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Amongst all the other chaos, I missed this.
Politics Politics Politics surpassed the number of subscribers I had on Patreon early this month. We’d been a few dozen short after the election but the last month has seen an increase.
But that is also very notable! In the Off Off Year last cycle (2021) we did not gain subscribers on Patreon. We slowly deflated, which I wrote off as part of the bizarre media cycle that comes with politics.
Substack is incredibly aggressive when it comes to growth. I’m very happy to be on a platform that cares about that.
Rare Flow State slowed/reverbed edit at the top of this mix
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We’ve been funding our own demise. A revolution was fought over a tiny tax on tea, our reaction to this Lawfare should be 1,000 times worse.
It's looking like Trump (who I definitely prefer to Biden and the Democrats) is simply using his shrewdness and astute bargaining skills, harnessing people's legitimate anger to create a "Trumpocracy".
Problem is, he is pushing 80. The feudal regime he is creating will be picked up by the "tech moguls" wing of big capital, the ones who helped JD Vance make the jump from hillbilly to venture capitalist to a heartbeat away.
Not that it will be much of a feudal state for the masses, as the USA is po…
And yet Steve Bannon and others want to change the Constitution to allow Trump to run again in 2028 (doubtless with Trump's assent), when he'll be 82. The thought is, since Trump's terms were not consecutive, the Amendment is unclear in this situation. I don't like the president to be term limited (would Russia have advanced so quickly if Putin had only 8 years to turn it around?), but reelecting an 82-year-old man brings to mind images of the gerontocracy that brought down the USSR.
