Legacy Media’s Role Creating a False Reality
The more popular candidate is obvious, but will he win?
*This was intended for an article in a late November issue of an outlet for which I’ve been working for, but which I’ve decided to release here prior to the election.
As I write this, I don’t know who is going to win the election; it’s late-October, but what I’m writing doesn’t need the results to be in for it to be true.
I know who should win the election based on any sort of realistic reading of the landscape.
Donald Trump received more votes than any sitting President in American history in 2020.
He lost to Joe Biden in the first mail-in ballot election. Biden has since been deemed incapable of running for a second term.
Now, Kamala Harris is running. She was the political establishment’s original first choice as a presidential candidate during the 2020 race. The only problem was she was such a poor candidate that her race ended in the first week in December of 2019.
Kamala dropped out a day after Montana Governor Steve Bullock who I don’t think I’d heard of until moments before I wrote this sentence.
Candidates who outlasted her were a bunch of other names you’ve already forgotten about: Julian Castro, Michael Bennet, Deval Patrick, and John Delaney. She made it just 31 more days than perennial loser Beto O’Rourke and two more days than Joe Sestak.
Kamala has never earned a vote as the Presidential candidate in either of the last two primaries.
House of Cards always seemed to be based on the Clinton family, but Kamala’s rise to power seems eerily Frank Underwood-esque. One of the most memorable roles of Kevin Spacey’s career.
Underwood’s rise to the Presidency started as just a member of the US House of Representatives for South Carolina’s 5th congressional district, a position he had held since 1990, with the show being set in 2012. At the time, he was the Majority Whip in the House for Democrats in Season 1 before becoming the Vice President and then the President in a Machiavellian tale of political corruption.
To summarize, Spacey’s character befriends Pennsylvania Representative Peter Russo, gets him to quit drinking, helps him surge to the front of the race for Governor of Pennsylvania, then Underwood’s underlings create pressure on Russo to publicly push him off the wagon to ruin his career before murdering him, while making it look like a suicide.
Underwood then convinces the current Vice President Jim Matthews to run for the Pennsylvania Governorship, which he once held. He replaced Matthews in the season one finale.
By the end of season two, Underwood orchestrated President Garrett Walker’s downfall via impeachment for a crime that Underwood himself let whisper out. Underwood then replaced Walker as President.
All of it being part of a personal vendetta that Underwood had against Michael Gill’s depiction of Walker due to Walker passing Underwood over for the position of Secretary of State.
Kamala dropped out of the 2020 primary shortly after Tulsi Gabbard pointed out Kamala’s hard to defend history as a prosecutor in California on the debate stage.
Biden then earned the nomination after an odd series of events in which the candidates who were likely to take votes away from him dropped out and endorsed him just days before Super Tuesday, a major voting day where fifteen states decided on who their choice for the Democratic nominee would be.
This was aimed to take the wind out of Bernie Sanders’ sails again.
Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, and Michael Bloomberg all dropped out and endorsed Biden, while the candidate who could take votes from Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, stayed in. She’d drop out just two days after her role in Super Tuesday was played.
Biden competitor and billionaire Tom Steyer dropped out just before Super Tuesday as well, but he wouldn’t endorse Biden until April, then the Steyer-founded group NextGen America would commit $45 million to Biden’s campaign in May. In July, Steyer would call on Biden to pick a black woman as his running mate.
In March, Biden vowed to select a woman as his running mate. By July, she was also required to be black. Kamala quickly became Biden’s only potential choice, but all done under the cloak of progress.
In 2016, the Wikileaks e-mails illustrated that the Hillary Clinton campaign, the DNC, and their media apparatchik worked in coordination to ensure the right person earned the nomination. That seems like the way business is done.
Kamala seemed like a kind of DEI-hire, but the reality was that she was the candidate most willing to do anything for power.
Biden always had evidence of his being a liability to the country due to his actions on the international political scene, but the media, social media, and intelligence agencies, which all also have international aims and incentives, ran cover for his potentially compromised state. The media ran cover for him on countless occassions. Social media giants censored and throttled information on the Hunter Biden story in October of 2020, while 51 former intelligence officials coordinated with Biden’s campaign to cast doubt on the New York Post story that broke the scandal.
People don’t even need to believe the things this system says are true, they just need to keep enough people confused long enough to accomplish the desired objective. And they don’t need for something to be presumed true for long, just long enough for that objective to be accomplished.
Bret Weinstein has been on Joe Rogan’s podcast in recent months discussing the election in a way that you wouldn’t expect a professorial type to be talking about elections. The big takeaway from the lifelong Democrat’s last appearance in September was that we, as a people who want to see our country succeed and retain it’s basic freedoms, need to show up to vote for Donald Trump in November.
The necessity was specifically in the context of him believing that Trump doesn’t just have to win, Trump has to beat the margin for cheating. His conclusion is that Democrats have a variety of different ways to accumulate votes, none of which include having the better candidate. And the consequences of them “winning” are large considering attempts to attack free speech, gun rights, and the rule of law.
Amid all the chaos of 2020, the opportunities for tomfoolery were pretty obvious. Our first mail in ballot election was clearly a substantial risk to the election’s legitimacy, but also the lack of consistency in the data set that was 2020 compared to any other year. You can’t properly analyze an election when damn near everything about 2020 was different than any other election year.
Democrats pretended that Trump had 50,000 people in a field in the middle of Pennsylvania, but Biden couldn’t fill a backyard was because Democrats are just smarter and didn’t want to run the risk of getting COVID, rather than a lack of support for Biden.
And then we believed the outcome of the election. Lest we want to get sued, of course.
Meanwhile, the current administration is shipping illegal migrants to swing states by the tens of thousands. Enough to swing the scales? At this rate it’s not a matter of if, but when.
There are reports that Michigan has hundreds of thousands of ineligible or dead voters on their rolls and don’t plan to fix that issue prior to the election, but that’s expected. We’ve been hearing about dead people on Michigan’s voter rolls for a decade now.
In 2020, we were supposed to believe that Joe Biden, a career loser, earned the most votes in American history. Like Kamala, his track record as a candidate was atrocious.
The first time Biden ran in 1988, he started his campaign in June 1987 and dropped out by that September amid reports that he had plagiarized a speech by a British politician named Neil Kinnock. This then led to more allegations of plagiarism.
So he took some time off from running for President and continued on his 36-year run in the Senate before taking another shot at the 2008 Democratic nominee.
Biden would drop out on January 3, 2008, after coming in fifth place and capturing less than 1% of the vote in the Iowa caucus. He dropped out the same day as Chris Dodd. Another name that makes you ask “who?”
But by 2020 we were to be convinced that people hated Trump so much that Biden received over 81 million votes to Trump’s 74 million, a record for a sitting President.
This is where legacy corporate media comes in. Their role in the 2020 and 2024 elections has been to cultivate a reality where the public struggles to figure out what’s going on. Their job is to tip the scales in favor of the preferred candidate.
Over the last year, we’ve seen a wild narrative shift from the media in regards to Biden. We were all to be convinced that the rapidly aging man was doing just fine cognitively, but once he was trounced by Trump in an oddly scheduled June presidential debate, and once Trump survived his first public assassination attempt, Biden got COVID and dropped out.
In the time between the debate and Biden dropping out, the media went from denying everything that was obviously going on with his mental and physical health to pushing for his removal. Behind the scenes, top Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi performed what many refer to as a coup.
The more conspiracy minded among us find Biden dropping out via a press release on a Sunday afternoon and taking days to make a public statement as a very odd series of events.
Despite the admittance that he isn’t competent enough to run for President again, he’s still the President because they can’t make Kamala the President now or else she wouldn’t be able to run for two terms as that would break the eight-year limit precedent George Washington set. Not that the people who are running the current established political class care about American political tradition.
The problem in this case is that despite Kamala’s late entry into the race and the media pretending her entry into the race provided some reason for excitement, she is too grossly incompetent for the media to carry her through the finish line. It’s tough to sneakily tip the scales when you’ve got nothing on your side of the scale.
Just recently, we’ve had her get caught using a teleprompter during a Univision Town Hall, which means the questions were pre-selected. In a town hall on October 21st, the host, Maria Shriver, was asked by an audience member if they could ask questions. She replied that the questions were pre-determined.
Her disastrous Fox News interview with Bret Baier caused her to tumble in the betting market Polymarket with the market’s giving her a 37.4% chance of winning by the next morning, which was four points lower than the 41.3% that it rested at when the interview aired.
Meanwhile, Trump has been on a podcast campaign that started with an X Spaces with Elon Musk that 25 million X users had listened to the entire interview from start to finish by noon the next day.
In June, Trump appeared on Impaulsive with Logan Paul, then Comedian Theo Von had him on in August with the UFC’s Dana White being the go-between to get them set up. Shortly thereafter, Austin-resident Lex Fridman had him on. Other prominent appearances in the pop-culture podcast space include the Nelk Boys, Patrick Bet-David, Andrew Schultz’s Flagrant, and Barstool’s Bussin’ With The Boys.
All leading towards a big appearance with Joe Rogan.
Previously, Rogan had said he wouldn’t do an interview with one without an interview with the other, but a day before his appearance with Trump, a Harris spokesperson said she couldn’t talk to the largest media audience in the world because of scheduling.
Meanwhile, Trump’s podcast run has reached a huge voting block of men from 18 to 50 on their favorite platforms to energize his support.
And, he’s never sounded more Presidential. Maybe just because it is in contrast to four years of Biden, but Trump’s messaging and style has never been better.
It all leads to a place where it’s pretty obvious to the average American that there is no real way Kamala could win a fair election, but as you read this, will she have been declared the winner? Will there be any more assassination attempts against Trump in the time between this being written and released?
And what will our country seem to be on November 6th?
Zack Moore is the author of "Mastering the Metal: The Story of James Watson and Eddie Bravo" and "Caponomics: Building Super Bowl Champions." He is a 10th Planet Austin brown belt in Jiu Jitsu.