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   Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 15:15:43 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

   🇺🇲 2026 Nov elections: crisis, apathy, billionaires
   https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/15/the-billionaires-and-the-november-elections

   * lack of market reaction to Trump ordering DoJ to investigate criminal charges against Fed Chair
   * fine w. this threat: stock indexes all rose
   * how might markets react if Trump cancels/steals 2026 elections?

   * Trump made it clear that he considers both cancellation/ordering that some votes not be counted as options - NYT interview
   https://mastodon.social/@persagen/115862672068934657

   🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism 🇨🇦 Trumpism
   #capitalism #DemocraticSocialism

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     in reply to

     “The bargain no longer works.” 🇨🇦 Canada’s Prime Minister calls out America’s economic hegemony 🤔
     https://www.salon.com/2026/01/20/the-bargain-no-longer-works-canadas-prime-minister-calls-out-americas-economic-hegemony

     Mark Carney called the global order based on rules a “fiction” in a World Economic Forum speech Tuesday

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     Behind Trump vs. Powell: Battle Over Future of U.S. Empire
     https://jacobin.com/2026/01/trump-powell-fed-europe-dollars

     After 2008 crisis U.S. set up vast financial network offering liquidity to allies

     Ongoing clash between Jerome Powell & Donald Trump partly about
     * future of this system
     * which vision of American empire ro promote

     * weaponized U.S. dollar
     * source of overseas hegemony: political, economic, military predominance of one state over another
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony

     #Christofascism #capitalism #DemocraticSocialism

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 15:15:43 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     🇨🇦 "Old order not coming back" Canadian Prime Minister says in provocative speech at Davos
     https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-davos-speech-9.7052725
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum

     Prime Minister Mark Carney says great powers are using 'economic integration as weapons'

     .. sez the capitalist, blowing both sides of his trumpet ...

     🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #hegemony
     🇨🇦 Trumpism

     #transgenocide 🏳️⚧️ #TLM
     https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

     #capitalism #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice
     Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change

     Steve's Place repeated this.