The Midweek Update - Return of the American Presidency

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The news cycle is dominated by the emerging shape of the Trump 47 Administration. As Elon Musk said about his and Vivek Ramaswamy's new assignment it will send “shockwaves through the system.” Earlier Ramaswamy had described Trump’s intentions for his second administration as nothing short of revolutionary. Trump's choice of Peter Hegseth as the new Defense Secretary is also making insiders' heads explode. Politics inside the Beltway, dominated by the Washington consensus of Wall Street, the Administrative State and the MIC’s perpetual wars is on the chopping block. Further, Trump is picking people he can trust and, this is even more important, he is picking people who recognize that HE is the President and will be calling the shots. This is the return of the American Presidency.

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This is why the entire DC Swamp is melting down over @PeteHegseth as Defense Secretary...And it's also exactly why he's the perfect choice. pic.twitter.com/JwB3mc8zQi
— Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) November 13, 2024

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-draft-executive-order-would-create-board-to-purge-generals-7ebaa606

Transcript: The Midweek Update - Return of the American Presidency - November 13, 2024

Susan Kokinda: [00:00:00] Hello, everybody. Today is November 13th, this is Susan Kokinda with your Midweek Update. Of course, the news cycle is dominated by a whirlwind of new announcements from Donald Trump on the shape of his new administration. Yesterday, some of the big ones were the choice of the new Defense Secretary, Peter Hegseth, and the appointments of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head the new Department of Governmental Efficiency.

Whatever the bona fides of all of the appointments which Trump has made so far, they have two characteristics. First, as Musk said about his and Vivek's new role, it will send, quote, shockwaves through the system. In an earlier interview, Ramaswamy had described Trump's intentions for his second administration as nothing short of revolutionary.

Politics inside the beltway, dominated [00:01:00] by the Washington consensus of Wall Street, the administrative state, the military industrial complex's perpetual wars, is on the chopping block. Second, Trump is picking people he can trust. And this is even more important. People who recognize that he is the president and will be calling the shots.

Too many people are looking at these various appointments and pending appointments as if they were watching the NFL draft. They're lining up statistics, the curriculum vitae, the past performances of the various picks, And extrapolating on how they will function in a Trump administration with Trump acting maybe as the assistant coach.

Nope. Trump is not only the head coach, he's the owner of the team. He is prepared to exercise the powers of the presidency [00:02:00] in ways probably not seen since Franklin Roosevelt took office. in the midst of the Great Depression. Trump 47 is not Trump 45. He's been through the fire, both as president and as a survivor of the biggest deep state attack in modern history.

And he has a stunning mandate from the American people, if we do our job, so he will be the president. Look at the last four years. There was no president. And if Kamala had won, we would have had another four years with no president, if we even survived. We had a collective, run by the equivalent of the Borg Queen, for those of you who have some passing familiarity with popular culture.

And it actually was a queen, now a king, with the British imperial system exercising its vast propaganda, monetary, and political [00:03:00] control over American politics. Barack Obama was, in essence, the Governor General of the United States during the Biden administration, and that would have continued.

But now, we have the return of the American presidency, which only works When a unique individual who can challenge the aspirations of a sovereign, productive people occupies the presidency with vision and courage. We haven't had many of those individuals in American history, and too often, they've been assassinated, like Lincoln, McKinley, and Kennedy, as we document in our police dossier, it is the British who murder our presidents.

With Donald Trump, we have someone who's also already been the target of two assassination attempts. Not surprisingly, the [00:04:00] BBC gets it. They make the point that Trump will rely more on executive action. Which can be done with the stroke of a presidential pen, recognizing that congressional legislation most of the time takes time, effort, and compromise.

As an example of this, today the Wall Street Journal reports that an executive order has been drafted that if approved by Trump, could fast track the removal of generals and admirals found to be, quote, lacking in requisite leadership qualities. And obviously, this could deal with the woke generals, the incompetent generals who led to the Afghanistan withdrawal disaster, and so on.

But before I return to current developments, I'd like to locate them in the context of an event that took place 35 years ago this past weekend. On November 9th, 1989, the Berlin Wall [00:05:00] fell. For those of us who remember that seemingly unbelievable event and saw the coverage of it. What we saw was the indescribable joy of the citizens of Berlin as they poured through the checkpoints, took hammers to the wall, and embraced their fellow Berliners as the reality dawned on them that tyranny had been conquered. Not by violence or physical force, but by the force of the human spirit toppling a decrepit and dying system.

You could feel the same ineffable quality of shock joy in the wake of Trump's victory swelling through those legions of Americans who had voted for him. They, too, realized that we had brought down the ruling establishment with this election and now have the opportunity to free the United States from an only slightly more [00:06:00] subtle form of tyranny.

In Berlin, people celebrated to Beethoven's Ode to Joy. Now, I think we could use a little more Beethoven here in the United States in the MAGA movement. But even watching TikTok videos of people, young and old, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Muslim, all of different backgrounds, doing the Trump dance to YMCA, still captured the same quality, of unadulterated joy.

There's another similarity between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Blue Wall. The underpinning of both events was the economic failure of the ruling regimes. The Soviet economic system was self doomed at the point that it rejected Ronald Reagan's offer to end the doctrine of mutual and assured destruction. That would have freed the world from a never [00:07:00] ending offensive arms race.

Reagan, like Donald Trump, understood that shifting to defensive systems based on new physical principles, namely his strategic defense initiative, which Trump has pledged to revive, was the escape route for both countries. The Soviets decision instead to accelerate their strategic offensive weapons buildup crushed their economies and the economies of Eastern Europe.

Reacting to that economic reality, the people of East Germany rose above the propaganda spewed out by a press, which was even more controlled than ours, and reclaimed their freedom. So it was here in the 2024 election. As every pundit is now saying, it was economic reality that broke enough swing and Democratic voters out of the narrative of the ruling class to propel Trump to victory.[00:08:00]

While the Democrats support for illegal immigration, woke insanity, and genocidal wars were critical elements of that party's collapse, Trump would not have won if people could still afford rent, groceries, or car payments. For those of us who have insisted for years, that economic reality would ultimately overwhelm the propaganda and the psy war and have organized around that.

Watching everyone from top Democratic Party operatives to the British press discover that that, the economic question, was the big mistake that Harris made, is a little bit of karma. But this is where the comparison between the events in Germany, Three decades ago, and what is happening in the United States comes to an end.

The people of Germany brought down one failed system, [00:09:00] only to join another system which was failing. Namely, the increasingly globalist dominated Western financial system, with no national leadership in sight to combat it. You might not have noticed it, but the current German government fell last week.

Crushed by the economic collapse, brought on by its total capitulation to green insanity, support for geopolitical sanctions, and war. We, on the other hand, have Donald Trump, who captures the essence of the American impulse to build, baby, build. To push the frontiers, and to clear away anything that stands in the way.

Elon Musk said it last week, we're a nation of builders, and soon will be free to build. Both he and Vivek know that they've been given a mandate to bulldoze, the administrative state with their Department of Government Efficiency. [00:10:00] And all you have to do is look at Musk's track record at Twitter, where he fired about three quarters of the staff and built a better product.

Or his success with SpaceX. compared to the lumbering failures over at NASA, which has indeed been burdened by the past, of budget cuts, government bureaucracy, systems analysis, and now green mandates. It's kind of delightful that the mission of the new Department of Government Efficiency has an endpoint, according to Trump, namely July 4th, 2026, the 250th birthday of our nation's independence.

Now, I'm not going to try and do a lot of analysis of the appointments and potential appointments being made by Trump so far. We'll take a little more time to digest and analyze, and we'll be covering that on our website, and I'm sure Barbara will touch on some of it in her Saturday wrap. Except to say that the [00:11:00] appointment of Peter Hegseth certainly seems to have people's heads exploding.

Hegseth, of course, is the new, Defense Secretary appointment. Larry Johnson, the former CIA analyst and a forceful voice against the military industrial complex, who makes clear that he has not been a Trump fanboy, describes the Hegseth appointment as a stunner, and he asks, What the hell is Trump thinking?

I think it's simple. He's installing loyalists in key positions, who are not compromised by or beholden to the military industrial complex or the defense lobbyists in D. C. Trump is sending the deep state an unmistakable message. I will be running the show. The Washington Post, another voice for the establishment, recognizes that this appointment is going to stir up a hornet's nest on Capitol Hill, [00:12:00] and it quotes a supposed inside source in the Trump apparatus saying, how is Tom Cotton going to defend this pick?

Joni Ernst, mentioning two senators who are pillars, of the Washington foreign policy and military consensus. The more interesting question is how are the British masters of their Washington puppets going to react? The London Guardian, which is quite beside itself over the Trump victory, is now carrying a fundraising pitch at the bottom of its U. S. based coverage.

They begged for funds, saying as we face a second Trump presidency, our reporters are never more passionate about exposing threats to democracy, and holding power to account in America, calling out the lies of powerful people and institutions and making clear how misinformation and demagoguery can damage [00:13:00] democracy.

Now, one of the articles that features that pleading footer is written by Sir Kim Darroch. Sir Kim was the British ambassador to the United States in the first Trump administration, and he was recalled because he was caught red handed, running operations against the president during Russiagate, using networks both inside and outside of the Trump administration.

In his November 9th Guardian piece, he says that Trump is profoundly unpredictable. He thrives in, indeed deliberately creates, chaos and disorder. Or, in other words, Trump intends to upend the Anglo American rules based order. Darroch continues bemoaning that challenging times lay ahead, especially on climate change, Tariffs, and Ukraine.[00:14:00]

You can count on us to keep our eyes on whatever British operations Sir Kim and his cohorts have underway, as we did when, the role of the British Labour Party intervening in the U. S. elections on behalf of Harris was exposed. So Donald Trump is doing his job, reviving the power of the American presidency.

We, the citizens of the United States, have to continue to do ours. We ran into an interesting response after the election last week. As we were out in the streets organizing, people came up to us, many of them Trump supporters, and asked, why are you out here? We just won. Well, we're out here because the election victory only gives us the opportunity, to now win this fight.

Trump will move to take down the deep state and the [00:15:00] administrative state and all that goes with it. The real challenge is to move quickly with the kind of economic policies which will replace the globalist financier system which is protected by that apparatus. This is where we have a lot of work to do.

For more than a century, the British Empire has buried the principles which underlie the American system of economics. Many of you don't even know there is an American system of economics, which is neither communist socialist nor unbridled free market capitalism. Our immediate task here at Promethean Action is to revive that knowledge.

Donald Trump has some familiarity with it. He mentioned it a few times in his first administration and his instincts are pure American system, as are Elon Musk's, with resuming America's role in space at the [00:16:00] forefront. I want to invite you to rediscover the American system of economics.

We just published a pamphlet, in happy anticipation of Trump's victory, entitled, What President Trump Can Do with the American System 2. 0, which you can find on the Promethean Action website. And we'll be starting a class series based on the pamphlet this Saturday. So, please join us in the next phase of this fight. This has been your Midweek Update.

Thanks for listening.