Despite an onslaught of the great and the good telling us for a couple of years now that Donald Trump would not win the Republican nomination – these attempts becoming ever less connected to reality as time went by – it is now plain that he has won it. He will be the Republican nominee. The stream of establishment Republicans recently trying to sell us the snake oil that Nikki Haley had a hope in hell of winning was just laughable. New Hampshire, the second primary state after Iowa, has a primary in which independents can vote in the Republican race. If she can’t win there she can’t win any state in the U.S. And her own state of South Carolina, which comes third, has seen both its U.S. Senators endorse Trump. The current Governor of South Carolina has too. It’s plain for all to see. Nikki Haley is toast. (Side prediction: Haley is so out of sync with the Republican base on immigration, the border, transgender issues, foreign wars and more that I don’t believe Trump will pick her as his VP choice.)
Of course the establishment class has thrown everything it can at Trump, not excluding the kitchen sink. Indictments, lawfare, a risibly one-sided legacy media that even opted not to broadcast Trump’s acceptance speech after he won in Iowa. And this is not new. Remember back to the first Trump impeachment? It was over a phone call he made (leaked by a bureaucrat who would never have leaked against a Democrat President) to the Ukraine President about Hunter Biden. Turns out everything Trump asked about was true. The impeachment was part and parcel of the Russia collusion hoax and all the other efforts made by Democrats and the managerial class to undermine his Presidency. Heck, maybe worst of all was the four-dozen odd senior intelligence officers who, seemingly at the request of the Biden campaign, wrote the open letter just before the 2020 election stating that the Hunter Biden laptop had all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation. It was in fact Hunter’s laptop with all its incriminating material (as even the NY Times now concedes, over three years later). Polls afterwards indicated that had the laptop been publicised as probably real Trump would have won. And let’s be honest. These top intelligence people knew it was real when they wrote their letter giving cover to Team Biden. They surely knew as much as Miranda Devine and the NY Post. And she knew it was real and that it showed real corruption in the Biden family.
Now for many establishment conservatives and former conservative politicians in Australia, Canada, Britain and without doubt in the U.S., none of this matters. They simply dislike Trump too much – his boorishness, bluntness, scorn for the elites, plebeian eating tastes. They just don’t think he’s suited to be President. Of course, if you point to his actual record from 2016 to 2020 it is basically impossible for any remotely Right-of-centre (and indeed any independent) voter to deny that it’s the best record of this century. On the economy. On tax cuts. Appointing judges. He did more to secure the border than any Republican President (including Reagan). And to the extent he was undermined it was Republicans like John McCain casting the deciding vote to keep Obamacare and Paul Ryan as House Speaker not really funding the wall. (It’s a bit like looking at 13 years of British Tory rule and noticing that they have not delivered on any of the promises they’ve made to their core voters in all that time – for instance, they could stop the boats pronto, it would just take pulling out of the European Convention and repealing the Human Rights Act and maybe putting Tony Abbott in charge, but the Tory partyroom prefers being welcomed in elite society more than stopping the flood of boats, so will be punished by its party base in the election later this year.) Trump, of course, doesn’t care about being accepted in ‘polite society’ so he tries to do what he promised. And that’s another thing. Take a look at what Trump promised before 2016 and what he did – the man tried to deliver on every promise. To me it is bizarre that so many conservatives implicitly would prefer another term of Biden to a second term of Trump.
One factor might be the Ukraine war. Trump was the only President in aeons whose administration was not involved in any war during his whole term. He lambasted other NATO countries which refuse to spend on defence, wanting American money and soldiers to defend them. One hypothetical question is whether the Ukraine war would ever have started had Trump been in office. He says it wouldn’t have. I tend to agree. But now he says he’ll end this war and quickly. Nikki Haley is full on for keeping it going and punishing Russia. But surely there needs to be exit plan other than “we in the West, who can’t even manage to spend 2% of GDP (the U.S. excepted) on defence, are going to drive the Russkies back to their 1989 borders”. Call me sceptical. (And by the way, under Biden recruitment to the U.S. military has collapsed – he’s impregnated ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ dogma into the military and the sort of people attracted to that career hate it. They’re just not joining.)
That leaves Trump’s handling of Covid. I’ll be frank. It stunk. He turned over too many decisions to puffed-up bureaucrats like Fauci. Ron DeSantis (with Kristi Noem of South Dakota) is the U.S gold standard on how to stand up for civil liberties, against lockdowns, for keeping schools open, etc. He should have made his whole campaign about lockdowns. He didn’t. Meanwhile on every non-pandemic policy count Trump was better, certainly better at bringing out the working class vote and at retail politicking. If you look at Biden vs Trump on lockdown policies Trump was miles better. He never mandated the vaccine. He never pushed school closures. Go down the list and though on some Trump was bad, Biden was worse on every one. (And yes, if that sounds as though I am still fuming mad about what our political class did to us for two and a half years, throwing darts at the dartboard to decide which businesses were ‘essential’ or what you could do outside, not paying a penny of costs themselves, spending more than in World War II per capita, transferring huge monies from the young to the old and from the poor to the rich via asset inflation and printing money, well I am fuming mad. I want some accountability, though it’s plain most people just want to move on.)
Anyway, my point is that we now know that Trump will be the Republican nominee in next year’s election. I think it’s 50-50 whether ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ Biden can be propped up to run again but the fact is he’s probably the best shot the Dems have. And so I give this hostage to fortune and predict a second Trump term when he wins in November.
James Allan is the Garrick Professor of Law at Queensland University. This article first appeared in Spectator Australia.
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You ain’t seen nuthin yet.————- Soon it will be won by a fox. And it will be a crime if you mis-pronoun the alleged fox and don’t allow it into the chicken coop to send the feathers flying.
I was just considering where we likely sit on the Wokeness curve.. Thinking we must surly be very near the peak..
Then I read your post and you may well be right.. There will be no end to this utter absurdity..
How has a minority achieved the unachievable
So let’s just make this clear..the agenda really is to erase half of the human race..women. They can pretend it is not, but it is.
A misogynist in a frock..is still a misogynist…..
This isn’t just a barmy idea..they now have hormones and medication to make a man lactate..even though it appears unhealthy for the baby..why would they care?
It’s not about the children, it’s about them….similarly, babies are already made in test tubes….and artificial wombs/uterus are being made which would allow for ‘extra corporeal pregnancy’..why would these men need women at all…?
Make no mistake this is a very real and serious problem and we must all defend real women, their spaces, whether it be hospital wards, toilets or prisons, and never allow these people to take a real woman’s place..in anything…..
P.S the Russian Miss Universe meanwhile..who is beautiful..unlike the Netherlands horse teeth person…is being persecuted for being Russian…
world!!
Go figure the hypocrisy and utter stupidity?…..!!
https://www.insider.com/miss-russia-says-miss-universe-pageant-competitors-avoided-her-biased-2023-1
Although I’m in total agreement that it’s farcical that an imposter usurped all of these more worthy and legit women I still think what a totally pointless competition that should’ve been scrapped donkey’s years ago. I mean, beauty contests? A bit Butlins circa 1972 isn’t it??
Agreed. This is one thing they are welcome to.
And this bloke wasn’t even particularly good-looking.
I’m wondering if any of these strange, exotic creatures have managed to enveigle a straight man into a relationship after the initial shock of discovery (or, once they open their mouths to speak?)
Wimbledon ! Ukraine woman beats Russian woman then refuses to shake her hand !
Glad it wasn’t just me that noticed the teeth straight away, he could open beer bottles with them. It seems pretty certain he only won to boost the organisers woke credentials.
Perhaps the lovely Jacinda in disguise?
Wasn’t so much the teeth (wot, no orthodontics???) as the (very male) shoulders, chest architecture (behind the drug induced breasts) and arm musculature that caught my eye. Probably hasn’t got much of an a*se either. That ain’t no dame, that’s for sure.
Ha, these guys are all over the shop, including infiltrating this site, as was evidenced very recently. From Robert Malone’s ‘stack, lots of very interesting links. We all know we’re being watched and surveilled, I just didn’t know to what extent. Reuters, Nov 2020;
”The British government considers tackling false information about immunization as a high priority as the prospect of a reliable vaccine against the coronavirus draws closer, the Times said.
A vaccine is seen as the world’s best bet for beating the COVID-19 pandemic that has led to more than 1.2 million deaths, roiled economies and disrupted billions of lives.
GCHQ is Britain’s main eavesdropping agency and has a close relationship with the U.S. National Security Agency, as well as the eavesdropping agencies of Australia, Canada and New Zealand in an intelligence alliance known as the “Five Eyes”.
“GCHQ has been told to take out antivaxers online and on social media,” the Times said, citing a source.
The report said the focus of the operation is taking down hostile state-linked content and disrupting the communications of the cyberactors responsible.”
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/gchq-jtrig-five-eyes-and-covidcrisis
Many thanks for the link.
Just love them accusing Putin/Russia being the cause of and promoting antivaxxerism.
I confess. I’ve been a sleeper agent for about 40 years.
It’s laughable.
But it really isn’t.
It’s bloody serious.
You’re welcome and you’re right regarding blaming the Russians. Beyond farcical. I thought there was some very interesting material in that substack, particularly the stuff by Glenn Greenwald. It’s all extremely intricate and elaborate, which makes it all the more ominous I think. The lengths they’ll go to and the amount of psychology involved. Even the short vid at the end by The Guardian was quite revealing. I’ve certainly been enlightened anyway as I was pretty ignorant about all of this stuff.
The other day I posted this ( see below ) and it got removed, along with a couple of posts from other people. Not offensive in any way or breaking any sort of site rules. Still up on Twitter though so Elon is obviously OK with it. I was blaming the DS team but now, paranoia setting in, I’m not so sure;
https://twitter.com/_aussie17/status/1678032232521564160
It was clearly as rigged as many an election. Did these women really not see it coming?
I know which cult I’d prefer to be in.
Bloody spellchecker….
Women are being erased, femininity is being erased, masculinity is being erased, the family is being erased, humanity is being erased. Send like an attempt to destroy our civilisation.
Metrication, decimalisation and decriminalisation of male homosexual activity were early indicators of the deliberate destruction of England.
Yes this force is a dry one and cannot disguise its hatred of the female. But we are approaching the first step of identifying the enemy and so these preludes have to play out. Ultimately it is a merciful destiny and there is no other way for mass awakening to come about. Things are looking a lot better now than they were a year ago in that regard. It remans to be seen, that if for example a new scare were to appear – some terrifying disease for example, whether compliance would occur at the same level as it did three years ago.
It’s always been a numbers game, Kett knew this in 1549…
https://youtu.be/HwT7RtN44Fc
The Revolution will not be Televised
I liked his analysis. It is true but I don’t think that we are in some stasis point. It is incoceivable that world power arrangements will allow this to continue any longer because we, the West, have demomstrated our weakness to the point where collapse is inevitable. You could draw a positive from the last few years. In the sense that most of the peple now who are alert to this agenda weren’t in 2020. And these systems rely on high levels of compliance in order to function.
As long as women participate in these events they deserve no sympathy.
There was a time when a woman could look into a man’s eyes and he could provide her with some kind of leadership and he could get a reciprocal energy from her. Not long ago don’t throw it away or let it go. Doesn’t matter if you can’t get an erection anymore, there are solutions.
If you don’t write poetry you should.
You’re quite the bard.
Some men enjoy beating up and abusing women
Women have enjoyed a few decades of peace in the west
But men have found a great work around
Pretend they are women!
Unless women start working together
They’re stuffed…
And some women enjoy beating up and abusing men.
The highest levels of partner abuse exist in lesbian relationships.
Women have enjoyed a few decades of being able to utterly screw men financially and in terms of relationships with children when marriages end. (I have no personal experience of this but have male friends who have suffered and am capable of societal observation)
The time ahead isn’t pleasant by any measure. How do you even tell a person how much they have lost. If you can answer that question then you are a long way there.I think the young people are yearning for it anyway and humanity will find a way through.
Trust me when things get nasty and feral there will be few people who have time for transsexuals. I know when to button my lip and keep my mouth shut. If you don’t in a time like this then you will get what is coming to you.
Vaginas aren’t “front holes”. If a transgender wannabe male has a vagina surely it’s a manhole and any sanitary towels she uses are manhole covers.
Good one! Although I shudder to think what kind of fluid would issue forth into the manhole covers.
Similarly, I wonder what is going into the unfortunate babies at the receiving end of a ‘lactating’ male. Whatever it is, it’s probably laden with some sort of hormone; Dark Horse podcast were musing on this subject this week.
Truly looking forward to Novak’s victory in the Women’s Singles this weekend. Wonder if he can partner himself in the mixed doubles as well?
The conclusion is that we are in an abusive relationship with government and institutions.
That’s it in a nutshell! An abusive relationship!
There seems to be a lot of dismayed faces behind that imposter.
Interesting thought: when it comes time to replace said bloke whenever, will they be forced to replace with a similarly chemically induced bloke, then another and another? Because surely, if you replace an ungainly bloke with a beautiful woman, that would be transphobic, wouldn’t it? At the same time as being completely misogynistic – or will that have been fully legalised by then? And of course that would mean it’s Trans Universe, not Miss Universe, and become even more devoid of meaning than it currently is.
Still can’t quite take in that this is happening in my lifetime
I will never acknowledge anything other than male and female genders and if that upsets anyone that’s too bad!
I see this less as an attack on women as a further attack on men. Everything – and I mean everything – that men hold dear is being attacked. Men only clubs were the first to go, then everything else that men enjoy had to be destroyed often in the name of feminism – Star Wars, Bond, Indiana Jones etc. All had to be destroyed. Next they came for sport and demanded we pay as much attention to women playing sport as men. There are no safe spaces for men left. They came for beauty pageants before but never quite destroyed them, so they are trying again. Of course, ultimately, the idea is to utterly destroy western civilisation – all our norms and customs.