Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You are a Russian paid bot. You know how to use the internet. Look it up yourself. While you’re at it. Look up Volney’s Ruins of Empires translated by Thomas Jefferson. You will read in that book exactly why Putin is going to lose. It’s too late for him. But maybe not too late for you… 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 01/10/2026All campaigns in all countries in all centuries have a multi pronged strategy. This is not news. One prong of Trump’s overall campaign strategy in 2024 was to target black and Hispanic men by promoting crypto. Black and Hispanic men are heavily into crypto. This is not news. It helped Trump to win. 100
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I did not say the vast majority of. You did. Try again. 100
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 28/09/2026From one man to another: Spend less time drinking sugar drinks, watching sports on TV, gambling on crypto, ruminating inside your man cave. Spend more time eating healthy, doing sports, investing, and taking adventurous vacations. You will find yourself… 001
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 28/09/2026AI enhances their hallucinations… 010
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Social Media: The fault is “baked into the form itself.” 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Trump tempted black & Hispanic men with promises of all the riches to be had in crypto—and the scam worked! 110
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I used to live in Benbrook. Looked up the old neighborhood. All the nearby wells were labeled : “No danger to water”—good to know, thanks for the article! 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 19/09/2026How far can nothing but hot air carry a single individual? 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Now begin Trump’s efforts to evade or ignore… 010
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Even farmers and truckers and gun nuts and evangelicals know the truth —they’re angry because they made the personal decision to vote for Trump twice despite all the evidence warning he was nothing but a con man. Where’s the source of the diesel problem? Look in the mirror… 010
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It’s still early… 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The market is not paying attention to him right now. It’s thinking about the CPI number on Friday 11 September and the Fed announcement on Wednesday 16 September 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Never a clearer statement of corruption made voluntarily and in public 070
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Putin better take up train travel… 010
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Anthropic being pirated by low quality Chinese copies = ⚖️ 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 25/08/2026CIA chief makes unannounced visit to Moscow, possibly to warn Putin against possible attack on NATO… www.reuters.com/world/us-spy...reuters.comUS spy chief visits Russia for meetings, media reportsU.S. CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow on Tuesday for meetings with Russian officials, U.S. media outlets reported, citing unnamed sources. 021
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 20/08/2026No job. No talent. No money. What else is a 21st century royal to do? 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Maybe it’s just me. But I first read it as: “Middle East gets the arms” 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 20/08/2026No job. No talent. Going back on the government dole… 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The fix was in from the beginning. They never really split. It was a charade all along. Not surprising from the GOAT of Liars. 010
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Trump was never fit to be president. This was evident back in 2015. There are two species of Americans who are responsible for this folly: Those who voted for Trump. And those who didn’t vote at all… 070
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Maybe, just maybe, gamers should get outside more. Leave the screens behind. Breathe fresh air. Touch green grass. Use their bodies to do real physical exercise. Because, you see, high RAM prices aren’t just a supply issue. They’re a demand issue. Humans today have lost touch with reality… 100
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Behind every religious fool is a sharpie making a killing 👍😎 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 07/08/2026“Sometimes a nation, weary of its dissensions, submitted to a single master. Observing these dissensions, the master provoked even more: he sowed divisions and hatreds, creating his strength out of their weaknesses.” Chapter 11, Volney’s Ruins, translated by Thomas Jefferson 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I still blame the Russian people for this. They’ve been sheep far too long. It’s time for them to rise up and throw off the yoke of Czars and Communists and Kleptocrats — not to mention the toxic influence of the Russian Orthodox Church. Grow up Russian people! This is the 21st century! 180
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Here’s how the world will know if Trump’s latest threats were just more bluff and bluster : Iran will attack U.S. bases or allies within 72 hours… 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Orwellian: put the evidence refuting the government’s orthodoxy in the Memory Hole 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Which Christianity? Catholic? Protestant? Evangelical? And whose interpretation of each one of those? Most of all, do the interpreters perfectly practice the interpretation they are foisting on everyone else? 010
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Who is holding all the cards now? 101
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Abortion Rights are Private Property Rights. How’s that? Because everyone owns their own body. No one owns someone else’s body. That’s why slavery is wrong. Men own their bodies, just as women own theirs. Hence our bodies are Private Property. Thus Abortion Rights are Private Property Rights… 0181
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Never a clearer signal of true intentions from this despot’s despicable mouth… 010
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Why do empires rise and fall? Is there a single general principle that explains that process? Yes! Volney’s Ruins of Empires (1791) presents a single general principle that applies to all nations, all cultures, all centuries. Unfortunately the book has never been translated into Chinese… 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 15/07/2026How about a book that transcends the traditional left-right political debate? Check out Volney’s Ruins of Empires (1791), translated by Thomas Jefferson (1802). Based on Natural Law, Volney’s book shows why empires rise and fall. As bonus, it also provides a solution to religious conflicts. 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 13/07/2026“Hypocrisy is one of the surest signs of a regime on the brink of collapse” — Volney, deputy in the first National Assembly (1789-91) and author of Ruins of Empires (1791), translated by Thomas Jefferson (1802) 021
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The biggest failure of the modern age… 010
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Food Shortages: a classic way to bring down a government… 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 27/06/2026For this exact reason, Thomas Jefferson anonymously translated Volney’s Ruins of Empires: to show the American people the Enlightenment principles upon which the Constitution was founded. Washington & Lincoln read the book, but they never knew Jefferson had translated it… 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Today verses bread and circuses 2000 years ago… 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 15/06/2026“Exact circonstances never repeat. But general principles do.” — TCW 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 15/06/2026“Sometimes a nation, weary of its dissensions, submitted to a single master. Observing these dissensions, the master provoked even more: he sowed divisions and hatreds, creating his strength out of their weaknesses.” Chapter 11, Volney’s Ruins, translated by Thomas Jefferson 010
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 06/06/2026The U.S. has always been a country of hicks. During prior episodes of stress we got lucky in the presidency—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, FDR—enlightened leaders who knew how to bring out the better angels of our nature. Today our luck has run out: hicks rule from the sticks 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Until the fix is in… 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 02/06/2026The best way to bring down Iran is to bring down Putin. The best way to bring down Putin is to support Ukraine. Of course Trump and his advisors completely screwed up that opportunity… 031
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Trump: “on D-Day send the Marines into Havana…” 040
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Here’s the diplomatic standard of a good deal: words for words, deeds for deeds. They give us words. We give them words. They give us deeds. We give them deeds. Here’s a bad deal: They give us words. We give them deeds. With that in mind, check out Trump’s deal with Iran. 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Here’s the diplomatic standard of a good deal: words for words, deeds for deeds. They give us words. We give them words. They give us deeds. We give them deeds. Here’s a bad deal: They give us words. We give them deeds. With that in mind, check out Trump’s deal with Iran. 010
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Notice she didn’t write: “Your Next” 110
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Notice she didn’t write: “Your next”… 000
Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter @ruinsofempires.bsky.social · 20/05/2026You’ve all been scammed: Gulf Leaders, MAGA voters, Evangelicals. You will live. But will you learn? I doubt it… 030