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Shaun King's avatar

We are absolutely in a very different era of American history. One of open imperialism and colonialism - even against our "allies"

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Rosalind Dalefield's avatar

What is new is the openness of it. The imperialism and colonialism has been in place for a very long time now.

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Shaun King's avatar

Yes

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Lynne Pope's avatar

He is trying to do it all before the next vote but trying to control that vote as well. The chaos is that it’s already war against Americans by his ice posse and jan 7 type following they already offended leaders into retiring

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Shaun King's avatar

I agree

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Some Things About Me's avatar

What scares me is that I don’t trust the boys in the Pentagon. I don’t trust the CIA or the DOD. We have no right thinking about bombing someplace just to distract our five-year-old. They’re dealing with him like Billy Mummy in the old twilight zone episode where everyone in the town is afraid of the little kid. We need to grab him by the throat and lay one on his Hiney that he’ll never forget that’s how you deal with people like him.

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Shaun King's avatar

I don’t trust any of them. I truly don’t trust a single person in government. They are all cowards. Except for a tiny number of people

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Whitney's avatar

Your point about their reaction to Venezuela is so spot on and enlightening. I was thinking something similar about the ICE guy, Jonathon Ross, who murdered Renee Good. That wasn’t just some police violence. Not only because they can’t even call themselves police. Because that appeared so far off the chart of violence it seems like an outlier if we made an actual chart.

It reminds me of a serial killer. As if he was hired for this job and drawn to it for all the wrong reasons. Similar to how harming animals leads to patterns of a serial killer. Building a profile of Jonathan I would imagine it would look more like a killer than anyone who signed up to protect and serve the community.

His actions before and after shooting and killing Renee Good come off as someone who had no empathy for the people around him. I can’t seem to understand his purpose for even being in that line of work. Is it to protect the country? Or is it to destroy a specific type of people that he sees as inferior?

Coming back to Venezuela, did they have pride in capturing Maduro for the sake of combatting the drug issue for world? Or is it a selfish tactic to drive chaos and take attention off of the 5 year old’s mistakes. The Epstein files. The felonies. The fact that nobody approves of him or his actions. Nobody likes him anymore. Nobody wants to work with him. And he’s just revving everyone up so we don’t pay attention to the big picture. Or we can’t even afford to pay attention because we’re exhausted by the psychodrama. That would be so in line with his partner in crime, Netanyahu. They have admitted already they create this chaos so we can’t keep up.

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Shaun King's avatar

I agree with all of this

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L-A's avatar

Interesting you mention ‘serial killer’. The same thought crossed my mind about the monster. He is a man of addictions…young girls at one point in his life, and now money and power. I hear adderall too but that may be rumour. But now I’m wondering if his newest addiction is killing. Does he get a thrill from hearing he is responsible for other people’s deaths? I think so.

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Whitney's avatar

I mean his reaction to the whole thing is so lacking in remorse. It’s cold hearted like a killer.

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Rosalind Dalefield's avatar

Maduro has been a vocal critic of Israel. I think Netanyahu had a major role in persuading Trump to kidnap him. He probably told Trump to go after the oil, but from what I have read since, the big oil companies don't want to get involved. The conman has been conned by a smarter, but even more evil, conman.

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Julie's avatar

If the military generals realize that Trump has the mental capacity of a five-year-old (particularly if his absurd requests are illegal/unconstitutional) then they should not comply. Their oath is to the Constitution, not Trump

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Shaun King's avatar

I agree. He is doing his best to put people in power who will do whatever he says

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Julie's avatar

Yes. One hopeful sign is that they are all failing miserably and more of us are pressing back (going to my third protest today). My real concern is Stephen Miller and Russ Vought. They are really dangerous and driving much of what is happening today.

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Whitney's avatar

John Mulaney said it best it’s like a horse in a hospital. Very chaotic. Very concerning. Very confusing. Bottom line he’s a wanted criminal holding our country hostage and it’s impacting the entire planet. It’s hurt everyone at this point. Nobody was ever safe but now everyone has directly been hurt whether they realize it yet or not. He’s a psycho. If this was some guy off the streets without the means to get hair and makeup done, we would cross the street. Or police would find a reason to arrest him after this 300th offense in society.

I think that’s what I’ve observed.

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Shaun King's avatar

Yes!

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Catherine Martinez's avatar

DJT is scrabbling to survive in office. More nonsense ideas on social media. More military threats. More fake offers of bribe money to American citizens to cover his tariff failures. If all who are managing him spoke up in public, it would be a short trip to impeachment and removal. Even the worst of the GOP gets that their political survival is hanging by a thread. This is a race to domination they cannot win if we keep pushing back.

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Motie Omari's avatar

Asalamu alaikum Shaun

“The de facto President of the United States of America since 1998 is B. Netanyahu.”

- Columbia Professor, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs

Satanyahu war criminal visited the U.S. five times in 2025. His last visit was to Mar-a-Logo December 29, 2025 to meet with Trump.

Are any of the world events a coincidence?

Once the American public wakes up and realizes it is the Epstein-Mossad files, then perhaps at this point we can save America from the evils of the demonic Zionists.

Free Palestine = Free America

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Celine C.'s avatar

"Dealing with him (Trump) is “like dealing with a five-year-old.”

I take exception to that--five year olds are fairly smart and self-aware. Trump is more like dealing with a toddler--about 2 to 3 years of age. (I'm not sure he's even potty trainable!)

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esra1980's avatar

He needs to be impeached as Sam Husseini put so well: https://husseini.substack.com/p/impeach-trump-or-any-president-who

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David J. Sherwin's avatar

Does anyone see that this plan of amerikkkan ethnic cleansing, genocide against Palestinians and Muslims, and the blatant imperial theft of land and resources has been in place since Clinton? Remember when they killed Princess Diana? She knew.

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Rosalind Dalefield's avatar

Further back than Clinton. At least since the belated entry of the US into WW1.

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Geopolitics in Plain Sight's avatar

Just posted a deep‑dive teaser on how foreign powers weaponize America’s internal chaos:

https://substack.com/@geopoliticsinplainsight/note/c-198193128

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god's avatar

All this is a distraction while they are actively preparing to hit MEXICO, a sovereign nation. HELLOOOOOOOOO.

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Shaun King's avatar

They are aiming to do evil all over the world. Including Mexico.

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Lewis C. Taishoff's avatar

The US did the same thing in the Philippines 125 years ago. Nothing new.

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Shaun King's avatar

It is new for us who weren't alive during a period of such open imperialism and colonialism. Just naked theft without pretense. It's wild to witness.

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Ian Compton's avatar

And let’s be clear that this is Putin dismantling NATO

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DragonflySiouxsie's avatar

I thought the cartels had shoulder fired weapons?

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