Anyone still not seeing that Musk is carrying out a Project Russia / Duginist agenda to accelerate American collapse is either dim, on a delusional dose of hopium.
The collapse of the Ruble says more about Russia's final abandonment of central banking than anything else. This will necessarily result in a shift into oil/gold commodities-backed trading envisioned by Glazyev/BRICS. Don't count Russia out until it's properly decapitated.
This is going to sound stupid but watch for the Putin proxies to increasingly push towards a single global, vague, Christian-ish “religion” as a mechanism for establishing control. It’s part of the doctrine.
📻 NEW EPISODE: Big tech companies are playing an outsized role in our world and are increasingly involved in creating policy that has negative impacts on democracies. Dave discusses "The Tech Coup" with Marietje Schaake.
Excellent piece from American Prospect on why Sen. Lummis' harebrained "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve" idea is really just a way to turn the Federal Government into the world's largest bag-holder and line the pockets of speculators. Kill this with 🔥.
Everybody is freaking out about tariffs, and rightly so. But bear in mind on January 20, we will be nearly three weeks into a debt ceiling crisis and potential US default. Tariffs will be the least terrifying thing happening.
For the record, I want to recommend the “Ice Cubes” Mastodon app for iOS. It is extremely fast, easy to use, featureful, and in my estimation gives a great first impression to users who may be moving to Mastodon for the first time, or used to X or Bsky. It’s been my main Mastodon client for a good while now and I couldn’t be more pleased with it.
The Kremlin is creating a “nuclear psychosis,” hoping the West will give up on Ukraine. But this strategy goes back decades to the Cold War, and the later, lesser-known Primakov Doctrine. Get the full story here.
Soft launching something tonight.
The American collapse was avoidable, but we failed to meet the moment. Now, we need to preserve our democratic values in a rapidly changing world. America 2.0 is all about what comes next. Join us.
Everybody is waiting for Trump to turn on Musk. The better frame is what happens when Musk turns on Trump; also, the best chance to stop this is to awaken R’s to the fact that they will soon be broke unless Musk is stopped.
