"We in the rest of the world have had to hear a lot such a lot about what this US government and its hardcore fanbase thinks about us. So you know they'll be super-relaxed and free-speechy about hearing some thoughts about how they look from the outside. Let's use last Saturday as a single snapshot. In Minneapolis, they had the shooting by ICE agents of a protesting nurse who posed no threat an event promptly, provably and blatantly lied about at the highest level."
"Then that evening in Washington, a lot of those same politburocrats turned out for the White House premiere of a ridiculous propaganda film about the president's wife, also attended fawningly by bloodless Apple oligarch Tim Cook. And he's not even the oligarch who paid an insane amount for the film. Top line, guys: all this makes you look like what your president likes to call a shithole country. Sorry! I assume it's fine to use officially licensed vocabulary?"
"Obviously, it's not a proper shithole country until the soft-skinned puppetmasters in the presidential palace cut some grizzled local warlord off at the knees for following orders, so it's good to learn overnight that border patrol commander at large Gregory Bovino has been pulled out of Minneapolis, possibly locked out of his social media accounts, and may soon retire, presumably a fall guy for the likes of stage 4 homeland security tumour Stephen Miller."
Last Saturday included several events that shaped perceptions of the United States abroad. In Minneapolis ICE agents shot a protesting nurse who posed no threat, and senior officials provided demonstrably false accounts at the highest level. That evening in Washington the White House hosted a premiere of a promotional film about the president's wife attended by tech executives and wealthy backers. Border patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino was removed from Minneapolis and possibly locked out of social media, suggesting a potential scapegoat. Federal officers appeared masked and sometimes in civilian clothes, while some protesters adopted military-style attire, reinforcing militarized optics.
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