Agreed. He's bringing up issues that should be discussed in a GOP debate and campaign. Unlike every single other candidate on the stage and in the media. Talking about nothing that the overwhelming majority of Republicans care about. So hat tip to him. And, I'm pleased to have had his voice on the stage that no real R's watched.
Faux News viewership now is the CNN/NBC/ABC/CBS viewer pre-2021. The "centrist" D's and U's who are alienated from their party but can't stomach Trump. Faux is the corporatist Rino's and homeless classic liberals go-to channel today. Not GOP primary voters pre-2021.
VR's voice to them is one they need to hear, but they'll dismiss him because they aren't ready to hear it. Yet.
I believe it helps him. I'd like to be optimistic, too. But I worked in and around elections enough in thirty years, first as a volunteer, then as a paid professional. I know how elections look, what election workers do, how results are tabulated, monitored, reported, etc. And I know whatever was left of fair election systems was obliterated in 2020 and again in 2022 in key contests.
I was a part of the election reform hearings in my state that brought machines into use following the 2000 'Hanging Chads' election, and none of the election safety and integrity protocols are followed now, even trying to perform election accountability as the laws said must be done is deemed a criminal act now. So my faith in the 2024 results being how voters truly vote is very low.
Elections *are* rigged. And not just against Trump. They have been for a longer time than most, including me having been around and in them would like to admit. Narrative. That's what declared election results are predicated on. If it's *plausible* for the losing candidate to win who's favored by the System Lords then that losing candidate will be declared the winner. Plausibility. That's all they are after.
If Trump or any MAGA is going to win in this New World Order election environment they will have to win so convincingly with so many more voters choosing them than their opponent that false results won't pass the plausibility test. Where everyone you know, strangers on the street, in the stores, pretty much everyone you see - absent a small minority, say 30% or under - voted for Trump/MAGA and speaks their truth to it so the rigged results aren't in any way plausible.
That's the only way to win against a system that is so horribly rigged. No 'silent' Trump voters. Silence allows the theft of our votes to happen. Others don't see the true numbers of supporters and go along with the news reports declaring the loser the winner, Because it will sound plausible without the roar of Trump/MAGA voters being heard over the media talking heads outside the voting booth...which is rigged.
Bringing along the minority vote is huge for this. Will need them to get to 70% majority for Trump/MAGA. Just to hazard an educated guess I'd say Trump really got about 54% in 2020, a solid win, more than Clinton or Obama ever got. But not enough to overcome the rigging. With the minority vote he gets over 60%, maybe 65%, gotta scrounge for the rest to get to 70%. Can it be done? Tough. That's going to be tough. Unheard of in US history. But, that optimism thing, huh?
Now, *should* Trump win in 2024 is another question. He fights. By gosh, he fights. With all his might. But his ego. His ego put us behind the 8-ball. His pandemic response brought totalitarianism that had been lurking around the corner, on the porch, into our house. While he didn't do the mandates that most every other politician did - including DeSantis and Noem - he opened the door to totalitarianism when it came knocking.
Had he stared down virus fear porn that was clearly orchestrated from reports around the world, coincidentally(?) reaching a crescendo in the US at the very end of its journey, hopping over borders and oceans, had he realized it was media narrative and said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" or "We will bear any burden, pay any price for the cause of liberty" the last three years would've been much different, for the better. He trusted the same media that had pummeled him with Russia Russia Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine for three years when they told him and the world about a virus.
Maybe we needed the wake-up call. Maybe it was going to take what we are now experiencing to see everything that was happening all around us, the proverbial frog happy and content in the warm pot of water before it comes to a boil. But he failed that test.
And he indulges the words of the flatterers to his ego more than surrounding himself with people who are committed to our constitutional founding values of freedom. He indulged authoritarianism, wrongly and ignorantly believing it could be let out of the barn for just a little bit, just two weeks. And that was the worst mistake ever made by a US president. He didn't follow Principiis obsta and Finem respice, Resist the beginnings and consider the end.
If any other candidate running for office has a better track record and commitment to the constitution - and the strength and independence to stare down the same forces that took Trump down - I'd be open to them. But DeSantis is too bought and paid for, exposed clearly now as a pretender to the throne. Perhaps RFK Jr could be that guy, but his wife is a radical progressive out of Hollywood and I don't trust that influence. Not to mention he'd have to overcome the same machine that would deny him the win just as it conspires to deny Trump the win. In the plausibility game he'd have to have win beyond the plausibility claims that Biden won the primary.
So we may be stuck with Trump, despite his shortcomings. And be ready to mitigate the impact of the bad counsel around him that he'll probably have again, because they say sweet nothings to him, that please his ego.
"There was a natural link. Economically speaking both states [Germany and the Soviet Union] were closer structurally than they were to the capitalist countries. Ribbentrop noted in particular that both countries were, in fact, hostile to "capitalistic western democracies". Germany had economic four year plans. The Soviet Union had five year plans. Both maintained direct party and state control over the economic direction of their respective states. Germany still had private enterprise but the Nazi policy of Gleichschaltung ensured the primacy of the state in economic matters." - p. 31
"In the period before the German-Soviet rapprochement the German Government made little secret of its hatred for the Soviet Union. Next to Jews the ideology of the Bolshevik state as well as its leaders were the pariahs of Nazi propaganda." - p. 21
"Ribbentrop suggested a joint and rather flowery communiqu├й to the press and submitted it for Stalin's approval. After reading it he said to Ribbentrop:
"Don't you think that we have to pay a little more attention to public opinion in our countries? For many years now we have been pouring buckets of slop over each other's heads and our propaganda boys could never do enough in that direction; and now all of a sudden are we to make our peoples believe that all is forgotten and forgiven? Things don't work so fast. Public opinion in our country, and probably in Germany too, will have to be prepared slowly for the change in our relations this treaty is to bring about, and it will have to be made familiar with it."
A more modest statement was agreed to. At the end of the discussions champagne was served.
Toasts to the treaty and the German people were made. Then Stalin proposed a toast to Hitler:
"I know how much the German nation loves its Fuhrer; I should therefore like to drink to his health." - p. 60-61
"Lastly the Pact and its consequences have shown what governments. both with and without structural checks and balances are capable of. It also shows to what degree disinformation can be created and perpetuated. It is this which is the lesson the historian and the student of history must take to heart when studying the Pact." - p. 87
Always have enjoyed, felt compelled to read history. And when pages previously hidden from view or awareness open up it's always fascinating to fill in blanks, connect dots, reconsider what was thought to be true. Are you aware of the role of the Thyssen's and Bush's? The American and British Fascists, who have always played footsy even during wars, very profitably enterprises.
Here's a piece I wrote about a speech made by a former DOJ Nazi hunter prosecutor. A story largely buried and ignored because it came out at the same time as the Hanging Chad soap opera recount. I transcribed the speech from the C-SPAN video I link to. Does a lot to explain the NeverTrumper's, Bush/Cheney/Rockefellers, et al hatred of a Trump outsider. Way too many skeletons they don't want to come out. And fits with other information I've run across linking GHWB's CIA assignment in Ft Worth for JFK's assassination as a reason why those files have never been declassified and released, the family business is still in operation.
Not trying to blackpill you. Don't be discouraged. Be motivated. And don't be silenced. Be vocal. Courage is contagious. Be the flag bearer advancing towards the enemy. Inspire others to rally to you. Have so much courage that if you fall, others near you swoop in to pick up the flag and never let it touch the ground or run to the rear. It's how freedom was won and preserved when musket balls and lead was flying. We face less lethal force in this war for our freedom. Unpleasant, hardships, even injury and imprisonment may await. But, freedom. What is to be our legacy?
I was in another state very similar to Oregon at the time. In another city similar to Portland. But other states took note of what happened in Florida and didn't want to be the next Florida when they passed voting machine reforms.
Agreed. He's bringing up issues that should be discussed in a GOP debate and campaign. Unlike every single other candidate on the stage and in the media. Talking about nothing that the overwhelming majority of Republicans care about. So hat tip to him. And, I'm pleased to have had his voice on the stage that no real R's watched.
Faux News viewership now is the CNN/NBC/ABC/CBS viewer pre-2021. The "centrist" D's and U's who are alienated from their party but can't stomach Trump. Faux is the corporatist Rino's and homeless classic liberals go-to channel today. Not GOP primary voters pre-2021.
VR's voice to them is one they need to hear, but they'll dismiss him because they aren't ready to hear it. Yet.
I believe it helps him. I'd like to be optimistic, too. But I worked in and around elections enough in thirty years, first as a volunteer, then as a paid professional. I know how elections look, what election workers do, how results are tabulated, monitored, reported, etc. And I know whatever was left of fair election systems was obliterated in 2020 and again in 2022 in key contests.
I was a part of the election reform hearings in my state that brought machines into use following the 2000 'Hanging Chads' election, and none of the election safety and integrity protocols are followed now, even trying to perform election accountability as the laws said must be done is deemed a criminal act now. So my faith in the 2024 results being how voters truly vote is very low.
Elections *are* rigged. And not just against Trump. They have been for a longer time than most, including me having been around and in them would like to admit. Narrative. That's what declared election results are predicated on. If it's *plausible* for the losing candidate to win who's favored by the System Lords then that losing candidate will be declared the winner. Plausibility. That's all they are after.
If Trump or any MAGA is going to win in this New World Order election environment they will have to win so convincingly with so many more voters choosing them than their opponent that false results won't pass the plausibility test. Where everyone you know, strangers on the street, in the stores, pretty much everyone you see - absent a small minority, say 30% or under - voted for Trump/MAGA and speaks their truth to it so the rigged results aren't in any way plausible.
That's the only way to win against a system that is so horribly rigged. No 'silent' Trump voters. Silence allows the theft of our votes to happen. Others don't see the true numbers of supporters and go along with the news reports declaring the loser the winner, Because it will sound plausible without the roar of Trump/MAGA voters being heard over the media talking heads outside the voting booth...which is rigged.
Bringing along the minority vote is huge for this. Will need them to get to 70% majority for Trump/MAGA. Just to hazard an educated guess I'd say Trump really got about 54% in 2020, a solid win, more than Clinton or Obama ever got. But not enough to overcome the rigging. With the minority vote he gets over 60%, maybe 65%, gotta scrounge for the rest to get to 70%. Can it be done? Tough. That's going to be tough. Unheard of in US history. But, that optimism thing, huh?
Now, *should* Trump win in 2024 is another question. He fights. By gosh, he fights. With all his might. But his ego. His ego put us behind the 8-ball. His pandemic response brought totalitarianism that had been lurking around the corner, on the porch, into our house. While he didn't do the mandates that most every other politician did - including DeSantis and Noem - he opened the door to totalitarianism when it came knocking.
Had he stared down virus fear porn that was clearly orchestrated from reports around the world, coincidentally(?) reaching a crescendo in the US at the very end of its journey, hopping over borders and oceans, had he realized it was media narrative and said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" or "We will bear any burden, pay any price for the cause of liberty" the last three years would've been much different, for the better. He trusted the same media that had pummeled him with Russia Russia Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine for three years when they told him and the world about a virus.
Maybe we needed the wake-up call. Maybe it was going to take what we are now experiencing to see everything that was happening all around us, the proverbial frog happy and content in the warm pot of water before it comes to a boil. But he failed that test.
And he indulges the words of the flatterers to his ego more than surrounding himself with people who are committed to our constitutional founding values of freedom. He indulged authoritarianism, wrongly and ignorantly believing it could be let out of the barn for just a little bit, just two weeks. And that was the worst mistake ever made by a US president. He didn't follow Principiis obsta and Finem respice, Resist the beginnings and consider the end.
If any other candidate running for office has a better track record and commitment to the constitution - and the strength and independence to stare down the same forces that took Trump down - I'd be open to them. But DeSantis is too bought and paid for, exposed clearly now as a pretender to the throne. Perhaps RFK Jr could be that guy, but his wife is a radical progressive out of Hollywood and I don't trust that influence. Not to mention he'd have to overcome the same machine that would deny him the win just as it conspires to deny Trump the win. In the plausibility game he'd have to have win beyond the plausibility claims that Biden won the primary.
So we may be stuck with Trump, despite his shortcomings. And be ready to mitigate the impact of the bad counsel around him that he'll probably have again, because they say sweet nothings to him, that please his ego.
Exhibit A
The Hitler-Stalin pact: discussion of the Non-Aggression Treaty and the secret protocols
East China University of Technology, January, 1992
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234008336_The_Hitler-Stalin_pact_discussion_of_the_Non-Aggression_Treaty_and_the_secret_protocols
(Download full text PDF - free)
"There was a natural link. Economically speaking both states [Germany and the Soviet Union] were closer structurally than they were to the capitalist countries. Ribbentrop noted in particular that both countries were, in fact, hostile to "capitalistic western democracies". Germany had economic four year plans. The Soviet Union had five year plans. Both maintained direct party and state control over the economic direction of their respective states. Germany still had private enterprise but the Nazi policy of Gleichschaltung ensured the primacy of the state in economic matters." - p. 31
"In the period before the German-Soviet rapprochement the German Government made little secret of its hatred for the Soviet Union. Next to Jews the ideology of the Bolshevik state as well as its leaders were the pariahs of Nazi propaganda." - p. 21
"Ribbentrop suggested a joint and rather flowery communiqu├й to the press and submitted it for Stalin's approval. After reading it he said to Ribbentrop:
"Don't you think that we have to pay a little more attention to public opinion in our countries? For many years now we have been pouring buckets of slop over each other's heads and our propaganda boys could never do enough in that direction; and now all of a sudden are we to make our peoples believe that all is forgotten and forgiven? Things don't work so fast. Public opinion in our country, and probably in Germany too, will have to be prepared slowly for the change in our relations this treaty is to bring about, and it will have to be made familiar with it."
A more modest statement was agreed to. At the end of the discussions champagne was served.
Toasts to the treaty and the German people were made. Then Stalin proposed a toast to Hitler:
"I know how much the German nation loves its Fuhrer; I should therefore like to drink to his health." - p. 60-61
"Lastly the Pact and its consequences have shown what governments. both with and without structural checks and balances are capable of. It also shows to what degree disinformation can be created and perpetuated. It is this which is the lesson the historian and the student of history must take to heart when studying the Pact." - p. 87
Always have enjoyed, felt compelled to read history. And when pages previously hidden from view or awareness open up it's always fascinating to fill in blanks, connect dots, reconsider what was thought to be true. Are you aware of the role of the Thyssen's and Bush's? The American and British Fascists, who have always played footsy even during wars, very profitably enterprises.
Here's a piece I wrote about a speech made by a former DOJ Nazi hunter prosecutor. A story largely buried and ignored because it came out at the same time as the Hanging Chad soap opera recount. I transcribed the speech from the C-SPAN video I link to. Does a lot to explain the NeverTrumper's, Bush/Cheney/Rockefellers, et al hatred of a Trump outsider. Way too many skeletons they don't want to come out. And fits with other information I've run across linking GHWB's CIA assignment in Ft Worth for JFK's assassination as a reason why those files have never been declassified and released, the family business is still in operation.
https://freedomfox.substack.com/p/knowing-the-true-adversary
Not trying to blackpill you. Don't be discouraged. Be motivated. And don't be silenced. Be vocal. Courage is contagious. Be the flag bearer advancing towards the enemy. Inspire others to rally to you. Have so much courage that if you fall, others near you swoop in to pick up the flag and never let it touch the ground or run to the rear. It's how freedom was won and preserved when musket balls and lead was flying. We face less lethal force in this war for our freedom. Unpleasant, hardships, even injury and imprisonment may await. But, freedom. What is to be our legacy?
I was in another state very similar to Oregon at the time. In another city similar to Portland. But other states took note of what happened in Florida and didn't want to be the next Florida when they passed voting machine reforms.