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No Hope In Trump; No Hope In DC
By Chuck Baldwin
April 27, 2017

At this point, people who are still holding out hope that Donald Trump is going to drain the swamp and save America are delusional. In less than 100 days, Trump has taken America to the precipice of World War III. He has filled his administration with Goldman Sachs banksters, CFR globalists, New World Order Zionists, and warmongers. Trump refuses to prosecute Hillary Clinton for egregious crimes against our country, but he is vowing to prosecute Julian Assange, a man whose “crime” is publishing the truth he receives from whistleblowers about the criminal conduct of the U.S. government. Plus, Assange isn’t even an American. He is an Australian. What jurisdictional authority does President Trump have to arrest and prosecute a citizen of another country who has committed no crime in the United States? None! And if all of that is not bad enough, Donald Trump killed more innocent men, women, and children last month than Syria, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and China combined.

See this report:
More Than 1,000 Civilians Reportedly Killed By U.S.-Led Airstrikes As Trump Expands War On Terror
And this one:
Law Of War? Civilian Deaths In US Strikes In Syria, Iraq Soar Under Trump

No, Donald Trump is not going to drain the swamp; he has completely immersed himself and his administration in the swamp--just like every President of recent memory before him. And every 100 days of his administration from this day forward will only reconfirm this obvious reality.
At some point, the people who thought that Donald Trump was an outsider and “anti-establishment”--and the ones who continue to sacrifice their principles defending him in the forlorn hope that they are going to ride his coattails to glory--will be forced to awaken to the stark reality that either Donald Trump was totally disingenuous from the beginning or he has already capitulated to the swamp creatures ensconced in Washington, D.C. Either way, there is absolutely no hope in Donald Trump. And neither is there any hope in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., is totally and thoroughly corrupt. It is run by bloodthirsty, conscienceless subhumans who will stop at nothing until they bring Armageddon upon the entire world. DC is nothing more than a coven of perverted, putrid, parasitic, pathetic, pompous, pretentious, prideful, pathological purveyors of global pestilence.

How long will freedom-loving Americans continue to believe the empty promises of phony politicians? How long will they continue living in the fantasy that somehow Washington, D.C., is going to see the error of its ways, repent, and return the nation to constitutional government? How long will they continue to look the other way while the swamp creatures in Washington, D.C., corrupt the minds and hearts of their children in these institutions of propaganda called public schools? How long will they continue to allow the swamp creatures in Washington, D.C., and their bottom-feeding serpent buddies at the Federal Reserve and on Wall Street demolish sound money principles and destroy a free market economic system? How long, folks? How long?

Donald Trump is finishing what G.W. Bush began. Bush forever destroyed the influence of genuine Christian patriotism in this country with his phony brand of warmongering Christianity. Now, Trump is forever destroying the influence of the Tea Party/Patriot movements in this country with his phony brand of warmongering/Police-State-building “nationalism.”

The truth is, Trump started drowning in the swamp even before he was inaugurated. Most of the people in his administration could have been picked by ANY of the other neocon Republican presidential candidates. Right now, Washington, D.C.’s neocon warmongers are gushing all over Donald Trump.

On the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) recently said that on foreign policy “I am like the happiest dude in America right now. We’ve got a president and a national security team that I have been dreaming of. . . . I am all in. Keep it up, Donald.”

Ladies and gentlemen, please understand that the single issue that defines a neocon (i.e., Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, G.W. Bush) and a neolib (i.e., Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Harry Reid) is foreign policy. To the swamp creatures in Washington, D.C., everything is defined by foreign policy. Everything! These are beasts of prey. They feed on the blood and carcasses of the dead. They are enriched by war; they crave war; they promote war; they create war.

Donald Trump ran on the coattails of Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul. Most of what Trump trumpeted (no pun intended) was proclaimed and popularized by Buchanan and Paul. They failed to win the White House. Trump succeeded. Do you really think Pat or Ron would have filled their administrations with globalists, billionaires, international bankers, and CFR members? Do you really think Pat or Ron would have turned control of the White House over to two ultra-liberal globalist Zionists such as Jared and Ivanka Kushner? Do you really think Pat or Ron would have launched 59 Tomahawk missiles on a sovereign nation without our country being attacked or consent from Congress? Do you really think Pat or Ron would take America to the precipice of World War III before finishing their first 100 days in office? Hell no!

Donald Trump ran on Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul’s platform of constitutional populism, but he didn’t really believe it. Like G.W. Bush betrayed the Christians who elected him, Donald Trump has betrayed the constitutionalists who elected him. And this time the fallout will be fatal--especially if, as it appears, Trump takes America into another war--or even nuclear war.

No one will ever believe the campaign rhetoric of constitutionalism and populism again. Trump has poisoned the pot. The Democrat Party is plunging further and further into radicalism, extremism, and socialism. But four years from now, people will embrace the radical leftist agenda of the Democrats over the phony constitutionalist agenda of Donald Trump. Then, watch out! Katy bar the door!

Face it: G.W. Bush gave us Barack Obama, and Donald Trump may give us…the antichrist.

From this point onward, freedomists need to “get religion.” I mean they need a revelation. They need to come to the disconcerting decision that there is NO HOPE in Washington, D.C.

There is only one course of action for freedomists: secession. The only other alternative is slavery.

And people need to understand that the spirit of secession is sweeping the globe. Currently, there are 42 separatist movements underway in Africa; 68 in Asia; 107 in Europe; 16 in North America; 18 in Oceania; and 9 in South America. That’s a total of 260 active separatist movements going on RIGHT NOW.

During the past few years, secession movements among states of the United States include Alaska (2006, 2017); California (2010, 2015 - 2017); Florida (2015); Georgia (2009); Hawaii (2011, 2017); Montana (2008); New Hampshire (2012, 2017); Oregon (2016); South Carolina (2010); Texas (late 1990s, 2009, 2017) and Vermont (2003, 2005 - 2007, 2017). This does not include the secession movement currently underway among the Lakota Indians in Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.

The answer has NEVER rested in Washington, D.C. It has always been a fatal mistake for people to expect an answer from Washington, D.C. The answer has always rested with “We the People.” Always! History proves that the bigger central governments become, the more tyrannical they become.

And the fact is, the United States is much too large and too populous to maintain liberty. Increasing population has taken government further and further away from the People. Politically speaking, the only thing that has thwarted Washington, D.C.’s total takeover of the states is the Electoral College system. But a rancid public education system, a cowardly pulpit, a corrupt news media, and runaway political correctness have brought liberty to the brink of destruction. Only the states can recapture the spirit of liberty--ONLY THE STATES! But which states is the sixty-four million dollar question. (My money's on the Rocky Mountain states--which is one of many reasons why I was led to move here.)

At this moment, there doesn’t appear to be a single State with the understanding to recognize that a complete separation from the swamp creatures in Washington, D.C., is the only way to preserve liberty. YET! The swamp creatures have been bribing the states with federal tax dollars for the better part of a century. Many individuals have been living on the dole of the swamp creatures for much of their lives. Patriotic men and women who served in the U.S. armed forces find it difficult to believe that the Constitution that they took an oath to protect and defend doesn’t exist in Washington, D.C. But ladies and gentlemen, never mistake the love of liberty with devotion to government. They are NOT the same thing.

Remember these words? “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [liberty], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government. . . .” That’s from our Declaration of Independence, of course.

The Pat Buchanan Brigade, the Ron Paul Tea Party Revolution, God-fearing libertarians (there is NO liberty without God), and anti-war third parties need to start preparing NOW to elect State governors, legislators, attorney generals, mayors, councilmen, commissioners, sheriffs, etc., that love liberty enough to be willing to separate from the swamp creatures in Washington, D.C., that are swallowing us all alive.

Donald Trump is not going to save us. The Congress in DC is not going to save us. The Supreme Court is not going to save us. The Republican Party is not going to save us. The ONLY remedy we have is the same one that our Founding Fathers had: separation from a carnivorous, insatiable central government that is eating our liberties like a lion devours lambs.

If we start NOW, there still might be time. But trusting Donald Trump and Washington, D.C., for the next four years is a recipe for ruin.

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This is How Trump is Destroying the Anti-War Right
http://www.targetliberty.com/2017/05/th ... -anti.html

When President Obama was in office there was negligible support for bombing strikes in Syria amongst Republicans.

Support for strikes in Syria in 2013: GOP 22%, Dems 38%.
Support for strikes in Syria in 2017: GOP 86%, Dems 37%.https://t.co/JAy3sxjflK
— Sarah Haider (@SarahTheHaider) April 28, 2017

This has totally flipped under President Trump. The GOP has become the War Party.

There is virtually no difference in Democratic support for Syrian strikes during the Obama administration and the Trump administration.

If Hillary had become president, libertarians would have found fertile ground amongst Hillary haters to teach them why the expansion of the Empire is bad. With Trump in power that opportunity is gone.

It's the same situation as was the case under President Ronald Reagan. In 1989, Murray Rothbard explained Reagan's evil function.

There was no "Reagan Revolution." Any "revolution" in the direction of liberty (in Ronnie’s words "to get government off our backs") would reduce the total level of government spending. And that means reduce in absolute terms, not as proportion of the gross national product, or corrected for inflation, or anything else. There is no divine commandment that the federal government must always be at least as great a proportion of the national product as it was in 1980. If the government was a monstrous swollen Leviathan in 1980, as libertarians were surely convinced, as the inchoate American masses were apparently convinced and as Reagan and his cadre claimed to believe, then cutting government spending was in order. At the very least, federal government spending should have been frozen, in absolute terms, so that the rest of the economy would be allowed to grow in contrast. Instead, Ronald Reagan cut nothing, even in the heady first year, 1981....

I am convinced that the historic function of Ronald Reagan was to co-opt, eviscerate and ultimately destroy the substantial wave of anti-governmental, and quasi-libertarian, sentiment that erupted in the U.S. during the 1970s. Did he perform this task consciously? Surely too difficult a feat for a man barely compos. No, Reagan was wheeled into performing this task by his Establishment handlers.

Is it any different with Trump? He has strong followers who are "anti-government" but who now cheer on attacks on Syria? A president who has no principles nor deep understanding of history, who has surrounded himself with generals who at every turn whisper into his ear about the evil world and how only the military can save it.

No, I take it back, We are not seeing a replay of Ronald Reagan. Trump is much worse.

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What is Really Wrong With the Trump Presidency
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/20 ... trump.html

Gary North nails it:

The Trump Presidency is demonstrating clearly to anybody who bothers to pay attention that nothing is going to change in Washington, except possibly to get worse if he gets us into a war. Any hope that a Trump supporter has that anything fundamental is going to change in Washington is simply another example of people believing that the Punch and Judy show in Washington has anything to do with the real power in Washington, which is the power of unelected bureaucracy.

There are two ways to reduce the power bureaucracy. One is to cut their budgets. This is never done. Second, politicians can repeal the law that created the agency. This is also never done. The power of administrative law continues to expand. Congress is peripheral once it passes a law...

Trump is not philosophically committed to limited government. It would take a philosophically steadfast President to repeal ObamaCare and pull out of NAFTA. Trump is not a philosophically steadfast President.

As I have emphasized, unless Trump's tax "reform" is balanced by cuts in the size of government it is just more of the same. The swamp monster will be fed.

The biggest problem with Trump is that he has convinced a lot of people that he was going to change things---many still believe it and attempt to justify any Trump government expansionist move. In many ways, he is just what the Deep State needed. In a very sophisticated manner, the mainstream media hate of Trump is a perfect Deep State false flag.

There is nothing that the Deep State fears from a Trump presidency.

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" New World Order Zionists" Explain what he and others mean by "zionst"??? Someone who supports the State of Israel who happens to be a globalist? I don't get it.

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No Hope In Trump; No Hope In DC
By Chuck Baldwin
April 27, 2017

At this point, people who are still holding out hope that Donald Trump is going to drain the swamp and save America are delusional. In less than 100 days, Trump has taken America to the precipice of World War III. He has filled his administration with Goldman Sachs banksters, CFR globalists, New World Order Zionists, and warmongers. Trump refuses to prosecute Hillary Clinton for egregious crimes against our country, but he is vowing to prosecute Julian Assange, a man whose “crime” is publishing the truth he receives from whistleblowers about the criminal conduct of the U.S. government. Plus, Assange isn’t even an American. He is an cdg Airport transfer Australian. What jurisdictional authority does President Trump have to arrest and prosecute a citizen of another country who has committed no crime in the United States? None! And if all of that is not bad enough, Donald Trump killed more innocent men, women, and children last month than Syria, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and China combined.

Hello!
Why many people are complaining about trump why are you talking about you make him president!!
Thanks!

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No Hope In Trump; No Hope In DC
By Chuck Baldwin
April 27, 2017

At this point, people who are still holding out hope that Donald Trump is going to drain the swamp and save America are delusional. In less than 100 days, Trump has taken America to the precipice of World War III. He has filled his administration with Goldman Sachs banksters, CFR globalists, New World Order Zionists, and warmongers. Trump refuses to prosecute Hillary Clinton for egregious crimes against our country, but he is vowing to prosecute Julian Assange, a man whose “crime” is publishing the truth he receives from whistleblowers about the criminal conduct of the U.S. government. Plus, Assange isn’t even an American. He is an cdg Airport transfer Australian. What jurisdictional authority does President Trump have to arrest and prosecute a citizen of another country who has committed no crime in the United States? None! And if all of that is not bad enough, Donald Trump killed more innocent men, women, and children last month than Syria, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and China combined.

Hello!
Why many people are complaining about trump why are you talking about you make him president!!
Thanks!

Hello, and thank you for using your very first post in this thread.

We complain about Trump because he is not good for America. We complain because he continues to do unconstitutional things like the presidents before him.

Trump may have become president by garnering the sufficient number of electoral college votes, but I personally did not vote for him and do not approve of his treacherous actions. Therefore, I will continue to complain until the forum owner kicks me off.

Who is the leader of your country? Do you ever complain about that leader?