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They illegally go after people videotaping because accusations are mostly pure fiction.
Cases are dropped left and right but the fascist system is working: People sometimes get charged, the doxxing starts, some lose their jobs, start fearing what will happen if they go to more protests.
Agents violently assaulting protesters, detaining and charging *them* with assault, then using the legal system to intimidate and doxx dissenters, has become a favorite tactic of ICE agents.
The only thing that could have made it any better was if they used the Liberty Bell March (aka the Monty Python Flying Circus Theme song). youtu.be/D_b8Xu4WRBI
So it’s the oil again. The only thing the US dinosaur president seems to care avout. That and being strong.
Which means boots on the ground, years of engagement, hundres or thousands of allied military troops dead, and billions of dollars spent on a conflict that will never ever end.
#idiots
Excellent and insightful piece. Netanyahu Finally Found a President Willing to Buy Into His Iran Dream newrepublic.com/article/2073... via @newrepublic.com
This is the result of Trump declaring a war on America day one.
This is the result of collapsing America’s vast strategic capabilities into one man’s ego, where raw force replaces nuanced and diplomacy is reduced to doubling down on what ever he said yesterday, no matter the outcome.
It’s astonishing how each day of this stupid presidency worsen exponentially.
When asked who he would like to rule Iran, Trump responded: «Most of the people we had in mind are dead. Now we have another group, they may be dead also, based on reports. Pretty soon we’re not going to know anybody.»
Satire strikes best when it’s both painfully true and wildly absurd — like when Trumps «Board of Peace» and its members gets presented as the cast of an 80s soap opera, while state sponsored violence, bombs and explosions rage in the background.
Not even ten days has passed since Trump assembled some of the worlds most autocratic and corrupt regimes in his first meeting of the «Board of Peace» members club.
Now the worlds most corrupt soul attacks Iran while someone is hard at work siphon $10Bn of tax payer money to his organisation.
Everything is a lie. They do the opposite every single time. America first, Peace president, War on corruption.
It’s stupidity as strategy.
In lieu of Trump’s newest brand-child, the “Board of Peace”, I’ve taken a deep dive into its origins, its backers, its function and prospective future — and how it might become the biggest, most audacious money heist in human history.
Read it on Counterfutures.
The failing President Trump, desperate to keep using his favourite superweapon, the tariff, finds another loose rock to hold on to his power for perhaps 150 days longer.
But it doesn’t matter. We have taken notice. The markets will too. Your days of power, shock and awe are soon over. Sad. So sad.
Thanks!
Yesterday: Trump hosts hos first «Board of Peace» — a summit of the world’s finest autocrats, kleptocrats and most corrupt and anti-democratic regimes.
Today: Trump issues war threats against Iran.
By any normal standard, this is insane. Now it barely occupies a second of our daily scroll.
And I truly feel bad about branding these people like so. But at this point they aren’t just «doing their job»; they are deliberately using every woken hour to demolish, crash and obliterate the very fabric of a functioning democracy.
They fit quite neatly into two groups: trolls and monsters.
The Troll’s role is the influencer, to stir up an ocean of rage, hate, chaos and confusion. The Monster’s job is to quickly act on it, while people and institutions are unstable, catching up.
It’s political blitzkrieg.
#fascism
Murdering someone with a broom handle should be illegal.
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
Thanks for the shoutout. 🙌🏻
There still seems to be no strategy or logic to the «policies» or demolition of century-long relationships other than greed, envy and spite.
Trump is simply using the US as a reality show where he can punish people, states, nations and continents while earning billions and staying out of prison.
The newest report from Munich Security Council, the world’s leading forum for international security policy, says Trump has led the world into an era of «wrecking ball politics» where «the United States has largely abandoned the role of the ‘leader of the free world.’»
I hear Trumps rage team just discovered a new pot of gold.
With his GOLDEN name on it. The guy is so cringe it redefines the term for eternity and back.
Occhams Razor
I don’t know what lies behind WPs strategy and who’s behind this, but to fire someone from their job, while they are abroad, at work, risking their life for their employer, in a freezing warzone, is just unbelievably shitty behavior.
At ingen alarmbjelle går av hos politiet i en så åpenbar sak, at deres prosesser tillater noe som skriker politisk motivert forfølgelse er ille. At det er på bakgrunn av ytringer som er langt på innsiden av både internasjonal rett, moralske og etiske grenser, er verre.
Anklagen skal i følge VG være var basert på to poster på sosiale medier: En invitasjon til et event på Litteraturhuset og en oppfordring til å slutte den folkerettsstridige bombingen av sivilbefolkningen i Tyrkia.
Norsk politi bistår Tyrkia, en autoritær nasjon som er kjent for å undertrykke sine egne borgere, å kalle inn en norsk stortingspolitiker til politiavhør på grunn av deres anklager om at hun lager «propaganda for en terrororganisasjon».
www.vg.no/nyheter/i/V6...
Not to mention that time, when Andrew Lloyd Webber personally invited him to the premiere of «Phantom» as Trump colloquially calls it.
This was in 1988 and he remembers it as today: Trump in his heydays, befriending Epstein, cheating on his wife, bankrupting casinos, harassing women.
Good times.
Instead of «woke content», like Hamilton, which celebrates American founding ideals and critical examination of power, Trump is championing «Les Mis», a musical that celebrates revolutionary resistance to power.
The irony is entirely lost. All that is left is the blockbuster appeal and great tunes
