E177 - #558 ART -War Spending Is Colliding With Sovereign Debt

A single AI video can make a candidate “say” anything, and that changes politics more than most people want to admit. We walk through how deepfake political ads are already warping the midterm landscape, why the old playbook is failing, and how a public that can’t trust its own eyes becomes easy to steer. Along the way, we talk about the pendulum swing, the way extremes get amplified, and why it rarely feels organic when it hits full force.

From there, we zoom out to the bigger constraint that no slogan can escape: the math. When govern...