As my assiduous readers know, I’ve been down on Donald Trump for abandoning the central promises of his 2016 campaign — a campaign so spectacular that I wrote an homage to it, “In Trump We Trust.” In gratitude for the “Mexican rapists” line alone, I was speaking at his rallies a few weeks after he came down the escalator — or about eight months before Fox News abandoned its “Never Trump” campaign and took away Megyn Kelly’s parking spot.
I will not rehash the horror of what happened after Trump got elected, ditched his immigration plans, and hired his nimrod son-in-law Jared Kushner.
His defenders, most of whom never cared about immigration in the first place, always told me, He tried! The people around him sabotaged him!
Yes, but he hired the people around him, including the nimrod. Anyone could see Trump was packing his administration with people who openly opposed his agenda, e.g. Nikki Haley, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, half of Goldman Sachs and every kiss-ass, phony “four-star general” (meaning they promoted enough girls and transgenders to impress Senate Democrats).
I was so sure he’d do it again, I tried to formulate a bet this year. The general idea would have been something like: I bet he’ll hire Nikki Haley, but not Kris Kobach.
Luckily, I never made the bet, because boy, was I wrong!* Apparently, the left’s maniacal pursuit of Trump over the past four years has had an energizing effect on the man. What MSNBC is calling Trump’s plan for “revenge,” his supporters call “keeping his promises.”
[*I wrote that before Trump announced his plan to make dog-killer and Afghan refugee-lover Kristi Noem head of the Department of Homeland Security. Please God, don’t let him blow this second chance of a lifetime! We’re not getting a third.
[Obviously, I also didn’t know about Matt Gaetz, yet, either, but I assume that’s just a gag.]
In a post on Truth Social this past Saturday, Trump announced that he will not be hiring open-borders neocons Haley or Pompeo. But he will be hiring Tom Homan, his acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to serve as border czar (even though there’s no such title in the U.S. Code, so who the hell knows what that even means).
Specifically, Trump wrote: “Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin.” (Kamala, you might want to jot that down.)
To give you an idea of what an upgrade this is, Trump’s first head of Homeland Security was Gen. John “Trump Is Hitler” Kelly, who started off on the wrong foot, shall we say, when he announced at his Senate confirmation hearing that walls don’t work. (We’re still waiting for his position on roofs, floors and chimneys.)
Instead, Kelly’s suggestion was to go after the root cause of illegal immigration — because that always works! Between Kelly and Kamala, perhaps someday we’ll get to the bottom of why wretched people from dirt-poor countries want to move to the world’s wealthiest, most generous welfare state. It’s a real baffler.
Obviously, Zippy the Chimp would be an improvement over that. But Homan is actually terrific, by which I mean the idea of deporting illegals is not an impenetrable mystery to him. Ditto with Trump’s proposed deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller.
Now, Trump just needs to put Kobach at DHS — or at least not Kristi “Welcome Afghan Refugees!” Noem. What’s next? “Trump names noted Haitian farm-to-table chef to Cabinet”?
(Incidentally, one of the smart politicos on Mark Halperin’s “2Way” podcast recently described how people vying for the same position in a new administration knife the competition: claim the other guy is “unconfirmable.” Yes, that’s as bitchy as it sounds. Guess how Kobach was kept out of the last Trump administration?)
Naturally, the media are already imposing conditions on Trump’s immigration plans. How cute is that? They’ve been bleating about our beloved illegals for nine solid years and the result was: a landslide victory for the guy who promised mass deportations and a wall.
Please tell us more, oh wise media! Say, how do you journalists feel about seeing penises in women’s locker rooms?
This is their moronic demand: Only criminals may be deported! That was the Obama plan: Don’t let ICE do its job because we’re going to be very picky about which illegals have to be deported “first.”
The media and I have very different ideas about immigration priorities. I say deport Dreamers first. No one would call me a softie on murder, but at least when we catch illegal alien felons, they say, OK, you got me. Dreamers break into our country, then storm congressional offices and television studios, stamping their feet and demanding amnesty NOW. The Karens get deported first.
I’ll have more on Trump’s immigration plans in another column, but for now, I just want to say muchas gracias to Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Jack Smith, Fani Willis and the whole crew at The New York Times and other legacy media for getting Trump so mad that he might actually keep his campaign promises.
Lots of people saying Matt Gaetz won’t be confirmed for a variety of reasons, including this which should rattle the cages of some of the pro-Israel fanatics in the new adimistration. Note that Gaetz agrees with the Great Replacement Theory, considered by the activists as racist and anti-Semitic.
The Republican firebrand has attacked George Soros and tangled with Jewish groups.
Rep. Matt Gaetz at the Republican National Convention, July 17, 2024, in Milwaukee. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Matt Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, putting forward a firebrand who has tussled with Jewish groups, embraced an antisemitic conspiracy theory and associated with a Holocaust denier.
As attorney general, Gaetz would head the government department responsible for investigating and prosecuting hate crimes, including antisemitism.
Gaetz, 42, was elected to Congress in 2016, where he has represented a district in the Florida Panhandle and has gained a reputation as one of Trump’s most vocal supporters. Senators from both parties appeared surprised by the nomination, potentially imperiling Gaetz’s chances of securing the job. If he is confirmed to the role by the Senate, he would succeed Merrick Garland, a former federal judge who is Jewish.
Since taking office, Gaetz has made headlines for sparring with Jews and Jewish organizations. He has also been investigated for sex trafficking.
In 2018, the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Anti-Defamation League both criticized Gaetz, then in his first term, for inviting a Holocaust denier as his guest at the State of the Union address. The guest, Charles Johnson, had publicly doubted that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust and suggested falsely that only 250,000 had died of illness.
“This organization is deeply troubled by the comments from Charles C. Johnson, and it is incredibly important for the congressman to acknowledge he is a Holocaust denier and has extensive writings that attest to that and that it was wrong to bring him to the State of the Union,” RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks told BuzzFeed at the time.
Gaetz denied that Johnson was a Holocaust denier. He told BuzzFeed that Johnson “is not a Holocaust denier and he’s not an anti-Semite. He’s a provoker, I should’ve vetted him better before inviting him to the State of the Union, I regret that I didn’t. That’s my fault. I take responsibility for it. But he is not a Holocaust denier.”
Greenberg was a friend of Gaetz who had been indicted for stalking, sex trafficking and other charges. Greenberg had served as tax collector for Seminole County from 2017 until 2020 and resigned because of the indictments.
Later that year, in an unrelated incident, Gaetz called the ADL “racist” after it demanded that Fox News fire host Tucker Carlson over his promotion of the white supremacist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory.
Gaetz wrote that Carlson was “CORRECT about Replacement Theory as he explains what is happening to America,” adding, “The ADL is a racist organization.”
Soros’ Open Society Foundations responded to Gaetz at the time, writing in a statement that, “We would encourage Rep. Gaetz to get his facts straight and try not to fuel the climate of fear and hatred that is emboldening extremists and stoking threats of violence.” Three days after the statement, a man who was preoccupied by the caravan murdered 11 Jews in their Pittsburgh synagogue.
“The Gospel itself would meet the definition of antisemitism under the terms of this bill!” Gaetz wrote on X, adding, “The Bible is clear. There is no myth or controversy on this.”
Trump has indicated that he sees the attorney general position as crucial to his agenda. “Few issues in America are more important than ending the partisan Weaponization of our Justice System,” he wrote on Truth Social, his social media network, when he announced his pick of Gaetz. “Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department.”
Several Jewish groups quickly denounced Trump’s pick of Gaetz.
“Rep. Matt Gaetz has a long history of trafficking in antisemitism — from explaining his vote against the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act by invoking the centuries-old trope that Jews killed Jesus to defending the Great Replacement Theory and inviting a Holocaust denier as his 2018 State of the Union guest,” tweeted Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. “He should not be appointed to any high office, much less one overseeing the impartial execution of our nation’s laws.”
The Republican Jewish Coalition, which has congratulated several Trump nominees on social media and had applauded both of Trump’s attorney general nominations in his first term, did not issue a statement about Gaetz.
Some Republicans are openly opposing his nomination. Sen. Max Miller of Ohio told CNN’s Haley Talbot that Gaetz is “literally worse than the gum on the bottom of my shoe” and said he did not think Gaetz particularly cared about whether he ultimately assumed the attorney general role. Miller is Jewish and a former Trump aide.
“Everybody’s talking about him and that’s what he likes the most,” Miller said, according to Talbot.
Whatever happens with the nomination process, Gaetz won’t be returning to Congress. In a surprising move, he submitted his resignation shortly after getting the attorney general nod, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Wednesday. The nod and resignation reportedly came days before the House Ethics Committee was due to decide whether to release a report from its own probe into the allegations against Gaetz.
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[We always knew that a Trump administration would be very pro-Israel—and little different from a Democrat administration. But if these war hawks listed by Whitney indeed expand the war in Ukraine [Mike Waltz is quoted as wanting troops on the ground operating weapons systems and allowing strikes deep inside Russia], it would go against everything Trump Tulsi Gabbard, and especially JD Vance have been saying. Utter betrayal. I can only hope he is wrong. The last thing we should want is an all out war with Russia.]
Trump’s hawkish lineup is starting to look like a reunion for the worst of US interventionists. The man who said ‘no wars’ hired a cabinet that’s clearly thirsting for the next one. @ghida_fakhry
Awww fuck! It’s over before it even started! Nick@NickJ132388
If George W. Bush was elected to a third term in office, this is what his cabinet would look like. Rubio, Waltz, Stefanik, Hegseth. Not a peacenik among them. Not an antiwar candidate among them. Not even a non-interventionist among them. Every single pick is a hard-boiled, right-wing war-hawk that is committed to marching in lockstep with the world’s most notorious pariah-state, Israel.
Let’s start with Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, the man whose job it is to oversee the War Department and act as the principal defense policymaker and adviser. Trump chose Fox television host Pete Hegseth, “a decorated Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as Guantanamo Bay.” Hegseth has no administrative skills or experience, but he is a Trump loyalist who shares the president’s views on “woke” policies in the military. More importantly, Hegseth is dyed-in-the-wool Israel aficionado who thinks the interests of the Jewish state are inextricably linked to those of the United States. Check out this short excerpt from Pete Hegseth’s book, “American Crusade, Our Fight to Stay Free” (2020) that was posted on Michael Tracey Twitter site:
“Simply put: if you don’t understand why Israel matters and why it is so central to the story of Western civilization—with America being its greatest manifestation—then you don’t live in history. America’s story is inextricably linked to Judeo-Christian history and the modern state of Israel. You can love America without loving Israel—but that tells me your knowledge of the Bible and Western civilization is woefully incomplete…..
If you love America, you should love Israel. We share history, we share faith, and we share freedom. We love free people, free expression, and free markets. And whereas America is blessed with two big, beautiful oceans to protect it, Israel is surrounded on all sides by countries that either used to seek, or still seek, to wipe the nation off the map.
The battle wages on Israeli soil as well. With each trip I take to Israel for FOX Nation, and on my personal time, I discover a new way in which Islamists and their leftist enablers seek to deny Jewish history and heritage. Today, Islamists in Jerusalem are attempting to claim that the Holy Temple built by King Solomon and rebuilt by Herod never existed. Apparently, they want us all to believe that Jews—from Abraham to Jesus—never sacrificed, built, or worshipped on that particular piece of real estate. “Temple denial” is yet another tool by which they seek to erase the Jews and the Jewish state. If that isn’t delusional enough, on a recent trip to Bethlehem—the birthplace of Jesus—I discovered that Palestinians now claim that Jesus was not in fact Jewish but instead a Palestinian. Try that one on for size—or watch my two FOX Nation documentaries on the subject: Battle in the Holy City and Battle in Bethlehem.” Michael Tracey@mtracey
A Secretary of Defense doesn’t have to be impartial to fulfil his responsibilities to the president and the American people, but it does make one wonder how Hegseth’s pro-Israel zealotry will impact the way he implements US policy. If, for example, Hegseth was ordered to stop the delivery of all bombs and lethal weaponry to Israel while ceasefire negotiations with Hamas took place, would a Christian Zionist like Hegseth obey such an order or act according to his own deeply-felt religious convictions?
I can’t answer that, but the obvious conflict of interest should have been a red flag for Trump if his goal was actually “America First”.
Oh, and did we mention that Hegseth is also an Iran hawk, which appears to be a basic requirement for any position on the Trump team. This is from Axios:
Alongside his strong support for Israel, Hegseth has also expressed strong positions regarding Iran… He had called the Iranian revolutionary government an “evil regime”, and in 2020 said that if Iran wanted “to come back to the table for talks on their nuclear capabilities” it should do so “limping and begging.”…
“Sometimes we have moments, and I happen to believe we can’t kick the can down the road any longer in trying to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb,” Hegseth said in an appearance on Fox & Friends.
“What better time than now to say ‘we’re starting the clock, you’ve got a week, you’ve got X amount of time before we start taking out your energy production facilities. We take out key infrastructure, we take out your missile sites, we take out nuclear developments, we take out port capabilities.’” Trump appoints pro-Israel, Iran hawk Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense,Axios
Does that sound like a reasonable approach to you or the fast-track to a regional war?
And how does this fit with all the non-interventionist gobbledygook that Trump was spewing before the election? Was it all for show? And, please, don’t tell me that Hegseth wasn’t fully vetted or that Trump was unaware of his political views before he picked him. That’s nonsense. Hegseth is a hard-nosed, prowar jingoist who recently dismissed public demands for a ceasefire as “extortion on behalf of Hamas” (say what??) and who thinks the only problem with Biden’s Middle East policy was that it wasn’t tough enough.’ And so it is with all Trump’s picks. They’re all ferociously devoted to Israel and they’re all gung-ho for a war with Iran.
Here’s how the typically temperate Daniel McAdams summed up Hegseth:
President-elect Donald Trump’s designated Secretary of Defense is a certifiable lunatic. A cultist in the manner of Manson. Literally someone who needs to be in a mental hospital. Who craves an apocalyptic war to end all of mankind so that his twisted understanding of God will come down and slaughter all (including Jews) who do not convert to his cult’s beliefs. This is a truly dangerous person. This is the person running our military machine. The madmen have taken the asylum. Daniel McAdams @DanielLMcAdams
Yikes. Looks like Don Rumsfeld won’t be our worst Sec-Def after all.
Then there’s Marco Rubio or “Little Marco” as Trump used to affectionately call him during the 2016 campaign. Rubio—who Trump picked as Secretary of State—is another shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later warhawk whose views veer only slightly from those of John Bolton and Lindsay Graham. In a recent video by peace activist Medea Benjamin, Benjamin—who is shown standing outside Rubio’s senate office next to a giant flag of Israel—says the following:
We are here outside Marco Rubio’s office. You have probably heard that he has been picked by Trump to be the next Secretary of State. We have been to his office before, and we were always curious that there was an Israeli flag outside. And I thought maybe he would take the flag down to show his allegiance is 100% to the US government and not to the Israeli government. But, no, lo and behold, the flag is still here, which gives you a pretty good indication of where his allegiance is going to be as Secretary of State. Medea Benjamin@medeabenjamin
Imagine if Rubio placed a Russian flag outside his office, or a Palestinian flag? What do you think the reaction would be? Is it really appropriate for a US senator to display the banner of a foreign power in front of his taxpayer-provided office? Here’s more background on Rubio from Michael Tracey:
Marco Rubio would arguably be the most hardcore interventionist Secretary of State for an incoming administration in decades, perhaps rivaling Hillary Clinton. Definitely outpaces Colin Powell, who was in the relatively more “realist” faction of the G. W. Bush Administration
And here’s more on Rubio from the horse’s mouth, The Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
President-elect Donald Trump is filling out his national security team with pro-Israel hawks who favor maximum pressure on Iran… Reports Monday said Trump planned to name two Floridian allies to top jobs: Sen. Marco Rubio will be tapped to be secretary of state, and Rep. Michael Waltz will be his national security adviser.
Both men have said Israel should not be prevented from staging a direct attack on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. That stance echoes Trump who, before the election, urged Israel to “Do what you have to do.” Trump had criticized President Joe Biden for confining Israel to only hitting military sites, but not nuclear ones, in a retaliatory strike….
Trump has yet to formally name Rubio, but his pending appointments has been widely reported and the Republican Jewish Coalition, which has a longstanding relationship with Rubio, congratulated him.
“President Trump’s choice of Senator Rubio for this critical role sends a message loudly and clearly: The days of weakness and appeasement are over,” the RJC said in a statement on Monday night. “We know that with Senator Rubio leading the State Department, America will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies and confront our enemies.”
Rubio came up in Florida politics in part because of the backing of billionaire auto dealership magnate Norman Braman, a past president of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation. He is known to be close to Miriam Adelson, the pro-Israel casino magnate who funneled $100 million into Trump’s campaign this year.….
In October, after Iran barraged Israel with missiles, and as Israel’s conflict with the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah was escalating, he tweeted, “Israel should respond to Iran the way the U.S. would respond if some country launched 180 missiles at us. And they should do in Lebanon what we would be demanding our leaders do if terrorists were launching anti-tank rockets at us from a neighboring country, forcing 60000 Americans to evacuate their homes and farms for almost a year.”
In the 2016 election, she and her late husband, Sheldon Adelson, were close to deciding whether they would back Rubio or Texas Sen. Ted Cruz as the Republican nominee. Then Trump pulled ahead of the pack and Sheldon Adelson decided to endorse the reality TV star.
Funny how much influence people like Adelson have when it comes to selecting who is going to lead the country. And, it doesn’t stop there either because—as we can see—a hundred million bucks not only buys you a president but everyone in the president’s cabinet as well. Sounds like a bargain to me, although seriously corrupt too. It is convenient, however, when publications, like the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, explain exactly how the system works and then boast about how it serves their overall interests. What’s that saying about “the tail wagging the dog”?
Then there’s Mike Waltz, Trump’s pick for national security advisor who is—surprise, surprise—another warmongering neocon who, in Trump’s words, will be “a strong champion of my America First Foreign Policy agenda, and a tremendous champion of our pursuit of Peace through Strength!”
Peace?? Not bloody likely!
In a nutshell: Waltz opposed leaving Afghanistan, he thinks we haven’t been supportive enough of Ukraine, and he also thinks that Iran needs a good “punch in the nose”; which I would interpret as tacit support for military action. Here’s Michael Tracey’s take:
At the “America First” summit in DC, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) says he just returned from Ukraine and is now calling for the deployment of US military “advisors” directly into the war to operate US weapons systems alongside Ukrainian forces. “Let’s win this damn war!” he proclaims Michael Tracey @mtracey
Troops on the ground?? Is that what Waltz wants?
Sure sounds like it, but how does that fit with Trump’s elusive peace agenda? Here’s more from Tracey:
Mike Waltz, the incoming National Security Advisor, worked for Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. Remember like a week ago when everybody was absolutely convinced there was some giant ideological chasm between Trump and the Cheneys? Michael Tracey @mtracey
Waltz says “punch Iran in the nose”
Here’s more from Caitlin Johnstone:
Like (John) Bolton, Waltz is a warmongering freak. Journalist Michael Tracey has been filling up his Twitter page since the announcement with examples of Waltz’s insane hawkishness, including his support for letting Ukraine use US weapons to strike deep into Russian territory, criticizing Biden for not escalating aggressively enough in Ukraine, advocating bombing Iran, opposing the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and naming Iran, North Korea, China, Russia and Venezuela as “on the march” against the United States toward global conflict. The mainstream press are calling Waltz a “China hawk”, but from the look of things he’s a war-horny hawk toward all the official enemies of the United States. The Incoming Trump Administration Is Already Filling Up With War Sluts, Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz
And here’s more from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Waltz has been among Israel’s most robust backers in the U.S. House of Representatives and has also said Israel should not hesitate to hit Iran’s nuclear sites and oil fields. Biden had discouraged such actions, fearing such attacks would trigger a full-scale regional war which would draw in the United States.
“So far…it’s important to note what hasn’t been hit in Iran,” Walz said in an Oct. 25 tweet, listing an Iranian oil facility and a nuclear facility. “This might be Israel’s last best chance to diminish Iran’s nuclear program and shut down their cash. Did Biden/Harris pressure Israel once again to do less than it should? Jewish Telegraphic Agency
What this excerpt shows, is that Trump’s picks are looking for an opportunity to attack Iran. The prevailing view seems to be that Biden was “soft” on Iran and that now is the time to take more assertive “muscular” action to ensure Israel’s security. As we noted earlier, all of Trump’s picks appear to share this view.
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I have to say that I am surprised by Dugin’s idea that all of Ukraine should be under Russian control, and I assume that he is tuned into what the Russian government wants. If Trump agreed to that, it would be widely seen as surrender. I had assumed that it was only the predominantly Russian Donbass that was the issue and that what Russia wanted was to combat Western expansion and a neutral Ukraine. Ending the war on terms satisfactory to both Russia and the U.S. may be very difficult.
Alexander Dugin argues that Russia’s uncompromising stance on fully integrating Ukraine into its sphere is a geopolitical imperative, driven by existential necessity rather than expansionist ambitions, and must be clearly communicated to Western leaders like Trump to avoid disastrous misunderstandings.
When we say that all of Ukraine should be part of a unified Russian space, we are not making excessively extreme demands. This is not maximalism. The current state of Ukraine is incompatible with the very existence of Russia. And if this issue is frozen once again, even if we include all our new territories within administrative boundaries, it still solves nothing. They will rearm and attack again. No one can guarantee otherwise.
But even such a proposal for a truce is not being offered to us.
Therefore, negotiations with Trump about Ukraine from our side will be conducted as follows: Ukraine is ours; everything else is negotiable. Deal? Of course, it won’t be handed to us. But we don’t need it to be. We will liberate it ourselves, no matter what.
The only question is whether we can avoid nuclear war along this path or, unfortunately, not.
It would be better to avoid it, but we are ready for anything. Ukraine, for us, is not a desire to gain more but an existential threat to lose everything. And this is not a hypothesis; it’s a fact.
It is very troubling that the seriousness of our situation is not understood in the West. Biden’s globalists have managed to shift the Overton window so far toward the reality of dealing a strategic defeat to Russia that this trend has become central. Those who are more reasonable and closer to Russia say: maybe its not worth trying to defeat Russia, as the cost would be too high. But those who are enraged by us, riding a wave of Russophobia, proclaim: let’s deliver this strategic defeat; Russia won’t dare to launch a nuclear strike; it’s a bluff. Bluff or not, this will only be known when it’s too late.
All of this, this mental map, creates a serious threat to the Trump administration’s relations with Russia — the Russophobia hypnosis is too dense and effective. This was the plan. Out of the best intentions, Trump might say: Moscow, take all within the LBS (Line of Contact). And that’s enough. Deal?
But for us, this is entirely unacceptable. It is an inevitable new war and a very likely collapse of Russia itself. Because that’s a defeat. In every sense. Trump might think he’s giving us what we want. But for us, this will be a direct challenge, blackmail, and a call to surrender.
This is a very dangerous situation where geopolitical realities clash with artificial mental clichés. Altogether, it creates an extremely dangerous cognitive dissonance.
Washington must understand that Russia needs all of Ukraine, and that’s it. Then, let “comrade nuclear weapon” speak.
It’s unfortunate to start a dialogue with the new American administration, generally opposed to globalism and anti-traditional values, on such a hardline note. But this is yet another trap left by the globalists. Perhaps Trump does not understand it. And we, while maneuvering diplomatically, hesitate to call things by their names. It’s better to be straightforward with Trump. Ukraine is ours (all of it), and this is not up for discussion. We are fighting there with conventional arms until victory. What sacrifices we bear are our concern. Occupy yourselves with something else.
Sanctions may remain; relations need not be renewed. That’s for later. But Ukraine will be ours, entirely and unconditionally.
Because without this, we will perish. And we do not want to perish. If we must die, everyone else will, too.
Again, there is no extremism here — just the cold laws of geopolitics, clearly described from both sides: by us and by Brzezinski. The detachment of Ukraine from Russia has been an imperative of the entire Atlantic school of geopolitics since its founding — since Mackinder (and even earlier). It’s simply a law. For the Eurasian school, the opposite axiom is true: Ukraine will either be Russian, or there will be no Ukraine, no Russia, or anyone else at all.
A very delicate situation is unfolding. With Biden and the globalist fanatics, everything was clear. They put forward unacceptable demands, and our demands seemed unacceptable to them. With Trump, it’s a different matter. What appears as a “gift” to him will be, for us, a declaration of war.
Therefore, it is essential to explain all this to Trump clearly and unambiguously, without pathos or emotion. If we let our “sixth column” handle this negotiation track, they will surrender everything immediately. But our people, I think, understand this. However, the new Trump administration in Washington, which even theoretically cannot be free from neocons or deep state appointees, may easily mistake one thing for another.
I believe the most direct solution would be to declare Russia’s true plans for Ukraine now during Washington’s transition. Russia will stop only after Kiev’s unconditional surrender and full control over the entire territory. Ukraine is Russia. This is our nuclear stance.
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https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/TOO-Full-Logo-660x156-1.png00Kevin MacDonaldhttps://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/TOO-Full-Logo-660x156-1.pngKevin MacDonald2024-11-12 07:08:022024-11-12 07:08:02Jim Jordan: Where did those 10 million votes go?
When I woke up last week to find a notification on my phone announcing that Donald Trump had become the forty-seventh President of the United States of America, I felt an enormous sense of relief. Why? Because I knew, based on my extensive work, that the children of America are going to be safer than they were before the election.
Safe from what, you ask?
From the nefarious ideology —radical gender theory— which teaches them they may be trapped in the wrong body and the only path to happiness is through irreversible medical and surgical interventions, which will render them mutilated and infertile.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz would have been an absolute disaster for the safeguarding of children, and biological reality more broadly.
Official documents that were released on behalf of the Biden-Harris Administration referred to women as “birthing people”.
In other words, she wanted to allow violent, even predatory, males to be housed in female prisons, if they were ‘transitioning’. That’s right. Men in women’s prisons.
Crucially, in her role as Vice President, Kamala Harris also propped up Joe Biden and enabled the President of the United States to push radical gender ideology on everybody else, from the highest office in the land.
The Biden-Harris administration referred to Florida’s decision to stop children being harmed through puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as “close to sinful”, and also put out a message on the ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’, stating that ‘trans people’ are “made in the image of God”?
Biden, Harris, and other Democrat elites also presided over a Health and Human Services Department, which “unequivocally” gave its support to “gender affirming care for minors” —including double mastectomies to young girls. They even appointed ‘transwoman’ (i.e. male) Rachel Levine as the US Assistant Secretary for Health.
Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ running mate, was even worse. He really was a full-blown radical ideologue on these issues, completely disconnected from the fact that there is a stunning lack of medical and scientific evidence to support this radical ideology.
In one podcast interview, from October of this year, Walz attacked Trump’s stance on gender ideology, accusing him of “hate”, as well as patronising older voters by saying those who disagree with radical gender ideology “don’t really understand”.
Oh they understand, alright.
They understand what we understand —this is child abuse.
In fact, in 2023, in his role as Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz signed legislation that made Minnesota a ‘trans refuge’.
This prohibits Minnesota from co-operating in the prosecution of parents from other jurisdictions who take their children to Minnesota to receive things like puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery.
Walz, the man who liked to describe others as “weird”, then signed an executive order guaranteeing access to ‘gender affirming’ treatment for children.
Comparing Trump and JD Vance with these two is like comparing night and day. So too is comparing them to many other so-called ‘conservatives’ around the globe who have consistently failed to protect our children from this hideous ideology.
During the campaign, Trump brought his strong opposition against radical gender ideology to the very forefront, launching a number of adverts highlighting the damage caused under Biden and Harris, saying: “Kamala is for they/them. Trump is for you.”
Trump set out a comprehensive plan for tackling this ideology back in 2023, which he is now going to pursue when he formally returns to the White House in January.
In a hard-hitting video, he has pledged to “ban” doctors from medically transitioning children, which he properly referred to as “child abuse” and “child sexual mutilation.”
He’s reiterated his opposition to puberty blockers, declared that on Day One he will issue an Executive Order instructing every federal agency to cease all programmes that promote the idea of sex and gender transition, stop taxpayer dollars promoting and paying for these procedures, and pass a new law banning child sexual mutilation in all fifty years.
Strikingly, he has also promised to launch an investigation into the medical and pharmaceutical industries, which have quite clearly covered up the enormous and sickening damage that is being done to children to make money for this industry.
It really is outrageous.
Trump says he will also give a green light to former patients to sue their doctors if they regret what happened to them after many medical professionals, biased teachers, parents, and others nudged them down the pathway to transition.
He also says that, under his command, radical gender ideology will be rooted out of schools altogether, with “severe consequences” for any schools who “suggest to a child that they could be trapped in the wrong body”.
Listen. I’ve been working in this area for a long time and this is possibly the single strongest statement I have ever seen on this issue, anywhere in the world.
Of course, the legacy media and liberal establishment have been quick to try and use these powerful and much-needed statements by Trump as a stick to beat him with.
CBS reported there was “fear” amongst the ‘LGBT community’ in Minnesota following Trump’s remarkable victory last week; and MSNBC called him a “transphobic” while CNN claimed he is trying to “stoke a culture war”.
As usual, as Matt Goodwin has noted, the very liberal authoritarians who imposed this radical and unscientific theory on everybody else are now trying to use the language of ‘culture wars’ to try and shut down people who disagree with their agenda.
What about Trump’s running mate, JD Vance?
He has also made his position crystal clear, including when he appeared on Joe Rogan’s influential podcast less than a week before polling day.
Vance rejected outright the notion of men identifying as women being able to compete in women’s sports and athletics, saying they “cross a line”.
He continued to make a profound point, namely that many young people today identify as ‘trans’ as a form of social signifier, as a way to “reject White privilege”.
Showing how knowledgeable he is on the subject matter, Vance and Rogan even entered into a discussion on ‘autogynephilia’ – a mental health condition whereby men become sexually aroused at the thought of themselves as women.
Vance said: “Yeah, and you’re expected to empower them at the expense of young women who are very often much more vulnerable, for obvious reasons, than young men.”
Trump and Vance’s emphatic victory, in short, could not have come at a better time, given how divided America remains on this issue of gender ideology.
For example, some 27 States have banned ‘conversion therapy’, whereas 18 States have restricted or banned medical transitioning for children.
Since winning the election, he’s pledged a host of measures that are designed to defend the family, protect free speech and push back against the radical Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda which is infiltrating our institutions.
And what is also incredible is that Trump is doing all this, after various sex scandals, sexist comments, and his stance on abortion, with strong support from women.
As we noted last week, Trump and Vance were helped over the line on election day by many female supporters, including many who consider themselves feminists.
In the exit polls, while 45% of women overall supported Trump (far higher than many had predicted), a majority of White women (53%) also backed Trump.
This is extremely revealing and speaks to the support Trump has when it comes to pushing back against critical race theory and other divisive ideologies.
Many ordinary women, many wives, many mothers, also hate this stuff —a point liberal progressives routinely overlook if not ignore.
Equally, when comparing 2024 and 2020 data, there was a 14-point pivot amongst women under 30 towards Trump when compared to the 2020 election against Biden.
This, I suggest, reveals that many women believe Trump will be better not only for their own lives but for those of their families and children.
It’s fair to say then that I am, in many ways, jealous of the United States.
Because unlike here in Britain and indeed Europe, Americans are about to be led by an administration that firmly rejects the nefarious ideology that is still, even to this day, harming so many children and damaging our social fabric.
I mean, imagine the conversation between Donald Trump who is now rapidly moving to ban radical gender ideology in schools and our own hapless Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who believes 1 in every 1,000 women has a penis.
I firmly believe, then, that children in America are much safer today than they were before the election last week.
For that reason alone, I’ll always be eternally grateful to the American people for making this decision and let’s just hope it has major ripple effects across the Pond.
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/TOO-Full-Logo-660x156-1.png00Kevin MacDonaldhttps://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/TOO-Full-Logo-660x156-1.pngKevin MacDonald2024-11-11 08:02:362024-11-11 08:02:36James Esses: America’s children are safer with Trump
Alain de Benoist analyzes the results of the American presidential election. While he welcomes the victory of the people over the Establishment, he nonetheless cautions against excessive optimism regarding the potential positive consequences of Donald Trump’s victory for France and Europe, as well as the illusion of attempting to transplant “Trumpism” to Europe.
Breizh-info.com: What is your initial analysis of Donald Trump’s decisive victory?
Alain de Benoist: General de Gaulle, when people praised the American political system to him, replied, “In France, the Supreme Court is the people.” Donald Trump was the candidate of the working class, which is why he won. His victory is all the more significant because, beyond the vote of the electoral college (which isn’t truly democratic), he won the majority of the popular vote, with a substantial lead over his pitiful rival, something he hadn’t achieved in 2016 or 2020 (and something no Republican candidate had managed since 2004). Put differently, Trump’s victory is, above all, the people’s victory over the Establishment. In France, we would refer to this as “peripheral France.” Across the Atlantic, it’s more like continental America winning over maritime America.
Finally, and this has been less emphasized, it’s also a victory of concrete references over abstraction. Trump spoke of America — a very specific reality — while his opponent spoke of broad universal notions like “democracy,” the fight for “freedom,” and “civilization,” which, like all terms without a particular, singular content, are mere mantras devoid of meaning.
Breizh-info.com: In your opinion, how will the Trump presidency affect relations between the U.S. and Europe, especially on critical issues like Ukraine, European defense, and protectionism? Some believe Trump might encourage a form of strategic independence in Europe. Do you think a second term could accelerate a desire for greater autonomy in defense and foreign policy in Europe?
Alain de Benoist: Relations with Europe will change. Donald Trump is notoriously indifferent to the transatlantic link. He believes NATO costs Americans too much and yields them little. Will this shake up Europeans who have tended to imagine that “if there’s trouble, we can count on our American allies”? Sometimes you can count on that, but often, surely not. Trump wants to break away from the “democratic missionary” role to re-found America on the classic logic of great powers. He wants to end wars that lead nowhere. Regarding Ukraine, his initiatives are likely to displease Zelensky — not because Trump sympathizes with Putin but because he wants to end a war that hasn’t met its objectives and which Ukraine has already lost. But those expecting him to develop a policy that will make Russia “acceptable” again will be disappointed. Similarly, in the Middle East, he’s unlikely to support the armed confrontation with Iran that Netanyahu dreams of. Russia will remain an enemy to Americans, but the main rival is China, and it’s clear that Trump wants to focus on it.
Protectionism is another question. Trump has never concealed his intention to raise tariffs on goods exported to the United States. The Chinese fear their goods will be taxed at 60%, whereas they’re currently taxed at only 20%. Europeans are also in his sights; Trump won’t grant them favors. Generally, the new president will likely maintain good relations with some European countries, but he won’t address Europeans as a whole. He’ll stick to bilateral relations that better defend his interests.
As for whether, in this new context, Europeans will demonstrate a “greater willingness for autonomy in defense and foreign policy,” one can only hope. At best, they’ll move in this direction hesitantly. The European Union is now in a terminal phase. Its greatest failing, to use the distinction I made earlier, is draining the word “Europe” of any substantial content (identity, power, borders, principles) to make it synonymous with “universal values,” which, when applied to concrete situations, mean absolutely nothing.
Breizh-info.com: Trump is often seen as a symbol of resistance to globalization and “wokeism.” Do you think his re-election could galvanize nationalist movements in Europe and strengthen populist right-wing political figures?
Alain de Benoist: I doubt it very much. I completely understand the sympathy that certain nationalist circles feel toward some of Trump’s positions. The support shown to him by Giorgia Meloni and Viktor Orbán is also understandable. But does this mean Trump should be taken as an example? Not for a second, as political life is so different in America and on this side of the Atlantic. Just as African people are not Europeans with darker skin, Americans are not Europeans who speak English. The deep-seated reasons for Donald Trump’s success stem from realities very foreign to Europe. The role played by Elon Musk, the place of evangelical Christians (and Christian Zionists), who idolize the Bible and the Constitution, and the brutal tone of Trump’s interventions — none of these have an equivalent in Europe. Lazy minds react emotionally to buzzwords — immigration, wokeism, etc. — but they only see one aspect of things. Any attempt to “do like Trump” in Europe is, in my view, doomed to failure. Europeans should rather worry about what it means for us if America wants to “become great again.” If it succeeds, then we will truly be threatened.
Breizh-info.com: How do you see the dynamic between the United States, China, and Russia evolving? Could Europe find itself more isolated, or might it seek a new form of strategic partnership?
Alain de Benoist: The United States will continue to see Russia, and especially China, as the primary threats to their already shaky hegemony. Immediately, having failed to “bring Russia to its knees,” they’ll disengage from the European theater, which now holds little importance for them. They’ll only do everything they can to prevent Europe from becoming a power, that is, a rival. Europe will be left to face its responsibilities, which it is visibly unable to assume. The main risk for Europe isn’t “isolation” but continuing to count for nothing. This will persist until we see the necessary systemic shift we need.
Breizh-info.com: With Trump’s strong stance on immigration, do you think such an approach could inspire more restrictive migration policies in Europe?
Alain de Benoist: Perhaps, yes, but again, we must not transpose what cannot be transposed. Talking about immigration in itself is using a catch-all term that, on its own, means nothing. The immigration issues in the United States and Europe are fundamentally different. Latino immigrants, who seek to cross the Rio Grande by any means, are Catholics, not Muslims. They generally admire the country where they want to settle and seek to integrate. These are already significant differences (this explains why Trump won the votes of 12% of Blacks and 45% of Latinos). The question of borders also arises differently for both historical and geographical reasons. Finally, we cannot overlook the fact that, ultimately, it’s the general mobility spurred by the expansion of the capitalist system that is the fundamental cause of the social pathologies related to immigration that we experience.
Breizh-info.com: More broadly, Donald Trump’s victory reflects a significant divide in the United States. Do you think a secession of the country in the coming decades is possible?
Alain de Benoist: It is indeed a real problem. We’re seeing a return and intensification of political polarization in the United States that we aren’t accustomed to. The historical Democratic vote in the South (the “Dixiecrats”), due to historical reasons (Lincoln was a Republican), had long resulted in blurring the lines between Democratic and Republican platforms to the point of making them indistinguishable, especially for foreign observers. The South’s gradual shift to the Republicans changed this dynamic. Polarization took its toll, and today, Democrats and Republicans no longer speak to each other. There are now two Americas that feel only hatred for each other. In the medium term, anything is possible, starting with a civil war in this heavily armed country (there are more handguns than residents), which I personally see as a far more likely possibility in the U.S. than in Europe. In the weeks leading up to the presidential election, there was already more than enough anxiety about what might happen if Trump had not been elected. These passions aren’t likely to fade soon. Trump would be wise to have good bodyguards…
Breizh-info.com: Finally, Trump’s victory is a slap in the face to the mainstream media establishment, which, in France and internationally, campaigned for Harris. Do you think this latest defeat for the media caste will lead them to new approaches or views on world evolution, or has ideology blinded them irreparably?
Alain de Benoist: The symbol of the Democratic Party is the elephant [?]. And, as we all know, an elephant Trump-ets a lot! I admit, watching the pinched faces, furrowed brows, and labored explanations of the media circus masters, who already imagined Kamala Harris moving into the White House after a “close election,” was a delightful spectacle. No early signs shook them, and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat didn’t serve as a lesson either! They can’t understand how it’s even possible that Trump won. More precisely, they can’t grasp that Trump won not in spite of but because of everything they find abhorrent about him. You’re right; these people are blind. They are blind because they live in an echo chamber and can’t see that the real world increasingly diverges from their wishful thinking. They are politically, morally, physically, and intellectually incorrigible. They dance and prattle on the Titanic’s deck, unaware that their world is collapsing and that the one to succeed it will be even harsher. They pull out ritualistic terms — “populism,” “hate speech,” “systemic racism,” “toxic masculinity” — but no one cares. Let them babble, let them sleep. History is being written without them — elsewhere.
(Translated from the French by Heinrich Matterhorn)
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/TOO-Full-Logo-660x156-1.png00Alain DeBenoisthttps://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/TOO-Full-Logo-660x156-1.pngAlain DeBenoist2024-11-11 07:49:062024-11-11 07:49:06Alain de Benoist on Trump’s Victory
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