Robert Stacy McCain pointed out recently that Marvel Comics decided they didn’t like their audience and reconfigured their product to appeal to people they fancied better than the audience they had. The result that ensued was multi-year double-digit declines in readership. Now, the Murdoch boys have decided they don’t like their audience either. It’s a pattern. It would be agreeable if particular franchises died out. If it’s all the franchises, please recall that in 1920, the two most popular sports in this country were baseball and boxing. Baseball acted to contain its corruption, boxing didn’t. As a spectator sport, boxing now ranks somewhere around 10th and is preferred by perhaps 1% of the audience for spectator sports.

The kneeling FBI agents pictured above are an indication of just how successful the Left has been in fraying, diluting, denigrating, and eliminating a positive image of the United States, the love of our country–warts and all, its history, Constitution, values, and heritage—what traditionally had been the inculcation of “Patriotism” in our educational system, such Patriotism which used to quite often permeate and inform, as well, our MSM, Literature, Arts, and “Entertainment” Media—in short, in our entire Culture–with the very deliberate result that these FBI agents no longer know “which side they’re on,” or should I say, they’re on the wrong side.

I really, really do hope that it is photo shopped.

Because, if legit, is shows that the rot runs very very deep indeed, and that our Republic, that we, are in a far more precarious situation than I had thought.

Nice of these particular FBI agents to self identify as people who can’t be trusted, as people who should be fired immediately, since they have just demonstrated–in the most concrete way possible, by kneeling in sympathy and surrender–where their true loyalties lay, that their allegiance is to the mob–to the Left, to Antifa and Black Lives Matter, to the New Black Panthers, and to the other various Leftist “demonstrators”–and not to the Constitution, to the Law, or to our country and it’s citizens generally.

See the picture at https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/07/fbi-pledges-allegiance-to-black-lives-matter-antifa-nation-of-islam-and-new-black-panthers-protesters/

If you had said this to me in, say, 2016 I would have thought you were nuts.
Not only do I think it’s true but there’s doubt in my mind which side they’ll be on.

Regarding Trump’s ability to power through the GOPe’s raft of candidates one thing I noticed early on was he and his advisors seemed to have read blogs and knew which issues were on our minds.
That impressed me.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/06/04/flashback-barack-obama-was-blasted-by-not-one-but-three-of-his-former-secretaries-of-defense-n489295

Why does this matter? Rest assured, this isn’t whataboutism. Let’s look at the reaction Mattis’s recent comments are getting, and compare that to the coverage Obama’s SecDefs speaking out against him got. Liberal media is praising Mattis, and moderate Republicans are finding themselves needing to take sides. Did this happen with Obama when three—not one, but three—of his former secretaries of defense criticized him and his leadership abilities? Of course it didn’t. I don’t agree with Mattis’s critique, but considering the way Trump trashed him I’m not surprised it happened. Trump, for whatever reason, rarely parts on good terms with people in his administration and it baffles me. But even more baffling is how the media couldn’t have cared less about Obama’s former secretaries of defense raising alarms about how Obama conducted foreign policy. Trump may pay a price for treating his former officials so poorly, but America paid a price for the media ignoring the constant stream of red flags during the Obama presidency.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/06/denver-broncos-declare-if-you-are-not-virtuous-enough-to-support-their-antifa-politics-then-get-lost/

The NFL has been moving further and further toward the political left for several years. Many NFL players and teams openly castigate their fans and denigrate anyone who doesn’t conform to their political correctness. Overall, the NFL has become a toxic stew of identity politics and divisive intollerance.

However, the Denver Broncos are taking division up a notch today by declaring if their fans do not stand with their brand of virtue signaling politics, then you stand against them.

Quite a remarkable position. Apparently, in the endless quest to be the most virtuous, the team has decided to eliminate over half of their potential support base. Against the recent pressure upon NFL quarterback Drew Brees to apologize for supporting the U.S.A flag; it appears the NFL is a lost cause.

Let the market decide.

I would not lose a minute’s sleep if every sports team in the country stayed shut down, but I have friends who are fans and some who work in a support capacity, so this is not good.

Simultaneous to her demand that all security forces, including the added DC police, be withdrawn operations, the Mayor is helping to organize the introduction of far-left mobs under the pretense of her facilitating weekend mass protests against the White House.

In essence, Mayor Bowser is simultaneously removing DC security and introducing an extremist force. This is beyond dangerous and appears to be an intentional effort by the mayor to force and create a violent Kent State type confrontation. This is Alinsky 101.

Provocation to a specifically designed conflict is why Mayor Bowser had the streets painted earlier today; and why she is pretending not to know what the end goal is for the operation where she is a key player.
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Let’s hope President Trump hasn’t been set up again by resistance operatives within the White House.

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Another of her studies, in response to a report issued by the RNC in 2013, makes it very clear why he won the Republican nomination: support of the disaffiliated, but still voting, conservatives.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2013/07/new-study-sheds-light-on-why-republicans-wont-call-themselves-republican/

Disaffiliation from the Republican label is not only, or even primarily, a matter of philosophical differences. Rather, the perception of former Republican adherents that their party has personally attacked them, continued to present choices as a “lesser of two evils,” select candidates and principles unpalatable to voters to the point where they retain “no hope,” and failed to provide the sense of community that other outlets like talk radio and the Tea Party provide, reveal that ideology takes a back burner to what is essentially a hollow brand for those disaffiliating.

This is important for many reasons: his most recent tenure as Acting Director of National Intelligence : first, more Obamagate documents are coming.

Second, his view of Washington, DC is that it’s an incestuous aristocracy filled with arrogance, fueled by money and exclusive power, and abusive towards those outside it.

Third, he emphasises that Trump might be the only President in living memory who’s first night in DC was inside the White House. And that far outsider-status measure among billionaires is probably is unique yet genuine, because he’s always been an outsider throughout his career. Thus, Trump is the right kind of man to perform the job of breaking the Deep State.

Grenell comments on his work as the Ambassador to Germany, saying that he’s for open and transparent public diplomacy, not old traditional, elite, and private back channels.

Although his heart is correctly set and mind clearly courageous, Grenell appears to operate from a naive version of C. Wright Mills “Power Elite,” with neither the finesse nor bull-dozing power needed for rebuilding trust in government because it leaves much too much federal authority standing still, safely untouched, and not radically reconstructed. Just decentralise a Federal Offices to the provinces and all will get much better?

So, we get all this noise, years of constant deceit, and furious high-level sedition if not treason? Yet, in a few four years more, all we’re gonna see achieved is a delay in the inevitable march towards oppressive pink-Marxoid socialism? Yeah.

There’s much more there, and it’s sometimes, early on, quite personal. Please tell me I’m wrong! Let there be light in the window for greater optimism?

“Ex-Intelligence Dir: Exposing What The Deep State Is | Richard Grenell | POLITICS | Rubin Report”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQBQwWn_8Cw