From World Controllers to Cocktail Clowns: Trump Humiliated Davos

And just like that, the Great Bogeyman, the World Economic Forum, was castrated. The founder, leather-vest wearing German Klaus Schwab —a sinister takeoff on bumbling Sergeant Schulz from 1960’s classic Hogan’s Heroes— has been stuffed into the archives. No more, “you will own nothing! And be happy!” No more, “zey will eat ze bugs!” It’s all over; the fat German has sung. President Trump has occupied the WEF, whose globalist-loving élites today kick off what would usually be a dreadful week of career prostitution (both literal and figurative). A doleful New York Times ran the story with the tragic headline, “As Davos Convenes, Deference to Trump Has Replaced Everything.”

TAW! Today, President Trump will arrive at the “world trade conference” in icy Davos, Switzerland. He is slated to deliver his keynote as the guest of honor on Wednesday— coincidentally the day after the anniversary of his inauguration. The New York Times could barely conceal its dismay and disgust. Trump’s attendance is a catastrophe of epic proportions.

“Why is Trump going to Davos?” asked Mark Blyth, a far-left political economist at Brown University. He then answered his own question: “Trump’s punching them in the head and telling them who’s in charge.” The result? “This is the death of Davos,” Mark dolefully mused.

Sad! They miss Klaus. Without its bloated kingpin of technocratic control, everything is different, worse, and definitely not exciting for progressives at the Times, who have suddenly discovered everything that normal people have been complaining about for years. All it took was for Trump to arrive in force, and the Times can see the WEF for what it really is.

“People with the greatest stake in the status quo — billionaire executives who run the largest banks and technology companies,” the Times sneered sarcastically, “are cast as change agents, uniting with world leaders to pursue the ‘betterment of humanity.’”

That’s actually a pretty neat way of putting it. “Faced with the reality that the world is increasingly run by people who oppose its customary objectives,” the article explained, “the forum appears to have reduced itself to its central purpose: a business meeting.” Egads! Not business at a business forum!

The Times, years too late, has finally awakened to all the bitter WEF irony: “Corporate executives arrive by private jet to express alarm over climate change,” it began, warming to its theme. “Years ago, Davos featured a simulation of the refugee experience,” it smirked, “then attendees continued on to cocktail parties underwritten by consulting firms, grazing on caviar-topped canapés while keeping an eye out for celebrities.”

Years ago. In other words, Davos’s élite hypocrisy has been on grotesque display for years, but the Times is just now getting around to smugly mentioning it, instead of swooning over the forum’s collective brainpower. For some reason.

The Times’ newfound disgust over classic WEF hypocrisy was impossible to miss.

🔥 The overlong article, perhaps better described as a screed or jeremiad, rambled its way to three core complaints, all having arisen since Trump took office. “Much change has transpired in the year since the last Davos,” the article noted, mournfully. Here is the thrust:

1. Progressive darling and mandate king Klaus Schwab is gone, Cuomo-ed, the latest victim of liberal values. “His departure,” the article complained, hinting darkly at dirty work at the crossroads, “was hastened by scandals over how he oversaw the organization; he was accused of mismanaging funds and mistreating female employees.” The irony was lost on the Times.
2. The next problem was, climate change and its woke relatives are off Davos’s hoers d’ouvres menu. “In contrast with previous years,” the article moaned, “there was no mention of climate change or the need for an energy transition.” Not just the green scam. “Buzzwords that once got a strenuous workout — fair taxation, anti-corruption, sustainability, and social justice — were largely absent from the forum’s official pronouncements,” the reporter wrote, gnashing his teeth.
3. This year, the swanky conference is instead mostly focused on President Trump’s priorities. “This time,” the article complained, “any pretense that the values of Davos and Mr. Trump’s worldview are in opposition has been carefully erased.” Instead, “artificial intelligence and crypto have been elevated as the central areas of concern.”

If I wore a hazmat suit while doing it, I could write an encyclopedia about all of this faux hysteria. But I will just make three big points. First, the World Economic Forum as we know it is finished. The élites remain, with their habitual frittering of their collective taxpayers’ money on junkets to luxurious Alpine locations, but the pretense of far-left lunacy has been stripped down to the studs.

Second, more of the Trump Plan has been revealed. Trump clearly realized that, to the big corporations and their sycophantic politicians, the green energy scam was just another line of business. It was an incredibly counter-productive line of business, but it had the advantage of being paid for by governments, who might be slow payers, but are reliable and never haggle over price.

Say what you like about crypto, energy exploration, and artificial intelligence, but President Trump has found for these high-flyers something more productive to do. Building solar panels and windmills is lucrative, but it is a potlach —a ritualistic immolation of capital— benefiting nobody except the businesses that followed the progressive political winds.

Trump realized that you couldn’t just snatch the green energy “industry” away without replacing it with something even better, not without crashing whole economies that had clustered, parasite-like, around a fake green ‘industry’ created by globalist governments instead of markets.

But now, President Trump has refocused them on building AI data centers, along with the infrastructure and energy needed to operate them. Trump has replaced the gold rush of subsidized green energy with a similarly lucrative but much more productive private market (even allowing for the risks created by disruptive technology). The AI gold rush still offers lucrative government contracts— but also sky-high private opportunities as well.

Third, and finally, is the bitter end of what Davos represented to progressives. Until now, the WEF was the Alpine pinnacle of progressive power. As I’m sure you recall, the World Economic Forum was busily educating an entire generation of “WEF Young Global Leaders,” an élite brigade of attractive, polished candidates trained to occupy and subvert governments and big corporations all around the globe.

In a 2017 discussion at Harvard’s Kennedy School, a sinister Klaus Schwab menacingly boasted, “What we are very proud of, is that we penetrate ze global cabinets of countries with our World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders.” Too bad he was also penetrating so many secretaries. But I digress. In the same clip, Schwab doubled down: “Yesterday I was at a reception for Canada’s Prime Minister Trudeau, and I know that half of his cabinet, or even more than half of his cabinet, are actually Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum.”

Sorry, Canada.

So anyway, when the Times watches the WEF’s power draining away into “just a business meeting,” it probably feels like an alligator watching the tourist it had earmarked for itself climb out of the water and up onto the dock. Without the WEF coordinating all these young élites onto the same page of dystopian, technocratic music— who will advance progressive boomers’ agenda?

But the worst threat is that Trump could get behind the controls. Which explains why the Times —whose headline screamed “Deference to Trump Has Replaced Everything”— has suddenly discovered anti-WEF-ism. If Davos isn’t useful to progressives, it must be destroyed as a capitalistic excess. Which is actually fine with me. Tear it down! (I sympathize with all the escorts who’ll forgo their top earning season, but I hope they’ll find more productive employment elsewhere.)

TAW at the WEF! We await Trump’s Wednesday speech with great interest.

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