Today, we'll finish General Mac's interview with Sarah Westall, here at Twitter: @westall_sarahw. I've made it up to 26:51 in notations and responses so far.
2) As a student of how studying works, I was deeply surprised by yesterday's work. The interview up on one screen, my thread up on the other, I was able to start and stop comfortably. I could look up sources by pausing the interview. I enjoyed it. That shocks me.
3) Mind, I'm NOT saying I did a good job. It was the first time I've ever done that sort of commentary and real time research simultaneously. It's all kind of weird to me. You know, old dogs, new tricks, not easy, but so much fun!
4) From then till now, however, I've noticed an explosion of confusion in our nation over what's actually happening. We're in a fantastically sensitive moment in our history. Who's voice do we listen to, now? This is a tremendous question. Who's voice?
5) Most people don't care as much about theory as I do. I am a theoretician. Some fighting part of me knew, back in 2016, that almost no one was working off a very specific theoretical base. Maybe Trump was right. Allow me to shout:
MAYBE TRUMP WAS RIGHT
That is a theory.
6) I can't linger to reminisce about what that meant then, because it's so important right now. The same theory, and its corollaries, are critical for where we are right now. There's a somewhat surprising additional concept underlying my theory. Respect.
7) Before I was able to surrender to my desire to support Trump, I had to complete my research. So, I reread The Art of the Deal - more on that another time - and then ordered every book he'd written. Funny thing. Before that, I didn't even know he was a best selling author.
8) So let me ask. How many of Trump's books have you read? Don't take that as a challenge, please. I only ask in order to illustrate how my theory works. If you joined me in my theory you'd buy a Trump book and then ask, what if maybe...
Trump Was Right?
9) Having employed this theory since 2016, I can tell you that even for me - I am a gigantic Trump supporter, obviously! - the answer to the question does not always come out yes. Trump was far from always right. I have many major disagreements with my leader.
10) What I don't do is publicize my disagreements. I don't attack the man whom I support. It was obvious to me that he had plenty enough attackers, he had no need of my additional input to those attacks. My hope was always to be a friend, a true friend.
11) From the moment I formulated the question till this very day, I have yet to regret my theory. I look at every situation through that lens. No need to select any specifics, history is moving too fast. I purport that assuming Trump might be right is the right mode now.
12) And that brings us up the generals, specifically @GenFlynn and General McInerney. Let me speak about General Flynn for a moment, first. He was always 100% innocent. As such, he is a specimen of America's decline. Innocence is not presumed. The presumption has died.
13) Dive into the strategic issue with me. General Flynn has - had back then - knowledge that obliterates the power of The Cabal. Need a reminder? Listen again to this February 1, 2017, Press Conference.
14) In all the tacticall brouhaha, it seems no one ever asks the strategic question. Why was Flynn taken out, back then? Why is he so dangerous today? Knowing where the skeletons are buried is but a weak tactical flash. His real danger is strategic, not tactical.
15) From the moment the Deep State took Flynn out of his rightful position as National Security Advisor, my theory shifted. It went from Trump Might Be Right, to Flynn is 100% Innocent.
Deep State is guilty. Flynn is innocent.
That's what guided me in those dark days.
16) Count it up so far.
1) Trump Might Be Right 2) Flynn is 100% Innocent
And then there's General Thomas McInerney. Could it be? Might he too be right?
17) Here's a single point. Martial Law. Add the Insurrection Act. Could it be that General Mac is right? If you ask @KateScopelliti, you'll feel her anger and fury. She'll tell you General Mac is right. Call down Martial Law now, she says, and address the treason in America.
18) In yesterday's work I couldn't help but notice, and comment on that fact that General Mac keeps calling out treason. Treason, treason, treason. He sees it everywhere. Oh, what a quack. Or...maybe, he might be right.
19) Turn now to the question of debate itself. It hold underlying, a fundamental principle. You might be right. Yes, I disagree with you now, but you might be right, I might be wrong. That theory, your opponent might be right, is the key to honest debate.
20) If you're 100% sure your opponent is wrong, then step away. Do not debate. A true debate requires my theory, the other guy might be right. If you can't imagine that, then don't debate. Focus your energy elsewhere. Don't debate.
21) Here's another example. Trump's tweets are offensive, but...blah, blah, blah. No! No, no, no! You may be offended, and I'm okay with that. But there's an error in your theory. You think you should judge his tweets by yours, or by normal standards. Hogwash.
22) 24 hours a day, Trump is fighting a war. His tweets are one of the most important strategic assets he has in fighting that war. If you wish to read his tweets rightly, my theory is required. Maybe Trump was right. That is, maybe he SHOULD have tweeted EXACTLY what he did.
23) The principle is general. Why would you listen to anyone at all speak, if there was NO possibility he might be right?
It may be a definition of listening that, when NOT speaking, you imagine that the speaker might be right. I'm of this hard school. Let me illustrate.
24) If you and I are on the phone, and you're speaking and I'm silently but attentively listening, you may be assured I'm imagining that you might be right. If I can not imagine that, I'll interrupt you, and tell you, "I can't hear you right now. You're not cutting through."
25) So I propose that the very act of listening itself demands the presumption of possible rightness. I like that!
The Presumption of Possible Rightness
If there is NO such presumption, why listen at all? Or, why pretend to listen when you're not?
26) As we turn back to finishing General Mac's interview, it is precisely that assumption, the presumption that he might be right which must guide us.
Be back in a bit...
27) Let me say it at the big picture level. General McInerney might be right. Our corrupted government might require all the steps we've logged from his guidance, in order to restore America's governing integrity.
He might be right.
27) We return to the interview at minute 26:51...
Suspend the Electoral College and the Inauguration date. Why? The founding fathers could not have imagined Cyber Warfare against us from within. It shall not stand.
28) Sarah tells us this election's data was a landslide beyond the presidency. Turning the House back, and strengthening the Senate as well. This was a fixed election across the boards.
29) "I don't believe the current actions the President is on are severe enough. The path I've outlined show the American people that we mean business and we'll get to the bottom of this."
30) There. That's the point. It's a lost principle. Truth and justice often demand severity of execution. Anything less conveys equivocation. General Mac might be right.
That theory is simply critical. He might be right.
31) We cannot afford to accept this. And, the advisors must NOT counsel to come back in 2024. It won't happen. Take these serious steps. The support of the American people are behind this.
32) Martial Law is the real answer. It has to be this severe if we're going to get control and expose all these things to the American people. He will save this nation. They're going to call him a dictator, but he has the tools and must use them.
33) Our enemies, China, Russia, Iran, are all delighted with the current election. Our internal censorship feeds our enemies' desires. The current situation is a color revolution.
34) This censorship means totalitarianism. All this must be disallowed by us, the American people. Our president must change this. The courts will not uphold Trump, State or Federal.
35) What about the support around Trump? None of the DC leaders are giving Trump the support he needs. So, we must must rise up for Trump, ourselves.
36) Leters, emails, all our social media, we must support Trump in the steps that General Mac has outlined. This treason must be stopped, and all the steps listed must be taken. Treason must be disallowed.
37) Rise up America. Sarah now lays out her brilliant set of three options. You are either:
1) A Traitor 2) A Coward, or 3) A Patriot
You have to make a decision. General Mac writes this down! That's the choice.
38) The best way to move forward is to send messages to White House, Senators, and House members.
39) What about corrupted SCOTUS? That's the reason Military Tribunals are required. Are they traitors, cowards, or patriots? It's time to stand up.
41) What might General Mac be right about? We've listed 10 steps he urges with bold strength. We've walked through all the logic behind them. We'll conclude by listing out the 10 steps again, and I'm asking. Can you consider he might be right? I sure am.
42) General Mac's 10 Steps
1) During an interview concerning voter fraud and cyberwarfare during the election, 2) He called on President Trump "to declare a national emergency, 3) use the Insurrection Act, 4) declare martial law, 5) suspend habeas corpus,
43) Numbers 6 - 8:
6) setup military tribunals, and 7) suspend the electoral college [vote for president and vice-president] on December 14 and the presidential inauguration on January 20"; 8) claiming that the 2020 presidential election is being stolen from Trump and
44) Concluding:
9) treasonous parties should be arrested and charged and 10) a "full investigation" must be done by President Trump.
But, can America make the tough call? Do we have the moral fiber to do what it takes?
45) Perhaps this can get done with "nicer" means. Maybe General Mac's counsel is more stringent than these times require. But if we fail to hear him, and we look back one day saying he was right after all, then, well, maybe we should consider that right now. Maybe he's right.
The brilliant tweet below, by my friend @FloridaBoyMedia, solved a YUGE problem for me. Why did @realDonaldTrump support @kevinomccarthy for speaker? Until the tweet below, I could not square that circle. Now I can.
2) The simple fact is that McCArthy is a natural enemy of Trump's, and of the #MAGA Movement, exactly as Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are. All of us sycophantic Trump supporters wanted him to be a temporary Speaker, himself. Alas.
3) Thing is, if we know nothing else about Trump, we know he does business with his enemies. Think of Kim Jong Un. No missile tests during Trump's administration. And how many since Let's Go Brandon? It ain't zero.
2) I was not in DC for the 6 January 2021 Rally. I wanted to go. Fiercely. It wounded my ego to NOT go. Allow me a martial arts term: Zanshin. It comes from the Samurai and means your sense of threat or danger. For the Samurai it was almost a mystical concept.
3) In Akira Kurosawa's great film The 7 Samurai (which was the basis of the Magnificent 7), there is a scene in which a Samurai being recruited and tested, refuses to walk past an open door, which was, in fact, hiding an attacker. He was the greatest recruit. That was Zanshin.
1/ I have now watched our podcast below. If you haven't seen it yet, find the time. It's worth it. I sure wish I could learn to make my eyes look at the camera instead of the person's face on screen. Alas.
2/ As to the coming thread, though, I walk away feeling some other ground needs to be covered. Try to stick tight if you can. Look at this list:
1) Doctrine 2) Strategy 3) Tactics 4) Execution
Why does it seem the other side has all four, but we only have the last two?
3/ I want you to try to answer that question for yourself, and my spoiler alert is for the next tweet, not this one. And by all means, please comment. Let me know what your thoughts are, please.
Can you say "getting into the weeds?" I don't imagine too many will care, but for some strange reason I've decided I want to know about the Rules Package. So, here's the best version of the current package I've yet found.
2) The PDF above is the one they call "The 55 Pages."
So, knowing I do not know this language, I decide to just start reading and here's a screenshot of the first thing I find.
3) Who knew? Who had any idea? the 118th Congress begins its own rules by adopting the rules from the 117th Congress. I'd never have imagined. Okay, a bit of searching - it does NOT pop right up - and, I found this:
General Flynn's voice is heard strong and clear. He pulls incredible audiences. His analysis and writings are very powerful as well. Here's his New Year's guidance!
2) We'll walk through his counsel in detail later in this thread (which may take a few days to complete). But let's cut straight to the chase. @elonmusk, can you give General Flynn his Twitter account back, please?
3) No, @elonmusk, there is not - to my knowledge - a major Twitter story behind the unhinged attacks that our government executed against General Flynn and his family. But, the simple fact of his purging from Twitter is, in its own right, an important story.
Analysis 4 - 31 December 2022 - Hammer & Scorecard
Do you follow @maryclairerose? If not, please do so right now! She will be our guide in today's work. She's one of our very best analyst/writers, period.
2) We'll dive into @maryclairerose's work in a moment. First, I have a bit of backstory to share. I met Marcy Claire in 2016. I'll never forget the call I got, shortly after we met, where Mary Claire explained the illegality of Obama's money drop to Iran. Who remembers that?
3) Mary Claire always combines brilliance with patriotic passion. Throw in far more than anyone's fair share of writing talent and you start to get the picture. As I recall it, none of her editors were willing to run with her scoop.