Thinking about the first week of the Harris campaign, which is basically a huge wave of coordinated media propaganda - it's the most female presidential campaign I've ever seen.
Not just the candidate - it's about gender, it's about race, about attitudes, about being a "brat"
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It's about the mean girls getting together and doing a little character assassination, attacking Vance & the other white guys as being weird, creepy incels. From a female perspective, it must be awesome.
What it lacks is any semblance of substance, of logic,
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of debating the issues, or of proposing solutions to the greatest challenges the United States has faced in my lifetime.
None of that is there. Just female group posturing, to gain popularity points while socially annihilating the competition.
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This nation is in very bad shape fundamentally in multiple areas
Geopolitically, the US is losing around the world, fast, as the Ukraine war gets worse, the US is unable to protect sea routes, West Africa is lost, Venezuela threatens war in the hemisphere, and the Middle East
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threatens to blow up with the expansion of the war to Lebanon.
Financially, the US is in rapidly worsening shape as it relies on the highest peacetime deficit spending in history to try to hold the economy together, as the national debt soars out of control, as BRICS+ membership
surges around the world in an explicit attempt to dethrone the dollar.
The borders are open.
Half the nation thinks Civil War is likely.
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Yet, none of these issues matter, because let's face it - this has become the most gender dominated race in our history. Kamala doesn't understand this stuff, and has no solutions. Her female base doesn't care, because they don't understand it - or even care about substance -
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at all.
Yay! Girl Power! We get all the money and good jobs! Forget about all those creepy incel white guys trying to talk about things that nobody cares about! Dance!
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As explored extensively in other 🧵s, I believe that an economic reckoning is on the way when the reserve status of the $ is lost, the US can no longer borrow the money to pay for what the national standard of living is based upon, and standards of living plunge.
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One of the very hardest hit sectors of the economy is urban women getting paid way too much for doing very little.
The Kamala voters are likely to be devastated. And it will be the right & proper result of their turning presidential elections into female popularity contests. imo
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Interesting article. A 70 year Jewish man got attacked and beaten in Central Park, and was shocked it happened. Should he have been?
First, I'm very sorry this happened to him. As an urban Jewish journalist the odds are high he is a Dem voter, 1/ wsj.com/us-news/i-neve…
and likely a lifelong liberal.
Things may not have been perfect, but to be Jewish in the United States was winning the lottery compared to being Jewish in Europe or the Middle East (outside of Israel).
There was a large white majority that on average treated Jews very well,
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there were no limits on careers & incomes, and the chances of being physically attacked on the grounds of being Jewish were diminishingly small.
Then as a Dem, he spent decades favoring immigration policies that brought in large numbers of non-whites -
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Europe has gone crazy. The Satanic mocking of Christians at the Olympics. Political repression of native Europeans in the UK, Germany & Ireland.
We in the US need to cut off all support by bringing the troops home. No more NATO, let Europe sort this out on its own. 1/
Part of this is my deep Midwestern roots. We were traditionally isolationists in the Heartland for good reason, before the now long-won Cold War. We're in the middle of our own continent, there's no need to let coastal elites spill the blood of our young men for their profits.
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This would also be good for the European people. The Euro elites are a truly scummy group - who are not that powerful without the backing of the US "elites". They lack any effective military power, all they have is police.
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The currently expected future is deeply Leftist, and it is about control & indifference. It will be destroyed by Darwinian competition, as will be explored in this thread.
The basic idea is that there will large numbers of childless people, who will MAKE future 1/
workers, the children that parents are having today, support them indefinitely. The childless ones, as explored in the linked 🧵, are essentially gaming the system. They earn more money today, invest more of it early, and qualify for higher Social Security payments.
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Meanwhile, the parents/suckers pay for the children, raise the children, but don't have the same degree of Social Security benefits or retirement savings.
So, the essential plan of the childless Leftists is to take the lion's share of the wealth produced by
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Time to dig a little more into what Social Security really is. Besides general prosperity, the key number is a ratio: the number of working people paying into Social Security for each retired person who is taking out
The financial viability of Social Security is based on TFR, 1/
Back when people had more children and didn't live as long, there were a very large number of current workers for every retiree, and this was particularly the case in the 1930s when Social Security was created.
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Increasing life spans and falling fertility had already placed Social Security in acute peril.
The recent reduction in TFR to well below replacement rates greatly increases the problem, because in the future there will be fewer workers for every retiree.
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at that time, by the people who are working at that time. All real wealth in the future will be created by the children of today and tomorrow.
In other words, there is a great deal of uncertainty about how much real wealth will be available, and who will get it.
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The typical response - that is highly encouraged by the Government & Wall Street - is to lead the population to believe that it can enter into contracts today, that will remove the uncertainty 10, 20 or 30 years from now.
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that is being built with the Silicon Valley elites who are moving away from the Dems. Vance's tech background is very useful in bridging the gap between Trump and Elon, as well as others.
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3. At 39 years old, with a formidable intellect & the ability to win a Senate race on his own, Vance could be called the most impressive Millennial politician to date for either party. He has the potential to run for and win the Presidency on his own