Join, or Die News 11/4/24: The New York Times Fails, American Universities Help Out Dems
Tomorrow is THE day.
The election will finally be over! No more phone calls, people knocking on my door, political mailers, text messages, commercials, social media ads, and yard signs! While these things may linger for a few weeks, the day is finally coming.
For the last few years, we have heard about how this is the most crucial election of our lifetime. No election will be MORE consequential. It definitely feels like we put WAY too much stock in the presidency. On August 30, 2024, the Mises Institute published a wonderful article titled “The Presidency Is the Greatest Threat to Our Freedoms.”
The presidency is responsible for many of our national problems. Presidential administrations are given way too much respect and freedom to start wars, spend limitless amounts of money, crush our rights, destroy our country, and scoff at our liberty. Over the last century, the presidency has become a behemoth of great power and destruction. Tyranny is more prevalent than ever.
A fascinating twist on this idea of the presidency is the power we attribute to it. Governing elites are hellbent on making us respect the office as the greatest possible governing branch on earth. We refer to the president as “the leader of the free world” or the “leader of democracy.” Now, with Trump possibly inhabiting the White House again, we hear about his ability to crush Democracy and wipe away your freedom. They’re admitting that the presidency has way too much power.
If Trump could do these things, then the presidency would have superseded its original intended purpose. In case you have forgotten, this country was founded as a rejection of monarchy, empire, and tyranny. Yet somehow, we have slowly turned our presidential office into just that—a monarchy. The president is now a monarch, capable of great tyranny. Yet, our system desperately needs to protect the empire.
I don’t buy into the idea that Trump is a threat to Democracy. I also don’t believe he will accomplish much of anything. When it comes to politics, a president doing nothing is better than a president doing something. If Trump gets elected and is kept from accomplishing anything, that is better than Kamala coming in and doing a single thing she set out to do.
Regardless of what happens tomorrow, November 5, 2024, we need to start checking the state's power. The bureaucracy rides on the coattails of the presidency. The administrative state is desperate to keep the survival structure intact, and whichever candidate seems likely to slash pieces off the blob is the “threat to democracy,” just not actual “democracy.” Their version of democracy is the establishment system they have used to rule us for decades, draining us of our resources and forcing the world into a state of perpetual conflict.
There is nothing existential about this particular election. This country faces an existential threat through a progressivist state that aims to centralize power and keep the establishment together. The future points toward an eventual collapse of either America or the blob. Who will come first? It depends on who can actually stand up to the blob.
📰📰News & Commentary 11/4/24
🖐🖐With the election just one day away, I need to admit something. I am so burned out when talking, thinking, and writing about the election. It’s not all that interesting to me. The purpose of Join, or Die isn’t just talk politics. The purpose is to expose the idiocy behind political messaging, show the lies, and use rationality and facts to find the truth. This publication exists to show how the establishment government has been so costly to the American people, failing at everything, spending endless piles of money, and ruining our future. I do cover election news stories, but mainly as a way to show the lunacy surrounding politics. This is because calling the media out is another major reason I write this. The corporate media has done a despicable job, simply carrying water for the establishment and dividing Americans while doling out a burning pile of propaganda.
Those are some major things I am aiming for here. I want to work on building a community of people who can help spread the message of common sense while breaking away from partisan politics. There should be a community of people willing to help each other out in online discussions, life endeavors, and any other issues related to my main concerns.
I will cover some election stuff, but aside from Trump and Kamala, there are some very interesting stories running around with more crucial effects on the United States.
📰📰 While The New York Times tried to force YouTube’s authoritarian hand, they failed.
Last week, Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro shared screenshots of text messages from New York Times writer Nico Grant. Grant warned Tucker and Shapiro on the eve of publication that they were the targets of a story about “election misinformation.” Grant had teamed up with left-wing watchdog group Media Matters to try to pressure YouTube into censoring conservatives.
Carlson received a text claiming he had posted 286 videos containing “election misinformation.” Carlson, respectfully told the texter to “f*** off,” after asking him how he lived with himself. “
The article targeted prominent conservatives like Tim Pool, Michael Knowles, Ben Shapiro, Steve Deace, and Tucker Carlson. The writer was investigating the number of times YouTube demonetized conservatives for “election misinformation.”
Election misinformation, of course, means questioning the integrity of Democrat victories. It wouldn’t be misinformation if Hillary Clinton was making videos claiming Putin stole the 2016 election for Trump or Stacey Abrams claiming her gubernatorial loss was due to theft.
Misinformation is anything that sews doubt surrounding the excellence of our government. For years now, there is nothing more heinous than conservatives questioning election results. It threatens the very fabric of our precious democracy. It makes sense that Democrats can do it, though. They are the authoritative voices in the room. They’re so bright and educated they could never be wrong about anything. Unlike their hillbilly, mush-brained, conspiracy-theorist counterparts, Democrats only question election results when there are actual things to question. Conservatives do it to topple democracy.
When the article came out, the Democrat readers of the papers held their collective breath, waiting for the mass destruction of conservative YouTube accounts. Instead, they were met by a soul-crushing statement from a YouTube spokeswoman:
Source: Revolver News
How can it be? How can YouTube let these soothsayers of fascism get by with their narratives? YouTube must want us to lose everything!
While I appreciate the sentiment from YouTube, this is certainly a necessity to save face. Everyone knows YouTube censors the crap out of conservatives. I started a channel about a month ago, it started at 30 views or so per post, to dead zero. Now, listen, I know that’s nothing, but we’re talking about weeks of work, not years. Many conservative commentators are blocked from notifications and other things. YouTube often shuts off discovery for dissidents.
A huge problem arose over the week when Joe Rogan’s Trump interview disappeared from YouTube. The nearly ten-day-old video has almost 45 million views. It would be a money maker for YouTube, but they despise Trump (and probably Rogan) so much that they shadowbanned it….until they were called out. Once outrage became deafening, Trump’s Rogan appearance was opened up again. Rogan was expedient, releasing it on X a second time, now at 20 million views.
Trump’s interview was terrifying for the Democrats because this fascist came across as normal. People were seeing him during a 3-hour interview and not during cut-up media clips taken out of context. YouTube certainly seemed beholden to government censors when they took the video down, and if they had acted on The New York Times article, it would have been very blatant.
While leftists who can’t handle the conservative voices may cry, the push for free speech has become louder. This growing outrage over censorship, especially after the pandemic regime’s crackdown, has put social media in a pinch. Elon Musk’s purchase of X changed the conversation, along with Rumble’s rise as a free speech platform. Censorship only works when social media users are forced under it, thus forcing censors to implant themselves into already successful platforms. Mark Zuckerberg created Threads as a pro-censorship Twitter, and it never caught on because that’s not enticing. It’s only interesting to leftists who want to live in their own echo chamber, but that doesn’t pay the bills.
As Revolver News wrote, the dispersion of the Twitter Files, along with Musk’s X purchase, coupled with the decline of censorship-pushing think tanks, created a move in the right direction. Hopefully, that signals a bright future, but I doubt YouTube is really going to promote differing viewpoints before the election. At least they’re not giving in to the media.
Now, as a side note, this NYT article is just one of many desperate spray-and-pray publications the corporate media has been putting out in the last few weeks. Add this to the list of things like Trump praising Nazis, Trump assaulting a woman thirty years ago, Elon dealing with Putin, and other things. If Kamala were the homerun candidate they pretend she is, they wouldn’t be doing this. Conservatives on YouTube are popular right now. Even moderates like Rogan are more popular than corporate media. That is a problem. They need to control the narrative now, but it’s too late. They should have picked a better candidate.
📰📰 American universities are all aboard the Kamala train.
According to The College Fix, universities are quick to hand over “reams” of student data to a third-party data company. Over 1,200 college campuses take part in the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement, which allows campuses to fork over student data. According to The College Fix, the data is supposed to be redacted to black out student identifiers, but it’s unlikely this will happen.
The Harris-Walz campaign recently received student information and used it to garner votes in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia. These are obviously swing states. Colleges did tell the publication that the information was open for anyone who asks. Sure.
The College Fix stated that Biden’s administration told universities to hire student activists to register kids to vote and work at polling places. What could go wrong? This entire operation is just another tier in the grand ballot harvesting scheme used by Dems over the last few elections.
As a college student, you may get fun texts like this:
From The College Fix via X/Twitter
Apparently, the key to winning hearts is to bring college students out to see an actress who was big when they were in 1st grade. I wonder if Chad Michael Murray will make an appearance. I guess she was on that show Chicago P.D. I’m not going to lie; I had to check out her Wikipedia page. I doubt college students watch a lot of network television, but I digress.
Colleges have long been strongholds of progressive leftist proselytizing. Don’t bring that up to lefties, though; you’ll be a conspiracy theorist who believes in that old conservative gobbledygook. I’m sure if Trump’s team walked in and asked for college student emails and phone numbers, they’d toss it right over. With this being “the most consequential election in history” and an election “to save precious democracy,” I’m sure privacy laws matter to colleges.
When a candidate is open about slashing the Federal Department of Education, I’m sure the colleges don’t care, right? The federally backed student loan is the lifeblood of colleges in the 21st century. It’s how they get away with charging exponentially more from decade to decade. The quality of the education doesn’t matter. It’s all about the benjamins. This is why Biden tried to “cancel” student loan debt. He didn’t try to push for a better quality education, lower prices, or the end of the federal loan program. Instead, he just tried to “cancel” loan debt and keep the progressivist training centers open.
To bring this story home, there needs to be a serious talk about farming out data. I’m sure it’s far too late, but this election cycle has been ridiculous. Dating back to one week out from the election, I received over one hundred and twenty political texts, over eighty political mailers, phone calls, and emails. I don’t need fifty of the same political mailers to understand your point. Election campaigns are insanely expensive. No wonder. I can’t fathom the cost of mailing those stupid things out. They’re on expensive card stock, slathered in ink, and require some expensive copywriter to piece it together. Then you mail it to every person in your state over one hundred times. It seems excessive.
Preying on college kids for an easy vote is just reckless. It is not your duty to vote. It is a privilege. It is also your duty to be informed if you are going to vote. Peer-pressuring kids into voting for Democrats proves there’s no larger plan to fix the country. It’s all about getting elected and nothing else. If you can’t sell them on your actual solutions, then that's too bad.
📰📰Clowns on MSNBC Morning Joe compare Kamala Harris to Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan.
Joe Scarborough experienced pure ecstasy when Jon Meacham compared Kamala’s campaign to Thomas Jefferson’s in 1800. He later claimed she fell into a lineup of revered presidents: Teddy Roosevelt, Lincoln, FDR, and Ronald Reagan.
Meacham made some statements about “building up the possibilities of politics.” If you’re not doing that, it’s about “power.”
I have read some of Meacham’s books, so I won’t dog on him too hard. I am going to go after this message overall.
First off, Kamala Harris is nothing compared to ANY of those presidents. Kamala Harris’ candidacy came of desperation, not divine providence. Her campaign conveys nothing of the “spirit of ‘76.” Harris is a big government progressive who runs counter to everything Thomas Jefferson would have stood for. Jefferson famously had it out for big government types and struggled to grasp what America had become by the turn of the century.
She is more akin to Teddy Roosevelt and FDR, who pushed progressivism and expanded government overreach. Their era continues to this day in growing statism, centralized control, and bureaucracy. Claiming she’s like Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and FDR is a contradiction in itself.
Kamala Harris doesn’t have the idealism that possessed both Roosevelts, Lincoln, or Reagan. She has no grand idea for the “promise of politics.” She is a useful cog, an unimpressive one at that. Acting as though she presides over this crucial historical moment just proves the disconnect between the media-politician-complex and reality.
Meacham made grand overtures during Biden’s campaign, claiming that “history will be our judge.” If history judges America based on that presidential choice, then history should slap us all upside down. His statement that we “build bridges, not walls” in discussing Biden’s campaign against Trump was empty. Nobody epically burned bridges quite like Biden, who destroyed American civility and its place on the global stage.
Kamala’s entire campaign has been grandstanding about how she’s the candidate “of democracy” and Trump is a “fascist, racist, sexist, felon, Hitler,…..” and whatever else they could drum up. Her policies have been nonexistent aside from a few taken from Trump and vague platitudes about an “opportunity economy.” If she wins, it will be on the back of a massive propaganda campaign. If she loses her days as a major political candidate, they are over as the party moves on.
On this idea of “building up the possibilities of politics,” there is NOTHING in the American foundational spirit that points to this sentiment. The idea of America was to avoid politics and have normal citizens run the country. Not the current elite political class.
“Possibilities of politics” should terrify you. Politicians rarely benefit their constituents, ever. Politicians and government officials are incredibly efficient at ruining everything they touch. Claiming that Harris is about “possibilities” and not power is a flat-out lie. She is second-in-command of a presidency that oversaw a mass censorship campaign and weaponization of the Justice Department and rode along on the shoulders of the media’s propaganda to demonize half the country.
The possibilities of politics have led us to this moment, where Donald Trump represents a total rejection of political ruin. Politicians have laid waste to the idea of America, and it wasn’t in the push for possibilities. It’s been done in the name of power.
The current Democratic Party has nothing to offer aside from “saving Democracy.” This is an empty statement. They can’t run on their successes or grand ideas. They know their ideas aren’t able to solve any of our problems. If you know, you can’t fix anything but will do anything to retain office, that is a fight for POWER.
These are just typical sentiments from the disintegrating political mindset dating back to Obama. People are less likely to buy into this mythological idea of past presidents. They don’t buy into this playacting in which media pundits convey with desperate emotion that they care about saving America. Those days are over. They have blown their shot at having public trust. They did it to themselves.
🔗🔗Quick Links & Some Short Commentary:
In typical establishment-politician fashion, Obama claimed Trump called white supremacists “very fine people.” This has only been debunked dozens of times. When you have to lie to egregiously and do it so regularly, it exposes desperation.
Oddly enough, D.C. has been rigged up for potential riots. Both D.C. and Palm Beach, Florida, are being prepped to stave off violent mobs. D.C. is a city jammed full of Democrats, so I’m not sure what the barricades and measures are for. Something tells me that Trump supporters are the least likely of the bunch to become a violent mob. Oh wait, yep, January 6. That’s it. In all seriousness, it seems like the group that’s been told all their freedoms and Democracy are on the line is more likely to push back. (https://thepostmillennial.com/washington-dc-braces-for-election-day-violence-erects-fencing-around-kamalas-house-boards-up-businesses)
Consulting agency Lexipol is one of the “support” leaders for law enforcement agencies. The organization curates policy, training, and wellness support for law enforcement and first responders. Reclaim the Net has published an article showcasing Lexipol’s push for American enforcement agencies to create mis-/disinformation units.
Democrats spent over $2 billion in their election efforts against Donald Trump. It seems quite a waste of money, as it’s hard to believe many Americans haven’t decided yet. Except, of course, those who heard an offensive joke were waiting until THAT moment to change their vote.
Senator JD Vance’s position promotes a more “right-leaning” ideological capture of Big Tech, media, and government. The problem with Vance’s position is it will only increase government regulation, which is already stifling productivity and innovation.
Want to see what the Biden Administration blew our money on? Check it out here!
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