TRUMP, MUSK, AND VANCE are Russia's "war by other means on America," Russia is winning already because America has failed to see what should be obvious, Donald Trump is Putin's war on America.
Google TRUMP RUSSIAN AGENT. Google TRUMP KREMLIN PAPERS. Russia began preparing for this war when it took an interest in Trump in 1977. The circumstantial evidence screams, nobody is listening.
I hope it's not too late already.
I concluded Trump was Putin's secret weapon in the summer of 2016. Nobody believed me. August 5, 2016, former DEPUTY DIRECTOR CIA MICHAEL MORELL warned America and the world that Trump was a Russian agent. It was all forgotten the next day as America moved on to the next Trump rally.
Google MICHAEL MORELL TRUMP RUSSIAN AGENT.
For more on how pathological he is, mentally, TRUMP ON THE COUCH: INSIDE THE MIND OF A PRESIDENT, Just A. Frank MD, Professor of Psychiatry George Washington University School of Medicine (2018).
Dr. Frank has quite a few vids on YOUTUBE explaining the multiple psychopathologies of Trump.
Google TRUMP PATHOLOGICAL LIAR
Google TRUMP PSYCHOPATH
Google TRUMP DEMENTIA
One psychiatrist / professor using a standard test for psychopathy ranked him "worse than Hitler," by 2 points.
Compound Ukraine Republican angst with regrets about stuff like Musk and Trump stealing the treasujry, Musk illegally appointed running the government w/out Congressional approval, etc.
If I were Jeffries, I'd openly offer Mike Turner, R Ohio, the House Intelligence Committe chair....shared government.
Sotnik has an excellent video (approx. 50 minutes) online explaining how Trump became a KGB agent, very clearly and logically. Yes, he is convinced Trump is KGB agent, and his story is very convincing.
The greatest intelligence op in history inserting a KGB agent as president of the United States.
Google ELON MUSK VLADIMIR PUTIN. Musk has been in "frequent contact" with Putin for at least 2 years, no official records, he's not a government official or employee. The Oval Office attack on Zelensky was a direct attempt by Trump and Vance to give Ukraine to Putin. Thank God Zelensky didn't fall for it.
I couldn't catch the name, but according to the video she is a Russian and especially trained, she came here in 2018.
I would have thought that it was impossible for someone like her to become a secret service agent, but after watching the damage Trump has been able to do with his EOs and memo's, and his ability to give anyone a top secret clearance. My opinion has changed. He is a spoiled child, if he wants something he gets it.
Now I want to know something about all of the agents on his team.
The first comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Mafia that ultimately helped win ...
A startling claim has emerged from a former Soviet intelligence officer, alleging Donald Trump was enlisted by the KGB in 1987, and given the codename "Krasnov." The claim has caused stir and a huge media interest, especially given Trump's public image as a bombastic and mercurial ex-US President. The bombshell allegation was made by Alnur Mussayev, a former Kazakh intelligence chief, in a Facebook post, according to The Irish Star.
No word here about whether anyone in the US who is not under the control of Putin or Trump and the treasonous operatives has a system and a plan to do the same disruptive things in Russia should the attack against us take place. Is there no "back-up" system that would send out an alert and take everything off-line in an attack before they fully implement their destruction? Is there any "shadow" agency or organization that could spring into action and do some on-the-ground coordination to equip people for a post-cyber war survival network? We will be helpless, unless we choose not to be helpless now.
PS: We do not need to wait to hear what Trump says tonight. We know where his head is and we knew that when he spoke at Helsinki.
There is no doubt in my mind that the Orange Millikin Monkey Turnip Head and his cohort are and have been Russian assets. The Orange one has been working for Russia knowingly or not since his visit with his then wife, Ivana, to Russia in 1987. They flattered him and helped him build his big hotel in Moscow etc. They read him precisely. Thom, this is scarier than anything I’ve seen so far this morning. I thought the loss of Social Security was bad and this is much worse as it touches everything. Bastards they are along with the idiots who voted for them. Onward.
A traitorous cabal has taken over our government, and with the enthusiastic cooperation of the Republican Party and rightwing media. Additionally, if we ever wrest back control of our government, we may have to deconstruct the internet completely; it's become a modern Frankenstein's monster.
I would say that Putin won the war when he first got Trump elected in 2016. It should be OBVIOUS to everyone with even average intelligence that Trump and the Republicans are heavily compromised by Putin. He must have some explosive and devastating kompromat on Republicans to have caused them all to become craven syncophants to Trump.
Worse Daniel. Musk and his bride Trump are deconstructing the U.S. period. They have dissembled it such that it cannot be resurrected. It is a fast moving cancer.
Hodgkin's disease, also known as Hodgkin's lymphoma, is a type of cancer that affects the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system is a network of lymph nodes, vessels, and organs that plays a crucial role in the body's immune system.
I stood death watch over my uncle who died of it. At first it was pain in his lymph glands, but took a couple of years to progress, he died an excruciating death, not even morphine could help, 180 lb muscular man reduced to an 80 skin and sore covered skeleton that wreaked of death,
This is what stupidity, bias, religion, ideology, insecurity has wrought us.
We are just now feeling pain in the lymph nodes, as DOGE shuts down and cripples agency, after agency, department after department.
We know Trump is ignorant, but Musk is no genius. He wants to use our wealth and resources to Occupy Mars, but he is destroying the tool, the infrastructure that he needs to do that.
On the other hand, maybe what Musk and Trump have in mind is the Russian model.
NASA stopped using it's own resources to put people in space, it mothballed the Space Shuttle and contracts with Russia because of lower costs and Russia has no environmental concerns, rules and regulations.
Hegseth is in the process of stripping the military back to Pre WWII levels.
Todays top story is: Trump orders a ‘pause’ of US military aid for Ukraine
(The Associated Press) President Donald Trump is seeking to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to engage in peace talks with Russia by pausing military aid to Ukraine. Read More
Another big oneHegseth orders suspension of cyber, information operations planning against Russia
The only movement noted was sending a Stryker Brigade to the Border.
Meanwhile Hegseth is firing generals, and demoralizing the Armed Forces, basically turning them into a modern version of the Army of North Virginia.
As a psychologist, it is nearly impossible not to conclude that Trump, Musk, and Vance are not right in the head. Perhaps for differing reasons, substance abuse, narcissism, insecurity, revenge, etc., in one month, Trump has created governmentwide chaos - none of which has improved efficiency or effectiveness much less proved to save taxpayers a dime. In fact, the new tariffs are going to raise the cost of living for most Americans while lowering their standard of living. Hundreds of economists set off that alarm well before the November elections.
The conflicts of interest within the Trump regime are too numerous to count and expanding daily without accountability. Trump fired the accountability enforcers weeks ago. It was amusing how Trump plans to create a totally unnecessary strategic reserve using crypto which will save his and Musk's failing investments in that scam. Oh and how about Musk redirecting a contract from Verizon to his own company - no conflict there, right?
Meanwhile, as Americans, MGAs included, watch the chainsaw dismantling of their government, polls find that almost half are cheering while the rest of us are horrified. My guess is that our international vulnerability has been compromised in the interest of turning our military into domestic stormtroopers - clueless of "real" national defense concerns.
If this was 1965, I would have expected a government-wide walkout for a week just to teach Americans how dependent they are on the government Trump claims to be dismantling on their behalf. BTW, this ignorance of government reflects a serious failure in public education. Do they still teach "Civics" in school anymore? Maybe the DEI purges were meant to eliminate the last vestiges of Civics classes.
An even greater failure of public education is the obvious cluelessness about household financial management. Most Americans, regardless of income, appear to be living P2P today. A contributing factor might be due to what appears to be a significant shortfall in people with any critical reasoning skills. Even today's college graduates seem to lack critical reasoning skills. That would explain why even now, people do not see the coming tsunami of global chaos.
Tom it pains me to say this, because you, I and so many others don't deserve it, but“We get the government we deserve.”
Originally attributed to French philosopher Joseph de Maistre, this platitude gets weaponized against the American electorate.
I don't deserve it, you don't deserve it, we don't deserve it, but by gawd the MAGAts deserve it, and they maybe cheering today for owning the libs, but not tomorrow when the cancer that they fed reaches their vitals.
True. Until Trump 2.0, I failed to appreciate that the average US voter lacks critical reasoning skills. "Fool me once,..." as Bush tried to say. But then the voters fooled themselves a 2nd time - and I do not limit that assertion to MAGAs. Although, polls are showing 80% support for Trump among MAGAs even now.
I started reading in economics after retirement to keep up with my economist friends in conversations. I knew Trumpanomics was going to be a recession trigger, so I watched the market and decided the recession was a comin' on the 24th and liquidated my investment portfolio that morning. I was still surprised how much I would have lost - (10%) in 1 week - had I not bailed. Tomorrow, the shooting in the tariff war begins in earnest. By April, the MAGAs should be feeling the pain. Makes me wonder how much longer they can blame Biden (who handed over a strong economy to Trump) or their favorite bogeyman - the Globalists.
Do not underestimate the power of belief, Cults are built around belief.
I had a long ranging "discussion" with one such believer on Thom's pages.
They are totally immune to facts, logic, reality, they believe what they need to believe, make excuses and rationalize their beliefs.
This by the way goes for secular as well as sectarian belief systems.
I have a Bachelors in Economics, Masters emphasis in finance and accounting.
And I can't talk finances with my wife, she will be influenced by conversation with a neighbor or something she sees on Facebook,
She is afraid the dollar is going to be worthless and wants to invest in gold, but, get this, this is not gold that you buy and hold in your hands, but gold supposedly held by a company.
How stupid can you be. She said you can buy gold from CostCO, but so what.
You pay a premium for gold, but gold is not fungible, and you can't use it to buy groceries or food, and it has to be assayed, and weighed. The best you use as a medium of exchange is as gold dust by the gram, but how do you make change?
If you want to use gold as a medium of exchange you have to convert it into specie, and the moment you do, you have to a premium. You pay a premium when you buy it and a premium when you sell it, and what do you get in exchange but the medium of exchange that you think is worthless.. the dollar (money).
Sen. Ron Wyden announced that he will be hosting an “open-to-all town hall” on Tuesday, instead of attending Trump’s rant in front of a joint session of Congress. Wyden said: “If you’re looking for something to do … besides watching Trump lie for two hours, all are welcome to tune in.”
I have never watched any of Trumps performances. the more you watch the dumber you become. To watch Trump is to lose brain cells, worse than binge drinking. There will be take aways on MSNBC, Seth Meyer and Jimmy Kimmel (maybe, but I think the studios are getting the message to back off)
Trump is not good for your blood pressure or mental health.
It's apparent Trumpsk does not care about his MAGA constituents as he no longer needs nor cares about their votes. That's what scares me. Guardrails are gone. IG'S, military JAG', protections for whistleblowers. So they're getting the piggy bank ready to be turned upside down for the 50% that non oligarchs don't already own shaken out for them. Oligarchs includes Putin and his Musk's, Bezos, Theils, etc.
Thank you FOX, OAN, Newsmax, Fucker Carlson, etc. for being used as Trumpsk's own State Media.
The puppet Krasnov is up and running to let Russia have all the Putin puppet master wants to his hearts content. The fascist loving non regulated capitalist Repubs are so proud. Exactly what do we expect from so called christians that hate a liberal loving Jesus? A worldwide Christian movement revival like the one during the 18th century would wash this taint away so you can expect one. It is well past due.
Certainly Trump is making it easy for Putin to do so.
But will Putin 'need' to? He has already staged a coup in America and his puppets are in charge and doing his bidding. Perhaps he needs it as a threat to keep them in line.
If he's clever, he'll back up all the software he has infiltrated and the damage he will do, so he can undo it once he has control.
With Ukraine, he probably only wants sea ports, grain production, minerals, and to restart Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant for Russia's benefit. He does not give a toss about the rest of the infrastructure.
But looking at what Trump and Musk are destroying, there is a lot of great value in America that he does not give a toss about either, though he'll have the cyber industry.
I'm far more worried about cyber attacks on Europe, including the UK. We have the internet and Starlink and billionaire-owned companies like Palantir too.
To answer Thom's question, of course they can. With a seditious party controlling all branches of government all they have to do is sit back and watch their moles work their traitorous magic! The Republic hands by a thread.
With President Musk, trump and the MAGA Morons running things down like they have been it is a certainty that we will be seeing this in actuality very soon.
TRUMP, MUSK, AND VANCE are Russia's "war by other means on America," Russia is winning already because America has failed to see what should be obvious, Donald Trump is Putin's war on America.
Google TRUMP RUSSIAN AGENT. Google TRUMP KREMLIN PAPERS. Russia began preparing for this war when it took an interest in Trump in 1977. The circumstantial evidence screams, nobody is listening.
I hope it's not too late already.
I concluded Trump was Putin's secret weapon in the summer of 2016. Nobody believed me. August 5, 2016, former DEPUTY DIRECTOR CIA MICHAEL MORELL warned America and the world that Trump was a Russian agent. It was all forgotten the next day as America moved on to the next Trump rally.
Google MICHAEL MORELL TRUMP RUSSIAN AGENT.
For more on how pathological he is, mentally, TRUMP ON THE COUCH: INSIDE THE MIND OF A PRESIDENT, Just A. Frank MD, Professor of Psychiatry George Washington University School of Medicine (2018).
Dr. Frank has quite a few vids on YOUTUBE explaining the multiple psychopathologies of Trump.
Google TRUMP PATHOLOGICAL LIAR
Google TRUMP PSYCHOPATH
Google TRUMP DEMENTIA
One psychiatrist / professor using a standard test for psychopathy ranked him "worse than Hitler," by 2 points.
Take 45 minutes and watch this video Trump is a KFB agent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-u4d6Zwdns
It goes back as far as his Russian Speaking Wife Ivana, daughter of a Czechoslakian agent of the State Security
Yes, that's the Sasha Slotnick video about how Trump was recruited to KGB?
I wish every American would watch it.
HARTMANN needs to do an article about it and link it and help spread it.
IMHO we lost the Cold War on November 5. Our security services, military have been inducted on the side of an "Axis of Evil."
Some Congressional Republicans acknowledge it. The antidote is to impeach the bastards. https://jerryweiss.substack.com/p/to-stop-the-coup-impeach-the-traitor
Compound Ukraine Republican angst with regrets about stuff like Musk and Trump stealing the treasujry, Musk illegally appointed running the government w/out Congressional approval, etc.
If I were Jeffries, I'd openly offer Mike Turner, R Ohio, the House Intelligence Committe chair....shared government.
SASHA SOTNIK. VIDEO. YT.
DONALD TRUMP KGB
Sotnik has an excellent video (approx. 50 minutes) online explaining how Trump became a KGB agent, very clearly and logically. Yes, he is convinced Trump is KGB agent, and his story is very convincing.
The greatest intelligence op in history inserting a KGB agent as president of the United States.
Google ELON MUSK VLADIMIR PUTIN. Musk has been in "frequent contact" with Putin for at least 2 years, no official records, he's not a government official or employee. The Oval Office attack on Zelensky was a direct attempt by Trump and Vance to give Ukraine to Putin. Thank God Zelensky didn't fall for it.
Thanks for this, Tom. Do you have the link to this video? Would be greatly appreciated.
Here is the link Trump KGB Agent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-u4d6Zwdns
So who was the female secret service agent in Butler????
https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2025-01-20/trump-wants-agent-who-covered-him-after-he-was-shot-at-butler-rally-to-lead-the-secret-service
I couldn't catch the name, but according to the video she is a Russian and especially trained, she came here in 2018.
I would have thought that it was impossible for someone like her to become a secret service agent, but after watching the damage Trump has been able to do with his EOs and memo's, and his ability to give anyone a top secret clearance. My opinion has changed. He is a spoiled child, if he wants something he gets it.
Now I want to know something about all of the agents on his team.
American Kompromat by Craig Unger
Penguin Random House
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com › Books
American Kompromat. How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery. How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump,
House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story ...
Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com › House-Trump-Putin-Untold...
The first comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Mafia that ultimately helped win ...
"Craig Unger is an American journalist and writer who has written two books on Donald Trump’s connections to Russia’s security services and the Russian mafia stretching all the way back to the 1980s. Unger says he is “absolutely certain” that the U.S. president is a Russian asset whose current actions are benefiting Russian President Vladimir Putin, and destroying relationships with long-time allies." https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-author-explains-donald-trump-183606490.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABx9ccjRKR8MN8vluAOnHK58DGpBuqCmeUtPHzD6dLbOMmNwTNMVPjUTXlyXZmZ6fJZtMh16NrjC8Y47s6fvvYf9btfLzC4VAly6uOx4WMwYmoyt3jTQGMWjFQO9Pa8WGrRAX4D0drWcF8dDRg2GmlFMhobaPqa9h3HQLWe6qYBP
Bio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Unger
A startling claim has emerged from a former Soviet intelligence officer, alleging Donald Trump was enlisted by the KGB in 1987, and given the codename "Krasnov." The claim has caused stir and a huge media interest, especially given Trump's public image as a bombastic and mercurial ex-US President. The bombshell allegation was made by Alnur Mussayev, a former Kazakh intelligence chief, in a Facebook post, according to The Irish Star.
Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-was-donald-trump-a-secret-russian-spy-in-1987-codename-krasnov-ex-soviet-spy-alnur-mussayev-makes-sensational-kgb-claim-putin-trump/articleshow/118555667.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
Links with Russian officials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials
And our old favorite. Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2024_United_States_elections#:~:text=Russia's%20efforts%20represented%20the%20most,society%20and%20foster%20anti%2DAmericanism.
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No word here about whether anyone in the US who is not under the control of Putin or Trump and the treasonous operatives has a system and a plan to do the same disruptive things in Russia should the attack against us take place. Is there no "back-up" system that would send out an alert and take everything off-line in an attack before they fully implement their destruction? Is there any "shadow" agency or organization that could spring into action and do some on-the-ground coordination to equip people for a post-cyber war survival network? We will be helpless, unless we choose not to be helpless now.
PS: We do not need to wait to hear what Trump says tonight. We know where his head is and we knew that when he spoke at Helsinki.
The Orange Millikin Monkey Turnip Head shut down our retaliatory, intelligence and warning systems already and you are quite sadly quite right.
There is no doubt in my mind that the Orange Millikin Monkey Turnip Head and his cohort are and have been Russian assets. The Orange one has been working for Russia knowingly or not since his visit with his then wife, Ivana, to Russia in 1987. They flattered him and helped him build his big hotel in Moscow etc. They read him precisely. Thom, this is scarier than anything I’ve seen so far this morning. I thought the loss of Social Security was bad and this is much worse as it touches everything. Bastards they are along with the idiots who voted for them. Onward.
A traitorous cabal has taken over our government, and with the enthusiastic cooperation of the Republican Party and rightwing media. Additionally, if we ever wrest back control of our government, we may have to deconstruct the internet completely; it's become a modern Frankenstein's monster.
I would say that Putin won the war when he first got Trump elected in 2016. It should be OBVIOUS to everyone with even average intelligence that Trump and the Republicans are heavily compromised by Putin. He must have some explosive and devastating kompromat on Republicans to have caused them all to become craven syncophants to Trump.
But now he commands our security and military.
Worse Daniel. Musk and his bride Trump are deconstructing the U.S. period. They have dissembled it such that it cannot be resurrected. It is a fast moving cancer.
Hodgkin's disease, also known as Hodgkin's lymphoma, is a type of cancer that affects the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system is a network of lymph nodes, vessels, and organs that plays a crucial role in the body's immune system.
I stood death watch over my uncle who died of it. At first it was pain in his lymph glands, but took a couple of years to progress, he died an excruciating death, not even morphine could help, 180 lb muscular man reduced to an 80 skin and sore covered skeleton that wreaked of death,
This is what stupidity, bias, religion, ideology, insecurity has wrought us.
We are just now feeling pain in the lymph nodes, as DOGE shuts down and cripples agency, after agency, department after department.
We know Trump is ignorant, but Musk is no genius. He wants to use our wealth and resources to Occupy Mars, but he is destroying the tool, the infrastructure that he needs to do that.
On the other hand, maybe what Musk and Trump have in mind is the Russian model.
NASA stopped using it's own resources to put people in space, it mothballed the Space Shuttle and contracts with Russia because of lower costs and Russia has no environmental concerns, rules and regulations.
Hegseth is in the process of stripping the military back to Pre WWII levels.
I recieve the daily Early Bird Brief from Military Times https://link.militarytimes.com/view/5ff8a396d72f7e28440d97f2n4k53.1uwt/80cd897c
Todays top story is: Trump orders a ‘pause’ of US military aid for Ukraine
(The Associated Press) President Donald Trump is seeking to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to engage in peace talks with Russia by pausing military aid to Ukraine. Read More
Another big oneHegseth orders suspension of cyber, information operations planning against Russia
The only movement noted was sending a Stryker Brigade to the Border.
Meanwhile Hegseth is firing generals, and demoralizing the Armed Forces, basically turning them into a modern version of the Army of North Virginia.
Putin has planned for 15-20 years that the ONLY Way to destroy the USA with its military capabilities was from the INSIDE ...and it is DONE
Goses back to the Soviets. Under Trump, the US now supports Putin-backed pro-communist governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
oh dear...'Peace' here, was great while we managed to keep it going
As a psychologist, it is nearly impossible not to conclude that Trump, Musk, and Vance are not right in the head. Perhaps for differing reasons, substance abuse, narcissism, insecurity, revenge, etc., in one month, Trump has created governmentwide chaos - none of which has improved efficiency or effectiveness much less proved to save taxpayers a dime. In fact, the new tariffs are going to raise the cost of living for most Americans while lowering their standard of living. Hundreds of economists set off that alarm well before the November elections.
The conflicts of interest within the Trump regime are too numerous to count and expanding daily without accountability. Trump fired the accountability enforcers weeks ago. It was amusing how Trump plans to create a totally unnecessary strategic reserve using crypto which will save his and Musk's failing investments in that scam. Oh and how about Musk redirecting a contract from Verizon to his own company - no conflict there, right?
Meanwhile, as Americans, MGAs included, watch the chainsaw dismantling of their government, polls find that almost half are cheering while the rest of us are horrified. My guess is that our international vulnerability has been compromised in the interest of turning our military into domestic stormtroopers - clueless of "real" national defense concerns.
If this was 1965, I would have expected a government-wide walkout for a week just to teach Americans how dependent they are on the government Trump claims to be dismantling on their behalf. BTW, this ignorance of government reflects a serious failure in public education. Do they still teach "Civics" in school anymore? Maybe the DEI purges were meant to eliminate the last vestiges of Civics classes.
An even greater failure of public education is the obvious cluelessness about household financial management. Most Americans, regardless of income, appear to be living P2P today. A contributing factor might be due to what appears to be a significant shortfall in people with any critical reasoning skills. Even today's college graduates seem to lack critical reasoning skills. That would explain why even now, people do not see the coming tsunami of global chaos.
Tom it pains me to say this, because you, I and so many others don't deserve it, but“We get the government we deserve.”
Originally attributed to French philosopher Joseph de Maistre, this platitude gets weaponized against the American electorate.
I don't deserve it, you don't deserve it, we don't deserve it, but by gawd the MAGAts deserve it, and they maybe cheering today for owning the libs, but not tomorrow when the cancer that they fed reaches their vitals.
True. Until Trump 2.0, I failed to appreciate that the average US voter lacks critical reasoning skills. "Fool me once,..." as Bush tried to say. But then the voters fooled themselves a 2nd time - and I do not limit that assertion to MAGAs. Although, polls are showing 80% support for Trump among MAGAs even now.
I started reading in economics after retirement to keep up with my economist friends in conversations. I knew Trumpanomics was going to be a recession trigger, so I watched the market and decided the recession was a comin' on the 24th and liquidated my investment portfolio that morning. I was still surprised how much I would have lost - (10%) in 1 week - had I not bailed. Tomorrow, the shooting in the tariff war begins in earnest. By April, the MAGAs should be feeling the pain. Makes me wonder how much longer they can blame Biden (who handed over a strong economy to Trump) or their favorite bogeyman - the Globalists.
Do not underestimate the power of belief, Cults are built around belief.
I had a long ranging "discussion" with one such believer on Thom's pages.
They are totally immune to facts, logic, reality, they believe what they need to believe, make excuses and rationalize their beliefs.
This by the way goes for secular as well as sectarian belief systems.
I have a Bachelors in Economics, Masters emphasis in finance and accounting.
And I can't talk finances with my wife, she will be influenced by conversation with a neighbor or something she sees on Facebook,
She is afraid the dollar is going to be worthless and wants to invest in gold, but, get this, this is not gold that you buy and hold in your hands, but gold supposedly held by a company.
How stupid can you be. She said you can buy gold from CostCO, but so what.
You pay a premium for gold, but gold is not fungible, and you can't use it to buy groceries or food, and it has to be assayed, and weighed. The best you use as a medium of exchange is as gold dust by the gram, but how do you make change?
If you want to use gold as a medium of exchange you have to convert it into specie, and the moment you do, you have to a premium. You pay a premium when you buy it and a premium when you sell it, and what do you get in exchange but the medium of exchange that you think is worthless.. the dollar (money).
Sen. Ron Wyden announced that he will be hosting an “open-to-all town hall” on Tuesday, instead of attending Trump’s rant in front of a joint session of Congress. Wyden said: “If you’re looking for something to do … besides watching Trump lie for two hours, all are welcome to tune in.”
Thousands of us will be joining!
https://blogspot.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0890ebdb3902bd4cdf592750a&id=e90dce7948&e=9bd07a9a98
I have never watched any of Trumps performances. the more you watch the dumber you become. To watch Trump is to lose brain cells, worse than binge drinking. There will be take aways on MSNBC, Seth Meyer and Jimmy Kimmel (maybe, but I think the studios are getting the message to back off)
Trump is not good for your blood pressure or mental health.
I avoid watching Trump with all of my being.
It's apparent Trumpsk does not care about his MAGA constituents as he no longer needs nor cares about their votes. That's what scares me. Guardrails are gone. IG'S, military JAG', protections for whistleblowers. So they're getting the piggy bank ready to be turned upside down for the 50% that non oligarchs don't already own shaken out for them. Oligarchs includes Putin and his Musk's, Bezos, Theils, etc.
Thank you FOX, OAN, Newsmax, Fucker Carlson, etc. for being used as Trumpsk's own State Media.
The puppet Krasnov is up and running to let Russia have all the Putin puppet master wants to his hearts content. The fascist loving non regulated capitalist Repubs are so proud. Exactly what do we expect from so called christians that hate a liberal loving Jesus? A worldwide Christian movement revival like the one during the 18th century would wash this taint away so you can expect one. It is well past due.
Certainly Trump is making it easy for Putin to do so.
But will Putin 'need' to? He has already staged a coup in America and his puppets are in charge and doing his bidding. Perhaps he needs it as a threat to keep them in line.
If he's clever, he'll back up all the software he has infiltrated and the damage he will do, so he can undo it once he has control.
With Ukraine, he probably only wants sea ports, grain production, minerals, and to restart Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant for Russia's benefit. He does not give a toss about the rest of the infrastructure.
But looking at what Trump and Musk are destroying, there is a lot of great value in America that he does not give a toss about either, though he'll have the cyber industry.
I'm far more worried about cyber attacks on Europe, including the UK. We have the internet and Starlink and billionaire-owned companies like Palantir too.
But yes, I fear for America, too.
If the "Confederacy" can win the long lasting civil war without firing a shot the Russian certainly are able to wait out the collapse.
To answer Thom's question, of course they can. With a seditious party controlling all branches of government all they have to do is sit back and watch their moles work their traitorous magic! The Republic hands by a thread.
Sadly, you are correct. To the streets!
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With President Musk, trump and the MAGA Morons running things down like they have been it is a certainty that we will be seeing this in actuality very soon.