‘I don’t welcome people who want to work solo or be a star,’ Wiles told Axios. ‘My team and I will not tolerate backbiting, second-guessing inappropriately, or drama. These are counterproductive to the mission.’
I will admit this obviously forced appointment and the extreme reluctance visible in the announcement that accompanies it, is just stunning to me. I totally get what President Trump is saying, but I had no idea how limited he feels he is on the issue. Wow, just wow.
Morgan Ortagus is a very special kind of obvious Intelligence Community asset who always eats in the kitchen of the State Dept Restuarant. Ortagus reeks of tradecraft when you are around her. A convert to Judaism having married Jonathan Weinberger (2013), another dual passport holding IC asset (foreign govt) and former vice president of the Center for Global Innovation Policy, Mrs Ortagus is deeply entrenched with the Israeli intelligence community and political lobby.
Those IC credentials (specifically USAID/CIA) are what brought Morgan Ortagus to be spokesperson for the U.S. State Dept under the tutelage and alignment with former CIA Director turned Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. This is the deep kitchen crew; DEEP, as in VERY DEEP.
Without any doubt whatsoever, this appointment was demanded by President Trump’s Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio, deep state and AIPAC Senate control agent, Lindsey Graham, some very key and influential donors connected to AIPAC, and the one figure that I predict will be first dispatched by President Trump, national security adviser Mike Waltz. This aforementioned crew all hold an agenda to support those who eat in the kitchen.
President Trump likely cannot call out the kitchen diners without seriously disturbing the network that keeps the Deep State operating. Instead, he references them by saying, “These things usually don’t work out, but she has strong Republican support, and I’m not doing this for me, I’m doing it for them. Let’s see what happens.” Where “strong Republican support” means the elected officials, majority funded by AIPAC.
A remarkable statement to witness within the announcement; literally jaw-dropping when you know specifically what President Trump is insinuating.
This announcement is the type of honest code speak that pushes the boundaries of getting a person assassinated. President Trump is figurately blinking S.O.S. as he types into his device (stares into the camera). I’m not joking about this. President Trump literally calls attention to Morgan Ortagus “intelligence” background, and you only need to see USAID in her resume’ to understand what that means in relation to her conversion to Judaism.
Only a small number of Americans understand the relationship between the U.S. State Dept (DoS) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). However, as more people understand how these two agencies operate, then people have a much more accurate context for how both agencies are viewed by the rest of the world.
Almost every deployed CIA operative has a cover profile within the State Dept. The foreign service missions of the DoS and CIA are so enmeshed there is literally no way to separate the functions of their agencies. [Go back to the Benghazi Attack for an operational reference] CIA/DoS have to be viewed through the prism of connection.
To better understand this concept, I use the following metaphor:
♦ The U.S State Dept and CIA operation is like a restaurant. The Dept of State is the front of the restaurant, with the Secretary as the Maitre D’. The CIA is the back of the restaurant, the kitchen. The CIA Director is the Chef. The consulates are the wait staff. USAID are the food runners. The Dept of Defense are the bus boys.
The tables and chairs are assigned by the Maitre D’ according to their value. Countries viewed as more important get the best tables. The menus offered to each nation are completely different. Israel has a table in the kitchen. To get the best experience, tips (bribes) are required for everyone, from the parking valets outside, to the sommelier, to the server. Currently, Ukraine is the biggest tipper.
On the oversight aspect the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is the control mechanism to approve/install the Secretary of State. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is the control mechanism to approve/install the CIA Director. Everything therein and thereafter is a system of pretending it is something else.
The Dept of State (DoS) is so large there’s no way of addressing the inherent institutional corruption. The Secretary of State can control a small portion of DoS operations, but that’s usually only the geopolitical stuff we see discussed on television, in print media or in press conferences. The business functions of the DoS take place within a network of carefully guarded silos, all under the control of the Intelligence Community.
I will admit this obviously forced appointment and the extreme reluctance visible in the announcement that accompanies it, is just stunning to me. I totally get what President Trump is saying, but I had no idea how limited he feels he is on the issue. Wow, just wow.
Last point, this also makes President Trump’s response to the Musk situation that much more understandable.
We have been expecting this. Adams refers to the 10/7 attack in Israel as a test run and says ‘they’re coming for us’ next. Elsewhere in a longer version of the above video (posted below), she says Al-Qaeda was involved in 10/7. But many of us, including me, believe Israel and the CIA had foreknowledge of that attack. Is Shawn Ryan a player on the inside along with Adams? More importantly, are they real American patriots or mind-control agents with nefarious intent? I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt. There are going to be many messages and turning points like this where we will have to trust whoever. That’s how it is and will continue and will become very intense as soon as Trump takes office, if not before. ABN
This is interesting and hard to parse. Our government has without question been infiltrated by ‘scum’. USA is ‘breaking down’. Is there a faction in the CIA that has not been infiltrated? If not, who can we turn to? Many believe Trump is going to usher in a security state we will never get rid of. But what would it look like if he were really trying to clean up the government? Probably no different. We the plebs have little choice in how Trump decides to act. We can offer mass resistance if it goes badly and support if it goes well, but need to be careful how we decide either way. I am inclined to give Trump the benefit of the doubt for at least three months. We can expect a hard crackdown on illegals, and may also see crackdowns on government ‘scum’, human traffickers, cartels, gangs, fentanyl, terrorist sleeper cells, corrupt state and local officials, sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. Let’s hope for the best. There is no way Trump is not part of the elite and no way he is not the public figurehead of that part of the elite. Politics is the art of the possible. I expect Trump to be significantly better than Biden and accept that he has to go full bore or go nowhere at all. ABN
America’s success has not been due primarily to its citizens being smarter than the global average. The main reason is the country’s high level of social trust — a result of equally high levels of empathy, guilt proneness, and rule following.
If humans vary in their capacity for intelligence, why can’t they also vary in their capacity for empathy, guilt proneness, or willingness to follow rules? These mental traits are likewise heritable, and they likewise vary in adaptive value, being more valuable in some cultures than in others (Frost, 2020).
Perhaps you believe that the above traits form a single package. Perhaps you believe that intelligent people are normally good. Yes, cunning psychopaths do exist, but they’re the exception … aren’t they?
That belief is true, up to a point. As human groups increased in size and complexity, they underwent selection not only for intelligence but also for traits that help people trust each other, get along with each other, and interact peacefully.
However, some human groups have gone farther in that direction than others. Some have created truly large and complex societies, to the point that the sphere of social trust mostly encompasses people who are neither friends nor close kin.
Large high-trust societies have arisen only in Europe, especially northwestern Europe, and in East Asia. In both regions, we see similar trajectories of mental evolution: higher capacity for intelligence, less willingness to use violence to settle personal disputes, and greater willingness to follow and enforce rules. But there are differences. East Asians have created “shame cultures” — wrong behavior is discouraged largely by the feelings of shame you experience when other people know you have broken a rule. In contrast, Europeans have created “guilt cultures” — wrong behavior is discouraged largely by the feelings of guilt you experience after breaking a rule, even when you are the sole witness.
…Of course, high intelligence has not evolved solely in the large high-trust societies of Europe and East Asia. It has evolved elsewhere, typically in small groups that trade with a much larger one while feeling no special responsibility for its wellbeing. Such groups have to adapt to the cognitive demands of trade — literacy, numeracy, planning, budgeting — but this adaptation doesn’t require turning the entire space of social interaction into a high-trust space. Trust has to be maintained only in smaller spaces, particularly the buyer-seller relationship. Although traders may perform acts of philanthropy for their host society, such acts are done to create a friendly climate and are not involuntary acts of guilt or empathy.
In sum, high intelligence does not act alone in creating a high-trust society. It acts in combination with other factors that channel it in the right direction, specifically by constraining behavior through high levels of empathy, guilt, and rule following. Without those constraints, high intelligence may do more harm than good.
…Americans love to play fair. To them, it seems only “fair” that immigration should be based on a single metric that applies equally to everyone — in this case, a college degree. Meanwhile, it also seems “fair” that everyone should get a college degree, with the eventual result that a college degree no longer means much. In this, and in many other ways, “fairness” is piling up one social contradiction on top of another. At some point, Americans will have to accept the limitations of fairness and the reality of human differences.
At present, the best solution would be to let in as few immigrants as possible. Any admission criterion, no matter how “fair” — criminal record, university transcript, letters of reference — will prove to be worthless, either because it can be faked or because it simply fails to measure the innate characteristics that prospective immigrants will pass on to their descendants.
Please read the whole article. It is by Peter Frost and is one of the best articles I have seen on the subject of immigration, H1B visas, and what it takes to make a good American citizen. Frost’s analysis should be a foundation for any and all talk on American immigration policy. ABN
Don’t be lulled by fake MAGA truce: H1B issue is indeed consequential. When Dems & GOP offshored mfg (NAFTA, WTO), rationale was that Americans would get great “tech service” jobs—but H1B showed they wouldn’t get those jobs either. 1/
And there’s nothing you can do about it, said Dems and GOP alike. You want those jobs back? Where’s your magic wand? And besides, you deserve the pain, clinging to your guns and God — you’re racist, homophobic, etc. you’re deplorables 2/
This is what Trump was elected to fight, but according to Vivek: In fact, the things that have caused you pain are your fault. Your culture prizes mediocrity, your parents raised you poorly. Then Elon: Fight me on a thing that has hurt you, and I will crush you. 3/
Vivek continues to double down: instead of walking back or even just modifying his public rebuke of American families, he characterizes it as one of his “hard truths” — as other MAGA influencers have jumped to his defense: 4/
‘In fact nothing bad happened, it was simply a conversation, and it’s the left who is trying to divide us!’ But to tell people long targeted by an elite demoralization campaign that they shouldn’t believe what they heard with their own ears and blame it on others is predatory. 5/
So, yes H1B matters because it’s an effect of the core issue — indeed the reason DJT is POTUS — a political and corporate establishment that has waged a half-century long campaign to destroy the American middle class. End
The Silicon Valley immigration priority was not the topic I thought would explode and fracture the tenuous MAGA alignment with the New Big Tech group represented by Elon Musk and his billionaire network. However, we learn more every day.
This is a jaw-dropping moment to watch unfold as a very influential sector of the political discourse begins a full-frontal attack against those who are pointing out how the tech community abuse H1B visas to replace American workers. In the background, of course, is the context of widespread immigration policy fraud being one of the priorities for the average Trump supporter.
The Silicon Valley team do not seem to review discussion of the H1B manipulation/fraud within the larger American economy as a problem, as long as the discussion of the visa fraud does not impact their business models. However, as soon as the H1B abuse started to be framed around Silicon Valley’s participation therein, the New Big Tech group take a nuclear war approach to defending their interests.
Having followed the immigration issue for a long time, yet specifically only having a big picture review of the H1B visa issues, it has been astounding to watch how Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, David Sacks and the Silicon Valley supporters and influencers are responding to having the H1B visa fraud confronted. The self-interest in their defense is just astronomical to watch unfold.
Empowered by what can only be reasonably defined as their perceived influence over President Trump, the new-era Tech team are quite forcefully telling the MAGA base of Trump-supporting American workers that their concerns, views and perspectives are irrelevant.
It appears that most of the explosive sentiments revolve around H1B visas in the tech sector issued to Indian workers specifically. Apparently, the friendships, networks and teams attached to the sector of computer engineering carry with them an emotional component. I guess that should not be a surprise considering this is essentially a peer-to-peer wagon circling, in defense of the H1B visa problems in the tech sector.
As said before, it always appeared the MAGA alignment with Silicon Valley would not be an issue until the interests of the billionaire tech team came into conflict with the MAGA base. I did not anticipate the fracture being so fast, nor did I anticipate immigration would be the trigger. However, H1B visa issuance is apparently a key part of the Silicon Valley business model.
That said, several pragmatic aspects of the discussion are now being lost amid a very toxic shouting match that has begun. President Trump and JD Vance are, perhaps understandably, staying very quiet at the moment. However, that silence is soon to be impossible as both sides of a very divisive issue are going to eventually demand President Trump to weigh in.
…As I watch this debate unfold, I find myself finally realizing why all the Silicon Valley tech people were such staunch Democrats. Their worldview does not: (1) seem to comprehend American Economic Nationalism as a priority; (2) seem to appreciate the importance of true liberty in the creation of the remarkable outcomes from American exceptionalism; and (#3) they appear to be inside a bubble of self-interest, unattached and unaffected by the economic issues that have seriously harmed the MAGA base.
In essence, the Silicon Valley network represented by Elon Musk team, does not connect in the same way to the important priorities of middle America. The technocrats are, well, Technocrats.
UPDATE: I have watched two hours and forty-three minutes of this discussion. I rarely watch podcasts for this long. I found this one weirdly spell-binding because, though all of the speakers are very articulate, this ‘discussion’ is a remarkable example of how badly real people really talk. The entire content can be summarized in a few words. Jack wants to ban the vax on Trump Day One. Calley wants to go more slowly, be politic about it. Mary agrees with Jack but can see Calley’s POV. Danny is unable to boil it down so it goes on and on. It’s worth watching because the psycholinguistics are so simple and also so tangled it becomes a work of disaster art or disperformance art. ABN
Donald Trump has made his strongest bid yet to take over Canada, offering the Canadian people a 60 percent tax cut if they agree to join the US and become the 51st US state.
On Christmas, Trump escalated his campaigns against the governments of both Panama and Canada.
‘Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago), always making certain that the United States puts in Billions of Dollars in “repair” money, but will have absolutely nothing to say about “anything,”‘ Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday.
‘Also, to Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose Citizens’ Taxes are far too high, but if Canada was to become our 51st State, their Taxes would be cut by more than 60%, their businesses would immediately double in size, and they would be militarily protected like no other Country anywhere in the World.
‘Likewise, to the people of Greenland, which is needed by the United States for National Security purposes and, who want the U.S. to be there, and we will!’
The Archives of Sexual Behavior recently published research that examines the role of dark personality traits in activism. The findings indicate a pattern where narcissistic grandiosity is associated with higher participation in LGBTQ movements, demonstrating that motivations for activism can range widely from genuine altruism to personal image-building.
The researchers were driven to explore these motivations to better understand a concept they proposed: the dark-ego-vehicle principle, a theoretical framework suggesting that some individuals might exploit social activism for self-serving purposes. According to this principle, individuals with “dark” personality traits—such as narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, or sadism—may engage in activism not to advance its altruistic goals but to satisfy their own self-serving needs. These individuals exploit activism as a “vehicle” to fulfill desires for attention, status, or power.
“The DEVP assumes that individuals with high levels of dark traits may inauthentically and selfishly use prosocial activism to satisfy their own ego-focused dark needs (e.g., the need to signal one’s own moral virtue, a behavior that has been coined virtue signaling),” explained study authors Ann Krispenz, a postdoctoral associate, and Alex Bertrams, the head of the Educational Psychology Lab at the University of Bern.
“As narcissistic people are particularly keen to gain attention, fame, and prestige, certain forms of activism that are currently prominently covered by the media are likely to be particularly attractive to them. We consider LGBQ and gender-identity activism as forms of activism getting a high level of public attention.”
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