MissConstrue

So, America's Trumpster Fire is spreading. This regime is the most aggressive cancer the world has ever known.

#Colombia held its presidential runoff on Sunday. The preliminary results show a razor-thin victory for Abelardo de la #Espriella, a far-right multimillionaire with no prior political experience, over left-wing Senator Iván #Cepeda, by a margin of 49.66% to 48.70%, in an election riddled with fraud allegations, in a country with a long and unambiguous history of American interference in its democratic processes.

The winner is a #US citizen who became naturalized in 2023, owns a $5.1 million home in Miami, ran businesses in Florida for years, is a registered #Republican, and voted for Donald Trump in 2024. He was openly endorsed by Trump, who celebrated his ‘BIG’ victory on Truth Social.

He has pledged to ‘disembowel the left,’ move Colombia’s embassy to #Jerusalem, and restore full diplomatic and military ties with #Israel.

People are not pleased.

https://thespectaclemag.substack.com/p/the-people-of-colombia-take-to-the

the people of Colombia take to the streets as Trump-backed far-right candidate steals the election.

a US citizen, a registered Republican, a Miami millionaire, and a man who celebrated winning the Colombian presidency by shouting ‘long live the people of Israel.’ Meet your new president, Colombia.

the spectacle
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Show threadJackMex13h ago

@MissConstrue

He was also the lawyer of paramilitary war lords, drug traffickers, and swindlers. Swindlers later complained they had been robbed by De La Espriella.

Show threadMissConstrue13h ago
@JackMexa4 Yeah, that tracks.
Show threadcontrasocial4h ago

@MissConstrue

It's not just Trump, he is a symptom, right-wing groups the world over from Russia, China, and US Republicans have deliberately been pushing forward a deliberate campaign to normalize fascism because it benefits them all for democracy to be mitigated.

It's important to think larger than one country, though Trump is a major catalyst, he simply stepped into an opportunity. The groundwork for all this was laid by troll farms and corporations endlessly spitting lies and hate.

Show threadMissConstrue3h ago

@contrasocial I put it to you that the plan goes much farther back than the Digital Age. In my childhood, they were laying this path down with William F Buckley and his cohort.

The robber baron class has never gotten over the New Deal, and frankly the new deal left them enough capital to rebuild the gilded age. A mistake we should not make again.