Donald Trump did it, he is the most famous person in the world. His ambitions have been realised. He won and to him that is all that matters. He also just happens to be the next US president, again. Harris was never going to win, she was terrible. She had been the VP under another terrible person, Biden. The election was more about them not winning and the Neocons being denied direct power again than it was about Trump, himself. He just happened to not be another politician. But Donald Trump, the celebrity tycoon who has been famous for over forty years.
Remember how last time he became presidential by firing Tomahawk cruise missiles into foreign lands, a US tradition. As American as apple pie, drone strikes and trillions in debt. The partisan bobble heads applauded him for it, they love the wars.
Trump won with a coalition of alternatives to the status quo, an armour that protected him from various criticism. RFK,jr steels him for his COVID policies, Tulsi Gabbard gives him a partially anti-war and capable women who already defeated Kamala Harris, Elon Musk brings him DOGE bros and an army of memers, Dana White supplies the UFC muscle, Joe Rogan a media that the legacy outlets struggle to compete with and then with the endorsement of Dave Smith, Tom Woods and the many other social media famous libertarians he has elements from the liberty crowd to clamour about him. He even mentioned he would have Ron Paul on board to advise him on cutting back federal spending.
Now that he is elected, will any federal government get cut? Will he free Ross Ulbrycht like he promised he would do on day one? Given how ruthless his regime was on Assange last time, it is not likely. But we shall see. This is a different Trump we are told, one who doesn’t need to drain a swamp. He’s bringing with him scissors to cut taxes and what’s that…talking of ending the Fed? The very inflationary central bank structure that his billions are inflated by? The government that enabled him and his father to become successful real estate tycoons? We shall see.
The US government is a deviously persistent survivor. It has survived many presidents who said words against its growth and has thrived despite them, because of them even. It only seems to grow and so too does its debt. As for Trump being a conservatives wet dream, his life seems rather libertine and progressive. He was more of a liberal democrat, until he seized the moment and wore the red hat of nationalist. He loves America, sure, what it’s given and allowed him to be. The America of most others, I doubt he has ever really known. But that goes for his opponents too. Harris only met the real America when she threw them in jail and Biden when the fragrance of its children wafted by. The rulers are uncommon people who exist above the common person, that always seems to be their godlike appeal. The promissory notes of political speeches, providing hope for those who feel the hunger pangs only politicians words satiate.
And speaking of a hungry world, Dear Americans, those of us on the other parts of the planet, in the frontiers of empire, near the outposts and in the imperial colonies, we want peace and liberty too. To be allowed to trade and exchange via voluntary means, to have a currency that is not debased by debt and inflation, to not see another burned baby on our screens or in the arms or to know that the young men, not far from childhood themselves don’t need to go again go abroad to kill and die. The great exceptionalism is that in this monopolar world, the US is often the harbinger of such misery and realities. And the elections, the promises of lying politicians are the hair trigger by which many live and die.
As for the liberty movement, the self proclaimed champions of peace and individual rights, limited or preferably no government and where voluntary interaction is paramount, we have hard work ahead of us. Because the term liberty, freedom, libertarian, Ancap and so on all have and will go on the be slurs or misconstrued. The attachment to US party politics alienates and denounces the universal ambitions and rights of billions of others. It shackles those terms and trademarks them in the minds of many to contemporary personalities and politics. Liberty belongs to the world, to everyone and not to those who have the most podcast listeners or gets the best ratio on X.
Congratulations the Democrats, some pretentious celebrities and arrogant pundits cried. Sucks to be them. The lying class lost, but it also won. The US government did not lose the election, it just shape shifted a little bit. Let’s hope that Trump does even half of the positive things he said and half of the bad things he boasted he would do. Which is which, is all rather subjective really, but liberty and peace should be objectives. In politics they sadly are not.
Lest we not forget, “Democrats are shrieking so loud today because they know they’re wrong. They know their party ran a dogshit candidate. They know it was crazy to expect the left support the party that’s committing a live-streamed genocide. It’s not anger. It’s not fear. It’s cognitive dissonance. “ – Caitlin Johnstone
The screams of the smug losers can be heard the world over. Being a sore loser is a bad thing, we saw that when Trump first won and lost. Some did not take it well. We shall see it again. But being a bad winner is also bad. Spite is not a good trait. It could be a time for those who claim to have principles to rise above spite and to not collectivise millions of people into slurs because of a caricature or what a pundit does. It’s an opportunity to communicate principles and set an example, to lead by such distinctions rather than to denigrate oneself into Blue and Red factions just because one is so much more deplorable right now than the other. Hating Democrats should not make everyone a Republican. Transcending that simplified rivalry is where those inside the liberty realm can rise above.
Despite Trump winning, Peanut remains dead and it’s unlikely that the killers and bureaucrats who made it possible will all lose their job or that such people will stop doing such inhuman, “just my job” acts of statist immorality. The wars will go on, perhaps a little less here but a bit more there. The troops will be over there, they do have several hundred bases on foreign soil to fill. The trouble isn’t Trump or Harris or Clinton or Reagan or even Woodrow Wilson. It’s these powerful central governments, they only ever grow so that the killers of Peanut and thousands of children in Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, etc alike have jobs, and can live in comfort. Most people want to be left alone, to live in peace. Those over there, just like you. The trouble is we have developed a society in our minds where careers and entitlements are based on imperial intrusions and regulations that constrain, punish and ruin lives. “Just doing my job,” really means, “I value money over your rights.” That is the fight that needs to be fought.
As the riots go on in Tel Aviv, it may not be a US president that ends the genocide, despite so much US support. Instead the people there themselves. Disorder and disobedience. The genocide to save Netanyahu’s career may after all come to an end. Trump, Harris or not. But the thousands remain dead and in time thousands more shall die. When he loses his mantle of power, maybe faces some justice the thousands of killers of the innocent will remain ready to serve the next leader of government. Election or not.
Liberty and individual rights need voices and champions, its rebellion we need and not a revolution that only ends leading to another form of power. Donald Trump is most certainly not Hitler, but neither was Hitler. Transforming human beings into demonic entities that are unreal is the propaganda of myth making. This goes for all enemies, they are very much human beings. To depict them as slurs misses the points that makes them appealing to real people. The alliance that should be found is in the commonality between real people and to expose the hypocrisy, corruption and very evils of such people and actions. To express and articulate with principles and the philosophy of peace, we have world history to use as examples. Not to yell and meme over one another, to act like drunk children celebrating a win on Mario Kart. Let’s be better. Let’s hold them all accountable and set the example, beat the fuck out of them with righteous indignation fuelled by words and principles that their Raytheon millions and inflationary billions can never buy. Libertas dignity.
