I had no idea John and Matt were so chummy. Gaetz is like the most hated guy on the hill. Not because of his beliefs, because he single-handedly got McCarthy thrown out as House leader; a guy who most people liked.
Does Trump really want Gaetz? Suspect he's trolling the House and trying to divert attention away from his other picks. I expect his other folks will sail through and Gaetz will be replaced by Trump's real first choice for the slot.
RFK is going on social media and making his case "I'm really not against vaccines"...so he's being groomed for approval.
Trump vs. the Men Without Chests
By John Kass
Nov. 17, 2024
I’m guessing that you are sitting there reading this column on a civilized Sunday morning, with a good cup of coffee and perhaps a sweet roll from Calumet Bakery or some other fine pastry shop. May I also suggest enlightened and cultured music of the baroque coming from the smart speaker, perhaps the “Four Seasons” by Vivaldi?
So, I figure that the last thing on your mind would be you spitting out a mouthful of bloody chiclets on the sidewalk, with your wife screaming for the police. And your friends on all fours, nauseous on the pavement. And other friends stumbling about, groaning through bloody lips.
But that’s what happens in a street fight.
And that’s where you are, in a street fight, even if you don’t quite fully comprehend it yet.
The once-and-future president Donald J. Trump is in a vicious street fight with the Washington establishment that has long wanted him jailed or dead. And this means all of us are in that street fight too, whether you like it or not.
The fight is over the change that the American people voted for, which is precisely what the Washington establishment–I call them the Combine–is threatened by. And they’re using their allies in media and the federal Deep State to crush Trump and keep the status quo and maintain their power. They’re angry as wounded cats that crawled under your porch to die. You can hear them under there.
So cowboy up. Man up or woman up, whatever you want to call it. Wake the bleep up.
Where did you think you are? Dreaming in Narnia?
Narnia is the fantasy land of huggable forest fauns offering tea and cakes and naps to well-mannered children, and Christ-like lion allegories, Turkish delights and strange winged creatures. Narnia was to be found behind a giant wardrobe in a great old country house. It was created by the great Christian moralist C.S. Lewis who wrote the “Chronicles of Narnia.” He also wrote many other books and essays and gave many talks and speeches.
One book without forest fauns was the 1943 book “The Abolition of Man” and he devoted time examining those who reduce human beings to creatures of either the intellect or base impulses.
And they reached down to their hearts and removed their souls. These soulless he called the Men without chests. You can see them everywhere these days.
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
The men without chests are quite at home in Washington D.C. and among modern academics who constantly defer to expertise and authority, which is one way to separate the soul from your heart. It’s also a way to give up American liberty. The men without chests are most comfortable in politics where they burrow in to avoid accountability, and into the federal bureaucracy, where they been allowed to rule for decades without pushback from the American people. As I type a final draft of this on a Saturday, the noted Fox News Washington establishment pearl-clutcher Neal Cavuto, who replaced Chris Wallace in the network’s pearl-clutching role, pretends he’s worried and shocked about Trump’s proposed cabinet selections.
Cavuto clutched his pearls on Trump’s selection of Trump loyalist and firebrand Matt Gaetz as attorney general, Fox News host and decorated combat veteran Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, former Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy Jr for Secretary of Health and Human Services among others. They promised change and the establishment wants to weaken him and destroy them.
Gaetz exposed the Department of Justice and cross-examined corrupt operatives pushing the Russia collusion hoax. In turn he was smeared by anonymous sources in corrupt media that alleged he was involved in sex trafficking and other rumored crimes, but he was never charged.
They are tough street fighters, and Trump wanted fighters to open his second term because in his first term, the Deep State–that some call the Swamp or the “uniparty”–attacked him unfairly, undermining his administration with a series of lies fed by Democrat Hillary Clinton to her allies at FBI and CIA and carried by the corporate legacy media. The Democrats got what they wanted. They tried to use the Justice Department to bankrupt and destroy him. Two assassins tried to kill him, even as Democrats stoked and provoked the mentally unstable by portraying him as Hitler. The American people rebelled at this, and on November 5. Trump won the electoral college in a landslide, also the popular vote as Republicans took the House and the Senate as well. And Democrats have not recovered.
“No president elect has moved so fast assembling a team,” cried Cavuto, as he welcomed South Carolina Democrat James Clyburn who gave us Kamala Harris. Clyburn played the Hitler card on Trump without much pushback from the mealy-mouthed Combine cheerleader Cavuto. And as for C.S. Lewis, there is a free course on him that I’m eager to join at Hillsdale College online.
But this is not a course on C.S. Lewis. It is a column on getting through a street fight unscathed. There is no such thing.
I am by no means an expert on getting through unscathed. It’s impossible. I have spat out my share of bloody chiclets. And I confess that I once smashed an angry man in the fist with my chin on St. Patrick’s Day many years ago.I showed him mercy. The surgeon wired my mouth shut, and I couldn’t eat solid foods for 15 weeks, and though I started as a heavyweight, I ended up as a lightweight eating only milkshakes. And later Betty and I ran into each other, she noticed I was skinny and took pity on me. We got married.
But that’s a story for another time.
In the story I’m writing now, those men without chests are all over the news, clutching their pearls, telling us that Trump’s proposed cabinet selections are a disaster.
They remind me of the Jack Hawkins character, the crazy minister in the film “Zulu,” Hawkins screaming “We’re all going to die!!!! We’re all going to die!!”
The Washington establishment pearl-clutchers are not proud Zulu warriors. They don’t come at you from the front. The Men Without Chests, too are vicious, but they prefer knifing from behind. They don’t stand and throw hands. They’d rather have others do it.
Some of Trump’s cabinet nominees have driven the left beyond madness, into the insanity best expressed in padded cells. U.D. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., is facing backlash online for claiming that Tulsie Gabbard, President-elect Trump’s pick for Director of National Intelligence (DNI), is “likely a Russian asset.” That seems like a poisonous culture bred in Hillary Clinton’s large box of wine. And Gaetz makes them ill. But he’s loyal. And Trump needs loyalists around him or the election will be a failure.
I know that communists and hysterical jacobins like those leftists I once worked with at “the paper” will pitch fits over Gaetz and Hegseth. But this is political trench warfare. If Gaetz steps away from the Constitution I’ll be among the first to demand his head. But he deserves a Senate hearing. And Hegseth wants to drive the DEI and pronoun idiocracy from the Pentagon, restoring the U.S. Military to what it does best: Killing America’s enemies and breaking things. Kennedy is an enemy of Big Pharma, but for decades Big Pharma has paid off federal regulators one way or another. And children are now obese, becoming diabetic and worse. And Gabbard like Gaetz and others, have been hunted, and smeared by the Deep State, with Hillary Clinton and Wasserman Schultz cackling maliciously. All they need now is a boiling cauldron and a few toads for their soup.
Republican John Cornyn, the Deep State’s Senator from Texas, wants to sabotage the Gaetz nomination and others. If he’s successful I hope he enjoys being primaried by pro-Trump Texas conservatives. And if Cornyn stops Gaetz, there are others in line, like conservative Republican lawyer Mike Davis and former Supreme Court clerk would be the Deep State’s worst nightmare. As Trump’s U.S. Attorney General Davis would tear into them like a Manchester Terrier hunting rats in a barn.
“And now the hunters have become the hunted,” said my friend Thom Serafin of Serafin & Associates on the Chicago Way podcast I co-host with WGN radio producer Jeff Carlin. Indeed.
And another friend wise in the ways of politics–a fan of old time country music–mentioned an old song by Patti Page titled “Conquest:”
And then in the strange way things happen
Their roles were reversed from that day
The hunted became the huntress
The hunter became the prey
Trump’s landslide victory and the speed with which he’s made cabinet appointments might be too much for some to deal with. If so, I’d recommend everyone take a deep breath and realize that the corrupt and broken corporate legacy media is dying. Avoid them. The hunters have become the hunted. The Deep State is terrified. And that’s why their agents are squealing like cornered rats.
You might also take a breath and read “It’s Trump’s Transition and He Calls the Shots” a good piece by solid reporter Philip Wegmann for Real Clear Politics.
You might also check out the Federalist magazine. Eddie Scary has a solid piece “Solid Rule For Trump Admin 2.0: Ignore Whatever The Media Are Mad About!”
The hunters of the Deep State have become the hunted. And the hunted, with names like Gabbard, Gaetz, Kennedy and Hegseth have become the hunters.
The American people voted for change in this election. They wanted their borders secure, and the illegal migrants and violent criminals deported out of America. They voted for government efficiency and an end to the woke military. They wanted an end to the FBI investigating parents at school board meetings. They want an end to the federal police investigating Roman Catholics as potential terrorists merely for attending Latin mass and an end to the fentanyl pouring across the border killing our kids.
They want the Deep State defanged and leashed, prevented from targeting Americans for our political beliefs.
We demand those changes. And you want the changes you voted for, then you must contact your Senators and demand you want those changes to happen and demand that Trump’s streetfighters are confirmed. The men without chests who refuse will find out what it’s like to be targeted in the political primaries, taken out and removed. Not with violence. But with righteous American votes. That’s no brag, just fact.
The hunter has become the hunted.
We’re Americans, and we ‘ve been asleep for a long time. But now we’re awake. All 76 million of us.
And we won’t be prey in our own country any more.
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