Don’t buy the hype, 2024 is no 2016
Remakes are never a patch on the original
Kit Knightly
So, Donald Trump is President-Elect. Again. His female opponent refused to appear to talk to her supporters and waited almost a day to give a concession speech. Again. Democrats are rending their garments wondering what happened. Again. MAGAheads are thirstily slurping up salty liberal tears. Again.
We’re going to Make America Great Again. Again.
Remember that bit in Groundhog Day where Bill Murray is trying to use his position of being stuck reliving the same day over and over again to construct the perfect date, and he gets pretty close. He and his chosen date have this almost perfect moment…
…then, the next go through the cycle, he tries to do the same thing again, and it’s all wrong. Everything is stilted and forced and it doesn’t work. He tries too hard, grasps too tight.
That was how it felt watching the polls into the early hours of the morning – from both sides.
I’ll be honest here – waking up after Polling Day 2016 to see Clinton had lost is a great memory. I was never a Trump believer, but Clinton was unequivocally worse – than almost anything you can name – and to see the smugness of certain victory detonate into an implosion of stammering bitterness was…funny. And a relief. And funny.
A lot of people thought so.
I get the impression the organizers of (S)election 2024 are well aware of that & were trying to recreate that energy, Groundhog Day fashion.
But of course they can’t. Because this isn’t 2016. And Harris isn’t Clinton, and Trump isn’t even Trump, as he seemed go be then. Then at least there was some wild card elements to his game, now we know who he is.
2016 at least had the appearance of a genuine moment. Our astonishment at least was real. But in 2024 even that much reality has gone. And it feels like everyone knows it.
Remakes are never as good as the original. Cashgrabs banking nostalgia bucks. Soul vs soulless.
The Democrats and Kamala-stans are squawking brainwashed nonsense all over social media – racism this, misogyny that – but it feels like motions being gone through. Parts being performed. The wounds are neither as deep nor as vital as they were in 2016.
The outrage is forced. Even the enthusiasm from pro-Trumpers isn’t the same.
Clinton was a dragon that needed slaying; decades at the top of the pyramid had furnished her influence and cult-like loyalty, mirrored by those many accumulated resentments which fuelled the fireworks when she lost.
Harris had neither the pros nor cons of that legacy. She was never Clinton, and she’s neither of the Obamas, though they tried, at times, to paint her as each. She has no weight or presence and those followers she was gifted would follow anything that moved.
We’ve also had four years of Trump already.
Four years in which he not only spectacularly failed to “drain the swamp”, but also went right along with the Covid psyop and the vaccine rollouts and the lockdowns. All of it.
Then there is the massive reality of “covid” itself, and everything it taught us about the nature of power. I have said it many times, but that display of common purpose among what, for want of a better word, we call “the elites” drove huge numbers of people out of the mainstream and into the fringes.
Everyone on every “side” of the political divide might want to pretend this is Hillary all over again. That 2024 is just like 2016, but too many of us remember what they spent the last four years telling us. The “divisions” are a lie, the “disagreements” veneer deep.
Even if we want to get back inside Frank Zappa’s theatre and pretend we can’t see the brick walls (and it could be argued a Trump victory is an attempt to win us back), none of us can really forget the lesson we learned.
Faith and trust are fine china, much easier to break than repair.
Getting back inside the Matrix is much harder than getting out.
We also had the “election” of 2020 which was so blatantly and obviously stolen that it calls all other elections into question, forever. Trump even being allowed to run this time was a sign he was part of a constructed narrative, his “victory” doubly so.
His supporters might claim that Covid confusion made the 2020 election an exception and therefore easier to manipulate than others before or since. The rallying cry on social media is that this time The Donald’s victory was “too big to rig”.
But that rings hollow. Like an attempted excuse no one really believes.
The fact of the matter is Trump was either allowed to win, or made to win, and either way, it’s just further evidence he’s yet another compromised puppet.
The reality is just that simple.
The 2024 election was a contrived event putting a puppet into office to serve a Deep State agenda. Just like 2020 or 2012 or 2000 or…all of them really, back to at least 1964.
The real winner of the election is The Deep State. There was never anyone else on the ballot.
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Thank you Kit!
One thing that the last 24 hours has taught me is the brutally stubborn incomprehension of the ones around me – and in particular the “Leftist” contingent. This has prompted me to go on a retrospective of the last quarter century.
There have been two massive turning points in this period.
The first was 9/11 which sent a ripple through the big picture the media served up and made it clear to anyone paying attention that all was not what it seemed. And it was indeed this ever gullible “Left” who were most easily seduced by 9/11. They were aided in this by their “representatives” in the political theatre who were busily hat hatching the new craze of “Muscular Liberalism” i.e. a rebirth of the old Western imperialist triumphalism but this time with a “Left” face. Cf. Christopher Hitchens who quite openly admitted to feeling ecstasy when he saw the twin towers fall. Why? Because now he could abandon his stressful “bad boy” contrarian image and join in with the Western jingoist chauvinism whilst holding on to his “Leftist” credentials. Cf. also right winger Roger Scruton who was equally gleeful about how the neologism “Islamofascism” allows “us” to unite against “our common enemy”.
Result: “The Left” are now on board with the underlying deep state project.
The second turning point was covid which blew the entire movie screen apart to reveal the seamless unity of the media. This time “The Left” were not only invited to be on board but to lead the whole carnival with that dizzying turnaround through which 40 years of neoliberal feeding were instantly banished in favour of “The Fight Against The Deadly Bug”!
Now by this time you’d think that anyone genuinely on the Left would have twigged but nooooo! The performing clowns of Covid, climate, and trans frolicked onstage allied to the ever more pedantic political correctness of feverish avoidance of any kind of racial/sexual/religious discrimination – all adding to the unholy brew.
Result: “The Left” are a total wacked out nut-job farm and thus totally ripe for the requisite horrified outrage when Trump ascended to the podium, Trump himself being assigned the central role of Orange Man Hitler.
Thus the noises in my workplace. I’ve heard the shattered traumatised Lefties shriek and post connections to millionaire woke American court jesters – to the effect that the whole of America is on the verge of turning into “The Handmaid’s Tale”. Yes all those liberated power dressing gals are about to be forced to don the red robes and white caps of this new enslavement!
Thanks for the article. I enjoyed it. Yes Hilary Clinton is worse than Trump. At least he doesn’t pretend to be nice. Is there a typo in the fourth para. I didn’t understand this line :’then, the next go through the cycle,” ( Does it mean ” the next time he goes through the cycle”
I agree with everything except the claim that the 2020 result was stolen. He was a proven sellout by 2020. Anyone would have won against him. It’s not possible to fake 8 million votes. The Dems, Gore, won popular and electoral vote in 2000. Florida was proven rigged by invalidating votes illegally. Repug secretaries of state were proven to have manipulated rolls and counts in multiple states for Bush in 2000 and ’04, but Dims did nothing but hand over the election on a SCOTUS silver platter to their “drooling manikin”. Neither Bush nor T won the popular vote until ’24, which the Dims lost on purpose by not choosing Newsom, a competent thinker and speaker who would have cleaned T’s clock. With the broadcast paranoid fear mongering of weeks to get a final count, bordering up DC businesses, and ridiculous civil war talk, the count on Tue night was a done deal by 10pm PST. By yesterday after the national news broadcasts, it’s as if the election never happened. This is what the PTB wanted, it’s obvious. Whether they think T will pull their impossible-to-deal-with $1.6T Interest on the Debt asses out of the fire by thrashing the bottom 80%, with radical acts they could never do, who knows. The News calls T’s 5M+ win slight, when it is significant just like Biden’s 8M win was. What really needs to happen is the People need to realize voting lesser evil, is a totally pointless trap. TPTB are desperate, with options near non-existent as they have exhausted every resource they encounter. Massive failures are certain. Blame must be offloaded somewhere.
A half-German Russki says that half-German (not half Swiss-German, as Bolshevikipedia claims) Steve Jobs was a digital Hitler. Why Hitler and not Mao or Stalin probably has to do with his ideological homeland. https://archive.is/gNZAw
yes, the house always wins.
Re Kennedy:
If all goes well the truth about vaccines will come out. But I’m not putting a penny on that.
As Hillary said to a packed room. ‘Keep taking the jab’.
Funnily enough, it is all about Groundhog Day, but instead of a 12 hour day that ends at midnight, it’s 12 millennia – and it’s 90 seconds to midnight.
Fear fear fear like after every election….
I am still happy that the other one didn’t win. Small mercies.
Dry dog shit vs wet dog shit…
Or South Park, a total douche vs turd sandwich
Another ringer from Kit! (I know I sound like a ditto-head these days, but what can I do?) For my part, I feel that this is the calm before the storm: the media and the rest of the elites want us all to kiss and make up in preparation for the coming war.
That’s right: I strongly suspect that Trump has been tapped to lead us into WW3 against Iran. We’re only one false-flag away.
In addition to Kit, another person that gets it is Mike Whitney over at Unz.com:
Read the whole thing: https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/trumps-triumph-and-the-firing-of-yoav-gallant/
Love the way that minister in the Israeli cabinet is called Gallant. There must be lots of puns and memes already in existence about how he is so UNgallant
You’re right, of course, but there is a potential silver lining and different element with this administration elect, should it be allowed to take office, in the radical rhetoric of broad reforms and the cross party defections and coalitions, which has never happened in my lifetime (I’m 62).
So I’m relieved he won, was allowed to win, more accurately, both on the off chance that somehow, this time, because of the personnel coalition created with Kennedy, Gabbard, & Musk (and maybe Ron Paul?), and the radical promises of remedy made by all about the urgent matters of the wars, the gargantuan waste, the capture of all the agencies, the immigrants, the possible end of the income tax, and even the release of Ross Ulbricht – all of which, if actually done, would easily make DT the greatest and most accomplished President in history – and because, if those things don’t happen, which is likely, then maybe the fervent and easy tendency of even people with the capacity for critical thought to repeatedly put their eggs in the basket of savior politicians might finally be dampened, at least in some, and move us closer to some kind of positive tipping point.
In any case, I think some time may have been bought, and I will hope, but not expect, that the list of grand promises is realized, is allowed to be, that no cataclysm or dirty deeds will derail the train, if indeed it ever really leaves the station.
Or maybe he sold his soul to the Israeli lobby.
I don’t think there’s any question or “maybe” about that. That’s already certain, and I’m not a fan of his, and am not extolling his virtues.
I think if anything good comes of his presidency, it will be because of that unusual coalition that formed, but my main point has to do with the potentially awakening effect his administration failing to do what it has promised could have.
Probably a forlorn hope, either way, and grasping at straws, but however dim the likelihood of either outcome, they seemed worth pointing out, and which also distinguish this outcome from that of 2016.
Thanks OmG, from Deep $tate.
Thank you for keeping it real. There is nothing to celebrate or grumble about. The illusion of choice still in play. The manufactured DIVIDE still intact. The Elite/Deep State still wins. That is of course until the Lion of the Tribe of Judah returns.
the Lion being Bibby?
You’re probably right but Trump seems to be publicly committed to blocking the climate agenda which is at the heart of the great reset. That’s something.
3) Cut climate regulations
During his first presidency, Trump rolled back hundreds of environmental protections and made America the first nation to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
This time, he has again vowed to cut regulations, particularly as a way to help the American car industry. He has constantly attacked electric vehicles, promising to overturn Biden’s targets encouraging the switch to cleaner cars.
He has pledged to increase production of US fossil fuels – vowing to “drill, drill, drill” on day one in favour of renewable energy sources such as wind power.
He wants to open areas such as the Arctic wilderness to oil drilling, which he argues would lower energy costs – though analysts are sceptical.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev90d7wkk0o
If the deep state pays attention to reality, they could be implementing a plan….
Regain the trust of people…
But they’ll need to sell out quite a few corrupt assholes in order to bring back some inkling of trust.
Perhaps this is why Trump and Kennedy are linked now….
Or perhaps they’re gonna do jack shit like they always have done and pretend.
Pretending will not fix the huge mistrust in the agencies that we see are totally corrupt.
If the deep state is stupid, they will let this corruption persist.
If not, they’ll reform some things…
Either way, they’re fucked because the assholes dared to bring the war home with con-vid 1984….