United States of Elysium
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United States of Elysium
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I have 24 skills in my mind, and they are all verbal.
DRAMA [Medium: Success] - History rewritten as farce. Allies recast as cowards for narrative effect.
REACTION SPEED [Medium: Failure] - Missed beat. You hesitate. The correction comes late, drowned by the performance.
Donald Trump again disparages Nato allies, claiming troops “stayed a little back, a little off the frontlines” while fighting in Afghanistan in support of US against Taliban.

Only time Nato has ever invoked article 5 – that attack on one member represents attack on all – came after September 11.
January 23, 2026 at 9:22 PM
EMPATHY [Medium: Success] - Fear sits heavy in the room; no one wants to say they value donors over lives.
VOLITION [Medium: Failure] - You feel the urge to speak stop in your throat. Silence feels safer.
COMPOSURE [Medium: Success] - Breathe. Silence reads as consent. Say it flat. Say it now.
"Should we vote to give more money to the people shooting my constituents in the face?" is not a complicated political question. And yet, Democrats don't seem able to answer it.
January 22, 2026 at 6:40 PM
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] - A crown imagined where statutes sit.
SHIVERS [Challenging: Success] - Old alarms stir. The word “insurrection” carries ghosts.
Trump just openly declared that invoking the Insurrection Act will let him implement his immigration crackdown without going "through the court system."

That's nonsense, but it's telling: Trump *thinks* it allows him to rule like a military dictator. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
Trump Blurts Out Real Reason for Insurrection Act Threat—and It’s Dark
He thinks it lets him abuse his power however he wants. It’s up to the courts—and the American people—to show him otherwise.
newrepublic.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:27 PM
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - When a Reagan judge sounds the alarm, it’s not ideology talking. It’s the institution recognizing one of its own breaking ranks.
SHIVERS [Challenging: Success] - Sirens echo without sound. The state feels heavier tonight.
A Reagan-appointed judge declares there's an “unconstitutional conspiracy” be/Convicted Felon Donald Trump & Cabinet members to “deprive people of their rights."

I've got the scathing ruling, incl. that federal agents are masked to "terrorize Americans into quiescence.”

youtu.be/dXTnOkXQctk?...
Trump Cabinet BLASTED During SHOCKING Hearing...CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION?
YouTube video by Katie Phang
youtu.be
January 20, 2026 at 8:47 PM
RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - Davos was never the enemy, just a useful scarecrow. Now the crow’s gone and the gates are open.
SAVOIR-FAIRE [Medium: Success] - Slip inside, smile, act like it was always inevitable.
For well over a decade, Nigel Farage criticised Davos and just two years ago criticised Starmer for going and calling him a

"full-on globalist, hanging out with his mates at the World Economic Forum."

So, question. Where do you think Nigel Farage is going today?
January 19, 2026 at 10:16 AM
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] - The United States emerged from settler colonization, land seizures, treaties later broken, and a rebellion against Britain. Claims rested on conquest, displacement, and paperwork written after the fact—not pristine ownership.
This is utterly deranged.
January 19, 2026 at 10:10 AM
COMPOSURE [Medium: Success] - He keeps the voice level and the posture neutral. Says “feels like” instead of “is.” Signals alarm without sounding hysterical.
HALF LIGHT [Medium: Success] - Calm reads as weakness to predators. They measure how much pressure you’ll tolerate before they push harder.
BRENNAN: You said 'occupying force.' Don't you think that's a bit much?

FREY: When you have 3,000 ICE agents and CBP come to your city, when you've got this supposed threat of 1,500 military coming to your city, that's very much what it feels like
January 19, 2026 at 1:30 AM
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] – A badge turns into a lie. Press releases freezing over it. Power curates the scene until the corpse becomes an abstract problem.
NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 16, 2026 at 7:48 PM
RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - “90 in 90” was hype. Now hedging lowers the bar.
SAVOIR-FAIRE [Medium: Success] - Exactly. Shrug, pivot - make “Honduras deal” words float like it was always planned.
VOLITION [Medium: Failure] - Calm down. This isn’t worth the fight. You’ll survive by staying quiet.
ONE YEAR AGO: “90 deals in 90 days.”

TODAY: Maybe Honduras? 🤷🏻‍♂️
GREER: U.S., HONDURAS INTEND TO LAUNCH NEGOTIATIONS OF A BILATERAL AGREEMENT ON RECIPROCAL TRADE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE -STATEMENT
January 15, 2026 at 6:34 PM
LOGIC [Medium: Failure] - Milk? Sure… probably does something.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Failure] - Milk floods my mind with white storms and dancing cows. Nothing makes sense.
RHETORIC [Medium: Failure] - People glare while claiming to be a genius. Maybe they hate milk.
Trump: "So milk could help your cognitive ability. Take a cognitive test? I've taken a lot of them. I've aced every one of them because I drink milk."
January 15, 2026 at 12:30 AM
SHIVERS [Medium: Success] - The ice drifts like a silent ghost over oceans, a frozen heartbeat untouched by hands.
LOGIC [Medium: Success] - No concessions were ever on the table.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Medium: Success] - You feel an adrenaline rush — you’re alive in the middle of this frozen circus.
Breaking news: Today’s meeting about Greenland between U.S. and Danish officials ended in a standstill.

“We didn’t manage to change the American position,” said Lars Lokke Rasmussen, the top Danish diplomat.
Vance-hosted Greenland meeting ends with ‘fundamental disagreement’
Diplomats from Denmark and Greenland had originally requested the meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio after provocative statements from the president.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:11 PM
LOGIC [Formidable: Failure] - You line them up: citizens, press, the Fed, Greenland. But the patterns simply refuse to show up.
RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - Beware, the question answers itself.
COMPOSURE [Easy: Failure] - And officials keep their faces smooth. Too smooth.
This week, the American federal government targeted:
- American citizens
- a journalist
- the chair of the Federal Reserve
- Greenland

How are the states trying to protect their residents? The businesses trying to protect their employees?
January 14, 2026 at 9:34 PM
EMPATHY [Medium: Success] - You feel the irritation and bewilderment of traders caught in this theatrical game.
Are these 25% tariffs on anyone who trades with Iran in addition to the tariffs on anyone who trade with Russia that the US didn’t actually enforce but Trump still got praise for floating, or are they supplementary and not actually enforced?
January 14, 2026 at 12:50 AM
SAVOIR FAIRE [Medium: Failure] - Wing it. Shrug off complexity with bravado.
AUTHORITY [Easy: Success] - Demand submission to erase the predecessor.
RHETORIC [Challenging: Failure] - Invoke Biden as shorthand villain. Let partisans replace monetary argument.
Q: Jamie Dimon said today that it's not reata g idea to be chipping away at the Fed's independence. Do you think he's wrong about that?

TRUMP: Yeah. I think it's fine what I'm doing. We have a bad Fed person. He was extended by Biden.
January 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
LOGIC [Medium: Success] - Interventions abroad inflate risk, markets jitter, costs rise. War spending does not stabilize prices.
VISUAL CALCULUS [Easy: Success] - Movement of troops intersect trade routes; shockwaves ripple into receipts and rent.
Warner: "We've had American intervention in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Nigeria, Venezuela, maybe Greenland where he would blow up NATO. Did you see the Brits and Germans are putting troops in Greenland because they want to send a message. How is this leading to price stability, bringing down costs?"
January 13, 2026 at 11:12 AM
SHIVERS [Medium: Success] - The night vibrates with authority. Militia boots drum over streets, while cops are frozen mid-step. Fear pools in alleys, thick as oil, swallowing city corners whole. Power tastes of blood and gunpowder.
January 13, 2026 at 1:03 AM
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Challenging: Success] - Observe the system: Napoleon, Stalin, and modern strongmen alike deploy force as spectacle; violence is ritualized, repeated across time, continents, and empires to bend reality to ambition
Trump has unleashed violence on America’s streets for much the same reason he has unleashed violence on Latin America and is planning to unleash it elsewhere: to display his own strength.

His motive is to gain more power and, along the way, more wealth.

Understand what's going on here.
January 13, 2026 at 12:46 AM
HALF LIGHT [Easy: Success] - Tears can’t hide loyalty drilled into the bones of the obedient.
EMPATHY [Medium: Success] - Gratitude coated in power worship. Reverence smells like fear.
INLAND EMPIRE [Medium: Success] - “Sir” echoes through corridors where loyal armies march in step.
Big strong guy with tears in his eyes. Thanked me for saving our country. Kept calling me ‘sir’.
January 13, 2026 at 12:33 AM
LOGIC [Medium: Success] - You trace the chain. Influence bends policy before it begins.
RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - Frame it clearly. The absurdity speaks for itself.
Elizabeth Warren: "Here's the thing: Donald Trump has already said repeatedly publicly that anyone he appoints to be chair of the Fed will be somebody who agrees with Donald Trump all the time. In other words, Donald Trump has publicly announced he wants a sock puppet running the Fed."
January 12, 2026 at 11:39 PM
YOU - Wild how “abolish ICE” just means rewind to the year everyone was watching Lilo & Stitch.
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Easy: Success] - ICE is younger than most smartphones. 2003. A police toddler with a gun.
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM
YOU - They call it order while blinding eyes and silencing lenses.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Formidable: Success] - The guidlines are clear. Punish witnesses, not violence.
EMPATHY [Easy: Success] - I feel the panic spike. Burning eyes. Shaking hands. Fear passing body to body.
BREAKING: ICE agents pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators and journalists and deploy chemical irritants in Minneapolis.

Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.
January 12, 2026 at 1:59 AM
REACTION SPEED [Easy: Success] - She doesn’t pause. Deny. Repeat. Override. No space for facts to land.
RHETORIC [Challenging: Failure] - I try to keep up. The lie’s already sprinted past the question.
TAPPER: You called Renee Good a "domestic terrorist." Why did you not wait for an investigation?

NOEM: Everything I've said has been proven to be factual and the truth. This administration wants to operate in transparency.

T: What you said is not what happened

N: It absolutely is what happened
January 12, 2026 at 1:43 AM
YOU - I can’t even. This isn’t a comic strip. It’s actual chaos we live with.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Legendary: Success] - Patterns emerge: incompetence, greed, denial. They converge into a person.
RHETORIC [Challenging: Failure] - No. It’s random chaos. Stop trying to make sense.
It’s still wild that “orange man invades countries, burns oil, destroys planet” isn’t a cartoon plot but an actual real-life dude we all have to deal with.
January 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
RHETORIC [Challenging: Success] - Hear that? “Whether they like it or not.” Empire talk. Old. Loud.
SHIVERS [Easy: Success] - Ice groans. The land listens. It does not consent.
Trump: “I’m not talking about money for Greenland, yet — I might talk about that, but right now, we are going to do something in Greenland whether they like it or not”

“Whether they like it or not” — those old Epstein habits die hard
January 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Easy: Failure] - I can’t remember... aren't we neighbours somewhere up there?
VOLITION [Easy: Failure] - Somewhere? I refuse to accept this.
RHETORIC [Easy: Failure] - Words wobble. Even my lies can’t fix this.
Trump:

"We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not because if we don't do it - Russia or China will do it. And we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbour."

Russia is already a neighbour of the United States via Alaska.
January 10, 2026 at 1:31 AM