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"[T]he most important thing you can realize right now is that there are no rules in war." That's exactly what the majority of Americans do not understand -- a war has quite literally been waged against us on several fronts for a number of years. It doesn't look like the war people would tend to recognize:

bombs, tanks and men in green with rifles, etc. It is war all the same and they are serious, dead serious. And anyone who isn't with them is the enemy.

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Jun 16, 2022Liked by Jim Stewartson

You'll see many of the same players we are fighting against today in this David Corn/Mother Jones Article from 2013: Inside Groundswell: Read the Memos of the New Right-Wing Strategy Group Planning a “30 Front War”

Ginni Thomas, Allen West, and a crew of conservative activists and journalists have formed a hush-hush coalition to battle progressives—and Karl Rove

Believing they are losing the messaging war with progressives, a group of prominent conservatives in Washington—including the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and journalists from Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner—has been meeting privately since early this year to concoct talking points, coordinate messaging, and hatch plans for “a 30 front war seeking to fundamentally transform the nation,” according to documents obtained by Mother Jones.

Dubbed Groundswell, this coalition convenes weekly in the offices of Judicial Watch, the conservative legal watchdog group. During these hush-hush sessions and through a Google group, the members of Groundswell—including aides to congressional Republicans—cook up battle plans for their ongoing fights against the Obama administration, congressional Democrats, progressive outfits, and the Republican establishment and “clueless” GOP congressional leaders. They devise strategies for killing immigration reform, hyping the Benghazi controversy, and countering the impression that the GOP exploits racism. And the Groundswell gang is mounting a behind-the-scenes organized effort to eradicate the outsize influence of GOP über-strategist/pundit Karl Rove within Republican and conservative ranks.

One of the influential conservatives guiding the group is Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, a columnist for the Daily Caller and a tea party consultant and lobbyist. Other Groundswell members include John Bolton, the former UN ambassador; Frank Gaffney, the president of the Center for Security Policy; Ken Blackwell and Jerry Boykin of the Family Research Council; Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch; Gayle Trotter, a fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum; Catherine Engelbrecht and Anita MonCrief of True the Vote; Allen West, the former GOP House member; Sue Myrick, also a former House GOPer; Diana Banister of the influential Shirley and Banister PR firm; and Max Pappas, a top aide to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

Among the conveners listed in an invitation to a May 8 meeting of Groundswell were Stephen Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart News Network; Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent who resoundingly lost a Maryland Senate race last year (and is now running for a House seat); Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society; Sandy Rios, a Fox News contributor; Lori Roman, a former executive director of the American Legislative Exchange Council; and Austin Ruse, the head of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute. Conservative journalists and commentators participating in Groundswell have included Breitbart News reporters Matthew Boyle and Mike Flynn, Washington Examiner executive editor Mark Tapscott, and National Review contributor Michael James Barton.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/groundswell-rightwing-group-ginni-thomas/

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Joe Szimhart was on Dr Hassan’s podcast, he knew the guy who deprogrammed Ginni (and was an ash🤬le to Dr Hassan). https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan/id1603773245?i=1000557112669

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She’s connected to Bannon, Flynn, Cruz, Bongino and the Moonies (Washington Examiner) through Groundswell. They helped staff the White House in the Trump years. She is the Kevin Bacon of the far right.

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Manchurian (LifeSpring) Candidate= Clarence (Ginni)Thomas

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