By Timothy D. Naegele[1]
In a televised interview with former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, he stated the following:
We are in a very dangerous situation. We have our two major international competitors, Russia and China, coming closer and closer together. We have a president who clearly does not have a clue what to do. We have a vice president who is an embarrassment, and the best possible insurance policy for keeping Biden as president. And Americans need to understand: this is not a game. This is not one of those things you get on Xbox. We are in a real world faced with real crises. And we have a president who is totally out of touch with reality, in terms of what’s going on in the world. I personally, as a historian, think that this is the most dangerous period we’ve been in since Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas night, 1776. I think the number of things going bad are so great, and the threat to our civilization is so great, that we really need a dramatic change.
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It’s very sobering that Xi Jinping last week—Secretary General of the Chinese Communist Party, which is his real title—gave four different speeches in one week on preparing for war. And I think people should take that seriously and understand how determined, how aggressive and how competent Xi Jinping is. Putin, of course, was a KGB agent and is himself ruthless, tough, smart. So you have two people who are sort of gangster allies, and they represent the competitive alternative. They represent a totalitarian, dictatorship-led world where they take care of each other against the democracies, almost exactly a recreation of the Axis powers of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s who took on the democracies. And now, unlike the 1930s, we have a president dedicated to weakness, dedicated to confusion, whose family . . . got $3 million from the Chinese Communists in one check. There’s lots of other money out there. We have no idea how corrupt the Biden family is, but what we do know is that with an Attorney General who is as bitter and as frankly dishonest as the current Attorney General, nothing is going to be done; and that’s a crisis in itself. We have an American system in enormous crisis, with a news media that doesn’t want to cover the truth.
. . .I think Xi Jinping looks at the Biden family—which I suspect he thinks he owns—and he thinks: this is the moment when America truly is what Mao Tse-tung once called us: a paper tiger. And I think it’s a very sobering and, as a citizen, frightening moment in American history.[2]
Has Gingrich engaged in hyperbole? I think not. He is a historian; and his sobering concerns mirror my own, as set forth in other articles here.[3] I do not believe in gloom and doom. But at the same time, one cannot underestimate or ignore the risks today; and it is necessary to understand history and its lessons.
Great civilizations have come and gone. Perhaps the greatest was that of the Greeks, whose leader—Alexander the Great—changed life on this planet in countless ways that are evident even today.[4]
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© 2023, Timothy D. Naegele
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[1] Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass). See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6 and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/ He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service). Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams. He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com
[2] See https://video.foxnews.com/v/6322995604112 (“We have a president that is ‘totally out of touch’ with what’s happening in the world: Newt Gingrich”)
[3] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/03/20/lots-of-us-began-as-democrats/ (“Lots Of Us Began As Democrats . . .”)
[4] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/alexander-the-great/ (“Alexander the Great”)
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The problems are, unbelievably frightening. What are the acceptable answers?
Ron
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Good question, Ron. Thank you.
My previous article here, which is cited in footnote 3 of today’s article, gives my thoughts. Also, Newt Gingrich makes it clear that Joe Biden and his Democrats must go.
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Putin and Xi are having a 5 hour summit on taking over the world and Biden is shooting a scene for Comedy Central Ted Lasso.
Pretty much sums it up.
Mike Roche
Pelham, NH
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Thank you, Mike.
Yes, Newt Gingrich agrees with you 100 percent. Click on the link cited in footnote 2, and watch the full interview.
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THE WORLD’S GREATEST SUCKERS
China Can Buy the Top American Politicians for what amounts to chump change. You don’t hear about China bribing Americans in high offices with a $ Billion or even half a billion dollars in a world where governments routinely spend Trillions of Dollars each year anymore. No.
The Chinese easily drop a Million dollars or so and our corrupt and greedy representatives take it like a traffic bribe in Old Mexico. That is about the size of it. The Chinese know our price points and they know they can buy the President for very little real money and get huge dividends for their investment.
We don’t really have an asking price, instead the global market determines our monetary worth. We sell-out for very little on the cheap because, among other things, we are so often proved to be both stupid and corrupt, a bad combination of personality traits for sure.
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Thank you, Craig.
Again, I agree with you completely.
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Tim, Great blog. RCS
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Thank you, the Great Schultz. 😊
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Newt Gingrich Is Correct Again
America’s totally-corrupt and dishonest Attorney General Merrick Garland’s handpicked goon, Jack Smith, is pursuing Donald Trump relentlessly and with a vengeance.
“Special counsel claims Trump deliberately misled his attorneys about classified documents, judge wrote”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/sources-special-counsel-claims-trump-deliberately-misled-attorneys/story?id=98024191
And the District of Columbia’s corrupt leftist judiciary is aiding Smith:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/appeals-court-rules-trump-attorney-evan-corcoran-testify/story?id=98055022 (“Appeals court rules that Trump attorney Evan Corcoran must testify in special counsel’s documents probe”)
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Echoing Newt Gingrich’s Concerns
See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11887931/Xi-Jinping-Vladimir-Putin-say-change-coming-ominous-message-West.html (“Xi Jinping delivers a chilling message for the West as he tells ‘dear friend’ Vladimir Putin ‘change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years… and we are driving it’ on day Russian despot said UK risked ‘nuclear collision’ with its aid to Ukraine”) and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-11889249/What-Chinas-real-motives-peace-plan-Russia-Ukraine.html (“What Putin and Xi Jinping’s meeting means for WW3: JUSTIN BRONK warns the ‘next big problem’ after Ukraine isn’t Russia or China, but both at once – with Beijing calling the shots”)
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HOW THE DEEP STATE FORMATION ADVANCES ONCE MORE
https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vort-the-marxist-march
Tim:
As you have said before about Democrats:
“they are extremely aggressive and relentless. They never stop pushing forward. It’s what you could call a Marxist march. Through a combination of understanding so-called conservatives’ mindset ( complacent, easy to deceive), human nature in-general and excessive cunning, they have gotten most (meaning, nearly all) of the culture to accept varying degrees of their Leftist agenda.
Once a person comes to accept part of their agenda, they generally move on to accept all of the agenda. Not every single person — but then again, they don’t need every person — just enough of them. You don’t need to win the game by five touchdowns; a field goal works just fine. A win is a win.
So-called conservatives have offered next to nothing in the way of resistance, pushback or even much of a fighting spirit. A few, certainly, but, then again, nowhere near enough”
Conservatives today are mostly moderates or RINOs who are pathetically weak men and women. Not enough truly strong and effective American citizens needed to make any real difference in trend.
Most are weak, complacent, ill-informed and ineffectual in influencing our government at most any level any more. In my neighborhood, the common refrain is ” What can YOU do about it ?”.
Historically, this is precisely the mindset of a nation or empire on the wane. I regard it as a Loser’s attitude and I predict those types will find such views do not serve them or theirs very well.
Alternatively, one could say as they continue to lose money or sleep while invested in preferred bank stocks in future months/years: ” Let them eat cake”. Life is a bitch and then, you die.
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Thank you, Craig, as always.
Yes, where are the GOP leaders who are standing up and fighting the despicable, insidious Left? Is Kevin McCarthy cowering somewhere?
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In times such as these, we have perhaps the most incompetent, corrupt Administration in our nation’s history.
What we are witnessing, IMO, is God’s judgment. We’ve turned our back on Him and yet expect His blessings. What is true for individuals is true for nations:
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” – Galatians 6:7
And this:
“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” – Psalm 9:7
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Thank you, Ray, for your comments.
Yes, no one can defy God . . . including Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Joe and Hunter Biden.
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THE ERA OF THE AMERICAN POTENTATE
Yes Ray, Indeed its True.
Jonathan Cahn, popular author of the recent book ” Return of the Gods” chronicles our gradual moral decay since the early 1960’s and growing acceptance of Pagan Gods of Ancient Mesopotamia. America has become depraved.
God’s blessings are gone now because we chose as a society to become a secular nation and secular government. We want to believe we can continue on in our sins. America is no longer able to truly prosper as once before.
We have already lost many of our traditional freedoms as a consequence. A scarce few even realize what they have already lost. The result is not surprising: The rise of the Petty dictators in our Government. Lock You Down Again if need be. Draft (coming) your children and grandchildren to die in foreign wars we can not possibly win.
If we continue on-trend, we can expect more and more economic and financial problems, civil unrest, economic instability, and more wars ( China + Russia ). The whole world (Asia) is realigning against NATO and the United States, yet we seem oblivious to the growing menace, wanting to believe we will prevail. How is this outcome remotely possible when God is Clearly Not with US? We deceive ourselves.
Better Wake-Up soon folks or expect much more suffering until you do. Life is all about choices, bad ones and good ones.
REF: Movie: “Harbingers of Things to Come” (2022) @ Amazon Prime.
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Why Are We In Syria?
See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11898631/Missiles-slam-base-Syria-Iran-backed-militants-retaliate-airstrikes.html (“America is NOT seeking conflict with Iran, White House insists after Biden ordered deadly airstrikes on Tehran-backed militants who killed US worker in suicide drone raid and fired salvo of rockets at bases in Syria”)
Newt Gingrich is correct: brain dead and totally-corrupt Joe Biden is serving China’s best interests by being bogged down in Ukraine, and now launching attacks in Syria. And Willie Brown’s former ho Kamala Harris probably has no clue where Syria is.
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Meanwhile in the Pacific
See https://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-simulates-nuclear-attacks-233229991.html (“North Korea claims ‘radioactive tsunami’ weapon test at sea”)
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China Is Our Enemy — There Should Be No Doubts About That Fact
See, e.g., https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/29/china-warns-of-retaliation-if-taiwans-president-meets-us-house-speaker (“China warns of retaliation if Taiwan’s president meets US House speaker”)
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My Knee Hurtss commented on MailOnline:
“Putin and Xi finally have the America they paid the democrats to create.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11921273/Gun-control-activists-storm-Tennessee-State-Capitol-fears-left-wing-uprising-loom.html?ito=twitter_share_comment_text#comments
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