Is Trump a jabbering geriatric baboon or is every word, tweet and speech (and every result) part of a carefully crafted campaign managed by professionals, guided by lawyers and advisors crafted to achieve maximum effect?
Trump knows TV ratings, runs hotels with occupancy results, measures conversion rates on every direct mail and social media grift. He knows the power of words, reach, penetration, and results. He should be accountable for his words and intentions. He is also the President.
Presidents use words to inspire, calm and shape America: Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy knew the power or words. Trump was surround by people who not only drafted his words but argued about the impact. His employees begged him to use words to stop the violence.
When he was President he used showmanship to project messages. The Bible, tearing off the mask, leading chants. There is no confusion now that Donald had always planned to steal what wasn’t his. He continues to brag, threaten and insult hoping that he can get out of this one.
Now it’s personal. Every American who swore an oath, paid their taxes, kept a promise, paid a debt, obeyed a cop or trusted an elected official is waiting to see if the same rules apply to Donald Trump and his criminal cabal. Words matter. Deeds have consequences. #LawAndOrder.
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In 2017 a CIA employee dumped hacking suites onto WikiLeaks called Vault 7. Russians cloned these tools and leased them to private actors via a lawyer based in Moscow. Malign actors added this to other hacking tools purchased from Israel and Italy. wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/
That CIA employee Joshua Schulte, was just convicted on all counts. Not coincidentally, like George Nader, Matt DeHart and Scott Ritter, he also magically had evidence of child pornography on his computers. The link between sexual content and targets is interesting and complex.
Anthony Weiner and Hunter Biden also had devices that seemingly had embarrassing sexual content...right around elections. Again the story of how both laptops were accessed and data, not actually on the devices was distributed...is....complex. washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
Duck and cover. The Big Apple gets ready for the Big One.
Mitt says. Watch out. “By invading Ukraine, Mr. Putin has already proved that he is capable of illogical and self-defeating decisions. “ nytimes.com/2022/05/21/opi…
Imma call bullshit on the Consumer Price Index. Prices on daily consumables have easily doubled.. not even close to the 9% inflation calculation. Let's go get some pitchforks and torches. If we can afford them. bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/c…
"The CPIs are based on prices for food, clothing, shelter, and fuels; transportation fares; service fees and sales taxes. Prices are collected monthly from about 4,000 housing units and approximately 26,000 retail establishments across 87 urban areas" fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL
Things that shouldn't cost more are being jacked ups because of "supply chain", "covid, "higher prices". When they double working wages...I will shut up and whine quietly. nytimes.com/2022/06/14/bri…
“Bannon’s meeting with Guo’s associates occurred a few weeks after Bannon, working with Giuliani, had provided the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop to the New York Post.”motherjones.com/politics/2022/…
Be Happy: "War is rarer today than it has been for most of the past 50 years — and significantly less deadly. Genocides and mass atrocities are less common all the time. Life expectancy, literacy and standards of living are all rising to historic highs." nytimes.com/2022/07/12/wor…
Be worried:"beginning five or six years ago the number of democracies in the world has shrunk for the first time since World War II. Existing democracies are also becoming less democratic, as well as more polarized and more prone to political dysfunction or outright breakdown."
#1922Plan: For Americans who got to spend most of their lives in a safe and stable society, the shift to seemingly unending political crisis is destabilizing. It can make the world feel darker and more alarming, which might make far-off events feel scarier or more upsetting, too.
2014: ”The Defense Intelligence Agency first warned Flynn in an 8 October 2014 letter, that his acceptance of foreign money might be a potential violation of federal law” theguardian.com/us-news/2021/a…
“Manafort, who joined Trump’s campaign shortly before the Republican National Convention in 2016, was in under surveillance by the FBI over questions surrounding his lobbying activities in Ukraine since at least 2014.” thehill.com/policy/nationa…
2014: On 2005Trump began buying wierd stuff. In 2014 he bought the tits up Irish golf course, tried for the Buffalo Bills and announced he was was running for President. Anyone see a trend here? seattletimes.com/nation-world/d…