Is There Somebody Leading The Drive For The Republicans In The Mid-Terms? Who Is It? Are They In Stealth Mode, Sneaking Up On It, Doing Master Class Work Behind The Scenes Or Maneuvers In The Dark?
I’m not a big fan of trivia-but I’m admittedly anal (retentive,) which I attribute to a career of being a commander and a test officer and program manager where such things matter, but I’m not wired for esoterica unless it’s a fav topic. But today I’m going to start out with a test question by way of seeing if I’m the only stunato (call out to the homies) out there who isn’t paying attention or is just not keeping up with politics.
Riddle me this Batman, who is the Republican Party Leader right now….Beuler?
I had to look it up this morning. I would have guessed it is stealth-Johnson who is working at –shhhhh-area 48 or some other based government secret facility working on –shhhhh-2026 mid-term strategy. Cause-maybe it’s just me-which I wouldn’t rule out-but me thinks the republican party that has consistently underperformed in this century when it comes to taking care of business in terms of lawfare, candidate advocacy-publicity-advertising, promulgating, waving the pom-poms, going toe-to-toe with Marc Elias and the democrat lawfare band-I mean, where are they? Is somebody working on these efforts and we just aren’t hearing about it?
Which could be the case. The Bottom Line Up Front is we are about to hit March of an election year-the perilous to momentum, fraught with risk, historically problematic mid-terms-when a president’s agenda is vulnerable to knee-jerk reaction voting. And I personally can’t tell you who the point man-woman-person is leading the band, orchestrating the plot, taking care of business.
The answer is Florida State Senator Joe Gruters: that guy. Have you heard of him?
The democrats and the LSMBTGA-same, same-may be bereft of fresh or new ideas, riding the same old Jim Crow 2.0 story that dashed on the rocks last time, pushing lawfare as policy/strategy in response to every Trump initiative, whether 80-20 issue or a principle issue like eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse-that basswich-but their underlying strategy or lack thereof is criminally clever because of the exhaustion factor that is often the 12th man in the offense.
In team sports athletes who bring drama with them often end up playing with myriad teams during their careers because in the final analysis teams are generally not successful when they have prima donas who cause more trouble and strife than they are worth. One percent of the workers take 90% of the “loving” attention a supervisor must do, 2% of criminals commit 98% of the violent, major crimes and the soldiers in the Army that need to be watched are the dumb, energetic ones who are messing up everything they touch.
We call them distractions because-well-think about it. The LSMBTGA intuitively knows there is a “poundage” and an exhaustion component to daily news that translates into an opinion about politicians that often tips the scale on how people feel about candidates. No matter how popular, successful and well-liked a person is, the continuous pounding of daily news-either good or bad (positive or negative)-has been proven to play an important role that makes a difference at the polls.
It has been confirmed in a very famous Stanford Study which tested the hypothesis in an actual election where it was proven that the vast majority of those sampled never scrolled beyond the first page of results nor scanned beyond the top 3-5 search returns and formed opinions on a person-place-or thing solely from the first page, top returns on searches.
Search engines-Google, Meta, Apple-know this and survive on revenue from vendors to incentivize their products-messages-whatever-who are incentivizing the audience-searchers-in turn through the “weighting” of search results to canalize them and “tailor” returns to present paid for messaging content-whether political, product advertising or whatever-to reach the audience.
The business side of such efforts is called paid search advertising or pay-per-click. The Search Engine Manipulation Effect results in a search for an update on something related to a political race or information about a favorite candidate-no matter how specific you phrase it-returning sometimes bizarre, anomalous, discordant results up front because opposition research from some seemingly innocuously named democrat liberty group has-in effect-bought that space to weight results in your area by pounding out a desired message or narrative, like “Orange Man Bad,” or Trump-Russia-Putin, or fascist, racist, Nazi.
In its simplest form such techniques return our ranch’s fiber socks on Etsy to a search on warm clothing that we pay a small fee or percentage of sales for the privilege. There is nothing natural about this, as it is simply a marketing opportunity for those who opt to pay the fee.
This is classic military and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Information Operations (IO) tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) 101 translated into use for the internet and social media that is typically used around the world by governments against governments to sway elections.
The US throughout this century supported various color revolutions to defy Russia using modern versions of this technique via vehicles like social media starting in ~2003. I should point out that it is neither well known nor widely discussed (accepted) that Georgia was subject to a western focused style campaign that resulted in an eventual Russian invasion to restore the up to that point in time political balance.
These foreign political “dalliances” often occur below the proverbial information waterline for average Americans busy with life but have long term consequences that our politicians seem continuously surprised over.
President Obama leveraged these principles in 2013 to set loose the hounds of our State Department in the form of Victoria Nuland and Ukraine Ambassador Pyatt to conduct a Color Revolution against duly elected Ukraine President Yanukovych because he was viewed by the west as a “Putin Puppet,” which is somewhat of a euphemism for “not our guy.”
Myriad opinions and translations of facts exist about the how and why of the problems with Ukraine over the last 50 years or so, but suffice it to say it is-has-been-and will be- a complicated mess until something catastrophic happens and the situation resolves.
Somewhat ironic was that our State Department observed elections and basically certified the results, but that did not stop Obama from fomenting populous mischief that resulted in chasing Yanukovych out of office to Moscow. Which resulted in Putin moving on Crimea and eventually Ukraine, which has been going on for a dozen years at this point.
Obama’s action may have been payback for Putin’s bribery actions that “stole” the World Cup award (Did Russia Steal the World Cup? Long before anyone had heard of Christopher Steele or a “pee tape,” there was an investigation into FIFA corruption) at the expense of the US that was investigated by a British former MI-6 operative named Michael Steele who would later become nationally known for helping put together the falsehood and lies that provided the basis to conduct operations in the United States against Trump: but not our story today.
The power of propaganda to shape outcomes-particularly elections-can’t be overemphasized.
What is the point of the above-all of it? Savvy politicians and marketeers rely on the fact that average Jill and Joe Q Citizen are way too busy with their daily lives and don’t have-nor will take the time-to get up to speed on “schtuff”-to make decisions on political candidates sufficient to make smart choices-which is to say informed choices-for candidates.
It is as simple as that. They count on us-we the people-buying into whatever they are selling-by manipulating known information sources and dominating the airwaves and information channels with positive news about their desired candidates-which is sometimes very difficult to do-so the adverse or converse technique is most often used to cast the other candidate in the worst light possible, knowing the truth will never see the light of day in the form of a counter narrative because they can count on their audience not to seek it out-in the first place-and therefore to blithely ignore it-even on the off or rare chance they are exposed to the truth.
Which is why the purchase of Twitter/X by Musk was such a big deal at the time when the LSMBTGA and democrats were attempting to replicate government sponsored censorship in 2024 as a replay of what occurred in 2020. Previous attempts to work and power through the censorship collusion during 2020 failed to gain traction in the face of an all-out effort-attack-on free speech by suppressing and deplatforming any and all who did not get on board with the accepted and promoted messaging about a variety of topics.
Now that’s not to discount widespread malfeasance which is a polite term for cheating in the 2020 election. But the two major October surprises that year-including the FBI-led and choreographed plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Witmer and the nifty-fifty-one Intel Dweebs pronouncement on the Hunter Biden laptop being a Russian operation succeeded because of the suppression of the truth and any counter-narrative debunking both events until after the election.
The government led propaganda campaign that was supported and undertaken by the entirety of the LSMBTGA is well described in these articles that cover Joe Rogan’s interviews of Mike Benz and Mark Andreesen. The chilling truth of this matter is these actions were taken by our elected officials and inflicted on us-we the people-in order to undermine the will of the people in supposed free and fair elections.
Such actions are not only chilling but represent the specific threat the founders attempted to prevent through the freedoms and rights built into our founding documents.
The LSMBTGA and democrats are once again getting desperate as their counter-messaging to Trump reveals itself as a consistent pounding of negativity like a drumbeat that repeats like some tired old 1970s restaurant music loop-“I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden,” which increasingly and consistently comes across as a shallow, bankrupt, counter-narrative to common sense and American values.
As evidenced by the recent trot out and shout out of the lead coterie of liars on the bench who are coming to life like some Freddy Kruger or Jason episode: just when you thought it was safe to go back into the cemetery.
We’ve recently heard from the same old liars that have been leading the band for most of this century, but particularly the liar-in chief, former president Obama, who maintains to this day his 100% percent debunked narrative about the 2016 Russian election interference and collusion by Trump that cost Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) the election: all known lies that he set in motion on 9 December 2016 when he made the HRC hoax his own: the official position of the United States Government led by now cheerleader Obama.
Not to be outdone, HRC herself was back at the globalist Security Summit in Munich where she opined on a number of topics that were both blather and noise, which included-similarly to recent comments by Obama-that immigration policy of late went way too far to the permissive side (which was surprising but is clearly an 80-20 issue that democrats need to salve with countering narratives.) She also mindlessly led a panel on woman that featured a transgender congress woman (e.g., a male) opining on trans rights.
At one point she had a sharp exchange with the Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic when she violated protocol and convention by attacking President Trump on foreign soil, although that heretofore taboo has been consistently violated because Orange Man Bad.
HRC recently talked of how she has been mentoring candidates over the years (oh boy) with a message that “you can do all the right things, neck out of the pack and win the election-but it can still be stolen from you” as if the lies she made up about Trump that were endorsed, adopted and made our government’s position by Obama were true.
Maybe she forgets that she made all that nonsense up to draw attention off her illegal server and mountains of emails that compromised US security on potentially every aspect she led during her time as head of the State Department.
We’ve also heard from the seemingly disappeared Susan Rice, she of the 20 January 2017, noon email “note to self” or reminder that at a key meeting where Obama was drumming up support for not sharing intelligence with many in President-Elect Trump’s orbit because of Russian-Putin collusion-that Obama had advised his team to do things “by the book:” which I personally believe was the book of Saul Alinsky, Rules For Radicals.
Ms. Rice is suddenly a big fan of retribution against any and all who “do Trump’s bidding” should and when dems return to power. Which specifically includes government civilian servants and companies/corporations.
Fancy that, a retribution campaign if democrats return to power that would include going after the private sector: just tell us who you truly are so we don’t have to guess. Can anyone forget Rice’s Beau Bergdahl comments or the lies she told to the lamestream media about the Benghazi terrorist attack that killed a number of people, including Libya Ambassador Stevens? Or how about the unmasking scandal in the Obama White House?
We could go on and on about this topic and all the democrats singing the BS doo wops to provide a counter-narrative to Trump policy success, but what needs to be done to energize and inform the electorate before the mid-terms?
Max Dribbler
26 February 2026
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