In this episode, we re talking about the vibe shift in America post the election cycle and how we plan to prepare for the impending mass deportation plans that the incoming Trump administration has in store for us. We ll be discussing how we can prepare for mass deportation, as well as what we can do to stay safe in public if you re an at-risk demographic.
00:22:39.620oh you don't swallow it let's check this out
00:22:44.120would you look at that it's like billions and billions of helicopters
00:22:52.600and i think that there has been a shift in part of the community that's just like wait i can be
00:22:59.000on the winning side and it's fun and they'll accept me which is something that i think a lot of people
00:23:06.000didn't feel for a long time because the left in this country hasn't been accepting you can join it you can signal your alliance but they'll still chew you apart the moment that you show any degree of independent thought as we see from like jk rowling jk rowling is as far left as you can get on every single issue she's a left icon she's a core point of every leftist life and yet they turned on her just because she wouldn't say men or women
00:23:32.000like how do you like how do you there is there is no room for negotiation at all within their faction you are a slave to the hierarchy or not
00:23:41.760but i think that this also explains where the huge mental health problem on the left it comes from
00:23:47.540where the really huge problem was just absolute doomerism because even when they win
00:23:53.400there's still nothing to be hopeful about and your own side no matter how high you rise could turn on you at any instance
00:24:01.120why would you not have a constant state of severe anxiety and self-hatred if you surround yourself with this level of toxicity
00:24:09.160hey dad i'm calling from my history class so who was president when you were a kid
00:24:14.020oh i don't know i guess i think about killing myself pretty frequently and why not
00:24:18.100what's so great about living you know when i'm happy for about five seconds in the morning when i first
00:24:23.700wake up before i remember who i am and what my life is all about anxiety disappointment i don't i don't know
00:24:31.880if there's an afterlife but who cares nothingness couldn't be any worse than this meaningless march
00:24:37.820through my empty days but the other thing i've noticed i think it's really interesting is and i think
00:24:43.700that blue sky might have actually facilitated the vibe shift really you mean just by removing
00:24:49.120themselves from most of the mainstream conversation it's more than that it's like they were all staying
00:24:55.240on twitter until the election night like you had a million new years of the blue sky again a day like
00:25:00.620for the seven days after the election night but so the question is is like what's happening there
00:25:04.800why didn't they move to blue sky before this and i think it's because they believed that they were still in
00:25:12.580control they believed that the right was just being elevated on x because elon was artificially
00:25:20.000elevating the right not because the right outnumbered them not because the right had more enthusiasm
00:25:24.980not because the right actually controlled the cultural zeitgeist and when the election happened
00:25:30.880in the same way that when rome fell and byzantium like the the the kingdom you know the western
00:25:39.380roman empire sorry the eastern roman empire being run out of byzantium and so a lot of the elites
00:25:44.520in rome fled with all of their gold and jewels and everything like that to live out the larp of a
00:25:50.340still existing roman empire in this new camp capital of byzantium that is sort of what blue sky is
00:25:57.140the urban monoculture controlled online environment basically collapsed and any argument they could have
00:26:05.920even to themselves that they still controlled it collapsed and so if they are going to larp living in a world
00:26:13.020where they're still the dominant faction they need to actively and aggressively create the larp for themselves
00:26:21.480and i think that's what we're seeing with blue sky it is a larp of an earlier time it is to me
00:26:29.060very very very analogous to the cargo cults of the trad people who are like oh i'll dress like you know i i
00:26:36.360see 1950s people dress in hollywood movies and it will recreate the culture of that time they have this
00:26:42.900culture of like 2017 twitter that they're attempting to recreate through a larp with the belief that through
00:26:50.160like some form of sympathetic magic this will be recreated in society if they can recreate the larp that
00:26:55.760people will go to their community even though they actively ban like half the people who try to go
00:27:00.020that's what i'm what i also at least was getting from that one young ladies video was this perception
00:27:07.100that now we have to build our own sub communities our own little safe spaces but like also literal safe
00:27:17.980spaces like one thing that she was talking about in her video she was talking about was the importance of
00:27:21.880creating sort of offline safe communities of mutual support stockpiling abortion medication
00:27:29.520but also stockpiling things like water filters because she argued that many of these things were
00:27:35.020imported and that they wouldn't be able to get good water filtration in the future because everything's
00:27:41.880going to go crazy and they'll have to monitor food quality together because the fda is not going to
00:27:48.160work anymore things like that so maybe there's also this feeling that they're now just going to form
00:27:53.260break off societies and go off the grid because this new world is too hostile to them no i we are lit
00:27:59.680to releasing you know el degeneres left the country finally where did she go i don't know but they're
00:28:05.360they're actually living this right now and it's really interesting where for a long time and in our
00:28:10.740redeemed zoomer podcast we talk about this they worked to try to infiltrate and corrupt mainstream
00:28:19.200and conservative organizations so historically it would have been let's see if we can corrupt x let's
00:28:25.660see if we can make x our little playpen and now it's oh my god retreat retreat retreat we need to create
00:28:32.780our own bubbled spheres because this isn't working anymore and i think across the board within many
00:28:38.260organizations if you're in some big organization and you're like can i push out the wokes now is the
00:28:43.500time to go on the offensive you can now okay and it might be one of your only shots to do so but the
00:28:51.480wokes are willing to retreat now and feeling the need to retreat now they are seeing the rates break
00:28:58.240and they are looking for this is why you have people like you know joe scarborough for morning joe going
00:29:04.320to mar-a-lago to kiss the ring this is why you know we were seeing this across the board the other
00:29:11.100big place where i think we've seen something really wild happen is in the perception of mainstream media
00:29:15.260there is now a perception that the mainstream media and it's weird it was like on election day that this
00:29:21.920happened and we've done a few videos on how few people read the news how few people but i think
00:29:25.660people when when contrast it was podcasts yeah it was like you know whatever but i think now everyone's
00:29:31.560like oh yeah joe rogan won the election for trump camilla may have had a shot had she gone on joe
00:29:37.360they are now saying oh joe rogan matters more than cnn oh joe rogan matters more than msnbc
00:29:43.840oh there's about three or four podcasts that probably matter more than these entire networks
00:29:49.180yeah i think the the first thing that happened when trump was elected in 2016 was a crisis of faith
00:29:56.540that was then further deepened and during the pandemic when just there were so many flip-flops on
00:30:04.220policy of how to stay safe masks not masks vaccinate whatever and then there's some i'm trying to figure
00:30:13.520out exactly what it was that shifted with this latest one but i think what it was was that indeed
00:30:17.800like basically at this point we all collectively realize that functionally speaking the audiences are no
00:30:25.900longer reading the new york times they're no longer watching cnn or msnbc they are distributed among a
00:30:36.260series of podcasts and youtube channels and sub stacks and that is where reality is being shared and i
00:30:45.860think that is the fragmentation of reality there's no longer this like the media like the bbc declares this
00:30:53.520reality so we no longer we we've entered an age of split reality which is i i think is kind of scary
00:30:59.900because it's going to be harder for people to to interact on like a shared foundation you know people
00:31:09.460are going to come in and have lunch and you know even friends who went to the same high school you know
00:31:14.600who knew each other for a huge portion of their lives are going to see each other and and one is going
00:31:20.640to assume that well everyone understands that like you know red dye 40 is going to kill you or like
00:31:26.620seed oils are bad and the other person is going to be like what are you talking about you know like
00:31:31.380that i've never heard of this so people are just going to have these very different priors and
00:31:36.560foundational beliefs and i don't know how we're going to navigate that as a country well i'm going to
00:31:41.860go over some statistics and anecdotes that i found pretty interesting okay this is from a fortune piece
00:31:46.620talking about the vibe shift and i thought it was pretty interesting she said at an event over the
00:31:50.500summer where i knew the vast majority of attendees to be socially and politically progressive a woman
00:31:55.340pulled me aside and told me she needed to talk to me about something slightly concerned i asked what
00:31:59.640it was regarding trump she said oh god i thought has she been offended by one of my columns she then
00:32:05.780uttered six words that have been ringing in my ears ever since the thing is i love him this woman
00:32:11.780who considers herself staunchly to the left on the political spectrum went on to tell me what it was
00:32:17.180about donald trump that she found so compelling his quote-unquote punk her words outsider status
00:32:22.680his funniness the fact that he's unafraid to say what he feels his anti-war anti-establishment stances
00:32:29.660and it's true like this people find that very appealing to break from the narrative
00:32:37.940you'd be like he is so punk well he was he started out on the left and there's a bunch of people in
00:32:44.440the new trump administration who are from the left yeah tulsi gabbard hey like this is a truly
00:32:51.000inter-party alliance yeah yeah so it shouldn't it should not be surprising to anyone that a lot of people
00:32:58.780who are currently identify as leftists are excited about the new administration and it is disappointing to
00:33:06.980me that already doge is seen still as like something that democrats need to oppose when
00:33:13.340really we one we all need it we need it desperately and two like this supports many of the left's
00:33:20.620values this should not be partisan in the first place well and and so here is an interesting some
00:33:26.820interesting statistics here this time around only 48 percent viewed trump unfavorably compared to 50
00:33:32.620for harris his favorability ratings meanwhile rose from 36 when he went in 2016 to 50 this time around
00:33:40.720so he went from a 36 favorability rating to a 50 favorability rating 50 of americans view trump
00:33:48.780favorably that's pretty amazing that is wild yeah republican surged from just 10 before the election to 35
00:33:58.380afterwards the proportion of republicans feeling hopeful rose significantly with 76 expressing hope
00:34:05.460about the state of the nation compared to only 29 of democrats democrats in stark contrast the
00:34:10.920democrat sentiments declined before the election 38 of democrats felt satisfied with the state of
00:34:15.360affairs this dropped to 24 post-election feelings of fear and anger have increased among democrats with
00:34:21.72073 now expressing fear about the country's direction and over half feeling angry i think this is what we see
00:34:27.920which is the the vibe shift has been one of oh the online environment may be at the executive
00:34:36.860level controlled by ultra wokesters but that's only because they were afraid and in our video about how
00:34:45.100corporate america went woke we're like honestly i think it's because they're a bunch of conformists
00:34:49.140who buckle at fear of being canceled or fear of pushback and i think after an entire year of embarrassing
00:34:57.200let's just say successful right cancellations of things like the acolyte of things like concord of
00:35:02.840things like the executive class of these companies is like i don't want to be embarrassed like this
00:35:08.280anymore they are coming for us and doing it successfully and i'd also note here that there has not been a
00:35:14.040successful right-wing cancellation and about well since elon purchase x and we've noted this before but it's
00:35:20.860really important to note that there is not another platform that is suitable for cancellations and with
00:35:26.620the woke's moving to blue sky it gets even harder for them their advantage was being able to create the
00:35:33.060perception among people who weren't ultra wokesters that the ultra woke opinion was the mainstream opinion
00:35:40.100and that is what having all these blue skyers on x allowed them to do the normies aren't leaving x it's the
00:35:47.140wokesters that are leaving x and so now the wokesters can't influence the normie opinion of
00:35:52.380what is normative in the way that they did historically and as such the perception of what
00:35:59.200is normal and by the way just so people understand this like when we did the numbers on this you had
00:36:03.900for x it was something like 257 million daily active users on blue sky even with all of their rise
00:36:12.080it's like 3 million and and that's up from 1 million just like two weeks ago which seems to
00:36:18.580be a temporary boost due to the election you might be thinking here wait blue sky has less than one
00:36:23.660percent the daily active users as x on a normal day and even with the boost from the election cycle
00:36:30.180it still only hovers at around one percent of the daily active users why is everyone saying it's growing
00:36:35.480so much i could have sworn i saw numbers that were bigger than that and the trick that all those
00:36:39.340articles are using is they are comparing the daily active or monthly active viewer users on x to the
00:36:45.660total accounts on blue sky which is a very different thing so they are completely isolating the community
00:36:52.900that used to astroturf these messages to the extent where people who used to hang out on twitter a lot
00:36:58.100go to blue sky and they go oh i recognized all of these people as former famous people on twitter from
00:37:03.240before from like x many years ago when the culture wars were happening and because and people are
00:37:09.500like what do you mean you can't cancel people on other platforms what are the can you cancel on
00:37:12.860someone on facebook no can you can you cancel someone on instagram not really the only other
00:37:19.840most platforms have moved in a direction of there not being a centralized discourse whereas twitter more
00:37:25.680still has ux design that's oriented around that everything else is highly siloed like you're in
00:37:33.360your own little tiny community everything's sort of user-based but i think now people finally realize
00:37:37.600we've had so many attempts over the past year and they've just you know dennis dennis nuisance that
00:37:43.380from jurassic park just nobody cares like especially with the guardian oh by the way and we now know why
00:37:49.000the guardian left twitter and some people were like oh this is a sign that elon is anti-free speech so
00:37:54.320what elon did is he made it so that any post that has a link on it is deprioritized in the algorithm
00:37:59.120which really hurts news sites because news sites use that as like their bread and butter with their
00:38:04.260twitter account and some people are like oh this how is this a bad thing if news sites are predominantly
00:38:10.000a disinformation campaign and twitter notes is working really well if you just post the information
00:38:15.740in a tweet and it is working spectacularly well so much so that people like how can you say twitter
00:38:21.600notes is working well it even fact checks elon and i'm like that's how you know it's working well
00:38:27.440when the when the king yeah seriously there's no clothes and somebody's walking around with a sign
00:38:32.460like the king doesn't have any clothes yeah so everyone knows yeah that's when you know the kingdom's
00:38:38.260working well yeah so the that explains a lot i would say people are still kind of being canceled but
00:38:45.520it's more like only self-cancellation is possible so all the coverage that i see now of like people
00:38:52.140face planting is because they've handled their own comms really poorly or they've done something
00:38:57.620really shitty no no but i've seen this on two occasions they were both the right canceling the
00:39:02.360left and it was on youtube or the left canceling the left no there's some prominent scenarios recently
00:39:08.700of celebrities kind of canceling themselves i mean mr beast kind of cancels themselves ariana grande is
00:39:14.160kind of canceling herself right now they're but these these can't one who is in gossip girl like
00:39:18.600cancellation took place on youtube and required the youtube algorithm to work and it's very different
00:39:25.320from the old type of cancellation two other good examples of cancellations that happened this way
00:39:29.720was the in praise of shadows cancellation where he tried to cancel somebody who he windagoon who he
00:39:34.820saw as right-leaning but was very centrist with a bunch of spurious accusations that were just like
00:39:39.440insane lefty nonsense and then the other cancellation was illumina uh illumina hottie has had her career
00:39:46.760completely dusted but both but again i think maybe these i just don't think either pencil i mean also like
00:39:52.720katie perry but these are people who just have i was kidding she released a couple bombs of songs like just
00:40:01.400have it hasn't been great with public appearances and and released it like basically feminist coded
00:40:09.920material that was really not feminist and people weren't having it and it was just not great but
00:40:16.560again it's just like people not really handling the debut of something well like also the i can't remember
00:40:22.080her name but like the this actress who was in this movie about abuse essentially was she like flubbed the
00:40:30.520promotion of it saying like wear your florals bring your girls and she like wasn't taking it seriously
00:40:35.520that this is the movie about breaking the cycle of abuse she she face planted but like i think that's
00:40:40.960not cancellation anymore that's just like that's a poor release okay well then i'm i'm pushing back on
00:40:45.840you there have been successful cancellations the two events that i mentioned and i'll say three yeah
00:40:50.480those are yeah those well i don't know but were were they just people behaving dumbly and getting
00:40:55.100no they were cancellations it was a media cycle a social media cycle that if the social media cycle
00:41:01.040had not happened their careers would be intact they would still have followers they would still have
00:41:06.000online platforms they would still have a job they would still have a future in their industry of choice
00:41:11.680do you find cancellation is like basically a social media cycle like a wave of content about that person
00:41:19.000being bad yes but more than that it is a an event that prevents an individual from working any longer
00:41:26.920within a particular field due to a social media cycle but these cancellations function very different
00:41:33.080from the twitter cancellations the twitter cancellations were people engaging with them because they
00:41:38.420wanted to hurt other people when you look at the cancellation of a lumahati or you look at the cancellation
00:41:43.840of in praise of shadows or even mr beast people were watching the videos about the cancellations
00:41:50.460because they enjoyed watching bad people's lives be destroyed i did not algo promote the lumahati videos
00:41:57.840or the in praise of shadow videos because i wanted because i was like trying to elevate and help these
00:42:05.720people be canceled like on twitter it was like oh we got a signal boost this to ensure this person loses
00:42:10.640their job whereas in these instances the individual is being canceled in every single one of the
00:42:15.720instances was an influencer and it was the the influencer cycle that reacted against them and blew back
00:42:24.100against them none of them okay so it's different when they're a star because it's not people eating
00:42:31.940their own no it's it's different because it's part of the social media content cycle and the things
00:42:39.520that's leading to the promotion the reason why in praise of shadows life being destroyed ended up
00:42:46.560trending on youtube ended up being in a cycle of really well performing videos is because it was
00:42:53.080very satisfying to watch okay when you had something like dongle gate do you remember dongle gate when
00:43:00.560like two men at like a conference oh my gosh yes it was like super innocuous yes yeah two guys sitting in
00:43:07.400the audience of like a talk at a conference said something about dongles yeah they were in the
00:43:11.740audience somebody overheard them and decided to ruin their lives get them fired for their jobs etc
00:43:16.380the problem being that that this wasn't entertaining to watch anyone who's like a sane person is like
00:43:23.840these are two basically random people having their life destroyed for nothing well then i think so we
00:43:28.060have to differentiate between like so that that form of cancellation i think is more like the original
00:43:32.840red scare you know where people were sort of like flagged as communists whether or not they were
00:43:37.460the reason why dongle gate worked the reason why some of the original gamer gate nonsense worked i'm
00:43:44.840talking about like the anti-gamer gate nonsense was that people was in their social communities thought
00:43:49.680they could earn points by attacking basically innocent people they when they were contributing to the
00:43:56.520cancellation when they were posting this stuff on x they were posting it with the hope of it raising
00:44:02.260their own status it wasn't like people watching something or engaging it because they enjoyed
00:44:08.060watching somebody's life be destroyed because they're a terrible human it was them engaging was it
00:44:13.960because they thought it would increase their own status was in this leftist hierarchy
00:44:18.680it's a completely different mechanism of action okay that makes sense yeah because in one it's just
00:44:27.460people gossiping and then in the other it's people like pulling others down in the hierarchy because
00:44:34.120they view it as a zero-sum game and they're fighting their way to the top yeah like crabs in a bucket
00:44:38.780okay yeah all right i get you all right love you simone fun to talk about the vibe shift during this
00:44:45.660particular conversational loop i noticed it very severely in my daily life it's been pretty interesting
00:44:51.500it feels incredibly refreshing i think one of the most important things to remember with the
00:44:56.340vibe shift is we can not make the mistake that the left made the core reason the leftist agenda fell
00:45:02.580is because they one made up fabrications about what the other side was doing and did not punish people
00:45:08.620for spreading them uh like the thing that we talked about earlier in this two they had a woke faction that
00:45:14.760was attempting to impose their cultural value system on others and people didn't stomp that down
00:45:21.640on the left the left needed to end that because the right i'm not genuinely going to try that stuff
00:45:28.260because it's just such good ammunition for us the woke insanity helps our cause we don't need to police
00:45:35.360that when somebody on the right goes around and says your body my choice the right needs to be
00:45:40.640saying that person's a ridiculous buffoon and doesn't represent us and the right has done that
00:45:46.840very successfully in a way that the left didn't we just need to not become complacent with this stuff
00:45:52.660note here i'm not talking about the originator of the phrase who clearly meant it as a joke
00:45:57.840i am talking about the fans of his who used it to harass women in public spaces and this is what we
00:46:05.200saw on the left in the left when you would have these ridiculous protests and stuff like that that
00:46:09.880were the ultra far people that were really just doing this to attempt to hurt other people
00:46:14.360when you would have people banned from platforms for silly reasons that ended up hurting their
00:46:18.720livelihood they would never attack their malactors they would never say oh you ultra wokies you need
00:46:25.320to rein it in because if they did then they'd be the next target the right doesn't have that
00:46:29.340problem and it's important that we don't develop it or we will lose this position of cultural
00:46:33.940hegemony really quickly ah i agree that's very reasonable all right love you simone have a good