We are nearing the end of a natural political cycle

Walt spent a large part of the weekend watching the parade. Vas you dere, Charlie? 

I don't think you need me to tell you what the event was about really, and why it was inevitable. Words like "fascist" and "nazi" and (of course) "dictatorship" were being shouted at us repeatedly by the the lickspittle media all weekend... before, during and after the parade itself. Like this.

"Tanks, flypasts, missiles: what to expect at Trump’s ‘dictator chic’ military parade Washington will host a celebration of US army’s 250th anniversary, which also coincides with president’s birthday" The Grauniad [Readers of Private Eye will understand this. Ed.] 13/5/25. 

"America Is Finally Getting A Fascist Dictator Parade, Courtesy Of Donald Trump Trump has long admired autocrats like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping, and now he is getting an autocrat's parade" Huffpost (surprised?) 14/5/25. 

"Trump presides over army parade: Celebration or ‘dictator behaviour’? Tanks roll through US capital to mark army’s 250th anniversary, prompting cheers and condemnation" Al-Jazeera, 15/6/25

I didn't bother to read any of these very predictable anti-Trump tirades. Reading what follows such loony left headlines is like following a lit fuse in search of an explosion; you won't have long to wait.

Nor was I suprised by the anti-ICE and "No kings!" mostly peaceful demonstrations (TM), fomented by TDS-afflicted Dimocrats and agitators paid by the usual suspects.

I'm not worried by what's happening in and to the United States of America these days. I care, but I'm not worried. Why not? Let me quote from Left Luggage by C. Northcote Parkinson (referred to on Saturday and highly recommended), at page 114: The common though not invariable pattern [of political development] has been for democracy to turn into socialism, for socialism to end in chaos, and for a dictatorship to restore some sort of order.

The cleansing of America will be painful, but it has to happen before America can be made great again. Those who do not believe this had best get out of the way!

Further reading: "MSNBC Shocked Army’s 250th Birthday Lacked 'Tense' or 'Dark, Malevolent Energy'", Townhall, 15/6/25.

The Skinny Lady hasn't sung yet

Here's a FACT that Mitch McConnell, Chris Christie, David Frum, CNN, MSNBC, Chris Sununu, and all the anti-Trumpers (including, sadly, Walt's Agent 2) can't deny. President Donald J. Trump won the New Hampshire Republican primary.

And the corollary... Despite having spent over $30 million in donations from big business and the Establishment, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley garnered something like 44% of the votes against 55% for Mr. Trump.

Yet somehow, Ms Haley (née Nimarata Hikki Randhawa) insisted in her un-concession speech that somehow she had won, and would follow up her triumph with a win in South Carolina in a month's time.

Let's see now. Ms Haley ran third (of the main contenders) in Iowa, and second (of two) in New Hampshire. Putting it another way, she was last in Iowa, last in New Hampshire, and now she expects to finish first in South Carolina. Really?

There hasn't been much polling in Ms Haley's home state yet, but state polls taken before the Iowa caucuses, showed her trailing President Trump by 30 percentage points, give or take. The Donald enjoys very strong support there, and has been endorsed by prominent South Carolina politicians including Senators Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham.

Here's another FACT. If you exclude all the disaffected Republicans (including NH Governor Chris Sununu), Democrats and independents who voted for Ms Haley, President Trump's margin was at least double the 11% of the total vote. President Trump now owns the Republican Party, and has all but clinched the GOP nomination for thee 2024 presidential election.

Last night, talking of Ms Haley (although he didn't mention her by name), he said, "She's doing... a speech like she won. She didn't win. She lost." 

After last night's result, Americans can now look forward -- with anticipation or fear, take your  pick -- to a rematch of the stolen 2020 contest. The people and organizations mentioned in the first paragraph -- including Ms Haley -- insist that such a contest will be close. 

Before the NH polls closed yesterday, President Brandon puffed up his hollow chest and boasted that he was the only one who had beaten Mr Trump before, and he would do so again. The Democrats have even printed up T-shirts bearing that message. Walt sez: Oh yeah? Care to put some money on it? Lifetime pct .989.

On to New Hampshire, while CNN, MSNBC sulk

I hear there is already much soiling of shorts at the DNC HQ. My sources tell me President Brandon has been invited to come out of hiding and get into the office for a little talk.

And this is only the beginning of the end for Senile Joe and The Boy. As Nelson Muntz sez: HA-ha. 

Oh yeah... stay tuned... but NOT to CNN or MSNBC. Read: "MSNBC, CNN Refuse to Air Donald Trump's Victory Speech in Iowa but Air Haley and DeSantis Speeches", Breitbart News, 16/1/23.

Top 5 American sources of fake news

Here's a meme that pretty much sums things up, taken from "CNN Introduces Segment Where They Rant About What Trump Would Have Tweeted If He Hadn't Gotten Kicked Off Of Twitter"

on Babylon Bee (where else?), 21/4/21.

How about the rest of the world? In Canada, Germany and the Disunited Kingdom, the news sources you can distrust the most are those owned by the all-powerful state. They may pretend to operate at arm's length -- the CBC (Canadian Broadcorping Castration) is a so-called "independent crown corporation -- but they know who signs the paycheques.

Walt recommends (mostly for Americans): NTD News Today. And of course Breitbart... For Canadians and Americans: Blazing Cat Fur ... and keep reading WWW!

The truth is not out there. There truth is here!

Anus horribilis 2020: Walt's Newsmaker of the Year

Ed. here. 2020 is almost over, thank God, truly an Annus Horribilis if ever there was one. (I know my Latin but Walt insists on leaving the headline as he wrote it.) Sorry for the interruption yestereday evening. We return now to our yearend review, to present the coveted Wally Award to the Newsmaker of the Year. May I have the envelope please? ... And the winner is...

   

Well who did you expect? Sleepy Joe Biden, the all-but-invisible "President-elect"? Do an analysis of the amount of time and space given by the meeja to the contestants in the fraudulent election for the Presidensity between Hallowe'en and Christmas, and you'll see that Still-President Donald J. Trump is the winner, leaving Old Joe waaaay up the track.

The lamestream media has been preoccupied with The Donald for at least five years. First there was speculation over whether or not he would throw his hat in the ring. Then there was the great debate over whether to take his campaign for the Republican nomination seriously. Should they put it in the political news or the entertainment news. Still news, right?

Then Mr Trump was nominated, and the controlled media had to start taking him seriously... although not respectfully. The minute his candidacy for othe Highest Office in the Land became official, the anti-Trump campaign began. Suddenly America's media were filled with rumours, speculation, disinformation and outright lies. (Hello, Russian conspiracy!)

But the media storm of scorn didn't matter. In an election which was a model of fairness and honesty compared with V.2020, the American people chose as their leader a man after their own collective heart.

If you search YouTube, you can still find dozens of videos of the astonishment and humiliation of all those "exports", "analysts", pollsters and other pundits -- not forgetting "celebrities" -- who had to eat generous helpings of crow, live and on the air, when it became apparent that the horrible, politically incorrect "Orange Man" was going to become the 45th President of the United States. But that was only the beginning!

   

The sun hadn't even risen (out here at least) on The Morning After, when the "Resistance" began. How many times have you seen this iconic photo, or read the slogan "Not my president!" since then? 

The anti-Trumpers went... and remain... stark staring bonkers in their refusal to accept the fact that Donald Trump won the 2016 election, became President... and still is President. 

Our own Agent 17 offered to bet that President Trump wouldn't finish his term. And the Swamp -- the Democrats and the Washington establishment -- did their damndest to make it so. Remember the impeachment farce?

That didn't work either, so here we are, with just over three weeks of the Trump presidency remaining, and the same fake news media -- for that's what they are -- less concerned with predicting the shape and direction of a Biden administration than with guessing how President Trump might contrive to remain in office. 

Will Old Joe's inauguration be forestalled by another appeal to SCOTUS? A declaration of martial law? A military coup? Or some kind of divine intervention? (Remember what happened to Pope John Paul I!) Check the fake news outlets -- CNN, MSNBC, Fox, CBS, ABC, CBC, any of them! -- today and see if that's not what they're talking about. That, dear reader, is why Still-President Donald J. Trump is Walt's Newsmaker of the Year!

Further reading: "CNN: 'Our Ratings Are Only Tanking Because Trump Is Killing Off Viewers By The Millions'", Babylon Bee, 26/8/19. Satire from the pre-Covid daze!

Why Matt Taibbi thinks the deep state coup vs Pres Trump is dangerous

It's been a while since we quoted Matt Taibbi here, not because of his leftish political views [Free speech for everyone! Ed.], and certainly not because he's not funny. He is a fine writer and I can't help but chuckle as I read something like Insane Clown President. The thing is that I wait for Mr Taibbi's books to appear, because I refuse to read Rolling Stone. So I was pleased to discover, today, that Mr T pens (or types) Untitledgate, a newsletter (or "serial book", as he calls it"), which will be delivered to you by e-mail... if you subscribe, of course.

Even better news is that some parts are available to cheap Charlies [like Walt! Ed.] who want to read before they shell out the spondulix. The most recent offering, headed "We're in a permanent coup", is subheaded "Americans might soon wish they just waited to vote their way out of the Trump era". Eh? Must read! Here are some excerpts.

We have long been spared this madness [change of government by coup] in America. Our head-counting ceremony was Election Day. We did it once every four years. That’s all over, in the Trump era....

The men who are the proxies for Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani...are asserting that "official channels" have been corrupted. The forces backing impeachment, meanwhile, are telling us those same defendants are obstructing a lawful impeachment inquiry.... We are speeding toward a situation when someone in one of these camps refuses to obey a major decree, arrest order, or court decision, at which point Americans will get to experience the joys of their political futures being decided by phone calls to generals and police chiefs.

My discomfort in the last few years, first with Russiagate and now with Ukrainegate and impeachment, stems from the belief that the people pushing hardest for Trump's early removal are more dangerous than Trump. Many Americans don't see this because they're not used to waking up in a country where you're not sure who the president will be by nightfall. They don’t understand that this predicament is worse than having a bad president.

The Trump presidency is the first to reveal a full-blown schism between the intelligence community and the White House. Senior figures in the CIA, NSA, FBI and other agencies made an open break from their would-be boss before Trump's inauguration, commencing a public war of leaks that has not stopped....

The agencies' new trick is inserting themselves into domestic politics using leaks and media pressure. The "intel chiefs" meeting was just the first in a series of similar stories, many following the pattern in which a document was created, passed from department from department, and leaked. [Examples are given.] ...

I don't believe most Americans have thought through what a successful campaign to oust Donald Trump would look like. Most casual news consumers can only think of it in terms of Mike Pence becoming president. The real problem would be the precedent of a de facto intelligence community veto over elections, using the lunatic spookworld brand of politics that has dominated the last three years of anti-Trump agitation.

CIA/FBI-backed impeachment could also be a self-fulfilling prophecy. If Donald Trump thinks he's going to be jailed upon leaving office, he'll sooner or later figure out that his only real move is to start acting like the "dictator" MSNBC and CNN keep insisting he is. Why give up the White House and wait to be arrested, when he still has theoretical authority to send Special Forces troops rappelling through the windows of every last Russiagate/Ukrainegate leaker? That would be the endgame in a third world country, and it's where we're headed, unless someone calls off this craziness. Welcome to the Permanent Power Struggle.

VIDEO: Tim Ryan (D-OH) predicts Dems could lose 48 states in 2020

Jim Dandee writes from Zyzx Springs CA (you can look it up) "Do you really think that whatever's going on north of the 49th parallel is more important than the competition to see who can lead the Democrats over the cliff? What are you, some kind of Canuck lover?" OK, Jim, I am well chastised. No more stuff about Max Bernier or the People's Party of Canada until after Labour Day.

To swing the spotlight back onto American politics, Walt is pleased to present a very short video clip from this morning's broadcast of MSNBC's generally execrable Morning Joe. Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH), who inexplicably wants to be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, appeared to be quizzed by Joe Scarborough, "Reverend" Al Sharpton (and others). In the very last minute of the interview, Rep. Ryan warned that some of the top candidates in the 2020 Democratic field "have taken positions that will lose 48 states". Those positions, he said, include ffree health care for illegal immigrants, decriminalizing border crossings, and abolishing private health insurance. Check it out.



I would have sworn that I heard Congressman Ryan Al Sharpton "Rabbi", which is pretty funny when you consider Mr Sharpton's long history of anti-Semitic statements and rhetoric. Anyway, in case you didn't hear him clearly, here's Breitbart's transcript of what he said after that blooper.

"I think some of the lead candidates have taken positions that will lose 48 states, and I'm trying to figure out what the two are we're going to win. I mean, if you're talking about free health care for undocumented workers, and the average person in some of these states that we have to win are busting their rear end to provide health care for their own families and paying a lot of money for it.

"I think decriminalizing at the border is a mistake. If you want to come into the country, you'e got to ring the doorbell and it should be a crime to just try to walk into the United States.

"I think the single-payer idea of telling people they can't have their private health insurance, you're going to go to all these union people in the industrial Midwest and tell them they've negotiated away wages to get really good health care, and you're going to tell them we're going to take that health care from you because we've got a better idea in Washington, DC? I think that’s a mistake."

Mr Ryan's voice will not be heard in the Democratic candidate wannabes debate next month, since he has failed to jump over the very low bar of 1% in the polls. So, farewell then, Tim, and let no-one say that the Democrats weren't warned!

VIDEO: Krystal Ball says leftist media "Infowars conspiracy" hurt Dems

Not being a watcher of MSNBC, I had never heard of Krystal Ball until today. Doubting that that could be her real name, I Googled it, and found that according to Wikipedia, Krystal Marie Ball (DOB 24/11/81) is an American journalist [sic], politician ("Democratic" omitted), and news talk anchor on The Hill's news programme Rising with the Hill's Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti. She is also a businesswoman and certified public accountant, which of course made her eminently qualified to co-hos MSNBC's afternoon news/talk show The Cycle from June 2012 to July 2015. In the 2010 election, she ran for the Democratic Party in Virginia's 1st Congressional District. She lost.

Now somewhat removed from the institutional left, Ms Ball has turned (somewhat) on her former employer and colleagues at MSNBC, and admitted publicly that the abortive effort of the (((controlled media))) -- Hello not only to MSNBC but to CNN and the rest! -- to swing the 2016 presidential election and then enact a coup is doing a great deal to the Democrats. In this video, she concedes that the backlash against the Trump-hating media is only starting to play out. The 'Infowars conspiracy theory' on Russia and "this whole setup has done more damage to the Democrats' chances of winning back the White House than anything that Trump could ever have dreamed up." That's what the lady says.

Walt will eschew any jokes about cycles or crystal balls. Just watch the short (6:21) video.