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We’re only going to get our standing back by throwing this man in prison and impeaching the corrupt supreme court. We also need to get dark money out of our politics to save our democracy.
I had a holiday booked for this last February in the States, after Trump won the election though that holiday was cancelled and I went to Japan instead
If you swapped your american holiday for a trip to Japan then you are a trader. B'dum tiss. /s
and THAT
was the point. trump is attempting to destroy the country
AND it's future. So it can never be world power again
Noooooooo shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
This is why plenty of us tried to warn people against voting for this dipshit motherfucker (not that people in a cult will listen). It's part of why it was the media's fucking job to report on how stupid his ideas were before he got fucking elected. Not necessarily The Atlantic specifically, but a lot of the media just fucking treated every insane thing he promised during the election as normal, valid, and like it could work. Total abdication of journalistic responsibility.
I don't get how people don't understand the role the media should play.
It should simply shine light on the truth and report the facts.
Instead they play politics, and abdicate that duty in favor of shock and schlock pieces.
If the media simply reported on Trump's policy discussions factually, everyone would have seen this coming, to add to your point.
I am personally enjoying the fall of the American empire. At least for now. Until it starts invading everyone to try and prevent the inevitable.
The only way I can see a coming back is for the US - or rather, whatever comes after, to implement a socialist government that leapfrog's the advances of the Nordic nations. North America has tremendous resources and a great deal of land, but has always hamstrung its potential due to the 1% hoarding that bounty. In the event that the 1% are eliminated from society, it is very possible that the ordinary American could get the education and means to make themselves fulfill their potential.
Hopefully, the likes of Trump and his friends will hang out together, someday.
I looked for explanation:
Pavolini was captured after a desperate escape attempt which saw him swimming across Lake Como and then trapped in a Mexican standoff over a half submerged rock. When Pavolini ran out of bullets, he was finally apprehended and executed only under Italian law by the partisans in Dongo.[1] Before burial, his body was hung upside down in public, along with Mussolini, Mussolini's mistress Clara Petacci, the former Party Secretary Achille Starace, Nicola Bombacci and others in Piazzale Loreto, Milan.[2]
Billionaires don't care. They'll be fine, we're the ones that have to suffer.
Thanks to republican/conservative voters.
It ain't just maga. I work with non-maga republican voters who didn't vote trump, but also didn't vote kamala, because they "just couldn't do it". These people's only issues they talk about currently, is that people steal by taking advantage of food stamps when they have expensive jewelry and iPhones, and they think Mexicans are taking jobs all over. I've heard these verbatim arguments over and over. They think dems give "too many handouts". They're stuck in there ways and can't be convinced otherwise.
They have no clue that it's Republicans who are the ones to "give handouts" to billionaires and themselves, and they're not willing to hear it.
It's not entirely that they're dumb. They ARE ignorant, but that's by design. The elites have been executing this for decades and have done a great job, in the form of propaganda, indoctrination, and shitty education.
It's hard not to think that we're just doomed.
Wage theft is bigger than all other theft combined, but your coworkers probably aren't nearly so upset about that.
it does depend on where though, in places where shoplifting is unpunished or unabated, it really had shut down a ton of chain stores and even local businesses due to the massive thefts, and the police refuse to do anything, despite getting such a healthy budget to begin with.
Red states probably, wage theft is even higher i bet, because of thier lax income laws and business friednly tax free/reduced legislations. people do depend on pharmacies of WG, and probably CVS too, but even those are starting to close down.
But also life continued:
Yeah, but it took 20 years and WWII before things actually rebounded.
See, simple! If you're 30, you'll be 50 by the time you recuperate your investment! Easy! LOL.
Good. This country has wielded that influence like a cleaver for decades.
I'm happy to see it end.
I’m so tired of morons (that aren’t me) having the power to royally fuck up my way of life.
"..what matters is the targeting of essential structural elements of a nation: economy, foreign relations, and defense systems. Basically, the subverter (Russia) would look to destabilize every one of those areas in the United States, considerably weakening it."
https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/
"Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal GLOBALIST Western hegemony"
Released in the 90s, and became Russian intel agent required reading. That's just one highly relevant quote. Check the "content" section for a few eye poppers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Feel free to google "Project Russia" next, as that was the successor to FoG.
In all reality, if the world before 2016 matters to you at all and you understand Russia has been waging a psychological war against us since the 90s and never stopped fighting the Cold War, the picture is very clear. The evidence isn't even tangential. It's blatant and it's everywhere.
We just live in post-truth... which is exactly how Russia and China live. That's why you can't talk about certain topics in China involving tanks. (Tbh I'm just tired and too lazy to google the spelling...) Russia is literally in the midst of brainwashing children its kidnapped from Ukraine.
We have traitors in office pretending Russia is our ally and directly spewing kremlin propaganda, while attacking and damaging the United States only to hand cash to their rich buddies while we are implementing a mass deportation campaign of even legal immigrants, shipping them to horrific prisons overseas. This story never gets better at this stage without getting much worse.
Wishing everyone the best... very scared for what's to come. :-)
Great post, brother.
I have been writing about the Foundation of Geopolitics for years, and always wondered what he meant by "its special services within the borders of the United States." Then HitlerPig comes on the political scene, and it all becomes clear.
HitlerPig made his first trip to Moscow in 1987, where they were pleased to see that he could be manipulated by even the most insincere flattery, and was given the code name Krasnov. After a decade of laundering money for emerging Russian Mobsters/Oligarchs, he is being referred to as a "special service" in the Russian playbook for world domination in 1997.
And today, he is President again, a political mulligan which he intends to exploit just as much as he does on the golf course.
It is Russia's greatest victory, and they didn't have to fire a shot. They just needed a Manchurian Candidate, and HitlerPig volunteered.
Thank you, I appreciate the positive response. I am pounding the drum as loudly & clearly as I can as time is running out. People need to see the bigger picture, instead of the 4chan reality that's overtaken the world. It's like everyone (those that don't/didn't vote or are MAGA) forgot what reality & history was like before 2016. Trump's firehose of never ending scandals and our failure to punish them fully enable this to happen.
I will say that I think that Russia planted many seeds. They in fact tell us this; in previous decades they sponsored left wing groups. However, it just so happens this time they made connections with the right wing billionaires who are willing to sacrifice our global alliances (and harm the millions of lower class people) to reshape North America in their vision. It is the perfect storm of many traitors within our government sharing a similar ideology and vision of how the country should run (oligarchy/right wing authoritarianism) & our enemies abusing this perceived shared vision to harm our democracy.
Just to hammer the point further - certain Fox News hosts (rhymes with Yucker Marlson), are known to take Russian money - as are several twitch broadcasters (primarily gamers), really emphasizing their reach. The "big think" link I provided really spells out that they used propaganda over decades to help nudge our ideology even further right, which likely just put gasoline on the fire of our failure to punish the confederates, the failure of reconstruction, & our later acceptance of Nazis (and the Nazi culture that temporarily was prominent in America.. Ford the most prominent example)
It's happening in every democracy.
Pollieviere in Canada. (Forgive spelling, again?)
Marine La Pen in France
AfD party in Germany
Bolsonsaro in Brazil
Brexit happening in the UK (also called for in FoG)
Someone else mentioned Romania, though I can't speak on that as much. I'm sure there's many more.
Propaganda to destabilize western democracies is the main weapon of China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. And Trump thinks he gets along with all of them, except maybe Xi.
I'll say once more for now: anyone denying this is a fool or a traitor. The connections aren't happening just in the US, they're happening everywhere. And the billionaire network states plan says that's exactly the point - if they can destabilize the US, they think they can do it to every democracy. What a treasure for China and Russia.
"How do you replace the current elite? You make new countries." - quote from one of the right wing billionaires showcased in "DARK GOTHIC MAGA" by Blonde Politics on YouTube. Go listen to him say it if you don't believe me. (And correct my phrasing if it's slightly off)
Not saying Trump's presidency will Balkanize the US. The tech bros think longer than 4 years. But they absolutely are working toward creating their own city states and want to Balkanize the US. Trump said it out loud -- he wants to offer up federal land for billionaires to bid on as "freedom cities." Video is easily searchable on Google. They will be run by tech billionaires, AI, surveillance & automated weapons. (See Peter Thiel's Palantir & Anduril companies, and Thiel's decades long goal of seizing power for a billionaires/monarchy. Kinda like how Thiel and Musk grew up under apartheid. Must remind them of home. Huh?)
I am going in a bunch of different directions here so I will just end on that while I strongly advocate we are directly at war with Russia and this is largely the result of decades of our enemies promoting propaganda against us, it's also only possible because of various factions of internal traitors too.
I probably could go on. The Russian connections are EVERYWHERE and I'm only able to detail certain ones in America.
Maybe I'll clean up what I'm saying here after I wake up some more. 🙃
There is no mastermind or master plan. If you think Trump is a Russian asset then you've fallen for conspiracy theory and you yourself live in a "post-truth" fantasy. Whatever Trump is, he's not someone who can be handled (except by playing on his megalomania). If you don't understand that yet, and pretend otherwise, you're just adding to the noise.
Similarily, that Foundations of Geopolitics is an interesting "cookbook" but it's just that. Russia exploits glaring weaknesses in our neoliberal society by simply buying their way into social media. Any rational country would prevent news or social media to be owned by oligarchs, spew lies for profit and and generally being open to the highest bidder. The US has failed to get money out of politics and media. And that is a result of the neoliberal world order, so - thanks Obama and all those who came before him.
The liberal mindset has been poisoned since 2016 to think there is some big enemy like Russia or China, that there is only black and white, good or evil.
Yeah go away with the propaganda. Trump has been laundering Russian money since the 80s. Trump's 2016 campaign was littered with connections to Russia.
You have fallen for the conspiracy theory that it was a "Russia Russia Russia hoax"
Mueller explicitly said that he could not exonerate Trump; if he could, he would. Instead, he outlines that the Trump campaign refused to cooperate and that Trump himself specifically obstructed justice in the case preventing Mueller from completing it -- and so he (Mueller) would follow the sitting DOJ guideline a sitting president cannot be indicted. That explicitly outlines additional criminal activity by Trump to prevent identification of any connections he might have to Russia. Meanwhile, some of his staff went to prison.
You are the one thinking in black and white. Once again, as I've said many times, I am not advocating for marching on Russia. But they said they would destroy us from within in the 90s; once again, they created additional doctrine called Project Russia around 2009-2010 that was also used in military psyops.
I don't really wanna hear "there's no mastermind or masterplan" nonsense from the party that cried about "the deepstate!" and "stolen election" for 8+ years. The party that decried "new world order" for decades and went on the red scare calling people communists (and in fact to this day use "communism" and "socialism" as scare tactics)
I am not claiming our internal issues are not also a problem. But you are an absolute clown & fool if you cannot see the connections to Russia. We literally put Paul Manafort in federal prison for related charges, no? And at least 1 other campaign staffer?
And now we are handing Ukraine to Russia on a silver platter. Not demanding anything of them -- and the absolute clown of a proposal our guy offered literally partitioned Ukraine in a way that set it up so that Russia could regroup and take the rest of it later.
Seriously. I'm aware there might be a little bit of irony in this statement, but it. is. not. even. hidden. anymore. "Rather Russian than a democrat", remember? --> anyone denying the connections to Russia is a fool, or a traitor. Period. You can let me know which you are. Once again, I'm aware there might be some irony... but unlike in the red scare, MAGA is actually damaging the US irreparably -- and at least some of it has clear connection to, and benefits, Russia.
Not to mention that the overall destabilizing of the US and its isolation from the world literally hands global power to Russia and China....
So what is it; fool, or traitor?
The issue isn't Trump. Trump should be in a mental institution. The issue is that we build a world that "allows" for such people to gain power. The issue is that our news and social media allow a (very real) Russian psyop. But it's not just the Russians. It also came from special interests like fossil fuel, China, and formerly Ukraine too.
You're loudly yelling at the dog tearing up the flower beds, instead you should be yelling at those who let the dogs out.
But instead of talking about that, we're talking about the latest bullshit that is being pumped into the ether. Stop the shit-factory. Nationalize the news and social media and turn them into cooperatives run by the workers. Arrest the billionaires. Take the power back. Of course now it's too late for that, thanks Obama.
But this isn't even thinkable for the majority. Hence you seek some bad guy you can blame.
I mean I hear what you're saying, and I actually agree with several points, but my first response is good luck getting people to hear you about the poison that is social media or your plan for traditional media (& I don't wanna say the bad words but you know which words the folks on the right will call that -- obviously they are fearmongering) while we are dealing with literal Nazis deporting people and inching ever closer to deporting perceived enemies, LGBTQ/trans folk, liberals, etc. In fact I have told anyone I can in Canada/other countries I know or come into contact with to contact their government and advise them to take action against social media to prevent more Elon Musk-like abuse.
I am 100% interested in implementing what you're saying - it's one of the first real proposals I've heard for helping deal with this mess - but these things are only going to be able to be dealt with when we aren't at risk of shipping even more legal immigrants or our own civilians to foreign prison camps. You are missing the forest for the trees because of your desire to fight the, and your anger at, the system.
I agree the system is broken. You are 100% right we wouldn't be here if it hadn't been able to be abused to this extent in the first place.
But we are here and we have to deal with the cards we are given - and considering they're starting to ramp up social media monitoring for folks that are "pro Palestine" or "anti semitic", it's fairly safe to say that's beyond a slippery slope to changing the search terms to being anti-Trump.
He's literally revoking the security clearances of people that investigated him and threatening to prosecute them. That's literally political prosecution unless you continue to deny Russia connections like a fool/traitor. He's literally talking about how he wants to pursue sending American civilians that are prisoners, to foreign prisons. Just like Nazi Germany started doing to the Jews.
I say this gently because, assuming you're a real person I again agree with some of your thoughts and think they're worth expanding on:
get your head out of your ass. It is astonishing that you can dare make claims about the "dog tearing up the flower bed" within this context. If you think "it could never happen here," then why are we still waiting on them to bring back the man that the Supreme Court said that the admin must bring back, and that we are supposedly paying El Salvador to house since they are still technically OUR prisoner?
You should actually read the article I posted. It calls this out directly -- in that continue down this path and it's likely you aren't going to see reality until a military boot kicks you in the balls.
Project2025.observer <--- a website tracking the progress of P2025's phase 1 public goals. Take a look. It's already like 50% complete.
Project2025 ends with Trump calling the Insurrection Act and using its powers to attempt to remain a dictator. Everything I have shared with you backs up that the plan is to make Trump into the "CEO dictator" of the United States.
Is this really what you would have been shouting about in Weimar Germany before the Nazis seized absolute power? That we should be focused on some other issue instead of STOPPING THE NAZIS???????
"in July 1932, the National Socialists had attained but 37 per cent of the vote. But the 63 per cent of the German people who expressed their opposition to Hitler were much too divided and shortsighted to combine against a common danger which they must have known would overwhelm them unless they united, however temporarily, to stamp it out.”
Excerpt From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Shirer, William
They're already in power. They're working to ensure that they can stay in power. They are deporting people en masse, even people here on legal asylum. They are threatening to ship American prisoners there. Both Trump and Musk have made comments about wanting to jail people they view/claim as funding anti-Tesla protests (largely in reference to the damage being done but every single step brings us closer to outright targeting of anyone the right doesn't like.)
You know it's true. They already make jokes about how all of us have "TDS." They joke about how liberalism is a mental illness. Do I have to continue to beat the danger into your head?
4chan is in power now. 4chan is not joking. Trump is not joking. Continue to ignore it and the Republic is lost. the world will be lucky if Europe and the rest of "the West" survive China/Russia expansion. We already know China is eyeing up Taiwan. You think with how Trump is handling Ukraine, he's gonna put much effort into helping Taiwan? Continue to ignore it, and the entire world is in peril. It's not hyperbole. It's not a joke. It's not trolling.
It's only gonna be trolling till the first few people get killed by MAGA like Proud Boys, or ICE. Mark my words.
Sorry yall, I'm a wordy mother fker. Probably got a little bit of diarrhea of the mouth. <_<
It's not puppet masters pulling strings on a marionette. It's gardeners watching the fruits of their labor grow.
Their media campaign is part of how they influence trump. He watches Fox and reads xitter/truth social, and anything they can get into the buzz with their influence campaign shows up in front of his eyes. Tucker Carlson going to Moscow to interview Putin is a blatant example of their ties that are mostly more subtle than that.
Tulsi Gabbard is another huge win for them, and she is in charge of what intelligence Trump sees.
Trump doesn't "take orders" from Moscow, or the intelligence sharing pause with Ukraine would have happened earlier and never resumed.
When it happened I thought: The only way Russia wins this war outright is if the US switches sides and supports them instead.
We didn't do that. Russian control is not that tight.
I agree with you. Just to be clear, I'm not saying that Trump is literally like Putin's direct agent in America where Putin says "ok now do this!" and Trump does it.
It's more than Trump has been doing Russian dirty work for decades and through that relationship, the Russians both have made "friends" with Trump and learned how to manipulate him (whether that's only through flattery & strongmanism or if there's actually some kind of dirt there, I can't say with 100% certainty) and that Trump's personal goals will often overlap with Russia's goals or Russia sees a way it can score an outcome from something Trump is already leaning into.
Like you said - gardeners watching the fruits of their labor grow. And occasionally sprinkling some fertilizer when it benefits them.
But the goals of both parties are anti-American
Agree completely.
Anyone who claims that Russia is NOT behind all of this is either Russian, a traitor, or stupid. The evidence is enormous and perfectly clear. Its been extensively confirmed in multiple investigations, not just by our government, but governments around the world. Everybody understands it except you and the MAGA Morons. There is no remaining doubt. It's Putin. It's always Putin, using Skum and HitlerPig as his muscle.
When will people truly internalize that the two biggest foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs, have partnered up with the most prolific traitor in American history? None of them have any loyalty or patriotism toward America, and only see us as a big, rich, fat, lazy target to be ruthlessly exploited and looted, and it's happening in real time before our eyes.
All they care about is money, and either Putin is paying them directly out of the Russian Treasury (HitlerPig would rape and murder his own mother for far less than a billion bucks, and Putin could order a lot more than that), or they've cut a deal to split the booty like the pirates they are.
How do you explain the behavior of the billionaires? They must lose immensely when the US influence declines. Why do most of them remain silent or even support Trump and why have they let Trump win in the first place?
What does a billionaire want, when he already has more money than either he or his heirs can spend in their lifetimes? Sure, they always want more, they have a financial hoarding disorder, but now they also want a new world order in which they have the power over governments.
In the past, billionaires were controlled by governments and their regulations. The new objective is to flip the paradigm, and take have the billionaires and their money rule over the governments with the guns.
And it starts by bringing down the biggest, baddest player in the game. America controls about half of the armed force in the world, far more than China and Russia. In addition, America has the most billionaires as well, and they are dangerous radicals, so there is plenty of inside help to accomplish it.
The bottom line is that before they can implement their new world order, they have to completely destroy the old one first, and they are all on board with that, so they can reconstruct it the way they want.
Why would you give up a democracy where you can buy the election? The military fought for the united fruit company. Which powers do billionaires not have?
The power of US billionaires lies within US companies. How do they maintain their wealth when the US stumbles and China takes over?
I already told you:
Right now, even the richest man in America has a boss - the US government. They want to reconfigure the world so that they are the bosses, and the governments work for them. Then they won't have to worry about elections, laws, constitutions, media, anything. They are the dictators, and everyone will be begging them for whatever scraps they can get.
As for any other issues you can think of, they don't care. They feel like they have enough money to weather any storm.
So the richest man becomes king? But then all the other billionaires still have a boss.
Why not do the coronation right now?
How do they take care of China?
You need to accept that there are overlapping, but sometimes opposing, interests that are working together but may split at some point.
The oligarchs want to be Russia.
But instead of the CEO of America having absolute power like Putin (well, he would still, but) he would answer to the oligarchy. The "board of directors" of America.
Some of the tech bros just want to outright collapse American democracy and make new city-states from the ashes. I'd say there's less of them, but they ARE prominent in the administration (MUSK is one of them) and they are very dangerous.
Meanwhile the religious right is a bit more traditional and want a strong unitary religious authoritarian government that basically institutes Christian theocracy.
Both interests benefit by taking power from the many (us) and pooling it to the few (tech & oil billionaires)
But this is what happens when everyone starts to paint the world entirely in black & white and does things like essentially say Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are equally left. (Or have such a warped world view you don't understand Sanders is like a single footstep to the left, because America is so far to the right)
IF we can get a very strong Congress that recaptures and then vigorously defends it's Constitutional powers, AND that goes through the trouble of codifying what used to be political norms before Trump, AND amends the Constitution as needed to put a strong leash on the Executive branch, I think it's possible we could become that anchor again.
But it took a world war and at least 25 years of concerted effort after to build that role for ourselves. Even though the Republicans have damaged or destroyed it in 3 months, it won't be rebuilt in 3 months.
America losing it's economic monopoly would be the greatest thing to ever happen to democracy & mankind & guess what ?
FREEEEEEDOM
The takeaway should be that to do business in the US, you have to bribe Trump. He's not really made a secret over the fact that he's running the country like a protection racket. Tim Cook gave $1 million to the Trump inauguration fund (that we're aware of) and Apple gets an exemption. Boeing did the same and got a fighter plane program. Small and medium businesses that can't afford bribes and import things from China? Screwed.
It's not good for the big businesses either though, that's why their stocks are still down. Because the need to pay bribes is a cost to them and will eventually sink the whole economy.
in honesty, this is what PUTIN wanted with america, to weaken it so they cant distract russia from thier internal/foreign policies.
Not to mention the zio regime. They're getting their full genocide.
Putin doesn't get this kind of public bootlicking service.
Is all this a death rattle for the US? A part of me thinks this was happening one way or another. I'm still unsure of what will come after, but maybe something better? Probably not, eh?
So the USA wasn't that bad then?
Not according to The Atlantic. According to the libs, everything has been awesome from 1492 until 4 months ago. smh.
According to what “libs”? Who thinks that exactly?
The end of the dollar as the reserve currency is the objective.
Trump wants to devalue the dollar to bring manufacturing back to maintain the knowlege to build arms.
Who knows if that works but here is the reasoning:
https://unherd.com/2025/02/why-trumps-tariffs-are-a-masterplan/
Lol what fear click bait
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