People have been asking me for a long time how we can best educate the American public about the Mueller Report. I've now seen a product called "Trump Cards" (note: I have no affiliation with the makers), and honestly it's the best thing I've found so far. amazon.com/dp/B07T823Z9V
1/ The Mueller Report, Proof of Collusion, and Proof of Conspiracy—three works I truly believe, taken together, tell the full story of collusion as we know it so far—have *hundreds* of characters in them. To have 54 cards that give you key facts about the top 54 players is huge.
2/ I tend not to give people nicknames, so the "nickname" element is less useful to me—*but* I know that many people need a pedagogical aid to remember that Michael Cohen is the "fixer," Aras Agalarov is the "Trump of Russia," and so on. So I'd say this deck does some great work.
3/ But here's the bigger picture: so many Americans are wondering what they can do to help America in a time of crisis. I always say: use the skills you already have to do something imaginative, generative, and educational. Trump Cards' makers did that—and we need *more* of this.
4/ Today I heard the impeachment episode of @sorrynotsorry with @Alyssa_Milano, and it was fantastic—another example of a thing folks can do (particularly charismatic performers who can be amazing educators), i.e. a podcast. The Trump "play" of a few weeks ago is another example.
@sorrynotsorry@Alyssa_Milano 5/ Others are designing tee shirts or installation pieces because they work in the material arts, or designing graphics and meme-worthy images because they work in graphic design. Avid readers are starting impeachment book clubs that read books about Trump-Russia and impeachment.
@sorrynotsorry@Alyssa_Milano 6/ Everyone doing something is in the same boat: a) trying to see how to match their skills to this historical moment, b) trying to position themselves vis-a-vis the national emergency we're in in such a way that they'll *never* have to look back and say "Could I have done more?"
@sorrynotsorry@Alyssa_Milano 7/ Among other things, if you're wealthy you can donate money where you think it needs to go, and if you're not you can donate *time* where you think it needs to go; if you're not wealthy and have no time due to work, even talking with friends/neighbors about this is a huge help.
@sorrynotsorry@Alyssa_Milano 8/ Anyway, I figured one of the things I can do is speak up if I see something that seems helpful at this time of crisis—thus this thread about "Trump Cards" and the other means by which we can educate America on the Mueller Report and the Trump-Russia scandal more broadly. /end
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BREAKING NEWS: Kremlin Asset Paul Manafort Confirms He is Already Working on Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign, Meaning Vladimir Putin Again Has a Direct Line to Trump As Trump’s Allies in Congress Pull Out Every Stop Conceivable to Aid the Kremlin in Its Monstrous Invasion of Europe
Many Americans don’t know that, in legal shorthand, a criminal defendant is represented by the “Delta” symbol, a triangle (∆).
(Yes—really.)
Less well known—but now, due to the Trump trial, just as relevant—is the “sleeping defendant” symbol: a faded, sideways triangle (▷).
When a criminal defendant is awake but angry at having to face consequences for his crimes, it’s OK to use the Red Delta (🔺).
If a defendant is—like Trump—livid at facing consequences *and* “sundowning” during afternoon court sessions, use the *inverted* Red Delta instead (🔻).
What about a criminal defendant who’s at once feeling “sad,” “tired,” and “boxed in” by virtue of having to deal with the same criminal procedures as the average American citizen, whom he considers himself far better than? For this we use the rare Recumbent Boxed Blue Delta (▶️).
BREAKING NEWS: Early signs suggest that Trump’s Monday night bond filing *may* have again misled the court. It says Hankey now has a security interest of $175M in “DJT Trust”—but Hankey’s Axos Bank *already* has a $100M interest in DJT Trust. Is Trump double-dipping? @KatiePhang
1/ Some wondered why Trump went to Hankey’s Knight rather than Hankey’s Axos. It certainly *could* be to swindle the court into thinking him having $175M secured with Hankey is sufficient, when it fact he likely needs at least *$275M* in that Trust to not be misleading the court.
2/ And this is early research—Axos has lent to Trump multiple times, so we’ve no idea how many times he’s used DJT Trust as liquid collateral (including any double-dipping). We *do* know Trump has Bud Light stock in the Trust, which is why he now opposes his MAGAs’ boycott of it.
Everyone knows the criminal trial on 34 felonies Trump begins on Monday is about him committing serious crimes to try to steal the 2016 presidential election, right? I mean, we’re clear on it having nothing to do with his family or propriety, only lying to American voters, right?
This is a man who committed felony after felony after felony after felony after felony after felony after felony after felony after felony—et al.—just to ensure his 2016 presidential campaign wouldn’t die a gruesome death, which it *would’ve* had he not committed those 34 crimes.
I’m not saying this because I used to be a federal criminal investigator and a criminal defense attorney. Anyone who isn’t a child fully understands that this case isn’t about sex, hush money, or business records.
It’s a case about the successful theft of the 2016 U.S. election.
I feel like you could read and watch CNN all day and have no idea that the fully and carefully telegraphed offensive Iran orchestrated yesterday—which it knew would do no damage, and which didn’t—was a response to Israel unilaterally attacking Iranian assets in Syria days ago.
Iran’s a state-sponsor of terror and I have no respect for that regime whatsoever—but it’s journalistic malpractice for CNN to be turning to Bolton and Petraeus to try to lie America into another war in the Middle East by pretending Iran’s offensive was unprovoked and a surprise.
This was exactly the same sort of deliberately ineffectual strike that Iran used to respond the *last* time Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, working in clandestine collusion with one another, assassinated Iranian leaders in violation of international law in January of 2020.
Joe Biden is trying to be POTUS while also fighting off Donald Trump’s shadow administration, Steve Bannon’s insurrection plotting, the fascist “Project 2025,” the Trump-Netanyahu-MBS-MBZ-Putin collusion axis, and—not for nothing—trying to rescue us all from the sh*t Trump broke.
No President of the United States has had to deal with this many domestic threats since Lincoln. Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, Great Redoubters, a resurgent KKK, Stop the Steal remnants, Leonard Leo, a corrupt SCOTUS, election interference by Trump’s allies...
...in China, Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, a fake impeachment inquiry, Bannon and Project 2025, Elon’s sprawling disinformation machine here on Twitter, Newsmax, OANN, RSBN... every day this good man swims against a towering tide, and I think people don’t realize it.