A new dawn

The American people made their stand and won. Now comes the hard part...

On Wednesday, 6 November the world awoke to extraordinary news: against all odds, Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential elections to become the 47nd president of the United States. Heartfelt congratulations to the American people are in order. It was their victory: the ordinary deplorables rallied to the defense of whatever is left of their democracy and prevailed, seemingly against all odds over the powers that be.

They had the choice, essentially between two candidates. In electing Trump, they rejected the incumbent government’s brazen assault on civil liberties, the wokeism, the forever wars and the creeping Sovietization of the United States. To see the reactions to Wednesday morning’s news in social media, the uplifted spirits and, dare I say, joy, was beautiful and heartwarming. But after the celebrations, it will be time to roll up the collective sleeves and get to work.

Now comes the hard part

This victory was proof positive that when the people make a stand decisively, they can not be defeated. Now, that full court press must continue. Trump and his administration don’t have a magic wand to fix everything and make all the problems go away: it will be a massive labor. As the people supported them through the elections, so they must continue to back them through the coming challenges. With the people behind them, the magic will happen.

Before us is the struggle for truth, struggle to rebuild prosperity and to end the forever wars. The strength and power of people’s support, and the direction of that support will determine how successful the new administration can be. For his part, Trump and his team can do much to galvanize and turbo-charge this support and keep the people engaged in making America great again and making the American people healthy again.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of joining my friend Mel K for a post-election discussion. It was published a few hours later, titled "Nuremberg 2.0: Global Tsunami of Truth, Justice and Liberty Commences..." The title draws from the part where I opined that the new administration must take advantage of its massive popular mandate by going on the offensive, without hesitation, hedging or equivocation, which could muddle its message and leave the administration open to renewed attempts at sabotage and lawfare attacks by its opponents.

Nuremberg 2.0

As I put it during our interview, if I were Trump, I would drum up a Nuremberg-like process in a very public and explicit way and begin an open season on a number of unsolved mysteries of the last six decades beginning with the following:

• JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations

• 9/11

• Global War on Terror

• Russiagate

• C19 pandemic

• Ukraine war

• 2020 elections

• WEF agenda

• Epstein and P Diddy lists

• Lahaina

• North Carolina, etc.

At the very minimum, some of these issues must come under public Truth and Reconciliation inquiries. These should distill the truth with such clarity that it can become part of America’s and the world’s history curriculum for generations to come. They should also shine the sunlight at the epicenter of corruption and uncover its ultimate beneficiaries with names and mugshots.

Such a process would not only have full support of the majority of American people: it would captivate the attention and support of the whole world. Only, there should be no reconciliation for premeditated crimes against humanity: no walking away with the colossal proceeds of crime, only to regroup and revert to predatory conduct.

The main conspirators should be sentenced to life in prison and a total, 100% expropriation of all of their earthly assets: personal, family, trusts, foundations and endowments – all of it. These funds should then be recycled in favor of those who lost their homes, businesses and livelihoods in consequence of these conspiracies.

Link to the podcast on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v5mz3pk-mel-k-and-alex-krainer-nuremberg-2.0-global-tsunami-of-truth-justice-and-li.html

Trump means business, it seems!

Only hours after this interview was published I came across a recorded statement by Trump, indicating that he does indeed intend to go on the offensive. The statement (video clip is in this tweet) is a glove thrown in the face of the deep state swamp:

First, I will immediately re-issue my 2020 Executive Order restoring the President's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats. And I will wield that power very aggressively. Second, we will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our National Security and Intelligence apparatus, and there are plenty of them. The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled so that faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target and persecute conservatives, Christians, or the left's political enemies, which they're doing now at a level that nobody can believe even possible. Third, we will totally reform FISA courts which are so corrupt that the judges seemingly do not care when they are lied to in warrant applications. So many judges have seen so many applications that they know were wrong, or at least they must have known. They do nothing about it, they're lied to. Fourth, to expose the hoaxes and abuses of power that have been tearing our country apart, we will establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship, and corruption, and there are plenty of them. Fifth, we will launch a major crackdown on government leakers who collude with the fake news to deliberately weave false narratives and to subvert our government and our democracy. When possible, we will press criminal charges. Sixth, we will make every Inspector General's Office independent and physically separated from the departments they oversee so they do not become the protectors of the Deep State. Seventh, I will ask Congress to establish an independent auditing system to continually monitor our intelligence agencies to ensure they are not spying on our citizens or running disinformation campaigns against the American people, or that they are not spying on someone's campaign like they spied on my campaign. Eighth, we will continue the effort launched by the Trump administration to move parts of the sprawling federal bureaucracy to new locations outside the Washington Swamp. Just as I moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado, as many as 100,000 government positions can be moved out. And I mean immediately out of Washington to places filled with patriots who love America, and they really do love America. Ninth, I will work to ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs at the companies they deal with and that they regulate. So they deal with these companies and they regulate these companies and then they want to take jobs from these companies. Doesn't work that way—such a public display cannot go on and it's taking place all the time, like with Big Pharma. Finally, I will push a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress. This is how I will shatter the deep state and restore government that is controlled by the people and for the people. Thank you very much.

This is music - symphony - to my ears. But wait, it gets better. Mel and I also spoke about the critical importance of free speech and the media.

Taming the corporate media

Anti-Trump hysteria induced by the enemies of the people media could be one way the new administration could be sabotaged. To avoid this, they should break up the media monopoly by making it easier for journalists and media entrepreneurs to set up independent operations and compete for viewership/readership by creating compelling, quality content. Again, it’s clear that Trump and his team have been thinking along the same lines. Trump issued the following statement (the 6-min. video clip is at this link):

If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country. It’s as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple, just like dominoes, one by one - they’ll go down. That’s why today I’m announcing my plan to shatter the left wing censorship regime and to reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans. And “reclaim” si a very important word in this case, because they’ve taken it away. In recent weeks, bombshell reports have confirmed that a sinister group of deep state bureaucrats, Ssilicon Valley tyrants, left-wing activists and depraved corporate news media have been conspiring to manipulate and silence the American people. They have collaborated to suppress vital information on everything, from elections to public health. The censorship cartel must be dismantled and destroyed and it must happen immediately and here’s my plan. First, within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any Federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business or person to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens. I will then ban Federal money from being used to label domestic speech as miss-, or dis-information. And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship, directly or indirectly, whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health, Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are. Second, I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified. These include possible violations of Federal Civil Rights law, Campaign Finance laws, Federal Election law, Securities law and Anti-Trust laws, the Hatch Act, and a host of other potential civil, criminal, regulatory and constitutional offences. To assist in these efforts, I am urging House Republicans to immediately send preservation letters, and we have to do this right now, to the Biden Administration, the Biden Campaign and every Silicon Valley tech giant, ordering them not to destroy evidence of censorship. Third, upon my inauguration as president I will ask Congress to send the Bill to my desk, revising Section 230 to get big online platforms out of censorship business. From now on, digital platforms should only qualify for immunity protection under Section 230 if they meet high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness and non-discrimination. We should require these platforms to increase their efforts to take down unlawful contents such as child exploitation and promoting terrorism while dramatically curtailing their power to arbitrarily restrict lawful speech. Fourth, we need to break up the entire toxic censorship industry that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so-called myths and disinformation. The Federal Government should immediately stop funding all nonprofits and academic programs that support this authoritarian project. If any U.S. universities are discovered to have engaged in censorship activities, or election interference in the past, such as flagging social media content for removal or blacklisting, those universities should lose federal research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years and maybe more. We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end run around the Constitution and deprive Americans of their First, Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights. In other words, deprive them of their vote. And once you lose those elections, and once you lose your borders like we have, you no longer have a country. Furthermore, to confront the problems of major platforms being infiltrated by legions of former deep staters and intelligence officials, there should be a seven year cooling off period before any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS, or DOD is allowed to take a job at a company possessing vast quantities of U.S. user data. Fifth, the time has finally come for Congress to pass a digital bill of rights. This should include a right to digital due process. In other words, Government officials should need a court order to take down online content, not send information request such as the FBI was sending to Twitter. Furthermore, when users of big online platforms have their content or accounts removed, throttled, shadow-banned, or otherwise restricted, no matter what name they use, they should have the right to be informed that it’s happening, the right to a specific explanation of the reason why, and a right to a timely appeal. In addition, all users over the age of 18 should have the right to opt out of content moderation and curation entirely, and receive an unmanipulated stream of information if they so choose. The fight for free speech is a matter of victory or death for America and for the survival of Western Civilization itself. When I’m president, this this whole rotten system of censorship and information control will be ripped out of the system at large. There won’t be anything left. By restoring free speech we’ll begin to reclaim our democracy and save our nation. Thank you and God bless America.

This is a very strong, important and enormously encouraging statement. It is in stark contrast with John Kerry’s authoritarian musings about doing away with the First Amendment. Kerry laments that the Amendment is a major roadblock to their ability to build a consensus around any issue: “What we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern… and implement change…”

The economy, stupid…

The toughest struggle however, will be the fight to rebuild the American economy in a way that stimulates investment and creates favorable conditions for small and medium size businesses to flourish. This will require breaking the stranglehold of the too-big-to-fail banks over the US economy and transferring the credit allocation function from large banks to smaller local and regional financial institutions that can support local businesses. Very substantial investment capital could be accumulated in a number of ways: radically reducing government waste, improving tax collection from big corporations, expropriating the criminal class as discussed above, ending the forever wars and shutting down hundreds of foreign military bases.

Let’s see whether Trump and his team will issue any statements on economic reforms. My feeling is that they will. The question that remains is whether they will be able to carry all these reforms out. I believe that if they are continually and consistently backed by the people in the same way that they were supported through the presidential election cycle, they will almost inevitably be successful. In effect, the people of the United States will make America great again with Donald Trump as the administrator in charge.

Cultivate optimism!

As I wrote above, now comes the hard part and the struggles will be real. In this sense, cultivating optimism should be regarded as our sacred duty toward the future generations. Many people are warning that Trump is a billionaire, that he’s one of them, that he’s surrounded himself with other billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, etc, etc. That may be so, but it does not necessarily mean that they are all loyal to the occult oligarchy that we are opposed to. Recall, Robert and John Fitzgerald Kennedy were both part of the American aristocracy and political class, but they both paid with their lives for opposing the oligarchy.

Throughout history, many reform movements were led by members of the privileged classes who recognized that without reforms, a system under an unrestrained rule of oligarchs is on the road to perdition. Even in ancient Rome, many of the most determined reformers like Catiline, the Gracchi brothers and Julius Caesar were wealthy aristocrats. Like the Kennedy brothers, they all paid for their efforts with their lives.

This is our struggle

Dismissing the Trump team solely on account of their station in life and sitting out the struggle that is before us would truly be a tragic waste of a hard won chance to make the world a better place. Ultimately it is a people’s struggle: OUR STRUGGLE!! Even if you had zero faith in the new leadership, cultivating optimism and doing your part must still be a sacred duty. I elaborated this in the article “The Case for Optimism.”

Remember, it will be the coming generations who’ll collect the fruits of our actions today. We have it in our power to gift them a better future and we should use that power to the best of our abilities. The floodgates are now open and we’ve no excuse not to give it our all.

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