Simple Swedish Podcast - #256 - Varför Trump vann valet i USA

Episode Date: November 11, 2024

Nivå: ~A2-B1 Nu har Trump vunnit valet i USA, men varför var det han och inte Kamala Harris som vann? Eftersom jag själv inte har så bra koll så tittade på några videor från kanaler jag gillar för att informera mig, och det här är vad jag kom fram till! För vår gratis community på Skool - klicka här! Stöd podden och få transkript till avsnitten - bli patron för bara 5€ per månad – klicka här! ------------------- Instagram: swedish.linguist YouTube: Swedish Linguist Website: www.swedishlinguist.com Language Lock-in – Boot Camp Language Lock-in – Language Gym ------------------- Ett smakprov (sample) på transkriptet: Ja men hallå hallå där! Och ja, jag hälsar dig välkommen till min podd, Simple Swedish Podcast. Ja jag sitter här i Valencia och senaste avsnittet, då pratade jag om den här naturkatastrofen som har hänt här. Och jag var faktiskt där i tisdags. Jag och några vänner vi cyklade dit.   Och ja, först var vi på en plats där vi hämtade lite olika förnödenheter typ mat, hygienartiklar och sådana saker.   Och våran plan var att cykla in och försöka komma så långt som möjligt och leverera de här produkterna, och hoppas att det hjälper på något sätt. Så vi cyklade dit och vi hamnade till slut..ja. Alltså i början så var det ganska mycket som var städat redan. Det är fortfarande..det ser helt galet ut.   Men ju längre in man kommer desto mer skrot ligger det på gatorna och ju mer lera är det på gatorna och ju mindre städat och ju mindre fixat och så. Det var faktiskt en ganska surrealistisk upplevelse. Men vi kom till en plats där vi pratade med några människor och de berättade var vi kunde lämna våra grejer.   Det var i en kyrka faktiskt, där de hade någon slags uppsamlingsplats.   Och där frågade de om vi kunde gå till en annan plats och hämta saker därifrån och komma tillbaka, så vi gjorde det också.   Sen cyklade vi tillbaka faktiskt, för att det kom nya varningar om nya regn. Så jag har varit där och jag har sett det, och det är ganska surrealistiskt, och ganska hemskt såklart. Men samtidigt så ser man hur mycket folk som kommer för att hjälpa. Så det är väldigt häftigt att se.   Men det är också ganska galet att staten, eller de lokala myndigheterna, har misslyckats så grovt med att organisera den här hjälpen.   I alla fall, det var inte det vi skulle prata om i det här avsnittet för att jag pratade redan om det i förra avsnittet. I det här avsnittet tänkte jag prata om att Donald Trump har vunnit valet i USA. Jag tänkte prata om varför han har vunnit och vad vi kan förvänta oss ska hända framåt. Hur kommer det här påverka, speciellt världen? Först vill jag tacka några patrons. Det är Sergio, Toan, Tanya, Aaron, Pirooz, Adi, Oleg, Maksymilian, Ed, Peter, Aleksandra och Anthony. Tack för att ni stödjer den här podden! Jag vill också rekommendera att gå till vår gratis community. Den finns på www.skool.com/swedish.   ....för att läsa hela transkriptet till detta och alla andra avsnitt, klicka här!

Hello there and welcome to my podcast Simple Swedish. I talked about this natural disaster that has happened here. I was actually there on Tuesday. Me and a few friends cycled there. First we were at a place where we picked up some necessities like food, hygiene items and stuff like that. Our plan was to cycle in and try to get as far as possible and deliver these products and hope that it helps in some way. So we cycled there and we ended up... In the beginning, there was quite a lot that was already cleaned. It still looks completely crazy, but the further you get, the more scruff it is on the streets and the more scruff it is on the streets and the less

cleaned and the less fixed and so on. That was actually a pretty surrealistic experience. But we came to a place where we talked to some people and they told us where we could leave our stuff. It was in a church actually they had a gathering place. There they asked if we could go to another place and pick up things from there and come back. So we did that too. We also cycled back because there were new warnings about new rain. I have been there and seen it and it is quite surreal and quite horrible. But at the same time you can see how much people are coming to help. So it's very cool to see. The local authorities have been so badly failed to organize this help.

Anyway, that was not what we were going to talk about in this episode. Because I already talked about that in the last episode In this episode I was going to talk about that Donald Trump has won the election in the US and I was going to talk about why he has won and what we can expect to happen in the future. How will this affect the world in particular. First I want to thank some Patrons. Sergio, Toan, Tanya, Aaron, Piroz, Adi, Oleg, Maximilian, Ed, Peter, Alexandra and Anthony. Thank you for supporting this podcast.

I also want to recommend going to our free community and it's on school.com slash Swedish school with S-K S-K-O-O-L.com slash Swedish and there are free lessons, free resources, courses and there is a community of people who learn Swedish I just posted a video about studying with chatgpt So go to school.com slash Swedish and check it out Ok, so Trump has won the election in the US and Kamala Harris has lost.

And I have not followed this election so closely. But I have watched some videos from some different channels that I think are good And I was going to tell you what people seem to say about why Trump has won Why Trump has won. Okay, so. This is maybe not my own... I'm not talking about my own opinions here. I'm trying to be objective and I'm trying to talk about what seems to be the reasons according to the information I have seen

and I am no expert, absolutely not but why has Trump won? ok, so first and foremost, not only has Trump won but Kamala Harris has lost so maybe it has a lot to do with that their campaign has failed. Kamala Harris' campaign has failed. And why has she failed? Well, first of all, people don't really know what her proposal is, what she wants.

The campaign has been mostly that we have to stop Trump, Trump can't win. And that she is a woman, she is black, she is middle class. So these have been the most important points in her campaign. But with Trump, you know exactly what Trump wants. He wants to put USA first, he wants lower taxes, he wants to close the borders. So he doesn't want immigrants, he wants lower taxes and he wants to protect the US, put the US first. But what does Harris want? People don't really know that, it's not that clear.

And also, she wasn't actually elected. She wasn't elected when the Democrats had their primaries, I don't know what they're called in Swedish. And she's pretty unknown as well, in relation to Trump. So that is a big reason. Another thing is that there has been a cultural war. There is this woke movement. the woke movement. And it has a lot to do with that people, many people are tired of

discussing the pronouns, which pronouns to refer to people, people are tired of that people feel that they are called racists just because they are white, or that they are called sexists just because they are men. And things like that. So many people feel that way. And this is what we call called woke movement. Which the democrats have invested a lot in.

And it represents, the democrats represent a lot of that movement. But that movement does not represent a majority of the US population. So that is also a big reason, it seems. And then the general public, the general public, people in general, the people in general, the public. They no longer have trust in the institutions. They don't trust the institutions that they function objectively, that they work justly. Because Trump has a lot of reports on him. He has problems, he has been in court, he has been reported for various crimes and so on. But people don't believe that

this is the legal system that is trying to to to especially these traditional media especially these traditional media people don't believe that these media are objective. And this is actually true, the media are be objective. They either have bad information or even lie about things. Instead of telling the truth no matter what the truth is, the goal has been to tell the truth, no matter what the truth is.

Instead, the goal has been, okay, we have to stop Trump, okay? So then you lose trust, you lose trust in the media and these institutions, the justice system. This is actually very dangerous, that the general public loses trust in institutions, trust in media and so on. And this is also a Sweden as well. That traditional media instead of being objective and just focus on the truth, present the truth, find the truth, have been political and had an agenda to stop certain political forces. And even if you may not like these political forces,

it is still important that the media does not have an agenda against specific political forces. Because then you lose the trust of these media. Then you lose the trust, you don't trust them anymore. And that is very dangerous for democracy. And this has happened a lot in the US as well. So these reasons seem to be important reasons for Trump to have won. And that he has also won purely by percentage. Because in the US this works a little differently. It is not really the people's vote that is counted, without the people voting on the electoral system.

So it's not the people who choose the president, but the people who vote for the people who in turn choose the president. And sometimes it means that a candidate can win win even if the other candidate has seen more votes but that's not how it happened this time Trump got 70 million votes and Kamala Harris got 65 million votes Trump got 5 million more votes than Kamala Harris, just percentage. Does that mean that 70 million Americans are white, hateful, racist men? Probably not. There were actually many women who also voted for Trump.

I see that about half of them voted for Kamala Harris. 54% voted for Harris. So that means that about 40% voted for Trump. So even if, especially here in Europe, I think that most people think of Trump as being a fool. Even if you don't like Trump, it's clear that everyone who votes for Trump is not idiots. Even though many are sure of it. I am not going to judge right now anyway. And what happens then in the world? What happens in the world? And is it as dangerous as you might think? Because I think many people think that if Trump becomes president,

then it's going to be... To hell! Then it's going to be bad. But... Okay, I can absolutely I can absolutely think that his rhetoric, the way he speaks is 100% dictator style. But, ok, if we look at what actually happened when he was president, it was actually 4 years, was it so bad, was it so horrible? Ok, I don't know, I'm not an expert, I don't know everything that happened. But you can see that for example, no war started in the world.

Okay, he wanted to end many international agreements, international agreements and so on. He ended the Iran agreement for example. But no war started. He helped with normalization between Israel and Arab countries. He got... I don't know, he and he... That administration... For example between the United Arab Emirates and Israel. Between Bahrain and Israel. between Sudan and Morocco and Israel and it was on the way to be normalized between Saudi Arabia and Israel He has been very clear that he does not want to have conflicts. He does not want the US to I think many people in the world don't like the role of the world police as much as the US has. Unprovised. Which most people are against.

Most people didn't think it was good. And it's pretty obvious that it was very bad for the world and especially for Iraq. Okay, Saddam Hussein was removed, but what created that? It created a lot of chaos. And things like that, maybe Trump wouldn't do. So I can imagine that it doesn't have to be only negative. One thing that worries many is what will happen in Ukraine. Trump has said that if he is president, the war would end within 24 hours. Ok, he has said that. We don't know exactly what.

But it doesn't sound good for Ukraine. So there you can absolutely be worried about that, including myself. But we don't know exactly what will happen. There are things that don't sound so bad. There are things that sound bad. There are things that don't sound so bad, for example to minimize US involvement in conflicts. It's hard to say how positive or negative it will be, but it absolutely doesn't have to be negative. It can actually be quite positive. But we'll see.

I hope that everyone knows that the person Trump, we all have our own opinion about the person Trump, but then what is actually going to happen in practice. We hope it will be positive. It will probably not only be positive, but it will probably not only be negative. We'll see. That was what I was going to talk about today. I hope that was interesting.

Have a good one, and I'll see you soon.