2024 just about reaching its end, and though it has been quite an eventful year, I must admit I am glad to see it go.
Undoubtedly the most significant event that came out of 2024 was the election in November. Depending where you fall on the political spectrum, the results were either the most catastrophic or brought the greatest relief (Personally, I fall more toward the latter).
However, even more important than who won the election, it was what won: the truth (as opposed to the narrative). Further, it was also who lost: the media.
Mark Twain once said, if you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember what you said.
By saying the truth won, I am not associating Trump as a banner of Truth. He is a fallen human like all of us who need God’s grace. There is only one who states, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”
What I mean by “the truth won” was that the American people saw through the narrative upheld by government officials, bureaucrats, the media, and the “experts.”
Their objective was trying to uphold a perception of reality, building upon it, plugging its many holes, running block against those who attempt to criticize. It’s a façade and one that must be maintained.
All year long (more accurately: during the last four years), the nation has been gas lit countless times by the powers-that-be who seemed more concerned with perfecting the Jedi Mind Trick than solving anything (Note: they weren’t that good at it).
In this narrative, we were told:
• the economy was the fastest growing in history;
• that inflation was transitory;
• that gas prices were lower than when Biden took office;
• that the world respected us;
• that we should trust “science” and the “experts” who, ironically, also insisted men could become pregnant;
• that most existential threat to democracy must be defeated by using the most undemocratic tactics available; or for that matter,
• that all the evils the left accused Trump of, the left was guilty of doing it themselves;
• that Trump was Satan incarnate himself if not worse;
• that two assassination attempts were brought on by the victim himself for his heated rhetoric;
• that the president was sharp as a tack, until Trump argued with one a degree up from zombie in the debate;
• that the media tried to rewrite history before our very eyes with the hope that we were actually as stupid as they thought we were;
• that Kamala was the Border Czar, until she wasn’t;
• that the response to a trans kid shooting up a Christian school was to be empathetic toward the trans community;
• that we should vote for Kamala because it’s patriotic (further, if we didn’t—even if we didn’t because we had no idea what she was for, then we were misogynist);
• that millions actually believed that the candidate who spent nearly two billion dollars and wound up $20 million in debt (and still lost) would be the best one to run the nation;
• that the justice system must be respected except when forgiving student loans despite the Supreme Court ruling to the contrary and pardoning his son for any crime committed over a ten-year span despite his words to the contrary;
• that the president’s replacement was the best choice despite four years of stumbling and bumbling through her term as VP;
• that it was reported that the president regretted his choice to appoint Merrick Garland as Attorney General because he didn’t go after Trump enough and spent too much time pursuing Hunter (see previous point of the president saying justice must be trusted);
The media tried to cover it up, deny it, and ridicule those who actually saw it.
Then, when the powers-that-be realized that the American people weren’t as stupid as they thought, they called us Nazis and garbage.
However, the strategy of maintaining this narrative had one major flaw: it was based on foundation that Americans are stupid, that we couldn’t think for ourselves. For a while, I was afraid that was the case.
They also seemed to have forgotten that there is video.
Fortunately, the narrative propped up by so many elitists contained so many inconsistencies that couldn’t stand up under its own weight. As Twain said above, they couldn’t keep everything on solid ground. The narrative crumbled—badly.
All the propaganda the media forced down our throats was outright rejected. Americans saw the flawed narrative and decided that is not the reality in which we live.
They’re lying to us. They really think we are dumb. They see us as wards of the state and not as their bosses.
And ultimately, that was the best thing to come out of 2024: the media lost its voice and, most importantly, its relevance.
This election was as much a referendum against the media as it was against Biden and Harris.
Two months after the election, they are still trying to come to terms with that. The media was forced down a new road something they had never experienced before: self-awareness. Thankfully, some—a few—in the media are engaging in self-reflection. Most others, not so much (look up Don Lemon’s recent scree on Trump voters).
Whether this journey into self-awareness maintains any traction remains to be seen.
Building a narrative rather than accepting truth as it is is never a good strategy. It is a house built on sand. We witnessed this before our very eyes.
For now, Trump will enter his second term knowing the media are nothing more than a toothless lion.
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