The corporate media is having a go at Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary, for co-hosting Fox & Friends Weekend. What they don’t tell you is that Hegseth is a decorated US Army veteran and vocal advocate for veterans’ issues. They don’t tell you that the man graduated from Princeton University and earned a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and then deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq (three times), earning among other honors the Bronze Star and Combat Infantryman Badge. After his military career, Hegseth became CEO of Concerned Veterans for America, where he focused on policy advocacy for veterans, especially in areas like healthcare reform and mental health support. Frankly, the only pick Trump could make for Secretary of Defense that wouldn’t draw jeers is an establishment figure itching to take the United States into more wars (more on that later).
Here’s how Senator Elizabeth Warren put it on X: “A Fox & Friends Weekend co-host is not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense.” She continued, “All three of my brothers served in uniform. I respect every one of our service members,” before adding: “Donald Trump’s pick will make us less safe and must be rejected.”
This is how dishonest Democrats are—and there’s nobody more paradigmatic of that dishonesty than Elizabeth Warren, a woman who falsely declared herself to be an American Indian on official forms.
Unlike Warren’s claim to be American Indian, Hegseth is everything he claims to be. But the lying from progressives is off the hook.
Indeed, there were a lot of intangibles in this election. A big one was the matter of lying. That does not appear in the polling. However, the narrative for many years is Trump is a liar and that his labeling of legacy media as “fake news” was an illegitimate attempt to delegitimize a trusted source of information. But what the people saw with their own eyes and heard with their own ears is an endless stream of lies from not only the legacy media, but from Democrats, as well.
The nomination of House member Matt Gaetz for Attorney General has especially triggered progressives, who are claiming that Gaetz has been investigated for sex trafficking. It’s not uncommon for people to be investigated and exonerated. That’s why our system works from the position of legal innocence: a man is innocent until he is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
In Gaetz case, back in February 2023, the Department of Justice officially decided not to bring charges against the Congressman. Why? Because there were concerns over the credibility of key witnesses. The DOJ decision effectively closed the case without any charges being filed against him.
Given this, here is arguably nobody more qualified for the post than Gaetz; the man knows what it feels like to be persecuted by politicized agency controlled by the other party.
On September 7, 1993, Vice President Al Gore presented his final report, From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less (a Report of the National Performance Review) to President Bill Clinton in a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House before his Cabinet, members of Congress, and hundreds of civil servants who helped craft the report and its recommendations. By 1999, estimates suggested that the initiative had saved around $136 billion through various cost-cutting measures, including workforce reductions, streamlining of federal agencies, and improvements in government procurement and service delivery.
Yet, when Trump appoints Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), there is widespread mockery among progressives and the media elite. The double standard runs deep and long.
And they continue to lie about Donald Trump. No, Trump is not a felon. One can only be a felon in New York when the jury verdict is entered into the record at sentencing. Why is this? Because the judge can set the verdict aside. Just because a jury renders a verdict of guilty doesn’t mean the defendant is a convicted felon. It means that a jury has told the judge that, in their opinion, the defendant is guilty. What is more, the New York case was one of the most ridiculous cases ever brought before a jury (see Rigged System! Blowing Up the Independent Judiciary). Expired misdemeanors artificially resuscitated by an underlying felony charge that was never actually identified? Are you freaking kidding me? Hell, the jury was told that they didn’t even need to agree on whatever charges they imagined. Even if Judge Juan Merchan eventually does enter a verdict of guilty into record it would likely be overturned up the line.
And, no, Trump has not be found guilty or even charged with sexual assault, another lie that progressive continue to perpetuate.
This is the way it has been for eight years now. The Steele dossier. The Russia hoax. The Zelensky phone call. The insurrection. The documents case. Attempting to overturning an election. Suckers and losers. Bloodbath. Good people on both sides. Admiration for Hitler. Ad nauseam. Lies and misrepresentations. Why? Because Trump is an outsider and threatens the hegemony of the Establishment.
Democrats thought they were building a one-party state. They were rudely interrupted on November 5, 2024. And they are losing their shit over it.
(This thing with dragging Trump with the “felon” label, even if true, is bizarre coming from progressives who often support their claim that the system is unjust by observing that one out of every three black men is a felon. They’re right about that. One-third of all black men in America is convicted felon. So would these progressives not support a black felon for a government post? Do they think that a felony conviction means political death? Or is that only in the case of white men People who claim to speak for justice ought to take some time to learn what that word actually means?)
Finally, maybe you haven’t heard but Pentagon officials have been informally discussing how the Department of Defense might respond if Donald Trump were to issue “unlawful orders,” for example, if the President were to dismiss large numbers of nonpartisan staff (let’s hope he does). It is as if military personnel have forgotten that the integrity of the United States depends on civilian control of the military, which is vested in the person of the President, who is under the Constitution, in addition to being Chief Executive, the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy.
This isn’t the first time Pentagon officials schemed without Trump’s knowledge. Two days after the police riot on January 6, 2020, Trump’s top military advisor, Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley, took covert steps to prevent Trump from initiating a military strike or nuclear launch. On January 8, Milley convened a confidential meeting in his Pentagon office with senior military officials overseeing the National Military Command Center. He instructed them not to proceed with any orders unless he was directly involved. Milley confirmed their understanding of his orders by looking each officer in the eye and asking for verbal acknowledgment. Scary stuff.
Milley also communicated with a Chinese general during the final weeks of Trump’s presidency. He made two calls to Chinese General Li Zuocheng—on October 30 and January 8—assuring Li that he would provide a warning if the US were to plan an attack on that authoritarian regime.
This is an extraordinary admission. If Milley were to warn the Chinese of a pending attack, then this would allow China to thwart the attack or even strike US targets first. China is a nuclear power. Milley revealed that senior Trump officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper, were aware of the calls. How is this not treason?
This is what Trump is up against. He was elected by the American people to represent in the highest office of the Republic the will of the popular sovereign, and behind his back, the military-industrial complex—made up of unelected bureaucrats that serve interests other than the popular sovereign—directs the war machine as they see fit and makes foreign policy on the sly.
Remember back during the Cold War when General Douglas MacArthur, commanding US and UN forces on the Korean Peninsula, publicly criticized President Truman’s policies? Truman relieved MacArthur of his command, asserting the principle of civilian control over the military. This decision sparked significant public debate but ultimately reinforced US constitutional norms.
What if the Pentagon wants to continue the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia when Trump has called a halt to that deadly war? Etcetera. You can see that we have a problem if the Pentagon is going behind the Command in Chief’s back and making their own policy. This is precisely why we must deconstruct the administrative state.
Suppose Trump does lie. Well, so do the media and Democrats. Seeing that it’s a wash in the regard, that no side has a monopoly on virtue, what is left over are the policy questions. The people don’t like diminished standard of living, globalization, mass immigration, gender ideology, grievance politics, forever wars, and a host of other things that legacy media and Democrats are on the wrong side of. The people also don’t like being called “racists,” “fascists,” “Nazis,” “deplorables,” “garbage,” etc. And they don’t like the corporate state bureaucracy working at cross purposes with the men and women they elect to lead this country. So they picked the party that promises to fixes the things they don’t like, that doesn’t call them names, and that promises to bring to heel unaccountable power.
The people trust themselves to know the truth. But Democrats don’t trust the people at all. And that’s as good a reason as any to not trust the Democrats.
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After retiring from the MA State Senate, William Bulger (brother of the notorious gangster James Bulger) was appointed President of UMass. When Mitt Romney became Governor he appointed three of Bulger’s personal enemies to the board of trustees, essentially forcing Bulger to retire.
I think these picks are designed to do flush out enemies.