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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 4h

Don Corleone showing the heads of the other families what having the government bought & paid for can do.
They were amateurs & Watergate a drop in an ocean of corruption he now sails across.
The questions asked drowned out by the sound of diggers that may reveal who is buried in the foundations?

Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 5h

The French were branded 'surrender monkeys' by that same press.
They executed a king & courtiers.
They today sent a corrupt president to prison for five years.
US mainstream media have moved from the ethics of Watergate to be complicit in every GOP action that's destroying the American dream.
Bought

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 7h

Outside the USA you look to be one large Petrie dish.
An experiment in eugenics that's going to deliver a fractured country where you have had enough of experts & science so you embrace magic.
I am old enough to remember those deadly diseases almost wiped out.
By the time you understand?
Too late.

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 7h

It's pharaoh nomics!
You die & you try to take as many servants with you into that imagined afterlife.
The White House destruction is simply to add the mausoleum he yearns for.
Big enough for more than just ball room.

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⛧ samy ⛧ @probablymilhouse.bsky.social · 11h

i love her so much ♥️

A vibrant and bright tree with red leaves.

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 8h

It's now political dogma that those in power decide where home is for millions.
No matter you have never been there.
No matter the generations who have helped build the UK.
Such thinking deserves condemnation.
It's the ultimate false construct to give a voice to those whose only purpose is power.

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 9h

Depends how you measure fastest growing.
Fastest growing scandals?
Winner!!

Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 9h

Sitting by a coffee shop window outside, watching the clouds mass above, warm breeze, tourists seem to have fled to the Citadel. I think I am having another quiet day, kindle at the ready.

Cloudy mediteeanran sky over a blue sea and promenade.
A milky coffee and sunglasses on a white marble table in the foreground.

Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 12h

Look at England in the middle ages to see the developing business model of king, barons & serfs.
I cannot imagine where he got the idea.
Charles 111 looks guilty.
JD Vance, Prince of Whales?

Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 12h

I too see this past as the true strength of bluesky.
I googled & learnt, despite a strong understanding of Japan.
Domo Arigato.

Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 12h

Argentina.
The reputed fourth Reich?

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 12h

The french also marched for no more Kings.
The French were called 'surrender monkeys' by the American press.
The French have put the rule of law before the rule of money.
America, ripping itself apart in worship of the neon god they made.
Trumps legacy?
Gangsters, the real untouchables.
Capiche?

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 12h

When he inhales his last fat burger & leaves, what does he leave behind?
Is he an asset of a foreign power or Satan's favoured on earth?
America will never recover.
This is the second great depression.
From outside I watch a total destruction of the American dream. Americans cheering it.
Ignorance

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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 1d

Paging @seamus.bsky.social: www.mentalfloss.com/culture/desi...

The Low Life: When Americans Fell for Sunken Living Rooms

The bold architectural choice was a literal step down from conventional living rooms.

www.mentalfloss.com

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 12h

I love the concept.
Here comfy seating on a marble floored room that opens onto the cliff edge view of five thousand years of history in the valley down to Calypso's sea.
Honey colored limestone blocks embrace the glass & fabric that protects me.
Changing seasons framed, a window on yesterday.
Peace

Living room full of two L shaped couches, a small rug, a view through a window framed in curtains over the valley down to the sea from a house perched on the cliff edge, reflections of the pool and blue but cloudy sky on a beige ceiling setting a feel.

Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 13h

So many villains destroyed it in fiction.
After his destruction of American society & it's standing in the world, he has achieved what no enemy ever did in reality.
So many still cheer him on to greater destruction of the American experiment.
No Kings?
Dictators welcome.
Anything not to think.

Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 13h

Lectors eyes lingered on her.
"Perhaps my ideas are not to your taste, but my dear Michelin starred friend, you are very much to mine"
"Let us use the dropped items as the amuse bouche for this intellectual banquet"
Rachida Dati culture minister pointed a painted elegant finger.
"The kitchens?".

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 14h

Interpol detective meeting with a world renowned forensic psychiatrist to help crack the case of the louvre robbery:

Detective: “He steals rubies”

Hannibal Lecter: “NO! That is incidental. What is the first and principal thing he does? What needs does he serve by stealing?”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest renovation of the White House -- the so-called Truman Reconstruction of 1949-1952 -- came about only because the building was in such a state of disrepair that inspectors decided it was unsafe for occupancy.

Not because the president just decided he needed a big fancy ballroom.

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 22h

So, looking ahead, do we know who is going to be holding the president's balls there?
Or is that another Epstein secret?

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 1d

The White House (2028)

Picture of Biff Tannen's casino from "Back to the Future Part II". The sign says "Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise" and includes a picture of him burning a wad of cash with his lit cigar.

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 1d

It seems to be time to post this again:

All modern digital infrastructure is a precariously balanced pile held up by a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 22h

From outside the USA this looks like a cult.
Add one letter?
Like the evangelists do with God & gold.
I am watching a very large 'cult'.
And thus I cloth my naked villainy, with old odd ends stolen out of holy writ.
And seem a saint when most I play the villain.
Richard the third.
Trump the turd.

Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 22h

So many Americans checked out at the weekend, but they can never leave.
They just.🪠
Can't.🚽
Kill. 🧻
The beast. 🎸

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 22h

He's already taking bookings for the Airbnb for Christmas.
Stay in the Kings room.
Golden toilets.
On site McDonald's.
Taste optional.

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