1/ Guyana is about to lose 60% of its territory, and there is nothing we can do about it, but it certainly will affect us.
First, there was a huge offshore oil discovery in Guyana's Essequibo region. That's the entire western half of the country.
2/ In September, China upgraded its relationship with Venezuela. Venezuela has long had Russian and Iranian military advisors embedded in its military.
One month ago, the United States started rolling back sanctions imposed on Venezuela by Trump.
3/This opened the money spigot into Venezuela. What did we get in exchange? A promise that there would be democratic elections at some point in the future -- as if Maduro would give up power.
4/Not six weeks after the USA eased its sanctions, Venezuela is making noise that 60% of Guyana belongs to them, including this new oil discovery. Guyana has no military to speak of. And the American government is preparing you to accept this upcoming invasion.
5/The graphics below: On the left, you have Google Maps, which all of a sudden is dutifully drawing new borders. On the right, Bing maps, which does not seem to have gotten the regime memo.
So what's this all mean?
6/We're now bogged down financially in Ukraine and Israel, and now we find Russia, China, and Iran supporting a hostile nation gearing up to invade a friendly one. And it isn't just a symbolic invasion, it will put all these oil reserves under Maduro control.
7/Google, which may as well be a fully owned subsidiary of the US intelligence services, has started conditioning us to see the border where, apparently, the regime has either decided it wants it moved, or where it has at least conceded that it will go.
8/Start watching "news" from regime media - you'll start seeing more conditioning of what they want you to think about this. My guess would be that there will be a newly-discovered "indigenous movement" in Guyana, which will claim that 60% of the country should be "independent."
9/Venezuela will back that "indigenous movement" and then de-facto annex the region.
10/Do I think the Biden regime is pleased with this? Unlikely. I suspect more that they simply realize that we're going to collapse if we try and get involved in another conflict.
11/This one would need to be direct military involvement, since Guyana doesn't have a real military that we can simply dump money into. Our military is anemic right now and in no way prepared to get involved in a jungle war in South America.
Wouldn't wanna chip a nail...
12/x So what's there to do? Start moving money around and lay back and let this happen. Convince the American people that this is what they want, rather than this being a disastrous result of the United States' loss of ability to project power even in its own back yard.
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About a year ago, I had not yet started chemo and radiation. Yeah, for Mothers' Day, I got Mamma the news that I was in deep shit.
I was calculating chances of survival and chances that I would never be the same.
2/ During (and especially the two months after) treatment, I was weak, emaciated, broken...
During that time, there wasn't much left of me, and I spent a fair amount of time with my mother just watching over me.
3/ Tonight, I am past all that... so I called my mother and told her that I had just returned from a 10k run through the streets of Florence, dodging tourists, spaced out on my runner's high, singing along to the Buzzcocks, Black Flag, and the Ramones... loud.
I could be convinced that there is some Jewish conspiracy, because I can't understand how Jews are .02% of the world population, but like 50% of my dearest friends.
I'm more pro-Israel than logic can explain.
I hate the Hamas-Supporting garbage on campuses.
BUT.......
2/ I love this broad, and she's gonna be raggin' pretty hard over how we are dealing with the Pro-Hamas movement in America.
The House just passed (320-91) a bill to
codify the Int'l Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
3/ Here's that definition and examples.
If you asked me "would you voluntarily adhere to this definition, and avoid anti-semitism?" I would say "I'm already there, so leave me alone"
1/🧵 You won't believe that this case is real, unless you read the documents.
A citizen criticizes the government.
The government gets mad, and wants to shut the citizen up. So they sue him. And the district trial court says "that's just fine."
I kid you not.
2/
The government has "anti-bullying" policies in the school, so they decided that the criticism that the citizen engages in, including by making public records requests, means he is "bullying" the government and its employees.
3/
So, the government sues him: Seeking an injunction, keeping him from making further public records requests and keeping him from talking about the government employees.
1/ 🧵The "Right to Forgive" case: The First Amendment case about love.
Preliminary injunction hearing on May 2.
What is this "right to forgive?" It rhetorical shorthand for an admittedly unusual First Amendment case I am handling with Andrew Greenlee and @cagoldberglaw
2/ It may be an unusual case, but this "Right to Forgive" is a valid First Amendment theory, and we believe the court will agree.
It could also be characterized as a right to due process for crime victims case.
3/ The Plaintiff's son was a drug addict who violently attacked his mother. But over his 13 years in prison, she visited him, witnessed his rehabilitation, and her mother's love and her faith led her to forgive him.
Your media literacy lesson of the day: Brought to you by George Santos, a complete and total bozo. 1/🧵
2/ Today's news is awash with stories about what sounds like a really stupid lawsuit he filed against Jimmy Kimmel.
Kimmel Good/Santos Bad, right?
3/ Apparently, according to the press, Santos has started selling short video clips of himself saying whatever you want him to say. A lot of celebrities do this.
Your media literacy lesson of the day, or how and why the media lies to you.
Here's a picture circulating to show us that a woman and her children drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande, and the "Evil Texans" stopped the "Noble Feds" from rescuing them.
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Set aside that this photo is from 2019 and clearly isn't a woman, nor two children. Right there, you know that whoever shoves this in your face is lying. But, that's not what this thread is about.
This thread is about how Party Media psyops you.
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Everyone knows the maxim "You're entitled to your own opinions. But, you're not entitled to your own facts."
But what does The Party do if they need you to hold a certain opinion?
They manufacture counterfeit "facts" that you can now spend to buy that opinion!