THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN BEFORE (OCTOBER 31, 2024) THE ELECTION RESULTS...

On the eve of what could be the most consequential election in US history—perhaps even global history—the elite class representing their favored stalking racehorse seem to have thrown in their towels and hung up their riding crops.

What we’re seeing is unprecedented. For a couple months leading up to now, it felt like the unusual calm was merely a portent for some grand scheme being formulated in the webby dungeons beneath the DNC citadel. When Trump’s popularity shot up and Kamala’s tanked, the uncharacteristic silence from the other side took on an even stranger tenor. 

BY SIMPLICIUS

But being so used to the now-dominant elite class always having their final trump card at the ready, we ignored the telltale signs of their demise. In reality, it appears they have finally run out of options. They have tried every malicious subterfuge and cheap gimmick, up to and including eliminating their opponent via kinetic means—twice—and they have failed, as polls and common sentiment now point to a catastrophic loss for Kamala in a few days’ time. 

Something finally broke.

Some major tensioner undergirding the entire neoliberal military-media-industrial-complex Leviathan as fusion of state and corporate power, otherwise known as the ‘Blob’, has come loose, and now threatens to send events spiraling. 

The canary choked on the thickening fumes this week as the Washington Post dropped the bombshell that DC’s top paper of record would not be endorsing a presidential candidate for the first time in almost 40 years—since Bush-Dukakis. LA Times and USA Today followed suit—a presentiment of the disastrously choreographed and stenciled candidacy of nonentity, empty-vessel Kamala. 

USA Today has refused to endorse any candidate in the US presidential election, Fox News reports.

The LA Times and The Washington Post made a similar decision a few days ago. According to NPR, the WP lost more than 200,000 subscribers due to its refusal to support Harris.

In an unprecedented address, WaPo’s owner Jeff Bezos wrote a brief OpEd explaining the decision:

It starts off with the statistic naming this year as when America’s trust in journalists had finally sunk even below that of Congressmen: 

In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.

He affects atonement, hoping to right course in order to win back America’s trust. Unfortunately, he flubs right off the starting block: 

Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement.

Read that carefully a second time. He’s saying, “We are accurate…but people don’t believe we are accurate.” That means he’s calling the American people liars to their faces. He’s saying the people are wrong for misinterpreting his publication’s putative commitment to truth. But in a quest for reconciliation, he’s already starting off on a bad foot by shifting all the blame onto readers and not himself. In reality, the self-evident reason the people don’t believe in the accuracy of his publication is because they are not stupid: they have seen lie after prima facie lie being printed with no regard for accountability, time and again.

A wave of resignations in protest of Bezos’ shock move was expected, and the charge was led by arch-neocon Robert Kagan, who happens to be ‘editor-at-large’ at the disgraced paper. In this CNN clip, Kagan blames the move on Bezos’ desire to ‘curry favor’ with Trump in advance of Trump’s victory, seeing as how Trump had allegedly threatened retaliation against Amazon or other of Bezos’ business interests:

The most revealing moment came at the end when Kagan admits that Bezos’ stake in Washington Post is a negligible trifle in comparison to the bulk of his empire. And it proves the point: billionaires don’t buy influential news organizations for the money, they do it to buy influence in order to generate good PR and policies which benefit said empire. Soros didn’t buy 200 radio stations in the run up to the election to boost his porfolio’s health—he did it to control the narrative to make sure Trump loses. Naturally, Kagan seems to have had no problem with a billionaire oligarch owning his beloved toilet paper of record up until that very billionaire went tragically off-script.

Top pundits like Taibbi began to cotton on to this pivotal shift in energy:

Taibbi observes: 

I’ve heard so many crazy things in the last weeks about behind-the-scenes maneuvering in Washington that it’s been tough to know what to believe, but it’s clear we’re headed for some kind of historic confrontation. I have trouble believing institutional America will really reverse course after eight years of dystopian lunacy, but Bezos and the Post just changed something, probably over the passionate objections of 98% of staff. Whatever’s going on, it sure isn’t boring.

Jeff Carlson, writing for Substack, echoes the vibe-shift: 

It feels like there's been a notable shift amongst Democrats in the last month. A recent sense of fatalism - or perhaps just simple resignation to what appears to be an inevitable Trump win. But as it turns out, there are some Democrats who have been preparing for this potential outcome for at least the last year. 

I have been documenting this very shift for a while now, starting from the WEF’s 2024 Davos forum, where it had become an undeniable albatross that the elite class was starting to revolt against the excesses of their own sacred order:

Ironically enough, in the earlier CNN interview Robert Kagan mentions the very pivotal Jamie Dimon statement I covered in the above article at the same Davos event, wherein Dimon began to walk himself back from the ‘Left’ and admitted that Trump is correct on certain critical points, for instance openly warning: “If you do not control the borders, you are going to destroy our country.”

The entire Davos event was a major bellwether to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, as a number of figures began to sound the alarm around the direction things have been heading. That’s not to mention that even back in January 2024, they had all imbibed which way the wind was blowing:

Many elites like Jeff Bezos never truly signed on to the most unpardonable excesses of the neo-left vanguard. They were merely browbeaten into toeing the line, which they did for a while, until it became undeniable how bad things were getting, and how dark the future envisioned by the social engineers pushing the new paradigms really was. Now a slew of elites like Jeff Bezos seek to ‘rebalance’ the equilibrium out of a sense of panic, with rumor being that Bezos intends to hire more conservative commentators for the Post in the wake of this shake up. 

But there’s a sense that the shift is far greater in scale than it appears. The truth of the matter is that the very ethos, the vision behind the last several decades of neoliberal policy has finally run out of ink, it has run dry and lost its ability to inspire people to a common future. It has become a creative desert, a total bankruptcy of ideas, with nothing left but hate, bigotry, perversion and pathology, and intolerance as final sacred standbys. There’s a sense that if and when Trump wins society may be indelibly reshaped, as the depleted old guard falls by the wayside. The Democrats’ political vision, too, has stagnated into a bankrupt pastiche over the last several years. Like him or not, Trump has rattled off a litany of new policies, changes, concrete visions for the future in virtually every sphere of influence; the Democrats have gone from about a handful of core issues down to essentially two remaining holdfasts: abortion and transgenderism/LGBT rights; that’s it.

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SEE ALSO: https://www.sott.net/article/495966-Election-Aftermath-Notes-on-the-Grand-Realignment 

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