“On January 30, 2017 — ten days into the Trump presidency — Rosa Brooks published an article in Foreign Policy titled “3 Ways to Get Rid of President Trump Before 2020.” She outlined four scenarios for removing the new president from office: impeachment, the 25th Amendment, cabinet revolt, and a military coup.”

DataRepublican links the original Foreign Policy post, which is paywalled against me. Here is a different route:
https://netadvisor.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2017-01-30-3-Ways-to-Get-Rid-of-President-Trump-Before-2020.pdf
Brooks: “Thus the question: Are we truly stuck with Donald Trump?
It depends. There are essentially four ways to get rid of a crummy president”

The Democrats, through Brooks, did outline four scenarios, but not the ones DR listed: (seriously though, who did the counting for that headline? — I suspect #1 was overlooked).

So the Democrats even TOLD us what they were going to do (IOW, primed their followers to support them), then spent millions of dollars and billions of person-hours on at least 2 of the “ways” Brooks recommended.

1. Wait out his first year and elect someone else. (would have been the smart move)
2. Impeachment. (they tried, and failed, twice)
3. 25th Amendment. (couldn’t really get that going; it involves a Cabinet revolt, and that wasn’t going to happen)
4. Military Coup. (they had some willing general staff officers for that one)
The Democrats tried again in 2025 with the Seditious Six: DataRepublican: “One of those six lawmakers was Rep. Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire. She is married to Jake Sullivan.”

I think there were at least 2 other ways.

5. Russia collusion charges.
The fifth scenario, which Brooks did NOT mention in her post, was already rolling, having been given the green-light by Obama on his way out the door: poison American voters’ minds with a fake narrative.
Note, again, the names in DR’s post: the same people were all over the place.

They actually succeeded with this one, as there were people who believed it (and still do). They didn’t force Trump out before the end of his term, but they stymied his policies and harassed his administration, and prepared the ground for Biden’s “election win” by being able to continually yell “collusion!” during the campaign.

Apparently the “sixth scenario” was only added in 2024; or only became operational then, when it was clear that Trump was going to beat Harris.
If Rosa Brooks were writing her post today, odds are good it would make her list, since her compatriots are not shy about naming it.

6. Trump 3, Democrats 0 — so far.

The FJB and BHO juntas weren’t too concerned about such trivialities. For the greater good.

There must be a preference vortex or something going on.

I was coming over to post this new article by DataRepublican, having earlier referenced both her own works, and the observation that a cabal of insiders is actually running the governments “headed” by Democrats, and found you had beat me to it via Instapundit.

https://datarepublican.substack.com/p/the-shadow-cabinet-of-soros

I have to draw maps and lists to follow her points, but she pretty much proves that all those people saying Biden Inc was run by Obama’s people were totally correct, and even more so.

And it’s very likely all legal, but I would love to see Trump’s DOJ find a thread that is over the line and start pulling on it.

Man enough to lose, and remain unemployable actors.

Remember this ad from 2024?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLzYPbtklGs

When I first saw that one, I just assumed it had to be either a spoof or a right-wing false flag. I mean it couldn’t possibly be for real, could it?

“I eat carburetors for breakfast!”

As it happens, it was real. It was really intended to help Harris. It’s just that the people making it had no Earthly idea what motivated her opponents or how to appeal to them.

Is this one real? The labor organizations it names are real. If this is a false flag from Pratt, it’s a foolish one, because it would open him up to fraud allegations from those groups. So my hunch is that it’s for real.

Is it well-targeted? I’m not sure. It might actually play well to upper-middle-class and upper class white liberals, but it might go too far, too. I’m not sure how well it would play with working class voters.

from David Bernstein at Instapundit

https://instapundit.com/796328/

Slovenia—as paradigm—shows the way!

‘“PM Golob knows that the game is over”…’—
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/interviews/pm-golob-knows-that-the-game-is-over-slovenian-political-analyst-sebastjan-jeretic/

+ Bonus (of the conservative Catholic kind)…

“Top Conservative Cardinal Blasts Mass Migration, Defends Rights of Nations”—
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/interviews/top-conservative-cardinal-blasts-mass-migration-defends-rights-of-nations/

Ratzinger lives…

“…The Shadow Cabinet of Soros. Inside the Soros-Funded Nonprofit That Hand-Picked Biden’s National Security Team, Then Pretended to Dissolve.”—
https://instapundit.com/796284/

(Make that “VENAL uber-corrupt Politburo”—IOW just another Democratic Party think tank doing its most under-handed worst to subvert and destroy the country…)

“Lebanese President urges US to halt Israeli operations ahead of Washington talks;
“President Joseph Aoun urges US to pressure Israel as Lebanon prepares for direct talks in Washington later this week.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/426932

As for “Back to the Future”(TM)…

“Israel helped Egypt arm the Sinai. Now those guns are pointed the wrong way;
“What should alarm anyone who remembers the years before October 7 is not that the buildup is happening. It is how Israel is processing it.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/426874

(With Turkey’s neo-Ottoman ambitions lurking ominously in the immediate background…)