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Mar 6, 2020 7 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Media & social media have been a total love requiem for Liz Warren all day, and it’s such gross hypocrisy.
I never liked Warren.
She had many fine qualities as a candidate, but she lied constantly; often about trivial things. It made her liability in the general election.
But 1/
But watching the media canonize her tonight, as though it was some unexpected tragedy that she ended her campaign the day after everyone demanded she and her campaign, kind of reminds me of the way they wouldn’t mention Kamala Harris, and then as soon as she left the race 2/
Everyone was shocked! And there was so much looking askance and “her voice will be missed.”
Really?
I remember thinking “you guys are gonna miss her voice? Did you ever even hear it? Because you didn’t cover it.”
And I’m reminded people told me they might hold her nose & vote 3/
For HRC, but is soon as she lost those same people were shaking their fist & shaking their heads, and decrying misogyny.
I mean, no shit.
But I’m decrying hypocrisy this evening; because it seems like everybody who. says okay to woman president also says just not this one. 4/
And we all already know that.
that’s not the hypocrisy that’s bothered. It’s the part where as soon as they drop out of the race, or are forced out, or told they lost -well, suddenly they’re not so unlikable anymore, & everybody’s showing up for their wake like they were best 5/
friends the whole time.
So to everyone out there who that describes (I increasingly believe it’s all of us): HYPOCRITES.
And to the fellas out there: you fuckers love us... as long as we don’t compete with a man for anything.
And I don’t know one woman who doesn’t know it. 6/
So #Warren, cheers. 🍻
You ran a tight campaign.
Also, I never liked you. And I respect you enough to say so.
And to say; I’m sorry people are adding insult to injury - acting like the best friend of the deceased - I’m watching it & it is some intense bullshit.
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Mar 22
Sure. I can explain it.
This is pretty basic $ laundering. They invent a valuation& go public. The majority of the 💵 that will be funneled to Trump et al won’t be from random hickshit buyers (they’re just cover) it’ll be from bil foreign nationals, who’ve been instructed to buy.
Instructed to buy millions of shares for hundreds of millions of dollars. And this way, Trump gets a payoff/bail out, while maintaining the pretense that he’s a businessman and has money, not a broke ass, loser, and also hiding the money, shuffling the smaller trades.
It would be harder to get elected president, if for an interest simply wrote him checks for a few billion dollars. That is essentially what this will be, but it’ll look like he’s selling something to anyone who wants to buy it.
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May 4, 2023
Ignore the gold rush. 🧵

Any/everybody freaking about the hockey sticking price of gold and thinking they should invest, understand:

•The surge is tied to the GOP taking the debt ceiling hostage

1/
•The whole point of which is not to extract political concessions, but to crash the US and global economy,

•exponentially strengthening the hand of a few thousand individuals with massive holdings in gold, silver, crypto, etc.

2/
•and also to destroy the dollar is the world reserve currency preventing us from exerting economic (rather than military) impact via sanctions, etc. the way we have done in Iran, North Korea or Russia.

•They want you to dump your comparably small amount of money into gold

3/
Read 8 tweets
Apr 16, 2022
@Angry_Staffer @RestlessNotions Belgium is a NATO & they got a carve out for diamonds.
(RUs other big export besides oil/gas)
But Antwerp’s still buying Ru 💎
They’ve bought over €1 billion since the start & have don’t intend to stop.
Worse: once they buy the rough 💎 from Ru, they belong to EU. 1/3
@Angry_Staffer @RestlessNotions they cut/polish the 💎 and then legally sell them to 💎dealers in any country (US,EU,AU,CA,etc) in the 🌎, as products of their own country.
(By lesser degrees: India UAE & Israel do this as well.) 2/3
@Angry_Staffer @RestlessNotions Thus, when the rest of us -still sanctioning RU- buy 💎 or jewelry, we’ve indirectly funded the war in Ukraine because India/Belgium/UAE&Israel have provided RU a trillion $ loophole through which to launder their blood💎; just to maintain their own businesses as usual. 3/3
Read 4 tweets
Jan 26, 2022
Get out your magnifying glass: it’s a lot.
And it would’ve been fucking fantastic if *Passed Voting Rights* was on there too, but it’s not.
Though not for nothing, that’s Congress’s job, & it got cock-blocked by 50 Republican senators & 2 “Democrats.”
So it didn’t happen this January.
2/
But not now doesn’t mean never.
3/
Read 14 tweets
Jan 18, 2022
The #CDC says it’s “encouraging” that 75% of #COVID19 deaths are people with underlying conditions.
Basically it’s OK that we’re gonna die, because we are defective. We’re either old or fat, or have diabetes or asthma - in my case, lupus. 1/
It’s cool; as long as you perfect specimens aren’t inconvenienced by like getting a #vaccine or wearing mask.
The rest of us can literally *drop dead.*
Why do I mention this, other than to make you uncomfortable?
Because I think we toss the word #Nazi around around lot lately. 2/
But this, man THIS, is some real Nazi shit. Disabled people. Sick people. Old people. People with pre-existing conditions. Unfit people.
😳Less than perfect specimens.😳
These people make up 75% of Covid deaths and the CDC just said that’s encouraging. We’re acceptable losses. 3/
Read 6 tweets
Jan 6, 2022
Lincoln insisted on building the Capitol dome during the Civil War -for us- so that we would know that there was a future, that American democracy would endure.
And there it is.
Still pretty resplendent. 1/
It’s was brag.
It was a taunt.
Mostly it was a promise.
A promise to us, a promise for us to keep.
And we’re in for some rough road.
In fact, we’re already 5 years down it, with miles to go before before we sleep.
2/
I like the hopeful defiance of it.
Building something constructive, beautiful and permanent in the middle of a brutal, destructive free for all.
It was sort of giant *FUCK YOU* to the pointless nihilism of the confederates’ great ‘Lost Cause.’
3/
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