Love the Ice Cube quote.

Like I said, money has no country.

Russia itself is ruled by oligarchs for oligarchs.

They’ve clearly made common cause with oligarchs from elsewhere.

Sure, Trump is clearly being controlled by Putin to some degree but this isn’t about national interests. That’s too narrow.

Presumably whoever controls Musk wants it. Money has no countey, and the oligarchs are disaster capitalists, they profit from these kinds of events.

That’s a very good point. I think you’re right.

That was when the US moved from covertly to openly breaking international human rights laws, introduced indefinite detention without trial, legally authorised itself to invade Europe, curtailed civil liberties, and rolled out a multi-national network of surveillance of its own citizens.

It also undercut rational reactions to climate change and normalized working-class right wing pride in having a president who sounds stupid to educated people. All of these things are arguably the groundwork for what they have now.

Maybe he just liked looking at the pictures of Hitler.

I thknk you are. I just read through the Project 2025 stuff and it does seem to point to a recession.

As a non American with investments, I’m glad I read it.

I think that is definitely the point where the US was at a crossroads.

Thanks for posting this link. I had not read through Project 2025 before.

Is it just me or is the US heading into an economic recession? That thing reads like they are trying to destroy social cohesion, the environment, and probably the economy.

Not necessarily, helping commit the Gaza Genocide might be enough.

The Nobel Peace Prize has a long tradition of awarding Genociders and war mongers from Henry Kissinger onward.

The US has way better surveillance of irs own cotizens than it had of Afghanistan. They will send Homeland Security after any militia before it becomes a credible threat to them.