Regardless of all of it, they will not let him back in. This is just a sideshow but ultimately, it’s been decided--uncle Joe or whomever they replace him with. I hate to sound so disheartened about it, but I think we should be realistic and start planning on how we are going to proceed.
Trump is the first Presidential candidate to be campaigning while under indictment--and under both state and federal indictment at that.
Is that an automatic disqualifier? No. But it does raise the question of how effective he will be on the campaign trail, and also the question of whether various states will successfully keep him off the ballot next fall.
Can Trump win, regardless? It is possible. Is it probable? That I do not know.
Still, it is an important question. If not Trump, who gets your vote and why?
It's not that I won't vote for him, or that he has enough votes to win. It's that no way the regime let's him back in. We saw how 2020 played out, that's just a preview of the lengths the ruling class will go to stop this movement. I'm not sure what this means for our future, but it's not good when one party is unable to resolve their frustrations through elections.
They didn’t want him to win in 2020 but they didn’t think he could. So they lobbed softball insults at him (Orange skin, small hands, he’s Hitler!) and figured that was enough. After living through the shock of their lives they are wide awake now and nothing is off the table. Does anyone really think Fauci’s prediction of a pandemic during Trump’s term was a coincidence? Really? Do you? Because if you think declaring a pandemic 9mos before what would’ve been an easy Trump victory given the fantastic job and economic gains Americans experienced during his administration then, Wow, are you naive. But wait there’s more! Do you think all the off-the-chart social unrest was coincidental too? Chaz/Chop? Antifa? BLM? Lincoln Project? Toppling statues and destroying cities. Racism galore. All just happened to coincide with the covid panic porn. But, nothing to see here, right? I’m sure Soros’s Open Society money had nothing to do with the paid rioters, right? Now, the next election is coming and Trump is still scaring them. Again, nothing is off the table. Pandemic 2.0, throwing him in prison, or worse. When will people wake up? Democrats are filthy scum communist authoritarians. Get it? I know..I know. Republicans aren’t much better. But, by and large, at the end of the day they are a little better. And if “a little better” is my only current option I’ll fucking take it.
No one can look at the 2020 election honestly and not question the results.
Yet there is a certain irony in that outcome.
Trump started a trade war with China. Biden doubled down on it.
Trump promoted lockdowns and gave us Operation Warp Speed. Biden pushed inoculation mandates.
Trump set in motion the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden made a pigs breakfast of it but completed that withdrawal.
It was during Trump's term that the Fed goosed the money supply. And Trump started the pandemic stimulus payments. Both of which have contributed to the recent hyperinflationary cycle.
Would there be a war in Ukraine had Trump won in 2020? One is tempted to think not, but the geopolitical forces which culminated in Putin's invasion of Ukraine predate Trump's first term; it is quite possible that Putin was always going to attack Ukraine and was always going to do it right about now (Peter Zeihan has a pet theory which connects Russia's historical defensive doctrine and their shrinking demographics to produce an internal Russian dynamic where the Ukraine war was always inevitable and always going to happen about now).
All of which begs the question how much different would a Trump second term have been from what we've had under Dementia Joe. And raises the question of what will change in 2025 should Trump win in 2024.
Agree on OWS. Trump was not following the script and was either complicit or utterly incompetent. Take your pick. The fact that to this day he dances around it is unsettling and annoying.
Still. What other logical choices are there? Voting is the adult version of a letter for Santa Claus. Or, as a friend once said, Presidential elections come down to voting for the shinier turd. Dems are clearly not shiny. They’ve quite literally turned Marxist.
The Ukraine situation harkens back to Obama administration staging a coup to install stooge Zelensky.
The USA knew it was crossing a red line first, by exchanging nuclear weapons there for biological ones. Then by supporting a Ukraine-NATO alliance. Something the US promised Russia it’d never do.
So of course there was never the slightest attempt at proactive discussion before the bombs started flying. Putin had forces lined up on the border such a long time even many Ukrainians thought it was just a case of Sabre rattling. Biden had plenty of time to mitigate. Obviously the US doesn’t want to.
Guessing Trump’s intent and strategy w/Afghanistan or Ukraine is a larger leap than I’m comfortable with. His time was short, there are too many unknowns. We see Obama and Biden’s involvement more clearly as they’ve had a much longer time at the wheel driving it.
As far as trade “war” with China is concerned. I’m from an era where every major news outlet referred to China as “Red China.” The people were the “Red Chinese.” Driving home the point their communism was antithetical to American ideology.
The only reason we outsource to them or any other country for that matter is to prop up the American dollar as the worlds reserve currency. A policy that empowered government elites and decimated the middle class.
The US dollar being traded world wide is a curse that keeps on crushing. Frankly, I’d like it all to collapse. The initial pain would be worth it.
But telling china or any other country to trade fairly is a good start. I don’t care if they don’t like it.
I wish Kennedy had coverage and was “the movement” on the Democratic side because he knows how to articulate the specific problems and offers solutions. Kennedy is reasonable and rational and not interested in inflammatory remarks to drive sentiment, feelings and sentiments don’t pay the bills and solve problems. I’m so weary of politics that simply point out the negatives and character assassinations, I want to hear what the candidates see as a problem and what is their solution, even if I disagree at least it provokes critical thinking and pragmatic solutions. The media is in control and it’s very frustrating. Thankful for your substack and other alternatives but how will “Joe the plumber” ever learn about other candidates without the media bias?
Well, at the risk of being outrageously self serving, tell people to read All Facts Matter😁
(Couldn't resist!)
I think Kennedy made a tactical error staying in the Democratic Party. He would have been quite the attention getter in the GOP, and could have changed the dynamics of the election just by doing so.
I don't agree with all of his ideas by I give him props for having ideas. Ramaswamy is the closest thing to a candidate with ideas on the GOP side, and he's mostly going for sound bites.
I do promote and forward your articles! This is where not having any social media, not even FB, is a hindrance.
“Having ideas” exactly, discussing ideas would be so refreshing. I don’t agree with all of Kennedy either but I agree if he went GOP as the truly moderate he would have garnered support from all sides.
He might have been able to run the table just on crossover support alone.
I genuinely believe that a politician who had the stones to champion a set of ideas and articulate a governing philosophy (e.g., Ronald Reagan) would go far. One reason I think people are so cynical about politics today is because politicians pay lip service to this or that ideology, genuflect to progressive or conservative shibboleths, but quite obviously don't believe their own BS.
Kennedy at least comes across as genuine. Agree or disagree with him on things like the environment, at least he can say he's been fighting that fight all along, and can back it up.
Regardless of all of it, they will not let him back in. This is just a sideshow but ultimately, it’s been decided--uncle Joe or whomever they replace him with. I hate to sound so disheartened about it, but I think we should be realistic and start planning on how we are going to proceed.
Trump is the first Presidential candidate to be campaigning while under indictment--and under both state and federal indictment at that.
Is that an automatic disqualifier? No. But it does raise the question of how effective he will be on the campaign trail, and also the question of whether various states will successfully keep him off the ballot next fall.
Can Trump win, regardless? It is possible. Is it probable? That I do not know.
Still, it is an important question. If not Trump, who gets your vote and why?
It's not that I won't vote for him, or that he has enough votes to win. It's that no way the regime let's him back in. We saw how 2020 played out, that's just a preview of the lengths the ruling class will go to stop this movement. I'm not sure what this means for our future, but it's not good when one party is unable to resolve their frustrations through elections.
As Frederick Douglass said in 1867: "A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box."
If the ballot box and the jury box have failed us, only one box remains. Only one choice remains.
Thus the question becomes when and where do we open the cartridge box?
How should the rebellion begin?
They didn’t want him to win in 2020 but they didn’t think he could. So they lobbed softball insults at him (Orange skin, small hands, he’s Hitler!) and figured that was enough. After living through the shock of their lives they are wide awake now and nothing is off the table. Does anyone really think Fauci’s prediction of a pandemic during Trump’s term was a coincidence? Really? Do you? Because if you think declaring a pandemic 9mos before what would’ve been an easy Trump victory given the fantastic job and economic gains Americans experienced during his administration then, Wow, are you naive. But wait there’s more! Do you think all the off-the-chart social unrest was coincidental too? Chaz/Chop? Antifa? BLM? Lincoln Project? Toppling statues and destroying cities. Racism galore. All just happened to coincide with the covid panic porn. But, nothing to see here, right? I’m sure Soros’s Open Society money had nothing to do with the paid rioters, right? Now, the next election is coming and Trump is still scaring them. Again, nothing is off the table. Pandemic 2.0, throwing him in prison, or worse. When will people wake up? Democrats are filthy scum communist authoritarians. Get it? I know..I know. Republicans aren’t much better. But, by and large, at the end of the day they are a little better. And if “a little better” is my only current option I’ll fucking take it.
No one can look at the 2020 election honestly and not question the results.
Yet there is a certain irony in that outcome.
Trump started a trade war with China. Biden doubled down on it.
Trump promoted lockdowns and gave us Operation Warp Speed. Biden pushed inoculation mandates.
Trump set in motion the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden made a pigs breakfast of it but completed that withdrawal.
It was during Trump's term that the Fed goosed the money supply. And Trump started the pandemic stimulus payments. Both of which have contributed to the recent hyperinflationary cycle.
Would there be a war in Ukraine had Trump won in 2020? One is tempted to think not, but the geopolitical forces which culminated in Putin's invasion of Ukraine predate Trump's first term; it is quite possible that Putin was always going to attack Ukraine and was always going to do it right about now (Peter Zeihan has a pet theory which connects Russia's historical defensive doctrine and their shrinking demographics to produce an internal Russian dynamic where the Ukraine war was always inevitable and always going to happen about now).
All of which begs the question how much different would a Trump second term have been from what we've had under Dementia Joe. And raises the question of what will change in 2025 should Trump win in 2024.
Agree on OWS. Trump was not following the script and was either complicit or utterly incompetent. Take your pick. The fact that to this day he dances around it is unsettling and annoying.
Still. What other logical choices are there? Voting is the adult version of a letter for Santa Claus. Or, as a friend once said, Presidential elections come down to voting for the shinier turd. Dems are clearly not shiny. They’ve quite literally turned Marxist.
The Ukraine situation harkens back to Obama administration staging a coup to install stooge Zelensky.
The USA knew it was crossing a red line first, by exchanging nuclear weapons there for biological ones. Then by supporting a Ukraine-NATO alliance. Something the US promised Russia it’d never do.
So of course there was never the slightest attempt at proactive discussion before the bombs started flying. Putin had forces lined up on the border such a long time even many Ukrainians thought it was just a case of Sabre rattling. Biden had plenty of time to mitigate. Obviously the US doesn’t want to.
Guessing Trump’s intent and strategy w/Afghanistan or Ukraine is a larger leap than I’m comfortable with. His time was short, there are too many unknowns. We see Obama and Biden’s involvement more clearly as they’ve had a much longer time at the wheel driving it.
As far as trade “war” with China is concerned. I’m from an era where every major news outlet referred to China as “Red China.” The people were the “Red Chinese.” Driving home the point their communism was antithetical to American ideology.
The only reason we outsource to them or any other country for that matter is to prop up the American dollar as the worlds reserve currency. A policy that empowered government elites and decimated the middle class.
The US dollar being traded world wide is a curse that keeps on crushing. Frankly, I’d like it all to collapse. The initial pain would be worth it.
But telling china or any other country to trade fairly is a good start. I don’t care if they don’t like it.
I wish Kennedy had coverage and was “the movement” on the Democratic side because he knows how to articulate the specific problems and offers solutions. Kennedy is reasonable and rational and not interested in inflammatory remarks to drive sentiment, feelings and sentiments don’t pay the bills and solve problems. I’m so weary of politics that simply point out the negatives and character assassinations, I want to hear what the candidates see as a problem and what is their solution, even if I disagree at least it provokes critical thinking and pragmatic solutions. The media is in control and it’s very frustrating. Thankful for your substack and other alternatives but how will “Joe the plumber” ever learn about other candidates without the media bias?
Well, at the risk of being outrageously self serving, tell people to read All Facts Matter😁
(Couldn't resist!)
I think Kennedy made a tactical error staying in the Democratic Party. He would have been quite the attention getter in the GOP, and could have changed the dynamics of the election just by doing so.
I don't agree with all of his ideas by I give him props for having ideas. Ramaswamy is the closest thing to a candidate with ideas on the GOP side, and he's mostly going for sound bites.
I do promote and forward your articles! This is where not having any social media, not even FB, is a hindrance.
“Having ideas” exactly, discussing ideas would be so refreshing. I don’t agree with all of Kennedy either but I agree if he went GOP as the truly moderate he would have garnered support from all sides.
(I do know that you share and promote my Substack, and it is very much appreciated!)
He might have been able to run the table just on crossover support alone.
I genuinely believe that a politician who had the stones to champion a set of ideas and articulate a governing philosophy (e.g., Ronald Reagan) would go far. One reason I think people are so cynical about politics today is because politicians pay lip service to this or that ideology, genuflect to progressive or conservative shibboleths, but quite obviously don't believe their own BS.
Kennedy at least comes across as genuine. Agree or disagree with him on things like the environment, at least he can say he's been fighting that fight all along, and can back it up.
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