I don't know who Tucker is interviewing here, but in this 2:21 clip he says something that has been percolating in the back of my mind:
There has been an alignment, the last 3 days, that all point to the fact that Trump is in all but name the next President. Elon and Bill Ackerman very publicly declare unthroated support for Trump. Trump basically tells Biden to give JFK USSS protection, and Biden agrees. Am I crazy? Am I really seeing this?
I'm going to watch the entire interview tomorrow, when it posts, as this looks like an interesting conversation.
Even before these events, there was more and more evidence that the establishment actually wants Trump this time around. Not because he's "their guy," necessarily, but because the Musk/Thiel side of the elite have been gaining traction arguing that there has to be some appeasement to populism before ordinary people's resentment boils over.
How do you mean gaining traction? As far as I'm aware, the global elites have maintained their opinions and willingness to force their will onto the increasingly weary public. Or else, when was the condition of current public distrust specified to the global elites?
The elite is not a monolith, especially not now when we're undergoing a paradigm shift. Societal change only ever occurs through a revolution of the elites, not a popular revolution. Trump, Musk, Thiel and others like them represent the faction of the elite who oppose the WEF neoliberal establishment, and the amount of support their ideas now have means more and more of the old guard are realizing that they can't put the genie back in the bottle.
I still don't see where that realization is taking place. I won't ask for names and quotes because realistically, no one is going to publicly voice that kind of change of heart unless they have little left to lose from peers or investors. Rather, where is the change in funding populist causes or candidates, or those of globalists?
https://www.weforum.org/people/peter-a-thiel/
FFS, Thiel founded Palantir, one of the companies involved in fortifying elections. You know, the company named after the stones that Sauron and Saruman use to control others. He, just like Trump, is part of the global elite. The globalist just make sure they control both sides so no matter who loses, they win.
I certainly don't want the Peter Thiel ancap future either, but a civil war between the elites is the best thing for the rest of us, because it's the only opportunity we'll get to claim a bigger slice of the pie for ourselves.
I think it is important to clarify this. There are many establishments. The MIC types? Definitely don't want Trump or Vance. WEF types? Also no. The administrative state? No, DC will still vote 95% Biden. But as you said there seems to be a contingent of very wealthy guys who have decided Trump is the way to go.
I don't see either of these happening. If China can't manage an amphibious assault now with their puppet keeping America in check, it's only going to get harder with Trump in charge. And Europe will calm down once the Democrats' regime change fantasy is taken off the table again.
Yeah, the only way I could see China taking Taiwan is through diplomatic means. Even if China wasn't a paper tiger, Taiwan is only worth taking with their industry intact.
Taiwan has artillery that can range to the Chinese coast and hit a major (aren't they all in China?) city. No assault is going to be without Chinese losses.
Asians have built bridges grown from trees they shape over a hundred years.
Taiwan is going to return the China, but not after an amphibious assault. They'll just grow closer until one day the tree reaches back the mainland and they're one.
Right now, China is in a depression worst than our Great DEpression.
They are even having issues paying their police in many cities and towns and keep having to do payment deferrals for their troops.
Which is a mistake for a totalitarian regime: You always make sure the police and military are paid, or revolution will smack you in the face.
three gorges burst
three gorges burst
three gorges burst
China's not in a depression yet... but they will be. And we're going to go with them whether we like it or not.
I think you've got this backwards.
Musk/Thiel aren't trying to appease populism, they are trying to ride populism into a changing of the elites.
That's actually what we've been fighting for.
Musk and Thiel are doing so, yes. The increasing faction in the establishment who are moving away from the previous narrative and quietly backing Trump are doing so as a means of appeasement. They are increasingly resigned to the fact that the post-national, WEF world they wanted to build is not going to happen, and so they're trying to cling onto their positions of influence by realigning with the side they think is going to supplant that ideology. It's very cynical, but that doesn't necessarily make it a bad thing if it means things improve for ordinary people.
I think it's worse than that. I think they are starting to realize that in the post-national, WEF world... they would be just as enslaved as we are. In that world, where the population is reduced to 500 million, they aren't the 0.0001% that get to be the elite. They are the 0;001%, which is no different from some random hobo that gets the wall.