For the first weeks of the new administration, it was possible to believe, whatever anyone thought of the specific initiatives and actions, that President Donald Trump and his team had a plan of action with specific goals in mind and the discipline to implement it. So much for that.
As Trump nears the 100-day marker of his second term in office, his opening months have been rife with mistakes, overreach and the hubris that goes with a team that interprets a slender popular vote victory as a sweeping mandate.
The administration did have a plan for disruption and was ready with a flurry of executive orders to get it moving.
The strategy combined policies outlined in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Trump’s long-standing desire to use tariffs to punish countries he believes have ripped off the United States (especially China), and a determination to amass as much power in the presidency as possible.
Trump represents the vandalism of the Nation State for Bunker Fascist Libertarians…
America has misjudged China horribly before. Hyperpower hubris turned the Korean War into a direct conflict between US and Chinese troops.
President Harry Truman thought he had free licence to hurl parts of the US Eighth Army across the 38th parallel in October 1950 and roll back the whole of communist North Korea. Advisers assured him that the infant regime of Mao Tse-tung was too weak to intervene, and too ill-equipped to make much difference if it dared. It was the worst failure of US strategic analysis in modern times.
US-led forces faced rout, encirclement and total humiliation as 200,000 Chinese troops poured across the Yalu River.
The American people are soft.
Trump is a fascist, that his orange fascism manipulated the United States of Wounded Masculinity to elect a Plutocracy.
His understanding of the power of resentment has seen the undermensch empower the ubermensch.
Trump’s grotesque narcism and gleeful ignorance IS America.
He is the tangerine stained leering face is what American Capitalism always was.
The largest war economy on earth is now being run by someone who believes God saved him from assassination.
The difference between war crime and genocide tends to be te belief by the person inflicting the violence that God is on their side.
To date we have been told by Trump’s defenders that his wild and mad proclamations are all the spin of a deal maker negotiating the best deal with the worst threats, and certainly the Art of the Deal is just a how to guide for Alpha Jock Dickheads doing Alpha Male Jock Dickhead stunts.
Taking offence at some unrelated issue and causing a Tantrum for emotional leverage to get the best deal you can isn’t Art or a Deal, it’s Alpha Male Jock Dickhead bully behaviour that has all the empathy of an average Andrew Tate bro culture tutorial.
This time around however Trump believes God saved him from an assassination attempt.
If Trump believes he’s the vessel for Christ’s retribution, he’s going to do shit for realzies.
He wants a Christofascist Superstate that stretches from Canada to Greenland to the Suez Canal.
My speculation, purely based on Trump’s inane narcissism, is that he is incapable of backing down, especially now he thinks God has saved him to Make America Great Again and that he won’t be able to accept the Tariffs are a bad decision and the economic carnage he triggers by implementing them will drive him to double down rather than back down.
I can see his Billionaire Libertarian Crypto-Bros convincing him of removing the American Dollar and replacing it with an American Crypto-Currency as the solution the way taking America off the Gold Standard in 1933 helped expansionist growth…
Under Trump, cryptocurrency is set to go mainstream – but that won’t make it any safer for investors
As the United States prepares for Donald Trump’s inauguration on 20 January, all eyes are on the cryptocurrency markets. After Bitcoin’s price reached $100,000(£81,917) for the first time in history in December 2024, the cryptocurrency community is eagerly anticipating Trump’s fulfilment of his campaign promise to make the US the “crypto capital of the planet”. Some analysts predict that Bitcoin’s price could range between $78,000 and $250,000 in 2025.
Blockchain technology has numerous applications beyond crypto payments – for example, in supply chain and logistics. But it is the price surges of Bitcoin, Ethereum and “meme coins” that capture the majority of public attention. Speculative demand and the potential for abnormal returns, which are rarely found in other financial markets, remain key drivers of their prices.
Investors are often motivated by the prospect of short-term profits rather than a belief in the asset’s true or fundamental value. In the case of meme coins, speculative demand is primarily driven by social media culture and community enthusiasm, with little focus on the utility of the underlying technology or long-term success of the project.
Fuelled by expectations of a more favourable regulatory environment under the Trump administration, there is now increased institutional interest in cryptocurrencies. Major players such as BlackRock are entering the crypto derivatives market, increasing liquidity and drawing even more investors. This industry and political support for cryptocurrency demonstrates higher adoption and greater acceptance of crypto assets. At the same time, the speculative nature of crypto assets raises concerns that political endorsements could inflate a bubble, similar to the dotcom bubble that lasted between 1998 and 2000.
Financial market bubbles occur when asset prices far exceed their fundamental values and no longer reflect actual risks. When these bubbles burst, they can trigger a contagion effect, causing the collapse of related securities – even in industries with no direct connection to the troubled assets.
In my research, alongside fellow authors, I analysed companies that had rebranded with crypto-related names to boost their stock prices, despite no changes to their business models. This superficial association made these companies susceptible to contagion from the broader crypto ecosystem. If investors did not investigate whether these companies genuinely adopted blockchain technology, they are likely to sell these stocks swiftly at the first sign of negative news or a crisis in the crypto market.
…Trump is dumb enough and will be desperate enough to find a disruptive new way to make money as the American Economy tanks because of his Tariffs.
For the first month after replacing the American dollar with a Crypto Currency, the new American Crypto Currency will make more money than any of them dreamed, and then on day 31, for reasons none of the Billionaire Libertarian Crypto-Bros will be able to explain to any of us, it will crash because the whole thing is one giant speculative bubble that will implode in a way that makes the Wall Street Crash look like a gentle trip.
The Christian Zionist Billionaire Plutocracy that surrounds Trump wants him to plunge the planet into apocalypse.
This from the Intercept:
J.D. Vance wants voters to think of him as a rags-to-riches Appalachian kid who believes in small-town values and working-class populism.
But to understand the real J.D. Vance, you have to follow the money — and the money leads directly to Silicon Valley billionaires like Peter Thiel.
Thiel hired Vance at his venture capital firm after Vance graduated from Yale Law School, then poured $15 million into Vance’s successful campaign for the U.S. Senate. He was also among the strongest voices pushing Donald Trump to pick Vance as his running mate.
So why is Peter Thiel so enamored with J.D. Vance? And what do tech moguls expect to get in return for acting as Vance’s political patrons?
Peter Thiel made his fortune as a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir and an early investor in Facebook. In the Trump era, he has emerged as a major right-wing political funder, spending $35 million in the 2022 midterm election cycle alone.
His political philosophy has been described as “super-nationalistic” and “closer to authoritarianism” than libertarianism. For instance, in 2009, Thiel declared in an essay explaining his political vision that “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
But Thiel isn’t the only tech billionaire with close ties to Vance. Other prominent backers include former PayPal COO and Yammer founder David Sacks, venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, and Elon Musk, who called Trump’s selection of Vance an “excellent decision.”
And a second Trump administration would be positioned to provide tremendous benefits to all of these Silicon Valley tycoons through good old-fashioned tax cuts, subsidies, and deregulation.
JD Vance appeals to white pain, white poverty and white grievance in a way that builds Trumps muscular theatre into a political dynasty.
This is Nascar for Brown Shirts, Wrestling for Incels, the machismo of Trump in a United States of Wounded Masculinity.
Vance is a client candidate of NZer and Global Libertarian Super Criminal Peter Thiel, he who created the mass surveillance Eye of Mordor Palantir and progresses an anti-democratic agenda to bring about a free market stateless utopia.
Vance sees the state as a betrayer and Thiel’s agenda as a means to punish and break that betrayer and remake American Capitalism in the image of those white working poor who do the actual manual labour.
Trump/Vance represents white poverty, pain and grievance welded onto a Libertarian Billionaire anarchist capitalist class who’ve agreed to amputate America last.
Trump represents the vandalism of the Nation State for Bunker Fascist Libertarians
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