Trump and Musk Demolish the Obama Hallucinatory Permission Structure
American Thinker ^ | 22 Dec, 2024 | Clarice Feldman
Posted on 12/22/2024 4:13:48 AM PST by MtnClimber
The big story this week is the how X (formerly Twitter) worked to dramatically change the American legislative process. As Chamath Palihapitiya said, "People are underestimating what happened here [The Continuing Resolution]. This was a multi hundred billion dollar grift that was stopped on a dime over 12 hours of tweets. You would have never thought this was possible. To put a dagger in something that big that had so much broad support just a few hours earlier is so consequential in how the United States can run going forward."
But if you grasp the background for this feat -- the story of how Axelrod and Obama, a struggling and complacent media, puppet NGOs, and a corrupt bureaucracy for years created a false preference cascade which fed absurd crazes like “defend the police,” ”structural racism,” “white privilege,” ”assigned gender,” ”genocide in Gaza” -- you can better understand the fast collapse. Obama’s was an autocratic regime which, using David Axelrod’s once benign psychological creation, sold large swaths of the public counterfactual, illogical nonsense like ObamaCare, the Iran deal, and Russiagate, and used COVID hysteria to transfer billions of dollars from the rest of us to the top 1% and corrupt our electoral system, but it was utterly without foundation: In sum, sanity finally overcame politically manipulated hallucinatory thinking.
BACKGROUND STORY
To fully understand how the continuing resolution was defunded, how Trump won, and how Benjamin Netanyahu was able to properly defend Israel free of Obama’s delusionary views of reshaping the Middle East, read this lengthy, well-researched and argued essay by David Samuels.
I urge you to read it all. I have not space to do it justice but I’ll try to summarize it. In 2000 the media landscape switched to online communications as 20th-century media collapsed. Early internet communications were on small
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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: marxism
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1 posted on 12/22/2024 4:13:48 AM PST by MtnClimber
To: MtnClimber
Maybe the left can all go back to Democratic Underground and leave everyone else alone.
2 posted on 12/22/2024 4:13:57 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
Bit of a typo there: “Defend the police”.
3 posted on 12/22/2024 4:16:32 AM PST by 9YearLurker
To: 9YearLurker
That is a typo! That is what they are NOT doing.
4 posted on 12/22/2024 4:23:37 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
5 posted on 12/22/2024 4:23:58 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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