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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross

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Lamentations of our decaying democracy, with the odd glimmer of hope, at the home of truly independent journalism: Demodirge.Substack.com

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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · Jul 8

The people who have been upending our progressive America, for a century, aren’t asshats like Elon Musk. He was third in giving to Trump. Meet the American .1% family that invested in a Nazi Germany win, the Watergate burglary, and now, Trump.

Meet the Mellons.

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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 5h

Weekend at Donnie’s?

DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 5h

The owners of the Republican Party are quite happy with the chaos

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Meet the Mellons. (Part I)

The “shadow warrior” family of the Far Right, the Mellons, and Scaifes, are America’s puppet masters, manipulating America rightward, and backward, since the Great Depression.

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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 14h

No, his contract’s about up.

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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 14h

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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 14h

He’s about as healthy as Spain’s General Franco. He could die, and we’ll hear that he’s doing great. Bet they did a lot of AI captures, so they can keep that lie alive for decades.

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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 18h

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@maddow.msnbc.com The Mellon family has been manipulating the Republican Party since FDR drove Andrew Mellon out of 12 years of owning the government, from Treasury.

Garfield. Coolidge. Hoover

What could the $130M have paid for? Certainly not what was stated

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Who Is Timothy Mellon? Trump’s Biggest Donor Is A Billionaire Banking Heir—And RFK Jr. Backer.

Timothy Mellon, 81, was virtually unknown to Republican fundraisers until he began donating to Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign.

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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 18h

@Maddow, for a Fulbright, you need to slow down and THINK about the moving parts. Timothy Mellon isn’t Trump’s buddy. He’s point man in the Mellons recapture of America. Liberalism is now a bubble, not a branch.

Mellon, not MUSK.

Meet the Mellons.

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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 6d

@maddow.msnbc.com appreciated some truth about Comcast. Wish you would be more vocal about them taking “NBC” out of the channel name, to appease Trump. Also the literal “whitening” of the talent lineup, Reid and Wagner, out, didn’t get enough comment from you either.

Gravitas is good.

Use it.

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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 6d

Our thoughts are with the people in Montego Bay, Jamaica, being hit by a full-on Cat 5 hurricane Melissa, that’s slowly moving across them.

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Hurricane Melissa live updates: Catastrophic Category 5 hurricane makes landfall in Jamaica

Hurricane Melissa, now a powerful Category 5 storm, is set to be Jamaica's worst storm in history.

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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 12d

Oh hell to the no… Not the Onion. What the “ballroom” of the remodeled White House will look like…

DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 16d

Has the light bulb gone on yet?

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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 16d

… protecting people like Epstein, Trump, Prince Andrew, et al, wouldn’t it be a GOOD IDEA to stop the more invisible people handing out “passes” for that kind of thing?

Which brings us back to the Mellon Family.

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(Reading Eggs helps with your issues ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

Meet the Mellons. (Part I)

The “shadow warrior” family of the Far Right, the Mellons, and Scaifes, are America’s puppet masters, manipulating America rightward, and backward, since the Great Depression.

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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 16d

Wow. Did we fail reading comprehension that badly?

The Epstein files are a SYMPTOM of a corrupt patriarchy, that has been giving men a pass to do evil, since the dawn of time. You think Epstein invented sex slavery?

Ancient Mesopotamia, 1754 BCE.

So, if we’re trying to stop people from…

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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 16d

Ah but he has the richest people in the world giving him his marching orders. After the chaos (Trump) comes order (Vance).

Now, they’re testing to see what they can get away with. Sadly, as they can keep us distracted by a media obsessed with shiny objects?

It’s pretty much their whole agenda.

DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 16d

He takes orders. He is Peter Thiel’s robot. Beholden to the Mellons, Putin, House of Saud, etc.

You want to avenge people who need it? You need a justice system that works. A democracy restored.

Forest first. Trees, ugly as they are? Second. You can’t fix the one without the other.

DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 16d

Change the reality of our problem, though. If Trump was to be hauled out of office by the 25th Amendment (Not likely given the clownshow in the cabinet.), or be impeached (Not happening) or die of age-relatied issues in office (a possibility) we end up with J.D. Vance.

That would be worse…

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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 16d

the people who were clients of Epstein. Trump included. Reality/history says that he has both the powerful backers, and the success at evading the law that, at his age and elected standing, make that a dim hope, at best.

I certainly “hope” that they get him, along with the others.

That will not…

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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 16d

First off, one should be a bit more circumspect in social media in their accusations, don’t you think?

That’s, at best, a very naive and poorly thought through charge.

Mr. Trump’s myriad crimes are all very legitimate.

Mr. Epstein is dead.

The value of the list should be to prosecute ALL of..

DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 16d

@maddowblog.msnbc.com you’re already on X. Bock him on BlueSky!

DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 16d

Wait for it…

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DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 16d

You guys still have an X account. Don’t encourage him here. Block him.

DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 16d

Block… Now!

DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 16d

They are a distraction. We should be protesting at the Mellon’s front door. They owned the government for 12 years a century ago. They own it now.

This is the problem with liberals. We chase shiny objects. Meanwhile, the car runs over us. Again and Again. Ike. Nixon. Reagan. Bushes. Trump.

DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 16d

That’s Stephen Miller, the Nazi.

DemoDirge by Brian M. Ross @demodirge.bsky.social · 17d

This is why you should be at #nokings today.

Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 17d

This should make us angry and it should get us to speak out against what is happening all across our country.

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