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The West is all about Democracy, right? Georgescu Forbidden to Participate in Romanian Presidential Rerun

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Georgescu Forbidden to Participate in Romanian Presidential Rerun

by Kenneth Schmidt

Kenneth Schmidt argues that Romania’s democracy died on March 9th when the Election Commission barred nationalist Călin Georgescu from the presidential rerun, risking civil war and exposing Europe’s authoritarianism.

One could say that representative government in Romania died yesterday (March 9th), when the Election Commission of that country forbade nationalist Călin Georgescu to participate in the rerun of the presidential election. Mr. Georgescu won the first round of the presidential contest held on November 24th, 2024, quite handily. On December 6th, the Romanian Constitutional Court, citing vague information from intelligence agencies, annulled the election and set a rerun for May 4th, 2025. Georgescu was subsequently detained by law enforcement, told that criminal charges were being filed against him, and then released.

Writing on X, Georgescu said that the election commission’s action “was a direct blow to the heart of democracy worldwide! Europe is now a dictatorship, Romania is under tyranny!” I find it hard to disagree with him. I always thought that Germany would become the first neo-liberal open dictatorship because of the zeal the establishment in that country has for suppressing free speech and the seemingly firm intent of officials there to make Alternative for Germany (AfD), the second largest party in the country, illegal. However, Romania beat them to the punch.

The Romanian political establishment is taking a terrible risk and their move threatens the stability of that country. If Georgescu was some obscure figure representing a small political party with single-digit poll numbers, the story would be relegated to the back of Europe’s great newspapers and the whole affair could be downplayed and covered up. He won the first round before it was annulled by a large margin. A recent public opinion poll had him 18 points above his nearest competitor. The government, by denying such a popular figure his right to run, is courting chaos and disorder, perhaps even civil war. Demonstrators gathered outside the headquarters of the Election Commission. People threw paving stones at the riot police and set some small fires.

If widespread disorder does break out, it is important to note that little Romania has no less than five spy agencies and has a reputation for having more intelligence operatives than even many of the larger European countries. I’m curious how the US government is going to react to these events. Both Vice President Vance and Elon Musk have spoken negatively of the annulment of the first round as an example of un-democratic European practices. President Trump would earn the undying love of a huge sector of the Romanian population if he condemned the action, or better yet, threatened sanctions.

I think the biggest question right now is not whether there will be violence, but the nature and extent of the disorder. I have no doubt that Brussels, NATO and some Western European intelligence agencies have signed on to the government’s actions. It will be interesting to see how governments in Paris, London and Berlin react to these events. Will they side openly with the Romanian government or simply downplay the situation?

Tom Sunic on “The Political Cesspool,” March 8, 2025

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TPC’s March Around the World makes a stop in Zagreb with Dr. Tomislav Sunic. What is the present situation in Central Europe? What does this retired Croatian diplomat think of Trump’s two-month blitzkrieg? We cover it all.

https://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/radio-show-hour-1-2025-03-08/

Gateway Pundit: Secret Resistance Agreement Between Blue States, Left-Wing Groups and NYC Law Firms to Conduct Coordinated Lawfare Against DOGE and Elon Musk

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Secret Resistance Agreement Between Blue States, Left-Wing Groups and NYC Law Firms to Conduct Coordinated Lawfare Against DOGE and Elon Musk

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A secret resistance agreement between 14 states to conduct coordinated lawfare against DOGE and Elon Musk was obtained by the Oversight Project.

DOGE says it has saved approximately $105 billion in a “combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings,” and other workforce reductions.

The Democrats are angry that DOGE is saving American taxpayers money, so they devised a scheme to stop Elon Musk and his team.

There are currently nearly a dozen lawsuits challenging DOGE over its authority, data access, and privacy laws.

The agreement obtained by the Oversight Project was signed less than a month after DOGE was created.

“The Parties have agreed that they have a common interest in developing legal strategies to challenge the creation and actions of the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) and a common interest in existing or future investigative, regulatory, administrative, and judicial actions or inactions, including but not limited to any administrative or judicial proceedings related to or arising from those legal strategies (“Matters of Common Interest”),” the document stated.

The agreement revealed plans between New Mexico, California, Michigan, Massachusetts and other blue states to develop legal strategies to wage war on DOGE and “the actions by Elon Musk.”

“This Common Interest Agreement (“Agreement”) is made and entered into by and between the States of New Mexico, Arizona, Michigan, California, Connecticut, Hawai’i, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington and State Democracy Defenders Fund (the “Parties”). The Parties have agreed that they have a common interest in developing legal strategies to challenge the creation and actions of the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) and the actions of Elon Musk as a special government employee and a common interest in existing or future investigative, regulatory, administrative, and judicial actions or inactions, including but not limited to any administrative or judicial proceedings related to or arising from those legal strategies (“Matters of Common Interest”),” the document read.

The $105 billion in savings is just the tip of the iceberg.

Via the Oversight Project, as Trump pointed out in the Joint Address to Congress, these states want to keep spending YOUR tax dollars on wasteful programs like:

– $22 billion from HHS to for free housing and cars for illegal aliens;
– $101 million for DEI contracts at the Department of Education;
– $45 million for DEI in Burma;
– $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion for sedentary migrants;
– $8 million for LGBTQI+ promotion in Lesotho;
– $60 million for Indigenous peoples and Afro-Caribbean empowerment in Central America;
– $8 million for making mice transgender;
– $32 million for left-wing propaganda in Moldova;
– $10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique;
– $20 million for Arab “Sesame Street” in the Middle East;
– $59 million for illegal alien hotel rooms in NYC;
– $14 million for social cohesion in Mali;
– $42 million for social and behavioral change in Uganda;
– $14 million for improving public procurement in Serbia; and $47 million for improving learning outcomes in Asia.

 

The Free Press versus Darryl Cooper

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Cooper blasted a hole in their walls and they fired back with frowns and weary sighing. Being termed the ‘barbarian right’ by a twerp like Sohrab Amari just doesn’t matter. Being likened to a Nazi by Niall Ferguson is more funny than frightening. Cooper laughed at them and pressed on, becoming more radical and incisive in the months since. His enemies were organised by the grand dame of the most boring section of Substack, Bari Weiss, who deemed the articles by Andrew Roberts and Victor Davis Hanson so vital to the cause of anti-fascism that she paywalled them. Baron Roberts likes to boast about how much wonga he makes as an unctuary to the saviour, but we can assume that all the audiences he’s ever had amount to a lot less than Cooper’s on that one day.

“Andrew Roberts, responding to Aaron McLean’s suggestion that ‘the Second World War, its contemporary understanding, and Churchill’s iconic status form a kind of founding mythology for our current world’, said, ‘Yes. Absolutely. Thank God it does’.”

That world is ending, though.

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The Free Press versus Darryl Cooper

Elon Musk’s Suggestion Box

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The federal Hatch Act bars most employees of the CIA and other spy agencies from engaging in partisan political activity, but the status of contractors is murkier.

Elon Musk’s Suggestion Box

I’m getting a little impatient waiting for Elon Musk to get to the two behemoths of government waste, fraud and abuse, so I’m dropping these in the suggestion box: Please hurry up and zero-out the CIA and TSA.

I attribute the continued existence of these pestilences to Hollywood movies, the imaginary place where CIA agents are competent, and the fact that no one in a position to decide the TSA’s fate flies commercial. The president and members of Congress should all be required to fly out of JFK at least once.

To give the devil his due, the CIA is finally on the cusp of determining whether the Ayatollah Khomeini poses a threat, and what posture the U.S. should take toward the shah. The agency expects to have a report on the president’s desk by the end of the week.

In case you’ve forgotten, just months before Khomeini’s Iranian Revolution overthrew the shah, this multibillion-dollar spy agency concluded that “Iran is not in a revolutionary or even a pre-revolutionary situation” and that “the shah is expected to remain actively in power over the next 10 years.”

Similarly, about a year before the Soviet Union imploded, the CIA reported that the USSR was in good shape and, indeed, “the Soviet economy significantly improved last year.”

The CIA analysts whose job it was to monitor India’s progress on a nuclear program found out India had successfully detonated nuclear blasts the day after it happened, when they woke up and read about it in The Washington Post.

Then there was that shining exemplar of competence in 1999, when the U.S. accidentally bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade because the CIA had failed to update its addresses of foreign embassies. (In its defense, the CIA did mail the Chinese embassy one of those “Haven’t heard from you in a while!” postcards prior to the bombing.)

What good are we getting out of the CIA? Its defenders claim that we never hear of all the dastardly plots it foiled. So why don’t they tell us? Sorry, that’s “classified.”

The agency sure missed a few big ones. It didn’t see 9/11 coming, much less the next dozen terrorist attacks on U.S. soil committed with foreign assistance.

The CIA’s most successful mission was against its own country, meddling in the 2020 presidential campaign by publicizing that not-at-all-political letter, organized by CIA acting director Michael Morell [and Anthony Blinken] and signed by “51 intelligence officers,” warning Americans that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation.”

USAID was bad, but it cost only $40 billion in U.S. taxpayer money every year to make the world a gayer, Blacker, more transgender and matriarchal place. The CIA burns through nearly 2 1/2 times that much money every year, and we’d be better served if the agency literally burned the money.

With the savings from getting rid of this useless agency, we should hire the Israeli intelligence guy who came up with the exploding beeper idea. We can pay him whatever he wants — up to $106 billion.

Want to be popular? Abolish the TSA. Mostly a full employment program for “body positive” gals who didn’t work out at Target, TSA is doing something that doesn’t need to be done and failing at it.

The 9/11 attacks were a sucker punch that can never be repeated. Now, passengers know that hijackings don’t always end with a safe landing in Cuba. They aren’t going to sit quietly while vastly outnumbered terrorists try to turn the plane into a missile.

As the TSA itself admits, it is guarding against a threat that doesn’t exist. In classified legal filings from 2013, the agency acknowledged that terrorists “are not known to be actively plotting against civil aviation targets or airports” and “there have been no attempted domestic hijackings of any kind in the 12 years since 9/11.”

The only protection we ever needed was hardened cockpit doors and the knowledge that there are lunatics in the world who would use a commercial flight for a kamikaze attack. (Another great defensive measure would be to stop letting those lunatics come into our country.)

Every year, Homeland Security agents posing as passengers try to get mock weapons and explosives through TSA screening, and every year, 80% to 95% of the handguns, hacksaws, sticks of dynamite, surface-to-air missiles and other banned items get through. (Luckily, the government took quick action to remedy this catastrophe: It now hides the results. Yes, the TSA’s pass/fail rate is “classified” information.)

TSA screening accomplishes nothing except to waste 400 million hours of Americans’ time every year. Four hundred million hours. Over 20 years, that’s 8 billion hours of the government irritating us that could have been spent enjoyably or productively, at the beach, playing with children, curing cancer or colonizing the moon.

Here’s an idea I came up with in less than 400 million hours: Let the airlines do their own screening. They don’t want their planes crashing into buildings, but they also don’t want to annoy the crap out of their customers. (Except Delta, where “Annoying the Crap Out of Customers” is their motto.) The vast majority of passengers are already known to them. More than 80% of flyers are in frequent flyer programs.

I recognize that good policies can have negative consequences that spill over into innocent lives. With that in mind, we’ll have to make sure any grandmothers who still want to be anally probed for no reason whatsoever can be accommodated, but that’s precisely the kind of thing the free market can deliver.

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Is The UK Heading For Civil War? Professor Predicts Mass Unrest Within Five Years due To Open Borders, Social Fracture, Eroding Legitimacy

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Betz’s analysis highlights the dangers of what he terms “asymmetric multiculturalism,” a phenomenon in which ethnic pride and group solidarity are celebrated for all groups except the white majority.

Is The UK Heading For Civil War? Professor Predicts Mass Unrest Within Five Years due To Open Borders, Social Fracture, Eroding Legitimacy

Lance D. Johnson

    • Professor David Betz, a top academic and government advisor, warns the UK is “explosively configured” for civil war within five years.
    • Betz cites the “destruction of legitimacy” caused by open borders, grooming gang scandals, and a politicized judiciary.
    • The UK’s shift toward a heterogenous society, combined with economic decline and cultural displacement, fuels nativist sentiment.
    • Betz argues that “asymmetric multiculturalism” alienates the white majority, creating fertile ground for revolt.
    • The UK’s historical stability is eroding, with mass immigration and societal malaise pushing the nation toward unprecedented unrest.

The destruction of legitimacy: how the UK lost its way

The United Kingdom, once a bastion of stability and constitutional governance, now teeters on the brink of civil war, according to a dire warning from Professor David Betz, a leading academic and government advisor. In a recent podcast appearance with journalist Louise Perry, Betz, who teaches at King’s College London and has advised the UK Ministry of Defence and GCHQ, declared that British society is “explosively configured” for mass unrest. He predicts a national eruption within five years, driven by the government’s failure to secure borders, protect citizens, maintain freedom of speech and sustain social cohesion. This alarming forecast comes as the UK grapples with the fallout of open border policies, a two-tier justice system, and a growing sense of cultural and economic dispossession among its citizens.

Betz’s grim assessment centers on what he calls the “destruction of legitimacy” within British institutions. He traces this erosion back to the political establishment’s attempts to subvert the 2016 Brexit vote, which fractured the social contract between the government and the people. “If you want to create domestic turmoil in a society, then what the British government has been doing is almost textbook exactly what you would do,” Betz said. The professor argues that successive governments have exacerbated tensions by failing to address critical issues, such as the grooming gang scandals that disproportionately affected working-class communities and the unchecked influx of migrants that has transformed the nation’s demographic landscape.

The UK’s open border policies, Betz contends, have not only strained public services but also fueled a sense of betrayal among citizens who feel their concerns are ignored or dismissed as “hate speech.” This dismissal, coupled with a highly politicized judiciary that appears to favor certain groups over others, has deepened the divide between the ruling class and the populace. “We now live in a deeply fractured nation,” Betz said, “one that has much less connection to those aspects of its history which previously made it content and well governed.”

The powder keg of asymmetric multiculturalism

Betz’s analysis highlights the dangers of what he terms “asymmetric multiculturalism,” a phenomenon in which ethnic pride and group solidarity are celebrated for all groups except the white majority. For whites, such expressions are often labeled as supremacist or racist, creating a double standard that alienates a significant portion of the population. “This provides an argument for revolt on the part of the white majority (or large minority) that is rooted in stirring language of justice,” Betz explained. This dynamic, combined with long-term economic decline and the government’s inability to provide basic stability, has created a volatile environment ripe for conflict.

The professor’s warning is particularly striking given the UK’s historical reputation as a stable, functioning democracy. Unlike nations with a history of violent revolution or civil strife, Britain has traditionally resolved its disputes through peaceful, constitutional means. However, Betz argues that the current combination of social, cultural, and economic pressures has pushed the nation into uncharted territory. “The danger area,” he said, “is in the middle – societies that are becoming more heterogenous and in which a previously dominant social majority fears that it is losing its place.”

When Elon Musk suggested last year that civil war in the UK was “inevitable,” the reaction from politicians and pundits was one of derision. Yet, Betz’s sobering analysis lends credence to Musk’s prediction, painting a picture of a nation unraveling under the weight of its own contradictions. The UK’s historical stability, once a source of pride, now feels like a distant memory as mass immigration, cultural displacement, and economic stagnation erode the foundations of society.

Betz’s warning is not the rant of a fringe conspiracy theorist but the measured assessment of a respected academic and government advisor. His credentials lend gravity to his prediction, forcing even skeptics to confront the possibility that the UK is headed for a catastrophic breakdown. As the nation’s leaders continue to prioritize ideological agendas over the needs of their citizens, the risk of widespread unrest grows ever more real. …