Transition into Trump

[edina]

Posted by edina (here)

Posted by turiya (here)

Posted by edina (here)
The most helpful information I came across at that time was Newt Gringrich's talks at the Heritage Foundation, "Understanding Trump and Trumpism."

I haven't read the earlier posts in this thread turiya. Did you share a link to those talks here already?

If not, I'll chase them down and pop them in here.

It was understanding that Trump was pragmatic over political that helped me understand him and his actions much better.

I like Gingrich. He's a good speaker.
But I never paid any more attention to him other than what was found within Fox News interviews.
Eloquent in how he phrases things.
But he's a diehard globalist to the core.
That's what I had written to Trump & his Transition Team at Trump Tower.
That was at the time of Transition, when they were wanting some feedback on who to put in what position.

I remember thinking this about Gingrich, too. Especially back in the 90's.

Then I read his forward in William R Forstchen's book, One Second After. And I realized I needed to revisit my opinion of him.

That said, in that forward he is warning about North Korea, which is interesting in a different way, now, with recent current events.

I believe that Trump trusted Newt enough to send him to Antarctica this last year. And he named Newt's wife as Ambassador to the Vatican, which is something I thought was interesting, too. Newt's wife... instead of Newt???

Also... too funny turiya. You wrote and expressed your opinion to the transition team. Love that!!! LOL

I want to resurrect turiya's thread. We're presently in another transition time with Trump building out his Cabinet and administration. Some of this is getting covered in the aftermath of the election thread, but I would also like to add the focus of some of the policies coming out.

As I've mentioned several times on the forum, back in 2016, I did NOT vote for Trump. I didn't really think much about Trump prior to his election as president in 2016. When he was elected, I figured, well... I probably ought to get know more about him. The Newt Gingrich series linked in my comment above was enlightening for me.

I remember around that time I came across an article by a psychologist claiming Trump to be an authoritarian. I disagree with that assessment. Trump's natural instincts is to ask people around him, working for him, anyone on the street, everyone really, what they think. And he listens to them. And gave genuine consideration to what they said, how they felt, their point of view and their ideas. This, probably more than anything else, is why Trump was elected the first time, and again, this third time.

His did a lot of listening sessions at the beginning of his first term of presidency.

Much to the General's dismay, when Trump went to visit soldiers he asked them what they thought, and again, listened. This could have been easily missed by people because out the gate, the media machine was assassinating Trump's character as a way to try to get him into compliance with their agenda.

Historically, from history's perspective, I think Trump will be known as the "Listening" President. Which is the exact opposite of authoritarian.

I don't see anyone saying this, so I've decided to say it, Trump's leadership style is actually feminine, it's the leaning in style that so many business people talked about years ago that is associated with how women lead.

As an aside, I miss turiya. It would be lovely if he returned to Avalon. I miss his calm, well-reasoned, and balanced voice.

Note Added: Here's the link to the first talk by Newt Gingrich from 20161213, that proceeded this series of talks linked above:
Principles of Trumpism
What is Trumpism? Newt Gingrich Explains | The Heritage Foundation

[edina]

One of the first people that Trump announced was his Chief of Staff, Suzie Wiles.

This was interesting to me, both on the fact that she is the first woman Chief of Staff, but also, because it was the first person he announced for his team. I think there is something very significant about this.

I'm astonished that this fact hasn't gotten much airplay or attention in both MSM and Alt MSM. It's curious to me.

Susie Wiles is the FIRST woman Chief of Staff. If this was for any other administration than Trump's, this would be amplified in media 24/7.

And Susie has been a key team member for Trump for years. She's smart, very smart, extra-ordinarily well respected across the whole political spectrum, and doesn't suffer fools.

I found an article on Susie published by Politico back in April, it's insightful.

How Susie Wiles Became the Most Admired and Feared Political Operative Nobody Has Ever Heard Of, Mark Kruse, POLITICO, 20240426

Of course, Politco, being Politco, tried to psycho-analyze Suzie, throwing some shade at her because she is working with Trump. I found this last bit she said interesting...

“I sort of think, maybe naively, that if everybody knew what I knew — what I know — they wouldn’t feel as some do about Donald Trump. Does that mean I think he’s perfect? There are certainly things I would do and say differently — absolutely,” she told me.

“But people don’t know what I know,” she said.

She's not the first person, or only person, I've heard say this, or something like this.

So, in this Transition into Trump, maybe, ... just maybe, ... people may consider that the caricature portrayal and attempted dehumanizing of Trump by the elitist, globalist, institutionally controlled media may not accurately reflect who the man actually is.

And, let's celebrate Suzie Wiles, The First Woman Chief of Staff. In the book, The Gatekeepers, How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency, 2017, by Chris Whipple, The Chief of Staff job is described as "the toughest job in Washington".

I think Suzie Wiles is in it for the long haul. And I think she will do brilliantly.

[edina]

I discovered Sundance, from The Conservative Treehouse through posts that turiya shared in this thread.

I often check in on Sundance's website because I find him to be a savvy, thoughtful, strategic thinker as well as a gentleman.

While considering the various announcements for members of Trump's administration, I checked in on what Sundance was thinking and came across this particular post he wrote on 20241107:

Trump Transition Team Leaders Indicate Likely Trump Administration Officials

The title seems rather obvious, but there's something that Sundance wrote a bit deeper into the article that I want to highlight. It caught my attention, and has me thinking a bit about it's implications.

Many people still don’t understand the DC silo system. Here’s a little elevator encapsulation clarity:

The leaders of the House and Senate intel committees, together with the leaders of the House and Senate are given the same level of intelligence briefing information as the President in the White House.

Read that again slowly.

The White House, the Senate and the House, are all kept on the same page, the same level of knowledge, by the Intelligence Community.

The WH, Senate and House are all kept in alignment (think control) by the Intelligence Community.

All the DC silos operate from the same information inputs.

See the problem?

Sundance goes on to say this:

The NSA position is critical. The Intelligence Community will lie to President Trump.

The Nat Sec Advisor intercepts the lies, evaluates the issue to find the small granules of truth; then presents truthful options to President Trump. The Nat Sec advisor must know the silo system like the back of his hand. He must know every detail about how it operates, and he must be willing to fight against the AG, DoS, FBI and CIA.

The NatSec Advisor must be strategic, smart and have EXCEPTIONAL judgement. The NatSec Advisor needs as few attack vectors as possible. If the NSA is vulnerable, he’s useless.

At the time he wrote this, and at the time I read this, Trump had not yet announced who the NatSec Advisor was.

We now know he is Mike Waltz.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...71367719279821

Five things to know about Mike Waltz, Trump’s national security adviser pick.

So now, I ask myself, given the observations from Sundance, how does MIke Walz stack up as a NatSec Advisor?

Still mulling this one over.

What do you think?

[edina]

I'm not a member of Truth Social. I'm hardly active on any social media platform.
There's only so much social media a person can juggle, especially if one already has a full plate and lots of goals and projects.
I have only two accounts on Truth Social bookmarked.
Donald Trump, so I can read what he posts first hand.
And EconoChick. I discovered her on Twitter during the Q posts days. She got purged during one of the Twitter purges.

Her header states:

USAF used me by day in military ops and military intelligence; by night pushed me to get PhD in Econ. DIA Rep in NMCC. I’ll go toe2toe w any General, CEO, President. All that background became very useful representing entire Intel Community as a DIA Rep in National Military Command Center - nerve center of Pentagon.

In many ways the character "Joe" played by Zoe Saldaña from Special Ops, Lioness reminds me of her.

She's tough, and like with Stephen on Cockney Translater, I feel she needs a bit of a warning qualifier. Not everyone's cup of tea.

But she knows what she knows and at least for me, is worth giving a listen from time to time.

Right now she is weighing in on the various cabinet admin picks.

I bring her up here, because I want to bring in some of her perspective as I sort out my own thinking.

You don't have to have a Truth Social account to read posts on these two accounts.

[edina]

As I think about Trump's appointments, especially the Intelligence Community (IC) ones, a paper I read a good while back keeps coming to mind. It discusses how the government IC's have grown to the size they are presently.

I imagine many people here in Avalon are familiar with it and probably remember when it first came out.

But for people who don't, here's the link to a pdf of it.

National Security and Double Government, Michael J Glennon, Harvard, 2014, Glennon-Final

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation...ble_Government

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by edina (here)
And EconoChick. I discovered her on Twitter during the Q posts days.

Thanks for the suggestion, edina.

[edina]

ICYMI, oddly enough, I haven't seen this posted in the forum yet?

A two-week ceasefire with official letters from Trump and Aragachi

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2041649076500869158

]https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2041663632342130898

The fact it's not been posted yet is surprising to me. Given that this happened hours ago. Maybe Ernie has a point... :shrug:

(I think this may be the only positive Trump thread in the forum, seemed to be the best place, or maybe more balanced place, to post it.)

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by edina (here)
ICYMI, oddly enough, I haven't seen this posted in the forum yet?

A two-week ceasefire with official letters from Trump and Aragachi

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2041649076500869158

]https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2041663632342130898

The fact it's not been posted yet is surprising to me. Given that this happened hours ago. Maybe Ernie has a point... :shrug:

(I think this may be the only positive Trump thread in the forum, seemed to be the best place, or maybe more balanced place, to post it.)

~~~

Yes, as best I recall it was all (somewhere!) on the very fast-moving Israel vs Palestine/Lebanon/Iran/Yemen/Syria: a New Middle East War thread.

[edina]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by edina (here)
ICYMI, oddly enough, I haven't seen this posted in the forum yet?

A two-week ceasefire with official letters from Trump and Aragachi

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2041649076500869158

]https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2041663632342130898

The fact it's not been posted yet is surprising to me. Given that this happened hours ago. Maybe Ernie has a point... :shrug:

(I think this may be the only positive Trump thread in the forum, seemed to be the best place, or maybe more balanced place, to post it.)

~~~

Yes, as best I recall it was all (somewhere!) on the very fast-moving Israel vs Palestine/Lebanon/Iran/Yemen/Syria: a New Middle East War thread.

I did look first, before I posted here, because I didn't want to post it if it were already posted in another thread. I looked in several threads where I thought it would have shown up, going back several pages in each.
I still think this thread is a good fit for this particular information, without all the noise and punditry.
I think in the future, for people looking back, it will be considered historic. Pivotal.

[Johnnycomelately]

Cool interview of Ivanka. Starts about 2:50 / 1:36:11. In her first minute, she does damage control re her best HS friend’s recent tell-all book claims. That story is linked after this vid.

She a mean girl.


Edit: Disclaimer: am only seven minutes in yet. Plus to add L/duration.

Edit2: Got to fifteen min, such a sweet and strong interview I must take a break. Before I start licking the screen.
Sounds like she is positioning herself for a run at the POTUS 48 job. Or maybe 52. Or have I got those backwards…



Ivanka Trump: My Dad Told Me Two Weeks Before He Ran For President!

The Diary Of A CEO
15.7M subscribers

Apr 9, 2026

Ivanka Trump reveals how she built an $800M empire, why she stepped away when her father became President, and the lessons on trust, negotiation, and thriving under pressure

Ivanka Trump is a world-renowned businesswoman, real estate developer, and entrepreneur who served as Advisor to the President during Trump’s first administration. She was previously Executive Vice President in the Trump Organization, and is the author of 2 New York Times bestsellers, including ‘Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success’.

She explains:
▪️The negotiation tactic used to close billion-dollar deals
▪️Why she permanently stepped back from the Trump campaign
▪️How to build a billion-dollar brand from total scratch
▪️Why most leaders fail to adapt to the upcoming AI revolution
▪️Her mission to develop a pristine Mediterranean island in Albania

00:00 Why Trust Doesn’t Come Easy And What That Reveals
03:32 When You Realize You’re Different What Happens Next
05:44 What Her Mother Was Really Like Behind Closed Doors
11:47 The Key Difference That Shaped Who She Became
15:43 What Donald And Ivana Trump’s Divorce Really Meant For Her
18:27 The Reality Of Being Trump’s Daughter What People Get Wrong
23:36 How Do You Find Yourself Surrounded By Power And Fame
30:57 Why Being Underestimated Became Her Biggest Advantage
32:59 What She Actually Looks For When Hiring And Why It Matters
37:49 Why She Walked Away From Fashion For Government
41:06 What Really Happened When Trump Decided To Run
46:23 Trump Running For President What Changed Everything
48:52 Ads
51:04 Did She Ever Think Her Father Would Actually Do It
54:26 Was Leaving The White House A Relief Or Something Else
58:08 Was Anyone Truly Prepared For Life Inside The White House
59:44 What The Assassination Attempt Changed Forever
1:07:20 What Life Looks Like After Stepping Away From Politics
1:11:04 Ads
1:14:24 How Therapy Changed The Way She Sees Everything
1:20:28 The Loss Of Her Mother And What It Taught Her
1:26:28 The 3 Rules She Believes Define Success And Happiness
1:28:37 What Planet Harvest Is And Why It Could Matter More Than You Think

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7VxeyTfhBM8

***

https://www.thelist.com/310228/every...iend-revealed/

[edina]

Posted by Johnnycomelately (here)
Cool interview of Ivanka. Starts about 2:50 / 1:36:11. In her first minute, she does damage control re her best HS friend’s recent tell-all book claims. That story is linked after this vid.

Thanks, I like Ivanka and have often been impressed with how well she handles herself under pressure. Stephen Bartlett is good interviewer, he excels at bringing the humanity out of people. Wonder what her question will be at the end of the interview?

I'll put this in the queue to watch later on ...

[edina]

I'm copying this here, so it doesn't get lost in the faster flow of the Breaking News thread, where I first wrote this:

Posted by edina (here)

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)

Posted by John Hilton (here)
Glenn Beck: If This Trump Plan is True, It Changes Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cE3eI-_UNk

Interesting perspective, which agrees with what I know.

This is very similar to the perspective I have, but, every time I try to talk about some of these angles of views I most often get criticized, ridiculed, or downright bashed.

The perspective Beck speaks about in this video, be it right or wrong, does not sit well with many on this forum....

I saw something similar posted in another place, yesterday. A summary of Glenn Beck's points

Outlines the 6 steps of what he believes is President Trump’s vision in place for America at this time..!
1. Energy Dominance
2. Ending the post World War ll burden of “Peace through Strength” meaning “We Pay for Everything”
3. Control this Hemisphere
4. Store Our Military
5. Declawing China without getting into a war, tech control, reshoring our factories, control rare earth minerals
6. Dismantling the Globalist Machine

Often when people talk about Trump playing whatever fill-in-the-blank-level D chess, I think of how China's strategy game of choice is GO. It requires a different form of spacial strategic thinking across a wide range of domains, or arenas. If you watch the actions of the current strategy, you can recognize the GO style of thinking.

I even recently heard one pundit actually say, "We have China, surrounded". That's GO, not Chess. I don't think the pundit actually comprehended what he said.

Prior to these recent actions, US and by extension, America, was being subtly surrounded by China, and the same could be said of what some call the Globalists. And if you look behind the curtain of geopolitical theater, there is an uncanny similarity between the Communist way of thinking and how the Globalists are maneuvering.

I sometimes wonder how the strategic thinking of perhaps off-world, or interdimensional, beings would present itself. Time, as we understand it, probably doesn't come into play. The long-game, as humans may think of it, may be simply a readily understood short-term pattern, to such beings.

How would humans counterbalance thinking that they may not even recognize and would be utterly outside the box on how the average human mind works?

Chaos and strategic distraction is how one can strategically get inside another person's OODA Loop. Getting inside a person's OODA Loop throws them off-balance, which gives a huge strategic advantage to the person whose dancing all over other people's OODA loops.

Also, people seem to forget that there are massive teams of highly intelligent strategic thinkers that sit behind and inform the Trump strategy. Decades of scenario planning on strategies that most people haven't even imagined yet, must less given deep thought.

I've queued up to read the recent National Security Strategy, the National Defense Strategy, and The Strategy of Denial, by Elbridge (Bridge) Colby, which from preliminary previewing reminds me of 'GO' strategic thinking. Evidently, Bridge Colby has deeply influenced the direction of the National Security Strategy. And Glenn Beck's observations list above align with all three.

[edina]

Posted by edina (here)

Posted by Johnnycomelately (here)
Cool interview of Ivanka. Starts about 2:50 / 1:36:11. In her first minute, she does damage control re her best HS friend’s recent tell-all book claims. That story is linked after this vid.

Thanks, I like Ivanka and have often been impressed with how well she handles herself under pressure. Stephen Bartlett is good interviewer, he excels at bringing the humanity out of people. Wonder what her question will be at the end of the interview?

I'll put this in the queue to watch later on ...

I wanted to let you know I got a chance to watch this and enjoyed it. Her story about the eagle and the crow reminds me of what my Mom taught me when I was young... well two things,

1. When you find yourself in a lower dimension, say when naturally astral travelling or whatever, and those weird creepy things are coming at you, remember to just rise, they can't go as high as you can.

2. And, as the energy increases and chaos increases, it muddies the waters, remain calm and centered, this allows the muck in the water to settle and allow you to see with clarity.

I didn't know about Ivanka's grandmother, hearing about that whole relationship is heart-warming. And, there's a deep wisdom that runs in Ivanka's river. Her take on signal to noise is something anyone can learn from.

I don't think she's even remotely interested in running for President. She's all for making meaningful impact, but, probably not through politics.

Even so, I think she would make a great Secretary of State.

[ThePythonicCow]

"Rich Does Politics" has another insightful interview, this time with Barbara Boyd of Promethean Action, and Vivify Mariposa.

They have some fine insights into how Trump has been leveraging Bibi Netanyahu. Trump worked with a wide variety of nationalities and personalities in New York City ... he knows people and he knows how to gain the leverage that will be useful when crunch time comes. Trump is now dismantling a key Gordian knot at the center of the British Empire's military/financial/energy global structure that they finished putting in place following World War II, leveraging their control of the U.S. banking system, and the reliable antagonist Israel of all things Arabic/Muslim/Iranian in the petroleum rich middle east they conceived with the Balfour Declaration decades earlier.

Barbara Boyd and Vivify Mariposa understand Trump's skills and talents dealing with the powerful, dangerous people who control various parts of this version of The Empire, and is doing an excellent job of dismantling that version.

(Unfortunately, as I've noticed in other posts over the last day, the question "Will the Empire be reborn again, and if so, how will its next version be structured?" can be answered in two words: "Yes - Technocracy." We go from the threat of Debt-Slavery, to the threat of Living in the Matrix.")

But looking on the bright side of that coin ... have a listen to Barbara Boyd and Vivify Mariposa inform us how Trump is untying the Gordian knot of the Empire in its current form:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aJwLBU_b_MY

[sdv]

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
"Rich Does Politics" has another insightful interview, this time with Barbara Boyd of Promethean Action, and Vivify Mariposa.

They have some fine insights into how Trump has been leveraging Bibi Netanyahu. Trump worked with a wide variety of nationalities and personalities in New York City ... he knows people and he knows how to gain the leverage that will be useful when crunch time comes. Trump is now dismantling a key Gordian knot at the center of the British Empire's military/financial/energy global structure that they finished putting in place following World War II, leveraging their control of the U.S. banking system, and the reliable antagonist Israel of all things Arabic/Muslim/Iranian in the petroleum rich middle east they conceived with the Balfour Declaration decades earlier.

Barbara Boyd and Vivify Mariposa understand Trump's skills and talents dealing with the powerful, dangerous people who control various parts of this version of The Empire, and is doing an excellent job of dismantling that version.

(Unfortunately, as I've noticed in other posts over the last day, the question "Will the Empire be reborn again, and if so, how will its next version be structured?" can be answered in two words: "Yes - Technocracy." We go from the threat of Debt-Slavery, to the threat of Living in the Matrix.")

But looking on the bright side of that coin ... have a listen to Barbara Boyd and Vivify Mariposa inform us how Trump is untying the Gordian knot of the Empire in its current form:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aJwLBU_b_MY

It seems to me that the US is not against globalization, but against not being the only global power, i.e. making the whole world adopt American culture and rules and financial system. Perhaps that is why Trump is spending on war, to force allegiance to the US from everyone. Yes, the remnants of British empire must be defeated, as must the globalist financial centre in London. Empires have always been globalists. The US empire is globalist in the most negative interpretation of that term. Trump is not the hero of anything but is being used because his pathlogy makes him go much further than any other president has, openly and brazenly. But the globalists in America maintain connections across the world, and they do not care about the actual people in America, just about accumulating all power and wealth for themselves, with some trickle down for henchmen and breadcrumbs for the masses.

Trump is serving the global agenda, but he is being manipulated, through his sick and damaged ego, to serve this agenda. Destroying others in depraved bullying and violence does not make a globalist secure, which is why I see him as a henchman for the globalists rather than the architect of an anti-globalist agenda. China builds strength at home through peaceful co-operation. Trump is being manipulated to dominate the world through violence and bullying and theft and complete disregard for others, while Americans at home suffer.

Trump is not here to save the world from the globalists. He is being used as the thug for the American empire, which does have a mafia-style globalist agenda for the world. (China does not force its culture on others; the US does ..., so the American globalists are actualy far worse than the mafia, but they do not want to get their hands dirty so they use Trump.)

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by sdv (here)
Trump is not here to save the world from the globalists. He is being used as the thug for the American empire, which does have a mafia-style globalist agenda for the world. (China does not force its culture on others; the US does ..., so the American globalists are actualy far worse than the mafia, but they do not want to get their hands dirty so they use Trump.)

You state your view well, and much is happening that can be understood as aligning with your view, thus providing evidence that you're more or less right.

I am confident I will not change your view here. Most likely the future will unfold in ways that lead both of us to continue to adapt our understanding, as it no doubt already has thus far.

I will try to summarize my differing view ... perhaps a few readers will notice something of interest to them in this. My view shifted over the last week, so I am not yet well practiced in explaining it, even to myself. Oh well. Take of this what you will.

I would separate a higher layer in the power structure of our civilization on this planet - a higher layer that seeks global control, but varies and adapts how it goes about getting this power, over the centuries.

• Looking just at the last couple of centuries, the British Navy ruled the seas and many ports, controlling large swaths of world-wide commerce, in the 1800's.
• Then in the 1900's, the City of London banking, financial, and insurance system, including its mostly owned subsidiaries, the Federal Reserve and major banks on or near Wall Street, New York City, along with its diplomats, financial institutions, and its mostly controlled subsidiaries in British and American military and intelligence agencies controlled much of world-wide money, publicly visible information and education, energy, and illegal (meaning only the top dog is allowed to covertly monopolize it) drug, weapons of mass destruction, and human trafficking.
• In the most recent phase of this 1900's arrangement, beginning in 1970 with the collapse of the gold backed variant of the US Dollar, when British asset Kissinger got US President Nixon to start "opening up China", this British Empire centric (for several centuries now) world control structure set about to move much of its US embedded agency to China. Also the US Dollar became wholly US Federal Government debt backed, and OPEC oil became a critical component of the energy <=> money loop.
• Now, beginning most obviously in the 2008 financial crisis, this US Debt backed global monetary system is collapsing, as all debt-money systems do. The debt increases, to maintain and extend power, until the fairly valued debt payments become obviously unsustainable and the system becomes bankrupt.
• Enter a major shift, away from the British Empire, and its powerful child the American Empire, still largely influenced by the British and Western Europe most powerful families. These same families had intended to once again shift to another "one nation to rule them all" model, now centered in China.
• But another faction, that has been brewing over at least the last century and growing power rapidly since 1970, has a different plan. The technocrats, such as the "Paypal Mafia", Peter Thiel, Vice President JD Vance, and Palantir, many of whom own now, or once owned in the past, residences in Silicon Valley or (less so) Boston and Seattle, have been rapidly gaining power. Their primary leverage is the storage, transmission, analysis, presentation to humans, and extraction of information from humans, of information. They have fueled massive leaps in computing power, a world-wide network, world-wide mobile phone and embedded computer deployments, huge data centers, and now AI to analyze that data and engage humans directly to obtain and dispense information. They have already obtained deep pools of data on businesses, governments, and individuals around the world, and the data processing power to deeply and intelligently mine that data.
• The technocrats appear to be going for a multilateral national structure. Rather than a "one nation to rule them all" model, the technocrats would leverage their massive world-wide information structure to manage a complex world-wide supply and deployment network. Each major nation will become a critical cog in this world-wide network, both critical to the networks function and critically dependent on the network for its survival. Only the technocrats world wide information network will be capable of managing such complex, dynamic complexity.

Both those pushing for the next version of the "One nation to rule them all" model (the model that you, sdv, applied above in your analysis) and those pushing for the "one technology to rule them all" model (the model I've started applying over this last week), need to demolish the key power centers of the 1970-2008 US debt money, British/US military intelligence complex, model.

That we see escalating war in the Middle East does not, in and of itself, tell us which of these two models will gain the most leverage and the upper hand, from these wars. Both princes seek to sit in the dying king's throne.

Either way, those of us lucky enough to have chosen to live at this time a safe distance from such power centers of the last half century can thank our lucky stars.

My new perspective suggests that I need to stop confusing

1. those currently holding the global power ring, from
2. those who control who gets to hold that ring.

The Bloody Brits and Damn Yanks might lay claim to having held the ring in recent centuries, but, from my new perspective, someone above their pay grade has empowered the Technocrats to build a Technology Matrix to replace the Dominant Nation model, thus to retain control over our civilization.

[onawah]

Victor Davis Hanson: "Trump is a Genius That Few Can Understand..."
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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ahKUjAXIkzk

Victor Davis Hanson: How Trump Can Win the War and the Midterms
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"Military historian Victor Davis Hanson joins Miranda Devine to explain how Donald Trump can win in Iran -- and survive the midterms. He warns Democrats will move to impeach if they take the House. Plus why Joe Biden's presidency was the worst in modern history."

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:26 VDH Health Update
4:19 Trump & the Iran War
10:06 The Strait of Hormuz Blockade Option
12:17 The Left Has No Coherent Message
15:13 Trump's Truth Social Post
21:43 Tucker Carlson & Israel
29:38 Historical Parallels
34:29 Could America Walk Away?
37:50 Was Biden the Worst President?
43:28 What's Special About Trump
55:08 How Trump Deals with Foreign Leaders
57:38 What is "The Counter Revolution"?
1:02:58 Why VDH Stuck to His Roots

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mvdBG6htduU

[TODD & NORA]

Posted by TODD & NORA (here)
The same could be said about Obama...he wound up in the Oval Office not once but TWICE.

It's not our call...just casual observers of the latest and greatest train wreck here in D.C.

Funny (not really...) how Trump pulled the same stunt. Based on his current trajectory, he won't last thru the end of the year before he is taken out. This will likely trigger an escalation of the war between Russia and NATO if it happens.

[sdv]

Both those pushing for the next version of the "One nation to rule them all" model (the model that you, sdv, applied above in your analysis) and those pushing for the "one technology to rule them all" model (the model I've started applying over this last week), need to demolish the key power centers of the 1970-2008 US debt money, British/US military intelligence complex, model.

My visceral reaction is that both models sound awful to me. The first is anti diversity; the second is anti human.

I believe Trump is what he sold himself as: MAGA (as a global hegemonic power). He is also a grandiose narcissist who has transitioned into full-blown malignancy, which is a huge weakness. He has become increasingly violent and chaotic and that is hurting people. He is not a globalist but he 'plays' with the globalists to use them. I think the globalists are using Trump to achieve their aims because he is so chaotic and his narcissism has turned into toxic malignancy, so he will do the destroying and building for them and I think they think they can manipulate him and keep him under control. I don't think they can, which is why I predict that Trump will be out of the White House by the end of the year. (Lots of mea culpa from me if he not only survives his entire term but finds a way to stay in control for a third term, God help us!) Trump is not saving us from the globalists ... he is feeding his ego, and the US is his kingdom so it has to be the greatest and biggest of everything. (His grab for control of the majority of energy resources seem to be working. My country buys its oil from Oman. This week there was a US oil tanker in the harbour making a delivery ...)

What the globalists want is anti human. What Trump is doing in Iran is anti human. So I see them both as the enemy of humankind.

PS When we defeat the globalists and throw the baby out with the bathwater, there are perhaps some fun toys we can keep? Deep fake videos are manipulative brainwashing, but there are so many creative people having fun with the same tools!

[norman]

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)

Posted by sdv (here)
Trump is not here to save the world from the globalists. He is being used as the thug for the American empire, which does have a mafia-style globalist agenda for the world. (China does not force its culture on others; the US does ..., so the American globalists are actualy far worse than the mafia, but they do not want to get their hands dirty so they use Trump.)

You state your view well, and much is happening that can be understood as aligning with your view, thus providing evidence that you're more or less right.

I am confident I will not change your view here. Most likely the future will unfold in ways that lead both of us to continue to adapt our understanding, as it no doubt already has thus far.

I will try to summarize my differing view ... perhaps a few readers will notice something of interest to them in this. My view shifted over the last week, so I am not yet well practiced in explaining it, even to myself. Oh well. Take of this what you will.

I would separate a higher layer in the power structure of our civilization on this planet - a higher layer that seeks global control, but varies and adapts how it goes about getting this power, over the centuries.

• Looking just at the last couple of centuries, the British Navy ruled the seas and many ports, controlling large swaths of world-wide commerce, in the 1800's.
• Then in the 1900's, the City of London banking, financial, and insurance system, including its mostly owned subsidiaries, the Federal Reserve and major banks on or near Wall Street, New York City, along with its diplomats, financial institutions, and its mostly controlled subsidiaries in British and American military and intelligence agencies controlled much of world-wide money, publicly visible information and education, energy, and illegal (meaning only the top dog is allowed to covertly monopolize it) drug, weapons of mass destruction, and human trafficking.
• In the most recent phase of this 1900's arrangement, beginning in 1970 with the collapse of the gold backed variant of the US Dollar, when British asset Kissinger got US President Nixon to start "opening up China", this British Empire centric (for several centuries now) world control structure set about to move much of its US embedded agency to China. Also the US Dollar became wholly US Federal Government debt backed, and OPEC oil became a critical component of the energy <=> money loop.
• Now, beginning most obviously in the 2008 financial crisis, this US Debt backed global monetary system is collapsing, as all debt-money systems do. The debt increases, to maintain and extend power, until the fairly valued debt payments become obviously unsustainable and the system becomes bankrupt.
• Enter a major shift, away from the British Empire, and its powerful child the American Empire, still largely influenced by the British and Western Europe most powerful families. These same families had intended to once again shift to another "one nation to rule them all" model, now centered in China.
• But another faction, that has been brewing over at least the last century and growing power rapidly since 1970, has a different plan. The technocrats, such as the "Paypal Mafia", Peter Thiel, Vice President JD Vance, and Palantir, many of whom own now, or once owned in the past, residences in Silicon Valley or (less so) Boston and Seattle, have been rapidly gaining power. Their primary leverage is the storage, transmission, analysis, presentation to humans, and extraction of information from humans, of information. They have fueled massive leaps in computing power, a world-wide network, world-wide mobile phone and embedded computer deployments, huge data centers, and now AI to analyze that data and engage humans directly to obtain and dispense information. They have already obtained deep pools of data on businesses, governments, and individuals around the world, and the data processing power to deeply and intelligently mine that data.
• The technocrats appear to be going for a multilateral national structure. Rather than a "one nation to rule them all" model, the technocrats would leverage their massive world-wide information structure to manage a complex world-wide supply and deployment network. Each major nation will become a critical cog in this world-wide network, both critical to the networks function and critically dependent on the network for its survival. Only the technocrats world wide information network will be capable of managing such complex, dynamic complexity.

Both those pushing for the next version of the "One nation to rule them all" model (the model that you, sdv, applied above in your analysis) and those pushing for the "one technology to rule them all" model (the model I've started applying over this last week), need to demolish the key power centers of the 1970-2008 US debt money, British/US military intelligence complex, model.

That we see escalating war in the Middle East does not, in and of itself, tell us which of these two models will gain the most leverage and the upper hand, from these wars. Both princes seek to sit in the dying king's throne.

Either way, those of us lucky enough to have chosen to live at this time a safe distance from such power centers of the last half century can thank our lucky stars.

My new perspective suggests that I need to stop confusing

1. those currently holding the global power ring, from
2. those who control who gets to hold that ring.

The Bloody Brits and Damn Yanks might lay claim to having held the ring in recent centuries, but, from my new perspective, someone above their pay grade has empowered the Technocrats to build a Technology Matrix to replace the Dominant Nation model, thus to retain control over our civilization.

I was beginning to think your faith light was coming on and slowly brightening.

But I suppose I shouldn't expect anything more linear from you or anyone else than my own experience is wobbly in the turbulence it's immersed in.

Those damn intellectual points and summaries that keep on tugging at our heads like small children tugging at Momma in the sweet shop. . . . . .

I think you are pretty well right though, within the bounds of 'do nothing-get what they give you' world energetics.

Us deplorables had better pull our fingers out then. It's all up to us and the strength of our faith to change the environment those power grabbers are operating in so much that non of them get what their egos and intellects are going for. They, for a change, will get what they are given.

It's really not all that hard to do, but it's hard to inform enough people how easy it is.

This has always been a mind war.