Four in, Foreign, and Forty-Seven
It has been over a week since I wrote my previous article, but at last, I have had time to sit down and write article number four. A lot has happened since I last wrote, including a new president getting elected, Mark Zuckerberg collaborating with T-Pain to remake “Get Low” for his wife’s anniversary (Cause rich people can just do stuff like that, I guess), and popular satire website “The Onion” buying Alex Jones’s far-right media empire “Infowars” in a bankruptcy auction. (Yes, you read that correctly. It’s hilarious).
With Trump getting elected there has been nationwide panic and celebration at the news. Celebrities have all vowed to move their families to foreign nations in order to escape the quickly approaching oppressive dictatorship of Donald J. Trump. All I can say is they better get packing, cause Trump has already started his work and his election has already changed several things in the world economy. For one, Iran, China, and the EU’s currency in comparison to the US dollar plummeted on November 5th, when the winner was clear. Furthermore, Trump has already talked with nearly 15 global leaders and Europe has promised to buy oil from the US over Russia. Unfortunately, none of the celebrities have yet moved away :(
It’s interesting how panicked people were when the news came that Trump was getting elected. I had several friends who were genuinely terrified by the idea that he could be the president. Like him or not, the president’s position is not powerful enough to warrant that much fear. Or for the right side, warrant the common "he’s our savior” attitude. The executive branch is designed to be in check with the other branches of government so that neither of these things ever happens. Your government is never your savior.
But that raises the question, how did some people get to a place where they could be so terrified? I believe that it was due to the media’s constant and berating depictions of Trump as Hitler, as “the end of democracy”, as “he’s going to lock you up for having an abortion” and as “you’re probably going to die if you’re not a heterosexual male MAGA person”. Unfortunately for the media, this type of exaggeration is perfect if the person never gets elected, however, if they do get elected and you made lots of false claims about the future and then they turn out to be false, your credibility is going to go down the drain.
The mainstream media’s credibility over the past 10 years has largely been tanked with conservatives and right-leaning moderates due to a persistent ignorance of issues that affect those demographics. Now, I theorize that they are going to lose all of the female, liberal, and democratic readership in the next 3 years, due to the fact that none of their fear-mongering tactics will turn out to be true. How are they going to explain to their viewers that they were completely wrong and Trump is not actually as bad as they said he was?
Likely, they are going to either find a new celebrity to fearmonger about and pray that their audience takes the bait, or continue riding their wave of lies until long after Trump is out of office, appealing to the farthest-left constituents of their voter base, and hope that not too many democrats catch on.
It’s going to be very interesting to see where the next 4 years take us; what Trump continues to do with foreign countries, and also how his picks for his cabinet turn out. From Elon Musk to Vivek Ramaswamy to Tulsi Gabbard, he made some very bold picks.
Whatever his term comes to, I congratulate President Donald J. Trump for not only winning once but winning a second non-consecutive time. After one Mugshot, two impeachments, three Assassination attempts, and four indictments, he will now become the forty-seventh president of the US.
Until next Time,
Caleb Freund
