Mark Gober, Great Reset, Right Action |581|

[Robbedigital]

I guess it'll probably take a while for a massive change to be visible, such as the dissolution of NATO, the U.S. dollar losing its standing as the reserve currency, Hollywood becoming a bygone scene, and large numbers of Western individuals seeking freedom elsewhere...

After all, the psychopathic oligarchs controlling the West still have a lot of momentum and things haven't become obvious enough yet.

But eventually I see all these things happening, even within the next 10 or 20 years

Time for a fun hypothetical game, if you want to play.

Going with the assumption that
1. Russia knows that some puppeteer is pulling the strings of Ukraine, and it’s likely the US.
2. Russia knows that some puppeteer is pulling the strings of the US and it’s likely the Banking Cabal.
3. Surely Russia would know if (or, for all we common folk know) there may be some unnamed/off-grid family or corp pulling the strings of the Banking Cabal or whomever it is pulling the US’ strings. A faceless puppeteer of the puppeteer of the puppeteer, per se.

Does Russia know who’s highest puppeteer?
If so, Why do they attack the Puppet?

 

[Andrew Paquette]

I know this isn't really the main point of the thread but I think the question of how/why people are "brainwashed" is an important one and the idea that people can be innoculated via formal education is simply not true. These concepts (confirmation bias, logical fallacy, etc.) are in fact already built into the curriculum of our major brainwashing facilities (ie. universities) where the "educated" have no difficulty whatsoever in perverting those concepts to bolster irrational arguments.

At the same time, the uneducated deplorables seem to posses an innate BS detector and in many instances they've managed to summon more critical thought (eg. climate change) than their educated counterparts.

I have my own ideas about why this is but am content to assert that it is not attributable to schooling of any kind...unless you include the school of hard knocks :)

I wouldn't simplify it as "educated" or "uneducated". There are too many lies in circulation to identify a single source or cure for each one. Age of sample population is a factor also. The younger a person is, the more vulnerable they are to widespread falsehoods.

In my case, I can say I believed quite a lot of lies that did come from school. The five that come to mind are manmade global warming/climate change, Theory of Evolution, psi is impossible, God is not real, and the concept that a human baby is not a "life" or "alive" until after it is born. In each case, I was taught these things in school. The ideas were reinforced by popular culture and the media. I no longer believe any of these things.

Real world observations changed my beliefs over time. Based on my current understanding, I am shocked it took so long to recognize those ideologically-driven concepts as false. My red-pill moments differ for each:

Climate Change: In around 2005, I read Michael Crichton's novel "State of Fear", given to me as a birthday present by my neighbor. Until I read that book, it had never occurred to me that any particle of climate change theory might be wrong. I accepted it as uncontroverted fact. The Chricton book, though fiction, raised the concept of an argument against climate change. As soon as I saw that possibility, I looked at statements about climate change much more critically and realized that Chrichton's book, though fiction, was more sound than any amount of papers claiming that climate change is a) dramatic and b) caused by mankind.

Theory of Evolution: This never made sense to me but I accepted it regardless because the only resistance to it that I was aware of came from religion. I didn't believe in God, so I was comfortable thinking that anything stated by a religious person was false. And then I decided to become a comic book artist. To be successful, I had to study anatomy. There wasn't a single aha! moment in this process. As I studied anatomy, I become gradually more aware of how interdependent every aspect of human anatomy is. More than that, it looked designed. At some point, I'm not sure exactly when but around 1995, I realized that our anatomy is designed, not evolved via natural selection.

God: You'd have to read my book, Dreamer, to get the whole story on this one. In a nutshell, I was an atheist until around 2003. Before that, starting with my dream journal in 1990, I had slowly started the process of accumulating evidence from my dreams that indicated the existence of God. I didn't believe it at first, didn't want to believe it, but gradually accepted the reality of God over many years.

Psi: My disbelief in psi was overturned in 1990, thanks to my dream journal. It had strong evidence of precognitive dreams and OBEs from the first few entries. I didn't want to believe in psi and felt silly at first but could not explain the evidence any other way.

When life begins: This one is just stupid. If I had bothered to think about it at all, I never would have accepted the pro-abortion side of this. Again, it was a combination of psi dreams regarding reincarnation and Dr. Ian Stevenson's reincarnation studies that flipped me on this one.

An interesting side note: I do hold a PhD from King's College, London but I earned it late in life. All of the formative moments just described happened before I had the PhD. Before that, my educational history stops at age 14 when I left high school (after passing a "proficiency exam" so that I could start college. I started college as an art student at age 14 but didn't have the money to continue. Although I had good grades, I left school without a diploma at age 19. The next time I attended university, I was co-founder of a bachelor's program in the Netherlands.

 

[First Last]

I wouldn't simplify it as "educated" or "uneducated". There are too many lies in circulation to identify a single source or cure for each one.

Thank you Andy, you have quite the interesting story to say the least. You eluded to age being a component of one's...credulity and while I believe that is plain to see, I'd take it a step further to say that time merely affords us more opportunities to experience deception.

As a kid growing up in a middle-class suburb of the US, I had little motive to understand deception. The world appeared to be very straightforward and therefore my job was simply to work hard and receive the bounty of good things that would naturally follow without regard to the motives of others. It was from this basis, of trust and general naivite concerning... our lower nature, that dramatic red-pill moments would become necessary. In this way, the relative affluence afforded to me was a liability.

Contrast my personal anecdote with the disproportionate number of lower-class blacks in the US that could not be bribed or coerced into taking the clot shot. Not the adults, not the kids, not even for money. Can they make a coherant argument around why this is so obviously and deeply wise? No sir.

In the same way, the impoverished rural whites in the US know in every fiber of their being that the governement does in fact want their guns (and quite possibly their Jesus). Do we make fun of them for being incoherant and paranoid? Yes. Are they right? Also yes.

"If there is hope it lies in the proles."
- Orwell, 1984

 

[Andrew Paquette]

Contrast my personal anecdote with the disproportionate number of lower-class blacks in the US that could not be bribed or coerced into taking the clot shot. Not the adults, not the kids, not even for money. Can they make a coherant argument around why this is so obviously and deeply wise? No sir.

For the fun of it, and for perspective, I'd like to point out that my childhood was lived in poverty that transcends what is normally thought of as "poverty" for poor families, regardless of race. We often didn't have food, occasionally lived in our car, rarely lived in any one location for more than a few months, wore clothes from the Salvation Army, and received support from welfare for quite some time. My first bicycle didn't have a seat. I had to ride it standing up to prevent getting impaled by the seat post. It cost eight dollars at the local Goodwill.

Moving often (I am currently living in my 57th residential address) added to the poverty because it cut us off from normal social contacts. An exception is when we lived in San Jose and stayed in the same house for almost 2 years, rented for my mother by a boyfriend. For the rest of the time, the social safety net of friends and family that other poor families can go to for assistance in times of need, was absent.

Despite this, I always did well in school, was usually the best student in every academic class, though I did fail or nearly fail PE regularly. I left school early but not due to poor performance. It was because my mother wanted to kick me out at age 15 to relieve herself of financial responsibility for my care. To achieve that, she had me take the California High School Proficiency Examination. Passing it enabled me to leave high school and start college right away. My mother's goal was for me to get a scholarship to pay my way through college so that I could leave home and she wouldn't have to pay for me any longer.

All this is designed to illustrate a situation where a "poor white kid" (not that race is relevant) bought the official narrative completely. I didn't question it until years later for most things, decades for others.

Speaking of vaccines, I could articulate at a very young age why I didn't trust vaccines, and so could my mother. In 1973, I caught measles. I was over it before my mom could find a way to get me to a doctor. By the time she did, I was already getting over it. The doctor advised my mother to have my sister vaccinated. She followed the doctor's advice. My sister immediately came down with measles. Her case was much more severe than mine, which was mild. After that, I had the example of an unvaccinated person (myself) catching measles and recovering quickly, and a vaccinated person (my sister) catching a life-threatening version of measles that lasted much longer. It seemed to me at the time that the purported efficacy of that vaccine was an exaggeration.

 

[Jim_Smith]

I know this isn't really the main point of the thread but I think the question of how/why people are "brainwashed" is an important one and the idea that people can be innoculated via formal education is simply not true. These concepts (confirmation bias, logical fallacy, etc.) are in fact already built into the curriculum of our major brainwashing facilities (ie. universities) where the "educated" have no difficulty whatsoever in perverting those concepts to bolster irrational arguments.

At the same time, the uneducated deplorables seem to posses an innate BS detector and in many instances they've managed to summon more critical thought (eg. climate change) than their educated counterparts.

I have my own ideas about why this is but am content to assert that it is not attributable to schooling of any kind...unless you include the school of hard knocks :)

I agree the current educational system from kindergarten to high school, and from college to post doc to tenure is a big source of brainwashing.

But I think BS detectors are not real. How did we get in this situation? Where was the uneducated deplorables bs detector in all the years leading up to it? They just sprouted it at a certain moment? When I look at how the uneducated deplorables made their decision I saw a rogue master manipulator behind it. When you agree with someone you are less likely to notice their manipulation. Here is the secret of the rogue master maniuplator:

People will do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions and help them throw rocks at their enemies.
-Blair Warren

The key issues for the uneducated deplorables were foreign trade, off shoring of jobs, and illegal immigration. It was not a BS detector, it was manipulation. The rogue master manipulator saw a demographic that could tip the election in his favor and he went after it manipulating those people using Blair Warren's advice and it worked. The trick was not getting them to agree with his platform (no bs detector necessary), the trick was getting them to the polls on election day. That required devotion in the deplorables and that is why he didn't just announce a platform, he encouraged dreams, justified failures, allayed fears, confirmed suspicions and threw rocks, until they would do anything he asked, like standing outside for hours in the heat or rain waiting to get into a rally, or going to the polls on election day.

 

[Nelson]

Time for a fun hypothetical game, if you want to play.

Going with the assumption that
1. Russia knows that some puppeteer is pulling the strings of Ukraine, and it’s likely the US.
2. Russia knows that some puppeteer is pulling the strings of the US and it’s likely the Banking Cabal.
3. Surely Russia would know if (or, for all we common folk know) there may be some unnamed/off-grid family or corp pulling the strings of the Banking Cabal or whomever it is pulling the US’ strings. A faceless puppeteer of the puppeteer of the puppeteer, per se.

Does Russia know who’s highest puppeteer?
If so, Why do they attack the Puppet?

In such a scenario, the puppeteers (including the highest ones) would be like hydras, in that even if one individual puppeteer is removed, a new one typically takes its place. So a more radical solution would be necessary for the hydra opponent. Compare with the myth of Herakles vs the hydra...

A further complication is that the puppets are supplying the puppeteers with resources and the "puppet" potentially has volition of its own.

 

[Nelson]

So in such a situation, maybe the opponent of the puppeteer tried to isolate the puppeteer from the "puppet" (with blunders and mixed results). And it was not just the one puppet it was trying to isolate from the puppeteer, but to isolate the puppeteer from many puppets around the world...

If seen from that perspective, maybe the opponent of the puppeteer is remarkably successful.

 

[Nelson]

Just a hypothetical scenario of course. Thanks for suggesting it Robbe :)

 

[Nelson]

And it was not just the one puppet it was trying to isolate from the puppeteer, but to isolate the puppeteer from many puppets around the world...

*one might see examples of the puppeteer becoming increasingly isolated from the "puppets" by what the puppeteers arrogantly refer to as the uncivilised world: i.e. all non-Western countries.

This outrageous arrogance of the puppeteers is backfiring. Countries such as India, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, etc. are not really "puppets" but seem to have been going along during previous decades due to the carrot and stick of the puppeteers.

But since economic and military force haven't defeated Russia, other countries around the world are being emboldened to shrug off the yoke.

That's one way of looking at it.

 

[Nelson]

what the puppeteers arrogantly refer to as the uncivilised world: i.e. all non-Western countries.

A case in point of this outrageous arrogance:

 

[Robbedigital]

Just a hypothetical scenario of course. Thanks for suggesting it Robbe :)

Thank You! I see it as a very healthy discussion and mental exercise.
I use this personally with a particular group of friends who frequently banter about migrant issues, be it low income housing class displacement, refugee, or work migration. I always get a kick out of pointing out when they’re not mad at the real enemy (regardless whether I have a clue as to who the actual enemy is, I can be sure the enemy not the migrants who would much rather have had opportunities in their home country).
And I love your suggestion of Isolation. I have no immediate idea how it would be engineered in regard to dealing with psychopathic oligarchs but it opens up a broad horizon of thought.

 

[Nelson]

Thank You! I see it as a very healthy discussion and mental exercise.
I use this personally with a particular group of friends who frequently banter about migrant issues, be it low income housing class displacement, refugee, or work migration. I always get a kick out of pointing out when they’re not mad at the real enemy (regardless whether I have a clue as to who the actual enemy is, I can be sure the enemy not the migrants who would much rather have had opportunities in their home country).
And I love your suggestion of Isolation. I have no immediate idea how it would be engineered in regard to dealing with psychopathic oligarchs but it opens up a broad horizon of thought.

Cheers brother! I appreciate your thoughtfulness :)

 

[First Last]

I agree the current educational system from kindergarten to high school, and from college to post doc to tenure is a big source of brainwashing.

But I think BS detectors are not real. How did we get in this situation? Where was the uneducated deplorables bs detector in all the years leading up to it? They just sprouted it at a certain moment? When I look at how the uneducated deplorables made their decision I saw a rogue master manipulator behind it. When you agree with someone you are less likely to notice their manipulation. Here is the secret of the rogue master maniuplator:


The key issues for the uneducated deplorables were foreign trade, off shoring of jobs, and illegal immigration. It was not a BS detector, it was manipulation. The rogue master manipulator saw a demographic that could tip the election in his favor and he went after it manipulating those people using Blair Warren's advice and it worked. The trick was not getting them to agree with his platform (no bs detector necessary), the trick was getting them to the polls on election day. That required devotion in the deplorables and that is why he didn't just announce a platform, he encouraged dreams, justified failures, allayed fears, confirmed suspicions and threw rocks, until they would do anything he asked, like standing outside for hours in the heat or rain waiting to get into a rally, or going to the polls on election day.

Trump played them to be sure, but I think you are helping to illustrate my point in noticing how the manipulator found it necessary to appeal to their sensibilities. They could not be placated by abstact arguments revolving around the global economy or the greater good. They could not be moralized into abandoning their first-order self interests. And most of all, they are wary of authority figures.

So no, the proles are not immune to manpulation, they simply can't be coerced into knowingly acting outside of their immediate self interests.

 

[Alex]

Thank you Andy, you have quite the interesting story to say the least. You eluded to age being a component of one's...credulity and while I believe that is plain to see, I'd take it a step further to say that time merely affords us more opportunities to experience deception.

As a kid growing up in a middle-class suburb of the US, I had little motive to understand deception. The world appeared to be very straightforward and therefore my job was simply to work hard and receive the bounty of good things that would naturally follow without regard to the motives of others. It was from this basis, of trust and general naivite concerning... our lower nature, that dramatic red-pill moments would become necessary. In this way, the relative affluence afforded to me was a liability.

Contrast my personal anecdote with the disproportionate number of lower-class blacks in the US that could not be bribed or coerced into taking the clot shot. Not the adults, not the kids, not even for money. Can they make a coherant argument around why this is so obviously and deeply wise? No sir.

In the same way, the impoverished rural whites in the US know in every fiber of their being that the governement does in fact want their guns (and quite possibly their Jesus). Do we make fun of them for being incoherant and paranoid? Yes. Are they right? Also yes.

"If there is hope it lies in the proles."
- Orwell, 1984

haha... love it. agreed... complicated... many factors.

I grew up as a Greek kid in Chicago... not literally true... in reality second generation and only half Greek, but it didn't matter... that's how identified. with that came a general distrust of all gov bullshit and an understanding that corruption, power, influence and money were always at play.

 

[Alex]

For the fun of it, and for perspective, I'd like to point out that my childhood was lived in poverty that transcends what is normally thought of as "poverty" for poor families, regardless of race. We often didn't have food, occasionally lived in our car, rarely lived in any one location for more than a few months, wore clothes from the Salvation Army, and received support from welfare for quite some time. My first bicycle didn't have a seat. I had to ride it standing up to prevent getting impaled by the seat post. It cost eight dollars at the local Goodwill.

Moving often (I am currently living in my 57th residential address) added to the poverty because it cut us off from normal social contacts. An exception is when we lived in San Jose and stayed in the same house for almost 2 years, rented for my mother by a boyfriend. For the rest of the time, the social safety net of friends and family that other poor families can go to for assistance in times of need, was absent.

Despite this, I always did well in school, was usually the best student in every academic class, though I did fail or nearly fail PE regularly. I left school early but not due to poor performance. It was because my mother wanted to kick me out at age 15 to relieve herself of financial responsibility for my care. To achieve that, she had me take the California High School Proficiency Examination. Passing it enabled me to leave high school and start college right away. My mother's goal was for me to get a scholarship to pay my way through college so that I could leave home and she wouldn't have to pay for me any longer.

Wow!

 

[Hurmanetar]

After that, I had the example of an unvaccinated person (myself) catching measles and recovering quickly, and a vaccinated person (my sister) catching a life-threatening version of measles that lasted much longer. It seemed to me at the time that the purported efficacy of that vaccine was an exaggeration.

You might find this interesting... The influenza "vaccine effectiveness" stat is derived from a cohort study comparing vaccination rates in people with confirmed influenza and those with "influenza-like-illness" (ILI).

The obvious flaw in this which I've never seen anyone else point out: they can report high vaccine effectiveness even if the only people getting sick are vaccinated as long as the vaccinated get ILI at a higher rate than actual flu!

I worked an extreme example here to illustrate the point: https://fluvaccinefraud.wordpress.com/2016/10/19/vaccine-effectiveness-fraud/
In this hypothetical example, being in the vaccinated group makes you 9x more likely to have the flu and makes you 24x more likely to have ILI, yet the CDC’s method of estimated vaccine effectiveness could yield 62.5% VE!

 

[Jim_Smith]

Trump played them to be sure, ...

Trump followed through on his campaign promises so he influenced them to vote, but they weren't fooled by fake promises.

 

[Nelson]

Trump followed through on his campaign promises so he influenced them to vote, but they weren't fooled by fake promises.

I don't understand your comment. As far as I remember it, Trump's main campaign promises were to build a huge wall, re-industrialise, remove the deepstate, disband NATO, stop U.S. imperialism. But instead he didn't do any of these things. His term wasn't exactly the staus quo, but he didn't drain the swamp and even restocked it with neocons...
Then he forced lockdowns on people and pushed for the mRNA jabs......

Ironically, I know people who wanted to leave and instead live in Mexico, which had a lot of freedom during covid

 

[Jim_Smith]

I don't understand your comment. As far as I remember it, Trump's main campaign promises were to build a huge wall, re-industrialise, remove the deepstate, disband NATO, stop U.S. imperialism. But instead he didn't do any of these things. His term wasn't exactly the staus quo, but he didn't drain the swamp and even restocked it with neocons...
Then he forced lockdowns on people and pushed for the mRNA jabs......

Ironically, I know people who wanted to leave and instead live in Mexico, which had a lot of freedom during covid

He kept his promises in the sense that he tried to do what he promised, he wasn't BS'ing just to get votes, the fact that he was resisted by the rest of the government is not something you can blame him for. His supporters know that he fought for them harder and took more personal grief for their sake in the fight than any other politician.

He replaced NAFTA, he build as much of the wall as he could get done, he enforced existing immigration laws, reduced taxes, removed isis (there were frequent terrorist attacks when he first took office and which stopped during his term), he appointed judges to the supreme court from the list he proposed at the beginning of his term, he restricted immigration from terrorist producing countries... etc.

Lots more here:
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/trump-administration-accomplishments/

• Created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs.

Before the China Virus invaded our shores, we built the world’s most prosperous economy.

• America gained 7 million new jobs – more than three times government experts’ projections.
• Middle-Class family income increased nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration.
• The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century.
• Achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hirings.
• More Americans reported being employed than ever before – nearly 160 million.
• Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low.
• The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record.
• Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades.

Delivered a future of greater promise and opportunity for citizens of all backgrounds.

• Unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those without a high school diploma all reached record lows.
• Unemployment for women hit its lowest rate in nearly 70 years.
• Lifted nearly 7 million people off of food stamps.
• Poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans reached record lows.
• Income inequality fell for two straight years, and by the largest amount in over a decade.
• The bottom 50 percent of American households saw a 40 percent increase in net worth.
• Wages rose fastest for low-income and blue collar workers – a 16 percent pay increase.
• African American homeownership increased from 41.7 percent to 46.4 percent.

Brought jobs, factories, and industries back to the USA.

• Created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs.
• Put in place policies to bring back supply chains from overseas.
• Small business optimism broke a 35-year old record in 2018.

Hit record stock market numbers and record 401ks.

• The DOW closed above 20,000 for the first time in 2017 and topped 30,000 in 2020.
• The S&P 500 and NASDAQ have repeatedly notched record highs.

Rebuilding and investing in rural America.

• Signed an Executive Order on Modernizing the Regulatory Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology Products, which is bringing innovative new technologies to market in American farming and agriculture.
• Strengthened America’s rural economy by investing over $1.3 billion through the Agriculture Department’s ReConnect Program to bring high-speed broadband infrastructure to rural America.

Achieved a record-setting economic comeback by rejecting blanket lockdowns.

• An October 2020 Gallup survey found 56 percent of Americans said they were better off during a pandemic than four years prior.
• During the third quarter of 2020, the economy grew at a rate of 33.1 percent – the most rapid GDP growth ever recorded.
• Since coronavirus lockdowns ended, the economy has added back over 12 million jobs, more than half the jobs lost.
• Jobs have been recovered 23 times faster than the previous administration’s recovery.
• Unemployment fell to 6.7 percent in December, from a pandemic peak of 14.7 percent in April – beating expectations of well over 10 percent unemployment through the end of 2020.
• Under the previous administration, it took 49 months for the unemployment rate to fall from 10 percent to under 7 percent compared to just 3 months for the Trump Administration.
• Since April, the Hispanic unemployment rate has fallen by 9.6 percent, Asian-American unemployment by 8.6 percent, and Black American unemployment by 6.8 percent.
• 80 percent of small businesses are now open, up from just 53 percent in April.
• Small business confidence hit a new high.
• Homebuilder confidence reached an all-time high, and home sales hit their highest reading since December 2006.
• Manufacturing optimism nearly doubled.
• Household net worth rose $7.4 trillion in Q2 2020 to $112 trillion, an all-time high.
• Home prices hit an all-time record high.
• The United States rejected crippling lockdowns that crush the economy and inflict countless public health harms and instead safely reopened its economy.
• Business confidence is higher in America than in any other G7 or European Union country.
• Stabilized America’s financial markets with the establishment of a number of Treasury Department supported facilities at the Federal Reserve.

Tax Relief for the Middle Class

Passed $3.2 trillion in historic tax relief and reformed the tax code.

• Signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – the largest tax reform package in history.
• More than 6 million American workers received wage increases, bonuses, and increased benefits thanks to the tax cuts.
• A typical family of four earning $75,000 received an income tax cut of more than $2,000 – slashing their tax bill in half.
• Doubled the standard deduction – making the first $24,000 earned by a married couple completely tax-free.
• Doubled the child tax credit.
• Virtually eliminated the unfair Estate Tax, or Death Tax.
• Cut the business tax rate from 35 percent – the highest in the developed world – all the way down to 21 percent.
• Small businesses can now deduct 20 percent of their business income.
• Businesses can now deduct 100 percent of the cost of their capital investments in the year the investment is made.
• Since the passage of tax cuts, the share of total wealth held by the bottom half of households has increased, while the share held by the top 1 percent has decreased.
• Over 400 companies have announced bonuses, wage increases, new hires, or new investments in the United States.
• Over $1.5 trillion was repatriated into the United States from overseas.
• Lower investment cost and higher capital returns led to faster growth in the middle class, real wages, and international competitiveness.

Jobs and investments are pouring into Opportunity Zones.

• Created nearly 9,000 Opportunity Zones where capital gains on long-term investments are taxed at zero.
• Opportunity Zone designations have increased property values within them by 1.1 percent, creating an estimated $11 billion in wealth for the nearly half of Opportunity Zone residents who own their own home.
• Opportunity Zones have attracted $75 billion in funds and driven $52 billion of new investment in economically distressed communities, creating at least 500,000 new jobs.
• Approximately 1 million Americans will be lifted from poverty as a result of these new investments.
• Private equity investments into businesses in Opportunity Zones were nearly 30 percent higher than investments into businesses in similar areas that were not designated Opportunity Zones.

Massive Deregulation

Ended the regulatory assault on American Businesses and Workers.

• Instead of 2-for-1, we eliminated 8 old regulations for every 1 new regulation adopted.
• Provided the average American household an extra $3,100 every year.
• Reduced the direct cost of regulatory compliance by $50 billion, and will reduce costs by an additional $50 billion in FY 2020 alone.
• Removed nearly 25,000 pages from the Federal Register – more than any other president. The previous administration added over 16,000 pages.
• Established the Governors’ Initiative on Regulatory Innovation to reduce outdated regulations at the state, local, and tribal levels.
• Signed an executive order to make it easier for businesses to offer retirement plans.
• Signed two executive orders to increase transparency in Federal agencies and protect Americans and their small businesses from administrative abuse.
• Modernized the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for the first time in over 40 years.
• Reduced approval times for major infrastructure projects from 10 or more years down to 2 years or less.
• Helped community banks by signing legislation that rolled back costly provisions of Dodd-Frank.
• Established the White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing to bring down housing costs.
• Removed regulations that threatened the development of a strong and stable internet.
• Eased and simplified restrictions on rocket launches, helping to spur commercial investment in space projects.
• Published a whole-of-government strategy focused on ensuring American leadership in automated vehicle technology.
• Streamlined energy efficiency regulations for American families and businesses, including preserving affordable lightbulbs, enhancing the utility of showerheads, and enabling greater time savings with dishwashers.
• Removed unnecessary regulations that restrict the seafood industry and impede job creation.
• Modernized the Department of Agriculture’s biotechnology regulations to put America in the lead to develop new technologies.
• Took action to suspend regulations that would have slowed our response to COVID-19, including lifting restrictions on manufacturers to more quickly produce ventilators.

Successfully rolled back burdensome regulatory overreach.

• Rescinded the previous administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, which would have abolished zoning for single-family housing to build low-income, federally subsidized apartments.
• Issued a final rule on the Fair Housing Act’s disparate impact standard.
• Eliminated the Waters of the United States Rule and replaced it with the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, providing relief and certainty for farmers and property owners.
• Repealed the previous administration’s costly fuel economy regulations by finalizing the Safer Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles rule, which will make cars more affordable, and lower the price of new vehicles by an estimated $2,200.

Americans now have more money in their pockets.

• Deregulation had an especially beneficial impact on low-income Americans who pay a much higher share of their incomes for overregulation.
• Cut red tape in the healthcare industry, providing Americans with more affordable healthcare and saving Americans nearly 10 percent on prescription drugs.
• Deregulatory efforts yielded savings to the medical community an estimated $6.6 billion – with a reduction of 42 million hours of regulatory compliance work through 2021.
• Removed government barriers to personal freedom and consumer choice in healthcare.
• Once fully in effect, 20 major deregulatory actions undertaken by the Trump Administration are expected to save American consumers and businesses over $220 billion per year.
• Signed 16 pieces of deregulatory legislation that will result in a $40 billion increase in annual real incomes.

Fair and Reciprocal Trade

Secured historic trade deals to defend American workers.

• Immediately withdrew from the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
• Ended the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and replaced it with the brand new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
• The USMCA contains powerful new protections for American manufacturers, auto-makers, farmers, dairy producers, and workers.
• The USMCA is expected to generate over $68 billion in economic activity and potentially create over 550,000 new jobs over ten years.
• Signed an executive order making it government policy to Buy American and Hire American, and took action to stop the outsourcing of jobs overseas.
• Negotiated with Japan to slash tariffs and open its market to $7 billion in American agricultural products and ended its ban on potatoes and lamb.
• Over 90 percent of American agricultural exports to Japan now receive preferential treatment, and most are duty-free.
• Negotiated another deal with Japan to boost $40 billion worth of digital trade.
• Renegotiated the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement, doubling the cap on imports of American vehicles and extending the American light truck tariff.
• Reached a written, fully-enforceable Phase One trade agreement with China on confronting pirated and counterfeit goods, and the protection of American ideas, trade secrets, patents, and trademarks.
• China agreed to purchase an additional $200 billion worth of United States exports and opened market access for over 4,000 American facilities to exports while all tariffs remained in effect.
• Achieved a mutual agreement with the European Union (EU) that addresses unfair trade practices and increases duty-free exports by 180 percent to $420 million.
• Secured a pledge from the EU to eliminate tariffs on American lobster – the first United States-European Union negotiated tariff reduction in over 20 years.
• Scored a historic victory by overhauling the Universal Postal Union, whose outdated policies were undermining American workers and interests.
• Engaged extensively with trade partners like the EU and Japan to advance reforms to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
• Issued a first-ever comprehensive report on the WTO Appellate Body’s failures to comply with WTO rules and interpret WTO agreements as written.
• Blocked nominees to the WTO’s Appellate Body until WTO Members recognize and address longstanding issues with Appellate Body activism.
• Submitted 5 papers to the WTO Committee on Agriculture to improve Members’ understanding of how trade policies are implemented, highlight areas for improved transparency, and encourage members to maintain up-to-date notifications on market access and domestic support.

Took strong actions to confront unfair trade practices and put America First.

• Imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions worth of Chinese goods to protect American jobs and stop China’s abuses under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.
• Directed an all-of-government effort to halt and punish efforts by the Communist Party of China to steal and profit from American innovations and intellectual property.
• Imposed tariffs on foreign aluminum and foreign steel to protect our vital industries and support our national security.
• Approved tariffs on $1.8 billion in imports of washing machines and $8.5 billion in imports of solar panels.
• Blocked illegal timber imports from Peru.
• Took action against France for its digital services tax that unfairly targets American technology companies.
• Launched investigations into digital services taxes that have been proposed or adopted by 10 other countries.

Historic support for American farmers.

• Successfully negotiated more than 50 agreements with countries around the world to increase foreign market access and boost exports of American agriculture products, supporting more than 1 million American jobs.
• Authorized $28 billion in aid for farmers who have been subjected to unfair trade practices – fully funded by the tariffs paid by China.
• China lifted its ban on poultry, opened its market to beef, and agreed to purchase at least $80 billion of American agricultural products in the next two years.
• The European Union agreed to increase beef imports by 180 percent and opened up its market to more imports of soybeans.
• South Korea lifted its ban on American poultry and eggs, and agreed to provide market access for record exports of American rice.
• Argentina lifted its ban on American pork.
• Brazil agreed to increase wheat imports by $180 million a year and raised its quotas for purchases of United States ethanol.
• Guatemala and Tunisia opened up their markets to American eggs.
• Won tariff exemptions in Ecuador for wheat and soybeans.
• Suspended $817 million in trade preferences for Thailand under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program due to its failure to adequately provide reasonable market access for American pork products.
• The amount of food stamps redeemed at farmers markets increased from $1.4 million in May 2020 to $1.75 million in September 2020 – a 50 percent increase over last year.
• Rapidly deployed the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, which provided $30 billion in support to farmers and ranchers facing decreased prices and market disruption when COVID-19 impacted the food supply chain.
• Authorized more than $6 billion for the Farmers to Families Food Box program, which delivered over 128 million boxes of locally sourced, produce, meat, and dairy products to charity and faith-based organizations nationwide.
• Delegated authorities via the Defense Production Act to protect breaks in the American food supply chain as a result of COVID-19.

American Energy Independence

Unleashed America’s oil and natural gas potential.

• For the first time in nearly 70 years, the United States has become a net energy exporter.
• The United States is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world.
• Natural gas production reached a record-high of 34.9 quads in 2019, following record high production in 2018 and in 2017.
• The United States has been a net natural gas exporter for three consecutive years and has an export capacity of nearly 10 billion cubic feet per day.
• Withdrew from the unfair, one-sided Paris Climate Agreement.
• Canceled the previous administration’s Clean Power Plan, and replaced it with the new Affordable Clean Energy rule.
• Approved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.
• Opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska to oil and gas leasing.
• Repealed the last administration’s Federal Coal Leasing Moratorium, which prohibited coal leasing on Federal lands.
• Reformed permitting rules to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy and speed approval for mines.
• Fixed the New Source Review permitting program, which punished companies for upgrading or repairing coal power plants.
• Fixed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) steam electric and coal ash rules.
• The average American family saved $2,500 a year in lower electric bills and lower prices at the gas pump.
• Signed legislation repealing the harmful Stream Protection Rule.
• Reduced the time to approve drilling permits on public lands by half, increasing permit applications to drill on public lands by 300 percent.
• Expedited approval of the NuStar’s New Burgos pipeline to export American gasoline to Mexico.
• Streamlined Liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal permitting and allowed long-term LNG export authorizations to be extended through 2050.
• The United States is now among the top three LNG exporters in the world.
• Increased LNG exports five-fold since January 2017, reaching an all-time high in January 2020.
• LNG exports are expected to reduce the American trade deficit by over $10 billion.
• Granted more than 20 new long-term approvals for LNG exports to non-free trade agreement countries.
• The development of natural gas and LNG infrastructure in the United States is providing tens of thousands of jobs, and has led to the investment of tens of billions of dollars in infrastructure.
• There are now 6 LNG export facilities operating in the United States, with 2 additional export projects under construction.
• The amount of nuclear energy production in 2019 was the highest on record, through a combination of increased capacity from power plant upgrades and shorter refueling and maintenance cycles.
• Prevented Russian energy coercion across Europe through various lines of effort, including the Partnership for Transatlantic Energy Cooperation, civil nuclear deals with Romania and Poland, and opposition to Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
• Issued the Presidential Permit for the A2A railroad between Canada and Alaska, providing energy resources to emerging markets.

Increased access to our country’s abundant natural resources in order to achieve energy independence.

• Renewable energy production and consumption both reached record highs in 2019.
• Enacted policies that helped double the amount of electricity generated by solar and helped increase the amount of wind generation by 32 percent from 2016 through 2019.
• Accelerated construction of energy infrastructure to ensure American energy producers can deliver their products to the market.
• Cut red tape holding back the construction of new energy infrastructure.
• Authorized ethanol producers to sell E15 year-round and allowed higher-ethanol gasoline to be distributed from existing pumps at filling stations.
• Ensured greater transparency and certainty in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.
• Negotiated leasing capacity in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Australia, providing American taxpayers a return on this infrastructure investment.
• Signed an executive order directing Federal agencies to work together to diminish the capability of foreign adversaries to target our critical electric infrastructure.
• Reformed Section 401 of the Clean Water Act regulation to allow for the curation of interstate infrastructure.
• Resolved the OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) oil crisis during COVID-19 by getting OPEC, Russia, and others to cut nearly 10 million barrels of production a day, stabilizing world oil prices.
• Directed the Department of Energy to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to mitigate market volatility caused by COVID-19.

Investing in America’s Workers and Families

Affordable and high-quality Child Care for American workers and their families.

• Doubled the Child Tax Credit from $1,000 to $2,000 per child and expanded the eligibility for receiving the credit.
• Nearly 40 million families benefitted from the child tax credit (CTC), receiving an average benefit of $2,200 – totaling credits of approximately $88 billion.
• Signed the largest-ever increase in Child Care and Development Block Grants – expanding access to quality, affordable child care for more than 800,000 low-income families.
• Secured an additional $3.5 billion in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to help families and first responders with child care needs.
• Created the first-ever paid family leave tax credit for employees earning $72,000 or less.
• Signed into law 12-weeks of paid parental leave for Federal workers.
• Signed into law a provision that enables new parents to withdraw up to $5,000 from their retirement accounts without penalty when they give birth to or adopt a child.

Advanced apprenticeship career pathways to good-paying jobs.

• Expanded apprenticeships to more than 850,000 and established the new Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship programs in new and emerging fields.
• Established the National Council for the American Worker and the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board.
• Over 460 companies have signed the Pledge to America’s Workers, committing to provide more than 16 million job and training opportunities.
• Signed an executive order that directs the Federal government to replace outdated degree-based hiring with skills-based hiring.

Advanced women’s economic empowerment.

• Included women’s empowerment for the first time in the President’s 2017 National Security Strategy.
• Signed into law key pieces of legislation, including the Women, Peace, and Security Act and the Women Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act.
• Launched the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) Initiative – the first-ever whole-of-government approach to women’s economic empowerment that has reached 24 million women worldwide.
• Established an innovative new W-GDP Fund at USAID.
• Launched the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) with 13 other nations.
• Announced a $50 million donation on behalf of the United States to We-Fi providing more capital to women-owned businesses around the world.
• Released the first-ever Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security, which focused on increasing women’s participation to prevent and resolve conflicts.
• Launched the W-GDP 2x Global Women’s Initiative with the Development Finance Corporation, which has mobilized more than $3 billion in private sector investments over three years.

Ensured American leadership in technology and innovation.

• First administration to name artificial intelligence, quantum information science, and 5G communications as national research and development priorities.
• Launched the American Broadband Initiative to promote the rapid deployment of broadband internet across rural America.
• Made 100 megahertz of crucial mid-band spectrum available for commercial operations, a key factor to driving widespread 5G access across rural America.
• Launched the American AI Initiative to ensure American leadership in artificial intelligence (AI), and established the National AI Initiative Office at the White House.
• Established the first-ever principles for Federal agency adoption of AI to improve services for the American people.
• Signed the National Quantum Initiative Act establishing the National Quantum Coordination Office at the White House to drive breakthroughs in quantum information science.
• Signed the Secure 5G and Beyond Act to ensure America leads the world in 5G.
• Launched a groundbreaking program to test safe and innovative commercial drone operations nationwide.
• Issued new rulemaking to accelerate the return of American civil supersonic aviation.
• Committed to doubling investments in AI and quantum information science (QIS) research and development.
• Announced the establishment of $1 billion AI and quantum research institutes across America.
• Established the largest dual-use 5G test sites in the world to advance 5G commercial and military innovation.
• Signed landmark Prague Principles with America’s allies to advance the deployment of secure 5G telecommunications networks.
• Signed first-ever bilateral AI cooperation agreement with the United Kingdom.
• Built collation among allies to ban Chinese Telecom Company Huawei from their 5G infrastructure.

Preserved American jobs for American workers and rejected the importation of cheap foreign labor.

• Pressured the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to reverse their decision to lay off over 200 American workers and replace them with cheaper foreign workers.
• Removed the TVA Chairman of the Board and a TVA Board Member.

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He kept his promises in the sense that he tried to do what he promised, he wasn't BS'ing just to get votes, the fact that he was resisted by the rest of the government is not something you can blame him for. His supporters know that he fought for them harder and took more personal grief for their sake in the fight than any other politician.

That's a completely subjective take Jim. You're welcome to it, but you can't substantiate it as fact.

Its just as easy to paint a picture of Trump as an egocentric figure seeking the highest office to placate himself. A marketer. Someone who's broken promises at scale in business in the past. Its all there.

I don't know how you'd know he was being authentic unless you knew the man's soul (which you don't).