Don’t mind me, I’m just RTing years old news about Trump making it painfully clear he’s a Russian asset since folk are pretending they didn’t know until NYT finally told them 3 years too late. 🙄
As always shout out to our rightful president Hillary Clinton because she literally spelled it out for y’all over and over again, but NO you were too busy obsessing about her stupid fucking emails, @nytimes. Apologize for your willful negligence now.
Circa May 2017. How are you feigning shock that Trump was under FBI investigation when he’s literally been obstructing it since the day he was sworn in by *his own admission*? Cease and desist with your willful amnesia and CYA.
Trump’s 2016 campaign and Trump as an individual Russian asset are the same fucking thing for all intents and purposes, so you’ve been in denial this whole time if you thought somehow Trump wasn’t connected to all of the nefarious communications between his underlings and Russia.
I see people saying “but we didn’t know the FBI was investigating Trump specifically, now we do” and I wonder how many of them might also need to be told explicitly that water is wet. 🧐
NYT isn’t bringing you “bombshells”, they’re refreshing old ledes they buried and neglected to factually synthesize in real time with actual intelligence experts a long time ago b/c they wanted privileged access to Individual 1. They intentionally left numerous dots unconnected.
They did so not because the information wasn’t readily available to them, but because informing the public about Trump’s corruption would’ve wounded his fragile ego and invited his rage and retaliation. They enabled the conspiracy by way of obfuscation and “fair and balanced”.
They’re hoping to be praised for telling the story unfashionably late rather than taking any meaningful responsibility for neglecting to tell the story accurately and elaborately *before* the Russian asset was ever sworn into the presidency. Do NOT fall for this shit, y’all.
This is a consequence of the American MSM playing party to Trump’s delusional declarations about the Russia probe being a “witch hunt” and nothingburger”. It’s always going to be a shocking, brand new bombshell to folk who willfully choose to deny it in perpetuity. #protip
Stop tying yourself in knots to keep presuming Trump innocent of all the things he’s been accused of/under investigation for in connection to Russia. He doesn’t deserve the benefit of your doubt & the FBI wouldn’t spend this much time on a trail that isn’t leading them anywhere.
Hillary circa August 2016. She told y’all he was a Russian asset, you just didn’t fucking listen. Stop pretending you weren’t warned when it’s already been documented. 🧾
Trump fired Comey *immediately* after he publicly testified that Trump’s campaign was under FBI investigation for possible collusion w/Russia. His blatant obstruction of justice made investigating whether he was a Russian asset mandatory and inevitable.
Also Trump didn’t stop at strong-arming then firing Comey, he also attempted to force intelligence officials to lie on his (and Putin’s) behalf. How do these criminal, treasonous actions not scream Russian asset or probable cause to investigate such? 🤔
Here’s a thought, maybe these folk are so late to the nightmare bc they believed/spread all the Russian propaganda that was spun on purpose to discredit everyone who was calling it out, from Hillary Clinton on down. Maybe they did Putin’s work for him but still won’t fess up. 💡
Nah fuck maybe, that’s exactly what it is and it’s STILL total bullshit.
Also I’m STILL MAD AS HELL. 🔥🔥
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The thing that’s always struck me about this (not only as a Black woman but also as a psychiatrist IRL who’s literally tasked with helping people cope with stress, illness and the ups & downs of life) is the Black woman savior complex of it all. It’s subconscious but ubiquitous.
As with many things in America, I also think it’s yet another sociological phenomenon brought to us by slavery. A lot of White family systems fell apart (continue to) without the presence of a Mammy or some form of matriarchal Black help in the home. jstor.org/stable/2714687
Except for all intents/purposes, VA *was* TX not too long ago. The 2021 Gubernatorial election set back over a decade of hard-won progress by VA Democrats. It can happen in ANY historically or recently “blue” state at the drop of a dime, if enough White voters DEFECT/vote GOP. 🥴
The other thing to remember is #WeTriedToTellThem ALL of this shit was gonna happen (all over again) but HELL NO. This is yet another consequence of MAGAts who have both a death wish and outsized influence on every single public/private system in 🇺🇸 running the asylum. 🤡👹👺🦊
Adding this here b/c it’s really important that we also recognize how the toxic/violent masculinization of GOP women voters also extends to #MAGAWoman elected officials. They’ve created an army of Ashli Babbitts who aid/abet the radicalization of their menfolk & themselves. 👹🤡
By now we’ve seen too many GOP/GOP adjacent mothers/wives/girlfriends either completely “overlook” the extremism in their midst or actively enable and facilitate the obstinance/defiance and evasion of consequences that leads to White, right wing domestic terrorism. #VanillaISIS
The thing that really chaps my hide about it is I’ve heard Republicans vilify Black family values & label us criminals/social deviants my whole life, yet here they are breeding & grooming the most PROLIFIC White domestic terrorists America’s ever seen and the NARRATIVE is SILENT.