CBC NN has been running a long documentary about Putin many times in the past 2 weeks. The days of democracy are short numbered. To think that an incoming President of the USA can launch a crypto days before taking office is unbelievable. It's Crypto so no one can know who just invested $50 Billion dollars in POTUS and $5 Billion dollar in FLOTUS. The trade war with Canada is about to get very ugly. Keep your eye on Fort Drum.
Our democracy failed long before this election. When Americans fully embraced the two party system it was over. There is no stronger evidence of that idiocy than crypto currency and the constant debate over nonsense narratives the media pushes out as news.
I'd say sit back and watch it burn, but fear there is no safe space from which to watch.
We may as well spend the time swim against the tide until we drown.
Bill I love your newsletter, but am frightened by and gut-reaction hate this particular one. Because it *might* happen. OMG. Democracy has already been stained. Bless both Harris and Biden for respecting the process. May it survive the next 4 years for there to be a true election in 2028... (you don't even mention the possibility of Trump.declaring himself leader indefinitely to avoid all the cost and bother of an election cycle...)
I am not sure what “process” Biden and Harris followed. Biden is and has been a cognitive mess and so bowed out of the campaign to have Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer “pick” a candidate. That is not the people’s democracy as a process.
Bill, I enjoy your articles but I’m in the non-believer group on this one. I may agree if the point was being made about a liberal candidate, but don’t see the conservative side pursuing this strategy.
I did not believe a reality TV personality could win the election in ‘16’ much less a second time in light of his record, so I never say never. I truly would leave the country if musk were elected president. We have actually already been researching several countries with Denmark and Costa Rico high on the list.
While trump is focused on enriching himself with Bitcoin Biden has been at work focused on people. This just in from the NYT:
“President Biden moved on Monday to guard some of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s most high-profile adversaries against a promised campaign of “retribution” by issuing pre-emptive pardons that would make it harder if not impossible for the next administration to prosecute them.“
Divisive is a divisive does. It's wonder to me how neither side sees the illogic in their argument to leverage the legal system against the otherside. Not unlike advocating limiting others speech in order to save free speech.
Democracy and the goals defined in our constitution are not a what 75% of Americans are chasing.
It simply yeah for my team and the worst wishes for the other side.
Trump is not above or below the law. Neither are his political enemies. The fact that pursued so far and the law bent so far to leverage so many elevated charges and then leave him free made a mockery of our system. That mockery may now be leveraged against his enemies and it is we the people who are at fault for it all.
For sometime now, I've struggled with 1. How slightly more than half the voters went for Trump, and slightly less than half went for Kamala. 2. How we've become such a politically polarized country. It suddenly dawned on me: just as some are right-brained, and others left-brained, we are also either front-brained or back-brained.
I find it really sad that politics has become about how much money you have instead of how much good you could do for the country. A country that is ruled by the elite has no comprehension of the struggles of the average person, or those working minimum wage trying to raise a family and keep a roof over their heads. And all the old men need to clear out for the next generation.
I really hope the next four years don’t become the shit show it looks like they are headed for.
Assuming Trump fixes all the wrongs in the country and has a successful presidency, JD Vance will run in 2028. I don't think Musk would get in his way. He's eccentric and his Asperger's makes him seem weird to some, but he's not a political seat stealing jerk. He'd probably wait until there's a democrat president again, if he isn't too old to run by then. :)
I actually think Trump has a better shot at serving a third term…especially if he gets us into a “war,” he will get congress to rule that we shouldn’t have an election during a war.
Oh Lord. Having supported Trump through three elections, my "fed-up" meter is about at its limit. Hopefully we can move on to a more presidential president who is a leader, rather than another "you're either a friend, or an enemy" president who rules by threat rather than by leadership.
well, I'll join the "almost nobody" group.
CBC NN has been running a long documentary about Putin many times in the past 2 weeks. The days of democracy are short numbered. To think that an incoming President of the USA can launch a crypto days before taking office is unbelievable. It's Crypto so no one can know who just invested $50 Billion dollars in POTUS and $5 Billion dollar in FLOTUS. The trade war with Canada is about to get very ugly. Keep your eye on Fort Drum.
Our democracy failed long before this election. When Americans fully embraced the two party system it was over. There is no stronger evidence of that idiocy than crypto currency and the constant debate over nonsense narratives the media pushes out as news.
I'd say sit back and watch it burn, but fear there is no safe space from which to watch.
We may as well spend the time swim against the tide until we drown.
Bill I love your newsletter, but am frightened by and gut-reaction hate this particular one. Because it *might* happen. OMG. Democracy has already been stained. Bless both Harris and Biden for respecting the process. May it survive the next 4 years for there to be a true election in 2028... (you don't even mention the possibility of Trump.declaring himself leader indefinitely to avoid all the cost and bother of an election cycle...)
Should that happen, I HOPE the American people would have the push needed to rebel and throw the guy out.
I am not sure what “process” Biden and Harris followed. Biden is and has been a cognitive mess and so bowed out of the campaign to have Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer “pick” a candidate. That is not the people’s democracy as a process.
Bill, I enjoy your articles but I’m in the non-believer group on this one. I may agree if the point was being made about a liberal candidate, but don’t see the conservative side pursuing this strategy.
I see it just the opposite based on past behavior being the best predictor of future performance. .
It’s not that he’s conservative; it’s that he’s a megalomaniac billionaire. But we’ll see.
I did not believe a reality TV personality could win the election in ‘16’ much less a second time in light of his record, so I never say never. I truly would leave the country if musk were elected president. We have actually already been researching several countries with Denmark and Costa Rico high on the list.
While trump is focused on enriching himself with Bitcoin Biden has been at work focused on people. This just in from the NYT:
“President Biden moved on Monday to guard some of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s most high-profile adversaries against a promised campaign of “retribution” by issuing pre-emptive pardons that would make it harder if not impossible for the next administration to prosecute them.“
Divisive is a divisive does. It's wonder to me how neither side sees the illogic in their argument to leverage the legal system against the otherside. Not unlike advocating limiting others speech in order to save free speech.
Democracy and the goals defined in our constitution are not a what 75% of Americans are chasing.
It simply yeah for my team and the worst wishes for the other side.
Trump is not above or below the law. Neither are his political enemies. The fact that pursued so far and the law bent so far to leverage so many elevated charges and then leave him free made a mockery of our system. That mockery may now be leveraged against his enemies and it is we the people who are at fault for it all.
Did you factor in how Trump and allies plan to destroy birthright citizenship during this presidency?
For sometime now, I've struggled with 1. How slightly more than half the voters went for Trump, and slightly less than half went for Kamala. 2. How we've become such a politically polarized country. It suddenly dawned on me: just as some are right-brained, and others left-brained, we are also either front-brained or back-brained.
Perhaps this explains it?
“Do you remember before the internet, that people thought the cause of stupidity was the lack of access to information?
Yeah, it wasn't that.”
Simply that most people believe they are smarter than most people.
It doesn't add up, except for P.T. Barnum and those that cash in on crypto.
As I read the comments below, all I can think of is the famous meme of the snowflake guy screaming. It's going to be an interesting four years.
I find it really sad that politics has become about how much money you have instead of how much good you could do for the country. A country that is ruled by the elite has no comprehension of the struggles of the average person, or those working minimum wage trying to raise a family and keep a roof over their heads. And all the old men need to clear out for the next generation.
I really hope the next four years don’t become the shit show it looks like they are headed for.
Assuming Trump fixes all the wrongs in the country and has a successful presidency, JD Vance will run in 2028. I don't think Musk would get in his way. He's eccentric and his Asperger's makes him seem weird to some, but he's not a political seat stealing jerk. He'd probably wait until there's a democrat president again, if he isn't too old to run by then. :)
Obama was able to overcome that hinderance..
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Oh my god. Your first few paragraphs were so reasonable that I had to stop reading. 😣
This thought ruined the start of my day
I actually think Trump has a better shot at serving a third term…especially if he gets us into a “war,” he will get congress to rule that we shouldn’t have an election during a war.
I think you could have found a better topic for today. You are feeding the paranoia of your mostly liberal readers.
Oh Lord. Having supported Trump through three elections, my "fed-up" meter is about at its limit. Hopefully we can move on to a more presidential president who is a leader, rather than another "you're either a friend, or an enemy" president who rules by threat rather than by leadership.