People are surprised about this unprecedented last moment "Preemptive Pardon" for Dr. Fauci.
Seems I read Biden's mind a week ago. Not really.

I just understand the deep state better.

For a small treat about DS and Covid, read this🧵

https://twitter.com/aravind/status/1878562604978942020

Deep State is not a monolithic, centralized entity.
lt is comprised of elites who want power, profits,
and prestige + their organizations, governments
run by them, and govt organizations they
influence.

The best narrative war the opposition has won against the govt is spreading and making everyone (including Modi bakts) believe the propaganda that "Modi govt is taxing citizens too much." And they do fear mongering like this attached post.

Let's see the real picture. 🧵 Maximum tax rate has not changed last 25 years and net tax paid by a salaried person is lowest ever in India last 50 years. See next.

"What is Modi doing for India?"

It seems to me this question is popping up a lot these days on social media. May be planted purposefully just to build a narrative, and prompt his supporters to feel that way too.

Let's see what PM Modi has done just from Jan 1, 2025.🧵 I started following @narendramodi only recently. I now regularly go to his profile as his posts seldom show up on my feed. I noticed something extraordinary about this 74 yr old man leading us. He seems to be constantly doing something for India everyday. Much of it, we miss.

Indians have only seen western racism and hate yet. The Asian racism against Indians will follow soon. While western racism can be "on your face", sometimes even physical, and is confined to a subset of westerners. The Asian racism against Indians is widespread and very layered. To all those thinking in simple terms like "if India cleans up, develops, builds deep tech" etc then the world will respect us. I again say - an empathetic NO. This racism and hate has been built up by an organized effort over decades and is being taken to the extreme to destroy India's soft power, economic influence, and rise. It is a narrative war. India of course has some catching up to do with the developed world. But at the same time pushing our narrative and countering their anti-India propaganda is very important. Without it, India and Indians will always be hated and looked down upon. Right now people in Somalia and Bolivia who are much less developed than India hate us and look down on us thanks to the infowar being run against India via SM. India has to take this seriously. It costs us billions economically and threatens our security.

The Indian legal system faces numerous issues, including poor judgments, allegedly corrupt judges, a rigged system, money-minded lawyers, and a shortage of judges and courts to handle the millions of pending cases.

AI & Blockchain can easily solve these issues. 🧵 India must earnestly begin working towards becoming a pioneer in “Blockchain Law” and “AI Judgments” for at least simple cases. This can be achieved efficiently, honestly, and accurately at this very moment, without the need to wait for technological advancements.

BigAI: All large AI models are and will be 100% govt controlled in this world.

Many are only now waking upto this after Marc Andreessen outed US govt plans to control all AI.

Your data, privacy, copyrights mean nothing to such DS backed companies. They can get away with murder. "Opensource" LLMs: They are released to mislead and put brakes on AI development in copycat competitors. They are nothing more than that, IMHO. No matter how good they are, you can safely assume the power of govt controlled AI models (not just LLMs) will be many orders higher.

The US DS were waiting for when Adani will sell shares or bonds. And the Deep State running the US state indicted @gautam_adani exactly after it did that. So a narrative can be built that Adani made money while his shareholders lost. As if he knows what US state or DS will do. 🧵 It is now clear that the US state itself is acting against interests of Adani and India. Their cover has been blown. They tried doing the hit-jobs using their deep state orgs like FT, Bloomberg kind of media, it failed. Then Hindenburg was used. It failed too. They got desperate.

This picture where Xi seems offering PM Modi land and PM Modi saying "Is that all you have for father" with the caption that "China surrendered land to India" is quickly censored on Chinese SM but still prevalent in Taiwanese and diaspora anti-CCP Chinese communities. But...🧵 ...Indians have to understand that China is not India. There's no opposition there. There's no democracy. And China, using its propaganda, will tell this was created by anti-China forces and even blame India for it to use against us, in their tightly controlled media and SM...

#ShitDontHappenOnlyInIndia 🧵

To let all Indians know yes shit happens in India but Shit Dont Happen ONLY in India. And somehow other countries are not heaven because media seldom shows you what shit happens around the world.

1) A Japanese man casually peeing in metro station. 2) Some Singapore streets flooded after just one day of just 100mm rain. #ShitDontHappenOnlyinIndia #SDHOI

1/8 The UK plug, aka ‘G Type’ or BS 1363, might seem bulky, but it’s a design marvel. Used since post-WWII, it powers modern devices with unmatched safety. And a woman engineer (the only one at the time in IEEE) helped design it. 2/ What makes it special? The longer earth prong ensures safety by connecting to the ground first, blocking kids from tampering with live wires. We know kids world over, united without differences, like to stick their little fingers into sockets.

All products used in the US may be made in China. But China itself is made in the US. Wall street and Bay area helped China's rise with investments and tech transfers. The US woke up sometime around the Trump era to start decoupling and safe guard its interests. This led to:🧵 China's current economic issues - China faces a slowdown, with growth at 3% or less, and youth unemployment touching 20%. These raise concerns about stability. The CCP takes its control of China very seriously. This is the most important for them. All other goals are secondary.

We can expect some turmoil in Thailand soon, the present PM removed, and a new govt under a newly established party led by a young, US educated guy to come to power.

This may be good for Quad partners India and the US. A thread🧵 The current Thailand PM Srettha Thavisin has been a bit ambiguous about his support to the US, a traditional ally, and in fact courted China more than the US would like. The "Thai Canal" project, allowing China to skip the straits of Malacca, was revived by him.

Recent geopolitics of Bangladesh in a new paradigm as I see it. A thread 🧵

A delta area like Eastern W.Bengal and Bangladesh is expected to naturally have a lot of natural gas under the sea bed.

This is being discovered now in recent years after exploration started. The exploration is being led by an energy hungry China with its influence in the region, deep pockets, and tech know how.

China already has kicked off some off-shore projects and is importing gas all the way to Kunming in its Yunnan province from the sea bed west of Myanmar.

1 will happen first, 2 second. Time frame 1 decade. Not being alarmist, but Pak, China, US and many others want to cut India's north east off to cut both India and the government to size. So we should not even think of this plausibility. It may become a necessity. Especially, if [1] happens.

China's behavior has become highly self-destructive. The pattern is the same. Go and pick up fight over a territory they clearly don't own but ridiculously claim, like Arunachal or Phillipines sea. Taunt, bully, do militarily aggression hoping the country acknowledges... (t1/7) ...Chinese superiority. But given China is a weak power, a paper tiger, and not the mighty US or even a modestly armed but militarily fierce India, they get into stalemates with even smaller nations. Phillipines is the most recent case after Vietnam and Japan. Of course... (t2/7)