Trump Is Exactly Where The Elites Want Him

Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,

Cognitive dissonance is a powerful drug. It makes otherwise-very-intelligent people goofy and incoherent in their thinking and blinds them to certain realities that they should normally see right in front of their noses. I witness it all the time in the field of economics — a key piece of logic, a key fact that certain people absolutely refuse to take into account simply because they have a singular idea of how the world works and they cannot allow that idea to ever come into question. They would rather leap into a mental gymnastics routine worthy of an Olympic gold medal than examine the truth. And if you confront them on it, they’ll accuse YOU of being the one in denial.

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This is how we ended up with the credit crisis and market crash of 2008/2009. This is how very few people saw the writing on the wall with Syria and ISIS and the fact that the funding and training of Islamic extremists by Western governments for the purpose of proxy insurgency might not be such a great concept. It is the reason why it took years for the mainstream to acknowledge the advent of the East/West paradigm, the same paradigm that alternative analysts warned about years in advance. This is why most mainstream AND alternative analysts completely discounted a successful Brexit referendum.  And, it is why the vast majority of pundits could not even conceive of a Trump victory in 2016.  I could write a list 20 pages long on all the geopolitical and fiscal developments most people missed because they were clinging to assumptions rather than evidence.

Unfortunately, the liberty movement is also sometimes vulnerable to such assumptions. The most dangerous of which revolve around the rise of President-elect Donald Trump.

I have seen endless theories over the past several months on all the ways in which the global elites would sabotage the Trump campaign. I believe the phrase “they will never allow him to win” was repeated in nearly every discussion on the election. The assumption in this instance was that Trump is “anti-establishment” and, therefore, a threat to the globalists. These are the same globalists that people also claimed would “rig the election,” or initiate a “coup” in the electoral college to stop a Trump presidency.

Of course, this never happened. So, a large percentage of the movement needs to question — why didn’t it happen? How did Trump win within a system we know has been rigged for decades?

You’ll hear hundreds of theories and rationalizations on Trump’s miraculous victory, but a reason you will almost never hear is also the most likely one: Trump won the election because he serves the interests of the establishment. Trump won because he is a fake.

This is not an idea that many liberty activists want to entertain. They were so repulsed by the proposition of Hillary Clinton taking the helm at the White House that they would have invested themselves in almost ANYONE running against her, even if they thought that candidate might be controlled opposition. However, not just anyone was fielded as a candidate; Trump was fielded, and for good reason.  I predicted before the Republican and Democratic primaries that the final election would be between Trump and Clinton in my article Will A Trump Presidency Really Change Anything For The Better?, published in March, and here is a quote on why:

“The other ingenious aspect of the Trump campaign is really who he is running against — Hillary Clinton, a rabidly liberal candidate even more hated than Barack Obama. A candidate with a potentially serious criminal record and a penchant for an outright communistic world view far beyond that of Bernie Sanders. Those of us who have been in the writing field for a long time and have dabbled in fiction know that in order to create a fantastic hero, you must first put even more work into creating a fantastic villain. The hero is nothing without the villain.

 

The unmitigated horror inherent in the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency is like adding jet fuel to the Trump campaign. (And yes, I am assuming according to the results of the primaries so far that the final election will be between Trump and Clinton).”

My point back then as well as now is that without Clinton as the counter-party, Trump would not have garnered the political following he did.  Any other Democratic candidate would not have galvanized conservatives so fervently. As I continued in my pre-primaries article:

“Donald Trump appears to be the perfect antithesis to Hillary Clinton. … the real question is, is Trump a reflection of the frustration and defiance of the conservative population, or, is he a clever ruse by the establishment to co-opt and placate the conservative population before we rebel?”

The staging of the 2016 election might have appeared to some people to be absolute chaos, but to me, it could not have been more perfectly scripted. In later articles covering the election I went on to give Trump a chance.  I stated that I had little doubt that he would win the election and that this would be followed by an economic crisis, probably triggered early in his first term.  Conservative movements would be set up as scapegoats for a crash the globalists had created. However, I believed it (marginally) possible that Trump was not aware of this strategy on the part of the elites. Today, I no longer hold this view.

The first and worst sign that Trump is not anywhere near “anti-establishment” has been his complete reversal of his original “drain the swamp” rhetoric. Trump is not only NOT draining the swamp that is the Washington D.C. and corporate elitist revolving door, he is adding even more creatures of varying ghoulishness.  As Newt Gingrich, who describes himself as an outside adviser to Trump, recently stated:

“I’m told he now just disclaims that…” [Draining the swamp] “He now says it was cute, but he doesn’t want to use it anymore…”

There is a good reason why Trump no longer wants to use that particular slogan — his cabinet is now filled with the exact same elitists he used to slam along with the Washington establishment.

Trump first placed former Goldman Sachs partner Steven Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary. Goldman Sachs has a long history of insinuating its alumni into vital positions within government bodies dealing directly with the economy.  Mnuchin is particularly troubling because of his ties to George Soros; Mnuchin used to work directly for George Soros at Soros Fund Management up until 2004.

Then, for those people that thought maybe Mnuchin was just an anomaly, Trump added Gary Cohn, president of Goldman Sachs, as the director of the National Economic Council.

Trump’s chief strategist and Breitbart executive Steve Bannon is also a former Goldman Sachs investment banker.

It is interesting to note that over a quarter of the gains in the delusional Dow Jones spike after Trump’s election was tied to a rise in Goldman Sachs stock value.  Imagine that…

Trump is also now “advised” on economic matters by the likes of JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon. Are we starting to get the picture here?

If that is not enough, then how about the fact that Trump is being closely advised by long time globalist Henry Kissinger (just as Vladimir Putin is advised by Kissinger)?  I’m not sure why so many people are surprised by this arrangement; Trump was meeting with Kissinger months before the election. No matter the administration, there is ALWAYS a high level globalist behind the curtain.  Barack Obama had Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Trump and Putin have Kissinger.

I won’t go into the numerous establishment Republicans that Trump has tapped for his administration, I will save that can of worms for another article, but anyone in the Liberty Movement that is not at least generally suspicious of Trump at this point is probably kidding themselves.  The bottom line is, Trump has already LIED to his political base.  He has surrounded himself with globalists and financial gatekeepers when he originally criticized Clinton for the same behavior.  At this point, as long as he working in close proximity with such parasites there is no way for us to know if he is calling the shots, or if his handlers are making decisions for him.

I have heard it argued that Trump “has no choices” outside of D.C. insiders, which is why his cabinet is loaded with bottom feeders from Goldman Sachs. I find this argument rather naive. I would argue that there are thousands of brilliant professionals and people far more trustworthy outside of the beltway that could populate Trump’s cabinet and “make America great again.”  I would even argue that ANY person with little experience inside the D.C. corruption chamber would be better suited to the job.

It seems to me that there are some activists that just can’t let go of the notion that Trump was the candidate the elites wanted all along.  After all, didn’t the powers-that-be do everything in their power to try and stop him from winning the election?

Well, not really.  The media firestorm surrounding Trump, though highly negative in tone, only boosted Trump’s exposure throughout the election. In fact, Trump received more coverage from outlets like CNN than all the other candidates combined.

This was the exact opposite tactic that the elitist controlled media used against true liberty candidate Ron Paul in 2012. With Paul, the media went out of their way to ignore him; they even refused to show a single Ron Paul campaign sign in a crowd if they could avoid it. This was a concerted systematic effort on the part of left AND right wing media outlets to ensure that no one outside of the internet heard about Ron Paul.

So what happened with Trump? Why did the mainstream media abandon a strategy that was very effective against Ron Paul, and why did they give Trump endless free coverage?

The elites also did not take very stringent measures to disrupt Trump’s candidacy early in the race. The Republican National Convention undertook a campaign of disinformation and rule changes in order to ensure that Ron Paul would have no chance of organizing an upset against establishment choice Mitt Romney. The same exact kind of treachery was used by the DNC in 2016 to sabotage Bernie Sanders arguably a far more popular and effective candidate than Hillary Clinton. The party elites have numerous tools at their disposal to kill a candidate’s chances before he or she ever makes it on the national stage, yet, we are supposed to believe that Trump just slipped through the cracks, or beat them at their own game?  I think not.

The election itself was riddled with email leaks and data dumps showcasing the corruption of the Clinton campaign, and yes, this did help to ensure a Trump win. The accusations of “Russian hacking” is clearly a sideshow, but the question remains, who did feed that information to Wikileaks? Some theorize that “disgruntled employees” within the U.S. intelligence apparatus may have leaked the data. I think they were not disgruntled. I think that most of the leaks were part of the election theater from the very beginning. In light of Trump’s clear goal to entrench banking vampires within his administration, I think that the elites always intended for him to “win” the election.

Of course, for some in the liberty movement this claim is sacrilegious. They don’t want to hear it, they’ll hate me for saying it, and that’s fine.  I started my work in 2006 during the Bush years, and I remember quite well what it was like.  I have little doubt that some people will be accusing me of being a “liberal” before they even finish this article, just as people called me a “Neo-Con” during the Obama administration.  People who held fast to “conspiracy theories” surrounding the election and how Clinton was the “chosen one” will now hypocritically call me a “conspiracy theorist” for pointing out that NO ONE gets into the White House without being vetted by the elites, even Trump.

Working in alternative media means not caring if people like you or dislike you. I’ve been able to make numerous correct predictions because I do not concern myself with the pressures of conforming to group-think. My only hope is that many in the movement realize sooner rather than later that their faith in Trump has been ill invested. The great danger is that the liberty movement, the best last chance for saving this nation, will sit on its collective hands idle, centralizing all their hopes and eggs into the Trump basket, waiting for him to gallop in on his white horse and save us all from oblivion. And when that time comes, I suspect that he will do nothing, and the movement will be neutralized by its own desperate desire for a hero and an idol.

 

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Anonymous
Anonymous

The “Elite” would far prefer to have Trump dead than where he is.

And Trump isn’t actually in the White House yet, hence the ongoing efforts to keep him out of it.

starfcker
starfcker

Man o man, I was hoping you would post this one. So let me get this straight. Trump is a plant, and the only thing that can really save us is Brandon Smith and his Liberty Movement. Got it. The best thing about this douchebag, is how quickly he’s going to be made to look like the fool he is. Trump is going to turn the entire thing upside down in the course of those first couple months. Let’s see what douchebag Brandon has to say then.

hardscrabble farmer

“This is how very few people saw the writing on the wall with Syria and ISIS and the fact that the funding and training of Islamic extremists by Western governments for the purpose of proxy insurgency might not be such a great concept.”

Is this guy for real or is he a plant?

One of the most incoherent analysis of the recent election I have read and that is saying a lot.

kokoda the deplorable
kokoda the deplorable

hsf….the quote you listed is in fact the truth on the ground. It appears from your further comments that you consider the meat in that quote to be false – if so, you have not done your due-diligence.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Opinions are never “true” or “false”.

They are the opinion of the person holding them, not statements of fact.

Could you show the reasoning behind your opinion? It makes it easier to consider if I should take it into consideration or not for influencing my own if you do.

kokoda the deplorable
kokoda the deplorable

Anon….there have been several key people that have elicited that knowledge. The one that comes to the immediate fore is Michael Flynn (Nat. Sec. Adviser under Trump).

It is also well known that Saudi Arabia buys weapons (lots) from the US. I won’t go into the explanation of SA/Qatar/etc. with Syria and ISIS (if you don’t know, go comment on a teen blog). And finally, it is even more well-known of Obama supporting the s0-called ‘moderates’ in Syria, except they are like the Loch Ness monster, they cannot be found – Obama and his filthy, demented followers openly admit to supporting the moderates (ISIS in waiting).

Is that enuf info, or is everything not to your belief an ‘opinion’.

hardscrabble farmer

I only post my thoughts if I have already done due diligence.

The “meat” of that comment was that arming, funding and training of Islamic forces by Western (US) “forces” (Intelligence and State elements) was conceptually “flawed” (due to blowback) and “few people saw” the outcomes, vis a vis ISIS/Syria.

Rather, based on the result, it appears that it was in fact, the desired outcome.

When one whisks eggs, butter, milk and flour together and bakes it in the oven the cook cannot claim that his intent was a beef stew rather than a cake and expect anyone to believe him.

Stackingstock
Stackingstock

So….

All the Goldman and Globalist scum doesn’t bother you, hmm…

I’m not sure how they’ve hidden the truth for thousands of years.

kokoda the deplorable
kokoda the deplorable

Brandon Smith – do you bat 100%? I would guess not, even though you have gotten ‘some’ past predictions correct. And I doubt you would consider yourself a Nostradamus.

Trump has to have people that have the requisite knowledge and of the DC political machinery.

Give peace a chance.

Stucky

ALL HAIL BRANDON!! BRANDON WILL SAVE US!! (Repeat mantra 100 times.)

Definitely a douchebag. Then again, I stopped reading after “Cognitive dissonance is a powerful drug.”. So, maybe I’m not being fair.

fear & loathing
fear & loathing

the article was food for thought. it appears we are screwed regardless.

CCRider
CCRider

If you’re not completely cynical of the democratic process, so structured as it is in our country, you’re not paying close enough attention.

Montefrio

This guy has been writing for ten years and he considers that “a long time”, a perspective that tells one all one needs to know.

Suzanna
Suzanna

B.S.,
That is quite a theory you have there!

Here is my opinion: Trump may be a good guy, or a bad guy…
but he is not O, and for that I am grateful. Add: sometimes I have trouble
managing my own life, and the ups and downs. I am not about to micro-
analyze the the world’s political schema’s. Plus, I need a brief breather, so
I plan to wait and see. Meanwhile, I will come to a complete stop, and not run
any red lights.

BB

If you are one of true elites as in controlling our currency then it doesn’t matter who is elected.You still control the flow of money.You control interest rates ,the debt and who gets first crack at the new money.You control the economy.You control the political class.You pick the winners and losers.Trump is so much better than Clinton but he will not challenge the Fiat currency debt based Banking system which is the real problem.

Stucky

Wow! The village idiot is making progress!!

:mrgreen:

Hey, bb, I been prayin’ for ya. Has it been working?

Anon
Anon

All,
I will be the first to say that I voted for Trump, because as the writer stated, the alternative was just too much to bear. However, with that being said, I cannot discount what the writer says so easily. We have been here before. Barack Obama was not always the worst thing in the world. Back in the day, he was the alternative to Bush. Bush being so bad (just like Barack this time around) and his opponent, warmonger McStain being so bad, that even a lot of conservatives (admit it) broke ranks and voted for Barack. Just as this time around, the alternatives were just that bad.
Most of the problems in today’s world are created. If you look at the issues of healthcare, militarism, race relations, poverty, crime etc. with an objective eye, you can spot that there is a ying to every yang. And that ying and yang, usually directly corresponds with strong interest that needs to keep an income stream consistent. Very few problems are actual “act of nature” problems. Hurricane Katrina was an actual problem. Wars in the middle east are a created problem.
DEA – Drug problem – If drugs were legalized and there was no more criminality to it, what do you suppose all of the unemployed DEA agents, for profit prison companies and crime hawk politicians would do? Not to mention the billion dollar drug cartels, just go in to another line of work? Open rahab centers? And what excuse would our “heros” in blue use to confiscate everyone’s cash, or justify that raid? Drugs are illegal because very powerful forces on both sides want it that way. No “war on drugs” no profit for either side.
Health Insurance – Up until the mid 1960’s, health care was readily available, and a person could most likely pay for it out of pocket. What happened? Well, a group of doctors got together and starts HMO’s, which then started monopolizing healthcare services, in the name of efficiency of course – think OPEC for medical care. All of a sudden, there was a real possibility that you could be bankrupted by a medical procedure. In comes the insurance industry to help “fix” the problem. Now, it is a monumental problem, however it could all be fixed by a free market and enforcement of monopoly laws. Easy fix, but try to address the real problem, no one wants to here.
Poverty – Federal Reserve, enough said.
Militarism – Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Bechtel – again, enough said.
Energy – OakRidge, Thorium, Fisher Tropsche syn fuel process – another one.

I don’t know what Trump will do, as he is not even president yet, however I will keep an eye out for the usual yin and yang, and if there is no real progress, then I, and many others will know that we have been duped again. Stay objective.

TampaRed
TampaRed

Obama was never the alternative for anybody but a fool.

Smoke Jensen
Smoke Jensen

I don’t care if Trump is a plant. It’s clear to me that Hillary wasn’t in on the joke. It was enough that Hillary went into a complete melt down over her loss and her guts are in a knot. It sends a tingle up my leg to know that Bill won’t be the first male First Lady where he can continue his rape-a-thons completely protected by the power of a President Hillary. Lastly, I’ll get to stare a(t) Melania Trump for the next four years. How’s that for an analysis?

Overthecliff

bb of the last 6 months is not the bob of old. I like him and have prayed for him as well.

Ralsballs
Ralsballs

Even if you are one of the butt hurt commenters who think Brandon Smith is a dick for proposing that the Trump presidency may not be the repudiation of the establishment everyone thinks it is, I think the comparison with Ron Paul makes some sense. If the so called elite didn’t want Trump to have a shot at the thing, why wasn’t he ignored like Ron Paul? Because they thought his big mouth would do him in? Maybe? One big problem I do have with Brandon Smith’s articles is his apparent belief that nothing at all happens in this world unless a small group of inbred, uber-wealthy, occultist kid fuckers give the OK for it. He makes no mention of God or the people having any role at all in what happens on this planet. If that were the case, these so called elite queers would have had their little NWO a long time ago.

aguila2011
aguila2011

At first take it seems like Brandon is a douche raining on the “win” the Deplorables just experienced. If Trump is a “plant” then all I can say is “What else is new?” We had an alternative and we took it. It looked like Duck (no pun intended), walked like a Duck and talked like a Duck, so we HAD to go with Trump because the alternative was simply too hideous to consider.

It may well be that TPTB are still in control but I have to ask myself “In whose interest is it to crater the entire world economy?” After all, this is about money and power. Not that there haven’t been sociopaths who would do such a thing as bringing disaster upon the world in the “dream” of being one of the last men standing and thus rulers of the world, I think what Trump represents is the desire by everyone, including globalists to simply grow the pie. Make the economy healthier, larger, for everyone. My take away from the past eight years is that a no growth economy kept afloat by the FED printing presses is in need of some new direction. Let’s face it. The rich are never satisfied. To them, their scoreboard is the bank account, the number of properties, fancy cars, yachts, etc., and parties they can throw for their rich and famous friends.

But they need the Deplorables and the game that many on the Left have been playing is truly an existential threat even to their fortunes. Unchecked world debt, open borders allowing the wrong kinds of people into the countries who are the engine of civilization, the extreme chaos caused by the lack of order and justice makes the entire system quake and the foundation becomes increasingly unstable.

While I admit to being surprised at the number of Goldman pukes picked to be part of his team, I figured that these might be the best people to fix the problem, i.e. keep the financial system from imploding, even if it makes them richer in the process. Heck, they are the ones who ginned up the game, they might just know how to fix it rather than just kicking the can down the road. They need to open some pressure relief valves and give people a break.
I always say that owning 100% of a small and shrinking pie is not good. What if you could own, say half of a much larger pie, be even wealthier and make others better off in the process? That is what America is supposed to be about. And giving people opportunity to live in a land they take as their home regardless of where they or their forefathers came from.

So I take Brandon’s message with a grain of salt, but I am listening. I am still skeptical. It took me a long time to “sign-up” to the Trump bandwagon but now that I am aboard, I will give him my prayers that he will, in good faith, at least make things better for everyone and not just a few. And I thank God we don’t have to see Hillary every day or listen to her terrible voice.

Happy New Year!

starfcker
starfcker

Aguila, great post. Happy new year back to you

hardscrabble farmer

I was a Ron Paul supporter and met him a couple of times during the ’08 election cycle. He was honest and he was principled but he had neither the personality, the ability to communicate nor the fire to become the President. Every time an opportunity presented itself to him from his record-breaking online fundraising to the open primary rigging caught on film, right up to the media sandbagging he just folded his tiny little shoulders and mumbled to himself in a half-empty conference room that we should drop it and move on. He was the proverbial one trick pony.

Trump, on the other hand, ran circles around the media establishment. He was always on the offensive, never backed down and was completely confident even when he was getting smeared.

Only one of those two candidates came across as Presidential, like a real leader instead of policy wonk. Was Ron Paul a good man? Absolutely. Was he cut out for Presidential politics? Hardly. He made Pat Paulson look charismatic in comparison.

If Trump is there because the people in power want him there then it is clear that they no longer have any use for the media, either of the two major American political parties, any of the apparatchiks of the past and their machines like the Bushes/Clintons, globalism as a necessary outcome nor continued unchecked immigration. If that is the case the question has to be asked, why then was all of that so useful right up until November 2016?

You have to look at the preponderance of evidence and then come to a conclusion.When all you see is a powerful cabal of wealthy elitists who run things from the shadows and who can never be defeated then everything will look orchestrated. Not everything goes according to plan, especially when you’re talking about human beings. No matter how powerful and how wealthy and how evil some people may be, they are not infallible. Sometimes the best gambler picks the wrong pony.

grayjohn
grayjohn

Another sore loser heard from. Get over it.

The Modern Chronicler

I have read Alt-Market on and off for quite some time and have found Brandon Smith to be on target in many of his articles.

I don’t want to believe that Trump is where the elites want him – however, Smith says in other recent articles that Obama et al are positioning the economy for a major crash during Trump’s presidency which the left et al will then blame on him to get a Democrat back in the White House come 2020. I can definitely see this happening.

My only question would be: if Trump is where the elites want him or if the elites have “captured” Trump, then why have so many elements of the state/system including but not limited to the media, the CIA, the Democratic Party, many within the Republican Party, and Barack Obama himself attempted everything they could (short of killing him) to stop or to derail him?

Many have said all along that Trump strikes fear in the heart of the system. I believe this to be true.

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