John Rachel
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President Donald Trump has just released fragrances for God-fearing, America-loving patriots. While proudly wearing Trump’s trademark red MAGA caps, they can now make an olfactory declaration of their love of the U S of A!
The fragrances named “Trump Victory 45-47” — referring to his capturing the 45th and 47th presidencies — are available as cologne for men and perfume for women, and are bargain priced at only $249 for the limited edition 3.3 fl oz numbered collectors version. You can get them at the dedicated website. Hurry! They won’t last.
I recognize that there are some nasty people out there, cynics who would want to portray Trump as being a crude, obnoxious opportunist, using his prominence as the world-renowned leader of the most powerful and wealthiest country in human history, to suck money out of the wallets of Trump loyalists and other gullible chumps. This would obviously be a grotesque and insulting abuse of power.
But hey, let’s cut the man some slack.
What’s his motto? It’s not MTRGA: ‘Make Trump Resorts Great Again’. It’s MAGA! ‘Make America Great Again!’ That says it all! That tells us where his loyalties really lie.
Trump is not getting any younger. He probably hasn’t — especially considering his diet — got that many years left on this Earth. Yet he’s dedicating this final chapter in his life to service to our nation. His devotion to the United States of America is limitless and beyond dispute.
Look at the reality. He’s been a super-entrepreneur all his life, wheeling, dealing, perfecting the art of the deal. He could right now be in the private sector bankrupting companies. Instead, he is selflessly committed his life to the public sector, bankrupting the country.
No, you negative nitpickers, ‘Trump Fragrances’ is not some scam. Trump Fragrances is our deeply patriotic, courageous, noble president’s bold and history-changing attack on the stench that now exhales from our bilious economy, the noxious cloud hovering over our whole putrid and stagnating society, the effluvium exuded by the political milieu of Washington DC.
And what a stinky mess our governing institutions, including the Executive Branch, have become! The swamp creatures roaming the halls of power are exclusively beholden to the ruling elite — the extreme ultra wealthy — pathologically beguiled by American exceptionalism, addicted to war, paranoid, xenophobic, ill-informed, myopic, misinformed, insular, delusional, deaf, dumb, and blind. And that’s on a good day!
But there is hope!
Trump Fragrances will displace the putrefying off-gassing of our dying democracy, the foul stench of corruption and treachery, the malodor of malfeasance and incompetence, the rank miasma of hypocrisy and betrayal, and doggedly overpower the fetid reek of failure with the SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS . . . of winning and winning and winning again and again.
Yes, good people, with Trump Fragrances, we are witnessing a revolution in the making!
Call it the . . . New World Odor.
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Whiteness struggles to return to 1950’s fortress America. With it comes a reduction of the US standard of living: “deprived people do not make a revolution”
Ex Walden Bello: https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/04/the-end-of-multilateralism
“The United States has been decisive in this retreat from multilateralism, and this process unfolded long before the advent of Donald Trump. It is Trump, however, who has cut the cant, shed the hypocrisy, and sounded the death knell on the grand strategy of liberal internationalism that served as the guiding U.S. strategy over the last 80 years, when it was committed to engaging threats to U.S. capital and U.S. state power where ever they were threatened globally. As Viktor Orban, the European figure most admired by Trump, has noted, his fellow strongman’s plan is to retrench to the Americas, focusing on reinvigorating the imperial heartland, North America, while strengthening the U.S. grip on Latin America in an aggressive reiteration of the Monroe Doctrine. And Orban adds, “there will be no more export of democracy.”
Trump may seem unpredictable, but there is a trend line cutting across the zigs and the zags. He is simply recognizing what his predecessors refused to see—that the empire is overextended and no longer has the resources to sustain its multiple engagements. Moreover, he is responding to the most significant and powerful section of his Make America Great Again base. This movement is a product of the four decades-long crisis of capitalism and imperialism. From a progressive standpoint, it has a number of contradictory features. It is, to use Althusser’s term, an “overdetermined contradiction” that combines the worst racist, ethnocentric, and anti-intellectual impulses with deep disdain for the neoliberal, pro-globalization initiatives and interventionist, warmongering policies of the liberal and neoconservative internationalists that have controlled policymaking over the last 80 years. It is fascism, but unlike in the 1930s, it is inward-looking, not expansionist fascism.
What is emerging is an imperialism that is on the defensive, that prioritizes tariff walls against foreign imports. It has adopted harsh measures to prevent the entry of non-white migrants and expel undocumented workers, uprooted the global supply chains set up by U.S. transnational capital, and reshored or brought back their productive facilities to the United States, and, last but not least, divorced the United States completely from collective efforts to address the climate crisis”.
To add: This contemporary isolationism, a revisionism returning to the 1950’s will ultimately sooner rather than later bring the US to a fall. It is an utterly old-fashioned policy close to the elderly Trump’s mind who remembers the ‘good old’ days of unbridled US power. It is a total anomaly in today’s world, where capitalist internationalism has welded an interdependency of productive industry. Playing with this structure through tarifs will see the end of the US and its system of Dionysian consumerism.