Folks should come to grips with the likelihood that all of these proceedings were meant to go nowhere from the beginning and only served to maintain the illusion of rule of law as a pacification tactic while the fascism advanced
Unfortunately it turns out that if you just hire enough people to scream on tv and social media that big things are happening behind the scenes (they aren’t) that this is capable of destroying critical thought and people will go along with despite all evidence to the contrary
Sep 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
this is not a democracy and you can't vote away the people in power
i've voted, most of us have voted, our entire lives. and has done nothing to stop the vast right wing conspiracies from making a long march through the institutions and beating the legitimate government into submission through a series of internal coups over many decades
Sep 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
the fact that the last few decades have been spent turning every police department into a heavily armed, heavily armored, heavily equipped garrison says a lot about where the rulers think the situation is going
eventually the political collapse, the economic collapse, climate or covid collapse will hit a breaking point. people are running out of things to lose. one reason why i think they are working so hard to sweep encampments is to keep critical mass of ppl off streets.
Jul 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
this whole zero sum political crisis ended up doing a great job covering for the gradual then sudden climate effects we are seeing right now... we've been fist fighting next to a time bomb and now we're surprised it went off
i have no idea what comes next but what i ***don't*** see is A) the powers that be seriously moving to stop this from getting worse and B) no attempt to help ordinary people retrofit their lives for what is going to be a very fast increase in temp/killer weather
May 16, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It’s like there was a memo at CNN to start saying and doing stuff to help trump and friends
As trump kicks off at Waco, it’s worth noting that he has gotten away with all his crimes with no meaningful consequences. The people who told you the institutions would stop him, and they’ve been saying this for a decade, are liars or people who have been fooled by liars
The people who were sold to you as heroes are in league with the authoritarians with the goal of creating the illusion of accountability and imminent justice so you don’t realize the fascism has already started transforming the entire country piece by piece, so you don’t resist
Feb 8, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The whole point of the justice is coming propaganda and the accountability theatre that never ends with accountability is to keep the American public docile and calm as the fascism continues to get worse.
The goal is to prevent people from noticing/saying that Trump etc have virtual criminal immunity no matter what they do by offering people a firehose of rationalizations and rumors that lets them pretend it’s normal for coup attempts to go unpunished and naive to think otherwise
Feb 5, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I am going to mask probably for the rest of my life. I am probably never going to eat indoors at a restaurant again. The world has changed and I’m not going to injure myself trying to deny it. I’ve had to make difficult changes in my habits before, this is comparatively easy.
Do I miss indoor concerts and restaurants and not having to worry about covid? Yes. It was better before covid. But again, the world has changed. Maybe forever. So I will adapt.
Jan 9, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
You’ve been asked to believe that it takes longer than two years for the federal government to respond to its attempted overthrow when this country invaded Afghanistan within a month of 9/11 and declared war on Japan the day after Pearl Harbor.
Hey, if the security apparatus fails to intercept the coup attempt and the capitol defenses are mysteriously weakened to the point it gets breached and then the justice department refuses to punish the highest level plotters for so long they get reelected… the govt is pro coup.
Dec 9, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Because everyone in a position of power is a criminal, a traitor, or a pedophile or is being bribed, blackmailed, or threatened by a criminal, a traitor, or a pedophile. There is no team of good guys trying to make the system work for us, just the illusion of one.
This is a Potemkin government whose primary function is to keep alive the myth that there is a government watching out for us. The fact that they repeatedly, routinely, predictably fail to enforce the law at a high level or handle internal national security threats gives it away
Dec 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
There is a giant machine working 24/7 to keep the American public convinced that the criminal immunity of trump and his inner circle is proof that our system is working well even as we’ve just seen two countries crush coup attempts immediately this week and arrest leaders.
The basic premise that you’re being asked to accept is that our laws are so slow that it’s not possible to punish people who launch coups attempts within 2 years of it happening. It takes longer than 2 years to get in trouble for a coup attempt no matter what. Is that plausible?
Nov 18, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
There are people whose job it is to go on TV or the internet and rationalize the lack of accountability for Trump and keep you excited about some breaking new development which will be teased as a solution. There are a lot of people doing this.
Do they work for Trump? Maybe. Do they work for the government? Maybe. Do they work for the mob? Maybe. But where do these things end and begin, anyway.
Nov 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
the reason it has been entirely predictable to forecast that the institutions would fail to stop the fascism is because there is a mountain of evidence to suggest that the institutions had been captured long ago by the same antidemocratic forces behind trump and his movement
trump's campaign and administration was like a who's who of every spooky operative, criminal bureaucrat, corrupt careerist connected to the biggest national security and political scandals in recent history, people like roger stone and bill barr
Aug 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
if the security apparatus can openly cover its own tracks in a coup attempt, that will give them confidence they can move forward with even larger crimes and abuses of power without fear of consequences.
the reason they feel confident deleting the evidence is because the cia deleted the 2016 senate torture report. because they got away with iran contra. because they lied us into war with iraq. because they had escaped the burden of civilian oversight a long time ago.
Jul 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
what do our enemies fear above all? a mobilized public acting in solidarity and struggle against the entire system itself. they are scared of strikes. they are scared of protest to an extent. they're definitely scared of people heckling them in restaurants or places of leisure
simply put, they do not want to see a mass mobilization of people in any form because they do not know where it will go. that's why in places like new york there are whole squads of cops dedicated to crushing any action before it could catch on. lots of time/effort spent stopping
Jul 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
the secret service (elite palace guard) was clearly involved in a coup against the elected branch. this should be like a 5 alarm fire, blinking neon lights saying "factions within the government that span administrations are attacking the democracy." an inner state. no, wait...
bottomless state? secret state? shadow government? boneless state? jacked up state? trash can state? big big state? seven layer state? you know that thing the republicans accuse the democrats of when really it's the thing they're doing?
Jul 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
every time there is a story basically saying the DOJ won't do shit the hype people freeze for like 6 hours while they figure out a new way to spin the increasingly blatant criminal immunity of our political enemies as they commit more and more crimes openly (ie witness tampering)
it's not just the fact that almost two years have passed since the capitol attack, or that that seven years have passed since the wave of crimes to get into office, they are doing and more and more crimes every day as they march towards power
May 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
this tether thing has all the signs of blowing up spectacularly. there is a crypto coin that is always worth a $1 because it is theoretically backed 1:1 by good assets. the problem is that the company won't show what the assets are and people are withdrawing en masse.
maybe they could get away with it while the numbers were going up but now crypto is tanking and people redeeming their tether. if for whatever reason the company doing this is unable to continue redeeming tether, it suddenly becomes worth a lot less than $1.
May 13, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
the modern republican party has been intertwined with both the national security apparatus and american organized crime since ww2 and that relationship only strengthened over time, trump like roy cohn exists in a space in between these things that ordinary laws can't touch.
i always tell people to look at the life of thomas e dewey, governor of new york and former GOP presidential candidate, because he was involved in everything from partnering with the mob in various ventures to buying ABC to creating the CIA. this was the 1950s, only got worse.
May 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Not sure which crime in the last seven years this is referring to but I think that the statute of limitations have already started expiring for the earliest of them tells us everything we need to know.
“Legal analysts” hype up the smallest and most inconsequential developments like it’s happening but then when nothing happens on the legal front as always they’re quick to explain how trump getting away is proof that the system works. What a bunch of snakes.
Mar 26, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
one side attacks, the other loses on purpose, working in tandem to bring about the end of democracy. all while doing just enough to keep alive the illusion that we live in a functioning democracy while it happens. this is very important.
failure to prosecute major crimes, the fact that capitol attack was allowed to happen, the fact that it's essentially being moved past with no accountability, the failure of the intelligence agencies to defend the country, the free reign given to trump and epstein - all allowed
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