This song sums us up best right now:
Since 2016 I have argued that Identity Politics is a deeply flawed strategy for the Political Left.
I have argued that Identity Politics locked into place ‘feelings’ and ‘lived experiences’ that replaced logic, rational debate and reason because logic, rational debate and reason are heteronormative white cis male privileges that we all hate now.
MeToo, Black Lives Matter and the Trans debate – all issues we were prepared to burn every bridge for have come back to bite us all.
I warned that if you spent all this time screaming white men were the problem, they would become the problem.
The greatest danger of Identity Politics for the Left is that the millisecond white poor men see themselves through the same identity lens of victimhood that the Woke do, we were collectively fucked.
The moment men stop seeing themselves as part of a class or as citizens, the millisecond they replace solidarity with victimhood – we were in collective danger.
The Woke believed their ‘feelings’ were more important than anything else, unfortunately angry and frightened right wing people have ‘feelings’ too and their ‘feelings’ are way more demented than ours.
That is what has happened in the American Election and what we have just witnessed is the most consequential election in modern political history – it is the beginning of America’s decline and the first true step towards a dystopian nightmare.
Trump’s United States of Wounded Masculinity has beaten Kamala’s Nation of Childless Cat Women.
I’m pretty sure this is how the Handmaids Tale starts – the American Midnight has begun.
I argued there would be 3 possible outcomes from the Election:
OUTCOME 1: Polls have under estimated Democratic support the way they did during midterms and Harris wins a landslide. MAGA Extremists riot.
OUTCOME 2: Trump swamps the electorate with voters who never would have voted in the past and wins a convincing victory. Progressive movement riots.
OUTCOME 3: The Election is too close to call and Trump exploits that delay by stealing the election.
We have Outcome 2 and I think this is the most dangerous outcome.
The only way Trump could win was if he reached out to the 34% of Americans who don’t vote, that his hate, his malice, his spite manages to cut through all the noise to the disenfranchised male voter who has lost all hope in the system and are voting because Trumps anger triggers them to support him.
Trump did this, he reached into the void and dragged non-voters into voting and won an unprecedented victory.
It is a stark and terrifying win because Trump has gained a mandate for the horror he is promising to inflict.
Using social media to focus on the non-voter and to bring them into voting using malice that cuts through has cemented an uncompromising victory and it should terrify everyone with basic reading skills.
Trump is a fascist whose desire to politicise the bureaucracy with Project 2025 will lead to mass arrest detention camps for ‘illegals’ using a a militarised secret police.
His tariffs will cause conflict with China, the Palestinians are fucked, the climate is screwed and the Ukrainians about to be betrayed.
This monumental victory alongside wins in the Senate and the likelihood the Republicans will keep the House is a total landslide from which the Democrats can not recover.
Some will say, ‘that’s democracy’ but that isn’t true. We have unregulated social media feeding the lonely and angry and disenfranchised with deeply polarised brainwashing hate algorithms that has re-elected a convicted felon who attempted a coup against the Government.
This isn’t democracy, that is a mutation of cruelty groomed by the Tech bros.
Trump understands political resentment as well as Hitler did and he has weaponised it using social media.
650 000 Americans are homeless, over 100 000 of them are children and 135million live with the threat of homelessness from one bad financial costing month. The level of preciousness so many live with has poisoned the wage slaves of the Land of the Free.
The dark dull orange fascism of Trump is now upon us and the American Midnight begins.
We have every reason to be genuinely frightened because this step towards dystopia is the turning point of Western Civilisation.
We are a far worse species for this outcome.
PS – Congrats to TDBs Tim Selwyn who called it for Trump, and Waatea’s Shane Te Pou who picked the working class shift to Trump before any other NZ Commentator.
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Fuck me what sort of a world have we created .If you are brown ,female ,lgbt ,put your head between your legs and kiss your arse good bye .Luxon and the river of filth will be emboldened by the orange pricks win and will step up the hate and money grab .
We haven’t created this world, the big money interests corrupting US politics, therefore world politics, have created this world….note how the concerns you raise don’t cost them one farkin penny.
Economics, not feelings is what we should be fighting, but alas…we are totally, totally, totally farkin hoodwinked.
Over in the rest of the world based on the record of his previous four year term it’s unlikely there will be any new wars. How many veterans of the forever wars saw Cheney endorse The Left and thought No War Trump would be good news for their sons and daughters.
The Ukrainians will feel betrayed but they could have chosen neutrality in the first place rather than be manipulated and couped into crossing Russias Nato in Ukraine redline. Call Trump a fascist but it was the Democrats that funded the Azov Ukraine nazis.
What would a regulated social media look like? Anti free speech hate laws? Embedded fbi cia and other ‘misinformation league’ operatives in the social media companies?
The NZ economy needs to get closer to BRICS.
Agree!
Don’t kid yourself, Trump’s supporters don’t generally give a rat’s arse about the Ukraine conflict beyond using it as ammunition to complain about the status quo/establishment.
The US in 2024 goes the way of Iran in 1979.
Are you suggesting there is going to be a mass street movement that’s going to bring Hillary back from political exile?
I’m talking about theocracy, Trump will impose a total theocracy, where women will have to cover themselves up, and become property of their husbands
“OUTCOME 2: Trump swamps the electorate with voters who never would have voted in the past and wins a convincing victory. Progressive movement riots.”
We have yet to see the “Progressive movement” riot. Many are talking about immigrating to New Zealand, as if they have a God-given right to do that while abandoning their own country. The “Progressive movement” is more inclined to cut and run when events turn to their disadvantage. Where is Jacinda Ardern these days?
The real leaders of the “Progressive movement” in the US (aka “global capitalism”) will be working quietly behind the scenes to gain or regain control over Trump’s administration but Trump’s ego (nothing to do with principles or political fidelity) will mean that he seeks to keep faith with those who voted for him. There are two ways to reconcile the interests of capital and labour within a great capitalist power. One is the way of the angels: a welfare state. The other is the the way of the devil: a ruthless predatory war against the outsider, usually characterized as fascism.
” Trump’s ego (nothing to do with principles or political fidelity) will mean that he seeks to keep faith with those who voted for him.”
lols. lols and double lols.
Trump cares only for himself, he considers his own interests solely, he doesn’t keep faith with anyone or anything, unless it is to his short term advantage.
Buy your stuff now. Eyewatering trade war tarrifs are going to spike prices globally as exporters offset their costs to consumers.
“PS – Congrats to TDBs Tim Selwyn who called it for Trump, and Waatea’s Shane Te Pou who picked the working class shift to Trump before any other NZ Commentator.”
Yes, TDB has writers like Tim Selwyn and Shane Te Pou who are well ahead of the New Zealand media pack. That reflects credit on Martyn as well for providing room for independent, intelligent and objective comment.
The rest of the media and the political establishment have turned on a dime. They are already congratulating Trump. The masses of air time given to Harris and Biden supporters up till the day of November 6 are now gifted to Trump apologists.
We look to TDB to maintain a consistent and principled perspective in the months to come.
“Congrats to TDBs Tim Selwyn who called it for Trump”
Yes, he did his best to kick that result along.
Will the convicted felon n chief, Trump, initiate any inquiries into all the election cheating he has continuously alleged, or does it all magically disappear just because he won, like some miracle, almost like it didn’t even exist in the first place! He’ll probably declare the election the most fair and square honest election in history.
And is all the media who called the election still fake news, and a so called enemy of the people?
At least the Ukraine war will be finally coming to an end shortly, since Trump said he could end it within 24 hours, thank goodness the world is now a better safer place!
Trump managed to shatter the glass ceiling and make history. An overlooked minority is now represented by the incoming president. America finally has it’s first convicted felon as president.
Taking his cue from South Africa.
Hello 500+ppm CO2, welcome 5+deg warming.
Goodbye civilisation.
In 1933, retired German General Erich Ludendorff sent a telegram to German President Paul von Hindenburg regarding his appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of the Reich:
“I prophesy to you this evil man will plunge our Reich into the abyss and will inflict immeasurable woe on our nation.
Future generations will curse you in your grave for your action”.
. I suggest prefixing the last word with “in” and forwarding the quote to Merrick Garland. It may as well be his epitaph.
Forget the navel gazing and social and political analysis, this calamity came about through repeated failure of US judicial systems to ever hold Trump to account, starting decades back. It is beyond belief that Trump, as an insurrectionist and felon, was even allowed on the ballot.
Beyond belief.
He is Stopping Men playing in Women’s sport. So won lot of soccer mum’s votes.
What have you got against trans people? What did they do to you?
Well they let a man beat the shit out of a woman in front of the world and claimed we were bigots for saying it wasn’t fair.
Boxing Olympics 2024
The Algerian boxer was a woman. She may have been a bit butch, but she is all women. Using your metric, half the women in small town NZ would be reclassified as men.
At least half.
They are stymieing the aspiration of young girls to excel in sport.
Saved from drowning in virtue signalling ineffectual bullshit by a ‘rapee’ arsehole who has clear designs to be a dictator . . between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Richard Christie November 5, 2024 At 10:14 am
Previously undecided voters have been splitting in favour of Harris for many weeks now, by wide margins, particularly amongst women.
Trump will lose the election by a handy margin but expect a serious shit fight afterwards.
I’m hoping Musk is largely ruined because of all this as well. In any case, I certainly expect Tesla to crash within 2 years Musk is in this because he’s as desperate as Trump.
I was wrong and I overestimated the intelligence of the average US voter.
Never mind, you’re in the company of rocket scientists Taylor Swift and Robert de Niro.
“I love the poorly educated” – D Trump
I gather then that he doesn’t love Taylor or Niro.
Why not? School dropouts and Clayton’s degree recipients can still achieve the American Dream.
Yes Yeti
Harris was a Democrat Party puppet. One who has only been appointed into positions of power or influence and never had to stand for election outside safe Democrat Strongholds. Much less against a well funded opponent with their own power base.
The big takeaway is that the western political establishment is now embracing Trump. Sure, they are couching it in terms of “peaceful transition”, “democratic principle” and “respect for the will of the people” rather than a political endorsement, but the long and short of it is that they are saying they can work with Trump (Christopher Luxon) and think that they can control him. Such is their faith in the power of the machine. It may work out like that, or it might not. Either way, the people of the world will have a fight on their hands.
The media is now doing a quick about face, walking back on everything they were saying in the weeks and months before the election. Having forecast a Harris win, they are now declaring that the signs of a Trump victory were clear and obvious in the leadup to election day. What a joke.
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