@JazzyKindaFella

Truth be told, though, Trump is the symptom - not the cause - of what passes for “democracy” in the US!

Indeed, in his excellent Substack article (4 Sept 2022) “Let’s Stop Pretending America Is A Functioning Democracy”, Chris Hedges argues that “decades in the making [..] only the fiction of democracy” remains now that the slow-motion corporate coup has succeeded!

“The slow-motion coup is over. Corporations and the billionaire class have won. There are no institutions, including the press, an electoral system that is little more than legalized bribery, the imperial presidency, the courts or the penal system, that can be defined as democratic. Only the fiction of democracy remains”

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/lets-stop-pretending-america-is-a

#US #Trump #Democracy #CorporateCoup #InvertedTotalitarianism #Wolin #Dictatorship

@ttiurani
While on the whole we agree that #rhetoric is important, and can be misleading. We a sorry to annouce that a great many Australians are #environmentalVandals and opportunitistic theives who greedily steal from past and future generations, simulateously.

Having said that the majority are good, at least in 2007 when we voted for #KevinRudd. Alas he only lasted three years before the corporate #coup.

#corporateCoup #bitcoinFixesThis #saveSavers

@clacke
Similarly, it freaks us out that 11 years have passed since the US-corporation-led coup against our popularly elected PM #KevinRudd, and virtually no one…

…has put 5 and 5 together…

…yet.

Not particularly bright sparks, here. #renewableEnergy #JulianAssange #pinkBatsSuccess #miningTax #sovereignWealthFund #fibreToTheHome #nationalBroadbandNetwork #rupertMurdoch #usControlledMedia #corporateCoup #corporateState #juliaGillard #losingOurWay #rhetoric
@zatnosk @monorail

@seasharp
3/3

They tell us via #legacyMedia and now #socialMedia, to blame the #BigBadGovt, but this narrative feeds into the above.

Fascism is the melding of govt and #bigBusiness. Today's system is #fascism, not #capitalism.

Some have called it #CorporateTotalitarianism, or #CorporateState.

To fight it requires getting #NEOed. #Networking #Educating #Organising Engaging with Power, #Disobeying.

#antiTrust #corporateCoup #TheFed #SmedleyButler #whyBitcoin
@orekix @mlg

@dadegroot
#KevinRudd, sorry to say, was #Australia's last leader.

The rest have been muppets.

#corporateMedia #corporateCoup #neverForget2010 #JulianAssange #FreeJulianAssange #pinkPatsSuccess #NBN #NBNAus #FttH #FibreToTheHomeAu #FibreToTheHome #climateAction #moneyToPeopleNotBankers #sensibleImmigration #chinaAustraliaRelations