[PIANO ONLY] Everybody's watching the ClownCar [PAUSE] Good Chaos turns the key Power changes hands [PLINK] Now watch where it lands Don't need to breach the Border when the Broker lets you through Don't need to buy the system when its failures work for you Tariff allies wreck the Trade Watch new routes & deals get made Small shops, bleed alliances fray Strongmen flex as we give way [CUT;DRY SPOKEN] WHO PROFITS? [GROOVE RETURNS] Someone knows what makes you rage what you click & what you buy Someone owns your feed Someone teaches drones to classify Follow money Follow Data Follow shipping Follow Trade Democracide gets easier when dependence has been made 11 at BRICS’ table only 2 still rated Free Freedom comes in fractions when Power sets the fee Some still hold elections some make Dissent a crime No shared creed required when interests align Oil can change its settlement Infrastructure shapes the way Empires don't invent the chokepoints They learn which ones will pay Own the route Finance the cargo Know which gate can't give way You don't have to own the country if you can influence the gateway WHO PROFITS? Don't need a secret meeting Read the balance sheet WHO PROFITS? Follow every advantage when Democracy retreats Some need money Some need leverage Some follow honey to the trap Watch them bend to lick the floor when the handler flashes proof [CUT;DRY SPOKEN] Oh? You think they don't? Then tell me darling— what would they be doing differently if they were compromised? [PLINK] Mm It needs opportunity [PIANO ONLY] Russia invaded Ukraine Cities shattered Lives betrayed Budapest said ‘borders matter’ Ukraine laid its nuclear shield away Washington gave assurances Moscow called the bluff [LOW ELECTRONIC PULSE] First the camera learned your face then the database your name Then the State defines an Enemy Automation scales the game H-G S-T-R gives swarming weapons milliseconds to classify Name a population Enemy then automate who gets to die Surveillance Classification Dehumanisation AUTOMATION China chokes the drone supply while swarm logic learns to fly Buy the jet! Buy the drone! 🤫But the controls aren't your own Buy the software! Buy the fight! [CUT;DRY SPOKEN] Darling—who owns the Switch tonight? Yesterday you bought a weapon [WHISPER] Tomorrow— you rent the war from corporations [GROOVE RETURNS] Oil once spoke in Dollar$ Now another language grows Beijing builds the payment rails where sanctioned commerce flows Tariffs open doors Broken promises pay You don't dethrone a currency in one spectacular day Petro-yuan doesn't need a coup [PAUSE] Just somewhere else to put Trust Meanwhile— ClownCar grabs the cameras Books & bathrooms Rage & race Everything's a bargain every alliance has a price Tariff friends Humiliate allies Make assurance merchandise Every tantrum has a downstream Every vacuum invites threat If BRICS wrote a shopping list what more would they request? Split the West Berate your friends Make the dollar look less blessed Neighbours find new markets Allies hedge their trade Teach the world that Washington makes promises it trades Oligarchs come calling doors swing open wide Watchdogs axed on Friday guardrails step aside Russia gets the fracture China gets the trade BRICS collects its R-O-I on every weakness made [CUT;DRY SPOKEN] They're honest? [PAUSE] We should ask Mitch McConnell shouldn't we? [PLINK] Mm? [GROOVE RETURNS] Hollow institutions Drive out those who know Call expertise Treason then ask where the experts go [CUT;DRY SPOKEN] Mrs McConnell! Such wonderful taste in carpet Who's your decorator? [PAUSE] Everyone's dying to know [PLINK] [GROOVE RETURNS] Russia gets the fracture China gets the trade BRICS gets the argument takes just made [WHISPER] Don't trust Washington Build another way WHO PROFITS? Read the balance sheet WHO PROFITS? Watch who gains each time Murica retreats Wall Street takes its cut Strongmen take the doubt Platforms take attention Everybody gets a dividend except the hollowed-out No genius. No grand scheme. Democratic vandalism! a gift to the Authoritarian Dream Courts don't matter—WHO NEEDS THE LAW? Press asks questions—CALL IT THE FOE Lose an election—CALL IT A FRAUD Every democratic surrender writes an oligarch's defence [PLINK] When BRICS' hard men own D-C Democracide gets a passport Every tool they inherit comes stamped for export [CUT;DRY SPOKEN] What are we defending? [GROOVE RETURNS] WHO PROFITS? Follow money Follow data Follow access Follow trade Follow every bargain weak democracy made Multipolar [CUT;DRY SPOKEN] Fine [GROOVE RETURNS] Shift the money Shift the power Human Rights still draw the line HUMAN RIGHTS STILL DRAW THE LINE No warlord No trillionaire No corporation No machine When power gets to break the rules democracy is marketing [ALL OUT] Follow the money Follow the data Follow who controls the gate The ClownCar was never the machine It kept you watching
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