Sometime in the last decade, Hollywood studios realized that people were sick of film remakes and instead preferred sequels. But studios don’t want to veer from a formula that already worked once, so they want a sequel to effectively be a remake. This is where the “soft reboot” idea comes from. The most famous of these is the first Disney Star Wars film, The Force Awakens, which was a sequel but was nigh a beat-for-beat remake of A New Hope, just with a woman and repulsive CGI. The main difference was that the new version sucked.
I started thinking that today’s election is basically a soft reboot of the 2016 election when I saw this cringe 80s nostalgia Trump compilation Elon Musk posted.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 5, 2024
That was an aesthetic that was fun in 2016 and then was done to death to the point that no one currently alive ever wants to see it ever again. Maybe it can make a comeback in 50 years.
These people are trying to do a beat-for-beat remake of the 2016 election. We have the same slogans, the same “outsider” arguments, the same promises. Our villain is just a dumber, colored version of Hillary Clinton. We have a cast of characters billed as a “super team” assembled (most of them new because many of the 2016 people don’t want anything to do with this election and others were exposed as frauds). Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Jared Kushner is running the show.
But it sucks. It sucks and there is no energy because everyone knows where this is going. We’ve all seen it before.
The second Trump presidency is going to be worse than Disney Star Wars. The campaign has been forced, with very low energy, so there isn’t really even going to be any expectation. In 2016, there were a lot of expectations. People involved with the movement and with the transition actually wanted to do some of the things Trump had talked about during the campaign. You won’t have that this time. It’s just going to be a mechanized, soulless thing.
You can see that from the proposals of people he is planning to install in his cabinet. The hype train is playing up Bobby Kennedy and Elon Musk, but Trump is openly involved with the likes of Mike Pompeo, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, and other such scum. A POLITICO report last month said that these people are all getting cabinet positions. Who knows about that reporting, but it surely won’t surprise anyone when Trump installs a completely Zionist foreign policy team as well a totally establishment/corporate domestic policy team.
Elon teaming up with Ron Paul to abolish the bureaucracy and Bobby banning processed food and vaccines are like Trump’s claim he was going to build a wall. These things will be mentioned a few times, but neither Elon nor Bobby are getting cabinet positions and nothing meaningful is going to happen.
For the record, I still like Trump. I think he’s a fun guy.
It’s the same way I felt about Han Solo.