The Not Trump Candidate
September 29, 2024 Leave a comment
Let’s say you are all in on the Not Trump candidate being elected. The trustworthy and unbiased media and DOJ have endlessly vilified the other candidate. Based on this, you see yourself above that “foul” candidate and his supporters. Your image – self and public – and your world must be protected.
Let’s say you have chosen to accept what people in the media are saying: “Trump and Christian Nationalists are a threat to Democracy.” And though Democracy didn’t fall during Trump’s first term and the nation didn’t become a theocracy and Democrats, the democracy-must-be-destroyed-to-Save-Democracy party, perverted Democracy to steal the 2020 election, you have chosen to believe that Democracy is now threatened by Trump and his kind because there are those who say so.
Let’s say you’re all in with the Not-Trump candidate and the “Save Democracy” party, the self-proclaimed protectors of democratic norms (that ensured that there would not be an open Democratic primary . . . so democracy can die in darkness).
Let’s say you are OK with all this and you will look-in-the-mirror-of-your-world and see yourself as respectable for voting Not Trump. You’ve come to view your version of Christianity/Progressivism as not all that destructive. It is simply a way to be open-minded and to “Love Your Neighbor.”
Economics is over your head but you’ve heard the Not Trump candidate say “equity” “fair share” “price-gouging” and “opportunity economy.” And though under the Not Trump administration, inflation has reached its highest point since 1981, the high cost of living burdening millions of Americans, and the country has entered a recession, and the Not Trump candidate is clueless about economics, you go with the Not Trump flow because Not Trump.
Abortion, borders, and national sovereignty are annoying issues the Right brings up and so you avoid them. You have a higher calling. You are all in on existential and emotion-driven causes: climate change regulations, racial power structures, “unity”, “being nice”, “creation care”, and welcoming all illegal migrants without worrying about how to care for them.
Let’s say you are all in on the Not-Trump candidate and The New Way Forward. What does that look like?
Imagine. You own a business with employees and overhead to pay for and government comes in and says your pricing is too high. (Would they do this to Harvard?) You are accused of “price-gouging.” What do you do? To avoid expensive and extended litigation, you drop prices. Revenue is subsequently reduced. But, labor, materials, and overhead costs haven’t changed. To keep your business operating you cut employee benefits. You then cut the labor force. You then sell assets. Not hard to imagine. The New Way Forward is government saying it owns you and your business.
Accusing companies and corporations of taking advantage of people (Kamala, AOC, Liz Warren, et al.) with “price-gouging” verbal attacks is a ploy by autocratic politicians to take control of your bottom line in order to make them and their governing policies look good.
For, government will never accept responsibility for the high prices created with its enormous spending and dollar printing. The Fed has printed an incredible amount of money to buy the debt the US Treasury issues. And every time it does it expands the money supply, devalues the dollar, and drives up interest rates and inflation.
But, it’s the “price-gouging grocers” — as Team Harris would have you believe — and not the excessive government spending.
Remember: Vice President Harris cast the tie-breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) which increased inflation of prices.
Joe Biden said, at a New Mexico fundraiser, that “[The Inflation Reduction Act] has nothing to do with inflation.” “It has to do with the $368 billion, the single-largest investment in climate change anywhere in the world.”
Price-gouging? That is what Biden-Harris economics have done to all of us with their policies.
Since Biden took office, prices have risen nearly 20 percent, a number that, when checked against stagnant wage growth, puts the real effect of inflation at some of the worst levels we’ve seen in decades. Inflation is often described as the “hidden tax” because it takes away purchasing power from citizens not through taking away money directly but via a devaluation of the money that citizens already have.
One of the major stressors for families is cost of living. From a recent report issued by the surgeon general:
Over the last decade, parents have been consistently more likely to report experiencing high levels of stress compared to other adults. 33% of parents reporting high levels of stress in the past month compared to 20% of other adults. When stress is severe or prolonged, it can have a harmful effect on the mental health of parents and caregivers, which in turn also affects the well- being of the children they raise.
The report, in general, mentions several stress-inducing factors including “financial strain and economic instability.” It doesn’t mention the price-gouging inflation caused by the Biden-Harris regime. It just talks about more government solutions.
(Aren’t laws that impose an increase in the minimum wage also “price-gouging”? Labor costs are passed on to the customer.)
Not hard to imagine the major stress created by the Not Trump president.
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Imagine. You are watching a debate and your choice of presidential candidate, the current Vice President, is asked, “Do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?” and she responds saying, “I was raised as a middle-class kid.”
Kamala Harris couldn’t provide a coherent response to during the debate.
(BTW: Harris was raised by two parents with PhDs and lived in a well-off neighborhood.)
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Imagine. You are at an Economic Club of Pittsburgh event that is hosting the Vice President. She is there to talk about her economic agenda and says:
“We need to guard that spirit. We have to guard that spirit. Let it always inspire us. Let it always be the source of our optimism, which is that spirit that is uniquely American. Let that then inspire us by helping us to be inspired to solve the problems that so many face, including our small business owners.”
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Imagine. Our “serious thinker” Vice President as President and she can’t explain her economic policies because she doesn’t understand economics (only how to repeat ideological jargon) and “wholistically” speaks Kamalawocky:
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo-goo g’joob
Imagine Not Trump in a room with world leaders.
“I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.”
So, price controls are still on the table?: Jesse Watters (youtube.com)
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Imagine a candidate for president who hasn’t released any tax policies. The candidate’s s New Way Forward is based on tax provisions in Biden’s 2025 budget proposal, which include a tax on unrealized capital gains, as reported in Axios, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal .
As proposed, the UCG tax applies only to individuals with at least $100 million in wealth who do not pay at least a 25% tax rate on their income (inclusive of unrealized capital gains). There are exemptions. Basically, it would not apply to the holdings of most startup founders or investors or on real estate based on certain conditions.
But nothing happens in isolation.
Certainly, a more complex tax code would burden the IRS (and likely encourage more tax money for the IRS) and would discourage investment in growing businesses. Many would invest in safer financial instruments such as government bonds rather than in risky new technology and innovation (energy sources, biopharmaceuticals, etc.) that produce great benefits.
Florida Atlantic University College of Business professor Siri Terjesen wrote in July 2024 that the UCG tax would act like a “kill-switch for entrepreneurship.” She said that “Investors may be less likely to invest in growth-oriented ventures due to greater swings in valuation compared to larger, established companies.”
The new tax on unrealized gains could hasten the selling of assets by investors for tax reasons rather than legitimate business reasons.
The new tax would penalize individuals for owning assets that appreciate, regardless of whether those assets are sold.
Behind the money grab is the argument that tax-free accumulation of wealth over generations intensifies income-and-wealth disparities in the U.S. (When government takes control of people’s wealth and plays favorites, the income-and-wealth disparity is exacerbated.)
It’s not hard to imagine that the Not Trump candidate’s administration, by taxing the “paper” gains, the unrealized gains of the top 0.01% of taxpayers in the country, will not use that tax revenue to pay off the enormous budget deficit but will instead, redistribute the money for “votes.”
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Imagine. Someone removes the firewall and all network security designed to monitor, filter, and control incoming and outgoing network traffic from your computer. The firewall sits between a trusted network and an untrusted network.
Imagine, as president, a Border Czar that presided over a disabled firewall and refused to protect the border, the country and its citizens from untrustworthy traffic.
Biden-Harris Released 13,000+ Convicted Killers Into the U.S. (thenationalpulse.com)
Imagine a candidate so inept and careless that the best thing she can do is cackle when asked about the U.S. border.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here:
Flooding small American towns with a diaspora from the most violent, economically deprived nation in the Western Hemisphere is, for the Democrats, the best answer to economic stagnation in Middle America.
A Warning to America – Restoration, with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (restorationbulletin.com)
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Imagine. The 2024 Democratic presidential nominee and current Vice President claimed during a debate that, “There is not one member of the military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world for the first time this century.”
Was she not aware of “war zone” troops currently deployed?
The Biden-Harris regime did recklessly withdraw from the major Afghanistan War in August 2021. But there are U.S. troops stationed across the Middle East and other countries, mostly in counter-terrorism roles, according to a December 2023 White House War Powers Act report.
Thousands of U.S. troops remain in harm’s way. Hundreds have been under attack this year alone. Three died in January.
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Imagine a Not Trump president who supports censorship.
So far, Ms. Harris and Mr. Biden have said absolutely nothing about this attack on free speech in Brazil, and now we likely know why: they approve of it.
This video clip below is proof that Kamala Harris would support Brazil’s nationwide ban on X. And if you don’t think the same could happen here, you haven’t been paying attention.
Video proof that Harris would support Brazil’s nationwide ban on X… – Revolver News
What’s coming under Not Trump: “Democracy” defined as one voice and one narrative coming down from above.
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Finally, imagine the Not Trump candidate as Lemony Snicket’s failed actor Count Olaf and the New Way Forward as a series of very burdened by what has been unfortunate events. Imagine the transformation of America into a one-party socialist oligarchy. Imagine yourself as a serf in your own country all because of Not Trump.
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Michael Walsh Exposes the Corporate Media
Host Scot Bertram talks with Paul Moreno, the William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History, professor of history, and dean of social sciences at Hillsdale College, about Kamala Harris’s proposed reforms to the U.S. Supreme Court. Michael Walsh, journalist and screenwriter, discusses the dangers of the evolving media landscape and his new book Against the Corporate Media: Forty-two Ways the Press Hates You. And Elizabeth Edwards Spalding, ’88, chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and founding director of the Victims of Communism Museum, tells us about her work and accepting Hillsdale College’s 2024 Elizebeth Smith Friedman Freedom Award.
Home – Hillsdale College Podcast Network
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https://modernity.news/2024/09/12/cnns-tapper-slams-kamala-for-dodging-questions-during-debate/
DANA BASH: “You’ve been Vice President for three and half years. The steps that you are talking about now, why haven’t you done them already?” KAMALA: “I’m very proud of the work we have done.”
The Significance of the Passage of Time – Kunstler
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O When the “Garbage” goes marching in . . . to be unburdened by what has been.
When discussing “Tocqueville’s limitations” and “the shortcomings of Democracy in America today” during The New Criterions’ “Democracy in America” symposium, Glen Ellmers writes
The essential problem is that Tocqueville misunderstood America’s political principles and therefore, at some level, didn’t really understand the modern world. He thought that the very real problem of centralized administration would arise from a popular demand for conformity. But it is not the American people (who even today cherish individual freedom and admire success) who have demanded a regime of egalitarian social engineering. Rather, it is the ruling class, alienated from almost all of America’s great traditions, that has rejected the political equality of the Declaration of Independence (a document Tocqueville never really appreciated). This managerial elite appeals to an entirely different set of assumptions about the power of rational methodology to govern society, including, of course, assumptions about its own privileged position. (Emphasis mine.)
The lecturing managerial elites include a gallery of “Christian” social engineers: Never Trumpers of The After Party, the Trinity Forum and of podcasts, church seminars and Evangelicals for Harris.
America choosing Net Zero Democrat & Global Elitist policies.
Victor Davis Hanson joins John Anderson after President-elect Trump’s victory to explore why his direct style resonated with middle America. Hanson examines the economic and social factors driving Trump’s appeal, from rising inflation and border insecurity, to the sense of exclusion felt by many Americans. This interview highlights the stark divide between global elites and everyday citizens, examining how media and institutions underestimated public frustration.
Election 2024 – Why Trump Won | Victor Davis Hanson
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The never-ending resistance to Trump and America First policies:
Following suit, I wrote to both Indiana Senators this morning, saying . . .
Senator,
What the hell is going on in the US Senate? Hours after Donald Trump wins the most conclusive mandate in 40 years, Mitch McConnell engineers a coup against his agenda by calling early leadership elections in the senate. Two of the three candidates hate Trump and what he ran on. One of them, John Cornyn, is an angry liberal whose politics are indistinguishable from Liz Cheney’s.
McConnell does not want the new administration to succeed. He wants to maintain control through his crony friends. If you care about America then DO NOT align yourself with either of McConnell’s two choices.
Rick Scott of Florida is the only candidate who agrees with Donald Trump. Endorse Rick Scott and not the others. Don’t let McConnell get away with more resistance to America First for the sake of McConnell first.
Write your senators before Wednesday!
The same evil empire:
How blue states are plotting to thwart Trump
They’re prepping lawsuits and legislation to stymie the incoming administration.
Democratic governors are signaling their willingness to defy the new Trump administration, vowing to protect freedoms in their states and to wage legal and political battle if the president-elect follows through with controversial proposals.
(What freedoms are they talking about? More abortions. More transgender mutilation of children?)
Trump resistance rises in states led by Democratic governors
Mark Levin: America has been saved, but Dems are still ‘plotting’
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“A man goes off to save hearth and home and humanity. A woman stays at home to do the same. The future is dependent on both, together in a strange untamed galaxy.” -JAJ
Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, speaks with Mary Harrington. Mary is a columnist and editor for the online platform, UnHerd, and she runs her own Substack entitled Reactionary Feminist. Born in the United Kingdom, she graduated with a First in English literature from Oxford University in 2002. Mary’s work has been published in First Things, American Affairs, The New York Post, The Spectator, The Statesman, The London Times, and The Mail on Sunday.
They discuss her new book, Feminism Against Progress.
The Sexual Revolution and the Radical Redefinition of Feminism — A Conversation with Mary Harrington – AlbertMohler.com
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On one side, there’s a party of lecturing, control, intrusion, overreach, and lawfare.
On the other side, there’s a party of Fight.
On one side, there’s a party of destroying democracy to save democracy (If Dems take control of the House in two years, they will work to impeach President Trump once again.)
On the other side, there’s a party of Making America Great (and Healthy) Again.
On one side, there’s a party of lecturing about radical diversity, equity, and inclusion.
On the other side, there’s a party of those tired of being lectured to about racism and radical diversity, equity, and inclusion.
On one side, there’s a party of the media bubble, projection, lies, “misinformation”, and propaganda.
On the other side, there’s a party of downhome common sense
On one side, there’s a party of division, atomization, loneliness, and “we’re-in-this-together unity” by coercion.
On the other side, there’s a party united in the good that has been.
On one side, there’s a party whose ideas (ideologies, really) are so misaligned with the country that it loses the popular vote.
On the other side, there’s a party that tapped, not into false consciousness, but into very human concerns about the economy, inflation, the border, and safety – that tapped into reality.
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Recap and Kneecap
Furious DNC Attacks Sanders for Saying Democrats ‘Abandoned Working Class.’
Megyn Kelly Details Biggest Losers of the 2024 Election, From Taylor Swift to The Lincoln Project
Citizen Free Press on X: “Scott Jennings delivers a reality check to CNN panel. Donald Trump and the MAGA movement have never been stronger. https://t.co/X20cTm0eBD” / X
The Democrats’ stronghold in the Twin Cities metro area—particularly Hennepin and Ramsey counties—ultimately secured the state. But Trump’s gains outside the metro area, where he flipped Winona, Nicollet, Carlton, and Blue Earth counties, provide further evidence of Greater Minnesota’s continued shift away from the Democratic Party.
Trump flips four Minnesota counties, including win in Walz’s home county
Bobblehead Mark Cuban never met Natalie Winters.
Natalie Winters on X: “A blowout populist Victory: ➡️ Harris didn’t outperform Biden in a single county ➡️ Just 32% of voters identified as Democrats ➡️ Trump won first-time voters by 9 points https://t.co/Wm8DzWAYiO” / X
Citizen Free Press on X: “Scott Jennings masterclass on CNN last night. Donald Trump now has a mandate. https://t.co/LtjTkBOh05” / X
Here’s one for Files of the Unexplained:
Time to expose the fraud and lies of 2020 that brought ruin on the lives of many:
Where did these votes come from in 2020?
It’s like they appeared out of nowhere!!
Jake Tapper’s stunned reaction goes viral after Kamala Harris fails to outperform Biden in a single state
Trump Saw Gains Across All Voter Demographics, Kamala Saw None.
270toWin – 2024 Presidential Election Interactive Map
Some of the unburdened by what has been:
Wojciech Pawelczyk on X: “Polish Parliament NOW: “DONALD TRUMP! DONALD TRUMP! DONALD TRUMP” 🇵🇱🇺🇸 https://t.co/iv46ucse67″ / X
Oli London on X: “🇮🇱🇺🇸Israeli news anchors celebrate and raise a toast to Trump live on air after he was declared the winner of the U.S Election. https://t.co/M2FANLSYWw” / X
Ned Ryun on X: “From the barracks at the Virginia Military Institute this morning when it was announced that @realDonaldTrump was re-elected to the WH. https://t.co/3zfALoVm66” / X
End Wokeness on X: “Frat boys celebrating the landslide win https://t.co/6OuQJSF88b” / X
1819 News on X: “Auburn students rolled Toomer’s Corner and sang the national anthem last night in response to Donald Trump’s victory. #alpolitics #WarEagle Video courtesy of @DakotaCavin https://t.co/6a5fO2woOE” / X
Watch: Auburn students roll Toomer’s Corner, chant ‘USA,’ sing national anthem after Trump victory
Kamala Campaign burdened by what has been:
Former senior Obama advisor-turned-senior Kamala Harris advisor David Plouffe has deleted his X account after suggesting on Wednesday that Harris’ landslide defeat was Joe Biden’s fault for not dropping out soon enough, and right as a massive campaign debt scandal erupts.
Senior Harris Advisor Deletes X Account As “Massive Scandal” Brews Over $20 Million In Campaign Debt | ZeroHedge
Time to be unburdened from what has been
I’ll fix the sub-heading: “Republican former president is first in ever to reclaim the White House after having it stolen.”
OMG, this is Christian nationalism! This is a threat to Democracy!
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