“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocites." — Voltaire
Sep 3, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
HELP! I need accurate terms (other than "corrupt oligarchs," "white-collar criminal syndicate," "cabal," "mafia-like machine,” etc.) for Trump and his rich, influential "partners-in-crime" as they (1) accelerate their criminality with impunity, (2) accrue powers of —
THREAD 1/2/ ...accrue powers of immunity, (3) supplant the rule of law, (4) corrode American democracy, (5) ignore the Constitutional law and Supreme Court principles,, (6) risk national security by helping Putin violate our national sovereignty...
Aug 28, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
“The Big Lie”: Exposing Trump's Dangerous Strategy — This Old Propaganda Technique Comes from Hitler’s “Mein Kampf, “ the Book He Long Kept on the Nightstand Next to His Bed #TheBigLie via @YouTube2/ “The Big Lie” is a propaganda technique by Adolf Hitler, detailed in his 1925 book ‘Mein Kampf,’ about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously". #TheBigLieen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
Jan 3, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The Iran Cables: Secret Documents Show How Tehran Wields Power in Iraq |
“Hundreds of leaked intelligence reports shed light on a shadow war for regional influence — and the battles within the Islamic Republic’s own spy divisions.” nytimes.com/interactive/20…2/ “Leaked Iranian documents offer a detailed portrait of just how aggressively Tehran has worked to embed itself into Iraqi affairs, and of the unique role of Suleimani. The documents are contained in an archive of secret Iranian intelligence cables obtained by The Intercept.”
Nov 20, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
What did Mark Sandy, the OMB official say in a closed-door deposition about the hold-up of military/financial aid? • White House budget official testifies in closed-door deposition in Trump impeachment inquiry - CNNPolitics cnn.com/2019/11/16/pol…1/ “Mark Sandy, OMB official, testified that it was unusual of a process it was that a political appointee came in, took over the apportionment process and placed a hold on the military aid.”
Oct 29, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Oh jeez. I knew this was coming:
“Evidence suggests that the CIA and intelligence communities (ICs)—including potentially ICs of the UK, Italy, and Australia—fabricated contacts between Russian officials and people involved in Trump’s 2016 campaign.” thefederalist.com/2019/10/25/all…2/ This essay asks: Did Brennan (as “plotter-in-chief”) engage Joseph Mifsud, Felix Sater, Stefan Halper and many others to serve as CIA assets who’d set up meets between Trump associates and real or fake Russians in order to prevent a ‘President Trump’—or to destroy him later?
Oct 6, 2019 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
THREAD on Trump Family NEPOTISM, CRONY CAPITALISM, HYPOCRISY, SELF-DEALING: “You have Ivanka Trump getting Chinese trademarks for voting machines, April 2017, three new trademarks for the Ms. Trump brand the day she met China's president, Xi Jinping.” 1/ crooksandliars.com/2019/10/corrup…
You’ve got Ivanka Trump getting sixteen new trademarks from China over a slice of devil’s food cake (oh so rich!) — including Chinese trademarks for Ivanka’s own brand of VOTING MACHINES for use in U.S. ELECTIONS. 2/
Sep 30, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD: In case we’ve lately forgotten... in case Trump’s vast and past thuggishness, his raping of the rule of law... his breaking of our barely-born democracy... his siphoning of our civic sense of public service, our commonwealth of uncommon ideals...
2/ ... in case all of that’s has dimmed, or lost imminence... in case we’re anesthetized a bit to this week to Trump’s irrevocably corrupt core...
Sep 29, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Graham says he has "zero problems" with Trump-Ukraine call for the following reasons — Sadly, his concerns are badly addressed by a terrible news moderator — a smart high school debate club member could far surpass her poverty of thought. FRUSTRATING!
2/ Additionally, I think there’s risk in Pelosi’s strategy to drastically narrow the scope of potential articles of impeachment; most Dems KNOW that Trump is deeply, broadly, and fundamentally CROOKED — and KNOW his misdeeds are NOT too nuanced to be included in the Articles.
Sep 19, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Israel's Netanyahu wins re-election, main challenger Gantz concedes defeat reuters.com/article/us-isr…2/ “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a clear path to re-election on Wednesday, with religious-rightist parties set to hand him a parliamentary majority and his main challenger conceding defeat.”
Sep 1, 2019 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I want to re-gift 1/3 of the $20,000+ giveaway to #TwitterPhilanthropy#TeamPULTE — and to gift 1/3 to a brave, bright (one-full-year-sober-from-opioid-addiction) woman of 31 years, to upgrade her growing “graphics/video/web design” business with a MacBook Pro setup... 1/
2/ ...properly handles her professional Adobe application suite — and so Lillian can thrive in her career — and stay free of opioids for another year (and many more, ad infinitum). She is so talented at this graphics/video/web design business — and has already built this... /2
