New Normal Digest #7

A look behind the horrible suspicion that Donald Trump was allowed to win!

Mexican Boy: Viene la tormenta.

Sarah Connor: What did he just say?

Gas Station Attendant: He said there's a storm coming.

Sarah Connor: [sighs] I know.

—The Terminator (1984)

One of the things this vehicle (New Normal Digests) allows me to do is explore an idea, experiment with it, test it where possible, without committing to it. Because I don’t know. It’s possible, the idea is true. I can’t prove it, but there it is, like an ominous shadow, hovering at the corner of my vision field. I can’t dismiss it, because it is consistent with other things I’ve learned over the years, some I wish I hadn’t learned.

Today I’m going to explore an idea I’ve encountered a handful of times.

First, a preliminary. I wasn’t the only one who predicted that the left would go absolutely nuclear if Trump won. We’re ten days after the election. While the weeping and gnashing of teeth I mentioned has continued unabated, no one I know of has protested, much less gotten violent. Even Biden has called for a smooth transition. Perhaps in contrast to what happened four years ago.

My question: if his handlers really saw Trump as a “threat to democracy,” would they care about that? Wouldn’t their “influencers” have urged leftist foot solders and the usual gaggle of useful idiots into the streets by now?

Perhaps something else is going on, something not good.

Paul Craig Roberts asks: Did the Deep State allow Trump to win? He writes:

What I find alarming is the Deep States evident confidence that Trump is more valuable to them in office than out.  Once the members of the Deep State got over their hysteria, they set about aligning their agendas with Trump’s platform of making America great again.

Trump’s emphasis on oil and gas production fits.  It can be turned to profits and continued hegemony over oil, thus protecting the US dollar. 

Trump’s boisterous approach to adversaries fits.  It can be turned to war and profits for the military/security complex.

Trump’s deportation of illegals can be blocked with law suits until the end of his four year term.

Dangerous appointees such as RFK Jr. and Elon Musk can be sidelined in advisory positions without executive authority where they can do no damage.

The British Prime Minister and French President can prevail, with the help of the Biden regime’s neoconservatives, on Biden to “take the handcuffs off,” as Trump’s national security adviser wants to do, the use of the long-range missiles provided to Ukraine.  This is already in the works and would make ending the Ukraine conflict difficult. Instead of peace, Trump would enter the White House as War President.

Any dangerous appointment can be blocked by the Senate’s non-confirmation, with lobbyists holding money over the heads of Senators. Does the money go to you or to your opponent in the next election?  Trump controls  the Republican voters, but the Deep State controls most of the Republican and Democrat members of the House and Senate.

Voters can elect, but after that it is out of their hands.  

Roberts cites commentator Mike Whitney as a major source. Whitney raised the question back on November 6.

I’d assumed that the left and the Deep State were shellshocked by an outcome they did not expect. But maybe that’s simply untrue. Here is how Whitney opens his alarming piece:

Why was Trump Allowed to Win the Election?

We know what happens when the deep state does not get the outcome it wants. All hell breaks loose, just like did following the 2016 elections. Try to remember what that was like. Try to remember the legal challenges and the lawsuits, the hectoring and name-calling, the spurious allegations of voter fraud and Russian meddling, and the overall discrediting of the electoral process. Try to recall the street protests, the angry antifascist mobs scuffling with cops and the relentless outbursts of rage directed at the “new Hitler”.

Do you remember that?

That’s what happens when the deep state does not get its way.

Have you noticed that nothing similar to that display of manufactured rage has taken place in 2024? Have you noticed that the liberal media has been calling for calm and unity and that it is almost impossible to find a belligerent or hostile article aimed at Trump?

Isn’t this a case of the ‘dog that didn’t bark’; a case in which a skeptical person should assume foul play not from what he hears but from what he doesn’t hear?

Indeed, the reason the election results were “free and fair” is not because the intel community has stopped rigging elections, but because no rigging was required. They wanted Trump to win because Trump was ‘their man.’

Before I explain what I mean by that, allow me to share an email I send to a friend on Monday, the day before the election:

Trump’s gonna win…
The deep state needs a popular president to recruit red state teenagers to fight a war with Iran…
Harris doesn’t have that kind of appeal

Doesn’t this help to explain why the media hasn’t gone bonkers over the Trump victory and pilloried him as a racist, fascist homophobe as they typically do?

As it happens, the deep state –which unconditionally supports the state of Israel– needs Donald Trump. They need a charismatic, populist firebrand to boost recruitment and spearhead the rush to war. Harris can’t do that. Harris had trouble attracting even a hundred supporters to her rallies.

No, this is a task for a leader that is trusted, admired and loved. This is a task for a man who has credibility with the red state young men who traditionally fight our wars. This is a job for Trump.

Whitney’s article also came to the attention of Russian journalist Ekaterina Blivona, whose piece is also entitled “Did the U.S. Deep State Allow Trump To Win?” I recommend reading the entire thing; here’s a teaser:

On election day Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton suggested that the vote count might take days as in 2020, triggering election rigging suspicions among X users. However, Donald Trump was declared the winner the day after the election.

Amid pre-election claims from conservative commentators that the US establishment would not allow Donald Trump to win, some American commentators have suggested that Trump voter enthusiasm was "too big to rig" while others speculated that the purported vote-rigging mechanisms in place had been stopped by the ruling elites.

According to this argument, the elites reasoned that Trump could be maneuvered into pro-war positions and would be more successful in marshaling public support than Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and, as such, the deep state 'allowed Trump to win.'

Can Trump be so maneuvered? One can hope not! He’s said that he could end the Russia-Ukraine war apace, probably by getting Putin and Zelenskyy across a table and having them sign a deal. The deal might not make anyone entirely happy, but it would save lives.

But Trump has a serious disadvantage, and this disadvantage has cost him dearly in the past.

He’s not a systematic thinker. He doesn’t have an intellectual bone in his body … much less in his head.

He goes off immediacy: what he sees, hears, smells. His instincts often serve him well. But instincts only take us so far. Lack of systematicity hurt him back in 2020 when Captain Covid descended, courtesy of the Fauci-funded Wuhan lab. (I’m assuming no one is still so naive as to buy the whopper that this clear product of several years of gain-of-function research “evolved in a bat.”

Trump’s instincts told him to endorse what was happening on the ground, which was that doctors such as Vladimir Zelenko were getting results with hydroxychloroquine.

The possibility of containing covid with these inexpensive treatments was kept off the table by Big Pharma controlled corporate media, which in turn serves larger interests. Pharma’s agents in government and corporate media told people to “wait for a vaccine” while they suffered and died unnecessarily!

Trump was unable to put two-and-two together, however. He couldn’t seem to see what was happening as not as a mere plague but as the biggest power grab in human history, able not just to destroy his presidency but put the world in lockdown. He caved, supported the lockdowns, and then the mRNA shots that were being readied right around the time of the election.

I can’t help but think he’s still vulnerable, if not out-and-out controlled.

Dr. Roberts continues:

Blinova understands that the American Deep State, if its members believe Trump’s statements, have good reasons to regard Trump as an existential threat.  Why, then, with the mechanisms in place to steal the 2024 election did the Deep State permit Trump to win?

What I find alarming is the Deep State’s evident confidence that Trump is more valuable to them in office than out.  Once the members of the Deep State got over their hysteria, they set about aligning their agendas with Trump’s platform of making America great again.

Trump’s emphasis on oil and gas production fits.  It can be turned to profits and continued hegemony over oil, thus protecting the US dollar. 

Trump’s boisterous approach to adversaries fits.  It can be turned to war and profits for the military/security complex.

Trump’s deportation of illegals can be blocked with law suits until the end of his four year term.

Dangerous appointees such as RFK Jr. and Elon Musk can be sidelined in advisory positions without executive authority where they can do no damage.

The British Prime Minister and French President can prevail, with the help of the Biden regime’s neoconservatives, on Biden to “take the handcuffs off,” as Trump’s national security adviser wants to do, the use of the long-range missiles provided to Ukraine.  This is already in the works and would make ending the Ukraine conflict difficult. Instead of peace, Trump would enter the White House as War President.

Any dangerous appointment can be blocked by the Senate’s non-confirmation, with lobbyists holding money over the heads of Senators. Does the money go to you or to your opponent in the next election?  Trump controls  the Republican voters, but the Deep State controls most of the Republican and Democrat members of the House and Senate.

Voters can elect, but after that it is out of their hands.  

Some of Trump’s appointees, moreover, are either arch-Zionists (e.g, Hedspeth) or have received massive support from Israel (Marco Rubio). Trump’s blind support for Israel and corresponding belligerence toward Iran is very troubling. He could well resolve a war that has outlived its usefulness to the globe’s real ruling class in the GloboCorp power structure but use him as a tool to further the war they want.

Now I have no special love for Iran, but the Iranians have the same right not to be destroyed that the Palestinians have—a right which has been systematically obliterated by the Israeli military with the full support of American Zionists (which, sadly, includes a lot of Christians and Christian leaders).

The U.K.’s Kit Knightly, of the Off-Guardian (formed, I am told, by refugee dissident commenters who had been deplatformed by left wing publication The Guardian) opines:

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.

Frank Zappa had famously told interviewer Jim Ladd as far back as 1977:

I would say the illusion [of freedom] will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move all the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre.

This has been, as we said at the outset, an exploration. A probing, if you will. Something I invite you to consider even if it gives you a sleepless night or three. It may be wrong. Maybe Trump really will Make America Great Again this time.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

And sometimes not.

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Steven Yates is a (recovering) ex-academic with a PhD in Philosophy. He taught for more than 15 years total at several universities in the Southeastern U.S. He authored three books, more than 20 articles, numerous book reviews, and review essays in academic journals and anthologies. Refused tenure and unable to obtain full-time academic employment (and with an increasing number of very fundamental philosophical essays refused publication in journals), he turned to alternative platforms and heretical notions, including about academia itself.

In 2012 he moved to Chile. He married a Chilean national in 2014. Among his discoveries in South America: the problems of the U.S. are problems everywhere, because human nature is the same everywhere. The problems are problems of Western civilization as a whole.

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