Political Pistachio
By Douglas V. Gibbs
In 2019, Ukraine’s connection to Democrats was becoming clearer. Various officials who were connected to former Vice-President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama had engaged in activities designed to benefit private interests through influence peddling in Ukraine, often centered around Hunter Biden’s role at Burisma Holdings. It constituted a misuse of the “Biden Brand” for financial gain as the complicit mainstream media covered up the details of those interactions. These activities played a critical role in 2014 with the Obama administration’s involvement in the revolution that ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. To protect the scheme, the Russian Collusion scheme was launched, which later led to Democratic Representative Adam Schiff lying about a phone call between President Trump and the Ukrainian President in 2019, launching yet another attack against Trump, this time as an impeachment.
The key was to convince everyone that Donald Trump was a Russian asset. Following the Ukrainian revolution, Biden’s influence peddling led to the creation of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) that allegedly “leaked” information about the Trump 2016 Election Campaign to assist in creating the false narrative that Trump colluded with Russia to win the election.
During the early stages of the 2016 Election Season, in December of 2015, to protect against inconvenient investigations, Biden used the threat of withholding $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to pressure Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire the prosecutor general who had been investigating Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas giant who had Biden’s son, Hunter, as a board member.
Rudy Giuliani, at the time, said, “Keep your eye on Ukraine.”
Giuliani told the Washington Examiner that there was a “plot to create an investigation of President Trump, based on a false charge of conspiracy with the Russians to affect the 2016 elections.”
NABU agents formed a relationship with Obama’s FBI and by February 2016 the FBI had a permanent representative onsite at the NABU offices. NABU Director Sytnyk met with U.S. Ambassador Pyatt to discuss a firmer relationship, and together they worked on going after Trump with the aim to make it look like Trump was a “pro-Russian” candidate who could break the geopolitical balance in the world by poisoning the work to preserve Ukraine’s revolution.
In 2020 a report on Hunter Biden being associated with “potential criminal activity” associated with human trafficking and millions in “questionable financial transactions” with corrupt individuals around the world hit the news, but as with any other news that might reveal the criminal activities of the Bidens, the news got lost in the noise. Reports regarding Burisma and Hunter Biden pointed to connections with the Democrats’ phony impeachment being a cover-up ploy in addition to going after Trump, but only conservative outlets were talking about it. For the Democrats, it was a two-birds with one stone moment: They could go after Trump while simultaneously averting everyone’s eyes away from Burisma bribing officials to shutdown any investigation. It would sweep under the rug Hunter Biden’s financial dealings with Ukrainian, Russian, and Chinese businesses, and it would hide in plain sight the fact that Ukraine was at the center of Biden’s influence peddling as Hunter leveraged relationships with Ukrainian organizations for financial gain.
The truth was working its way to the surface in 2019, and then conveniently, the COVID Coronavirus crisis appeared, and not only did it disrupt a very successful Trump presidency, it gave the Biden’s yet another way to “cash in.” The rigging of the system to protect corrupt politicians was doing as it should, and they were hanging Trump and his allies in the process.
The war against Trump and his supporters would lead to the false flag January 6 matter, another impeachment, and then four years of lawfare against Trump as the Democrats worked feverishly to reestablish their corrupt safeguards during the Biden administration.
Then, a year into Biden’s presidency, a full-scale war in Ukraine began. Russia’s massive invasion played into the Democratic Party’s plans. Eyes would be diverted from the criminalities of the Democrats, and Trump’s alleged ties to Russia would be shouted from the rooftops. It would give the Democrats more power, more wealth, and more control. They would paint it as a good guy, bad guy scenario making sure Putin became the ultimate villain, and despite being among the most corrupt governments in the world the Democrats would convince the country to rally around poor mistreated Ukraine. The invasion may or may not have been in the plans of the Democrats and their globalists allies, but they sure weren’t going to let the opportunity go to waste.
They never let a crisis go to waste.
Which brings us to the latest chapter tied to Ukraine, and how the Democrats have used it for their own gains.
A newly declassified intelligence summary has revealed allegations that U.S. taxpayer funds intended for Ukraine were part of a scheme to benefit Democratic political operations and then-President Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign. The document, which summarizes raw intelligence intercepts collected by U.S. agencies in late 2022, describes discussions between Ukrainian government officials and unspecified U.S. personnel through USAID in Kyiv about diverting hundreds of millions of dollars to the Democratic National Committee.
The alleged plan involved using a “clean energy” and infrastructure project in Ukraine as a cover for funneling money back to the United States. The scheme reportedly relied on complex subcontracting arrangements through U.S. companies to make tracking the funds difficult, with contracts designed to be hard to verify. Two American subcontractors were referenced in the intercepts, though their names remain redacted in the declassified version. The plan’s architects were reportedly confident the project would receive initial funding before being later deemed unnecessary, at which point the money would already be allocated and impossible to reclaim.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently learned of these intercepts and has directed USAID officials to conduct a thorough review of contracts, payments, and internal communications related to the claims. Gabbard’s team has found no evidence that the allegations were thoroughly investigated during the Biden administration, and officials assess the communications were not Russian disinformation. If USAID’s review uncovers supporting evidence, the matter could be referred to the FBI for potential criminal investigation.
The allegations emerge at a politically sensitive time, as Ukraine continues negotiations with the Trump administration to end its war with Russia while facing ongoing scrutiny over corruption concerns.
Like in 2019, Trump is about to blow the whole Ukrainian connection to the Democrats wide open.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
The Tories sought to slowly infiltrate and sabotage the American system from within, but the colonists’ willingness to tar and feather them kept the Tories from being anything more than British insiders who ultimately lost America to the Patriots fighting for independence. The Tories later sought to infiltrate the American System and sabotage it within, but strict immigration laws and the recognition of the threat held them at bay.
The long game has always been the tool of those seeking to undermine America. The big-government politicians of the earliest years realized their chance to control America had fallen short when President Thomas Jefferson defeated them in 1800, his Republicans took control of both Houses of Congress, and Jefferson fired half of the federal bureaucracy. But they held onto a significant lever of power in the courts, using the judiciary throughout the first half of the nineteenth century to lay political landmines and prepare the fledgling country for the day their plans would come to fruition.
The Fabians after the Reconstruction Period capitalized upon the rise of federal supremacy launched by the Lincolnian Republicans, and the Progressives got their foot in the White House door through Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
The authoritarians nearly took complete control during the FDR years, and while losing their momentum, they still waved a powerful tyrannical stick under Truman and Eisenhower. President John F. Kennedy’s anti-communist and pro-American plans nearly derailed the anti-liberty cancer that had been growing for over a century and a half in American politics.
Lyndon B. Johnson kicked the whole thing back into high gear, and Jimmy Carter almost closed the deal, but then a stick in their spokes named President Ronald Reagan set back their plans again. The big-government establishment and globalist Marxists joined forces more than ever after Reagan, nearly getting what they wanted when Barack Obama became the setup man for fundamentally changing America in a way the Founders never intended. Hillary Clinton was to be the closer to finally get that pesky thing called American liberty out of their hair and fully usurp the Constitution as Alexander Hamilton had originally intended over two centuries before.
Then, a freight train came down the tracks and crushed the whole damned thing. Donald J. Trump put his mighty hand in the air like a massive center on a basketball court and rejected the shot that could sink America. A frantic gasp emerged in 2020 with a four-year interruption through Joseph Biden, but now President Trump has regained the reins, and America’s enemies are in frantic panic.
The enemies of America, be they communist, progressive, Islamic, or WOKE, have been patient and relentless. All have aimed to destroy America’s free society from within. Patience. Infiltration. A slow corruption of its institutions. In the beginning, they were careful to hide their intentions, following the slow-boiling frog recipe, but now they openly embrace democratic socialism and America’s other enemies who march around waving the green, black, white, and red flags of Islam.
As revealed by Yuri Bezmenov in 1984 during an interview with G. Edward Griffin, the enemy uses a four-stage process of ideological subversion: demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and normalization. They educate younger generations inside a corrupted academic framework, alter their perception of reality, dismiss truth as hate speech, misinformation, or the ravings of extremists, and then, in the name of saving democracy, lead them to vote into office the very tyrants the system was created to avoid.
It’s a patient method that only needs time, and it seems to be working intermittently, but as stated before, champions of liberty keep setting them back just when they believe they’ve got everything in place. The society that’s supposed to reward dependence keeps clinging to its value of meritocracy. Reason keeps fighting off the excesses of emotional lunacy. The mechanics of ideological subversion can’t seem to push aside the values of a Christian foundation that embraces individualism, liberty, and a free market. While designed to unravel America from the inside out, opponents of socialist collectivism keep fighting off the final blows and attempted knockout punches.
President Trump was correct when he said they are after you, but he stands in the way. The attacks against him, the hatred leveled at him, and the attempts to do anything they can to stop him are not about him. They are about us. They are actually targeting us. Trump is simply bearing the brunt of the attacks during his presidency. They need to defeat him so they can work on defeating us.
Our way to fight this is simple. Recognize the folly of collectivism. Champion individual reason, achievement, and liberty, for these are the foundations of American prosperity. To be successful, we need to recognize the attack and battle it head-on. The progressive left’s attempt to hammer into place the final nails of their socialist dreams is a real and present danger, executed after a couple centuries of institutional patience. We simply have to disallow their final push. Embrace morality. Embrace liberty. Embrace limited government and constitutional principles that exist to secure our natural rights and protect the rule of law. The Founding Fathers gave us everything we need to win this, but the Constitution is only ink and paper if we don’t fight to preserve it.
Politics is not a spectator sport. The winners are those who are willing to go to battle on the field.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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By Douglas V. Gibbs
It is a great irony that the “No Kings” rallies participants claim that President Trump exhibits authoritarian tendencies, yet champion modern-day architects of that kind of tyranny. They gather across all 50 states to condemn King Trump, but fail to see that if Trump were truly the authoritarian king these protesters claim, would such widespread, organized opposition even be possible?
The very existence of these protests serves as powerful evidence against their own premise. The protester’s ability to gather peacefully, criticize the president, and return home without fear of reprisal demonstrates the resilience of America’s institutions rather than their collapse or “institutionalized corruption under an authoritarian king” as claimed by the protesters.
Perhaps more revealing is the intentional lack of specific demands from these protests. The organizers themselves admit that the “No Kings” protests “intentionally lack a single, specific demand” other than hating Trump and serving as an anti-Trump effort.
The deeper irony lies in the political alignment of these protesters. Their allies in the Democratic Party have historically advocated for precisely the kind of centralized federal power that the Constitution was designed to prevent. While protesters dress as Founding Fathers and quote constitutional principles that are warped by their modern interpretation, their political allies consistently push for federal control over issues traditionally reserved to states, from education to healthcare to environmental regulation. They seek to expand federal authority through broad interpretations of the Commerce Clause and other constitutional provisions, effectively working to undermine the very system of limited government and checks and balances that prevents the rise of tyranny.
The protesters claim to stand against authoritarianism while supporting a “progressive” political ideology that, in practice, concentrates power in the federal bureaucracy and unelected administrative agencies. They denounce presidential overreach while championing policies that would grant federal officials unprecedented control over American life. They wave copies of the Constitution while supporting interpretations that would render its limits on federal power meaningless.
The “No Kings” movement represents a profound misunderstanding of both constitutional principles and political reality. True authoritarianism is not found in policy disagreements or controversial executive actions, but in the systematic destruction of institutions that constrain government power. The ability to protest, to organize, to criticize leaders openly…these are the hallmarks of a free society, not an authoritarian regime in the making.
If these protesters genuinely fear the rise of an American king, they should look first to the policies and ideologies that expand federal power beyond its constitutional limits. They should examine whether their own political preferences contribute to the concentration of authority they claim to oppose. Until then, these rallies will remain what they are: displays of political passion fueled by a misguided hatred of a single individual that are fundamentally misguided in their diagnosis of America’s constitutional challenges.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
In the early twentieth century, after Fabian Socialists had carved out influence within the American system, the Democratic Party popularized the slogan “soak the rich.” The phrase suggested a righteous effort to tax the wealthy, but in practice it created a structure the powerful could exploit while shifting the long‑term tax burden onto everyone else. Efforts marketed as “fairness” and “equity” often end up harming the very people activists claim to defend.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
The strategy hasn’t changed. The collectivist model still carries the flaw Margaret Thatcher famously described: “The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
Fast‑forward to 2026 and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The democratic‑socialist mayor claims the city faces a $5.4 billion budget shortfall. His solution, delivered with confidence, is a slate of new taxes.
As with many socialist proposals, the target is the wealthy. One of Mamdani’s ideas is a 50% tax on estates worth more than $750,000; a dramatic leap from the current 16% rate applied to estates over $7 million. His property‑tax proposals are unlikely to pass, even with a Democratic governor, because they would obviously hit far more than the rich, so the estate‑tax hike has emerged as his most convenient tool.
A high estate tax accomplishes more than raising revenue. It undermines private ownership. When parents die and their heirs cannot afford the tax bill, they are forced to sell homes, businesses, and land. Over time, as fewer buyers can afford such properties, the government becomes the only entity capable of taking them on. Farms, restaurants, gas stations, and family homes eventually drift into state hands not because the wealthy were “soaked,” but because ordinary families were priced out of inheriting what they built.
Mamdani’s plan, then, is not truly aimed at the ultra‑rich. It targets anyone who owns a business or property. Once small businesses and family assets are weakened or eliminated, the government can step in as the universal landlord and manager. At that point, there is no need to “fund” programs… the state simply owns everything and dictates the terms.
In short, while socialists claim they will soak the rich to pay for their agenda, the real impact falls on the middle class, especially entrepreneurs, small business owners, and families with tangible assets. The result is a weakened private sector, diminished personal wealth, and a path toward government control in the name of equality. Everyone becomes equal, but equal in misery, poverty, and dependence.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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