In this guest investigation by Zarina Zabrisky, an American journalist covering the war in Ukraine, she reveals the Russian connections to Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
I am 75 and I am not a smart person, just a normal person who has been lead astray by the very American education system that called me stupid. Didn’t care that I was an abused child, but that is all water under the bridge now. I tried real hard to educate myself and at 21 I voted for the first time. I registered as Democrat against my father, which was a childish move to hurt him. But I saw how people in my church tried to make sure that the members followed the candidates and voted for these choices. But in my opinion the church was not to engage in politics, but I am the stupid one I tell myself, maybe I got it wrong in civics maybe I missed something. So I go to the library and look it up, cannot ask a teacher they all think I am stupid, and it clearly states separation of church and states. So for me growing up I just listen to adults, if you are a mouse and very quiet the adults in the room forget you are there, I became a non- person in my own household and just about everywhere else. I voted for some time for both parties. I would get the info on who was running for what ever and read their bio to see what they purposed and how they had helped my community, were they paid by special interests groups, I thought this was my job as an American to be sure I voted for the people or persons that would do right by the American people. And than something happened just before Reagan came into the GOP. Like I say I am a stupid person, I had been duped by all of it, this was not a fair thing politics the decks where loaded against us the American citizens who worked at very little wage and still couldn’t achieve the American dream! So I better start doing some more reading to see where I went wrong. My dad was in WWII but he never spoke of it, but my grandfather on my mother’s side did ( mother died when I was 2, don’t have any memory of her) about how unfair it was to blacks and American Indians, my grandfathers on both side were Indians who learned to live and work in the white mans world. So back to the library to read about WWII. What an eye opener I sure was glad I was born in America, I have read just about everything I could and have put my hands on. And than American history too! I am a Christian, I only tell you this because of what I am to say next. I started telling friends and the others that would engage me in discussions on American culture, that we were a Christian nation, this would blow my mind and or my brains out of my head, I could hardly contain myself, this land was not made for the white man and we where never a Christian nation and my forefathers were not heathens. I was a lot of fun at parties not. Where did I go wrong, well every where, than trump decided to make his un-godly appearance as a Republican running for president, I thought to myself president of what? Remember I am the stupid one, I laughed out loud! I had known about him since I was 14 living in the American heartland. And like most people I read about him in the newspaper. I thought to myself WOW what a good looking young man, who was everything I was not or ever would be. Well that lasted about a half a heartbeat. But I was hooked on what he was all about and who was this family. I read everything I could the newspapers were great places for everything Trump! Of course it wasn’t till he decided to run that things got really insanely WOW. I love a good scary story, but I never saw it coming the Nightmare before Democracy crashed! I am still the Stupid one, I thought we had it made here in the land of the free, we are not NAZI GERMAN, It couldn’t happen here, we have checks and balances right? There are very smart or smarter people in the government running interference right? But I question 9/11 what happened, not here god really! Now I was blindsided again, yes I know that we are one of the most RACIST COUNTRIES in the WORLD pretending not to be, we still refer to others belonging to the upper,middle class, and lower class, working class, new money, old money, Classes still left over from Europe. What was before is still here these classes have strongly shaped our lives, values, beliefs, expectations. Don’t think out of your class, don’t have dreams you can’t ever achieve, stay where you belong and it just has a life of it’s own for ever! Black and brown peoples you were our slaves before and you well still be our slaves so don’t get out of line. Yellow skin people we rule you! And you Jews, how dare you act like you care, your people Killed Jesus! I have heard it all before and here it is again!!! WHY? WHY? WHY? I am the STUPIDEST PERSON I thought we could be a Better People together! What do I do now that my Nightmare came true and I thought I was be on being Scared! Than I found YOU, what I have learned from you is this never goes away, we must FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! But my best days are long gone, I can hardly walk without my walker or take meds because I am in pain all the time. So I have to pass the torch to the Youth of our world, but you are a torch in the darkness, if I was a smarter person I wish I would have read your work when I was younger, you are the right Woman in the right place, at the right time! Pleases don’t think of me as the stupid girl next door, even though I am, I tried to be better it is just to late for me, but not you. Please keep telling us about the world that most of us have no idea is way more a Nightmare than my dreams! I know that there are about 53 DICTATORS in the world today, and that is scary, but I myself well be long dead before the world comes to it’s senses and wakes up to the facts that we are all of us in the same boat and if we don’t start be baling we as a WORLD are going to drown! Well that is all I can say for now, and if you see this as stupid thing I just left you just remember the stupid girl with nothing to lose. PS I never had anything but myself to lose.
Reading over your recent articles, now under present post-election circumstances, I don’t see ahead any path to victory over such deeply entrenched networks of corruption.
I don’t see any path ahead for a free Ukraine.
I see an increasingly menaced EU.
I see a profound unwillingness by the US to change course from increasingly tattered and decaying efforts to rule the world.
I see an increasingly isolated and friendless USA.
I see nuclear war coming in the early 2050s, as a final desperate grasp to hold onto international power.
Eye opening, again. Bravo.
I am 75 and I am not a smart person, just a normal person who has been lead astray by the very American education system that called me stupid. Didn’t care that I was an abused child, but that is all water under the bridge now. I tried real hard to educate myself and at 21 I voted for the first time. I registered as Democrat against my father, which was a childish move to hurt him. But I saw how people in my church tried to make sure that the members followed the candidates and voted for these choices. But in my opinion the church was not to engage in politics, but I am the stupid one I tell myself, maybe I got it wrong in civics maybe I missed something. So I go to the library and look it up, cannot ask a teacher they all think I am stupid, and it clearly states separation of church and states. So for me growing up I just listen to adults, if you are a mouse and very quiet the adults in the room forget you are there, I became a non- person in my own household and just about everywhere else. I voted for some time for both parties. I would get the info on who was running for what ever and read their bio to see what they purposed and how they had helped my community, were they paid by special interests groups, I thought this was my job as an American to be sure I voted for the people or persons that would do right by the American people. And than something happened just before Reagan came into the GOP. Like I say I am a stupid person, I had been duped by all of it, this was not a fair thing politics the decks where loaded against us the American citizens who worked at very little wage and still couldn’t achieve the American dream! So I better start doing some more reading to see where I went wrong. My dad was in WWII but he never spoke of it, but my grandfather on my mother’s side did ( mother died when I was 2, don’t have any memory of her) about how unfair it was to blacks and American Indians, my grandfathers on both side were Indians who learned to live and work in the white mans world. So back to the library to read about WWII. What an eye opener I sure was glad I was born in America, I have read just about everything I could and have put my hands on. And than American history too! I am a Christian, I only tell you this because of what I am to say next. I started telling friends and the others that would engage me in discussions on American culture, that we were a Christian nation, this would blow my mind and or my brains out of my head, I could hardly contain myself, this land was not made for the white man and we where never a Christian nation and my forefathers were not heathens. I was a lot of fun at parties not. Where did I go wrong, well every where, than trump decided to make his un-godly appearance as a Republican running for president, I thought to myself president of what? Remember I am the stupid one, I laughed out loud! I had known about him since I was 14 living in the American heartland. And like most people I read about him in the newspaper. I thought to myself WOW what a good looking young man, who was everything I was not or ever would be. Well that lasted about a half a heartbeat. But I was hooked on what he was all about and who was this family. I read everything I could the newspapers were great places for everything Trump! Of course it wasn’t till he decided to run that things got really insanely WOW. I love a good scary story, but I never saw it coming the Nightmare before Democracy crashed! I am still the Stupid one, I thought we had it made here in the land of the free, we are not NAZI GERMAN, It couldn’t happen here, we have checks and balances right? There are very smart or smarter people in the government running interference right? But I question 9/11 what happened, not here god really! Now I was blindsided again, yes I know that we are one of the most RACIST COUNTRIES in the WORLD pretending not to be, we still refer to others belonging to the upper,middle class, and lower class, working class, new money, old money, Classes still left over from Europe. What was before is still here these classes have strongly shaped our lives, values, beliefs, expectations. Don’t think out of your class, don’t have dreams you can’t ever achieve, stay where you belong and it just has a life of it’s own for ever! Black and brown peoples you were our slaves before and you well still be our slaves so don’t get out of line. Yellow skin people we rule you! And you Jews, how dare you act like you care, your people Killed Jesus! I have heard it all before and here it is again!!! WHY? WHY? WHY? I am the STUPIDEST PERSON I thought we could be a Better People together! What do I do now that my Nightmare came true and I thought I was be on being Scared! Than I found YOU, what I have learned from you is this never goes away, we must FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! But my best days are long gone, I can hardly walk without my walker or take meds because I am in pain all the time. So I have to pass the torch to the Youth of our world, but you are a torch in the darkness, if I was a smarter person I wish I would have read your work when I was younger, you are the right Woman in the right place, at the right time! Pleases don’t think of me as the stupid girl next door, even though I am, I tried to be better it is just to late for me, but not you. Please keep telling us about the world that most of us have no idea is way more a Nightmare than my dreams! I know that there are about 53 DICTATORS in the world today, and that is scary, but I myself well be long dead before the world comes to it’s senses and wakes up to the facts that we are all of us in the same boat and if we don’t start be baling we as a WORLD are going to drown! Well that is all I can say for now, and if you see this as stupid thing I just left you just remember the stupid girl with nothing to lose. PS I never had anything but myself to lose.
Reading over your recent articles, now under present post-election circumstances, I don’t see ahead any path to victory over such deeply entrenched networks of corruption.
I don’t see any path ahead for a free Ukraine.
I see an increasingly menaced EU.
I see a profound unwillingness by the US to change course from increasingly tattered and decaying efforts to rule the world.
I see an increasingly isolated and friendless USA.
I see nuclear war coming in the early 2050s, as a final desperate grasp to hold onto international power.