The former Chief of Staff of former President Joe Biden, Jeff Zients, went before a congressional panel September 18, 2025 and testified that Biden became increasingly difficult to work with. More meetings were required to make final decisions and Biden increasingly found it difficult to remember names and dates and events.
Zients also testified Biden’s son, Hunter, was in on the meetings to decide who Biden should pardon. He also noted that Biden’s work availability was increasingly less and less. He did claim the Biden debate fiasco against President Trump was caused by a cold, though he could not recall ever seeing Biden react this badly, even with a cold, before.
Biden Chief of Staff Zients Suggested Need for Cognitive Exam– www.dailysignal.com Source Link Excerpt:
Former President Joe Biden’s White House chief of staff told a congressional panel Thursday that he asked the White House physician about a full medical and cognitive exam after Biden’s disastrous June 2024 debate with Donald Trump.
Jeff Zients is the last scheduled witness to take questions from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for its investigation into Biden’s fitness while he was in office. Zients said that Dr. Kevin O’Connor told him he would take the suggestion under advisement, according to a person familiar with Zients’ closed-door interview with the committee.
Zients was White House chief of staff from February 2023 to the end of Biden’s term in January 2025. He ignored reporters who peppered him with questions as he walked into the interview with the committee. He told the committee that after Biden’s poor debate performance against Trump, he thought it made sense for the president to drop out of the reelection race.
The House committee has been investigating Biden’s cognitive state and whether staff improperly used the White House autopen for major presidential actions, such as offering clemency to felons, without authorization from the president.
Zients also said the former president’s son, Hunter Biden, was involved in the pardon discussions and attended meetings on the matter, according to the person familiar with the interview. The then-president pardoned Hunter Biden, who had been convicted of tax and gun crimes.
There is a cancer at the heart of the United States Armed Forces, and therefore, Western military thought, a cancer that first appeared in 1970, and slowly wormed its way into the minds within the Pentagon. Those minds, desperately seeking to rationalize the failures of relying on “logic” and statistical analysis to frontline, “real world” combat developed by Robert McNamara and his “Whiz Kids”, swiftly absorbed the writings of an academic “futurist” couple, who had never been faced with the reality of any form of military service.
The toxic influence of Alvin and Heidi Toffler on US military thinking over the past 35 years represents one of the most consequential intellectual failures in modern defense policy. Through their seductive but fundamentally flawed “waves of warfare” theory, the Tofflers provided Pentagon planners with an oversimplified framework that has repeatedly led American forces astray, contributing to strategic disasters from Somalia to Afghanistan.
This has manifested into what Colonel Michael Pietrucha, USAF (Ret.) called the “Death of Military Strategy”, an apt appelation that has – unintentionally – contributed to the skyrocketing suicide rate among both serving members of the military, as well as in the veteran community.
The Tofflers’ central premise, outlined in their 1993 book “War and Anti-War,” posited that warfare evolves through distinct “waves”, corresponding to economic development:
First Wave: agricultural warfare
Second Wave: industrial warfare
Third Wave: information-age warfare
However, critics noted from the beginning that “the Tofflers have suffered some critical reviews of their work, especially concerning their selective historical perspective.”
The Seductive Appeal of Technological Determinism
The Tofflers’ influence coincided with America’s post-Cold War search for military transformation and “the American way of war’s fascination with technology and the search for that technological ‘silver bullet’ that will deliver victory quickly and with a minimum of loss of life.” Their theory, echoing McNamara’s insistence on the superiority of logically and emotionlessly applied statistical analysis and comparison, offered Pentagon leaders exactly what they wanted to hear: that American technological superiority would render traditional military concerns obsolete.
Their ideas became particularly influential among political figures like Newt Gingrich, who called “The Third Wave” one of the “great seminal works of our time,” and among military leaders seeking to justify massive investments in information warfare capabilities. By the early 1980’s, “the Tofflers’ work had begun to influence the thinking of some influential members of the U.S. military. And by the early 1990’s, the transforming U.S. military had begun to influence the thinking of the Tofflers.”
No doubt, this has been a massive boon to the defense industry, who were suddenly handed every excuse necessary to produce all the “latest and greatest” toys, at staggering prices…like the M1301 ISV.
The Fundamental Flaws
Military analysts began identifying serious problems with Tofferian thinking. Academic critiques argued that “the Tofflers’ concepts of First, Second, and Third Wave warfare are overgeneralized and distort historical understandings of Western warfare,” urging “military leaders to reassess these theories and explore the necessity for more nuanced frameworks that better reflect the complexities of modern warfare.”
Critics noted that while the Tofflers’ “approach is fundamentally sound, it fails to address transitional forms of warfare and omits conceptual changes in warfighting introduced by Gustavus Adolphus, Napoleon Bonaparte, and others.” The theory’s rigid categorization ignored the persistent importance of geography, culture, politics, and human factors in warfare.
And those last four factors are just the tip of the iceberg. Any “theory of war” that ignores – or worse, dismisses – those factors is guaranteed to fail, every time…as recent history has amply demonstrated.
Strategic Consequences
The Toffler-influenced Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) led to several catastrophic strategic miscalculations. The Pentagon’s obsession with “Third Wave” information warfare and precision strikes created a dangerous overconfidence in technology’s ability to solve complex political problems. This thinking directly contributed to:
The belief that shock and awe tactics in Iraq would create rapid political transformation
Underestimation of insurgent adaptability in Iraq and Afghanistan
Over-reliance on surveillance technology while neglecting human intelligence
The mistaken assumption that information dominance could substitute for adequate troop levels
Military historians noted how “RMA proponents over-emphasize the importance of technology in driving revolutionary change,” arguing that “leadership along with institutional, organizational, and intellectual initiative are equally, if not more, important than technological innovation.”
The Persistence of “First Wave” Realities
The ultimate irony of Toffler influence is how consistently “primitive” opponents have outmaneuvered America’s high-tech military. From Somali militias to Taliban fighters to Iraqi insurgents, adversaries using decidedly “First Wave” tactics – guerrilla warfare, improvised explosives, local knowledge – repeatedly frustrated America’s “Third Wave” military machine.
As one analyst observed, “It is the great equalizer, you don’t have to be big and rich to apply the kind of judo you need in information warfare. That’s why poor countries are going to go for this faster than technologically advanced countries.” The Toffler’s failed to anticipate how their own theories would be turned against American forces.
The bottom line is that in the 60 years from 1965 to 2025, the vast majority of land-based conflicts have been won by guerrilla or insurgent forces, using rudimentary uniforms, organization, weapons, vehicles, tactics, and propaganda strategies that are not far removed from World War 2. These forces – whatever their political or religious leanings – know what they want to accomplish, know their target audiences, and know how to use their available resources to maximum effect.
This is not a function of “disruptive” technologies like mini-drones or the Internet. Those are just democratized tools, all of which have countermeasures that can be quickly developed and deployed, as is now happening across the conflict zones map. Whet the Toffler’s ignored, is that technology disperses, eventually. The damning part of this, is that it was recognized as early as 1940 by professional officers of the United States Marine Corps – something the Toffler’s could have easily found, had they been doing actual “research”:
“…If marines have become accustomed to easy victories over irregulars in the past, they must now prepare themselves for the increased effort which will be necessary to insure victory in the future. The future opponent may be as well armed as they are; he will be able to concentrate a numerical superiority against, isolated detachments at the time and place he chooses; as in the past he will have a thorough knowledge of the trails, the country, and the inhabitants; and he will have the inherent ability to withstand all the natural obstacles, such as climate and disease, to a greater extent than a white man. All these natural advantages, combining primitive cunning and modern armament. will weigh heavily in the balance against the advantage of the marine forces in organization, equipment, intelligence and discipline, if a careless audacity is permitted to warp good judgment…” – FMFRP 12-15 Small Wars Manual (1940)
Screenshot of FMFRP 12-15 Small Wars Manual (1940). USMC. Public Domain.
Lasting Damage
Three and a half decades later, American military culture remains infected by Toffler-style techno-optimism. Despite repeated failures, Pentagon planning still prioritizes platform acquisition over strategic thinking, information dominance over cultural understanding, and technological solutions over political wisdom. The Tofflers provided intellectual cover for avoiding warfare’s fundamental realities, creating a generation of military leaders who confused gadgetry with strategy.
The time has come to recognize the Toffler influence for what it was: a seductive but dangerous distraction that cost American lives, squandered resources, and undermined strategic effectiveness when it mattered most.
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Jimmy Kimmel was suspended indefinitely after claiming before a studio audience that the murderer of Charlie Kirk was a MAGA person. The claim is a violation of FCC rules that prohibit licensed broadcasters like ABC from publishing known lies (for it was known by then the killer was NOT MAGA) about news event that could incite violence.
Kimmel said, “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
President Trump responded to the suspension, saying, “Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. “Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!!”
Jimmy Kimmel pulled off the air. This is the monologue that sparked it.– mashable.com Source Link Excerpt:
ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! from broadcast indefinitely. The decision comes amidst Republican criticism toward Kimmel for recent comments about right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk’s killer.
Announced on Wednesday evening, Jimmy Kimmel Live!‘s suspension came not long before filming for its next episode had been scheduled to commence. The long-running talk show’s future is now unclear, with the looming possibility that its 22-year run may come to an abrupt end.
The decision followed an announcement from Nexstar Media Group that its ABC-affiliated stations will not air Jimmy Kimmel Live! “for the foreseeable future,” citing objections to Kimmel’s comments on Kirk’s death.
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has released newly declassified FBI falls that show former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden were involved in more briberies in the Ukraine than previously revealed. Evidence so far suggests, according to Grassley, neither of the two discovered incidents were ever investigated.
Senator Grassley catches up with Biden, Inc.’s Ukraine villainy– www.americanthinker.com Source Link Excerpt:
The informants alleged that Zlochevsky sought to offer then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko $100 million in ‘shares and guaranteed profits from gas sales’ to stop an ‘Interpol investigation’ into Burisma — in which Joe and Hunter Biden had ‘money invested’ via a Latvian ‘shell company.’…
The sources also alleged that Joe Biden met directly with Poroshenko ‘to protect the interests” of his son and, by extension, Zlochevsky, who was paying Hunter around $1 million per year between May 2014 and April 2019 to serve on Burisma’s board.
It appears the slain conservative rights activist, Charlie Kirk, was being spied on by his own government under the Biden administration through a seditious operation called “Operation Arctic Frost.” It wasn’t just Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA that was targeted, so was the RNC.
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released some documents exposing the unconstitutional action, saying, “In total, 92 Republican targets, including Republican groups and Republican-linked individuals, were placed under the investigative scope of Arctic Frost. On that political list was one of Charlie Kirk’s groups, Turning Point USA.”
FBI’s investigation targeted Turning Point USA, Grassley says– www.washingtonexaminer.com Source Link Excerpt:
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said Tuesday the FBI’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election was broader than previously revealed.
The so-called Arctic Frost investigation into Trump also looked at Republican groups, including Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA organization and the Republican Attorneys General Association, according to records released by Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI).
As investigators looked into Trump’s effort to overturn the election, those groups and individuals had their communications and financial records subpoenaed to see if they were aiding Trump’s unfounded conspiracies about the 2020 election. These efforts included Trump allies filing false election fraud claims and disparaging lawsuits against election administrators, organizing fake electors to certify false election results, and attempting to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify the results.
After U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi declared that her department would go after “Hate Speech” that crosses the line to direct threats, the right IMMEDIATELY recognized that merely using the term “Hate Speech” gives fuel to the left’s arguments using that label as a cudgel to do so.
She followed that up by responding to an Office Depot employee being fired for refusing to print a Charlie Kirk memorial poster by attacking Office Depot, saying, “Employers, you have an obligation to get rid of people. You need to look at people who are saying horrible things, and they shouldn’t be working with you. Businesses cannot discriminate. If you want to go in and print posters with Charlie’s pictures on them for a vigil, you have to let them do that. We can prosecute you for that.”
Conservative activist Matt Walsh responded to this, demanding she be fired. He declared “Get rid of her. Today. This is insane. Conservatives have fought for decades for the right to refuse service to anyone. We won that fight. Now Pam Bondi wants to roll it all back for no reason. The employee who didn’t print the flyer was already fired by his employer. This stuff is being handled successfully through free speech and free markets. This is totally gratuitous and pointless. We need the AG focused on bringing down the left wing terror cells, not prosecuting Office Depot for God’s sake.”
Matt Walsh Demands AG Pam Bondi’s FIRING Immediately for Pushing “Hate Speech” Route in Charlie Kirk Assassination: “We Need the AG Focused on Taking Down Left-Wing Terror Cells, Not Prosecuting Office Depot for God’s Sake!” | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com Source Link Excerpt:
The fallout from Charlie Kirk’s tragic assassination continues to reverberate across America, and conservatives are not staying silent.
Matt Walsh, a popular conservative commentator, is calling for the immediate firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi after what he describes as her weak response to a shocking incident at an Office Depot in Michigan and to the growing threat of left-wing terror cells.
The Gateway Pundit spoke with Republican Kelly Sackett, who shared a shocking story involving three teenagers in Portage, Michigan. These young men had prepaid for posters intended for a Charlie Kirk prayer vigil. But when they arrived to pick them up, the Office Depot supervisor and manager arrogantly refused to hand them over.
Fulton County DA Fani Willis, aka a Soros DA, was removed from prosecuting her lawfare assault on President Donald Trump but thought relief from the highest state court in Georgia. That court has rejected her appeal outright, citing the “appearance of impropriety” between her and her hired “special prosecutor” Nathan Wade. Trump called the ruling “a great decision.”
Georgia Supreme Court declines to hear Fani Willis’ appeal of her removal from Trump election case – Houston Chronicle Source Link Excerpt:
Georgia’s highest court has declined to consider Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ appeal of her removal from the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others.
Citing an “appearance of impropriety” created by a romantic relationship Willis had with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she had hired to lead the case, the Georgia Court of Appeals in December ruled that Willis and her office could not continue to prosecute the case.
Trump hailed the court’s ruling as “a great decision” and called Willis’ prosecution of him and others for their attempts to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia “a rigged case to start off with.”
The most popular leftist Streamer, Stephen Bonnell, aka Destiny, is openly calling for conservatives to be assassinated for their political beliefs. He said “I mean, you need conservatives to be afraid of getting killed when they go to events, so that they look to their leadership to turn down the temperature. The issue is right now, they don’t feel like there’s any fear. I don’t know. It’s like memes. It’s just memes to everybody, I guess. I don’t know, bro.”
Popular Left-Wing Streamer Says Conservatives ‘Should Be Afraid Of Getting Killed’– trendingpoliticsnews.com Source Link Excerpt:
Popular left-wing streamer and debater Destiny appeared to condone the assassination of Charlie Kirk by saying that conservative figures need to be “afraid of being killed” every time they appear at a public event.
“I mean, you need conservatives to be afraid of getting killed when they go to events, so that they look to their leadership to turn down the temperature,” Destiny, whose real name is Stephen Bonnell, said in a stream following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. “The issue is right now, they don’t feel like there’s any fear. I don’t know. It’s like memes. It’s just memes to everybody, I guess. I don’t know, bro.”
The streamer doubled down on his violent rhetoric and refused to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk during an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored.
“I think that liberals need to wake up and finally realize that if they’re not willing to do it, it will never come down,” he said. The streamer then insinuated that Charlie Kirk deserved to die due to his support for President Donald Trump.
“If you wanted Charlie Kirk to be alive, Donald Trump shouldn’t have been president for the second term. Every time he’s in office, this happens. People joked about when Biden came in, it was so boring, nothing was going on. Seven out of ten of the largest protests in American history have happened under Donald Trump.”t
After the Washington, D.C. Democrat Mayor informed her police department that they are no longer allowed to cooperate with ICE Agents, President Donald Trump issued a threat that wasn’t just aimed at her, it was aimed at the whole Democratic Party. It was aimed at all insurrectionist Democrat leaders in all 50 states and all cities from coast to coast. The message is this, if you don’t comply, the next step is the Insurrectionist Act.
President Trump posted on Truth Social, “… Democrats, Mayor Muriel Bowser, who has presided over this violent criminal takeover of our Capital for years, has informed the Federal Government that the Metropolitan Police Department will no longer cooperate with ICE in removing and relocating dangerous illegal aliens. If I allowed this to happen, CRIME would come roaring back. To the people and businesses of Washington, D.C., DON’T WORRY, I AM WITH YOU, AND WON’T ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN. I’ll call a National Emergency, and Federalize, if necessary!!!… “
INSURRECTION ACT: President Trump Just Told You What’s Coming Next– wltreport.com Source Link Excerpt:
President Trump just posted this to TruthSocial:
FULL TEXT:
The Federal Government, under my auspices as President of the United States of America, has stepped into the complete criminal mess that was Washington, D.C., our Nation’s Capital. Because of this, D.C. has gone from one of the most dangerous and murder ridden cities in the U.S.A., and even around the World, to one of the safest – In just a few weeks. The “place” is absolutely booming, with restaurants, stores, and businesses packed and, for the first time in decades, virtually NO CRIME. It has been a beautiful thing to watch but, now, under pressure from the Radical Left Democrats, Mayor Muriel Bowser, who has presided over this violent criminal takeover of our Capital for years, has informed the Federal Government that the Metropolitan Police Department will no longer cooperate with ICE in removing and relocating dangerous illegal aliens. If I allowed this to happen, CRIME would come roaring back. To the people and businesses of Washington, D.C., DON’T WORRY, I AM WITH YOU, AND WON’T ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN. I’ll call a National Emergency, and Federalize, if necessary!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! President DJT
Ok so what does it all mean?
Very simply, he is putting all 50 states on notice that one way or another he is going to clean up the cesspools of crime and violence in this country.
The Mayors and Governors can either work together with him or he will do it himself — through the Insurrection Act.
This was already in play, but after the Charlie Kirk assassination I believe all restraints are off and our President has very little patience left.
WarClandestine agrees:
Trump just warned again that he will “call national emergency and federalize, if necessary”.
Trump is referring to the Insurrection Act.
Either Democrat governors and mayors work with the NG/ICE willingly, or Trump will use the Insurrection Act and do it anyways. pic.twitter.com/5FdehdUzuk
A news van from KSTU-TV had a bomb affixed to it by a father-son team from Pakistan. Fortunately, the bomb did not work, but bomb experts called the device “real.” Abeed Ahamed Nasir, 58, a Pakistani-American, is listed as the “mastermind” behind the plan. 31-year-old Adil Justice Ahme Nasir, Abeed’s son, has also been arrested. Both men have been charged with manufacture, possession, or use of a weapon of mass destruction; attempted aggravated arson, and threats of terrorism. They both received other unique minor charges.
Alleged bomb plot near Charlie Kirk assassination lands Pakistani native and son with terrorism charges– www.theblaze.com Source Link Excerpt:
A father and son were arrested in Salt Lake City on Sunday for allegedly affixing an explosive device to the bottom of a KSTU-TV news vehicle parked next to an occupied building.
The device was discovered just days after Charlie Kirk’s assassination around a half-hour drive away at Utah Valley University and amid an increased media presence in the area.
KSTU revealed that the device was determined to be real. While the explosive had reportedly been lit, the arrest report indicated that it “failed to function as designed.”
Law enforcement officials reportedly also ‘observed additional contraband and evidence of crimes outside the scope of the original warrant.’
Salt Lake County Jail records indicate that Adeeb Ahamed Nasir, 58 — whose race was somehow entered into the system as “white” — is a Pakistani-born American citizen.
He was booked into the jail on Sunday and charged with the manufacture, possession, or use of a weapon of mass destruction; attempted aggravated arson; possession of an explosive/chemical/incendiary; threat of terrorism; and felony possession of parts for an explosion/chemical/incendiary device.
Nasir’s American-born son, 31-year-old Adil Justice Ahme Nasir, has been charged with manufacture/possession/use of a weapon of mass destruction; attempted aggravated arson; threat of terrorism; and possession both of an explosive/chemical/incendiary device and parts to make one.
The Salt Lake City Police Department confirmed to Blaze News that the FBI is handling the case.
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