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Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You
Jim Goad
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When news broke that Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate had been raided by the FBI on August 8, people on one side of the Left/Right social construct were jubilant. People on the other side were outraged.
I didn’t feel much of anything. I care roughly as much about Donald Trump’s well-being as he cared about mine.
Many self-identified Right-wingers scooped up their talking points from a statement Trump released on his Truth Social platform:
These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before. . . . It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming Midterm Elections. Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries. . . . The political persecution of President Donald J. Trump has been going on for years. . . . Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 E-mails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress. Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable.
Although the details are still fuzzy regarding what exactly the feds found after tearing through Trump’s home for hours, the raid was ostensibly done on the pretense that he had illegally kept classified documents for himself and had possibly altered or destroyed some of them. Some outlets gleefully pointed out that Trump, as a result of Hillary Clinton remaining unscathed after her e-mail scandal, had signed a law in 2018 making it a felony to remove and keep classified documents.
Many of those who’ve blamed Trump for all of society’s problems and all of their countless personal failings since the moment he declared his candidacy seven years ago were fairly orgasmic at the idea that their bête orange would finally be punished for causing them so much self-inflicted emotional distress over the years.
Many of those who’ve doggedly clung onto the idea that Trump actually ever cared about them or accomplished anything tangible for them during his presidency were screaming about America suddenly becoming a banana republic. The Rubicon had finally been crossed, and they vowed that if Trump didn’t win the 2024 presidential election, there would be a civil war that would finally rout the Dems and degenerates and reestablish the traditionalist monarchy they’d so long salivated over and which, ironically, would treat them exactly like the disposable peasants the current regime is treating them like, if not far worse. But they were certain that this injustice would finally be the breaking point and would cure all the mental and physical flabbiness that previously prevented them from rising up and overthrowing their oppressors.
The defund-the-police types were suddenly in favor of law and order, and the law-and-order types were now crying about defunding or outright abolishing the FBI.
The never-say-die Trumpers remain apopleptic at the fact that the same government that looked the other way during the BLM/antifa riots is the same government that is overreacting to January 6. Why, it’s almost as if they thought that governmental regimes were ever about fairness.
The accelerationists were overjoyed that the apocalyptic video game they’d craved for years would finally become reality, although I doubt that many accelerationists could handle five minutes of a genuine societal collapse.
Only a liar or a mental defective would deny that the Deep State aggressively sought to destroy Trump — and, by extension, anyone who dared support him — since the moment he glided down the Trump Tower escalator and declared his candidacy on June 16, 2015. The high-finance globalists are obviously still seeking to crush him — not only with the raid, but with the ongoing January 6 investigations and a New York State probe into his business dealings. And since the new so-called inflation reduction act allows for 87,000 new armed IRS agents, it’s not remotely paranoid to suspect that the social unpersoning and financial harassment of “deplorables” will likely intensify.
What I don’t understand is why anyone thinks that defending Trump or getting him reelected will magically reverse the country’s inexorable death spiral, especially when nothing got better during his presidency.
“Oh, but he pissed off the libs,” they’ll say in his defense, as if a President’s main role is to be a 4chan shitposter.
Yes, he spoke to a group of Americans who’d felt justly mocked and ignored by the government and press. But he never once addressed them as white people, and I’ve been persistently asking those who still support him what he actually did for them besides making them feel temporarily noticed by a politician.
What did he actually do to make your life better?
It’s one of those questions I keep asking that never gets a real answer.
He promised to get rid of the national debt in eight years. Instead, under his watch, more debt was added per year than under any President in history. You don’t think that massive debt increase has something to do with inflation in 2022? It’s definitely not Putin’s fault, and Biden isn’t making things better, but if you don’t think that saddling taxpayers with an additional $7.8 trillion in debt has something to do with rising food and rent costs, you don’t understand much about economics.
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The wall he promised to build was not built, and Mexico didn’t pay for it.
He did nothing to stop the Summer of Floyd. At the end of it, he gifted black America with the Platinum Plan. And who was going to be saddled with the Platinum Plan’s $500-billion price tag? Likely his loyal, hard-working supporters.
I voted for him in 2016 because I wanted economic nationalism, a moratorium on all immigration, and the end to woke intolerance. I didn’t get any of those things. The censorship and harassment of those who don’t get on their knees and fellate wokeness became far more severe than it was under Obama.
What was the Right’s response to the Trump era? Things such as Christian nationalism. They decided that to beat the Left, they had to get every bit as morally hysterical as the Left. They forgot about immigration and demographics and the national debt in exchange for shitting themselves over tattooed women and Drag Queen Story Hour.
Those who, even for a minute, thought Trump was a sincere Christian never read the Bible passage about it being easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. They also skipped over all the verses about pridefulness.
The same online armchair psychological diagnosticians who overuse the word “narcissist” to smear anyone they dislike never use that word to describe Trump. People hate to admit they’d been fooled, and maybe it hurts too much to admit that if his critics were right about one thing, it’s that Trump only cares about himself. In the end, he was just another self-absorbed rich boy who was incapable of understanding what most of us peons are going through.
This became most evident when he failed to pardon anyone who got arrested as a result of January 6.
Those who believe, against all demographic, technological, cultural, and economic evidence, that it’s possible to return to the 1950s, insist that if Trump wins the 2024 election, he’ll finally get things right. “His first term wasn’t real Trumpism,” say the same people who realize the idiocy of those who say, “Oh, but the Soviet Union wasn’t real Communism.”
It is like watching someone who keeps going back to the same manipulative lover.
I’m not saying DeSantis or anyone else would be better. I’m saying that the American system, at least at this point, is rigged so that it really doesn’t matter who’s President. I’m not sure it ever mattered, but it clearly doesn’t now.
I could be wrong, but every passing day — and I’ve seen more passing days than most — convinces me that a President has almost no power to change things.
Things were better under Obama than they were under Trump, and things were better under Trump than they are under Biden. But none of it is related to who was President. It’s the systematic decline of a nation, and it’s all been unspooling independently of who’s the President. The historical processes that unfolded during Trump’s presidency are the same ones that are happening under Biden.
Most people seem to be under the delusion that it makes a tremendous difference who’s President and that a President is actually anything more than a PR guy. They still think that if we vote harder, we can climb our way out of this bottomless pit.
I realize that Trump made a lot of people feel good. He gave them hope. But it’s increasingly clear that people only seem to care about having someone sing them a lullaby as they’re softly being euthanized.
And so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what they’re doing to Trump; ask what Trump has done for you.
If you can’t come up with anything tangible, then focus on your own well-being and that of those around you. It may be the only thing over which you actually have control.
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70 comments
That was an escalator, Jim, not an elevator. Even Trump couldn’t glide down an elevator. Only Chuck Norris could. Just like only Chuck Norris can save us now.
I knew it was an escalator (no one “glides” down an elevator) and I thought I’d changed it in the Word doc. It’s not exactly an excuse, but it was 7am and I’d been up all night. Fixed.
On the note of typos/mistakes. I just submitted a 70 something page thesis. Even when I was in the, “I’m done revising, I’m finally submitting this time!… just one more read through!” During that last read through I noticed I put 2020 as the date of submission on the front page as opposed to 2022. That was my last fix after reading the thing like 10 times. I’m sure there is some spelling, grammar or other small technical error of sorts that I didn’t catch. So I have a new found respect for editors.
Anyway, escalator, elevator, Paternoster lift (wikipedia it, I was in one in Germany), this is a sobering view of things. I do think this raid is most unsettling but I think Mr. Goad makes some valid points here. Rather than try the Sisyphean endeavor to challenge the election, he could have taken a page from the controversial election of 1876. There were a lot of shenanigans in that one but the Democrats cut a deal with the Republicans. The Democrats would concede all contested electors in return for the end of Reconstruction. Trump, Mr. “Art of the Deal” could have said he would publicly agree to concede the election if Congress would agree to finish the wall and deport illegal aliens. Trump made it all about himself.
Yes, I like the Trump story, and pwning the libs and all that. But what strikes me most in this article is “[the American system] is rigged so that it really doesn’t matter who’s President.” Trump was subverted in every direction and is being subverted even post presidency. In certain respects I think we’ve gone full circle. The federal government is now the new English crown. The best we can hope for is some sort of state power to counter federal power. I think within a few years we could start seeing county sheriffs under direction of a conservative governor pulling over subversive federal judges or federal agents, breaking their headlights, and ticketing them. Then playing the, “no one is above the law card” and the “the idea our law enforcement would do such a thing is a baseless conspiracy theory.”
Yes, you are absolutely right in your last paragraph. Having State Power to counter federal power seems like the only hope.
I’m glad someone had the stomach for writing about this oaf. (I can’t even stand to see his name anymore.)
A fair assessment of one of history’s great could-have-beens that wasn’t.
I think the article is saying he never could have been. Whether Trump cares about us in his heart of hearts of irrelevant. The President cannot do anything for us. This is the decline of the West and we are witnesses to it.
We need a devastating slur for people with orange skin.
“What did he actually do to make your life better?
It’s one of those questions I keep asking that never gets a real answer.”
Well, while I consider myself to be one of biggest and most ardent critics of Trump, who I did vote for twice – I will not allow my numerous criticisms of his long list of broken promises to blind me from giving the guy some credit where credit is due.
To wit:
Every American’s life was ‘better’, no matter whether they voted for him or hated him – because when it costs you $2 or less per gallon to put gas in your vehicle – that means you are able to afford to drive and it means groceries and every other item in every store costs less because those product producers are not passing along the higher prices of fuel to the consumer. How is it that Jim Goad cannot give the Orange Cuck a little bit of credit for at least this achievement?
Next on the short list of improvements over every other past occupant of the White House – is that Trump did not let the jewish neocon war mongering cabal talk him into starting any new wars. And, he did make several attempts – that were, admittedly, feeble – to get the US pulled out of Syria and Afghanistan, but then cucked out due to pressure being put on him by those very same jewish neocon war mongerers. Had he not been cheated out of a 2nd term, there was always a chance that he might have caved in and started a new war – but, apparently the jews didn’t think he would, so he had to go.
Another plus was his being able to finally expand the Overton Window on the topic of immigration, and to a lesser extent, on the topic of race. Whites are certainly far more racially awake now than they were prior to Trump being elected and evidence of this can be seen by any casual reading of the readers comments on nearly all of conservative news websites. I mean, Tucker Carlson now talks about the ‘Great Replacement’ agenda on a regular basis, although demonstrates that he has marshmallows where his white balls ought to be, by claiming the Great Replacement isn’t about race and he never fingers the Tribe for being behind it. Before Trump, name any mainstream talking head who would have the guts to say what Carlson has been saying?
Trump also deserves tremendous credit for scaring the democrats into dropping their masks and exposing their truly evil agendas and maneuvering them into revealing their Satanically evil intentions. For decades, the left have pretended to be the ‘nice guys’, the ‘compassionate’ party who everyone could trust to always look out for the little guy. Nobody with half a brain believes that anymore and now see that the democrats are every bit as evil and totalitarian and intolerant and ruthless as were the Bolshevik Communists in 1917 Russia.
Granted, Trump lied about building that Wall – but, he did make a little effort towards that promise and his border policies and drastic reduction in refugee resettlement and reductions in asylum seeking parasites were moving in the right direction. All of which were immediately undone by the 80 plus percent jewish infested Biden White House, of course.
So, Trump was not perfect. But one thing he sure was – was he was a million times better than the Hildebeast and would have been better than Biden.
I say this as a guy who cannot stand to watch or listen to Trump give a speech and as a guy who would vote for him in 2024 if the jews can’t find a way to stop him from running.
As Jim says, Trump is not going to ‘save’ America. The jews have destroyed it beyond the point of it ever being repaired. But, he can be a useful stepping stone before the final collapse and breakup of the USA into ethnostates.
Assuming that ‘lowering gas prices’ is a laudable goal, the President has little control of that. Opening up ANWAR or any of the other things that Trump enabled didn’t create the lower prices. The ability to exploit these areas takes years and years to realize. The President of the US does not control – or even influence – the global petroleum market. The companies that control the field assets, the transportation assets and refining assets influence the price. Even they cannot tell you what the price of oil and its refining will be a year from now.
I voted for Trump and donated to the campaign in 2015/2016. I did not do so in 2020 and will probably not be voting for the GOP Presidential candidate in 2024 unless they speak to me as a White person and speak directly to my interests as a White person.
I voted for Trump on the expectation that he would do something productive to induce capital investment in the US. That didn’t happen.
I vote for him on the expectation that he would dismantle the Middle East War Machine. He didn’t do that.
I voted for him to regularize foreign relations with Russia. He didn’t do that.
I voted for him to build a wall. He didn’t do that.
You can give me every excuse in the book as to why that happened, but none of them will impress me in the least.
The President of the United States has one technical ‘checks and balances’ power: Veto.
Trump could have used his veto power and see how the Congressional GOP responded. Instead, he punked out and tweeted his feelings.
“Trump also deserves tremendous credit for scaring the democrats into dropping their masks”
Institutional wokeness and BLM were already a factor during the Obama years. Trayvon, Ferguson, etc.
Trump was actually a reaction to that, not its cause.
Cody22, like you I’ll always be grateful to Trump for preventing Hillary from becoming president. Things would have been an awful lot worse if she had gotten into the White House again. I was disappointed in Trump in some ways, but like you said, give “credit where credit is due.”
I agree. If anyone is looking for the perfect, flawless Republican candidate, and won’t vote for him if he’s not 100% to your liking, then you risk winding up with a Democrat (or RINO) winning. The Democrats are the party of White genocide. They openly hate Whites. Unless someone better comes along, Trump is all we have for now.
Good points, Thiel.
Hard to argue with anything in this piece, except perhaps:
<i>… then focus on your own well-being and that of those around you. It may be the only thing over which you actually have control.</i>
It’s hard to focus on ‘your own well-being’ when government and its hangers-on are undermining it.
I might add that at this point I despise Trumptards more than I despise Trump.
Increasingly, commentary on CC insists that there is nothing to be done, one shouldn’t focus on politics, one shouldn’t pretend one can affect change, one shouldn’t even attempt to defend anything or engage in such flights of fancy as thinking that things may come to violence and therefore require preparation. This website and Johnson’s work generally is a reasonable, calm port in a permanent storm, but it is difficult to parse this accumulated shrugging as anything but useless defeatism at best, and at worst… well, you can fill in the blanks.
Link five articles that meet this description in the close to 10,000 on this webzine.
I think he’s referring to the comments, not the articles.
I can name 20.
I didn’t say or imply that there’s nothing to be done, or that we should give up (although I appreciate the seriousness of the political problem) — rather I strongly suggested that after experiencing his first term, and everything considered, Trump is not any kind of answer — to be honest, I was pretty much done with him when, after yet another ridiculous ‘Assad gassed his own people’ hoax, he lobbed cruise missiles into Syria literally weeks after taking office.
It matters who is president, but to accomplish anything the president needs a lot of social forces behind them. Bush and Cheney were very powerful as president because the entire Neo conservative establishment were strongly behind their wars. The executive was almost unlimited in its power at that time. Partly true of Obama as much of the ruling class was behind him because of who he was, but a lot of the neocons were against bc some of his aims in the Middle East. With Trump, the entire establishment was firmly against him, even his own party. He was virtually stalemated from the beginning.
He was. It is the advisors and established people who are our real government. Perhaps Trump will do some good if he helps more Americans realize that fact.
What exactly is it that Trump did that made your lives worse?
The worthless piece of sh*t in the White House at the moment has been unable to stem inflation, and is the cause of much of it, resulting in my limited monies having far less buying power. The only thing that may reduce in price is gasoline – nothing else will.
The worthless half-caste whose biggest claim to fame was the “Affordable Care Act”. Could anything be more inaccurately named? Now all manner of people have “health insurance” but no actual health care because they can’t afford their deductibles. 20 years ago the company I work for had a ‘gold’ PPO plan for the princely sum of $30 per month. Now we have a plan that costs +$300 per month along with a $6,500 deductible!! All to force us to pay for filthy queers’ and drug abusers’ AIDS drugs!! And to think that vile shorthand typist from Arizona voted to keep it in place purely to spite Trump. Resulting in me having less money.
Are these Republicans in for a big surprise in November. They are fully expecting to whoop up on the Donkey Pox lot. They really don’t understand the majority of voters.
As Jim observed in Blazing Saddles:
“You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.”
The only real difference is that the common clay nowadays is waayyyy more dumb.
Guess you skipped over the part about Trump adding $7.8 trillion to the debt and it having an effect on the inflation you’re blaming solely on Biden.
And the $500 billion to blacks as a reward for rioting all summer. That $500 billion is part of the $7.8 trillion comes out the pockets of taxpayers such as me. Since there only about 144 million actual taxpayers in the USA, he added over $50,000 to the “debt” I owe the government. All this after swearing he’d eliminate the debt. Thanks, Don!
Also, the fact he was too chickenshit to ever mention white people as a constituency.
He did nothing to curb the increased censorship that was much worse under his term than under Obama. As a writer who writes the sort of things that get censored these days, that made my life a lot worse.
This was all mentioned in the article. Looks like you skipped over a lot.
I like DeSantis and hope he can win the next election. It would be nice for an Italian-American to become president and lead the nation. I also believe he is a man of principle and is more emotionally stable than Trump.
The strike on Soleimani and the inactivity during the BLM riots made me very unenthusiastic for him. The ‘platinum plan’ was the final straw. I did a write-in for Tulsi Gabbard. At this point, I’d be glad if that inept blowhard got sent to the slammer.
I didn’t skip over anything in your article.
You’ll never be asked to pay a single cent of the national debt because it will never be repaid to whomever it is out there that funded it. I never said Biden was solely to blame for inflation – he was mainly to blame for giving millions of people billions of dollars to stay at home when they could have been back to work.
I don’t see anything that you’ve referred to as making your life worse being directly attributable to Trump. I’ll agree censorship is a bitch, as I’ve personally learned right on this very website, but who was more censored than Trump himself?
“…focus on your own well-being and that of those around you. It may be the only thing over which you actually have control.”
It is your ending statement that caught my attention because it is true and it is why I despise having my hard earned monies taken from me by pieces of sh*t. Apart from my family and very few friends I don’t give a f**k about anyone else in this country just like they don’t give a f**k about me.
“You’ll never be asked to pay a single cent of the national debt…”
Good to know. Could you please contact the IRS and tell them to refund the hundreds of thousands of dollars of income tax I’ve paid?
“who was more censored than Trump himself?”
As far as I can recall, the first time he was deplatformed was by Twitter in the final two weeks of his presidency. Maybe if he’d paid attention to the issue during his presidency, this wouldn’t have happened.
Wow, you sure are smarter than the average Joe Sixpack in seeing through this Trump fella and showing us the error of our ways. We thank our lucky stars to have access to such a powerful piece of brainpower even though you scold and shame us just as those highfalutin politicians in Washington are so dang eager to do.
But you do it with respect. Much obliged.
Elitists are elitist, left or right.
“They decided that to beat the Left, they had to get every bit as morally hysterical as the Left.”
I don’t think you’re wrong, but I also don’t see any evidence that rationality can win in a democratic process. At some point, you’ll likely need to win via rhetoric, and so the trick is to pick rhetoric that is both effective and one that leads to good outcomes. That is, rhetoric that is aligned with the truth, if not fully true.
“The accelerationists were overjoyed that the apocalyptic video game they’d craved for years would finally become reality, although I doubt that many accelerationists could handle five minutes of a genuine societal collapse.”
Agreed. This is, I think, an argument for voting R. Comprehensive progressive victories today would likely lead to absurdities that even normies won’t tolerate, but before any alternative society becomes established. When people feel cornered, they are dangerous.
But if Trumpian (ostensibly populist) Rs win, the decline will be slower, and it will give time and space for true traditional parallel societies to operate and grow. If that happens, many people will choose to build instead of destroy.
I understand that many will dispute that Trump leads to a slower decline, or that a parallel society will ever be permitted by TPTB. But I believe those are unhelpful black pills; history is full of surprises, and the power of fundamentally productive people who believe in something, and have clarity of purpose, should not be underestimated.
We were never really excited about Trump. We were excited about meme magic, the overton shift, and electing a man who the regime commanded us not to elect, even if he was never a perfect candidate. We did not wait for Trump to empower us, we empowered ourselves by empowering Trump. He was a massive orange wrench we’d tossed into the gears of the machine, through national and international effort, a revival in the spirit of the people.
Sure the wrench didn’t do much damage, but it showed us all that more wrenches can be tossed, bigger ones, and we need no one to do it but ourselves. Trump was only the beginning. We can credit him for that, as being an instigator, a spark that ignited white national energies. But what we were really excited about was the energy itself, and the realization that we still had it all along.
“We were never really excited about Trump.”
Who is this “we” you claim to speak for?
“a spark that ignited white national energies”
When did he mention white people?
Jim Goad: “You act as if you know what animated everyone who ever supported Trump, and for some reason they all magically felt the same way you do about it.”
DeSantis is an upgrade of Trump, a Trump 2.0 that improves upon the emotional lability of the latter, and operates with better organization and principles. DeSantis is an Italian-American who moves with the spirit of the Founding Fathers. He will steer our country in a more authentically conservative direction.
No, he is not. He is just a neocon clone who did two good things: staved off Andrew Gillam (leading directly to his homosexual downfall) and kept Florida open during the fake pandemic. He is a great governor, but not presidential.
Nobody else but Trump or Tucker is trustworthy, let alone winning an election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh1dPvAudXA
“When did he mention white people?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh1dPvAudXA
That’s good. I asked a question, I got an answer.
This Donald Trump raid is bread and circus for conservatives. It will get normies on conservative talk-radio all fired up, but it means nothing to me. Trump is responsible for not building The Wall, adding several trillion to the national debt, promoting an ineffective vaccine with possible harmful side effects, trying to bribe black people with half a trillion dollars, while doing nothing for White people, refused to stop the Antifa/BLM riots after the governors/mayor’s sat back and encouraged it, and fleecing his supporters of hundreds of millions of dollars by promising to “stop the steal.”
It has also been a godsend to Trump and other Republicans in the donation category. I suspect that’s the reason Trump went public with the search warrant and why Merrick Garland asked the courts to allow him to release the details to the public. Garland looked like he’d been trapped in an outhouse with Trump on bean night.
Dear Jim, you and I have sons about the same age and I am asking you this in all sincerity. What are you advising him for his future? At this point it feels like a waiting game to see what’s next then make decisions from there. It will either blow up completely or the rot will just continue apace. I do not see it ever getting better, but I just don’t see anywhere else that makes that much more sense either.
10 Commandments For My Son
Really beautiful. Thank you.
At least Trump takes a decent stance on the war in Ukraine, being in favor of de-escelation, negotiations and peace.
During his first term the Democrats and the neocons pushed hard the russiagate hoax, painting him as a Kremlin agent, not just to discredit his presidency but also to make it politically impossible for him to upset their war plans for Ukraine.
I was more pleased with the political situation during the Trump years than I am now. I especially liked election night 2016. That was really good, and I watched reruns over and over. I don’t think that any other Republican could have beaten Hillary. And maybe the only reason Trump beat her was the supreme overconfidence that made them think it unnecessary to activate the massive cheating operations that would be unleashed four years later.
I enjoyed seeing the other side writing jeremiads and snarling and biting one another.
And I thought, perhaps naively, that the Keystone pipeline and Trump’s energy friendliness had something to do with the price of gas, and the ripple effect on the price of everything else. And he pissed off the climate cultists, that was good.
His Supreme Court picks blasted a hole in the vile, stinking edifice of abortion, and that made me as happy as the Ottomans must have been when they finally breached the walls of Constantinople.
I concur fully. The Donald did that much, even though his term otherwise had all too many missed opportunities.
What Trump did for us was prove that elections work. It’s not already decided. Hillary was not forced into us. We picked him (not her) and refused to take no for an answer and then we watched our guy symbolically tackle Washington on our behalf. It was great.
“What Trump did for us was prove that elections work.”
Does that mean the 2020 election wasn’t stolen?
2020 was not on the up and up, no.
But 2016 definitely was.
You were there, you remember.
Oh boy. We got a live one. I remember when I used to believe in democracy…and then I turned 12.
I was where? In the back room, counting the votes? I wasn’t there in 2016 or 2020, and I doubt you were, either.
What I actually remember throughout my life are people afflicted with extreme cognitive dissonance.
I seem to remember getting a check or 2 in the mail signed by Donald Trump. I think we can all agree that was something tangible he did for us as President.
Biden issued a check, too, right? And those checks were part of lockdowns that essentially ruined the economy, no?
And you think one cent of that came out of Trump or Biden’s pockets, or is it merely recycled taxpayer money that you’ll wind up owing—with interest—anyway?
Or is it possible that recklessly printing paper and calling it “money” is what’s causing all this inflation and an ecomony on the brink of a depression?
All your points may be true but it was still something tangible he did in my favor.
Then when Congress refused to increase the checks to $2000 he absolutely refused to sign the lockdown bill before caving in and signing it a millisecond later without the increase. So, yeah.
“Or is it possible that recklessly printing paper and calling it “money” is what’s causing all this inflation and an ecomony on the brink of a depression?”
And let us not forget the $trillions in bailout money the Federal Reserve provided to banks and hedgefunds using the Covid pandemic as a smoke screen.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmauldin/2020/01/02/the-fed-has-quietly-started-qe4/?sh=43d452583768
The so-called collectivist right wing can’t get away from individualism and libertarianism no matter how hard they signal. You don’t have to defend every action of Trump, but you can’t just disavow everything about the Trump presidency or any other rightist ascendency the moment things go awry. This is why the right wing, especially the far right is destined to always lose, and also why the Israelites and leftists also win. They are extremely pragmatic, while the right has no concrete ideas for anything.
No matter what disagreement they have they never leave their fallen comrades on the battlefield even decades later. They make lopsided prisoner swaps just to recover the remains of low-ranking conscripts. Leftists are the same way. They defend their own no matter what, through thick and thin.
What I’m getting at is there is no sense of loyalty in the right wing whatsoever. It’s so prone to some game of thrones purism, iconoclasm and sectarianism over the most inanity. You all act so surprised when an amoral billionaire does something sleazy, as if you forgot that he was an amoral billionaire engaging in a form of mutualism (vanity for him, opportunity for us). This is where we are at. We will never get an ideologue powerful enough to win the masses or even elected as a senator. Instead the best hope are these apolitical secularists like Trump, Bolsonaro etc…and ultimately there is not much that can be done politically because liberal democracy is designed to subsume nationalism. The point of all this is to organize and prepare for what comes after neoliberalism.
“while the right has no concrete ideas for anything”
WTF?? We have concrete ideas for everything. I myself have offered many in comments over the years. Why can’t we start with The Wall (Trump’s one innovative and useful suggestion) and go from there? The Right loses because we are weak-willed (this for many reasons, however, beyond simple cowardice or self-interest), and most of the Right, esp in USA, lacks properly formed racio-ethico-ideological consciousness. Scratch a conservative, and most know that the ‘diversification’ of America will not be good for themselves or their children, as well as that the Old [white] America was a better place (and certainly one they preferred). But they cannot bring themselves to develop policies from this understanding because they think it would be “waaah waahh wayycist” to do so, and that they would thereby be bad people, displeasing to Jesus (as a Christian-raised agnostic, I know this to be theologically ridiculous: there is a galaxy of moral difference between dis-tolerating progressive white subjugation, and perpetrating Nazi genocide). White preservationists must change conservatives’ ethical calculus in racial matters. I assert that is the key to white preservation (at least in North America, and maybe everywhere).
The best schadenfreude was when Pfizer decided to delay their jab report till after election night, so that Trump didn’t benefit. Trump surely thought Operation Warp Speed would win him another term (not to mention letting cities burn while blaming democrat mayors and governors).
In reality, putting a quick end to the coof hysteria (and firing Fauci and Birx etc) and restoring law and order (not just tweeting it repeatedly) would have helped bigly to 4 more years.
That report delay could very well have cost him the election too. If you look at the data in the “flipped” states Trump had an 8 point drop in the 65+ age group compared to 2016 (page 12). Page 5 shows “Coronavirus ( CV) was the top issue in both state groups – more so in “ Flipped ” states – and Biden carried those voters nearly 3 to 1.”
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/read-the-exit-poll-analysis-report/30b2cfd9b9488cf2/full.pdf
Pfizer was collaborating with a German pharma to create the Covid vaccine. If they communicated about the timing of the vaccine data release that could be a violation of federal election laws. Perhaps the Republicans should subpoena their communications?
https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/foreign-nationals/
You may be right, interesting links.
Trump is nothing if not disloyal. Dumping Sessions was his first of many insane betrayals.
The fact that he let the rona hysteria get so out of hand to the point where he collaborated with big Pharma to roll out miraculous so-called vaccines in record time (making billions of dollars for the likes of Albert Bourla and other ghouls), only to then get screwed by these guys with the delayed report, was a thing of beauty. Payback is a b!tch, Mr. Great Negotiator.
Trump governed like a moderate republican. Lowered some taxes, reduced some regulations. The main thing about him, though, isn’t he wasn’t hostile to the majority White population. That’s kind of a big deal as the dems are adding more and more affirmative action programs and trying to cement in more anti-White laws and regulations. I’d prefer George Wallace, but I’ll take what I can get.
re: George Wallace
Trump has become the Hillary Clinton of the Republicans. Polarizing and hated viciously by even more people now. Both unelectable. I think many admire and fear his unwillingness to give up, so there will be continued audits and seizures until he folds a presidential run. I wouldn’t be surprised if the neverending Jan 6 hearings would end if Trump were to just become media commentator (probably his true calling in life).
When he first announced his candidacy it seemed ridiculous, but he was so iconoclastic I did wonder if it were possible to “sneak a peek” of what a Trump presidency would look like (something proposed by a popular comedian). Well now we know what happens when an outsider comes in and pisses off and motivates the left. Instead of purple haired feminists working on mediocre post-structural art projects, they and others found their calling in life to be anti-Trump and anti-anything he stood for. In the early days of COVID, Trump was calling for vaccines and the left were against it for a time. Huh? Incredible to think about considering the current Left view on vaccines. https://www.newsweek.com/anti-vaccine-covid-trust-skepticism-democrat-politicization-1535559
While a Trump presidency created an important conservative majority on the Supreme Court, a ‘boring’ republican like Mike Pence could have also done the same. The Trump economy was strong for awhile, though it was probably more to do with timing and standard conservative approaches to regulation of big business than Trump being any ‘genius’ with money. Aside from the endless bullshitting when standing before a microphone, he could say some hilarious things. Could there have been any swifter takedown of sanctimonious, pseudo-Native American Elizabeth Warren than calling her “Pocahontas”? For those who missed, it related to her angling for ‘minority’ status on her application to Harvard.
And Jim is spot on pointing out that the stay at home orders and money printing by the Fed has a lot to do with inflation and not just a Ukraine-Russia war. I think the left believes that this splintered diverse country will somehow be able to come together if we all unite in hating Russia and blame them for everything. Have there been any successful past civilizations that truly endured and thrived on diversity and fragmentation? Well, we had a peek at a Trump led America. I think a more mild mannered Republican is in order to get things done (ok, maybe just damage control) while the left rallies much of its effort and time on abortion. If you think your vote doesn’t matter and Dem and Rep presidents are the same, remember the supreme court.
I don’t take Goad very seriously,when he attempts to address serious issues.He is moderately humorous in some of his articles, but limited in his analytical abilities.I am reading an article on another website”Democrats want to criminalize all opposition,not just Trump”.That includes all of us.So if Goad doesn’t think it makes any difference who the president is,or the Democrats being in power—he doesn’t know what he is yapping about.There is also the fact that Democrats will add 87,000 IRS agents to harass the enemies of the regime.Goad thinks “things were better under Obama(our first black president and confirmed extreme leftist) than Trump”.Enough said.
“I am reading an article on another website”Democrats want to criminalize all opposition,not just Trump”.
Oh, wow. “Another website” claimed the ability to read minds and make sweeping categorical statements. There’s your slam-dunk proof. You set quite a high evidentiary bar, sir.
“There is also the fact that Democrats will add 87,000 IRS agents to harass the enemies of the regime.”
You’re basically repeating what I wrote, which was this: “And since the new so-called inflation reduction act allows for 87,000 new armed IRS agents, it’s not remotely paranoid to suspect that the social unpersoning and financial harassment of ‘deplorables’ will likely intensify.”
I never said things were better under Obama because Obama was president. I made it very clear that I don’t think it matters much who’s president, because the historical, demographic, and economic processes that are causing America’s decline operate independently of who’s president. If it really mattered who’s president, then Trump would have accomplished something. Apparently you didn’t read those passages or are incapable of comprehending them.
So as I see it, anyone who’s still blinkered by the Republicans/Democrats shell game is the one with limited analytical skills.
The IRS currently has roughly 78,000 employees.
More than half of the agency’s current employees are eligible for retirement and are expected to leave the agency within the next five years.
Years of budget cuts have left it with about 17,000 fewer revenue enforcement staff than it had a decade ago.
In all, the IRS might net roughly 20,000 to 30,000 more employees from the new funding, enough to restore the tax-collecting agency’s staff to where it was roughly a decade ago.
If Trump is and was so useless, why bother to steal the 2020 election and why make any effort to torpedo his 2024 run?
Maybe I’m missing something.
All fair enough. But what’s the point of a longish indictment of Trump? It doesn’t do much to mobilize against the Left.
This debt of which you speak. To whom is it owed?
A follow-up question: if a sovereign state can issue national currency, is it necessary to borrow money at all?
Only if you don’t want your economy to collapse into WTC-grade fine dust.
This piece is eminently fair to Trump, who is, as I still thought when I was enthusiastic about him, a vain, narcissistic imbecile (I used to think he was just a midwit during the campaign, I was wrong).
What I had not expected was that the most anti-semitic stormfront schizos would be right and that Trump would be basically manipulated through his presidency by the liberal Ultra-Orthodox Jew Kushner to do everything this shitlib Jew waned. To boot Trump’s vanity turned out to make him susceptible to meaningless flattery from obvious enemies and he could not understand that the flattery was a strategy to deal with himself (Zuckerberg for instance, according to the imbecile himself who bragged about beeing fooled by Zuckerbergs flattery) while it was happening. He was also showing big signs of cognitive decline or perhaps personality changes-induced decline of analytical ability to a degree that I did not really expect during the campaign.
His presidency was a failure, he was a failure and it started already during the transition process when he hired former anti-Trumpers and the usual Goldman Sachs Js to run economic policy, the fuckwit Jim Mattis to run the military (Nobody above colonel / O-6 rank held non-politically correct opinions in the armed forces of the US as of 2016) and other similar people for no apparent reason. I remeber thinking he was setting himself up for failure but I was not expecting the extraordinary fuckery from the deep state back then. When Bannon was forced out – whatever his faults are, he was at least the driving force for a return to policies that might be of gain to ordinary white people – I kind of lost all interest in Trump in a year and things indeed went downhill fast from there, him spending all his starting political capital on a standard RINO tax bill and then going so low as to putting much effort into getting a law passed letting possibly hundreds of thousands of feral blacks out of prison.
If it’s one thing in this text I don’t understand it is why Drag Queen Story hour is not a legitimate thing to be upset about, together with all the other degeneracy that’s presented to very young children (Far earlier than at the age of eleven or twelve I found my first porn mag back in the days). I think it’s a pretty legitimate issue caring about the normalization of transsexuality, the destruction of all norms based on sex (Queerness) and the pro-transsexuality propaganda that has as it’s outcome the maiming of a still quite small, but steadily increasing, number of young girls who are probably just not very comfortable becoming women during puberty, are tomboys somewhat confused about their sex during puberty, or are autistic probably with several comorbidities and who are, to be frank, induced by primarily malevolent Js to think that maiming themselves and turning themselves into masculinized females will be the solution to all of their problems. In fact I fail too see how one can not be feel at least a tiny bit revulsion when faced with all of this pro-transsexuality propaganda as a white nationalist, since white (women) are the most affected demographic and they are important for the continuance of the white race (And instead talking about moral busybodies?
Were those that fought against race mixing between whites and other races in the 50s and 60s also just moral busybodies worth no respect (race mixing wasn’t a big problem then either)?
Also, there are also some people, who I, even though I consider the J question to be the single most important question of our time, don’t touch that question but still are a net positive who are anti-Trump and anti-GOP and appear to be incensed about the raid, possibly for tactical reasons since the more people who lose trust in the federal institutions the better (Since as other people have remarked – a reaction against the current (Jewish) elite must almost certainly eventually come from the state level).
I am specifically thinking of people such as Pedro Gonzales, who although being a hispanic paleocon populist, still is committed to the destruction of the GOP and are explicitly pro-white or at the very least openly strongly anti-anti-white (And who was the victim of a cancel attempt by forces close to jewess Bari Weiss – notable for publicising the people associated with the “Intellectual Dark Web”, which is roughly 75 % jewish and 90 % scheming philosemitic – performed by a loyal goyim, the despicable neocon Douglas Murray a short while back. This is evidence that he almost certainly is a net gain and that jewish gatekeepers feels he is a threat).
My humble opinon (I don’t live in the US but living in a very americanized western European country what happens in the US will soon happen here too) is that DeSantis should stay in Florida and continue doing what he does there – using state power to punish the enemies of ordinary people among the current elite – and that probably Tucker Carlson should make a run for the presidency, if he can get a guarantee that he can return to Fox if does not secure the win (although honestly, who except Trump is stupid enough to want to try to take on the deep state as president at the present moment?).
A republican will probably never be able to or allowed to win the presidency again so who runs does not matter that much, but Carlson can probably make the biggest mark on the Overton window during the campaign, although him eventually running has to be weighed against possibly him making the Trump cultists rabiate and thus loosing viewership and falling into obscurity, and that the Trump cultists might stop listening to Tucker (Perhaps Tucker can show how Trump was a failure during the primaries, although I’m not really very hopeful on this after seeing what became of the obvious gayop QAnon) who in many cases probably is the only other person which talks some sense that these weird Trump cultists – who somehow didn’t notice that Trump did not do shit except tweet about how “somebody” should fix X, Y & Z problem during his presidency – listen to.
Anyways, if there is three persons who holds opinions typical of the “dissident right” or whatever I have always felt a certain respect for, even when not beeing in total agreement, one of them is Jim Goad.
“What did he actually do to make your life better?”
Well, he was entertaining, at least.
He always reminded me of something Mencken wrote about democracy being a dumb way to run a country, but at least having the saving grace of being tremendously entertaining, what with all the raving demagogues it periodically threw up.
Trump made American politics entertaining again. Sure, it’s not much, but, in these dire times, we should be grateful for small mercies.
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