Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Democrats Can’t Make A Case For Democrats


Imagine talking to a group of people struggling to feed their families, to pay their bills, worried about whether or not they can make their next rent of mortgage payment and, as they look to you for some glimmer of hope that you are going to make things just a little bit better for them, all you can talk about is how your opponent is the new Hitler and how they should love abortion. That’s what Democrats have become.

When I was a kid, Democrats tried to talk to people about the things that mattered in their lives – the economy, taxes, the schools. Most of what they said was lies, but you at least had the sense that they were aware of your existence and problems. Not anymore.

Growing up in a lower-middle class area in southeast Michigan, just 6 streets outside of Detroit on the “wrong” side of 8-mile, Democrats were everywhere, promising to make things better. All they did was make things worse. For all the talk of Detroit’s revitalization, it’s really only about a two mile stretch down Woodward Avenue from Wayne State University (where I went to college) and Hart Plaza on the Detroit River. You can still play golf in most neighborhoods, as vacant lots are the order of the day (the abandoned crack houses have been largely torn down or burn up on Devil’s Night over the years).

Democrats did that. For a long time, they blamed Republicans, and it was common for the left to scream about how Ronald Reagan “screwed over Detroit,” but no Republican has sniffed power in the city in 62 years. Reagan left office 34 years ago. What lasting policies do you think are keeping Detroit down? I’ll save you looking it up, there are none.

There was no case for Democrats in the past, there is no case for Democrats today. If there were, they’d try to make it. They aren’t even trying.

All they offer is hyperventilating zeta-males and Karens on MSNBC screeching about how “Trump is Hitler.” What they’re really saying is anyone who votes for Trump, or even likes some of his policy proposals, are Nazis. They aren’t trying to convince anyone, they’re trying to coral the weak-minded. 

Their base is very impressionable. Rachel Maddow routinely spins a web of fantastical paranoia and conspiracy that would make Alex Jones blush, but because she does it for Democrats, she has an office riddled with awards. The gang at Morning Joe is an orgy of outrage and out of context clips so absurd that only people dropped on their heads as a baby would stand a chance of believing them. 

Nothing on that network is remotely designed to inform or convince, it’s to scare and anger. Stupid people will fall for just about anything, but they won’t necessarily get off their asses and do things about it. That’s where the outrage comes in. As I wrote in my book, Democrats want to keep people in an emotional frenzy just below boiling. They need a simmer – you can get people in an emotional state to do just about anything, like vote for the Democrats who’ve screwed up their cities and limited their family’s economic health, if they’re scared or angry enough. There’s always the chance that simmer could boil over – two Democrats did try to murder Donald Trump this year (so far) – and ruin your plans, but when you’ve got nothing to offer you have to take that risk.

That’s the story of the Democrats. They simply have nothing to sell. Morning Joe is about the only things as vapid as a Kamala Harris stump speech, and both are telling you the same things: A) Kamala has a plan to fix all the economic problems facing the country (just don’t ask why she’s kept these plans secret the last 4 years and is perfectly happy to let Americans suffer until January 20, 2025, before trying to implement them. And B) You simply have no idea how much better you have it under Democrats than you had it under Trump. Who are you going to believe, the millionaires on Morning Joe or your own lived experience?

Oh, that and you’re likely to get pregnant tomorrow and die from not being able to have an abortion, because pregnancy kills, either hopes and dreams or they physical bodies of “pregnant people.” That goes for men and women, though they have no idea what those things are.

Let’s the men and women who know what men and women are head to the polls and vote against biological and economic ignorance, because we far outnumber the weirdos who pretend not to.



X22, And we Know, and more- Oct 29

 




The Glory of America After Trump Wins


Next week, we face a choice. It is a huge choice. A yuge choice, if you will. The ramifications are enormous. Historic. It's easy to forget that we are watching history happen. When you read about the past, you read about about when LBJ quit or when JFK was shot. Those are historic moments written in the history books. And we are living through history now. We had both of those things happen again in just the last few months, a dropout and an assassination attempt, except they tried to kill Trump twice and they failed. For those of us who love history, it is remarkable that we are part of it. I remember overhearing command net radio calls during the Gulf War that I later read about in books. Savor it. You are part of forever just for being alive now. People will read about this election cycle for centuries to come, assuming there's still an America.

And if Donald Trump gets elected, there will be an America.

What does it mean if Donald Trump gets elected? How will America look like when a new president is sworn-in in January 2029? Glorious, that’s how. We can be America again. We just need to choose wisely.

We must understand that the leftist Borg is not going to just give up if Trump wins. It's going to do everything it can, including hurting people, to retain its power. But it's going to lose. It’s going to lose because Donald Trump has learned. Donald Trump came into office in 2017 believing that the America he grew up in was still the America he had been elected president of. Sure, he understood that we had gone astray and that he was going to be the change agent we needed by harnessing the wave of dissatisfaction that started manifesting as far back as Ross Perot. But on another level, he still believed the old norms existed, that  the Old Rules still applied, that the institutions would still do their job for the American people rather than pursue the personal interests of their ruling class leaders. He was wrong about that. The big difference is that Trump 2.0 knows the truth. And he is not going to to play.

I expect that Trump will wield power ruthlessly, that is, without allowing his enemies to set up arbitrary guardrails on the authority that the American people will have been invested in him and that the elitists themselves do not observe. He can be the most consequential president since Reagan, or maybe even FDR, and this time, I expect he will.

Don't think Trump is going to get sidetracked because the Washington Post’s staff is upset. Don't think he is going to allow a bunch of invertebrates into his administration again, people who have zero interest in pursuing the American First agenda. He's experienced the betrayals of these creatures, the leaks, the lies, and the undermining from within. He sees and understands that the people who the establishment tells you are above approach and have endless integrity are usually the scummiest. I'm talking about the Comeys, the Muellers, the Kellys, the Boltons, the Cheneys, all those trash mandarins of a failed regime who got into power with Trump and immediately began sabotaging the policies the American people had voted for.

Of course, Trump is going to be accused of only appointing yes-men, but if they are saying “Yes” to the America First agenda, that's a solid positive.

Day One, I expect Donald Trump to wield the power of the presidency to pardon those of his allies persecuted by the establishment, which is trying to send the message that if you dare oppose them you will be thrown into prison, if not murdered. I expect him to pardon every J6 prisoner – every single one of them – because you cannot have a two-tier justice system where leftists get to run riot while patriots who walk through the Rotunda of our Capitol – it belongs to us, not the ruling class – end up in prison. And he must pardon the other persecuted patriots, the people thrown in jail for years for protesting outside abortion mills and the guy rotting in prison because he made a joke about Hillary Clinton. And then he must go further. He must direct his Department of Justice to settle the legitimate civil rights claims of all these persecuted individuals for millions of dollars each. Did you know that Peter Strzok – the adulterous scumbag FBI creep did so much damage to his country – got a fat stack of bills in a "settlement" of his “legal claims” against the FBI? A wink and a nod, and they paid him off. Well, the New Rules have got to be applied. Our people who have been tormented and betrayed by the federal government need to be made whole, and that means money.

Where will the money come from? From the billions Trump will ceased paying the plethora of leftist NGOs that get federal grants to pursue the pinko agenda and then kickback our tax money to Democrat pols.

Once these injustices get cured, I expect Trump to make an offer – we can going to go back to the Old Rules, but we will have one set of rules toning forward and they will apply to everyone equally. And then he must prosecute, vigorously, the communists, rioters, treasonous activists, and other criminals who are breaking the law in pursuit of political power. No more burning down police stations and walking away unscathed. No more terrorizing Jews on our streets and campuses. Federal prison awaits. Antifa must be dismantled. The left’s foreign links must be exposed and the perps punished. He will uproot the unlawful Democrat money machine which flouts election laws and takes money from foreigners to ruin our country. Yeah, the Democrats will scream and yell and say that Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice. Well, the Department of Justice should be weaponized against criminals – real criminals, not people whose only crime is loving America.

On the economy, Trump will get the America moving again. It's going to be amazing. We've seen over and over again, starting with JFK when he cut tax taxes and by Ronald Reagan and Trump himself, that when you cut taxes you supercharge the economy. That's going to happen, especially since it's likely we're going to have a Senate majority. Imagine another ‘80s. It’s will be amazing.

But you've also got to cut spending. The deficit will defeat us if we don’t defeat it first. A booming economy is the first step. The second is cutting waste. Billions for illegals? How about nothing except a ride to the border?And welfare? How about the lazy start working again? Keep hearing about jobs. Americans won’t do, so let’s see if they won’t do them if we’re not giving them money to sit on their butts.

We need make government work better, meaning cut the fed payroll and slash regulations. Expect to see Elon Musk put in charge of some sort of government efficiency board. Elon Musk is famous for walking into Twitter and firing 80% of the layabouts and bums on the payroll, loafers who who spent most of their time Tik Tokking. Twitter is now better than ever with a fraction of the overhead, and it is a bastion of free speech. Oh yeah, by the time Trump leaves office, this government will be once again dedicated to free speech.

We're going to have judges who understand what's time it is. There's already been a message sent out to the Federalist Society that its folks too often prioritize institutionalism over constitutionalism. Trump is not making that mistake again. He will nominate judges who are going to judge properly, and when you judge properly, you judge conservatively. It's a disgrace that you can draw a judge in a political case and anticipate what the outcome is going to be without regard to the law. That's going to stop. I expect Trump to replace two justices – Alito and Thomas – and appoint at least one or two more. He's going to lock in a truly conservative – that is proper – Supreme Court for decades. This alone is going to make him hugely consequential.

Our military is going to get back to the warfighting focus that once made it the most feared force in the world and the most powerful one in human history. Look for DEI to be banned – no compromises, no half steps – but banned, Day One, by order of the commander-in-chief. No more of this nonsense. The generals and admirals who resist will be doing Trump a favor because they will identify themselves for culling. They must be relieved and retired, at a rank below their present rank because if you are relieved you did not satisfactorily serve in your present rank. The conspiracy to morph the American military into a leftist cultural force that would be willing to kill Americans for its elite masters will end.

We will become into energy independent again. We will become a powerhouse of power throughout the world, exporting what we don’t need for ourselves. But we will also see a second dawn of nuclear power. Safe, clean, and endless, nuclear power offers an amazing way forward for our country. You can tell by the way the leftist hate it.

Overseas, American enemies will learn their most important lesson – if you screw with Americans, you and everyone around you are going to die. It is utterly intolerable that it's been over a year that the semi-human savages of Hamas have held Americans hostage. They killed dozens of Americans on October 7th, and we have failed to avenge it sevenfold. Inexcusable. Those disgusting creatures felt safe to put their filthy paws on American citizens because they knew that our sissy establishment would rather cover for them, hold back the righteous retribution of Israel, and even give these animals our money rather than exact righteous retribution. Ask the random chunks of Soulemani how Trump deals with scum who threaten our citizens. The only thing Trump will give them is a date with 72 virgins, and those virgins will all look like Chris Christie. 

We will have peace in Ukraine and the Middle East. Our allies will know they have we have their backs. But they will also know they need to shape up. NATO is going to have to pay its fair share. No more tossing us the bill for their security while they squander their dough on foreign imports from the Third World. And this current obsession in what used to be free Western Europe with censoring the speech of their own people, and presuming to tell Americans like Elon Musk what they can and can't say, is going to end. Nobody is going to tell Americans what they can say. No one. You feeling me, UK?

We're going to face down China. We're not going to kiss up to it. We're not going to allow its provocations to stand. We're going to rebuild our military, including building many more ships and asserting our right to sail where we please. And Trump will make them pay for their cyber campaign to infiltrate our data systems. We're also not going to let China rampage through our civilian and government research and development. Right now, American counterintelligence is so wrapped up in DEI nonsense that it refuses to even face the fact that Chinese intelligence is threatening the relatives of Chinese Americans to make them spy. It sad, but real – do you wonder why every new ChiCom weapon system looks just like our counterpart? We're going to start facing that, and we're not going to care if they call us “racist” because we pull the security clearance of people who are clearly compromised. As for the Iranian fetishists who've been handing over classified material to the mullahs from their positions within the Biden administration, time’s up. They're gone from their jobs, their security clearances are gone, and when we get proof of their spying they're off to Supermax.

When Trump is finished with his second term, America will be great again. We will once again outlaw crime. We will treat criminals like what criminals are – criminals. We will not be sucked into the vortex of racial, gender, and similar stupidities that dominate Democrat policy. Every American is going to have a chance to succeed based on his or her – and there are only on his and her Americans – talents, hard work, and skill.

America, after a second Trump term, will look more like the America Boomer/Gen X folks like me who grew up in. We want that for the young folks. That will be our gift to the next generations. They never had the advantage of growing up in the 80s and 90s. They never saw what we saw. They never lived how we lived. They never felt how we felt – as proud Americans, optimistic about the future, powerful citizens of the greatest nation on the face of the Earth and in human history. That's what Trump will give us again.

Be part of history. Go out – right now – and vote.




Trumpmentum: Trump is Peaking with the Fall Foliage


Election Day is almost here, and Donald Trump is rewriting the book on campaigning.

He is peaking at just the right time, along with the beautiful autumn leaves.

Fortunately, he remains the Republican candidate despite deep-state efforts to remove him from the ballot through lawfare and at least two failed assassination attempts.

A few weeks ago, Trump served French fries at a Pennsylvania McDonald's, a crucial battleground state.

It was a popular move, showing that he relates to the working class far better than his opponent, the elite Kamala Harris, who made specious claims about having worked at McDonald's during college. Despite her claims, McDonald’s has no record of her previous employment, and her past job applications to other positions early in her career do not list it. Not surprisingly, the media “fact-checkers” are ignoring Harris’s bogus assertion.

Trump also was a rock star at the Catholic Charities' annual Al Smith dinner. Harris declined to attend, despite decades of tradition for presidential candidates to participate in the lighthearted roast. As Trump pointed out, Walter Mondale was the last candidate who chose not to attend this dinner in 1984 and look what happened to him: a 49-state Electoral College schlonging.

Instead, Harris told a pair of attendees at one of her rallies who shouted, “Jesus is Lord,” that, “You guys are at the wrong rally.” In one weekend, she told Catholics and Evangelical Christians to get lost.

These events are the snapshots and soundbites that decide elections. But let’s look at numbers instead. Ultimately, elections are about votes. Leaving aside questions or doubts about who is voting and how those votes are counted, the winner, at least in theory, should be the candidate receiving the most legal votes.

In their most recent survey of likely U.S. voters, Rasmussen Reports found that “Former President Donald Trump has regained a two-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in the latest daily tracking poll of the 2024 presidential election.”

AtlasIntel, the most accurate pollster for the 2020 presidential election, shows Trump with a 3-point lead over Harris nationally. Commendably, they sampled an equal number of Democrats and Republicans, eliminating the common Democrat oversampling bias found in many polls.

Many of these other pollsters are bundled into the RealClearPolitics average, which currently shows Harris with an 0.6 point lead over Trump.

Given how Trump typically outperforms national polls, Harris’s less than one-point lead bodes well for Trump.

How much does Trump beat the polls by?

Let’s look at the past two presidential elections, specifically the RealClearPolitics average. In 2020, 14 days before the election, Biden was up by 7.5 points. In 2016, Clinton was up by 5.6 points.

Biden barely won in 2020 by a margin of about 44,000 votes across a handful of battleground states. Clinton lost, suggesting Trump outperformed the national polling average by at least 6 points. What does that mean for Harris’s current less than half-point lead in national polls?

National polls don’t decide the election. Instead, the Electoral College does through 50 separate state elections. Most states are clearly red or blue and not in play. Although some speculate that Trump is “making a play for New York” by planning a huge Madison Square Garden rally.

Yet, certain battleground states are poised to shape the Electoral College outcome and decide the next president. What are the poll results in those specific states?

RealClearPolitics tracks the polling averages for battleground states. Trump leads in each state.

Pennsylvania: Trump +0.8
Arizona: Trump +1.8
Nevada: Trump +0.9
Wisconsin: Trump +0.1
Michigan: Trump +0.6
North Carolina: Trump +0.4
Georgia: Trump +2.5

What if we compared today’s results to those of four years ago in the same battleground states, during the Trump versus Biden election.

Fourteen days before the 2020 election, Biden was +4.2 in the RealClearPolitics battleground average. And Biden won by fewer than 50,000 votes in those battleground states. Presently, Trump is +1.1 across those same battleground states. Once again, this bodes well for Trump’s prospects on Nov. 5.

Betting odds provide an alternative perspective on the race. They indicate what people anticipate occurring based on their financial stakes, instead of merely showing their preferences as seen in opinion polls.

RealClearPolitics presents an average of the betting odds across multiple betting agencies, giving Trump a 61% chance of winning compared to only 38% for Harris.

Again, that is nationally. What are the betting odds in the swing states? Polymarket looks at that specifically, substituting political party for the actual candidate, unless they are expecting a sudden change of batter. To my “fact-checker” fans out there, the numbers I am citing are as of this writing and likely to change by the time this is published.

Pennsylvania – Trump 61%, Harris 41%
Michigan – Trump 54%, Harris 47%
North Carolina – Trump 70%, Harris 30%
Georgia – Trump 71%, Harris 30%
Wisconsin – Trump 57%, Harris 43%
Nevada – Trump 64%, Harris 36%
Arizona – Trump 74%, Harris 26%

Odds of Trump winning a solid blue state - 22%
Trump winning every swing state – 32%
Harris winning every swing state – 9%

Who are the punters putting their money on? Again, polls show “preferences,” while betting shows “expectations.” Follow the money.

Why does Donald Trump have lower poll numbers compared to actual voting results? One explanation could be "the submerged Trump vote," as noted by the American Spectator. Many Trump supporters hesitate to talk to pollsters because of widely reported misconduct by the FBI and other elements of the administrative/surveillance/deep state.

The article further explains:

But with the advent of the Biden-Harris regime, all of that changed. And with the targeting of the MAGA movement, Trump voters began to consider the legal risks of voicing their support of Trump.

In other words, why risk drawing the unwanted scrutiny of the FBI, the equally politicized Justice Department, and the rest of the federal surveillance and regulatory behemoth for the sake of taking a poll?

This might clarify the differences observed between polling and the actual election outcomes in 2016 and 2020. Will 2024 mirror this trend? Will the election be “too big to rig” this time around?

Currently, Trump enjoys significant momentum - what one might call Trumpmentum. His popularity is peaking, paralleling the stunning autumn foliage across the nation.



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Ratio’d | Food bank usage up 90% in Trudeau’s Canada

 Canada surpassed a grim milestone recently. In one month, a record of over 2 million Canadians went to a food bank. This is not right. Nationally, food bank usage is up 90% since 2019 and now certain food banks are running out of food. Our people are starving and suffering in the street, but the government will still tell you that the Canadian economy is doing well.

The Canadian government continues to waste billions of dollars on useless initiatives, send billions of dollars to other countries and import millions of people into the country. This equation does not make sense.

Watch the latest episode of Ratio’d with Harrison Faulkner


https://tnc.news/2024/10/28/rhf-food-bank-90/

New Study Confirms What the Left Denies, Corporate Media Is Just Democrat Propaganda


Brandon Morse reporting for RedState 

I've had trouble saying the term "mainstream media" like I used to, because over the past decade, a real shift has occurred in the media space thanks to the internet. A streamer with a solid following can bring in numbers that the big corporate broadcasters can only dream of. More people watch popular streamers on Rumble for their news than various CNN shows. 

The corporate media, with its bottomless pits of cash, massive sound stages, armies of crewmen, and big-time names in television, are having to compete with a young man in his bedroom with a webcam and some cheap lighting. I find that both hilarious and a bit ironic. For ages, the corporate media has been looking down at the people, lying to them, and abusing them, and now they're being overtaken by them. 

But a part of that is the corporate media's fault. They used their platforms to push obvious lies to the people, which was easy to get away with before humanity had the internet. Today, a lie can get around the world quickly, but the truth doesn't have to get its pants on anymore. It can destroy the lie right there in bed. For instance, X's "community notes" feature is a master at destroying false media narratives before they can truly get started. 

Yet, push they do. 

And that's lead to their ongoing downfall. Few actually trust the media anymore, according to recent studies. 

(America's Trust In the Media Has Cratered to an All-Time Low)

And while we all know this is the truth, hard evidence continues to come out that shows the corporate media is really just a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party. It's pure propaganda, not news. 

According to the Media Research Center, after analyzing the corporate news landscape for a time, MRC found that it set a new record in terms of lopsided coverage. Not only did it prop up Kamala Harris with positive news coverage by unforgivable amounts, it focused on painting Trump as the villain with negative news coverage even more: 

One week before Election Day, a new analysis from the Media Research Center finds that broadcast evening news coverage of the 2024 presidential race has been the most lopsided in history. Since July, ABC, CBS and NBC have treated Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris to 78 percent positive coverage, while these same networks have pummeled former Republican President Donald Trump with 85 percent negative coverage. (See Methodology explanation at the end of this post.)

The difference in coverage between the two candidates is far greater than in 2016, when both Trump and then-challenger Hillary Clinton received mostly negative coverage (91% negative for Trump, vs. 79% negative for Clinton). It’s even greater than in 2020, when Joe Biden was treated to 66 percent positive coverage, vs. 92 percent negative for Trump.

Something to "wow" at, though not entirely surprising. This iteration of Harris is, after all, an entirely media-born creation. Without it, she would've been disqualified from the race before it even started, and it's entirely possible a primary would have been held after Biden was forced out. Of course, one has to wonder if Biden would have even been president without the corporate media too.  

The MRC continues with some interesting details about the time spent: 

The main reason for the imbalance: Since July, the Big Three have swamped their audiences with more than 230 minutes of airtime — virtually all of it negative — about an array of personal controversies surrounding the former President, yet provided extremely light coverage or altogether ignored many controversies involving Vice President Harris. Instead, Harris’s coverage has been larded with enthusiastic quotes from pro-Harris voters, creating a positive “vibe” for the Democrat even as network reporters criticize Trump themselves.

For this report, MRC analysts reviewed all 660 stories about the presidential campaign that aired on the ABC, CBS or NBC evening newscasts from July 21 (the day President Biden ended his candidacy) through October 25, including weekends. Total coverage added up to 24 hours, 15 minutes, almost evenly divided among the three networks: 8 hours, 20 minutes on NBC; 8 hours, 13 minutes on CBS; and 7 hours, 42 minutes on ABC).

This puts some of the reasoning leftists often use against Trump into context. You'll often hear from leftists how Trump is immoral and awful. Did you see that viral video of the woman who confronted another woman for having a Trump sign in her front yard? You can see her line of thinking in many people on the left who have this outlook on Trump. 

Harris has her own demons and scandals, and the media is very adamant that they're not talked about. It makes sense, because part of their argument for being the anti-Trump party is that they're the more moral figures in the room. They're clearly not, but any talk about immoral behavior on the left is either painted as progressive and accepting or squelched completely.

CNN has done this twice very recently, once when Kevin O'Leary tried to bring up the fact that Harris wasn't nominated democratically, which is weird for a party that supposedly cherishes Democracy, and another when CNN contributor Scott Jennings tried to bring up Doug Emhoff's abuse of women.

Given all this, is it any surprise the media is losing its value to the American people? 



Jeff Bezos Positioning Washington Post (and Interests) to Mitigate Financial Exposure to President Trump


It’s a Game of Thrones thing, and multiple interests have contacted me for questions following the Washington Post non-endorsement of Kamala Harris.  I’ll explain in detail, but first the latest development in the moves.  Always remember, there are trillions at stake.

NEW YORK – Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has reportedly given the newspaper a mandate to add more conservative voices to its opinion section — even as he remains silent over the broadsheet’s decision not to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.

Bezos — the world’s second richest person with a fortune that Bloomberg Billionaires Index valued at $211 billion as of Monday — is keen on gaining a more ideologically diverse readership by expanding his newspaper’s reach among right-leaning audiences, according to a report in The New York Times.

The Amazon founder, meanwhile, has remained silent over the non-endorsement controversy. He has not spoken publicly amid protests from high-level staffers and prominent figures such as Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. (read more)

The framework, the inside baseball political stuff, is never truly explained by media.  They play this pretending game that we are not bound to follow.  So, I’ll outline exactly what is happening and the motives for all these recent moves.

You will remember last year when I dug deep into the financial system around Twitter, Elon Musk’s purchase, and the viability of the business model.  In short, by the time he reached October/November ’23 there was going to be no way for Musk to continue operating Twitter without some serious change in financial construct.

So, what happened?

Larry Ellison happened.

In a little-known background conversation that President Trump is well aware of, Oracle founder Larry Ellison said, “I will not allow Musk to fall.”  Thus, an immediate and opportune alignment began that shows the strategic thinking of billionaire Larry Ellison.

Ellison gains around $50 billion per year from his operations.  Oracle is huge. The X-platform subsequently began big contracts with Oracle.   Twitter’s fate is now intrinsically linked to Ellison. Nuf said.

With that scale of GFY money now steadfast backing him, Elon Musk not only had breathing room, but he also had the ability to take big risks.

After testing the water with DeSantis, likely stirred by Ellison taking a peek, it became obvious the best play was to fully support Trump.  Week after week, as President Trump solidly gained position for next week’s election, Elon Musk leaned in further and deeper.  Elon Musk is now the biggest influence operation in the 2024 MAGA movement.

As a direct consequence of Musk’s position, Larry Ellison -by extension Oracle- is now easily positioned to be the biggest beneficiary of a Trump win.  Ellison is the biggest influence operation; but as all influence and leverage operations go, he’s also the quietest influence.

Larry Ellison (Oracle) is the hand on the Elon Musk Marionette.  All Musk moves are with this background alignment as the underpinning.

With a Trump victory next week becoming more and more predictable, the biggest loser was set to be Larry Ellison’s billionaire competitor, Jeff Bezos (Amazon).

Jeff Bezos needs to position himself to avoid being totally shut out from White House influence ability.  The non-endorsement was the first move.  The shift in ideological alignment within the Washington Post (article above) is the second move.  Bezos is mitigating and strategizing risk.  That’s what is going on.

These are not media outlets in your traditional frame of reference. These are influence operations aligned with the interests of the billionaires behind them. It’s a game of thrones thing. Each interest has their own advocacy group. That’s what you would call “modern media”. Bezos has the Washington Post, Ellison positioned himself with Twitter; the intent is the same.

The biggest winners from the Trump victory will be Larry Ellison (Oracle), his super influence operator Elon Musk, and their smaller -albeit ideologically similar- friend, Peter Thiel (Palantir).

This is the inside baseball stuff that circles the President Trump campaign orbit in very close proximity. This is the command-and-control influence operation that determines outcomes. When Trump wins, these interests are positioned for strongest influence.

If you want to really understand what is happening, follow this background context as the intellectual filter and you will be watching President Trump Term-2 politics with clear eyes.  However, always remember, these are their personal interests.  As long as they align with MAGA, all is cool.  If their personal interests diverge from MAGA, we will have a problem.

There are trillions at stake.

 


Will The Corrupt News Media Accept Election Results If Trump Wins, Or Will They Start A War?



It was such a fun time last week watching the perpetual drama queens that make up our national news media boil with rage over two newspapers declining to issue meaningless campaign endorsements. But it also revealed something unsettling about the unhealthy degree of emotional investment they have in this race.

Will the media accept the outcome of the election if Donald Trump wins? It’s far from a foregone conclusion that they will. There’s a strong argument they didn’t the last time Trump won. Why should anyone expect them to accept it this time around?

It’s a question these homely nerds are inclined to ask every elected Republican in the shallowest way possible — some variation of, “Will you accept the outcome of this election no matter what?” (I think every restaurant server from now on should ask Jake Tapper the moment he’s seated, “Will you accept the way your food comes out no matter what? It’s a yes or no question.”)

After the appalling behavior they displayed last week, now is a very crucial time to ask them the same thing. If they were this hysterical over management at The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times deciding there would be no endorsement of Kamala Harris this campaign cycle — the type of endorsement that hasn’t mattered for decades — how can they be expected to acknowledge a Trump victory? And if they won’t, what will it mean to the people who are still influenced by them? They will have essentially been told their elections and their government are invalid. These are the things civil wars are made of.

As silly as the media have made themselves look, they’re dead serious. That a major news publication wouldn’t throw its weight behind the non-Trump candidate means nothing to normal people, but reporters in Washington and New York aren’t normal people. Look how they talk. They say things like “Democracy dies in darkness,” and we laugh because it’s corny. But they believe in earnest it’s a sacred oath binding their entire life’s meaning to a cause: maintaining the Washington and corporate power structure to their financial benefit. To hell with everyone else.

If in 2016 the news media eagerly went along with an absurd hoax that Trump won that election in large part because he conspired with the Russian government, what won’t they say when he wins again? They just spent the past three months telling voters that up is down, black is white and Kamala is popular. They moved on from the attempt on his life like it was a standard news cycle that had run its course.

How could we expect them to concede defeat after everything they’ve done? And yes, a Kamala defeat will be theirs, too. Her campaign is theirs.

It’s a question they’re not ready to answer because, for them, it’s unthinkable.