[The following is an excerpt from an article by Kit Knightly (emphasis added is mine - full article is at the link at the bottom) that pretty much sums up how I, and many others like me, feel about the new Trump administration. There's a lot of us out there thinking this stuff apparently. I sure hope we're all wrong . . . SC]

By Kit Knightly - November 7, 2024

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. . . 2016 at least had the appearance of a genuine moment. Our astonishment at least was real. But in 2024 even that much reality has gone. And it feels like everyone knows it.

Remakes are never as good as the original. Cashgrabs banking nostalgia bucks. Soul vs soulless.

The Democrats and Kamala-stans are squawking brainwashed nonsense all over social media – racism this, misogyny that – but it feels like motions being gone through. Parts being performed. The wounds are neither as deep nor as vital as they were in 2016.

The outrage is forced. Even the enthusiasm from pro-Trumpers isn’t the same.

Clinton was a dragon that needed slaying; decades at the top of the pyramid had furnished her influence and cult-like loyalty, mirrored by those many accumulated resentments which fuelled the fireworks when she lost.

Harris had neither the pros nor cons of that legacy. She was never Clinton, and she’s neither of the Obamas, though they tried, at times, to paint her as each. She has no weight or presence and those followers she was gifted would follow anything that moved.

We’ve also had four years of Trump already.

Four years in which he not only spectacularly failed to “drain the swamp”, but also went right along with the Covid psyop and the vaccine rollouts and the lockdowns. All of it.

Then there is the massive reality of “covid” itself, and everything it taught us about the nature of power. I have said it many times, but that display of common purpose among what, for want of a better word, we call “the elites” drove huge numbers of people out of the mainstream and into the fringes.

Everyone on every “side” of the political divide might want to pretend this is Hillary all over again. That 2024 is just like 2016, but too many of us remember what they spent the last four years telling us. The “divisions” are a lie, the “disagreements” veneer deep.

Even if we want to get back inside Frank Zappa’s theatre and pretend we can’t see the brick walls (and it could be argued a Trump victory is an attempt to win us back), none of us can really forget the lesson we learned.

Faith and trust are fine china, much easier to break than repair.

Getting back inside the Matrix is much harder than getting out.

We also had the “election” of 2020 which was so blatantly and obviously stolen that it calls all other elections into question, forever. Trump even being allowed to run this time was a sign he was part of a constructed narrative, his “victory” doubly so.

His supporters might claim that Covid confusion made the 2020 election an exception and therefore easier to manipulate than others before or since. The rallying cry on social media is that this time The Donald’s victory was “too big to rig”.

But that rings hollow. Like an attempted excuse no one really believes.

The fact of the matter is Trump was either allowed to win, or made to win, and either way, it’s just further evidence he’s yet another compromised puppet.

The reality is just that simple.

The 2024 election was a contrived event putting a puppet into office to serve a Deep State agenda. Just like 2020 or 2012 or 2000 or…all of them really, back to at least 1964.

The real winner of the election is The Deep State. There was never anyone else on the ballot.