🚨 A Dictatorial Coup Is Taking Place Within The United States Right Now 🚨

[Joshe]

This is interesting. The MeidasTouch Network's podcast has surpassed Joe Rogan's. 

[zazen]

This is how empires have gone - they grow by being protectionist (Britain did the same). Once big enough they become laissez-fair and push for liberal free trade because the know they will dominate the market and can push all the production they have grown into, onto other markets. Asleep at the wheel, indulgent and decadent, other competitors start gaining power - once the current hegemon wakes up to this it’s already too late to reverse the trend. They start initiating protectionist / mercantilist policies as a last resort to hold onto what they can, which usually doesn’t reverse what’s already in motion.

This isn’t about Trump alone. This is the logical next step for an empire that has overextended itself globally and is now in damage control mode. Whether it’s Trump’s executive overreach or the surveillance state expanding under both parties, the pattern is the same: when an empire loses external control, it turns inward and cannibalizes itself. Trump is only brash enough and unashamed enough to speed run a process that is inevitable.

On the bright side, the US has too many strong fundamentals to collapse like a failed country - many analysts think doom and gloom as if the US empire is going to collapse. The shift from global domination to internal consolidation doesn’t mean collapse, but contraction. It's basically the empire on a diet, cutting down to size to be within its sphere of influence it still has sway in rather than dominate the entire sphere of planet earth. They were on the carnivore diet bulking and gained too much weight gorging on fatty cuts of wagyu, now their cutting on lean steak.  They fed on the meat of the global South up to the point  they no longer can so easily, and now turn inwards to feed on themselves and their allies - to the bone. This is the empire feeding off whatever flesh is still left on the carcass of its former global supremacy because it can't feast on the world anymore.

Edited 17 hours ago by zazen

[oldhandle]

11 hours ago, Jayson G said:

serious question, at what point do you think it makes sense to leave america, if at all, hoping to get opinions. I don't want to over-react, but I don't want to under-react either. I considered this as a possibility up until today, while today I feel this may be a potential reality. Im an ordinary american citizen questioning a good life in america over the coming years because of this. Do you think life will generally be the same on an individual level, or does it get a bit worse? somewhat worse? or really bad

I got out 2.5 years ago for Europe. I haven't been back even for a visit. Lived there 33 years, I'm 35 now. Fuck that place. I don't understand anyone telling you not to leave if you have the option to leave.

[Joshe]

See, this is what I was hinting at. Trump's rhetoric about many things is getting massive backlash from those who are usually sympathetic to him. 

He keeps doing this, causing more and more of his sympathizers to be like "WTF?". Those sympathizers are starting to see how deceptive and vile he is. 

Well-respected and influential people who are friendly to the right are speaking out. Bill Burr went on a rant attacking Elon Musk and now Fox News is running attacks on him, and lots on the right don't like it. 

If this keeps up, the cumulative effect of all this can't be good for Trump and his influencers. I feel like he's going to start bleeding support. 

Trump is kind of forcing influencers into a corner that could potentially hurt them. For example, they now have to give their commentary on what Trump said about Zelensky being a dictator who started the war. Influencers like Rogan and Lex will either have to double down for MAGA or break with them. 

Sooner or later, if this keeps up, these influencers will lose respect on a large scale and I think they'll start shitting on Trump before they let that happen. 

Let's hope Trump keeps this up. 

 

[PurpleTree]

2 hours ago, Joshe said:

This is interesting. The MeidasTouch Network's podcast has surpassed Joe Rogan's. 

That’s a good sign.

[LordFall]

@Joshe Lex Friedman interviewing Putin would go hard. I love these long form discussions open to the public, social media is democratizing access to information in a beautiful way! 

[PenguinPablo]

11 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Yes, you guys are way too chronically immersed in the news. Stop consuming news for 3 months and see how you feel. You're getting lost in a social narrative. Go outside, touch grass.

When I started my first business in 2008, right in the middle of the market collapse, I didn't even check the news for 5 years. During that time I made a bunch of money and didn't even know or care what the economy was doing. If sat around watching the financial news every day I would have probably been so depressed and pessimistic that I wouldn't have even worked on my business.

The news narrative -- regardless of what it is -- is NOT reality. Stop watching news and go work on something creative. Go make some art. You will see that all this news stuff is a stupid distraction. You are not improving the world by sitting around worrying about the news each day.

Recognize that Trump's #1 goal is to leech your attention. Trump is an attention whore and he will waste your life by distracting you from the important work you should be doing rather than watching his stupid reality TV show. Same goes for Musk. These narcissists are just attention whores who are too pathetic to generate their own love so they steal it from you like vampires.

Stop feeding the vampires.

Best advice ever!

 

[PurpleTree]

48 minutes ago, LordFall said:

@Joshe Lex Friedman interviewing Putin would go hard. I love these long form discussions open to the public, social media is democratizing access to information in a beautiful way! 

It would be lame imo.

Lex wouldn’t ask tough questions.

 

[Rafael Thundercat]

https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-fbi-protected-our-family-from

KASH PATEL MAGA boy in FBI

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g-s1-49696/trump-cabinet-picks-kash-patel

 

Edited 11 hours ago by Rafael Thundercat

[Raze]

6 hours ago, Joshe said:

This is interesting. The MeidasTouch Network's podcast has surpassed Joe Rogan's. 

It looks like it’s just because their episodes are so short the watches download / play more of them. Their amount per episode is nothing to write home about.

[Yimpa]

10 hours ago, PenguinPablo said:

Best advice ever!

Beautiful advice that nobody is gonna follow 

[Rafael Thundercat]

Cris Kluwe. May his name be remembered