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On Narratives and the Venezuelan Window of Opportunity

On Narratives and the Venezuelan Window of Opportunity

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Harris +2 in this state.

+3 in that one.

Tied nationally.

Gaining in another.

This one no longer in play for Trump.

Boom, boom, boom.  Like depth charges in the movie U-571.  I know these polls are phony and have been busy exposing them this week, but they still irritate me and often force me to wonder if maybe I’m just crazy.  They clearly work to some degree in swaying the public, and betting markets have responded, showing a close race for days and sometimes with Harris ahead.

And that is why they are rolled out there.  They don’t move many votes, but they shift perception of what could happen, like a dark cloud in the sky informing your brain that your outing on the golf course could be interrupted by rain.  Polls, staged concert events, celebrity endorsements, turncoat Republicans and family members announcing support for Democrats, and headlines are all designed to position clouds in your mind for the possibility of any given outcome.

I spent some time this week driving myself crazy, partially relapsing into my experience of the 2020 election, when polling numbers were far less advantageous than they are today for Donald Trump, who still came up with over 74 million votes but “lost” the election despite satisfying practically every trend, indicator, bellwether, and predictor in place since the late 19th century.  Do you know who got my head straight?  Chris Paul.  He’s like the oil change shop I take my truck to when it is making weird noses or showing me warning lights.  He doesn’t care at all about election outcomes, and I’ll explain why as I progress through this article.  In fact, I wrote an entire article about Chris Paul Theory right here in this journal immediately after the Trump-Biden debate.  Chris is a must-follow and perhaps one of the most important critical thinkers in alternative media today.

The Democrats absolutely play for votes, or ballots, and I’m not saying you shouldn’t, either.  I’m also not writing this article to gradually let out that I don’t think Trump will be winning the 2024 election.  I have put every ounce of time and energy I’ve been given since November 3, 2020, to return the man to the White House, and even though I’m being kept away from impacting the corporate operation by RNC gatekeepers, my efforts will continue through the election, or quasi-election.  Trump absolutely should win against Harris comfortably, by anyone’s pre-2018 elections measurements.  We are now in a brand-new ballgame that makes this election a 50/50 proposition primarily due to the exclusive control of 191 Democrat electoral votes as a launching pad to 31 more almost certain ones, bringing the election down to seven corrupt decisive states.  This election sits at 235-222 Trump right now, and he will absolutely need to carry at least one of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or Michigan to win, and will absolutely need to take Georgia in any scenario leading to victory.  The bad guys are almost at the point of being able to fully control 270 electoral votes.

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This is only possible because the media and those paying, influencing, and driving them realize the psychological value in creating, sustaining, and force-feeding narratives.  They are bold liars, and nearly everyone reading this understands that – but don’t kid yourselves about their effectiveness at misleading a large enough chunk of society to maintain control of narrative.  Just three weeks ago, President Trump survived an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania and stood up defiantly with blood on his face and his fist pumping at the camera.  In doing so, he crossed over a threshold from national figure to all-time historical figure and icon, one of the 20 greatest men in modern history known worldwide.  It seems to me that this was years ago, not just three weeks ago, and his debate performance against Biden lost somewhere in ancient lore.  Since the shooting, here are major events that have happened:

·      Selection of J.D. Vance as Trump’s Vice-Presidential nominee

·      Execution of Republican National Convention

·      Joe Biden drops out of the 2024 race

·      Kamala Harris emerges as front-runner, pushes off all challengers within days

·      Media re-brands Harris within a week and pushes fake polling, effectively shifting all narratives and betting markets

·      Harris prepares to select Vice Presidential nominee

There have been six major domestic events in 21 days since Trump’s shooting, or one major political event every 3.5 days, all spinning up their own news cycles and contingencies, and everything, including the shooting, has stemmed from one simple fact:

The media and kingmakers in the United States no longer had narrative control that Joe Biden would be believed as having defeated Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

Look, 5 out of 8 American likely voters don’t believe the result of the last election, and it wasn’t that far from a majority at the time the November 2020 result was announced.  But thanks to fake media polling, the deliberate planting of COVID-19 in the United States, and the media and political mob sheltering Joe Biden from public evaluation, the result was possible to the uninformed, who were told not to believe their lying eyes that saw all those massive boat parades and Trump rallies while Biden put half a dozen paid actors in circles in high school gyms.  When it became evident to all that Biden was incapable of carrying the workload of the presidency, and was incapable of basic motor skill, public speaking, or even appearing in public like he knew where he was, a plan to overcome 80 million or more 2024 Trump votes became something that could no longer be sold. Everything that sucked about Biden is being Astroturfed as not an issue with Harris - Biden won without any crowds going to see him, now look at Harris at this Atlanta concert!

Tyranny has evolved over time.  It used to be all hard tyranny – “we have the army and control the food supply, and you will submit to our control.”  This sort of tyranny, once the subjects realized there was nothing left to lose, always led to the ouster of tyrants through force, even if it took decades to remove a regime.  Tyranny, at least in the Western world, had adjusted its tactics to institute and maintain soft tyranny.  The people in the United States are still fat and distracted, with too much to lose.  There is always soccer practice, piano recital, Wednesday church group, the guys at the pub, the girls at the salon, a 40-hour work week, 401k, and a LinkedIn reputation to maintain, and those in power know it, and they maintain it here and there by throwing out free money in a time of perceived need to control unrest.  The ability to maintain a soft tyranny depends directly on the ability to sell the tyranny as plausibly installed and of no real threat to those subject to its rule:

I really don’t like the way Election Night unfolded, but the polls were right on the money; at least we have the midterms to keep Biden in check.

God winked at the world last week from Venezuela, and I have no doubt His hand is behind a global red pill on election theft.  This forced everyone, including neighboring South American countries, to reject the current outcome and admit elections are stolen, which leads to the obvious twist that elections have been stolen for a long time, often with U.S. involvement.  I had a cynical laugh watching U.S. officials claim the Venezuelan election was stolen by the Maduro regime while they most certainly all know their positions are owed to the blatant theft of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.  None of these hacks said a damn word about the stolen election in Brazil, because it ousted a nationalist Trump ally.  None of them had anything to say about the French nationalists being denied power recently because technically forging an alliance and throwing seats is not illegal.  I was reminded, through the forced dismay of U.S. officials, of one of the all-time great quips:

A flag and a flag

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They had no choice but to decry the election theft in Venezuela because it kept a brutal dictator in power and so obviously defied what was going on in the polling stations and the anti-regime energy throughout the entirety of the once-prospering nation.  In other words, no narrative supported that Maduro might or could win.

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