COMMENTARY / OPINION
Yep – Still the Smartest Guy in the Room By Joan Swirsky
December 15, 2024
How did President-elect Trump become a billionaire?
How did Donald J. Trump, billionaire businessman, bestselling author, mega-successful TV star, become President of the United States in 2016?
How did President-elect Trump defy, confront, and prevail over a malevolent Deep State cabal, an American government steeped in collusion, a craven leftwing media, and a mountain of lawfare attacks to win––overwhelmingly––his second bid for POTUS?
I always called him the smartest guy in the room. And I suspect that most people would answer those questions––either proudly or grudgingly––by agreeing that his intelligence and also his drive, instincts, charisma, and sheer bravado are the magic ingredients of his blazing success.
BUT…UH-OH!
So, why are some sophisticated, knowledgeable and longtime devoted Trump supporters, including seasoned conservative journalists, now suspecting that Mr. Trump is either:
- A closet Democrat.
- Controlled Opposition, essentially playing on the same team as his globalist opponents.
- A guy who values loyalty to a fault… overlooking clear conflicts-of-interest and potential moles and saboteurs in his midst.
Why these questions? Because of the great number of people he has appointed to high positions in his upcoming administration who have longtime leftist connections, have themselves played for the other team, and have eye-raising suspicions about their backgrounds or associations.
Journalist Kelleigh Nelson, a rock-ribbed conservative, questions most of President-Elect Trump’s appointee choices, starting with Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff.
Wiles, Nelson says, funded Trump antagonists Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and John McCain; was co-chair at Mercury LLC, a global leader that promotes the Deep State narrative; has spoken openly about being in favor of open borders, and was a source of information for Jack Smith’s special counsel investigation of Donald Trump’s role in the January 6th “insurrection” and his alleged mishandling of government records.
In a follow-up article, Nelson documents highly incriminating information about Pres. Trump’s co-appointee for DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) Vivek Ramaswamy, who went to Yale Law School on a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, as well as Marco Rubio for Secretary of State, Doug Burgum (Governor of North Dakota) for Interior Secretary, Kristi Noem (Governor of South Dakota) for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence, and Congressman Michael Waltz for National Security Adviser, among others.
And yet in a third article, Nelson clearly objects to the nomination of Pam Bondi for Attorney General, and Scott Bessent for Treasury Secretary… a guy who was a partner at Soros Fund Management for decades, as well as Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for Surgeon General, a woman involved in a massive Medicare scandal, who described the COVID vaccine as a “gift from God” and who also served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Advisory Council.
In addition, Nelson questions the appointment of Dr. Mehmet Oz, who holds dual citizenship in Turkey and the United States, to be the administrator for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Nelson calls him a “Big Pharma shill” and adds: “Many of Trump’s choices are questionable, but Dr. Oz takes the cake.”
Clearly, writer Janet Levy agrees, adding her own shocking laundry list of objections to the Oz appointment, including conflicts of interest and this damning quote from the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics, which called Dr. Oz “a dangerous rogue unfit for the office of America’s doctor.”
Then there is journalist Yudi Sherman, who practically eviscerates the President-elect’s choice for Surgeon General, emergency room physician Dr. Janette Nesheiwat.
And that is not to omit journalist Cherie Zaslawsky who asks: Who will vet the vetters?
“Ultimately,” Zaslawsky writes, “it may hardly matter whether the spate of questionable appointments President-elect Trump has recently announced is due to Wiles and/or other members of Trump’s retinue attempting to undermine the MAGA agenda or is largely the result of putting a number of well-meaning novices in the position of suggesting candidates they are ill-equipped to properly vet. Yet some choices reek of intentional trickery.”
WHEELING & DEALING
It is probably true that businessman Trump’s decades in dealing with the cut-throat unions in New York City and all the Dons who run the Mafia in New York and throughout the country did not prepare him for the malevolent treachery of the liberal Democrats in Washington, D.C., but he does strike me as a “lessons-learned” kind of guy.
Meanwhile, the President-elect, with his signature ebullience, has de facto begun his tenure, jet-setting to Paris to meet with President Macron to visit the refurbished Notre Dame Cathedral and also to receive a floridly flirtatious look from First Lady Jill Biden…I bet she voted for him!
And there he is again, speaking on the phone to Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, about the border; hosting the feckless Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, at Mar-a-Lago; threatening the mass-murdering terrorists from Hamas to free the hostages before he is sworn in or there will be “Hell to Pay” and describing the tariffs and border wall and end-of-war actions he’ll be taking in about 36 days.
That includes not only the raging wars in Israel and Ukraine, but also Yemen, Darfur, and Myanmar, all of which did not exist four years ago when he was president!
IMAGINATION TIME
Can’t you just picture the conversation he had with Joe Biden on his visit to the White House a few weeks ago
DJT: Joe, you’ve been talking about a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas/Hezbollah for about a year, but no luck there.
JRB: Well, what are you gonna do…. you’re dealing with Arabs. You’re dealing with Jews.
DJT: Listen, Joe, I can talk to Bibi. We get along. I can get that ceasefire, and you’ll get all the credit. How does that sound?
JRB: Sounds great! Ya think it will work?
DJT: It’ll work. And it will give me leverage with Putin when I tell him to stop that crazy war…I’ll give him a slice of Ukraine and he’ll be happy.
Well, whadaya know? A day later, or was it two or three? Poof!…a ceasefire is announced in the Middle East!
STILL THE SMARTEST GUY IN THE ROOM
My take is that President-elect Trump has attracted all these potential saboteurs––many of them lifelong Democrats like the formidable RFK Jr.––to his side, his thinking, his vision, his mission, his goal, which is simply to Make America Great Again!
Not one of these appointees has forgotten Mr. Trump’s most prominent and visible role before he became POTUS in 2016, which was as the star of the wildly successful, long-running TV show, “The Apprentice,” or his world-famous pronouncement: YOU’RE FIRED!
His appointees are well aware of that non-negotiable dictate and know to follow his vision or receive that order, while millions of leftists worldwide are now on anti-depressants, anti-anxiety medication, in long-term therapy, or on suicide watch.
As they say, all good.
Joan Swirsky is a New York based journalist and author. Her website is www.joanswirsky.com and her e-mail is joanswirsky@gmail.com.
Israel’s Elite Open ANOTHER Front Against Israel’s Voters | Caroline Glick In-Focus [52:24]
December 15, 2024 JNS TV – The Caroline Glick Show
“If you can’t beat them, sue them…” or so seems the modus operandi of Israel’s legal elite.
Just as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the people of Israel begin to see light at the end of this long war, Israel’s permanent class has declared lawfare to accomplish what they can’t do at the ballot box.
Radiation-Detecting Drones over New York and New Jersey? JOHN LEAKE
U.S. Department of Energy press release in 2023 offers possible clue about identity of flying objects in the sky over New Jersey and New York
DEC 15, 2024 – It strikes me as extremely unlikely that the DoJ, FBI, CIA, and FAA do not know the identity of the flying objects spotted over New Jersey and New York City. According to multiple news reports, the FBI claims to be investigating these sightings, with an official acknowledging public concern while suggesting there might be a “slight overreaction.” The Pentagon has repeatedly stated the drones are not of foreign origin.
I believe it is a reasonable assumption that at least some members of these federal agencies know the identity of these flying objects, but are, for some reason, unwilling to disclose it to the public.
An October, 31 2023 press release issued by the U.S. Department of Energy—Radiation-Detecting Drone Soars Over Portsmouth for Collaborative Testing—may yield a clue about the flying objects spotted over New York and New Jersey.
Is the Department of Energy or some other federal agency using the drones to try to detect radiation? To phrase the question in a more alarming way: has some federal agency received intelligence that a radiation emitting device has been planted somewhere in the greater New York City area?
On a highly personal note: For some time now I have worried that at least some of the puppet masters now running the Biden administration are extremely nefarious actors who may be tempted to stage a false flag attack in the United States in order to blame it on Russia so that the U.S. government will declare full scale war on Russia before Trump is sworn in on January 20, 2025. This could also serve as a pretense for declaring martial law before Trump is sworn in.
Though I am certainly NOT predicting it, I would not be surprised if a so-called “dirty bomb” combining conventional explosives with radioactive material is detonated in the greater New York area, with Russia (or Iran) blamed for it.
As All Else Fails: PSYOP-UFO [VIDEOS] 2ND SMARTEST GUY IN THE WORLD
DEC 15, 2024
Nazi war criminal and former NASA director Wernher von Braun on several occasions admitted, “we had help (from extraterrestrials).” At the end of his life he also warned that a fake alien invasion hoax would at some point be used by governments as a psyop in a bid to further control their populations.
…when PSYOP-SCAMDEMIC, PSYOP-WW3 and PSYOP-CLIMATE-CHANGE all fail to sufficiently induce mass societal fear, then the final NWO globopedo fraud will be activated in PSYOP-UFO, thus ensuring that the government can yet again provide the “solution” (think: “free” “vaccines”) to the “problem” they are themselves perpetrating as the public overreacts, or so that is the hope for these technocratic Great Reset sociopaths.
Given all of the recent drone sightings across America, with the X social media platform instructed to trend hashtag UFO, it seems that this latest government fraud is now in play.
It is also important to remember that way back in 1952 this repurposed clandestine aerospace technology was flown around the White House, as the Air Force blamed the weather (it’s always the weather’s fault); the actual “UFO” footage:
Let us revisit what Nazi war criminal and former NASA director Wernher von Braun said about PSYOP-UFO:
…the last card is the alien card. We’re going to have to build space based weapons against aliens.’ And all of it, he said, is a lie.
Speaking of mendacity and utter fraud, here is PSYOP-MUSK’s deliberately irreverent X post:
The Fall of Syria: What You Need to Know by James Corbett
DEC 15, 2024 THE CORBETT REPORT
In case you haven’t heard yet, the world has just changed irrevocably.
After 13 years of battle, the alphabet soup of foreign-financed, foreign-armed, foreign-trained terrorist insurgents in Syria have finally accomplished their goal: the overthrow of Assad.
There are many questions to ponder here. What happened? How did a years-long military stalemate turn into a government-toppling checkmate seemingly overnight? And what does this mean for the future of Syria? For the future of the Middle East? For the future of the world?
Let’s find out.
The Story So Far . . .
If you only recently started turning off the nightly news and tuning in to reality, chances are you never really knew what this whole Syria kerfuffle was about or why it’s important. And, if that is the case, you have some catching up to do.
Luckily, I’ve been covering the Syrian debacle since it kicked off in 2011, and I have literally dozens of hours of media on the topic in the archives. If you want the one-hour summary, though, I invite you to check out my recent podcast on the subject, A Brief History of the War on Syria.
Dr Mordechai Kedar on RT about Syria, December 9 2024 [10:24] Dr. Mordechai Kedar – English
[Ed.: But Syriously!]
Droning On TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
DEC 14, 2024
I don’t know what’s going on with the drones and I haven’t spent much time on it. Here’s a few views and they all point to the theory the Obama-Biden-Kamala administration is orchestrating this or allowing this to happen to mess with our heads and the peaceful transfer of power. That’s what they do.
GLOVES OFF! Israel Makes Boldest Moves Since 1967 [50:19]
27,669 views • Premiered Dec 12, 2024 • The Quad
The past 14 months have seen a total realignment of powers in the Middle East, and the past week has been no different. Following the upheaval in Syria over the weekend, Israel quickly moved to destroy former President Bashar Assad’s entire arsenal out of fear of it falling into the wrong hands.
JNS senior contributing editor Ruthie Blum—a former adviser at the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office—joins “The Quad” for a heated discussion on everything that’s been going on inside the Jewish state and on its borders.
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Democrat Strategy to Entrench Power in Trump’s Administration @AMUSE
DEC 13, 2024 – The Biden administration is actively seeking to sabotage Trump’s second term by filling every federal agency with Democrat activists. Known as “burrowing,” it involves turning political appointees into permanent civil service employees just before an administration leaves office. Concerns about burrowing first gained widespread attention during the Reagan administration, as outgoing Carter officials sought to solidify their influence by converting political appointees into career roles. This practice has since become a recurring issue during transitions between administrations, particularly when power shifts between parties. This maneuver allows partisan operatives to secure long-term positions within agencies, where they wield significant influence shielded by civil service protections. While the media often brushes this off as routine staffing, the reality is a deliberate attempt to embed ideological allies deep inside the government, ready to resist future policy changes.
To borrow a phrase from the late William F. Buckley, we must “stand athwart history yelling stop” before this administrative rot solidifies any further. Reports suggest that Joe Biden, whose presidency has become a caricature of cognitive decline, has already nudged over a thousand political operatives into career roles within federal agencies—with almost none being properly reported as a result of a glaring loophole. Some expect that number to eclipse 3,000 by the end of his term—a grim milestone even Obama, the patron saint of bureaucratic entrenchment, failed to reach.
The Strategic Design of Burrowing
This isn’t mere happenstance; it’s a deliberate siege of the federal bureaucracy. Career positions were designed to insulate governance from the whiplash of elections, preserving nonpartisan stability and continuity. Yet the Democrats, ever adept at exploiting these safeguards, have turned the system into a weapon. By embedding loyal operatives into “neutral” roles, they create a policy firewall impervious to political change. This will be the most formidable challenge for Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Musk, a proven innovator with experience dismantling bureaucratic inefficiencies in industries like space exploration and electric vehicles, brings a disruptive mindset essential for tackling government bloat. Ramaswamy, a sharp entrepreneur and vocal critic of the administrative state, combines policy knowledge with a relentless commitment to reform. Together, they represent the outside-the-box leadership needed to confront a federal workforce entrenched with partisan loyalists. The burrowers will smile and nod as the DOGE team introduces reforms, then quietly deploy every bureaucratic and administrative trick in the book to stymie their efforts. From endless procedural delays to obscure rule interpretations, the burrowers will exploit the machinery of government itself to obstruct change. Biden’s administration clearly understands what Trump learned too late in 2016—burrowers aren’t passive placeholders. They’re partisan operatives who wield their positions to resist, obstruct, and sabotage any incoming conservative reform.
