Thoughts on the Recent Presidential Election

by Armando Simón (December 2024)

 

Just before the election, I sat down and looked at the possibilities coldly, logically.

It was fair to assume that Trump’s following had remained constant since 2020, an election which I and others maintained was fraudulent, due to (aside from the evidence) Democrats’ long history of admittedly, sporadic electoral fraud. Add to that, some voters who had seen through the lawfare directed at him with laughable charges (like the bloodcurdling crime of having borrowed money and paid that money back with interest), as evidenced by the record donations he received moments after having been found “guilty.” Then, there were the high-profile Democrats who switched allegiance because of the totalitarian tactics they had seen; by extrapolation, there must also be low profile Democrats feeling the same way, I figured. Some did not switch but heavily criticized the left, Bill Maher being one of them.

There were other indicators. I, and others, had noted that the intensity of Trump Derangement Syndrome seemed less than in 2020, and before. Viewership and readership of the media hivemind’s various outlets continued to plummet as the public became disgusted with the propaganda. And, lastly, there were rumblings of defeatism coming from the Harris campaign, no doubt fueled by the fact that it was obvious she was an imbecile.

On the other hand, the polls declared the race to be neck and neck, and even though I knew they were being manipulated in order to encourage the Democrats and discourage Republicans, I could not help having misgivings. Furthermore, with the elites’ intense hatred of Trump, there was a good possibility that they would repeat the 2020 fraud. Several fraudulent incidents did occur prior to election night. One even duplicated the sudden spike of 2020 in favor of a Democrat.

Even so, it was a landslide.

Now, after it is over, I have looked at the election and have noticed some things that should be considered.

 

Voter ID

Every country in the world has a requirement that the voter must present ID in order to vote. But Democrats in America proclaimed that the requirement in America was based on racism. They said it constituted “voter suppression” and the media hivemind parroted the buzzwords. Never mind that an ID is required for driving, entering a club, buying a gun or alcohol or tobacco, and for checking out a book from the library. Everyone has an ID, yet they say the requirement is “voter suppression.” Republicans, on the other hand, claim that it is another tactic of Democrats to carry out voter fraud and they point out that not a single case of “voter suppression” due to lacking an ID has ever been presented. Regardless, it is interesting that the only states that Kamala Harris won did not require voter ID.

I’m sure it was a coincidence.

 

National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

Seventeen states controlled by Democrats agreed years ago to award their electoral votes to the candidate that wins the popular vote. It was a tactic to derail the electoral college and aimed against Republican presidential candidates in case they won the (blue) state but lost the popular vote.

Since Trump won the popular vote, will the blue states send their delegates to choose Trump?

We will see.

 

Kamala Harris was going to fix the economy

Harris had a gargantuan war chest, over $1.4 billion. Yet, she is now in debt for $20 million. But, hey, as an elite, she is entitled to the very best. Like $5,000 just to do her nails. And wearing a $62,000 Tiffany necklace while asking for donations. And a more modest $770 belt while at a photo-op in North Carolina to reassure destitute people they would get FEMA relief—which they did not get since most of the FEMA money had been redirected to give to illegal aliens to facilitate The Great Replacement and FEMA workers were ordered not to help homes that had Trump signs.

Perhaps we should have gotten a clue from the fact that 92% of her staff left in her first three years as V.P.

 

Foot soldiers

Both here and abroad, many have voiced that Trump’s election was a truly remarkable comeback story. And so it was. No matter what liberals threw at him: constant demonizing by the media hivemind, absurd impeachments, laughable (not to say illegal) lawfare, attempted assassinations, they only made him stronger and more popular. It also verified Nietzsche’s maxim: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

In the first attempted assassination, wounded and weaponless, he was defiant in the face of death. That made him an object of admiration worldwide (and won over many minorities). In Mexico, several songs were written of him, in admiration.

In this, he walked in the footsteps of Andrew Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt, who were also targeted for assassination and brushed them off, with Roosevelt going on to a meeting to give a speech, with a bullet inside him.

But a certain degree of credit for his victory must also go to the foot soldiers, those persons—both famous and unknown—who constantly chipped away at the monolithic woke ideology. Of the famous ones, we should start with a handful of Republican politicians, particularly the women. For almost a decade, the Republican party and the politicians have been looked down with contempt and hatred by the rank and file; they have been seen as either eunuchs, mouth-breathing retards, or, unprincipled compromisers who are only interested in lobbyists and the glory holes that the lobbyists provide for them. However, a number of them have fought the totalitarian democrats in Congress and inside the bureaucracy and have continued exposing them and, whenever possible, frustrating their power grabs, patriots like Matt Goetz, Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ted Cruz, John Kennedy, Josh Hawley, Chip Roy, Lauren Boebert, Rand Paul, Kat Cammack (if these seem like a lot, remember that there are hundreds of politicians in Congress). At the state level there was Kari Lake, Bud Abbott and Ron DeSantis.

Of the famous foot soldiers who were not politicians were people like Dinesh D’Souza, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, Megyn Kelly, James O’Keefe, Gad Saad, Jordan Peterson, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and, of course, Elon Musk—who revealed the conspiracy to censor American citizens in Twitter. There were also the anonymous Proud Boys who for years were the only ones to stand up to the Antifa; after January 6, the Proud Boys’ back was broken by the Democrats.

And, of the non-famous foot soldiers were the thousands who created hilarious, barbed memes, the internet warriors ones who wrote articles and irritating comments, and the ones who created many songs (even rap), t-shirts, satirical internet skits (especially those from The Babylon Bee) and even created various dances.

The citizens who took over TikTok to laugh at the lunatics and to give suppressed information were particularly impactful; one individual snapped a picture of a receipt from an EBT card given to an illegal alien which showed a remaining balance of $4498 for cash and $13,401 for food (this explains how the criminal gang Tren de Aragua was able to buy guns with which to intimidate Americans); another pointed out that one of the ABC’s debate moderators was Kamala’s sorority sister; one ran an experiment which consisted of having a rightwing Facebook page and a leftwing page, with the first being heavily censored; in another experiment, a man posted two videos, one supporting Kamala and the other Trump and in the former reactions were insults and hate while the latter received expressions of disappointment. If it had not been for those individuals, we would not have learned many things (for example, the ones who posted videos at the site of the assassination attempt).

As can be seen, many citizens had discarded the asinine, suicidal label of “the silent majority.”

In mid-September, I noticed a sudden surge of pro-Harris posts. They were lame.

And, of course, there were the whistleblowers of the DOJ, the ones who did the right thing and, in the process, lost everything (hopefully, they will be reinstated in the jobs they lost).

And let us not forget the man who turned over the Hunter Biden laptop to the authorities.

All of them helped to chip away at the totalitarian monolith and the corruption of the Biden crime family.

 

Trump learned from his mistake

When asked recently, Donald Trump admitted he made a major mistake in his first term. The fact that he had to fill thousands of positions in the government came as a surprise to him and he appointed persons recommended by others, most of whom turned out to be backstabbing swamp dwellers which he later fired.

Since then, he has had people in mind who would break the mold and, so far, that has been the case.

Something that also took him, and millions of others, by surprise was the audacity of leftists in carrying out voter fraud on such a scale, even though Biden admitted it before the actual 2020 election took place. In this election, he was prepared, and so were millions of other citizens at the local level who had had enough and were perched like hawks; the RNC at this time had been revamped where it is now a credible political party rather than a place to siphon off money for personal benefit. And leftists knew it. They did not try it, certainly not to the extent that they had done so in 2020 when no one was expecting it.

He also learned what Margaret Thatcher learned too late, namely, that one’s achievements that benefit the country can be dismantled and reversed by politicians following their footsteps. We shall see what measures he takes to prevent a reoccurrence.

 

The “It’s Safe Now Heroes”

Back in the 80s and ever since, I witnessed something disgusting in the Cuban-American communities. People who had for two decades cheered on the Communists as they committed one disgraceful act after another and had probably participated in them, whether it was chanting anti-American slogans, taken part in marches, or insulted and hurled rocks at dissenters, who took part in indoctrinating children, and who had allowed the disintegration of the country, now came over to the US saying that their eyes had finally been opened and had realized Communism was crap. They expected to be welcomed with open arms. And the disgusting thing was … they were, indeed, welcomed with open arms. Which shows, if nothing else, that conservative Cubans are as stupid as conservative Americans, and conservative Brits, and…

One of them had been a male nurse that delivered electric shocks to dissidents who had been put in mental hospital, a leftist tactic. He was living, unmolested, in Florida (needless to say, the media ignored this; it would have made liberals’ hero—Castro—look bad). One of his victims living in Florida retaliated with … a lawsuit, instead of visiting him with a gun.

We have seen the same thing happening here. First, it was with the covid fiasco. Those liberals who demonized the dissidents for not masking and for not submitting to take the toxic injections (mislabeled as “vaccines”) and for not submitting to house arrest (“lockdowns”) and for ridiculing ivermectin as a “horse dewormer,” well, now they are now denouncing the “vaccines,” the face masks, the lockdowns and the anti-ivermectin propaganda—now that it’s safe to do so. And they do it while striking a pose of courage. And also pretending that they knew it all along.

And this goes as well for those cowards who knew better but did not have the cojones to resist.

While the rest of us—who actually had the intelligence and the courage to revolt and suffered the slings and arrows of insults, physical attacks, demonizing, and losing employment—are being shunted off to the side. This persecution even targeted doctors and nurses who had legitimate different opinions and had integrity and objected to the fiasco’s development.

Presently, we see a similar variation. We are now seeing liberals who called the rest of us Nazis and Fascists, and showered us with the vilest insults, who censored us at every chance, who organized mobs against us, who canceled speakers and comedians, who applauded drag queens in schools, who insisted that we had to publicly acknowledge that mentally ill individuals who changed genders were real women and real men, who encouraged the toppling of statues of famous people from Jefferson to Columbus, who defunded the police, who supported anti-Semitism in college, who encouraged and applauded millions of illegal immigrants entering the country, who took part in ideological indoctrination in schools and businesses, who mutilated science with their ideology, who encouraged and subsidized the vilest anti-white racism, and encouraged white genocide, well now, now they are saying that they are no longer that way. They did not abandon the Democratic Party they say, they say the Party abandoned them. They even say the same things that we got persecuted and insulted for—by them.

Some politicians are even quickly making a U-turn on policies.

I know many conservatives are saying, “Well, that’s good. They’re coming over to our side.”

Well, I say to the opportunists, “To hell with you all!”

And that goes double for Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski who for years vomited hatred at Donald Trump. And for John Kerry who recently advocated censorship.

Decades ago, I corresponded with a Slovakian girl a year after the Iron Curtain fell. She was disgusted at seeing former Communist Party members beginning to wear crosses around their necks.

Its’ the same thing.

 

The other side of cognitive dissonance

For two days after Trump’s victory, I felt an enormous sense of relief. I remember feeling the same way once the Soviet Union was no more. I also remembered what some dissidents said/wrote: for years they had been pushing against a wall and suddenly the wall was gone.

But I also remembered something else. Liberals who had for decades demonized America for fighting Communism in various ways, who swooned at a picture of psychotic murderers like Che and Castro, who became incensed at any mention that Communism was an evil totalitarian entity, who looked at the Berlin Wall and felt nothing, who sneered with contempt at presidents like Reagan and Nixon, now they pretended to be glad the Soviet Union had collapsed and claimed that they had never known of the human rights violation by Communist regimes. And they, who had been so vocal promoting their ideology, they were silent.

I naively thought they had become contrite, as had been the case of Ezra Pound. And I should have known better, being a psychologist.

I have at various times pointed out that today’s social climate is a cornucopia for psychologists. Cognitive dissonance is one of those concepts in psychology that has become well known. It is a term that describes the intense discomfort in being faced with undeniable facts that negate deeply held emotional ideas, predictions or ideologies. But cognitive dissonance was part of a theory which stated that those individuals who face cognitive dissonance do not reject their predictions or ideologies but instead seek validation by redoubling their efforts at recruitment.

This explains the sudden explosion of leftist totalitarian advocates in 2016. And it also predicts we will see it again. The totalitarians have suffered a setback, but they won’t go away. The same thing happened when they took over the Democratic Party in 1972 and huge number of Democrats deserted the party and McGovern was defeated. But the totalitarians returned.

The battle is not over. After all, the totalitarians are deeply entrenched in the media and in academia. And the elites are still there. And they are going nowhere.

 

2020 may have been a blessing in disguise  

This is true only if the events that took place are not forgotten for future generations.

One may think that the events that took place and the lunatics could not possibly be forgotten, but they can be. Experience proves it.

Leftists know the importance of censoring and mutilating history. They have done so for over a century, the most extreme example being in Communist countries (a central theme in 1984). How many people know now about the epidemic of anarchist bombings of the late 1800s, carried out in America by immigrant Communists and Anarchists? How many people really know what took place during the Sixties and early Seventies, with its terrorist groups, the murders and bombings by leftists? Damn few. Those important facts have been practically forgotten, preserved in a handful of neglected books here and there, many of them out of print. In the case of the Sixties, history has been whitewashed to portray the time as consisting only of benevolent hippies—and not mentioning the yippies the SDS and other groups.

After all, books on the Trump presidency have already been written full of paranoid lies.

Nor is historical amnesia deliberate or political. Decades ago, I came across one sentence in a history book, mentioning in passing the Spanish Flu which killed millions worldwide. One sentence. Among hundreds of history books I had read or bought. Now, of course, there is recovered memory over the Spanish flu.

There is another part of this silver lining. It showed that the Constitution worked. Among one of the aims of the creators of the Constitution was to prevent establishing dictatorships. We came close, very close.

Through fraudulent elections in 2020 liberals seized the legislature and the executive and proceeded to ignore laws, and act illegally. In this, they were aided by the media hivemind which was saturated with persons having the same ideology and carried out constant propaganda. They began to employ lawfare, not just against Trump but ordinary citizens as well. Worse, with the exception of the much vilified patriots mentioned above, the “opposition” Republican Party was principally staffed by mouth-breathing retards, opportunists and compromisers. Demands by liberals to establish concentration camps and formally eliminate free speech were heard.

The courts that did not have leftist judges put the brakes on, particularly the Supreme Court. And this drove the leftists enraged, demanding the US Constitution be trashed and the Supreme Court be eliminated. Even now, they continue to lay the groundwork for a future ideological court system, facilitated by the RINOS.

The Founding Fathers were truly wise men.

 

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Armando Simón is the author of When Evolution Stops and Very Peculiar Stories.

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