Indeed, the author of this
gipper link — Gerald Celente — back when Obama’s team was bringing the country back from the 2008 fiscal crisis (and making some all-but-inevitable concessions to Wall Street in the process) was not merely preaching economic doom, but allying with Alex Jones and his like.
In 2009 Celente predicted "Obamageddon", and he was a popular guest on conservative cable-TV shows such as Fox News Sunday and
Glenn Beck's television program.
Celente is a long time master of "
pessimism porn" and folks like
gipper actually feel superiority sharing his constant predictions of the collapse of civil society and economic catastrophe. All these fools actually are doing is aiding the Putins and XiJinpings of the world, and bringing disinformation to our own society … which may eventually lead to a
political catastrophe.
Not that there isn’t
some truth in all their ravings, just as there is truth in some of their criticisms of Israel’s savage retaliation toward Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and Netanyahu’s old policies of building up Hamas to make a “two-state solution” impossible.
But ideologues and conspiracists who mainly or always attack the U.S. and Israel show no understanding of the realities and difficulties involved in resolving problems of mutually hostile interpenetrated peoples in different contexts. They cannot examine them carefully and realistically, or differentiate internal and international forces at work in creating the tragic wars that arise out of them.
Over the past decade, for example, Celente has become one of the loudest voices calling for the end of the State of Israel and has rebuked the legitimacy of Israel via his Youtube channel. Seems to me
gipper has done much the same here.