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America’s Paradigm Shift (led by Iraq war, financial crisis & Obama’s failures) which brought us @realDonaldTrump and #Q

Chapter 5: Zero’s Corpus (speeches) Analysis

Introduction:

This chapter analyses Obama’s 413 speeches while in office, and highlights the disconnect between his rhetoric and actions.

Although he labeled himself a renegade ( #QArmy knows the actual definition of that) and outsider, he merely continued the same paradigm.

Pilot study: the initial pilot study analyzed Zero’s speeches about & reaction to the financial crisis.

He placed all blame on Wall St, but the Dodd-Frank reform (introduced by a corrupticrat & a pedophile who ran a male prostitution service out of his DC townhouse) was weak.

How they set up the study.
They analyzed 2 major questions: who was blamed & how was the response formulated.
They analyzed against a corpora of other president’s speeches to see how it was similar/different to others, including the group who all pushed the same paradigm.

Speeches, words & years in office for the other Presidents included, which were used as an analytical framework.

Interesting finding: most used terms by Zero were jobs, workers, economy & healthcare.

*should be noted he failed horribly regarding all of the above

He used the term Wall St much more than other Presidents (57 vs 17 avg) and used the terms violent & angry re: finance & ins

He used words from the “violent/angry” group when discussing the financial & insurance industries and special interest groups.

He used terms from “damaging/destroying” category discussing health insurance and financial system.

Concordance analysis, Wall St:
The first time Wall St was used to encapsulate financial firms was Sept 27, 2008.

Other Presidents mentioning Wall St usually meant the WSJ.

Concordance shows Zero places all crisis blame on financial sector & neglected to discuss the govt role

While most of Zero’s Presidency was dedicated to financial crisis response, he chose to apportion all blame to Wall St and never truly reform.

His speeches are connected to each other, showing more complexity than originally anticipated.

Moving on from the pilot study (Wall St), Wyman began to analyze the Obama corpus taken from all speeches across his Presidency.

Key domains (and focus) across corpus:
(- are my notes on the reality of his admin)

Business & work (employment)
-he couldn’t recover the economy

Money/finance
-didn’t reform Wall St, bailed out bankers

Industry (oil, energy & gas)
-he destroyed US energy sector

Clean energy & environment
-every government investment he made into clean tech failed miserably (read Zero to One by Theil for a good accounting)

Health care reform
-Obamacare was a failure

Economic recovery
-only happened when @realDonaldTrump came on board

Sorry Twit started the crashing game again.

Zero used a lot of negative adjectives, mainly to point fingers & lay blame elsewhere.

*should also note he took credit for things he didn’t do, and frequently refers to himself rather than the Trump “we” method (of good leaders)

This is hilarious.
Zero called on America to destroy ISIS (instead he put restrictive ROE on soldiers).
He called employers who hire undocumented workers “unethical” (someone alert The Squad) along with special interest groups funding elections (they funded his), Iran &

The financial industry.
So he called people unethical for doing what his admin did, said we should destroy ISIS but refused to let our soldiers do so, and called Wall St / bankers unethical but he bailed them out and said nothing when they used the bailouts for enormous bonuses.

This is one of the major points of the study.

Looking at the word list of what Zero said his admin was most focused upon (and that he mentioned most often), he didn’t actually do anything to match the rhetoric.

He hurt more of the things he pleaded for than he helped.

More of the same.

Based on keyword list, Obama was most focused on the economy, business and finance.

He did a terrible job with all, and refused to talk to business leaders (as @realDonaldTrump has done), instead trusting academic economists who’ve never run a peanut stand.

More funny.
Zero talked about the recession & deficit a lot - he did nothing to help either.

He talked a lot about criminal justice reform & immigration reform - but accomplished neither (@realDonaldTrump did, though!)

He referred to himself as CiC more than all Pres combined

He talked a lot about energy, gas & the auto industry.
-energy independence is a key strategic defense imperative, and he weakened it.

He talked about education, but common core was a failure. He stressed needing to end tax breaks for companies shipping jobs overseas,

Not quite understanding that it was his exorbitant corporate taxes that shipped those jobs overseas.

Again, the Obama admin proved that academics don’t know much once they go outside of the classroom and computer-based models without real world maetrics and variabilities.

More words that he used often.
Notably he mentions being a family man quite a lot.
There’s a point at the end where he frequently mentions “innovation.”
If you’ve never read Listen, Liberal you should - has a great section digging into “innovation” as a term used by BS artists

Concordance analysis shows context for the words used, and we can see where the words were used to push policy actions/decisions.

Economy, jobs, business and finance usage:

Zero talked about small business very positively as job creators, and talked about corporations very negatively.

Quite funny that many large corporate CEOs endorsed & donated to Obama since it was “kewl” even as he demonized them.

Were they stupid (doubtful) or “in on it?”

One of the many Obama conundrums.

He used the high cost of healthcare causing companies to shutter as a way to push Obamacare.

But also pushed strongly for a $10.10 min wage increase, which also would cause many small businesses to shutter a la the bar AOC used to work at.

Obama talked a lot about the economy, but how differs throughout his presidency.
Although he claimed all fault of the crisis lay on wall St, near the end he began saying economy was “stronger than before crisis hit.”
Didn’t acknowledge the growing wealth disparity until end.

This is interesting.
Obama frequently speaks in frames, and using the same framing across speeches.
The source cited here (Modigliani) is one that I studied a lot in my Behavioral Economics research - it would be worth your time to dig into.

Chapter 5 conclusion.

Obama was focused on creating a crisis narrative throughout his presidency.

He labeled himself an outsider, but closely followed the establishment paradigm on most issues.

He spoke positively about The Fed, but negatively about bankers & Wall St.

Ok I’ve got to get back to my real job now. I’ll pick up where I left off either tonight or tomorrow.

Chapter 6 breaks into the argument units within the corpora - what his most significant arguments were & how he framed his presidency.

I’ll link it here 👇🏼