Fear Can Be a Powerful Motivator

If Covid taught me anything at all, it was to be very wary of scaremongers driving fear through unsubstantiated claims. The mainstream media were funded to censor the truth, but keeping social media on a short leash these days is not so easy. 

If you rely on MSM for your daily news, chances are you’re a willing propaganda participant unless you diligently fact check. The solution is to avoid MSM and use reliable news sources who aren’t paid to propagandise or personally motivated by journalists swinging a political axe. 

Terrified people don’t fact check; in fact they’re incapable of rational thought because stupidity is the domain of people scared witless. You’ll still see them masked up when driving their car or wandering around public spaces or queuing up for the latest shot they firmly believe will prevent them catching ’flu and the latest Covid variant. 

I did not comply with any of the Covid rules, including masking, despite supermarket security threatening to refuse entry. They backed down after polite discussion and not because I used a mask exemption. I refused the Covid vaccines and ignored social distancing, too, including the edict not to talk to my neighbours. How cruel was that? I didn’t catch it either, despite mingling with people sick or Covid positive. Not caring was liberating, to say the least!

We Covid resisters are equipped for the inevitable waves of propaganda, not to mention intolerant of the bull excrement the propaganda comes packaged with. We’re feisty now, with highly developed backbones we’re not afraid to use, thanks to the megalomaniacs who drove the Covid fiasco and demonstrated their lies won’t survive close scrutiny. 

We don’t watch the mind-numbing six o’clock news or any other political panel unless to analyse a topic of interest. We are free from our parents’ legacy of watching the TV news every day; back then media was more reliable. They also read the printed newspapers, which is unthinkable in our digital age. A generalisation, for sure, but the fact that MSM gets it so wrong today indicates just how far they have fallen. 

Censorship is an effective political strategy, but social media gives dictators a huge headache. In the US, the hole in government censorship is thanks to Musk. 

During Covid, MSM and social media were highly censored. It wasn’t until 2022, when Musk bought Twitter to create a platform largely free from government and lobbying censorship, that free speech returned.

The US leading up to the election indicates the Democrats have a problem censoring social media. 

 After billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, he sent in loyalists, including ex-boring company exec Steve Davis and cousin James Musk, to “examine whether existing employees were value for money,” according to a report by the Telegraph. He soon slashed 6,000 workers, or 80 per cent of then-Twitter, now X, in a move that shocked the industry.

The report said that employees were asked to justify their roles and state which colleagues should be retained. The diversity and inclusion departments and product and design teams suffered the most. Even Twitter’s content moderation team was reduced.” 

Critics said X would not survive but so far so good, and some Silicon Valley companies followed suit to reject censorship and abandon DEI employment quotas. 

Musk’s “radical downsizing” of the Silicon Valley tech major's workforce was met with forecasts of tough times ahead. With whole teams lopped off, some key personnel fired overnight, new “free speech” policies that saw suspended accounts reinstated (i.e., Donald Trump), and warning of “hardcore, high intensity” work hours for retained staff, many had written off Musk-led X.

But, despite user complaints of increased hate speech, white supremacy conspiracies gaining footing on the platform, and lags and problems with functionality, the app has endured nonetheless.

Live Mint June 2024 

Purchasing Twitter was not a good financial decision for Elon Musk or his investors, with Musk admitting the $44B they paid was an inflated purchase price. X hasn’t shown a return to its investors since. Perhaps they’re not in it for the money. 

Asset managers at Fidelity’s Blue Chip Growth Fund say the value of its investment into X has fallen by 78.7 per cent as of the end of August. The fund invested $19.66 million in the social media company in October 2022. By July of this year, it said its investment was worth $5.5 million. By the end of August, it valued the investment at $4.19 million, according to recent disclosures.

Straight Arrow News 1 October 2024 

Musk’s financial backers were:

~ Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talal al Saud who converted his $2B shares in Twitter into a stake in X.

~ Oracle founder Larry Ellison $1B;

~ Tech investor Jack Dorsey $1B;

~ Investment firm Sequoia Capital $800M;

~ Cryptocurrency exchange BiFinance $500M;

~ Silicon Valley venture founder Andreessen Horowitz $400M;

~ The Qatar Investment Authority $275M. 

Aside from the salient fact that both Musk and Trump would be financially better off had they not gone into politics, the common denominator uniting Team Trump is the state America is in today compared to how well it was functioning when Trump left office. 

Team Trump stands for the restoration of Americans’ civil liberties, including free speech, and rebuilding and future proofing the American infrastructure, including energy independence. 

The last three-and-a-half years saw an estimated 20–25 million illegals enter the US; crime has risen, farmers are being squeezed out of production, more people are homeless and cost of living increases affect everyone. 

Government departments such as FEMA are bereft of funding to help Americans recover from the devastation of Hurricane Helene. 

“The only question is when (not if) enough migrants can vote to flip all swing states, shifting the whole country to permanent one-party rule, just like what happened to California after the 1986 amnesty. Diabolically smart tbh.” he added.

“That’s why I keep saying that, unless Trump wins and reverses this scam, 2024 is the last election in America. The Dem machine’s voter-importation scam is the true threat to democracy, not Trump!” Elon Musk said in a post.

Musk’s made the remarks alongside sharing a snipped of data, highlighting staggering increases in illegal immigrant populations across several key swing states since 2021: 401% in Georgia, 446% in North Carolina, 241% in Pennsylvania, 734% in Arizona, 562% in Nevada, 775% in Michigan, and 467% in Wisconsin. This surge, he argues, is part of a larger strategy that poses a “true threat to democracy,” similar to the concerns often raised by former President Donald Trump.

Elon Musk to the Times of India October 2024 

When Donald Trump was president he protected American-made industry by charging tariffs on imports, making America energy self-sufficient and working with other countries to prevent outbreaks of war. Since he left, his good work has been destroyed by three-and-a-half years of corruption, incompetence and escalating war across several fronts. 

Using fear to force compliance by unsubstantiated science is evil, but the upside of fear is that it can be used for good. 

Fear generated by genuine threats to the American people are powerful motivators for change, which is exactly why Trump enjoys bipartisan support. 

Americans, fearful of what the Biden/Harris administration has already done and will do if they get another term in office, will vote for change. 

Whether Team Trump achieves their goal depends on two things: the level of Trump support where public awareness of the facts is crucial; and a fair election free from political interference. Fighting the government and MSM is asking a lot.