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dbsupernova 27 points ago +28 / -1

Came across this post explaining succession. The follow up post is worth reading as well. https://x.com/GLNoronha/status/1792235869795213546 . . . .

If Raisi is indeed dead, the key takeaway is not really who succeeds him (that’s the 1st VP Mohammad Mokhber, but only as a caretaker for 50 days before an election).

It’s the fact that the next Supreme Leader is most likely Ali Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei.

Internal pundits had believed the competition to succeed Khamenei as Supreme Leader was down to Mojtaba and Raisi. If Raisi is dead, Mojtaba becomes heir apparent.

The post of President is relatively unimportant - it’s more for domestic affairs, not national security and ideological direction.

The Assembly of Experts, an 88-person body, appoints the next Supreme Leader upon the death or vacancy in office of the Supreme Leader.

A question is whether anyone else would rise to challenge Mojtaba in the internal machinations. If not, it’s his for the taking.

And then we are set for the Islamic Republic to open itself up (rightly) to accusations that it has effectively become a hereditary monarchy - just in radical Islamic clothing.

This would make it harder for the regime to differentiate itself from its predecessor Pahlavi government, which is becoming viewed more favorably in retrospect by Iranians today.

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dbsupernova 2 points ago +2 / -0

I read that the DOJ can’t withhold the Biden interview recording now because it’s part of an impeachment proceeding.

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dbsupernova 2 points ago +2 / -0

I think he's talking about how the cases were 'randomly' assigned to the most communist judges imaginable.

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dbsupernova 15 points ago +15 / -0

He talks about Elon having the DM's and using the geolocations to determine jurisdiction for prosecution.

I wonder if Elon buying Twitter was always part of the plan or just a fortuitous turn of events that they're able to seize upon?

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dbsupernova 9 points ago +9 / -0

Haha, Trump read Vivek's words to get around the gag order.

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dbsupernova 3 points ago +3 / -0

That's what I mean. In a normal court the credibility of a witness is allowed to be questioned, but in this kangaroo court normality has no place.

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dbsupernova 2 points ago +2 / -0

Will the Judge even allow the Defense to attack his credibility?

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dbsupernova 3 points ago +3 / -0

Well Bannon did try pushing the 25th Amendment on Trump and got caught stealing Border Wall money. Sure Trump pardoned him but I doubt he trusts him.

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dbsupernova 15 points ago +15 / -0

When Trump seeks to fix the corruption, he'll need the public's support. People need to know and see first hand how deep the corruption is before they'll go along. Otherwise they'd just believe the media's lies.

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dbsupernova 21 points ago +21 / -0

Looking at the hearings Judge Cannon has scheduled, it's almost like Jack Smith is going on trial.

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1787955088155136104

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dbsupernova 4 points ago +4 / -0

Cohen paid Stormy Daniels and Trump reimbursed him personally as lawyers fees. From what I understand Trump and Daniels never had an affair, but she was threatening to claim they did and the money was to keep her quiet.

The NYC charge is for misclassifying the payments to Cohen, a misdemeanor. The statute of limitations expired so they upcharged to a felony. In order for it to be a felony, the misclassification of the payment needed to be done to cover up a crime. They haven’t named a crime, just ‘election interference.’

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dbsupernova 6 points ago +6 / -0

Yeah, the professors are radicalizing the students. The administrations are allowing it.

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dbsupernova 4 points ago +4 / -0

From what I've read BF Borgers conducted fake audits for their clients, most of whom are cryptocurrency & fintech companies. Sounds like they were money laundering for the swamp. I wonder if Trump helped the SEC nail them?

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dbsupernova 1 point ago +1 / -0

And she has name recognition in AZ.

AZ seems to be a strange state, maybe too many republicans are Rino's still under the influence of the NoName machine.

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dbsupernova 1 point ago +1 / -0

Trump is polling 4 to 5 points better than generic republicans right now. Also, Senate candidates are lacking name recognition right now, something that'll improve the closer we get to November.

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