Lame Duck

Yep, it's time. We're going to change the party in charge once again, so we're about to have another Lame Duck period. As we learned in 2016, when the outgoing party wants to destroy the next administration utterly, they can do so in those few months when they're still technically in charge.

Trump will win big, and the GOP will easily take the Senate and hold onto the House. That will set the stage for a full workout of the American balance sheet and operations. Now we just need the whimpering Mike Johnson to herd the cats in the House so that we can actually carry out a long-overdue plan. I don't see Trump as very tolerant of such a weak reed as Johnson, so don't be surprised if you see a much stronger character replace him, such as a famous former wrestler, as would be apropos of the personality type needed to methodically wear down the opposition within stated time frames.

Americans are electing Trump for the same reason that Jeff Bezos has decided to fold up his paper's multi-decade run of endorsements: It is always about economics. Bezos doesn't care about losing subscribers, and Amazon Web Services, the most lucrative aspect of the company, lives off the government. Besides, he is always comparing himself to Elon and never quite measures up. Elon is a central figure in the modern evolution of the species, whereas Bezos is just another highly successful capitalist. Elon has literally saved free expression for the planet, and he freely admits that the backstop of the Second Amendment is the only reason we are salvaging the First. He's changing so much in America in a good way, so get used to his brash nature. He can land a rocket that resembles a 20-story building, and he's willing to give the finger to the Deep State. Just so you know, his jet has the call sign GFU.

We've used the government shutdown as a leveraging device, usually only rhetorically, for several decades. The Democrats want unrelenting spending, and the Republicans want to regain some form – any form – of control over the widespread dispersal of our nation's great wealth. Well, sit back and watch the next few months as we actually go to the brink and step off the ledge. My old Carrollton friend Newt Gingrich, a professional historian, was a most ardent and stalwart leader of the House of Representatives in 1994 who saw the need to actually use this last and best hope for regaining control of our destiny. Still, in the end, the GOP has never really had the spine to carry it through because there is always an overarching fear of spoiling the next election. Besides, the congress is made up almost entirely of lawyers, a profession not known for courage. When Trump, another non-lawyer, regains control in January, you will see the enactment of the most effective tool for achieving a workout in a business: turn off the money. We are headed for stormy weather, but that's what we need.

This time, it really is the most pivotal election in history, and 76% of Americans are worried about post-election violence, as well they should be. There are literally hundreds of people in the current administration who have been working well outside of the law. Trump will not necessarily be acting as retributive justice; he will simply be getting us back to a normal situation where everyone respects the rule of law. Yes, people will serve time for their misdeeds, but only the most outlandish miscreants will be held to account. The long and slow-running train that Cloward and Piven built in the 60s is about to come to a screeching halt, and many sparks will fly. The whailing will be loud on Wednesday when it becomes clear that there is truly a mandate for change, with no room for argument. That's when they go to Plan B, which is a color revolution right here at home.

As for that government shutdown I mentioned at the top, look for it in the new year. We have to go through a Chapter 11 reorganization procedure in order to right-size the town of Washington, D.C. When the money is made to run out, the radical downsizing will begin, with Elon in charge of government efficiency. Recall that he eliminated 82% of the Twitter staff in the first five months, and the company didn't miss a beat from the user's point of view. It's going to be something to watch.

Next week, you may want to perk up if you live in the core of a city in a blue state, as this is where the staged riots will be held. The liberal press will cover it wall-to-wall, calling it the end of the world. Just remember, it's all a stage act, just like BLM, George Floyd, and Ferguson. Victoria Nuland and her minions at the State Department have been running these deceptive ploys all over the world for the past thirty years to great effect, with the most horrifying outcome being the now parlous situation in Ukraine. I once ran a genomics company for several years and employed a wonderful Ukrainian student with an I.Q. north of 160 who was a Fulbright Scholar at Georgia Tech. He was not only brilliant and fun to work with, but he also taught me masters-level genomics and proteomics in just two years. I have thought of him many times recently as we have watched Ukraine squander its young men to an unwinnable war that was constructed by the warmongers who are always bristling for a fight. At the outset of that war, someone close to me said: "We have to confront the Russians wherever we find them. We have to destroy them at all costs." I was shocked by that statement, coming from someone I thought I knew. The best news of all is that Trump will bring peace back to the entire world in short order because he has an instinct for leverage, and he knows that we can get what we want without firing a shot.

Here's the rub: some Democrats have been preparing for next week's loss for many months, and they ramped up their efforts in June when Biden's collapse became evident. They have many people who are masters at fomenting color revolutions, and they're preparing for an assault on a second Trump presidency. They have formed a group called the State Democracy Defenders Action and say they will "help shape the long-term strategy to defeat autocracy in 2025 and beyond." Well, that sure does sound like the formation of a color revolution to me. The group publicly embraces a declaration that's clearly pointed at Trump: "Our country cannot be led by anyone who believes they are not accountable to our Constitution or who repeatedly and persistently violates civil and criminal statutes." You can see where this is going. They are preparing to fight Trump's planned downsizing of the federal government, saying that career civil service employees work in our government regardless of the ideology of the person elected to be President.

Recently, Victoria Nuland, who almost single-handedly led the 2014 color revolution in Ukraine that kicked off the past decade of excess dividends from weapons contractors like General Dynamics, Lockheed, and Boeing, left the State Department voluntarily. Did Nuland step down from State so she could coordinate a color revolution playbook for our own country from the outside, as she did in Ukraine? The answer to that question is clearly "yes." Everything they are doing is designed to limit and neuter a Trump Presidency - to cripple Trump's ability to respond and follow through on his campaign promises. Yep, this is going to be a do-over of the November-to-January period following Trump's win in 2016, where they created the "Russia Dossier" out of whole cloth. It was a rear-guard action that crippled an entire four-year presidency, and it only worked because they have so many deeply embedded autocrats in the appropriately named Deep State. Other leading plotters of the coming resistance are Messrs. Eisen and Podhorzer. You will soon know their names. The plans of this group should be taken seriously. Remember the chaos and widespread civil unrest that took place in 2020? Well, they have been seeding the ground with "Trump is Hitler" talk just to set the stage. Of course, in the interim, they're hoping to inspire another lone-wolf assassin.

This weekend they will light the fuse on their homemade bomb meant to cripple the Trump presidency starting on Wednesday morning. They had been hoping for a win, then a closely contested uncertain outcome that they could win with post-election chicanery. Now, as the election draws near, they see the same blowout we all felt in our gut. The moaning and desperation and, especially, the backbiting retribution will pop off this weekend. They almost took over the greatest country in the history of mankind. If they could only have gotten those illegals into citizenship status, they would have achieved permanent control.

So, in a nutshell, the GOP will be back in charge with a serious mandate. The Democratic Party will activate the 2024 version of their 2016 post-loss resistance immediately. A big part of that will be to pull the rug on the economy completely. It's all Cloward and Piven, you see. They're going to "burn it all down." The markets will fold like a cheap suit. Short-term inter-bank funding premiums will skyrocket. Janet Yellen, the old goat who runs the Treasury, will stop pressing the "Market Levitation" button, open that special drawer, break the glass, and hit the "Market Cascade" button. It was Bernanke and then Yellen who contrived to feed the markets with unbridled spending following the 2008 recession. The markets were never allowed to clear following Hank Paulson's bizarre September gymnastics that year, which set up the past sixteen years of market manipulation. Paulson gutted his lifelong nemesis Lehman Brothers like a fish, but then saved literally everyone else – in perpetuity. Our problem now is that we are about to have to endure three months of intentional chaos by bad actors who don't really care. They have their orders. If the Dems decide to burn it all down and markets are allowed to clear this time, it will be incredibly ugly. These next few months have been called throughout our nation's history the "Lame Duck" period. Be prepared; Biden, or rather, the people who control Biden, may well just shoot the duck on Wednesday morning.

Trump has assembled an incredible team. He is fully aware that he made many personnel mistakes last time around because he was a novice on a new stage. Not so this time. He has built a team of real pipe hitters. I know many of them. They will slay the Hydra of the Deep State and right-size our government. We can't get to January 20 soon enough.