What Trump's 2024 win means for personal empowerment

Using Trump’s 2024 win as a case study, I discuss how being polarizing is a winning strategy for staying true to yourself, why 'inclusivity' hides deeper truths, and how I knew he would win.

*This is the written version of ‘its not you’ podcast episode #59

As a Canadian, I am so happy Donald Trump won the US Election. I can't begin to tell you how freaking excited I am.

Why? Because I truly believe he is going to bring sanity back to the Western world, if not the whole world.

Back in the day, I used to watch 'The Apprentice', and I knew a little bit about Donald Trump, but not that much to really have an opinion about him.

Actually, that's not true. Watching the Apprentice, I thought he was a bit of a dick. If memory serves, I'm recalling a few episodes where he gave people shit for not being, like, harsh enough and for people being too kind to their opponents.

What I did love about him, though, was his unwavering commitment to being his true self. No matter whether you liked it or didn't, no matter the flack he got, he had his way of doing things, like it or not.

And most people agree that that was one of his best qualities. Until 2015, when he rode down that golden escalator.

Then, all of a sudden, all of his lifetime friends, including Oprah Winfrey, the news anchors on CNN and all that, they were all friends. I think Trump was even friends with Hillary and Bill Clinton.

And then suddenly, when he decides he's going to run for President of the United States, everybody bailed on him, turned on him, called him everything you could possibly imagine.

And all of his finer qualities that they all loved about him are now suddenly inverted and used against him.

And I think I fell for it.
I didn't get into politics until this Corona scam happened. And I knew instantly this is all bullshit.

And that's when I started paying attention to politics. So I believed the stories that were coming out about him, at least in some degree.

That he was a little bit selfish and narcissistic. And he was only doing this. He was only running to be president to serve his own purposes. And that was pretty much it for me.

That's what I thought, that's what I believed. And it didn't matter to me because I wasn't into politics, so I didn't really pay that much attention.

Although when it came to election night, I was glued to the TV, which I found so strange. But here's the thing. I hated Hillary Clinton, and I was just intrigued by him, I suppose, because I couldn't get a gut gauge on who was going to win.

I couldn't see either one of them winning. Yet on a gut level, I knew Hillary wouldn't. Even though, I don't know what did the media say, she had a 95% chance of winning?

But yet my insights couldn't see him winning either. Like, it was the strangest, I don't know, mix up in my body, I guess. Comparing that to this year where in August I text a friend and I said, Trump's going to win by a landslide.

And I never wavered in that. I got a little bit fearful, a little bit scared, but I never wavered.

I knew he was going to win in a landslide a long time ago.

Thing is, I didn't realize how much of a landslide he could win. I didn't know anything about electoral college votes, popular votes, House and Senate votes, and swing state votes, which is pretty freaking incredible.

So how was I able to predict his win when so many other people were predicting the exact opposite? Well, to be honest, I haven't really given it a lot of thought, but I'm just going to spitball here.

First of all, I want to say this. When you are your true self, you aren't easily influenced by outside factors that try to sway your opinion and create biases within you.

When you're your true self, that often means you don't have attachment to things. And when we have attachment to things, we expect a certain outcome. And with that outcome, whatever it may be, there will be an equal response.

Which is why we're seeing these lunatic lefty liberal women shaving their heads and wearing blue bracelets now in the US So they can 'find each other' because they're so God damn devastated that Donald Trump won.

And in their battle cries, they're all posting on social media, screaming at the ethers and anybody who will listen to them, that their life is ending and their rights are being taken away.

And holy shit drama.

These are people so out of touch with themselves that they're literally begging for attention and will do anything to get it.

But it's not just that. Not only are they out of touch with themselves and insecure, they're brainwashed. And as Virginia Satir said, Virginia Satir is considered the mother of family therapy.

She was a clinical social worker and psychotherapist, and she would work with people as long as it took to get results. She said "Most people think the will to survive is the strongest will in humans, but it isn't. The strongest will is to keep things familiar."

Donald Trump isn't familiar.

I've seen people whose marriages have broken up because one voted for Trump and the other one didn't. I saw one woman who kicked her husband out and said to get him back, she's gonna sleep with all his friends.

Okay...

These are people that need to be led. They need to be a part of a tribe or they feel incomplete. When you're your true self, you don't need other people to complete you.

You can just accept what is and do your best to make a difference. Oh, and I also forgot to mention all the name calling, you know, all the pejorative.

• 'They're a bunch of Nazis. They're Hitler, they're transphobes, they're racists, they're fascist bigots.' You know, from the inclusive crowd. You remember, the inclusive crowd that wanted to have you sent to a camp if you didn't get a vaccination.
• The inclusive crowd who wanted to see a vaccination card as a means of entry into an establishment. You know, the inclusive crowd that went along with the charade that you should separate families from their loved ones because of some virus.
• You know, the inclusive people who thought it was a good idea to allow watching your parents and grandparents die alone.
• You know, the inclusive ones that snitched on you when you had one too many people over for the holidays. Or called the cops on you for writing a social media post stating that men can't be women.

All of those things I just listed are another reason I knew Donald Trump was going to win.

Because it's literally, quite simply, common sense.

Most people are not that stupid. But because of the outrage and because of the favoritism given to these certain diverse groups, and of course, with the coronavirus, the fear that was just lathered all over everybody, dissenting voices became silent.

Because they were shown in no uncertain terms. if you don't say what we want you to say, you will be canceled, rejected, fired, charged, and even jailed.
Oh, and let's not forget ridiculed. Everybody's biggest fear is being ridiculed.

And that is another reason that people don't speak up. And while I can't say this is true for everybody, because I don't know, obviously, it's been my experience that when you're your true self, when you are true to yourself and you have all the facts, you know, you weigh facts from both sides and all angles, and you speak up and you are ridiculed...you don't care. You don't care.

You're not going to tell me my eyes are blue and have me accept that and go along with it when I know damn well my eyes are brown.

The problem is with all of this, it's because people are insecure and they are scared because they're not true to themselves. And when you are scared and insecure and you stay quiet and you don't want confrontation, you let the mob rule.

So every one of us who sat by in silence are to blame for this. And now it's out of control. Trump is going to reign it all in and they are losing their shit because they had power for a while.

And for those who feel powerless within, external power is delicious.

Now, one of the other reasons I believe I knew Trump would win was, well, a few reasons:

• One, his crowd sizes were enormous.
• Two, he had very clear policies. Other than the lies being told about his policies from the opposing side and the news, his policies were very clear, very succinct, and very much common sense.
• Another is Trump didn't need to hire a bunch of celebrities to promote him. Yeah, he did have some come up, but the people that came up for him were good friends of his. Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Kid Rock, Hulk Hogan, Dana White, and I'll just leave it there. All the people that he had up there were already friends of his.

Another reason that I think played into my intuitive knowing is Trump is polarizing.

And as much as people today are trying to fit in, and (maybe it's just the Democrats and the liberals in Canada) who are trying to fit in and be accepted and inclusive and loving and kind until you don't do what they say and then they are vicious animals.

Of course I'm being a little hyperbolic, but not really. They're not all like that. But as we've all seen, many are.

And as polarizing as Donald Trump is, he's the antithesis of this. Although Trump surely does like attention, he doesn't give two shits about what you think of him.

Like anybody who's being lied about, he doesn't like the blatant made up lies about him. And nobody else would either.

But as far as having an opinion on something or needing to defend a personal belief of his, or criticism on his policies, he doesn't give a shit what you think.

He (Trump) doesn't care that you don't like him because he's polarizing.

And here's the thing that most people get wrong about being polarizing. Being polarizing is one of the best things you can be because you really quickly weed out the people that don't align with you. And that's a great thing.

Those people that need safe spaces and trauma coloring books who get easily offended because the way he speaks is too sensitive to your ears. People like this need to be led.

You got someone like Barack Obama who is a great orator, but he's spewing bullshit that gets you in your feels and blocks your critical thinking.

In layman's terms, he's manipulating you because the way he is speaking and the words he's using are intended to directly influence your subconscious mind, which then influences your decisions and your behavior.

Pure manipulation.
Whereas Donald Trump just lays it all out there and says, this is what I'm doing and here's why I'm doing it and here's how it's going to help you.

The media takes it, spins it to try to manipulate you, that what he said isn't really what he means. The overall point I'm trying to make as it relates to you is - be polarizing.

Don't try to appeal to everybody, because then you just end up with a whole bunch of phonies in your circle who, at the drop of a hatwill use and manipulate you and suck your energy dry, pulling you completely out of alignment with yourself.

Thus deeming you ineffective in whatever ventures you were engaged in.

So, to summarize this, how did I know that Donald Trump was going to win the election, but the pollsters did not?

One, because I trust my intuition and I know how to read it very well. So it told me very explicitly that he was going to win. I could say I had a very strong gut feeling.
Add to that gut feeling the combination of things that I mentioned here, if I can remember them all now.

One being he's polarizing, so much so that you know exactly what you're getting when you vote for him.

With that in mind, he garnered massive crowds at his rallies. At every single rally was massive. He didn't need to pay celebrities to feign support and try to convince you to vote for him because you're too stupid to think for yourself.

The people that were on stage with him were genuine friends, and like Trump himself, they were genuine. They were true to themselves. They were genuine, authentic, and you could feel it.

Another thing is his policies. The left or the Democrats really, really thought that one of the number one priorities in the US was trans rights. Was having males and females spaces, was paying, the taxpayer, paying for prison inmates to get sex changes.

When the biggest concern was people getting killed from illegal aliens and they can't put food on the table. Oh, and of course, they had to make abortion a topic, too, which they lied about Trump and his policy.

But aside from all that, it's just common sense policies. And it behooves me incredibly to see people that I thought were so intelligent, that are so blinded by their hatred for Trump, that they can't see the good policies he's putting forward.

Oh, do you know what I just remembered now?

The assassination attempt.

I think that was the first time I thought he's going to win. Because God saved him.
Now, I'm not religious. I believe in God, I talk to God, but I am not religious.

And that was the first thing that came to my mind when that happened.

It is impossible for there not to have been some other universal force or the hand of God that was in play that day.

And that's when I think I really knew he won. All the other things that I've described here are systems that happened in my mind that led me to a conclusion.

If you want to learn more about the systems I'm talking about, you can go listen to the last episode where I go in great detail.

A few final thoughts.

• One is I hope I was able to convey the importance of being your true self. Because without it you remain suggestible to all forms of manipulation. Some of which I've outlined here.
• The next point I want to make is when I'm talking about the so-called inclusive people being anything but inclusive. I know I've been speaking as if I don't sound very inclusive either. And I'll tell you what, self-reflection is a great thing. Because looking back, I've discovered that I had some of their inclusive tendencies. Now their inclusive tendencies are about virtue signaling.

Mine was taking empathy to an unhealthy level. One of the teachers that certified me has a worldwide reputation of being a genius, really. Now, I'm not one for putting anybody on a pedestal, but he's a pretty smart guy.

Anyway, in a Q and A one time, somebody asked him a question and his answer was this:
"I will work with anybody with any symptom. Including things like schizophrenia and psychotic disorders." Things that most people won't work with. But what he said "I will never ever work with - is pedophiles."

When I heard that, I was taken aback. And here's where my distorted version of inclusivity came in. I saw someone like a pedophile, not as the deed he did, but the why he did it.

So I saw him as an abused child acting out his pain. Now, I wasn't dismissing the children that they might have harmed. Oh, hell no. I'm acutely aware of the pain that they cause and also that they know it's wrong.

The angle that I was coming from was I believed I had the tools that could help them so they won't harm another child. Yeah, I know, it sounds kind of messed up.

So with that being said, I can see why some of these lunatics are acting the way that they do. So there's that empathetic part of it where I can relate to it in a sense. But there comes a time in life when...

We need to draw a line in the sand and say, enough.

Like my instructor did. "No, I will never work with pedophiles." And I believe that is the stance that we have to take sometimes with the lunacy going on around us.

Look, there's no point in getting emotional or reactional when these lunatics go off in the way that they do because it's not about you.

They're doing it for themselves because they're pissed off that they're losing the power that was granted to them previously.

You are a threat to them and their power. And you see how they act when they have no power.

So, coming full circle, this is why you want to be your true self.

Because when you're your true self, that is a power that no one can take from you.