🚨💣 THREAD: John Bolton: The Man Who Never Saw a War He Didn’t Like 💣🚨

John Bolton got his start as Reagan's assistant administrator of USAID -- a time when USAID was dramatically re-transformed from Nixon-era "New Directions" third-world assistance to being contingent on "Democracy & Governance" Cold War goals.

This thread unpacks:
1️⃣ His obsession with staying in wars forever
2️⃣ How his NGO & think-tank gigs kept him flush with hawkish donors
3️⃣ His time in the Trump administration and why his home got searched

As always, patience as I pull this together. 🧵

Watch today's media reactions to John Bolton's search for mask slips.

Already some of the talking points are disturbing. Political Wire writes -- "[E]veryone on the side of liberalism and the rule of law ought to take Bolton’s side today. Solidarity."

Think about that. John Bolton, the man who never met a war he didn't want and who spurned the UN is now the poster child of "liberalism."

What this proves is that "liberalism" has nothing to do with liberty. It means protecting the global elite. Defend Bolton, defend the system. They are equating "liberalism" to defending its own enforcers.

I've been trying to wrap my head around John Bolton's mindset.

Neocons at least have a story about spreading freedom.
Globalists at least have a story about building supranational democracy.
MAGA populists at least have a story about pulling back and fixing home.

The best I can tell is from this excerpt where he blamed Putin's invasion of Ukraine on America's failure to project a credible military threat.

To him, the act of being ready to engage in war in and of itself is a deterrent against even bigger wars. But what's concerning is that he's had a home in four administrations. Who else in Washington shares this worldview?

Bolton's tenure was defined by constant clashes, and his grievance is obvious: he didn't get to unleash the wars he wanted. He retaliated by spilling classified national security secrets for profit.

Few officials in modern times have pushed harder for more death abroad; Bolton may go down as one of the deadliest men never to have his finger on the trigger.

We will all be safer for it when he is in jail. And ironically, that's exactly what Bolton would have advocated.

Thread end.

🚨💣 THREAD: John Bolton: The Man Who Never Saw a War He Didn’t Like 💣🚨

John Bolton got his start as Reagan's assistant administrator of USAID -- a time when USAID was dramatically re-transformed from Nixon-era "New Directions" third-world assistance to being contingent on "Democracy & Governance" Cold War goals.

This thread unpacks:
1️⃣ His obsession with staying in wars forever
2️⃣ How his NGO & think-tank gigs kept him flush with hawkish donors
3️⃣ His time in the Trump administration and why his home got searched

As always, patience as I pull this together. 🧵

Epstein also served on the infamous Trilateral Commission, which was commissioned by David Rockefeller.

This may have been the true reason why there has been so much weirdness around this case -- not because of an underaged blackmail scheme, but because Epstein was inducted as part of an elite network that we weren't supposed to see. And they protect their own.

To be clear: I don't know what I believe.
Maxwell has almost zero reason to tell the truth about anything.
But it does contextualize the puzzling reaction and statements from Trump and his administration.

Hear me out: what if Maxwell is telling the truth, and the whole blackmail narrative was just a distraction from that reality?

The more I think about it, the more I wonder if this is the real conspiracy: not hidden tapes or secret blackmail, but the existence of a genuine "elite" network, a closed circle where the same power players gather, trade favors, and decide how wars are waged. And, in the end, protect each other.

And Maxwell was their scapegoat.

I'm tired of seeing Ghislaine Maxwell's testimony framed as if it "obviously" exonerates Trump. I remember perfectly well when people were buzzing about how her testimony would finally spill Epstein's secrets and bring everything crashing down. I didn't buy into that then, and I didn't comment on it for a reason, because I had a strong sense it wouldn't unfold as dramatically as people wanted to believe.

And here we are.

Easy fix. Once Elon Musk and Trump patch things up, Elon will just stick Trump’s brain on a Neuralink chip, drop it into an Optimus bot, and then we’ll call a Convention of States to crown Robo-Trump as Emperor for Eternity. So we'll never have the dilemma you pose here.

Setting aside the impact of COVID-19, the trend looks like natural population decline driven by falling fertility.

Here's how it looked in prior decades:
1950: 116,356,846
1960: 169,615,394
1970: 180,602,838
1980: 180,256,366
1990: 188,128,296
2000: 194,552,774

I looked up Census numbers this morning and found something surprising. The total U.S. population of people who identify as White alone and not Hispanic/Latino peaked at about 197 million in the early 2010s. Since then, it has steadily declined, and went into freefall in 2020, falling to about 191 million in 2023.

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