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Demotikos. Fair warning: I have zero tolerance or sympathy for autocrats or oligarchs. My views on them may be “extreme.”
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1/ Time to return to the topic of oligarchy, democracy, and what do we actually want from “resistance.” Please see posts below and apologies, I’d gotten out of habits learned on Twitter and neglected to number my “skeet’s”(?). To recap: we resist not to return to status quo ante but re-make society.
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Hi All, just sent out this (mostly free). The Long Con of the Trump administration came to an end yesterday, as it was always going to do. We are back in the Oval Office with Trump and Vance ambushing Zelensky. The whole pivot to Ukraine was a sham to help Putin. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The Long Con Comes To An End
The Trump Administration Takes Off The Mask (Again)
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Hi All, just sent out this (mostly free). The Long Con of the Trump administration came to an end yesterday, as it was always going to do. We are back in the Oval Office with Trump and Vance ambushing Zelensky. The whole pivot to Ukraine was a sham to help Putin. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Good analysis but omits one thing: A genesis. Trump is nothing if not vindictive. He hates Zelenskyy for not delivering on his demand for a faux investigation of Biden back in 2019. That let Biden win in 2020. Biden’s win could’ve put him in jail. This is revenge. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The Long Con Comes To An End
The Trump Administration Takes Off The Mask (Again)
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Good analysis but omits one thing: A genesis. Trump is nothing if not vindictive. He hates Zelenskyy for not delivering on his demand for a faux investigation of Biden back in 2019. That let Biden win in 2020. Biden’s win could’ve put him in jail. This is revenge. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Remember when, during 1st term, Trump bulldozed a Montenegrin leader (i think) to get to front of a G20 gaggle? I thought ‘what an asshole.’ Now we know how little he thinks of EU. Turning 🇷🇺 frozen assets into 🇺🇸 slush fund & Trump leads the peace council? Bollocks! www.politico.eu/article/stev...
‘Witkoff needs a psychiatrist’: Europeans fume at Trump’s plan to profit from frozen Russian assets
Diplomats and officials react with outrage to new details of the U.S. peace plan, warning it could wreck their efforts to help Ukraine survive the war.
www.politico.eu
November 22, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Remember when, during 1st term, Trump bulldozed a Montenegrin leader (i think) to get to front of a G20 gaggle? I thought ‘what an asshole.’ Now we know how little he thinks of EU. Turning 🇷🇺 frozen assets into 🇺🇸 slush fund & Trump leads the peace council? Bollocks! www.politico.eu/article/stev...
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The GOP/Kremlin plan is nothing short of trying to defeat Ukraine since Russia can't do it. The disgusting fascist Republican administration and party is truly hell spawned demons parading around with crosses around their necks. Fight back here, help Ukraine. This is unacceptable surrender by DC.
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The GOP/Kremlin plan is nothing short of trying to defeat Ukraine since Russia can't do it. The disgusting fascist Republican administration and party is truly hell spawned demons parading around with crosses around their necks. Fight back here, help Ukraine. This is unacceptable surrender by DC.
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Btw, I do hope people understand what they have seen today. It was a well-planned and deliberate ambush of Ukraine by Trump, to force the Ukrainians to bend the knee to Putin's dictatorship. It was not slip-shod, rushed, impulsive or an accident. It was prepared malice.
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Btw, I do hope people understand what they have seen today. It was a well-planned and deliberate ambush of Ukraine by Trump, to force the Ukrainians to bend the knee to Putin's dictatorship. It was not slip-shod, rushed, impulsive or an accident. It was prepared malice.
This has been foreseeable since November 2024. If it catches EU/NATO or 🇺🇦 flat-footed, they’ve no-one to blame but themselves. The sooner the umbilicus w/ 🇺🇸 is cut the better. An unreliable, untrustworthy ally is no asset but a liability, even a threat. The only object remains: 🇷🇺 total defeat.
❗️The United States has threatened to halt weapons supplies and intelligence sharing with Ukraine if Kyiv does not sign the American peace plan by November 27, Reuters reports.
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This has been foreseeable since November 2024. If it catches EU/NATO or 🇺🇦 flat-footed, they’ve no-one to blame but themselves. The sooner the umbilicus w/ 🇺🇸 is cut the better. An unreliable, untrustworthy ally is no asset but a liability, even a threat. The only object remains: 🇷🇺 total defeat.
1/ The 28-pt plan is an utterly frivolous & worthless piece of shit that results in 🇺🇸🇷🇺 enrichment, 🇺🇦 disarmament and dismemberment, 🇷🇺 rejoining the global economy, and security guarantees by 2 nations who have violated past guarantees.https://www.ft.com/content/79eefaf8-2fc1-47ac-9653-24cf6a0239f5
Read the full text of Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
Proposed deal would limit size of Ukrainian forces and calls on Kyiv to withdraw troops from eastern Donetsk
www.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
1/ The 28-pt plan is an utterly frivolous & worthless piece of shit that results in 🇺🇸🇷🇺 enrichment, 🇺🇦 disarmament and dismemberment, 🇷🇺 rejoining the global economy, and security guarantees by 2 nations who have violated past guarantees.https://www.ft.com/content/79eefaf8-2fc1-47ac-9653-24cf6a0239f5
President Zelenskyy: please inform the pedophile-in-chief, the morally bankrupt “leader” of a dysfunctional, dying republic, to shove his “Munich” demand so far up his ass, it gives his tongue a paper cut. Disarm & cede land?! For what? An illusory promise? 🇺🇸 already welshed on Budapest; no more.
🇺🇸‼️🇺🇦 The U.S. has signalled to Zelensky that Ukraine must accept a U.S.-drafted framework to end the war with Russia that proposes Kyiv giving up territory and some weapons, - Reuters
The proposals included cutting the size of Ukraine's armed forces, among other things.
The proposals included cutting the size of Ukraine's armed forces, among other things.
November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
President Zelenskyy: please inform the pedophile-in-chief, the morally bankrupt “leader” of a dysfunctional, dying republic, to shove his “Munich” demand so far up his ass, it gives his tongue a paper cut. Disarm & cede land?! For what? An illusory promise? 🇺🇸 already welshed on Budapest; no more.
Thinking about the Senate Democrats’ capitulation this weekend, I’m thinking that civil wars don’t get started by uncompromising firebrands but rather by enfeebled geriatrics, clinging to a chimera of “bipartisanship” until any chance of staving off collapse is gone.
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Thinking about the Senate Democrats’ capitulation this weekend, I’m thinking that civil wars don’t get started by uncompromising firebrands but rather by enfeebled geriatrics, clinging to a chimera of “bipartisanship” until any chance of staving off collapse is gone.
“Turn the f*ckin volume up, you low IQ f*ckin f*ck”! Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs right out of the gate. Move over, Obama - this guy is an orator and a genuine change agent. You gotta be both, Barack, and you weren’t.
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“Turn the f*ckin volume up, you low IQ f*ckin f*ck”! Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs right out of the gate. Move over, Obama - this guy is an orator and a genuine change agent. You gotta be both, Barack, and you weren’t.
Sorry, NATO’s general secretary is an uninspiring appeaser in just about every way. He’s about as useful as a “poop flavored lollie pop”. When does his pointless term of office end?
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte:
Russia is not alone in its efforts to undermine global rules -it is working with China,North Korea,Iran,others, strengthening defense industrial cooperation to unprecedented levels&preparing for long-term confrontation
We cannot be naive. We must be prepared.
Russia is not alone in its efforts to undermine global rules -it is working with China,North Korea,Iran,others, strengthening defense industrial cooperation to unprecedented levels&preparing for long-term confrontation
We cannot be naive. We must be prepared.
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Sorry, NATO’s general secretary is an uninspiring appeaser in just about every way. He’s about as useful as a “poop flavored lollie pop”. When does his pointless term of office end?
1/ For media outlets trying to lionize Dick Cheney, I have only his words: "Go f*ck yourself." One of the most despicable politicians of the 20th Century, he's responsible for killing more Americans than bin Laden, not to mention fostering the 'unitary executive' BS that fuels Krasnov's tyranny.
November 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
1/ For media outlets trying to lionize Dick Cheney, I have only his words: "Go f*ck yourself." One of the most despicable politicians of the 20th Century, he's responsible for killing more Americans than bin Laden, not to mention fostering the 'unitary executive' BS that fuels Krasnov's tyranny.
1/ Krasnov and his corrupt cabal of christo-fascists won’t be content for long with “disappearing” immigrants alone. Sooner or later - and most likely sooner - US citizens of the wrong political outlook will start to vanish as well. Some think Trump’s resort to violence just shows his weakness.
Vanishing people from records is part of the protocol used by death squads and the worst South American dictatorships.
Thousands Of Jailed Immigrants in Chicago Have Vanished From Federal Records, Human Rights Attorneys Claim
"These are folks that have been here for decades, have long standing ties to the community, family members, employment, businesses that are all being torn apart," said one attorney
www.latintimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
1/ Krasnov and his corrupt cabal of christo-fascists won’t be content for long with “disappearing” immigrants alone. Sooner or later - and most likely sooner - US citizens of the wrong political outlook will start to vanish as well. Some think Trump’s resort to violence just shows his weakness.
Every time Rutte speaks, I can’t help but wonder: Is he a Putin agent? He is, quite literally, the shittiest person to act as NATO general secretary. Can he not be removed?
❗️🇺🇸 Rutte supports Trump's call to stop the war in Ukraine on the front lines:
🗣️"Stop where you are - that's the main message. And again, we will continue the dialogue this afternoon, and I'm here to help him do everything that NATO can do - to help him realize this vision."
🗣️"Stop where you are - that's the main message. And again, we will continue the dialogue this afternoon, and I'm here to help him do everything that NATO can do - to help him realize this vision."
October 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Every time Rutte speaks, I can’t help but wonder: Is he a Putin agent? He is, quite literally, the shittiest person to act as NATO general secretary. Can he not be removed?
Excellent news! The Gripen is precisely the kind of warplanes Ukraine needs. Capable of operating without the usual infrastructure that NATO aircraft require, it’s perfect for dispersed deployment. I bet Sweden can’t wait to show off its combat capabilities to potential customers.
🇸🇪🇺🇦 Zelensky confirmed that Ukraine has already trained and is training pilots for Gripen. Next year should be the beginning of the use of these aircraft.
October 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Excellent news! The Gripen is precisely the kind of warplanes Ukraine needs. Capable of operating without the usual infrastructure that NATO aircraft require, it’s perfect for dispersed deployment. I bet Sweden can’t wait to show off its combat capabilities to potential customers.
Phillips gets it. Ever wonder: What if all these oh so smart analysts, journalists, politicians really arent that smart? Perhaps we shouldnt leave governance to arrogant, entitled morons. I really dont think we hoi polloi could do any worse than the ‘professionals’! ukrainetoday.org/trump-is-tor...
Trump Is Tormenting Ukraine
The least the media can do is not help him PHILLIPS P. OBRIEN OCT 17 Q. Do you know what it means to have Irish Alzheimers? A. You forget everything except the grudges. Growing up in a part Irish-A…
ukrainetoday.org
October 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Phillips gets it. Ever wonder: What if all these oh so smart analysts, journalists, politicians really arent that smart? Perhaps we shouldnt leave governance to arrogant, entitled morons. I really dont think we hoi polloi could do any worse than the ‘professionals’! ukrainetoday.org/trump-is-tor...
I’ve said it before and no doubt will again: There will never be a genuine “about face” by Trump in his dealings w/ Putin, 🇺🇦, or EU. He is Putin’s puppet. He is Krasnov. He is no ally of EU or NATO or the ‘democratic’ world. Anyone who falls for his turnabout antics is a fool, or worse.
🇺🇸❗️🇺🇦 Trump told Zelensky in a tense meeting that he doesn't intend to provide long-range Tomahawk missiles, at least for now, - Axios.
▪️Nobody shouted, but Trump was tough.
▪️"Trump gave several strong statements during meeting and at some points it got a bit emotional," the second source said.
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▪️Nobody shouted, but Trump was tough.
▪️"Trump gave several strong statements during meeting and at some points it got a bit emotional," the second source said.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I’ve said it before and no doubt will again: There will never be a genuine “about face” by Trump in his dealings w/ Putin, 🇺🇦, or EU. He is Putin’s puppet. He is Krasnov. He is no ally of EU or NATO or the ‘democratic’ world. Anyone who falls for his turnabout antics is a fool, or worse.
“Pissed-all” Pete!
October 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Pissed-all” Pete!
A good read, w/ plenty of embedded links, but not light or happy one. The one thing 🇺🇸 military planners cannot compensate for is corrupt, chaotic, incompetent civilian C&C. Trump admin in 2025 is not FDR in 1939. Nor is 🇺🇸 industry. There’s no sleeping giant to wake. warontherocks.com/2025/10/two-...
Two Dangerous Assumptions in U.S. Defense Planning and How to Fix Them
Decades of dominance leaves a mark: It shapes the beliefs and behaviors of a nation and its military. Extended periods of hegemony for a nation, like
warontherocks.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:13 AM
A good read, w/ plenty of embedded links, but not light or happy one. The one thing 🇺🇸 military planners cannot compensate for is corrupt, chaotic, incompetent civilian C&C. Trump admin in 2025 is not FDR in 1939. Nor is 🇺🇸 industry. There’s no sleeping giant to wake. warontherocks.com/2025/10/two-...
Why, pray tell, would any rational adult believe anything coming out of this lying asshat’s fart hole? How’d that Brexit work out for you, UK?
Asked what he would do if Russian jets crossed into allied airspace, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage replied: “Gotta shoot them down. Clearly, Putin is not a rational man." He also endorsed spending frozen Russian assets and maybe even deploy British troops as part of a UN peacekeeping force.
Farage Says ‘Gotta Shoot’ Down Russian Jets in Harder Putin Line
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage criticized Vladimir Putin as irrational and backed shooting down Russian jets that enter NATO airspace, following criticism that his views on Moscow could threaten his bi...
www.bloomberg.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Why, pray tell, would any rational adult believe anything coming out of this lying asshat’s fart hole? How’d that Brexit work out for you, UK?
Sure. And he ‘ s also got a casino in Atlantic City to sell you. A con man never ceases to be a con man.
Trump promised Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if Putin does not stop the war.
October 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Sure. And he ‘ s also got a casino in Atlantic City to sell you. A con man never ceases to be a con man.
Incredible! Krasnov now claiming Wayergate break-in and coverup was a “hoax’” though not as big a hoax as his illegal shakedown of Ukraine in 2019. Cuz Krasnov is the greatest victim in history don’t ya know? What a pathetic, whinging, lying pussy. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
Critics Can't Believe What Trump Just Called A 'Hoax'
The president attempted to rewrite the history of a scandal in which he was not even involved.
www.huffpost.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Incredible! Krasnov now claiming Wayergate break-in and coverup was a “hoax’” though not as big a hoax as his illegal shakedown of Ukraine in 2019. Cuz Krasnov is the greatest victim in history don’t ya know? What a pathetic, whinging, lying pussy. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
Lovely lady, brilliant actress. Annie Hall, Looking for Mr Goodbar, Sleeper, Reds. She was one of my favourites. Rest in peace.
October 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Lovely lady, brilliant actress. Annie Hall, Looking for Mr Goodbar, Sleeper, Reds. She was one of my favourites. Rest in peace.
1/ You know, watching the US fall apart in real time has me thinking: why not let the government shutdown be permanent? Frankly, the longer the shutdown lasts, the greater the chances for a real revolution to replace the sick oligarchic republic with a genuine democracy on classical Greek lines.
October 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
1/ You know, watching the US fall apart in real time has me thinking: why not let the government shutdown be permanent? Frankly, the longer the shutdown lasts, the greater the chances for a real revolution to replace the sick oligarchic republic with a genuine democracy on classical Greek lines.
And Dominion fucking settled this laydown lawsuit for pennies on the dollar! They couldve bankrupted Murdoch. Silenced the most insidious propaganda machine in history. But they let Fox & Murdoch skate … for lunch money. substack.com/@ellenmitche...
Ellen Mitchell (@ellenmitchell2)
substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
And Dominion fucking settled this laydown lawsuit for pennies on the dollar! They couldve bankrupted Murdoch. Silenced the most insidious propaganda machine in history. But they let Fox & Murdoch skate … for lunch money. substack.com/@ellenmitche...