@KateScopelliti recently posted this image. I've been thinking about it ever since. How we got here is no mystery, but its dynamics are important. We are at a decision moment.
2) We know that a massive landslide reelection occurred. We know that the candidate who lost is in the Oval Office. Everyone acts like this is reality. And, as most will maintain, since perception is reality, it's real. I couldn't disagree more strongly.
3) That Job Biden is POTUS is no different than saying the sky is green, not blue. It is just a facade. It is the image of falsehood as if it were true. I'll never forget, there we were watching the returns come in and FOX News gave Biden Arizona. That was the end for us.
4) From that day, 3 November until 20 January, I commented on the election every day. There was no other story for me. And, from that day @KateScopelliti and I have never watched FOX News again. Or any news for that matter.
5) We tried. We tried to watch OAN and Newsmax. Nope. They referred to Biden as POTUS and my head exploded. It's just a facade. Falsehood as if it were truth. Good morning, good afternoon, and good night. The Truman show is about a true man. It's all false.
6) In 2016, when I came out for Trump on social media, I lost half my business. From 2017 - 2020 I redesigned my business to incorporate politics, all my prospects were introduced to my pro-Trump positions. It worked, successfully. 2020 was my best year ever.
7) And then came 2020. I am redesigning my business again. My anchor clients, those who made it through 2016 with me, are no longer able to allow me to be pro-Trump. It appears - I hope I'm wrong - that my clients have to do more than know where I stand. They must also agree.
8) But what does "agree" mean? It means that they must not only agree that Trump was a good POTUS. They must agree that we should - as businessmen - discuss this in social media. We must state where we stand, boldly, publicly. Count the agreements required.
9) Here they are:
1) Trump is Good, NOT Bad. 2) He won reelection and did not lose. 3) Biden is Bad, NOT Good. 4) Business and Politics MUST be integrated. 5) Social media is good. 6) Even businessmen MUST express their political position publicly.
10) That's a hell of a lot of agreement. Follow that out. Agreement has NEVER before been part of my contract. I am ALWAYS allowed to disagree with my clients, and they are ALWAYS allowed to disagree with me. None of us knows that we're right.
11) But now, suddenly, since November 2020, disagreement is no longer allowed. Did I say disagreement? My anchor clients that are leaving often actually agree with me...in private. No, it is PUBLIC AGREEMENT that matters. Agreement with...the facade.
12) In 2018 my wife and I published a book on politics. My anchor clients that are now, in 2021 leaving, have told me clearly that our book is a major reason why they can't work with me anymore. Imagine that.
13) Forget me. Whatever the business climate is, is what it is. The facade we face has an ultimate landing spot. It is our Constitution. That is, we no longer live by its dictates or freedoms, its constraints on government. The fiction that we are free is a facade. We are not.
14) As long as I live I'll never forget the moment our world shifted. Antonin Scalia had no autopsy. He was executed. Assassinated. And he had no autopsy which would obviously have revealed that he was assassinated. His death was also our Constitution's death.
15) I should have stopped watching FOX at that point. They allowed his death to occur without an autopsy. Think about that. That was the only story of the day. No other story mattered. I was so shocked, however, I had no ability to rip the facade off and demand the truth.
16) We'd often watch FOX news from The Five, at 5:00, all the way through Hannity ending at 10:00. Think about that. That's 5 hours of a given evening. Think about that. Many weeks that was 25 hours of viewing time we invested. 25 hours.
17) Who remembers Bill O'Reilly? For 16 years, his was the number 1 show on cable news. On nights we didn't spend 5 hours watching, we'd always watch Bill. We should have stopped watching FOX when they took Bill down. The facade revealed itself.
18) I forgive myself. I didn't know it was all a facade. I didn't know until 3 November 2020. Then I knew. Then I stopped watching. But we're not done. That is, the facade itself is now the story. We have a false POTUS. I still haven't come to terms with that. Have you?
19) We absolutely saw it happen. A man who says you have 6 hours to comply, in Ukraine, on video, becomes POTUS. A man who does not campaign to become POTUS, becomes POTUS. We saw it happen. A man with dementia becomes POTUS.
20) Trump has a perfect call with Ukraine, and is impeached. We saw it. Biden's son flies around on Airforce 1, gets $1.5 billion from China, no problem. We saw it. That is the facade. SCOTUS and Mitch's Senate have no problem with the election theft. We saw it.
21) We face the destruction of the greatest nation in earth's history, the force of true freedom taken down. No nation on earth could defeat us with armies. So, they had to employ corruption from within. We saw this.
22) The question is, what do we do now? And the answers is...DISBELIEVE.
In 1937, Napoleon Hill published "Think And Grow Rich." It's most fundamental premise is that: Thoughts Are Things.
I say, disbelief matters. Do you follow?
23) Do not believe that Biden won. He did not. Do not believe that he is a rightful POTUS. He is not. Trump is the rightful POTUS. There is no 46. Don't believe any story in the news that fails to start out from that rightful premise. Biden is NOT POTUS. He is "acting" POTUS.
24) You cannot defeat America with the truth. You can only defeat America with lies, and lies that are accepted by Americans. No nation has the power to take America down...OTHER...than America. An America that tolerates lies over truth can be taken down by America.
25) How many "Republicans" are Swamp members? How many SCOTUS Justices are Swamp members? How many White House employees, under Trump, were Swamp members? How many state houses and governors are Swamp members? How much of the media are Swamp voices?
26) How many teachers, our children's teachers, are Swmap members, Swamp voices? How many schools that we send our children to are Swamp institutions?
27) We must face that fact that the curtain is falling upon America. The lights are shutting down. The ushers are arriving, and sweeping out the popcorn. The great American show is ending. You are ushered out.
28) We know that freedom is not free. The question is, are you willing to pay freedom's price? I am. I do not brag. I am just rebellious. As my anchor clients demand I be less politically incorrect, I grow more so. I'm just an idiot, a business/political idiot.
29) Do I hurt? Does my family suffer? Yes. Will there be consequences? Of course yes, there already are. Who remembers Valley Forge? Who remembers American patriots with bare feet in the snow? That is sacrifice. That is the price of freedom. We're not barefoot...yet.
30) How about you? What price are you willing to pay to tear down the facade? Biden is NOT POTUS, in reality. He is ONLY POTUS behind the facade. I say this. Simply judge every news story by that fact. Acknowledged? Cool. Not acknowledged? Malarkey.
The last time Frank and I met was for a brief conversation at the San Jose International Airport. He'd called to let me know he was coming and to meet him there. As he had my last payment for the Jaguar, he obviously knew I'd show up.
2) "Look, kid, I've done a few deals like this in my life, where I cared as much about the other guy as I did for myself, and I always regretted it. I'll beat myself up for this later, but this time, I know I won't regret helping you out. Here's your check.
3) "You're a bright person, and I'm sure you already know I see a lot of myself in you, too much, actually. I could, and should, have had your car at half the price I'm paying you for it. That's my weakness. I thought I was over it, and maybe this is the last time. Ha!
Hello Patriots, there's a new voice rising. If you haven't followed @KateScopelliti yet, what a treat you're in for! Her daily Quote Retweets, in which she hits us with pithy, hard-hitting, flat out truth, so very well written. I'll tell you just a bit more about her...
2) #FollowKate - Ever since we met, and she allowed me to steal her heart in 1981, she's been guiding me to the truth. She's the most unflinching, uncompromising left & truth analyst I've ever known, bar none. Out of infinite debates and squabbles, I might have almost won 1 or 2.
3) #FollowKate - It's more than just warrior fierce truth hunt. @KateScopelliti finds every subtle nuance that opens up the bigger picture. Kate is a natural born artist, and it shows up in everything she does. Perhaps, though, nowhere more so than in her editing and writing.
As stated before, America is as much a geopolitical creation as it is a nation of freedom for individuals and Constitutional limits on the power of government. What a gamble our founding fathers took.
2) They bet their fortunes, sacred honor, and their very lives on the hope that 13 colonies might all separate from the parent nation and forge together a union that could stave off all attack from the forces gathered against it, globally.
3) Something we forget is that the people who lived here before us were NATIONS. No, they didn't have the same structure we think of in modern terms as defining a nation. But, they were fierce, mighty, skilled at war, and brilliant at alliance building for military victory.
1) Entertain and Inform 2) Risk/Reward 3) Limit but SELL the Risk 4) Qualify 5) Always Show Up 6) Work Your Numbers
2) I imagine you know the word "holistic," and also that it's related to seeing things as a whole, not just as a clump of parts. But I also bet you don't know the power of that in selling. I certainly didn't, when I get started and overcame the other hurdles at ITG.
3) Our investors really were that, investors. They all had portfolios and earned interest on their investments. Something that amazed me was that in all the hundreds and hundreds of prospects I spoke with, not one had any idea what their rate of return was on the whole.
Having overcome the demons of rudeness by becoming a Courtesy Cop, what were the sales lessons I learned at ITG? Too many to list accurately, I'll identify the smallest number of key lessons.
2) Key Lessons Learned At ITG. Here are just six, but no promises I might not find more...
1) Entertain and Inform 2) Risk/Reward 3) Limit but SELL the Risk 4) Qualify 5) Always Show Up 6) Work Your Numbers
3) What is a commodity? Oil? Gold? Coffee? Corn? Pork bellies (which bacon comes from)? Oh by all means yes, and so many more. A commodity is so much more. It is a contract placed upon future production. That's a Future. It is so much more. What is an option? It is derivative.
The so terribly sad, horrible answer is yes. Until now, I have refused to call him President Biden. I will NEVER call him 46. I hold onto that. But, I'm wrong about it. Biden is the 46th POTUS in spite of my denial.
2) Who remembers the phenomenal mini-series, or the book it was based upon, Shogun? There's an incredible scene between Toranaga and Blackthorne, where Toranaga states that there is no justification for rebellion. Unless it wins, Blackthorne qualifies.
3) Toranaga acquiesces. Yes. That would be the one exception. The theory I'm about to offer has only two facts. Here they are:
1) January 20 Trump turns over the keys to the White House.
2) In a recent video about Afghanistan Trump uses the phrase: "If I were the President."