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Thread. As I’ve said, Putin and MbS want Trump to help them keep a tight grip on power at home. Oil price is key, and Trump is happy to raise gas prices to get the dictators’ help with the 2020 election. Quid pro quo.
These Trump chats with his mentor Putin and his “friend” MbS drag free world discourse down to the mafia cartel’s level. Covid-19 is a handy excuse to “unite” on the authoritarians’ terms while they make no concessions.
Putin wants sanctions lifted; he and MbS both want to destroy US shale and energy sector in general. Trump only cares about the election and will stop at nothing. People keep underestimating this. The gloves are off.
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It's well and good to document and expose Trump's dangerous incompetence, but it's still absorbed into the 24/7 Trump news cycle. Equal or more attention must go to the competent & sane alternative.
If 2020 is seen purely as a verdict on Trump, he has a chance despite his impeachment and catastrophic mishandling of Covid-19, due to extreme polarization and the electoral college.
Six months remain to discuss plans to return to reality, to sanity, to boring competence. The dopamine blast of bashing Trump is dangerously addictive. It helps make him the center of everything, which is his only chance in November.
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My reply to questions about this, even ignorant ones about my own activities, is now posted here: hrf.org/press_posts/re…
Trying to distract from the risks of dictatorships like Saudi Arabia purchasing Premier League teams with uninformed accusations against me is insulting to readers who deserve information about the real matter.
The Saudis, as with Putin's cronies and more lately China, have learned that buying up sports teams in the free world is handy for laundering money and reputation—and for spreading more money for political influence.
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Why not? As I wrote earlier this week, sabotaging the Postal Service to settle a score and suppress mail-in voting is obvious move if you don't care about who you harm.
My other example was why Trump would sabotage testing. He sees Covid-19 deaths like the stock market in reverse. Higher is bad, so do anything to keep the numbers down until election day. cnn.com/2020/04/20/opi…
Pundits tend to look for complicated explanations for autocratic behavior. It flatters their supposed expertise. But it's almost always just blunt self-interest. The shortest path to power and money.
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