My previous article that referenced Mr. Dunning rocketing up the Substack charts, noted that Mr. Dunning expects to make at least $100,000 from his Substack newsletter in his first year and maybe $140,000 in the year to come.
Besides a few "Covid Contrarian" All-Star Substackers, there's not many people on our team who are making six figures from their dispatches (which all generate hundreds of likes and Reader Comments).
Even those of us who are happy to have a couple hundred paid subscribers, routinely blow away the Comment and "Like" numbers of the liberal Substackers who, allegedly have hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
those leftist narrative spreaders are paid by act blue and communist orgs like act blue to give the impression that the left is ascendant and ever the voice of the people. Similar to the grift/pay off/money laundering for politicians to write autobiographies and books.
the substack metrics for these people is a pure propaganda play. the money is real but the metrics that make people think these writers are popular are fake. The globohomos know propaganda. They know about low information people and they believe if they drill their message over and over the more true believers they will get.
We are in a fifth gen war and paying money to leftist grifters is one front of the war.
Everything is fake and a lie is a good operating concept. Politics is worst of all.
According to Substack metrics, Mr. Dunning’s newsletter has at least 6.7 times more paid subscribers than my newsletter.
It seems to me most of Mr. Dunning’s essays generate around 20 to 30 “likes” and very few Reader Comments and cross-posts.
One of my hard-to-explain data points or comparisons: My earlier Substack article on Dunning and an admirer of his from The San Francisco Chronicle produced … 506 “likes,” 235 Reader Comments and 60 cross-posts.
Here’s my previous story, which did “go viral” in the share and cross-post category:
He's a paid operative, possibly by the DNC or some other pac. Would be an interesting story if someone could uncover the money trail behind many of these left wing accounts on substack, and see if they are in fact legit followings. They all follow the same playback, and none I've been on allow unpaid subs to comment. Then when you read the comments half sound like they are bots.
These authors also quickly ban people who make comments that don't fit the narrative. Getting banned by the San Francisco Chronicle's Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist is what motivated me to write my first story on Dunning.
In two-plus years writing this Substack, I've never banned anyone. Liberals are free to make whatever comments they want.
Compare-and-contrast examples like this are quite revealing.
I'm glad you made that point, Jim. Most of these sites do NOT allow comments for free subscribers. I always have. I also didn't get to read Dunning's full election re-cap story as only part of the story was available to free subscribers. Anyone can read all of my stories.
There is an untold story on the metrics of these liberal sites. I think many of those "subscribers" may be "bots." I also wonder if the algorithms or article "sends" are being suppressed for some of the more-effective "Covid contrarian" authors.
For example, I have been a paid subscriber to Steve Kirsch's site for at least two years. I can't remember the last time I received one of Steve's emails. I don't get them and I check the Spam folders.
I have a few paid subscriptions, unfortunately many less than I had 4 years ago before the cost of living explosion - I almost never get email or inbox notices for any of them (all conservative or contrarian authors). Yet, substrack continues to pollute my home feed with unasked for / unwanted promotion of these left wing wackos.
I have a few paid. You are on my list for next year. Even though the paid ones say paid right at the top, my iPhone refuses to give me my paid subscriptions. I have to finagle my iPad to get them to work. But not always. I tried to get it fixed but 🤷♀️. Great post Bill. These liberals are lost. I had to pry myself out during the jab hell in 2021 and a grandchild ( 14) who was groomed into the trans ideology. So evil)Looking from the outside in I think is the only way you actually can see how utterly crazy of mind and their dangerous dangerous policies. I’m over it.
Thanks for the intelligence, Janet. This confirms or reinforces my suspicion that all of my subscribers are NOT routinely receiving my dispatches. I've received many reports of subscribers who report the same thing. And, as noted, I know that I don't get several Substack dispatches from authors where I am a paid subscriber. I have many other free subscriptions I also don't receive.
None of them do. And every comment is 100% agreement, never a back and forth, or even a slightly different view. They get no real engagement. I found most of the writers I follow in comment sections of other writers. You, mark oshenkie, John Carter, Chris bray..etc. all have open comment sections with tons of engagements. I would never have found any of you all if not for the comment sections.
Thanks, Jim. I used to make a lot of Reader Comment posts at other Substacks, primarily to "market" my own site. I guess that prolific posting helped a little bit. I perhaps need to re-boot that effort. Also, I'm going to now go and subscribe to your site - for free for now, but if I can keep selling some new subscriptions to my local Substack I might become comfortable enough to become a paid subscriber.
I would like to see an expedited Visa/Passport process for all the folks who want to leave the country. Perhaps we could even have a check-off on our tax returns to provide them a grubstake in whatever promised land they have selected that's better than here.
They won't let them leave, Ron. "Follow the money." Or, they actually don't care if people leave; they just want their tax money. I need to do a story on how hard it is to renounce one's citizenship and become a citizen of some other country. I know It's very hard.
This said, paying these people to leave would be a great investment!
Oh, Bill, we KNOW they're not going to leave. We're just wishing that for once they'd follow through on that promise. I literally laughed in my co-workers faces when Trump was elected the last time and they were having hissy fits and threatening to move countries. They didn't, lying little f-ers that they are.
I’d throw in a few bucks to remove Whoopee. Plus a few more to send Kimmel to some very hot and nasty place loaded with sand fleas. He will be good company for Fauci.
I doubt substack is gaming any algorithms (though many sites do - Yahoo deletes likes, old twitter did the same with shadow banning, so does YouTube). These are probably sock-puppet subscribers made through some sort of leftist NGO or something.
A boomer friend of mine was bitching a couple of weeks ago about how mean Trump is (I forgot who he was complaining about - some dem politician DT insulted).
My response was something like "When Biden was blaming unvaxxed people for Covid, he was talking about me. When AOC (or my child's teacher) says something about whites, she's talking about me and my kids. I do not give a fuck what Trump says about these people".
I'm not sure if a light bulb went off or not, but he didn't say much after that. If Trump is "my team" and I'm supposed to tisk-tisk over every time he insults some DC shitbag, then the same rules must apply to Dem voters when their pols say horrible things about me. He knew which was worse.
Mr. Dunning is typical libbie. Childish and full of himself. Substack would do their platform a favor and quit pushing narratives and fake "most popular" writers unless they truly earn it. The days of left wing group think has no place on serious platforms.
The bigger point - or the point that alarms me - is that Substack seemingly only supports these liberal authors. People like Mr. Dunning and Your Local Epidemiologist, who has more subscribers than just about any other Substack "science" author (allegedly). Robert Reisch and Dan Rather are two other examples.
I read those profile stories Substack sends out to all its authors. I've never seen one on any of the "Covid Contrarian" authors - which, to me, is a disconcerting tell.
The paid subscribers of the leftist writers are like the book deals of CEOs and politicians after leaving office. They are not real subscribers, they are just payoffs for doing their useful idiot deeds, paid for by the orgs that fund the rising sewer of trashy bitches that have taken over the "democrat" party.
I was inspired by your announcement about covering local news/events, to track down a local journalist to encourage her to start up a local stack. The effort to find her led me to finding a local media company that owns the newspaper & online local rural media sources. They charge more for online subscription than The Epoch Times!
I’m happily retired and the ambition gene was never fully activated anyway, or else I would start up my own local news stack. This is rural far southwest CA, about an hour inland from the ritzy coastal/surf towns. The county just “voted” blue, unfortunately. Previously it was bright red.
While supporting with hard dollars is not in the budget, I definitely cheer you on.
I agree with a previous poster, these "paid" shills are most likely yearly one time donated subscriptions using money (highly likely to be TAXPAYER money in the form of government funded NGO) or, somehow worse, Soros money. Either way not money you would want (although the payday would be nice you'd likely feel the need to shower often). Saying a quick prayer for your little corner to increase paid subs! I will try to share more too, it often generates at least non-paid subscribers.
''Democrats who spent four years calling people like myself hate-mongers, racists, extremists, conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, science deniers, grave threats to democracy and “deplorables.”
As a Brit I recognize all those lunatic barbs which were levelled against myself and like-minded people. More of us than they realised or would admit to even now. The figures for us 'anti-vax' mob were readily available from NHS medical records.
From the onset of the scamdemic government agitprop, those oft-laid charges always gave me a warm glow of satisfaction, being as I am a natural refusnik and of course at my age (71 yr. old git) I no longer had a granny left to kill by my total refusal of the jabberwocky, masks, distancing etc.
It gives me an even warmer vibe now that all the evidence of the massive, broad-based scam is materialising from the fog of mis/dis/mal information that exuded from our government's 'Nacht und Nebel' and internet censorship attempts to silence those of us who didn't fall for their lies from the very outset. WE are vindicated. THEY are being silenced. Slowly but surely.
nice long rant - I'll neither criticize or endorse - hard to do when something long has such a mix of clear thought, right thought, left thought, and wrong thought ....
The answer to 'who determined the fate of the election', the answer is simple not been discussed by any of the talking heads.
The constituency of voters - in all 50 states, who thought this way are the factor, but in most states it didn't matter, so it became a 7-swing state petri dish
The factor were 'eligible voters who stayed home'; even if you take out those who 'don't care and never did', there is the large number 'who do care, and made their non-vote count' because:
- they didn't fear Trump 2.0 enough to not give him the White House; 'he's the devil they know'
- or, they didn't yet trust Harris enough to give her the con; her rapid rise, her 'fresh platform' and her remarkable fundraising success notwithstanding, she didn't get those non-voters off the couch
The lesson is clear, but whether or not the Democrats have already started, it's time they picked and endorsed a leader --- of those folks will stay on the couch, the formidable voting force sitting there, waiting to be mobilized.
Trump's GOP party has a similar challenge ahead; they'll start on Jan 21st if they are smart ... to decide going forward if they are the Republican Party or the Donald Party - and they too must pick a leader, and if they pick Vance, they'll surely regret having not looked at the whole field.
Meanwhile, folks like you 'n me can talk and write about it ... it's fun, very serious fun.
- "they didn't fear Trump 2.0 enough to not give him the White House; 'he's the devil they know"
My suspicion is the malevolent ones believe they have Trump boxed in. They are confident they have the ability to contain him, believe by allowing him to win (misplaced) trust in elections is restored and they can use him to advance their agenda with a large population they no longer have influence over.
Look no further than the tragic figure of Richard Nixon. A man of great ambition, who had his election win stolen from him in 1960. Convinced to place national unity over election integrity by the same malevolent ones who plague us today. Quietly bided his time as the chaotic 60's unfolded. Rehabilitated by the malevolent ones who saw his ambition and credentials with conservative voters as useful to advance their agenda.
1) Nixon goes to China. Only a anti-communist China hawk could've brought conservative voters to abandon Taiwan and build a dangerous adversary opposed to our nation's constitutional foundation into a powerhouse. With George HW Bush serving as UN Ambassador working with Henry Kissinger, both Fascists, kissing authoritarian cousins of Communists. Who used Nixon to do what only Nixon could do.
2) Nixon establishes the Dept of Education. I.e. Dept of Marxist Indoctrination. To take over a nation you must take over the minds of the children. Like Hitler Youth, Mao's Little Red Book youth-led cultural revolution. Advisers used Nixon to launch.
3) Nixon took US off of the gold standard for our currency. The end of fiscal responsibility, beginning of massive deficit spending, inflation, lower standard of living, reduction of middle class, rich get richer. Those who have the gold, rule. Americans were left with worthless paper. Becoming worth less and less every day.
When those biggies and others I neglect to name were completed they no longer had use for Nixon and ran him off with impeachment proceedings.
This. This history is what the malevolent ones are informed by. And see in Trump a sucker they can cater to his ego to manipulate into doing harmful things. As they did with pandemic travel bans, lockdowns, ventilators, Operation Warp Speed, contact tracing surveillance tech, etc. Bringing us closer to social credit system of population control, restrictions on movement, etc.
Trump had better be alert and aware of how they are now setting him up like they did Nixon. And us. MAGA. If we follow him down a bad path he's sent down by malevolent advisers that we'd never take if we were being led by anyone else. And Trump must have the clarity and foresight to see where each policy proposal leads that serves the interests of the globalist totalitarians seeking to enslave all of humanity - those they allow to live. And refuse to be used. He must jiu-jitsu them, use their energy against them in ways they don't see coming.
The malevolent ones are betting that he's too egotistical, too short-sighted to see that he's being used by flatterers and opportunistic rent-seekers. I'm not sure that they're wrong. The evidence of 2020's successful manipulation can't be ignored. I can only pray that God gives him the discernment to make different choices than his enemies, the malevolent ones want him to make. What they achieved by using Nixon has been destructive enough. What they could achieve by using Trump would spell our ultimate doom. Not instantaneous, like recognizing China, establishing Ed, ending gold standard weren't instantaneous. But insidious. Slow-acting poison. That's how they're trying to do it. And what they're banking on by letting Trump win. My suspicions say so.
Perfect rebuttal ... for those of us with opened eyes. Far too realistic and common sense of course to be taken in and digested by those who would subscribe to said Mr Dunning.
"Attitude is known in many bodies of conscious work to be of high importance, defining one's experiences in life. Interesting to note how little this is addressed in politics and political critique.
The attraction to K. Harris lies in your statement: "... fosters their belief that they are educated." Translation: arrogance. These urban centres seethe with arrogance, believing they know all there is to know, putting themselves above those who are not "educated, with a bestowed degree for regurgitation."
K. Harris' attitude speaks condescension , arrogance, dismissiveness, and disdain ... preferring to speak plainly; also known as a supreme C----. Attractive to those holding the same attitudes. Today's MSM with the likes of Tapper; Whippie Goldberg; et al hold the same attitude. Disdain for democracy and for anyone who is not them/ their shared vitriol."
😞 The people I know are arrogant to me and they barely graduated high school. I'm not stupid, and have 1 A.S. degree and 2 B.S. degrees. Hard sciences, but according to them it's all I can do to figure out how to pick my nose. Yes, they're all dumbocraps.
Bill I wish you would write a column focusing on the cries for censorship being lobbed grenade style around the mainstream media. Just yesterday I saw a post on X that included members of The View, MSNBC, NBC, and CNN all calling for "Social Media Censorship". This is coming from the Left, the group that purports to support liberty and free speech? Talk about Fascism in the beginning stages, besides confiscating guns it is Free Speech that is the first target of a Fascist state.
My previous article that referenced Mr. Dunning rocketing up the Substack charts, noted that Mr. Dunning expects to make at least $100,000 from his Substack newsletter in his first year and maybe $140,000 in the year to come.
Besides a few "Covid Contrarian" All-Star Substackers, there's not many people on our team who are making six figures from their dispatches (which all generate hundreds of likes and Reader Comments).
Even those of us who are happy to have a couple hundred paid subscribers, routinely blow away the Comment and "Like" numbers of the liberal Substackers who, allegedly have hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
those leftist narrative spreaders are paid by act blue and communist orgs like act blue to give the impression that the left is ascendant and ever the voice of the people. Similar to the grift/pay off/money laundering for politicians to write autobiographies and books.
the substack metrics for these people is a pure propaganda play. the money is real but the metrics that make people think these writers are popular are fake. The globohomos know propaganda. They know about low information people and they believe if they drill their message over and over the more true believers they will get.
We are in a fifth gen war and paying money to leftist grifters is one front of the war.
Everything is fake and a lie is a good operating concept. Politics is worst of all.
That’s how politicians do it. Their PACS buy up the books. Now this.
Agree.
According to Substack metrics, Mr. Dunning’s newsletter has at least 6.7 times more paid subscribers than my newsletter.
It seems to me most of Mr. Dunning’s essays generate around 20 to 30 “likes” and very few Reader Comments and cross-posts.
One of my hard-to-explain data points or comparisons: My earlier Substack article on Dunning and an admirer of his from The San Francisco Chronicle produced … 506 “likes,” 235 Reader Comments and 60 cross-posts.
Here’s my previous story, which did “go viral” in the share and cross-post category:
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/this-might-be-a-record-i-was-banned
He's a paid operative, possibly by the DNC or some other pac. Would be an interesting story if someone could uncover the money trail behind many of these left wing accounts on substack, and see if they are in fact legit followings. They all follow the same playback, and none I've been on allow unpaid subs to comment. Then when you read the comments half sound like they are bots.
These authors also quickly ban people who make comments that don't fit the narrative. Getting banned by the San Francisco Chronicle's Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist is what motivated me to write my first story on Dunning.
In two-plus years writing this Substack, I've never banned anyone. Liberals are free to make whatever comments they want.
Compare-and-contrast examples like this are quite revealing.
I'm glad you made that point, Jim. Most of these sites do NOT allow comments for free subscribers. I always have. I also didn't get to read Dunning's full election re-cap story as only part of the story was available to free subscribers. Anyone can read all of my stories.
There is an untold story on the metrics of these liberal sites. I think many of those "subscribers" may be "bots." I also wonder if the algorithms or article "sends" are being suppressed for some of the more-effective "Covid contrarian" authors.
For example, I have been a paid subscriber to Steve Kirsch's site for at least two years. I can't remember the last time I received one of Steve's emails. I don't get them and I check the Spam folders.
I have a few paid subscriptions, unfortunately many less than I had 4 years ago before the cost of living explosion - I almost never get email or inbox notices for any of them (all conservative or contrarian authors). Yet, substrack continues to pollute my home feed with unasked for / unwanted promotion of these left wing wackos.
I have a few paid. You are on my list for next year. Even though the paid ones say paid right at the top, my iPhone refuses to give me my paid subscriptions. I have to finagle my iPad to get them to work. But not always. I tried to get it fixed but 🤷♀️. Great post Bill. These liberals are lost. I had to pry myself out during the jab hell in 2021 and a grandchild ( 14) who was groomed into the trans ideology. So evil)Looking from the outside in I think is the only way you actually can see how utterly crazy of mind and their dangerous dangerous policies. I’m over it.
Thanks for the intelligence, Janet. This confirms or reinforces my suspicion that all of my subscribers are NOT routinely receiving my dispatches. I've received many reports of subscribers who report the same thing. And, as noted, I know that I don't get several Substack dispatches from authors where I am a paid subscriber. I have many other free subscriptions I also don't receive.
🤔😲🤨
None of them do. And every comment is 100% agreement, never a back and forth, or even a slightly different view. They get no real engagement. I found most of the writers I follow in comment sections of other writers. You, mark oshenkie, John Carter, Chris bray..etc. all have open comment sections with tons of engagements. I would never have found any of you all if not for the comment sections.
That's how I've managed to "subscribe" (for free) to 89 substacks.
Thanks, Jim. I used to make a lot of Reader Comment posts at other Substacks, primarily to "market" my own site. I guess that prolific posting helped a little bit. I perhaps need to re-boot that effort. Also, I'm going to now go and subscribe to your site - for free for now, but if I can keep selling some new subscriptions to my local Substack I might become comfortable enough to become a paid subscriber.
I would like to see an expedited Visa/Passport process for all the folks who want to leave the country. Perhaps we could even have a check-off on our tax returns to provide them a grubstake in whatever promised land they have selected that's better than here.
They won't let them leave, Ron. "Follow the money." Or, they actually don't care if people leave; they just want their tax money. I need to do a story on how hard it is to renounce one's citizenship and become a citizen of some other country. I know It's very hard.
This said, paying these people to leave would be a great investment!
Oh, Bill, we KNOW they're not going to leave. We're just wishing that for once they'd follow through on that promise. I literally laughed in my co-workers faces when Trump was elected the last time and they were having hissy fits and threatening to move countries. They didn't, lying little f-ers that they are.
Well….. their grubstake was to help for a fresh start as their legacy assets would have to stay in the US. 😊
I’d throw in a few bucks to remove Whoopee. Plus a few more to send Kimmel to some very hot and nasty place loaded with sand fleas. He will be good company for Fauci.
I doubt substack is gaming any algorithms (though many sites do - Yahoo deletes likes, old twitter did the same with shadow banning, so does YouTube). These are probably sock-puppet subscribers made through some sort of leftist NGO or something.
A boomer friend of mine was bitching a couple of weeks ago about how mean Trump is (I forgot who he was complaining about - some dem politician DT insulted).
My response was something like "When Biden was blaming unvaxxed people for Covid, he was talking about me. When AOC (or my child's teacher) says something about whites, she's talking about me and my kids. I do not give a fuck what Trump says about these people".
I'm not sure if a light bulb went off or not, but he didn't say much after that. If Trump is "my team" and I'm supposed to tisk-tisk over every time he insults some DC shitbag, then the same rules must apply to Dem voters when their pols say horrible things about me. He knew which was worse.
🙌 Go get'em!
Mr. Dunning is typical libbie. Childish and full of himself. Substack would do their platform a favor and quit pushing narratives and fake "most popular" writers unless they truly earn it. The days of left wing group think has no place on serious platforms.
The bigger point - or the point that alarms me - is that Substack seemingly only supports these liberal authors. People like Mr. Dunning and Your Local Epidemiologist, who has more subscribers than just about any other Substack "science" author (allegedly). Robert Reisch and Dan Rather are two other examples.
I read those profile stories Substack sends out to all its authors. I've never seen one on any of the "Covid Contrarian" authors - which, to me, is a disconcerting tell.
Their loss Bill!
Though it does sound alarming, all us "Covid Contrarians" are much more interesting, honest, smarter, better looking and WAaay more fun.
Right?
The paid subscribers of the leftist writers are like the book deals of CEOs and politicians after leaving office. They are not real subscribers, they are just payoffs for doing their useful idiot deeds, paid for by the orgs that fund the rising sewer of trashy bitches that have taken over the "democrat" party.
I was inspired by your announcement about covering local news/events, to track down a local journalist to encourage her to start up a local stack. The effort to find her led me to finding a local media company that owns the newspaper & online local rural media sources. They charge more for online subscription than The Epoch Times!
I’m happily retired and the ambition gene was never fully activated anyway, or else I would start up my own local news stack. This is rural far southwest CA, about an hour inland from the ritzy coastal/surf towns. The county just “voted” blue, unfortunately. Previously it was bright red.
While supporting with hard dollars is not in the budget, I definitely cheer you on.
Ha! My ambition gene has never been activated either 😹
Mine was between 1980 and 1994. I’m retired now. Very happily and maybe I’ll look into it some other day.
Oh dear. Sorry to hear this about my native land, SoCal.
I'm 5th generation Californian, decades ago Alaskan transplant.
Thank you for keeping the fires burning FH.
Well, Bill....you could change your substack title to 'The Liberal Pundit' and see what happens.
He will write. “Liberal Doses of Truth”
I agree with a previous poster, these "paid" shills are most likely yearly one time donated subscriptions using money (highly likely to be TAXPAYER money in the form of government funded NGO) or, somehow worse, Soros money. Either way not money you would want (although the payday would be nice you'd likely feel the need to shower often). Saying a quick prayer for your little corner to increase paid subs! I will try to share more too, it often generates at least non-paid subscribers.
''Democrats who spent four years calling people like myself hate-mongers, racists, extremists, conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, science deniers, grave threats to democracy and “deplorables.”
As a Brit I recognize all those lunatic barbs which were levelled against myself and like-minded people. More of us than they realised or would admit to even now. The figures for us 'anti-vax' mob were readily available from NHS medical records.
From the onset of the scamdemic government agitprop, those oft-laid charges always gave me a warm glow of satisfaction, being as I am a natural refusnik and of course at my age (71 yr. old git) I no longer had a granny left to kill by my total refusal of the jabberwocky, masks, distancing etc.
It gives me an even warmer vibe now that all the evidence of the massive, broad-based scam is materialising from the fog of mis/dis/mal information that exuded from our government's 'Nacht und Nebel' and internet censorship attempts to silence those of us who didn't fall for their lies from the very outset. WE are vindicated. THEY are being silenced. Slowly but surely.
Agreed. Playing the long game with all this nonsense is paying off, thank God. But what is it with all the name-calling? Sticks and stones, eh?
The ironically name Dunning–Kruger effect is perfect for identifying what is going on with the "media" right now.
Essentially, the effect is when dummies think they are smart and overestimate their abilities. Looking at you Kamala, The View, Walz, etc.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
I truly thought of that when I read the man's name.
nice long rant - I'll neither criticize or endorse - hard to do when something long has such a mix of clear thought, right thought, left thought, and wrong thought ....
The answer to 'who determined the fate of the election', the answer is simple not been discussed by any of the talking heads.
The constituency of voters - in all 50 states, who thought this way are the factor, but in most states it didn't matter, so it became a 7-swing state petri dish
The factor were 'eligible voters who stayed home'; even if you take out those who 'don't care and never did', there is the large number 'who do care, and made their non-vote count' because:
- they didn't fear Trump 2.0 enough to not give him the White House; 'he's the devil they know'
- or, they didn't yet trust Harris enough to give her the con; her rapid rise, her 'fresh platform' and her remarkable fundraising success notwithstanding, she didn't get those non-voters off the couch
The lesson is clear, but whether or not the Democrats have already started, it's time they picked and endorsed a leader --- of those folks will stay on the couch, the formidable voting force sitting there, waiting to be mobilized.
Trump's GOP party has a similar challenge ahead; they'll start on Jan 21st if they are smart ... to decide going forward if they are the Republican Party or the Donald Party - and they too must pick a leader, and if they pick Vance, they'll surely regret having not looked at the whole field.
Meanwhile, folks like you 'n me can talk and write about it ... it's fun, very serious fun.
- "who determined the fate of the election"
- "they didn't fear Trump 2.0 enough to not give him the White House; 'he's the devil they know"
My suspicion is the malevolent ones believe they have Trump boxed in. They are confident they have the ability to contain him, believe by allowing him to win (misplaced) trust in elections is restored and they can use him to advance their agenda with a large population they no longer have influence over.
Look no further than the tragic figure of Richard Nixon. A man of great ambition, who had his election win stolen from him in 1960. Convinced to place national unity over election integrity by the same malevolent ones who plague us today. Quietly bided his time as the chaotic 60's unfolded. Rehabilitated by the malevolent ones who saw his ambition and credentials with conservative voters as useful to advance their agenda.
1) Nixon goes to China. Only a anti-communist China hawk could've brought conservative voters to abandon Taiwan and build a dangerous adversary opposed to our nation's constitutional foundation into a powerhouse. With George HW Bush serving as UN Ambassador working with Henry Kissinger, both Fascists, kissing authoritarian cousins of Communists. Who used Nixon to do what only Nixon could do.
2) Nixon establishes the Dept of Education. I.e. Dept of Marxist Indoctrination. To take over a nation you must take over the minds of the children. Like Hitler Youth, Mao's Little Red Book youth-led cultural revolution. Advisers used Nixon to launch.
3) Nixon took US off of the gold standard for our currency. The end of fiscal responsibility, beginning of massive deficit spending, inflation, lower standard of living, reduction of middle class, rich get richer. Those who have the gold, rule. Americans were left with worthless paper. Becoming worth less and less every day.
When those biggies and others I neglect to name were completed they no longer had use for Nixon and ran him off with impeachment proceedings.
This. This history is what the malevolent ones are informed by. And see in Trump a sucker they can cater to his ego to manipulate into doing harmful things. As they did with pandemic travel bans, lockdowns, ventilators, Operation Warp Speed, contact tracing surveillance tech, etc. Bringing us closer to social credit system of population control, restrictions on movement, etc.
Trump had better be alert and aware of how they are now setting him up like they did Nixon. And us. MAGA. If we follow him down a bad path he's sent down by malevolent advisers that we'd never take if we were being led by anyone else. And Trump must have the clarity and foresight to see where each policy proposal leads that serves the interests of the globalist totalitarians seeking to enslave all of humanity - those they allow to live. And refuse to be used. He must jiu-jitsu them, use their energy against them in ways they don't see coming.
The malevolent ones are betting that he's too egotistical, too short-sighted to see that he's being used by flatterers and opportunistic rent-seekers. I'm not sure that they're wrong. The evidence of 2020's successful manipulation can't be ignored. I can only pray that God gives him the discernment to make different choices than his enemies, the malevolent ones want him to make. What they achieved by using Nixon has been destructive enough. What they could achieve by using Trump would spell our ultimate doom. Not instantaneous, like recognizing China, establishing Ed, ending gold standard weren't instantaneous. But insidious. Slow-acting poison. That's how they're trying to do it. And what they're banking on by letting Trump win. My suspicions say so.
Perfect rebuttal ... for those of us with opened eyes. Far too realistic and common sense of course to be taken in and digested by those who would subscribe to said Mr Dunning.
Adding to the descriptors of Demolition Dem's Dames, I will reiterate my comment posted on Meryl Nass' post and on Johne Leake's post "A Little Learning" (https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/a-little-learning):
"Attitude is known in many bodies of conscious work to be of high importance, defining one's experiences in life. Interesting to note how little this is addressed in politics and political critique.
The attraction to K. Harris lies in your statement: "... fosters their belief that they are educated." Translation: arrogance. These urban centres seethe with arrogance, believing they know all there is to know, putting themselves above those who are not "educated, with a bestowed degree for regurgitation."
K. Harris' attitude speaks condescension , arrogance, dismissiveness, and disdain ... preferring to speak plainly; also known as a supreme C----. Attractive to those holding the same attitudes. Today's MSM with the likes of Tapper; Whippie Goldberg; et al hold the same attitude. Disdain for democracy and for anyone who is not them/ their shared vitriol."
😞 The people I know are arrogant to me and they barely graduated high school. I'm not stupid, and have 1 A.S. degree and 2 B.S. degrees. Hard sciences, but according to them it's all I can do to figure out how to pick my nose. Yes, they're all dumbocraps.
Is the Post for sale?
😁
Bill I wish you would write a column focusing on the cries for censorship being lobbed grenade style around the mainstream media. Just yesterday I saw a post on X that included members of The View, MSNBC, NBC, and CNN all calling for "Social Media Censorship". This is coming from the Left, the group that purports to support liberty and free speech? Talk about Fascism in the beginning stages, besides confiscating guns it is Free Speech that is the first target of a Fascist state.