As a non-American I struggle with understanding How he was even allowed to run for Office? He is a walking major security threat ( possibly the whole family) and his goons.
If Trump is now discovered to be a Russian Asset and is obviously tearing our democracy apart, there must be some way to remove him. impeachment is too slow.
Many Americans objected to his being able to run for office. We wonder what Russia is holding over the heads of the government, our senators and representatives in particular are bizarrely supportive of trump and musk even as they gleefully dismantle the government before our eyes.
Yes it’s unbelievable looking from the outside. I Can’t understand How they are all allowed to Continue. Are there no one left with eyes and backbone? Or did they strategiskt fire all of them??? There have been some utterly strange firings …. Where are the ex-presidents the Democratic party??? The outrage ….
I believe Trump has FSB agents consulting with him on everything he needs to do to completely dismantle our democracy. I also think the Democrats understand this and they are afraid of being arrested. It’s a giant nightmare, but a lot of people are pushing back and we will continue doing so until these criminals are gone. 😑
Thanks for this Russian asset story. Besides the content, you are succinct. At night you should write a novel about Krasnov!
I'm sharing with friends.
On the Democrats being silent, they are owned by the same masters. It isn't all Russian oligarchs and mobs. The billionaires that fund the center right Democratic party are pushing for silence to let the Republicans fall on their swords.
What that means to me is the left uprising will be in the streets, and the revolt will take out the corporate dems who are untrustworthy and have betrayed us in what remains of the middle class repeatedly for 50 years of class warfare.
I'm with Chomsky in seeing a War Party with a left and right wing. The moderate Republicans merged with the corporate Dems under Obama and the far right whack a doodles have millions from the Nerd Reich.
Do you follow Gary's economics? He's helped. me understand why we need 90-99% taxes on the rich if we want any kind of middle class like we had in the 50's under Eisenhower.
You think Democrats are silent? Not from what I've seen and heard. Many are challenging, confronting, speaking, telling. I see them on YouTube, on BlueSky, some even on here, Substack. They are doing so in the halls of Congress, in front of cameras at places that they are locked out of, from their offices. I've seen and heard lots of them. Good people. Calling out the insanity. The issue at the moment is that short of physically breaking their way in, what more can they do but speak. Until Democrats are in the majority again, (they COULD have caused the government to shut down - it seems THAT was a drop the ball moment) and or until Republicans wake up, it seems all any of us can do is show up and make sure what trump, elon, and the project 2025 writers are doing does not stay hidden, and is exposed for all to see.
I'm with you on grassroots outrage. I was writing too much shorthand and meant to say Congressional Dems.
We the people will have to be in the streets unless we get some blue state governors acting like Canada's prime minister. Call the cowards out. Blue state governors could say, ok. You want to break the state? We have a list of demands, too, including voting by population and not geographic like we have now.
Why do we have our current right wing Congress? Is it because we allowed the slave states to demand 2 Senators regardless of population?
I'd also like to see a 99% tax on billionaires and 90% over 10. million or more and argue that if we want a middle class, we need to tax the crap out of the Hoarders Beyond Borders. It is immoral to be greedy.
It is so much bigger than Trump. JD, Mikey are in line for the post if DJT gets deposed for any reason. Trump is the most loose-lipped fumbler and the biggest liability to the point where the most serious danger is a staged assass--tion by his own TechnoElite Billionaire backers, blamed on Dems, immigrants, take a pick--to fuel MAGA angst and keep DJT 'alive' as a martyr of the deluded masses.
We ordinary Americans are pretty pissed off at the Democratic Party and our former leaders. I get a dozen or more emails a day from democrats begging for money, but rarely do I hear any of them standing up to trump. I call my senators and representative every day, no one is giving me money to open my mouth and speak up for my country. I feel abandoned by our leaders.
I hear you. But we do have some courageous people calling them out and doing what they can. This is a short talk by one such outspoken representative of New Mexico, explaining why Dems cannot do more under House and Senate minority rules. I often share clips of people like her because you’re right, most of us don’t just sit and watch our reps in session on c-span all day. Now, constituents could recall a rep, I believe. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1YbhgvU6Vz/?mibextid=UalRPS
as a person who lives in a country next to russia, i’ll tell you this: they aren’t safe and they know it. they’re scared that they’d end up being pushed down the stairs or pushed out a window "by accident", like they do in russia to everyone who don’t obey. a lot of high rank russian officials have fallen to their death or disappeared after speaking against. this is my two cents… i hope they’re planning something in secret, though. i love bernie for being so up front, speaking at coachella and in those rallies!
It's alarming to hear that the former presidents of the United States might be afraid to speak out but I guess it should be considered as a possibility these days.
Doesn’t your constitution say something like if the government is not working for the people the people have the right to remove it? Not the exact words, but hopefully you get what I mean. Question is, how can the people remove the government? The courts are slow and some Supreme Court justices seem corrupt too.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
77+ & I can hardly walk around my own back yard! I read things like this & it makes me Furious! 50 years ago I & a Whole Generation of people would be out in the streets Demonstrating!
There must be MORE we can do to at least Slow this Takeover down! In 3 1/2 years it will be Too Late!!
In the U.S., the penalty for treason is severe, ranging from death to a minimum of five years in prison, along with a fine of at least $10,000. Additionally, a conviction for treason permanently disqualifies the individual from holding any office under the United States
Senator Murkowski recently stated it’s FEAR of retaliation. They receive threats. That is how the mafia style Trump regime operates. But my feeling is, if you can’t push back against Trump for not only your constituents, but for your country, your democracy and for the OATH you took to DEFEND the CONSTITUTION, it’s time for you to RESIGN and let someone with a spine take your place and your $200,000 salary to do your job!
He was constitutionally ineligible for office because of breaking his oath of office multiple times. He also posed a constant threat to our national security. The election was flawed in many ways, indicating voter suppression & vote manipulation, which should've elicited an automatic investigation & recount if not audit. It wasn't our system, but the people in key positions of power from the President to the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, that failed us.
When you acknowledge how Trump was compromised by his own weaknesses, it’s not a stretch to understand how the FSB has compromised senators, Supreme Court (especially Thomas and Alito) and others. Which is why there’s no groundswell of resistance from the old guard GOP. They will be exposed for whatever or paid like Tulsi Gabbard.
I always knew the Chinese played the long game, but I didn’t realize there was still such a movement from the Soviet Union to accomplish what they’ve done. - former Russian linguist during Soviet Union. ебать Россию!
Supreme Court allowed it to happen claiming he was immune from jan 6 insurrection. They took a lot of gaurdrails down. It was part of the coup happening here. Then in addition Alot of people didn't vote. It's a nightmare here
”I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Trust me, I'm no SCOTUS fan but I don't agree that the Court gave the President immunity from the Jan 6th insurrection. They gave him immunity for "official acts" of the office. The definition of "official acts" is yet to be determined since the case before Judge Chutkan was dismissed (not sure if that is the right term). Those "official acts" still need to be defined ... and I, for one, am of the opinion that election-related activities are NOT official actions, but separate and distinct "unofficial" acts from those of the Presidency.
Now that is definitely food for thought. SCOTUS no longer exists in its Constitutional, original purpose to protect and uphold that Constitution, but solely to protect the dictator and his puppet master. We need to form our own Court that protects the people. Not bent on killing us for monetary gain.
I have always been shocked by how Trump was able to meet with Putin in a private meeting, with no witnesses except for a Russian translator and the relative lack of blowback from Congress or anyone who was in a position of authority to highlight it as the treasonous act that it was. It just became another day in the Trump presidency. He continued to lie and everyone else went back to sticking their heads in the sand.
I don’t want to give Merrick Garland a pass on this issue either. Biden and Garland were so frightened of making the slightest mistake that they tiptoed around until their time ran out. Obama (who knows Biden better than most) was slow to endorse Biden the first time he ran and only fell in line when it became obvious that there were no other options.
Another thing that gets overlooked, I think, is the lack of good leadership. The past 3 presidential elections (and is also true for local elections) had me choosing between the bad and terrible. Biden had his own skeletons and tried to lie about things that we had documented proof of happening. I don’t need to go further on this topic but my point is that by the time we got to this point, there was already different levels of corruption and complexity in the system that this is the natural progression of American Politics.
Who is going to charge them? Who is left? Relying on the system to charge itself is systemic codependency. Straight up. We’re waiting for the abuser to change on their own. That’s where WE have failed to see our own contribution to the dynamic.
I do t think killing tRump would have worked. He’s just the frontman not the “nuts and bolts.”” In fact it might have given them an excuse to declare martial law. Who know anyway that it wasn’t staged😱😱😱
The propaganda worked. I’m an American. I watched it happen. I remember vividly visiting my brother-in-law in the hospital and being shocked at racist comments on FOX. (His go-to) This was over a decade ago. I am a boomer and Southern and was truly shocked. Reagan fast-tracked Rupert Murdock’s citizenship. I find it ironic that two immigrants, Murdock and Musk, have done and are doing more to destroy the Bill of Rights than anyone since the Confederacy. Grief. That’s what I feel with all its stages except the last. I do not accept.
And Regan also abolished the Fairness Doctrine in the 1980's opening the door wide open for Faux, Limbaugh & others to lie to the public & spew Russian propaganda 24/7. He also let the Teleevangelists into the White House, led to Christian Nationalists, Tea Party that led to maga & billionaires infiltrating the scotus, eventually succeeding the overturn of Roe & still pushing for women to loose civil rights that were very hard fought for. Women have worked very hard for 55+ years for the education, jobs, pay & benefits they have earned. For decades the uneducated & professionally unqualified men who think high paying jobs should be theirs without earning them because Limbaugh & Trump told them dei is a dirty word, they were wronged & they should be angry about it. Are complaining they have been "left behind" & refuse to take responsibility for their own decisions, do something to improve themselves, their life. Trump gave these people a place to congregate, he campaigned on his personal grievances, made people believe he was/is a victim of "the deep state" & persecuted by law enforcement & the courts for years when in fact he is a criminal con man, lying grifter, bankrupted 6 major businesses & failed at at least 30 more, stole classified documents, tried to overthrow the government, a Russian asset & has put a target on non white citizens & immigrants legal or not. Russia, FAUX, Musk, Citizens United, dark money & his adoring fans got him elected again, unbelievably, because they believed the Russian & Chineese propaganda, lies told 24/7 by FAUX and here we are.
45 years later it is all traceable to & circles back to Ronald Regan, a actor turned politician, the republican party, Evangelicals, millionaires/ billionaires, Iran, China & Russia. The same players as today.
You explained it perfectly. Don’t forget the KKK types and the incels, a word I had to learn not too long ago. (Like everybody gets nookie when they want it. Talk about taking responsibility— get a job. That’s attractive. Leave the gun at home. Brush your teeth. Sorry…that one gets me going.) Seriously, I read a book by Joe Moore, who infiltrated the KKK in FL. He has a couple of interviews on YouTube. Chilling how much the white supremacists are in law enforcement, especially if you live where I do. Everything you said is true. I feel like I have lived believing in the Age of Aquarius when the Gates of Hell were opening and I was oblivious. It IS the same players just as you said. I still believe good will triumph in the end. I have to. I just hope I’m here to see it.
Yeah, the KKK is huge problem, as are all the fascist militias and all out Nazis. One thing I hasten to point out though, if you scream at someone "get a job bum! get a job!" and there are no jobs, you won't succeed at winning them over.
So many jobs have been shipped overseas, especially the ones that be performed with a mere high school diploma, and the rest automated (strip mining anyone?) and factories shut down altogether.
This is particularly true in rural areas. Where most of these poor souls can be found. If all we do is kick them in the head for being stuck in circumstances through no fault of their own, how can we expect them to align with us?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold your horses here. I agree with everything you say. However, "Are complaining they have been "left behind" & refuse to take responsibility for their own decisions, do something to improve themselves, their life." cuts right to the whole "meritocracy" thing that gave Trump a foot in the door.
Not everybody can get a degree, for various reasons - affordability not the least of it. If we really want to beat Trump, the first thing we need to do is understand that a strong social safety net for all Americans is paramount. Ideally, a minimum basic income.
If we really want to beat Trump, we need to pull out as many of the "wedges" as possible and organize strong alliances. Only by coming together on all the issues we have in common can we take democracy back.
So instead of beating up on the men you have such a low opinion of, let's invite under the tent, and out of the rain, and maybe they'll start to see the light. Think about it.
As an American, I am also stunned that Trump was allowed to run for office again. Former Attorney General Merrick Garland moved too slowly. Trump should have gone to prison or been banned from public office for instigating the Jan 6 insurrection. Less important people have gone to jail for taking classified documents, as Trump did.
In Brazil, former President Jairo Bolsinaro was banned from public office for 10 years after he instigated an assault on the Brazilian Parliament.
I am so ashamed of this country that I don’t consider my self an American anymore. This is definitely a UNITED States of American and I feel trapped here with no place to go, not at my age.
I’m so sorry you are caught in this Madness created by others so the shame is Therese to carry not yours. I don’t the have the ability but none the less… it does not belong to you. Hugs
Same here but Americans struggle with that too. I’ve read the book “Hiding in Plain Sight” by Sarah Kendzior, who wrote about his business activities and life from the 80ies until before the second presidency and it’s mind blowing how the justice system, the FBI and several people failed this country. It was and is so obvious to me that he must be working for Russia and I am whether an FBI agent nor into conspiracies. You just had to connect the dots. Even the Guardian wrote an article back in January 2021 where they asked the question he was a Russian asset. He should have never been allowed to run for president ever.
Yes it is really unbelievable. Before Trump’s first term I listened to the debates and couldn’t believe the things that came out of his mouth. He was unable to even make a sentence!!
You are in the state of emergency of the highest level.
A long cultivated russian asset became the US president. He is dismantling the US government, turning the country into a dictatorship and actively realising russian terrorist state's international policy goals.
This is the high treason.
Trump and his cronies should be court martialled and jailed ASAP. Act now!
As the Executive he controls the DOJ, as Commander in Chief he controls the military, so court martial and jail won’t happen unless the military decides to refuse an illegal order and arrest him and his minions, but illegal orders haven’t yet been given, and that would be seen as a military coup. It is a state of emergency, and we are screwed! There are probably only 2 things that can save us- Republicans grow spines, but that isn’t going to happen, or mass protesting in the streets
As the executive he is also an active russian terrorist state's asset who is committing the coup by dismantling the US government and forming a dictatorship violating the Construction. Moreover, there is mounting evidence supported by cyber security experts, strongly suggesting the election was stolen by hack into voting machines. Therefore, Trump's presidency is illegitimate.
So you've got illegally elected President who acts on behalf of russian territorist state and destroying America from within.
The time for political solution is over. A military one should take place. In this case the military does not need to wait for the order by act by its own volition. And it wouldn't be a coup. Rather counter- coup. Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures. If you guys let Trump keep doing what he's doing, you'll wake up in Belarus 2.0. Literally.
The Democrats have a huge role in this situation as well. But I agree with your conclusion. We’re on our own. We need to take non violent measures to protest the destruction of our democracy.
The dems are out numbered. Period. Full stop. There is no magical super dem coming to save us - that’s a trope of complacency… We should be asking how can we help - and getting our asses organized with or without the long term dems. Repub / dems…. We are all Americans and this reckoning is about our kids and their futures AS WELL AS our allies getting utterly screwed. We need a hand recount. Now. That buys time to organize.
In 1960s Manhattan, it was common knowledge that Trump’s father, a multimillionaire, was a Nazi sympathizer, was close with the mob, and that his son Donald was brought up to believe the same things. In Manhattan, then, it was easy to run into someone who had a “Donald” story and the guy wasn’t out of his teens! When Donald started “wheeling and dealing”, he was helped by the mob. When Donald went bankrupt, which was often, his father bailed him out.
My memory is that Trump went to Moscow after his father died. My take on it, then and now, was that when he met with Putin, he wasn’t thinking about a “Trump Tower In Moscow” but, rather, he was was seeking a new “daddy.” My conclusion was that he got one in Putin. They recruited each other. As his father idolized Hitler, Trump seeks to emulate him.
Biden was so busy trying to keep his son out of prison that he didn’t push Merrick Garland to stop dragging his feet on prosecuting DJT for his numerous crimes even though Garland was handed the lengthy report detailing his actions on 1/6. (He took another year investigating if he acted alone) Trump should never have gotten this far.
My guess is that it takes time to let his supporters see clearly what kind of guy he is. They have to suffer in their own lives (job, grocery prices, danger of being deported, school meals etc.) to become wise. There might have been a danger of civil war without this demystification.
Great piece Don. I appreciate your directness in listing Trump’s connections to Kremlin money laundering.
One piece of this I find particularly troubling and obviously rotten is the connection via Deutsche Bank. The bank loaned billions to Trump when no one else would, which he defaulted on, twice. Sole of this was concurrent with Deutsche bank running what would later be called Operation Global Laundromat, where authorities found the bank to have laundered $20-$80 billion from Kremlin-linked criminals.
I will never understand how the Biden admin failed to uphold the law against this career criminal for 4 years following a coup attempt.
I agree that this man( & several enablers in Congress) should have been arrested following January 6. Any issues could have been resolved once he was in custody.
Absent that, he should definitely have been barred from ever holding office again.
He is a recruit by Putin and so is JD VANCE...what is alarming is the republican congress being complicit and unwilling to stop them from destroying our country
For sure, there have been public attempts to woo Thiel, which he's not fallen for. He's been very wise not to make public displays of ties to the Kremlin, but could he have a back channel? That wouldn't surprise me.
Peter Thiel is part of the technocrat movement that sees government as outdated software and that human beings should be run by metacorporations. It’s simply a marriage of convenience between the technocrats (led by Elon Musk) and the Russian assets let by Trump.
Maga is anti-Constitution and Anti-Democracy- they’ve proven they’ve no respect for law and order.
Trump ran on not knowing what Project 2025 was and then hired the author to destroy our way of life.
He hired a Nazi to call Americans lazy, and parasites as he takes billions of our taxes for himself and is illegally firing everyone.
There are 112 lawsuits against this admin, musk personally and doge as well.
Let’s go, going to take millions of us but we need to sustain that effort demanding he be impeached and removed - all of them. Especially with all the comments by trump and Elon about voting machines and election interference. There’s zero way trump win all the swing states.
Could the American people demand their removal? A new election? Maga people will unfortunately have to suffer more personal hardships before they'll turn on Trump, Elon, and the GOP...in the meantime, the rest of suffer from their folly and blindness
Thank you for sharing this valuable information with us, Don. The whole world needs to understand how compromised Trump is and what a threat he is to American democracy.
People should read Project 2025, UN Project 2030, and watch a video of the 2024 WEF. Trump has been a Russian asset since. 1980...that's when the grooming started. Mueller had enough evidence to have him indicted, but he skirted his responsibility by passing it on to Congress. Trump was involved w 2 Russiians who were working on his presidency. There's email between him and Slater, a Russian. Then there's an email Slater sent to Don Jr. And Slater sent a message to another Russian, it looks like Trump is running for president. Should we send the $. The other Russian starts the process. Then there was an elaborate Project to get the money to Trump. Sacks of cash were laundered through Dubai. The investigators tried to get the following year's taxes, but couldn't. That's where they would have found the money put into Trump's account. Furthermore, why did Trump keep bringing up Putin's name during his 1st campaign. Then there's his plea for 3000 emails. Then there's his service attitude toward Putin, and his saying he trusts Putin's intelligence, not 0ours. Now he has stopped all intelligence and sanctions on Russia, is having the Russians return and have a consulate. We kicked Russians out bc they were spying on our government and civilians. Now he keeps saying Ukraine invaded Russia! His meeting w Zelinski was a settup, to embarrase Z in front of the whole world
How much more is needed to put in prison for being a traitor. I heard that many Russians and Saudis bought for $5 million coins in return for citizenship. Trump has donee so many illegal things and continues everyday. He refuses to obey court orders. He has said he's not going to obey court orders and all powers are in him. Now he's tanking our economy.and the world's. Everything he's been doing is Project 2025...the agenda, starting his first day in office, had been worked out over the last 4 years. Project 2025 calls for a unitary leader w all power in the Rep president. This slash and burn is part of it...to make chaos, stress us so we finally give up fighting. Trump should be in prison for being a traitor.
Project 2025 was posted online before Trump was elected urging folks to read and many including myself did read. I think one of the biggest challenges, which honestly Iam not sure how to change, is having people collectively realize just because something isn’t bad or effects them yet, doesn’t mean steps shouldn’t be taken to protect things before it gets worse. That warning after warning shouldn’t be underestimated/ignored.
But thenhe caved to all zekenskys demands?! Doesnt make sense. No repayment of the $350 billion from prev and an ongoing arms deal with ukraine. He did everything he was opposed to!! Wtf.. to keep neverending war with russia? Who is in charge here? Something is diff
MUSK must be arrested under citizens arrest tonight at state of the union. He is a Russian Nazi spy in our personal data and the president who is committing treason is letting him as he is also a Russian asset!
Yup, we need to see a MILLION PLUS AL GREEN AMERICANS to be doing this WEEK ONE when 'Rump had First Nazi (and another Putin asset) Musk illegally storm the U.S. Treasury with his fascist Incel Douche bros. We are just as important to protecting Democracy vs. Corrupt Russian Asshole Krasnov 'Rump as are the Courts (complicit) Media/NewsMedia (complicit) MAGOP with their Billionaire funders, all brainwashed by Fox/OAN/Newsmax/Shapiro Rogan Pool working class voters (VERY complicit).
- See New Zealand's people "HAKA" dance in defiance to Right Wing party in their Govt. Hall.
- See Serbian officials throw smoke grenades IN THEIR PARLIAMENT HALL in defiance to Right Wing party.
- See a South Korean official steal articles and run away from security while being chased by Right Wing party members.
ALL THREE ARE WELCOME ACTIONS IN DEFIANCE OF FASCISM WHEN THEY DON'T ADHERE TO RULE OF LAW, WHEN THEY ARE TESTING THE WILL OF FREE PEOPLE. BOLD ACTIONS THAT INSPIRE ARE NEEDED BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. YA HEAR THAT SCHUMER & JEFFRIES!!!
And now we are more important since nobody else who had the authority & opportunity to stop Trump did. So it's up to us, the American people, because we're all that's left.
Agreed. Trump joined the Russian mob beginning in the late 80’s by taking their loans. Money laundering is a crime, and that was the original kompromat. Pee-pee tapes were always a cover for the real crimes of Trump, the same as Area 51, Roswell, and UFO’s are cover for actual human-designed black military projects. Humans are so gullible.
have to stop looking for some narrative that will save us.
Yes 47/48 are acting on behalf of BRIC nations (connect the dots) Our congress is as well and now SCOTUS. The illusion of American democracy has been uncovered- all it takes is someone not accepting anything that does not work for thier goal. Laws only work for those who follow them.
I fear the truth is simple, there are to many of us on this planet and now the wealthy are aligned to control what is left of the raw resources. Ai is not about capitalism it is about efficiency- they want less
of the bottom and ai will allow them to live with less of us.
The Russians own Zuckerberg, follow the early seed money. He made it easy to confuse and divide us.
There is one tactic left for us-
First watch garys economics on youtube for some hard truths; then, build a peaceful resistance. Read about the french resistance- it was thousands of groups, be in one.
It makes me wonder if the act of destroying all the Government Systems and Initiatives that actually made America great is also part of the Russian agenda. Also, are the Cryptocurrency moves recently made, part of the scheme?
They were pretty well infiltrated by the end of the first Trump administration. By the way, I wouldn't be surprised if Putin gave Trump the idea to incite an insurrection against the Capitol. They had lots of long conversations both by phone & in person, & I'm sure Putin gave Trump lots of suggestions & advice on how to gain full control of the government. Oh, if only we could hear a recording of his phone calls with Putin!
I think Musk has got to be a Russian asset. And now he’s awarding himself all sorts of security & defense contracts-or trying to. What could possibly go wrong???
Great article. It explains a lot of things I always thought to be true regarding Trump's involvement with Russia and how his media style and tactics evolved from theirs.
As a non-American I struggle with understanding How he was even allowed to run for Office? He is a walking major security threat ( possibly the whole family) and his goons.
💯 it absolutely blows my mind.
If Trump is now discovered to be a Russian Asset and is obviously tearing our democracy apart, there must be some way to remove him. impeachment is too slow.
Mario, I think the people's pressure will force him out, but not before he has done more damage.
Many Americans objected to his being able to run for office. We wonder what Russia is holding over the heads of the government, our senators and representatives in particular are bizarrely supportive of trump and musk even as they gleefully dismantle the government before our eyes.
Yes it’s unbelievable looking from the outside. I Can’t understand How they are all allowed to Continue. Are there no one left with eyes and backbone? Or did they strategiskt fire all of them??? There have been some utterly strange firings …. Where are the ex-presidents the Democratic party??? The outrage ….
I believe Trump has FSB agents consulting with him on everything he needs to do to completely dismantle our democracy. I also think the Democrats understand this and they are afraid of being arrested. It’s a giant nightmare, but a lot of people are pushing back and we will continue doing so until these criminals are gone. 😑
Beyond horrible
Thanks for this Russian asset story. Besides the content, you are succinct. At night you should write a novel about Krasnov!
I'm sharing with friends.
On the Democrats being silent, they are owned by the same masters. It isn't all Russian oligarchs and mobs. The billionaires that fund the center right Democratic party are pushing for silence to let the Republicans fall on their swords.
What that means to me is the left uprising will be in the streets, and the revolt will take out the corporate dems who are untrustworthy and have betrayed us in what remains of the middle class repeatedly for 50 years of class warfare.
I'm with Chomsky in seeing a War Party with a left and right wing. The moderate Republicans merged with the corporate Dems under Obama and the far right whack a doodles have millions from the Nerd Reich.
Do you follow Gary's economics? He's helped. me understand why we need 90-99% taxes on the rich if we want any kind of middle class like we had in the 50's under Eisenhower.
You think Democrats are silent? Not from what I've seen and heard. Many are challenging, confronting, speaking, telling. I see them on YouTube, on BlueSky, some even on here, Substack. They are doing so in the halls of Congress, in front of cameras at places that they are locked out of, from their offices. I've seen and heard lots of them. Good people. Calling out the insanity. The issue at the moment is that short of physically breaking their way in, what more can they do but speak. Until Democrats are in the majority again, (they COULD have caused the government to shut down - it seems THAT was a drop the ball moment) and or until Republicans wake up, it seems all any of us can do is show up and make sure what trump, elon, and the project 2025 writers are doing does not stay hidden, and is exposed for all to see.
I'm with you on grassroots outrage. I was writing too much shorthand and meant to say Congressional Dems.
We the people will have to be in the streets unless we get some blue state governors acting like Canada's prime minister. Call the cowards out. Blue state governors could say, ok. You want to break the state? We have a list of demands, too, including voting by population and not geographic like we have now.
Why do we have our current right wing Congress? Is it because we allowed the slave states to demand 2 Senators regardless of population?
I'd also like to see a 99% tax on billionaires and 90% over 10. million or more and argue that if we want a middle class, we need to tax the crap out of the Hoarders Beyond Borders. It is immoral to be greedy.
Have you heard of Gary's economics argument that is fight is all about income inequality? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/masih-alinejad-iranian-womens-rights
Amen! Rise! Resist!
It is so much bigger than Trump. JD, Mikey are in line for the post if DJT gets deposed for any reason. Trump is the most loose-lipped fumbler and the biggest liability to the point where the most serious danger is a staged assass--tion by his own TechnoElite Billionaire backers, blamed on Dems, immigrants, take a pick--to fuel MAGA angst and keep DJT 'alive' as a martyr of the deluded masses.
This is so frightening omg
💯
Americans have to organize and wake the fuck up. We should be having a general strike every fucking day until this guy is removed!
I'm all in. ✊
We ordinary Americans are pretty pissed off at the Democratic Party and our former leaders. I get a dozen or more emails a day from democrats begging for money, but rarely do I hear any of them standing up to trump. I call my senators and representative every day, no one is giving me money to open my mouth and speak up for my country. I feel abandoned by our leaders.
I hear you. But we do have some courageous people calling them out and doing what they can. This is a short talk by one such outspoken representative of New Mexico, explaining why Dems cannot do more under House and Senate minority rules. I often share clips of people like her because you’re right, most of us don’t just sit and watch our reps in session on c-span all day. Now, constituents could recall a rep, I believe. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1YbhgvU6Vz/?mibextid=UalRPS
https://substack.com/@lincolnsquare/note/c-104145677?r=536ok&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Yes, I also wonder why the former presidents are silent.
as a person who lives in a country next to russia, i’ll tell you this: they aren’t safe and they know it. they’re scared that they’d end up being pushed down the stairs or pushed out a window "by accident", like they do in russia to everyone who don’t obey. a lot of high rank russian officials have fallen to their death or disappeared after speaking against. this is my two cents… i hope they’re planning something in secret, though. i love bernie for being so up front, speaking at coachella and in those rallies!
It's alarming to hear that the former presidents of the United States might be afraid to speak out but I guess it should be considered as a possibility these days.
Doesn’t your constitution say something like if the government is not working for the people the people have the right to remove it? Not the exact words, but hopefully you get what I mean. Question is, how can the people remove the government? The courts are slow and some Supreme Court justices seem corrupt too.
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Are corrupt, are corrupt…
77+ & I can hardly walk around my own back yard! I read things like this & it makes me Furious! 50 years ago I & a Whole Generation of people would be out in the streets Demonstrating!
There must be MORE we can do to at least Slow this Takeover down! In 3 1/2 years it will be Too Late!!
'Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures'!!
HELP!
My question every day 😡😡
Strike! Walk out … even rolling strikes would work .
In the U.S., the penalty for treason is severe, ranging from death to a minimum of five years in prison, along with a fine of at least $10,000. Additionally, a conviction for treason permanently disqualifies the individual from holding any office under the United States
And certain Supreme Court members as well.
The Supreme Court is just as corrupt as Trump. They are no help 😡😡😈
I call them "the gang of six".
In 2016, McConnell got 3.2 mil from Russia. Leningrad Lindsey sold his soul for 800,00
McConnell’s father-in-law is a major smuggler with his shipping company.
Seriously?
Do you have a link?
No, this was in 2016. I'm not tech savvy to find the link. But remember when the GOP went to Russia on our 4th of July? It was before then
The point was it started in 1987 per the article (and other sources). Again after his 6th bankruptcy, no bank would lend him money. Russia stepped in.
Thank you
Campaign donations, laundered to appear legal and legit.
Senator Murkowski recently stated it’s FEAR of retaliation. They receive threats. That is how the mafia style Trump regime operates. But my feeling is, if you can’t push back against Trump for not only your constituents, but for your country, your democracy and for the OATH you took to DEFEND the CONSTITUTION, it’s time for you to RESIGN and let someone with a spine take your place and your $200,000 salary to do your job!
Maybe they all have peepee tapes ? That's enough to allow the overthrow of one of the greatest democracies in the world, right ?
He was constitutionally ineligible for office because of breaking his oath of office multiple times. He also posed a constant threat to our national security. The election was flawed in many ways, indicating voter suppression & vote manipulation, which should've elicited an automatic investigation & recount if not audit. It wasn't our system, but the people in key positions of power from the President to the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, that failed us.
When you acknowledge how Trump was compromised by his own weaknesses, it’s not a stretch to understand how the FSB has compromised senators, Supreme Court (especially Thomas and Alito) and others. Which is why there’s no groundswell of resistance from the old guard GOP. They will be exposed for whatever or paid like Tulsi Gabbard.
I always knew the Chinese played the long game, but I didn’t realize there was still such a movement from the Soviet Union to accomplish what they’ve done. - former Russian linguist during Soviet Union. ебать Россию!
I think Alito is a true believer in fascism, & Thomas is very willingly corrupt. Neither has any moral compass whatsoever, just like Trump.
Apparently, just as great minds think alike, so do corrupt minds.
полностью! абсолютно!
You can bet the CCP has their hands in this mess too… Operations Volt & Salt Typhoon are just two recent examples…
Double double truth. They have all failed us way before this time. Is impeach too slow? We have got to get this done.
Supreme Court allowed it to happen claiming he was immune from jan 6 insurrection. They took a lot of gaurdrails down. It was part of the coup happening here. Then in addition Alot of people didn't vote. It's a nightmare here
I’m so sorry 😞 we are watching in horror.
This quote seems apt:
”I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Well, we've got some tough decisions to make, don't we.
And that was the ACTUAL HITLER not the one from Queens!
We have "Moscow" Mitch the Bitch McConnell to thank for that.
Trust me, I'm no SCOTUS fan but I don't agree that the Court gave the President immunity from the Jan 6th insurrection. They gave him immunity for "official acts" of the office. The definition of "official acts" is yet to be determined since the case before Judge Chutkan was dismissed (not sure if that is the right term). Those "official acts" still need to be defined ... and I, for one, am of the opinion that election-related activities are NOT official actions, but separate and distinct "unofficial" acts from those of the Presidency.
Now that is definitely food for thought. SCOTUS no longer exists in its Constitutional, original purpose to protect and uphold that Constitution, but solely to protect the dictator and his puppet master. We need to form our own Court that protects the people. Not bent on killing us for monetary gain.
The name can be changed now Not supreme not court. The grab all you can before somebody else gets it Group. And PAC.
I have always been shocked by how Trump was able to meet with Putin in a private meeting, with no witnesses except for a Russian translator and the relative lack of blowback from Congress or anyone who was in a position of authority to highlight it as the treasonous act that it was. It just became another day in the Trump presidency. He continued to lie and everyone else went back to sticking their heads in the sand.
I don’t want to give Merrick Garland a pass on this issue either. Biden and Garland were so frightened of making the slightest mistake that they tiptoed around until their time ran out. Obama (who knows Biden better than most) was slow to endorse Biden the first time he ran and only fell in line when it became obvious that there were no other options.
Another thing that gets overlooked, I think, is the lack of good leadership. The past 3 presidential elections (and is also true for local elections) had me choosing between the bad and terrible. Biden had his own skeletons and tried to lie about things that we had documented proof of happening. I don’t need to go further on this topic but my point is that by the time we got to this point, there was already different levels of corruption and complexity in the system that this is the natural progression of American Politics.
Yeah well don’t forget elons part with starlink
Elon is dismantling every part of government that was investigating him. He's a conman too
Absolutely
Who is going to charge them? Who is left? Relying on the system to charge itself is systemic codependency. Straight up. We’re waiting for the abuser to change on their own. That’s where WE have failed to see our own contribution to the dynamic.
I do t think killing tRump would have worked. He’s just the frontman not the “nuts and bolts.”” In fact it might have given them an excuse to declare martial law. Who know anyway that it wasn’t staged😱😱😱
I wish I was in the timeline where that stupid kid didnt miss. This is the bad place.
And they will be - >if< we can win the coming civil war.
I couldn’t agree more!
The propaganda worked. I’m an American. I watched it happen. I remember vividly visiting my brother-in-law in the hospital and being shocked at racist comments on FOX. (His go-to) This was over a decade ago. I am a boomer and Southern and was truly shocked. Reagan fast-tracked Rupert Murdock’s citizenship. I find it ironic that two immigrants, Murdock and Musk, have done and are doing more to destroy the Bill of Rights than anyone since the Confederacy. Grief. That’s what I feel with all its stages except the last. I do not accept.
And Regan also abolished the Fairness Doctrine in the 1980's opening the door wide open for Faux, Limbaugh & others to lie to the public & spew Russian propaganda 24/7. He also let the Teleevangelists into the White House, led to Christian Nationalists, Tea Party that led to maga & billionaires infiltrating the scotus, eventually succeeding the overturn of Roe & still pushing for women to loose civil rights that were very hard fought for. Women have worked very hard for 55+ years for the education, jobs, pay & benefits they have earned. For decades the uneducated & professionally unqualified men who think high paying jobs should be theirs without earning them because Limbaugh & Trump told them dei is a dirty word, they were wronged & they should be angry about it. Are complaining they have been "left behind" & refuse to take responsibility for their own decisions, do something to improve themselves, their life. Trump gave these people a place to congregate, he campaigned on his personal grievances, made people believe he was/is a victim of "the deep state" & persecuted by law enforcement & the courts for years when in fact he is a criminal con man, lying grifter, bankrupted 6 major businesses & failed at at least 30 more, stole classified documents, tried to overthrow the government, a Russian asset & has put a target on non white citizens & immigrants legal or not. Russia, FAUX, Musk, Citizens United, dark money & his adoring fans got him elected again, unbelievably, because they believed the Russian & Chineese propaganda, lies told 24/7 by FAUX and here we are.
45 years later it is all traceable to & circles back to Ronald Regan, a actor turned politician, the republican party, Evangelicals, millionaires/ billionaires, Iran, China & Russia. The same players as today.
You explained it perfectly. Don’t forget the KKK types and the incels, a word I had to learn not too long ago. (Like everybody gets nookie when they want it. Talk about taking responsibility— get a job. That’s attractive. Leave the gun at home. Brush your teeth. Sorry…that one gets me going.) Seriously, I read a book by Joe Moore, who infiltrated the KKK in FL. He has a couple of interviews on YouTube. Chilling how much the white supremacists are in law enforcement, especially if you live where I do. Everything you said is true. I feel like I have lived believing in the Age of Aquarius when the Gates of Hell were opening and I was oblivious. It IS the same players just as you said. I still believe good will triumph in the end. I have to. I just hope I’m here to see it.
Yeah, the KKK is huge problem, as are all the fascist militias and all out Nazis. One thing I hasten to point out though, if you scream at someone "get a job bum! get a job!" and there are no jobs, you won't succeed at winning them over.
So many jobs have been shipped overseas, especially the ones that be performed with a mere high school diploma, and the rest automated (strip mining anyone?) and factories shut down altogether.
This is particularly true in rural areas. Where most of these poor souls can be found. If all we do is kick them in the head for being stuck in circumstances through no fault of their own, how can we expect them to align with us?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold your horses here. I agree with everything you say. However, "Are complaining they have been "left behind" & refuse to take responsibility for their own decisions, do something to improve themselves, their life." cuts right to the whole "meritocracy" thing that gave Trump a foot in the door.
Not everybody can get a degree, for various reasons - affordability not the least of it. If we really want to beat Trump, the first thing we need to do is understand that a strong social safety net for all Americans is paramount. Ideally, a minimum basic income.
If we really want to beat Trump, we need to pull out as many of the "wedges" as possible and organize strong alliances. Only by coming together on all the issues we have in common can we take democracy back.
So instead of beating up on the men you have such a low opinion of, let's invite under the tent, and out of the rain, and maybe they'll start to see the light. Think about it.
Yeah, Reagan was the beginning of the end.
Yep, Murdoch & Musk & Thiel are the immigrants we have to worry about.
As an American, I am also stunned that Trump was allowed to run for office again. Former Attorney General Merrick Garland moved too slowly. Trump should have gone to prison or been banned from public office for instigating the Jan 6 insurrection. Less important people have gone to jail for taking classified documents, as Trump did.
In Brazil, former President Jairo Bolsinaro was banned from public office for 10 years after he instigated an assault on the Brazilian Parliament.
Right!? J6 Should have been a hell no and prison.
Lock him up! In Guantanamo.
As an American, I struggle with the same questions. As a veteran I can’t understand how we are allowing this traitor to continue.
Thank you for your service 🙏
Well let’s start with the Not so Supreme Court!
I am so ashamed of this country that I don’t consider my self an American anymore. This is definitely a UNITED States of American and I feel trapped here with no place to go, not at my age.
I’m so sorry you are caught in this Madness created by others so the shame is Therese to carry not yours. I don’t the have the ability but none the less… it does not belong to you. Hugs
I hear you.
As an American, I absolutely struggle with the same question. And they often feel like I can’t believe this is happening. And yet, apparently it is.
As an American, I have the exact same struggle. I used to feel secure that we had guardrails and safeguards. Not anymore.
Thank you. It baffles me, too.
Same here but Americans struggle with that too. I’ve read the book “Hiding in Plain Sight” by Sarah Kendzior, who wrote about his business activities and life from the 80ies until before the second presidency and it’s mind blowing how the justice system, the FBI and several people failed this country. It was and is so obvious to me that he must be working for Russia and I am whether an FBI agent nor into conspiracies. You just had to connect the dots. Even the Guardian wrote an article back in January 2021 where they asked the question he was a Russian asset. He should have never been allowed to run for president ever.
Ageeed why did they let him????
As an American in my 70s I struggle with understanding how he was allowed to run for president especially for a second term with all the “baggage “.
As an American I also struggle with these same thing. How?!!
Yes it is really unbelievable. Before Trump’s first term I listened to the debates and couldn’t believe the things that came out of his mouth. He was unable to even make a sentence!!
You are in the state of emergency of the highest level.
A long cultivated russian asset became the US president. He is dismantling the US government, turning the country into a dictatorship and actively realising russian terrorist state's international policy goals.
This is the high treason.
Trump and his cronies should be court martialled and jailed ASAP. Act now!
Otherwise, you'll wake up in Belarus 2.0.
As the Executive he controls the DOJ, as Commander in Chief he controls the military, so court martial and jail won’t happen unless the military decides to refuse an illegal order and arrest him and his minions, but illegal orders haven’t yet been given, and that would be seen as a military coup. It is a state of emergency, and we are screwed! There are probably only 2 things that can save us- Republicans grow spines, but that isn’t going to happen, or mass protesting in the streets
As the executive he is also an active russian terrorist state's asset who is committing the coup by dismantling the US government and forming a dictatorship violating the Construction. Moreover, there is mounting evidence supported by cyber security experts, strongly suggesting the election was stolen by hack into voting machines. Therefore, Trump's presidency is illegitimate.
So you've got illegally elected President who acts on behalf of russian territorist state and destroying America from within.
The time for political solution is over. A military one should take place. In this case the military does not need to wait for the order by act by its own volition. And it wouldn't be a coup. Rather counter- coup. Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures. If you guys let Trump keep doing what he's doing, you'll wake up in Belarus 2.0. Literally.
You just nailed it, best I've heard of a solution to date!
The Democrats have a huge role in this situation as well. But I agree with your conclusion. We’re on our own. We need to take non violent measures to protest the destruction of our democracy.
The dems are out numbered. Period. Full stop. There is no magical super dem coming to save us - that’s a trope of complacency… We should be asking how can we help - and getting our asses organized with or without the long term dems. Repub / dems…. We are all Americans and this reckoning is about our kids and their futures AS WELL AS our allies getting utterly screwed. We need a hand recount. Now. That buys time to organize.
In 1960s Manhattan, it was common knowledge that Trump’s father, a multimillionaire, was a Nazi sympathizer, was close with the mob, and that his son Donald was brought up to believe the same things. In Manhattan, then, it was easy to run into someone who had a “Donald” story and the guy wasn’t out of his teens! When Donald started “wheeling and dealing”, he was helped by the mob. When Donald went bankrupt, which was often, his father bailed him out.
My memory is that Trump went to Moscow after his father died. My take on it, then and now, was that when he met with Putin, he wasn’t thinking about a “Trump Tower In Moscow” but, rather, he was was seeking a new “daddy.” My conclusion was that he got one in Putin. They recruited each other. As his father idolized Hitler, Trump seeks to emulate him.
Stephen Miller is also a Nazi
No doubt!
This!
FVCKING AGREE!!!
Lock them all up in Guantanamo.
Agreed
Amen! A lot of folks realize this, but sadly we have a lotta folks actually mesmerized by this tinpot dictator bully.
I don't understand how the Biden administration could willingly hand over the gov't to these people knowing full well what they were going to do
Me neither. I don't get that at all.
+ this👇
https://freespeechforpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/letter-to-vp-harris-111324.pdf
Biden was so busy trying to keep his son out of prison that he didn’t push Merrick Garland to stop dragging his feet on prosecuting DJT for his numerous crimes even though Garland was handed the lengthy report detailing his actions on 1/6. (He took another year investigating if he acted alone) Trump should never have gotten this far.
And more to the point, why isn’t he being arrested and tried for treason?
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My guess is that it takes time to let his supporters see clearly what kind of guy he is. They have to suffer in their own lives (job, grocery prices, danger of being deported, school meals etc.) to become wise. There might have been a danger of civil war without this demystification.
True
Great piece Don. I appreciate your directness in listing Trump’s connections to Kremlin money laundering.
One piece of this I find particularly troubling and obviously rotten is the connection via Deutsche Bank. The bank loaned billions to Trump when no one else would, which he defaulted on, twice. Sole of this was concurrent with Deutsche bank running what would later be called Operation Global Laundromat, where authorities found the bank to have laundered $20-$80 billion from Kremlin-linked criminals.
I will never understand how the Biden admin failed to uphold the law against this career criminal for 4 years following a coup attempt.
Thanks so much, Ed! It makes no sense to me… 😑
Neither will I. I feel betrayed by all the people who could've stopped Trump but didn't.
I agree that this man( & several enablers in Congress) should have been arrested following January 6. Any issues could have been resolved once he was in custody.
Absent that, he should definitely have been barred from ever holding office again.
He is a recruit by Putin and so is JD VANCE...what is alarming is the republican congress being complicit and unwilling to stop them from destroying our country
The republicans are a joke, a bunch of clapping monkeys who don’t realize he’s leading them and the rest of the country into complete ruin.
JD Vance is doing Peter Thiel’s bidding, not necessarily Russia’s…
Peter Thiel's bidding = russian terrorist state's bidding. Seems it all started at PayPal.
Popular route for russian "illegals" to reach Washington: - South Africa - Canada - US.
Makes even more sense now
So that explains the sudden appearance of Musk..South Africa and Canada.
Perhaps it is Thiel who is compromised?
For sure, there have been public attempts to woo Thiel, which he's not fallen for. He's been very wise not to make public displays of ties to the Kremlin, but could he have a back channel? That wouldn't surprise me.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-peter-thiel-vladimir-putin-russia-christian-angermayer-daniil-bisslinger-2023-11?op=1
Peter Thiel is part of the technocrat movement that sees government as outdated software and that human beings should be run by metacorporations. It’s simply a marriage of convenience between the technocrats (led by Elon Musk) and the Russian assets let by Trump.
Thanks for the link. The weave in this fabric is getting tighter.
IMPEACH KRASNOV NOW
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Can you explain the "Krasnov" thing please?
Krasnov was the reported code name assigned to Trump by Russian intelligence.
Ahh, okay and thanks
Impeach, Remove and New Election.
Maga is anti-Constitution and Anti-Democracy- they’ve proven they’ve no respect for law and order.
Trump ran on not knowing what Project 2025 was and then hired the author to destroy our way of life.
He hired a Nazi to call Americans lazy, and parasites as he takes billions of our taxes for himself and is illegally firing everyone.
There are 112 lawsuits against this admin, musk personally and doge as well.
Let’s go, going to take millions of us but we need to sustain that effort demanding he be impeached and removed - all of them. Especially with all the comments by trump and Elon about voting machines and election interference. There’s zero way trump win all the swing states.
Could the American people demand their removal? A new election? Maga people will unfortunately have to suffer more personal hardships before they'll turn on Trump, Elon, and the GOP...in the meantime, the rest of suffer from their folly and blindness
Thank you for sharing this valuable information with us, Don. The whole world needs to understand how compromised Trump is and what a threat he is to American democracy.
I think the Dark Overlords want many poor people to die, the middle class will become poor serfs and the Wealthy will dominate.
Yeah, I have some thoughts on that as well… Elon‘s ultimate goal seems to be replacing humans with robots.
I'm more than willing to send Elon and space X to Mars today...one way trip
People should read Project 2025, UN Project 2030, and watch a video of the 2024 WEF. Trump has been a Russian asset since. 1980...that's when the grooming started. Mueller had enough evidence to have him indicted, but he skirted his responsibility by passing it on to Congress. Trump was involved w 2 Russiians who were working on his presidency. There's email between him and Slater, a Russian. Then there's an email Slater sent to Don Jr. And Slater sent a message to another Russian, it looks like Trump is running for president. Should we send the $. The other Russian starts the process. Then there was an elaborate Project to get the money to Trump. Sacks of cash were laundered through Dubai. The investigators tried to get the following year's taxes, but couldn't. That's where they would have found the money put into Trump's account. Furthermore, why did Trump keep bringing up Putin's name during his 1st campaign. Then there's his plea for 3000 emails. Then there's his service attitude toward Putin, and his saying he trusts Putin's intelligence, not 0ours. Now he has stopped all intelligence and sanctions on Russia, is having the Russians return and have a consulate. We kicked Russians out bc they were spying on our government and civilians. Now he keeps saying Ukraine invaded Russia! His meeting w Zelinski was a settup, to embarrase Z in front of the whole world
How much more is needed to put in prison for being a traitor. I heard that many Russians and Saudis bought for $5 million coins in return for citizenship. Trump has donee so many illegal things and continues everyday. He refuses to obey court orders. He has said he's not going to obey court orders and all powers are in him. Now he's tanking our economy.and the world's. Everything he's been doing is Project 2025...the agenda, starting his first day in office, had been worked out over the last 4 years. Project 2025 calls for a unitary leader w all power in the Rep president. This slash and burn is part of it...to make chaos, stress us so we finally give up fighting. Trump should be in prison for being a traitor.
Project 2025 was posted online before Trump was elected urging folks to read and many including myself did read. I think one of the biggest challenges, which honestly Iam not sure how to change, is having people collectively realize just because something isn’t bad or effects them yet, doesn’t mean steps shouldn’t be taken to protect things before it gets worse. That warning after warning shouldn’t be underestimated/ignored.
Amen. Read any account of WW2 and realize that starkly!
If we don't imprision them all, I'm afraid we'll be bombed by others who are more willing to get rid of them.
But thenhe caved to all zekenskys demands?! Doesnt make sense. No repayment of the $350 billion from prev and an ongoing arms deal with ukraine. He did everything he was opposed to!! Wtf.. to keep neverending war with russia? Who is in charge here? Something is diff
Middle class? You mean there still is one?
Remnants only
I’ve been researching this for the past several years, you nailed it.
https://m.economictimes.com/magazines/panache/was-donald-trump-a-russian-spy-in-1987-bizarre-allegations-by-ex-kgb-officer-will-surprise-you/articleshow/118487146.cms
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5162890-assessing-new-allegations-that-trump-was-recruited-by-the-kgb/
Thank you! 🙏
https://www.threads.net/@jurlive/post/DH5z-AfMnxk?xmt=AQGzKRKUITGlcPUJoHHFmb6gW7Orkk1GZAOhdt2ytn-ZiQ
https://information-warfare.com/krasnov-vladimir-putins-crowning-achievement-c36fcf3ec437
https://information-warfare.com/donald-j-trump-a-russian-active-measures-asset-52dd5d74f419?source=collection_home_page----d70a7d12b378-----79-----------------------------------
MUSK must be arrested under citizens arrest tonight at state of the union. He is a Russian Nazi spy in our personal data and the president who is committing treason is letting him as he is also a Russian asset!
Speaking of citizens' arrest, how about a couple million of us descend on the White House to make a citizens' arrest of Trump?
Yup, we need to see a MILLION PLUS AL GREEN AMERICANS to be doing this WEEK ONE when 'Rump had First Nazi (and another Putin asset) Musk illegally storm the U.S. Treasury with his fascist Incel Douche bros. We are just as important to protecting Democracy vs. Corrupt Russian Asshole Krasnov 'Rump as are the Courts (complicit) Media/NewsMedia (complicit) MAGOP with their Billionaire funders, all brainwashed by Fox/OAN/Newsmax/Shapiro Rogan Pool working class voters (VERY complicit).
- See New Zealand's people "HAKA" dance in defiance to Right Wing party in their Govt. Hall.
- See Serbian officials throw smoke grenades IN THEIR PARLIAMENT HALL in defiance to Right Wing party.
- See a South Korean official steal articles and run away from security while being chased by Right Wing party members.
ALL THREE ARE WELCOME ACTIONS IN DEFIANCE OF FASCISM WHEN THEY DON'T ADHERE TO RULE OF LAW, WHEN THEY ARE TESTING THE WILL OF FREE PEOPLE. BOLD ACTIONS THAT INSPIRE ARE NEEDED BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. YA HEAR THAT SCHUMER & JEFFRIES!!!
And now we are more important since nobody else who had the authority & opportunity to stop Trump did. So it's up to us, the American people, because we're all that's left.
I tried to sound the alarm then that this was a coup. It took weeks afterwards for MSM to start reporting on the seriousness of our situation.
Agreed. Trump joined the Russian mob beginning in the late 80’s by taking their loans. Money laundering is a crime, and that was the original kompromat. Pee-pee tapes were always a cover for the real crimes of Trump, the same as Area 51, Roswell, and UFO’s are cover for actual human-designed black military projects. Humans are so gullible.
This is a war of caste around the world - we
have to stop looking for some narrative that will save us.
Yes 47/48 are acting on behalf of BRIC nations (connect the dots) Our congress is as well and now SCOTUS. The illusion of American democracy has been uncovered- all it takes is someone not accepting anything that does not work for thier goal. Laws only work for those who follow them.
I fear the truth is simple, there are to many of us on this planet and now the wealthy are aligned to control what is left of the raw resources. Ai is not about capitalism it is about efficiency- they want less
of the bottom and ai will allow them to live with less of us.
The Russians own Zuckerberg, follow the early seed money. He made it easy to confuse and divide us.
There is one tactic left for us-
First watch garys economics on youtube for some hard truths; then, build a peaceful resistance. Read about the french resistance- it was thousands of groups, be in one.
Not Red
Not Blue
Not Right
Not Left
United saves Us
Hate divides Us as intended
Be smarter
It makes me wonder if the act of destroying all the Government Systems and Initiatives that actually made America great is also part of the Russian agenda. Also, are the Cryptocurrency moves recently made, part of the scheme?
Exactly… this has been Russia’s agenda for decades – to destroy the United States from within. They have discussed it publicly so it’s no secret.
They were pretty well infiltrated by the end of the first Trump administration. By the way, I wouldn't be surprised if Putin gave Trump the idea to incite an insurrection against the Capitol. They had lots of long conversations both by phone & in person, & I'm sure Putin gave Trump lots of suggestions & advice on how to gain full control of the government. Oh, if only we could hear a recording of his phone calls with Putin!
I don't trust crypto
I think Musk has got to be a Russian asset. And now he’s awarding himself all sorts of security & defense contracts-or trying to. What could possibly go wrong???
People should be reading this and PASSING IT ALL AROUND TO ANYONE AND EVERYONE, THIS IS ALL True Of Trump
This is the only name I use for this turd! Also when I have to go to the bathroom, I’m taking a #Krasnov
Don't forget to wipe the Putin!!
Great article. It explains a lot of things I always thought to be true regarding Trump's involvement with Russia and how his media style and tactics evolved from theirs.