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Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FalseHopes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FalseHopes</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bribe</span></a>-fattened <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Justices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Justices</span></a>, as part of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/secureSocialElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>secureSocialElites</span></a>, have turned the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> into a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/venalPublicOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>venalPublicOffice</span></a> by ruling that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> Law did not apply to tips, gifts, and payments meant to reward actions taken by state and local officials.</p><p>They did this by distinguishing after-the-fact rewards for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/officialAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>officialAction</span></a> from before-the-fact bribes.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/us/politics/supreme-court-corruption-bribery.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/06/26/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/supreme-court-corruption-bribery.html</span></a></p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ I tagged the above <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FalseHopes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FalseHopes</span></a> because that's what <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HeritageFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HeritageFoundation</span></a> president <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KevinRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KevinRoberts</span></a> — who is part of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/secureSocialElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>secureSocialElites</span></a> — is relying on in his opening salvo of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SecondAmericanRevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SecondAmericanRevolution</span></a>.</p><p>He should learn from the tragic and violent <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FrenchRevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrenchRevolution</span></a> in which the mass of people who were NOT ordinarily predisposed to violence were nonetheless swept away and were consumed by it, only to the ultimate detriment of the secure social elite and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/monarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monarchy</span></a>.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@ianbassin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ianbassin</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://threads.net/@gtconway3/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gtconway3</span></a></span></p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FalseHopes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FalseHopes</span></a> </p><p>Adding this to the above on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publicExecutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicExecutions</span></a> as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/officialAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>officialAction</span></a>. It's not just <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>. It's also ALL the mad people surrounding him — including the entire <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a>.</p><p>via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@ianbassin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ianbassin</span></a></span> shared by George Conway<br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://threads.net/@gtconway3/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gtconway3</span></a></span> ➡️ <a href="https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3/post/C9FOxuPspiR" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">threads.net/@gtconway3/post/C9</span><span class="invisible">FOxuPspiR</span></a></p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FalseHopes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FalseHopes</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PresidentialImmunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PresidentialImmunity</span></a> decision is so dangerous because the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightWing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Justices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Justices</span></a> made it with FULL knowledge of historical precedent and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s well-known <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/penchantForViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>penchantForViolence</span></a> in name of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/officialAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>officialAction</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LouisXVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LouisXVI</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> repressed riots and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protests</span></a> of 1775, known as the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FlourWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlourWar</span></a>, by deploying 25000 troops and making an example out of 2 rioters — one in 20's and another, a teen — by publicly executing them in Place de Grève.</p><p><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/donald-trump-guillotines-firing-squads-executions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/do</span><span class="invisible">nald-trump-guillotines-firing-squads-executions</span></a></p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FalseHopes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FalseHopes</span></a> </p><p>After 4 decades of failed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrickleDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrickleDown</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightWing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> justices ruled <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homelessness</span></a> a crime.</p><p>Present conditions in America are disturbingly similar to those of pre-Revolutionary <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> under <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LouisXVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LouisXVI</span></a>, whether it's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migrants</span></a> (not same as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a>), <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inflation</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a>, or better-off people like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LeonardLeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeonardLeo</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HarlanCrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HarlanCrow</span></a>, corrupt <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Justices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Justices</span></a> and their spouses gaslighting us into believing that "all this is evidence of increasing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/moralDepravity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moralDepravity</span></a>."</p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ 3 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FalseHopes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FalseHopes</span></a></p><p>Emboldened by corrupt <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> decision on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PresidentialImmunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PresidentialImmunity</span></a> &amp; FALSE hopes of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmericanMonarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanMonarchy</span></a> under <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HeritageFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HeritageFoundation</span></a> just fired opening salvo of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SecondAmericanRevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SecondAmericanRevolution</span></a> based on another FALSE hope that it would be <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bloodless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bloodless</span></a> — like the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GloriousRevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GloriousRevolution</span></a> that put William III of Orange on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/British" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>British</span></a> Throne.</p><p>Knowing THAT hope is false, it is openly threatening <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bloodshed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bloodshed</span></a>, again FALSELY hoping to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/intimidate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intimidate</span></a> us with its own <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrunswickManifesto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrunswickManifesto</span></a>.</p>