Trump applying chaos to everyone & everything all at once

While the rest of the world was very aware what would happen in a new Trump regime, it seems the MAGA movement were somewhat misaligned in how they thought a vote for Trump would somehow benefit them. Cumulating with an attack on Immigration, Trade, Allies, the courts, the law, government services, voter suppression, free speech & democracy along with social services, education, health care and the economy was all going to turn out great under Trump. Not to mention taking guidance from that “genius” policy template, project 25 that he knows nothing about! Well, it’s still only early days but the writing is on the wall for the ship of fools in the Whitehouse. It may be too late for any MAGA voters’ remorse as well as all those lazy democrats in every swing state who apparently stayed home on election day. But as one MAGA voter commented, “I voted for other people to get hurt, not me!” That will become their calling card, almost three decades of choosing to live in the Fox news universe comes with a price along with their leader always committing crimes then claiming to be a victim. If Fox news tells their audience its raining on a blue sky day then it must be raining, its exactly how a cult works, make people ignore what they are actually seeing.  They did this the entire time Obama & Biden were in office, but when in Trump world everything is just fine. The very wealthy are no different, they also live in that same bubble totally removed from the real world, thinking what benefits them must benefit everyone.  The obsession with tribalism and owning the libs along with the so-called war on woke just shows how a lack of empathy for their fellow man with this America first BS can just as easily be translated into America last. This is how North Korea evolved to become an isolated state with a large percentage of their population always struggling just to survive. It’s what happens with authoritarians, especially a narcissist like Trump because anyone who comes into his orbit its the “kiss of death” they either end up in jail, bankrupt, or their career is over. That can also include countries, even Elon Musk is now feeling that pain, yet was lured down the same rabbit holes where critical thinking abilities vanish despite his intelligence. Helped along by poor lifestyle choices (or perhaps victim to one of his own neural implants going rogue) where an alternate reality becomes his new world view. The same goes for all Maga & Religious fanatics, regardless of education cannot critically think anymore. It’s either that or a more underlying prejudice in why 70+ million Americans would rather vote for an ignorant fascist criminal knowing his track record that comes with a high risk to destroy everything along with almost 90 million who decided not to vote which is just as bad. As opposed to voting for a smart educated black woman and I think that question answers itself. So, a simple example like the Trump tariffs believing this will somehow revive the 1950’s with a Labor-intensive manufacturing industry suddenly being resurrected back to the US in 2025 is a complete fantasy. Even the mining industry has become automated with specialised machinery now and the same goes for the car industry. It’s even less labour intensive in production line assembly with multi parts sourced globally. Automation & Robots are far more efficient than human labour, (no vacations, no pay, no sick leave, etc) and most of these robots are made in Asia. So, unless you want to import sweat shops back to the US, all these stupid exercises achieve nothing except a complete collapse of the economy and total self-destruction of a country. America like most western advanced countries achieved their success in the current century providing services not by throwing more people into coal mines or drilling for oil and the MAGA mob just don’t get it. Any large manufacturing venture that starts from scratch these days will want the skills of highly educated engineers for automation not low skilled people assembling parts & packing boxes unless it’s a small boutique industry. The highly skilled demands will far outweigh the unskilled by a massive margin. Trump has surrounded himself with complete idiots, there are no wise people giving him advice anymore. He chooses people like him where ideological fanatics operate on a world view that is totally opposite to the truth. Taking the most successful country on Earth into the toilet and no-one in the regime has the courage to speak up to realize what massive mistake’s they are making. There is a trend in conservatism worldwide these days especially in western countries flooded with propaganda trying to resurrect failed economic and ideological ideas that have no place in a modern connected global world. Currently in Australia we are also in an election mode but what is going on in America right now has tremendous impact on all western countries that are aligned with the US. A tragedy in the making where no good outcome for both the US and the world can be seen while it’s allowed to continue. Greed that comes with capitalism has always been good for building empires but it can never be sustained the same way once an Empire is established. That’s what the Europeans have learnt with 1000’s of years more history, they have done all forms of government with Kings & Queens, along with dictators and everything in between. Yet settled on a form of government where everyone pays their fair dues and year after year always rank as the happiest nations on Earth. America has NEVER been one of them, due to that uneven wealth distribution accelerated during Regan’s time results in  a large percentage of their population living in poverty.  Helped along by the undue influence of big business in the way government is run. However, the world is about to give Trump’s America a real look in the mirror exposing that minority section of their population who choose a seriously flawed regime self-destructing their own country was never going to make America great.

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Information Warfare

While this podcast is long and in two parts, it explains in great detail how voters are continually manipulated into cult like behavior just on the basis of targeted misinformation and how that is coupled with corruption on steroids. Technology has a lot to answer for, as it’s a contagion spreading worldwide. Not only that real journalism is also under attack both financially (no one buying newspapers) and having to compete with nonfactual commentary across all platforms. As a result, the powerhouse news organizations lose their relevance and influence in getting real information out. Budgets become less and less for proper investigative reporting and society suffers the consequences. Where a fitting comment from journalist Anthony Davis ends up with “turkeys voting for thanksgiving”. Part 2 is featured first as I thought it covers more ground on important issues. Part one here:

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America has Voted!

America has chosen its new president and it was not the outcome expected. When it comes down to asking why so many Americans voted for a convicted felon as their leader, history will be the judge of that. While America’s enemies all rejoiced in Trump’s win, all of its Allies had that “Don’t Look Up” moment, fully aware of what is coming down the pipe but in public have to remain in denial. When it comes to election analysis one common theme in the media citing that the democrats have become too elitist in the way they kept highlighting Trump’s criminal behavior. Some of that may be true but you cannot be labelled an elitist if you are telling the truth. Like in Britain with Brexit, misinformation or flat-out lies are a working successful formula in politics now. The days of taking your daily news from Walter Cronkite are over, now that message is buried in amongst a thousand others for you to seek out or ignore. So, when Americans were warned the stove was far too hot, many of them only saw the reverse of that message or just decided to touch it anyway. Voting for 100% opposite to what they think they are voting for, which means that the rest of the world has to suffer alongside them by that misguided choice. The Economy, Stock market, Democracy, Social services, the Environment along with Humanity are all going to take a massive hit.  In a rational world, a party that declares it would take action on climate change would be considered a key issue to vote on especially in places like Florida who will see their real estate values drop by 30% in the coming years and good luck getting building insurance while Trumper’s still deny global warming even exists. However in the irrational world, it’s all the other stuff that they need to be concerned about. Triggered by propaganda with things like “woke” or economic hardships without ever seeking the facts on what caused their grievances in the first place. Especially whether a circumstance at any particular time is global or just local. People actually decide their vote based on that stuff and by doing so doesn’t mean they were wrong on that particular issue, it just means far more important issues were totally ignored and they just made a choice to self destruct inflamed by pointless diversions. World history has shown that no modern empire has lasted more than 250 yrs before it totally collapses and right now America is at the 248-year mark. We will see how Trump and all that perfectly sane, rational “brain” power he will add to his coming administration will guide them through that milestone and come out of it looking great. In closing this post a quote from another famous American in history “It’s Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” – Mark Twain

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America at the Tipping Point

While there is massive global interest in the outcome of the American election. In reality the rest of the world doesn’t get a vote and it will come down to a few small swing states that decide it. A flawed system that has been in place since post-civil war which discounts the popular vote and allows smaller populated states to carry more weight in determining outcomes with both federal and presidential elections. What is also unfortunate that all of America’s adversaries recognise this as America’s Achillies heal and a golden opportunity when targeting social media feeds with propaganda in order to create social disharmony in a country they wish to see fail.  After all they have the Fox news organisation as their benchmark, which has also been doing the same thing for decades turning lies into monetary value. In other words, conservatism has done very little in terms of positive outcomes for the people who vote for them, with one small exception the top ten percent income earners. They have helped the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer but that is where it stops.

Part 1 here:  Part 3 here: Part 4 here:  Part 5 here: So, let’s just look at how Conservatism has improved America in the past fifty years. As a quick starting point it should be noted that since 1933 Democratic administrations have delivered roughly double the economic growth compared to Republican administrations over that time period. Currently the Biden administration has the strongest economic growth of any country in terms of employment and economic performance. But you would never hear that on Fox news, they would rather eat dirt. They won’t tell you the rest of the world is doing it much harder than they are.  Except they will complain about inflation and the price of gas but decline to mention all of it’s trade  competitors pays double for the price of gas than what the US consumer pays. It was the same when Obama was in office, Fox kept pumping out how bad he was while the rest of the world thought differently. This is the disconnect from reality the MAGA movement has, believing the USA can remain an island totally removed from global market forces and conflicts with no impact on them. The reason universal health care has never been adopted in the US to match all of it’s competitors is only due to conservatism.  The reason USA pays more than anyone else for prescription medications is because of conservatism    always backing big pharma over the people who vote for them. That is until the Biden adminstration started to change all of that.  Its also conservatism that screams “socialism” any time low-income citizens are proposed to receive a government benefit yet fail to see the hypocrisy when gov bails out big business or grants tax cuts to the rich. The reason the USA has more people living in poverty than any of their western competitors is because of conservatism. The reason there is not equal justice for all in the USA like in all other democratic countries is due to conservatism.  The reason elections are not decided by the popular vote and minority voters are suppressed is because of conservatism.

Part Two  here:   Part 3 here :  Part 4 here:  Part 5 here: Part 6 here : The reason more people died in the USA in terms of ratio to population than anywhere else in the world during covid is because of conservatism. The reason USA has more gun deaths & mass shootings than any country on earth is because of conservatism. The reason you have to tip service workers due to the min pay rates being way below the poverty line is because of conservatism. The reason for extreme weather events that America & the world suffers from now with 50 yrs of inaction on climate change is due to conservatism. This is just the short list of examples on how conservative ideology represents a clear and present danger not only to America but to the survival of mankind as well. An ideology so out of sync with modern world problems trying to always resurrect 1950s (the white mad men era)  while everyone else has moved on. Smart political movements learn from history along with acquired knowledge that comes from science and human endeavour in order to survive and prosper while still promoting social harmony as a goal. When you create massive wealth gaps in your population that is never going to promote social harmony, it’s a recipe for disorder and division. Hopefully the new momentum with Harris will continue and bring about sweeping changes that is needed. Conservatism in the US really needs a good hard look in the mirror in terms of moral and ethical behaviour. A party totally bankrupt in practical policies that are evidence based, a one trick pony only offering insults, anger, lies and fear as a platform. Team that up with those so-called Christians who put aside their moral beliefs in order to walk the same path. After all they have put their faith in the craziest, corrupt, most stupid man in America whose record would not allow him to qualify for a cleaning job in a shopping mall yet decide on him as their pick for president. Keeping in mind though, Trump represents the current Republican party values in every way, a party built on lies, corruption & conspiracies, running on empty.

Footnote: Since the Democratic convention & the debate it has become clear that this election is about intellect vs ignorance & lies or the People vs Republicans. In the MAGA world where they choose to live in the “The Trueman show” universe as opposed to the real world is kind of sad but also very dangerous, because it’s a world that only exists due to deception and has done so for the past 50 yrs. If you have to distract your base with absurdities like illegals eating your pets then you know the social media algorithm for idiots is working way beyond expectations. Especially for some of the tech gurus who have fallen under the same spell of misinformation that can sometimes come from their own creation.   Part 2 here:

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Australia in 4K scenic landscapes

While I have never visited Uluru (known as the Rock) in the Northern Territory I have been to a lot of the other places featured in this video. It’s fair to say I am more attracted to sand and sea landscapes than wide open spaces. I know some people love the outback and that’s good but I guess I fall into the category that most Australians seem to prefer somewhere close to the ocean or within a couple of hours drive as my version of utopia. I posted this to emphasise the importance of looking after the environment we live in and how everything can be dramatically altered in a heartbeat with climate change.

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Chasing the sun in winter

Pictures from this year’s road trip north escaping Canberra’s winter. Although with a changing climate our winters are trending warmer each year now. Still, it’s one of the nicer things about living on a large Island continent with a relatively small population. When you are completely surrounded by ocean with a dry inland most people choose to live near the coast or are within a couple of hours drive of the coastline. Even considering that, you never have to venture far to find a secluded area of beach that you can call your own. I found a few of these this year in different places, and others where lots of people gathered to enjoy nature’s playground. Including a couple of kangaroos which made themselves at home in the front yard of a holiday guest house.

 

 

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Road Trip North

As the opportunity came up for a road trip north again this winter into warmer weather I couldn’t pass it up. Considering all that has gone on over the past to two years globally, its nice to be able to travel freely once again while still being cautious at the same time. These are a small sample of pictures taken along the way at various locations. This has always been part of my retirement bucket list, I hope to keep doing it as long as I can.

      

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Trolls who attack this site only means more facts being posted.

Another decision passed down by the American Supreme Court (or as Jon Stewart describes it as the “Fox News of Justice”) that was against the wishes of around sixty five percent (70% in 2013 when misinformation was not the weapon of choice) of the entire population of the US shows how democracy has evolved in this new world order of the GOP. They are not concerned about one vote one value, they are only concerned about holding onto power at any cost. By enforcing minority values on an entire population is not much different than Islamic state rule or Taliban type tactics. This is a party that claim to be the moral gate keepers for the entire population so concerned about the life of the unborn no matter how it was conceived yet this same philosophy also means you are on your own after birth. Not to mention the social outcome for unwanted children and the welfare of the mother. When you operate with this sort of logic against the wishes of the majority there is no good outcome at the end. Not to mention other factors being revealed in the Jan 6th hearings with the same GOP. In any other civilised democracy Trump & his minions would already be behind bars but at the time of this post nothing but the outer circle are currently wearing the orange jumpsuits despite overwhelming evidence that multiple crimes have been committed.

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Gold Coast 2022

Just back from a recent trip to the Gold Coast playing in the Australian Open Bowls tournament. While we were blessed with perfect weather and great bowls clubs to visit I have to say it’s not my favourite destination of choice. Only because I prefer to wind down rather than a wind up when it comes to taking a break. To have so much high density living so close to a beach, looking through my eyes is graffiti on nature. Especially with those huge high rises, in my view that sort of development so close to the coast line is like throwing a tin of paint on a masterpiece work of art. In the meantime while away this web site also came under multiple attacks again since I put up a link to a video on the stupidity of embracing a gun culture in a modern highly populated society. This obviously upset quite a few people but they still don’t have the courage to make an argument identifying themselves. Instead they troll behind a VPN and try to kill a message they don’t agree with because their reality vaporises when it comes to arguing against truth.

     

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America’s gun problem

A month or so ago I posted an article on propaganda that was broad comment on the invasion of Ukraine plus how it is used world wide for political power. In the meantime we had a federal election in Australia and much to my surprise there was a change of government. So here was a rare victory for truth over misinformation as it was climate change policies or lack of them that turned this political tide. Now once again we have a tragic mass shooting in America and yes, those good ole boys from GOP or as we like to call them these days, “The American Taliban” still keep pumping out the same absurdities about a “good guy with a gun” and lets not forget the mental health card as legitimate arguments to do nothing about policy changes. Well it seems the good guys with a gun were there, plus more good guys with guns some 14mins later. Yet all that carnage still took place, but they keep looking for any answer except the obvious because that answer they can’t fathom. This is conservatism American style in the 21st century, everything they purport to believe in is the exact opposite to the truth. Which in turn poses a direct threat to everyone. This is what happens when you immerse yourself in a flawed culture without the ability to zoom out in changing circumstances and problem solve. The sad part is, these misguided people are always the minority in terms of the American population wishes overall, yet still determine policy. They suppress voting, stack courts, deny science, deny facts and determine anyone who disagrees with them the enemy not a fellow citizen. I once mentioned in a previous post on the gift good comedians have looking at something objectively and highlighting how firmly held fictional beliefs are easily dismantled with humour and truth. Jim Jefferies may be crude, rude & foreign which are all the ingredients to make American gun lovers angry. However he still has every argument covered on the insane logic they use for no change to gun laws. This skit is almost decade old now and was made before the Las Vegas mass shooting but still every bit as relevant today as it was then.  One final point to all the gun nuts out there, with those mythical fantasies on freedom and fear. You have no idea what real freedom is until you can go about your everyday business, send your kids to school and never have to think about others carrying a gun or be concerned. That’s a freedom that most western wealthy countries have that you will never ever know. Part one below, Part two here.

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