Four sections follow within this piece:
Lucre & Paul Ryan
The Biden Family Business Model Is Common in D.C.
Lucre & Paul Ryan & Mike Johnson
Beware Evangelicals in Political Office
LUCRE & PAUL RYAN
Lucre: Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.
Lucre comes in many forms. The proverbial “carrots” in the form(s) of sex; wealth; power; celebrity or other forms of ego-stroking.
Or the proverbial “stick(s)” such as blackmail (avoidance of accountability and consequences by succumbing to); monetary or physical threat to self, family and/or relatives. And, increasingly common today, lawfare.
When it comes to those in political office, the forms of lucre, singly or in combination, result in the politician betraying not just their ethical obligations of “good faith” service, but their oaths of office.
To be sure, there are matters of degree – some offenses “relatively” minor, while others felonious, and even amounting to treason.
The evildoers – (whether you prefer the term) Swamp / Deep State / Left / Globalist-CCP Axis – being understudies of Satan, are adept at identifying human weaknesses, and exploiting those by targeting a particular individual’s point(s) of vulnerability.
Of course, all parties involved are incented to keep such compromise(s) entirely shielded from view, and if that is not possible, at least obfuscated with a scintilla of legitimacy or coincidence … for providing plausible deniability.
Which brings us to former “Republican” Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan. This writer has long suspected that Ryan – in collusion with others, such as the RNC – intentionally threw the 2018 midterms, so that the Democrats (Nancy Pelosi) would assume control of the House.
As “Russiagate” had not succeeded in preventing President Trump from assuming office, nor in removing him once there, impeachment was a Plan B. But initiation of impeachment could not have “Republican” fingerprints on it – for that risked exposing the GOP Establishment as mere controlled opposition run by the Deep State / Globalist-CCP Axis – so, flipping the House to the Democrats so they could serve as the “bad cops” became the order of the day.
When one looks back on the tepid Republican campaigning during the 2018 midterms, it does bear the indicia of the Republican Party deliberately throwing the match.
See also, the 2020 general election, with virtually non-existent Republican Party counters to “hiding in plain sight” Democrat preparations to steal the election, followed by virtually non-existent Republican efforts to contest the theft / coup d’etat after the fact.
See also, the same Republican Party playbook of deliberate, decisive inaction regarding the 2022 midterms (Maricopa County and Arizona generally being the poster child).
Can I prove all of this? No. With this piece I’m expressing opinions, and my personal conclusions after applying some deductive reasoning. After reading this, and the accompanying links, you can engage in your own deductive reasoning, and reach your own conclusions.
Anyway, back to Paul Ryan.
Mere months after handing the reins to Nancy Pelosi, it was announced that Paul Ryan was joining the Board of Fox Corporation. Of course, his lifetime-to-date career as a denizen of Congress provides a skillset that readily translates to an oversight body of a multi-national corporation. Uh huh.
Not unlike Susan Rice’s revolving door gig on the Board of Netflix – with a sabbatical in the middle to work (run?) the Biden White House. You know Netflix, the company that also engaged Barack and Michelle Obama to develop product – I guess another “no brainer” given their extensive experience in the entertainment industry. Between that and a book deal, the Obama’s soon-after-leaving-office net worth skyrocketed to an estimated $75 million.
I guess they didn’t have to worry about qualifying for a mortgage to buy that estate on Martha’s Vineyard.
One might conclude that there is a deferred compensation scheme – a “lucre-ative” one – in which the Deep State / Globalist-CCP Axis rewards folks for “past services rendered” while in “public service.” Sometimes in the form of a golden parachute (e.g., providing a lucre-ative place to land after throwing control of the House of Representatives to the other party).
But wait, Paul Ryan gets more interesting.
Read this Business Insider piece from September, 2019, with what was said above in mind, and the benefit of hindsight of events since it was published: Former House Speaker Paul Ryan reportedly wants to use his position on Fox's board to 'do something' about Trump
Surely Fox knew this before adding Ryan to its Board. And even if not, he’s still there – so Fox is clearly on-board. And it’s not just Fox (this from its website’s description of Ryan):
Paul Ryan was appointed to the Fox Corporation Board of Directors in March 2019 . He is a general partner of the private equity firm Solamere Capital, LLC and chair of the firm’s Executive Partner Group. He is Vice Chairman of Teneo Strategy LLC and also serves on the Advisory Boards of Robert Bosch Gmbh and Paradigm Operations L.P. and the Boards of Directors of Xactus (formerly UniversalCIS) and SHINE Medical Technologies, LLC. Mr. Ryan served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Executive Network Partnering Corporation from 2020 to 2022. He has been a Professor of the Practice, Political Science and Economics, at the University of Notre Dame since 2019.
Solamere Capital, LLC. Now there’s an interesting addition to Ryan’s resume. From Solamere’s website (emphasis added):
Solamere Capital is a $2 billion multi-strategy private equity investment firm founded in 2008 by Tagg Romney, Eric Scheuermann, and Spencer Zwick, and in partnership with Mitt Romney (who stepped down in 2019 to join the U.S. Senate). Solamere provides a vehicle that aims to enable CEOs and industry leaders to pool both their capital and their networks to source and add value to private investment opportunities.
Now, this from Solamere’s website (emphasis added):
In 2019, Ryan launched the American Idea Foundation, a non-partisan, not for profit organization that expands economic opportunity by partnering with local organizations and academics to advance evidence-based public policies.
In 2020, Ryan was named as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Executive Network Partnering Corporation and in 2021, he was named as a Partner at Solamere Capital. In 2022, Ryan was named Vice Chairman of Teneo, a global management consulting company.
[Thus, Ryan’s formal appointment to Solamere occurred shortly after the election steal / coup d’etat of 2020. Perhaps coincidental; perhaps not.]
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Fox Corporation, of SHINE Medical Technologies LLC, and of Xactus. Ryan also serves on the Advisory Board of Robert Bosch GmbH.
Sing with me: “It’s a small world, after all. It’s a small world, after all. It’s a small, insular, elite world, after all.”
THE BIDEN FAMILY BUSINESS MODEL IS COMMON IN D.C. (?) (!)
Solamere Capital was established in 2008, with one of Mitt Romney’s sons (Tagg) as a principal. Interesting timing. Though largely forgotten now, that was the same year in which Mitt Romney made his first run for the Republican nomination for President.
According to the very-Left leaning The Nation magazine, Solamere was formed shortly after Romney suspended his 2008 campaign (John McCain ultimately becoming the Republican nominee).
As establishing such a financial firm does not happen overnight, it’s fair to assume that the planning and execution for the launch began of Solamere Capital actually began while the Romneys still believed that Mitt Romney might well obtain the Republican nomination and become President after the 2008 election.
In its October 29, 2012 article titled “Tagg Team: The Romney Family Recipe for Crony Capitalism,” The Nation was questioning if Solamere would, in effect, become an influence-peddling shop should then Republican nominee Mitt Romney become President (and thus, Paul Ryan Vice President).
Interesting, that. Does that concern not appear to describe the Biden family business model, only this time involving a “Tagg” instead of a “Hunter”? The questions continue …
The Left-wing magazine Mother Jones also raised questions about Solamere (related to if Mitt Romney made another run for President in 2016). Dated January 16, 2015, it was titled: “Mitt Romney Has a Huge New Conflict-of-Interest Problem - If he jumps into the 2016 race, will Romney reveal the investors and investments of Solamere Capital, the $700 million private equity firm he runs with his son?” It’s a VERY interesting read.
When people started questioning Ukraine, there was speculation that one of Nancy Pelosi’s sons (Paul Pelosi. Jr.), Tagg Romney, John Kerry’s stepson (Christopher Heinz) and Hunter Biden were all involved in “business dealings” in Ukraine (not necessarily in conjunction with each other). Recall, too, the FTX scandal and (apparent) use of cryptocurrency to launder money back to U.S. political (and business?) interests.
So-called “fact-checkers” quickly “debunked” such speculation (examples HERE and HERE and HERE, and it then appeared to disappear from the radar.
Based on current information (methinks much has been scrubbed from the Internet), this writer doesn’t feel confident enough to even reach a “deductive reasoning” opinion as to whether Tagg Romney or Paul Pelosi, Jr. were involved in “other than above board” dealings in Ukraine (if they were involved there at all). Hunter Biden, his father and other members of his family is another matter entirely.
That said, the very fact that multiple corporate media “fact-checkers” quickly jumped in to “debunk” discussion about itself raises the suspicion that there could be something nefarious being covered up.
Including the likelihood that there’s an established practice in D.C. – a bipartisan, UniParty one – by which officeholders can be swayed and enriched while in office, using family members to (in effect) launder their lucre-ative influence peddling / hush money. And similarly, that the office-holders themselves are directly enriched through a sort of “deferred compensation” after they leave office – laundered via book deals, board seats, entre into financial investment firms and other means.
LUCRE & PAUL RYAN & MIKE JOHNSON
Paul Ryan and his Solamere / Romney posse have continued their mission from keeping President Trump from serving the second term (to which he was already duly-elected in 2020).
On October 10, 2023, The Washington Post reported that: “Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan host 2024 candidates at influential donor summit” and stated:
The influential network of donors who joined forces to boost the 2012 presidential bid of Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul D. Ryan, are meeting in Park City, Utah, on Tuesday, where they will hear from four of the GOP presidential candidates who are trying to prove to donors that they are best positioned to defeat Donald Trump.
As we know, that effort failed, and Donald J. Trump is going to be the 2024 nominee of the Republican Party. Time for Plan B (and C and D and …)?
Well, two months after the Ryan-Romney coffee klatch with Trump opponents, and Mike Johnson’s ascent to the office of Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan and Mike Johnson were caught on camera having a meeting together on Capitol Hill (Paul Ryan is still against Trump).
Since that surreptitious tête-à-tête between Ryan and Johnson, folks have struggled to explain Mike Johnson’s apparent “flip.”
That is, not representing, or even advocating for those who voted for him (either in his district, or into the Speakership). Instead, he’s become a doormat for the Biden-Harris Junta and the agenda of those behind-the-curtain that actually run it.
Consider the premise of this article: the theory that the Deep State / Globalist-CCP Axis are adept at flipping people with lucre – and that Mike Johnson is now the latest example.
In particular, folks have been dismayed that Mike Johnson, who wears his evangelical bona fides on his sleeve, appears to have embraced advancing, well … the agenda of the other side in this “modern day Holy War.”
BEWARE EVANGELICALS IN POLITICAL OFFICE
To be sure, adherence to religious faith is something to be desired in our public officials.
On the other hand, we must recognize that many are fallen, and cynically use “faith” as a shield and weapon to deflect from their activities. Likely, many use rationalization to convince themselves that they’re acting faithfully. This though they actually advancing a Satanic agenda.
A recent (laudatory) interview with Mike Johnson in the “mainstream media” publication Politico may be serve as a representative example. He clothes himself within faith-sounding platitudes of “they [Democrats] are not my enemies” and so on (read for yourself HERE).
That the Democrats just lined-up to keep Mike Johnson as Speaker says much; as does Fox’s doing the same.
Johnson in his Politico interview would have us believe that it’s his faith and belief in, e.g., turning the other cheek. It’s one thing to turn the other cheek. BUT it’s an entirely different thing to collaborate with the Roman occupiers working to snuff-out both your nation and your Christian religion. That is what Mike Johnson is doing with the modern-day equivalents in D.C.
Mike Johnson appears to be the latest in an all-too-long line of such faux (or fallen) evangelicals. On the Republican-side alone, George W. Bush and Mike Pence immediately come to mind as prominent examples, at least in my opinion.
To be sure many “faith” and “evangelical” politicians are but wolves in sheep’s clothing – often tempted into that state, endangering their immortal souls, by LUCRE.
Can I say as “fact” that this is the case with Mike Johnson? No. But I can say for a fact that it’s a plausible explanation for his conduct since he assumed the Speakership.
I can also say for a fact that it’s plausible to believe that Mike Johnson is currently auditioning for a future gig with Fox … and Solamere, and …?
At first, when I saw your heading, "BEWARE EVANGELICALS IN POLITICAL OFFICE," my first thought was this would be another 'hit piece' against evangelicals. I'm glad my initial thought was wrong.
I agree with everything you wrote. As you said, many politicians who profess to be Christian believers have actually been "advancing a Satanic agenda." Obama is an obvious example. When running for election he claimed to be a Christian, although his actions continue to prove the opposite.
Since the Spirit of Christ is not compatible with corporatism and endless wars for profit, a godly man or woman will not be allowed to rise to national power in the modern American government. During their rise, all prospective politicians are challenged to compromise Christian values, and adopt political pragmatism, in order to gain the political, financial, and media support needed to win election. If they refuse to compromise, their candidacy is rejected. Then, if the public still likes them, they're attacked by the media until they're no longer a political threat. (The recent case of Florida Governor Desantis comes to mind.)
The dark powers that control our corrupt political system (e.g., central banks, corporations, media, deep state, etc.) will not permit a person with real Christian integrity to gain national political power, because that leader would recognize what's true and do what's right.
For example, he or she would provide moral leadership, eliciting overwhelming public support to end the federal reserve, secure our borders, bring our troops home from dozens of foreign nations, and prosecute traitors in congress, the DOJ, CIA, FBI, and State Dept. And that's just the start of what a true Christian leader would do, which is why the dark powers won't allow it.