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Trump is a populist Panderer.

He's going to tell you what he thinks you want to hear on safe issues like immigration, DEI, Woke etc.

He will not tell you that the collosal $37 Trillion national debt and $2 quadrillions in BIS Derivatives debt is unpayable and must be restructured or cancelled.

Americans have to raise their voice:

ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID!

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A lot of people dont know that California - which has for ages had problems with forest fires.....is structurally so NOT equipped to deal with it, or to properly pay for professional firefirghers...that they literally throw prisoners (forced or at best coerced labour) at the problem.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/01/11/los-angeles-palisades-prisoners-firefighters

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/us/inmates-firefighters-wildfires-california.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-incarcerated-firefighters-are-helping-battle-the-blazes-around-los-angeles

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-hidden-economic-forces-behind-californias-use-of-inmates-as-firefighters/ar-AA1xEOjX

Yes the same US that keeps accusing China of being an authoritaria nation with forced labour

https://www.state.gov/forced-labor-in-chinas-xinjiang-region/

https://www.walkfree.org/news/2025/us-expands-import-ban-to-37-chinese-companies-over-uyghur-forced-labour/

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Chris Hedges has done plenty of reporting on the $1 per hour, modern US industrial prison complex slavery system.

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No one pays attention to Chris Hedges in America.

Because the public isn’t interested in topics like hypocrisy, prisoners’ rights or mass incarceration of minorities. Certainly not in emergency preparedness routines and resources. At least not until AFTER crises occur.

And so Americas finest political critic and journalist in probably the entire past century has been shoved off major news media and now in effect has a for his writings and audience hardly bigger than yours.

It’s crime. He is a national treasure.

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