1/4🧵The Trump family's linkage w/an Iranian Revolutionary Guard via an oligarch is old news. I was employed with a corp due diligence firm in NYC at the time and a case we were working overlapped with Trump's scheme.
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motherjones.com/politics/2022/… 2/4 Bottom line is Trump has financial entanglements with despotic regimes in Russia and Iran. Iran has provided Russia with military parts and logistical support against Ukraine.

In 2017, as POTUS, Trump gave intel about Israel's Iron Dome to Russia.
foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/how…

🧵Content below is my opinion and is my last essay thread before 11/5 as I am strategically prioritizing real activism.

1/ I plea with my fellow citizens to not let their kids become like Germany's "Silent Generation."
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#VetsResist 2/ Silent Generation was born between 1928-1945.

In America, for many GenXers like me, these were our parents who were young children during the Great Depression and WWII. They were too young to be the "Greatest Generation" nor were they the attention seeking Baby Boomers.

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1/ "I've lived it before," she said to me this morning. "No matter what happens this election the whole lot of them plan to kill us."

It was after sabbath services.

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#VetsResist 2/ Truth is I needed a spiritual break from politics. I hadn't attended synagogue in weeks. My Financial Crimes Compliance job has been intense and I've prioritized activism over Shabbat.

But even activists with Vulcan avatars posting on toxic social media platforms are human.

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1/ We now live in a world in which our mobile communication devices can be instruments of assassination. Meanwhile, SCOTUS ruled presidents have criminal immunity.

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web.kamalaharris.com/forms/commit-t… 2/ Let that sink in.

As Israel's Mossad recently demonstrated, even lower tech pocket pagers can be made to explode and kill its targets.

I certainly do not sympathize with Hezbollah terrorist murderers being killed.

But guess what? Technology now makes ALL of us vulnerable.

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1/ United States of America collectively is suffering from generations of PTSD. As a nation we are simultaneously the cause as well as victims of self-inflicted terror.

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#VetsResist 2/ Within individuals, PTSD may stem from a continuing family history of alcoholism or spousal/parental/child abuse over generations.

If not family related, other causes such as sex predators, horrorific experiences from military combat or surviving a random catastrophic event.

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1/ I was 13 when I became an activist in the early 1980s. Sadly, as a kid, I quickly learned to fear houses hanging American flags.

Invariably, they were hostile to any issue I cared about.
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#VetsResist 2/ This confused me as it was Democrat and liberal, John F. Kennedy that challenged us to, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."

What's forgotten about that iconic line is how JFK linked patriotism to freedom.

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1/ Moses led ancient Israelites from bondage to the promised land's doorstep.

An aging Moses then handed the baton to Joshua, who crossed Israelites over to the land of milk and honey.
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#VetsResist 2/ Someday, @JoeBiden's passing the baton to @KamalaHarris will be looked upon as we view the biblical reference to Moses and Joshua.

Joe Biden inherited a catastrophe. Our country's physical health, economy, institutions, and global alliances had to be stitched back together.

🧵Content of #LaborDayWeekend thread below is my opinion.

1/ Who were we? Who are we now? What shall we become?

Answer is most of us were and remain wage earners put at risk by our own prejudices. There is a better way.
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#VetsResist 2/ Whether it was plantation overseers beating slaves to earn crumbs, factory workers, service industry wage earners or modern office drones getting their souls sucked dry in cubicles, our lives have always been rigged by elites rationing our freedom.

https://x.com/FidelisToJusti1/status/1829977268166258778?t=25fLMTco1MvRLtwoXT1Nww&s=19

🧵*Content of below #LaborDayWeekend thread is my opinion.

1/ In the late 1980s, I was a college student working part-time as a supermarket cashier. We had a regular customer who paid for her groceries with food stamps.

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#VetsResist 2/ This lady, I'm guessing she was about 30, had two young boys that were often with her when shopping. The boys had holes in their clothing and her hands had calluses. Anyway, this mom and her boys always seemed happy, fun-loving and appreciative. She had an infectious laugh.

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1/ It's a four act play now:

➡️Act I: Sprint to Election Day 11/5/24
➡️Act II: States Issue of Ascertainment 12/11/24
➡️Act III: Congress Certifies 1/6/25
➡️Act IV: Inauguration 1/20/25
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#VetsResist 2/ As I game this out, I regret to say that the consummate institutionalist, Joe Biden, may have to invoke emergency powers via the Insurrection Act of 1807 to safeguard our democracy.

I hope to hell I'm wrong. If I'm right, the popular vote will matter.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrect…

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1/ It was the fall of 1982. NFL players were in the midst of a seven week strike and my dad was watching one of those evangelical preacher scam artists on cable TV. It was a teaching moment.
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#VetsResist 2/ Today, August 24th would have been my dad's 90th birthday and random memories are popping up like this one.

NFL player's strike had disrupted our Sunday routine. Nonetheless, dad was an observant yet liberal Jew, so I was confused as to why he was watching this preacher.

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1/ I've struggled to finish this🧵 numerous times since JD Vance's 2021 comments about "childless cat ladies" resurfaced. What he said is also hurtful to us childless lonely men.
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#VetsResist 2/ People waging their finger at you about being alone or not having kids is inexcusably cruel, condescending and insulting.

We all have unique back stories, traumas and circumstances that shape our lives. And there are moments when being single and alone cut to the bone.

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1/ Lizard Brain. It's the most primitive part of our mind regulating survival urges and instincts warning of danger. It's our inner lizard that controls our desires and responses to threats.
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#VetsResist 2/ We all have a lizard brain. Indeed, we all need it to live. Our impulses to mate, feed, fight or flee, stem from the always alert inner lizard in our minds. Our inner lizard also helps us survive winner take all hostile social environments such as middle school or an office.

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1/ I am white man hear me roar.

Roaring whiney white men has defined the GOP since 1964. It's now been 60 years of the GOP offering nothing of value to most Americans. That's all they got.
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#VetsResist 2/ Their decades long misogynistic and xenophobic primal scream has been a cultural weapon of mass destruction. The real purpose of their white men hear us roar paradigm was to dupe working people into accepting a grotesquely unfair risk/reward life ratio.

https://x.com/FidelisToJusti1/status/1819868463466258843?t=MFoWn1K7iMKNFyMmhYzxng&s=19

🧵@MarlingaForMI10 belongs to the political party that champions freedom for all and as responsibility from all and also knows when to mind its own damn business. GOP incumbent John James is an enabler of hate, anger and oppression.
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🧵It's called synergy. Volunteer, donate and turn out the vote for Pennsylvania congressman @ChrisForPA and you also help @VP win the state. Win Pennsylvania and we defend freedom against oppressive evil weirdo MAGA GOP terrorists.
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1/ Contrary to condescending corporate meritocracy propaganda, who owns the burden of risk and who benefits from life's rewards has as much to do with accident of birth than merit itself.
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#VetsResist 2/ To be sure there has also been a tradition of noblesse oblige in America amongst the privileged class. Franklin Roosevelt for example was even referred to as a "traitor to his class" during his presidency. George Herbert Walker Bush was a naval pilot in WWII.

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1/ Yesterday, @vp demonstrated she possesses an indispensable asset for any politician called the "iron fist in the velvet glove." When executed well it looks easy.
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2/ Kamala Harris made it look as effortless as Mariano Rivera did with his easy motion as the ball exploded from his hand when he saved games for the NY Yankees.

But it's actually not that easy. Far from it. Most of us, including myself, do not possess this quality.

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1/ Anyone remember John Edwards? As an activist in 2008, I was initially working for Edwards against the Barack Obama tsunami. Response to Kamala Harris so far definitely reminds me of '08.
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#VetsResist 2/ To provide a little context, millions of Democrats, including me, were duped by Edwards. I won't regurgitate his political and personal history here. Suffice to say Edwards was driving the debate on healthcare far more than Obama or Hillary Clinton.

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1/ Blood & soil are essential to exist but freedom is what makes life desirable. That's why I've repeatedly argued for Democrats to rebrand as the party of freedom.
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https://x.com/FidelisToJusti1/status/1799524527900111037?t=rQ5t_LSi3CZcsle-hf4clw&s=19

2/ Hence, my delight that thanks to @POTUS's dramatic patriotic sacrifice as well as the @VP's political athleticism, it's finally breaking through as to which party champions freedom and who are the true agents of sadism, elitism and oppression.

https://x.com/harris_wins/status/1816438710814015675?t=rQ5t_LSi3CZcsle-hf4clw&s=19

🧵Below thread is my opinion.

1/ Dear Fellow Activists,

We're not uber wealthy mega donors. Rather, what we have invested in our democracy is sweat equity as well as our own "small donations."

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https://x.com/FidelisToJusti1/status/1814440950342529348?t=lVB1-Cxs_oTwXS7lwO67VQ&s=19

2/ Hence, my angry letter posted on this platform yesterday to Senator Schumer and Speaker Emeritus Pelosi. Like many of you, I have devoted decades of free labor, precious spare time, and yes, $$$ I could have saved for retirement to Democratic candidates because I give a damn.