The Washington Post is expanding reporting on the sedition cels in two locations near the White House on January 6. Full auto tweeter Seth Abramson does a good job of listing the participants. If only he knew what some actually did for a living. sethabramson.substack.com/p/major-breaki…
WaPo shows the pressure put on legitimate lawmakers. What they and Seth don't examine is why ex military psyops professionals were in the team. Folks it wasn't about a stolen election it was about making stupid voters believe the election was stolen. washingtonpost.com/investigations…
Psyops or Strategic Communications (Stratcom) or even "fuckery" is America's stock and trade. The dark arts are not to be used on our own citizens in our own country. But they did. washingtonpost.com/news/worldview…
Russia is less subtle in erasing democratic elections. The obliteration of the OSCE monitored elections in Chechnya after the region's independence and a war...by "acting President" Vladimir Putin come to mind. Oh look... apartment bombings. clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/100…
Decades later, Putin still leads in election fuckery. After the little Green Men aka Wagner before it was Wagner appear. A new right wing region emerges...with democratic elections! And yes this this can happen here. Oh wait..it did happen here. reuters.com/world/europe/u…
Hillary insisted that Putin's election was fraudulent (no one quite knows how he replaced the drunken Yeltsin so quickly) Putin went hard on preventing Hillary from getting elected. Trump didn't have a pot to piss in when people starting showing he was trending on Facebook.
Again, every crime Trump has committed is in plain sight. Trump needed money bad. The Russians had easily Brexited the UK to weaken the EU using fear of a black planet on social media. Why not rinse and repeat in America? npr.org/2016/07/14/485…
Congress needs to expand their timeline and suspect list to understand the origins of this insidious infection and the currently sedition that undermines trust in our government. The Russians, Sauds and Nahyans have benefited from Trump's destruction. motherjones.com/politics/2017/…
Trump's destruction of the American government and reputation can be measured. Thankfully he is incompetent and greedy...but give him time and his handlers will find a way to sink the ship. brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/20…
As a mental exercise it is worth revisiting how the U.S. subverted the Ukraine and removed Manafort's client, Russian installed Viktor Yanukovich using ultra right wing protestors. Oh wait..what did you say? "Manafort" +"Russian installed President?" salon.com/2014/02/25/is_…
Again...I don't want to insult Congress's intelligence but they only need to change one word in this headline to figure things out. time.com/5003623/paul-m…
Paul Manafort and Roger Stone rebranded dictators as freedom fighters for President Reagan, that former TV actor and pitchman that became President. This whole story needs a laugh track. Again the American people need to learn their own history. washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/…
Should we be shocked? "detailed explosive allegations that multiple members of Congress were intimately involved in planning both Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss and the Jan. 6 events that turned violent. " rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Jeff Bezo's lusted after sailing yacht the Oceanco Black Pearl but it was sold. So in 2018 he ordered Y721 for just under half a billion. Only one problem they won't build a helipad on a masted ship so Jeff will need another yacht to get to his yacht. boatinternational.com/yachts/news/ga…
In classic rich guy logic, the $200m, Black Pearl is promoted as being able to cross the oceans without burning a single gallon of fuel. It costs about $20 million a year to operate with a crew of 18. The owner Oleg Burlakov died of Covid this year. oceancoyacht.com/fleet/black-pe…
Although Jeff's boat is bigger, blacker and longer. It's still not the beautiful Black Pearl. Which he could have bought for half the price of his his giant ship. Kind of a Titanic homage to making things bigger...just cuz. forbes.com/sites/billspri…
Another rich Russian, another set of TrumpCrimers and another nab by the FBI. "There are photos of Vasilenko looking thoughtful, standing on army tanks, signing paperwork, embracing a private jet, and performatively enjoying the outdoors." motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
"the two funnelled $25,000 to the Trump campaign’s joint fundraising committee and pocketed the other $75,000." opensecrets.org/news/2021/09/g…
"Benton, a former campaign manager for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), worked for the pro-Trump super PAC Great America PAC in 2016. In December 2020, Benton was pardoned by Trump on charges tied to hiding bribes in a 2012 scandal."
"Straw Donor" is a polite name for political corruption in which a donor uses multiple ways to donate money to a candidate. The Trump campaign is littered with accusations of this tactic. Domestic donors seeking Quid Pro Quo are not the biggest problem. campaignlegal.org/update/clc-com…
This is not to be confused with the "Straw Man" argument. A ridiculous attack meant to divert, confuse or deflect a real argument. Trump and his cultists are the the master of straw arguments. But stupid people and trolls don't really care. inverse.com/article/25781-…
So essentially at it's height... the entire traffic of Parler was equal to one decent RYP snark tweet? Damn: "According to data from Sensor Tower, Parler downloads went from 517,000 in December [2020] to 11,000 in June [2021]" cnn.com/2021/10/21/pol…
I have always been skeptical of the hollow swollen fakeness of right wing outrage and the Trump bubble. The hype always says "winner" The numbers have alwayssaid..."loser" factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps…
Fiona Hill is an expert in Eastern European fuckery. Believe what she says. Trump has no ability to win the popular vote but he and his trolls are drilling under the foundation of democracy every day. businessinsider.com/fiona-hill-tru…
The Abraham Accords money laundering machine keeps on rolling: "receive as much as $2 billion from Saudi Arabia for Affinity, a private equity-style fund that will look for opportunities where Kushner's "geopolitical insight" can be brought to bear." project-brazen.ghost.io/jared-kushners…
Jared moved about $2B in secret funds while at the Trump administration. Two of the payees were/have been held under house arrest for financial investigation. (Erik Prince in Feb and Ludin Castillo as we speak) and the other recipients are dodgy as fuck like Khalifa Haftar.
Jared used his compromised iPhone 7 and it was repeatedly hacked with details shared with various intelligence agencies. One European spy agency replicated the hack and confirmed how it was done. MBS is a a paranoid guy. But this move appears to be the ultimate quid pro quo.