THREAD 7 pages 601-700 of the 966 page Senate Intelligence Committee’s #Volume5 counterintelligence report into Russian interference. In these pages we learn about more about what Butina was up to. Buckle up. Please read this report for yourself and draw your own conclusions.
Pg 602 We are still walking through Maria Butina’s operation. A main imperative was to make and retain contacts at the highest level of the Republican Party. She was also making in roads with the NRA. Which Republican Party leaders? Ron Johnson? Scott Walker? They’re from WI.
Let’s remind ourselves of some dots. A Russian agent, Konstantin Kilimnik, was given trump campaign data by Paul Manafort. Did data show a chance in Wisconsin among NRA voters? Is that why Russian agent Butina was so interested in WI Republican Party leaders? trump won Wisconsin.
Butina was interested in Carter Page which had to do with oil and energy, then all of a sudden, this same gun rights advocate, American University student from Russia is somehow enamored of Wisconsin politics? I think there is a word for what Butina is. A [REDACTED].
Pg 607 The good part about this exercise, is you don’t have to take my word for it. It’s all actually in the report. Like where it shows Butina invited Sheriff David Clarke to an NRA meeting in Moscow. You remember him. He was Sheriff of Milwaukee. The Wisconsin one.
Pg 608 Maria Butina, a well rounded [REDACTED] gets to ask trump a question. Is it about energy? No. Is it about gun rights or NRA? No. Is it about Wisconsin politics? No, then surely it was about American University. No, again. It was about 🥁🥁🥁Sanctions!
And because we have been paying attention we know that sanctions are as a result of the, say it with me troops, Magnitsky Act! I’m so proud of you guys. For anyone newly joining, you can get caught up by reading Threads 1-6.
Pg 609 The same Rand Paul who went to Russia with a letter from trump to Putin in April 2018? The same Rand Paul who won’t vote to make lynching a federal crime but cried because a crowd of protestors swarmed him and made him feel sad? That Rand Paul?
Pg 611 Nothing to see here really. Except a couple of Russian [REDACTED] not believing how easy their [REDACTED] is going to be with willing republicans helping them spy, I mean [REDACTED].
Pg 621 A relatively innocuous page until you realize Butina’s entrepreneurialism somehow now extends to Outdoor Channel which is one of our largest billboard companies. You know, that marketing you see on the highways? Is this why I saw that very misplaced Tulsi billboard?
Pg 629 What a service the @NewYorkStateAG is doing with her case against NRA. It isn’t just about taking money from donors for flights on private airplanes, they also took donor money to undermine democracy. Oh hey look, that’s Republican Senator Ted Cruz they’re referencing.
Pg 630 Know collusion, prayer breakfast remix. And on the very next page you will see they were looking to Senator and future Attorney General Jeff ‘Recusal’ Sessions on how to proceed with making a meeting between trump and Putin happen. So pious.
Pg 632 speaking of the pious, Franklin Graham, you know that guy that tells you how to live, think and do with your body? He is an ‘associate in Christ’ with Russian agent Alexander Torshin. They wanted the mtg in Rand Paul and McConnell’s KY. Good thing it’s a forgiving God.
Pg 641 You know what this story needs? A good ‘gene stock’ baby to cement relations between Russia and US. Taking a step back, these high profile non sexist Christian Republicans who aren’t racist want to pay $1m to a spy for a baby of good genes while undermining democracy.🤮
Pg 674 After Butina, the committee takes up the question of ‘the tapes’. You know which tapes. Anyhow, it is difficult to know if they exist but they will come out someday if they do and if they don’t, they won’t. Rumored the Crocus group would have them. Crocus = Agalarov’s.
Pg 675 Chaika is who Veselnetskya worked for. The Russian lawyer who met with jr in trump tower when he thought he was getting dirt on HRC but instead got Magnitsky education. Chaika used video kompromat in the past. The Agalarov’s hotel was wired for it. They set up tower mtg.
Pg 677 🚨Enter Cambridge Analytica. Now we are getting into something. Beware the use of social media and how the information is collected, sold and then used to target you. This goes for the UK too. If you think voter influence campaigns do not target you, you are wrong.
Pg 681 DYK it was trump campaign chair Steve Bannon who was VP of Cambridge Analytica and introduced this company to the trump campaign? Or that the only reason there was a CA in America is because the Mercer’s (Republican donors) invested $15m to make it so?
Pg 682 Again, you don’t have to take my word for it. You can read about it in the pages of #Volume5
Pg 686 Just read all of this page. Facebook, Bannon, Cambridge Analytica, Cruz, Kellyanne Conway. Remember how much fun you had taking Facebook’s ‘if you were a vegetable, which fruit would you be’ quiz? If so, they were working to influence you.
Pg 698 PsyGroup was like the Israeli Cambridge Analytica. You remember the name on this page. He bought trump’s mansion in Palm Beach for $95m after trump paid $10m for it. Totally kosher, to be sure.
I hope the media begins reporting on the damning evidence the Senate Republican lead Intel Committee found in their investigation into Russian interference. It’s all in #Volume5 Imagine what the Russians are up to now that our intel community is hiding it from Congress.
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We are in the Both Sides Era. For what seems the past decade, we have been subjected to both sides of the news, normalizing the weird, accepting the inappropriate, and moving on from the unforgivable.
Both sides are not the same.
A wee Sunday morning coffee🧵👇🏻
We have been so conditioned to Both Sides everything that we immediately fall into one side or the other. We are sorting ourselves based on memes and shallow thinking. Reporters complaining about hotel experiences due to the DNC running late, isn’t news. That’s a yelp review.
Have you noticed trump is on both sides of every issue? Probably not, because the “press hasn’t yet learned how to report on trump.” Why is covering trump any different from what they learned in journalism school?
Why not ask him about his incongruities? Or a follow up question?
Did you ever hear the phrase: “they have so much money they don’t know what to do with it.”? Not a problem, I’ve ever run into myself, but Project 2025 is just that. Billionaires want to be bankers. They want to sell off our governmental oversight to private companies they own.
Here is Project 2025. There isn’t one part of our lives this won’t touch. Think it doesn’t mean you? There is no provision to exclude from its effects those who vote for fascism so choose your candidate wisely.
Here is the part where they will abolish the federal reserve. It will be replaced by currency they can “create” and then lend out at their own interest rates.
“There is no place for political violence” has been a pretty common refrain throughout the weekend. It really got me thinking. ”Political violence” must be one of those “you know it when you see it” types of things.
Let’s see…
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Political violence strikes me as a visual medium but there are so many things that occur before we see the blood that I think might be political violence. Are we just numb to it? How do we define what is political violence and what is just violence? Why is it different?
Are Texas Gov Greg Abbott’s razor balls floating in the river, considered “political violence”? Kind of. I mean, the idea is people from south of the US shouldn’t be allowed to come here and take our jobs.
Political.
To deter from this, razor balls in the river.
Violence.
There’s been a lot said about Joe Biden since the debate. I, along with so many of you, watched it play out in real time as respected news transmitters read out ‘inside texts’ from knee jerk reactionaries.
After much thought, I won’t be voting for Joe Biden because he’s old.
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I’ll be voting for Joe Biden because he’s team democracy. I’m voting for ideas he represents. I’m voting for the team of people he can put together. I’m voting for my own interests and for your ability to vote for your own interests. I didn’t vote for him last time either, btw.
In 2020, I voted for a November 5th, 2024 election. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were the only options on the ballot that allowed this. I colored in Joe and Kamala’s bubble to keep the lights on long enough for us to have this election. Like many of you, I voted team democracy.
I am loathe to do predictions. However, there are some things you just can’t help but see coming. Project 2025 is a blinking red alarm and we all need to be aware of the stakes of this election. Please familiarize yourself with EO11246, be discriminating voters.
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On September 24th, 1965 President Lyndon Johnson signed Executive Order 11246. EO11246 established Equal Opportunity Employment. It includes Non-Discrimination in Government. It includes Non-Discrimination Employment by Government Contractors and Subcontractors.
Focus on Non-Discrimination Employment by Government Contractors and Subcontractors. In Sub Part B under Contractor’s Agreements, contractors agree to not discriminate against employees based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Trust me…
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The above is the oath the President takes at 12 noon on January 20. Typically, it is administered by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court but there is no law that makes that a requirement. You could have your gran do it. So why is it *usually* the Chief Justice?
For this thread let’s assume the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is there as a symbol of the law. Chief Justice Roberts in a way represents the Judicial Branch of our government on the day it grants power to the person who will symbolize the Executive Branch.