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Trump Colored Glasses

As our country rushes headlong towards the cliff, it is frightening to observe how Trump colored glasses have blinded voters.  Many are oblivious to the danger as they blow by the exit ramps.  The rest of us watch with fear, helplessness, ignorance or apathy.   

It is inexplicable that so many appear unconcerned that Democrat leadership has politicized federal and local justice departments to attack a political rival and his attorneys.  This is astounding.  How could anyone believe this is good for our country and ignore the future consequences?  Blame it on the Trump colored glasses.  Wearers have been conditioned to believe Trump must be banished even if it requires undermining the foundations of our Republic. 

These same folks were also silent when it became clear the “Russia collusion” narrative was a scam, when evidence of Biden family corruption was censored before the 2020 election, when 51 retired intelligence officers misrepresented the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation, when conservative and/or antiestablishment people were censored and/or demonetized, when it was clear Hamilton 68 was a total hoax, to name just a few con jobs people have tolerated.  In years past one of these scandals would have rocked the nation.  Not now. People accept increasingly undemocratic strategies to “save” democracy from Trump.  Trump colored glasses are very effective. 

How many people with Trump colored glasses will be surprised to discover the goal of the Trump indictments is not to eliminate the “greatest threat to democracy”, but to manipulate Republicans to nominate him?  This is a natural extension of the successful Democrat strategy in 2022: keep Trump front and center, elevate his candidates, and watch with glee as the independents vote against anyone with the Trump stench.  Trump allowed himself to be played and coupled with his poor candidate choices in purple states, Democrats won the Senate.  The perceived corruption of justice will ensure Trump himself is on the 2024 ticket with the hope of similar results, up and down the ballot. 

How many people believe if they support one more duplicitous act to banish Trump that the country will unite and the creep of totalitarianism will be reversed?  Will the current crop of Democrat leaders retire fictional multiyear cons, embrace free speech, ban censorship, prohibit platform demonetization, stop lawfare election interference, and restore equal justice under the law?  Not a chance.  What is happening now will look like child’s play if those who have perpetrated these scams solidify their power. 

Once Trump is gone and the Trump colored glasses come off, folks might then realize the well-executed Democrat con jobs were never about getting rid of the orange man.  The goal was to crush and disperse organized opposition with the citizens’ unwitting approval.  

To compound matters significantly, there are many Trump supporters who have also donned a different version of Trump colored glasses.  These glasses only allow the wearers to see the weaponization of justice and unequal application of the law against Trump and their fellow Americans.  Folks are outraged this is happening in America and feel the most effective way to protest is to nominate Trump. 

They are blind to the trap. Democrat leadership want Trump to be nominated because he is beatable.  To hedge their bets, the Democrats will replace Biden and/or Harris and time Trump’s trials so he spends significant time in court rather than on the campaign trail. 

Trump colored glasses also blind voters to the fact that Trump has participated in his own destruction with unethical behavior and limited strategic planning. Trump and the Republicans were outmaneuvered with covid policy and pre-election lawfare in 2020.  Trump personally undermined the post-election court challenges and contributed to the loss of the Senate in 2020 by focusing on himself rather than driving the vote in the Georgia runoff.  As described above, his ego and poor judgement helped hand the Senate to Democrats in 2022.  Those wearing pro Trump colored glasses do not see his established record of losing or that he is a surface skimmer who senses the truth but responds with ill-conceived knee jerk reactions that are often used against him.  They only see that they were better off under a Trump administration and believe Trump can deliver the same results again. 

Trump supporters also fail to see Trump utilizes the same strategies that have been used so successfully against him.  He lies relentlessly and people believe him.  He deploys false narratives such as reducing his significant failings to a few mean tweets.  A very successful narrative suggests that anyone who challenges him is a RINO, never trumper or swamp dweller.  Trump colored glasses hide the fact that Trump has sunk to his opponent’s level.  Should he manage to win, will he also copy their totalitarian strategies and weaponize the justice department?  Perhaps engage in rampant censorship?  Encourage platforms to demonetize his opponents? 

Trump’s choice to run again is the clearest indication that his immense ego is in control, the country be damned.  A better man capable of intellectual honesty would realize he had been bested.  Even if he could win, his chances of building the A team have been severely limited by the successful Democrat attacks on anyone in his orbit.  A man who put his country first would have thrown his support behind a candidate who has a better chance of winning and could serve 8 years. 

What is to be done?  Some believe we have no option but to sit by and watch our country tumble over the totalitarian cliff.  Untrue.  We have been conditioned to think otherwise but We the People still have power.  People of all parties should forcefully unite against the establishment and select candidates outside the current Democrat and Trump machines.  If we don’t, our rights as outlined in the constitution will be diminished and ultimately extinguished.  We the People will become a quaint phrase that means absolutely nothing.  Let’s get serious and spread the word. 

DETAILS

The information below is intended to bolster my opinions above and offer a starting point for folks to do their own research.  We should clearly understand what has happened to predict what will happen if we allow the death dance between Trump and current Democrat leadership to continue.  

·      I highly recommend reading “Rigged” by Mollie Hemingway.  Both versions of Trump colored glasses will slip off as machine generated narratives are exposed.  As a companion piece, consider reading this Times article in which Democrat operatives, big tech and the media brag about their successful efforts to influence the 2020 election.  Then dive into the Twitter files referenced below.  An ugly picture of the combatants will emerge. 

·      This article from the Atlantic Journal-Constitution details who turned out for the 2020 Senate runoff in Georgia.  Many Republicans stayed home and more Democrats turned out.  Trump’s messaging (and how it was used by Democrats) impacted Republican turnout. There is a contingent of people who believe all of Trump’s actions are part of a grand plan to save the country.  This appears to be narrative building at its best to explain away his failures. From the Republican point of view, the consequences of losing the Senate were massive.  It is inconceivable that Trump caused this to happen on purpose.

·      After the first indictment of Trump I published this article with the message that we should ignore the Trump/Biden clown show.  With the events that have transpired since April 6, 2023 ignoring the clown show is the wrong suggestion.  This is not a clown show anymore but a race to the edge and it requires our full attention and action.  Corporate media is useless.  Consider following the independent investigative journalists who have left corporate media to pursue the truth. 

·      When it was announced Biden would be the Democrat candidate, their strategy began to crystallize.  I outlined my opinion in Predictions.  Once the indictments began in earnest, at least one of the required “distractions” referenced in the article was revealed.  It is unclear at this point if both Biden and Harris will be replaced with another candidate team or just Harris.  In my humble opinion, anyone who believes both Biden/Harris will be the 2024 ticket has fallen for yet another Democrat con job. 

·      Trump/DeSantis polls pre and post indictment tell the story of how the indictments have impacted the primaries.  Folks flocked to Trump ignoring that he will likely get crushed legally in the general.  It is a brilliant deceptive strategy by Democrat leadership.  Aside from undermining our election process to elevate Trump, it simultaneously depresses DeSantis, who is a threat to a Democrat win in 2024. It gives the media a reason to endlessly pontificate on why DeSantis has dropped in the polls and blame it on all manner of unpleasant things except the most obvious – the Trump indictments and the people’s reaction.

·      There are others who also believe that the Democrats are setting a trap.  Here is Daniel Henninger’s view.   

·      The WSJ editorial board details the politicized timing of the court cases and its impact in this editorial.

·      There is much legal discussion over the Trump indictments that is easily researched.  Many from both sides consider the indictments a notable legal stretch except for the documents case which has stronger legal merit.  This is a short video with Andy McCarthy that demonstrates the double standard and unequal application of the laws surrounding classified documents.    https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6329115115112

·      I highly recommend a deep dive into the Twitter Files to understand the scope of the censorship and the government’s involvement.  Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and Bari Weiss were instrumental in this reporting. Ignore the attempts to discredit them as right wing nut jobs (they are not) and jump into the details.  They are an eye-opening example of the efforts to curtail our first amendment rights and manipulate the public.  Other than vilifying the reporters, the Twitter Files caused barely a ripple in the media.  I wonder how many folks realize this has gone far beyond Trump already. 

·      For those unaware that Russiagate was a made up scam, I highly recommend reading Jeff Gerth’s article published in the Columbia Journalism Review “The Press vs the President”.  Racket News did a helpful summary.  People who cannot understand why folks still support Trump should immerse themselves in this subject.  The long term impacts of this con job on our country and the Presidency are immense.  It was all a lie designed to bring Trump down.  Is it any surprise people don’t believe anything about the current indictments and are blind to any Trump culpability? 

·      Everyone now knows the Hunter Biden laptop is real, the laptop includes much “smoke” about Biden corruption, it was censored by most media before the election and that 51 retired intelligence officers mispresented it as “Russian disinformation” at the bidding of the Biden campaign.  Biden and the media used this letter to deflect attention during the 2020 campaign. As a result many voters were unaware of the facts on election day.  

A search through most news sources will reveal the truth of these statements.  Here is good summary by the WSJ editorial board. Regardless of how one feels about Trump, the collusion between the Democrat machine, the media, big tech and the administrative state to interfere with the election should be chilling to all.  I have wondered if this group coined the term “election denier” to deflect attention from their own duplicitous actions in 2020. 

·      Matt Taibbi and Racket News have done a deep dive into the Hamilton 68 scam.  A search on Racket News site will reveal several follow up articles.  An organization designed to track disinformation created it.  This is our world already. 

An excerpt: “This was not faulty science. It was a scam. Instead of tracking how “Russia” influenced American attitudes, Hamilton 68 simply collected a handful of mostly real, mostly American accounts, and described their organic conversations as Russian scheming. As Roth put it, “Virtually any conclusion drawn from [the dashboard] will take conversations in conservative circles on Twitter and accuse them of being Russian.”

·      I pulled the phrase “creeping totalitarianism” from a Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn podcast on the subject of censorship and the demonetization of Grayzone.  Grayzone is a group of left leaning, antiwar journalists who dared to challenge the establishment’s stand on Ukraine.  GoFundMe froze their account.  They also discuss the EU’s recently passed Digital Services Act.  The US is on track for similar Orwellian legislation if we do not change course.

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A Battle of Extremes

We the People are the pawns in a battle of extremes.  Those seeking our submission do not have our best interests at heart.  They promote extremism and idolatry via emotional, nonsensical appeals short circuiting our vision of reality and ability to think rationally.  Our job is to take off the blinders, engage our brains, and get to work fixing this country by neutralizing those out for themselves.  

Let’s start with Trump.  I beseech all Trump supporters to critically examine his actions.  They are increasingly bizarre. Forget for a minute that he spared us a Hillary presidency, fought the good fight and implemented many policies that were good for our country. Ask instead, what has he done lately?  

For one, he unsuccessfully meddled in the 2022 midterms.  He elevated primary candidates based on whether they bent the knee not on their credentials and ability to win in the general.  Trump supporters complied and delivered Trump’s picks in the primaries, in some cases leaving the better candidate on the trash heap. The opposition recognized the opportunity and spent millions backing vulnerable Trump candidates. Trump’s ego grew.  Weak battleground candidates lost.  

Trump also exhibited incredibly poor judgement a couple days before the election at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.  With crass attacks against DeSantis and Pence, he effectively announced his bid for the presidency.  ME, ME, ME, I am the celestial body around which everything revolves.  Who cares about Oz!  Who cares about winning the Senate!  Look at ME!  How many decided against Trump’s boy Oz as a result?  

Let’s please stop making excuses for Trump’s failures.  Let’s not fall for the divisive con that anyone who criticizes Trump is a RINO or Never Trumper.  Let’s deep six the idea that Trump’s words don’t matter because he did good things as President.  It should be clear to all that what he says has an immense negative impact on voters.  Do we ignore Biden’s words when he says: “No more drilling”.  Of course not.  Trump is not “anointed”.  The only thing he wants to save is himself and as we watch him self-destruct, his success even at that is in question.  

With Trump’s post election, rambling attack on DeSantis one can only wonder if his ego has eaten his brain.  As we move to a runoff in Georgia, would any rational politician cause a war in the party?  Sadly, it appears Trump has become a caricature of himself.  

Eyes wide open please because Trump is a gnat compared to the other extreme forces at work. Progressivism is a wrecking ball on western society.  Our confused, shuffling President is the face of the American progressive movement while whoever is running the government is the brains.  Regulation and executive order are the weapons.  Lies and manipulation create the marketing.  We the People are the suckers.  

Does the majority believe it’s a good idea to throttle back on fossil fuels before a viable alternative exists?  That we should cast aside energy independence?  Doubtful.  Progressives want the Green New Deal even though the resultant inflation and energy shortages threaten our national and economic security.  That sounds like a real “threat to democracy”.  

It is also hard to believe most Americans support teaching kids they can be a boy or girl, both or neither and then give them health destroying drugs when they listen.  Or undermine the traditional family structure by legislating parents out of decisions involving their children.   Or divide our nation along racial lines and promote Marxist victim/oppressor ideology.  What is gained by teaching kids they are victims? Nothing good.

Progressive politicians support abortion until the moment of birth.  The extreme support killing babies born alive after a botched abortion.  Regardless of one’s belief regarding first term abortions, most agree late term and post birth abortions for convenience are a moral abomination.  The slippery slope of physician assisted suicide is also gaining ground in states controlled by progressives.  

Progressives authored the defund the police movement that created chaos in our society.  We should always remember the riots and the progressive politicians who did nothing to stop them.  The “summer of love” was designed to create chaos so We the People would seek change in November 2020.  We got change.  We went from the frying pan into the fire.  

It is progressives who support our porous border controlled by the cartels.  Millions of people are released into our country siphoning tax dollars from hardworking taxpayers.  We know nothing about these folks.  Will they help or hurt our country?  We do know an insane amount of drugs are entering through the southern border.  We are at 100,000 drug overdose deaths annually.  That this administration does nothing to change course suggests they are good with the drugs, deaths, chaos and human smuggling.  They do not care about the financial and emotional cost of their policies, or they would change them.  

Free speech is under attack throughout our country. It is clear now that this administration has coordinated with social media to squash what they deem to be misinformation.  Watch progressive heads explode as Musk eliminates Twitter censorship.  In one of his most ironic moves, Biden suggested Musk be investigated for his ties to foreign countries.  Let that sink in.  

Progressives support the concentration of power at the federal level, packing the supreme court, eliminating the filibuster, woke ideology in our institutions, the elimination of the electoral college, federalizing elections, no voter ID, socializing large segments of our economy, high taxation, dumping trillions into the economy, and they absolutely love buying votes and dependency with our tax dollars whether they have the constitutional authority or not.  

Do the Americans in the middle agree with these extreme progressive policies and the obvious consequences?  Doubtful.  Yet a good number of them voted in the midterms for their continuation.  Why?  

When Biden said “democracy was on the ballot” his goal was to put Trump on the ballot, something the progressives desperately needed to deflect attention from the disastrous results of their policies.  They knew from 2020 many moderate democrats and independents have such a visceral hatred for Trump they would vote for a banana instead of him.  To aid in this effort, progressives spent millions backing Trump’s picks in the primaries figuring they would be easier to beat in the general.  They were right.  

Trump, with his big mouth and bad judgement, took the bait and plastered himself all over the ballot.  Trump himself confirmed the fear the progressives stoked.  Democrats voted in high numbers and independents broke for democrat and progressive candidates.  While there are other significant issues such as abortion that drove voters, the Trump factor in battleground states seems clear.  Emotions, ginned up by progressives and reinforced by Trump, resulted in some folks rejecting Trump candidates even though the candidate’s platform was a better reflection of their beliefs.  In other words, they hate Trump more than their grocery bills.

As progressive politicians vote progressively and democrats follow like sheep, emotion-based voters will likely say the country is headed in the wrong direction and wonder why.  

What is to be done?  

  • We must neutralize the extremes.  Progressivism is an extreme virulent cancer.  These words are not a republican scare tactic as the progressives in power would have many believe.  It’s real.  For those who consider this statement the ramblings of a nutbag, research is recommended.  Perhaps start with Thomas Sowell’s Black Wisdom Matters series to understand the race and equity con job.  The articles in the Transgender Campaign offer a window into the dangers of gender ideology.  Once a few threads are pulled the big picture will become clear.  
  • What can citizens do?  We can educate ourselves and then tell others.  Grassroot movements are the most effective.  
  • Woke indoctrination in schools must stop.  Parents are the front line in this effort.  
  • Gridlock in Washington will slow down the progressives. If control of the Senate comes down to the runoff in Georgia, support Herschel Walker.  While divided government will not stop Biden’s progressive pen or the regulatory actions of his administration, it will stop unlimited spending and efforts to pack the court or eliminate the filibuster.  Note the stock market responds well to grid lock.   Update 11.13.22 – Democrats will retain control in the Senate due to Republican losses in AZ (Masters) and NV (Laxalt). Herschel must win now in the event there are any free thinkers on the Democrat side.
  • Trump, the other extreme, must be neutralized as well if the republican party has any hope of uniting.  He has once again allowed himself to be the progressives’ most effective weapon.  Hopefully Trump supporters understand that he can’t win and if we back him, the country loses and progressivism wins.  We must support effective ethical leaders who can communicate clearly.  
  • The best way to neutralize Trump is to ignore him. 
  • Fringe Trump and far left progressive supporters are different sides of the same coin.  The rational middle should take control and demand the return of common sense and the demise of anything woke.  
  • All politicians use emotional appeals to win votes.  To get our country back on track, we can no longer afford to fall for that trick.  Let’s stand firm on our beliefs and vote accordingly.  

Our country is in a perilous position on nearly every front.  Hopefully, We the People pay attention, dig for the truth and take action.