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Thoughts in the Immediate Election Aftermath

The Prudentialist

Nov 06, 2024

"The demons cunningly withdraw for a time in the hope that we will cease to guard our heart, thinking we have now attained peace; then they suddenly attack our unhappy soul and seize it like a sparrow."

- St. Isaiah the Solitary

As the Associated Press has called the presidential race for Donald Trump, (with Kamala yet to emerge to offer a concession speech, at least at the time of writing this) I’m left with a huge shit-eating grin on my face. However I can’t say it’ll last forever, chasing a high from so many years ago will never be quite the same once you get a hold of it again. I sent my vote for Donald Trump during early voting, and if you include the primaries (and for the sake of disclosure) I have voted for Donald Trump six times now with this election being the last. I had voted for a bull in the china shop in 2016, thinking he would be safer in terms of foreign policy over Hillary Clinton, and my politics moved further to the right as I saw the bureaucracy, the media, big business, etc., rally against him and people who voted for him. 2020 of course happened, but we’ll get into that later on today.

And here we are.

The results as of this morning:

While the Spirit of 2016 crackles through the air like the spirit of radio did in 80s and the glass ceiling still stands without a crack, the nagging feeling of “I’ve been here before” lingers in my mind. Trump and his supporters have been called Hitler, fascists, racists, all the rest, and have seen conservative aligned businesses targeted, and any elite defections have lawfare and the like as Elon Musk and his companies have. Had the economic conditions been better, had the borders not been opened up for millions to pour in and to get better treatment than actual Americans, the constant preference for the foreigner over the citizen, the mandates, the inflation, all of it…this election could potentially have gone a different direction and this isn’t even mentioning the attempts on Trump’s life.

There are some key items as to how we got to here, in no particular order.

Biden dropping out of the race.

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter (now X.)

Kamala’s poor quality as a candidate

Rampant inflation

Foreign Policy (Shipping Lanes, Israel, Ukraine)

Regime preference for foreigners

Lawlessness/Anarcho-Tyranny (Law and Order)

Open Borders - Every State a Border State

Countless more factors are included, but one thing that I think is really worth mentioning here is just how millennial coded this election was, especially for Kamala’s campaigns. From “Brat” to her appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” Podcast, her staffers going on TikTok to talk their “MAGA Uncles” as if they were literal preschoolers shows us that the mid-thirties schoolmarm schtick wasn’t going to sit well. Kamala was a piss poor candidate in 2020, and was already tied to an unpopular (and illegitimately elected) President Biden, and her lack of policy positions and presupposed “vibes” weren’t going to go far enough when the average person’s quality of life had gone down, costs have gone up, and the worship of lawlessness meant what they did have was very much at risk especially in urban areas. California has opted to be tougher on crime based on the results of Prop 36.

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12/4 ASTROLABE LINKS:

DUDES WILL PICK UP THE COOLEST HOBBIES

JAMES LINDSAY'S EDITS TO COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

MEME MOCKING LINDSAY

JAMES LINDSAY SWORD VIDEO

SHAMPOO WARLORD REMINDS US JAMES LINDSAY IS FAT

PETER HOTEZ SAYS MULTIPLE VIRUSES WILL BE UNLEASHED ON AMERICA

DANIEL PENNY'S PROSECUTOR

MORE PROSECUTOR

MORE PROSECUTOR

FBI AGENTS ASSIGNED TO LOOK INTO DRONES HAVE REPORTED DRONES ABOVE THEIR HOMES

NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS WAS PAID IN BTC

TESLA PARTNERING WITH INDIAN TRIBES

KEN PAXTON SUING BLACKROCK, ET AL

BASED STEPHEN MILLER ON SECURING THE BORDER

FBI WHISTLEBLOWER ON FBI OPERATION TO SABOTAGE KASH PATEL

MICHAEL COHEN ON TRUMP ANNEXING CANADA AND MEXICO

JESSE WATTERS ON ANNEXING CANADA

TRUMP HUMILIATING TRUDEAU AND SHEINBAUM

TRUMP ANNOUNCES HE FIRED CHAD CHRONISTER AS DEA NOMINEE

SEAN DAVIS ON DESANTIS FOR SECDEF RUMORS

BRENDON LESLIE ON DESANTIS FOR SECDEF RUMORS

FETTERMAN MAKING FUN OF DESANTIS

PETE HEGSETH ON MEGYN KELLY

ERIK PRINCE SHOUTS OUT HEGSETH

DANIEL DRISCOLL, NEW ARMY SECRETARY

DRISCOLL PBS INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT: JD VANCE

JARED ISAACMAN NOMINATED AS NASA ADMINISTRATOR

WSJ ARTICLE ON ISAACMAN

ISAACMAN WIKIPEDIA

BUCK JOHNSON / STORMY INTERVIEW

PRUDENTIALIST / RYAN TURNIPSEED INTERVIEW

AURON MACINTYRE / JAMES LINDSAY TAKEDOWN

JOE ROGAN / MIKE BENZ INTERVIEW

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As the global Left gears up to fight Donald Trump, consumerism has become the battlefield of choice. Canadians are renaming American food and products in a rehash of the "freedom fry" debacle after 9/11. Progressive terrorists are attacking Tesla cars and facilities as a proxy for Elon Musk and his Department of Government efficiency. Corporate brands have become symbols of modern national identity and created a sense of hyperreality in the culture wars. The Prudentialist joins me to discuss.

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Years ago, when I was first starting out in the foray of online politics, when Mr. Prudentialist was still modified Edmund Burke profile pictures (old fans of the frog remember), I had come across a Twitter thread where someone was wishfully thinking that Trump wouldn’t be in office had Jon Stewart not left The Daily Show in 2015. If anything, Jon Stewart, while responsible for ruining a whole generation of voters, is left as a dinosaur of a bygone age, something for Millennial leftists to cling to of an older type of political arena where The Daily Show was seen as the go-to place for news rather than anonymous frogs on Twitter and other social media platforms. While The Daily Show is a ghost of its former self, late-night television and political shows like Stewart’s feel like relics, the same sort of men you’d see on Viagra commercials begging to be potent once more in an age of disintermediation, despite their obvious role of serving propaganda to normie masses.

To say that the state of modern American political discourse is laughable would be stating the obvious. The Internet, for those with a certain autistic flair of data-mining and going down the rabbit hole, has led to receipts proving adages and “conspiracy theories” of American politics that we’ve taken as truth for decades. It comes as no shock that American political discourse has been rapidly declining, and experiencing a kind of dilution for almost forty years, where the pre-approved talking points have their punditry classes speak with the kayfabe we’ve grown to see past. PBS has a remarkable documentary on this issue, The Best of Enemies, focused on the 1968 debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Jr., as the model of American punditry theater.

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Here's three episodes to accompany Pete and Aaron's reading of Industrial Society and Its Future.

Pete and Bird From Timeline Earth Read Ted Kaczynski's - The System's Neatest Trick

An 'Uncle Ted Talk' w/ Ryan Dawson

Reading Ted Kaczynski's 'Why the Technological System Will Destroy Itself' w/ The Prudentialist

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A debate exploded across Twitter on Christmas Day between MAGA populists and the Silicon Valley tech elite. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy found themselves facing a wall of angry comments after asserting that Americans did not have the talent or the drive to meet the challenges of the 21 century. Ryan Turnipseed and The Prudentialist join me to discuss this critical showdown. 

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Grant Brooks and Mr. Prudentialist come together to discuss the historical legacy of Turner’s Frontier Thesis, the frontier as the great Americanizer, and colonial expansion as American Identity.

The two cite and reference many works, including those linked below:

Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1921 [1920]).

William Appleman Williams, Empire as a Way of Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980).

Charles Francis Adams, Jr., “‘Imperialism’ and ‘The Tracks of Our Forefathers’: A Paper Read by Charles Francis Adams Before the Lexington, Massachusetts, Historical Society,” December 20, 1898.

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Dimes and Prudentialist continue their "Do You Even Read" series by tackling one of the classics of Always-Referenced-Never-Read: "Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia" by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

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Recorded on November 24th, 2024. The Prudentialist was a guest on the These People Are Sick podcast, hosted by COH and Slav, two former co-hosts of the The Fedpost podcast. They have me to discuss Trump's election, the right wing infighting, the geopolitics and cultural innovations of the second Trump administration.

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Of Donald Trump's initial appointments, the announcement of Matt Gaetz for attorney general was both the most controversial to his enemies and the most energizing to his supporters. Now that Gaetz has withdrawn his own name from consideration in the face of scandalous allegations, has Trump suffered the first loss of his second term? In addition, the Economist is now attempting to sell state-sponsored euthanasia to the United Kingdom in an attempt to follow the disastrous example of Canada. Is this the inevitable destination of state health care? The Prudentialism joins me to discuss.

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Progressive Media and the Conceptual Prison

The Prudentialist

Nov 15, 2024

As the election aftermath continues to play out in the media ecosystem, and the schadenfreude of seeing liberal tears once more brings a smile to my face, I’ve been on the hunt for liberal introspection more than I have anything else. So far I’ve been greatly unimpressed, and I have witnessed the multitudes of regime media types and those associated with major network outlets like Joy Reid of MSNBC melodramatically announce that they are leaving for Bluesky and no longer posting on Twitter.

While it has been humorous to watch the progressive apparatchiks digitally take their toys and go home pouting after losing, the overall reaction to this election of Donald Trump to the presidency isn’t like the first time in the 2016 election. Yes, there have been libtard tears, and yes, there has been a great deal of coping and seething and dilating, but I haven’t seen the energy emerge to riot and burn down city blocks, let alone don a giant pink pussycat hat. Perhaps that will come closer to the inauguration, and Lord only knows what might come on January 6, 2025. There has been this surprising lack of energy from the Left, but then again, they are indeed still reeling from losing every swing state and the Electoral College vote.

And it is that popular vote question that has left many on Twitter, Bluesky, and other social media platforms demanding to know where the millions of Democrat voters disappeared from the 2020 to the 2024 election. After all, Joe Biden was the most popular president in the history of American politics.

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Can people make an active choice to avoid the destructive aspects of technology and consumption that strip us of humanity? Or should humans embrace the digital future and seek to transform ourselves into something entirely new? The Prudentialist returns to continue our reading and analysis of Nick Land's philosophical essay "Meltdown." 

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