Morning, there’s still no escaping Trump.
I’ve read variations of this, this one being the most extreme, but no one is denying there were local police in the building the shooter climbed up onto with his rifle.
Trump has named is running mate - Generally in the media it’s being spoken about as him naming his Vice President, which I think show’s a level of capitulation. They know it’s over, there is a good chance now Biden get’s completely thrown under the bus. The hope being that by hanging everything around his neck they can endure 4 years of Trump and re-emerge with a clean slate. I don’t really know anything about Vance other than he’s an ex Marine who signed up immediately following 911, but now wants the forever wars to end. From what I’ve seen it looks like people don’t hate the choice, but depending on the view point he wasn’t the top runner for all. He’s more openly Right leaning that Trump, so perhaps that leaves Trump to speak ‘Centrally’ while he take the Right’s talking point hits. He’s also younger, which shows Trump is thinking 4+. But one thing for sure, David Lammy is going to get his arse handed to him.
Oh, he also holds $250k of BTC.
But this is a good sign 👇🏻
OK, as I’m scrolling here it’s becoming impossible to find anything that isn’t about TRUMP/VANCE, so again we might as well lean into it. As I learn more stuff about him, I’ll say why I think that’s good or bad.
He wants the war in Ukraine ended ASAP and opposes throwing endless cash at the US forever wars - there appears to be the standard Israeli exception that you seem to get in the US, so perhaps it’ll end up just being different forever wars . The ‘rules based International order’ can be translated as - everyone do as you’re told, America will do as it pleases whilst giving it’s subordinates a free pass as long as it suits us. Openly questioning it is a good thing for Americas’ standing and for him to recognise. It’s not he 90’s, things have changed, the World is tired of Team America.
I’ve posted the whole of that thread because it’s useful as a follow on from the post referencing Bronze Age Pervert. Now I would imagine that everything I’m talking about with these X usernames is complete gibberish to you, perhaps you recognise a couple from listening to Horizon Scan and me introducing Hugh to a some, but it couldn’t be more relevant for our current situation. As Howie says, the fact that Vance is even aware of the thought and worldview that these accounts cover (to be clear I wouldn’t count them all as friendly forces, Lindsay in particular is a mong) is a huge win if you are tired of what passes for the Right currently. There has been an online movement on the Right now for at least 15 years, gaining real traction and maturing through developing its thought and binning the nutters in the last 5-6. They are funny - in the non PC way you remember when everyone could laugh at themself - knowledgeable to an autistic degree about their interests, able to debate completely opposed viewpoints in a civilised manner and remain friends, disciplined in their insistence on data and doing science properly whilst being willing to accept the findings though sometimes unsavoury. They believe in personal responsibility, adventure, vitality, nature and a lust for life and recognise that the current system is a communist adjacent failure mode that needs addressing.
Now I’m not saying that I’m expecting the Baron Trump Caesar meme to become reality, but compared to where we are now, TRUMP/VANCE is a different planet. None of the accounts above are going to enter politics, most are anons. They’re also not immediately accessible because much of what they speak about on X is bound up in 30 layers of in jokes, so having a ‘translator’ who is in public life and influenced by their themes can’t be understated. The media is going to lose it’s shit if and when they go through his X follower list - and for ALL the right reasons.
Elon, Thiel, Andressen, Sacks, all billionaire tech guys all in Vance’s circle. In the short term at least if you want a more sensible view on acceleration vs deceleration this is positive. Having people who actually understand what’s possible and want to solve problems is what the world needs, not just the US. The darker side of this (which is very possible) is that in 10-15 years time when we’re committed to this new tech focused future, there’s a switch of attitude and we end up in the same WEF inspired feudalistic digital prison 😅 - as I say often, you have have to be aware of the friend enemy distinction. Elon is currently aligned with me because being focused on free speech etc suits him and his business interests. He’s showing day by day that X is the only useful place to get your news - you won’t know that if you’re not on it - and it’s helping to kill the mainstream media. But once he has a monopoly on real time information and if he succeeds in creating X as ‘the everything app’ to include payments at scale etc, then you have the same situation as China with WeChat, at that point he’s potentially an enemy. I say potentially because much of that tech prison would genuinely make you life better, provided those running the system are benevolent. Anyway, I digress! For the moment though I’ll see this as positive.
I’ll leave it there. It’s vital to remember though that you never win. You struggle, fight and then at the end you die. Along the way there is positive and negative movement that you have to react to and it’s ok to enjoy the positives (or little wins if you don’t want this to sound so depressing). But it’s not depressing unless you decide it is. This is the same in your individual life as it is macro on the planet, it’s never over, you just move it in the right direction and you decide what that is.
Have a good Tuesday.