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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. ...

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.)

...Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum (WEF) holds its annual jamboree of vampire squids. Klaus Schwab is out, by the way. He skulked off in a malodorous cloud of embezzlement and sexual irregularities, to be replaced by Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the hedge fund that owns everything in the USA and wants more.

Larry Fink is living proof of the banality of evil, an early pioneer of mortgage-backed securities, which nearly blew up the global banking system in 2008-09, after which he pioneered the wholesale purchasing of foreclosed houses by hedge funds. Neat trick. Cornered the market on all the inventory, so, now, nobody under age-fifty in America can afford to buy a house — but you can rent one from BlackRock!

Larry Fink landed as interim head of the WEF largely because BlackRock has been espousing Klaus Schwab’s ideas about “Stakeholder Capitalism,” which allows global corporations to pretend that they have beneficent “societal purpose” while they go about ass-raping the common folk of Western Civ. Climate change and green new deals top that agenda, along with diversity, equity, and inclusion and additional bullshit about “environment, social, and governance factors” (ESG) in its global strategies portfolio — meaning, mandates for exactly the kind of policies that are destroying Europe’s economies, de-industrialization foremost.

Among the invited speakers at Davos this year: one US President Donald Trump. He is going to kill them with kindness, a tongue-bath of Trumpian compliments — you are the greatest. . . beautiful leaders like the world has never seen before — while he artfully inserts a stiletto in the WEF’s liver. You might not even know that the org is a walking corpse until a few weeks after the Davos meeting shuts down. But Mr. Trump is going to terminate its influence and send a message that the era of globalist shenanigans is over.

The president can point to two demonstration projects. First, the USA’s acquisition of Greenland one way or another, either ownership or some leasing agreement or revised treaty arrangement. You can be sure that the EU does not like that — big bully America picking on cuddly little Denmark, “the world’s happiest country.” But since they are happily oblivious to Greenland’s strategic importance (vis-a-vis China’s nefarious ambitions there) it is up to America to prepare the game-board. The art of the deal, of course, is making it fait accompli before the targeted property-owner has even entered the discussion. How that works will be a painful discovery for the walking dead Davosanistas.

The second demo will be how the recent arrest of Nicolás Maduro leads to revelations of the globalist conspiracy to interfere in elections here, there, and everywhere. Señor Maduro sold his Smartmatic system to all comers, and you can bet that the plea bargain talks are already underway in Brooklyn (if not already concluded). Yes, it is our old friend, the Kraken, which is a related species of giant squid to the vampire variety convened in Davos.

This election fraud business is really consequential. It redounds to the criminality of the Democratic Party that had the impudence to jam an enfeebled marionette, “Joe Biden,” into the Oval Office, allowing a treasonous cabal of nihilists to nearly wreck the country. The massive evidence of that crime was clumsily suppressed by the cabal and its allies in the news business.

But it is surfacing again, now with Señor Maduro’s imprimatur, and it will turn into a force five storm off the coast of Florida as grand juries in Fort Pierce and Fort Lauderdale were empaneled a week ago to consider the myriad lawless operations mounted against Mr. Trump since 2015, including election fraud. The lawless are going to be rounded up, from Raffensperger in Georgia, to Katie Hobbs in Arizona, to Jocelyn Benson in Michigan, to Jena Griswold in Colorado, to dozens of other officials who were in on the big vote switcheroo of Nov. 3, 2020.

And when the revelations finally come, it will be too much for the foot-dragging villains in the US Senate to continue resisting — they will have to pass the SAVE Act or some legislation like it that requires voter ID, one election day, and paper ballots counted by humans, not machines. It remains to be seen whether the Democratic Party goes extinct because of its exposed, widespread criminality, or because it simply can’t win an election without massive ballot fraud.