Can you imagine? It’s probably like the inside of Vincent D’Onofrio’s mind in The Cell.

CIA during the Cold War: Hopped up alcoholic psychos smearing LSD onto the doorknobs of historically black churches and overthrowing Latam democracies.

CIA today: Some YOPO DC dork who posts furry porn to the DSA’s twitter before hitting up Planet Fitness.

cia went woke smdh

The truth is the presidency is actually an enormously powerful position and there is no secret cabal of intelligent, strategic capitalists behind the scenes who can press a button to override it. Ruling classes have always been riven by factionalism, and the modern American ruling class is at the apex of this due to generations of imperial hegemony degrading their ability to analyze, understand, and respond to real material conditions.

Maybe the attempted assasinations were them trying and failing

They’ve tried hitting him with the cancer gun but all the McDonald’s he eats has pickled his body and he’s immune.

The bourgeoisie are always class conscious, but fractured by campism, they DO come together if capitalism is sufficiently threatened. They are a homogeneous blob in the sense that they oppose working class movements and labour emancipation, but the struggle over the division of the earth is always there.

Funnily enough, the bourgeoisie are usually united in class unconsciousness. Unlike workers, when they act out of a narrow self interest, it tends to constructively interfere. And the US, they’ve been acting inside a liberal legal system designed to cushion any harsh consequences that kind of blind profit seeking leads to. A few of them are more aware, but it just means when they act out of narrow self interests, it’s just a little more savvy and with a slightly broader time horizon. Bezos and Buffet already liquidated a bunch of wealth last November.

Offshoring and de-industrialization was the only way the US was able to push off the spectre of the declining rate of profit and the corresponding class consciousness that comes with it.

Maybe they don’t care? US proles are really, really, really propagandized against class consciousness and socialism. End of history and all that. I mean inevitably it comes back when conditions get bad enough and /enough/ time passes but maybe they think something else will happen before then to prevent it? Nuclear war where they all hide in their bunkers? Automated police kill-bots to keep the proles in line? Things like AI and robotics alleviating the need for all those workers (here’s where they obviously don’t understand proper Marxist economics of course and it eventually breaks down to them eating each other but by then they might have exterminated a lot of us so it’ll be small comfort). I mean they’re attacking public education and doing all kinds of other things you’d need to do to create a downwardly mobile population suitable for harsh factory work in horrible conditions. Add in some terror of gutting public healthcare, spreading around a few ever-present diseases like covid that slowly cripple those who get repeatedly infected and only those who keep their heads down and work have the healthcare to be able to survive in those conditions while many others are being picked off and you no longer have just food and hunger but living as a weapon.

I am not optimistic about Americans becoming class conscious quickly enough to matter in the next 20-30 years and more specifically class conscious and aware of and versed in Marxist theory as it’s not enough to be class conscious, there are plenty of liberal-ish types who are but think the end all is peaceful protest and organizing and are easily put down. I just see some sort of extreme reaction taking hold as much more likely.

They might feel (and not without some reason) that by the time there’s any real risk of the proles becoming class conscious AFTER reshoring that they’ll have AI plus robotics down and they’ll have automated kill bots, an enforcer class (cops), plus be able to increasingly replace the lost labor, plus just kill off or cripple tons of the unruly proles by poisoning their water and air, letting pandemics ravage the population at large, and of course climate change heat effects and perhaps increasing food costs to just starve a certain amount to death every year (if kept small enough I’m sorry to say most Americans would walk atop all those bodies and skeletons and stay in line as long as their number isn’t up, as long as the mass slotted for starvation is small enough every year to be put down by militarized police and for the rest of the population to keep their heads down and not join them this seems viable).

Again this all eventually falls apart but it’s little comfort as many of us here will be dead as a result long before it reaches that point.

I say, never say never. Really they might only be trying to prod back strategic industries. Trump likes to go on about antibiotics production which is telling because in a prolonged war against the rest of the world or at least against China the US would run out of medical treatments for their soldiers who’d begin dying to preventable things because they’d be cut off. The US wants to be able to self-sufficiently wage protracted global war on the rest of the world, war for conquest, war for dominance, war for plunder. They can afford to lose iPhone production, they can afford to lose all kinds of consumer goods but they must have food (already not a problem, not likely to be given Canada is a major supplier of fertilizers and we have lots of natural gas for that purpose), they must have medicine for their soldiers, and they must have arms building capabilities. Trump talks about ship-building, he wants back massive ship-building capability in the US which is why the tarrifs on non-US made ships because right now in a prolonged war China could just keep churning out new ships and the US would be without a navy very quickly, he wants to decrease global purchases of Chinese ships to shut down Chinese shipyards and move them to places where the US has control to give the US the ability to use them to make war-ships quickly in a prolonged war and to deny China that same ability.

they’re using him as an excuse while it’s convenient but I don’t think they are okay with him fucking up the bag

Fascism with less brown shirts since there’s not much of an organized left to take the fight to the streets.

Yes, that’s it. Class solidarity has historically been annoyingly high amongst capitalist both national and international and (whatever other effects), this might have the potential to further erode both at the same time.

have never heard of that person. I looked at the first page of results for Zeihan and just closed the window in disgust

democratization of statistics and math underway, thank you for liberating us from their cold tyranny Mr president

god deflected the bullet so that he can fulfill his mission

“Transgender” stole our “tariff wealth” is literally what he already said.

I guess he could always try stabbed in the back? Say the tarrifs would have worked if geatures vaguely “they” hadn’t interfered or refused to play ball or whatever with “they” being some group, a portion of corporations or a group of controlling interests in them slated for sidelining or just you know trans people and poc and stuff.

He’ll just keep blaming the wokes and the transgenders and the illegal immigrants, and the hogs will keep eating it up.

Yea he kinda got rid of all the scapegoats he could use. Immigrants are getting deported, every country is tariffed, DEI is “gone”. What else is there to blame?

Sheinbaum keeps winning

Reunion is inhabited and a French colonial territory, not that far from Madagascar

“Neoliberalism is finished, we are not going to go back to it, it’s historically impossible…”

• Samir Amin, 2010.

Then he goes onto explain why social democracy and Keynesism revival failed before it even happened (the failure of Sanders and Corbyn in 2016/2017). Working class was in a position of defeat, not victory, thus it was not on the agenda. Then the destruction of nations, particularly in Eastern Europe (happened with Ukraine).

Neo-Keynesianism has been a dead end for almost a decade now, since the initial failure of the Sanders and Corbyn campaigns. They were never going to be allowed to seize power, as the working class globally was, and is, in a position of defeat, not strength. The Dems were basically running on “let’s try revive neoliberalism for a third time” (after Obama and then Biden failed to do so), which is as you pointed out, quite delusional and what led to the Dems losing a section/faction of bourgeois support to Trump (Musk, Zuckerberg, et al). As much as Dugin is a borderline, if not straight up fascist, he was right on this, Trump was initially abandoned by the “deep state”/bourgeois in 2020, but gained support from elements of it, alas an “even deeper state” after they realised the state of delusion in the Dem establishment camp. Without this support from this “deeper state” (Musk and silicon valley types like Zuckerberg) Trump would have never been elected, and would not be allowed to do what he is doing now with tarrifs.

As funny as the JDPON Don memes are, the real JDPON move would’ve been the USA and a flailing Europe trying to revive neoliberalism for a third time while Russia and China work together on constructing an alternative system. The USA has to try something different. Tarrifs + potential expansionism in Greenland and the Great Lakes + protectionism appears to be that difference.

no shot the u.s. doesn’t coat the globe in nuclear hellfire the instant it seems like shit is going to go sideways

On the contrary, one of the likely outcomes of Trump’s actions is nuclear proliferation.

I hope so, but we saw what happened after Trump’s first term.

You never know, we could also get an actual Dust Bowl if agriculture collapses due to price shocks in inputs or the Midwest gets hit with a drought.

I get that. My point is mainly about the number they’re inventing though.

What the fuck is with the “currency manipulation and trade barriers” explanation if it’s that simply?

I hate these people.