Lines of Departure 2-2: The Choice isn’t Trump or Harris by Tom Kratman

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Lines of Departure 2-2: The Choice isn’t Trump or Harris by Tom Kratman

Copyright © 2024, Thomas P. Kratman, (Widest possible dissemination authorized and encouraged.) 

 No, no; the choice is between Trump and a closed oligarchy that does NOT have your interests in mind. In short, whatever you want to do, you _cannot_ vote Harris. Oh, yes, you can cast your vote beside her name, but she is not the front runner; she is a front, just as her putative boss, Joe Biden, was. 

 Go back to the year 2020, the year when, under cover of COVID, Joe Biden ran for the presidency from his basement. Why did he do that? Fear of COVID? That was the claim, of course, but the movers and shakers of the country, especially the democratic ones, did a very impressive job of demonstrating that COVID was just not that impressive. Sure, during the George Floyd riots, they might sic the police on people sitting on their front porches, shooting those same people with paintballs. But for themselves? Please; it was party city throughout the pandemic for anyone well connected enough. And for the rioters? They were pretty much hands off. 

So much for COVID. 

 Flash forward to the Trump-Biden debate. There it became fairly obvious that the sitting president was…mostly not there anymore. I write this not with contempt but with a degree of sympathy; that fate awaits most of us, with time. More importantly, is there any reason to believe he was fully there when his handlers kept him locked in the basement during the 2020 campaign? There really isn’t. Moreover, the people who would swear that he was are the very same people who were telling us that he was sharp as a tack right up until the debate and for some time after; their word is worthless.

And then we have the pattern of conduct, the misguidance and mismanagement from the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle through the collapse of our southern border. It is not just hard, it is impossible, to identify a single thing that has gone well for the United States in between. Especially has the economy been a disaster, and not one that the smoke and mirrors of the Democratic Party and their lapdogs of the press has been very successful in hiding. That pattern is consistent and consistently horrifying. That pattern says very strongly that the Joe Biden of the debate was the same man who stayed in his basement in 2020. 

 He’s been this way all along. 

Then, too, we have the palace coup that drove Biden from the 2024 race. Obviously, he did not decide that for himself, either. 

Even so, even if Biden was incapable of doing much of anything on his own, or was not allowed to, decisions still were being made, to include decisions to do nothing, to include the decision to force him from the campaign. 

Who was making those decisions? We don’t really know. Obama is a likely member of the junta – and, yes, clearly, it is a junta – as are the Clintons, both the rapist and Felonia von Pantsuit. I would suggest that the thirty-five or so members of the House and the five senators who publicly called on Biden to step aside are not members of the junta, but that those who likely gave them their marching orders, Schumer and Pelosi – who is never out of office even when out of office, are. Hakim Jeffries may well be. Garland probably is a member. Kagan may represent the left wing of the Supreme Court. Perhaps there are a few others. 

Speaking of Kagan and the legal system, do but note that the supporters of the junta are the same people who will talk about the rule of law even as they prostitute the law to wage lawfare against anyone – Trump and the J6 protesters, principally – who tries to supersede them and return the country to an actual republic. 

It is, by the way, unclear and I think rather unlikely that Kamala Harris is a member of that junta, any more than Joe Biden was. This, quite despite her holding views that are not easily distinguished from, say, Marx or Engles….or Lenin…or Mao…or perhaps – we cannot say for sure and when we are sure it will also be too late – Pol Pot or Stalin. 

Soros? No, I don’t think so. He’s pretty distasteful from all perspectives. Now does the junta consult with him? Regularly, I am sure. But the names don’t matter and will probably never be known for certain. The only name we’ll be allowed to see is that of Kamala Harris, the frontwoman for the junta that has been telling Joe Biden what to do for more than four years. And which will be telling Kamala Harris what to do for another four to eight, if they’re allowed to. 

Just think of it, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a bit over three terms; Obama and the junta may have as many as five. Hell, they may have an infinite number, if they succeed in destroying the Republic.

“Bu’, bu’, bu’, muh democracy!” 

I have some bad news for you, the people moaning about the loss of democracy are the same people who decided to simply install as their nominee a woman who is thoroughly disliked, even within their party, whose previous run for the nomination was a disaster, who has had, in other words, not a single vote cast for her this year, and a paltry few in 2020. 

In short, let me suggest to you a more modern, more accurate definition of democracy in 21st century America: 

Democracy, n. The unlimited and uninterrupted rule of the junta that looks after the interests of the vile and already filthy rich kleptocrats, corrupt bureaucrats, quasi-literate journalists, drooling pedophiles, academic lunatics, soulless and stupid entertainers, and other assorted human garbage on the inside of the Democratic Party. 

If that’s the definition of “democracy,” and it now is, and that is what you want, wouldn’t you be happier in, say, China or perhaps North Korea? 

But to finish with the same point we started with, which should be much clearer now, it is impossible to actually vote for Harris. The most you can do is vote for a junta, and, indeed, a junta that bears close resemblance to the Politburo that ran the Soviet Union or the one that is now running China, an oligarchy the members of which loathe actual democracy and don’t really hide that they do.

86 thoughts on “Lines of Departure 2-2: The Choice isn’t Trump or Harris by Tom Kratman”

  1. Joe was never the brightest spark out there. “Never underestimate Joe’s ability to f#^k things up.” and If you ever wonder what foreign policy stance to hold, look at what Joe Biden does and do 180 degrees from that and you can’t go wrong”* both come from from within his own party. ( * – paraphrased, as I’d have to dig deep to find the actual quote as it was from iirc around his first run for president and I forget who, as well as being well hidden by search engines now-a-days) and while Kamala will be just as much a front, she too can be counted on to “F#^k things up” even for her own party. Looked at with any sense of unbias she is a despicable human being. Those pushing her out front are even worse. the David Frenchs et all are lower than that.

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    1. There’s an excellent reason why Joe B “F**ks things up” for his own party, and that’s because he IS a puppet and not the originator of plans. Left to his own devices, and the fact that he has zero wisdom, and isn’t very intelligent he has no central vision to stick to, and hence, goes completely off goal. If his, or Kamala’s masters had a 5-second delay switch chip installed in their brains, they’d be using it. Maybe they installed an experimental model and that explains the occasional pauses and blank looks we see in them? Crap, now I’m really scaring myself.

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        1. There has to be something there, between the ears, that is functioning for bluetooth hearing aids to work.

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    3. Long ago I recall someone making the essential fact about Joe: he was always a centrist – within the Democrat Party. That’s a skill requiring no principles beyond surviving, and no discernment beyond reading his party.

      Rgrds,

      RES

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    4. “Joe was never the brightest spark…”

      And a thought struck (OW!)… Joe is the spark in the gasworks of the economy.

      After all, according to the Administration, business is BOOMin‘!

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  2. The obvious question that no one in the MSM or chattering classes seems to ask is: “who is running the country now?”

    It clearly isn’t Resident Biden. Kommie La Whoreish is too busy campaigning and giggling. So who? The cabal one assumes. But you’d think they would try a bit harder to make it look like their puppets are doing things

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    1. Just watched a clip of Komrade K saying “Hard work is good work”.

      …

      You can almost see the Red Banners wave. You can almost hear the chains rattle.

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          1. Well they have already pretty much adopted “death to the Jews” as a party slogan, so is it a surprise they are using that one as well?

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          2. Remember when Bernie Sanders affirmed that he was indeed a “nationalist socialist?” And couldn’t understand why so many people cringed and facepalmed at the same time?

            Yeah, that party.

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    3. Trump asked that just this past week during a rally. The ostensible reason for the question was Biden flying from a vacation in California to a vacation in Delaware.

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    1. I’m convinced that the academics are the most vulnerable point of attack.

      There is basically no reason to think that the fundamental scholarship in several fields now is more sound than was the racial science research that prospered under the NSDAP.

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      1. There’s every reason to think it’s not; in fact, it’s probably less sound. When DEI (I prefer IED; more descriptive) asserts that math (as one example of several) is declared to be racist, and when plagiarism and data falsification have become endemic, the ideology-driven incompetence is there for all to see.

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  5. Horrifyingly, it looks to me as if Biden really is the one conducting foreign policy. He has been wrong on every important foreign policy decision in the last 50 years, and what has come out of the State Dept the last 3.5 years resemble that level of delusion.

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      1. It’s amazing how liberating it can be to have no accountability for results.

        At least, no accountability to the citizens of this nation. I’m sure they’re accountable to someone, and sure we’ll probably never know who.

        Rgrds,

        RES

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      1. Except when the Foggy Bottom Denizens thought no one was watching and they returned to previous form. As much as reforming the patronage system got rid of some ills it brought in others that are perhaps worse. If you can’t trust your underlings to do as directed and you can’t get rid of them for insubordination you have a deep problem.

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  6. What to do, what to do…..

    You have all heard someone in your circle saying that they can’t bring themselves to vote Trump. Target identified. Load persuasion.

    You get it. Get to it.

    Want to vote often? Persuade often.

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    1. Alas, people who did not think their way into holding an opinion are rarely able to think their way out of that opinion either.

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      1. Fight dirty.

        I work with quite a few committed hard-lefts. I find out which moonbats made it on the local ballot, and find things the colleague might like about the moonbat. “Send a powerful message with one’s ballot”.

        (grin)

        Having been raised as rather hard-left, I can often channel childhood associates that made the pitch. Had an avowed Communist intern wrapped all around an axel by pointing out that he was a Booshie poser college kid whearas I had worked factory and farm labor, thus was far more Proletariat, where the real revolution will rise, etc. Wrecked his world, I did.

        (grin)

        Gonna get my head busted some day, but will be epic….

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  8. It’s really a shame that so many people in this country have a God complex and think it’s perfectly fine to dictate what others can or can not do. We have a vocal group of socialist totalitarians in my town who think it’s perfectly fine to ban all political advertising in public places. And they’ve weaponized it with a state RSA they crammed through with their Democrat comrades.

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    1. I assume this refers to campaign signs? If so, do you really think that they won’t put up a single sign for their favorite lefty? I sincerely doubt they’ll be able to resist. And when they do, find a lawman who isn’t a lefty and have them arrested.

      And there are so many interpretations of “political”… :twisted:

      Yeah, probably won’t work for one reason or another. But one can dream.

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      1. Some wag as what looks like a political sign in his/her/its yard. Except when you read it it says “Wu Tang Forever.” I grin every time I go by.

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  9. Biden hasn’t decided anything in at least 10 years — including running for President, or what to have for breakfast. 0bama is not running the show either; he’s just another dummy for the same ventriloquists. Granted, a far more articulate one. Has 0bama ever accomplished anything beyond reciting words composed by other people, signing papers written by other people, and spending money taken from other people?

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    1. Has 0bama ever accomplished anything beyond reciting words composed by other people, signing papers written by other people, and spending money taken from other people?

      My favorite thing about Obama is all the racial healing since he hit public life.

      😬

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        1. Race in this country is a cultural issue, not at all based on skin color. The “single drop” idiocy has people claiming a race who may have one great-great grand parent who loosely fits in that box. Or a grand uncle whose ex-wife’s cousin married into the group…

          For the most part, those who identify themselves as “white” have learned that they are white, and same with those who identify as black or any other race. Those who have been raised with two parents and an emphasis on education are far less likely to be identified as black on sight, and it has nothing to do with skin color.

          I have one friend who is Jamaican “black.” No mistaking his race. The rest could be anything until they open their mouths or start using cultural hand and body movements.

          I think it would be interesting to see a test where all skin is invisible and all you have to go on are movements and voice.

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          1. He would fit right in, various trailer parks of my childhood.

            Honkey. Trailer Trash. Makes the Clinton’s look upscale.

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            1. During College 1.0, we were discussing Ted Turner’s latest (not flattering) headline story. A fellow classmate, who was about the same skin tone as Shaka Zulu, announced, “You don’t have to be poor to be white trash and you shore don’t have to be black to be a n*66er.”

              The rest of us decided that she was 100% correct, and that nothing further needed to be said on the topic (aside from how badly would Georgia Tech’s basketball team do next season.)

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  10. The tyranny of government has been ruthless for decades. The solution is not with clinging to the available parties. The solution is in a leader that is ruthless in solving the problems. Trump is saying he is this leader, but he can’t do it alone. That’s where the biggest problem remains. The D.C. crowd is filled with entrenched minions of those that remain behind the curtain, and those behind the curtain eliminate those that get in their way. Bucking their whims is a dangerous gambit, and those that have tried disappear, or may not survive the attempts to end their efforts.

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      2. I really couldn’t care if I spelled that communist scum sucking excuse for a shitstain’s name right.

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          1. The Tampon Tim Walz

            I was runnin’ a battalion, to the Tampon Tim Walz

            When a Warno I happened to see.

            It said I’d be a-goin’ to where bombs were a-blowin’

            And that, friends, was just not for me.

            I knew I could retire from the National Guard

            And abandon my soldiers tout suite

            So I turned in my packet and took my demotion

            And lied through my teeth about it.

            Oh, I remembered that night, my retirement packet

            And that kept my balls from being lost.

            I lost my self respect and the respect of my soldiers.

            From all the pasta, in Italy

            I was too big a target you see.

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        2. Waltz (first name Michael) is one of the decent ones, though. Succeeded DeSantis in his Florida House District. (I think he did support his predecessor, but is definitely not a Never-Trumper.)

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  13. Choice between democrat slavery and Republic Freedom. Choose wisely.

    OTOH this crowd isn’t the ones I have to convince. Luckily the last 3 days I didn’t have to hold my political tongue with the group I was with. Yes, I easily got out peopled (but I do that with my extended family too). All 11, and their spouses (not 11 because a lot of widows), at least, will vote Trump (children, and grandchildren? Who knows. Not like I don’t have a politically idiot sister.)

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  14. They want Peoples Democracy and a Peoples Democratic Republic. And those have a very clear track record.

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    1. Honestly that’s not what they want. They want a feudal system where they’re the leige lords and everyone else is a serf. The living level of the proles in 1984 is far superior compared to what they want for 95%+ of the populace to “Save Mother Gaia”

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  16. Man tried to disrupt Trump rally in PA. He was promptly taken down by a whole bunch of cops and at least one state trooper. He was a heavy set white guy with long hair, a beard and sunglasses worn indoors. At a guess,, in his 30s. Did not appear to be armed. Secret Service nowhere in sight. OTOH, don’t know how close he actually got.

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  17. I have thought for quite some time that when we vote for president we are not so much voting for an individual as a management team. Whatever I dislike (or like) about Trump, the people he will install are preferable to those the Harris~Walz team will appoint. Further, I believe Trump is the one in charge in his campaign while Harris is merely the “face”, the “Adam Selene” if you like, of the Democrat team.

    The Democrats are the party of the permanent government, the people running the various agencies who think of how much easier their jobs would be if they weren’t being pestered to answer to the people of America.

    Rgrds,

    RES

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      2. Indeed Adam Selene was ultimately Mycroft/Mychelle. A closer analog might be Chauncy Gardiner from Being There although Chauncy had no malice.

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  18. Can someone help me with combating a narrative?My wife read Liz Cheney’s book and is freaking out that Trump built a slate of alternative electors and tried to get Congress to approve them. She feels that was unconstitutional so she can’t vote for him. Has anyone done the research to build an alternative case with citations to counter the Cheney narrative?

    Thanks!

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    1. The slate of alternative electors is completely normal when elections are in dispute. The left had them in 16.
      Would you please just research allt he cr*p Liz Chenney pulled in the Jan 6 investigation and enlighten your wife.

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      1. As Sarah says, the Alternate Electors are standard when a state’s results are in dispute. It usually isn’t an issue because the losing candidate generally doesn’t hold out long enough for it to matter – Republicans because they have no spines, Democrats because they already cheated their best.

        Use Duck, Duck, Go or other reasonably reliable search engine (i.e., NOT Google) and have her try these search phrases:

        “clinton alternate electors 2016”

        “gore alternate electors 2000”

        Also, remind your wife of two things:

        • Hillary Clinton to this day claims Trump stole the 2016 election. That claim is currently the underlying basis of the 34 counts of fraud* for which Trump is awaiting sentencing in the fair and balanced district of NY, where Trump was accorded as fair a trial as that given the Scottsboro Boys.
        • The J6 Committee, of which Rep. Cheney was senior minority member, has been found to have withheld exculpatory evidence regarding the J6 “Riots” and has blatantly tampered with evidence they didn’t withhold, for example by adding a soundtrack to the video footage they presented. Had they sufficiently damning evidence the original silent security video should have sufficed.

        Sadly, Liz Cheney’s credibility has gone down the toilet.

        BTW, while searching phrases, have your wife try this one:

        did kamala harris withhold exculpatory evidence

        *Non Disclosure Agreements, or Hush Money, are common in out of court settlements, especially when taking a case to Court would be as damaging as the claims alleged, especially in a she said/he said situation. For a celebrity to win a liable case is nearly impossible in the US, so the cost of negotiating a settlement is typically considered less expensive than going to court. The problem, as we can see, is that sometimes people accept hush money then run their mouths anyway (and rarely return the NDS payments. The idea that this bookkeeping “fraud” (the proper General Ledger accounting would be Legal Fees – what else?) was committed in furtherance of Trump’s “stealing” the 2016 election could only survive in the deepest fever swamps of Trump Derangement Syndrome wards.

        Rgrds,

        RES

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  19. Excellent.

    I would add Valerie Jarret to the list of people in charge and take Obama off.

    She’s probably the acting POTUS right now.

    Just as she was for the last few years and most of Teleprompter Jesus’ term.

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  20. Well the Junta you have identifed, it is not a mystery, but it is also not composed of dues paying members. Shared values and shared controls. Start with the media – this is where the bulk of the power lies – it alone has turned an unlikable nitwit into a presidential candidate in the space of 30 days.

    Who controls the media-the corporations who are in debt up to their eyeballs with money losing media companies? Warner for example is $11 billion in the hole but has no intention of dropping CNN that is at the top of the money losing list. Cui bono? Not the stockholders – but then, who are they to allow this “mismanagement”?

    Well, Netflix and Reid Hoffman paid the Obamas and idiotic sum to produce a movie so bad it was unwatchable. Reid Hoffman is a stockholder in many other media companies – it doesn’t take too many billionaires like Reid to fund these money losing media companies – but even they have their limits and it is essential that Kamala wins in order for taxpayers to pick up the tab. California leftists will be underwriting bankrupt news rooms and Big tech will be picking the stories you can consume. Great for our democracy.

    The Junta is first and foremost media. Take away these bankrupt companies and you have an end to the Junta. They are on the ropes and if Trump and a Congress without the Uniparty is elected there may be a chance to end the threat of a taxpayer subsidized media once and for all.

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    1. The media has… power?
      Dude, were you here in 2016?
      The media has no power. The best they can hope for is to make the fraud look plausible. No one wants Kamala. Unless you live and die by TV, in which case I’ll assume you’re an 80 year old shut in, there is no way you’re buying that.

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  21. I would look higher than prominent names in politics, to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, like Larry Fink, of BlackRock, and other high ranking Corporate execs, whose power lies in trillions of dollars of influence world wide. A recent vid by a (ex) Democrat volunteer of 16 years noted that the box seats at the Dem convention were dominated by corporations. This is what happened to the once representative party of commoners of the working class.

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    1. Sure. Corporations and the media.
      Sure, corporations working with the government is the fascist model, like China.
      But just because of the other new commenter…. I’m going to be contrary. You’re looking too deep.

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  22. As usual, Orwell got it right. Oceania was ostensibly ruled by Ingsoc, but the party was ruthlessly controlled by the shadowy “Inner Party”. Members of the Inner Party were never named or identified. Everything about them —who they were, how they were selected—was unknown to the outside world. Ingsoc was known only by the face of Big Brother —a fictional man. The party knew that those who do not exist cannot be held accountable. What a perfect system for maintaining total control !
    Our nascent junta is developing along the lines of the Inner Party. Who overthrew Biden? Who knows? Well done, Orwell.

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  23. As Tom Lehrer put it:

    “They’ve got to be protected

    All their rights respected

    Till someone WE like can get elected!”

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    2. My wife is a “wise latina.” Sotomayor is a fucking idiot. She doesn’t qualify for membership.

      Meanwhile, Kagan demostrated perfect moral flexibility on the issue of gays, the military, and money for Hahvahd.

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