The Jokes On You
I came across an opinion piece today that came incredible close to a lot of truths behind the deceptions of who Trump really was. The one thing that continually escapes me is how it escapes a whole lot of people about that inauguration day picture that goes counter to virtually every aspects of the last two administrations prior, and should have, in some aspects been held in the same regard now, but it doesn't, instead they are laughing in peoples faces about one of the biggest scams ever played on the American electorate, and instead of blaming the thieves who really stole the 2020 election, people continue to blame one another.
Just the plain fact that "Smuckerburg", you all remember that, don't you?, ended up in that inauguration day photo should have had everyone on the left and right questioning what that was all about. Instead it's still all about but Biden, but Obama, but Russia gate, but, but, but. No one stops to remember all the millions Zuckerburg put behind the 2020 elections unlawfully to the states, it was unlawful because it came attached with how those states who took the money could use the money. Despite all the cries of how it helped the democrats, that in itself was just a mirage. All that funding that went into voter drives was the true objective, achieving that overall goal of getting every eligible voter to register is what created the all inclusive voter fraud scheme Biden mumbled on about. The part no one even gets, is achieving that wasn't to the real benefit to either side. It, in the end, sculpted out the ability to exactly how Michael Moore described it. They equalized out your vote.
"It’s equalized on that day. A millionaire has the same number of votes as the person without a job. And there’s more in the former middle class than there are in the millionaire class. Michael Moore
I myself personally am of the opinion that Moore helped write the script to Trump's first uprising. Moore was friends was Obama, but Trump also was. Moore would spend time watching The Apprentice with Obama. The three men with the backing of billionaires, have scripted out the monologue we've seen foisted onto the American public over the last several years. Peter Thiel was responsible for Trumps first rise, Zuckerburg for his fall, and Musk for Trumps rise the second time. Thiel wasn't at the inauguration, and he told in an interview that he felt confident that Trump would win again so he didn't feel a need to be involved, but he was busy being involved getting a virtually unknown political player elected the second time, JD Vance. He not only financed JD's book, Hillbilly Elegy, but paid to have it written and published and donated fifteen million to JD's senate seat. By the time these players got done, they ended up with ninety one million infrequent voters registered that could turn the tide in any election, being whether for a democrat or a republican. Think about that in context. When Trump said the 2024 election would be the last election anybody had to bother voting in, he literally meant it. Logically it ended their problem of everyone's one vote being more than the one percent of the billionaire class. A presidential election is won by a lot smaller margin than ninety one million individuals. That is where the Zuck bucks, as some have come to call them, turned the tide in fomenting changes to state elections rules to increase mail in ballots, the number of days before and after ballots could be accepted to the increase number of drop boxes, not so much in heavily democratic areas as you'd be led to believe, but in low income areas where there's an overlooked part of the populace that doesn't vote, or votes infrequently. That's the demographics they were after, the low information crowd to the disenfranchised crowd, and most those individuals, whether democrats or republicans live in low to middle income places. To equalize their vote to the masses, to throw an election to either conceivable side, would require massive voter registration drives to seek out and find, register, update voter registration rolls. That's why, over the course of the last eight years, you witnessed hot topic issues placed on ballots, like abortion, marijuana legalization, and people being paid twenty seven fifty an hour standing in every nook and cranny across the country asking people if they were registered to vote. Now with ninety one million new, infrequent, current and updated voter registries, you really don't have to bother voting, and actually it helps them even more if you don't. The increased days to vote helps them mark off the ones who have already voted, election days rolls around they mark off who voted on election day, and the increased days waiting for ballots post marked by election days, coming in from overseas, etc., leaves them ample time to turn the tide, hence why you get calls now after election day asking you if you voted. They didn't even bother to ask who you voted for, they just want to know if you voted. It's not a survey or polling of who you voted for, why you did or didn't vote, it's pretty straight forward, did you vote, yes, no, click. This is the legal, extensive, inclusive voter fraud system. This takes the whole illegal immigrants voting right out of the debate and why the sudden urge to just scrub any off voter rolls, and when it was all said and done for, there wasn't enough of them there to turn the tide of a presidential election.
The author of the opinion piece describes how Trump rose off the backs of the disenfranchised, which is eerily close to the same way Michael Moore was on about explaining it, even right up to appealing to individuals across the rust belt states. Which I will put her op at the bottom of mine as a whole in which she also goes on to make note that despite Tesla's poor performance the shareholders just gave him a trillion dollar raise. In the real world it would be questionable money laundering scheme going on but the fact is this could be wagering on future investments of those in the know. Otherwise how do you explain charging stations popping up all across the country in every gas station for cars that are not in demand. It could also simply be laundering money back to him for making off with all that government data they downloaded on insecure servers, and quite possible upgraded and downloaded back during the shut down. I surmised that SNAP going down was to do exactly that and we'd find out if articles about fraud started to appear afterward. I was right about that, and the bonus to that was now everyone has to re- register for SNAP. That was pretty obvious what was going on but at least this time one can't argue about the abuse and fraud, it's pretty common knowledge. Musk had a quote awhile back that a bigger concern than drones should be AI being used as an effective tool for propaganda:
Probably a bigger risk than being hunted down by a drone is that AI would be used to make incredibly effective propaganda. Elon Musk
There's a lot of truth in that since that's what they used to equalize your vote. People will be hard pressed to see any charges ever leveled against all the players over the last eight years, it was all propaganda to keep you distracted from their real intent. No one is ever going to prison over Russia gate, and it should come under scrutiny as one of the most prime "examples" given the outcome, that big tech was involved more so than the Russian. No one is going to prison over the raid at Mar A Lago or any number of the other witch hunts that went on. That's because that's, and I hate to quote Musk again, how propaganda effects peoples minds. Thiel said prior to the election that he felt the vote would be close, early on it appeared to be, than it wasn't even as close as claimed but the propaganda spin was it set forth a mandate. Who is the world would have ever thought DOGE was any part of a mandate. That millions of workers voted to lose their jobs. The other day he was going on about how millions would lose their jobs to robots, and that's the farthest from the truth. If millions of people were going to lose their jobs, bringing millions over the border to replace the declining work force of the baby boom generation wouldn't have been financed by those same NGO's, the natural decline of workers to jobs would have been the proper route of choice but it wouldn't feed fear, distraction into the conversation. Using that which they've been using all along. But here's something should it unfold that could give credence you've lost your voting power to the one percent, that's if Marjorie Taylor Green comes out and decides to run for another office, it would be rather hard to prove that this rebranding of Marge isn't an attempt at exactly that since she is low man on the totem polling, because you can't cheat an election where the polls numbers aren't in your favor or even close. Maybe she didn't "fit in" the DC crowd but ultimately she didn't say she felt the same way overall about politics. Trump told her, your polling is to low, and that is crucial when it comes to determining who'll win a seat under control of the new, inclusive, extensive voter fraud system. At this point, for all we know, MAGA is just a figment of our propaganda imaginations, with everyone who loved Trump before they hated Trump, who loved Trump again, as Moore has said, coming out as the biggest winners for doing such, it's time people started paying better attention, start focusing more on them than each other before it's to late.
Op by: Heather Digby Parton
One of the truisms of American politics over the past few decades has been that voters want their presidents to be someone you’d like to have a beer with, a regular guy — yes, it’s only guys — you could relate to. Since politicians are very rarely regular guys, they often go to great lengths to create a persona designed to at least give that impression. Mostly that has meant pretending to be a Real American by riding horses, going hunting or driving around in a pick-up to prove they aren’t some effete city slicker. Sometimes they try to fake it by being a Rust Belt kind of fellow or a military man. But the most important thing is to not act like some wealthy nob, even though most of them are, lording your superiority over the common folk whose votes are necessary for victory.
In 2016, Donald Trump took that strategy and blew it to smithereens. He flaunted his wealth at every turn, refusing to do the standard meet-and-greets in diners and living rooms in favor of big rallies where he stood above the crowd and regaled them for hours on end. Instead of wandering around state fairs and talking to the locals, he would land in a field in his personal helicopter and take some kids up for a ride. And all those people who insisted that they couldn’t stand a city boy fell in love with the rich, braggadocious New Yorker.
But in a way, Trump did have the common touch. He liked fast food and sports and, most importantly, he shared all their gripes and complaints and articulated them in the same terms some used themselves. For all his crowing about his money and showing off, he really didn’t put on airs. He was just like them.
He wasn’t, of course, and he reportedly had nothing but contempt for his followers. But for all of Trump’s flashy displays of wealth, he was never really a member of the Billionaire Boys club either. He was a climber, always on the outside looking in.
But since he won the presidency the second time, it’s different. He’s one of the Big Money Boys now, and that club loves him as much as any MAGA redhat.
So far, the most indelible image of Trump’s second term is the line up of wealthy tech oligarchs standing right behind him at his inauguration: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, Amazon CEO and Washington Post publisher Jeff Bezos and his then-fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and, of course, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world. All of them were there to demonstrate their fealty to the man who would be king. And why not? After fomenting an attempted coup, inspiring an insurrection and being found liable for sexual abuse and defamation, and massive fraud, Trump’s ballsy reelection was the most impressive act of legerdemain they had ever seen, proving once again that rich men can do whatever they want.
Trump spends a good deal of his time as president these days exhibiting his exemption from all accountability. He brazenly parades his corruption right out in the open now, caring nothing for the fact that the American people are angry about the economy and resent that their needs are going unmet. He is swallowing a firehose full of money for himself and his family, selling access to himself and the White House, blackmailing institutions and accepting “gifts” from foreign countries and individuals alike.
And he’s more interested in entertaining Saudi princes and tech broligarchs than he is in holding the rallies that were a constant feature of his first term. Even in the middle of the longest government shutdown in history, Trump invited CEOs and billionaires to the White House for a lavish meal to thank them for their generous donations to his $300 million ballroom pet project. They dutifully bowed with great respect.
Donald Trump can get away with anything — and so can they.
The biggest scandal of his political career has unsurprisingly turned out to be a sex scandal. He has, after all, been dogged by them since his first wife Ivana confronted his then-mistress — and future second wife — Marla Maples on the ski slopes of Aspen in 1989. And in 2016, the Access Hollywood tape nearly ended his presidential campaign. From Stormy Daniels to E. Jean Carroll to all the women who have come forward to accuse him of sexual assault over a period of decades, it’s hardly surprising that his long friendship with deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein would eventually result in some very close scrutiny by the public. Nothing could have been more predictable.
Aside from the horrors of Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell’s alleged underage sex trafficking operation, this scandal has revealed itself as yet another example of the culture of impunity the elite members of our society enjoy. In 2008, Epstein himself was given a sweetheart plea deal by federal prosecutors, and in retrospect it’s hard not to conclude that it was the result of his relationships with all these rich and powerful men. Trump was one of them, a close friend of Epstein’s for over 15 years, but he was hardly alone.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., told FBI Director Kash Patel that he’s been informed “there [is] one Hollywood producer worth a few $100 million, one royal prince, one high-profile individual in the music industry, one very prominent banker, one high-profile government official, one high-profile former politician, one owner of a car company in Italy, one rock star, one magician and at least six billionaires” that were part of Epstein’s orbit. That, one suspects, is just the tip of the iceberg.
As the fight over releasing the Epstein files — which the president opposed after having promised in 2024 to do so — played out, Trump’s followers were getting restive. Even after he flipped to endorse the release at the last possible minute and signed the bill into law, they know something’s wrong but they aren’t able to fully accept that their leader is one of those hated elites they’ve always loathed. Last week, even Mike Cernovich, one of the most hard-core MAGA influencers and purveyor of the Pizzagate pedophile conspiracy theory, wrote on X, “During a recent visit in DC, the talk of everyone was how overt the corruption was. It’s at levels you read about in history books. In nearly every department.” No kidding.
We are living in a period of unimaginable wealth among the upper 1%, who are getting richer by the day. Elon Musk, despite how badly Tesla’s stock performs or how outrageous he behaves, was just given a trillion dollar payday by the company’s shareholders. As the world’s richest man, he does what he wants. In fact, according to a new report by Oxfam, the 10 richest people in the United States have seen their collective fortune grow by nearly $700 billion since Trump secured a second term.
With all that money they can buy any number of lawyers, harass their enemies, reward their friends and elude any consequences for their criminal behavior. Just like Trump. He’s their leader now.