Shaun Lawson
@shaunjlawson.bsky.social
Liberal leftie, political and football chat.
Sleepwalking into fascism and dictatorship while playing Minecraft, buying the latest iphone, ogling half naked women on Instagram and shitposting on the internet.
Don't Look Up folks. Whatever you do. Because what you'd suddenly see would terrify the crap out of you.
Don't Look Up folks. Whatever you do. Because what you'd suddenly see would terrify the crap out of you.
February 23, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Sleepwalking into fascism and dictatorship while playing Minecraft, buying the latest iphone, ogling half naked women on Instagram and shitposting on the internet.
Don't Look Up folks. Whatever you do. Because what you'd suddenly see would terrify the crap out of you.
Don't Look Up folks. Whatever you do. Because what you'd suddenly see would terrify the crap out of you.
But here's the thing. Back then, the enemy didn't have nuclear weapons and the UK had an empire to come to its aid.
Also back then, we didn't have gadgets, toys and social media distracting everyone from just how grim things truly are.
Also back then, we didn't have gadgets, toys and social media distracting everyone from just how grim things truly are.
February 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
But here's the thing. Back then, the enemy didn't have nuclear weapons and the UK had an empire to come to its aid.
Also back then, we didn't have gadgets, toys and social media distracting everyone from just how grim things truly are.
Also back then, we didn't have gadgets, toys and social media distracting everyone from just how grim things truly are.
This was the most consequential election anywhere in my lifetime.
Many of us did our utmost to warn others about the stakes involved; the disgraceful oligarchical media instead both-sided it constantly and wilfully misinformed.
As a result, this is the darkest time the world has faced since 1940
Many of us did our utmost to warn others about the stakes involved; the disgraceful oligarchical media instead both-sided it constantly and wilfully misinformed.
As a result, this is the darkest time the world has faced since 1940
February 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
This was the most consequential election anywhere in my lifetime.
Many of us did our utmost to warn others about the stakes involved; the disgraceful oligarchical media instead both-sided it constantly and wilfully misinformed.
As a result, this is the darkest time the world has faced since 1940
Many of us did our utmost to warn others about the stakes involved; the disgraceful oligarchical media instead both-sided it constantly and wilfully misinformed.
As a result, this is the darkest time the world has faced since 1940
But I have to say: I think it's ALREADY too late.
Only if the military intervene against Trump will he not get his way. And if someone took him out, well... Vance is just as bad if not even worse, and the Republican Party WANTS dictatorship.
Only if the military intervene against Trump will he not get his way. And if someone took him out, well... Vance is just as bad if not even worse, and the Republican Party WANTS dictatorship.
February 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
But I have to say: I think it's ALREADY too late.
Only if the military intervene against Trump will he not get his way. And if someone took him out, well... Vance is just as bad if not even worse, and the Republican Party WANTS dictatorship.
Only if the military intervene against Trump will he not get his way. And if someone took him out, well... Vance is just as bad if not even worse, and the Republican Party WANTS dictatorship.
The old order is over. Gone.
The liberal rules-based international order (which was always a beyond hypocritical load of double standards nonsense in any case) is finished. So, in all likelihood, is liberal democracy itself.
Plenty of Americans are already waking up to what's going on.
The liberal rules-based international order (which was always a beyond hypocritical load of double standards nonsense in any case) is finished. So, in all likelihood, is liberal democracy itself.
Plenty of Americans are already waking up to what's going on.
February 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The old order is over. Gone.
The liberal rules-based international order (which was always a beyond hypocritical load of double standards nonsense in any case) is finished. So, in all likelihood, is liberal democracy itself.
Plenty of Americans are already waking up to what's going on.
The liberal rules-based international order (which was always a beyond hypocritical load of double standards nonsense in any case) is finished. So, in all likelihood, is liberal democracy itself.
Plenty of Americans are already waking up to what's going on.
With the far right rising in much of Europe, propelled by propagandists and liars on social media, and turning their countries into ass kissing American satellites if and when they win.
At elections you can be sure bad actors will try and interfere and tamper with too.
At elections you can be sure bad actors will try and interfere and tamper with too.
February 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
With the far right rising in much of Europe, propelled by propagandists and liars on social media, and turning their countries into ass kissing American satellites if and when they win.
At elections you can be sure bad actors will try and interfere and tamper with too.
At elections you can be sure bad actors will try and interfere and tamper with too.
And of course, the US and Russia working together and pursuing almost identical interests under dictators cuts China off at the knees militarily and economically and leaves Europe stranded.
And forced to go along with the US, or else.
And forced to go along with the US, or else.
February 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
And of course, the US and Russia working together and pursuing almost identical interests under dictators cuts China off at the knees militarily and economically and leaves Europe stranded.
And forced to go along with the US, or else.
And forced to go along with the US, or else.
And there's Elon working on taking the billionaires to Mars (along with slaves to do all their work, and nubile young women to procreate with, including forcibly), while everyone else is left behind on Earth to choke, burn, drown, starve and suffocate.
So there we are. That's the plan.
So there we are. That's the plan.
February 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
And there's Elon working on taking the billionaires to Mars (along with slaves to do all their work, and nubile young women to procreate with, including forcibly), while everyone else is left behind on Earth to choke, burn, drown, starve and suffocate.
So there we are. That's the plan.
So there we are. That's the plan.
- What's Trump's problem with China and Europe?
Answer: China and Europe's rush to embrace renewables. That's the last thing climate accelerationists like Trump or Putin want.
Neither could give a shit about the future of the planet because both will have bunkers prepared for their families.
Answer: China and Europe's rush to embrace renewables. That's the last thing climate accelerationists like Trump or Putin want.
Neither could give a shit about the future of the planet because both will have bunkers prepared for their families.
February 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
- What's Trump's problem with China and Europe?
Answer: China and Europe's rush to embrace renewables. That's the last thing climate accelerationists like Trump or Putin want.
Neither could give a shit about the future of the planet because both will have bunkers prepared for their families.
Answer: China and Europe's rush to embrace renewables. That's the last thing climate accelerationists like Trump or Putin want.
Neither could give a shit about the future of the planet because both will have bunkers prepared for their families.
- Why does this also suit Netanyahu perfectly?
Because Israel wants the Palestinians gone from Gaza so it can get building the Ben Gurion Canal, completely undercut Egypt, and get very rich by connecting the canal to the Mediterranean.
Gazans being there stop it from being constructed.
Because Israel wants the Palestinians gone from Gaza so it can get building the Ben Gurion Canal, completely undercut Egypt, and get very rich by connecting the canal to the Mediterranean.
Gazans being there stop it from being constructed.
February 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
- Why does this also suit Netanyahu perfectly?
Because Israel wants the Palestinians gone from Gaza so it can get building the Ben Gurion Canal, completely undercut Egypt, and get very rich by connecting the canal to the Mediterranean.
Gazans being there stop it from being constructed.
Because Israel wants the Palestinians gone from Gaza so it can get building the Ben Gurion Canal, completely undercut Egypt, and get very rich by connecting the canal to the Mediterranean.
Gazans being there stop it from being constructed.
Someone asked me in 2016 what I thought Putin was playing at.
I replied: "He WANTS climate change. And he wants someone in the White House who can help accelerate it".
I replied: "He WANTS climate change. And he wants someone in the White House who can help accelerate it".
February 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Someone asked me in 2016 what I thought Putin was playing at.
I replied: "He WANTS climate change. And he wants someone in the White House who can help accelerate it".
I replied: "He WANTS climate change. And he wants someone in the White House who can help accelerate it".
- Why does this suit Putin perfectly?
Because Putin wants Europe enfeebled, NATO destroyed, Ukraine's warm water ports (which Russia has remarkably few of), and ALSO the opportunities provided by climate change.
Specifically, in the Arctic.
Because Putin wants Europe enfeebled, NATO destroyed, Ukraine's warm water ports (which Russia has remarkably few of), and ALSO the opportunities provided by climate change.
Specifically, in the Arctic.
February 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
- Why does this suit Putin perfectly?
Because Putin wants Europe enfeebled, NATO destroyed, Ukraine's warm water ports (which Russia has remarkably few of), and ALSO the opportunities provided by climate change.
Specifically, in the Arctic.
Because Putin wants Europe enfeebled, NATO destroyed, Ukraine's warm water ports (which Russia has remarkably few of), and ALSO the opportunities provided by climate change.
Specifically, in the Arctic.
This sort of empire is exactly what he meant by a new 'golden age'.
He means outright imperial expansion in the manner of nineteenth century Presidents.
In his case, controlling both the Panama Canal and the northwest passage, and 'protecting' Europe through relentless financial menaces.
He means outright imperial expansion in the manner of nineteenth century Presidents.
In his case, controlling both the Panama Canal and the northwest passage, and 'protecting' Europe through relentless financial menaces.
February 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
This sort of empire is exactly what he meant by a new 'golden age'.
He means outright imperial expansion in the manner of nineteenth century Presidents.
In his case, controlling both the Panama Canal and the northwest passage, and 'protecting' Europe through relentless financial menaces.
He means outright imperial expansion in the manner of nineteenth century Presidents.
In his case, controlling both the Panama Canal and the northwest passage, and 'protecting' Europe through relentless financial menaces.
Just pay attention to what he's doing.
- Why threaten Canada, Mexico, Panama and Greenland?
Because he wants to control the entire western hemisphere: above all, through commercial shipping. As global heating increases, so those opportunities grow around Greenland.
- Why threaten Canada, Mexico, Panama and Greenland?
Because he wants to control the entire western hemisphere: above all, through commercial shipping. As global heating increases, so those opportunities grow around Greenland.
February 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Just pay attention to what he's doing.
- Why threaten Canada, Mexico, Panama and Greenland?
Because he wants to control the entire western hemisphere: above all, through commercial shipping. As global heating increases, so those opportunities grow around Greenland.
- Why threaten Canada, Mexico, Panama and Greenland?
Because he wants to control the entire western hemisphere: above all, through commercial shipping. As global heating increases, so those opportunities grow around Greenland.
5. What does Trump want to turn the U.S. into? A mercantilist empire which serves his personal financial interests. He's probably the most transactional individual who ever walked this Earth.
That mercantilist empire will jhave nuclear weapons and the most powerful military ever known anywhere.
That mercantilist empire will jhave nuclear weapons and the most powerful military ever known anywhere.
February 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM
5. What does Trump want to turn the U.S. into? A mercantilist empire which serves his personal financial interests. He's probably the most transactional individual who ever walked this Earth.
That mercantilist empire will jhave nuclear weapons and the most powerful military ever known anywhere.
That mercantilist empire will jhave nuclear weapons and the most powerful military ever known anywhere.
And when martial law is declared, just watch his whole army of bots and social media-owning billionaires place the blame on 'Antifa' and 'the enemy within' and provide just enough plausible deniability for huge numbers to swallow it whole.
February 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM
And when martial law is declared, just watch his whole army of bots and social media-owning billionaires place the blame on 'Antifa' and 'the enemy within' and provide just enough plausible deniability for huge numbers to swallow it whole.
Trump is removing EVERYONE in the government who could hold him accountable. EVERYONE in the armed forces and security forces too.
While freeing 1600 violent criminals to be his militia whenever he needs them, ie. when, not if, he declares martial law as mass protests break out.
While freeing 1600 violent criminals to be his militia whenever he needs them, ie. when, not if, he declares martial law as mass protests break out.
February 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Trump is removing EVERYONE in the government who could hold him accountable. EVERYONE in the armed forces and security forces too.
While freeing 1600 violent criminals to be his militia whenever he needs them, ie. when, not if, he declares martial law as mass protests break out.
While freeing 1600 violent criminals to be his militia whenever he needs them, ie. when, not if, he declares martial law as mass protests break out.
The only way there could possibly be is if a deal is done to protect him and his family afterwards.
He wants to be a dictator to stay out of jail. And the Republican Party knows that without extreme voter suppression, demographic shifts mean it will lose.
So dictatorship suits it perfectly.
He wants to be a dictator to stay out of jail. And the Republican Party knows that without extreme voter suppression, demographic shifts mean it will lose.
So dictatorship suits it perfectly.
February 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The only way there could possibly be is if a deal is done to protect him and his family afterwards.
He wants to be a dictator to stay out of jail. And the Republican Party knows that without extreme voter suppression, demographic shifts mean it will lose.
So dictatorship suits it perfectly.
He wants to be a dictator to stay out of jail. And the Republican Party knows that without extreme voter suppression, demographic shifts mean it will lose.
So dictatorship suits it perfectly.
4. As Trump has to be President to avoid prosecution (and the bought and paid for Supreme Court ruled that Presidents are immune), it is COMPLETELY IRRATIONAL to imagine there'll be a normal election in 2028 if Trump is still alive.
February 23, 2025 at 7:28 AM
4. As Trump has to be President to avoid prosecution (and the bought and paid for Supreme Court ruled that Presidents are immune), it is COMPLETELY IRRATIONAL to imagine there'll be a normal election in 2028 if Trump is still alive.
Trump had to win to stay out of jail.
Netanyahu had to continue the war to stay out of jail, and Trump to win to grant him everything he wants on Gaza.
Putin needed Trump to win to be given everything he wants on Ukraine.
Those three are the axis of evil here.
Netanyahu had to continue the war to stay out of jail, and Trump to win to grant him everything he wants on Gaza.
Putin needed Trump to win to be given everything he wants on Ukraine.
Those three are the axis of evil here.
February 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Trump had to win to stay out of jail.
Netanyahu had to continue the war to stay out of jail, and Trump to win to grant him everything he wants on Gaza.
Putin needed Trump to win to be given everything he wants on Ukraine.
Those three are the axis of evil here.
Netanyahu had to continue the war to stay out of jail, and Trump to win to grant him everything he wants on Gaza.
Putin needed Trump to win to be given everything he wants on Ukraine.
Those three are the axis of evil here.
OF COURSE Trump will have been heavily involved in that. And OF COURSE the timing of the ceasefire wasn't a coincidence at all.
Remember: he even ensured the Republicans blocked the immigration bill, because he wanted to exploit immigration at the election. Which he successfully did.
Remember: he even ensured the Republicans blocked the immigration bill, because he wanted to exploit immigration at the election. Which he successfully did.
February 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
OF COURSE Trump will have been heavily involved in that. And OF COURSE the timing of the ceasefire wasn't a coincidence at all.
Remember: he even ensured the Republicans blocked the immigration bill, because he wanted to exploit immigration at the election. Which he successfully did.
Remember: he even ensured the Republicans blocked the immigration bill, because he wanted to exploit immigration at the election. Which he successfully did.
3. Over the last 2 years, there is absolutely no question that Trump, Netanyahu and Putin worked in tandem to ensure Biden lost.
Specifically, through Netanyahu continuing to attack Gaza and putting Biden, then Harris in an impossible corner. Which cost the Democrats everything.
Specifically, through Netanyahu continuing to attack Gaza and putting Biden, then Harris in an impossible corner. Which cost the Democrats everything.
February 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
3. Over the last 2 years, there is absolutely no question that Trump, Netanyahu and Putin worked in tandem to ensure Biden lost.
Specifically, through Netanyahu continuing to attack Gaza and putting Biden, then Harris in an impossible corner. Which cost the Democrats everything.
Specifically, through Netanyahu continuing to attack Gaza and putting Biden, then Harris in an impossible corner. Which cost the Democrats everything.
Notice the crypto scam him and his family ran even before he was inaugurated? Now he's rich again; he monetises the presidency like no-one else in history.
But foreign states - adversary states - even know the identity of U.S. agents as a result of what Trump did.
But foreign states - adversary states - even know the identity of U.S. agents as a result of what Trump did.
February 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Notice the crypto scam him and his family ran even before he was inaugurated? Now he's rich again; he monetises the presidency like no-one else in history.
But foreign states - adversary states - even know the identity of U.S. agents as a result of what Trump did.
But foreign states - adversary states - even know the identity of U.S. agents as a result of what Trump did.
Last year, he was all but bankrupt. How did he survive? By selling himself to the world's most powerful, evil people.
They OWN him. They own his and his family's asses.
He only ran for President to stay out of jail - where he'd have assuredly ended up had he lost.
They OWN him. They own his and his family's asses.
He only ran for President to stay out of jail - where he'd have assuredly ended up had he lost.
February 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Last year, he was all but bankrupt. How did he survive? By selling himself to the world's most powerful, evil people.
They OWN him. They own his and his family's asses.
He only ran for President to stay out of jail - where he'd have assuredly ended up had he lost.
They OWN him. They own his and his family's asses.
He only ran for President to stay out of jail - where he'd have assuredly ended up had he lost.