Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone
Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone
What Trump and MAGA Are Up Against in 2024
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What Trump and MAGA Are Up Against in 2024

The Democrats, the FBI and the October Surprise
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This election year promises to be one long “October Surprise” as the newly weaponized legal system, and Department of Justice go to unprecedented and extraordinary lengths not to stop Trump but to damage him enough that one of the least popular presidents in history can be once again dragged over the finish line in November.

It’s so blatantly corrupt it’s hard to believe it’s actually happening. Whether you like Trump as a person or plan to vote for him or not, there should be no question that the damage done to this country and its institutions in the effort to bring down Trump has been far more destructive, divisive, and harmful than a second Trump term ever could ever be.

Some have suggested that the Regime might take the inevitable last step to remove Trump from public life permanently. I don’t think they’ll go that far. Trump is worth more alive than dead.

The Democrats have more power now than they’ve had since before the Civil War. Since then, they haven’t had the opportunity to build the kind of empire they wanted. Thanks to the threat of Trump and the rise of extreme wealth on the Left, that dream is now a reality. They control almost everything. Almost.

The one thing, or person they can’t control is Trump. They can’t control what he says or what he does. No matter how hard they hit him he refuses to stand down. The solution to the Trump problem is the same today as in 2016 - offer the people something better.

Instead, we’ve seen otherwise decent Americans turn into monsters, consumed by hatred, with an unending hunger to watch Trump and MAGA suffer. So it must be a sick burn that Trump is beating Biden in the polls by 4.3 percent as of today:

We’ve already seen what the systematic dehumanization campaign has done to American citizens, smeared as “racists” and “fascists” by the angry mob the Left has become, leading to justified violence against them:

They refused to accept Trump’s win and waged a revolutionary coup to protest his election. Trump’s win ignited riots, violence, and chaos at Trump’s inaugural, with the people chanting “Not My President.”

What’s worrisome is the FBI’s involvement in our elections of late, not just to attempt to frame Trump as a Russian asset in 2016, but to radicalize lost men to present to the American public just before the 2020 election. No one has ever proved the FBI was involved, and they steadfastly deny it. But come on. How stupid do they think we are?

The October Surprise Gone Wrong

The Access Hollywood tape wasn’t supposed to be THE October surprise in 2016. A far more sinister plot was brewing involving Fusion GPS, Carter Page, and a handful of well-placed “journalists” to sell the lie to the American public that Trump was a Russian Asset.

From Lee Smith’s The Permanent Coup:

“Fusion GPS had several big stories lined up. Franklin Foer was on the Alfa Bank story for Slate. David Corn was working with Steele on a big piece about Carter Page for Mother Jones. Steele was also speaking with the Financial Times’s Catherine Belton for a Sergei Millian article. Most important, the New York Times’s Eric Lichtblau and Steven Lee Myers were reporting an article about the FBI’s investigation of Trump.

Taken together, the press reports about Alfa Bank, Millian, and Page; the Bureau’s investigations; and what the FISA warrant was destined to uncover would combine for a powerful explosive force scheduled to detonate at the end of October—the 31st, to be precise, Halloween, eight days before the election. That was the day the earth was supposed to open and swallow the Trump campaign.”

But Crossfire Hurricane came up empty. They obtained the FISA warrant October 21, allowing them to sort through the Trump campaign’s contemporaneous communications as well as any past communications that still existed. They’d been hopeful to find some Russia-related dirt, but they would have settled for anything to frame Trump. They found nothing. And now they were exposed.

Once the FBI drilled a dry hole, they wanted to get out of it as soon as possible,” says Devin Nunes. ‘When the October surprise blew up in their face, they were all in legal jeopardy.’”

To make matters worse, on October 18, the FBI was called out by the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin for special treatment of Hillary Clinton, name-checking James Comey specifically.

Perhaps in response, on October 28, James Comey announced they would be investigating Huma Abedin’s laptop for yet more lost and found Hillary emails.

Not only did Hillary’s October surprise go bust, but now, Trump was the beneficiary of an unintended but effective October surprise, courtesy of the FBI.

The failure of Crossfire Hurricane meant that the Access Hollywood tape was the most damaging dirt they could find on Trump heading into the election.

But now, the FBI was more determined than ever to help stop or thwart Trump’s re-election in 2020. While the Democrats and their “well-funded cabal” were busy rigging the election, the FBI had well-placed informants going fishing online, looking for lost men desperate for some purpose and meaning to their forgotten lives.

The FBI informants would deliver “extremists” just before the election to scare voters to the polls. And here they were, right on time, note the date, October 8 2020:

The Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping would prove a useful dress rehearsal for the same kind of plot that would unfold on January 6th, 2021. It wasn’t an October surprise, but it was another chance to prove to the American public that the people they had to fear the most were their fellow Americans and their MAGA flags.

“A Well-Funded Cabal” and the October Surprise

One of the ways the Democrats would fortify their #resistance heading into 2020 was to anticipate Trump’s planned October Surprise, the Hunter Biden laptop.

There was even a practiced “table top read” with “journalists” from the Washington Post, per Matt Taibbi and the Twitter Files. Pressuring Twitter and Facebook to censor the laptop story was also part of the plan in the weeks heading into the election.

The enormous reach of the Democratic Party was evident when the “experts” were trotted out to lie about the laptop as “Russian disinformation.” Note the date, October 10, 2020:

Even now, none of them have any shame at all about lying to the American public, censoring a legitimate news story just to win an election. They have yet to apologize or walk any of it back.

What is still so shocking about the TIME magazine story of the “well-funded cabal” that supposedly “fortified” the 2020 election, is how certain they were of its outcome. They believed in advance that Trump would accuse them of rigging the election because they knew in advance that Biden would win, because they rigged the election in his favor.

From Molly Ball’s TIME:

On March 3, Podhorzer drafted a three-page confidential memo titled “Threats to the 2020 Election.” “Trump has made it clear that this will not be a fair election, and that he will reject anything but his own re-election as ‘fake’ and rigged,” he wrote. “On Nov. 3, should the media report otherwise, he will use the right-wing information system to establish his narrative and incite his supporters to protest.” The memo laid out four categories of challenges: attacks on voters, attacks on election administration, attacks on Trump’s political opponents and “efforts to reverse the results of the election.”

In effect, they were warning of something that they themselves were about to put into motion. They were saying Trump is going to accuse us of rigging the election to justify their rigging of the election.

They planned all of this in March, COVID had not yet brought the nation to its knees, George Floyd had not yet been murdered and Trump had not yet been giving five rallies a day to make his case to the American public.

They seemed to be coaxing Trump into defying the outcome of the election with their flagrant, last-minute rule changes, the Michael Teter 65 Project threatening and harassing any lawyers who might help Trump fight back. And when Trump and MAGA held their Stop the Steal rally, they were walking into yet another trap, planned long in advance by both the “Well-funded Cabal” and the FBI.

So it kind of makes you wonder why they still left the Capitol unprotected, doesn’t it?

That entire phony effort to “fortify” the election was all just window dressing so they could fix the results by doing the one thing they’ve never been able to do in all of their history: close the enthusiasm gap. If Hillary hadn’t been able to drive voters to the polls, a billion in dark money could simply collect all of the ballots long before Election Day, no matter who was running.

Trump won Iowa, Florida, and Ohio because, by now, his rallies were having an effect. In city after city, statues were coming down, the extremism rising on the Left was too big to ignore. Their only hope was to bank those ballots before voters could change their minds.

And that turned out to be the worst thing that could ever happen to them. In America, you have to win elections the old-fashioned way, by convincing voters to vote for you on your own mandate. Well, Biden was surfing on the fumes of Obama, and by August of 2021, the American people, and countries all over the world, felt duped.

X Marks the Spot

Things might have turned out differently for Biden if not for the Afghanistan exit. Biden’s approvals crashed, revealing for the first time that Biden had no idea what he was doing. Whether it was his age or his arrogance, it led this country into a precarious position globally. Suddenly, we looked unstable, weak, and vulnerable.

There was only so much the press could do to cover for Biden. They didn’t make much of the 13 dead American soldiers, but bodies falling off airplanes was something they couldn’t hide. Biden’s approval rating has never recovered.

Because of that, someone in the Biden administration — maybe Biden himself, maybe his former boss, Barack Obama — had no choice but to go full guns blazing at Donald Trump, who was starting to look like a much better option.

David DePape and the 2022 Midterms

The 2022 election was supposed to be a massive red wave that put MAGA candidates in power. But the truth was, they were walking into yet another trap. The Democrats had spent $60 million to boost MAGA candidates to make them easier to beat.

In October of 2022, either someone in the FBI’s network of informants was about to deliver big for the Democrats once again, or it was just an unhappy accident, the David DePape break-in has all the earmarks of yet another radicalization by a lost man in the dark corners of America.

From the Affidavit with an FBI agent:

DEPAPE explained that he did not leave after Pelosi's call to 9-1-1 because, much like the American founding fathers with the British, he was fighting against tyranny without the option of surrender.

Why would DePape, a Canadian, care about the “founding fathers”? It’s also odd that he somehow knew where to go, that there would be no security detail on the residence, and what door to use to break in? Maybe he figured this all out independently and hatched the plan himself. But he seems to have a lot in common with the would-be Whitmer kidnappers.

The same absurdly elaborate plot. The same delusions of grandeur. The same poverty-level desperation. A disposable man and a useful idiot.

Why are zip-ties always factored into all of these events? Probably because the mere mention of them creates maximum, sustained fear.

Whitmer kidnapping:

Garbin's plea agreement includes new details in the case, including that the alleged ringleader Adam Fox was preparing the basement where he lived for a kidnapping exercise, and planned on using zip ties and a taser to "neutralize" the governor.

January 6:

And David DePape:

The evidence at trial demonstrated that on the night of the assault, DePape used public transportation to travel from the East Bay to San Francisco while carrying two backpacks that contained a hammer, sledgehammer, duct tape, rope, zip ties, and electronic items, among other items.

None of this means there aren’t dangerous people out there who are insane and will do terrible things to innocent people for stupid reasons. We know that’s true on both sides of the aisle. The reason the David DePape case is suspicious, at least to me, is the timing.

Just before the midterms, Bill Maher said, “Vote for the party that won’t hit you over the head with a hammer.” If it was an October Surprise, it was an effective one. The Democrats blunted the Red Wave.

But despite that, they failed once again to stop Trump and MAGA. What they don’t realize is that MAGA is here to stay. Even if Trump wasn’t the nominee, the movement is gaining strength, and they’re in it for the long haul. They love this country too much to leave it to a political party that has assumed power that never belonged to them.

As 2024 marches on, don’t forget that October is coming. Don’t forget the FBI are still working with the Democrats as a make-good for 2016 Don’t forget they are willing to demonize and exploit their own citizens. Don’t forget they could be anywhere.

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Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone
Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone
Essays on politics and culture from Sasha Stone's Substack. A former Democrat and Leftist who escaped the bubble to get to know the other side of the country and to take a more critical look at the left. Sashastone.substack.com