I wish Trump and everyone else didn’t phrase it as terminating/ending/killing "the filibuster." That’s not good persuasion, because 1) it’s a widely-known Senate tradition, and because 2) the traditional filibuster is not the problem. The true problem is the 1970s innovation of the “silent filibuster." When it was a physical thing you had to actually do, there was an upper limit on how long anyone can do it.
So it would be better persuasion to say “End the silent filibuster.”
I’ve also wondered about the 2020 election. It was clearly stolen, but I’m not sure if Trump “wanted it to happen.” My sense is that he got out-maneuvered, retreated, and then worked on a comeback for 2024.
I’m a little skeptical of her claims because the pet chip thing is nonsense. Those are passive chips that don’t emit anything until a specialized scanner is maybe a foot away. Also, if your laptop or tablet is off or asleep, it’s not emitting any signals. The other items could be tracked, though.
The “eyes follow you” thing is basically b.s. There’s no special trick or ability to make a two-dimensional image do that.
Absolutely. I don’t think Trump has abandoned the Persian people.
I am too, but I trust that Trump is playing a long game. This deal puts the regime in a very awkward spot. There will be hardliners who want to keep launching rockets and supporting terror. But if that happens, the deal collapses, and dealmakers Trump dealt with know they got their ass whipped and that we can easily do it again. They’d rather make money than fight.
Plus, any opening of the country will empower the local resistance to the regime. They’ll have internet again. Thousands of local eyes will be watching for compliance, not to mention US and Israeli surveillance. Conditions will not be good for the IRGC. They’ll be vulnerable to a coup. They might not last out the year.
AFAIK that $300 billion is not coming from the US government. It’s more of a promise of an amount of investment from a number of countries.
There are many already, but they tend to be stodgy establishment conservative, or religious, or libertarian, or pro-business groups. I’m sure there are some MAGA ones but AFAIK they are a fraction of the size and influence of the giant lefty ones described here.
Maybe, but a a MAGA DOJ may not need the military, beyond it being there as an implied backup. Trump is very aware of optics. He’ll use it if he needs to, but my sense is that he’s trying to avoid having it go that far.
No. It would not be implemented securely, because the people who want it don’t want election security now. Who know who’s on the other end of the phone? Are they being paid or coerced? Paper ballots is the only way to go.
I remember all of them mentioned at the time. So many countries getting named increased my skepticism, but maybe they were involved, too.
He has lots to gain and not much to lose by cooperating at this point.
I didn’t know what to think. The Venezuela/CCP connection was talked about at the time, but the theory felt a bit too outlandish. If true, it’d be yet another conspiracy theory verified.
“He has credentials! He’s an expert!"
https://x.com/JamesHartline/status/2060224103282610305
I see this got posted a few days ago, but it seems important and I want the screenshot/meme version out there.
Alcatraz is now a museum. I think Trump was trolling.
They will be.
Trump is going to time things for maximum effect. That’s one reason I’m so confident about the midterms. What’s the best time for headline busts for fraud, election theft, coordination with foreign enemies? Just before or during midterm campaign season. All Trump has to do is bring iron-clad cases. Democrats and the media will be in shock. They’ll scream to high heaven about it being authoritarian, politicized, etc. But all that gets refuted by actual guilt. Voters hate people who scam social services, and hate political corruption. The entire democratic brand will be tainted once the corruption is exposed.
Exactly. Things like the 2020 steal don’t just happen in different cities and states spontaneously. They’re coordinated political machines.
You gotta understand how the fraud operates:
The people running the fake daycares, the fake home healthcare centers, the people gaming millions in fake loans from SBA...
...THEY DON'T KEEP ALL THE MONEY THEY STOLE.
They don't keep it ALL.
They take their CUT OF IT.
They only keep a PART of it.
Understand?
All of the stolen money does not STAY with them.
They kick a big CHUNK of it BACK to the people who were giving it to them.
You must not miss, skip over, or fail to see that part.
It's not some crook out there by their lonesome, gaming the system and stealing a couple million and laughing all the way to the bank while they KEEP IT ALL FOR THEMSELVES.
My God, are you REALLY missing the big picture if that's what you think has been going on.
This is ORGANIZED CRIME involving the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT - until just last year.
Before Trump came back, and he and his team did a VERY VERY VERY VERY HOSTILE TAKEOVER of that ORGANIZED CRIME FRONT cleverly disguised as the United States Executive Branch and it's federal agencies, government GANGSTERS in those money laundering fronts disguised as HHS, Treasury, Transportation, State Dept., etc. were funneling out HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR to their FRAUD BUSINESS PARTNERS in the US states like Maine, MN, OH, PA, CA, etc.
Trump and his team are exposing the fraud and rolling it up so fast because they now have enough control of ONE END OF THE FRAUD PIPELINE. The FEDERAL end.
The STATE-level government people and the PRIVATE fraud LLCs and businesses are stuck. They can't stop this. They refuse to cooperate, as the Maine gov't did, and it literally doesn't matter. The money gets CUT OFF.
I've been telling you since June of last year what the REAL STORY is of Trump's new term: one by one by one he is CUTTING OFF THE REVENUE STREAMS that Organized Crime Nations needs to continue to operate.
Think of Organized Crime Nation as having over 24 separate and distinct affiliates running 24 US states/major cities.
The California affiliate, with subsidiaries in LA, San Francisco, etc. The Illinois affiliate with a subsidiary in Chicago. The MN affiliate, with subsidiaries in Minneapolis & St. Paul.
Up until LAST YEAR, the Government Gangsters embedded in the US Executive Branch's federal agencies were FEEDING these state crime affiliates BILLIONS OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS. Every year. Like clockwork.
UNTIL NOW.
Now all those yearly billions to their states are being CUT OFF. These criminal networks cannot survive without YOUR MONEY.
When the money gets CUT OFF, the fraud network starts to collapse. And it's not just the fraud businesses at one end that start to die.
The fake daycares? No money. Fake home health? No money coming in. Fake SBA loans? Cut off.
The other end of the fraud pipeline starting to die. And who was BEYOND that other end of the fraud pipeline?
THE GOVERNMENT GANGSTERS WERE.
ALL THE GOVERNMENT GANGSTERS that were getting a significant CHUNK of that fraud money kicked BACK to themselves? THEY'RE NOT GETTING THAT MONEY ANY LONGER.
A shit-ton of political activity in this country was actually being paid for through a fraud shell game involving billions of YOUR stolen tax dollars every year.
Trump knew from the start how to kill The Hydra.
YOU STARVE IT. You starve it and you weaken it to the point it can't fight you off any more and then you move in and cut off all 9 of the heads at once.
The Maine crime affiliate, they NEEDED their cut of that $93 million they got in kickbacks to run their shit.
Now they're not going to have it.
The MN crime affiliate, they NEEDED their cut of the $9 billion in fraud to run their shit.
Now they're not going to be getting it.
And California? Ha ha...well...California...they NEEDED their cut of the $20 billion or whatever it ends up turning out to be there, to run their shit.
And Trump's not gonna let them have it.
Trump literally DOES hold all the cards.
This is the year Organized Crime Nation dies.
Of starvation.
And that's a beautiful thing...
The Peter Thiel Dialog group thing is overblown. It’s clearly not a single-minded group of conspirators. It’s more of an invite-only conference that talks about different things. You can tell because it has mortal enemies on the same list: pro-Trump people like Thiel, Musk, Kushner, but also sworn Trump enemies like Reid Hoffman and Lisa Monaco.
Also, when writers for TV, movies, and games make up stories about secret societies, apocalyptic plots, etc., of course they are going to draw from pre-existing tropes like Freemasonry, satanism, etc. That doesn’t mean they’re connected the way you might think. For example, these are all three different things: 1) Satan (whether he exists or not), 2) Satanists who have beliefs about Satan, and 3) writers who are using Satan or satanists as a plot device.