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I’ve got an entire chapter in my book Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It’s All Obama that asks whether Donald Trump was ever really president during what officially was his first term. We had some debate during the production of the book between the publisher, the editor, and me over whether it was a good idea to offer up that topic as part of the book’s argument. It seems like that argument is over, and the answer is “no.” This isn’t intended as an insult to Trump, please understand. Quite the contrary. Within the boundaries of what he was capable of doing, he was a very successful president. (READ MORE: The Democrat Party is a Cult) But those boundaries were tighter than in any presidency of modern times. We have to accept that now. Now It’s Clear That Trump Was Undermined And what ended the argument was something, ironically enough, that Mark Zuckerberg said. The big headline coming out of Zuckerberg’s letter to the House Judiciary Committee was the Biden administration’s pressure on Facebook to suppress content, mostly involving what was considered “misinformation” about COVID-19 treatments, masks, and vaccines. But what flew in under the radar was that he also reaffirmed that the FBI pressured Facebook and other platforms owned by parent company Meta to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. Let’s remember that polling following the 2020 election showed that some number near 10 percent of the votes Joe Biden garnered in that election would not have been available to him had the laptop story been given its due amount of oxygen. The Hunter Biden laptop reporting paints a clear picture of a corrupt political family trading influence to unsavory foreign actors in contravention of U.S. interests. Furthermore, the laptop was a confirmation of what those of us who were paying attention knew; namely, that one of the Biden family’s corrupt influence-peddling clients was a gang of Ukrainian corruptocrats who exchanged a board seat on a mobbed-up natural gas company to the former vice president’s son for a mountain of foreign-aid swag and some well-placed favors. Like, for example, when a state prosecutor in Ukraine looked into the goings-on at that mobbed-up natural gas company, they asked Biden to get him fired, and voila: In a sane country, the laptop would have blown open the rancid corruption of the Biden crime family and made him utterly unelectable — and the Democrats in Congress who had impeached Trump for having attempted to spur cooperation to get to the bottom of it would have been on the defensive for their votes, at least in swing districts. But this is no longer a sane country. Trump was supposed to be the president in 2020, and the FBI was actively attempting to destroy his presidency by pressuring social media platforms to suppress true information about his opponent’s corruption. Who Was Actually in Control? And then, some 51 intelligence community spooks with security clearances showed up in a letter claiming that the New York Post’s reporting of what was on that laptop was “Russian disinformation” — an abject and obvious lie that has gone unpunished even to date. This was merely a cherry on top of what had been four years of a rolling coup d’etat against a duly elected American president. It began even before Trump took office when the fraudulent Trump-Russia scandal was ginned up by the Hillary Clinton campaign and then weaponized by the outgoing Obama administration. You’ll remember that they took out Mike Flynn, who was to be Trump’s national security adviser, for the blameless action of having conversations with his Russian counterparts and then remembering those conversations differently than the FBI’s surveillance showed. That begat an investigation aimed at proving Trump was colluding with Russia to steal the 2016 election, an absurd, weaponized charge that resulted in nothing other than a hamstrung presidential administration and an electoral wipeout in the 2018 midterms. (READ MORE: New York’s Broken Windows) Not that Trump’s agenda fared all that well in a House and Senate run by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, respectively. Save for his tax reforms, very little was accomplished through legislative means. Then there was the impeachment, and then there was the sabotage of his administration by the public health bureaucracy’s dictated response to the COVID pandemic — as the Chinese state media organs attacked Trump and other “populist” leaders like Boris Johnson and Jair Bolsonairo as “not up to the challenge” the virus presented: Again — who was actually in control? The Disease No One Wanted to Cure Every time Trump offered some new idea for dealing with the virus he found himself shouted down by a hostile media and abandoned by the members of his administration supposedly helping him to govern. It happened when Trump stated, based on the clear evidence available, that the COVID-19 virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and was treated as irresponsible by Anthony Fauci and others. It happened when Trump mentioned that hydroxychloroquine had shown positive properties in helping some COVID patients avoid hospitalization. It happened when Trump mentioned a procedure by which doctors at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles were experimenting with ultraviolet radiation to disinfect the lungs of COVID patients on ventilators (this was where the idiotic and false narrative that Trump was suggesting people “inject bleach” to kill the virus). Each time there was silence, if not outright rejection, of Trump’s attempts to find a way past the virus. (READ MORE: The RFK Jr. Bump) I said at the time that COVID-19 was the disease no one in the government wanted to cure. And I was right. They wanted a maximum in negative effects from the virus because it was destroying Trump’s presidency. Deborah Birx all but said as much in her book, which was full of stories about how she lied and obfuscated to thwart the White House’s efforts to make COVID-19 policy. In a very real sense, Trump was barely president. He certainly didn’t wield power in the way we’re accustomed to an American president would. And despite this, he’s running against an unrecognized cabal of people, with Kamala Harris as their new frontman, who concocted and are spraying out a narrative of Trump as a dictator. That’s a level of projection AMC Theaters would be proud of. Perhaps Trump is to blame, at least to an extent, for allowing his first term to be stymied as it was. Or perhaps the American people are to blame for allowing our republic to be so corrupted. But most of all, the blame should chiefly rest on the unrecognized cabal of Deep State elites who robbed the American people of the reckoning that Trump’s 2016 victory was intended to be. That reckoning is yet to be unrealized all these years later. It must come. And it must carry some accrued interest. The post Trump Is Running For A First Term, Not A Second appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

What you see below is a leaflet the British dropped over Germany in 1943, when the tide of war had turned. Kraft durch Freude means “Strength through Joy.” It was a slogan used by the Nazi-run labor organization that extracted mandatory deductions from workers’ pay as well as pushed for various morale-building activities for them, among them, an affordable car, seen in the photo — what would become the Volkswagen. Communist Kamala Harris is Running on Strength Through Joy Including Giving Away Freebies Geez, wonder who else came into power with the same propaganda, Oh right that was the Nazis. ‘Kraft durch Freude!’ (‘Strength through Joy!’) The ‘Kraft durch Freude!’ (KdF) programme was… pic.twitter.com/Z7ix9BpRbB — Andrea Shaffer, Employment/Labor Law (@Andreafreedom76) August 26, 2024 The Brits contrasted the upbeat slogan and the picture of the joyous fuehrer with the grisly reality for German soldiers in Africa, where more than a quarter-million of them were killed or captured as the Brits and Americans together drove them out. Perhaps, the Allies hoped, seeing the hellish reality might spark a flame of resistance against the Nazi horror. (READ MORE: When It Comes to Israel, These People Are Idiots) Strangely, the Dem campaign is now using this slogan of strength through joy — or perhaps predictably, given its commitment to being unburdened by the past. Though the strength has disappeared, the emphasis on joy was everywhere in Chicago and in the Dems’ vast national echo chamber. The Worst of Humanity Wants Us to Take Part in Deviltries But it doesn’t take much reminding to know that the worst of humanity very much wants us to feel joy in being part of their deviltries. The goal that was achieved in 1984 was not that Winston Smith complied with the Party; but that, by the last line of the book, he loved Big Brother. Then the horror was complete. If we need any reminder of horror, the Gollum force of the Hamas Left has been out in the streets in Chicago — though the legacy media are doing a fine job of diverting attention from them. The Dems want the votes of these people and see no point in standing unequivocally against the apocalyptic horror they advocate. Heavens no! Just a tip of the hat to keep most of the country on board, and then a “But on the other hand” about a city that polls show still approves of Hamas orgy of violence. As Ivy League professors might tell you, morality is just a power game, and it’s a game the Dems intend to win. Lip service may be given as a sort of distracting feint, but that’s not where their mind is or what heart they have left. They see little prudential interest in combating the sadistic, perverse evil that is both the goal and the method of Hamas and its fellows in Beirut, Sanaa, and Tehran. A Man on a Mission to Convey the Horrors of Oct. 7 Douglas Murray, bless his soul, has the courage and the moral credibility so lacking in the panorama of pretense unfolding in the United Center. He was talking this week with Jordan Peterson about his upcoming speaking tour in America during which he means to convey the horror of Hamas’ Oct. 7 onslaught of atrocities. Murray went to Israel immediately after that onslaught and remained there for about half a year, following up every aspect of the horror that he could find. He believes we have indulged in a childish and unsustainable unseriousness about the nature of the forces that were unleashed then and which threaten us now. He is ready to risk the anger that comes from showing people the terrifying things they wish to avoid in the hope that if we are spurred to grow up and find courage, we may avoid the greater horrors that are being planned. (READ MORE: The Democrat Party is a Cult) One such horror he shared in this talk. He saw a video that the attackers had made — one of many in which they were proud, happy, and joyful about what they were doing, and wanted to record and celebrate the joy of being unconstrained by what went before. And what were they doing that produced their joy? Murray described a home in the south of Israel in a village that was completely taken over by the Hamas invaders. The father and two of the children, two boys, had taken shelter in the safe room that was built into all the homes there. Hamas had spied the homes out. They knew where these rooms were. They went for it and tossed a hand grenade into it. The father threw himself on the grenade to save his sons and was killed. The boys saw their father blown apart and were themselves badly hurt, the one losing an ear, the other an eye. Murray said: And they were staggering around the main room of their house, weeping and wailing in the most unforgettable, awful, awful way. And one of the terrorists came in and who had just killed their father in front of them, came in and opened the fridge and helped himself to the food. And the youngest of the boys in total trauma said, “that’s my mother’s food.” And the terrorist turned to him and said, where’s your mother? I want her too. It matters a great deal what our joy comes from — a difference as great as that separating heaven from hell. It Matters Where Our Joy Comes From We learned from Obama that what we hoped for and what kind of change made a difference as well. In an administration whose effect was to make America hate again, we learned a lesson about lovely large words that admitted many parsings. It matters what kind of change we hope for. It also matters a great deal where our joy comes from. For the face of evil today — the evil accorded astonishing deference by the self-styled defenders of democracy — is a happy face. It rejoices in the hurt in causes and accepts no boundaries; they will unburden themselves from the least bit of civilized behavior, of the slightest nod to decency and human feeling, in pursuit of the joy of causing the most excruciating pain even to little children. This carries no weight with the weightless. Unburdened by any gravity of any sort, Kamala’s balloon seeks to traverse this country like the balloon sent from Tim Walz’s favorite vacationland that Kamala and Joe watched as it unhurriedly spied out the length of our country unmolested. It’s all about power and to hell with civilization. (Or maybe there was a real estate grift, and the Chi Coms were just scouting out some more farmland near our air bases, and someone would get a nice percentage.) “Who cares?” shrieked the girl who came unhinged at the Watts Acid test in 1965 in LA. California is as crazy as ever, and the Dems think that is what America needs now. They are ready to package it to sell. Perhaps break out the Beethoven’s Tenth again, with Ringo pacifying the tiger. Help! But only the soulless, the monsters, and those joy-riding with them could find joy in where Kamala and Tim would take us, given the chance. Douglas Murray thinks that we still have a soul and that it can be stirred to courage yet. We need to prove him right. The post The Face of Evil Is Masquerading as ‘Joy’ appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.