will inevitably lead misery and the deaths of thousands of people. People who can’t afford to stay alive die.
You seem to be under the misconception that this is the future, or even that it is reversible.
It is not. The only way the current US political scenario will change, peacefully, is as a consequence of the power struggle between the oligarchs and the would-be dictator.
Then there’s the non-peaceful options, which are the only ones that effectively bring back power to the majority. The issue is that people will gradually adapt to anything, so the only way to prevent the long-term crawl back to the middle ages is for things to get so bad, so quickly, that people actually get up and do something about it.
In any case, let me know if a few years who was right. If either of us live to see it.
I KNOW that people are already dying, I’m not denying that.
Letting things get even worse than they already are so that many MORE people die in the hope that it’s going to suddenly make the Mango Mussolini unpopular with his own cult of people who think he can do no wrong, though, is like fighting fire with kindling.
Fighting a raging forest fire with kindling is a viable strategy - if successful, it will lead to the fire starving itself out. Sure it’s risky, but it will put it out for good, while throwing water, even assuming it does anything at all, would still be one stiff breeze away from re-flashing.
But let me be more specific with what I mean: last April, we were very close to one of these breaking points that would have killed the Trump presidency. If you recall, amid the Chinese tariff escalation, the stock market got very panicky and turned to treasury bonds, as it usually does when things get a bit crazy, but this time it didn’t work. It raised alarm bells everywhere, and wise enough people (and I suspect Jerome Powell played no small role in this) forced the White House to do a 180 and stop their bullshit.
I wonder what would have happened if the tariffs went ahead, but I’m 99% sure that Trump wouldn’t be president right now.
Nope. The cult’s feelings don’t care about the fact and, even as the markets were panicking, none of them were actually changing their minds about their “Messiah”
I’m 99% sure that Trump wouldn’t be president right now.
You’re missing half the plot here, yet I’m the summer child. Newsflash: the day and age when people elected the American president is long gone.
The cult is irrelevant, they’re not even cattle - they’re yeast: when they’re fed with oxygen they leaven dough, when they’re starved of air they produce alcohol. It’s the moguls who own their feeds who control their output, not trump. He tried to grab a hold over them, with truth social, newsmax, etc but didn’t get anywhere.
Case in point, the constant Epstein talking points. Why do you think this has come up now? Was there any progress in the investigations? No. Was a smoking gun found anywhere? No.
But do you know what is actually relevant? The “big beautiful bill” - this has the big pocket people very, very concerned. Musk is the higher profile example, and I’m sure many others have been reaching out to Trump “under the table” to change it, but since he’s being headstrong, they’re giving him a taste of what to expect if he doesn’t bow down - get dragged into jail, kicking and screaming, and the very rednecks who right now would gag on his orange shriveled balls would be the first to shove a broom handle up his ass.
With sufficiently bad economic policies, the powers that be will let the pitchforks rise. Our best bet is that we can catch them too in the chaos.
You seem to be under the misconception that this is the future, or even that it is reversible.
It is not. The only way the current US political scenario will change, peacefully, is as a consequence of the power struggle between the oligarchs and the would-be dictator.
Then there’s the non-peaceful options, which are the only ones that effectively bring back power to the majority. The issue is that people will gradually adapt to anything, so the only way to prevent the long-term crawl back to the middle ages is for things to get so bad, so quickly, that people actually get up and do something about it.
In any case, let me know if a few years who was right. If either of us live to see it.
I KNOW that people are already dying, I’m not denying that.
Letting things get even worse than they already are so that many MORE people die in the hope that it’s going to suddenly make the Mango Mussolini unpopular with his own cult of people who think he can do no wrong, though, is like fighting fire with kindling.
Fighting a raging forest fire with kindling is a viable strategy - if successful, it will lead to the fire starving itself out. Sure it’s risky, but it will put it out for good, while throwing water, even assuming it does anything at all, would still be one stiff breeze away from re-flashing.
But let me be more specific with what I mean: last April, we were very close to one of these breaking points that would have killed the Trump presidency. If you recall, amid the Chinese tariff escalation, the stock market got very panicky and turned to treasury bonds, as it usually does when things get a bit crazy, but this time it didn’t work. It raised alarm bells everywhere, and wise enough people (and I suspect Jerome Powell played no small role in this) forced the White House to do a 180 and stop their bullshit.
I wonder what would have happened if the tariffs went ahead, but I’m 99% sure that Trump wouldn’t be president right now.
Nope. The cult’s feelings don’t care about the fact and, even as the markets were panicking, none of them were actually changing their minds about their “Messiah”
You’re missing half the plot here, yet I’m the summer child. Newsflash: the day and age when people elected the American president is long gone.
The cult is irrelevant, they’re not even cattle - they’re yeast: when they’re fed with oxygen they leaven dough, when they’re starved of air they produce alcohol. It’s the moguls who own their feeds who control their output, not trump. He tried to grab a hold over them, with truth social, newsmax, etc but didn’t get anywhere.
Case in point, the constant Epstein talking points. Why do you think this has come up now? Was there any progress in the investigations? No. Was a smoking gun found anywhere? No.
But do you know what is actually relevant? The “big beautiful bill” - this has the big pocket people very, very concerned. Musk is the higher profile example, and I’m sure many others have been reaching out to Trump “under the table” to change it, but since he’s being headstrong, they’re giving him a taste of what to expect if he doesn’t bow down - get dragged into jail, kicking and screaming, and the very rednecks who right now would gag on his orange shriveled balls would be the first to shove a broom handle up his ass.
With sufficiently bad economic policies, the powers that be will let the pitchforks rise. Our best bet is that we can catch them too in the chaos.