American Thinker on the Deep State

By J.B. Shurk

Deconstructing the Deep State

One of my favorite sentences in The Shawshank Redemption — a movie filled with some of Stephen King’s finest writing — comes near the end.  The protagonist, Andy, has broken out of prison and sent a trove of evidence to the press that implicates the crooked warden in multiple criminal conspiracies.  Sitting in his office as police sirens blare and officers beat down his door, the corrupt and abusive warden opts to take his own life.  Morgan Freeman narrates as Andy’s friend and fellow inmate, Red: “I’d like to think that the last thing that went through his head, other than that bullet, was to wonder how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him.”  

Watching President Trump return to the White House in triumphant fashion, I couldn’t get Red’s observation out of my mind.  There are politicians and bureaucrats all over D.C. wondering how the hell Donald Trump ever got the best of them, and although they have no intention of taking the warden’s way out, all their plans to thwart Trump’s movement are dead.  Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, the corrupt lawfare gangs, the corrupt Intelligence Community, and the corrupt corporate news propagandists posing as “journalists,” along with the vast majority of the corrupt, unelected, and unconstitutional administrative state, are all flabbergasted that President Trump again sits in the Oval Office — despite eight years of nefarious and treasonous Deep State plots to throw him in some hellhole similar to Shawshank Prison.  

Remember when Andy emerged from the sewage pipe covered in filth and stretched his hands toward God while rain poured down to cleanse his body?  So many MAGA voters are also looking toward the heavens and exultantly whispering, “Thank you, Lord.  Free at last.”

That’s no hyperbole.  Proving yet again that he is a man of his word, President Trump immediately pardoned the J6 political prisoners.  He pardoned pro-life Christians whom tyrant Merrick Garland had imprisoned for protesting abortion.  He promised to free every last victim of the Biden regime’s political persecution, and many have already been informed of their impending release.  Most of these prisoners were first-time “offenders” who were targeted for their personal beliefs.  They and their families endured legal costs, pre-trial confinement, malicious prosecution, judicial malfeasance, and egregiously unnecessary separations from their parents and spouses and children.  Most suffered for their principles.  Most were denied constitutional protections and even impartial juries.  Most were pressured to confess to crimes that they did not commit.  Many with longer sentences wondered if they would ever make it home.  Now they are free.

Joe Biden’s last act in office was to “pre-emptively” pardon members of the Biden Crime Family.  One of President Trump’s first acts back in office was to pardon Americans who never would have suffered had they been registered Democrats.  Four years of injustice make the return of justice all the more magnificent.

As a partial answer to the Uniparty parasites and Deep State saboteurs who wonder how President Trump perseveres and wins, this is how: he keeps his promises.  The criminals who have long run D.C. and the “mockingbird” media who protect their criminal friends still believe that the public regards Trump as a liar and the permanent bureaucracy as a trusted group of “experts.”  Reality is just the opposite.  The American people see in President Trump someone who will give them the unvarnished truth, and they find the permanent bureaucracy a loathsome cabal of backstabbers, charlatans, and tyrants who never hesitate to sell out their country for a quick buck.  Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, and even government “scientist” Anthony Fauci all used their sinecures as “public servants” to become millionaires.  Meanwhile, workers in the private sector got poorer each year.  Government “service” is a magnet for psychopaths, sadists, and fraudsters who launder taxpayer dollars into their own piggy banks.  

If the American people didn’t completely appreciate how corrupt the U.S. government is when Trump first entered politics, they certainly get it now.  Russia collusion was a lie.  Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop was real — as was the Biden Crime Family’s monetization of Joe’s office.  Impeaching President Trump because Joe Biden accepted bribes from foreign adversaries never made sense to anybody with a brain except Mitt Romney.  COVID did come from a lab.  Perforated masks don’t stop viral transmission but do make it difficult for people to breathe.  Economic lockdowns saved no one but killed tens of thousands of small businesses.  School closures saved no one but caused lifetime learning harm for an entire generation.  The 2020 election was neither free nor fair, and there is substantial evidence of electoral fraud.  Government censorship is real.  Mass government surveillance of our private communications is real.  Mainstream news reporters do lie.  And Americans can reclaim lost freedoms only if they reject government propaganda and think for themselves.

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This is Good News

The good news is that people from opposite sides of the political spectrum may work together to project what is best and do what is best for the USA and the American people.

Laken Riley Act Sends ‘Message to the World’ — —

Quote: “Last month, Meta donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund in the latest sign that CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seeking to repair relations with the incoming Republican administration.

The contribution follows a November visit to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, by Zuckerberg and his advisers for discussions that reportedly focused on relationship-building.”

More here.

When You Don’t Know What to Pray

The Apostles’ Creed

I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church, (the body of believers alive now and through the ages of time)
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen.
Source: Church of England

The Nicene Creed

We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is,
seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father;
through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven,
was incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary
and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come.
Amen.

Source: Church of England

‘Great is the Lord and highly to be praised;
his greatness is beyond all searching out.
One generation shall praise your works to another
and declare your mighty acts.’

Psalm 145.3-4

I love these-thinking back on how things were in the Old Testament period and in the time of Jesus and of the disciples:

“From the earliest days of the Church, Christians developed short, simple summaries of the faith. These short statements became known as creeds.”

In the Old Testament and early periods after Jesus was resurrected and ascended, there were no written copies of what we have today in Old Testament and New Testament writings. We are so blessed to have what we have today in written form and it is always a blessing to have summaries of the words of Scripture to hide in our hearts.