2024 Election Season

[Ann]

I wonder how much of this is true?

(And when it was recorded because DiFi was still alive.)
 

 

[Ann]

 

[Ann]

I am crossing the Rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump.

 

Many — including a former version of myself — get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I finally broke free from it.

 

My journey has been a gradual political 180 from where I stood in every previous election. It has been an eye-opening process of disenchantment, zero-basing lifelong beliefs, and rebuilding from there.

 

In 2017, a good friend enlisted me to pitch the DNC to raise $100M from Silicon Valley founders and executives. The aim was to use these funds and know-how to build a CRM and tech platform to prevent a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s inadequate, outdated 2016 campaign. We met with DNC leadership, who told us we could raise that money, but it would have to go to the general fund; a single-digit percentage would then be allocated to tech. In the wake of one of their most shocking failures, they didn’t want the help.

 

The next series of realizations began in 2019 while I was at Meta, right after we announced the Libra white paper. I testified before the Senate and the House and subsequently spent significant time in DC, engaging with lawmakers, cabinet members, regulators, and two White House administrations. At the time, I still believed the mainstream idea that Democrats were all about serving the People. However, I was shocked to learn that, for the most part, Republicans cared more deeply about their constituents, while Democrats, in my experience, cared more about government power and control. This is my observation on balance, with many stories to back it up. I also found that more Republicans wanted to understand our project’s goals and took the time to learn about the risks of censoring payments and controlling the network. I found myself remarkably aligned with them.

 

Then COVID came, revealing more. While I don’t subscribe to the most malicious vaccine conspiracy theories, I do take offense at the censorship machine put in place to hide the origin of the virus from the NIH-funded Wuhan lab and all dissenting voices on vaccinations and lockdowns. At that time, I fully appreciated why Republicans value freedom of speech and preventing censorship.

 

This trend of spinning and manufacturing a parallel reality to serve the Dem agenda, solidified by complicit mainstream media, hit home with the Hunter Biden laptop story, the coordinated vilification of President Trump and his followers, and President Biden’s cognitive decline — depriving voters of a voice in a proper primary. These examples displayed the hubris of the current Dem leadership. You must think the American people are fools to believe the spin on these issues. I despise this elite vs. general population ideology viscerally.

 

This version of the Democratic Party is sidelining moderates and centrists and has adopted an increasingly leftist ideology. This drift to the left has dictated policies from which I’ve found myself estranged.

 

On the domestic front, there has been a total departure from the core American value system of meritocracy, an extreme and weaponized DEI agenda, an open door to massive illegal immigration, and a once-fringe narrative, now mainstream within the party, of vilifying success. This shift is also causing us to fall behind due to an anti-innovation regulatory climate, notably on crypto and soon AI — two non-linear technological breakthroughs that will likely determine tomorrow’s leading countries.

 

On foreign policy, the administration is exacerbating tensions with Russia through an aggressive NATO expansion narrative focused on Ukraine and prolonging an unwinnable war. This is costing American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, the world hundreds of thousands of lives, depleting the U.S. military arsenal and risking World War III. On Iran, this administration is continuing a misguided Obama-era plan to bring Iran closer to the West by unfreezing Trump-era sanctions, thus giving the Mollahs’ regime the ability to fund terrorism and pursue its anti-America, anti-Israel, and anti-Jewish agenda. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was also handled disastrously. We’re leaving a door open for China to invade Taiwan by coming across as weak. Most importantly to me, concerning Israel, the administration is enabling Iran to fund Hamas and Hezbollah, restraining Israel in its fight against its enemies, thus prolonging another conflict, which is costing more lives on both sides and allowing unprecedented levels of antisemitism to rise at home.

 

I believe we need a President who is unequivocally pro: America, the Constitution, business, Bitcoin/crypto, innovation, Israel, small government, legal immigration, free speech, meritocracy, and common sense — and anti: regulatory proliferation, illegal immigration, unjust wars, Iran’s current regime, and domestic groups that oppose American values. These issues are central to President Trump’s platform.

 

Naturally, I disagree with President Trump and the GOP on some issues, particularly women’s reproductive rights. While I’ve come to learn that extreme views exist in both parties, I firmly believe that women should have the unalienable right to make their own decisions on this polarizing topic. President Trump confirmed he was against a national abortion ban and supported the Supreme Court’s decision on maintaining access to mifepristone, which was reassuring and a sign that the party was moving closer to the center.

 

It’s impossible to close this post without mentioning President Trump’s recent assassination attempt. The courage and resolve he displayed seconds after being hit by a bullet was awe-inspiring for his followers and detractors alike. This was a man, however imperfect, who, at that moment, incarnated the American spirit in the most vivid way, starting to bring a split nation together.

 

Some claim that reelecting President Trump will bring our democracy to its knees. However, the alternative — having unelected individuals with this much power and no accountability run our government coupled with four more years of bad policies at home and abroad — might present a more significant threat. Neither will likely change in a Harris administration and could potentially worsen.

 

In this pivotal moment, confronted with the choices we have, I am endorsing and supporting a return to a Republican administration in 2025.

 

 

[Ann]

Wow

 

 

[Ann]

NSFW (language)
 

 

[B-Man]

 

[IDBillzFan]

The Trump campaign needs to get off the "she's an Indian" merry-go-round. Let a few of your surrogates bring it up, but we are very close to Trump returning to the childish name-caller, with his assassination attempt all but in the rear view mirror of too many Americans at this point.

 

Hammer her on economy, economy, economy. Border, border, border.

 

She did this with Biden. Then slide in a few reminders of her desire to ban fracking, force a gun buyback plan, make us pay for sex change operations to trans prisoners and abortions for illegal immigrants, and her inability to cackle her way on the foreign stage.

 

But drop the identity shit because you are walking right into their world and they will beat you silly with it.

[RochesterRob]

8 minutes ago, IDBillzFan said:

The Trump campaign needs to get off the "she's an Indian" merry-go-round. Let a few of your surrogates bring it up, but we are very close to Trump returning to the childish name-caller, with his assassination attempt all but in the rear view mirror of too many Americans at this point.

 

Hammer her on economy, economy, economy. Border, border, border.

 

She did this with Biden. Then slide in a few reminders of her desire to ban fracking, force a gun buyback plan, make us pay for sex change operations to trans prisoners and abortions for illegal immigrants, and her inability to cackle her way on the foreign stage.

 

But drop the identity shit because you are walking right into their world and they will beat you silly with it.

  There are countless Americans who are still reeling from Biden's double whammy of high inflation and high interest rates to appeal to.  As you say the identity issue is well past its shelf life in these times.  

[Ann]

32 minutes ago, IDBillzFan said:

The Trump campaign needs to get off the "she's an Indian" merry-go-round. Let a few of your surrogates bring it up, but we are very close to Trump returning to the childish name-caller, with his assassination attempt all but in the rear view mirror of too many Americans at this point.

 

Hammer her on economy, economy, economy. Border, border, border.

 

She did this with Biden. Then slide in a few reminders of her desire to ban fracking, force a gun buyback plan, make us pay for sex change operations to trans prisoners and abortions for illegal immigrants, and her inability to cackle her way on the foreign stage.

 

But drop the identity shit because you are walking right into their world and they will beat you silly with it.

I think it is to paint her as a liar that will say anything to get elected. Pandering, as you will.

Do I think the surrogates should do this? Of course. But how exactly was he supposed to answer that "journalist's" question other than, she'll say anything to get elected, not sure how she identifies right now? 
 

[Ann]

 

[IDBillzFan]

1 hour ago, Ann said:

I think it is to paint her as a liar that will say anything to get elected. Pandering, as you will.

Do I think the surrogates should do this? Of course. But how exactly was he supposed to answer that "journalist's" question other than, she'll say anything to get elected, not sure how she identifies right now? 
 

 

At the very least, he should have turned it on its head. I watch politicians do it all the time.

 

Exhibit A: Tom Cotton on CNN.

 

 

[Cinga]

The election is officially over with this announcement

 

 

Remember, it was this guy that started it

 

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

1 hour ago, Ann said:

 

 

"He showed up, the Democrats didn't" should be the end of the story.  

 

I'll say this, too: he's campaigning better than he did in 2016/2020.  He's still Trump, he's always going to be an overgrown adolescent.  But he's being more policy focused, less personally aggressive, and trying more to address people rather than belittle them.  It's a rather impressive display of him growing into the position.  

[Boyst]

22 hours ago, Alaska Darin said:

Pass some of what you're on, brother.  The Democrats haven't owned a &#%$ing thing they've screwed up literally ever.  Even Hollywood is willing to make movies like "13 Seconds" that show how retarded/corrupt the American Left is.

They made a movie about your sex life?

[Ann]

4 minutes ago, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

 

"He showed up, the Democrats didn't" should be the end of the story.  

I've seen a lot of this sentiment on X. He showed, Kamala didn't. 

It does take courage to walk into a hostile environment. 
 

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

1 minute ago, Ann said:

I've seen a lot of this sentiment on X. He showed, Kamala didn't. 

It does take courage to walk into a hostile environment. 
 

 

I've levied a lot of criticism at him, much of it very harsh, most I still stand by.

 

But I don't think I've ever had any cause to question his courage.

[Ann]

This is officially the funniest thing any politician ever said in public:

 

"Just yesterday, it was reported that more than 1,000 members of the savage Venezuelan Gang “Tren de Aragua” are plotting to conduct ambush attacks on police and law enforcement in the United States—all while Harris and Biden sit in the White House and try to figure out who is dumber."

 

Top that. You can't. It is for the ages.
 

 

[Ann]

 

[Whatnot78]

45 minutes ago, Ann said:

 

 

I wonder if he's been to Europe?

[IDBillzFan]

1 hour ago, Ann said:

This is officially the funniest thing any politician ever said in public:

 

"Just yesterday, it was reported that more than 1,000 members of the savage Venezuelan Gang “Tren de Aragua” are plotting to conduct ambush attacks on police and law enforcement in the United States—all while Harris and Biden sit in the White House and try to figure out who is dumber."

 

Top that. You can't. It is for the ages.
 

 

 

This is the way.

 

Over and over and over. 

 

If the media insists on reporting on every word that falls out of Trump's mouth, make them these words.

 

Over and over.