PUTIN SWEEPS TO VICTORY, MSM PUNDITS HUNT FOR DISTRACTIONS

       The self-appointed 'expert' class of American pundits and academics are dining on crow again this weekend. Beginning two years ago, and up until just recently, the smart boys were assuring us all of the imminent Russian economic collapse and the downfall of President Putin. With the polls nearly closed in Russia, Putin routed his opponents and currently has around 88% of the popular vote (contrary to popular belief, Russia actually does have multi-party elections). The results were no surprise to anyone reading Media outside the influence of the US Corporate Deep State. Polls in Russia were showing Putin's approval ratings at between 81 and 89 percent: higher than both Biden and Trump combined. 

     I'm anticipating listening to Putin's victory speech tonight. Putin is one of the few world politicians who actually talks to, rather than down to, the people and understands the issues. That's why he wins by landslides while the best our candidates can do is to pose as the least objectionable alternative.

    The jackals in the Media are flummoxed by these developments, but not so much because they were exposed as complete fools yet again. The Corporate Media can spin the narrative to the polar opposite of what they promoted only days before, and the public buys into it. In our last presidential 'election' for example, the Media cracked down upon and dismissed anyone who questioned the results only a few days after they were hyping Congressional hearings and producing documentaries about the alleged 'Election Steal' in 2016. The Media's main problem is diverting attention from the Russian Elections in case people start questioning why Putin is so popular and what his Party is doing for Russia that keeps winning elections by wide margins. 

    Thus, the Media this weekend seized up some remarks made by President-in-Exile Trump during a campaign speech in Vandalia, Ohio. Trump referenced a "bloodbath" if Biden were re-elected, and vowed to save the US auto industry from China. 

   “He wants another January 6, but the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge!" proclaimed a spokesxhe for the Junta---as if they wouldn't turn Black Lives Matter and Antifa thugs loose on the public again if Trump wins. Trump's team responded on CNN by saying "Crooked Joe Biden and his campaign are engaging in deceptively out-of-context editing,” which is true, but context deserves some consideration here. 

   The strange context to my mind was Trump's apparent beliefs that American Elections are actually fair; and that America actually still has an auto industry. The Controlled Opposition would prefer us all to forget that previous Republican politicians allowed their corporate masters to sell off the auto manufacturing industry to countries like China. Nearly all auto parts are manufactured abroad and merely assembled here in the US, Canada, and Mexico since Bush, Clinton, and GOP Congresses gave us NAFTA, GATT, fast-tracked China into the WTO, busted unions, and repealed laws that protected American jobs and industries. As an interesting contrast here, but one of Putin's campaign themes was that Russia had become more economically self-reliant after the imposition of sanctions.

   Vandalia, where the speech occurred, has seen its population growth crash since the 1980s, and its population steadily aging. Its major auto component plant, Delphi Automotive, was sold off to German industrial conglomerate Mahle GmbH about a decade ago. Among auto manufacturers still with brand names, Ford motors is owned about 8% by WEF linchpin BlackRock, which also owns about 10% of General Motors. Chrysler is not even owned by Americans any longer. 

    Trump vowed during his speech to bring back manufacturing jobs, although where the skilled workers or needed infrastructure to accomplish this are going to come from hasn't been explained. It seems much like Congress' recent grandstanding about Chinese-made cranes, which was supposed to be about bringing back American jobs but ended up benefiting foreign consortia instead. 

   Talking about rebuilding America's manufacturing base sounds good and plays into the fantasies of the Electorate, but it isn't simply a matter of re-imposing protectionism and hoping that industries will sprout up again out of thin air. 40 years ago, we still had schools producing engineers and managers, a trained workforce, factories and facilities, and a modern industrial and transportation infrastructure. We lost all of things too when the Robber Barons on Wall Street sold industrial workers out and the Media told us how to learn to code.

   It is possible to bring an industrial base back, as Russia has done. But it will take decades of investment and determination which, unlike the Russians, Americans are unwilling to do. The whole point of American politics today is to sell illusions and not disturb the public too much with hard facts---and certainly not to impress upon them the necessity of hard work for the benefit of the Nation as a whole. That's why Russia will continue to triumph on the global stage as world leaders, while we sink further into the clutches of the Corporate Deep State.