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Jan 14 • 23 tweets • 7 min read
Thread of the most cringey, embarrassing establishment perception management being done around Zelensky and Ukraine, in no particular order. Suggestions welcome.

#1: House Republican Introduces Resolution to Place Bust of Zelensky in the Capitol
news.antiwar.com/2023/01/12/hou…
#2: The bogus "I need ammo, not a ride" quote that Zelensky never actually said.
#3: Star Wars - Attack of the Drones
#4: The Vogue photo shoot.
#5: Time Magazine Person of the Year:
#6: Giving a speech at the Golden Globes.
#7: Giving a speech at the Grammys.
grammy.com/news/ukraine-p…
#8: Giving a speech at the Cannes Film Festival.
edition.cnn.com/2022/05/18/ent…
#9: Giving a speech at the World Economic Forum.
c-span.org/video/?520500-…
#10: Giving a speech and ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
#11: The obligatory Bono psyop.
eprimefeed.com/latest-news/bo…
#12: Meeting with Ben Stiller.
hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…
13: Getting an Academy Award from Sean Penn.
#14: Giving a speech at the secretive Bilderberg group (probably, per The Guardian).
theguardian.com/world/2022/jun…
#15: The Letterman Netflix show appearance.
#16: This shit.
#17: This shit.
#18: This shit.
#19: DC party at the Ukrainian embassy openly hosted by the US military-industrial complex.
#20: BlackRock CEO meets with Zelensky with plans to help "rebuild" (buy up) Ukraine.
cnbc.com/2022/12/28/zel…
#21: The bizarre Biden-Zelensky slow motion "action heroes walking away from an explosion" video.
#22: Hologram Zelensky at the Founders Forum.
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@pauliebeats183 How about journalists talking about the way they are subtly coerced into writing propaganda for the empire?
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