Running the Table

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The first 100 days delivered no victory lap. They were a signal flare. Trump is not just governing; he is challenging the foundational assumptions underpinning American decline for half a century or more. Whether the coming fight leads to triumph or to another bloody crossroads remains to be seen.¹

— Jeff Childers

A friend of mine recently texted:

Not [a] Trump fan but I see why people are who have spent time with him in person. If his narcissism and insecurity wasn’t so acute he could run the table.

This was in response to a link to Bill Maher’s report on meeting with Trump. Maher reluctantly admitted that Trump is a nice guy. Wow! Who knew? I thought Maher, in addition to bringing a list of all the insults that Trump had called him, should have also brought a list of all the insults that Maher had thrown Trump’s way. That would have been more equitable, but it’s important to understand that Maher’s insults are warranted, Trump’s, of course, are not.

Maher carefully explained to his audience, as if revealing the death of a pet to a child, the unbelievable news that Trump is a personable, funny, enjoyable guy, you know, what we MAGA people have known for years.

“Now Becky, sit down here for a moment. I have something I need to tell you. Now don’t hate me for this, okay? I’m just trying to do the right thing here, but I went to visit, maybe you should prepare yourself, maybe think about the worst thing you can possibly think about. Are you ready? I went to visit President Trump last week. I know, I know, but sometimes it’s good to walk into the Lion’s den, right? We have to talk with men like Trump and I know he’s a terrible president, okay? But…you better get ready for this—I have to tell the truth. Prepare yourself, okay? Trump was nice to me. I know, I know, I’m just telling you what happened…I know it’s not what you wanted to happen, but it is what did happen. He’s a nice guy…in private. Look, I’m not saying he’s anything else but a tyrant in public, but in private, and maybe he was faking it, but in private, I know it’s hard to believe, but in private, I wasn’t drunk, okay, but in private, I actually liked him.”

With people like Maher, if it’s a revelation to him, it must be a revelation to everyone else too.

I do doubt, however, that it was a genuine revelation. I suspect Maher needs to act like he never knew this to cover his ass for all the crap he’s said or was directed to say about Trump for the last eight years. He wouldn’t want it to look like the only reason he attacked Trump was because he ran for President or had been directed or propagandized into those expressed opinions. Trump has been around a long time and so has Maher. It is interesting to note how many people turned on Trump once he ran for President. I also suspect Maher has the ability to run extensive, comprehensive experiments to decipher which way the wind is blowing.

My friend has most likely already installed his wind vane. He’s the first person I ever heard use the term “vaccine hesitant.” I thought the phrase was so odd I went home and searched the internet (back then we didn’t have AI) and sure enough it was all over Mainstream Media. After the stolen election he sent me some news anchor saying it was the “most secure election in history” as a proof that I must be wrong about what I saw. So the “narcissism and insecurity” comment I know comes from his hours and hours of Mainstream (Legacy) Media. I once told him he was uninformed and his answer was, “No, I’m not. I have the T.V. on 24/7!”

Well, there you go.

He’s an intelligent guy and has a great memory, it’s just too bad that what he remembers so effortlessly are the “facts” he’s learned from CNN and the like, news sources that relish telling their audiences they did not see what they thought they saw.

It must give my propagandized friend night sweats knowing that if Trump wasn’t such an asshole “he could run the table.” Could? Are you kidding me? Trump got elected in 2016 when the entire Mainstream Media, political pundits and his adversaries said he had no chance, accomplished a lot in his first term as a rookie President despite the Deep State and instead of giving up after the stolen election in 2020, which we know the globalist scum bags really wanted, he fought on. He could have just said, “Ah, forget it,” but he didn’t. He survived lawfare and two assassination attempts, won an election by beating not one, but two candidates who had the full weight of the Mainstream/Legacy media behind them, then begins implementing the most ambitious programs and executive orders in recent history in a necessary attempt to right this ship that has been slowly sinking for decades in a war most people don’t even realize we’re fighting. He stops the southern border invasion, starts dismantling DEI, prosecutes rogue judges, trims down the government bureaucratic state, exposes USAID, gets his nominees through without much problem, joins forces with RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk and many others. If this isn’t running the table (and there is much more), I really don’t know what is, but damn, I’d sure like to see it.²

I know some will ask what about the Judges still ruling against some of Trump’s measures, what about all the protests by the Left, what about the Legacy media still doing its thing? This is the last dying breath of an ideology that doesn’t know it is irrelevant, that continues using old methods that only worked when they predominately controlled social and mainstream media. They’re like the Knight in the famous Monty Python scene who no longer has arms and legs but still thinks he’s a formidable opponent. He’s not. And they’re not…not any longer. They’re losing young voters, black voters, Democrats, Catholics and more. I’m not advocating for complacency, but optimism and a continued determination to keep and regain the America that many remember and/or long for while we have this substantial advantage.

I must admit, this news is so significant [USAID’s downfall] that it is hard to comprehend. Until recently, we believed that globalists were a permanent fixture, that USAID was an almost eternal structure, and that the U.S. would always be the vanguard of globalization. We thought nothing could be done, and no one could change this. But it turns out that it can be changed — and it already has been. — Alexander Dugin³

huge numbers of people who thought they were different realized they were the same. large distributed groups of high-function high-ethics people assembled into strongly functional machines able to solve problems, assess data, make sense of the senseless, and grow solidarity from the chaos that was intended to break us. — el gato malo⁴

If you boil down everything the woked-up, psychopathic Democratic Party did the past eight years as it drove the country into a ditch, it all amounted to a Great Pretending. Whatever the party said, they knew it was not so. Whatever they did, they pretended the other side was doing. They lied lavishly, knowingly, and incessantly and now they are pretending to soul-search in a great public display of pretend humility as they await the dreaded reckoning. — James Howard Kunstler⁵

Nothing like it has ever happened before in American history. In fact, nobody even thought it was possible. Useless media has lost the plot — Trump’s war against the deep state is fully underway. — Jeff Childers⁶

Now, try (if you can) to understand what the election of Mr. Trump represents: the drive to restore a viable American common culture, to re-set our agreement on values, to repair the broken res publica. And note how wildly that is resented and opposed by this corrupt and degenerate residue of idealism gone to hell (literally), this ragtag and bobtail of Democratic Party elites, consumed in their mass formation psychosis, addicted to lying and violence, and furious that they are no longer in command. — James Howard Kunstler⁷

Many have the mistaken idea that if Trump was just nicer in public, if he didn’t call his enemies names, he could get more done. If Trump was congenial, they say, the Democrats and RINOs would work with him and everyone would be so happy they’d all start posting photos of themselves holding hands with people from every political party imaginable swaying to the communal singing of Kumbaya.

What they don’t understand is that being nice to the Left gets you nowhere. Rush Limbaugh understood this. The Left doesn’t give a damn about Trump sweet talking CNN reporters or being less abrasive. They would attack him no matter what, because he represents, at least to the people behind the scenes controlling the Democratic party, progressives and their ilk, everything they hate. They don’t want fair elections, they think we’re a bunch of idiots who shouldn’t have the right to vote. They hate America, because America embodies everything they detest: free speech, freedom in general, Christian and Western values, traditional families, essentially everything they’ve been working to destroy for the last 100 years or so. They’ve done a pretty good job of it too.

But America is waking up. There is still a core population that has internalized the ideals of the American Spirit and is beginning to realize in huge numbers that our leadership since the JFK assassination in 1963 and before that with the implementation of the Federal Reserve and Income Tax in 1913, has never been concerned about American citizens—from any party. Never. They pay lip service to much that we cherish, but behind the scenes they work to undermine it. They will do anything—anything, to accomplish their ends.

It’s difficult for good people to comprehend that other people can be so evil, but it’s getting late in the day to be ignoring such things.

The “deep state” has been playing a shadowy game for far too long. From manipulated narratives to weaponized agencies, they have trampled on our Constitution, scorned our values, and laughed as we demand justice. They believe they are untouchable and think we will roll over. But here’s the truth: the American spirit does not break easily.⁸

No, no it does not.

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Notes

1. Childers, Jeff, "NEGENTROPY - Monday, April 28, 2025 - C&C NEWS", Covid & Coffee 2025, Source

2. I know there will be some who say, and maybe rightfully, that Trump is to some degree controlled by the Deep State / Bankers / Zionists / etc. I do not have enough knowledge at this time to even venture an opinion. Maybe I will at a later date. For now, I simply look at what people are doing. For example, Biden's rhetoric about "Democracy" and "Freedom" and concern for U.S. citizens was just B.S. when considering the invasion at the southern border and his administration's treatment of Jan. 6 protesters to only name a couple of things. With Trump I like what he and his administration are doing. The border is essentially closed, he exposed USAID, he's attacking DEI and many other things. These are tangible things that back up what he's saying.
   
   I realize it's important to be aware that the Deep State will attempt to use any organization (conservative, liberal, religious, etc) they can to accomplish their ends, so we need to watch for that. It did seem odd to me that Trump got elected this time around without much problem, that his appointments more or less sailed through. Is this the Deep State recognizing the huge shift in culture and reorganizing to continue doing what they've always done? I don't know, but it is something to think about.

3. Dugin, Alexandar, "USAID Destroyed: Trump and Musk’s Conservative Revolution Continues", ARKTOS, February 3, 2025, Source

4. el gato malo, "the new tribe," bad cattitude, October 22, 2024, Source

5. Kunstler, James Howard, "Beyond Consequence," James Howard Kunstler, November 18, 2024, Source

6. Childers, Jeff, "BAPTISM OF FIRE - Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - C&C NEWS," Coffee & Covid 2025, Source

7. Kunstler, James Howard, "Now You Know," James Howard Kunstler, April 28,2925, Source

8. Flynn, Michael T. LTG USA (RET), "Unmasking Treachery," General Flynn's Substack - Official, April 17, 2025, Source