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The FBI’s Attack on the Capitol

Thursday, June 17th, 2021

Fake Insurrections Need Fake Insurrectionists

On January the 6th, 2021, I published a post on the events in the Capitol. In my opinion, there was all the evidence in the world that the events of the day were being stage-managed by somebody as the means by which to set up MAGA/Conservatives.  To the extent that was the case, we now may conclude that among the people/institutions stage-managing the attack were the FBI.  The FBI had many confidential informants and probably agents who to varying degrees participated in the event, and may have helped to organize it.  Indeed, it’s increasingly clear that many of the so-called “insurrectionists” who fomented and incited the worst of the behavior at or in the Capitol were role-players.  All of this is being revealed by work being done by Darren Beattie at Revolver.News and reported on Tucker Carlson earlier this week. Here’s a clip from Carlson’s show:

The FBI was likely in on it. The FBI has been involved in other things too. We now know the FBI was in on the attack in Dallas in 2015.  As time goes on, we’re finding that this is the M.O. of the FBI more broadly.  Yesterday, Sundance over at TheConservativeTreehouse, rightly let loose with a criticism of the desire some have expressed for a “commission” to investigate all of this. The post is correct: We have lost our minds if we expect these people to police themselves.  A commission won’t do it. When has a commission ever revealed anything useful?  The Warren Commission?  The 9/11 Commission?  Even the Base Realignment and Closure Commission was intended to give politicians a measure of political cover.  The worst part in this case is, as Sundance points out:

“The Legislative Branch of the federal government is part of the Intelligence Community corruption.  The oversight “gang of eight” (pictured above), are enablers and participants in the corrupt endeavors that Carlson wants them to investigate.”

“The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) led by Chairman Adam Schiff, and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) led by Chairman Mark Warner, are part of the institutional corruption.  This is the problem, the core issue in the background, that too few people are recognizing as they begin to see the corruption within the intelligence community.  The legislative branch and the executive branch are working together; there is NO functioning oversight.”

This is the correct understanding of the problem we face. There is no chance to reform any of this with the current crowd in power, or, I would argue, even with the current “opposition.” Most of these people, if not all of them, are in on the plot.  This gets to the real nub of the issue.  If you wonder why they hated Trump so much, and why at any cost, he needed to go, it’s this: He wasn’t on the team.  He wasn’t on the payroll of the DeepState.  He’s not a member of the UniParty. Virtually everything elected Republicans have done since he won the nomination in 2016 had been designed to undermine him and sabotage him.  Everything the Democrats and the media have done since has been calculated likewise to destroy him. The response to COVID-19? That too was part of the playbook.

If you get to the bottom of January 6th, you get to a set of people.  If you get to the bottom of the ElectionCoup of 2020, you get to the same core set of people.  If you get to the bottom of COVID-19/SARS-CoV2, you get to the same core of people. ObamaGate/SpyGate? Same people. ImpeachmentHoax? Same people. No matter how far down into the manure-pile you dig, you always get to the same core of people.  This isn’t coincidental.

We’re under attack by deeply anti-American elements operating inside the American government with the full knowledge/cooperation of people at the tops of all branches of government.  Sundance rightly pointed out the legislative and executive branches, but it’s pretty clear to me given all we’ve seen with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the behaviors of Chief Justice John Roberts in mal-administering the FISC that the judiciary is also mostly compromised.  They don’t care about your civil liberties, any notion of constitutional legitimacy, or any mechanism of the law in general except when they can exploit it to their virulently despicable purposes.  To make all of it more clear to you, so that you might finally understand what they’re willing to do, consider the reporting of WesternJournal.com in which they explain that the Biden Administration is now urging Americans to report on supposedly “radicalized” friends and family.

The Patriot Act and FISA are being used primarily against the American people.  Just as civil libertarians warned at the time of their original enactments and subsequent reauthorizations, these have become the weapon of the vast machinery of state against the American people.

This is not a game, and there’s no avoiding it. The time for choosing is coming. For all of us.

The State Funeral Rush Limbaugh Deserves

Thursday, February 18th, 2021

A Man, a Legend, a Way of Life

I was a young veteran with a family. Times were tough in the economy, and troops were deployed and deploying to the vast desert of the Arabian peninsula. I was working a temporary contract job on Fort Hood, Texas, in support of the troops training to augment that deployment. Saddam Hussein had been delivered an ultimatum: Withdraw from Kuwait or be expelled forcibly. Everybody was monitoring the news, and in the field supporting the troops with spare gear and equipment in a rented truck, I tuned that truck’s radio(that had only the AM band) to find the latest information. There was this guy on the radio playing parody songs and talking politics, and one of those songs was a take on “Barbara Ann” the lyrics having been re-written into Bomb Iraq. It was entertaining and informative, and I’d never heard anything like it. Rush Limbaugh was leading the nation to support our troops, to buoy morale of the American people, and Democrats were busy telling America that the war, if it came, would result in the slaughter of tens or hundreds of thousands of American soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines.

The Democrats saw this as a revival of the discord of Vietnam. Rush Limbaugh saw it differently: He believed American might would steamroll Hussein and his forces. The media was, as ever, taking(or advancing) the Democrats’ narrative. The war began, and for a month, the reports of airstrikes rolled on, the reports of Iraqi fighter jets fleeing to Iran mounted, and when the ground war commenced, it was over almost before one could catch up with the news. It was a stunning victory, and in those days I learned something that was contrary to what the media propaganda had told me: America was great, and this guy on the radio, Rush Limbaugh, had been exactly right. For this alone, for his boundless confidence in the American servicemembers, Rush Limbaugh deserved a great honor. In all the years since, in his tireless support of America, he not only earned our respect, but has earned an honor the official government will never bestow. Rush Limbaugh deserves a state funeral on par with an American President, because in so many ways, and for so many people, in all the days spanning the period from the end of the Reagan Presidency to the inauguration of Donald Trump, Limbaugh had been conservative America’s presidency-in-exile, giving voice to a vast swath of America that was in a constant state of siege and disparagement by the Washington DC elite.

I had been raised in a union Democrat home, but through my years in the Army, I had begun to question the orthodoxy. Rush used humor as a means to entertain the audience while delivering serious information. As Rush would say in various forms over the years, the critical heart of humor is truth: There must be universal truth in a thing for it to be funny to the audience, or they won’t “get it.” In those days, Rush had various impromptu “updates” of various sorts and topics, with various songs and parodies as the introductory themes. This was delicious humor, and to listen to somebody on the radio skewering the sacred cows of the leftist mob was particularly entertaining. As a young guy at the time, it was all quite appealing to me. Rush was ever the defender of America, and when Japanese Parliament Speaker Yoshio Sakurauchi in January 1992 called America’s workers “lazy,” Rush had a single-sentence answer, posed as a question:

“We build a damn fine bomb, don’t we?”

The left shrieked. The political class in Washington DC gnashed its collective teeth. How dare Limbaugh say such a thing? Rush had intimated that the atomic bombs dropped on Japan were the hallmark of American creativity and productiveness, but more broadly, that the “lazy” American worker Yoshio Sakurauchi had criticized had kicked Japan’s Imperial ass all over the Pacific after the cowardly sneak attack at Pearl Harbor. Rush was right again, and he defended America’s history and unique culture as the greatest in human history. Rush believed in American exceptionalism, and he was its unabashed advocate for all the years he was on the radio. This should have earned Rush a state funeral, because more than any other American, he believed in America and sung her praises, recognizing her warts, but knowing that America is great because at its heart, “the people who make the country work” are the salt of the Earth, and the people who go about making it great by the aggregation of their tens of millions of individual efforts.

In truth, we could go through most of the events of the last thirty years and show how Rush Limbaugh had been the voice of a nation, who offered a counter-argument to the mainstream media, and had served as a proxy for the President we would have elected had we been a more sane, rational country. The problem has always been the advancing elements of the hard left, and Rush was ever there to warn us about their latest tricks, traps, and subterfuges. He really was on the cutting edge of societal evolution, and he held up the nation when we needed a voice of calm and sanity.

He single-handedly saved the AM band on radio, He created the genre that is talk radio. Certainly, there had been talkshows on the radio before, but it was mostly a bunch of drivel or interview-based shows. Rush built it. Now we enjoy hundreds of talk-shows, the AM band is far bigger in terms of daily listenership, and the statistics are quite clear: Rush made our modern world, and before these combined-platform news and information shows began to proliferate, there was Rush 24/7. He set so many trends, and showed the way forward in an industry that had been dying.

Steve Bannon said that Rush had been a bridge from Reagan to Trump. This is self-evident, but there’s more to it than this. He understood something I had missed. I think many of us missed it on the conservative side. In 2016, many conservatives gravitated to the candidacy of Ted Cruz. I had become a bit annoyed by Rush, because it was clear to me that he favored Trump. Like many conservatives, I didn’t understand why. Cruz seemed to be a genuine conservative, and while Rush didn’t demean Cruz, Rush went as far as to say that he(Rush himself) had never really been a “movement conservative.” That seemed to fly in the face of what Rush had been telling us for the decades we’d been listening. To a degree, I felt a little betrayed.

In the end, I grudgingly voted for Trump like so many conservatives who might have preferred a more doctrinaire conservative candidate. It wasn’t until some time after Trump’s inauguration that I finally realized what Rush had meant, and what he’d been telling us. Ted Cruz, for all his conservative positions, is just another politician, just one more creature of Washington DC. Yes, he’s better than most, but in the main, he’s revolved around DC and the DC set for much of his career. He certainly has better instincts for the grass roots of the conservatives, but I think that owes to the fact that Cruz is amazingly smart. What Ted Cruz isn’t is what America needed more desperately: Somebody who could win.

What Rush saw in Trump now, belatedly, makes perfect sense once you recognize the real, central issue, which I’d missed at the time: There’s no point having a putatively conservative candidate who is part of the UniParty oligopoly that has failed us repeatedly since 1988. In Trump, Rush saw an outsider who loves his country, warts and all, and who may not be a doctrinaire conservative, but because he comes from a place of common sense, would govern functionally as a conservative. More importantly, Trump had nothing personal to gain from the Presidency, except perhaps satisfaction in saving and restoring America. For the entirety of his presidency, Donald Trump donated his entire presidential salary. All of it. His presidency should rightly be viewed as a colossal gift to the American people. If not for the media, we’d have known this.

Rush was right. Always two steps ahead of the media and the political intelligentsia, Rush intuitively understood his role in American politics and culture. Every day, millions hung on his words. Every day, millions tuned into his show, and he formed an anchor for most talk stations’ lineups, but also for America. Rush loved life. Rush brought a whole back-bench of under-studies to America. He elevated them. He elevated us all. When I look back over the thirty years since I first heard his voice, I realize just how much Rush gave to us all. Every day, year after year, he kept me abreast of most of the things that mattered. He told conservative America how to fight. He offered entertainment and wisdom. He gave valuable insights from a value base so fundamental to what America is, and has been. Whether I live another week or decade, I will miss Rush for all days of my life, like a friend or an older brother. “What would Rush say?” He made us all smarter, and he made America immeasurably greater. Of all the politicians who’ve enjoyed the honors of official Washington DC in passing, none of them, save perhaps Ronald Reagan, had meant as much to our country as Rush Limbaugh. If there were true justice, all flags across this nation would for a week be at half-mast, and the parades in honor of Rush would speak to the triumph of a great life and great man who lived and fought with all his love for a nation that had scarcely deserved him.

 

 

The Political Assassination of MAGA

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021

Trial Behind Razor Wire – Capitol Remains Armed Camp for Unconstitutional Impeachment Trial

Next week, the United States Senate will take up the unconstitutional impeachment of a former office-holder. Their intention would seem to be to prohibit Donald Trump from holding political office again. While the impeachment itself is unconstitutional, the very punishment they seek is even more perverse. As bad as all of this is and seems, it’s also something still worse. The real object of this coming show trial is to permanently damage Donald J. Trump in the eyes of the world and the American people, and with him, all the people who have and continue to support him. This is a broad attack on political speech, and a despicable attempt to gin-up emotions against a former president with two purposes. The first is to simply and permanently politically damage him, since they strongly suspect they cannot get to the 67 vote threshold to convict him. The second is to defame his supporters as domestic terrorists and insurrectionists. It’s not merely about making sure that Trump is never foolish enough to seek office again, but to see to it that those who supported him will never have a political voice again. In part then, this is about the future of Donald Trump, but more critically, this is about the future of the country and how they intend to gain submission of a nation. This is a mass political assassination, of a President, and of 75 million(plus) Americans. While Trump will be named, you will be tried and convicted in absentia.

First, let us cover the technical facts. The constitution makes plain that an impeachment has two objects, and that they are not separable:

“Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States: but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law.” — US Const Art I., Section 3 (emphasis added in red)

I call your attention to the word “and.” This is not an either-or proposition. This is specifically a matter of one unified punishment for high crimes and misdemeanors, and the word “and” here means these two remedies (removal and prohibition from holding future offices) are inseparable. One cannot simply say “well, he’s out of office, so we’re just going to prohibit him from holding the office again.” It doesn’t work that way. The use of the word “and” in this context makes it plain.

Second, to the legitimacy of the whole procedure, consider the following:

The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” — US Const Art II, Section 4 (emphasis added in red)

Who is the President? It is currently Joe Biden. Unless the Democrats wish to admit that they stole the election and that Donald J. Trump is still the legitimate President of the United States, it is impossible to impeach and remove Donald J. Trump from the Presidency because he is not the President. The United States has exactly one President at any one time. Therefore, nothing about this impeachment is constitutional, and that fact is why even Chief Justice Roberts, constitution-murderer that he is, recognizes that he cannot preside over the impeachment trial of a man who is no longer President.

Again, referring to the constitution:

“The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the members present.” — US Const Art I, Section 3 (emphasis added in red)

The Democrats are arguing that Senator Leahy shall preside, and that this is okay since Trump is no longer President, but if Trump is no longer President, then they have no authority to impeach, try, or in any way molest private citizen Donald J. Trump.

This should be enough to understand why this whole procedure is and must be adjudged entirely unconstitutional. This is a legal, constitutional farce, and frankly, the people carrying this forward are acting as actual enemies of the United States.

This is the obvious answer to this entire hoax of an impeachment. What makes all of this dangerous, however, is what they are going to use this opportunity to do in the political realm. It is intended to divide the American people even more deeply, and to damn roughly one-half of the electorate as insurrectionists and terrorists, i.e., domestic enemies. The idea being advanced is that the people who carried out the debacle at the Capitol on January 6th were representative of seventy-five million(plus) Americans who support Donald Trump. The notion is to create such a hew and cry against Donald Trump that if ever he seeks office again, they will place first an obstacle of illegitimacy before him, and secondly, they will associate all those who would seek to again elect him as terrorists.

This is a danger far in excess of the perverse and wholly unconstitutional impeachment trial to be carried out next week. As bad as it is, and as constitutionally laughable as it may be, the trial will be used as a platform to try MAGA in absentia. You will not be defended. You will have no voice in the US Senate. Their presiding officer, Senator Patrick “Leaky” Leahy, will undoubtedly rule any arguments out of bounds. This will be a show trial of epic proportions, intended to defame and diminish you. This is about expunging Donald Trump from the history of the United States, and with him, all those who supported his election and presidency. Those who raised questions about the legitimacy of the completely fraudulent election of November 2020 will be adjudged as guilty of a form of treason, but without the ability to answer, refute, or in any way defend against the charge. There will be no manner by which you will be given a voice, and the handfull of RINOs who will support this exercise hate you just as much as they hate Donald Trump.

The only recourse remaining to you, having been silenced and squelched in social media, and having been derided and defamed in the so-called mainstream media will be to ring the phones and fill the inboxes of every US Senator, of either party, and to let them know that you will remember their conduct with this show trial and railroading of MAGA. That’s what this is, after all, and it’s intended to wipe you from the American political landscape. Joe Biden is not long for the presidency. His rapidly declining mental capacity is becoming dangerously apparent, and the media is having difficulty concealing it, so that I expect by late summer, or certainly by this time next year, Kamala Harris, a wholly unlikable political prostitute, will be thrust upon us as the President of the United States. The Democrat/DeepState program of wrecking the United States is resuming apace, and left unchallenged, we will absolutely lose our country. The political assassination of MAGA, both Trump and his supporters, is intended to eliminate the opposition when she runs for re-election in 2024, giving Democrats the ability to finalize the destruction. Welcome to the Great Reset.

MAGA 2021: Choosing the Road Ahead

Thursday, January 21st, 2021

Victory is the only choice

There is a time for choosing, and I’m going to lay it all out. The Republican party has done, as my friend and long time commenter “The Unit” asserts: Hit the eject button, rather than squeeze the trigger. This is why we nominated Trump to begin with: Spineless, ineffective, weaselly Republicans who would rather assume the position and take it rather than fight. Ladies and gentlemen, that’s what we have in our Republican Party, and like so many of you, I am inclined to simply wash my hands of them and let the Republican Party burn. It would be so satisfying. It would be wonderful to spit in their eyes and walk the Hell away. Who among us would not love to give Mitch McConnell the old double-barreled middle finger and tell him to shove off? While that would all be very satisfying, the satisfaction wouldn’t last as we will see the disaster these people will make of our country. That’s unacceptable, and while a third party is very enticing, there are problems with that approach. Let’s think very carefully about what we do next, make our decisions in the full knowledge of the costs, and then go do it. Talk is cheap, but the time for action has come. Let us choose our course knowing what offers any hope of success, and what is doomed to failure or worse. It’s our country, and it’s our party, so let us decide its disposition.  The 2022 primaries begin today.

The first option is the easiest of all: We can do nothing, but simply walk away in frustration and despair. That is the road to serfdom of a sort for which fools like AOC and Ilhan Omar only dare to dream. That road is littered with the wreckage of our lives, and the lives of our children and grandchildren. It will end with our country in squalor and destitute slavery to the Chinese Communist Party and their “elite” pet American politicians.  I find that to be a grotesquely unacceptable course. I will not be driven from politics. I will not be driven from the public square. I will not let these psychopathic lunatics turn my country into grist for their communist mill of death. I will not become another conforming slave, unwilling to state my opinions and principles to the knowing of the world. I can’t do that. I won’t do that. Neither should you.

The second option is to cast off the Republican Party, abandoning it to the losers and RINOs and NeverTrumpers. The idea would be to start a new party, a patriot party, a MAGA party, or some such thing that we could decide. That sounds great, but it’s been tried, and it never works. Why not? The answer is simple, and most of you already know it: The system is thoroughly rigged to make sure a third party will fail. First, the laws are established to favor the existing two parties. At the local, state, and federal levels, obstacles are placed in the way of new parties and non-party independent candidates that make it very difficult, in some cases virtually impossible, to circumvent the existing two-party oligopoly. While I would love to see that changed, the truth is that it will never be changed from outside the two-party system. They have it all stitched-up quite tightly, and they know it. That’s why they don’t mind when we get angry and go off in search of a third party. They know we can’t get around them in any significant way. Ross Perot discovered this with his ill-fated Reform Party. This is why Trump ran as a Republican, and not as a third-party candidate. His successes should be our guide, but so should his failures, and there were several. Dan Bongino did a great job explaining this in his reference to the ill-fated but much-recalled Bull Moose Party of Teddy Roosevelt. Here it is, from Rumble(Fast-forward to the 57:00 mark to get to the point directly):

The third option is perhaps the most difficult, but it’s also the only plausible way to accomplish what we actually want. It will require something to which many of us are not accustomed, and I am going to tell you the truth about it whether or not you wish to know it. The most probable method to achieve our desire is to create a new party within the Republican Party, but in a way that permits us to take over the machinery of the party from top to bottom. This is going to be difficult, butd if you actually want to do it, we’re going to have to get off our asses and do more than go to rallies. It’s going to require that we do what the Tea Party did, times ten. We’re going to need to start at the bottom, develop candidates, and take control of the party from the bottom, moving upward. What Trump did was a decapitation attack on the party, and it worked, but the problem is that he didn’t build the organization he needed to take it over from the bottom up. Getting people to rallies is great, because it get voters to polls, but that doesn’t give you control of the party at the local and state levels, which is where elections are won and lost.

Let me explain: Why did Trump lose* in 2020? They stole it. How did they steal it? Well, they used all the ordinary methods, but they got away with it. How did they get away with it? In the seven to ten locations most critical to their steal, they took control of the election law and machinery. They exploited weak, weaselly Republicans, like the Speaker of the House in Pennsylvania, the Governors and Secretaries of State in Arizona and Georgia, and a whole string of weak-kneed Republicans in the affected states. They also owned the States’ courts, either with outright leftists, or with a combination of leftists and  RINO Republicans. The biggest key to this election theft was not just pallets of ballots, and suitcases of ballots, but the legal chicanery that permitted them to occur. The mail-in fraud was the biggest part of their theft, using the lack of signature verification, the curing of ballots, and all the rest of the rigged laws and dicta. This permitted them to simply rubber-stamp fraudulent ballots in a massive way. Having a few well-placed dirtbags in Republican drag was indispensable. Mitch McConnell assisted the steal, as did any number of other establishment Republicans. They wanted Trump gone. Without loyal Trumpists at the local-level and state-level providing a safeguard of the law, there was no backstop. Yes, he got more legitimate votes than Joe Biden, but as you know too well by now, the issue comes down to Stalin’s line about who counts the vote rather than who casts them. In this case, however, it came down to the more fundamental question about under which conditions ballots could be cast and subsequently counted and validated. Yes, of course they stole this election, and it’s as plain as the nose on your face, but left without the ability to prove it, the audit trail having been effectively(or in some cases literally) erased, there is no remaining way to prove it in a timeframe that won’t make the argument all but moot. It was almost the perfect crime, inasmuch as while it might be able to be proven in some substantial instances at this late date, do you think there’s any way to reverse the election after the new President is inaugurated?

The only way this is ever fixed, if ever, is to seize control of one of the parties and reform it from the bottom up. Part of me, the vengeful part, wants almost to go after the Democrat Party, take it over, and wreck it, and turn it into our party. Can you imagine a Democrat party in which AOC is an outcast? Can you imagine a Democrat Party in which the likes of Chuck Schumer is a marginalized nutjob who can’t win a primary? Wouldn’t that be glorious? Okay, enough of the fantasy. Time to get back to work. Let’s start this way, if you’re serious. I want you to find out who runs the Republican Party in your county. I want you to find out who is on their committees. I want you to show up at the next meeting. Sit quietly and watch what goes on. Learn how they operate. Get together with others. Wear some item of significance to show others of like mind who you are. Become insurgents at the local level, and take over the local party. To do this is not easy, but it’s also not impossible. Once you do this, begin cultivating local candidates, and start working toward putting forward State Representatives and Senators. Take over city councils and school boards. Take over the State Party. Take over the legislature. Rid yourselves of RINO governors. While you’re at it, work to reform laws so that third parties can get a start, so that if your progeny ever find themselves in a similar situation, they have a path to a viable third party. I want you to notice that in just four years, the Tea Party was able to field candidates and drive the agenda of the Republican Party. The problem is that they permitted themselves to be isolated and ultimately marginalized. If you tackle this, in order to avoid that kind of separation, you’ll need to avoid the labels the establishment folk and media will try to assign you. You need to insist, since it’s true, that you represent the mainstream of the Republican Party. In fact, that ought to be your label, if you take one at all: We are the mainstream Republicans. Full stop. It’s our party, and we own it, fund it, and supply the vast majority of the votes for its candidates. It’s time for us to run it.

The problem we face is that the existing two parties are thoroughly corrupt. They’ve formed a sort of oligopoly in which you can do business with one, or the other, but you must pick one or suffer the consequences. While you’re working to wrest control of local and state party organs, keep an eye on the Federal stooges. They’ll be up to no good, looking to consort with the left any chance they get. Why? Because that’s how they maintain their power in DC. That’s how they get along. That’s how they keep getting re-elected. We need to purge these RINOs from the party. We need to impel these people to fight to the degree we can, because we’re in for one Hell of a couple of terms. We’re going to need to start now. The primaries will already be going for Congressional and State elections this time next year. We need to be thinking now about the primaries in 2021. This is a good first opportunity to test our mettle.  You can walk away in dejection and despair, or you can stand to fight.  If you stand to fight, you must decide whether you will vest your efforts in an almost hopelessly implausible effort to create a third political party, or whether you will simply take over the machinery that already exists. I’ve given this a great deal of thought, and although part of me screams that we’ve been here before, and it’s hard, the truth is that forming another party and making it electorally viable on the Presidential stage is not something likely to be achieved in my lifetime.  I have always voted Republican, and I’ve always funded its causes and candidates. That makes me an owner in this enterprise, and I fully intend to exercise my rightful control. I fervently hope you will join me. It’s time for you non-party independents to join in too. The truth is that you voted with us for the same reasons, and that means you tend to share our values. It’s time now to stand for them, before we lose it all.

MAGA!