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First, his personal background. Trump was born into relative wealth, and spent much of his professional career and personal life mingling with, and making connections within, the group of people that we would consider the "Ruling Class". Establishment politicians, lobbyists, billionaires, celebrities, so on and so forth. His longtime former friendship with the Clintons (and possibly with Epstein) is well known so I won't go into that here.

Next, his actions- despite being a member of the "ruling class" by most metrics, he apparently chose to throw it all away- the connections, the social credibility, so he could claim to be a champion of the Working Class Americans. People tend to interpret this as evidence of Trump's genuineness, that he genuinely cared and believed in what he was saying. However, in light of his behavior while in office, I doubt this.

His administration- he was elected in 2016, and until 2018 he and the GOP had control of Congress and the White House. Despite this, he pushed almost no real congressional domestic policy during this time. Most of his legislation was passed thru executive orders that can be easily reversed (many were struck down by judges, others are being reversed by Biden). Border wall, natch. Mass deportation, natch (Obama deported more, ffs). Limited tax cuts that expire in a few years. Banned bump stocks, a longtime gun-control goal as well.

His only real accomplishments were in the Foreign policy arena, with not starting wars, and the trade talks with China and Korea, and it remains to be seen how effective those will be long-term, with Biden working against both.

Perhaps most telling- he claimed that the GOP lost the 2016 popular vote because of voter fraud- then did nothing to rectify this, again despite having control of Congress.

So to summarize, he had a handful of minor accomplishments that were mostly enacted thru easily reversed means, and did not meaningfully solve any of the issues that his party campaigned on despite having two years to do so. And despite pointing out flaws in the voting system that were hurting his party, he did nothing.

Second half of his term- he changes strategy, ditching the nationalist "send em all back" rhetoric in favor of "Democrats are the real racists". We saw how this played out in 2020 election with Trump gaining in every demographic except his core base of white men and women, that he more or less put on the back burner.

So after failing to meaningfully enact any of his 2016 campaign promises, deliberately pushing his original base to the back of the bus, and leaving the door wide open to potential fraud- he loses under suspicious circumstances that almost certainly relate to voter fraud. He hires terrible lawyers that focus on irrelevant aspects of cases while ignoring the important parts, that can't properly file cases or present them in court, and so on. Then the spectacle at the Capitol which the media spun as terrorism.

Then there is Qanon. Trump's refusal to condemn or disavow Qanon despite it being at best false and at worst deliberately misleading, seems in hindsight to have been deliberate. And what was the end result of Qanon? Wait two more weeks, "trust the plan" and don't do anything to fight back.

To Conclude Trump ran on a genuinely right wing nationalist platform, failed to enact almost all of it despite having the ability to do so, switched his marketing after the midterms to minimize his original base in favor of minorities that by and large would never support him anyway, which, divided the nationalist movement against itself by not fully commiting to nationalism. He redirected much of supporter's energy into supporting neoliberalism and/or Qanon bullshit, and to top it off, he has decades-old connections to the same globalist elites that he claims to fight. Lost his re-election in a way that he could have easily prevented. And now after 4 years of this, he announces his intent to do it again.

And based on how he acted when he had control of Congress, it is very unlikely that a second Trump term would have a different result from the first.

I can't be the only one who thinks that something stinks here.

Forgive me if any thing I write here is obvious or simplistic.

Most right-wing discussion assumes, or is built on top of, a main general "background" viewpoint- that the world was more or less "normal" until some recent point when other groups or ideologies pushed the world in a different direction.

However, taking the general public's (non) reaction to recent events like the exaggerated pandemic and the suspicious election foolery- it would seem that NPC theory is true- that the majority of people simply go along with the narrative of whoever is in charge. Of course, there is a significant left-right divide even between "normies", but this divide is limited to superficial opinion and not things that actually challenge the system. The majority accept the pandemic, the election, and the media as being legitimate, in US and worldwide.

Taking into account this demonstration of how people behave as a group- I suspect that things have not been "normal" in a long time. For all we know, we could have been lied to about any number of historical events and not know because people with evidence didn't have the means to widely disseminate it. It is possible that we are only now beginning to wake up because of the internet allowing skeptics to congregate.

This is pure speculation on my part, nothing more. But knowing how easily we are lied to in the present day, and how easily people swallow it, makes me suspicious of the legitimacy of what we were told in the past.

I have for some time been amassing a collection of physical books out of fear of future censorship. They are on a wide variety of subjects but mostly focusing on history, philosophy, law, and religious/esoteric texts. Ashamed to say that I haven't opened most of them, but I plan to do deep research to figure out what is and isn't true. 4chan is helpful sometimes but the high percentage of diversion posts and shills is why I am doing my own research.

I am sure that at least some of history is true- there are things that simply can't be faked-but am also sure that much of what we are told is, if not fake, at least distorted to suit a narrative.

Either way, the recent "social justice" is not itself the only problem, and they are not the only ones screwing things up. They are a cause, but far from the sole cause of all the "recent" bullshit that may not be recent at all.

Sorry for rambling, sorry if this was stupid or obvious. Just needed to write this out.

The following was posted on the conspiracy subreddit yesterday- I think he has a point since I've noticed similar trends in my own circles. But given individual experiences are highly subjective, not sure how accurate this is across the nation. Can any of you comment on the validity or non-validity of this?

I'm starting to suspect that the real "Silent Majority" is a collection of people left right & center, who are rejecting the corporate media narrative, and have lost respect for mostly all politicians. I am also starting to suspect that this "Silent Majority" is way larger than we're lead to believe

How many people do you know personally that have lost faith in, or at the very least are now questioning the corporate media? How many of them surprised you, since you previously viewed them as the NPC-Type?

How many people do you see liking and sharing memes and posts that go against the norm?

Did you notice how much support the "Gamestonk Rebellion" got from all sides?

Do you find that the number of people who actually care about this impeachment trial is very low? How many of your friends and family see it as political theater wasting time that could be better spent on relief?

Have you noticed a lot more people turning to different forms of media?

Because of this pandemic we are basically being forced to only communicate through social media and apps. It's no secret that they can see pretty much everything we say and see, and what we are seeing is them turning up the propaganda to 100. We are seeing them go all in with divisive distractions, while artificial trends are bullied in to formation. We watch over the top hashtags get astroturfed to the top of platforms. We are seeing corporate media pushing for expanded government surveillance powers, while simultaneously trying to destroy independent media. While this is happening our president has spent his first 21 days signing an unprecedented amount of unpopular executive orders bypassing working with congress altogether. He's doing this surrounded by thousands of armed troops patrolling DC.

This doesn't sound like a government that is confident in it's ability to rule, this seems like the actions of people who are scared. What data are they seeing when they monitor us that's causing them to act this way? Why does it seem like we are witnessing the elites in panic mode, flexing their muscles in fear, hoping we don't call their bluff? As we sit quietly behind our mandated masks, it seems like theirs is slipping.

Thread for debate predictions

My prediction is that Biden will mix up Trump with other presidents and call him Reagan or Bush at least once.