The Forrest Gump of the Trump Administration. An excellent timeline by @StevenJHarper1 that needs to be continually updated with links to the follow-on fuckery. Jared's story of what happened after "Take Your Son-in-Law To Work Day" is just beginning. billmoyers.com/story/the-jare…
Jared's first deal with his crisp Saudi money is a boring solar crowd fund loan play in Northern California. No coup funding or Ritz Carlton invite lists involved. axios.com/2022/07/01/jar…
After Qatar, Jordan, Libya, Venezuela and other funded Trump era coup plans went south. The last regime diaper change Jared was alleged to be involved in went badly as well. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Some folks Jared watches too many Michael Corleone scenes. Others think he just wanted to reshape the Middle East at any cost...to Israel's benefit. There is lot's of digging and continued tattling required to get multiple sources nailed down. thedailybeast.com/jordan-king-ab…
"Tom Barrack... set out during the campaign to introduce Mr. Kushner to his associates as a useful ally. "You will love him and he agrees with our agenda!” Mr. Barrack wrote in May 2016 in an email to the Emirati ambassador in Washington, Youssef Otaiba." nytimes.com/2018/12/08/wor…
Pitched were a“joint center to fight the ideology of extremism and terrorism.” and “an Arab NATO.”...n Islamic military coalition of tens of thousands of troops “ready when the president-elect wishes to deploy them.” Both came with hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts.
We all know the fabulous tale of George Nader and Elliott Broidy but what happened to all the money the Gulf was throwing at Jared and Donny? bylinetimes.com/2021/07/27/us-…
Should a serving member of government have to register as a foreign agent? It your father in law is President should your financials be transparent. America. We have a problem. #DrainTheSwampnewrepublic.com/article/166899…
Now the tough question. Did Jared Kushner do anything illegal? We know that Trump was surrounded by lawyers desperately trying to keep him and themselves out of jail. But Jared was the guy who worked directly for Trump. Hacked phones and emails don't look good for Jared.
Or does America have to live with the worst possible scenario? That all this fuckery is perfectly Iegal and exactly why many people run for office?
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My thoughts for today; Let Donny roll. Incompetence at speed and scale is historically a healthy thing in the long run. Successful managers respect reality, inertia, logistics, limitations etc. Stupid people think bluster and bullshit trump homeostasis. That leads to...
...an inflection or pivot point. Stability is an enemy to change. Good and bad. Instability is an ideal landscape for change. Pro or con. Let Trump paralyze, terrorize and metastasize the government because it will draw forth change agents to battle his chaos agents.
Trump's reliance on superficial theatrics, threats, insults, and unleashing incompetent subordinates with foolish ideas to disrupt the bureaucratic system we call government will lead to fractures. The much quieter "deep state" understands how the government operates.
Tip: Trump is embracing the Broligarch mantra of "disruption" as in, "move fast and break things." I call it "Smash, Grab and Run" because there are three endstates: 1) Payoffs for corrupt donors, 2) Legacy reshaping and 3) Protection of Trump familial wealth.
Trump operates on three levels: 1) rapidly spewing outrage jibberish to keep the media chasing his laser pointer, 2) Echoing donor jingoism to pay bills, and 3) discussing deeply corrupt deals while abusing his office of President.
This is tempered by a) his incompetence (Dunning-Kruger) b) his inability to think strategically and c) betraying his corrupt donors to take the short money instead of the long money. His backers also discard him when he has no beneficial purpose just as he discards his minions.
For those following the fires in California. Fire is a natural part of life here. Santana or devil winds are normal. Wood frame mansions on the edge of brush are common. November 6, 1961 was a similar event. Doesn't minimize the shock or sense of loss. lafire.com/famous_fires/1…
This time we had the jet stream pushed too high. 30 degree variance between day and night. No rain so far (starts in mid-December). Winds out of season. Usually 3 days of hot dry winds from the desert in Sept/Nov. We had a lot of brush grow after two years of great rainfall.
The Pacific Palisades is a unique place. Dating back to the 20's. A lot of entertainment people. A lot of Jewish community. The heart of liberal California. Beautiful views and weather. $5M and up. They are going to have a major voice and impact as they get together to rebuild.
Back when no one believed that the UK would divorce Europe. Dominic Cummings was not only correct but was behind much of the strategy. economist.com/britain/2016/0…
The faces of Leave UK were not your usual politicans.
'A former Vote Leave staffer said that Cummings had a first rate political brain but less developed interpersonal skills. “Some people found him really odd,”. opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
The premise of was false. But that didn't matter. African migrants weren't going to take over the UK. They were already there... from India and the colonies. "I think it’s perfectly reasonable to say ‘Brexit was a mistake and history will prove that’.”newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
Jamie Raskin takes 72 pages to explain exactly what political weaponization looks like. Few are going to read this, but the shitbags and Russian spies who falsely testified against the President and his family should enjoy some form of very cruel wrath. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subs…
There was also a sideshow where lawyers were dispatched to talk to Russian and FSB assets in Ukraine to invent evidence. This is part of an investigation related to contact with foreign agents. Perp walks, please. businessinsider.com/victoria-toens…
Much of this goes back to the Mueller investigation, where Russians and Russian assets were tasked to influence a pussy mad, broke-ass hick from Queens named Donald Trump. They won. We lost. justice.gov/archives/sco/f…