Thread by @RudyHavenstein

Good points @Stalingrad_Poor
People forget just how awful the Bush Administration was.

It was during the Bush Admin that the GOP ruptured. Nothing "conservative" about trashing the Constitution after 9/11, or invading Iraq.

I warned GOP stalwarts not to give executive branch too much power, because someday there'd be a President they didn't love. I was ignored.

As for Iraq, I had to put up with d-bags like David Frum, who said people who opposed that war were "unpatriotic"

Then the housing bubble disaster happened entirely on Bush's watch. When the crash came, and the bailouts, people realized it was rigged.

Those who were awake strongly opposed TARP, & were ignored. I've written a lot on TARP here you can search for. It was a bankster coup.

So Americans were pissed at Bush, and McCain picks...Palin???
I think he might have won with, say, a Kay Bailey Hutchinson. McCain's nuts.

Americans were so pissed off after Bush they elected a little known, inexperienced, liberal black guy, who I voted for in 2008.

Now for me to vote for Obama was like Nixon going to China. I was so angry at the GOP, and Obama was so eloquent, and seemingly sincere...

As I've tweeted before, I knew the fix was in when I saw Obama with Bob Rubin on one arm and Larry Summers on the other. We were scammed.

I used to listen to Obama's speeches, until I found out they didn't mean anything. So then he decides to become the banksters' best friend.

He appointed the execrable Eric Holder as AG, the crooks got away with trillions, and much of America still hasn't recovered. Nice.

In 2012 the GOP, in their infinite wisdom, nominated a guy who looks exactly like the guy who foreclosed on your house. Idiots. I abstained.

Obama wins again, the top quntile or so kicks ass, the top 0.01% robs us blind , we start a few more stupid wars, TV people are happy...

By 2016 many Americans are really pissed. They don't give a shit stocks are at new highs-healthcare, rent & college tuition are skyrocketing

They've been screwed by the GOP, and then screwed by the Dems. They want to send a message, a giant middle finger to BushObama Party.

So they see all the expected candidates, just like 2012. Rubio, Cruz, yet another Bush, and the annointed one, and certain winner, HRC...

Then here comes this buffoonish, but famous, billionaire and he's doing something never before seen in modern times - attacking the elites!

This is incredible. He is actually talking about Wall Street crimes, and stupid wars! Some people start to get interested, they want more..

So they turn on CNN and see Anderson Cooper & other smug NY multimillionaires trash the only guy making sense to many of them.

So they get more pissed. F you, CNN! I actually had people tell me they couldn't stand Trump but were going to vote for him!

Now as you block me, I never supported or voted for Trump, but I understood why people did. They were hoping to change the status quo.

So Trump unimaginably beats the odds, and beats "the most qualified candidate in history", who feasted on Saudi & Wall Street money..

I know no one studies history, but is it really so strange that many Americans wanted a President NOT named Clinton or Bush?

So what American got was a buffoon who immediately puts Goldman Sachs in charge, to replace Obama's Citigroup favoritism. Yay.

Now there's talk of war with Iran to make the neocons happy. Americans have been duped again. Sorry for the rant, but things have to change

I could've also written this rant from the perspective of a Bernie Sanders supporter, without too many changes. DNC shafted him.

"Lawyer Behind Russian Dossier Tried to Undermine Bernie Sanders as well as Trump" wallstreetonparade.com/2017/10/lawyer…

They have the narrative a bit wrong here. Trump got elected BECAUSE Americans had lost faith in their institutions, then it got worse once they found out Trump was going to be just another friend of kleptocracy. bloomberg.com/amp/news/artic…

rollingstone.com/politics/taibb…

Camera got them images
Camera got them all
Nothing's shocking

This is what the "Patriot Act," signed on October 26, 2001, is used for: "The Drug War." How's that going? motherjones.com/kevin-drum/201…

The PATRIOT Act's full title is "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001". George Orwell wrote it.

Former commander, U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, and now with the Carlyle Group (Jay Powell's old outfit). I'm sure he's a nice guy, but he checks both boxes in my pinned tweet.

So 3 days ago, the House included, in a 'continuing funding resolution', a three-month extension of the 'Patriot Act.'

219 Democrats voted for this.

clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll6…

Here's how the Senate voted, 74-20. Very bipartisan. senate.gov/legislative/LI…

Note that it was the Democratic House leadership which slipped in the three-month extension of the Patriot Act. newrepublic.com/article/155793…

This is so unnecessary. Trump the candidate said we wouldn't even be in the Mideast by now.

That's one of the reasons he won in 2016 - fake anti-interventionism.

Then again, he also said he'd bring back Glass-Steagall.

Oh well.

"It was all out war, between what one Andrew Yang supporter described as being between “the screwers and screwees.”"

rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

This is from Counterpunch, a not-conservative publication.

"Bloomberg, Biden, god help us Klobuchar, the reanimated corpse of Hubert Humphrey: God knows what human form the Party will assume, but it won’t be Bernie Sanders."

counterpunch.org/2020/02/25/wha…

Work your way up this thread if you're bored. You'll find we're now back to the Obama Administration part. Endless loop.

Now that we're leaving Afghanistan after 20 years when do we repeal the Patriot Act?

More from Jesse Ventura...

This could've been me - verbatim - in early 2009 (and two years later I would've also called Obama a fraud.)

Matt Taibbi talking about early on in the first Trump campaign.

"Many of the comments at the Journal were of the “It’s the inflation, stupid, what about falling real wages/real savings don’t you understand?” sort."

cc @federalreserve
nakedcapitalism.com/2022/02/wall-s…

Well this is total bullshit. @paraga @vijaya @jack @Stalingrad_Poor

@paraga @vijaya @jack @Stalingrad_Poor Your censorship algos suck almost as much as your stock price @TwitterSafety

I like Jesse Ventura. New interview starts about 14 minutes in.

krystalkyleandfriends.substack.com/p/episode-85-a…

One of the hosts - this is a very "liberal" podcast by the way, whatever that means now - called Ventura "super heterodox." I like that description.

2023 update: Trump, Pence, Haley, Cruz, Christie etc. ad nauseum...

Demetri Kofinas nails the root causes of our discontent.

(slightly edited by me)
@kofinas hiddenforces.io/podcasts/could…