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Here's why Trump won the election, and what he may do now

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© Scott Olson/Getty ImagesFormer and future US President Donald Trump • campaign rally on election day • November 5, 2024 • Grand Rapids, Michigan
Like him or not, the controversial Republican's return to office marks a crucial turning point - it remains to be seen in which direction.

Donald Trump has won the US election. After serving as the 45th president between 2017 and 2021, he will now be the 47th. Trump has not merely defeated but trounced his opponent Kamala Harris. She was crushed so badly, she even failed to address her supporters at the traditional election party and instead - there's really no nicer word for it - slunk away.

Claiming his victory, meanwhile, Trump told his voters that they - and he, of course - had "made history." He is very likely to be right about that.

While rhetoric about "the most important election in our lifetime" has been badly overused for campaigning purposes, in this case, Trump's second victory really is special. The fact that he is the first president since the 1880s to win a second term after being out of office is the least of it. Such trivia will make for good game-show questions. But what turns the return of the Donald - as he used to be called semi-affectionately when still generally mistaken for a buffoon - into a historic event is that it is occurring at a very peculiar moment.

We are witnessing the decline and fall of, at least, American supremacy, and, possibly, of the American polity as we know it. At the same time, a multipolar world order is emerging. It is against that background of historic change that we have to understand the Trump Phenomenon.

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The CDC planned quarantine camps nationwide

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No matter how bad you think Covid policies were, they were intended to be worse.

Consider the vaccine passports alone. Six cities were locked down to include only the vaccinated in public indoor places. They were New York City, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Seattle. The plan was to enforce this with a vaccine passport. It broke. Once the news leaked that the shot didn't stop infection or transmission, the planners lost public support and the scheme collapsed.

It was undoubtedly planned to be permanent and nationwide if not worldwide. Instead, the scheme had to be dialed back.

Features of the CDC's edicts did incredible damage. It imposed the rent moratorium. It decreed the ridiculous "six feet of distance" and mask mandates. It forced Plexiglas as the interface for commercial transactions. It implied that mail-in balloting must be the norm, which probably flipped the election. It delayed the reopening as long as possible. It was sadistic.

Even with all that, worse was planned. On July 26, 2020, with the George Floyd riots having finally settled down, the CDC issued a plan for establishing nationwide quarantine camps:
People were to be isolated, given only food and some cleaning supplies. They would be banned from participating in any religious services. The plan included contingencies for preventing suicide.
There were no provisions made for any legal appeals or even the right to legal counsel.

Comment: What didn't happen could have happened. The planning says it all. Next time?


Stop

NYC mayor ends food vouchers for illegals, ready to work with Trump

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© UnknownNew York City Mayor Eric Adams
Facing an influx of illegal immigrants, Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he'd be happy to share ideas on the crisis with President-elect Donald Trump.

At a post-election press conference, Adams said New York now hosts 220,000 illegal immigrants and has received negligible support from the federal government. When asked what help he would like to see, Adams said: "I want to see the federal government fix a federal problem. This is a federal problem."

It is estimated that feeding and housing the illegal immigrants for three years will cost the city $10 billion. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has allocated $2.4 billion for this year. Which is perhaps why the NYC mayor said the city will phase out out a program that gave prepaid debit cards to migrant families in city-funded hotels to purchase their own meals and essentials, according to CBS News New York. The program will provide migrant families with debit cards until the end of the year. After that, the city will deliver food directly to migrants.

Comment: Send the bill to Biden. They are his immigrants.


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SOTT Focus: Election Aftermath: Notes on the 'Grand Realignment'

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Some post-election thoughts are due.

Firstly, I'd like to announce the most recent paywalled article has now been opened up to the public on this occasion:

As We Stare Down the Precipice, Final Ruminations

A major shift is happening. Read full story

I encourage you to read it particularly because the prediction set out in the opening of it has proven accurate thus far, insofar as Trump winning and causing a tangible realignment and soul-searching on the Left, so the remaining prognoses may have a special resonance.

But I'd like to point you to a couple of the biggest takeaways from the election result. Here is my biggest of all:

The election proved one thing: the 'Deep State' and hidden hostile powers known as the 'Globalists' that scheme behind the scenes and secretly run the country are not all-powerful. They can clearly be defeated when the people are fed-up enough.

Comment: Make no mistake, the US Deep State/Globalist Elites will not stand still in their continued efforts to undermine, subvert and destroy anything like a restoration of the Republic. Their willingness and desperation to achieve Totalitarian control, at even enormous costs, will not be abated or subdued. So, Trump win or no, we can still expect to see many more insane attempts towards greater instability and chaos that, like a raging and pathological fever, will just need to take its course. But at the end of the day, the insane ones will not win.


Roses

Vladimir Putin congratulates 'courageous' Donald Trump on election victory

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© AFPFormer US President Donald Trump • Russian President Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin has congratulated 'courageous' Donald Trump on his election victory, as the US President-elect says: 'I think we'll speak.'

Putin said today he was 'ready' to hold discussions with Trump with the despot having been impressed with how he handled himself 'like a man' during an assassination attempt at a rally earlier this year.

'I take this opportunity to congratulate him,' Putin said in remarks to the Valdai forum in the southern city of Sochi.

Trump said he had probably spoken to 70 leaders since his astonishing election win, but Putin was not one of them.

But he told NBC: 'I think we'll speak.'

Comment: A cautious but promising start. Putin has already met Trump in person, and knows the man behind closed doors, as opposed to the bluster meant for public consumption. They are both political realists, knowing that each is bent on doing the best they can for their respective countries. This is the basis for real deal-making.


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Fear-stricken pharma big-wigs convened 'emergency teleconference' to thwart RFK Jr.

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It's a new political era, and the pharmaceutical industry is beside itself with worry.

Via Science.org (emphasis added):
"Concerns about what a second Donald Trump (R) presidency could mean for public health and biomedical research ratcheted up this week after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told supporters Trump has promised to give him "control" over agencies at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)...

Public health researchers are alarmed, especially given Kennedy's opposition to vaccines. "I can't imagine anyone who would be more damaging to vaccines and the use of vaccines than RFK," University of Minnesota epidemiologist Michael Osterholm told CNN...

Kennedy appears to be poised to wield substantial influence should Trump win. Trump has embraced Kennedy's "Make America Healthy Again" agenda, which calls for removing allegedly harmful chemicals in foods and water and cracking down on ultraprocessed food, among other steps...

Numerous critics of Kennedy have weighed in with concerns. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia vaccine expert Paul Offit told CNN Kennedy is a "science denialist." Even Jerome Adams, who was surgeon general during Trump's presidency, said at a meeting this week that if Kennedy discourages people from getting vaccines, "I am worried about the impact that could have on our nation's health," economy, and security."

Comment: Jamel Holley is not without a sense of humor:




Footprints

It's time to stop buying into tooth-fairy politics. No one's bringing salvation

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© Getty ImagesDonald Trump campaigns for president across Pennsylvania
Kamala Harris didn't lose because she's a woman or because she's black.

She lost because, if your political and media system - rigged by donors - limits the choice to two hardline neoliberal candidates, with anything else denounced as "communism", the most hardline, neoliberal candidate has an edge.

Over time, the system keeps moving further to the hardline, neoliberal right. You can't stop that relentless shift by voting for one of the two symptoms of your diseased political system. You have to rise up against the diseased system itself.
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Notice a pattern of behaviour by the establishment media that week after week told us Kamala Harris was poised for a narrow win, that her "politics of joy" would ultimately swing the day.

For more than two years, that same establishment media told us Ukraine would win if only we sent a few more bombs / tanks / planes. None of those weapons helped. They just incentivised each side to invest more deeply in war.

What happened instead was entirely predictable: lots of Ukrainians and Russians have died fighting a protracted war Ukraine could never win and that could have been snuffed out early on with a peace agreement - an agreement that was actively blocked by the US and Britain.

Tsunami

The dam has burst, the floodgates of liberty just opened

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Last night, the country decided to take drastic measures to steer back toward the center of the aisle and common sense. At the same time, the populace delivered a fatal blow to the unholy alliance between the Democratic Party and the mainstream media, both of whom will now be forced to consider massive overhauls to the strategies they have employed over the last decade if they want a chance of being relevant over the next decade.

Everyone knows the election was a decisive victory for Donald Trump, so there is no need to rehash the ins and outs of the numbers. Trump very clearly has a mandate, and with Republicans picking up Senate seats they were widely expected to secure back in 2022 but didn't, American citizens have now made one of the boldest statements in the country's history.

My regular readers know that I wrote days ago about how a Trump win would spell the death of the mainstream media. But this victory goes far beyond that.

Bad Guys

Wait, what?! Fed head Jerome Powell says he would not step down if Trump asked for his resignation: 'Not permitted'

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© Associated PressFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Thursday that he would not step down from his position if President-elect Donald Trump asked for his resignation.

When asked by reporters if he would resign per Trump's request, Powell simply said: "No."

"Not permitted under the law," Powell said during a press conference after the Fed cut interest rates by a quarter point two days after former president Donald Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.

Though Trump appointed Powell in 2017, he repeatedly slammed the chairman and the central bank during his administration for not easing monetary policies quick enough.

Comment: And there you have it. The "Fed" is not a government department, it is an autonomous, alien installation at the heart of the government that is supposed to be authorized 'by the people, for the people'. This is the reality. Levering such a behemoth out of the government should be done, but will not be easy.

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Well what do you know...

Is the entire country about to have it's attention focused on a key fact that has been HIDDEN and deliberately OBSCURED from the American public for more than 90 years?

THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS NOT FUCKING FEDERAL.

Get it right.

IT'S A PRIVATE FAMILY-OWNED BANK.

Powell doesn't work for whoever the US President is.

He works for the FAMILIES THAT OWN THE CENTRAL BANK WE AFFECTIONATELY AND DECEPTIVELY HAVE BEEN LED INTO CALLING 'THE FEDERAL RESERVE'.
Everyone should read the classic book, The Creature From Jekyll Island.


Earthquake

Trumpquake

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© The Atlantic"Trumpquake"
On the political Richter scale, that was a killer - literally. What was supposed to be a Liberal Totalitarian Show was brutally, unceremoniously, swept out of the park - any park. Even before Election Day, critical thinking was aware of the stakes. With fraud, Kamala wins. With no fraud, Trump wins. There were, at best, (failed) attempts at fraud.

The key question still remains: what does the U.S. Deep State really want?

My inbox is infested with loads of weepy reports from U.S. Think Tankland wondering, in disbelief, why Kamala could possibly lose. It's quite straightforward - apart from her sheer incompetence cum utter mediocrity literally cackling out loud. The legacy of the administration she was part of is ghastly - all the way from Crash Test Dummy to Little Butcher Blinkie.

Instead of bothering to care about the abysmal state of affairs, at every level, concerning that mythical entity, "the American people", they chose to invest everything on a neocon-manufactured proxy war to inflict a "strategic defeat" on Russia - stealing Russian assets, unleashing a tsunami of sanctions, shipping an array of wunderwaffen. The weaponization of Ukraine led to countless Ukrainian dead and the inevitable, fast-approaching cosmic humiliation of NATO in the black soil of Novorossiya.