The Once and Future President
He came, he saw, he won reelection.
On election night, I didn’t even bother to check the results before I went to bed. I knew Trump would be winning, but in the back of my mind, I feared that no matter how big a lead Trump had, by the time I woke up in the morning, his apparent victory would have been buried beneath an avalanche of fraudulent ballots. Just like in 2020, but even more infuriatingly obvious this time. Thankfully, I was wrong.
Just to recap events prior to election day, Trump’s enemies had already tried to assassinate him twice, and Soros DAs12 had waged all-out lawfare against him to keep him out of office. After all that, they surely feared retribution for their crimes. I expected them to unleash everything left in their arsenal in a final attempt to subvert the election (all to “protect our democracy,” of course).
Voter fraud has been the bread and butter of urban Democratic Party machines for decades.3 Now that mail-in ballots make it easier than ever for Democrats to manufacture votes in critical swing states, I fully expected their fraud to succeed.
I am so glad I was wrong. Our country really was at the crossroads this election. A Harris victory would have vindicated all the Left’s malicious prosecutions and weaponization of federal law enforcement against their political enemies. Remember, these Bolsheviks had turned the FBI into a Cheka; while the organized violence of Antifa/BLM and illegal alien gangs had been effectively ignored, the FBI was harassing such heinous thought criminals as Catholics who dared to pray the Rosary outside of abortion clinics, and parents who dared to complain at public school board meetings about transgenderism being promoted in their children’s schools. The Left had backed off their anarcho-tyranny during the run-up to the 2024 election, but if Harris had won, they would have promptly stomped on the gas pedal again, and we would have been hurtling towards the abysmal fate of becoming the South African States of America.
A Harris/Walz victory would have been brutally demoralizing to the Right and infernally energizing to the Left. If Biden had been the “rust on the iron Pentagon” (as
had called him), then Harris was Caligula’s horse reincarnated as a wannabe postmodern Disney girlboss. This election really did test the limits of regime astroturfing: if Kamala Harris had won, it would have shown that Globohomo’s mass-marketing magicians really could sell the sizzle without any steak whatsoever — they could take a DIEverse turd, hollow it out, fill it with retarded slogans like “what can be, unburdened by what has been,” give it a gay albino frog like Tim Walz as a running mate, and then sell it to Americans as something “beyond steak,” and a sufficient number of people would stupidly buy it and declare it was the best steak ever.
More importantly, the Left would have had nine years of high crimes and misdemeanors (going back to Obama having the FBI illegally surveil Trump’s first campaign and Hillary and the regime’s spooks creating the “Russiagate” hoax) completely vindicated. What can be, unburdened by what has been? Yeah, that would have meant “unburdening” the regime from having to occasionally wear its mask of sanity, and from having to even pretend to care about the Constitution, ever again. They would have spent the next four years completing their ideological purge of the military4 and federal law enforcement; they would have appointed a slew of communist apparatchiks as federal judges; they would have opened the border and imported tens of millions of more illegal aliens, distributed them to all the swing states, and then given them citizenship; and they would have effectively turned the USA into a one-party state like California, where the Left is so solidly in control that they can propagandize and incentivize your children into becoming transgender and then legally kidnap them if you try to interfere.
Bottom line, something truly evil was coming our way. Maybe it still is, in the long term, but we definitely got a reprieve. We now have a chance to catch our breaths and better prepare for whatever is eventually coming.
I don’t know exactly what happened or why. I assume some of the establishment kingmakers had seen the data analytics and feared that the level fraud required for a Harris win would simply be a bridge too far, so they started hedging their bets and scaling back their support. At the same time, aggrieved elites like Elon Musk and RFK, Jr. broke ranks and formed the nucleus of a burgeoning counter-elite, around which other elites could coalesce. Intra-elite competition is critically important; if the elites are competing with each other, they have to divert at least some of their attention and resources to that competition — meaning that the ruling class cannot focus its undivided attention and resources on crushing the rest of us. The importance of this cannot be overstated. Moreover, momentum is intangible and ephemeral, but nonetheless very real. If you’ve played or watched sports, you know this; it’s hard to put your finger on it, but when the momentum shifts from one team to the other, you can definitely feel it — and see the effects on the playing field. Apparently, some key people, like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, felt that momentum shifting towards Trump and decided to sit this one out, rather than overtly tip the scales in favor of Harris (like they had done for Biden in 2020). Others, like Jaime Dimon went further and signaled their support of Trump. After it was all said and done, Trump won easily — so easily, in fact, that the election was called for Trump on election night. He even won the popular vote.
I am purposely ignoring the blackpillers who say this is all some 7-D chess by an impossibly omniscient ruling cabal, who had everything planned far in advance. Remember, Kamala Harris was the establishment candidate at one point in the 2020 primary, and her candidacy never got off the ground. Same thing with Mayor Pete Buttgig, a small-town mayor, big-time sodomite, and a purported war hero (with a back story almost as compelling as Raymond Shaw’s in The Manchurian Candidate): he had gotten the regime’s mass-marketing magic fairy dust dumped all over his campaign, and then … nothing. Not even Democrat voters were ready for a couple of homos and their purchased adopted baby boys (why do they always buy boys?) as the “first family.” The Establishment kingmakers eventually went with Biden, after both Mayor Pete’s and Kuntala Harris’s candidacies crashed and burned. Maybe the Establishment stole the 2020 election, but they were not able to do it with their first choice, or even with their second. While these kingmakers are powerful — as evidenced by the scamdemic and the BLM/Antifa PsyOps of 2020 — their power and cunning have limits: they sometimes fail to impose their will on Americans. The Blob’s demonic hive mind is not omniscient, and its control over the country is not complete. There is still room for regime opponents to operate, and sometimes even to win important victories.
Here’s another thing: the blackpillers are engaging in just as much speculation about the future as the most die-hard Trump supporters. None of us have the kind of godlike omniscience that blackpillers credit the ruling elite — and themselves — with having. We’re dealing with a host of unknown unknowns (to borrow a phrase from Don Rumsfeld). Based on the available evidence, we can all spin compelling narratives to justify either hope or despair. If you’re like me, there’s not a lot you can do to influence things on a national, let alone global, scale. The situation is very dynamic and impossibly complicated, and the information available to us is hopelessly incomplete and corrupted by the propaganda of various participants. What can I do in my own life? What can I change in my own corner of this crazy world? And which framing will allow me to do the best I can with what I have? Should I remain hopelessly cynical about everything, because then I won’t ever have false hopes that can be disappointed? If the enemies of Mankind want to defeat us, why help them by overdosing on blackpills and demoralizing ourselves first?
Remember the proverb, A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear? (Proverbs 18: 14 ESV.) And Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits. (Proverbs 18: 21 ESV.) Be careful what you say, because your own subconscious mind is listening, and these kind of prophecies can become self-fulfilling. We do, collectively, shape the zeitgeist; let’s forge it as beneficially as we can, starting with the way we think about ourselves and the world around us.5
The Left will no doubt do what it did after Trump won in 2016: regroup and launch a different attack. Time will obviously tell, but I think Trump (and key members of his team) learned some important lessons from his first term and, more importantly, from the personal attacks he endured while out of office. Because of this, he should surround himself with better people this time, and his second administration should be better than the first — and better prepared to deal with the Blob’s inevitable evil schemes.
I don’t know what the long-term, bigger picture holds. I do know that four years of the Cackling Commie would have certainly been terrible for me and for the people I care about, and that with Trump we can at least have legitimate hope that things will go well. As
observed in A Blackpilled Guide to Voting,6 if you applied a version of Pascal’s Wager to this past election, you would have seen that voting for Trump was your best bet. Thank God Trump won.If you want to read a fun fairy tale about a Soros DA, check out:
See, e.g., Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: 100,000 Stolen Votes in Chicago. The Heritage Foundation (2008): https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/report/where-theres-smoke-theres-fire-100000-stolen-votes-chicago; and The Origins of American Vote Fraud. Mises Institute (2020): https://mises.org/mises-daily/origins-american-vote-fraud.
This post by
is a good reminder of how the Left was imposing its ideology on the US Military:
I’m allowing myself to feel hopeful. The top piece on the Wall Street Journal this morning details actual plans for getting the ball rolling on mass deportations. It’s strange to think this second term administration will likely be more successful than if it had won in 2020. The abject disaster of the Biden administration and four more years of the media hysterically discrediting itself seems to have provided the counterfactual necessary for voters to give Trump 2.0 an undeniable mandate.
And from the perspective of touching grass and enjoying my real life: even if this is just a reprieve from the endless advance of militantly secular managerialism, the discourse has, for the moment, chilled out a bit IRL. Powerful liberals in the media do not seem to have learned their lesson, but the rank and file Democrats in my life seem to have understood this victory in a way they did not in 2016 or 2020. If these next four years go even moderately well while the media remains shrill and ignorant of reality, there may be great opportunity ahead.
"I am purposely ignoring the blackpillers who say this is all some 7-D chess by an impossibly omniscient ruling cabal, who had everything planned far in advance."
I think eugyppius has made a great point on this: as evil as the cabal is, they are not omniscient and they still have to operate with a fig leaf of restraint because if they go full communist totalitarian there's no going back for them. There's a core of true believers that surely wouldn't care if and when that time comes, but it will be at the risk of losing a host of normie supporters that absolutely will care that the last peaceful norms have been broken.