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And my fictional TV series #Trumpistan - a fictional TV series exploring an alternate reality where U.S. democracy collapses, transforming into an oligarchy akin to Russia.
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#Trumpistan is a fictional TV series exploring an alternate reality where U.S. democracy collapses, transforming into an oligarchy akin to Russia. The story follows an incoming President who ran on this agenda and swept the election. Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental. 🌍📺
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The half-life of stupid is short, but the damage lingers. America keeps learning the same lesson: in Trumpistan, reality is always the last to know. #Trumpistan
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Markets rebound. Retail traders celebrate. Smart investors smile. The system didn’t bend — it snapped, then reverted. But just as things settle, a new White House memo leaks: *“TARIFFS 2.0 — This Time Smarter.”*
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One diner in Iowa plays the statement on loop. A waitress shakes her head: “This guy’s not playing 4D chess. He’s eating the pieces.” Somewhere, a Kremlin official raises a glass. They don’t need to beat the U.S. anymore. Trumpistan is doing fine on its own.
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The president folds. Press conference in front of a forklift, blinking through the lights. “The tariffs worked. That’s why I’m ending them early.” Like Bush with “Mission Accomplished,” but even the loyalists look confused.
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Cut to Wall Street. Think *The Big Short* meets *The Death of Stalin*. Smart money shrugs, buys the dip. One hedge fund guy says: “This is too dumb to last. These people love money too much to hold the line.” They’ve seen this movie. 1998 Russia. 2008 America. Same plot.
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The economy didn’t need ideology to break. It needed incompetence. In Vietnam, it was body counts. In Trumpistan, it’s grocery receipts. We’re past fake news now. This is *real news you can’t afford*.
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In the White House, the blame-storm is pure Veep-meets-Gosplan. Leon blames the Fed. The crypto oligarch blames the Commerce Department. One aide suggests “sabotage from globalists.” The president asks: “Can we tariff the bad parts of Canada?”
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The markets drop like a Soviet ruble in '98. Dow down 1,800 at open. Supply chains freeze. Factories close. It’s not just elites noticing. It’s the gas station guy in Missouri.
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This is our *Chernobyl moment*. Like the Soviet engineers who kept insisting the reactor was fine while the Geiger counters melted, Trumpistan’s inner circle blames Canada, China, “deep-state logistics.” But eggs just doubled in price, and no one’s buying the spin.
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Hey, That is my business model sir!
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Disclaimer:
#Trumpistan is a fictional TV series exploring an alternate reality where U.S. democracy collapses, transforming into an oligarchy akin to Russia. The story follows an incoming President who ran on this agenda and swept the election. Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental. 🌍📺
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Final shot of the episode: Wall Street traders silently watching the video in a glass tower. No words. Just the sound of someone muttering: “It’s time.” And somewhere, the first short positions on U.S. Treasuries are quietly placed.
#Trumpistan
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The psyops video goes viral. Street protests erupt in Brussels, Tokyo, Berlin. Parliamentarians demand answers. Meanwhile, in DC, the President is too busy posting about fake Time magazine covers to notice the world is cutting him off.
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What makes *The Subsidy* terrifying isn’t the fiction. It’s the pattern. Like late-stage empires before—Ottomans, Soviets, Habsburgs—America now consumes foreign capital to sustain internal decline. The difference? This one brags about it on camera.
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In Beijing, it hits harder. The propaganda revives Deng Xiaoping’s warning: “Hide your strength, bide your time.” But China didn’t. It lent the U.S. nearly a trillion dollars. Now it’s being told that money was a joke—and they’re the punchline.
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To Berlin, it’s Versailles in reverse. Germany was forced to pay reparations. Now it’s the one subsidizing an unstable superpower that’s default-curious. The Eurozone watches, nervous and humiliated, as the President turns their money into chaos.
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To Japanese audiences, it evokes the 1980s bubble—when Japan financed Reagan’s deficits and got trade war threats in return. But this time, it's worse: the President is openly mocking Japan while demanding loyalty. And Japan keeps buying the debt.
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The propaganda ends with a French-accented narrator calmly saying: “Stop buying Treasuries. Stop financing disorder.” It’s a call for European economic liberation that echoes Charles de Gaulle pulling France out of NATO’s command in 1966.
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The film draws from *Dr. Strangelove*, but there’s no satire left. The world’s lenders are Slim Pickens on the nuke, riding U.S. debt into oblivion. The President, like a deranged Strangelove, is laughing as he dismantles the very world order his country built.
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We’re in post-WWI Germany territory now: foreign creditors, worthless bonds, internal chaos. But instead of Weimar printing presses, it’s debt and Treasuries. And this time, the angry nationalists aren’t the underdogs—they’re running the White House.
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The voice is the President’s. The smirk is real. "You give us cheap money. We build nothing, fight wars, and blame you when it falls apart." The deepfake doesn’t need to stretch the truth. It’s all things he *already said*—just edited with ruthless clarity.
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It’s “The Great Dictator” meets *The Big Short*. But the dictator isn’t fictional, and the short is real. European psyops turn the President’s own words into a brutal lesson: buying U.S. Treasuries isn’t investment—it’s a welfare check to a collapsing empire.
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Disclaimer:
#Trumpistan is a fictional TV series exploring an alternate reality where U.S. democracy collapses, transforming into an oligarchy akin to Russia. The story follows an incoming President who ran on this agenda and swept the election. Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental. 🌍📺
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Each episode of #Trumpistan is a funhouse mirror of history. This one? It’s *The Grapes of Wrath* meets *House of Cards*, directed by Adam McKay and scored by cynicism. Stay tuned. The crop failures are just beginning.
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The final scene: The president leans toward Leon and says, “Let them plant onions. By next year, they’ll be begging for Bitcoin.” Somewhere in Iowa, a farmer burns his crop and holds a sign: *We voted for rain. Got fire.*
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Brazil and the EU file a WTO complaint. A Banana Wars redux. Allies talk like enemies, and enemies—like Russia—sound like friends. No one knows if trade diplomacy is dead. But it definitely smells funny. Like soybeans rotting in the heat.
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As protests erupt, farmers blockade roads with tractors. Shades of the French farmer revolts. DHS deploys drones—not to help, but to watch. Surveillance is no longer foreign policy. It’s crop policy.
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Then $2.3 billion vanishes into the pockets of the presidential family. Treasury calls it a “clerical error.” Feels like Halliburton in Iraq. Or 1MDB in Malaysia. But here, the response isn’t shock—it’s resignation. The system is working as corrupted.
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Mid-level USDA staffers walk out. “We didn’t join to run political loyalty tests on corn subsidies.” Reminds us of EPA scientists quitting under Trump. Or Soviet ministries collapsing as party loyalty replaced expertise and hunger set in.
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A Republican governor from the Midwest breaks ranks on live TV. It echoes Margaret Chase Smith’s 1950 stand against McCarthy. But unlike her, he knows he may not survive politically. Or physically. His state begins prepping for federal retaliation.
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Then comes the leak: the president, in private, calls US farmers “whiny parasites.” The Romney 47% moment reimagined for 2025. But this time, it’s not elites sipping wine—it’s the supposed savior of the working man spitting on the soil they till.
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Yes, FarmerCoin. A digital scrip backed by oligarch-run supply chains. Think Venezuela’s petro meets 1800s coal town company scrip. You grow the food, they give you a token, you buy from their store—at their price. Serfdom with blockchain receipts.
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In a scene straight out of *The Big Short*, insiders bet on collapse. Wall Street talks up patriotism while shorting the dollar and hoarding crypto. The real currency? Access. The real yield? Corruption. FarmerCoin, they say, will “revolutionize” agriculture.
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The “bailout” is routed through loyalist firms. Just like the 2018 Trump-era farm aid, billions flow to megacorps while small farms starve. Picture a rusting John Deere tractor next to a corporate jet on the tarmac. Both were “saved.” Only one mattered.
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Disclaimer:
#Trumpistan is a fictional TV series exploring an alternate reality where U.S. democracy collapses, transforming into an oligarchy akin to Russia. The story follows an incoming President who ran on this agenda and swept the election. Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental. 🌍📺
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And yet, he’s still there. Still signing things. Still shouting into cameras. But you can feel it. He’s been moved aside, just not officially. The only real question left is how long they can keep pretending.
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Foreign governments are adapting. Japan bypasses State and calls Leon. Germany openly wonders who runs America now. Canada releases fake “US collapse maps,” just to see who panics. It’s working.
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The comparisons are rolling in.
Kaiser Wilhelm, who watched WWI unfold from a villa.
Stalin’s Beria, who ruled from the shadows.
Even the Valkyrie plot, where the coup pretended nothing had changed—because it had to.
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It’s not just insiders noticing.
Billboards are going up. “He wasn’t on the thread.”
It’s not resistance talking points anymore. It’s a question people are starting to ask out loud.
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He tried to claw back relevance this week.
Went live, gave a national address.
He used hand puppets. Quoted a meme account.
It was so incoherent that Treasury issued a correction before the networks finished airing it.
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This isn’t chaos. It’s choreography.
The system moves smoothly, just… around him.
We’re in Brezhnev territory now.
Loyalty at the podium. Quiet defiance in the halls.
Decisions don’t wait for approval that never comes.