Show threadGrumpyOldFart3d ago

@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

Let’s Stop Pretending America Is A Functioning Democracy

A functioning democracy could easily dispatch Donald Trump and his doppelgängers. A failed democracy and bankrupt liberalism assures their ascendancy.

The Chris Hedges Report
Rüdiger BenninghausFeb 23
An apparently imitation rune stone in the ‘Slavic and Viking Settlement of Wolin’, an open-air archaeological museum in Wolin (Wollin, north-western Poland, Pomerania)
(August 2019)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Runensteine, #rune_stones, #Freilichtmuseum, #open_air_museum, #Slawen, #Slavs, #Wikinger, #Vikings, #Wolin, #Pommern, #Polen, #Poland
ourmechanicalworldFeb 6
ISO/IEC 17025 is the global widespread for calibration of stress gauges, making sure consistent, accurate, and dependable measurements throughout industries.
#PressureGauges #wolin #ourmechanicalworld
https://www.ourmechanicalworld.com/archives/13106
Rüdiger BenninghausNov 28
A rune stone in the town of Wolin (north-western Poland, West Pomeranian Voivodeship). Such stones probably date back to the Vikings.
(August 2019)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Runensteine, #runestones, #Wolin, #Polen, #Poland, Wikinger, #Vikings
Usedomlotse / Leander WattigAug 27, 2025

Heute war Wildschweintag. Im Wald später dann noch eines getroffen auf 20 Meter. Wir haben uns aber in die Augen geschaut und waren uns einig, dass keiner Stress haben will. 🐗

#ostsee #wolin #wollin #wapnica #wildschwein #wildschweine #radtour #ausflug

RazemJul 30, 2025

👉 LATO Z RAZEM TRWA! 👈
W tym tygodniu widzimy się w kolejnych miejscowościach - do zobaczenia 🔥

#razem #partiarazem #wolin #szczecin #gdynia #lódź

Sebastian Jul 29, 2025

Today at #Baltic #sea we went to the #Viking village in #Wolin. It was nice, on par with Danish #Ribe!👌🏻

Later, we went to the beach and we’we tried to not mind the wind…🙈🤷🏻‍♂️

#Cycling #Bicycle #Bici #Bicicleta #Ciclismo #Velo #Fahrrad #Rower #Wahoo #Wahooligan #Velominati #LifeBehindBars #KidsOnBikes #FamilyOnBikes
#SRAM #AXS #Eagle #Fizik #Morze #Baltyk #LookMomNoHands #BikeToot #BikeTooter @cycling @rower

Rüdiger BenninghausMar 24, 2025
In Wolin (Wollin)/ Pomerania (NW-Poland) an association (Centre for Slavs and Vikings "Wolin-Jomsborg- Vineta") has built an open-air museum on the bank of the Dziwna (Dievenow) in the form of a "Slav and Viking settlement".
https://jomsborg-vineta.com/en/
(August 2019)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Freilichtmuseen, #open_air_museums, #Wikinger, #Slawen, #Vikings, #Slavs, #Wollin, #Wolin, #Polen, #Poland
Slavs and Vikings’ Center Jomsborg – Vineta – Wolin – Centrum Słowian i Wikingów WOLIN – JOMSBORG – VINETA

Rüdiger BenninghausMar 24, 2025
Reproduced rune stones in Wolin/ NW-Poland (Polish Western Pomerania).
(August 2019)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Runensteine, #rune_stones, #Wikinger, #Vikings, #Wolin, #Vorpommern, #Polen, #Poland
Rüdiger BenninghausMar 16, 2025
Wolin (Wollin) in Polish Western Pomerania (NW Poland) on the Dziwna (German Dievenow), one of the three estuaries of the Oder. The Nikolai Church, which was a Lutheran church until 1945, can be seen from afar.
(August 2019)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Städteansichten, #town_views, #Flüsse, #rivers, #Dziwna, #Kirchen, #churches, #Architektur, #architecture, #Wolin, #Vorpommern, #Polen, #Poland