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Standing up to tyrants #HasASpecialPlaceInMyHeart

23.02.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 253    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Sleepwalking into fascism and dictatorship while playing Minecraft, buying the latest iphone, ogling half naked women on Instagram and shitposting on the internet.

Don't Look Up folks. Whatever you do. Because what you'd suddenly see would terrify the crap out of you.

23.02.2025 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But here's the thing. Back then, the enemy didn't have nuclear weapons and the UK had an empire to come to its aid.

Also back then, we didn't have gadgets, toys and social media distracting everyone from just how grim things truly are.

23.02.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This was the most consequential election anywhere in my lifetime.

Many of us did our utmost to warn others about the stakes involved; the disgraceful oligarchical media instead both-sided it constantly and wilfully misinformed.

As a result, this is the darkest time the world has faced since 1940

23.02.2025 07:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But I have to say: I think it's ALREADY too late.

Only if the military intervene against Trump will he not get his way. And if someone took him out, well... Vance is just as bad if not even worse, and the Republican Party WANTS dictatorship.

23.02.2025 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The old order is over. Gone.

The liberal rules-based international order (which was always a beyond hypocritical load of double standards nonsense in any case) is finished. So, in all likelihood, is liberal democracy itself.

Plenty of Americans are already waking up to what's going on.

23.02.2025 07:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

With the far right rising in much of Europe, propelled by propagandists and liars on social media, and turning their countries into ass kissing American satellites if and when they win.

At elections you can be sure bad actors will try and interfere and tamper with too.

23.02.2025 07:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And of course, the US and Russia working together and pursuing almost identical interests under dictators cuts China off at the knees militarily and economically and leaves Europe stranded.

And forced to go along with the US, or else.

23.02.2025 07:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And there's Elon working on taking the billionaires to Mars (along with slaves to do all their work, and nubile young women to procreate with, including forcibly), while everyone else is left behind on Earth to choke, burn, drown, starve and suffocate.

So there we are. That's the plan.

23.02.2025 07:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

- What's Trump's problem with China and Europe?

Answer: China and Europe's rush to embrace renewables. That's the last thing climate accelerationists like Trump or Putin want.

Neither could give a shit about the future of the planet because both will have bunkers prepared for their families.

23.02.2025 07:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

- Why does this also suit Netanyahu perfectly?

Because Israel wants the Palestinians gone from Gaza so it can get building the Ben Gurion Canal, completely undercut Egypt, and get very rich by connecting the canal to the Mediterranean.

Gazans being there stop it from being constructed.

23.02.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone asked me in 2016 what I thought Putin was playing at.

I replied: "He WANTS climate change. And he wants someone in the White House who can help accelerate it".

23.02.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

- Why does this suit Putin perfectly?

Because Putin wants Europe enfeebled, NATO destroyed, Ukraine's warm water ports (which Russia has remarkably few of), and ALSO the opportunities provided by climate change.

Specifically, in the Arctic.

23.02.2025 07:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This sort of empire is exactly what he meant by a new 'golden age'.

He means outright imperial expansion in the manner of nineteenth century Presidents.

In his case, controlling both the Panama Canal and the northwest passage, and 'protecting' Europe through relentless financial menaces.

23.02.2025 07:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Just pay attention to what he's doing.

- Why threaten Canada, Mexico, Panama and Greenland?

Because he wants to control the entire western hemisphere: above all, through commercial shipping. As global heating increases, so those opportunities grow around Greenland.

23.02.2025 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

5. What does Trump want to turn the U.S. into? A mercantilist empire which serves his personal financial interests. He's probably the most transactional individual who ever walked this Earth.

That mercantilist empire will jhave nuclear weapons and the most powerful military ever known anywhere.

23.02.2025 07:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And when martial law is declared, just watch his whole army of bots and social media-owning billionaires place the blame on 'Antifa' and 'the enemy within' and provide just enough plausible deniability for huge numbers to swallow it whole.

23.02.2025 07:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump is removing EVERYONE in the government who could hold him accountable. EVERYONE in the armed forces and security forces too.

While freeing 1600 violent criminals to be his militia whenever he needs them, ie. when, not if, he declares martial law as mass protests break out.

23.02.2025 07:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The only way there could possibly be is if a deal is done to protect him and his family afterwards.

He wants to be a dictator to stay out of jail. And the Republican Party knows that without extreme voter suppression, demographic shifts mean it will lose.

So dictatorship suits it perfectly.

23.02.2025 07:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

4. As Trump has to be President to avoid prosecution (and the bought and paid for Supreme Court ruled that Presidents are immune), it is COMPLETELY IRRATIONAL to imagine there'll be a normal election in 2028 if Trump is still alive.

23.02.2025 07:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump had to win to stay out of jail.

Netanyahu had to continue the war to stay out of jail, and Trump to win to grant him everything he wants on Gaza.

Putin needed Trump to win to be given everything he wants on Ukraine.

Those three are the axis of evil here.

23.02.2025 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

OF COURSE Trump will have been heavily involved in that. And OF COURSE the timing of the ceasefire wasn't a coincidence at all.

Remember: he even ensured the Republicans blocked the immigration bill, because he wanted to exploit immigration at the election. Which he successfully did.

23.02.2025 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

3. Over the last 2 years, there is absolutely no question that Trump, Netanyahu and Putin worked in tandem to ensure Biden lost.

Specifically, through Netanyahu continuing to attack Gaza and putting Biden, then Harris in an impossible corner. Which cost the Democrats everything.

23.02.2025 07:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Notice the crypto scam him and his family ran even before he was inaugurated? Now he's rich again; he monetises the presidency like no-one else in history.

But foreign states - adversary states - even know the identity of U.S. agents as a result of what Trump did.

23.02.2025 07:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Last year, he was all but bankrupt. How did he survive? By selling himself to the world's most powerful, evil people.

They OWN him. They own his and his family's asses.

He only ran for President to stay out of jail - where he'd have assuredly ended up had he lost.

23.02.2025 07:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So instead of leaking it, Russia continually use Trump to get what they want. His greatest fear is of someday exhausting his usefulness to them.

2. What did Trump do after he was President? HE SOLD U.S. SECRETS TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS. The Russian and Saudi ones in particular.

23.02.2025 07:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So here's a question. What's Trump's game? Why's he doing this? I hope this thread helps answer that.

1. Trump is a 100% compromised Russian asset. This has been obvious to anyone paying attention for almost a decade.

That means Russia has evidence on him which if it leaked it, would DESTROY him.

23.02.2025 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
West Virginia Watch PART OF STATES NEWSROOM GOVERNMENT HEALTH ABORTION POLICY GOP lawmakers seek to remove rape, incest exemption from West Virginia's near total abortion ban Eleven House Republicans signed onto the measure - it's one of several GOP-backed bills aimed at clarifying or tightening the state's strict abortion ban. BY: AMELIA FERRELL KNISELY - FEBRUARY 21, 2025 6:00 AM in

West Virginia Watch PART OF STATES NEWSROOM GOVERNMENT HEALTH ABORTION POLICY GOP lawmakers seek to remove rape, incest exemption from West Virginia's near total abortion ban Eleven House Republicans signed onto the measure - it's one of several GOP-backed bills aimed at clarifying or tightening the state's strict abortion ban. BY: AMELIA FERRELL KNISELY - FEBRUARY 21, 2025 6:00 AM in

Yeah, not surprised. πŸ˜’

22.02.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 271    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 6
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a hedge fund billionaire, confirmed the Trump admin is imposing a plan that gives the US control over revenue from Ukraine's natural resources.

The US will decide what investments are made (to benefit US corporations).

This is economic colonialism.

23.02.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

21.02.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 9311    πŸ” 3314    πŸ’¬ 531    πŸ“Œ 153

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