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The Psychological Census of a Falling Jungle. 🌴 Mapping the Glitches. Counting the Pops. We are all just monkeys in expensive suits. Welcome to the Republic.
Tokyo, Japan
Joined August 2019
Bruh Monkey is literally paying for a gym membership, a meditation app, a sleep tracker, and therapy ..... just to recover from the job that broke him in the first place 🤦 The Jungle made Monkey sick, then built a wellness industry to sell him the cure. Gorillas collect on both
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26 to 35 Monkey protesters died at US embassies in Pakistan this week. Not in Iran. In Pakistan. Ordinary people so enraged by what they saw that they marched on a building. And the building's security opened fire. At least 10 killed at the US Consulate in Karachi alone.
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Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman called Trump. Multiple times. Urged him to attack Iran. Israel lobbied. Saudi Arabia lobbied. Senator Lindsey Graham made what the Wall Street Journal called "the most compelling case" to Trump for the assault. Three external voices. No
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North Korea is watching. So is Venezuela. So is every government that has ever sat across a table from the United States in good faith. Iran was in active nuclear negotiations. The bombs fell anyway. The Stimson Center said what needs to be said: "Adversaries will be less
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Trump called NATO allies "cowards" this week. For not helping secure the Strait of Hormuz. The same allies who were not consulted before the war started. The same allies who were not given a vote on Operation Epic Fury. The same allies whose economies are now absorbing $112
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Iran's internet connectivity dropped to 4% of normal levels this week. 4%. Mothers cannot reach their children. Children cannot reach their fathers. Iranians abroad are staring at phones that do not connect. The silence is also a weapon. Cut the communication. Control the
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Russia's Dmitry Medvedev said something this week that nobody amplified. He said the United States used its nuclear talks with Iran as a cover. Sat across the table. Took the intelligence. Learned the positions. Mapped the facilities. Then bombed them. The Stimson Center
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The USS Gerald R. Ford — the largest aircraft carrier in the theater. Damaged by a fire in the laundry room. Withdrawn from combat operations. Sailing to Crete for repairs. The most expensive warship on earth. Taken out of a war by a laundry fire. The jungle builds weapons
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Sri Lanka said no. The United States asked to land two warplanes — armed with eight anti-ship missiles — at a Sri Lankan airport. Sri Lanka's president stood before parliament and refused. "To maintain our neutrality," he said. Applause from the parliament. A small nation.
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The US is at war with Iran. This week it also temporarily lifted sanctions on Iranian oil. Let that sit. The country being bombed. The oil being purchased. The bombs and the barrels in the same week. The jungle does not have enemies. It has expenses and revenues. Iran is
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Before the first bomb dropped, Oman's Foreign Minister stood at a podium and said: "A breakthrough has been reached. Peace is within reach." Iran had agreed to never stockpile enriched uranium. Had agreed to full international verification. Talks were set to resume March 2nd.
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They bombed Iran on the first day of Nowruz. The Persian New Year. The oldest continuously celebrated holiday on earth. Families had set the Haft-sin table. Children were dressed. The candles were lit. Then the sirens. You do not accidentally choose that date. The jungle
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This week in the jungle wasn’t random. It was a pattern. A Gorilla loses billions — and it barely registers. Enemies become partners — when prices rise. A war starts — then gets reconsidered when it gets expensive. A gold coin gets approved — while workers wait. A city hits
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Justice doesn’t scale the same way money does. 👀 They called him “Teflon Elon.” Because nothing sticks. This time — something did. Liability. But even if the full $2.6B lands: It’s still less than 0.5% of his wealth. The system doesn’t just judge actions. It measures
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It hit 105°F in March. 😬 That’s not weather. That’s a signal. Phoenix just broke its all-time March record (100°F set in 1988). Average 105°F day? Late May. This happened two months early. Another town hit 110°F — highest March temp ever recorded in the US. Scientists:
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A gold coin got approved faster than workers got paid. A federal commission approved a 24-karat coin with the president’s face. The same commission: Fully appointed by him. They recommended it be made as large as possible. Meanwhile: TSA workers are still owed paychecks.
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The war didn’t change. The math did. 👀 Now it’s being “wound down.” Why? Oil near $100. Gas rising. Recession risk climbing. Markets reacting. Same decision-makers. Different numbers. Monkey felt it at the pump. The Gorillas felt it in the models. Only one group got to
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A war may have started when a deal was still possible. Before bombs dropped on Iran, allies assessed diplomacy was within reach. The path existed. Then the war happened anyway. Now — weeks later — the same people are discussing ending it. Which means: The exit may have
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Enemies yesterday. Oil partners today! The jungle spent years telling Monkey who the villains were. This week: Venezuela → sanctions eased Russia → temporary oil waiver Same week. OKAY! Nothing changed politically. Only one thing changed: Gas hit $3.84. Foreign policy
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This week in the jungle... 🍌 A jury fined the world’s richest Gorilla $2.6 billion .... 0.39% of his fortune. His lawyers called it “a bump in the road.” The US lifted sanctions on Russia AND Venezuela to get cheaper oil from the same countries it spent years calling enemies.
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So next time you hear “the economy is recovering” — ask one question: Which stroke of the K? 🍌 Because the headline is written for the top. The lived experience is the bottom. And the gap between those two lines isn’t a glitch. It’s the system. Built deliberately.
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