Friday, October 17, 2025

Donald Trump as Our Mad Emperor of the Bubble, by Ron Unz - The Unz Review

 What that suggests is that AI better deliver for the US, or its economy and markets will lose the one leg they are now standing on.

Taken together, these results suggest that except for the torrid pace of AI and Crypto investments, America might have already fallen into recession during the first half of this year, and there are very widespread concerns that our AI/Crypto economy constitutes a classic bubble, only one far larger than the dot-com bubble of a quarter-century ago.

Late last week, a lengthy post on the Naked Capitalism blog cited much of this evidence, quoting a critical analysis by Ed Zitron:

Where we sit today is a time of immense tension. Mark Zuckerberg says we’re in a bubbleSam Altman says we’re in a bubbleAlibaba Chairman and billionaire Joe Tsai says we’re in a bubbleApollo says we’re in a bubblenobody is making money and nobody knows why they’re actually doing this anymore, just that they must do it immediately.

And they have yet to make the case that generative AI warranted any of these expenditures.

Indeed, according to one recent MIT study, 95% of the AI pilot projects at companies are currently failing.


https://www.unz.com/runz/donald-trump-as-our-mad-emperor-of-the-bubble/ 

Similarly, the gradual, almost invisible growth of Jewish/Zionist control over America had taken around a century to reach its current levels, with the 1960s assassinations of the Kennedy brothers certainly marking a crucial inflection point. In my view, the bookend to the JFK Assassination might be the somewhat similar recent killing of youthful conservative leader Charlie Kirk, which quickly followed his sudden realization that he and his entire political movement were merely intended to function as Jewish/Zionist puppets, and indications of his political rebellion against that humiliating condition.

During the generations of British-ruled India, very large portions of that enormous country remained under the nominal political control of various native maharajahs, some of whom enjoyed fantastic wealth, were often enormously arrogant and wilful in their behavior, and sometimes even deranged. But despite seeing their whims treated as law and their arrogant flaunting of wealth and power, I think that all of them quietly recognized under whose authority they ultimately remained in office, or if not were quickly replaced.

I think that this historical analogy should be kept in mind as we consider the outrageous bullying and demands that our President Trump regularly visits upon American allies and vassals, always with the extremely glaring exception of Zionist Israel. And the sudden assassination of Charlie Kirk may have provided Trump a powerful booster-shot in that latter regard.

So instead of classifying Trump as a Mad Emperor, perhaps he should instead be regarded as a Mad Maharajah, inflicting his punishing demands upon his fellow natives in hopes of concealing the deep humiliation of his true status.

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