Dakota Beacon

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has delivered its finding that former President Donald Trump is “not immune” to prosecution for “insurrection”.  Well, well, well.  What a surprise.  The little blip - the little fly in the ointment of Colorado’s premature effort to keep Trump off the ballot notwithstanding - the intention all along has been to keep Trump leading in the polls long enough - however long it took - to give him the same opportunity he had in 2016, of running interference and preventing a genuine (or at least plausible) conservative off of the Republican presidential ticket. In 2016 the plan was to get him on the political show circuit and deep-six the prospects of Ted Cruz, that year’s leading spokesman for the Right.  Trump was the clown act that was sure to get Hillary -  who could never be hauled across the finish line without it because she was so widely and deeply hated - safely installed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in spite of herself.

Then two things began to take shape.  Trump, who probably ran on a bet in the first place -  came under the thrall of his own ego.   If he could get the nomination, why not the presidency?  And synergistically with this new self-discovery came a vast army of his fans from his TV days of The Apprentice, people who also didn’t want to see any more of Hillary and were not put off by a TV emcee, a cartoon character, in the White House.  Why not?  What a lark.  Anything can happen in America!  The Right had done it before, they reasoned, recalling Ronald Reagan.  The difference there was that Reagan, a former Democrat, said right off the bat that he had reasons for his departure from the Democrat Party - that it was no longer “the party of Al Smith”, but had become something else that threatened the American way of life.  Trump, also a “former” Democrat did nothing of the sort, but because he could never be wrong about anything, and because it was obvious that the Democrats have been a dangerous threat to American values for a very long time now, at least since Lyndon Johnson, he couldn’t explain it away.  If you are Trump you can’t make a mistake by definition.  Most Americans, including this writer, supported him when 2020 rolled around.  We had no one on the Right and on the Left we had Joe Biden, what we thought then was a “known quantity”.  (We have since discovered we had no idea back then how low he could sink.)  We now have no idea who is really in charge of our country.

The need now, for the One-Worlders, is to maintain the fraud of Joe Biden until they can find a replacement, but not to let the rogue Trump get his foot in the door again.  It proved to be trouble before - hard to get a fire started under foreign wars.  The abdication of Trump to the dictatorships of various U.S. governors under the umbrella of Fauci’s “pandemic” was nice, but the one good thing about his administration - he wasn’t putting money in the arms dealers’ coffers.  He was advancing fascism within our borders, but not importing the New World Order fast enough - that project was stalling out.  Better Biden than Trump for them.  

That said, the worst-case scenario for any Democrat would have been a President Ron DeSantis.  The first step in their program must be to end that prospect as quickly as possible.  That was taken care of with the help of the Trump Army which turned out in Iowa, despite a blizzard and an all-out effort by DeSantis to garner support.  DeSantis saw, rightly, that if he waited “his turn”, 2028 might well be too late.  Like the heroic Dutch boy he saw the hole in the dike, knew the danger and put his thumb in the breach, hoping to buy America time to right the Ship of State (just ignore the mixed metaphors), or perhaps throwing his pail of water on the smouldering beginning of a forest fire.  He didn’t “wait his turn”, he was “disloyal” to his political daddy, Trump, who claimed 100% credit for DeSantis’s very existence by virtue of his golden endorsement.  The truth, of course, was quite different.  DeSantis won by a greater margin after he had served a term of his own as Governor of Florida than he did by the Trump endorsement. 

In any case, anyone with eyes to see or ears to hear, was aware that DeSantis had made some grand promises.  They could also see that he had made every one of them actually happen, and that through cooperation with his state’s legislature, not through empty proclamations or “executive orders”.  He was definitely a guy to be feared.  He had also caused their veins to run cold because when threatened with withdrawal of important financial support unless he backed off of his pro-life program, break with his convictions and his promises, DeSantis did not blink.  In his words, “. . . as Popeye says, ‘I am what I am,’ . . . “ and stood by his intention to support the right to life.  This was really scary.  A President DeSantis could set their fascistic and anti-sovereignty plans back decades at least, and perhaps by a century.  

DeSantis wasn’t perfect.  Many might see his desire to drastically reform Congress as reckless, and rightly so, this giving the Left possibly its best shot to destroy the Constitution to date,  and he could have been more emphatic about putting the cork in foreign wars and some nit-pickers would have liked some kind of speech about the stolen election of 2020, but to the Left anyone else offered more.  If Trump could stop that they should do all they could to help him.  The media went into full swing to help Trump out - running poll after poll to convince his audiences that he was surging  back.  These supporters would declare that they would “ride or die” with Trump to the bitter end out of revenge and their heated sense of protecting the Bill of Rights.

The Trumpies were right in that the Bill of Rights was being violated with heedless abandon by our courts and our Justice Department (as much under Trump’s administration as under Biden’s).  Somehow they have willed themselves to overlook Trump’s own neglect of the Bill of Rights in the case of his followers who were thrown into D.C. gulags for showing up to hear his speech and wave the flag on January 6.  Indeed, he did little to nothing to save himself, given his disastrous appointments and failure to support the Bill of Rights in 2020, permitting our cities to become infernos of rioting, depriving businesses of protection to simply be open, not to mention the shut-downs across the country, strong-armed by Trump’s government agents using his “federalism” as a cover - a subject worth an article of its own.  We lost more of our constitutional rights under Trump than we did under Obama.  So much for the Tea Party Movement.   Even so, to the Left, Biden is still preferred (or whoever or whatever is the actual acting head of government in the Biden era).  It’s a kind of mainlining of communism and one-world-itis, rather than a watered-down medicine bottle of it.  

Ironically, only one person has done anything significant to protect Trump’s constitutional rights and acted to stop unconstitutional violations - DeSantis, who said openly he would not permit the feds hauling Trump away in violation of his rights (Trump promptly flew to New York to turn himself in) and has since said he should be pardoned in any case.  DeSantis alone has put into effect laws enacted in his state under his promotion, to address election fraud.  (He has cleaned up the poll books, removing the dead and unqualified voters; has outlawed corporate involvement in the election process itself (“Zuckerbucks”, etc.); and has rejected the mail-in voting which opened the door to massive fraud - a $400 million effort signed into law (the CARES Act) by Trump himself as part of his covid campaign).  Oh, well.

Now we are past Step One.  DeSantis dropped out (prematurely) immediately after the Iowa caucus drubbng which showed us all that people aren’t capable of critical or objective thinking.  Now for Step Two.  After the false honeymoon of soft interviews on network news programs, non-confrontational “town halls” to shield him from debates where other candidates might shoot him a sharp question or rebuke, while offering him a platform to lie about DeSantis and take pot shots without having to face him and  after a seeming “win” with the Colorado election system, now the big guns come out.  Now, with DeSantis busy in Florida, lending a hand to Texas in its fight at the border, now with nothing to fear from that quarter, it’s time to turn on Trump again time to begin putting him into the orange jumpsuit.  It was always a chess game, it’s just that Trump wasn’t playing.  Now we will see the rest of the plot unfold.

Trump will continue to bluster around.  His righteously indignant adherents will continue to cheer him on, blinders fully in place.  The courts will shut him down, first with a series of gag orders, later with full-time court appearances, keeping him in the spotlight but silent.  No need for any Democrat to debate him or defend the Biden record of disaster.  No opportunity for the crowd to cheer at a Trump rally.  That won’t be happening again.  Oh, the polls will probably fade away as well, and the press won’t be coming around to get their puff piece interviews anymore.  It will become fashionable once again in those circles to accuse and rebuke him, to ridicule him and to further slander and punish his groupies.  While this might not deter those stalwart suckers who will follow him down the tubes while their comrades rot in prisons, the cold fact of ballot access might put them in checkmate.  They will have squandered their knights and bishops, sure that their king would never fall because it was the real player with the 3-D moves.  But it won’t take Dominion to fix an election with only one major party candidate on the ballot.  

There is no reason to believe that by 2025, Trump will not be in prison or at least waiting for an appeal date to roll around.  

We do have - at least at this moment in time - one other option.  He’s not perfect by any means, and in some ways an unknown quantity.  He might even get “unlucky” between now and November, given that Biden has always denied him Secret Service protection (not that it did much good for his dad or his uncle), but with all that, thank God for Robert Kennedy, Jr.  He might be all that remains standing on the board between America and another term of these communists.  He seems worth taking a chance on.

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You have really missed the mark with this one,Sally. - JR

I guess we'll see.  It might be useful if you state wherein I "missed the mark" here.  - SM