Naturalized immigrants are not monolithically Democratic voters; many are traditional families and Roman Catholics with conservative values who would split their votes between parties

Trump promised to balance the budget in 2016 but then ran massive deficits, and will likely do the same in his second term despite current promises about reducing spending through DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency)

The US has a marine battalion in Darwin, Australia (northernmost city) to help protect the region from China, part of military posture most Americans are unaware of

Trump won election despite people saying he couldn't, including Anthony himself; sportsmanship requires accepting defeat and congratulating the winner

This election represented the first 'podcast campaign' rather than previous Twitter/Facebook campaigns, with old media no longer trusted and centralized authority figures no longer credible

Gensler weaponized the SEC to treat Ripple differently from Ethereum despite similar properties, winning a court case but then tripling down on the same losing legal theory, demonstrating arbitrary and capricious regulatory abuse

Thomas Hobbes wrote in Leviathan 350 years ago that greatest global peace and prosperity occurs when one superpower suppresses tribal conflicts through military might (Pax Romana, Pax Britannica, Pax Americana)

Moldova election showed that a pro-democracy woman won against a Putin puppet despite Putin's social media machinery, signaling that small country democratic resistance is possible but fragile

Vladimir Putin's economy is the size of Texas, but he has nationalist expansion interests and military capability to reshape Eastern Europe, and if Trump withdraws US support from Ukraine, it will destabilize the entire region and create cascading geopolitical consequences

Finland and Sweden, despite 74 years of NATO independence, chose to join NATO in its 75th year specifically because Vladimir Putin's nationalism and military expansion required the security alliance

Prediction markets should remain legal but require more regulation to prevent thin trading and undue manipulation while maintaining open access for broader participation

Lend-Lease program provided material support to Soviet Union and Britain during WWII; Trump administration would not have done this, and current Ukraine support is the same type of commitment

There are 104 million eligible voters who did not vote in 2024 election; political entrepreneurs should focus on understanding and mobilizing this group with effective messaging rather than chasing existing voters

Trump may be 78 years old and want to play golf, leaving competent executives like Jamie Diamond and Larry Fink to run government while he is an 'absentee landlord of the White House' (optimistic scenario).

Roosevelt understood geopolitics better than modern statesmen because he read German newspapers and Hitler's speeches in original German, allowing him to understand the threat before it reached American shores

If US becomes an unreliable partner to democratic allies and retracts military footprint, it will have cascading negative consequences not visible immediately but visible over time in how America and Americans are treated globally

45 of the people who worked for Trump in his administration were trying to warn people about his capabilities and character

Donald Trump won the 2024 election decisively, gaining votes in typically blue states like New York and New Jersey, closing margins even in states Biden won by large margins in 2020

Anthony is sad for the country but happy for his portfolio following Trump's victory; markets have done very well

The US can extend its debt longer than other countries because it's dollar-dominated and can create its own currency, but if other countries denominate trade in hard assets and gold, a reckoning will occur