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Prominent investor warns ‘I don’t know if Trump will be allowed to be President’

September 4, 2024 | | Print Article

Anyone paying attention understands that Donald Trump is not running against Kamala Harris so much as he is up against The Machine™ that installed her as an acceptable replacement for a rapidly aging President Biden and is now largely running her campaign.

Trump’s biggest threat to the establishment class appears to be that he is NOT your typical politician who can be counted on to play ball with the real shot callers, but it’s rare that you hear anyone of note vocalize this.

Eric Weinstein, billed as a brilliant mathematician turned physicist and economist, did just that when he warned that Trump will likely not be “allowed to be president.” A chilling assessment that puts the inexplicable lapse in security allowing for an attempt on the former president’s life in a whole different light.

The former director of Thiel Capitol spoke with Chris Williamson on his Modern Wisdom podcast and the discussion was on whether Joe Biden has a debilitating event between now and November, when Weinstein turned his focus to “the other part of it.”

“I don’t know whether Donald Trump will be allowed to become President,” he said somewhat hesitantly.

“I think that there’s a remarkable story, and we’re in a funny game, which is, are we allowed to say what that story is? Because to say it, to analyze it, to name it, is to bring it into view,” he added when pressed.

“I think we don’t understand why the censorship is behaving the way it is. We don’t understand why it’s in the shadows. We don’t understand why our news is acting in a bizarre fashion,” Weinstein said. “So let’s just set the stage, given that that was in February. There is something that I think Mike Benz has just referred to as the Rules-Based International Order. It’s an interlocking series of agreements, tacit understandings, explicit understandings, clandestine understandings about how the most important structures keep the world free of war and keep markets open.”

He then explained that there has been a system in place “that says that the purpose of the two American parties is to prune the field of populist candidates so that whatever two candidates exist in a face-off are both acceptable to that world order.”

After detailing how “fragile” that system can be, Weinstein added, “So, what the two parties would do is they would run primaries. You have populist candidates, and you’d pre-commit the populist candidates to support the candidates who won the primaries. As long as that took place and you had two candidates that were both acceptable to the international order.”

“We called that democracy. And so, democracy was the illusion of choice, what’s called magicians’ choice, where the choice is not actually…you know, pick a card, any card, but somehow the magician makes sure that the card that you pick is the one that he knows,” he continued. “In that situation, you have magicians’ choice in the primaries, and then you’d have the duopoly field, two candidates, either of which was acceptable, and you could actually afford to hold an election, and the populace would vote, and that way, the international order wasn’t put at risk every four years because you can’t have alliances that are subject to the whim of the people in plebiscites.”

Weinstein said “Everything was going fine until 2016,” which is when Trump “broke through the primary structure.”

“They learned their lesson. You cannot afford to have candidates who are not acceptable to the international order and continue to have these alliances,” he concluded. “This is an unsolved problem.”

The chilling assessment certainly gives new meaning to the idea that our elections are “rigged.” It also prompts questions about whether voting has become little more than “the illusion of choice.”

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story from X, including a remarkable endorsement from X owner Elon Musk:

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