"We knew in 2016 that if Trump stayed in power, there would be mass death. We knew institutions would be further lost to organized crime. And we were like 'If we can figure this out, where are the people whose *job* it is to protect us?'" -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/traitors…
"In Nov 2016, the only thing we could see as worse than the coming humanitarian catastrophe Trump ensured was an *immediate* humanitarian catastrophe. So we've long wondered if control over hacked infrastructure was their real leverage." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/traitors…
"For years before the latest Russian cyberattack, we'd get admissions from officials that yes, hostile operatives permeated the grid. But it wasn't widely discussed. It's up there with Jeffrey Epstein as an topic officials tried to dodge." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/traitors…
"Everyone who was supposed to protect the US failed. Comey, Mueller, FBI, CIA, House Intel Committee -- take your pick, they all failed. There's no way that they failed due to ignorance when the criminals announced their own crimes!" -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/traitors…
"So you have to ask: why were our institutions so willing to abet a crime cult that has led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans, with more to come? Why do they seem to feel nothing about their role in that loss?" -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/traitors…
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"The reason little pundits are saying Trump 'acts like a mafioso' is because *he is one*. Trump is a career criminal. Trump has been immersed in transnational organized crime for his entire life." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/traitors…
"Over the years, anyone who tried to bring Trump's long criminal history to light and hold him accountable was threatened. Judges, juries, whistleblowers, journalists, representatives. These threats were successful: this is a mafia state." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/traitors…
"Trump doesn't seem to have secured the support of the military for his coup; he acted too late. The next time someone like Trump gets in the WH they're going to pack the military and security services with their cult." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/traitors…
"When people want to govern, collegiality helps. But that's not what they're doing. Things have been antagonistic since Gingrich and what I call his 'contract on America'. MAGA is just the latest extension of what Gingrich did." - Jen Taub on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/all-pres…
"I hope that Biden's AG is independent and does not take his 'unity' message to mean not holding accountable those who should be held accountable. My concern is that there may not be many people left after the slew of pardons." -- Jen Taub on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/all-pres…
"There is nothing stopping the House or Senate from holding hearings [on Trump admin crimes] akin to the 9/11 commission hearings or the financial crisis inquiry commission. There are so many crimes to choose from." -- Jen Taub on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/all-pres…
"The US justice system caters to white-collar criminals, by which I mean people with high status and 'respectability' who commit crimes throughout the course of their occupation." -- Jennifer Taub on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/big-dirt…
"The most privileged can hire the best lawyers. Every step -- if you're caught, or investigated by a regulatory agency, or investigated by the DOJ; your plea bargain or trial or sentence -- is shaped by pre-existing status." -- Jen Taub on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/big-dirt…
"One of the things judges are supposed to consider is if the accused is a 'credit to the community'. So if you're cheating and know it, like Madoff, you give money to causes and charities so lawyers can use it when you get caught." -- Taub on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/big-dirt…
"In Russia, we saw that a great way for a leader to maintain power is to have oligarchs one level down. If they don't obey and let you do your own dirty work, then you can prosecute them. My fear is the US is doing this too." -- Jen Taub on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/big-dirt…
"We see Trump issuing blanket pardons for people; it's happening here. There's a way to get out of this, but the 'peaceful transition of power' is anything but. The GOP is utterly captured by a dangerous authoritarian kleptocrat." -- Taub on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/big-dirt…
"Trump didn't come out of nowhere. He rose because our system lets people like him get a pass. If you're wealthy, white and well-connected, you get second, third, infinite chances." -- Jennifer Taub on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/big-dirt…
"I'm wondering if Trump made good on his 2017 promise to form what he called an 'impenetrable cybersecurity unit' with Putin and allowed the massive Russian cyberattacks on the US government to happen." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/bill-bar…
"US national security was already in tatters before the 2020 Russian cyberattacks. As @AndreaChalupa notes, the installation of Trump in 2016 was a marriage between the Russian mafia in the East and the Russian mafia in the West." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/bill-bar…
"Russia may have been assisted in the attacks by people in the US govt. The reason I suggest this -- and it's only speculation now -- is because it happened before. One notable example is Russia's infiltration of the US Treasury in 2015." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/bill-bar…