President Chamberlain--uh, I mean Trump--kneecapped Ukraine and all of Europe (again), while cozying up to Putin, the murderous thug (again). You know it's bad when even the Fox News people in Alaska said Trump got outplayed and manhandled (again).
This all makes me again wonder what hold Putin has over Trump. Is it Kompromat as indicated in the Steele Dossier? Trump’s huge loan from Deutsche Bank that was guaranteed by Russian financiers? Or perhaps the wide-eyed Little Donnie seeing Vlad as the autocrat he himself has always longed to be?
Whether witless, dimwitted or simply unwitting, once again Trump couldn’t have acted more against American and Western interests if he were actually a paid Russian agent!
he has been a russian asset since the 80's. groomed. financially backed for decades. probably still dangling the moscow hotel. and the pee tape they say is a pedo tape with young girls/women. which is the ace card. it is a failure of immagination that americans cant recognize a "compromised" president.
And you never know. Old Roy Cohn may have "dominated" the pretender in cheese (you know what I mean) at some point during his "grooming" for the position he now pretends to hold.
And there's the rub, now, forever: Even if we threw the fucker out, and even if we elect a democracy-embracing POTUS in 2028, the rest of the world knows that at any given point in time, they're only a few years away from possibly being thrown into chaos and darkness again. America is now an unreliable partner in democracy.
My dad worked as a civilian for the Army in the DOD as an analyst. He occasionally got sent to conferences with the Russians when it was unseemly for military officers to appear (this was in the 70s and 80s). He said he got approached by the KGB as it was standard operating procedure -- a Russian attendee would come up to him, chit chat, and hand him a card. My dad said it's inconceivable that Trump wasn't approached in that time frame as most prominent business people were, especially those wanting to do business in Moscow, as Trump did.
Ben Meiselas on Meidas Touch said that Trump's falling out with Epstein had to do with the fact that Trump bought a piece of property that Epstein wanted in Palm Beach (a house I think) for something like $45 million and then sold it to a Russian oligarch the following year for double the price. Epstein's assumption was that he was helping the Russians to launder money and was corrupt (oh, the irony!). (This information comes from Epstein's brother.) I am speculating, but perhaps Putin has information about how much of fraud Trump has always been in business and how he was receiving funds from the Russians to build his empire? It seems like Trump could withstand another sex scandal, but maybe not a financial one?
Riveting story and fascinating details! Thanks for sharing.
I’ve hears another reason for Trump’s falling out with Epstein: that Epstein had poached young girls who were in Trump’s employ. I suspect both this and your reason were true at the same time.
I think Trump is in awe of Putin and other authoritarians. Overall, I think Trump is practically giddy over Putin in his presence. While Putin mostly likely hates Obama and Biden, he respects them. I strongly suspect he feels neither hatred nor respect for Trump. Trump is just his fawning lapdog. This is written all over their body language. Just my opinion.
I suspect that all the shady financial dealings might be part of it. But Lev Parnas thinks that Trump’s fascination with autocrats is at the root of it. He’s a Putin fan-boy. It was like when he greeted Putin, he was meeting his boyhood hero. He was star struck. Should have asked for an autograph
💯 Agree. Trump really is a Putin fan-boy. Also, you're most likely spot on about the financial dealings. It's all of it in my opinion. Lev Parnas does seem to know how they operate.
Simon, sometimes you are a balm in Gilead. The 3 pars. today beginning with "As we like to say here it is been seven months of unceasing and unprecedented sabotage, plunder and betrayal" are a Saturday morning gift. Thanks!
The good news out of this -- if you can call it good -- is that Trump's performance was universally called weak. Even, as you note, by Fox. I predict more "spectaculars" to try and make him feel better. Also, in DC, the administration backed way down following a court hearing.
I was struck by Bolton’s comment. Trump always defers to Putin, but he’s in such steep cognitive decline now that he probably struggles to keep up during these negotiations. I don’t know how much longer the people in his circle will be able to cover for him.
It takes me a very long time to "process" stuff and get on the other side of something. For so long (like, maybe, almost 10 years?), it's been easy to target Trump, to direct my mental, psy, moral, and emotional outrage at him; dump my unending disdain upon him. But, as you pointed out, the decline is so steep, I almost don't hold him accountable anymore for his demented and outrageous behavior. I recognize sickness when I see it. I hold the Republicans responsible because if they comported themselves with wisdom, constitutionality and ethics, they'd encounter no obstacle in their Dem colleagues to have him removed - which is the only wise, constitutional and ethical thing to do.
It's on the Republicans now. I can't even imagine what their private conversations are like.
My 20-year-old son just returned from a trip abroad. Even he had trouble focusing on our conversation in the car on the way home from the airport after a very long day of travel. Trump's team was stupid not to allow a day of rest before such an important meeting. But they really don't care and have no control over the monster anyway, so it's not surprising that he appeared tired and grumpy.
Made my contribution to Jon Ossoff GA Senate this morning after receiving alumni news from UGA Odum School of Ecology. I took all the classes taught by Dr. Eugene Odum during his last year before becoming Emeritus. He hired me for my M.S. Research Assistantship with the Okefenokee Swamp Long-term Ecological Research Site (nutrient cycling in the watershed). I felt inspired to further support the Ossoff campaign.
Hurray for you, Deborah. I contribute to Ossoff too, and wish the "Prize Patrol" or someone would drop off a $1 million or more check for me to distribute among Hopium candidates.
Thank you, Deborah! Ossoff is even more remarkable in action than I thought he would be when he was running for his first term in 2020. He has been on top of every single issue as well as recent efforts to mine near the Okefenokee (that threat now ended b/c a private conservation group just bought the land that would have been mined!). He is going to be targeted by a lot of $$$. We have to keep his seat and hope to flip NC, and perhaps SC & TX, too!
I am a UGA grad x2: MSW in '89 and Teaching Certificate in 2007. I didn't know you were there, too! I bet your Research Assistantship at the Swamp was Amazing!!! I have actually never been, but want to kayak it in Late Winter/early Spring before gator mating season and before the heat/humidity get intolerable!
I think Mr Trump is talking to Mr Putin about making NICE. Russia is not the enemy of America! It’s the 1% who are fighting against Democracy in the USA and all over the world. The USA, Britain and Israel are the enemy of Democracy. The Democrats have no ethics; what do they stand for? The silence on the Genocide in Gaza is deafening to me. I am so tired of listening to the politicians and commentators both Democrats and Republicans ignoring most people and their very basic needs while blaming others for the current situation!
What a disaster Trimp is for the world. We, USA, shamed ourselves by electing him. We can't let up opposing him and his for a second. Please watch the story of my why here https://youty.be/cM6V8-45Wfk
folding like a cheap, crummy suit pretty much describes the behavior of the felon, liar, grifter, war dodger, sexual assaulter at his "meeting" with the war criminal invader, child kidnapper. guess he reminded the felon of his pedo tape. i frankly expected him to give alaska back.
Stand Up for Science has printable flyers and microflyers. I am posting the one on NIH funding on Facebook and Mastodon and will print some to leave when I do errands. https://www.standupforscience.net/microflyering
The big guy exposed himself as a buffoon on an international stage and clumsily began his patented confusing double talk to offer something in the way of a press conference when left standing alone. At least Putin has a sense of timing and knows when to exit to let Trump dig himself a deeper hole. #yourefired
TACO chickened out again, got steamrolled by Putin again and still doesn't know it. He's the Broken Link of the free world and a threat to civilization itself.
Please help come up with a cool acronym like TACO that starts with BLI or BLO, broken link in or broken link of
President Chamberlain--uh, I mean Trump--kneecapped Ukraine and all of Europe (again), while cozying up to Putin, the murderous thug (again). You know it's bad when even the Fox News people in Alaska said Trump got outplayed and manhandled (again).
This all makes me again wonder what hold Putin has over Trump. Is it Kompromat as indicated in the Steele Dossier? Trump’s huge loan from Deutsche Bank that was guaranteed by Russian financiers? Or perhaps the wide-eyed Little Donnie seeing Vlad as the autocrat he himself has always longed to be?
Whether witless, dimwitted or simply unwitting, once again Trump couldn’t have acted more against American and Western interests if he were actually a paid Russian agent!
he has been a russian asset since the 80's. groomed. financially backed for decades. probably still dangling the moscow hotel. and the pee tape they say is a pedo tape with young girls/women. which is the ace card. it is a failure of immagination that americans cant recognize a "compromised" president.
And you never know. Old Roy Cohn may have "dominated" the pretender in cheese (you know what I mean) at some point during his "grooming" for the position he now pretends to hold.
And there's the rub, now, forever: Even if we threw the fucker out, and even if we elect a democracy-embracing POTUS in 2028, the rest of the world knows that at any given point in time, they're only a few years away from possibly being thrown into chaos and darkness again. America is now an unreliable partner in democracy.
Money laundering for sure. Our Manchurian president.
He is a de facto Russian agent so…
My dad worked as a civilian for the Army in the DOD as an analyst. He occasionally got sent to conferences with the Russians when it was unseemly for military officers to appear (this was in the 70s and 80s). He said he got approached by the KGB as it was standard operating procedure -- a Russian attendee would come up to him, chit chat, and hand him a card. My dad said it's inconceivable that Trump wasn't approached in that time frame as most prominent business people were, especially those wanting to do business in Moscow, as Trump did.
Ben Meiselas on Meidas Touch said that Trump's falling out with Epstein had to do with the fact that Trump bought a piece of property that Epstein wanted in Palm Beach (a house I think) for something like $45 million and then sold it to a Russian oligarch the following year for double the price. Epstein's assumption was that he was helping the Russians to launder money and was corrupt (oh, the irony!). (This information comes from Epstein's brother.) I am speculating, but perhaps Putin has information about how much of fraud Trump has always been in business and how he was receiving funds from the Russians to build his empire? It seems like Trump could withstand another sex scandal, but maybe not a financial one?
Riveting story and fascinating details! Thanks for sharing.
I’ve hears another reason for Trump’s falling out with Epstein: that Epstein had poached young girls who were in Trump’s employ. I suspect both this and your reason were true at the same time.
I think Trump is in awe of Putin and other authoritarians. Overall, I think Trump is practically giddy over Putin in his presence. While Putin mostly likely hates Obama and Biden, he respects them. I strongly suspect he feels neither hatred nor respect for Trump. Trump is just his fawning lapdog. This is written all over their body language. Just my opinion.
I suspect that all the shady financial dealings might be part of it. But Lev Parnas thinks that Trump’s fascination with autocrats is at the root of it. He’s a Putin fan-boy. It was like when he greeted Putin, he was meeting his boyhood hero. He was star struck. Should have asked for an autograph
💯 Agree. Trump really is a Putin fan-boy. Also, you're most likely spot on about the financial dealings. It's all of it in my opinion. Lev Parnas does seem to know how they operate.
Simon, sometimes you are a balm in Gilead. The 3 pars. today beginning with "As we like to say here it is been seven months of unceasing and unprecedented sabotage, plunder and betrayal" are a Saturday morning gift. Thanks!
Is that the John Payne I know, from baltimore?
Thank you, Simon.
The good news out of this -- if you can call it good -- is that Trump's performance was universally called weak. Even, as you note, by Fox. I predict more "spectaculars" to try and make him feel better. Also, in DC, the administration backed way down following a court hearing.
Can you tell us on what issue? Thank you.
DC Metropolitan Police Chief stays in place.
Oh, that is very good news! Thank you for letting us know!
Sorry, on control of the DC police.
Thank you for clarifying. That is great news!
I was struck by Bolton’s comment. Trump always defers to Putin, but he’s in such steep cognitive decline now that he probably struggles to keep up during these negotiations. I don’t know how much longer the people in his circle will be able to cover for him.
It takes me a very long time to "process" stuff and get on the other side of something. For so long (like, maybe, almost 10 years?), it's been easy to target Trump, to direct my mental, psy, moral, and emotional outrage at him; dump my unending disdain upon him. But, as you pointed out, the decline is so steep, I almost don't hold him accountable anymore for his demented and outrageous behavior. I recognize sickness when I see it. I hold the Republicans responsible because if they comported themselves with wisdom, constitutionality and ethics, they'd encounter no obstacle in their Dem colleagues to have him removed - which is the only wise, constitutional and ethical thing to do.
It's on the Republicans now. I can't even imagine what their private conversations are like.
My 20-year-old son just returned from a trip abroad. Even he had trouble focusing on our conversation in the car on the way home from the airport after a very long day of travel. Trump's team was stupid not to allow a day of rest before such an important meeting. But they really don't care and have no control over the monster anyway, so it's not surprising that he appeared tired and grumpy.
There must be some kind of “plan” to get rid of him—why is his VP ALWAYS on vacation?
Made my contribution to Jon Ossoff GA Senate this morning after receiving alumni news from UGA Odum School of Ecology. I took all the classes taught by Dr. Eugene Odum during his last year before becoming Emeritus. He hired me for my M.S. Research Assistantship with the Okefenokee Swamp Long-term Ecological Research Site (nutrient cycling in the watershed). I felt inspired to further support the Ossoff campaign.
Hurray for you, Deborah. I contribute to Ossoff too, and wish the "Prize Patrol" or someone would drop off a $1 million or more check for me to distribute among Hopium candidates.
Thank you, Deborah! Ossoff is even more remarkable in action than I thought he would be when he was running for his first term in 2020. He has been on top of every single issue as well as recent efforts to mine near the Okefenokee (that threat now ended b/c a private conservation group just bought the land that would have been mined!). He is going to be targeted by a lot of $$$. We have to keep his seat and hope to flip NC, and perhaps SC & TX, too!
I am a UGA grad x2: MSW in '89 and Teaching Certificate in 2007. I didn't know you were there, too! I bet your Research Assistantship at the Swamp was Amazing!!! I have actually never been, but want to kayak it in Late Winter/early Spring before gator mating season and before the heat/humidity get intolerable!
I think Mr Trump is talking to Mr Putin about making NICE. Russia is not the enemy of America! It’s the 1% who are fighting against Democracy in the USA and all over the world. The USA, Britain and Israel are the enemy of Democracy. The Democrats have no ethics; what do they stand for? The silence on the Genocide in Gaza is deafening to me. I am so tired of listening to the politicians and commentators both Democrats and Republicans ignoring most people and their very basic needs while blaming others for the current situation!
Dude, I am leaving this up but am refunding your money and banning you from the platform. Take this horseshit somewhere else.
What a disaster Trimp is for the world. We, USA, shamed ourselves by electing him. We can't let up opposing him and his for a second. Please watch the story of my why here https://youty.be/cM6V8-45Wfk
oops, the story of my why is here: https://youtu.be/cM6V8-45Wfk
folding like a cheap, crummy suit pretty much describes the behavior of the felon, liar, grifter, war dodger, sexual assaulter at his "meeting" with the war criminal invader, child kidnapper. guess he reminded the felon of his pedo tape. i frankly expected him to give alaska back.
Stand Up for Science has printable flyers and microflyers. I am posting the one on NIH funding on Facebook and Mastodon and will print some to leave when I do errands. https://www.standupforscience.net/microflyering
Thank you for the link. I also plan to distribute them.
I distributed quite a few of the flyers this weekend. I enjoyed the activity! I'll be keeping it up.
simon: go take care of your flowers, bees and birds. it's august in DC. chill!!
Troll much?
Baked Alaska
The big guy exposed himself as a buffoon on an international stage and clumsily began his patented confusing double talk to offer something in the way of a press conference when left standing alone. At least Putin has a sense of timing and knows when to exit to let Trump dig himself a deeper hole. #yourefired
Thank you Simon!
forgot something... obviously TACO on cease fire!
TACO chickened out again, got steamrolled by Putin again and still doesn't know it. He's the Broken Link of the free world and a threat to civilization itself.
Please help come up with a cool acronym like TACO that starts with BLI or BLO, broken link in or broken link of