When Winning is Losing
I believe this past election presented us with a Hobson’s choice, one between a highly predictable vacuous DEI certified vice president and a highly unpredictable politically incorrect former President who, after lawsuits, assassination attempts, and almost universal vilification by the media, rose from the ashes like the proverbial phoenix. In fact, the contempt towards Donald Trump was so pervasive, the opinions so polarized, reasonable people may have had a difficult time assessing his strengths and weaknesses. You either loved him or hated him. He was either Hitler incarnate or our savior. The details weren’t that important. Now he is soon to be President again and the details will matter.
How could we forget his call to “Fight! Fight! Fight!”? He is also, and always has been very much into winning. He proposes to win in several areas. For starters, he will fix the borders, the deep state, and the Russian- Ukrainian war, all worthwhile objectives. At his rallies supporters carried signs stating “Trump will fix it.” He told his supporters that we were going to win so much we would tire of it. Here is an example. In 2018, only two years into his presidency, he boasted in front of the UN, “My administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country…. So true.” In response to derisive laughter from the UN members, he said. “Didn’t expect that reaction but that’s OK.” His desire to win or to convince others he is winning may be a key to his success or failure. His winning has already proven to be disastrous.
At the Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit on December 8, 2020 Trump proudly acknowledged his role in speeding up the vaccine development process and promised that the vaccines would stop the COVID-19 pandemic:
But it has been incredible. And it will end the pandemic. It will end the pandemic. And we’re working with other nations. As you see actually by looking at your screen today, we’re working very closely with other nations also to get the vaccines out to other nations. And that’s very important…. We have great companies, and we’re working with the world.
However, many died not from COVID-19 but from these “incredible” vaccines. In my July 30 and August 13 substack posts, I cite numerous sources reporting non COVID excess mortality as high as 30,000,000 world-wide! This number exceeds that of the holocaust. Evidence is found in life insurance company reports, corporate funeral home statistics, published peer reviewed studies by researchers with no competing conflicts of interest and substack posts by Steve Kirsch, Margaret Mengeis, and Nicolas Hulscher, MPH who just reported on a new study finding that COVID-19 'vaccination' doubles the risk of post-COVID death.
These claims are too unbelievable, especially for those who got the COVID jabs. Like Mark Twain once wrote, “It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” If I had gotten the shots, I would likely have found ways to justify my decision. As one commentator wrote, Cognitive dissonance is a bitch.
After the shots were approved in early 2020, his successor, Biden claimed they were not only safe and effective, but warned us that if we didn’t get them, the virus would spread and more people would die. And what happened after Trump’s delusional claim was followed by Biden’s? Mandatory vaccinations were imposed. Civil rights were violated. Medical freedom was terminated.
Trump trumpeted the success of Operation Warp Speed, as one of the greater achievements of mankind though less so during the presidential race when audiences began to boo when he made that claim. During the campaign, he did not apologize for the role he played in the development, approval and delivery of the COVID-19 vaccines. On the contrary, he bragged about his accomplishment. In fact, Operation Warp Speed bypassed heretofore inviolable procedures implemented over the years to protect the public from unsafe vaccines. Also, he never apologized for the fact that on his watch, he allowed people like Fauci and Daszak to develop more lethal viruses even after limits on gain of function research had been imposed. When questioned by a reporter how work on the virus continued during his tenure, he opined, “People in my administration must have thought the gain of function research was important.”
One person who is very familiar with details is Robert Kennedy, whose comprehensive books on Anthony Fauci and the Wuhan coverup provides a well-documented account of massive corruption in the government and big pharma. Trump picked Kennedy to be the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for NIH Director and Dr Marty Makary for Commissioner of the FDA. If this dream team is approved and puts science above politics, I expect them to revoke the emergency use authorization for the COVID-19 shots which should never have been approved. This would be a tacit admission that corporate capture occurred in the White House, Health and Human services, NIH, and FDA. After all, it was deep-state Fauci who “represented science.” The extent to which these organizations were victims or participants is yet to be decided. If Trump can attribute his previous position to the deep state and change directions, it is not too late for him to still win.
In the meantime, those responsible for these crimes against humanity continue to advocate for a vaccine that has already killed millions. Dare I say it again? Cognitive dissonance is a bitch. For the perpetrators, the implications and consequences of being wrong are as unthinkable as the fact that up to 40,000,000 people died from many “vaccine” related causes such as impaired immune systems.
Solving problems requires the ability to know when winning is losing. As President Trump faces future crises, we can only hope that those who understand the science like Kennedy, Bhattacharya, and Makary will put loyalty to country above loyalty to him. If they don’t or can’t help him rein in his grandiose tendencies, and he is unable to make appropriate course corrections, we will all be the sorrier for it.
When it comes to Trump's broken promises the list is long:
— He claimed he would enact term limits for Congress but took no action,
— promised to release his tax returns but only did after a prolonged legal battle that lasted several years,
— called for a five-year ban on lobbying by former executive branch officials, but then revoked his executive order doing that just days before leaving office,
— promised to lock up Hillary Clinton for using a private email server, but no charges were brought (while Ivanka and Kushner continued to use private email servers),
— promised to bring back manufacturing jobs, but by the end of his presidency, there was a net decrease in manufacturing jobs (in decline even before the pandemic),
— narrow the trade deficit, especially with China, but the overall trade deficit remained higher than when he took office,
— said he would force companies to keep jobs in America, but companies like GE and Ford continued to outsource jobs while receiving tax breaks,
— promised to put miners back to work, but coal production and jobs continued to decline, reaching their lowest levels in decades,
— promised to protect American steel jobs, but the steel industry continued to lose jobs,
— pledged to cut taxes for the middle class, but his tax cuts disproportionately benefited corporations, with the richest 1% receiving 83% of the tax cuts by 2027, while over half of Americans faced higher taxes,
— pledged to invest $1 trillion in infrastructure, but no plan was passed,
— vowed to repeal and replace Obamacare but only eliminated the individual mandate while continuing to support lawsuits to overturn it, while never releasing a plan to safeguard its protections,
— said he would bring down prescription drug prices, but didn't, leaving the Dems to do that recently,
— claimed he would rarely leave the White House but spent 1 in 5 days at a golf club in one year alone,
— pledged to push colleges to cut tuition costs but didn't, while lowering regulations on for-profit colleges,
— and he promised to build a glorious wall.
Some of that is out of his control, but most of it isn't.
You quoted him saying "People in my administration must have thought the gain of function research was important,” and I think that gets to the heart of it: he outsources as many of his jobs as Ford. Much like Biden, it's his people that will break his future promises, while his main hobbyhorse will be incredibly unpopular with the public if he doesn't roll it out right. You can't trust him to do anything but what he's most focused on at the moment... and focus isn't his strong-suit.