{"id":298169,"date":"2024-11-08T08:12:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T08:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=298169"},"modified":"2024-11-10T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T08:10:11","slug":"dont-buy-the-hype-2024-is-no-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=298169","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t buy the hype, 2024 is no 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remakes are never a patch on the original<\/h3>\n

Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian Nov 7, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

So, Donald Trump is President-Elect. Again. His female opponent refused to appear to talk to her supporters and waited almost a day to give a concession speech. Again. Democrats are rending their garments wondering what happened. Again. MAGAheads are thirstily slurping up salty liberal tears. Again.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to Make America Great Again. Again.<\/p>\n

Remember that bit in Groundhog Day<\/em> where Bill Murray is trying to use his position of being stuck reliving the same day over and over again to construct the perfect date, and he gets pretty close. He and his chosen date have this almost perfect moment\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026then, the next go through the cycle, he tries to do the same thing again<\/a>, and it\u2019s all wrong. Everything is stilted and forced and it doesn\u2019t work. He tries too hard, grasps too tight.<\/p>\n

That was how it felt watching the polls into the early hours of the morning \u2013 from both sides.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be honest here \u2013 waking up after \u00a0Polling Day 2016 to see Clinton had lost is a great memory. I was never a Trump believer, but Clinton was unequivocally worse \u2013 than almost anything \u00a0you can name \u2013 \u00a0and to see the smugness of certain victory detonate into an implosion of stammering bitterness was\u2026funny. And a relief. And funny<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A lot of people thought so.<\/p>\n

I get the impression the organizers of (S)election 2024 are well aware of that & were trying to recreate that energy, Groundhog Day fashion.<\/p>\n

But of course they can\u2019t. Because this isn\u2019t 2016. And Harris isn\u2019t Clinton, and Trump isn\u2019t even Trump, as he seemed go be then. Then at least there was some wild card elements to his game, now we know who he is.<\/p>\n

2016 at least had the appearance of a genuine moment. Our astonishment at least was real. \u00a0But in 2024 even that much reality has gone. And it feels like everyone knows it.<\/p>\n

Remakes are never as good as the original. Cashgrabs banking nostalgia bucks. Soul vs soulless.<\/p>\n

The Democrats and Kamala-stans are squawking brainwashed nonsense all over social media \u2013 racism this, misogyny that \u2013 but it feels like motions being gone through. Parts being performed. The wounds are neither as deep nor as vital as they were in 2016.<\/p>\n

The outrage is forced. Even the enthusiasm from pro-Trumpers isn\u2019t the same.<\/p>\n

Clinton was a dragon that needed slaying; decades at the top of the pyramid had furnished her influence and cult-like loyalty,\u00a0mirrored by those many accumulated resentments which fuelled the fireworks when she lost.<\/p>\n

Harris had neither the pros nor cons of that legacy. She was never Clinton, and she\u2019s neither of the Obamas, though they tried, at times, to paint her as each. She has no weight or presence and those followers she was gifted would follow anything that moved.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also had four years of Trump already.<\/p>\n

Four years in which he not only spectacularly failed<\/em> to \u201cdrain the swamp\u201d, but also went right along with the Covid psyop and the vaccine rollouts and the lockdowns. All of it.<\/p>\n

Then there is the massive reality of \u201ccovid\u201d itself, and everything it taught us about the nature of power. \u00a0I have said it many times, but that display of common purpose among what, for want of a better word, we call \u201cthe elites\u201d drove huge numbers of people out of the mainstream and into the fringes.<\/p>\n

Everyone on every \u201cside\u201d of the political divide might want \u00a0to pretend this is Hillary all over again. That 2024 is just like 2016, but too many of us remember what they spent the last four years telling us. The \u201cdivisions\u201d are a lie, the \u201cdisagreements\u201d veneer deep.<\/p>\n

Even if \u00a0we want to get back inside Frank Zappa\u2019s theatre and pretend we can\u2019t see the brick walls (and it could be argued a Trump victory is an attempt to win us back), none of us can really forget the lesson we learned.<\/p>\n

Faith and trust are fine china, much easier to break than repair.<\/p>\n

Getting back inside the Matrix is much harder than getting out.<\/p>\n

We also had the \u201celection\u201d of 2020 which was so blatantly and obviously stolen that it calls all other elections into question, forever. Trump even being allowed to run<\/em> this time was a sign he was part of a constructed narrative, his \u201cvictory\u201d doubly so.<\/p>\n

His supporters might claim that Covid confusion made the 2020 election an exception and therefore easier to manipulate than others before or since. The rallying cry on social media is that this time<\/em> The Donald\u2019s victory was \u201ctoo big to rig\u201d.<\/p>\n

But that rings hollow. Like an attempted excuse no one really believes.<\/p>\n

The fact of the matter is Trump was either allowed<\/em> to win, or made<\/em> to win, and either way, it\u2019s just further evidence he\u2019s yet another compromised puppet.<\/p>\n

The reality is just that simple.<\/p>\n

The 2024 election was a contrived event putting a puppet into office to serve a Deep State agenda. Just like 2020 or 2012 or 2000 or\u2026all of them really, back to at least 1964.<\/p>\n

The real winner of the election is The Deep State. There was never anyone else on the ballot.<\/p>\n

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