Election Elation - or is it?
For several weeks leading up to the U.S. election, the world anxiously awaited the outcome of a contest that was widely regarded as both consequential and, allegedly, a tightly contested race.
In the end, however, the results revealed a landslide victory rather than a close competition. The vast majority of U.S. counties voted Republican, delivering the presidency, both chambers of Congress, and a wave of newly elected Republican governors at the state level to the GOP.
Here is how the US electoral map looks:
Rural areas overwhelmingly voted red, cities overwhelmingly voted blue.
By State
By Population
The Amish Rise Up
In case you missed it, Pennsylvania, a swing state, was carried in large part by the Amish vote, mobilised by Scott Presler, a Pennsylvanian resident and political activist who dedicated months to registering around 180,000 Amish voters, securing President Elect, Donald Trump the 19 electoral votes, which materially helped carry him to victory last week with a 16 point lead in Lancaster County.
Despite not using mobile phones or watching TV, the usually apolitical Amish were mobilised in large part due to the recent raids on their farms by Pennsylvania State Officials. In response they turned out in record numbers to support Trump. The lesson here being: “don’t piss of your raw milk supplier!”
Source: NYT
Fake News
The electorate have woken up to the realisation that the legacy corporate media is just a propaganda arm for government and corporations. With each misleading article that has to “correct itself”, trust erodes even further. Multiple independent podcasters now have bigger audiences than any network channel and legacy channels are doing mass lay offs. Why? Because people want the “news” and if the legacy media won’t provide it, they will go elsewhere.
Elon Musk’s X is now the primary news platform in multiple countries, much to chagrin of governments globally.
Trump’s Appointments
Let’s take a look at Trump’s appointments:
Secretary of State: Marco Rubio
This is very bad, and there is a tsunami of discontent around this appointment. Marco Rubio is a known neocon and his appointment puts in doubt Trump’s commitments to peace.
Attorney General: Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz is a rare breed in the US political arena for his willingness to speak truth to power and stand up for principles over politics. The establishment has made multiple attempts to silence him through fruitless investigations for a range of alleged activities with underage women, to no avail. They now find themselves in an uncomfortable position with his upcoming appointment for AG. Yikes!
Director of National Intelligence: Tulsi Gabbard
This is too funny. Former Democrat, Tulsi Gabbard recently crossed the aisle to join the Republican party stating that the Democratic party had departed from its traditional values and become the party of war, censorship and totalitarianism. She served two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a medic, is staunchly anti-war, a DEI dream (minority and female), is a member of the National Guard and was the Vice Chair of the DNC. Despite this, she was accused by Hilary Clinton of being a “Russian Asset” and was put on a flight watchlist after criticising the Biden/Harris administration. Revenge will be sweet.
Heath and Human Services Secretary: Robert F Kennedy
For the every day American, this will likely be the most impactful appointment. Robert F Kennedy, a lawyer, has spent his entire career fighting Big Pharma and Big Ag to preserve the environment and the health of Americans. He is set to take a chainsaw to the health agencies who funded the creation of the Covid 19 virus (NIH) as evidenced by the House investigation in Covid 19, as well as the US Government departments that created and profited from the mRNA injections, which have caused more adverse events and deaths than all vaccines combined over the last 30 years according to data from US VAERS database (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System).
Kennedy has brought Joel Salatin, renowned regenerative farmer, onboard as an advisor, and is working closely with brother and sister duo Casey and Calley Means and his own running mate Nicole Shanahan to “Make America Healthy Again” or #MAHA.
Department of Government Efficiency “DOGE”: Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk
Perhaps the most hilarious appointment, is that of Republican Party contender for the presidency nomination, Vivek Ramaswamy and Entrepreneur Elon Musk, who will co-run the Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE”. This is a play on the meme coin DOGE supported by Elon Musk. Funny! We strongly recommend that you DO NOT dabble in alt-coins or “shit-coins” as they are more appropriately called. No matter what Mr Musk says or does.
Elon has kicked off the department’s work by pledging to be transparent about all government expenditure and cuts via a weekly DOGE livestream, as well as asking for additional suggestions for cuts from the community. A slew of suggestions have now flooded the X platform as revelations about insane pet projects the US tax-payer has been funding come to light. These include:
$3m to watch hamsters fight on steroids
$205k on transgender monkeys
$2.7m to fund a study of Russian cats with snipped brain stems forced to walk on a running machine…
Without government, who would squander your money in this way?
Senator Elizabeth Warren, who somehow managed to get re-elected despite the bloodbath of anti-crypto politicians during the election, was quick to criticise the fact that DOGE was employing TWO people instead of ONE! Elon’s response…hilarious.
What does all this mean for Bitcoin?
The US electorate, of whom an estimated 40% hold some kind of crypto, voted overwhelmingly in favour of the industry. The “I Stand with Crypto” website tracked the election results showing the bloodbath of anti-crypto politicians last week.
Not forgetting the pro-crypto President Elect himself. Donald Trump.
Vice President elect, JD Vance has warmed to Ron Paul’s view that the Federal Reserve (which is neither Federal, nor has any reserves) should be abolished.
And…the Bitcoin bull run has officially started. If like us, you were hoping the price would drop to 16k again…it likely ain’t gonna happen.
The market responded to the new, overwhelmingly crypto-friendly administration, and the BTC price blasted past 90k. Sigh…we fondly reflect on the 16k good times.
At the time of writing, BTC sits at 88k USD. See it’s lifetime price history below.
