...required to defeat them.
I believe this is an incorrect assumption and one that Trump did not make.
The forces of Evil are a tiny number, necessarily, otherwise the whole concept of a ruling elite is lost. By definition, their model is a few ruling the many.
With most revolutions, a ruling elite first disposes of the useful idiots that enabled them to take power and this is a very large component of the motivation for the toxic jabs. If they are to rule as a tiny minority, they have to...
...dispense with those who may otherwise feel entitled to a place at a very small table.
How does one fight a cabal that is evil enough to inflict the jabs upon its own people? Must we organise an army? Would Trump have felt the need to put together a secret cabal of his own in opposition?
I am now of the suspicion that he would not have felt it necessary and did not convene such a shadow group.
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
John Stuart Mill
The inverse of this is true as well.
To oppose bad men, it is not necessary for the good to conspire as they do, it is merely necessary that each and every good man (and woman!) do SOMETHING in response to what they see.
What I think Trump did was to make it possible for us all to do SOMETHING.
A number of patriots have researched the apparatus of the Imperial Presidency that has emerged since WW2, and with greater vehemence since 9/11.
@PatelPatriot has documented pathways for devolution of Executive Authority. #17SOG has documented the manner in which the Imperial Presidency used Continuity of Government mechanisms. I am confident that there is an array of utterly secret emergency powers that all of the presidents before Trump used to rule as despots.
But I do not think that Trump would have relied on these unconstitutional mechanisms (except perhaps briefly on a tactical basis) s the primary solution for our predicament.
I have written before that Trump's secret weapon is We the People.
The #17SOG group provided this helpful image that suggests to me what is going on.
Here we see appearing in the unprecedented group of soldiers who assembled briefly behind Trump as he spoke at his inauguration.
We see cap braid for Military Intelligence and for JAG, the military's lawyers.
These were the tools that Trump used, but not via some secret counterattack (no matter how much I wish that such would happen), but by employing a radical form of law and order to set the enemy up for defeat.
Remember that the Constitution is not a reflection of state power. It is a document promulgated by representatives of THE PEOPLE to achieve the ends desired by those people.
Trump said it himself when he told that crowd that his election was a return of power not to him or the Republicans, but to THE PEOPLE.
He was telling us exactly who needed to save the world...and it is US.
I think I will not find too much disagreement with an assertion that Military Intelligence knows ALL of what the side of Evil has been up to. Their dirty elections. Their killing of enemies. Their corrupt and degenerate lives.
MI knows where the bodies are buried and where the unconstitutional practices are at every level, public and private. MI holds the map for it all.
But a counter coup by MI white hats would not save the Republic, it would set off a tit for tat battle between...
...secret forces, a battle that would essentially exclude We the People.
Not Trumpian at all. No, Sir.
This is where JAG comes in.
EVERYTHING that is done by the military and by other government agencies is backed up with legal opinions. This is especially true if you are a corrupt and evil politician seeking to do unprecedented stuff behind the velvet curtains of secrecy. You get a civilian or military lawyer to cover your ass with a legal opinion that enables you to move forward.
These legal opinions are used to overwhelm the good people in government (as rare as they may be) and to create functional precedent for further unconstitutional innovation.
The Imperial Presidency is essentially a tissue made out of a framework of legal opinions, enforced by those politicians and bureaucrats who are enabled by these legal protections.
But like Oz behind the curtain, these legal opinions are very vulnerable to that simple and best disinfectant, sunlight.
These flimsy legal constructs simply cannot stand up to scrutiny.
I think that a primary focus of Trump's first term was a MASSIVE inventory and examination of every legal opinion that was issued, going back likely DECADES.
Then, once this was completed, JAG and military lawyers replaced these opinions with new ones that adhered strictly to the Constitution and the Rule of Law.
The other aspect of Trump's campaign against Evil was the reformation of the federal judiciary.
The hundreds of federal judges that Trump appointed and of course his three SCOTUS nominations set up Biden and his cabal for an endless stream of litigation from We the People and our representatives, especially at the state level. These have already borne fruit and have every prospect of continuing to do so for the foreseeable future.
I suspect that Biden arrived in the Oval Office (or the fake movie set version) ready to seize the pen and phone that Obama used as Emperor. He would have...
...shocked to discover the pen was out of ink and the phone had a busy signal droning out of it.
Here is where the pressure began to be applied. The obvious answer for Biden would have been to corral up a bunch of dirty lawyers and get them to cough up new opinions that reinstated Biden as Emperor.
But there is a problem. Lawyers are accountable to the courts. They are, as officers of the court, more constrained that ordinary folks. They cannot plead ignorance of the law.
How would you respond to a demand from Biden to write an opinion that contradicted one written by Trump's team that very clearly, obviously, and inescapably described the true legal position on a particular point or power?
Would you be willing to put your ability to practice law, earn a living & even stay out of jail on the line to write a flawed piece of garbage for a senile Emperor wannabe?
Would you look to the invigorated federal judiciary and relish the prospect of being hauled before...
...Justice Thomas or one of his previous clerks on a District or Appeals bench?
Would you perhaps refuse to write such an opinion? Or perhaps insist on a watered-down opinion that gives the aspirant Emperor little more to work with?
What if the new legal opinions contained verbiage that set out just how unlawful the earlier ones were and what the risks associated with return to such lawlessness were for any eager dirty lawyer?
It is clear that even an appropriately legally constrained President can do terrible damage.
The POTIDIOT jab mandates. The border. The inflated currency. Etc.
But Biden and his cabal seem to only be able to do certain things and have not been able to strike out in bold directions towards the goals associated with the globalist neofascist masters.
Is it some secret team pulling the strings?
I doubt it. Think it is simply a massive reassertion of the Rule of Law.
Further, a secret team led by Trump saving the world is not very Trumpian. A secret team can be overwhelmed by another secret team. What will save the Republic? The constituent components of the Republic; The People.
What sort of a world would we live in if Trump and a cadre saved us? An Imperial Presidency with the head being of our choice for the moment?
No. What will save the Republic is her People rising up and using the tools that the Framers gave us to defeat the Evil cabal.
Biden and his assembled team of nincompoops, degenerates, and corrupt slaves to money and power have bene baffled by their encounter with Law and Order.
I am sure they have bene doing everything they can to fight back.
Perhaps now they are getting their feet back under themselves, but it is too late.
Now they are getting bombarded with SCOTUS and lower court rulings. Any stroke of a pen sins committed by POTIDIOT are being reversed (albeit slowly...grrr) by the courts.
The pressure of ongoing investigations from Durham, Weiss, and perhaps others constrain the cabal and keep them at least somewhat muzzled at the insistence of their criminal defence lawyers.
And that is the moment that We the People must step up and deliver resounding and overwhelming victories in the November elections.
This victory will deliver a Republican Congress that will put an end to the fiscal insanity we have seen for two years. More importantly, it will set of a storm...
...of investigatory zeal that will strip bare many of the cabal's most secret and despicable machinations.
And this will be the way that we get to '24 with the Republic intact. Then the '24 election will deliver the third branch of the federal government to MAGA, and the business of building the USA back into the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave can begin in earnest with the corpse of the globalist neofascist movement placed deep in its grave.
Now, none of this is to be read as an assertion that nothing of great screech was done by Trump and his team. I suspect that the placement of Lloyd Austin in between Biden and the nuclear button was engineered. Such a safety mechanism would have bene impossible to do without. Trump HAD to do something to prevent the left from being able to destroy the world with a single act, and Austin is the sole circuit breaker in the current government.
@Andre love this!
@Andre and IF we theorize for a moment that COG is not ended but in Phase IV (Reconstitution) under a restructured form of COG with powers and decision making in very different places than during Obama admin...
What if these agencies are limiting some of that damage by way of protecting NEFs or instituting their own policies for what to do under an emergency or state of COG.
Now this makes some assumptions that we can't know definitively. But looking through that lens it would seem to apply.
Right on the money.
Mommy and Daddy came home and put the partying teenagers in their place.
Any changes made are temporary and only enough to spur the people to take responsibility for their nation without overwhelming them with things they shouldn't have to take responsibility for.
The ultimate goal will be to logically and psychologically position the people to reconstitute the government to serve the people once more.
I've got the feeling it will be far easier than it seems.
Except for the casualties caused by the mRNA bioweapons and associated mandates.
For this, many must be prosecuted.
My guess is whatever he negotiated with the States will deal with that, among other things.
@Andre this.... is where I think 17SOG may have a very valid point in their thesis.
Whether COG is ended or still in Phase IV. By restructuring via EO 13961, reducing the head levels of bureaucracy at the upper echelon of COG (Executive Committee) and restoring the checks and balances of the other branches...
Biden admin had no direct pathway to restoring the expansive abusive powers of his predecessors. It would take a long and unlikely string of events that the judiciary could prevent.