Talent will always find a way to some level of success, but it can be prevented from finding its way to the positions that are deemed strategically important. That's why they hate and fear Donald Trump. As a rich, playboy developer, he's essentially harmless to them. As President of the United States of America, not so much.
Anonymous Conservative reminds us that most of what passes for
"success" in modern American society is entirely manufactured and
most claims to it being based on "talent" and "hard work"
are entirely false.
Joe Biden forgets his
line, and a reporter jumps in to help him
remember it. All those reporter positions are remarkably
important in so many ways. Now, I almost think it funny that if you had asked
me as a kid, “Could you grow up to be a reporter if you wanted?” I would have
replied, “This is America, I can grow up to be anything if I put in the
effort.” And I would have thought that becoming a reporter was half-assing it,
and it would have been impossible to fail.
In truth, there were a lot of doors which were always closed,
because there was a giant secret out there which the conspiracy needed to hide.
Utility line worker, data-processor or IT guy, especially in certain banks,
hotel/motel owner in areas of importance, taxi drivers, reporters, celebrities
of all stripes, scientific researchers in certain fields, lawyers, prosecutors
and politicians at all levels, CIA Officers, and a ton of other positions were
for club members only, or people the club felt they could control. I will bet
if you tried to be a bum loitering on certain street corners, you’d get chased
off, and think it was just another bum chasing you off. Or you’d have a job
fall in your lap and think it good luck, instead of the reality that was a
vital posted surveillance position, and the bum there needed to be (((their)))
bum.
I always thought it bizarre Erik Prince walked into the CIA,
fresh out of the Navy SEALs, heir to a billionaire fortune, as comfortable in a
high-society soiree at a five-star restaurant as he would be hip deep in mud
somewhere getting shot at, high IQ and full of piss and vinegar, and CIA told
him he didn’t have what it took. The guy who built an entire shadow
CIA/Pentagon from scratch all on his own, tearing shit up across the entire
globe, maybe with a hand in tearing down the Cabal, didn’t have what it took to
be a case officer, or a paramilitary?
All throughout the country, people were moving into their final
positions in life, doors opening, others closing due to the vagaries of fate
(or so they thought), blind to a machine that was all around them, amassing
files on them from the time they were children with reports from the other
little kids in the school around them, watching them, looking to compromise
them, and having failed, expending its effort thwarting them or moving them
somewhere else.
How many good young kids, filled with ability, effort, and
determination, had a dream like being an actor, or a writer, or a reporter, and
they ended up expending their entire life on the dream, betting everything on
themselves, and died baffled at how they ended up failing while surrounded by untalented
rubes who soared?
Amy Schumer wasn't paid
$13 million for a single comedy special because she is funny or because she
sells massive quantities of tickets to her shows. Megan Markle wasn't paid $145
million to produce documentaries because she has an amazing production record
or even because anyone will watch them. Obama hasn't even begun writing the
book for which he was paid a $65 million advance and he will probably never
write it. Tom Preston wasn't paid $100 million for making MySpace a lasting
corporate success. Marc Racicot wasn't made Chairman of the Republican
National Committee or the Governor of Montana because he was such a staunch Republican or
particularly adept at managing political operations.
On a much smaller scale,
John Scalzi wasn't paid $250,000 per book by Tor Books because Tor expects to
make at least $10 million of profit on the deal. These are all people who are owned by the Prometheans, who
have sold their souls for what passes for "success" and who will
dutifully say whatever they are told to say and produce whatever they are told
to produce. And in most cases, it's not even necessary to tell them anything at
all, as they were selected and propped up and promoted because they are
naturally inclined to do their masters' bidding.
Years ago, I was told by
the editor of the editorial page for the St. Paul Pioneer Press that
I would NEVER be permitted to have a regular column on the op/ed page. I
applied for the slot after the token conservative left the paper, thinking that
because I was a) already a popular weekly columnist on the Technology page, b)
a local who grew up in a St. Paul suburb, and, c) only the sixth columnist in
the 150-year history of the paper to be nationally syndicated, I was an obvious
shoe-in for the job.
I wrote three sample
columns, which the editor freely admitted were of sufficient quality to appear
on the page. But he made it clear that I would not be given the slot, not then
and not in the future. At the time, I thought this was because my libertarianism
was simply too intense for the paper. But now I understand that I had bumped up
against the ceiling of what had been deemed my permissible level of success.
After all, put a bright young, nationally-syndicated writer on the editorial
page at the age of 25, he's probably the obvious candidate for op/ed editor
within a decade. And who knows where he might go after that? Best to shunt him
off the track at the start. I didn't mind then and I don't mind now. I was
still able to go off and do what I really wanted to do, which was to make
computer games with my friends. But the situation always struck me as a little
bit strange and somewhat inexplicable.
The vacant slot was
instead given to DJ Tice, a nominal conservative who left the paper in 2003 to
become the Government and Politics team leader at the Star Tribune and
now plays the role of house conservative as the Commentary editor there. Are
you even remotely surprised to learn that Tice is now anti-Trump and last
year described Robert Mueller as
"evidence of what truly makes America great"?
Talent will always find
a way to some level of success, but it can be prevented from finding its way to
the positions that are deemed strategically important. That's why they hate and
fear Donald Trump. As a rich, playboy developer, he's essentially harmless to
them. As President of the United States of America, not so much.
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