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Increasingly it does sound like US President Donald Trump will leave the Strait of Hormuz to others to sort out. "... The U.S.A. won't be there to help you anymore ..."

dear US citizen please elect donald trump for president, he is very entertaining

Abraham Rugo – Debt, Elections, and Budgets: A Public Finance Heist @abrahamrugo theelephant.info/videos/2026/03…

The last time I remember Kenyan life being this hard, economically and socially, was in the 90s. I never imagined we'd go through this again in my lifetime. The politics were incoherent as they are now, we were struggling economically, and relationships were suffering in confusion and strange types of conflicts. The only difference between then and now is clarity about where the problem is coming from. In those days, I didn't understand what was happening to us. I thought it was just Africa being Africa. Now I see the political and philosophical problems a little more clearly. The Kenyan state is structurally kaput and needs to be replaced.

Most scientific conferences and symposia in Kenya have a major concern: every invited guest complains that universities, research institutions and scholars are not commercializing ideas. Even GoK bashes scholars a lot on this! Justifiably, but... A short 🧵

While our bots are bullying us to obsess with identity, others have been doing the work of explaining Kenya's economic history in geopolitical terms. The best revenge against the bots is to get the knowledge they are trying to block us from getting when they insult us. Listening to this conversation with @TweetingPundit about Kenya's economy since 1885 is one way to get revenge. Darius situates all the generations within the structure of our economy and explains why we are experiencing the economy the way we are. It's worth your time. youtu.be/daNPWHWHIto?si…

Over the decades, I kept asking myself: why is it that Kenyans are not allowed to think beyond identity? And during the Uhuru presidency, I realized that the reason is only one: KENYANS MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT THE ECONOMY. So over the decades, the psyops throw doggy bones at us. They keep talking about identity, and they keep us preoccupied with education reform that falsely promises to address unemployment. But we must never have an economic conversation. How do I know? There's an article by ES Atieno Odhiambo which explains that assassinations by the state started in 1965, around the time when the Americans wrote the Sessional Paper No 10 to con us that capitalism is "African socialism." Odhiambo says that at that time, there were debates about the economic path that Kenya should take, and the state needed to kill that conversation. That is why Pio Gama Pinto was one of the first martyrs of independence. He was considered too ideologically influential, especially with Jaramogi. Pinto was feared as too communist. So this is why my post has annoyed the bots (the number of reposts also has something to do with it). I was talking about structural adjustment programs, not about presidents. The IMF reset Kenya's economy to force Gen Zs to be too busy struggling to survive to ask political questions. The same thing was done in the 1990s to my generation, except at that time, the West had enough money to pour into NGOs to distract us. And the West will do it again in 30 years to the children of Gen Z's unless we fight for economic sovereignty. That's the conversation that is being suppressed with this tribal pathway responses. It's CBC, social media style. Kenyans must never be allowed to think beyond their parental involvement and their talent. They must always think that problems are related to their identity and nothing else. A copy of Odhiambo's article is here. It's a classic because it explains the problem with our so called independence. wandianjoya.com/uploads/3/1/2/… We also have an economic conversation with @TweetingPundit here. It will show you that all the presidents Kenya have been the same. Pawns of a game they barely understand, partly because they profit from it. But of course, the Kiambu Road and Langley guys will not allow you to think that far. It's too much for you Africans. Your minds must stick to your tribal reserves and only leave when you get an intellectual kipande from the state. There are resources available to expand your mind beyond the identity limits that the guys from Kiambu Road and Langley VA want you to remain within. youtu.be/daNPWHWHIto?si…

Over the decades, I kept asking myself: why is it that Kenyans are not allowed to think beyond identity? And during the Uhuru presidency, I realized that the reason is only one: KENYANS MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT THE ECONOMY. So over the decades, the psyops throw doggy bones at us. They keep talking about identity, and they keep us preoccupied with education reform that falsely promises to address unemployment. But we must never have an economic conversation. How do I know? There's an article by ES Atieno Odhiambo which explains that assassinations by the state started in 1965, around the time when the Americans wrote the Sessional Paper No 10 to con us that capitalism is "African socialism." Odhiambo says that at that time, there were debates about the economic path that Kenya should take, and the state needed to kill that conversation. That is why Pio Gama Pinto was one of the first martyrs of independence. He was considered too ideologically influential, especially with Jaramogi. Pinto was feared as too communist. So this is why my post has annoyed the bots (the number of reposts also has something to do with it). I was talking about structural adjustment programs, not about presidents. The IMF reset Kenya's economy to force Gen Zs to be too busy struggling to survive to ask political questions. The same thing was done in the 1990s to my generation, except at that time, the West had enough money to pour into NGOs to distract us. And the West will do it again in 30 years to the children of Gen Z's unless we fight for economic sovereignty. That's the conversation that is being suppressed with this tribal pathway responses. It's CBC, social media style. Kenyans must never be allowed to think beyond their parental involvement and their talent. They must always think that problems are related to their identity and nothing else. A copy of Odhiambo's article is here. It's a classic because it explains the problem with our so called independence. wandianjoya.com/uploads/3/1/2/… We also have an economic conversation with @TweetingPundit here. It will show you that all the presidents Kenya have been the same. Pawns of a game they barely understand, partly because they profit from it. But of course, the Kiambu Road and Langley guys will not allow you to think that far. It's too much for you Africans. Your minds must stick to your tribal reserves and only leave when you get an intellectual kipande from the state. youtu.be/daNPWHWHIto?si…

Be very honest. Have you felt the effect of a capital injection the size of 7 trillion in the economy over the past 13 years?

Gen Z’s political awakening in 2024 is rewriting the rules—moving beyond global market narratives to demand real accountability and meaningful change. In this episode "Millennial Series 7 years reflection," @TweetingPundit explores how shared life experiences are uniting a generation to challenge empty systems and reshape civic engagement on their own terms. How do you see Gen Z transforming politics? Join the conversation! Watch - youtu.be/mzxQ52y-m9M Pod - open.spotify.com/episode/5ACGTU… @Maskani254 @nisisikenya @CivicVoiceInt @Pawa254 @chamadui @thetimwork @anto_ty @CiruMuriuki @wmnjoya @nyanchwani @saitonne @jkobuthi @realoyungapala @johngithongo

There’s not enough discussion about how almost every international institution created and led by Western countries were specifically created to ensure the global south wouldn’t be able to compete with them on the global stage.

I'm happy to announce this new paper — we compile evidence on the extraordinary harms caused by IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes in the global South since the 1980s. The empirical record is devastating: documented negative impacts on wages, poverty, inequality, maternal mortality, infant mortality, healthcare access, etc. SAPs inflicted misery on the periphery in order to curtail their consumption, scupper independent development, and make labour and resources more cheaply available for the core. gh.bmj.com/content/11/Sup…

@TweetingPundit It's deliberate. That's why the media kept saying that the cause of the Gen Z protests was educated youth, rather than oppression. Nothing imperialism hates more than educated Africans.

@__QlintDwayne Straight up. But then that invites broader chat on our national approaches & attitudes towards education, and it's not pretty at all.

@TweetingPundit You see the problem!

10k PhDs among 40M adults, with only 500 full profs, 900 associate profs, and PhD programs that last 6-9yrs instead of the standard 3yrs.

@jwaweruh @itssammira_ One crazy documentary. The Pig Farmer Killer. youtu.be/jrpTSKjjxCA?si…

@itssammira_ In movies, they are the best way to hide a body

Pigs eat humans???????

It fascinates me that giving to charities is considered noble and praiseworthy. But creating a society that doesn't require charity is considered socialist and bad. 🤔

The Overton Window created by legacy media has Kenyans not even considering this man. Really tragic.

"To be an enemy of the United States is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal" - Henry Kissinger

Empires fall suddenly. And what follows is not a new world order, but decades, even centuries, of chaos.