Has the U.S. federal government ever had less legitimacy than it has right now? Kimberly Cheatle was forced out as the Secret Service director after perhaps the worst performance by an agency head in the history of Congressional testimony. Cheatle couldn’t answer basic and crucial questions like how many shell casings were found on the roof of the American Glass Research building where would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Crooks set up shop 10 days ago, and by the time she was done even the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee were calling for her ouster. (READ MORE: A Worthless Search for Trump Shooter’s Motive) It came less than a day later. But Cheatle’s resignation is almost surely a head on a platter designed to turn down the heat on a situation that has still not been remotely resolved. How could it be after what we know about Butler? Was Butler Malice or Incompetence? We May Not Get Answers. The old axiom is never to attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. But can you really explain the basic, fundamental failures of the Secret Service in Butler by incompetence? And will any answers be forthcoming by Cheatle’s successor at the Secret Service? What evidence do we have that would happen? We already see what direction the post-Cheatle Secret Service is going in: Telling Trump not to do outdoor rallies, because they can’t guarantee his safety (no s**t, Sherlock). Here’s what we know about this government. Federal agency heads, as a pattern, stonewall Congressional oversight. Federal prosecutors, illegally appointed, break laws to persecute ordinary citizens and political figures. The government takes in $5 trillion per year and spends $7 trillion. We’re actively prosecuting a proxy war against the nation with the largest nuclear stockpile in the world and refusing to engage in peace negotiations with that nation. Our government refuses to enforce its immigration laws, and those prominent in it act as though it’s impossible to do without rewarding those who break our laws in the first place. And now we have a clearly incapacitated president who won’t show his face or do his job. At least the regime gave us proof of life on Tuesday with footage of Joe Biden walking to a plane. Today, supposedly, he’ll address the nation about having dropped out of the 2024 presidential race. But Biden has canceled everything on his schedule, including a meeting with Bibi Netanyahu, other than that address. Even though his supposed COVID symptoms are gone. If you believe he had COVID rather than suffering at least a ministroke in Las Vegas last week, well, bless your heart. The Point of a System Is What It Does We don’t know who’s running the country and we can’t hold them accountable. Some cabal of people who won’t identify themselves are the true power in American government and they don’t share the values of most of the citizenry. And the so-called “free press” is wholly incurious about all of this. Were it not for Cheatle’s signature failure in front of House Oversight, does anyone really believe the media would have covered her testimony, other than perhaps as a “Republicans Pounce” story? An attempt was made on Donald Trump’s life 10 days ago and the more we find out about it the more apparent it is that our government aided and abetted that attack. That kid should not — could not — have been on that roof, much less stayed there as long as he did with the knowledge of Trump’s security coverage before blasting away at the former president at his leisure. And it is inconceivable that Trump could have been allowed on that stage given the known presence of a credible threat to his life. At least, not without some collusion on the part of someone in the chain of command. Nobody is this incompetent. Nothing about this is the America you grew up in. They’ve taken it from you, and they replaced it with “Our Democracy.”‘ And you should not make the mistake of believing that we’re getting what we’re getting because we’re ruled by incompetents. They aren’t incompetents. They’re prominent members of our ruling elite who went to all the best schools and fought their way up through a vicious hierarchy of political hacks to get those jobs. They might not have skills useful to the American people and they might not be good at their jobs, but don’t you make the mistake of thinking this is the best these people can do. A few days ago, Tucker Carlson had an excellent interview with Jack Posobiec of Human Events about the Secret Service’s failures and other elements of the state of the country. Posobiec brought up something interesting that he said he picked up on the internet somewhere, and it goes like this: The point of a system is what it does. If your social contagion leaves 40 percent of its adherents trying to commit suicide, maybe that’s what the social contagion was designed to do. If your mass migrant invasion leads to more than 100,000 Americans dead from fentanyl poisoning while wages are depressed and social mobility in the black and Hispanic communities stops cold, perhaps that was the point. If your unworkable economic and governmental philosophy results in 100 million corpses, maybe that’s the intent. And if your DEI-laden, incommunicado Secret Service which staffs a Jill Biden garden party in Pittsburgh with 12 agents and leaves just four for a Donald Trump outdoor rally with 50,000 people coming, and that results in Trump taking a bullet off his ear rather than through his temple solely through the grace of God, well, maybe this is what was intended. But for the part where Trump’s brains neglected to splash the crowd, that is. You’ll Know the Regime By Its Chaos As Scripture notes, you’ll know them by their fruits. Give no one in power the benefit of the doubt, which you simply cannot do anymore, and things will become clearer. You won’t enjoy what you see, for certain. But you will see it. You’ll see chaos because there is chaos. And as a normal human being, that chaos will frighten the hell out of you. But not them. The cabal running this country today likes chaos. They see chaos as an opportunity. Never let a crisis go to waste, you know? Chaos is their business. Chaos requires someone to bring order, and that someone will need immense power for the project. So of course they’re fostering it because the point of a system is what it does. And if this system creates a surrealistic, nightmarish Bizarro America, then the sheep out there will bleat loudly for some new solution only the cabal can offer. We were two inches away from civil war nine days ago. Ask yourself who was better prepared for that. Is it the “right-wing extremists” you’ve heard so much about, who are ever-present according to the chaos agents of our ruling cabal but seem awfully short on actually doing anything threatening? Or is it the people who have been gearing up for a civil war for a decade or more? If that bullet had found its mark on Trump’s head, there would have been reprisals. Here and there. Someone would have responded with a pot-shot at some Democrat politician or media personality. And the response to that would have been the Jan. 6 aftermath on a national scale. It would have been a crackdown like this country has never seen. And it would have been justified, of course, on account of those ubiquitous right-wing extremists who finally showed their fangs as Trump’s body went cold. And while I can’t tell you how that would have ended, I can tell you any remaining vestige of the America you once knew would have perished. At least for a time, you’d be stuck with “Our Democracy,” gulags and all. We are so close to losing everything our Founding Fathers gave us. Some of us understand this. Most haven’t suffered enough. But if this illegitimate cabal behind Biden gets their way, that’s going to change. Pray for our country, and fight like hell to save it. The post The Regime No Longer Gets the Benefit of the Doubt appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Anglo-American conservatism is a rich intellectual inheritance. It is a tradition that has been cultivated and stewarded by towering intellects — John Adams, Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, Michael Oakeshott, and dozens of others. The list of great conservative minds includes philosophers such as Roger Scruton and Willmoore Kendall; sociologists such as Robert Nisbet and Alexis de Tocqueville; novelists such as C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton; and poets such as Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot. And, of course, it includes great statesmen like Adams, Burke, Lord Acton, Benjamin Disraeli, and … Kamala Harris. “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you” — these are words that will echo into eternity. But they did not originate with Burke, nor Kirk, nor Voegelin, nor any other luminary of conservative political philosophy; they came from “Vice” President — quotation marks for dramatic effect, given the events of the past week — Harris. (WATCH: The Spectator P.M. Podcast Ep. 61: Kamala Harris Isn’t Fit to Run) Readers may be surprised to hear Kamala Harris discussed in such terms, given her history as a left-wing Democrat. But conservatism transcends petty partisan politics. Sure, Harris may happen to support the unregulated mass murder of unborn children; she may favor poisonous cultural toxins such as gender ideology and critical race theory; she may vote for the unfettered growth of the Leviathan state; she may have even helped to orchestrate immigration policies that will fundamentally transform the nation via the imported masses of the Third World. But her philosophy gestures towards something higher than terrestrial squabbles over this or that policy. She reaches beyond her time, driven by a vision of what can be, unburdened by what has been. Harris Reminds Us We Didn’t Fall From a Coconut Tree In his seminal tract Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke conceived of society as a contract between past, present, and future — a “partnership,” he wrote, “between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.” It is precisely this vision that Harris is referencing when she proclaims that “you exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.” (That in which you live — i.e., the “living” — and what came before you — i.e., the “dead”). “We begin our public affections in our families,” wrote Burke. “No cold relation is a zealous citizen. We pass on to our neighbourhoods, and our habitual provincial connexions,” eventually expanding outwards to “love to the whole.” Or, as Harris put it: “We know community banks are in the community, and understand the needs and desires of that community as well as the talent and capacity of community.” (READ MORE: The Sum of All Democrat Fears) Society, as Harris so eloquently reminds us, is an organic, rooted thing. Our individual selves, and our relationships with one another, are shaped and mediated by the past — “modern people,” as Kirk put it, “are dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, able to see farther than their ancestors only because of the great stature of those who have preceded us in time.” Or, as Harris succinctly stated: “Everything is in context.” Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France was a polemic against the Jacobin radicals of the French Revolution, who sought to cut themselves off from their history, wiping the slate clean and beginning anew. (They even went so far as to abolish the old calendar and begin again at Year 1.) Burke lambasted the Jacobins for their ambition “not to fit the constitution to the people, but wholly to destroy conditions, to dissolve relations, to change the state of the nation, and to subvert property, in order to fit their country to their theory of a constitution.” The revolutionaries “chose to act,” Burke charged, “as if you had never been molded into civil society and had everything to begin anew.” In short, they acted as if they just fell out of a coconut tree. Why is coconut tree trending on TikTok? pic.twitter.com/lm8KSAErCd — @amuse (@amuse) July 22, 2024 READ MORE: The Sport of Finding Fault in Trump The post Kamala Harris, Conservative Statesman appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Goodbye to Joe Biden

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by William Sullivan, All News Pipeline: As many have expected, Joe Biden has withdrawn from the presidential race. His timing is perfect to allow a high-stakes event at the convention next month where the party’s new candidate will be anointed (which I predicted here, here, here). All evidence suggests that he didn’t withdraw willingly, and some have even theorized that […]

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"It's not Joe Biden who is in control. It's not even Kamala Harris who is in control. It is the system that is in control, and they are switching out their candidate the same way that North Korea would put out election results."pic.twitter.com/kawWF8eycg — Jack Poso ?? (@JackPosobiec) July 22, 2024

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A Christian group focused on highlighting America’s Judeo-Christian history is suing the Washington Metropolitan Area Tr

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