Seeing how most in the media, political class are useless in any other profession, it’s incumbent on them to keep their gravy train going. In the political world it means not upsetting big money donors, contractors and lobbyists who shower them with unseen perks and help them fund reelection campaigns. In the media, it means no pushback to the myth that they are trusted in the dissemination of news and opinion. Donald Trump is a threat to all of them and the very idea of him running again and possibly winning is something they need to nip in the bud immediately and they rightly assume they can create a fissure between him and his supporters. This HAS to be done and it’s started.

As evidenced by his first term, Donald Trump was a very rare breed of politician: he made campaign promises, he kept them, and the country was physically better off. He did this despite a Democrat, Deep State, and media blitzkrieg that began from his initial presidential announcement in 2015 to present. In the end, the American people ultimately won and despite the latest false narrative that his nominations cost the party the midterm election, an unheard of 80% of Republican candidates who received Trump’s endorsement, won their primary and general election.

Given the present onslaught, you’d never believe Republican voters were ever recently all-in with a Trump 2024 run for president.

As of August, 82% of Republicans would vote for Donald Trump in 2024. So what (if you’re to believe the media and Republican establishment) happened between then and now? One name-calling stint by Trump turned into a quick coronation for DeSantis… seriously? We don’t even know the true back story behind it because Trump doesn’t initiate; he counter-punches. And since when should we not be wary of establishment Republican candidate choices made for their voters?

If Donald Trump can be successfully taken out before the 2024 primaries, which is highly unlikely, who stands to gain? The answers are rather obvious.

GAIN: THE DEEP STATE

Of course the media made scant mention of it, but Donald Trump scared the hell out of the government establishment when he signed an Executive Order regarding Schedule F, which he would use his Constitutional right to hire federal employees who are loyal to the values of the president they duly elected and fire those who would “resist”, and we know a lot of resistance went on during his presidency. Thanks to the 2020 election results, the federal government class was spared but they also know Schedule F will be one of the top items on a President Trump agenda in 2025 and for good reason.

A Trump presidency in 2025 means a living hell for federal tyrants like Anthony Fauci, Alejandro Mayorkas, and others whose federal policies have brought on severe hardship, and/or actually killed an obscene number of Americans.

A Trump presidency defangs an out-of-control federal enforcement culture that believes they alone decide our elections, who will or will not be allowed First Amendment freedom of assembly, who can and cannot lie under oath, who can be framed with impunity, and who will be punished with punitive legal bills to stave off partisan investigations. Schedule F will invoke departmental reviews and the actions of types like James Comey and Clapper, John Brennan, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lois Lerner will not go unaddressed. The undeserving should not be allowed to walk away after the damage they successfully inflicted on political opponents. If jail isn’t an immediate possibility, the loss of those cherished pensions should be the first things rescinded.

A Trump presidency (at least on Capitol Hill) means hundreds of thousands of liberal Democrat federal employees, with incomes two or three times the national median, potentially imperiling a very comfortable lifestyle, generous potential pension and benefits, respectable mortgage payments in gentrified neighborhoods, fully-stocked refrigerators and pantries, fancy car payments, private school tuitions, and the obvious inability to find comparable employment with inflated salaries.

GAIN: RON DeSANTIS

So what’s behind the current spat between the boys? Something must be happening behind the scenes. Trump knows, is letting the appropriate parties know he’s on to them, and the dirty specifics will be revealed when it stings the most.

Note who’s staying clear of the dust-up: Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy….

If Ron DeSantis were to join Trump on the ticket, he’d potentially have four years experience as a Veep and could be poised for eight years as POTUS. A DeSantis run now for the presidency takes four years off his time near and/or in the White House. Who benefits from that? Not the American people, but having Trump gone is a win for the GOPe, Democrats, and their media. Trump supported DeSantis when no one outside of Florida knew he existed. Loyalty is hard to come by within the Republican Party.

DeSantis, Lake, etc. have followed the successful Trump playbook on how to handle a hostile local and state media (a few names by The View panel doesn’t count).

We have no idea how DeSantis would hold up with a 24/7 national media, federal agency onslaught coming down on him, his campaign staff, and his family for months and maybe years. It won’t be pretty and only Donald Trump has shown he can take hundreds of punches without being knocked down, let alone out.

For example, a 2022 fictionalized version of the “Trump pee tape” has emerged, targeting DeSantis.

Twitter Stunned by Character on Series Claiming to Have Been Sexually Assaulted by DeSantis

While this is outright slander, there will be millions of ignants on social media who’ll believe it actually happened as well as those in the media who’ll pose this as possible art-imitating-life and force DeSantis days and maybe weeks to refute.

It’s only the beginning. DeSantis may hope Trump announces soon so many of those front-runner arrows won’t be aimed solely at him.

GAIN: GOP ESTABLISHMENT

A Trump presidency attracts America First candidates to serve Americans and threatens those so-called Republicans who ran for the power and perks they’d receive; the needs of their voters are secondary and of low very priority. Remember all of those reliable Republicans like Lisa Murkowski insiders like McConnell supported.

A Trump presidency hastily eliminates the lower tier candidates who know going in they have zero chance of winning the nomination. Adding “presidential candidate” to their resume could help them achieve pundit status (a paycheck) at Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, etc. If they are humiliated at some point by Trump yet speak out against him, job prospects obviously improve.

GAIN: GLENN YOUNGKIN, WINSOME SEARS

Why has Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears now turned on the Trump who endorsed and supported her ticket?

Never assume politicians make comments off the cuff and strongly-worded, behind-the-scenes instructions have not come down from on high with carrots attached.

The people speculating about Youngkin’s national future don’t much care what he has done or not done for transportation infrastructure in Northern Virginia. They think the 55-year-old former investment banker may have found a formula to make the last six years just fade away—to return to the GOP leadership style we associate with names like Bush and Romney.
— Politico, 7/14/22

Ah, the golden Bush and Romney years. Only bubble-wrapped D.C. pundits hope that’s what Republicans want to revert back to.

If (Trump-endorsed) Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin were to run and receive the 2024 nomination as a possible VP to DeSantis, Sears would become Virginia’s governor without the inconvenience of running for it. Kinda’ like New York’s Kathy Hochul’s unelected promotion when Andrew Cuomo was pushed aside. For the political class, that’s some good incentive and all that need be done is a simple twist of a knife in the back by someone who knows how to use a bayonet.

Given his pedigree, Youngkin is the kind of “Republican” who’ll burns his voters after the election while going easy on Democrats. Just give him time.

GAIN: THE MEDIA

While there’s a notable ratings, thus revenue lag after Trump left office, who knows how he’ll approach the #FakeNewsMedia the next go ’round. For those of us who were actually IN the news business damn well know, ethics rules have clearly been broken, the public has been lied to way to many times to count, the media’s Constitutional protection should be revisited, and Trump is the only politician with the guts to start this discussion and they know it.

The obvious need be stated for CNN and MSNBC viewers: the media was given Constitutional protection so it could be a watchdog of government and report back to The People. We clearly have a media that is self-serving, has chosen a side, fabricates stories, invents “sources”, demands we only know what their chosen political party wants known, buries what their chosen party wants buried, destroys the reputations of those who are enemies to their chosen party, while using the First Amendment as their personal shield.

Impartial media that just reports the news is what should be protected. Opinion, disguised as news, should not be and thanks to the media’s overreach during the Trump years, several have been forced to pay millions in settlements because of their intentional slander of Americans. If there’s no more Trump, the media’s ground-and-pound of Americans will continue unabated, if not increase, since punishing is just what they love to do most.

So take all this drama with a grain of salt and look at it as another opportunity to vet those who would portend to “lead” us.

Remember, there are many in the conservative media who did everything they could to damage Donald Trump in 2015 and 2016 because he didn’t pass their personal litmus test. Some of these so-called unelected “leaders” have yet to apologize for the damage they did then, and more are back at it again today because it gives them relevance.

Donald Trump won despite them and can win again despite them.

We can only hope a 2025 Trump presidency cleans the whole house, not just the toilet.

Since the Biden takeover of the Oval Office with a Democrat House, Senate, and justice system (enforcers), they’ve criminalized parental opposition to elected school boards, criticism of the ever-evolving election process, questioning the medical and climate “science”, and now daring to vote against them. Anyone who’s worked for the prior Republican administration is now fair game for political persecution with their personal finances and freedom at stake.

It’s obvious to all who those who consume more than CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post and New York Times what the whole Mar-a-Lago raid of Donald Trump’s personal space and belongings is all about: retrieving ALL documentation regarding the FBI’s fraudulent “Crossfire Hurricane” (and all involved in the) witch hunt against his 2016 campaign and administration that resulted in two failed impeachments. It wouldn’t be surprising if evidence regarding Justice Department interference in the 2020 isn’t in the confiscated cache as well.

Once obtained the, Justice Department will claim all documents as information that could damage national security (in this case, DOJ and FBI job security and justification for possible prosecution) and despite any declassification from former President Trump, will be kept forever from scrutiny of the American people. That is, unless Donald Trump wins the presidency in 2025 and makes all available for all to see.

So, who’s now on the Biden law enforcement hit list?

Much was hidden from the public in the heavily redacted search warrant affidavit for the FBI’s raid on former President Donald J. Trump’s South Florida residence but one thing that wasn’t was the name of Kash Patel and he’s furious about it.

“Today marks another vicious attack from DOJ/FBI who intentionally jeopardized my safety by un-redacting my name in the most reviewed search warrant in the history of the United States,” he said in a statement posted to Truth Social. “This cartel of corruption inside our government is so devoid of concern about national security, they could not be bothered to see the judge in-person. Instead, they literally called in the raid on the home of a former president via the FBI’s best friend, Zuckerberg’s WhatsApp.”
— BizPacReview, 8/29/22

And to further illustrate the sheer brazen nature of the Biden administration’s political persecution of his political opponents, fired FBI special agent Peter Strzok gleefully issued a very public warning to Patel on friendly social media.

As mentioned here before (and expectedly concealed from the American people by the media), President Trump signed the Schedule F executive order in October of 2020 to take effect in January 2021. We’ve seen over the years how freaked federal employees get whenever a shutdown restricts their ability to fill their bellies and pay mortgages, so knowing a President Trump was ready to clean house of all the obstructionists in and around Capitol Hill was a probability they could not allow to happen.

They also appreciate that Trump is the nation’s most popular Republican and should he be allowed to run and win again, would spell professional and financial doom for the thousands of overpaid federal employees. There are nowhere near enough contractors and liberal nonprofits to absorb a fraction of them. Their proud instances of insubordination towards the elected President of the United States and his staff will be rewarded with florescent pink slips and a majority of Americans will offer them little sympathy, considering how almost all lived very comfortable lives while citizens were financially suffering after Biden undid every success Trump achieved for the nation.

So, don’t let the legacy media fool you into believing this is all about politics. It is NOT.

This is about the Deep State muscle-flexing while making the best attempt to save their own livelihoods and pensions. That, to them, is what a Donald Trump campaign and presidency is all about and that’s what they need to stop by any means necessary. Of course, a President Trump and his supporters in 2025 will be minded of political decorum, how improper it would be to persecute political opponents, and the potential lives that could be financially ruined by prosecutions.

A tit-for-tat will be necessary to teach Democrats that their actions will be punished as that message will have to be sent for the future. If Republicans obey the demands of the media and their unhinged pundits, take the “high road” and not return the favor, Democrats will do this again. They need to know their bully tactics will be turned back on them if they choose this road again and there needs to be tens of thousands of liberal Democrat casualties to remind them.

THAT is the only thing that will return some semblance of fairness and equal application of justice.

Mark Esper, the former Secretary of Defense, is publicly fretting that Donald Trump will retaliate against those in the deep state that sought to undermine his first term as President of the United States, telling the media that he thinks those worried about retaliation have a “legitimate fear”.
— National Pulse, 10/01/23

And with good reason.

Some of these unelected federal employees deemed it their duty to derail the Constitutional mandate of their boss, who just happened to be the President of the United States, which when left to their own devices (and a sympathetic media) led to rumors and innuendo that distracted the Trump Administration for its entire four year term. Most of the false allegations, that led to two failed impeachments, either came from Democrat party operatives or disgruntled federal appointees and employees. This didn’t have to happen.

While it was of great controversy then and to this day, the whole “elections have consequences” was played out for decades where the winner of a presidential election could literally clean house of as many federal employees as he wanted and replace them with people who were loyal to him and his agenda. This also opened things up for the expected “cronyism” and nepotism, but how different was that to what we currently have in a system where bad federal employees are almost impossible to fire?

After four years of direct insubordination by federal employees in almost every agency, Trump had enough and was going to make sure he could belatedly do a little disruption of his own at the start of his second term.

Less than two weeks before Election Day, Donald Trump signed an executive order that threatens to return the U.S. to a spoils system in which a large share of the federal government’s workforce could be fired for little or no reason – including a perceived lack of loyalty to the president.
— Professor Barry M. Mitnick, 1/21/21

“A perceived lack of loyalty to the president”… puh-leez.

I’m sure you can imagine the sheer horror and fear that flowed through the veins of entitled, overpaid, liberal Democrats in every federal agency, especially those who patted themselves on the back for the very public and semi-successful obstruction of the Trump agenda.

‘Stunning’ Executive Order Would Politicize Civil Service

President Trump signs directive that would potentially pull thousands of federal employees in “policy-making” positions out of the competitive service, making them at-will employees.
— GovExec, 10/22/20

Aww….

Trump executive order strips protections for key federal workers, drawing backlash
Trump Just Signed and Executive Order Letting Him Purge Thousand of Federal Workers For Disloyalty
Trump’s Order Sets the Stage for Loyalty Tests for Thousands of Feds
Trump’s New Executive Order May Make It Easier To Fire Scientists Like Fauci
Coalition of 28 Labor Groups Urges Congress to Block Trump Order Creating Schedule F
New executive order could strip civil service protections from ‘wide swaths’ of federal workforce
House Democrats demand immediate stop to Schedule F executive order

The chutzpah of that ‘Stunning’ Executive Order Would Politicize Civil Service title IS “stunning” as if the actions of thousands of federal employees during Republican administrations (most notably Trump’s) were anything but weaponized. Many reveled in their success, bragged during friendly media interviews and even anointed themselves as whistleblowers who took one for the team, resulting in even more unnecessary and expensive distractions for the president and the American people.

While some on the left are slowly catching up, they’re expectedly and falsely portraying Schedule F as this new “radical” scheme.

A radical plan for Trump’s second term
Former President Trump’s top allies are preparing to radically reshape the federal government if he is re-elected, purging potentially thousands of civil servants and filling career posts with loyalists to him and his “America First” ideology, people involved in the discussions tell Axios.
— Axios, 7/22/22

Note how federal employees become “civil servants” once their livelihoods are threatened….

The “spoils” system, despite the impressions given, is NOT a novel peril devised by a tyrannical Donald Trump. It’s been around, in one form or another, as early as the 1820s and has been a political football ever since.

The peak of the spoils system came under James Buchanan, who served from 1857 to 1861. He replaced virtually every federal worker at the end of their “rotation.” William L. Marcy, who was secretary of state under Buchanan’s predecessor and was the first to refer to patronage as “spoils,” wrote in 1857 that civil servants from his administration were being “hunted down like wild beasts.”

Almost every Conservative working in the federal government knows what that feels like.

Even Abraham Lincoln, who followed Buchanan, made extensive use of the system, replacing at least 1,457 of the 1,639 officials then subject to presidential appointment. The number would have been higher but for the secession of Southern states, which put some federal officials out of his reach.

In 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant asked Congress to take action, complaining, “The present system does not secure the best men, and often not even fit men, for public place.” Congress responded with legislation that authorized the president to use executive orders to prescribe regulations for the civil service. That power exists today, most recently exercised in Trump’s own order.
— Professor Barry M. Mitnick, 1/21/21

The whining of obstructionist Democrats was soon etched in stone.

“To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.”
— Senator William L. Marcy (D-NY)

The virtuous have always argued that the “spoils system” should always be based on merit and performance; NOT on politics. For the most part, Trump’s appointees were only as effective as those under allowed them to be. The fact that Republican federal employees still have to keep their values silent for fear of professional retribution shows just how badly the need for Schedule F to be deployed.

Despite the original intent and history, the liberal media dishonestly portrays Schedule F as this new creation devised by the Trump administration….

The need back in the 1850s is justified today when the vast majority of federal employees are Democrats who enable friendly administrations and actively sabotage Republicans.

They eagerly put the money where their mouths are.

Employees at all the agencies analyzed, without exception, are sending their campaign contributions overwhelmingly to Clinton over her Republican counterpart. Several agencies, such as the State Department, which Clinton once led, saw more than 99 percent of contributions going to Clinton.
— The Hill, 10/26/16

The havoc created by unelected, federal employee Democrat ideologues during the Trump term was blatant and it didn’t take long for their loyalty to be rewarded.

President Joe Biden repealed Trump’s Schedule F executive order which permitted the Trump administration to hire and fire federal employees for political reasons; among a flurry of executive orders and memos to federal agencies were directives that directly affect work/life of federal workers. Since the presidential election, AFGE had called on the incoming Biden administration to undo Trump’s harmful executive orders. We thank the President for taking swift and decisive action to protect the federal workforce.
— American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), 1/25/21

Let’s hope in 2025 when Donald Trump is sworn in for his next term, one of his first acts is the issuance of thousands of pink slips to the fat-and-perpetually miserable federal employees who were active insubordinates then and who be even more determined if they were to get “four more years”.

And this is NOT the first time CNN has pondered a world without President Trump, that time on The Situation Room.

The president’s comment about “cutting the payroll” was very important.

CNN “counterterrorism analyst” Philip Mudd was also a former Robert Mueller-appointee as the FBI’s National Security Branch’s first-ever deputy director. He would know all about what the Deep State wants and despite the assurances that all of those in the federal government are “patriots” who love their country, it’s clear so-called “Deep State” career employees are also more concerned with their personal ideological preference which would have maintained their generous, “entitled’ incomes and perks that come with them.

If one were to drive around the geographical areas surrounding Washington, D.C., the glaring difference in economic development and standard of living would be something 95% of municipalities around the nation could only dream of. The median incomes of those in the federal government far surpass that of those in the private sector and then-candidate Trump’s threat to “drain the swamp” was a direct shot across the bow of government workers and establishment leeches taken very seriously.

As mentioned in many previous posts, the federal government is probably one of the only entities in the United States that publicly acknowledges they have “non-essential” workers, which as of 2013 was estimated to be close to 20%. When Mudd was “joking” that the Deep State wants to “kill this guy”, in reference to the president”, it’s because they wanted Hillary Clinton as president because she would keep the employees fat and happy.

Jeffery Lord was fired from CNN for social media activity he engaged in off air, Tweets that were also (to use Jake Tapper’s explanation to Mudd) a “metaphor” yet CNN employees can joke and produce actual insensitive segments on the death of an incoming Republican president and it’s just business as usual. Whether we’re talking a comedian or a play, the painful death of President Trump is clearly a wet dream weighing heavy on the minds of the left, not just because of his politics, but the fact their livelihoods depend on taxpayer money rolling in unfettered.

It was very nice of CNN host Jake Tapper to accept Mudd’s assurance that he didn’t really mean that the “government” wanted to kill the president; an assurance that neither Tapper nor anyone else in the media would accept without a few pounds of flesh had it not been directed at President Trump.