I think that’s exactly what one would be hoping for. One does this to escape the reality of human civilization and seek the adventure of building it over again.

It’s even worse. Christians fight hard to make hell on earth a reality so they can live for ever in peace in make believe land when they are no longer living?! Make it make sense.

I know people who have reinvented themselves and left the past behind, and I know people who have reinvented themselves and carried on with their legal names. Depends on the person and the setting. To each their own.

Maybe, but I sound pretty American coming from the west coast of Canada?

Except he is using a playbook built by other people that we’ve only seen the gist of. This is manufactured, not eventual. He is also removing all consumer and worker protections. There is more too it, but keep turning a blind eye to just “more of the same” and see where that gets ya. I am saying the same thing as you, but I am alluding to it being a byproduct and not the simple end goal. They want housing under their thumb as well as worker protections and healthcare. There is malicious intent there, I’m sure of it. It is more than the accumulation of wealth.

Nope. I like my toast done on both sides.

Time will tell. It’s all about the layers, but if you look at the current situation at face value, it makes very little sense, ergo something more sinister is a foot 3-4 steps down the road.

IMO there is something more at work here. I believe he is collapsing the economy on purpose and evaporating everyone’s savings, forcing them back into the labour force under any means. They want to go back to factory towns where workers have zero agency and are at the mercy of their employers. That is the end goal here, the rest of it is just the hand waving show to keep everyone distracted.

I’m an alien, I’m a legal alien. I’m an Englishman in New York

So are the rich. Let’s make sure we take out the right problems.

Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?

That popularity is dropping now that voters are seeing the fruits of those ideas blossoming in America.

Small folk in fairy tales are the yeomen of the worlds. People of the land. Makes sense they are more focused on earthly pleasures than world domination, like most regular folks naturally are.