A reminder that collapsing the economy is not an unintended consequence of autocracy, it’s a feature.

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And then start some world war, if possible.
It’s also the fulfillment of Vladimir Putin’s wildest dream.
Have you seen what California looks like? That’s where the country was headed.
What?
CA economy is a mess. Same with every liberal city like New York. A tanking economy is where we were and it was going to get worse if Kamala was elected.
When are these so-called leaders... legal and otherwise... going to recognize, admit, investigate, and broadcast the truth? Trumpty Dumpty and all his Muskfeigns are working really hard to help Putin destroy the USA, it's economy, and its people!!!
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And it has been their planned strategy for years.
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And a 1/3rd of the nation - who aren’t wealthy cheered it all on like the “useful idiots” they are
Amen!
Well, fuck him. We will not let him win. We the people still have some power.
Congress can end this today

(202) 224-3121
Exactly! Collapse & Privitize.
#trump & his #quadrillonaire cabal has
A PLAN.

To bring America & Americans to their knees,
to BREAK us by destroying our economic security, food security, and SOCIAL SECURITY.

FUKKK ALL OF THEM.

America BELONGS TO US.

#StrongerTogether
#RaiseYourVoice
solution?
It's not necessarily a solution but it is an action you can take either others ... April 5th Hands Off.. a national day of protest organized all over the country. Google it and join if you can .
another protest? How many protests do we need to have before you realize they are not working?
So many got complacent under the benevolent leadership of Obama and Biden that we forgot to defend our democratic systems by voting.
There is a lot of truth to this.
People really do want to trust their government.
But voting is like exercise. You have to keep doing it to see the results you want.
Stop whining and join us.
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Let's do something that hasn't failed every single time.
Public pressure is the only thing that ever works.
April 5 protests. Spread the word.
It's. The. Goal.
Great way to fast track wealth consolidation at the very top🤬🤬
Bankrupting the government, followed by billionaires buying up the assets at fire-sale prices, is right out of rasPutin's playbook. Ta!
Thousands of Federal Layoffs + Global Tariffs = what @rbreich.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social ???
Yup.
Easy to give up Twitter and the high fatality Teslas….

Some are still hanging on to Amazon even as it surpasses Walmart and is looking to buy TikTok.

Resistance is rarely convenient.

Who actually wants to take down oligarchs?
True: Orban, Erdogan, Xi, Putin,... did it.
https://handsoff2025.com EVERYWHERE! Find a location near you! THANK YOU FOR WANTING TO DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION AND RULE OF LAW🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 We take care of each other out there! We will have your back
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I assume it is done to keep a working class beholden to the whims of the wealthy.
Truth
Absodamnlutely
It’s all on purpose. Never any intention of trying to make American lives better. Think of life in Russia…that’s the endgame. Resist now or lose what’s left. Huge protests this weekend, pressure Congress to quit supporting this inhumane narcissist and his puppets. #resist
Truth
If you do not believe me, maybe you will believe Bill Gross. Trump had launched the nation’s worst depression.

https://flip.it/0mh9JA
As is murdering citizens and locking up others.
There is a document everyone should read. I think out out by the Heritage Foundation if I’m not mistaken. This was hidden in plain site
People are easier to control when they're starving.
True 👍
Yup
Correct. An oh too familiar road map
Source: the above from Olga Lautman.
And today, the felon has Russia and Argentina in the WH!
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Note to Waltz and Hegseth-
This is how to deliver messages....
By hand

August 2018 trump appointed Rand Paul as postboy...
He took a letter to the Kremlin for Putin

Then Ron Johnson July 2018 -He was a Lavrov lapdog
Are we the US of Russia now!?
Yes! Intentional.
This needs to be made loud and clear. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social has a thread explaining the whole thing.
Every move is one large loyalty pledge. Love me or lose everything.
He knows what he is doing

He is taking the US$100 out as the global standard unit. The instability, means some other currency (Yuan maybe) will be new standard;
goal to knock US to third world level of influence

He f'd us for Putin!
He f'd the world for Putin!!
He f'd the US for Oligarchs!!!
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Agreed. A prime feature...
Trump makes his profits from blackmailing people and institutions, and now we can add the industrialists wanting carveouts.
Vought and the assholes at Heritage love the instability bc it will speed privatization from Musk’s tearing holes in public works.
🎯 Nailed it
… collapsing the economy and putting the blame on „those xyz out there, the true enemies“.
Especially for 🍊
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Trump is not even the sole mastermind. I hate him but blame is equally with the whole Republican Party and his handlers via heritage foundation and Putin and Putin’s autocratic buddies
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Agree. But the vulture capitalism thing is personal from way back. Not that he invented it, but yearned for it since before dementia.
Thing is it wasn’t just him. That’s what I’m trying to say. This is much bigger than him
Absolutely! He is but a happy tool on this one
Let me spell this out for you. It is not especially for Donald Trump. This is a feature not a bug as in it is been done for decades and centuries when autocrats need to tear down nations to get hold of them

Please read
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Keep us poor
Keep us dumb
Keep us sick

Work us till we die.
For colonialists write oligarchs.

Trump is treating America with all its people as a resource to extract wealth from.
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He and his cronies need to be stopped.
Creating instability to declare martial law and grab more power
This is a precondition of collapsing the government and declaring a dictatorship.
Exactly.
Thanks Kim for saying this out loud.
We need a national strike. The people need to show we still have power—while we still have it.
I agree!! We need to stop "business as usual" across the board. We need to strike until Donald Trump steps down.
I’m thinking that is about the only thing that will work along with massive protests
April 5th Hands Off protests organized all ver the country. Participate where you can.
Right now, the options everyone is discussing only include Trump, the ultra wealthy, and business owners… All of it dismisses the power of hundreds of millions of people.

We still have power and leverage as citizens, they haven’t taken it away yet, but they will.
I’m so over this BS, he’s decimating the Constitution, economy, health, we are now so weak with most of the world against us. If we don’t fight back economically and the protests we’re toast. Have you prepped for the depression- I have been for months now
Congress can end this today

(202) 224-3121
American workers don't have any kind of protections for this, unions do, unless of course everybody strikes, how fo we make that happen?
This administration shows us that laws don’t matter anymore, so if enough people were to walk out, there’s no way they could do anything about it
I doubt that will happen - the left couldn’t even rouse themselves to take 1 hour to vote for Harris to keep this insane guy out of the oval. I have no confidence they have the organizational chops to sustain a strike for days weeks or months.
It makes sense when you remember that 🍊🤡💩4️⃣🧠 is a Russian asset.
It’s easier to control sick people with the measles and no money. 🤬
Trump’s vision for America in 2014: You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the economy goes to total hell and everything is a disaster, then you’ll have, you know, you’ll have riots to go back to where we were when we were great”.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
This. Why aren't more shouting this
The rich and powerful will kowtow to the autocrats, begging and buying influence with them to maintain the power they have until the autocrats decide they don't need the bootlicking anymore and throw them in jail and confiscate their money.
On point. It's a planned action
Wealth Transfer will make it far easier to control the masses if they're sick, hungry and broke. We will become THE NEW AMERICAN OLIGARCHS barely paid workforce much like North Korea. You will be provided just enough to survive and of course work under far different conditions than previously gained
Well they're definitely winning at something 😵‍💫
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It’s sad how so many “great” minds are using the term “stupid” instead of “evil” to describe him in this moment. And the references to him bankrupting casinos completely ignores the reality that those casinos were designed to fail as part of a money laundering operation
This hurts small businesses the most, big corporations want total monopolies.

Let’s not give it to them.
Look at everything Trump does through the lens of Putin and it always makes sense
Exactly! He’s trashing the economy intentionally, then he’ll declare martial law.
He wants to "negotiate" deals to further consolidate his power just as he has done with the media, universities and law firms. There is a dastardly method to his madness.
Is Dump also going to use this as a way to replace the dollar with crypto?
That is what they are trying to do but the courts will stop him.
I hope so.
Makes it easier for them to embezzle the treasury.
As a historian, I've been trying to explain this to people since before the election. Even Harris voters called me hysterical. Well, here we are
Yep😣
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Exactly
Next comes martial law.
Didn't Project 2025 clearly spell this out for them?
Nobody actually needs to collapse an economy. He’s a Russian plant.
Thank you for reminding us ❣️

🙏🏿 🩵 🙏 🦋 🙏🏽 💙 🙏🏻 ❤️ 🙏🏾
This is just like Russia in the 1990s, when the Soviet Union collapsed.
Oligarchs bought up public agencies, privatized them, and became obscenely rich.
This is Lex Luther level of destruction
The way I liquidated all my accounts today. A bit too late but fuck outta here
I'm sure he's running around telling everybody, "this is my masterpiece, this is my masterpiece, I'm destroying America in th' national spotlight. God I'm so great... I'm GOD".
America for sale, cheap
Ashually
Well, except he doesn't actually care about the economy collapsing or not. He just wants to pump his crypto.

https://bsky.app/profile/jonrademacher.bsky.social/post/3llvyyxqhk22r
Time for a national strike! Shut the country down until he's removed!
Hands Off protests April 5th. Join. there are protests organized all over the country try. Google it and participate, if you can.
tariffs-debt-covid-casinos “will disappear” “going away” if all else fails -‘Injecting’ disinfectant?
I wish you weren't spot on. Crash the economy, "I'm the only one whi can fix it" comes next, and those bad guys won't let me. 2026 Campaign slogan. #WakeUpAmerica
Yes, it’s all by design.
Dead soldiers come back from Lithuania, Stock market is crashing, trade war with every country in the world…except Russia…And where is the president? At Mar-A-Lago having a golf dinner and a golf tournament. This is so incredibly wrong!!
Their goal is to make all public goods to fail so the oligarchs can monetize those functions. They have already done that for jails and prisons.