Davos 2023 - Whistling Past the Great Reset's Graveyard

By  Tom Luongo

 Gold Goats 'n Guns

January 23, 2023

In November 2021 I wrote a piece entitled " Have We Finally Reached Peak Davos?" This article was scarily spot on. When you've written as much as I have over the past five years, however, it's easy to look back and point at how prescient you were.

Even if you've gotten a whole lotta stuff wrong, which I have.

That particular article, though, was nearly point-for-point correct in assessing the state of The Davos Crowd's Great Reset project.

I wrote a Twitter thread about this the other day to pound the next few nails in Davos' coffin before the opening of this year's convocation of clueless globalists.

In this business the goal isn't to get everything right but to be right more often than you're wrong while spurring debate and conversation. This is how we crowdsource something close to the truth and/or steelman our own arguments in an endless quest for process improvement.

 I wrote about that process recently and why it's important to identify those who are still on that journey, those who are starting it, and those who are stuck in the morass of their own preconceptions.

Embrace and encourage the first two groups and question the ethics of those in the last.

Because in 2023 the mission is beginning to shift, from trying to forecast what these Cantillionaire midwits will do next to further assisting people in improving their data parsing abilities.

The more people that parse the Davos bullshit in real time, the less time they spend abreacting to it and using that saved time more productively to thwart Davos' plans.

So here we are as Davos 2023 winds down and it's pretty obvious, watching the proceedings, that their entire edifice built on a crude admixture of psychopathy and hubris is tumbling down.

And it's not only because more of us can see them for what they are, cheap communists in expensive suits, but because there are stark divisions forming within their own ranks.

The problem, however, for most of the committed Davosians is that they still live in the wine-and-cheese-filled amniotic sack of this Swiss Alps version of Oz. They don't see the gathering storm barreling down the yellow brick road as anything more threatening than a single mosquito is to a cow.

As anyone who has lived in central Florida or studied its cattle industry knows, a few million mosquitos can exsanguinate a cow in a matter of days.

So, watching the proceedings at this year's Davos was fascinating because, for the first time, the sheen was gone. Too many people were seeing the walls of the echo chamber for what they were; old, shabby, and drafty rather than having the veneer of wisdom that comes with age.

Davos had come out from behind the curtain willingly to declare themselves the saviors of humanity through their Fuhrer's nutty ideas about transhumanism, 15-minute cities, eating bugs, and renting your life from a central authority.

And it was easy to build a counter-narrative to this insanity that permeated into the zeitgeist by just pointing your finger and laughing at them.

If you want proof of just how far the Davos idea has traveled in the five years since I first called them "The Davos Crowd" the performance of this 𝕏 tweet of mine from January 3rd should do it.

My average tweet gets around 5000-8000 impressions, maybe 30-40 retweets, and a couple hundred likes.

I'm really pants at Twitter.

This thing is literally the first tweet of mine in years to 'go viral,' and shows no signs of letting up. I'm not patting myself on the back here, but rather pointing out what something like this represents in my little corner of the internet.

Hatred of Davos has broken containment.

The anxiety and fear these men have promulgated is now deeply embedded in people because it feels closer to the truth than what they were previously presented. With a relatively free Twitter these days, the opportunity for more containment breaks like this are rising exponentially.

And that is a very good thing.

Davos likes to talk in terms of the inevitability of their forecasted future. But that's just a front. Psychopaths always double down in the face of adversity.

But I've noted a certain sense of panic and/or desperation from a lot of Davos' lieutenants, like Blackrock's Larry Fink complaining about how mean we all are opposing ESG or NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg exhorting everyone that more weapons to fund Ukraine's war 𝕏 is the path to peace.

Note the use of "the" versus "a" in that sentence. When someone is telling you there is only one path forward, they are issuing an ultimatum... they are also lying through their teeth.

One of "the" paths to peace in Ukraine is in negotiating honestly with Russia. Ukrainian President and Schwab disciple Zelenskyy is out there saying nuttier things by the day, like now that he thinks Putin is dead while the US floats the idea of Ukraine retaking Crimea.

The fact that there has been not even a reasonable offer put on the table to the Russians to this point tells you that this war is policy and not an unfortunate happenstance of Russian belligerence.

But watch the video carefully and note the desperation on display from Stoltenberg. He knows the war isn't going well for NATO. He knows that if NATO fails here he and all of this corporatist cronies personally lose their seat at the gravy train.

He also knows he will be sacrificed on the globalists' altar if he fails to deliver in Ukraine. He's Admiral Piett, swallowing nervously, to Soros' Darth Vader.

Last year at Davos 2022 it was Soros delivering the rebuttal to Henry Kissinger's call for negotiations.  This Octogenarian clash of ideology and realpolitik was a kind of Rubicon crossing for all things Davos.

{And I definitely got a lot of things wrong in the article I wrote about that, if you're keeping score.}

By ignoring Kissinger's pragmatism and embracing Soros' belligerence Davos revealed itself as an out-of-touch echo chamber whose edicts are hurtling the world towards a terrible conflict, making their enemies' job opposing them that much easier.

You know Soros has won the argument within Davos because they trotted out ol' Henry to reverse himself on negotiations and embrace war which has all the earmarks of a classic communist struggle session.

I guess that's why Soros announced to the world he didn't need to go to Davos this year but would be at the Munich Security Conference next month to declare WWIII.

So, where are we now?

We're well past the point of Peak Davos that's for sure. When the guest list for this year was leaked I found it fascinating that many who've skipped it in the past would be there - US bank CEOs like JP Morgan Chase's Jamie Dimon. There were just as many who have gone previously to plead for sanity - Putin and Xi Jinping - didn't even phone it in.

It has been a fascinating week of announcements and headlines that paint a very ugly picture for Davos' future. When you take them (and their timing) into full context it should be obvious where this is headed.

Here's a partial list of the headlines from this week:

•  Saudis Open to Settling Trade Outside US Dollar
•  New Zealand PM Ardern Announces Resignation
•  Iran Joins Eurasian Economic Union
• Iran's Oil Exports Return to Pre-Sanction Levels
•  US Interested in Helping Ukraine Take Back Crimea
•  ECB Head Lagarde Says Inflation is Still Too High
•  Dimon Says Interest Rates Must Go Beyond 5%
• Biden-Gate Gaining Steam ( here and  here)
•  Powell Nemesis Brainard Backs "Higher for Long Rate Policy"
•  Al Gore Trotted Out to Scare Us with Climageddon!
•  Morgan Stanley CEO, "Davos is an Echo Chamber"

But the clincher is this headline from The Guardian.

Most of these would be interesting at any time but that they all occurred while Davos 2023 was happening is mind-boggling. And to think that so many of the attendees there are still walking around as if the future was already written in their favor is equally mind-boggling.

I'm not about to speculate further about what's really goin on there except to say that if feels like something has fundamentally changed, likely for the better. Is Schwab on his way out after ruling the WEF for 52 years?

Is my theory that the NY Boys and others have finally had enough of the fart-sniffing eggheads correct and they showed up with a new set of rules to lay down?

Is that why Bill Gates wasn't there?

Is that why the sycophantic Western press are running stories now that would never have seen the light of day if Schwab was still calling the shots?

Look, I'm not naïve, I know that Davos is a front for a bigger, older and deeper group of power brokers. Real bankers don't have Wikipedia pages.

If Larry Fink is a lieutenant then Schwab is just a Colonel and it's possible he's being thrown under the bus now to protect the Generals.

But why do the Generals feel the need to cut bait now? As difficult as it is to believe, they may just be losing.

Sometimes things aren't more complicated than they seem.

They took their shot and missed.

There will be no panopticon or cyber-pandemic. We'll still drive normal cars, eat red meat, and live in homes with a modicum of privacy. Whether we avoid WWIII is a different story.

Maybe the depression we all fear is on the horizon has already been here for fifteen years and this is as bad as it gets. No mushroom clouds, no Grand Army of the Republic. Just a bunch of tired old inbred losers finally running out of runway and crashing into the ditch rather than flying off into the sunset.

They don't believe their done yet. It is that gulf between their perception of potency and the reality of their impotence that will determine the rest of this horror show. Soros and his neocon crazies will go to Munich and push for more war.

They just might get it. Then again they may get everything they wished for... good and hard.

Davos may be ending in 2023, but the aftereffects of their insanity will be with us for years.

Reprinted with permission from  Gold Goats 'n Guns.

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