Unfriending America

Can you imagine just living in Trump world forever and ever? But I do wonder, look, there is a lot of people now are sick of America, let's be honest, including people within America.

But being pushed around, the bully in the schoolyard eventually gets beaten, don't they, by everybody else? Well, not

always.

Not always.

That's the problem.

I mean, you know, it's a nice thought, you know, perhaps politically.

possibly because we're all brought up on American cultural values, you know, Hollywood movies in which the bully gets defeated, but maybe he doesn't this time.

Yeah, well, maybe.

But, I mean, it would be nice to think that we can somehow pave a way forward where we just don't have to answer questions to his demands, where we can have a more moderate path going forwards.

The problem is, is there enough people to form that alliance in a way that they're going to be able to reach an agreement on stuff, you know, without Donald Trump? Maybe we need a bully to try and move things forward.

Well...

Or maybe what we need or what we come to rely on is the dollar, the technology, the AI, all the various things, as well as the military side of it, which is being a bit reduced at the moment.

It's like a drug we can't get off, really.

Yeah, but I

mean, all of that stuff, America is becoming more dominant.

not less.

So they're starting to produce stuff like AI now, which we're building data centres for, but the technology is basically based in Silicon Valley by and large, and we are going to be even more answerable to America.

So that then becomes a bigger concern, and we're having to kowtow to America on that.

We're not introducing the legislation that's required, I think, because we're scared of it.

And we're thinking, well,

yeah, well, he can wave a big stick and he does.

You know, if we start trying to rein in the big tech companies, it will tax them.

Then we then we get the big stick.

So it's trying to shape yourself.

And we know Andy Burnham's having trouble doing this at the moment around the latest prognostications coming