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For @baker_forrest

This is like asking me to prove the existence of the sun.

It's as implacably brainless as the American press running with stories that damage only THEM.

Today the White House announced that after 21 years of FAILURE, @realDonaldTrump, @robertcobrien, @RichardGrenell, and @jaredkushner had broken a 21-year logjam in the struggle to end the fallout from the Yugoslav Wars of 1991 to 2001.

Here's how they did it:

The Washington professional diplomatic corps was fixed on POLITICAL agreements that were never going to happen.

As Grenell put it, RHETORIC.

Terms.

WORDS.

So Trump told HIS people to BYPASS the ossified diplomats and do something completely different.

Try and get ECONOMIC agreements.

AND ALL PARTIES JUMPED AT THE CHANCE.

As Kushner put it, negotiating in private allows for people to discuss things ON THEIR OWN TERMS.

American and European countries have stayed away from the Balkans.

And the Serbs are VERY BITTER about NATO's intervention.

DEMOCRAT Wesley Clark became the only Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) ever relieved of duty because he almost started a war with Russia over SYMBOLISM.

Clarke's subordinates refused to carry out his orders to attack the Russians because Russia--allies of the Serbs--went in ahead of Allied forces to secure a major airport.

As Grenell said today, these wars are essentially started by bizarre American know-it-alls.

TRUMP WANTS SOLUTIONS.

This isn't about American prestige; it's about SAVING AND IMPROVING HUMAN LIVES.

As Trump says, we're hereto help if we can, but the LOCALS must work out their differences.

Kosovo has agreed to recognize Israel and put an embassy in Jerusalem.

Countries that have refused to recognize Israel are ENVIOUS of the ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES now being afforded to Muslim nations that bury the hatchet.

What do you suppose is going to happen?

All of these cultures have VERY LONG MEMORIES.

Who cares if they hold grudges AS LONG AS THEY STOP FIGHTING?

The denizens of Foggy Bottom--an absolutely disgusting name--are blundering fanatics crippled by cognitive rigidity.

So they fail. And fail. And fail.

Forever.

The FIRST QUESTION asked by a member of the horrific, deranged, FLOPPED Washington Press Corps was, "Is Trump helping spread Russian disinformation?"

AND.

Then they asked if Trump thinks fallen American troops are "losers" and "suckers" and if he hates war amputees.

This photo speaks for itself.

The man isn't a vet; he was born without arms.

But a prosthetic arm is a prosthetic arm, right?

Trump autographed one of the man's arms, at his request.

Claims, statements, questions, and insults often reveal EVERYTHING about the person who said them and NOTHING about the subject of what they say.

Before 2015, I knew nothing about Trump. Neither liked nor disliked him.

I got really interested in him after the second GOP primary debate, so I read and listened to him in his own words as much as I could.

This New York Times profile from 1984 is all you need to know about Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/08/magazine/the-expanding-empire-of-donald-trump.html

"The football thing is cute, Trump Tower and the piano and all of that, it's all cute, but what does it mean? he says, sounding what borders on a note of uncharacteristic despair."

"Asked to explain, he adds: What does it all mean when some wacko over in Syria can end the world with nuclear weapons?"

"He says that his concern for nuclear holocaust is not one that popped into his mind during any recent made-of-television movie. He says that it has been troubling him since his uncle, a nuclear physicist, began talking to him about it 15 years ago."

That was in 1969, when Trump was 23 years old.

I went to high school and college with people who were the sons and daughters of the American diplomatic corps.

Most of them went into that line of work.

Do you know what they were doing from 14 to 23?

Partying.

HARD.

At my college, there was an ambassador's son who always had a GARBAGE BAG of pot in his dorm room.

You could go in and help yourself to a handful.

They all drank, got high, and hooked up.

One guy told me about the "best night of his life."

He and a bunch of sons and daughters of diplomats smoked pot until they were almost comatose. Then they did cocaine to perk up, dropped acid, took mushrooms, did speed, and drank cherry punch with Valium and 190-proof Everclear in it.

One son of a diplomat was the most ravaged human being I've ever met.

It's impossible to describe what I mean.

He looked like he was made of greasy concrete paint the color of brie.

With painted wooden eyeballs.

He said his motto was, "Does it burn? If I burns, can I get high on it?"

He'd smoked styrofoam, raw cotton, rubber, and Marmite yeast extract, among thousands of other materials.

Here's what Trump was thinking about when he was 23:

"His greatest dream is to personally do something about the problem and, characteristically, Donald Trump thinks he has an answer to nuclear armament."

"Let him negotiate arms agreements - he who can talk people into selling $100 million properties to him for $13 million. Negotiations is an art, he says and I have a gift for it."

Todays diplomats were thinking about drugs, booze, booty calls while Trump was thinking about how to save the world.

When I was 23, I was thinking about how to live for another day.

I found the answer at FIFTY:

Complete solitude.

It's because I'm wrecked.

Ruined.

Not fit to be out in the world.

But I'm HAPPY.

Life is good.

Anyone who thinks Trump is bothered by amputees is insane or simply not able to engage in critical thinking.

The notion that Trump is a spoiled, pampered, FRAGILE rich boy is beyond superficial.

You what it takes to end wars.

Utter ruthlessness.

The ability to be at peace with the reality of this meat grinder we call life.

I made my peace with the meat grinder, and I bear it no resentment for destroying me.

It's what meat grinders do. There's was nothing personal about it.

Trump is without question the most radical revolutionary in human history.

Antifa are CHILDREN in comparison.

Name them all: Lenin. Robespierre. Che.

Miserable pudknockers.

Pikers.

Trump, Pence, Kushner, and Grenell are men of SHOCKING radicalism.

And we are damn lucky to have them.

Vote in person, and we win on election night.

Guaranteed.

Be a radical revolutionary yourself.

By remaining exactly who you are.

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ADDENDUM:

I FORGOT!

A diplomat's son borrowed my car in college and rolled it.

Did $1000 worth of damage in 1982 dollars that he refused to pay.

That's $2700 in today's dollars.

I finally called the father, and here's what he said:

"Yes, my son told me about this. Did you and he sign a written agreement before he borrowed your car that he'd reimburse you for damages?"

I was stunned.

"No," I said.

"Then I can't help you. I'm sorry."

He wasn't sorry. I could hear the smile in his voice.

I reluctantly told my father, and he was enraged.

He said, "I'll call you back. Stay by the phone."

Fifteen minutes later, my father called me back.

"If you don't have the money in your checking account tomorrow, call me."

"How's this going to happen?" I asked.

"Don't worry about it."

The money arrived the next day.

My father was very well connected, as I learned after he died.

The diplomat would've been absolutely terrified.

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ADDENDUM TWO:

Someone asked about my father.

He was born dirt-poor in a farm state and went to work at the age of twelve.

He worked in his family's hardware store and talked his father into setting up a natural-gas storage and delivery company.

At twelve, my father was delivering natural-gas tanks to customers. He started his own automotive-repair company at 13.

He also graduated from high-school on schedule, lettering in tennis, baseball, basketball, and football.

He went to college for two years.

Then he joined the armed forces because he anticipated the Korean War.

He volunteered to be in the first clandestine-warfare unit of its kind, serving for three years until the armistice.

Spent the whole war behind enemy lines.

Went back to college, graduated.

He joined a giant corporation and revolutionized the industry by reorganizing it and introducing the concept of "coopetition."

Competitors pooled their resources and developed new technology that they could all use.

My father created multiple technologies still in use after 40 years.

What I mean is the original examples are still in use.

He was a mechanical engineer and metallurgist, so he was able to create technology with unlimited fatigue life.

The Douglas DC-3 and the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress have unlimited fatigue lives due to their designs, so both aircraft can be in service indefinitely.

The B-52 will have a 100-year service life. Maybe longer.

Here's what aircraft looked like 100 years ago from today.

My father spent his career being loaned out to other companies within the industry.

After he died, I researched him. He never told us a word about his background, other than where he was from.

People called after he died, and they filled me in on all the non-clandestine stuff.

But due to his military and industrial work, he made contacts in the highest levels of government and federal law enforcement.

Everything depends on who you know.

And he got in on the ground floor of EVERYTHING.

Everything took off in the late 1940s the 1950s.

People absolutely misunderstand Eisenhower's warning about the "military-industrial complex."

Eisenhower was Old School, so he himself didn't understand what was really happening.

You have nothing to worry about from the military-industrial complex.

It's the people who CONTROL them that you have to worry about.

Those people WERE politicians.

But NOW, the politicians are controlled by donors.

And the donors controlling the Democrats are the backers of Antifa and BLM.

And the people backing Antifa and BLM are--as Trump told us--"very rich and very stupid."

These people have allied themselves with terrorists who have no real ideology.

If the Democrats win, the political violence becomes normal.

As recently as 2014, politics in the Middle East was inextricably linked with violence.

That all changed in October of 2015, when the Gulf Arabs unleashed their strategic commandos.

They fought terrorists mercilessly, to win.

The Middle East will be fine.

If Trump loses, Antifa and BLM become our politicians.

THERE WILL NOT BE A COUP.

Don't kid yourself. Obama did what Erdogan did and replaced all military leaders with lackeys.

And the Democrats almost destroyed the armed forces.

Antifa and BLM will govern by fiat, the way Obama did.

He PROVED that a lawless president will not be stopped.

Our new masters will outlaw personal wealth except for themselves and makes sure the rest of us live crammed together in cities, riding bicycles.

The country becomes New York City.

No law, no cops, no services, no jobs, no medical care.

Any attempt at an uprising will be stopped by death squads.

They'll use random killings to keep us in line.

THIS WILL HAPPEN IF TRUMP LOSES.

It'll be the law of the jungle, and everyone of influence will scramble to get on board.

Every man, woman, and child for themselves.

Check THIS out:

And ISRAELI movie that says there are no bad guys or good guys in the conflict with Iran.

I watched the trailer, and it said, "There are some enemy lines you don't want to cross."

So I KNEW that it was a movie that kisses the asses of the Iranian mullahs.

This is the pathology that will allow the fall of the United States.

WE'LL DESERVE TO BE DESTROYED.

But it won't happen.

Learning about my father opened my eyes in a way that I totally did NOT expect.

I was absolutely unprepared for what I found.

It's TRUE that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

The reason that the future of our country now depends on ONE ELECTION is that we let this cancer grow for 60 years.

Now we're there.

It comes down to ONE CHANCE.

WE WILL WIN, if we all vote in person. Trump has over 130 electoral votes to spare.

All he needs are 270.

We can end this all on election night.

But we let this happen because we're passive, complacent, and always looking in the wrong directions.

Be GRATEFUL that you have no idea what's really happening. I can take it, because I have nothing to lose.

I'm dedicated to knowing the truth, no matter how horrible that truth is.

I'm sure Trump knows the truth.

Does he seem rattled?

Every conspiracy theory you believe is just...amusing, to be blunt. Jessie Ventura, Oliver Stone, George Webb...

Quaint hoaxsters.

The TRUTH would make most of you lose your minds.

But the good news is that Trump will win, and he'll make the country no longer vulnerable to crazy donors who buy politicians and then get coopted by terrorists.

My father knew the truth, and he wasn't rattled. He was in the middle of at, his entire adult life.

He was a man of action with total contempt for poseurs and ineffectual blusterers who made empty threats.

He had no brakes.

NO BRAKES AT ALL.

He knew that the world was a meat grinder.

The difference between my father and Trump was that my father LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT.

I prefer Trump's approach.

"Who must do the hard things? Those who can.
Who must do the impossible things? Those who care."

--Carolyn Robertson Payton

My father did the hard and impossible things because he loved it.

Trump does the hard and impossible things because he can and he cares.

Much better motivation.

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