Critical Rationalist

4/9. The Iranian operation in 2020 was designed to help Donald Trump get elected.

2/ Epstein received $6.7 billion thanks to the Wall Street Bailout of 2008, American taxpayers paid off the liabilities of an obscure offshore company called Liquid Funding Ltd. that was chaired by Jeffrey Epstein.

Paradise Papers leaked in 2017.

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#36 The Golden Escalator, the Moscow Deal, and Russian Operatives Trump's ongoing Moscow deal, though secret, was still a real possibility, as Russian operatives penetrated multiple aspects of his presidential campaign.

2015: Trump Tower Moscow

Felix Sater emailed Michael Cohen: “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected...Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this.”
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@craigunger.bsky.social wrote a book titled "American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump..." that I recommend everyone read. It's stunning how long the corruption has been occurring.

Holding her in civil contempt can't be pardoned.

I blocked him.
Attempts at civil conversation failed.

I just want to highlight how close we are to a radical loss of freedom. We depend on two CEOs saying "no" to using AI in mass surveillance and weaponry (not only physical, btw).

But we have another ketamine "genius", which would be very happy to step up.

This is not the time to relax!

😂

It was an allusion to the Orange Revolution.
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The Anti-Orange revolution?

Just don't eat the soft-serve dessert.

Although I would wager that Bondi, Noem, and Gabbard are trauma victims who still have serious unresolved anger and pain. Their actions, attitudes, and behavior seem pretty obvious in that regard even to casual observers like me.

I'm at the point where I think it's the latter.

pimp, pervert, escort.

Sarcasm and condescension will get you blocked.

If RFK were an unknown guy sitting on a barstool spouting such stuff, other patrons would move away from him -- maybe even to a different bar.

I have never understood how such people's brains are wired. Were they abused as children? Why all the hatred and perversion? Why the joy in illegitimate power?

(Screen name comes from Karl Popper's "Critical Rationalism.")

The Trump regime is a Russian sabotage operation.
(Supported by fascists including Murdoch, Musk, SCOTUS, Vought, et al.)

Trump has been a Russian asset for decades. He is as corrupt, criminal, and evil as Putin, but unlike Putin, Trump is an utter idiot.

It will have about as much chance of success as the Bondi DoJ's other absurd political indictments: 0%.

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There will be no "front lines" or "kill zones" like in Ukraine.

It will be more like the Orange Revolution. (Or in our case, the Anti-Orange revolution.) Anger-based, grassroots revolts are hard to predict, especially here, where people are (a) armed and (b) not used to fascism.

Not even close to all of them.

Many who cooperate have serious misgivings. The cooperation is based on pre-Trump arrangements. At least according to my small cross-sampling of friends in LE and military.

6 months ago I shared your pessimism, but less so now.
I'm a vet, former intel, not naive.

In 1982 shortly after graduating law school, I got a letter from a newly-organized group called "The Federalist Society," describing its views and urging me to join. My reaction: "Who could possibly have such perverted views of the law and society?" The letter went in the trash. I still remember.

The pathological cruelty and brutality.
The dishonesty.
The incompetence.
The criminality.
The sexual perversion.

Mind-boggling.

Being a perverted asshole is a basic job qualification in the Trump regime.

Americans in the military and law enforcement are angry too.

If Trump declares an "emergency" and rigs the midterms so the GOP wins, there will likely be kinetic civil war.

Americans are armed to the teeth, and there is only so much they can take before the anger reaches a critical mass.

Americans in the military and law enforcement are angry too.

How Trump's Real Estate Laundered Russian Mob Money Craig Unger dives into the long, complex history of Donald Trump’s international real estate ventures and their intersections with Russian state security.

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Read everything Craig Unger writes.

The Trump regime is a Russian sabotage operation.
(Supported by fascists including Murdoch, Musk, SCOTUS, Vought, et al.)

Trump has been a Russian asset for decades. He is as corrupt, criminal, and evil as Putin, but unlike Putin, Trump is an utter idiot.

The pathological cruelty and brutality.
The dishonesty.
The incompetence.
The criminality.
The amorality.

Mind-boggling.

Being an asshole is a basic job qualification for any position in the Trump regime.

The Trump/Putin sabotage of America continues.