[PJMEDIA] When Musk bought Twitter on April 14, 2022, we didn't realize it at the time, but it was one of the most consequential decisions of our lifetime.
Think I'm exaggerating? Consider this: Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... 's greatest PR homerun during the presidential campaign was appearing on Joe Rogan's podcast. It had nearly 50 million views on YouTube alone — plus millions more on Spotify, viral moments on X, and more.
Appearing on those podcasts helped Trump win the White House.
But in the episode, Trump disputed the results of the 2020 election. Just four years ago, YouTube would've banned the episode for ''disinformation!'' It would've been stricken from existence — just like news stories about Hunter Biden's laptop!
Yet in 2024, deplatforming Joe Rogan wasn't even an option. Why? Because his buddy Elon Musk had his back. Sometimes, all it takes is one leader to buck the tide and stand strong. When it comes to free speech, Musk is that leader.
This quote says it all:
And now he has an opportunity to do something even more outrageous: MSNBC, the loony left's favorite news network, is for sale. Comcast, its parent company, is looking to unload the channel, which (not so coincidentally) also has the oldest median age in cable news: 71.
In the aftermath of a Donald Trump landslide victory, MSNBC's early returns are dreadful: Its viewership has plunged by 54%.
But how much is MSNBC actually worth?
I asked my all-knowing AI assistant (shout-out to ChatGPT) for a valuation. Here's what it said (after a whole bunch of boring stuff): ''With these factors in mind, a reasonable estimate for MSNBC alone could range from $2 billion to $5 billion.''
Which is pocket change for Elon Musk!
Could you imagine the trolling potential of a Musk-controlled MSNBC? Can you even imagine the liberal shrieks of terror when he swaps Rachel Maddow for Alex Jones?
For $2 to $5 billion, I think he'd do it.
And besides, Musk's Super News Broadcasting Company has a nice ring to it.
Do it, Elon! Buy MSNBC!
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No.
Easier and much cheaper to start over from scratch.
Only reason to buy MSNBC is to get he equipment cheaply.
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[REGNUM] Only a short time has passed since the US presidential election, but Donald Trump, who won, is already rushing to form his presidential team.
He understands very well that there is not much time to implement reforms. This is Trump's second and final term, and four years will fly by quickly and unnoticed.
The current situation is very different from what it was in 2016. Then, Trump simply had no team, except for a small circle of advisers who helped him during the election.
Initially, the lists of the transition team were compiled by then-New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. But then he was pushed aside and none of the proposed candidates were hired to work in the presidential administration.
Vice President Mike Pence took charge of recruiting officials. He recruited a lot of representatives of the Republican establishment who openly sabotaged the boss's policies.
There will be no repetition of those mistakes now - Trump has taken into account the shortcomings of 2016 and is himself, together with his family, selecting a team. It may indeed include some of his former ministers who did not spoil their relations with him.
In particular, the representative of the billionaire dynasty Betsy DeVos may be made the Secretary of Education again. Democrats disliked her for her active support of private and religious schools as opposed to regular municipal educational institutions.
The real battle has unfolded around the implementation of the so-called “Project 2025,” written by representatives of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation.
In fact, we are talking about a conservative counterrevolution in all spheres of American society with the return of religious values to American education, the refusal to promote the "rainbow" and racial-gender agenda. And even a criminal ban on pornography and abortion.
There is also talk of major purges of the bureaucracy in Washington. Liberal apparatchiks are to be replaced by conservative Trump supporters.
…or not replaced at all, but do go on.
The military is proposed to be used to combat crime and drug cartels, as well as to deport illegal immigrants. The response to the rampant crime in the US in recent years will be a sharp tightening of the screws, as well as accelerated trials and the imposition of death sentences on captured criminals.
Possibly expulsion rather than death. Death penalty cases often take decades to wind their way American courts.
During the election period, the Democrats actively used the "2025 Project" as an argument in favor of the fact that under Trump the US will face "real fascism." However, this rhetoric did not help them much. Trump himself distanced himself from the "Project," although now, after the elections, he may well hire its authors and implement at least some of the ideas.
The future president is also placing loyal managers at the head of the intelligence community and in the Pentagon, since he wants to see American security officials on his side. The promised purges are also likely, especially since some of the intelligence officials are already resigning without waiting for the inauguration.
The CIA director is planned to be John Ratcliffe, who helped Trump fight off Russiagate during his first term. And the Pentagon will be headed by Pete Hegseth , a retired military man and Fox News host. He has no connection to the Washington swamp and is loyal to the personally elected president.
Both of Trump's closest allies, known to the entire world - Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy - have received carte blanche to reform the state apparatus.
To make reforms or to recommend reforms? I haven’t yet seen that defined, perhaps because I haven’t looked closely — President Trump is moving too fast and there’s too much else to keep track of.
They will be responsible for dismissing officials.
That sounds definite. Proof, please.
There is an objective reason for this: the bureaucracy in Washington is extremely ineffective.
At the same time, the US is living under a colossal budget deficit of $2 trillion, which needs to be addressed and money saved. And, of course, under this cover, Trump's opponents who sabotaged his policies during his first term will be removed from government service.
Bureaucrats who sabotage their lord and master are not effective at their jobs. QED.
One of the first priorities for the new administration will be to resolve the immigration crisis at the southern border of the United States. During the four years of Joe Biden's presidency, about 7 million illegal immigrants have broken through into the country.
Is that all? I thought it was more, although really there’s no way of knowing for sure.
The new management team is popular with the idea of so-called "remigration." This involves the mass deportation of migrants to third countries, which Washington will pay to accept them. Guatemala could be one of them.
I suspect that a lot of people will take themselves home before President Trump is sworn into office in January. This migration thingy hasn’t turned out to be anything like what was promised, except for the organized and unorganized criminals.
The seriousness of their intentions is confirmed by the fact that the new team immediately includes ardent opponents of immigration. Among them is Stephen Miller, Trump's senior adviser in his first term, whom the Democrats liked to accuse of being almost a Nazi for his dislike of "newcomers."
Are you sure it’s newcomers he dislikes, or just illegal newcomers?
And the person most responsible for solving the border crisis will be Tom Homan, the former head of the US Immigration Service and a proponent of the policy of separating families of illegal immigrants, temporarily taking away their children and thus forcing them to leave the country.
Actually, didn’t he propose sending the legal children away with with their illegal parents, thus keeping families together? When condescending to the awful Americans, it’s important to get one’s facts right.
Battles are also underway around the persons who will head the economic bloc. Trump is definitely returning to the helm the main supporters of trade wars like Robert Lighthizer, who in the first term of the new-old president de facto destroyed the WTO system and introduced tariffs against China.
Several billionaires close to Trump are vying for the post of Minister of Finance.
Do we have one of those? Does he mean what we call Secretary of the Treasury?
But they will pull him in the other direction: representatives of big business have many assets in the Celestial Empire that they would not like to lose.
By the way, similar contradictions are also emerging within the framework of the "green agenda". Trump intends to reduce subsidies for the construction of wind turbines and solar panels, as well as for the purchase of electric cars. He will return to supporting oil and gas production in the United States, which is currently stagnating due to the depletion of shale reserves.
I was under the impression it wasn’t depleted reserves, but the Biden-Harris administration shutting down new production — but admittedly I don’t really know.
However, here he is already in conflict with Musk's business, which needs to sell its electric cars.
Trump also has big plans to reform the Federal Reserve System, he wants to make it accountable to the White House in order to influence US monetary policy. The new president is seeking to lower rates and devalue the dollar by 25-30% in order to increase the competitiveness of the American economy.
It will certainly not be easy for the current head of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, to be under constant pressure. And there is always the possibility of an early replacement of the Federal Reserve director with an economist close to the new authorities.
And finally, a refresh awaits the foreign policy team, the formation of which was not without surprises. Before the election, Trump's key foreign policy advisers were Richard Grenell, a former ambassador to Germany, and Elbridge Colby, from the CIA dynasty. However, they have now temporarily retreated into the shadows.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio, the first Cuban to hold the post, will be secretary of state, and congressman and retired military officer Mike Walz will be national security adviser.
Rubio, who once ran against Trump in the 2016 Republican primary and earned the nickname “Little Marco,” has since changed his views and embraced the ideology of “Trumpism.”
Rubio, like Walz, is connected to the Israeli lobby, and both are set on confrontation with China. At the same time, in the context of relations with Russia, these politicians are pragmatists who voted against the allocation of tranches to Ukraine.
Rubio, as secretary of state, will have to deal with Russia, Israel, and the Arab world, so he is certainly not to be envied. That is probably why Trump gave him the job almost immediately. Over time, he can be replaced by one of his close advisers, like Grenell. Trump likes to shuffle cabinet members; he constantly changed cabinet ministers in his first term.
Or perhaps it was that during his first term he was trying to find people who weren’t working to undermine and control him instead of support his goals.
For Rubio, the stakes are high: He didn’t just trade in a cushy job as a Florida senator for the top U.S. diplomat’s job for nothing. He has obvious presidential ambitions, and Marco needs to make a name for himself at the federal level.
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik from New York will become the US Permanent Representative to the UN. She is set for a tough clinch with the bureaucracy there, which Trump's team considers anti-American and anti-Israeli.
In his first term, the elected president already cut funding for the organization and withdrew the country from the human rights committee. In his second term, he will further suppress international institutions like the UN and the WTO, and wage trade wars with the European Union and China.
To The Rest Of The World: If you want those things, you pay for them. We’re done.
At the same time, there are still intrigues in the process of forming the new administration. For example, will the flamboyant Robert Kennedy, who promises to fight the influence of "big pharma," get the job?
It is possible that at some point we will see Tucker Carlson among the advisers , although public service clearly does not appeal to him - he likes to be a leader of public opinion.
Overall, we can already say that Trump's current team is very different from the one in 2016. Back then, the establishment set the tone, and figures loyal to the president were in the minority.
Now, on the contrary, they have a “controlling stake,” and ambitious politicians like Marco Rubio, who want independence, have to adapt to Trump’s agenda. So there will definitely be no repetition of the mistakes of the first term.
No doubt there will be different mistakes, but that’s ok.
And now the president, who is about to take office, has a much better chance of winning the fight against the “deep state.”
If one was to stop and compare the generalities between say the Obama / Biden Regime & a typical Banana Republic, vs MAGA.
Isn't MAGA (We the People) in the process of overthrowing a Socialist Democrat Coup that stole power and was increasingly circumventing Citizen rights?
There is an objective reason for this: the bureaucracy in Washington is extremely ineffective.
To the contrary the Washington bureaucracy is extremely effective: they still cash their paychecks, collect every benefit due them (and many bennies outside of the law), and advance Deep State goals. Most of them are protected from removal by various laws (passed by Congress) entrenching the Civil Service.
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Trump is covering the flanks where the attacks came from in is first term. Intel, Justice, and the DoD were the centers of resistance the first time around.
So put the screws to them first, encourage resignations and retirements, and don't give them the time to to build their narrative network.
Nominating Gaetz for AC and DoJ is a poison pill for the Dems. They can confirm him, or DeSantis can appoint him to fill Rubio's senate seat. (make your choice, bitches.)
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They thought if they infiltrated and compromised the Tea Party that we would hang our heads and accept defeat.
Instead we nominated a third party candidate as head of the Republican Party and elected him three times. MAGA is the Republican Party, we took that bitch over, and this MAGA Country. This election proved we have a mandate that the govt works for us. Power back to the People. Who will rule America?
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...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
