Niall Ferguson: The Vibe Shift Goes Global


In a clever Substack post in February, Santiago Pliego tried to sum up the change that had occurred from the epoch of woke—which began with the cancellation of James Damore by Google in 2017—to the unfiltered era of Elon Musk’s X.

“Fundamentally,” Pliego wrote, “the Vibe Shift is a return to—a championing of—Reality, a rejection of the bureaucratic, the cowardly, the guilt-driven; a return to greatness, courage, and joyous ambition.” To be precise:

The Vibe Shift is spurning the fake and therapeutic and reclaiming the authentic and concrete.

The Vibe Shift is a healthy suspicion of credentialism and a return to human judgment.

The Vibe Shift is living not by lies, and instead speaking the truth—whatever the cost.

The Vibe Shift is directly facing our tumultuous times, refusing to blackpill, and choosing to build instead.

The vibe shift hit American politics on the night of November 5. What no one foresaw was that it would almost immediately go global, too.
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The American electorate decisively reelects Donald Trump. Ergo: The German government falls, the French government falls, the South Korean president declares martial law, Bashar al-Assad flees Syria. There’s an economic chain reaction, too. Bitcoin rallies, the dollar rallies, U.S. stocks rally, Tesla rallies. Meanwhile, the Russian currency weakens, China slides deeper into deflation, and Iran’s economy reels.

One catchphrase that sums it up: It’s like Trump’s already president.

https://www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferguson-the-vibe-shift-goes-global-assad-putin-trump

A 49.9% shift goes global. Trains almost reach the platform, planes nearly take-off the runway and ATM nearly give you cash and Visa almost works.

chimera wrote on Jan 4^th, 2025 at 11:34am:

A 49.9% shift goes global. Trains almost reach the platform, planes nearly take-off the runway and ATM nearly give you cash and Visa almost works.

Sounds like transgenderism ......

Frank wrote on Jan 4^th, 2025 at 10:18am:

Niall Ferguson: The Vibe Shift Goes Global .... One catchphrase that sums it up: It’s like Trump’s already president. https://www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferguson-the-vibe-shift-goes-global-assad-putin-trump

Canada, America’s nearest neighbor, certainly felt the vibe shift on November 25 when Trump threatened to impose a 25-percent tariff on both Canada and Mexico on his first day in power unless fentanyl and illegal migrants stopped crossing into the United States from their territories. Four days later, Justin Trudeau was in Mar-a-Lago. The Canadian prime minister soon realized he’d bought a ticket to be trolled when Trump suggested over dinner that Canada become the 51st state.

Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum tried to hang tough, warning Trump that Mexico would “meet tariffs with tariffs,” according to The Economist. But when the two leaders spoke, her tone was emollient. Not long after that, the Mexican military seized over a ton of fentanyl pills—the largest hit against the opioid smugglers in the country’s history. Cause, meet effect.

The vibe shift has already had effects in Europe, too. Within days of the U.S. election, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen proposed that Europe should buy more liquefied natural gas from America in order to ward off new tariffs on European exports to the United States. It’s a little embarrassing, to say the least, that Europe continues to buy natural gas from Russia, which it otherwise excoriates for having invaded Ukraine. “Why not replace it [with] American LNG,” asked von der Leyen, “which is cheaper for us and brings down our energy prices?” That’s a pretty good question. It’s funny she never asked it until after November 5.

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The reality is that we are witnessing the complete and total unraveling of the disastrous foreign policy that began under Obama and was picked up again by Biden, the perverse effect of which was to strengthen both Iran and Russia.

The series of blunders that consigned Syria to a hideous and protracted civil war and opened the door to Russia in both Syria and Ukraine began between July 2012 and August 2013, when the White House said that if Assad used chemical weapons he would be deemed to have “crossed a red line.” The regime used chemical weapons anyway. And the White House’s threat was empty; in August 2013, Obama decided to call off the planned retaliatory air strikes.

Worse, Obama then allowed the Russian government to broker a deal under which Assad handed over (some of) his chemical weapons. On September 10, 2013, Obama announced that the United States was no longer the “world’s policeman.” Five months later, Russian troops occupied Crimea, the annexation of which followed on March 18. In September 2015, President Vladimir Putin sent not only three dozen aircraft but also 1,500 troops to Latakia, Syria, and warships to the Caspian Sea.

On Obama’s watch, Putin established himself not only as the proud owner-occupier of the Crimean peninsula and a power broker in the Middle East but also as a troublemaker in Africa, hiring out the mercenaries of the Wagner Group to the nastiest regimes he could find south of the Sahara.

The signature achievement of Obama’s foreign policy was supposed to be his much-vaunted Iran deal. But the upshot of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was that the Iranians took the money they made from sanctions relief and diverted it to the likes of Assad, Hamas, and Hezbollah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMuh33BMZYY

How ‘The Babylon Bee’ Predicted the Vibe Shift

Twitter suspended the Bee’s account in 2022 after it made a joke misgendering Admiral Rachel Levine, President Biden’s head of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. (In 2022, USA Today named Admiral Rachel Levine, a trans woman, Woman of the Year. Shortly after that, the Bee posted a headline that named Admiral Rachel Levine “Man of the Year.” And then the Bee’s account was suspended.)

The Bee was later reinstated when Twitter was taken over by Elon Musk, who said, “There will be no censorship of humor.”

These days, The Babylon Bee still gets fact-checked by Snopes and USA Today, which perfectly encapsulates our internet age: a parody page getting its jokes fact-checked because people really can’t distinguish between truth and humor.
https://www.thefp.com/p/seth-dillon-the-babylon-bee-vibe-shift

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum appears to have changed her mind and warmed to the concept of receiving migrants from other countries who are expected to be deported by the Trump administration later this month.

During her daily news conference on Friday, Sheinbaum claimed that Mexico and the U.S. could collaborate on cases where migrants are deported to Mexico instead of being returned to their countries of origin. The Mexican politician said that Mexico could receive migrants from certain countries or ask the U.S. for compensation to return them to their home countries.

During the news conference, Sheinbaum claimed that Mexico has a plan to receive newly deported migrants and hinted that details were still to be worked out with the United States, the AP reported. These new claims directly contradict prior statements from the Mexican president, who had publicly claimed that she would oppose the Trump administration and fight the expected increase in deportations.

https://abc7.com/post/presidenta-de-mexico-claudia-sheinbaum-abre-la-posibilidad-recibir-deportados-bajo-trump-sean-nacionalidad-mexicana/15748627/


Also,

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Meets with Trump at Mar-a-Lago: ‘Ready to Work Together’
“Beautiful evening with @realDonaldTrump whom I thank for the welcome. Ready to work together,” Meloni wrote in a Sunday X post, sharing a photo of herself standing with the 45th and soon-to-be 47th President of the United States.

https://x.com/GiorgiaMeloni/status/1875946974014578901

The Vibe Shift Goes Global

Boy Trudeau resigns.

Canada, America’s nearest neighbor, certainly felt the vibe shift on November 25 when Trump threatened to impose a 25-percent tariff on both Canada and Mexico on his first day in power unless fentanyl and illegal migrants stopped crossing into the United States from their territories. Four days later, Justin Trudeau was in Mar-a-Lago.The Canadian prime minister soon realized he’d bought a ticket to be trolled when Trump suggested over dinner that Canada become the 51st state.

Frank wrote on Jan 7^th, 2025 at 6:50am:

The Vibe Shift Goes Global Boy Trudeau resigns. Canada, America’s nearest neighbor, certainly felt the vibe shift on November 25 when Trump threatened to impose a 25-percent tariff on both Canada and Mexico on his first day in power unless fentanyl and illegal migrants stopped crossing into the United States from their territories. Four days later, Justin Trudeau was in Mar-a-Lago.The Canadian prime minister soon realized he’d bought a ticket to be trolled when Trump suggested over dinner that Canada become the 51st state.

Albanese will be keenly aware it was Trump who brought the hammer down on Trudeau’s political career on November 25 – mere weeks after the November 5 election.

The fatal blow came in the form of a 153-word social media post.

On his own Truth Social platform, Trump vowed to sign an executive order on his first day in office imposing a 25 per cent tariff “on all products coming into the United States” from both Canada and Mexico.

China would also face an ­additional 10 per cent tariff.

That pledge sent shockwaves across the world. A political firestorm in Canada was ignited, with the tariff issue driving a wedge between Trudeau and Freeland.

On December 16, when ­Freeland stood down, she posted her damning resignation letter online. It revealed she did not see eye-to-eye with Trudeau over the best response to Trump’s ­policy of “aggressive economic nationalism”.

The political damage inflicted on Trudeau reveals him as the first foreign leader to fall casualty to the Trump 2.0 revolution – not an outcome that could have been reasonably predicted a few short months ago.

And all it took was the ­president-elect typing a few sentences into a smartphone and posting them online.

Trump didn’t stop there. He took it further, belittling the Canadian leader by referring to him as “governor” – a suggestion that the US could annex its northern neighbour by making it the 51st state.

Elon Musk, who is now ­working with Trump, has also demonstrated a willingness to wade into the domestic political affairs of other nations and recently backed the far-right AfD party in Germany.

In Britain, he called for fresh polls and backed the Reform party before declaring at the weekend that its leader, Nigel Farage, wasn’t up to the job.

While conservatives will cheer Trudeau’s departure, his treatment by Trump – and Musk’s ongoing political commentaries – will fill many global leaders with a sense of unnerving trepidation and reinforce the unpredictable nature of the new administration.

Could Albanese become a target of the incoming president if he found himself at the end of a disagreement with Trump?

The evidence says it’s possible.

Remember that Malcolm Turnbull clashed with the US president-elect during his first term in 2017 over the deal, struck with the Obama administration, for the US to take in refugees held on PNG and Nauru.

While Trudeau was finished anyway – polls showed him miles behind Pierre Poilievre’s conservatives – Trump has likely hastened his exit.

The world will view this saga as an example of Trump’s ability to effect change within other nations merely by issuing decrees online.

But it will also have an impact on Trump. It may serve as a reminder that his words have far-reaching consequences. It may also greatly embolden him in seeking to exercise his personal influence over events from afar.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/lessons-for-anthony-albanese-in-justin-trudeaus-looming-departure/news-story/204b55f6ec277d2e77532e0833d013ad

Vibe shift goes Global



Frank wrote on Jan 7^th, 2025 at 4:28pm:

The serial rape of thousands of English girls went on for many years. Few in power cared. Then Elon Musk started tweeting. In 2009, the Starmer-led CPS dropped its prosecution of a grooming and rape gang in Rochdale, despite having DNA evidence and hours of testimony on video. When Nazir Afzal started working as a Crown prosecutor in 2011, one of his first actions was to reopen the case and reverse the CPS’s decision. In 2012, Afzal secured the convictions of nine men, eight of them of Pakistani background and one of Afghan background. Afterward, Afzal said that “white professionals’ oversensitivity to political correctness and fear of appearing racist may well have contributed to justice being stalled.” Starmer admitted that “particularly in cases involving groups, there’s clearly an issue of ethnicity that has to be understood and addressed.” But he insisted that the failure to prosecute had been caused by “a lack of understanding” about the victims: a “credibility issue.” It is now Starmer who has a credibility issue. Maggie Oliver, the Manchester-based detective who helped to expose the abuse in Rochdale, says that Starmer is “as guilty as anyone I know” for the institutional failure to protect some of Britain’s most vulnerable children. Starmer has yet to address the Labour Party’s historic role in this mess, or his own record of triangulating complicity. He has yet to say whether he agrees with his minister Jess Phillips that there should be no national inquiry. But now that Musk has said the unsayable about the unspeakable, there is no going back. Starmer’s lawyerly equivocations look like what they are: covering the party’s backside at the expense of justice for the victims. Announcing another inquiry will not be enough to pacify the British public. Nor will it reduce the popularity of Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party. Their main appeal is that they say what no one else dares to: The entire British system has become morally bankrupt. Ironically enough, Musk’s call for Farage to step down—Farage, Musk says, “doesn’t have what it takes”—is likely to take the pressure off Starmer. “No justice, no peace” is a common slogan among the activist class that chose not to act against the rape gangs. There will be no peace in Britain until the full truth is known, the law is restored, the bureaucracies are held to account, and rule by “community relations” is reversed. The Labour government will do its utmost to do its least. Pressure from Musk has already done what the outrage of the beaten-down British people cannot do. Musk has shamed the British government into explaining itself. Next, it must be forced to act. https://www.thefp.com/p/muslim-grooming-gangs-cover-up-keir-starmer-elon-musk

Frank wrote on Jan 7^th, 2025 at 6:50am:

The Vibe Shift Goes Global Boy Trudeau resigns. Canada, America’s nearest neighbor, certainly felt the vibe shift on November 25 when Trump threatened to impose a 25-percent tariff on both Canada and Mexico on his first day in power unless fentanyl and illegal migrants stopped crossing into the United States from their territories. Four days later, Justin Trudeau was in Mar-a-Lago.The Canadian prime minister soon realized he’d bought a ticket to be trolled when Trump suggested over dinner that Canada become the 51st state.

There are certain things that simply can’t be wished away. Things like Islamic fundamentalism, the societal downsides of mass immigration, rising crime, and stagnant economics. Trudeau—who, in a fit of desperation late last year, tried to reverse his immigration policies—learned these lessons too late. He is the latest casualty of the vibe shift and the great crack-up. More to come.

Frank wrote on Jan 7^th, 2025 at 4:42pm:

...There are certain things that simply can’t be wished away. Things like ...

... Trump raping people and committing felonies.

A first of its kind, behind the scenes documentary on the work that goes into being the first lady has landed a $40 million distribution deal. Melania Trump’s concept, which centers around her life and work as she reenters the White House, kicked off a bidding war between major Hollywood studios and resulted in a blockbuster deal with Amazon.

The Melania Trump documentary, which is set for a global theatrical and streaming release, formed from a series of conversations between the first lady and her longtime senior advisor Marc Beckman.

Mrs. Trump wants audiences in the U.S. and around the world to see, in a real and raw way, what really happens behind the scenes for a first lady as she prepares to return to the White House and the important work of the administration, Beckman told Breitbart News.

Filming will be localized, Beckman says, to the final weeks of December and the first few weeks of January 2025.

Rush Hour director Brett Ratner is helming the documentary.




They all shunned her for 8 years. Now it's another vibe shift.

MORE VIBE SHIFT!!

Facebook’s Retreat from Censorship
"We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg announced Tuesday. “More specifically, here’s what we’re going to do. First, we’re going to get rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.”

Users on X immediately cheered Zuckerberg for changing his company’s direction towards free speech.
“The future of free speech online is looking better than it has in a long time,” Charlie Kirk posted. “Time will tell how successful Zuckerberg will be in implementing some of these changes, but these are bold steps in the right direction and we should hope for their success.”





And it's only 8 Jan!!!