Episode 2 is up! The Real War with Tom Luongo

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6:30. The big one to talk about is how we're going to stop the civil war strategy that is clearly on the table because their final move is to get Trump to simultaneously embroiled in an article 5 over in Ukraine while at the same time have a whole bunch of democratic Governors from Republican states go with the Left Coast and the Northeast and try and split the country in two.  

Over the weekend, it was really funny I was scrappling all weekend.  I did one podcast on Friday and then I went over and visited some friends, my business partner at Gold, Goats, and Guns, Dexter White, and I met with a couple other people I'm friends with and I woke up Sunday morning to a DM on Twitter, I was waiting for Dexter to wake up and make coffee, and this very astute reader and listener who published like a 270 to Win map of the country, red versus blue, but not with the electoral votes in each state, but with the names of the governors and the party of the governors, and said you have to really think about this in terms of blocs.  If they're going to go for a secession strategy, they have to do so in blocs.  They can't just have individual States like pop up here and there, in this person's mind it was really fascinating.  But the minute he said it, I'm like, well, obviously.  What has Trump done?  He's now said we're going into Portland and we're going into Illinois because you got to break up the Left Coast and take control of Oregon and you've got to take control of Chicago in order to stop the the Great Lakes strategy because clearly Mark Carney has rallied the elites at the North End of the Great Lakes, and then you have the Northeast. About 2 months ago I sat down for one of my bi-weekly podcast that I do for my patrons I call them the market reports and I said you know it's really funny I woke up one morning and I said the British Empire is still a naval Empire.  They are the inheritors of the Old Dutch banking Empire before that.  It's always been a naval power and a marine power, because, look, at the end of the day, pipelines can be blown up, bridges can be blown up, but at the end of the day, ships can be protected and they can move around the world and move goods and services around the world.  So a maritime Empire is actually far more powerful then a land-based Empire in many ways. Witness why the British have been able to cock block Russia from becoming a land-based empire for over 200 years.  So if you look at the strategy from a Governor's perspective and the way that Kathy Hochul is acting  in New York and the way that Gavin Newsom is acting in California, Katie Hobbs in Arizona, and others, and Mark Carney in Canada, you really quickly, when you just take those areas of the country and color them different, you realize that they have . . . they're trying to control all of the ports outside of Florida and Savannah, Georgia, and Texas.  That's clearly the strategy.  Control all of the ports on the left coast.  Control all of the northeastern deep water ports and the St. Lawrence River system, which is the Great Lakes.  The only thing we have left, the Americans have left is the Mississippi Delta and the Port of Miami, and the port of Jacksonville, FL, and Savannah, and that's not enough folks.  So clearly this is their strategy.  So that's the one that we have to watch for here and that's the one that we should be watching for so let's ask a simple question.  Why is Chuck Schumer all of a sudden the dumbest person on the planet?  Because why is he going for government shutdown when I know full well that Ross Vought over at OMB identified two years ago what $1.5 trillion dollars he would cut from the budget tomorrow and the minute . . . 

10:24.  They shut it down.

10:26.  He could literally order a reduction of force and fire them all.

10:28.  President Trump can go on a shopping spree.  He can get every communist out of the government by de facto and go on a shopping spree of collapsing all of these agencies.  He can go take a knife to the intelligence community.  So the question that I'm looking at is, then why is Schumer going in that direction, that, "I'll do it, don't you stop me, I'll do it," and we're all just cheering him on, go ahead.  

10:56.  It's like the meme, "Your terms are acceptable."  So I'm thinking about this, I'm like well, then, clearly it's because they have another strategy.  Mamdami is going to win in New York.  Hochul has rolled over there.  Whitmer is not going to let John James become, however they figure it out in Michigan, become governor of Michigan.  Whatever they are trying to do in Virginia in the governor's race there.  Clearly it's dust on point over and over and over again, just saying the same thing . . .

11:26.  Oh, yeah, his Christmas bonus from the WEFs is going to be significant.

11:28.  Yeah, it's insane.  Same thing in Oregon.  They are clearly ginning up the these protests in particular places.  The Trump Administration is poking them.  They're responding very predictably, and then they're trying to move towards an escalatory framework, no different than what NATO is doing with Putin over Ukraine.  Everyday it's the same thing. We keep moving up the escalatory ladder because someone who wants war is clearly trying to provoke the other side into firing first so that then they can say "He's the dictator.  He's the aggressor," blah blah blah.. they're trying to do this for both Trump and Putin so far has and at a certain point Putin is like, "You know what?  F*** a whole lot of you.  I don't care.  I just don't care, and I'm doing what I need to do to protect Russia.  Trump on the other hand has to play a much more nuanced game in order to not become into "cream-sicle Mussolini."  

12:33.  Here's the interesting part about this, and I can't believe it took me this long to put it together. They are maneuvering Donald Trump into the same position that they maneuvered Abraham Lincoln in pre-Civil War.  And then you think back . . . Rick Wilson, Evan McMullin, and all those guys, they call themselves The Lincoln Project.  Isn't it interesting they call themselves The Lincoln Project, the hardest core of anti-Trumpers were trying to maneuver Trump into creating a second coming of Abraham Lincoln.  They're now going to try to turn that around to make him into the bad guy it finally hit me over the weekend oh that's why they called us a Lincoln project they're thumbing their nose at us.

13:13. So at the highest end what really caught my attention last week is two speeches and it wasn't the Netanyahu speech at all at the UN General Assembly. one, President Trump against all of them.

13:27.  Absolutely.

13:28.  Chinese Communist Party, here it is, The City of London, Chinese Communist Party, World Economic Forum, you little urchins and apparatchiks in Europe, I reject all of this.  I'm not doing this, and we are coming for you with painful policies wherever we need to do that. In fact, this morning it's floating around the web that President Trump might have murmured in his office that "You know, the World Economic Forum looks a lot like a terrorist organization."