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The Donald Goes to Davos?

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So the thumbnail for this video is from the cover of the book The Devil in the White City; it's actually a pretty good book. I came upon it years ago and it's interesting. It basically deals with one of the world's fairs and what all went down there. That said the reason for the video, let me just jump in here. 

I thought of making this video after a viewer sent me a link to Facebook over to Rich Angel's post, under the headline: Donald Trump is Going to Davos and the Elites Know Exactly Why That Matters. Quoting directly: "Davos is gearing up for the World Economic Forum's 56th annual meeting, running January 19 to 23, and this year there's one thing hanging over that mountain like a storm cloud: Donald Trump is coming. He's expected to arrive early in the week, and he is scheduled to speak on January 21, right in the middle of the forum, not tucked away in a side room, not dialing in, but standing in front of the very people who believe they run the world. That timing is not an accident. This isn't just another speech on a crowded agenda. This is Donald Trump walking into the most insulated, self-congratulatory gathering on the planet and doing the one thing Davos hates most: challenging the legitimacy of the room itself." Quoting further: "Davos is where unelected power meets to reassure itself that it knows better than voters. It's where global policies are discussed by people who never have to knock on doors, never have to explain inflation to a family at the grocery store, never have to justify why life keeps getting harder for everyone else while they fly in on private jets to talk about "shared sacrifice". Trump has never pretended to respect that culture."

Yeah, I couldn't agree with that more. And look, I have my differences with Mr. Trump on certain things but similar actually to Mr. Anutin here in Thailand, I think that where I disagree with Trump on certain things, at the end of the day, I do think he does believe in the fundamental need for pursuing things like the national interest, and he believes in things like his country is what matters, not some supranationalist elite that's going to tell us all what to do, make us eat bugs, and we'll all own nothing and be happy. And as far as that goes, and again I have my differences with Mr. Trump on certain things. I am not thrilled about this whole Visa "pause" to say the least, not to mention some other stuff that in my opinion is just not exactly in line with what I think he was re-elected on definitely, especially certain aspects of law enforcement and things; where are those Epstein files? Stuff like that. 

That being said, on balance I'm never going to have a problem with somebody showing up and giving the ones that believe they are the powers-that-be a little bit of, for lack of a better term, a hard time, because quite honestly like they said, "a gathering of the most self-congratulatory people. There's a great line from the show Law and Order, Charlie Harmon, there's sort of a story arc over a couple of episodes where you find out that he was a prosecutor that had been corrupted, but it's quite a good line; it's poignant television, it's poignant acting, where he says to his counterpart - I think her name is Jamie - he said, "come on Jamie, you have never had to sweat out a paycheck". You talk about a gathering of people that have never had to sweat out a paycheck, that pretty much sums up Davos. Now that said, it's not to say that Trump has really ever had to much sweat out much of a paycheck. 

That being said, Trump has had his ups and downs, and he has faced them head on and dealt with them. So at least at one level I can respect Trump as being somebody who just is straightforward and goes ahead and deals with things. I am looking forward to this. I'm very hopeful that Trump does his thing and - he’s almost a stand-up comic at this point; it's really quite funny in many ways. So I'm hopeful that we'll see some at least some funny one-liners or something coming off of this, and otherwise, at least as it pertains to Thailand, all of this supranationalist, globalist, neo-Comintern nonsense. As and when necessary, we will certainly be keeping you updated on this channel as the situation evolves.