I’m moving your comment here, @WEnchanteur so that I can break my “no politics” rule on this blog just this once.
You wrote:
Wow! Best day of the year. I wish I could be american. I’m even less pessimistic than usual, at least for the world outside my doomed country.
Last July, shortly before the second round of elections in your country France, @WEnchanteur, I was discussing with an esteemed colleague, Marine Le Pen’s shot at winning. In my opinion, the celebration of her party’s astounding victory during the first round was premature, and her chance of success was nil. Knowing un petit peu of French politics, I anticipated that the left-wingers and your president Emmanuel Macron would form an unholy alliance to defeat Ms. LePen’s National Rally. This preemptive move was nothing new; it had been done before. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” and all that.
In a way, the final push of this 2024 U.S. election is similar to yours, but in reverse.
It was former President Trump who formed an alliance — or “unity” party as they would soon call it — with unlikely bedfellows. He gained the endorsements of Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard, who were all Democrats before they weren’t, lol. With these additional members, and his already solid guys on his side, like JD Vance, Vivek Ramaswamy, Scott Pressler, Charlie Kirk, and Harmeet Dhillon, Trump was able to forge a formidable alliance where all the teamplayers could be sent out — individually or in groups — to communicate his vision and goals for the future of the country.
Hate him or love him, he has policies which his “emissaries” delivered effectively to the voters, so the voters could have something to chew on, dive in, relate to, agree with, and rally around.
That to me is key. I know where he stands on issues so I can act accordingly.
In comparison, one thing that dismayed me about Ms. Harris is her sheer tone-deafness. Poll after poll after poll indicated that majority of American voters were concerned about the following issues:
+economy, specifically the record high inflation,
+ILLEGAL immigration and border security,
+foreign policy or geopolitics in Ukraine, China, Russia, Israel, Middle East
+law and order (with all due respect to the Californians here, the rest of the country didn’t want a California-cation of their world.)
+the ideology and practice of DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion). People wanted meritocracy.
+inclusion of men in women’s sports and women’s safe spaces (the bathroom!)
spread of transgender insanity in schools,
+CRT (Critical Race Theory) in schools,
+Voter ID/election integrity, +censorship =/= freedom of expression, +abortion/pro-life, and +energy independence.
But instead of convincing the voters that she understood the urgency in tackling their fears and concerns right NOW, Ms. Harris:
a. shifted blame onto the Orange Bogeyman aka Trump (this strategy didn’t work because folks already KNEW that he wasn’t a saint and LIKED him despite his flaws)
b. diverted attention on stage to some Hollywood celebrity (Who cares if Taylor Swift, Cardi B, Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce, and Rihanna endorse her? These women have a track record of making poor decisions in men! Their discernment process is questionable.)
c. tossed a vapid word salad in her interviews (“The work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by, or a result of, many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen.”)
d. cackled as if she found everything a big joke (she lacked gravitas)
e. all of the above
For a former prosecutor, she’s so frustratingly inept and unprepared to make her case to the people that I cringed whenever I heard her unscripted responses in interviews and official functions. Perhaps it was my fault because I had high standards and expectations of her. Given her legal background, I expected her to be able to think on her feet and persuade people of the rightness of her cause.
Instead, she flopped like a dimwit in the spotlight. For instance, when she was asked on a TV show if she would have done anything differently from President Biden during the past four years, she answered, “There is not a thing that comes to mind, in terms of… and I’ve been part of most decisions that have had impact.”
🤦🏼♀️
If this administration had been polling at 51, 60, 70, or 80% approval rate, then her answer was stupendous. Brava! But she seemed to be oblivious to the fact that majority believed the country was on the wrong tracks. Instead of distancing herself from Biden’s incompetence, she coupled herself to his failed policies. Her answer was astoundingly stupid.
Do you see what I mean by “unprepared”? I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt and blame her faults on tone deafness, but I always had a niggling sense that laziness, false sense of superiority and plain low I.Q. all play a part in her vacuousness.
If she could blunder such a softball question from an adulating TV host, how could she then be expected to hold her own when dealing with Putin, Xi, Netanyahu, Khamenei, Kim, and whoever Sinwar’s successor is. (Sinwar was the former leader of Hamas.) Even with advisors beside her, she can’t cackle her way out of negotiations. And frankly, I don’t want a repeat of that disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal….
Moreover, if she could flub such an easy question, how could she handle tougher questions in times of crisis? Her response, for instance, to the disaster in Western North Carolina when a hurricane swept away communities was inept. I found myself chuckling when the Governor of Florida gave her a verbal smackdown. He called her out for politicizing the situation, saying, “She’s been Vice President for three and a half years. I’ve dealt with a number of storms under this administration. She has never contributed anything to any of these efforts.” 🤦🏼♀️
But her inaction/absence didn’t come as a big surprise to me since her response to the crisis in the Southern border was non-existent, too.
The way I see it, she consistently flopped, and flopped so hard despite being propped up by media. It must be noted that this media which is touting her as the next best thing since sliced bread is the SAME media that had colluded to cover up Biden’s deteriorating mental faculties all these years.
In all honesty, @WEnchanteur, if we had someone with Le Pen’s mental acuity and leadership running for office, I would cast my vote for the first ever female President. But to promote VP Harris to the highest position in the government merely because of her sex and skin color, especially when her professional incompetence appalls me so, is anathema to me. As you know from my reviews of kdramas, I never go for “feels,” “chemistry,” “hysteria,” or “vibes”. I prefer an objective, reasonable, justifiable, common-sensical, and even nuanced approach to dramas in both the reel and real world. Unfortunately, I didn’t find her qualified to be the leader of the free world.
Pax!
Thanks for this! One of the best, cool-headed and reasonable rationalizations I’ve read! Just the facts!
@Pm3, great speech and I feel like you wanted to talk about that more than me. 😄
I’m agree with all your points, except about french politics. Anyway you know I’m not exactly conservative or whatever, more a normal guy like Elon Musk, pushed on the right by the simple effect of Overton window. And of course anti-woke, it goes without saying. Just I’m aware how the system and geopolitics work since decades. (should be around late 90s).
You can believe in God or not, anyway, it’s what you can call satanism, about the way people in the western shadow gouvern and how are speechs of MSM they control. Invert thruth and lies, men are women or anything crazy from a psychiatric asylum, blame victims, worst: says victims are tormentors, and tormentors are victims. Every human values is inverted, same about meaning, or nature of facts. So, religion or not, it’s appropriate to call that the true evil.
For USA, what I saw about this election: KH was typical puppet of deep-state. She said (and her assistant, a cringe old dude in power when his state was devastated by the terrorist organisation BLM) that she would supress 2nd amendement, and him about suppress 1st amendement. They didn’t say directly, but it was the meaning of their declarations. What means globalists behind the scene get full power and can turn USA into a tyranny like they did in australia (and new zealand) when they confiscated guns. Before covid operation of course.
I saw that coming and wasn’t only one to notice that (Elon Musk made a tweet about it): if Trump looses, it’s end of america. And probably going into civil war. And more, WW3 (I speak about that later).
My country (and most of european ones) doesn’t have a 1st and 2nd amendement. USA are great about constitution. You see how it’s bad for us. France is leader of the world about censorship (you can check suppression orders on facebook to confirm). Even M. Lepen isn’t a good choice for now (she could, but 10 years ago, when her team was better). Leader of party is a young cute guy (get girls vote), with some ideas in same line of extreme-center of macron. Just add a bit of powder about immigration or woke thematics.
M. Lepen is a weathervane, no clear direction like Trump or her father. She changes opinions according what she finds in pools. She’s a disappointing version of Meloni, already disappointing. But at least I’m subjugated by the charm of this italian lady. 😚 And she did a bit better recently.
Far left party isn’t an option too. Woke and pro-immigration politics, but at least they fighted well during covid time. When LePen party almost doubled her deputies during last elections, Far left party (alas) did nothing better. It was just a scam because they allied with other parties (they called that “left” but it were mostly pro-macron ones, like regular socialists or ecologists). So at the end of the day: Extreme-center still have the majority. Macron move to dissolve assembly resulted in a damp squib for others, and giving him majority again. Most of french people didn’t understand that. But I just made a basic calculation, nothing difficult.
Trump won because there were 200,000 people of him surveying cheating, preventing mass fraud like there was in 2020. By the way, now we know approximatively number of fake votes of this year, around 15-20 millions.
Crazyness of the actual world comes from blindness of the globalist cabale (rich century-long dynasties piloting FED, Otan, Bilderberg, WEF and many other power networks) and mismatch with reality. BRICS are now superior economicaly. What is a threat for their project of “new world order”, technocratic dictatorship with a depopulation agenda. Everything unfolded in the wrong order for them. I don’t know why, maybe operations were long-term and too difficult to plan to change the dates. Ukraine probably planned when H. Clinton was in line but loose unexpectedly when facing Trump, making some innapropriate delay. It’s difficult to see for us, normal people, as we are not seeing what’s happening beyond the shareholders opaque wall of companies like Blackrock.
It was quite bad for them that covid operation came before, when it injured many military peoples of USA, in particular fighter jet pilots, when they were on rampage for a further war. It created a big loss of confidence. And for many people (starting to awaken) it made clear it was fascism (according creator of this ideology, Mussolini: alliance of State and Companies/Finance). States working directly for big-pharma and mandates their products with… states paying, so population money!
Many deaths for people getting the wrong lot (the ones whose number begins with “E” were particularly deadly, heart attack deaths, the famous “died suddenly”). Others with medium term effects doing fast cancers (loss of immunity, as a sequence of HIV was detected in the product by Montagne, famous french nobel-prize professor). Mass censorship about that, until Elon Musk buy twitter and published twitter files, showing how the censorship happened in the western world on twitter and every other social network.
French constitution didn’t protect people. Even when it was not constitutional and against Nuremberg code, constitution council approved laws about mandate jab for categories of people (medical) and anyone refusing was withdrawn with no rights you could have when you normaly loose your job. USA did that too, and it was worst in Italy or Australia (they even built concentration camps).
It was a very depressing time for me, as many people around were blind of what happens, accepting this, and sometimes turned into fascists because hysterical MSM propaganda, and wanted everyone not jabbed to be deprived of their rights or to have a job, deprived to be healed or to see their loved ones at hospital. It was almost a giant Milgram experiment about general mind control. It was a journey into darkness without light in sight. With forced confinement and despair, I took 20kg fat. Being aware is like a curse. But it’s impossible to bury your head in the sand like an ostrich when it’s a matter of life and death. Yet, it’s what did people in my daily life, and the few ones I tried to alert were unable to understand, really too late for them as they never understood how the world works behind the scene.
JFK jr will probably put that on the table in Trump administration. He want to fight hard big-pharma and do it fast. He’s a great (and true) democrat, like Tulsi Gabbard (a woman deserving to be first woman president!). I expect some criminals like Fauci or Gates to have big problems, charged with crime against humanity accusations. For the second one, if it’s not that, it will be Epstein list. And for hollywood clowns, living comfortable and incompetent about realpolitics (except for M. Gibson, J. Wood, C. Eastwood and a few others), it will be diddy list.
Now I come back to the previous point: what it does if Trump didn’t win? WW3 !!
Globalists could have a last hope to push the warmonger agenda (going on since 911, new “pearl harbor” according the PNAC), conquer more of the world, going into global technocratic governement, like D. Rockefeller dreamed of in his book. But for that, facing BRICS, only option is war. Anyway, this could be devastating for them. We are not in the older times and older wars when they could hide. Russia and China know exactly who are those guys, and who control western empire. Nowhere to hide and risky to survive a nuclear war. But it was the way it goes.
During this time, whole world noticed that military supremacy changed and Russian army is now better than USA one, even with 1/10 of the budget. (Neocon Rumsfeld wrote about that before to die: in USA, money is wasted in too many corruption and 800 military bases to pay). So, countries started to claim independance, not agree to be cheated by monkey money “the dollar” anymore. You could see that in Africa. Even Saoudi started to sell oil in other money devise, while it costed their country when Irak or Lybia tried. Just it’s like a school yard, a new strong guy is here and able to defeat the bully. And other people look for protection from this strong guy.
Trump election diminish greatly the chance WW3 happens. I don’t know how america will deal with the dollar which value is almost zero since 70s when it were decupled from gold value, when it’s clear that dedollarisation is on the way (Russia doesn’t have anymore dollars and China is selling hard). I bet for just: debt gone in the wind, brutal cancel, and investors should be happy with interests. But Trump would need to take control on FED, that is a private bank since 1914. Previous guy trying that was murdered: Kennedy. I don’t know who tried to murder Trump. I just believe it wasn’t a random guy but an operation. But not a so well made operation than the Kennedy one. So it’s difficult to know how it was made, by who, or what part of the deep-state.
Now Europe is the place where globalists will continue to apply their agenda. So, maybe the worst place in the world to live. European MSM all having same speech: blah blah- Trump “fascist”, “end of USA democracy”, “we need to harden EU rules about free speech and control” to face both Russia and USA. They even plan to continue to support ukraine without USA. What makes no sens as there is no more money or industrial capacity to produce weapons. But even with people with power and intelligence, it can be irrational decisions. Not so surprising when they are morally corrupted.
Still, it’s a great time to be alive, because we witness historical events not seen since decades, maybe since WW2 or even older. And also, there is some hope for the world, and of course for USA now. We aren’t in a WW3 but still in a global conflict. Globalists try to put their puppets in as many countries as they can. Last one to fall was Mexico. I expect some puppets to fall, like WEF agent Trudeau in Canada.
Japan started to fall to the same agenda that destroyed european countries (wokism, immigration, etc) but it could be stopped. South Korea also is in bad condition but stand. They made the error to pass a law allowing foreign organisations to act, what means Soros-like organisations can start corruption. In this case, it will be the end of kdramas and they will turn into woke content like western series. Problem of South Korea is: “democrat like” party is a dead end and “conservative like” party gives nothing good about life conditions, wanting to increase working hours when SK is already well above OCDE standard.
For Europe, it will be really difficult to get freedom. Hungary and a few other countries stand. Maybe Italia or Deutshland will follow. It’s badly engaged for France or UK. But after 2 years of Trump in charge, maybe things will change. What happens in USA is important because it’s often what happens in other countries after a delay, could be for the worst or the better.
I promise I didn’t say any bad of vulgar word in my answer.
But should be a keyword in this, making it has gone in the “SPAM” can. 😂
You could notice that stupid MSM tried hard to say “boooh, if people didn’t vote for KH, it’s because she’s a woman and they are “sex..st, ra…ist”. Well, really the ZERO degree of intelligence, like if it was important when it’s about ideas and project. But it’s on purpose. They know what they are doing and can’t be forgiven. I still wonder if they push their stupidity so hard that over the time, they really believe it? They are so stupid that it could be true. 🤪
By the way, when LePen wasn’t elected x2, no one said that. How strange?! ^^
It’s only a weapon for the uniparty. Just see that in a cold way. Intelligence not allowed! 😑
Very interesting analysis @Packmule.
I share some of the concerns you highlight.
However, there are big concerns too.in this ‘presidential package’,from.where I am sitting in the UK.
For instance, what about Trump on climate change? I hope and pray he will modify his rhetoric and engage with the issue.Talking to my sister about this last night. Difficult to feel sanguine re this issue at such an important juncture for the world as a whole.Not a vote winner and didn’t seem to come up a lot in either candidate’s campaign. Nor did we see it discussed much in out recent UK election for that matter.
RFK – will.he impact Public Health? I get the serious discussion of the public health response to covid amongst the medical community. But RFK is not in that space.
Sorry this is all.short hand!
I am also concerned for his response to Ukraine. Is he.confident of a negotiated outcome building on his relationship with Putin? Worried about his public comments re Putin and the invasion.of Ukraine.
Would be interested in yout perspectives.
@Pm3, well, just don’t publish my comment in “spam zone”. It’s too ahead for people and depressing, maybe even risky. Keep it for yourself, or for people really wanting: I’ll copy it in PM.
I realize that because of Kate comment.
Only thing I can say is: stop legacy medias, it’s fake news all the way, only used to manipulate people. It’s the main goal of MSM. Start to reinform seriously yourself. If you don’t know where, go on Elon Musk’s X, and find out step by step how the world works behind the scene. It’s not something pleasant and take some time, but truth is still better than lies.
@packmule3, great comments. for the first time in my life I sat out the presidential election. I don’t live in the states that count and the down ballot races were inconsequential-with the winners in my district being obvious. I had hoped that there would be better presidential candidates. My knowledge of Trump went back decades as my mother-in-law’s best friend and travel companion was old man Trump’s bookkeeper(he gave her rotten financial advice).I also think that we need younger people in office. Trump is losing it and it wouldn’t surprise me if Vance finishes out his term. I look at who runs for office, in general, and it disheartens me that so many are mediocre at best. I have had contact with a lot of people who have run for Congress and they seemed inept. And having worked for governmental agencies I have seen the dichotomy between career civil servants and political appointees. My hope is that we can get through the next four years relatively unscathed.w
We know there will be natural disasters to deal with and lots of unforeseen events that will test the new administration. Who would have predicted Covid?
On a personal note my family continues to deal with my husband’s cancer. Medicine has kept him alive but the side effects are challenging. I am very grateful fir BOD and Asian dramas in general to offer some needed distraction from our daily lives. Many thanks for that.
@packmule3 and @aol interesting insights from people living in the US. My reference as a European is the NYTimes and it was painful to see how poorly objective they were during the whole campaign.
The American campaign- and its result by the way- did not alleviate my sorrow about how much the traditional democratic parties and the voters in our countries seem to have lost their compass…What could be a game changer which would allow politicians and voters alike to find their way back to common sense “governability”???
On a personal note, my heart goes to the BODers whose life is less than easy lately.
Dear Friends, greetings from Venezuela… and the other side of the coin.
My primary source are Peter Zeihan’s daily videos. Sometimes I watch Caspian Reports.
But my main reference is my own experience in living in a former Populist country. I say former as money did run out and people found that behind those beautiful posters of paradise were only a bunch of lies and a lot of weapons aimed, ironically, to those that were their most enthusiastic endorsers as they did not agree anymore.
I have lived the life of a nail, so my main caveat about my own biases is that for me almost everything can be a hammer.
Now my own views and observations:
Mrs. Harris did not understand her opponent. Her magical thinking made her delude herself into the idea that she was in the right side of history, that Mr. Trump was so unpalatable that her victory was assured. She did not offer new ideas but empty rhethorics. Democrats believed so badly they would win that they postulated “The First American Female President” instead of a better candidate. That seems like a Diversity Appointee from my point of view.
About Mr. Trump, I did not like him the first time, but after January the 6th 2020 when his speech inciting for his followers to take the Capitol, he reminded me of a similar event here in 2017.
When both the president Nicolás Maduro and the vice president Tarek El Aissami (said to be a representative of Hezbollah and HAMAS) went to our congress called the national assembly to present the annual achievements and documents from the Executive to the Legislative, then controlled by the opposition, and Tarek incited violence by asking true patriots to be present at the national assembly later. Paramilitary groups called “Colectivos” [Collectives] appeared that day later and proceeded to hit congressmen and congresswomen for the amusement of the bolivarian national guard, that was there supposedly to protect the national assembly.
It did hurt when it happened in my Country, but the US is the heart of the World, and that worried me even more.
In a Jorge Luis Borges tale, an imprisoned man reflects on the meaning and power of God. He eventually reaches for a simple sentence, that if pronounced by him, he would become the Master and from imprisoned, he would be totally free and his adversaries reduced to mere marionettes under his power.
Yet he decided not to pronounce those words. As he reached his conclusions and threaded all those infinite interactions of already perfect existences (like a perfect rabbit eating a perfect blade of grass, only to be killed by a perfect fox), he reached the conclusion that compared to all that Perfection, Majesty and Limitlessnes, even him, his life and his circumstances became totally irrelevant.
Hope you are well.
@WEnchanteur, I rescued this from my spambox.
I get what you’re saying. Being a Washingtonian, I’ve seen presidents come and go. When Mr. Trump won in 2016, I was asked if I was agitated about his shocking win and I replied — with unmanufactured equanimity, mind you — that the US presidential election happens every four years. If people don’t like the results, then they can alter course after four years.
However, after living through this debacle of Biden’s presidency, I can objectively say that it will be nigh impossible to alter course after four MORE years of a Harris’ administration. This union of 50 states is straining at the seams, no thanks to the media and the progressive faction in the democratic party.
By the way, if you want to know how closely the U.S. media and Democrat party are entwined, just research who is married to whom. So yes, if folks are getting their news JUST from these mainstream sources (or “legacy” sources), then they are getting mostly propaganda. They have been misled into believing that Mr. Trump is this big bad wolf, fascist, Hitler in the flesh.
Seriously, I’m
baffled anddisgusted at how easily people — mostly from my generation — have memory-holed how adored Mr. Trump was before he declared his nomination in 2015. I wasn’t his fan (I prefer a low-key, intellectual sort of guy) but it’s just weird how all HIS fans like Oprah and the Clintons demonized him after he declared himself a Republican. There should be a study about that phenomenon.Yes, I see what’s happening in Europe, and to parts of Latin America and Asia. Isn’t it remarkable that wokism, illegal immigration, DEI, etc., have no place in Africa, the Middle East, and China?
Anyway, I was told that this whole election is uncannily like that Star Wars trilogy:
2016 Trump election = A New Hope
2021 Biden’s election = Empire Strikes Back
2024 Trump’s reelection = The Return of the Jedi
Gotta run.
@WEnchanteur, I guess you believe in conspiracy theories. I find that sad. RFK Jr. Is antivaccine and plays into the fears of people with the failed theory that DPT vaccines cause autism. I think I would rather have a child with autism than a dead child. The American system allows for big pharma but if you have good insurance, medicaid or good Medicare supplemental coverage or use genetics, most drugs cost very little. Poor people have medicaid rich people don’t care and in some instances are comped. Civil servants have coverage. And there are groups of people who know how to game the system. Trump wants to k I ll Obama care but he’s been gaming the system forever. Look at how he got government funds after 9/11 and how he uses bankruptcy laws to stiff his workers. 5he man is despicable but he knows how to communicate a te with h8s base. I blame two people for h8s ascendanc6; Baraka Obama for teasing him at the presidential roast and Mark Burnett who gave him a pop culture platform with The Apprentice. Burnett created the myth that Trump was a great businessman. If you look at his history, he was not zuis Dad made the money. Trump briefly had the Plaza Hotel but mos5 of his money came from selling his name. And now tmany of those people to whom he sold his name are removing it. Again, he is now 78 and cognitively challenged.in two years he’ll be 80 and you’ll see further cognitive deterioration. Both his parents had dementia. Vance will probably take over but he does have Trump’s “charisma”. I give Trump two years. That’s why I am not in mourning. The USA has been gravely challenged in the past but it has prevailed. Thr left has its own crackpots. The w9ke people have not prevailed. What will save us is above the center. 8t will happen.y
Dear @OAL, I read you. As I told you, the last time I was in the USA I was an underage boy. Mr. Trump seems oddly familiar to me with Hugo Chávez in his rhetorics, his “Us Against Them” mentality (which has sadly pervaded the whole system and to be frank precedes him). Here we say “Río revuelto, ganancia de pescadores” [Turbulent river, fishermen’s gain] as how there are people preying in disunity.
I hope The United States prevails. It is the heart of the Western World, and to be honest, I see no culture with as much success and that has brought so much good (Medicine, Widespread Education, Electricity, Electronics, Scientific Method, Human Rights along a long list of etceteras) in the History of Humanity.
Also I hear you, dear @PM3. Those woke people disgust me to no end. Shoehorning into the youth a pernitious ideology where nuclear family and heterosexual dynamics are a perversion of free will will cost dear in the long run. Both family and the union of a man and a woman produces sons and daughters that will form new families. We are cultural beings and we need baskets to further, improve and refine that culture into the future.
I see it as a bickering of two opposing worldviews that are blind to all the complexities and paradoxes circumscribed between them.
Hope you all the best!
@AOL, I don’t believe in anything. I’ve been seriously informed and interested in geopolitics for decades. It takes time and effort. If I didn’t spend so much time on this, I’d be able to watch more dramas. 😅
The only thing I can guarantee is that mass media only goal is to manipulate the public. I can’t make the list of all psychological technics used, but in short, it became bad storytelling, full of plot-holes. For the real news, we still need to compare various sources of information, analysts’ opinions and official/diplomatic statements.
@Pm3, yeah, I saw this funny “star wars” reference on X.
I was tired when I wrote, so maybe imprecise about numbers. Since then, we know a bit more about Trump future government, and it looks good. Among them, there are motivated US politicians I know since a while, and unknow ones, as I don’t know in detail all your politicians. I’m waiting to see. With a team like this, I hope this time Trump will be able to ‘clean the swamp’. But it’s going to be a tough fight.
Why was Trump liked by everyone and is suddenly hated when he becomes a Republican? First, he doesn’t just become a Republican like the establishment ‘RINO’ ones of the Uni-Party. He regularly makes speeches about the deepstate. He names the enemy.
For the financial hyper-class and its subsidies (media, show business), it’s a betrayal of class. He’s supposed to be one of them, and should keep quiet. And now he’s a danger, because of certain hot issues. If these files are opened, it will be a shock for the misinformed populations. It should put down many people, not only in USA.
You can see the same thing happened to Elon Musk. Everybody loved this guy. But when he decides to favorise free-speech, they all hate him and he’s slandered in MSM. Of course, they are the official liars, and globalists are currently applying massive censorship. See twitter files about how it was done. Even Zuckerberg admitted the governement pressured him to censor massively on facebook, about covid, about biden laptop, etc. Then, whatever they can’t censor, they label it: complotism, disinformation, hate speech. Or try to lie a second time: ‘fact check, debunk’. Or disseminate discrediting conspiracy theories to double-down. Or even hire thousand of astroturfers. It’s all part of the information warfare strategy.
Immigration, DEI, climate scam, WHO directives, etc, are the totalitarian weapons of globalist power, for social control and destruction of nations, a needed step to a technocratic global government. It’s discreet but not secret, the information is even easy to find. It is enshrined in the directives of organisations such as Blackrock, WEF, CFR and others. Check declaration of Larry Fink about DEI “we force behavior”. Hence their top-down application, facilitated by puppet presidents from programmes such as “Young Leaders”, and agents such as Soros and his many subversive organisations.
So every vassal country gets the same treatment, the same policies applied everywhere. And it sounds quickly absurd when a northern country like Sweden is submerged by south immigration and crime in less than 15 years. It’s bad for the country, so you have to ask why? And why both parties do it, even when they say they won’t?
But this agenda doesn’t happen, of course, in countries outside the western sphere of influence, such as Russia, China and others. The idea was to conquer other parts of the world (through war, economic sanctions, colour revolutions, puppet leaders), but I think it failed. As it’s a long-term strategy (over decades), I can’t be too much optimistic. At least, it’s related in various speechs from BRICS leaders. Opinion that most of analysts have now, except few far-fetched ones looking for a plan in the plan.
The countries ruled by the Western empire are being destroyed by the agenda too quickly. We have reached the point where the economy, production, birth rate, safety and education have been too badly damaged. Maybe bad timing, bad appreciation, too much corruption, hard to say why. Totalitarian systems also waste a huge amount of money and energy on social control. So, it’s now very hard to continue this agenda when military and economy can’t stand it, and anyway population are mistreated, demotivated and internal dissension grows.
According to a WEF representative (Harari), and much to his regret, Trump’s election is the final nail in the coffin of this world order. I see it as the ultimate survival reflex of the USA as a country and a democracy, just before death. Then, it’s a big historical change like I wasn’t expecting to see in my life. USA should leave their unipolar world and becomes a country of the multipolar world. I hope more peaceful.
There is the problem of the dollar and the money-debt slavery system, that is an endless source of profit for “elites” as well as a weapon to impose directives on countries. I was listening to an analyst recently on this point. For a fair international exchange system, the USA cannot keep a monkey currency. The rest of the world will not accept it. The currency has to be backed by a real value. Perhaps gold or a basket of resources. The BRICS are de-dollarising and proposing backed money. They are doing it slowly because an abrupt end to the dollar would cause a global chaos. Their aim is not to destroy the dollar (Medvedev confirmed it in a recent speech), so US can adapt with a good lead. If not, it will be the law of the market, anyone will prefer a real money, and US could enter Weimar nightmare. Perhaps Trump could regain control of the FED, put an end to money-debt and carry out a reset based on real value?
@FGB. Forgive me if I’m talking nonsense, as I live a long way from Venezuela and I might have an inaccurate perspective. But I hope my message brings you some optimism.
I’ve been following the news about your country since Chavez came to power. At the time, I was leaning a little more to the left, and I thought that was positive. Mainly because South America was the United States’ backyard for a very long time, and they did what they wanted there. Like the coup in Chile. Many South American countries were looking for emancipation, and Chavez arrived to make it a reality!
He was probably assassinated by an american secret service, using radioactive poisoning. Maduro replaced him, and maintained the same political line. Probably the best, mostly because anything else at this point would be worst.
Venezuela is the tenth country with the most natural resources in the world, particularly oil. It is therefore the envy of the big predators. When Trump was in office for the first time, he was able to avoid new wars and thwart certain deep state manoeuvres (such as getting into a conflict with North Korea). However, disappointingly (or maybe he wasn’t in control of that), there was also an attempted coup in Venezuela with Guaidó. At your last elections this year, same scenario. Your country’s oligarchy and the US services hired criminal gangs for the colour revolution, but it was foiled. So it’s a great opportunity, because losing sovereignty is the worst case scenario. I guarantee you, from a country that has lost its sovereignty and is racing towards irreversible destruction.
Of course, that doesn’t excuse the mismanagement that is typical of socialist regimes. This is Maduro’s (or his successors’) last chance to offer something better. Your country suffers from problems typical of this kind of regime, some because of them, and some because of opponents, like international financial sanctions. Really, read up on this, it suffocates countries. This explains many of the problems that Cuba and North Korea have had, regardless of whether you consider a socialist regime to be good or bad. The government also has to contend with the national oligarchy.
I recently saw an agreement between Venezuela and BRICS. This means that your country will be able to exploit its oil under good conditions. So I expect your living conditions to evolve positively. Perhaps a more balanced regime will emerge someday, and you will go out of socialism, but you have to be careful that it’s a government from your country and for your country, and not a government controlled from outside. If your country becomes controled by globalists, well, you know how it will turn, wokness, depopulation, national interests stolen.
I just retrieved your post to @FGB from the spambox, @WEnchanteur.
@Pm3, oh yes. Thank you.
I’m discouraged to see that this blog has delved into politics. I’ve always appreciated kdramas (and kdrama commentary) as a form of escape from the “real world.”
I’m only putting in my two cents to let readers out there know that not everyone who has posted here is a conservative or supports Trump–or Marine le Pen, whose party historically has had some very distressing viewpoints, especially on the Holocaust (le Pen’s father was a Holocaust denier).
I suppose the big question is whether our political views affect the lens through which we watch kdramas. I don’t think that has been the case, and I’ve always enjoyed commenting here and joining in on the analysis of certain dramas as they unfold–and critiquing the awful ones as well.
This (hopefully) will be the only time I mention my political viewpoints in this space. Joh-ayo?
@BethB, You make a good point. Please BODers call me out if I get into politics. I love this place for discussions of K Dramas. I’d rather think about Hyun Bin, Son Yejin and baby Alkorn. The world will go on and I can do politics by voting in elections. BOD is my happy place too. I’m watching Alchemy of Souls. That’s more like it.