mikedilger on Nostr: Look, we can't have this debate without breaking down what we mean by Establishment. ...
Look, we can't have this debate without breaking down what we mean by Establishment. There are a lot of powers that often work together and appear as one giant thing. But sometimes they work against each other. It depends on the thing.
The media LOVED to hate on Trump. Huge for ratings.
Big pharma LOVED Trump for operation warp speed.
Israel LOVED Trump for moving the Embassy, recognizing Golan Heights, Jared Kushner negotiating the Abraham accords, assassinating Solemani.
The mliitary LOVED Trump, he funded them massively.
The FBI and CIA were split, but mostly worked against Trump. Trump is trying to repair that by offering the FBI a new headquarters building. Smart political move, but I'm not sure how far it will go.
But if you have not noticed, there are other powerful people working extremely diligently to make sure Trump does not get elected in 2024. They were working hard to make sure he didn't get elected in 2016 (and failed) and in 2020 (and succeeded). They obviously include the Democrats, but they heavily infect the FBI and CIA, many judges, University administrators, etc.
The point is that it used to be the case that Americans could freely elect their President, and these powers worked to influence the vote but by "above board" means. Your vote still counted. I don't think that's true anymore, now I think they use any scheme they can, legal, illegal, unconstitutional, removal from the ballot, child-pedo-ring extortion,... anything and everything. And as a result your vote doesn't count anymore. It is only a battle between verypoweful people, and you are I are not "part of the club".
In contrast, here in NZ we may get bad leaders, we may not agree with our leaders on everything, and our leaders may have too much power without as much separation of power or constitutional guard rails that the US has... but at least we do elect them fairly. At least I believe we do.
ozymandingus (npub1jtv…s3jq)
The media LOVED to hate on Trump. Huge for ratings.
Big pharma LOVED Trump for operation warp speed.
Israel LOVED Trump for moving the Embassy, recognizing Golan Heights, Jared Kushner negotiating the Abraham accords, assassinating Solemani.
The mliitary LOVED Trump, he funded them massively.
The FBI and CIA were split, but mostly worked against Trump. Trump is trying to repair that by offering the FBI a new headquarters building. Smart political move, but I'm not sure how far it will go.
But if you have not noticed, there are other powerful people working extremely diligently to make sure Trump does not get elected in 2024. They were working hard to make sure he didn't get elected in 2016 (and failed) and in 2020 (and succeeded). They obviously include the Democrats, but they heavily infect the FBI and CIA, many judges, University administrators, etc.
The point is that it used to be the case that Americans could freely elect their President, and these powers worked to influence the vote but by "above board" means. Your vote still counted. I don't think that's true anymore, now I think they use any scheme they can, legal, illegal, unconstitutional, removal from the ballot, child-pedo-ring extortion,... anything and everything. And as a result your vote doesn't count anymore. It is only a battle between verypoweful people, and you are I are not "part of the club".
In contrast, here in NZ we may get bad leaders, we may not agree with our leaders on everything, and our leaders may have too much power without as much separation of power or constitutional guard rails that the US has... but at least we do elect them fairly. At least I believe we do.
ozymandingus (npub1jtv…s3jq)