Neoliberalism, Charlie Rose Funding, and Trump's Twitter Diplomacy

• 12:42Neoliberalism as the unifying ideology among globalist elites: unfettered free trade, open borders, Tom Friedman cheerleading about China running your life.
• 13:28Neoliberalism means permanent unending war and occupation overseas combined with a bloated Pentagon budget—the actual message Democrats failed to sell to voters in Ohio.
• 13:48Both parties pursue war once in office despite activist-level anti-war rhetoric: Kennedy got into Vietnam, Johnson did too, and neoliberalism got adopted more openly with Hillary.
• 14:19Bankers own the system and pull the strings because politicians depend entirely on their money, and media corporations are one step removed from Goldman Sachs.
• 14:44Donald Trump navigated the new media paradigm through Twitter and Facebook in a way that broke through traditional gatekeeping, despite his faults and failures.
• 15:03Trump's strategy was creating a paradigm where he dominates the news cycle using social media, which is why he keeps tweeting—he needs to control his world.
• 15:18Trump's China tweet about one-sided trade and North Korea represents a complete breach of 100 years of diplomatic protocol with no nuance whatsoever.
• 15:47No one is approving Trump's tweets before he fires them off—the sitting president of the United States just tweets without oversight.
• 16:13The absurdity of foreign relations being conducted via social media: cancel a trade commission on Twitter, announce Russia alliance on Snapchat as a dog filter.
• 16:56The national security apparatus and deep state aren't a monolith—Kissinger might not reach Trump, but someone like Baker potentially could.

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