What you need to understand is that the President of the United States of America is a walking, talking corporation.
He has no loyalty to the nation, no duty beyond protecting himself and expediting his profits. We're talking about a country, he's running a business.
Of course Trump lies. It's like a corporation caught giving Americans cancer. You hold fast to the lie until you can't anymore. It's damage control, an intentional PR strategy meant to warp reality.
He's playing a different game. He's not a president. He's an anti-president.
Treason means nothing to Trump. Of course he's asking for help from other countries for his election. It's a transnational business. Everyone is still viewing this through an old lens, but he and everyone around him as moved on.
They're dragging us into a new insidious era.
Listen. Of course Trump is running the country terribly. But think of what corporations give us now. Terrible products, terrible service. It's not about quality or longevity. It's about fleecing as many people as quickly and lucratively as possible.
Businesses and politics have been perverted and become deranged. This is what happens late in the game, when they monopolize. That's what Trump is doing through the fascism and authoritarianism.
Monopolizing the political structure until you have no choice left whatsoever.
We've been living in a moment where businesses tell us as the customers we're right and deserve everything while slashing quality and services and raking us over the coals.
That's what Trump is. That's where we're going. Gleeful incompetence at a premium rate.
We can reject this. We can restore government as a public good and reject hypercapitalism as the order of the world. But we have to push back against this disaster and rejuvenate the social contract, pry business away from government, and remember basic human dignity.
Business has evolved past the point of competence to aspire to dominance. Once you corner the market you dilute the product, cut costs, and rely on propaganda to cover the difference. This is where we are. In business and in government. Nothing but cruelty and incompetence.
Our government exists now as a tool of massive redistribution from the bottom up. They can’t fix problems, address suffering, respond to crises. Nothing but carefully crafted PR to create an illusion of governance. A lumbering corporate state.
And the goal is to make us apathetic consumers who buy the same terrible products and suffer the same lack of service, all while shrugging because what does it matter anyway? The authoritarian society is a monopoly corporation. It’s inextricably intertwined.
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People are rightfully feeling a ton of anxiety about the election.
We must take these last few days to calm and fortify ourselves, recognize the control we have, replenish ourselves, and decide how we will continue the fight to make the world better.
This podcast tries to provide strategies to overcome election anxiety and ground ourselves in reality and focus on what we can do to combat authoritarianism beyond Tuesday.
We need to take this anxious energy and convert it into actionable things.
Combating authoritarianism is exhausting. It’s systematic, weaponized abuse designed to ground you down.
We have to find the moments of calm to replenish ourselves so we don’t burn out, so we don’t fall into despair the way authoritarians want us to.
One of the biggest issues of the 2024 Election is going largely unreported.
Elon Musk has used his wealth to buy the shambling, decaying corpse of Donald Trump and MAGA in order to seize control over the government without ever appearing on a ballot.
Everyone knows Trump is in decline, and Musk recognizes a prime opportunity to install a puppet who will rubber stamp his agenda while handing him unmatched and unaccountable control over the functions of government.
This is a major, major threat.
Trump as a spectacle soaks up so much attention, but the donors behind him and the oligarchical Musk are pulling the strings with only light scrutiny.
We are watching the co-opting of the presidency in real-time, and if it’s allowed to happen the consequences would be dire.
It’s time for people to understand that Republicans and MAGA aren’t actually interested in curbing immigration.
They want to profit off fearmongering tethered to white paranoia and create an environment of sheer terror in which immigrants are more easily exploited.
The billionaires puppeting the GOP rely on immigrant labor as a means of maximizing profit and circumventing regulation.
What they’re pursuing is a country where immigrants have a huge, brutal system over their heads to keep them from challenging anything.
As resources are more scarce and conditions worsen, the Right will absolutely brutalize immigrants. They have created a subsection of people who are vulnerable and exploitable and expendable.
That’s it. The whole ballgame. And the framing everyone accepts is disastrous.
The episode of The Midnight Kingdom is out and explores our present crisis, including the rise of authoritarianism, attacks on democracy by the wealth class, and what we must do to get out of this mess.
The five part series is now complete. Please share.
The series tracks modern history, explaining how the powerful have used racism, religious mythologies, and weaponized conspiracy theories to control us and expand their power.
It's a reconsideration of where we came from and where we are.
Episode 1 starts with the merging of Christianity with Roman power and dissects how religion was used to create "Western Civilization" and a feudal empire where control was almost total, which is where many Right Wing ideologues want to return to.
Last night JD Vance was allowed to lie and present himself and Trump as moderates.
It was repulsive and dangerous. Winning this election, and defeating MAGA as an authoritarian movement, means breaking this facade and communicating how extreme they are.
It is disgusting how Vance, who has hundreds of hours of available podcasts and videotaped interviews, wasn’t confronted by his antidemocratic, misogynistic, and wildly authoritarian and extreme positions.
Instead, he was allowed to say time and again that he and Walz agreed.
It’s bad enough that CBS dropped the ball in one of the most embarrassing debates we’ve seen in awhile, but Tim Walz had two jobs: communicate how dangerous MAGA is and provide an alternative.
He didn’t do that. And that should serve as a wake up call for the campaign.
There’s a real Roman-Empire-Telling-Britain-They’re-On-Their-Own vibe to everything right now.
Only it’s now this weird, hard for some people to explain caveat of capitalism having fully possessed the US and overtaken its process for the purposes of system operation that just makes everything worse and very difficult to grasp for people who haven’t been taught about it.
Watching what’s happening in Gaza and Lebanon with the backdrop of worsening climate change, infrastructure collapse, austerity, and intentional inequality, leaving people drowning and suffering and roads and bridges and dams collapse is just…awful.