Digital Marxism in the Trump Era

0:00We've spent$8 trillion in the Middle East, and we're not fixing our roads in this country? How stupid, how stupid is it? And we're not fixing our highways, our tunnels, our bridges, our hospitals even, our schools even. Yeah. It's crazy. It is crazy. And that was Donald Trump in the year 2020. And it didn't age very well, did it? The Reverend News Talk, Opinion, Satire, it's Newsweek Radio. I'm Jesse Edwards. And here's a list of stores closing in March. Top headline in Newsweek. Not that that's funny. Francesca's announced that it would be closing all 400 U.S. stores after it went bankrupt. The roaring economy is roaring like never before.

0:40Macy's is closing 150 stores across the country by the end of the year. And the big story was how Donald Trump called the economy correctly, and 22 Nobel Prize winners in economics didn't. In the restaurant space, Wendy's will be closing 300 underperforming stores during the first half of 26. Pizza Hut is also closing 250 U.S. locations. Without tariffs, what would you do? You know what? Everybody would be bankrupt. Everybody. GameStop closing 470 stores this year. The whole country would be bankrupt. Eddie Bauer closing all 175 stores and gone bankrupt. That's over 1 ,600 storefronts shutting down.

1:19What a country. So sad. Not a good sign for the economy or things to come when all of these people lose their jobs. Now we have the hottest country in one year. We have the hottest country anywhere in the world. Right, Kelly? I only go to the physical storefronts anymore if they have something I need that I don't want to wait for by ordering online. Good lord, half the merchandise these days is locked up behind plexiglass. And most of us do not have the patience to look around for a disgruntled Walmart clerk to unlock the cabinet and do that walk of shame up to the register with my laundry soap purchase.

1:52Just to make sure that I don't run out of the store with the merch. What an absolute nightmare the future has become. No flying cars. Everyone is a suspect. We're all under constant surveillance. The money is worth half of what it was when we entered the workforce. The cost of living has exploded. It's a Democrat hoax. And we've got a criminally insane person in the White House for a second go around who just started a hot war with Iran. Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective. And there's no relief in sight for regular people.

2:27And I'm starting to believe there might never be. In fact, I'm pretty sure that life is never going to go back to the 90s. You know, before the internet metastasized into identity politics, and before 9-11 officially turned the world into a police state, it's hard not to be pessimistic in this dystopian trajectory that we're clearly rocketing towards with the development of self-improving artificial intelligence on top of it all. You know, the richest person on earth keeps telling us that it's going to take most of our jobs, but don't worry, because the state is going to provide a universal income, and everything's going to be just fine.

2:59How the hell is that not digital Marxism? My prediction is that work will be optional. If you go out long enough, assuming there's a continued improvement in AI and robotics, which seems likely, the money will stop being relevant at some point in the future. Pessimism is rational when leadership at every level has failed to adapt to the technological age that we've been living in for two decades now. Representative government made sense when communication moved at the speed of horseback, and it made sense when citizens couldn't possibly weigh in on complex legislation in real time. But we're not in that country anymore, or that world for that matter.

3:34Most of us functional taxpaying adults carry supercomputers in our pockets with AI. We bank and trade and communicate and build businesses and run our lives digitally, and yet, our political structure still assumes that we need a permanent class of intermediaries to speak on our behalf. Why? At the very least, why are we not experimenting with some form of secure digital voting on major legislation? Why is Congress allowed to keep playing middleman between people and policy? We fired the middleman in travel and in banking and in media. Why is politics the only industry where the middleman is sacred?

4:09We don't need priests to communicate with the divine. We shouldn't need them to interact with our own government. Because it feels like the powers that be have bought up every square inch of breathable space and they're about to start charging 10 bucks for bottles of clean air so how do we fight back well we can't burn it down we can't wait for some sort of hero to fix it either i think the only way out is through we have to fire them all of them you're fired yeah kiss my ass white house the house the senate the governors mayors city council school boards you're fired too if we've allowed anybody to sit long enough to grow roots that's on us the people for letting it happen i think i've Just about had it with your abusive attitude.

4:48I'm sorry. I get carried away. I'm sorry. You are fired. Two terms, four years each, eight years max. That's it. This is public service, not a permanent residence. And we've got to stop confusing seniority with competence. Stop pretending that the same name cycling through the same committees for 30 years is stability. It's not. It's stagnation. We don't need a revolution. We need expiration dates on these career grifters to make our politics modern and accountable for a change. And we enforce it at the ballot box. over and over again until the message is clear that the power belongs to the people, not the career politician.

5:23We do it calmly and legally and relentlessly. This is why they want us divided with endless fighting between the right and the left. Because we still do hold the power. Because it's just easier to own your opposition when you don't have any original ideas. We've been so preoccupied with owning the other side for so long that we forgot how to operate the controls of our own country that we were given to by our founding fathers. And yeah, that does sound kind of hopeful for a second, as if we just stopped taking the bait, we could actually fix the cost of living in America. They use the word affordability.

5:54It's a Democrat hoax. Well, that's where my natural-born cynicism kind of kicks back in. Because that's beyond a tall order in our modern idiocracy. Kick-ass. A country where millions of people are completely unaware and indifferent to how any of this works as long as their own small bubble stays intact. What I do is just say, you know, you know what I mean? Like, the only silver lining here from my perspective is that those bubbles are starting to burst by the tens of thousands every day. It's more and more people are laid off from their McJobs all the way up to the C-suite. I'm guessing that most of us are just going to relax and watch the show because in reality, there's little, if anything, that we can do about it at this point in the grand scheme of things.

6:36I do not have any serious hopes that Americans will rise up to unite against a tyrannical and corrupt entrenched government body. You know, that is, unless somebody turned off the Wi-Fi. Oh, the humanity. Then we would get off our couches and lazy boys and do something about it, goddammit. I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do and there's no end to it.

7:13We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. We sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad, worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller and all we say is please at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel belted radios and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.

7:46Well, I'm not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad. I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to ride. I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you've got to get mad. You've got to say, I'm a human being. God damn it. My life has value. If anything, today we have a million more ways to keep people in Washington accountable with modern tech. But they're actually getting away with insider trading so much that they hardly even try to hide it.

8:19Look at Nancy Pelosi. She just keeps on keeping on while Martha Stewart went to jail for much less, allegedly. Nancy is the easiest target. I mean, at least Marjorie Taylor Greene had the decency to tap out when she had her fill. Yeah, MTG says her money came from her construction company. Pelosi says her husband is just a brilliant investor. I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. You're winning, sir. Oh, thank you very much. Because everyone has an explanation at this level. I don't know, maybe they're all just financial geniuses who happen to wander into public office just like Donald Trump.

8:51Or maybe we just built a system where you can legally swim in information that the public doesn't have. and then pretend it's a coincidence when your timing looks like immaculate conception. Our country is winning again. In fact, we're winning so much that we really don't know what to do about it. Look, as long as this game is allowed to continue, there's no point in even considering any real form of accountability for the people who are calling the shots in your life and your country. Because we all know our worst fears about these people are undeniably true. that they are beholden to the almighty dollar, not we the people.

9:25And until that incentive is gone, and I'd say so are we. People are asking me, please, please, please, Mr. President, we're winning too much. We can't take it anymore. We're not used to winning in our country. Until you came along, we're just always losing, but now we're winning too much. And oh, hey, would you look at the time. Until we can do it again, it's Newsweek Radio. I'm Jesse Edwards. Catch you next time. Bye. And we say bye-bye. Newsweek Radio is a member of the Trust Project. So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it and stick your head out and yell, I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!