[JOHNKASSNEWS] I'm guessing that you are sitting there reading this column on a civilized Sunday morning, with a good cup of coffee and perhaps a sweet roll from Calumet Bakery or some other fine pastry shop. May I also suggest enlightened and cultured music of the baroque coming from the smart speaker, perhaps the "Four Seasons" by Vivaldi?
So, I figure that the last thing on your mind would be you spitting out a mouthful of bloody chiclets on the sidewalk, with your wife screaming for the police. And your friends on all fours, nauseous on the pavement. And other friends stumbling about, groaning through bloody lips.
But that's what happens in a street fight.
And that's where you are, in a street fight, even if you don't quite fully comprehend it yet.
The once-and-future president Donald J. Trump is in a vicious street fight with the Washington establishment that has long wanted him jailed or dead. And this means all of us are in that street fight too, whether you like it or not.
The fight is over the change that the American people voted for, which is precisely what the Washington establishment-I call them the Combine-is threatened by. And they're using their allies in media and the federal Deep State to crush Trump and keep the status quo and maintain their power. They're angry as wounded cats that crawled under your porch to die. You can hear them under there.
So cowboy up. Man up or woman up, whatever you want to call it. Wake the bleep up.
Where did you think you are? Dreaming in Narnia?
Narnia is the fantasy land of huggable forest fauns offering tea and cakes and naps to well-mannered children, and Christ-like lion allegories, Turkish delights and strange winged creatures. Narnia was to be found behind a giant wardrobe in a great old country house. It was created by the great Christian moralist C.S. Lewis who wrote the "Chronicles of Narnia." He also wrote many other books and essays and gave many talks and speeches.
Narnia is also full of set piece battles to the death and the good guys having to choose between surrendering to evil or pushing through life-threatening danger and discomfort to a happy ending that might or might not be at the end of the work. C.S. Lewis wrote serious allegory there, not pretty fairies-at-the-bottom-of-the-garden stories for children.
One book without forest fauns was the 1943 book "The Abolition of Man" and he devoted time examining those who reduce human beings to creatures of either the intellect or base impulses.
And they reached down to their hearts and removed their souls. These soulless he called the Men without chests. You can see them everywhere these days.
"We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
The men without chests are quite at home in Washington D.C. and among modern academics who constantly defer to expertise and authority, which is one way to separate the soul from your heart. It's also a way to give up American liberty. The men without chests are most comfortable in politics where they burrow in to avoid accountability, and into the federal bureaucracy, where they been allowed to rule for decades without pushback from the American people. As I type a final draft of this on a Saturday, the noted Fox News Washington establishment pearl-clutcher Neal Cavuto, who replaced Chris Wallace in the network's pearl-clutching role, pretends he's worried and shocked about Trump's proposed cabinet selections.
Cavuto clutched his pearls on Trump's selection of Trump loyalist and firebrand Matt Gaetz as attorney general, Fox News host and decorated combat veteran Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, former Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy Jr for Secretary of Health and Human Services among others. They promised change and the establishment wants to weaken him and destroy them.
Gaetz exposed the Department of Justice and cross-examined corrupt operatives pushing the Russia collusion hoax. In turn he was smeared by anonymous sources in corrupt media that alleged he was involved in sex trafficking and other rumored crimes, but he was never charged.
They are tough street fighters, and Trump wanted fighters to open his second term because in his first term, the Deep State-that some call the Swamp or the "uniparty"-attacked him unfairly, undermining his administration with a series of lies fed by Democrat Hillary Clinton to her allies at FBI and CIA and carried by the corporate legacy media. The Democrats got what they wanted. They tried to use the Justice Department to bankrupt and destroy him. Two assassins tried to kill him, even as Democrats stoked and provoked the mentally unstable by portraying him as Hitler. The American people rebelled at this, and on November 5. Trump won the electoral college in a landslide, also the popular vote as Republicans took the House and the Senate as well. And Democrats have not recovered.
"No president elect has moved so fast assembling a team," cried Cavuto, as he welcomed South Carolina Democrat James Clyburn who gave us Kamala Harris. Clyburn played the Hitler card on Trump without much pushback from the mealy-mouthed Combine cheerleader Cavuto. And as for C.S. Lewis, there is a free course on him that I'm eager to join at Hillsdale College online.
But this is not a course on C.S. Lewis. It is a column on getting through a street fight unscathed. There is no such thing.
I am by no means an expert on getting through unscathed. It's impossible. I have spat out my share of bloody chiclets. And I confess that I once smashed an angry man in the fist with my chin on St. Patrick's Day many years ago. I showed him mercy. The surgeon wired my mouth shut, and I couldn't eat solid foods for 15 weeks, and though I started as a heavyweight, I ended up as a lightweight eating only milkshakes. And later Betty and I ran into each other, she noticed I was skinny and took pity on me. We got married.
But that's a story for another time.
In the story I'm writing now, those men without chests are all over the news, clutching their pearls, telling us that Trump's proposed cabinet selections are a disaster.
They remind me of the Jack Hawkins character, the crazy minister in the film "Zulu," Hawkins screaming "We're all going to die!!!! We're all going to die!!"
The Washington establishment pearl-clutchers are not proud Zulu warriors. They don't come at you from the front. The Men Without Chests, too are vicious, but they prefer knifing from behind. They don't stand and throw hands. They'd rather have others do it.
Some of Trump's cabinet nominees have driven the left beyond madness, into the insanity best expressed in padded cells. U.D. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., is facing backlash online for claiming that Tulsie Gabbard, President-elect Trump's pick for Director of National Intelligence (DNI), is "likely a Russian asset." That seems like a poisonous culture bred in Hillary Clinton’s large box of wine. And Gaetz makes them ill. But he's loyal. And Trump needs loyalists around him or the election will be a failure.
I know that communists and hysterical jacobins like those leftists I once worked with at "the paper" will pitch fits over Gaetz and Hegseth. But this is political trench warfare. If Gaetz steps away from the Constitution I'll be among the first to demand his head. But he deserves a Senate hearing. And Hegseth wants to drive the DEI and pronoun idiocracy from the Pentagon, restoring the U.S. Military to what it does best: Killing America's enemies and breaking things. Kennedy is an enemy of Big Pharma, but for decades Big Pharma has paid off federal regulators one way or another. And children are now obese, becoming diabetic and worse. And Gabbard like Gaetz and others, have been hunted, and smeared by the Deep State, with Hillary Clinton and Wasserman Schultz cackling maliciously. All they need now is a boiling cauldron and a few toads for their soup.
Republican John Cornyn, the Deep State's Senator from Texas, wants to sabotage the Gaetz nomination and others. If he's successful I hope he enjoys being primaried by pro-Trump Texas conservatives. And if Cornyn stops Gaetz, there are others in line, like conservative Republican lawyer Mike Davis and former Supreme Court clerk would be the Deep State's worst nightmare. As Trump's U.S. Attorney General Davis would tear into them like a Manchester Terrier hunting rats in a barn.
"And now the hunters have become the hunted," said my friend Thom Serafin of Serafin & Associates on the Chicago Way podcast I co-host with WGN radio producer Jeff Carlin. Indeed.
And another friend wise in the ways of politics-a fan of old time country music-mentioned an old song by Patti Page titled "Conquest:"
And then in the strange way things happen
Their roles were reversed from that day
The hunted became the huntress
The hunter became the prey
Trump's landslide victory and the speed with which he's made cabinet appointments might be too much for some to deal with. If so, I'd recommend everyone take a deep breath and realize that the corrupt and broken corporate legacy media is dying. Avoid them. The hunters have become the hunted. The Deep State is terrified. And that's why their agents are squealing like cornered rats. There are a couple of links Mr. Kass has noted at this point in his piece, but they would break the RB algorithm. RTWT
The hunters of the Deep State have become the hunted. And the hunted, with names like Gabbard, Gaetz, Kennedy and Hegseth have become the hunters.
The American people voted for change in this election. They wanted their borders secure, and the illegal migrants and violent criminals deported out of America. They voted for government efficiency and an end to the woke military. They wanted an end to the FBI investigating parents at school board meetings. They want an end to the federal police investigating Roman Catholics as potential terrorists merely for attending Latin mass and an end to the fentanyl pouring across the border killing our kids.
They want the Deep State defanged and leashed, prevented from targeting Americans for our political beliefs.
We demand those changes. And you want the changes you voted for, then you must contact your Senators and demand you want those changes to happen and demand that Trump's streetfighters are confirmed. The men without chests who refuse will find out what it's like to be targeted in the political primaries, taken out and removed. Not with violence. But with righteous American votes. That's no brag, just fact.
The hunter has become the hunted.
We're Americans, and we ‘ve been asleep for a long time. But now we're awake. All 76 million of us.
And we won't be prey in our own country any more.
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The ending of that "Zulu" scene cited above:
https://youtu.be/HUq8gXhI0y8?si=RrKj-WnQCCYAzxgb
"Why us?"
"Because we're here, lad. Nobody else, just us."
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What he calls "the Combine" I (and James Kunstler) call "the Blob", a huge amoeboid mass of green slime with long tentacles running mostly through the USA with worldwide extensions. It smells foul and looks worse.
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That "landslide victory" was just in the Electoral vote. The margin of votes cast was narrower, but it was still a big win. The confidence and arrogance of the 40-odd % of Blob voters has definitely been shaken.
Our situation reminds me of a fragment of a conversation between myself and an ER patient with a persistent delusion of a radio implanted in his brain years earlier by alien enemies. I gave him a short dose of what Frank Farrelly called 'provocative therapy'. The patient was jarred a bit out of his preoccupation and changed the direction of the conversation when he asked, "Doc, do you think I'm crazy?"
[NYPOST] The whiplash-inducing, ''Hunger Games''-style race to become Donald Trump's Treasury secretary made it easy for the media to ignore what has been going on with Janet Yellen — and the absolute mess she's leaving for her successor.
Yellen — who, it was revealed Friday, will be replaced as Treasury secretary in January by hedge fund mogul Scott Bessent — was Joe Biden's pick to run the office that is essentially the country's CFO.
Indeed, it could be the most important cabinet position in the White House given the importance of the US economy. Americans put Trump in office largely over his handling of the economy during his first term — job growth and wages that kept place with a low inflation rate.
Despite her gold-plated resume, Ivy League degrees, and time served as Fed chair, Yellen gave the country just the opposite. Her boss paid the price politically as the American people paid the price economically.
And according to my sources, the American people aren't done paying the price for Yellen's mismanagement even if most of the financial media is overlooking the fiscal time bomb she devised — one that could blow up once Trump takes office.
Specifically, my sources who follow the bond market say Yellen has been setting a trap for the incoming Trump administration through the way she financed the massive $1.8 trillion federal budget deficit that exploded during the Biden years with the accumulation of $36trillion in debt.
Yellen has been moving away from long-term debt to finance the shortfalls to shorter-dated securities, essentially rolling over deficits with more and more Treasury bills instead of the normal way of debt issuance through 10- and 30-year debt.
That's according to an analysis by Robbert van Batenburg of the influential Bear Traps Report, who estimates that around 30% of all debt is the short-term variety — aka 2-year and shorter notes — compared to 15% in 2023.
In an era of low interest rates, Yellen & Co. could have locked in relatively cheap interest payments for years by issuing more 10- and 30-year debt.
So why go there? Politics, according to Yellen's Wall Street critics.
Because the Biden administration has taken spending to new and some say unsustainable levels, Yellen needed to engage in a bit of financial chicanery to keep interest rates low and not spook the stock market during an election year, her critics say.
If she had financed deficits with 10- and 30-year bonds, that would have caused a rise in interest rates that impact consumers, i.e. mortgages and credit cards.
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I'm guessing that you are sitting there reading this column on a civilized Sunday morning, with a good cup of coffee and perhaps a sweet roll from Calumet Bakery or some other fine pastry shop. May I also suggest enlightened and cultured music of the baroque coming from the smart speaker, perhaps the "Four Seasons" by Vivaldi?
The whiplash-inducing, ''Hunger Games''-style race to become Donald Trump's Treasury secretary made it easy for the media to ignore what has been going on with 
