So the mainstream press is essentially an arm of the Iranian mullahs.

Here's what you do:

Start each morning perusing headlines, ignore all the negative stories, and Google the things that interest you.

The American press are part of the Quds Force.
Mattis thought Trump was unfit, and he prayed in the chapel for guidance because Trump was going to get us into a war with North Korea!

That's a lie.

Lookee here:
North Korea's greatest deterrent was thousands of artillery pieces aimed at Seoul.

We begin:
"U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Sunday the U.N. Security Council had run out of options on containing North Korea’s nuclear program and that the United States might have to turn the matter over to the Pentagon."
"Asked whether there were any military options the United States could take with North Korea that would not put Seoul at grave risk, Mattis said: 'Yes there are. But I will not go into details.'"
"Pressed on whether that might include so-called 'kinetic' options that use lethal force, Mattis said: 'I don’t want to go into that.'"
Mattis knew damn well that a war with North Korea would be over almost instantly.

So THIS Woodward story is another dud.

A bit about the Kim family "ruling" North Korea.

North Korea has had only three leader.

Kim Jong-un is the third.

He took over in 2011.
Kim is a FIGUREHEAD.

Don't believe me?

Sometimes the wrong picture gets out.

Does this look like an absolute dictator?
North Korea is ruled by CHINA and the North Korean elite.

The elite are the Korean People's Army (KPA).

They live in total luxury.

Whichever Kim is in power must prove that he can deliver the goods to keep the elite rich and fat and oily.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, November 20, 1999, page 13.

"North Korean Leader is Grooming His Son," by Edward Neilan.
The Kim family's bodyguard unit is called the Supreme Guard Command.

IT HAS NO HEAVY WEAPONS.

After this battle, Kim Jong-il adopted the "Military First" policy (Songun Chongch’i).

The needs of the military come before those of civilians.
Kim is trapped in a gilded palace.

BUT.

He instituted dramatic and EFFECTIVE economic reform as soon as he took power.

It introduced his people to capitalism and the free market.
"[North Korea] can be described as neither 'Stalinist' nor 'destitute.' It is actually a post-socialist country where the radical, if semi-hidden, market-oriented reforms have brought about considerable economic growth."
NOW:

There was NEVER a chance of war with North Korea under Trump.

NEVER.

It's all kabuki.

Guess who served as the go-between?

One of Trump's close friends.
"Rodman said he was approached to simply play an exhibition game and maybe sign a few autographs, something he was used to in his post-NBA life. So his agent, Darren Prince, started setting up the trip for him."
"Except Prince didn’t realize that there was a difference between North and South Korea."
SURE!

I believe THAT.
"It wasn’t until Rodman’s manager, Steve Simon, put the pieces together that he realized there was a problem.

"'He looked at me and goes, 'You idiot. That’s South Korea. Let me see this contract,'" Prince said in the 30 for 30."
"'So I showed it to him, and it said Pyongyang, North Korea. And he goes, 'You cannot send Dennis to North Korea. Do you understand what type of place this is?'"
"Rodman didn’t understand where they were going until they had landed in Beijing and a member of his team started explaining it to him.

"'No one informed me about North Korea,' Rodman told Yahoo Sports."
"'I just thought we were going for a basketball game and do autograph s--t. That was it. I was so blind, man.'

"Regardless, Rodman made the final leg of the journey to Pyongyang."
Rodman went to North Korea multiple times.

Remember Trump's "fire and fury" statement warning North Korea about military action by the US?
That was August 8, 2017.

Guess who went to Pyongyang on June 13, 2017?

Guess what Rodman presented to the North Koreans, who posed with it?
DEAL MADE.

Kim--as Trump and Kim had planned--came out of all that kabuki as the cooler head.

HE GAINED FACE.

We know that the USS Jimmy Carter carried out two successful combat missions in the Pacific in 2017.
The Carter is a specially modified, ultra-classified submarine that inserts and recovers special-operations troops.

The Jolly Roger flag means "successful combat mission."

I'm positive that they had something to do with freeing Kim.
No way did Mattis pray for help because Trump is unfit and almost got us into a war with North Korea.

HE KNEW THAT IF IT CAME TO WAR, IT WOULD BE OVER IN A FLASH.

But there was never a chance of war.

Kim was educated in Switzerland.

And THAT freed his mind.
Russia Russia Russia!

To quote @RichardGrenell--who I hope will be president after Trump--"Nobody's listening to you anymore."

As said to the press.

And the proof that I'm right about everything I said above?
Look at the date. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/319174411422928896
Stable genius.

#Trump2020Landslide

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ADDENDUM:

The only way for Americans to enter North Korea was through Beijing.

There's absolutely no way that Rodman's agent and Rodman had no idea they were going to North Korea instead of South Korea.

And after they "found out," he went anyway.

Uh-huh.
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