Not that much of a mystery, really. Putin has had Donnie’s nuts in a vise since the 80s.
lazy, and incorrect bullshit
I’d love for you to post some non lazy sources.
Are you a correct horse battery staple or an incorrect horse battery staple?
I guess people didn’t get your reference: https://xkcd.com/936/
I couldn’t justify putting correct in my username on Lemmy. But I loved the reference too much not to use it, so here I am, a less secure truncated version of a better password.
FWIW, I think you’re the correct variety of horse battery staple.
It’s the Daily Beast, sooo… grain of salt needed.
Need more than hints and vague language, we all know it’s true, but release the peepe tapes now
This is the difference between the DNC and the GOP. Both parties know that the PeePee tapes exist and are fake, however the GOP would have released them in 2017 regardless of if they were real or not. Much like the trumping up of Hillary’s email server and Bengazi. It’s not about what’s true or real anymore. It’s about public sentiment. That’s how Russian and Chinese misinformation are so successful here. We’ve defunded our schools and have people struggling so much to make ends meet they cannot take the time off to vote, and when they do vote they’re often not really looking at anything else than how much groceries and gasoline cost. Which pointedly, the Executive branch has little control over.
We’ve been fucked since Reagan. John Hinckly Jr. frankly should have had more firearms training.
A KGB rep already said Trump has “obligations” he needs to fulfill.
Just to play devils advocate, they do this to ‘stir the pot.’ Granted, Putin’s hand is up Trump’s ass to the shoulder.
https://archive.ph/Q2DvN no paywall
Trump definitely acts like a person that Putin has a hold over. If he had, the only question is what this “hold” is.
My bet: A video of Trump happily banging a minor (or even several) in a Moscow hotel room. It would perfectly fit his personal profile, him being a “friend” of Epstein.
Nah, it has to be money. No way something like that would ruin Trump at this point.
“Scaramucci did not elaborate on what he believes that “hold” might be, adding only: “I don’t know why it’s like this. [H.R.] McMaster couldn’t figure it out, [James] Mattis couldn’t figure it out, [John] Kelly couldn’t figure it out.”
We know for a fact, thanks to the Mueller Report, that the Pee Tapes mentioned in the Steele Dossier do, in fact, exist. They’re fake, but they exist.
"According to a footnote in the special counsel’s report, which was released Thursday, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, received a text from Russian businessman Giorgi Rtskhiladze in October 2016 that said: “Stopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if there’s anything else. Just so you know…”
Rtskhiladze also told prosecutors that he was told the tapes were fake, but that he didn’t convey that to Cohen.
Well he was given a wife…
Sorry, which one(s) was that?
Yeah. But if you supported the alternative, you’re a genocide supporting false progressive blue or nothing scab. In all caps sometimes. Get criticized for calling out the sitouts in one thread, then in another they claim they voted Kamala anyway.
Seriously, I think these guys are running on a script.
Why does anyone still listen to Anthony Scaramucci or Michael Cohen? These guys were never whistle-blowers, just con-men who changed teams.
This whole thing hinges on Scaramucci’s credibility, which means it should be ignored.
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Today’s word is: Kompromat
“My silence is because what I really think is not in the mainstream,” Scaramucci replied. “And so what I really think, if I end up saying it on our podcast, people will say, OK, I’m being absurd. OK, so—but I think there’s a hold on him.”
Fuck you. You were complicit. For 1 mooch, but still. You saw all this shit and you still agreed to be part of the administration. Even now, you’ll hint at it but not say everything. Your comments against Trump now mirror other rich Republican assholes who only speak up after the fact, when they can no longer benefit from his cult-like base.
Once again, for the cheap seats - the US lost the third world war which was waged in the shadows and online. China and Russia installed this fucking nutter both times. Biden won in 2020 because enough folks got off their asses to vote, but the disinformation and propaganda run during Bidens term led to less asses going to the polls. Musk didn’t buy twitter and hollow it out for nyucks. He was directed to do so by China, Russia, and the UAE. Look at the public filings for his purchase. Look at who gave Musk the money for that purchase. Twitter was such a powerful tool to spread or combat disinformation and propaganda, so it was purchased and gutted in order to be used the another nail in the coffin of progressive collective action. Twitter under musk was such a huge part of drumpf 2024 winning.
To be honest and a bit pedantic, it’s a continuation of the cold war. There has been no 3rd world war and likely as not due to; Russia’s complete mishandling of their nuclear arsenal and China’s economic interests, there is little threat of one. The US intelligence departments know this. And with Gabbard as the DNI Chief I’m pretty sure Russia has a finger on the pulse of what we will know. There are rumblings of compartmentalization efforts in the Intelligence communities and there are rumors of rogue efforts to keep sensitive intel within the DOD and subsequent cells and away from the DNI and the Executive branch. We’re living in absolutely insane times and the US Hegemony is at it’s most vulnerable now. I am not for US Hegemony in the general sense and I do not think that it is the only stabilizing force in world politics. But when a power vacuum forms, it’s rare that stability follows in the short term.
If there were ever a time for a general strike to depose and defang the executive branch it is now. However, I don’t see the general US populace doing anything on behalf of Ukraine or to further the Hegemony.
With what Musk is allowing DOGE to do we’re headed for another great recession. Maybe that will be the inciting event to have a revolution. But I just don’t know. The Constitution setup the branches of the government in such a naive way. There are no true checks and balances, just gentleman’s agreements to “behave in the best interests of the country”. To wit, the Constitution was designed to be a living document to be amended and changed to fit the current society it governs, but this has not been the case. Impeachment does nothing, we have a convicted felon in the White House and a foreign born national directing policy. These are uncharted waters but I don’t think anything short of a general strike will change anything.
Yeah I agree on all your points. I like to call it ww3 bc “but US won Cold War, no more Berlin Wall”. Also ww3 sounds scarier and I want people to freak out in a real way.
Fair enough, like I said the point I made was pedantic. Your points stand regardless of if it’s called WW3 or anything else.
Btw the first word of ur username should be correct
I couldn’t justify putting correct in my username on Lemmy. But I loved the reference too much not to use it, so here I am, a less secure truncated version of a better password.
did we just become best friends?
Wanna build bunk beds? You can have top bunk. Mom still has me with rubber sheets.
The crazy part of this is how many people on here will agree with this in principle, but then turn around and repeat propaganda about Biden. The same exact thing they did with Clinton. The playbook is so obvious to anyone who has not become emotionally invested in denying that they got taken by this Russian agitprop.
I don’t think Scaramucci knows shit about fuck
Oh wow, a wild Mucci appears!
