Posted originally on the CTH on November 11, 2024 | Sundance

If the basic story unfolding in Mar-a-Lago is to be believed, RFK JR, Elon Musk and a small group of technocrats and billionaires have become the ‘kitchen cabinet’ advisors putting the Trump administration together.  Rumors swirl that Melania Trump, Devin Nunes and Dan Scavino have checked out of the ridiculous “non-clown-car” hot mess until the dust settles.

Adding evidence to this possibility, the media are starting to report on some rather, well, shall we say, curious picks from the Mar-a-Lago transition group.

Everyone else, except you guys, will miss what each of the New York Post “leaked” names have in common.  They are all in direct alignment with the retention of the Intelligence Community as it exists.  For the IC, this is the team that lets them hunker down until ’28.

♦ Rubio at State:

Rubio would be the IC pick because, well, he is Vice-Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and a direct installment due to his efforts to support the prior Trump targeting; which included the big assist to then Vice-Chair Mark Warner.   The IC has super thick black files on Rubio, they’d love to have him at State.  This rumor seems ridiculous.

Actually, this rumor seems like a leak trap.

♦ Waltz as National Security Advisor.

Putting aside all of his wife’s very direct and sketchy associations with the World Economic Forum, Representative Mike Waltz is currently a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, HPSCI.

Waltz supports U.S. troops in Ukraine, wants to continue the anti-Russia narrative, and has openly pushed every narrative the IC has presented to him in briefings.  Mike Waltz believes everything that comes from the Intelligence Community as gospel.

As National Security Advisor, Waltz would be awesome for the intents of the IC stakeholders.  You cannot see the IC corruption around you from a position inside the IC corruption.

♦ Kash at CIA.

This is the one part of the outline of leaks that gives me hope all of these rumors are nonsense.

Kash at CIA would be as valuable as Andrew Weissmann as White House counsel.  Patel has never managed anything, let alone an aggressive and massive global spy agency.  However, he does like the spotlight and would be able to invest in a lifestyle more befitting his opinion of himself.

Remember,…

♦ The U.S State Dept and CIA operation is like a restaurant. The Dept of State is the front of the restaurant, with the Secretary as the Maitre D’. The CIA is the back of the restaurant, the kitchen. The Director is the Chef.  The consulates are the wait staff. USAID are the food runners. The Dept of Defense are the bus boys.

The tables and chairs are assigned by the Maitre D’ according to their value.  Countries viewed as more important get the best tables.  The menus offered to each nation are completely different.  Israel has a table in the kitchen.  To get the best experience, tips (bribes) are required for everyone, from the parking valets outside, to the sommelier, to the server.   Currently, Ukraine is the biggest tipper.

On the oversight aspect the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is the control mechanism to approve/install the Secretary of State. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is the control mechanism to approve/install the CIA Director.  Everything therein and thereafter is a system of pretending it is something else.

If you think I didn’t previously say the IC would love to have Rubio, here’s a datapoint from July:

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Remember also, everyone has a self-interest, including the billionaire Technocrats currently housed in Mar-a-Lago for the assembly of the cabinet.

The modern technocrats exist because the IC is their main benefactor.  Confronting the IC would be against the interests of the Technocrats.

These names and selections would be fatal flaws in a Trump administration from the position of confronting the IC apparatus.   Quite simply, with this assembly the IC cancer just goes dormant; the cancer appears to be in remission -everyone smiles- and then the cancer reemerges again in 2028 to kill the host.

Let’s wait and see if these names and positions actually happen.