1/ Short 🧵 on elections and felon candidates for all my American fellas.
I am Italian and I lived through the Berlusconi era. In a lot of ways Berlusconi was to Italy what Trump is to the USA.
If you want to know what will happen, look at Italy 20 years ago.
12/ oh, and cherry on top. B. himself was once attacked, left with a bloody face, sported a large bandage and earned additional support. Everything you are going through, I (we) have seen it before. 👀
1/ Short 🧵
I am happy to see that Europe is stepping up its support for Ukraine: artillery shells, rocket launchers, warplanes, missiles, IFVs. That's a lot.
We are reacting to the US betrayal of democracy, and we are doing it collectively. Europe is taking its place on the
11/ Where am I going with this? I don't really know. I just wanted to tell you: if you want to understand T., look at B. If you think that a conman, convict, and serial liar cannot win elections you are in for a nasty surprise. People will vote for him regardless.
6/ note that once this game started it became a life-or-death thing. B. Was forced to remain in politics to avoid jail, and needed to govern to make laws beneficial to himself and his business. There was no other option for him. T. Is now in the same situation.
4/ two reasons for that: owning half of the mainstream TV channels let him build his own narrative as a "victim of biased justice", and his way to communicate so down-to-earth earned him the sympathy of many people who saw others, not him, as old corrupt politicians.
9/ meaning that people were ASHAMED of him, ashamed of voting for him, and yet they voted for him. A liar? Yes. A conman? Yes. A mafia man? Maybe. Are you voting for him? No (yes, I will, but I'll never tell a soul). Why and how did this happen?
3/ B. was investigated and often tried on many different subjects: money laundering, mafia affiliation, corruption, entertaining himself with underage prostitutes...you name it. But these setbacks with justice NEVER EVER eroded the political support he had. Never.
2/ Like Trump, Berlusconi was an entrepreneur who decided to enter politics on his own agenda, was misunderstood and underestimated by his enemies, had a LOT of trouble with justice, but nonetheless gathered unbelievable support from the people.
7/ B. hijacked the right-wing for over 20 years, losing his grip only when his old age and another huge sex scandal drove large parts of voters away. But here's the most interesting thing: eve in his golden age people rarely admitted voting for B.
5/ B. was able to always portrait himself as external to politics due to his private business in TV and football. Thus every time he got investigated or tried he blamed corrupt politicians and leftist justices who wanted to rid themselves of him.
10/ B. portrayed himself as a successful man, a self-made man, a friend of common people, a victim of political bullying, a victim of biased justice, and NOT a politician. People loved him for this. His adversaries were never able to understand or mimic his communication.
So this hotel in Lucca, Italy is going to host a pro-russian rally with Dugin? That Dugin? The one promoting the genocide of Ukrainians? The hotel is owned by
@bestwestern
so I highly recommend you to voice your feelings to Best Western to have this unbelievable thing called off.
Dugin qui farnetica di una Russia che non può diventare Impero senza fagocitare l'intera Ucraina, aggiunge ridacchiando che non c'è niente di personale. Siamo sicuri che vogliano ospitare questo personaggio, peraltro sanzionato dall'unione Europea, a Lucca? Davvero?
8/ elections in Italy are fair. There's no questioning it, and no risk of rigging. But during the early years and later on too, apparently NOBODY voted for B. You asked your friends, coworkers, relatives, neighbours... nobody said "I am a B. supporter". Yet he had over 25% votes,
Now u keep telling me that F-16s are not in Ukraine even if Su-34s are falling out of the sky at rates unseen since the Marianas Turkey Shot. What's that then? Turbine/airframe wear? Jewish space lasers?
Whatever. Fun fact: autocorrect marks Su-34s red & suggests "Sucks" instead.
Ruzzian Z-channel proudly posted a photo of some gold teeth looted from a dead 🇺🇦 soldier. Other ruzzians joke and celebrate ‘the New Year’s gift’ in the comments.👇
and now let’s talk of the great russian culture 🤮
Guys I don't understand the friendly fire against Blinken. Do you think he came to Ukraine to play guitar? Or did you expect him to come at the head of a 40-miles convoy of Himars launchers? That's not how it works.
@QuispLove
B. owned its own party and intimidated all of his allies into submission through his newspapers and TVs. He had almost complete control over dozens of MPs and senators, because they owed him everything. A few of them were also part of his corruption ring.
Short 🧵 about 🇨🇵
I don't understand the media-sponsored doom & gloom over the French parliamentary election. It looks like nobody knows how the French political system works.
1. France is a presidential republic, with separate elections for the president & parliament.
Oh boy...I earned ONE THOUSAND followers in 48 hours thanks to my thread on Trump vs Berlusconi. It reached 2.3 MILLION views, which is totally unbelievable. I'm honoured, I don't know what you saw in this funny dog in his EU underwear, but I seriously question your judgement. 👀
@1deedeeonlyD
B. was able to make laws beneficial to himself and his companies, so he didn't need the courts. Millionaires and billionaires surely sided with him, but he himself was the richest man in Italy and owned 3 TV channels, so he was Trump, Murdoch and Musk all in one.
It might have gone unnoticed, but yesterday Italy confirmed financial support to the Ukrainian war effort for the next year. 🇪🇺❤️🇺🇦
The least you could do is stop putting pineapple on pizza. 🍕
I feel uncomfortable with a few Fellas retweeting stuff from the English protests.
I'm against uncontrolled immigration & I think Europe failed to properly address the issue. But I don't think that amplifying Farage & russian propaganda is going in the right direction. 🫤
@Iakwasny
To some extent it's true, T. reminds me of Mussolini A LOT. Note that B. as well learned some good lessons from Mussolini in terms of public speeches. But B., with all his limits, was definitely not a fascist - only a fervent anti-communist.
Czechia's prime minister has said that 200,000 more shells for Ukraine have been found
Petr Fiala said this while speaking in Prague at a conference dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Czechia's accession to NATO. Earlier Fiala said that the established coalition of 18
🚨
#Breaking
, Its geting hotter🔥
Ukraine can strike Crimea using US-made weapons, Jake Sullivan, the US national security advisor to President Joe Biden, tells CNN‼️🍻✌🏼
"We've said we won't allow Ukraine to use US-made weapons to strike Russia. And we believe Crimea is
Breaking news: arming Ukraine is functional to effective negotiations.
If you really want russia to negotiate, you must arm Ukraine to the teeth.
Not arming Ukraine is making negotiations impossible, because it leaves russia with a chance of a field victory. 🇺🇦🇪🇺
7/ We will resist the russian aggression and bring a long lasting peace to our continent. We will be a bastion against barbarism. We will be able to shape the destiny of our continent again. Europe was the cradle of democracy & it is now our duty to defend it against tyranny.
6/ We have the capability to defeat russia. The EU industry is huge & modern. The EU economy can crush russia. We now also found the political will to do it. We must go until the end & prepare for a long confrontation. We stand alone in the face of tyranny, but we will not waver.
At this point I think that
@POTUS
is trying to force Ukraine to accept a compromise on russian terms - perhaps the loss of Donetsk, Lugansk & Crimea - by starving them of ammo.
@potus
wants Ukr to sign a deal on unfavorable terms. I find no other plausible reasons. Your thoughts?
@officejjsmart
Nah. Largely inflated numbers. The bodies are still there & you can count 50-100 of them, at best. Add the wounded with the usual 3:1 ratio, and you may get to 200 casualties. I understand the hype, but there's no reason to fool ourselves with made up numbers like the russians do
@FellaFranek
People were ashamed of him because everyone knew that he was corrupt, yet they were promised tax cuts, which are always appealing to the overtaxed middle class.
What a time to be alive 😳
We have a duty to support the aspirations of Belgorod People's Republic to be independent and protect them from the oppressive Moscow regime, right? Right?! ⬜🟦⬜
5/ industry & we are looking for synergies between our armed forces. We are building up armies less reliant on the US, meaning that soon we won't have to obey the US interests and whims anymore. We will take our continent back. And if we do it right, Ukraine will be part of it.
4/ We were supposed to sit under the US umbrella in exchange for our loyalty. And now we are shamed for doing what we were required to do. The US withdrawal from Europe is the US betrayal of Europe. Our politicians started to see the new reality. We are stepping up military
2/ international stage as a union, rather than a loose bunch of countries. The US is committing suicide like Europe did in 1914. When European powers finally fell, the US stepped in. Western Europe has been in the US sphere of influence for almost a century, and it was not
Ok Fellas I've got a question about fitness/muscles: I've got cramps on my calf while swimming today, and I have a half marathon to run tomorrow. I need quick advice. What's best to relax the muscle in 12 hours? 👀
Pic is unrelated, I just like it and I rarely use it.
Public pressure works. Two russia-sponsored events scheduled in Italy were canceled in two days due to public pressure. Don't you ever feel too little or too weak. We are
#NAFO
, we can do anything. I love you all
#Fellas
. 🥹
The war is long, but we won 2 battles in 2 days. 🇺🇦❤️🇮🇹
Friends,
The pro-Russian event in Modena, Italy, has been canceled, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reports.
Thank you! You've shown such support for Ukraine and the truth!
Followers have shared that similar events in Bologna and Lucca have also been canceled - all thanks to
3/ allowed to have its own armies, its own nukes, its own strategy. Americans complaining that the EU neglected its armies forget that it was part of the US plan. After WW2 only the UK and France were allowed to have real armies & their own nukes. Italy & Germany were not.
The media were the watchdogs of democracy, but they are now so committed to profit and private interests that they can barely perform their duty. There's a general lack of morals in the media, profit over principles, and no accountability whatsoever. We have to fix this.
End.
Once upon a time there was a country that was oppressed by a colonial superpower. That country said "no more. This is our land. We want to be free. GTFO"
And they fought against all odds for their
#freedom
, because their future was theirs & theirs alone.
#USA
can you relate?
🇺🇸🇺🇦
3. The large support for RN was expected and is mostly based on immigration & palestine protests. The French, as most Europeans, are fed up with uncontrolled immigration from hostile communities that have no intention to integrate. This is a wake up call for the left.
6. Western media has become totally detached from reality. They are always going for the cheap doom & gloom, because fear sells. They are drifting from information to pure entertainment, with no accountability. This is our main challenge for this decade.
4. I am convinced that the decision to anticipate the parliamentary election is to prevent russian meddling. With less than one month of campaign, russia couldn't mount any propaganda stunt or cause any crisis like they did with EU elections or any other elections in the EU.
#Poll
You see a car with Trump, Putin, Musk and Mike Johnson plunge into the sea. You have time to save only ONE of them before the car sinks.
What pizza would you eat while you watch all of them drown miserably?
#NAFO
The most appalling thing is that russia have absolutely ZERO troops in reserve, not even a company to send to Bilhorod. They are moving units from the Ukrainian front! This shows quite clearly that the huge russian casualty rate is true.
They are voting now for parliament, not for the president. This means that until Macron is president (next 4 years) there will be no major shifts in French foreign policy anyway.
2. France has mixed double turn elections. Whatever happens in the first round may be easily undone,
5. RN, as all populists, largely benefits from being an opposition force. Always finger-pointing, never facing reality, never proposing viable solutions. It is necessary to put them on the front line to unmask their lies. Giving them more space in parliament will deflate them.
Please retweet, amplify, tag whoever you want. ✌🏻 We have 20 days to succeed.
I will not let a genocidal ideologue speak in my country. On my furry dead body.
Note how the media tends to always be critical of moderates (booooring!), inadvertently sponsor populists (exciting! Outrageous!) then when people switch to populists/extremists because of that the media start scaremongering (OMG democracy at risk! No shit, Sherlock!?). Insane.
I'm not a fan of the US administration and I hate how badly they are handling this war. But if Blinken went to Kyiv it was definitely for some important business that is NOT told or shown on camera. As it must be.
in particular when the "wings" are involved, because the wings are less likely to attract votes in the 2nd round. The only way for right-wing RN to win a majority is getting a lot of votes from the left, which seems obviously unlikely.
Ben Wallace:
"Scholz’s behaviour has shown that as far as the security of Europe goes he is the wrong man, in the wrong job at the wrong time."
@Bundeskanzler
you are a fucking embarrassment to your nation and to all of Europe. Please resign.
@OlKubrakov
Why don't we start boycotting Polish agricultural products? Just to give them farmers a taste of their own medicine. It's all fun and games until you have to deal with it yourself. I'm done with these pro-russian agitators.
"bUt ThAt'S tOnE dEaF!" Want to play this game? Ok. Then why are young Ukrainians at the club while others are dying in the trenches? See how easy it is? "Tone deaf" my ass. The guy is doing his job, let's see what comes in the next few days and weeks. Then we'll speak.
Boys, this is my last stop.
I've spent countless hours reporting and bonking vatniks, and even more spreading news of russian war crimes. I've fully supported the UKR war effort from the beginning. It's been a pleasure and a privilege. I regret nothing. Keep up the good work! 🫡
Thank you all fellas for the massive boost! It was totally unexpected, and I am trying to follow back all of you ASAP 🫡 (Twitter just locked me out of my account for that) 😬🤪🐶 Space Karen strikes back 🙈 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 love you all! 💛💙🇪🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸
Hey Fellas! I've been much less active lately and I am sorry for that. I've got to take care of some stuff in real life, nothing worrying but it takes time and energy. I hope I will be back soon.
1/ The bot bubble 🧵
Since Elmo's takeover this SM has become a swamp. Bots are everywhere and they actively try to influence the public debate. Bot farms generate a lot of disinfo trying to orient people's views to benefit this or that entity (MAGA, russia...you name it)
@starlassi
He thrashed the economy, brought Italy to the brink of bankruptcy, and poisoned the political environment for two decades opening the way to even worse populists (Salvini, Conte).
But he did one good thing, labelling Angela Merkel an "unfuckable fat ass". 😂
@Foscari1991
Considerato che di questo miliardo e mezzo i 4/5 caga per strada, non mi sembra così strano. È un paese in rapida crescita, ma per la realizzazione di una superpotenza servono ancora due generazioni e un passaggio culturale traumatico come l'abolizione reale delle caste.
Whatever happens in Ukraine, do you think that russia can outlive Putin?
In the USSR the power was within the Communist Party, not its Secretary. Today's russia looks like nazi Germany, a personal regime. I believe that once Putin is gone russia will collapse.
What do you think?
On
#InternationalWomensDay
I would like to celebrate Ukrainian women. Those fighting in the trenches, those tending to the wounded, those crowdfunding at home, those taking care of their children, those waiting for their husbands at home, those mourning their sons & brothers,
@tkdheadmaster
Thank you for sharing your views. Unfortunately I cannot find any other definition. US politics is now in the hands of fanatics loyal to foreign powers & one candidate is actively promoting fascism. If Americans really care about democracy, they'd better wake up before November.