Society's Leaders Set Out to Crush Donald Trump

Stephen Kershnar

The Commanding Heights Team Up to Crush Trump

Dunkirk-Fredonia Observer

November 1, 2020

 

            I write this before the election has been decided. The commanding heights of American society coordinated to decide the election. Never before have academia, Big Tech, Deep State, Hollywood, legacy media, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street teamed up to choose the president.

            Consider Big Tech companies’ dangerous concentration of power. Big Tech includes Amazon, Facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. There is the conservative notion that a private media company may print what it wants, subject only to defamation-related restrictions. There is also the liberal notion that private media platforms should censor posts. The two positions are consistent. The first addresses whether the media should be free to print what it wants and the second addresses how the media should exercise this freedom. The problem is that Big Tech and financial companies – for example, PayPal - can and sometimes do shut down any effective outlet for conservative sites and, also, try to financially starve them out.

            The problem resulted because Big Tech got into bed with the Deep State and the Democratic Party. Big Tech censored stories on the strongly evidenced claim that the Biden family, including Joe Biden, illegally peddled influence. Consider Hunter Biden’s emails detailing the influence peddling. We have strong evidence that the emails are from Hunter Biden’s computer and real. The evidence includes (1) on-the-record witnesses, (2) Hunter Biden’s signature, (3) the computer-store owner’s statements, (4) other information on the computer, (5) an FBI investigation using the computer, and (6) in-effect concessions. The in-effect concessions are that Hunter Biden’s attorney asked for the computer back and the Bidens never denied that it was Hunter’s computer. The FBI is investigating Hunter Biden for money laundering and has had the computer files for a year. Yet, Big Tech shut down the New York Post’s Twitter site over the story and other people’s attempts to discuss it.

            Spearheading the effort to bury the influence-peddling scandal, more than 50 former senior intelligence officials signed a ridiculous letter that claimed that the story was likely a Russian disinformation campaign. This included intelligence officials such as John Brennan and James Clapper, both of whom should be in prison for lying to Congress and, perhaps also, Russian Hoax felonies. In their letter, they even conceded that, “[W]e do not have evidence of Russian involvement … .” Since then the DOJ, FBI, and Director of National Intelligence announced that this was not Russian disinformation. Despite these announcements, Big Tech and the legacy media companies, except FOX, used the ridiculous letter along with the notion that the emails were stolen to bury the story.

            The hypocrisy is breathtaking. The emails were legally obtained. In addition, no one would have wanted the media to refuse to print Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing, the Pentagon Papers, or leaked documents about the failed Afghanistan war, despite the fact that they were illegally obtained. In any case, the media trumpeted Russia Hoax stories, transcripts of Michael Flynn’s conversations, and Trump’s tax returns without caring a wit about whether the information was illegally obtained.

A similar pattern occurred with regard to discussion of Joe Biden’s more-likely-than-not sexual assault on Tara Reade. The #MeToo movement, like the pig Napoleon, now thinks that some animals are more equal than others. The pattern also occurred when Google shut down almost all traffic to Breitbart’s influential site.

The Deep State moved as slow as molasses in bringing charges against Russia Hoax criminals such as James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Rob Rosenstein from the DOJ and FBI. This occurred despite the fact that the Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, referred some of them for prosecution and that they clearly committed fraud on a FISA court, a serious felony. At this point, it looks as if the vaunted Bob Barr and his sidekick, John Durham, ran out the clock on prosecuting them. The precedent is now set. The Deep State is above the law. The Republican establishment, especially Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, ran away from these issues. By doing so, they allowed the conspiracy, which likely involved Barack Obama and Joe Biden, to be shoved down the memory hole.

The corporate world and associated elites poured money into the Biden campaign. According to CNBC’s Brian Schwartz, Wall Street gave Joe Biden’s campaign roughly five times as much money as it gave to Donald Trump’s campaign. According to Vox’s Theodore Schliefer and Rani Molla, Silicon Valley gave Biden ten times as much money as it gave Trump. According to Inside Higher Education’s Kery Murakami, professors gave seven times as much money to Biden as Trump. For elite professors – such as those from the Ivy League – the number is likely far higher. Hollywood puts all them to shame. In the 2018 election, The Hollywood Reporter found that Hollywood (specifically,  its top executives and entertainers) gave 99.7 % of its donations to Democrats and Democrat-leaning political action committees. In addition, academia, corporate leaders, and Hollywood have been quiet as church mice on Big Tech censorship, Deep State crimes, and elite groupthink.  

            The elites’ support of Biden is mystifying. I doubt they support Joe Biden’s radical policies, such as adding two states (Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia), amnestying tens of millions of illegal aliens, eliminating the electoral college, moving toward open borders, packing the Supreme Court, raising taxes, and socializing medicine and higher education. I doubt they want more and deeper interventionist wars (for example, Syria). It is equally hard to believe that they support ever more race preferences and quotas. By now, they must surely know that the Russia Hoax was a criminal conspiracy, impeachment was a crass political move, and the Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and Defund-the-Police movements are built on lies and reintroduced political violence on a scale not seen in fifty years. Still, the commanding heights of our society teamed up to try to crush Donald Trump. This will not be the last time they take the field.