The Shitshow Macro Weekly Prep Podcast for Monday February 17, 2025 is out:
-Both the post and podcast for Cutting the Deep State’s Tentacles are out from behind the paywall and free for all to read, listen to, and share now:
open.substack.com/pub/robertplew…
-If you have not read or listened to its predecessor, Defining the Deep State (and its component parts), I highly suggest you start there (also free for all to read, listen, and share):
open.substack.com/pub/robertplew…
Domestic Politics:
-Many are familiar by this point with the rash of lawfare attacks being waged against Trump v2.0 and DOGE specifically (which is an Obama-created department that was merely renamed).
--For those who don’t quite understand lawfare, they are understood by most as legal suits that aren’t expected to win. Many times they are purely for the headlines they generate (which one perhaps could call propaganda, given the recent USAID funding revelations and allegations).
--Lawfare is the most effective when those who wield it can draw the legal process out as long as possible.
--Unfortunately for them, one of the suits that was filed against DOGE has already hit a major snag that may affect the others - in a dissent that stipulates district judges cannot interfere with the clear constitutional duty/authority of the Executive.
theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/02/1…
-An NGO-based conflict of interest may have been uncovered with the RI judge who ordered a halt to Trump’s temporary spending freeze, according to @America1stLegal :
x.com/America1stLega…
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/racist…
-CBS anchor Margaret Brennan - the impetus for the “I don’t really care, Margaret” JD Vance meme - has made another face plant on national television that is being deservedly mocked.
--In a Sunday interview with Marco Rubio, she seemed to indicate that she believes (incorrectly) that Hitler and the Nazis were able to conduct the holocaust due to, or at least aided by, free speech.
--That is both historically incorrect and ludicrous. In fact, the Nazis had hate speech laws, much like many Western leaders and media orgs would like to see in our current era.
x.com/BuckSexton/sta…
-If new buzzwords suddenly emerge and then begin being disseminated widely and forcefully across the media, academia, et al, it’s a pretty good indicator that it did not happen organically.
--@MikeBenzCyber has been trying to tell people that the “misinformation” buzzword and “professional class” emerged as a direct result to attack & get rid of Trump post-2016.
--A chart that I’ll include in the show notes shows the meteoric rise of the word’s emergence and usage in the news media and academic papers - look for yourself; does that seem organic, or planned/launched?
--Addendum: It certainly bears reminding people that it was the Hillary Clinton campaign that coined the phrase “fake news” that Trump took over and made better; this seems like another attempt that was more successful - what will be the next “fake news/misinfo” that they launch?
-The chart that we’ve brought out before when people wail about the “nonpartisan bureaucrats” of the USGOV is the 92.5% vote total for Kamala in DC in November. A new one taken from the FEC and shared by @jlippincott_ may be even better.
--The campaign contributions chart broken down by federal agencies that will be in the show notes shows that at least in the Harris/Trump campaign, nonpartisan is certainly not an accurate term.
x.com/jlippincott_/s…
-We have another potentially major post from @America1stLegal stating that they’ve uncovered proof that the “classified documents case” against Trump was a sham prosecution coordinated with the Biden White House from the start.
--Apparently the “classified docs” that Jack Smith refused to show anyone were a letter to Trump from “Little Rocket Man,” a picture, and the hurricane map.
-Both the post and podcast for Cutting the Deep State’s Tentacles are out from behind the paywall and free for all to read, listen to, and share now:
open.substack.com/pub/robertplew…
-If you have not read or listened to its predecessor, Defining the Deep State (and its component parts), I highly suggest you start there (also free for all to read, listen, and share):
open.substack.com/pub/robertplew…
Domestic Politics:
-Many are familiar by this point with the rash of lawfare attacks being waged against Trump v2.0 and DOGE specifically (which is an Obama-created department that was merely renamed).
--For those who don’t quite understand lawfare, they are understood by most as legal suits that aren’t expected to win. Many times they are purely for the headlines they generate (which one perhaps could call propaganda, given the recent USAID funding revelations and allegations).
--Lawfare is the most effective when those who wield it can draw the legal process out as long as possible.
--Unfortunately for them, one of the suits that was filed against DOGE has already hit a major snag that may affect the others - in a dissent that stipulates district judges cannot interfere with the clear constitutional duty/authority of the Executive.
theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/02/1…
-An NGO-based conflict of interest may have been uncovered with the RI judge who ordered a halt to Trump’s temporary spending freeze, according to @America1stLegal :
x.com/America1stLega…
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/racist…
-CBS anchor Margaret Brennan - the impetus for the “I don’t really care, Margaret” JD Vance meme - has made another face plant on national television that is being deservedly mocked.
--In a Sunday interview with Marco Rubio, she seemed to indicate that she believes (incorrectly) that Hitler and the Nazis were able to conduct the holocaust due to, or at least aided by, free speech.
--That is both historically incorrect and ludicrous. In fact, the Nazis had hate speech laws, much like many Western leaders and media orgs would like to see in our current era.
x.com/BuckSexton/sta…
-If new buzzwords suddenly emerge and then begin being disseminated widely and forcefully across the media, academia, et al, it’s a pretty good indicator that it did not happen organically.
--@MikeBenzCyber has been trying to tell people that the “misinformation” buzzword and “professional class” emerged as a direct result to attack & get rid of Trump post-2016.
--A chart that I’ll include in the show notes shows the meteoric rise of the word’s emergence and usage in the news media and academic papers - look for yourself; does that seem organic, or planned/launched?
--Addendum: It certainly bears reminding people that it was the Hillary Clinton campaign that coined the phrase “fake news” that Trump took over and made better; this seems like another attempt that was more successful - what will be the next “fake news/misinfo” that they launch?
-The chart that we’ve brought out before when people wail about the “nonpartisan bureaucrats” of the USGOV is the 92.5% vote total for Kamala in DC in November. A new one taken from the FEC and shared by @jlippincott_ may be even better.
--The campaign contributions chart broken down by federal agencies that will be in the show notes shows that at least in the Harris/Trump campaign, nonpartisan is certainly not an accurate term.
x.com/jlippincott_/s…
-We have another potentially major post from @America1stLegal stating that they’ve uncovered proof that the “classified documents case” against Trump was a sham prosecution coordinated with the Biden White House from the start.
--Apparently the “classified docs” that Jack Smith refused to show anyone were a letter to Trump from “Little Rocket Man,” a picture, and the hurricane map.