percent has close to tripled over the past three decades, now accounting for about 20 percent of total U.S. income (Alvaredo and others, 2012). At the same time, while the new convergence mentioned above has reduced the distance between advanced and developing economies when they are taken as two aggregates…


Remember those terms Convergence, Interdependence and Divergence.

Convergence of the poor with the middle class ultimately leading to a new serf class.

Interdependence of nations ultimately leading to ‘Global Governance’ aka a world government.

Divergence of the elite from the middle class leading to a new Ruling Class.

Those are the goals, and that reality dovetails with the prophetic book, The Rockefeller File (1976) by Gary Allen

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So why else was gaining control of corporations so very important?

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Jan 2010

Holding: Political spending is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment, and 👉the government may not keep corporations or unions from spending money to support or denounce individual candidates in elections.👈 While corporations or unions may not give money directly to campaigns, they may seek to persuade the voting public through other means, including ads, especially where these ads were not broadcast.

Judgment: 

Reversed, 5-4, in an opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy on January 21, 2010. in a 5-4 decision with an opinion written by Justice Kennedy. Justice Stevens dissented, joined by Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor.

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Building on Buckley v. Valeo, which held that spending money can be critical to exercising the freedom of speech, the majority also ruled that corporations have First Amendment rights and can spend money to exercise them. The Court overruled precedents that restricted political spending by unions and corporations during elections, finding that they were constitutionally permitted to support or oppose candidates, as long as they did not contribute to their campaigns or parties directly. As a result, the section of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act that banned independent expenditures by corporations and unions was unconstitutional. It appeared that the majority used a heightened standard of review, similar to strict scrutiny. Kennedy noted that the government does not have the authority to level the playing field among speakers such that each speaker has equal access to the public. He used a vision of the First Amendment as protecting the marketplace of ideas from intrusion by the legislature, even if that intrusion was based on concerns of fairness. He was not persuaded that corporations would corrupt the marketplace of ideas by flooding it with speech that they supported because of their funding advantages. Kennedy felt that corruption was limited to quid pro quo exchanges and that all citizens should be able to make their own judgments on whether certain information is valuable, without having some information removed from the marketplace of ideas in advance. However, the majority held that provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act that required disclosure of who funded the speech were valid here, although they might not be valid in all instances.

The “I GOTCHA” is PACS

What is a PAC?

A PAC is an entity formed by individuals, organizations, corporations, or unions to raise funds to help influence elections. They impact elections because they can donate to candidates and campaigns (within defined limits) and conduct independent expenditures (without limits) to help support the election or defeat of candidates. 

PACs endorse and financially support specific candidates and causes. Individuals and corporations donate to the PAC, then the committee donates the pooled funds to political campaigns or uses them to create political ads, perform field work, or do other election-related activities. 

PACs can also conduct independent expenditures (sometimes called IEs). The FEC defines an independent expenditure as “an expenditure for a communication, such as an advertisement through a website, digital device, application, advertising platform, newspaper, TV or direct mail” that expressly advocates for the election or defeat of a candidate and “is not made in consultation or cooperation with, or at the request or suggestion of” a candidate, their authorized agents, or a political party or its agents…

The purpose of PAC fundraising must be to impact elections. PACs raise funds to influence elections in a few ways. They can do so by:

  • Donating directly to political campaigns for any local, state, or federal office (*traditional PACs only, Super PACs cannot)
  • Paying for political advertisements on TV, social media, or other communication channels (*as long as these advertisements are not made in cooperation with the candidate or at their request — check with your relevant election authority to ensure compliance with relevant laws)
  • Financing get out the vote (GOTV) initiatives to help turn out voters for important candidates or causes

Essentially, PACs raise funds to attain more political power and use it to influence elections in ways that align with the group’s ideals and goals.

Super PACs • OpenSecrets

Super PACs are a relatively new type of committee that arose following the July 2010 federal court decision in a case known as SpeechNow.org v. Federal Election Commission.

Technically known as independent expenditure-only committees, super PACs may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, associations and individuals, then spend unlimited sums to overtly advocate for or against political candidates. Unlike traditional PACs, super PACs are prohibited from donating money directly to political candidates, and their spending must not be coordinated with that of the candidates they benefit. Super PACs are required to report their donors to the Federal Election Commission on a monthly or semiannual basis — the super PAC’s choice — in off-years, and monthly in the year of an election.

As of March 19, 2025, 2,502 groups organized as super PACs have reported total receipts of $5,096,825,517 and total independent expenditures of $2,688,997,939 in the 2023-2024 cycle...

FEC | Legal | Speechnow.org v. FEC

Summary

On March 26, 2010, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act that limit the contributions that individuals may make to SpeechNow.org, and the contributions that SpeechNow.org may accept from them, violate the First Amendment. Background

SpeechNow is a nonprofit, unincorporated association organized as a section 527 entity under the Internal Revenue Code. The organization was formed by individuals who seek to pool their resources to make independent expenditures expressly advocating the election or defeat of federal candidates. SpeechNow plans to accept contributions only from individuals, not corporations or other sources prohibited under the Act. The individual plaintiffs wish to contribute to SpeechNow, both in federally permissible amounts and in amounts exceeding the federal limits… The plaintiffs contend that the Act unconstitutionally restricts their association guaranteed under the First Amendment. By requiring registration as a political committee and limiting the monetary amount that an individual may contribute to a political committee, SpeechNow and the other plaintiffs assert that the Act unconstitutionally restricts the individuals’ freedom of speech by limiting the amount that an individual can contribute to SpeechNow and thus the amount the organization may spend. SpeechNow also argues that the reporting required of political committees is unconstitutionally burdensome.

The plaintiffs asked the court to find the contribution limits, reporting requirements and political committee registration requirements unconstitutional as applied to their proposed activities. The plaintiffs also requested that the court preliminarily and permanently enjoin the FEC from enforcing these provisions against SpeechNow and the individual plaintiffs….

But it did not stop at individuals. It expanded.

fec.gov Political Action Committees (PACs) | FEC

Super PACs (independent expenditure only political committees) and Hybrid PACs (political committees with non-contribution accounts)

Super PACs (independent expenditure only political committees) are committees that may receive unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, labor unions and other PACs for the purpose of financing independent expenditures and other independent political activity. 

Hybrid PACs (political committees with non-contribution accounts) solicit and accept unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, labor organizations and other political committees to a segregated bank account for the purpose of financing independent expenditures, other ads that refer to a federal candidate, and generic voter drives in federal elections, while maintaining a separate bank account, subject to all the statutory amount limitations and source prohibitions, that is permitted to make contributions to federal candidates…

So the result of all these different moves is that a transnational corporation (or union) can now contribute unlimited funds to influence US elections as long as they have an ‘office or affiliate’ in the USA and thus claim to not be a ‘foreign entity.’ And even with all this maneuvering POTUS Trump STILL WON!

So the cabal had to escalate to a Color Revolution.

2025.08.19 Daily Thread – American Stories: When in the Course of human events – Part 24

In the next two parts we take a walk back in time to the first half of the 1700’s in England and then back across the pond to the colonies. We need to establish the influence one fiery preacher of the Gospels had in both England and the colonies as well as on one B. Franklin, Printer among millions of others who heard the preaching. Yes – millions. Per numerous historical accounts George Whitefield preached to over 10 million people during his years on the planet. It is believed over 2 million people accepted Christ from his efforts during this time with most of that number within America’s population.

This discussion of Whitefield will help us better understand not only B and his personal beliefs, but establish why he and that preacher friend of his was so important to our independence and success as a nation. If you are unaware of the history and the seeds that were planted leading up to the patriot movement’s acts of rebellion, you may not grasp the full importance of what the Declaration of Independence states. Despite the anti-Christian recency bias we find today, America would not be America without Christianity. It is a cornerstone of our foundation as a nation. From the pilgrims forward it has guided our principles and approach to relations domestically as well as with the rest of the world.

George Whitefield was born in 1713 in Gloucester, England. His parents kept an inn there and he was the fifth of seven children. His father died when he was two years old. As he aged he helped his mother with the inn. Also as he grew older he discovered he had a passion for acting. However, the family had no money for him to continue his education. So he became a servitor to be able to attend the University of Oxford. This involved him becoming a servant doing simple basic living chores for staff and students there in exchange for free tuition.

George wanted to do good works and obey God, but had not yet fully understood the salvation offered by acceptance of Christ. That all changed when he read the book, The Life of God in the Soul of Man. Finally realizing he could not earn God’s favor by doing good works, he accepted Christ as his personal savior and was converted. He realized that all mankind has sinned against God’s will for us and that he needed God’s grace in the person of Jesus Christ and His sacrifice. He accepted that this righteousness of Christ was then imputed to all who believed and accepted, thereby creating a new heart and nature that willingly desired to serve God.

We hillbillies call it taking off the old coat and putting on the new. Hi there, Wolf!

After Whitefield’s conversion the Bishop of Gloucester ordained him a Deacon in the Church Of England. He began preaching one week after his ordination. He soon took to preaching the Word of God wherever the people were since the Church of England did not give him a church. He was disappointed, but it did not deter him and as a result he went to the parks and fields to reach the people who did not go to church.

Soon, America and Great Britain would never be the same again. However, there was a friend/foe relationship with another major evangelical contemporary of that period who was educated in the same university in the same general time frame as George.

John Wesley and George Whitefield

Rather than summarize this relationship, I am going to post a link below to a short story about the two. In this part I would prefer to avoid a discussion about the issue that divided them – Calvinism versus Arminianism. The truth is that I personally believe elements of both of these Christian doctrines. At that time it was an extremely divisive issue within the clergy. It drove a wedge in the relationship of Wesley and Whitefield. There are letters to each other available for review online that are heart-wrenching. One I read from Whitefield to Wesley sounds like Paul’s reproach of Peter that we read in his letter in scripture. Just know that the two reconciled late in life, basically agreeing to disagree, as should all of us who allow a dividing doctrine to infest our hearts.

https://myrealchurch.org/disputable-matters-john-wesley-and-george-whitefield

The common theme of the two was that they went to the people in both England and the colonies with the intent to bring the message of salvation in Christ as well as providing for the least of these. Both were active in ministry in England prior to going to the colonies. Both were religious until experiencing a time when they found their personal hearts strangely warmed by Christ, a situation and understanding that many believers would call being born again. Both sought for all the experience of seeking Christian perfection as a life long worthy endeavor.

Being “born again” is a real thing. It happened to me.

The Fields Were Ripe For Harvest

By 1738, Whitefield felt the call to go to Georgia in the colonies to minister to orphans there after an unsuccessful, despondent Wesley returned to England at the same time. George began preaching at Christ Church in Savannah, which had been founded by Wesley previously. The Wesley brothers (John and Charles) were not all that pleased with their own results in that colony as they were met with much resistance. Whitefield felt the opposite. He embraced the people and the mission. His passion for the orphans was legendary. He solicited funds and opened three schools, one of which was for girls. He spent every available moment preaching the Word throughout the region. His bullhorn like voice could be heard a mile away, so he was very effective with outdoor assemblies where thousands would attend each time.

Seven months later he decided to return to England and arrived there months later after a very perilous voyage. Not long after arrival he was ordained a priest in the Church of England. After all he was willing to do and had accomplished he believed churches would be opened for him to preach, but the opposite was true. As a man of the people growing up in a lower status he was not welcomed in the pulpits of establishment churches. He made the best of it, preaching wherever he was welcomed. His presence was greatly appreciated when he preached in coal country where 10,000 people at a time would come to hear him speak. What an amazing sight and sound it would have been there to witness thousands standing to sing hymns and praise the Lord during the times he spoke. It was said that the singing could be heard some two miles away.

His largest successes in reaching the people came when preaching in a large, open tract of land known as the Moorfields. He set no schedule for doing so, but no matter whether he preached in the early morning or at night, thousands would come to listen and participate. One morning 20,000 came and later that evening the same day some 35,000 were there to hear him. Not all appreciated what he had to say. He once said, “I was honored with having stones, dirt, rotten eggs and pieces of dead cats thrown at me.”  😂 During one event, 80,000 people came to hear him preach 1.5 hours.

Yet, he was only 25 years old during those days. Wow.

Unfortunately his popularity with the masses disappointed the establishment and his bishop denounced him by August 1739. So, he headed back to the colonies with donations for his planned orphanages. He arrived in Philadelphia in late October and began preaching there. During the short time he was there he preached to tens of thousands of colonists at at time. It was during one of those times he first met B. Franklin, Printer.

His intent was always to return to Georgia and establish the orphan ministry there, but his next stop was New York where there was a similar response to his preaching. He stayed a short time before preaching his way down the Atlantic coast, traveling by horseback, until he finally arrived in Savannah in January 1740. He then went about building the orphanage. By September he was sailing back north to the New England area to begin preaching there. It was in this period that historians state our country’s first “great awakening” occurred.

The great American evangelist,Jonathon Edwards, had been preparing the area for revival for some time before Whitefield. When George arrived, it all broke loose. He was invited to speak by colonial governors and colleges such as Harvard. The places would become so crowded they had to turn people away. This revival lasted 1.5 years before Whitefield returned to England again. The Christian seeds had been planted that would eventually lead to our founding as a nation.

Whether you the reader personally believe in Christianity or not; this historical truth cannot be altered by those seeking to rewrite history or introduce counter narratives. The changes in mind and hearts of We the People in those days flowed into our founding documents that have governed our nation for 250 years. Within those documents We the People acknowledge God’s providence. The law itself is largely in alignment with Biblical principles. We the People of those days cut a forever deal with the Almighty. As has been proven in our nation’s history, any turning from it by leaders or We the People will result in great angst and even violence as discipline. We just need to stop being the prodigal son as a nation and start doing God’s will. Back to Whitefield…

Upon his arrival in England he learned that his friend John Wesley had turned from the Calvinistic Methodism that both embraced as younger preachers. As a result they went their separate ways. Whitefield’s base of preaching moved back to the Moorfields and a tabernacle was built, however, he traveled throughout Great Britain preaching as requested. While in Wales he met his future wife, Elizabeth, a widow. They married and had one son in 1743, who passed away as a four month old baby.

He made seven trips in total to America before passing away in Massachusetts some two hours after preaching before thousands in 1770. His words and presence always sparked an emotional response from those who heard him. Again, the response would be negative at times. There was one occasion he was beaten badly with a cane by a deranged man and other times when he was stoned both in England and in the colonies. Throughout it all he never lost his fervor for bringing God’s Word.

At this point we will conclude until next time with some of his interactions with B, a key founding father with whom he never lost contact and cared deeply about. It is now time to discuss another signer from Pennsylvania.

James Wilson

With James Wilson we have another brilliant attorney and associate justice to the Supreme Court as a founding father who served nobly only to fall victim to seeking riches in land speculation with excessive debt at the end of his life. It sounds like a familiar story with decisions and a similar fate that awaited another previous discussed founder, James Morris.

James Wilson was born in Fife, Scotland in 1742, the middle child of seven in a hard working farming family of the Presbyterian faith. His father rented the land he farmed. At age 15 he entered, studied and graduated from the University of St. Andrews. He followed that with studies at Edinburgh and Glasgow without graduating. In 1765 he emigrated to the colonies at New York in the middle of the Stamp Act controversy and soon moved to Philadelphia. He brought with him letters of introduction that enabled him to receive a job tutoring and teaching at the College of Philadelphia (Penn). While there he proceeded to study law under highly respected John Dickinson. For his work at the school he received an honorary Masters of Arts and later in life, a LL.D. Two years after arrival in 1767 he earned admission to the bar and established a law practice in Reading, PA, where he became very successful. In 1771 he married Rachel Byrd and they had six children together.

The aftermath of the Stamp Act encouraged him to deeply study the legal relationship between Great Britain and the colonies. Taxation without representation was a deal killer as far as Wilson was concerned, so he published his position on the subject. As he continued to research he concluded there was very little basis for the cause of independence for the colonists, yet, there was a recognition that all colonists were citizens of Great Britain with equal rights as residents. As a result in his view the acts Parliament took that related to the colonies were illegal due to the colonists lack of equal representation in governance in the same manner as citizens located in Great Britain.

This legal approach was utilized when the Declaration of Independence was drafted. It called out the King for misconduct as a result as we can see from the wording in the document. Wilson published this legal interpretation in 1774. What happened next is best described by this quote from the Descendants site;

Wilson’s language adopting the doctrine of popular sovereignty and natural rights foreshadowed the content of the Declaration of Independence two years later, as indicated by an early paragraph:

All men are, by nature, equal and free: no one has a right to any authority over another without his consent: all lawful government is founded on the consent of those who are subject to it: such consent was given with a view to endure and to increase the happiness of the governed, above what they could enjoy in an independent and unconnected state of nature. The consequence is that the happiness of the society is the first law of every government.

Seems we have seen that content phrased into our Declaration of Independence. But who knew James Wilson was the primary source? Not this guy.

Later in 1774, Wilson was made head of the committee of correspondence at Carlisle and was elected to the first Provincial Conference at Philadelphia. In January 1775, he was a member of the Convention of the Province and in May joined the Continental Congress. A year later in June 1776 as the Congress contemplated Richard Henry Lee’s resolution for independence, Wilson sensed the Congressional members were not yet ready for an affirmative vote as the states were split seven for and five against at that point. He voted for a delay with other key members. After more spirited discussions, three weeks later the vote was held. He, John Morton, and our boy B voted for it, which put Pennsylvania in the for independence column by a vote of 3-2.

After approval and signatures, they quickly moved toward the establishment of state constitutions. Wilson found himself on the wrong side of the issues in Pennsylvania, so he was removed from Congress in 1777. In addition to his return to the law practice, from which he assisted many loyalists, he became an advocate general for France for a handful of years. He was also involved in the formation of the Bank of North America with Robert Morris in 1780 that we addressed in that part. This bank formation provided a much needed funding source for our young nation’s treasury.

Wilson returned to Congress when conservatives assumed more power over state affairs in 1782. He served in it until 1787 when it came time for the Constitutional Convention. His wife had passed away the previous year, so all of his efforts went toward the work.

While at the Convention he played a major role as a framer of the document and was considered by many to be the most knowledgeable lawyer in the group. He was a prominent speaker in the assembly. He continued stressing his emphasis on natural rights within the proposed law. With groups opposing each other regarding election of the President by popular vote (Wilson supported) or legislative vote, Wilson proposed the Electoral College that is now used. At first the idea was rejected in favor of a legislative vote, however, those supporters could not agree on the terms. With James Madison and Gouverneur Morris as strong supporters of Wilson’s proposal, a compromise was reached in the committee incorporating an acceptable version of the Electoral College into the Constitution.

After this work Wilson was selected by Washington to be an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court in 1789. He served until his death from a stroke brought on by malaria in 1798. In 1790 he also became the first law professor in the history of the College of Philadelphia/Penn. In 1793 he married Hannah Gray. They had a child together who passed away at age three. Although Wilson claimed to be anti-slavery, he had a slave for most of his adult life. Hannah requested the man’s release and in 1794 he did so.

However, this last decade of Wilson’s life was tumultuous. He fell victim to the same temptation of Robert Morris through excessive land speculation. He owed hundreds of thousands of dollars on land deals, but would not stop buying more until he became insolvent. He was briefly jailed in debtor’s prison in New Jersey before his son paid the related debt off. He spent the last year of his life running away from other creditors and ended up dying in Edenton, NC in poverty. He was initially interred there before his remains were removed and brought back to the Christ Churchyard in Philadelphia where other founders are interred.

James Wilson as a founding father is another man who is not typically discussed. However, he left a long lasting positive imprint on our nation through his law career and particularly with the Constitution. We remain greatly appreciative of his patriotic service to our country.

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Site Security and Strategy Update

You will recall that one of the most important functions of this site is that we be able to tell the White Hats (presuming that such people exist, which seems increasingly likely) what we really think about things. We need to do this in a timely fashion, too.

We are now entering one of the most dangerous phases of the Trump administration, where things get real – and therefore really dangerous. Honest, frank talk is needed. Free speech is needed. We need to be able to say what we really think. ALL OF US.

Trump is entering (openly, since we’ve always been “involved”) as a third party into a conflict where both sides, to some extent, hate free speech, hate certain truths, and rely on censorship as a tool of war.

This AMERICAN site, which treasures free speech and the truth, will not be a casualty of that conflict, nor of the tactics of the two sides.

A significant strategy of those who are either opposed to Trump and MAGA – or for whom Trump and MAGA are secondary considerations and expendable – has been to slowly drive people from the public square – including this very site – using a variety of tools and tactics. Some divisions are normal, but others are not. The recent divisions over Epstein and Gaza are not, in my opinion, organic, despite using important, organic issues.

One way to avoid division is to declare topics “off limits” – including in (most ironically) the “open threads”. That will not happen. Nor will a negotiated “code of silence” which accomplishes the same thing. The detente of non-discussion is not an acceptable term of peace. And yet, the fighting over specific issues is calculated to drive people away, ultimately. If we don’t speak, the enemies of free and true speech win. If we leave, the enemies of free and true speech win.

Therefore, I am going to create some capability for people to screen whose comments they see or don’t see, and what subjects they see or don’t see. In this way, people will not be forced to wade through content that makes their time here feel like a burden.

I think we have enough healthy exposure to opposing viewpoints here already.

I am already determining how exactly I am going to be able to let people control their feed. I will have to use a programming language I hate, and integrate my work with code that is (how do I say this kindly?) “less than optimal”. But it can be done. I have tested the basic concepts, and what I am thinking is possible, actually works.

Sadly, that programming will not be easy. It will take weeks.

Therefore, I am going to stop doing anything but placeholders on Mondays and Thursdays. After next week, you will only see placeholders on those days.

I ask for your patience during this time. Once I have the new code in place, I will let you know. I may or may not deploy interim versions – we’ll see. Please don’t complain if you see non-functional gizmos along the way!

You have my best wishes during this time. Please hang tough. If you can make it a few more weeks, that is all I need.

God bless all of you, you personally, Free Speech, President Trump, and America!

And if we can ask it most humbly and undeservingly, may God choose to bless this site as well.

Best wishes,

W

2025.07.22 Daily Thread – American Stories: When in the Course of human events – Part 21

We continue our review of Pennsylvania’s signers of the Declaration of Independence. First, let’s ask a couple of questions like which would be the better city to be called the “cradle of liberty” – Boston or Philadelphia?

A better question is what the heck happened to Philadelphia over the nearly 250 years since that point? The “city of brotherly love” has been anything but that for a very long time. However, in the development of our nation leading up to and immediately after the Revolutionary War, it really could be considered a cradle of liberty as well as the city of brotherly love. However, that is not the focus of this section.

To lead off today’s part I am giving my top five things I find interesting about Philly in no certain order.

Obviously in a series like this one we go first with Philly’s iconic symbol for freedom – the Liberty Bell.

The following link gives the history,

https://www.ushistory.org/LibertyBell/index.html

Second, there another famous, important center and museum; the National Constitution Center.

The Declaration and Constitution are why we are here in this great country. The center is complete with a theater that shows Freedom Rising, life size statues of its signers, all sorts of multimedia exhibits as well as period artifacts. Cool place. Below is info about the center,

https://constitutioncenter.org

Third we have the home of famous trans swimmer, Lia Thomas. The University of Pennsylvania of Ivy League fame had origins as the College of Philadelphia during the incubation of the Independence movement as we know from past stories about other signers. Its founder and first president was B. Franklin, Printer. B had a new building completed for the Philadelphia Academy, the precursor school that eventually became Penn. He also put it to use for evangelical preacher George Whitefield to conduct revivals, focusing on the young people and students in the area.

Now, it is known internationally for encouraging women sports to be infested with sexual deviants and perverts. In the attempt they had their azzes handed to them by POTUS Trump; one of the school’s most famous alums as a 1968 graduate of their Wharton School with a B. S. in Economics, along with other members of his immediate family. Going woke has consequences. The patriot founding fathers that attended the school are probably trying to dig out of their graves and handle the restoration of Penn the same way they handled the Brits.

Could not resist using the mug shot.

😂

Fourth, we watch the most iconic modern day Philly scene ever!

For what it is worth, the building in the background is the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Below is a good primer if you ever decide to visit.

https://www.thegeographicalcure.com/post/guide-to-the-philadelphia-museum-of-art

Finally, the most important culinary gift Philly has given to America is shown below.

B approves…

Enough with the preliminaries, it is on with the show. We focus on one of the “big dogs” (like B) of the patriot founding fathers.

Robert Morris

We need to spend some time digging into the life of the founding father who is referenced as the “Financier of the American Revolution”, Robert Morris. He is one of the few who signed the Declaration, Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. However, this story will be like a roller coaster ride at times and I am only hitting some of the primary information and events. Readers may want to look at any number of articles on the web that provide more detail as he was involved in so many activities that it would take too long to summarize them all here.

Morris was born in 1734 and raised for his first thirteen years in Liverpool, England. He was the child of Robert Morris, Sr. and mother, Elizabeth. Elizabeth died when he was two years old. He was raised by his maternal grandmother and his father immigrated to America in 1738 to work as a tobacco sales agent. At age fourteen, young Robert left to join his father in America in Oxford, MD. Morris, Sr. became very successful and was the author of a tobacco inspection law to reduce fraud that passed against strong opposition. He was known to be the first to keep his accounts in money as compared to the usual gallons, pounds, etc.

Upon young Morris’ arrival in 1748, he was tutored for a year by local minister, William Gordon. He soon left to live with a friend of his father’s in Philadelphia where he apprenticed in the merchant shipping business of wealthy Charles Willing as a clerk. When his father died in 1750, he was alone with no family in America at the age of sixteen. The death of his father was bizarre as described below from the Descendants site:

“In 1750 Robert Morris, Sr. gave a dinner party on board one of the ships of the company. As he left the ship in a small boat, a farewell salute was fired from the ship and wadding from the shot burst through the side of the boat and severely injured him. As a result of the accident, he died of blood poisoning on July 12, 1750.“

Young Robert continued his work there and was promoted up the ranks until becoming a full partner in 1757 with Charles Willing’s son, Thomas. Through the years Morris became wealthy and one of the most respected citizens in Philly. In 1769 at age 35 he married 20 year old Mary White, the daughter of a wealthy lawyer and land owner. They soon had the first of seven children together, which included future Congressman Thomas Morris. They worshipped at Anglican Christ Church in Philly with Benjamin Franklin. However, that did not prevent Robert from fathering a daughter, Polly, out of wedlock in 1763. However, he provided for her well into adulthood as he did a young son of his father’s, a half brother.

He served with Benjamin Franklin in the Pennsylvania State Assembly in 1775. He was then chosen to be a representative to the Continental Congress and as a member in the Secret Committee, which was assigned to procure weapons and munitions. He also served on the Committee of Secret Correspondence, which attempted to secure alliances with foreign nations. His shipping company was used frequently by the Congress. It is interesting to note that Morris was not in favor of independence until forced to making a decision AFTER its approval to sign the document. He did not vote at all. He feared the result may be anarchy and preferred reconciliation with Great Britain if they would back down from their oppressive tax acts. After Declaration approval he chose to sign and from that point on gave all of his support to the cause for independence.

He left public service in 1779 after accusations of misconduct only to return at the request of Congress to be the nation’s Superintendent of Finance, a role he held from 1781 to 1784. After the non-founded accusations, he had two demands that needed to be met for him to return and take the role. The first was he was to be given unilateral authority to dismiss any treasury employee. The second was he would be able to maintain his merchant relationships while in service to the country. His value was affirmed when Congress agreed to both conditions. In the same time frame he was made Agent of Marine, which gave him control of the Continental Navy.

He then set sights on doing what needed to be done to improve the finances of the developing nation that was hamstrung by debts of war. He informed Washington that he would do all he could to make sure the funding was available. His optimism was met by reluctant state governments. He was able to get all but Rhode Island to agree to taxation. Under the rules of the Articles of Confederation he needed all states to agree to his request, so the effort died.

As a result he focused his efforts on creating a national bank to help address the lack of funds. He was able to get Congress to agree in 1781 and he opened it in 1782. It was a privately owned bank, funded by subscribers, and regulated by investors. It provided a means to use the invested capital to improve access to funding government debt. He sought a national mint for a central currency, but that was postponed by Congress.

It was Robert Morris who recommended to Washington that Alexander Hamilton take the role over the treasury when he was ready to leave. It was Hamilton who went on to establish the national bank and mint that Morris promoted years before. The respect between the two was awesome, but even that was not more than the incredible intelligence and analytical abilities with regards to the Treasury and the situation with the young nation. Below is a letter written from Hamilton to Morris in 1781. It is long, detailed, and covers a myriad of subjects that interrelate with the Treasury role from the period. If you really want to understand the depth of intelligence and commitment within these founding fathers as well as many others, read it.

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-1167

The valediction of the letter describes the mentoring and advising relationship well in my opinion.

“I have spun out this letter to a much greater lenght than I intended. To develope the whole connection of my ideas on the subject and place my plan in the clearest light I have indulged myself in many observations which might have been omitted. I shall not longer intrude upon you[r] patience than to assure you of the sincere sentiments of esteem with which I have the honor to be   Sir   Your most Obedient   and humble servant

Alx Hamilton

April 30th. 81″

In his time Morris totally reorganized the treasury. He appointed tax collectors for each state who would prepare monthly financial reports and publish them in the newspapers for the public to see and keep pressure on the state governments. All of his work also helped build trust with foreign allies and those who provided products and services to the government during the war period.

Despite all of his good works for America, however, he began to make unwise decisions with his personal investment choices. While still in his treasury role in 1782 he began speculating on land purchases with John Nicholson, the comptroller of the state along with James Greenleaf, the former American consul to the Dutch Republic. They purchased millions of acres without any buyers or plans to repay loans. Over the years the debts increased while Morris also chose to build an opulent mansion for he and his family in Philly in the 1790’s. It was never completed and the cost contributed to his insolvency. The locals called it “Morris’s folly” as a representation of his downfall. His businesses and excessive land deals all began failing at the same time. It was like dominoes falling for years.

By 1798 patriot Declaration signer, Robert Morris, was sentenced to debtor’s prison. A fall from grace brought on primarily by pride, greed, and extravagance. Two years later a modified bankruptcy law was passed through the efforts of Thomas Jefferson and supporters. Morris was released and tried to return to business ventures without success as his reputation had been ruined.

In 1806 he passed away, a shell of his former self and in poverty. He is buried in the Christ Church cemetery. His wife lived until 1827 and survived on an annuity that had been provided to her through the efforts of Gouverneur Morris from a land sale.

Conclusion

Robert never went to school and was only tutored for one year, but his devotion to the education of citizens earned him the honor of having three elementary schools, a college, and a university named after him. His statue is located not only in DC at the mall, but near the Second National Bank in Philly. He and Mary’s friendship was so important to George and Martha Washington that they were frequently honored guests of theirs through the years. John Adams had the following to say about Robert’s time in the Continental Congress,

“I think he has a masterly understanding, an open temper, and an honest heart…He has vast designs in the mercantile way. And no doubt pursues mercantile ends, which are always gain, but he is an excellent member of the body.”

Again, the Robert Morris story goes far beyond what is provided here and there are many life lessons for all of us. There was his ownership of slaves for a time that led to his opposition to slavery as he aged; his contribution of ships to the Naval efforts and the named ships in his honor over the years that followed; how his enemies helped cause his debt downfall after he left public office that traced back to his work for the patriot cause in the Secret Committee; and so on.

It is a story of the highest highs and lowest lows. Of being feted by the first couple Washingtons to being drug through the muck by personal enemies and into poverty. He was praised and honored and then later in life labeled a fool by some of the very people who partially owed their independence to his personal efforts. He adhered to Christianity, yet fell to temptation outside the bounds of marriage. When faced with the result he did the honorable thing as well as when he took care of his much younger half brother when his father died. He held great position, status in society for a time, and was very successful in business; but it was not enough as he foolishly sought even more riches using huge sums of debt well beyond his capacity to repay. This caused great hardship and damaged his reputation as well as the futures of his wife and children.

None of the negative events and challenges he faced changes the truth that Robert Morris was a faithful patriot that provided great things to the Independence and establishment of our nation. Today, we proudly celebrate him as a founding father of America.

Please remember Wolf’s rules for our community. In general that means to be respectful to each other and to pull no shenanigans that your mom might find offensive or otherwise cause jail time. That said, free speech is honored here.

Be blessed and go make something good happen!

2025.07.15 Daily Thread – American Stories: When in the Course of human events – Part 20

With this part and the next we will follow our article on Benjamin Franklin and go deeper into the lives of other patriot founding fathers that were from the Keystone State of Pennsylvania. The Keystone name originated from its geographic location in the center of the 13 colonies as well as from its “key” contributions to the economic, political and social fabric of our young nation. Its location touches the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast Appalachia, and Great Lakes regions. As a result it has been multi-cultural and diverse since it was given in a royal land grant to William Penn in 1681.

To say it has been the site of American history in all of its glory, rage and everything in between is an understatement. Pennsylvania has been the seed planter of this great nation in Independence Hall as well as a literal and figurative battlefield from the 1700’s through today, especially with its political theatrics. Yet, when it was first settled it was considered to be a peaceful colony with settlers coexisting well with native American Indian tribes as well people from other nations such as Sweden, Germany (the Pennsylvania Dutch), and others who had major influences on the area.

Just a note at this point; I refuse to use the woke term “indigenous peoples” in reference to our native American Indian fellow citizens. It is historically inaccurate. Treaties, land grants, legal documents, Congressional records, etc. that were executed and referenced with the native American Indians in the development of our nation all state the term “Indian” in it. I have some Appalachian Cherokee blood running through my veins. I am not going to play the word games of the leftists. Right or wrong, God can judge, this world has always worked on the ancient Roman adage of, “To the victor goes the spoils.” The idgits who want to play the victims and reparations games can go pound sand.

It was into this great melting pot of people with patriot and loyalist blood in their veins that liberty was seeded. Pennsylvania’s prominent place in our nation’s history will be forever noted. I will not delve into its history as it would take too long for this series. The links below should help those who desire to know more. First there is a good bullet point style summary,

84 Interesting Facts About Pennsylvania

Next there is a more detailed history from Wiki,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Pennsylvania

Now on to the next Declaration signer from the Keystone State.

George Clymer

George Clymer is a founder that many know very little about, yet, was one of the more important.

Clymer was born in Philly in 1739 and was orphaned at age seven. He was apprenticed to his maternal aunt and uncle. They were childless and agreed to raise, educate, and train young George into their merchant occupations. His uncle was also a friend of Benjamin Franklin. George received no formal education, but loved to read and learn. His grandfather left him some wealth in his will at age eleven. George continued working in the family business and became its accountant. He used his wealth to start his own trading business with his uncle’s blessing in 1759. When his uncle passed away he left the family business to George and with it, more wealth.

He married his wife, Elizabeth Meredith, in 1765. She was the daughter of the second wealthiest merchant in Pennsylvania. The couple went on to have nine children together with five surviving. One adult son later died in the Whiskey Rebellion. They were of the Episcopalian faith, which caused Elizabeth’s disownment by her family as they were Quakers.

George was a strong early backer of the independence movement. He served on Philadelphia’s Committee of Safety and was soon elected to serve its Common Council for six years. He was appointed a justice of the peace and later, an associate justice of the City Court despite not having a law degree. During the 1760’s he became even more involved in the patriot movement by authoring articles and pamphlets, leading a boycott of the Townshend Act, and adding his name to a 400 merchant public signing of the anti-importation stance against the Stamp Act. He was opposed by Quakers and loyalists who preferred a more conciliatory approach to Great Britain. He had great opposition to his adamant support for independence from the majority of citizens in the area, yet, they respected him so much he continue to ascend politically.

In 1773 he visited Boston in search of medical assistance for a chest ailment. While there he met and became good friends with John Quincey, an attorney who along with John Adams successfully defended the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre trials. Quincey was a big backer of Samuel Adams and John Hancock. This only encouraged Clymer more and he became an ardent supporter of the patriots in Boston.

He was very successful in his businesses in the Philly area and being popular was elected as a representative to the Second Continental Congress. After signing the Declaration of Independence he resigned in 1777. He remained there and ran his businesses during the ensuing battles in the area and the move of Congress until they could safely return. He was very generous with his wealth in his support of the military and other needs. At a crucial time during this period with funds low for the military, he and other local business leaders chartered the Pennsylvania Bank to assist in the effort. It served as a model for a national bank envisioned by Alexander Hamilton later. During the period he contributed to the war effort by serving on the Board of War and Treasury Board.

A few years later he was elected to the Philadelphia legislature where he served until he was requested to go to the southern states to increase manpower subscription for military and government service as well as soliciting funding. He returned to take part as a representative to the Constitutional Congress. In so doing he became one of only six who signed both the Declaration and the Constitution.

Clymer was a devoted Federalist and key supporter of Washington and his efforts. Washington called him into service in national financial roles as needed. He was also sent to Georgia to negotiate a treaty with the Creek and the Seminole as he had good relationships with native Indians. This resulted in peaceful relations with America and a move by the tribes away from the Spanish trading influence in Florida. He also did a mission to the Cherokees to improve relations in 1796.

He continued holding political office and running his businesses until his death in 1813. Elizabeth died two years later. They had been married 47 years. As a man of strong opinions he had an admirable way of relating to those with different perspectives that created harmony. As a result, despite his Episcopal faith and Elizabeth being disowned from her Quaker family, he was buried in a Quaker cemetery in Trenton, NJ. However, Elizabeth’s burial site is unknown and she is unlikely to have been buried by her husband.

For someone with zero formal education who had been orphaned as a child, George Clymer became a brilliant businessman, politician, judge, patriot, husband and father. He had one quote that stood out to me as it is applicable for our current times, which means it was applicable during his days over two centuries ago.

“A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it.”

Yup, fake news was influencing even back then. Fortunately, a growing majority of citizens do not fall for their garbage today. However, the sentiment is still applicable in regards to the use of the pillory against them as it might be appropriate as retribution.

Please remember Wolf’s rules for our community. In general that means to be respectful to each other and to pull no shenanigans that your mom might find offensive or otherwise cause jail time. That said, free speech is honored here.

Be blessed and go make something good happen!

2025.06.10 Daily Thread – American Stories: When in the Course of Human Events – The Art Of Deception

My schedule has been hectic, so an on-topic breather is in order. I am going with a subject that relates to the subject period in history as well as today. Since it is in the news at times, let’s discuss the filibuster. What the heck is it and why should we care?

This definition per clown provided Wiki is as good as any…

A filibuster is a political procedure in which one or more members of a legislative body prolong debate on proposed legislation so as to delay or entirely prevent a decision. It is sometimes referred to as “talking a bill to death” or “talking out a bill”, and is characterized as a form of obstruction in a legislature or other decision-making body.

However, its noted origin as a procedure (not the name) appears to trace back to ancient Rome in 60 and 59 BC when Cato the Younger conducted it in opposition to Caesar’s desires in the ancient Roman Empire. The Roman Senate had a rule that all daily work had to be completed by nightfall. Cato was noted for his long winded speeches, so in two instances he got up and spoke until nightfall to foil Caesar’s plans. It worked the first time, but Caesar had a work around ready the second time as he took the measure he wanted passed to the Tribal Assembly and got it done.

There are numerous countries in which this procedure has been done in their legislative assemblies. As an example, the first time it appears to have been done in Great Britain was in Parliament in 1874. It first entered into U. S. Club Senate rules in 1806, but not used until 1837.

https://www.history.com/articles/history-of-the-filibuster

For more on the moves and countermoves on this topic, read the link. For what it is worth, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr play roles.

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-previous-question-the-filibusters-early-murky-history

The filibuster was not used frequently until the 1970’s. In more recent times it has become more of a threatened use, especially since the 2010’s. It has also become watered down as a procedure to the point it is mostly only used to counter new legislation today, which is bad enough when the legislation that could pass would help We the People instead of the Uniparty and globalists.

However, the big thing is that it is not a product of the Constitution. It is in the Club Senate’s “rulebook”.

So, why does it continue to exist? Better yet, why do we need an obstruction to the usual “majority rules” method of determining the fate of legislation? We need to understand the history to know the answers to those questions, well, at least more official answers. TradeBait’s response that follows is probably a bit less tactful. 😂

To cut to the chase It is just another contrived rule that We the People had no voice in determining its existence and use. As posted in previous Dailies they do the same garbage in the judiciary. They build in rules of engagement, practices, procedural hoops, and standing that are not enumerated or codified into law by the legislature. They are inserted at the discretion of the involved parties and frequently used as weapons to achieve goals in conflict with the intent of the Constitution, laws, and will of We the People. They grant permissions to positions and bodies to do so that have never been legally authorized by our system of government. They then hide behind the rules they create.

The Senate politicians sell filibuster presence as a tool to prevent unthrottled and dangerous control by legislators of the “political process” that could abuse citizen voters. They use fear porn induced warnings in serious tones of voice to make their points. Sometimes, I am convinced the real boogeyman or Sasquatch will run out from behind them to threaten us all.

One thing is true, the threat of the use of this tool has kept even a unified House, Senate and POTUS from achieving their fake media described scary agendas despite having received control from the popular vote. How convenient that the GOP or Dems cannot seem to get that important piece of legislation across the finish line that benefits We the People more than the politicians and globalists. With it available the Uniparty continues its reign.

Instead, we get Obamacare and such, right McShame? Oh yeah, you are no longer here to undercut the will of We the People. 👍 But just as a reminder, if Harry Reid followed by Turtle did not permit its nuking in regard to confirmations; PDT would have never received approval for any judges, SCOTUS justices, or cabinet selections. Who knew in advance we would thank two Uniparty henchmen for their efforts to release us from that bondage one day? Of course, doing so was met with wailing and gnashing of teeth by media and the Uniparty faithful. Much fear porn was broadcast and now we know why. SCOTUS leaned back toward the right over time and some honest judges were added to the federal court rosters.

In Club Senate the filibuster is still a game maneuver the majority can also use to not move forward with popular legislation that they would ordinarily have the votes to pass, especially with the Uniparty in control. Instead they can hide behind the perceived threat of a filibuster. Rarely do filibusters actually happen, the vast majority of the time their use is just threatened or “understood” to be possible. All of it is theater to keep the public fooled and sidetracked, just like the non-election elections.

There is no point in addressing cloture to end debate. The majority still needs 60 votes to invoke it to end the show. In the political environment of today, rarely would there be any Dems willing to join with the GOP to do so. That makes it easy for GOP Senators to grandstand and gaslight the public on their “conservative” values and standing “with” POTUS Trump against the big, bad Dems.

Conditions Today

Let’s take a look at what MTG thinks of the Club Senate and the filibuster.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-ally-marjorie-taylor-greene-says-she-wont-run-senate-while-blasting-dems-fellow-republicans

Ouch, that might leave a mark. 😂 My kinda gal.

If you are an optimist you will respond to this situation with a desire to get rid of it so you can get done what needs to be done. If you are a pessimist you want to keep the filibuster as a tool to keep the leftists from ruining the country should they return to power. However, that may turn out to be a less than accurate analysis if indeed, POTUS Trump and patriots are cleaning the election system and taking back control of the federal government swamp.

Do you really believe the Democrat Party has over 70 million real life voters? If you do, you will be more likely to want to retain the filibuster. If you don’t, you will be more likely to want it terminated providing the election system is cleaned up and fair for all voters.

Next, do you believe in DOGE and their efforts or not? I did not say Elon, I said DOGE. Their efforts are helping to clean the system along with ICE and Homeland Security. Add in the Civil Rights division of the DOJ which is now playing hardball as you saw in Part 2. Evidence is being introduced into the courts on hacking election systems, fraudulent ballot harvesting, and fraudulent voter registration activities. Lies are being exposed that claimed no internet connectivity, when in fact the voting machines were connected. More legal actions are underway on clamping down on ID requirements as well as illegals having access to voter registrations.

I don’t believe the Dems have the votes even if it not totally cleaned yet. My gut says they have less than 50 million. They have no message, no inspiring leaders, no bench to sway the majority of the eligible voters. The longer that America First MAGA can dominate the more the judiciary will become Constitutionalist in nature. That realization is contingent on the current administration and leadership knowing that the Democrat Party does not now have or will have anywhere near the votes they manufactured in 2020 with the election steal.

PDT suggested doing away with the filibuster at least a dozen times in his first term. Contrast that viewpoint with that of a Uniparty Senator. From a 9/26/24 USA Today article on the subject comes this quote, “The day Republicans vote to nuke the filibuster is the day I walk out the door,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who noted that the party repeatedly resisted Trump’s calls to end the filibuster for legislation while he was president.

Sounds like a really good reason for it to be nuked to me, Thommy Turd.

That leads this author to suggest that it is time to kill the filibuster dead as a doornail. Just the threat of its use stops good legislation that We the People support. With its termination the remaining RINO’s will have to openly state their positions for or against a measure – no more hiding. We the People can then primary them out and replace with America First.

If we truly want to end the RINO species, we have to eliminate their habitat. Thommy Turd told everybody where he hides. Remove the ability to hide and openly expose them. Playing defense all the time plays into the Uniparty’s hands. If we go on offense on this, they will either fight to survive or run away scared. We the People then know where they stand and what to do.

However, none of that is the primary reason to terminate the use of the filibuster. The primary reason to get rid of it is the same as with the other contrived rules, procedures and practices in every area of government. There is no provision for it in the Constitution. Assuming honest elections, the threat and the use of it circumvents the will of We the People.

Remember what Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and a handful of other revered founding fathers wanted to do to circumvent the will of We the People when the Constitution was constructed? They were fearful of We the People and the popular vote as it had been a major problem to the new nation due to States’ Rights and its inability to pay military pensions. Thanks to Thomas Jefferson and a large majority of founders they did not get what they wanted. The popular vote was supported in the end result. However, that did not stop those at our nation’s founding that did not like that result. Instead, less than 20 years later, the pro-filibuster crowd in Club Senate began making rules that worked around the issue just a Caesar’s opponents did with the ancient Roman Senate.

The specific problems from our founders’ days no longer exist. In my opinion, it is time for We the People to go boldly into the Golden Age and terminate the filibuster.

Or we can continue looking around for the boogeyman and Sasquatch.

Please remember Wolf’s rules for our community. In general that means to be respectful to each other and to pull no shenanigans that your mom might find offensive or otherwise cause jail time. That said, free speech is honored here.

Be blessed and go make something good happen!