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Cruising Economist's avatar

Think ahead. Any power expansion initially designed to deal with violent political fanatics will be turned against freedom loving Americans the next time mentally diseased authoritarian leftists install themselves in the Executive Branch.

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Yukon Dave's avatar

Do you mean like the IRS team led by Louis Lerner that took out the entire Tea Party movement, one grass roots leader at a time? That system is already in place and ready and able to remove Antifa.

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Richard's avatar

Another category is needed. State and Local officials denying constitutional rights under color of law. There are about a dozen states, virtually all big cities and numerous other local government entities that do this. They are all more or less affiliated with leftist extremists and will not cooperate with the steps you outline. Same with Five Eyes. The other 4 all are supporting Hamas and who knows what else.

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FreedomFighter's avatar

An excellent assessment of far left extremist groups and their operations and methods. Part of the difficulty in stopping, prosecuting these people is that the government agencies, in spite of MAGA appointed leadership, are still populated by Deep State operatives, who are on the far left of the political spectrum. They will ignore assignments and even warn these groups of investigations. Expecting help on the state or local level, where the left has infiltrated or controls, may lead to unsatisfactory results. These left wing groups are well established, well financed and highly motivated. This is a tough war to win and it requires the active participation of the patriotic public.

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Sandra Pinches's avatar

Excellent comment! It is the "patriotic public" that is conspicuously missing in Democrat controlled, leftist populated cities. (I live in Portland). A large chunk of the population in my area openly supports antifa rioters and another large chunk chooses to deny that riots are ongoing, or that they pose a threat to the continued existence of the city and its citizens.

A few weeks ago I googled the question, "How long have riots been ongoing at the ICE building in Portland?" (True answer is about 3 months). The AI response at the top of the search results lectured me about "not using the term 'riot'" because "there is a context to any actions being taken," and a few sentences more of obfuscating mumbo jumbo. The same verbiage has been used by city officials and is apparently being picked up by the AI's search.

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NeverForget1776's avatar

The Feds have not treated far left extremism equally to far right until Trump b/c no Democrat administration is going to do it and al Republican presidents since Regan and maybe even as far back as Nixon or JFK have been establishment owned hacks and the Republicans in Congress have either been establishment shills or spineless cowards. When was the last time a Republican controlled WH + Congress tried to undo any damage previously caused by a Democrat administration? The way it works is that if the Democrats can get something implemented the Republicans agree to leave it alone even when they have control however the inverse is not that way. Until Trump came along our government has been run by establishment hacks which is why things are so messed up, unbalanced and why everything feels broken.

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Corey Gruber's avatar

Some useful recommendations to be sure — but much is retreading. Of course we invariably begin with the not-so-hidden inference that comes with all analyst/consultant submissions: “About that grant money…”

Here are some suggestions based on a couple of decades in the trenches:

Don’t waste months defining terms. That’s an analyst’s full employment dream and bureaucratic quicksand. Suitable definitions either already exist and can be adapted, or are going to come from discoveries during dismantlement. (Make sure they’re suitable for headstones).

No “Whole of government” nonsense. That invariably means the designated lead does the preponderance of work. They usually don’t have tasking authority and can’t direct other agencies to expend resources. Not the best framework for this effort.

Use the “One riot, one Ranger” approach — one Ranger with an indisputable POTUS-issued “in-charge-card,” and Cabinet heads in direct support. Seat the lead with NSC Principals. POTUS and Chief of Staff in overwatch to ensure compliance. Frame Executive Order under national security authorities. Explicitly carve lanes. Designee has full convening power.

Require unclassified quarterly public summaries, classified summaries for NSC principals. If possible, bias-proof with bipartisan oversight. BUT — don’t let report production become the task force mission. Concise, consistent and spartan.

If success came through establishing U.S. Government working groups, nothing would ever fail. They are the highest form of bureaucratic strangulation. If you populate “consensus coffins” with the same collaborationists that haunted school boards a few months ago, you know what you’ll get. No thanks.

This requires a specialized task force, established by EO, overseen (not led) by NSC, and staffed with by-name detailees; roster vetted by WH Personnel Office. Keep it lean. (~50-75 with small core staff for continuity). Experienced (e.g., JTTF, prosecutors). Audit and evaluate detailees (don’t leave evaluations, promotions, or distribution of bonuses to their home agencies). Two year detail to prevent detailee disease. Extend rock stars, quickly jettison underperformers. Incentivize with follow-on plum assignments for top performers.

Don’t give out more useless grants — redirect/redistribute $ to the Task Force from existing DHS/DOJ CVE pots for mission execution; consider private-sector matching. The point is to defeat the threat and prevent the violence so you won’t need to do eternal CVE grant wallpapering.

Task Force mission: disrupt operational networks, starve financial pipelines*, amplify counter-narrative, prevent radicalization / recruitment, coordinate with allies. Far-left extremism is the primary domestic threat, but ensure comprehensiveness with tackling other threats (e.g., Islamic).

* Sure, disrupt fiscal sponsors, but these groups often operate on shoestring budgets. Better to target key organizers and specialists (e.g., trainers).

Not a lawyer, but the legal roadmap needs to account for the plague of compromised courts and judges. How and where do you empanel grand juries and issue subpoenas?

One final point: General George Crook said “To polish a diamond there is nothing like its own dust.“ The most effective way to refine or dismantle a movement is to turn its own former insiders. Leverage the burnout, disillusionment, career stagnation and ethical crises that will infect the Far-Left. Give them exit ramps.

Leadership: my vote goes to Joe Kent, with Ric Grenell second (maybe as a Lead/Deputy tag team). Kent’s in the right place and has the right credentials; Grenell has great previous experience.

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HardeeHo's avatar

Some solid additions that ought to implemented. Avoid shared responsibility in those groups. A person of strength and character needs to be found to lead. But we do need to neuter the rise of leftist crazies intent on eliminating American culture. They have a 40 year head start.

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NeverForget1776's avatar

An excellent and well thought out plan but there's a few holes and some things you didn't take into account.

THE NEWS MEDIA - The mdi is going to have to be delt with for they will at every single step of the execution of what you have laid out market what is being done as the rise of the new Nazi party, of the Trump Fascist movement and b/c no one has held them accountable they absolutely will go beyond embellishing and stretching the truth to lout right lying intentionally. Every act will be portrayed as some violation of rights, often of rights that don't exist but many will believe they do b/c despite the trust levels in the media being ,ow many still do believe them especially independents and you need the support of the independents.

THE COURTS - The judiciary, specifically Federal court judges have to be dealt with and sooner than later for the judiciary is plagued with pro-Left activist Judges who now that the Left don't control the Federal government, are serving as the Lefts secondary line of attack. They will attempt to block every single action the government takes and while SCOTUS is likely to over turn most, there is but 1 SCOTUS with but so much time and many Federal Court pro-left activist Judges ready to stand in the way. Because impeachment requires a high level of agreement, one that Trump does not currently have, they need to visit the idea of removing Judges for acting badly which is hinted at in the Constitution. DO it now , get it before SOCTUS so as to get a final ruling on if that can be done or not. If yes then start removing the worst of the worst. We won't need to remove all of them or even a majority but enough so that the rest get cared and fall in line. As pro-left as they are they still want t keep their jobs so by getting ready of a few the rest will fall in line.

ZERO TOLERENCE POLICY - Trump needs to implement a zero tolerance policy where anyone who pushes back i the least against an order is terminated immediately; no ifs and or buts! To do this the Judges will have to be dealt with for they will block every one of these if they can. This zero tolerance must apply to any attempts to unfairly target pro-right or pro-Christian organizations too. AL Federal employees must be required to do their job with biases/prejudice or they are GONE! This also needs to include the immediate revocation of national security clearance form any and all persons who have or are currently acting against the administrations goals. These are highly prized items that many count on to afford them a luxurious lifestyle after leaving government service so they need to be made fearful of using those to challenge or work against the administrations goals.

LONG TERM DETAINMENT - This is going to be very difficult to do because of how it looks but half measures are why we are in the mess we are today. Many and I mean 10's to 10o's of thousands if not more are going to need to be detained in mental institutions and provided professional deprogramming help like the kind provided to rescued cult members. They are a cult and must be treated as such. They are telling us that murder is just and that they will support it and even engage in it. For the safety of all of society they must be detained but not in prison because they themselves are victims of the indoctrination done to them in the education system between public schools and the universities as those are where the pro-Marxist activist are. The targeted the youth because that is the most effective means for change.

EDUCATION OVERHAUL - The public education system along with the universities have been co-opted and are the breeding grounds for future terrorists. There must be band on all public unions, an end to all teacher unions. The schools must be purged of the activists operating within it. This however is gong to result in a mass shortage of avaible teachers because of how wide spread the problem is so there needs to be promotion of public school alternatives. This happened because school system became too large and thus easily corruptible. We need a return to more localized schooling where the schools and what they do are primarily controlled by the locals. As for the universities, we need to promote new alternative universities that focus solely on education and place zero emphasis on any of the fields of study that promote hatred of American culture Capitalism or the nation itself. There needs to be severe punishment dished out to any university staff and administrators who promote pro-Marxist ideology in whole or just in part. The worst of these can be easily dealt with by stripping them of all public funding period and ensure that the public is fully aware that they are being stripped and why; expose them to the public and show what they are doing to peoples kids. Then let them sink or swim on private funding alone.

EQUALITY ENFORCEMENT - While "equality is widely promoted in America it is not applied but not in the way many think. Programs like Affirmative Actin, Female empowerment and DEI are all discriminatory by definition but we pretend they aren't b/c they exist to make for past presumed discrimination. All must be treated equally under the law and zero special/preferential treatment provided to anyone for any reason period! The government to needs to crack downward, like drug war hard, on any person or organization that attempts to provide special/preferential treatment to anyone for any reason. I shouldn't have to say this but of course this does not apply to the handicapped/disabled. We still need to provide them with assistance were needed and viable. The above is not meant to say all wheel chair ramps and handicap parking must go so all people have equal access. The above is intended to end discriminatory treatment done under the guise of help.

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Jason's avatar

You wrote the article that's been sitting in my head for over a month now. Behind every supposedly grassroots movement is a socialist/communist group organizing it. It's always about the revolution.

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J. Gan.'s avatar

In your search, did you happen to uncover the real shooter and accomplices as has been done here? ==> https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1ZkKzZakMqdKv watch that to the end. The kid is a patsy and misdirection. This was a military operation through and through.

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Rebecca St James's avatar

One way is to remove the money from Soros and remove tax exempt status to all of these groups. Talked about this morning as Glenn Beck hosted Charlie Kirk's show.

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Brian Camenker's avatar

As several commenters have said, a huge part of the problem is within. It seems like the government needs to disband the FBI and CIA, and then build replacement agencies from the ground up with the proper people in them.

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FreedomFighter's avatar

I fled from a New England left wing hell-hole about 13 years ago. Living in a free southern state does wonders for peace of mind and security. AI is a tool of rich, radical Marxists. So isn't so-called social media. I use neither one. Don't let yourself be enslaved.

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This 💩 is worse than Goebbels.

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JoshuaRayJongema.Com's avatar

Next do globalists.

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