The win was unsurprising. Trump survived two assassination attempts which is marketing that's only second to starting a war.
Liberal propaganda was so over spiced that regular folk could taste it. Podcasters were destinations for people to wash the sourness away.
Substack played a part, with politics and culture being the biggest genres. The Fifth Column is earning over $1m annually, and Blocked and Reported, which points out the ridiculous of overwokeness, earns half that i.e., lots of followers. Then there must be thousands of antiwar/antiempire blogs with more than a 1000 subscribers each.
On the ground, in the USA, people know that political praise for Wall Street is bullshit whilst their income declines and rent increases. There's genuine hate for BlackRock, JP Morgan etc. The incumbent, as normal, gets blamed.
Plus Biden/Harris was the dumbest marketing team in my adulthood.
With the major caveat that I don't trust politicians, especially Americans, and with the knowledge that bankers pull the strings, and that viciousness follows threat to empire, Trump will have a better team this time (and it will include revolving door neoliberals).
JD Vance, if he survives the shadow of the ego of Trump, will outlive Trump and stand a shot at becoming the next President.
I also expect that Trump will face more challenges before inauguration, but big money will work with him because it will gouge profits from building the wall, exporting brown folk etc.
Foreign policy will be trickier.
Crazy tariffs on China will backfire.
Israel is doomed, but there's still money to be made out of rebuilding their defences, and more money to be made from alliances with Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar etc.
Zelensky will agree to Trump's terms, but Putin won't. Ukraine will be kicked out of Kursk before Xmas, and there will be three major offensives by Russia, thus strengthening their bargaining hand.
The UK will continue to decline under Labour, and thus Farage will be boosted by Trump.
Poland will become the USA's fist in Europe.
Of course, this all depends on a recession being avoided. The ripples would greatly affect us, but the USA would be in deeper shit than 2008. Europe is declining without that nudge.
Interesting, interesting times. I'm as fearful as I'm fascinated.
The win was unsurprising. Trump survived two assassination attempts which is marketing that's only second to starting a war.
Liberal propaganda was so over spiced that regular folk could taste it. Podcasters were destinations for people to wash the sourness away.
Substack played a part, with politics and culture being the biggest genres. The Fifth Column is earning over $1m annually, and Blocked and Reported, which points out the ridiculous of overwokeness, earns half that i.e., lots of followers. Then there must be thousands of antiwar/antiempire blogs with more than a 1000 subscribers each.
On the ground, in the USA, people know that political praise for Wall Street is bullshit whilst their income declines and rent increases. There's genuine hate for BlackRock, JP Morgan etc. The incumbent, as normal, gets blamed.
Plus Biden/Harris was the dumbest marketing team in my adulthood.
With the major caveat that I don't trust politicians, especially Americans, and with the knowledge that bankers pull the strings, and that viciousness follows threat to empire, Trump will have a better team this time (and it will include revolving door neoliberals).
JD Vance, if he survives the shadow of the ego of Trump, will outlive Trump and stand a shot at becoming the next President.
I also expect that Trump will face more challenges before inauguration, but big money will work with him because it will gouge profits from building the wall, exporting brown folk etc.
Foreign policy will be trickier.
Crazy tariffs on China will backfire.
Israel is doomed, but there's still money to be made out of rebuilding their defences, and more money to be made from alliances with Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar etc.
Zelensky will agree to Trump's terms, but Putin won't. Ukraine will be kicked out of Kursk before Xmas, and there will be three major offensives by Russia, thus strengthening their bargaining hand.
The UK will continue to decline under Labour, and thus Farage will be boosted by Trump.
Poland will become the USA's fist in Europe.
Of course, this all depends on a recession being avoided. The ripples would greatly affect us, but the USA would be in deeper shit than 2008. Europe is declining without that nudge.
Interesting, interesting times. I'm as fearful as I'm fascinated.