Trump: the great global reset

And of course there is health. Not that we will all be as ripped as RFK Junior, but the entire medical enterprise looks increasingly built on the BS premise that if you just take this little pill or shot you will live for ever, and in a lot of cases that is doing much more harm than a bit of God-provided natural prophylaxis – you are what you eat; what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger; that sort of thing.

One thing Dutton shouldn’t give any thought to (and I know some of my friends think they are a good idea), is tariffs.

There are things that 300 pound gorillas, or at least countries with a population of 346 million who print the reserve currency of the world and consume vast amounts of its produce, can do that 26 pound poodles at the bottom end of the world can’t.

By all means, let’s fix up our infrastructure and economy so we can make things here again, but no country ever got wealthy and stayed that way in a cottage industry economy. We have things we do at scale, like mining and agriculture, that few others can do as successfully. And we have a well-educated workforce that can be competitive and innovative in their specialties, if we take the BS away from them and let them rip.

I’ve got a lot of faith that in this next election people will realise that for too long they’ve been dreaming. Reality is back, and while it can be hard graft, it’s also much more exciting and satisfying in a way that fantasies aren’t.