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Why am I not surprised?
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#muh russian collusion#russian collusion hoax#russia russia russia#certainly not news#clown nation news#the msm are democrat operatives with press passes#you donât hate the news media enough
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âRussia, Russia, Russia. Itâs always Russia!â
October 9, 2024
Robert B. Hubbell
New disclosures about Trump's ties to Putin
Bob Woodward (of WaPo Watergate fame) has written a new book that will be released this week. It contains shocking new revelations about Trump's private dealings with Vladimir Putin that again raise serious questions about whether Trump has been compromised by Russian intelligence. See NYTimes, Book Revives Questions About Trumpâs Ties to Putin. (Accessible to all.)
The NYTimes identifies two areas of grave concern: Trump's ongoing private conversations with Putin during the 2024 presidential campaign and a secret transfer of a prototype Covid test machines during the early days of the pandemic. Per the Times,
The book by the journalist Bob Woodward cited an unnamed aide saying that the former president and current Republican nominee had spoken with Mr. Putin as many as seven times since leaving office in 2021, even as Mr. Trump was pressuring Republicans to block military aid to Ukraine to fight Russian invaders. The book also said that Mr. Trump, while still in office in 2020, sent Covid-19 testing equipment to Mr. Putin early in the pandemic for his personal use.
Woodwardâs report is sourced to a single Trump aid (not identified by Woodward). But the allegations are subject to confirmation by witnesses and government records. Given the limited backup for Woodwardâs claims, we should proceed with caution until there is further confirmation.
But proceeding with caution does not mean that we should act naively. Trump has a long history of inexplicable favoritism toward and affection for Putin that is consistent with the actions described by Bob Woodward in his new book.
If the allegations are true, both suggest anew that Trump is subject to blackmail by Putin. As described by Woodward, when Putin received the Covid test machines, Putin told Trump,
I donât want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you [Trump], not me [Putin].
Putin was telegraphing to Trump that disclosure of the transfer of Covid test machines would be damaging to Trumpâand keeping that transaction secret would prevent that damage. That situation is a setup for blackmail.
So, too, is the fact of Trump's continued contacts with Putin up to and including the timeframe of the 2024 presidential campaign and Russiaâs war against Ukraine. If Joe Biden were in frequent, âoff the recordâ conversations with President Xi of China, Republicans would demand impeachment and removal from office.
Trump's continued âoff the recordâ contacts with Vladimir Putin are presumptively nefariousâespecially at a time when US has seized 30 Russian websites that were attempting to influence the US presidential election in favor of Trump.
In short, it stinks to high heaven and should be a cause for a five-alarm response from any American concerned about US national security. The sad truth is that neither GOP elected officials nor Trump's base will care that he may be secretly and directly coordinating with Putin to interfere in the 2024 election.
Letâs hope that the US intelligence community is aware of the contacts and any nefarious efforts by Trump and Putin. Letâs also hope that the media will not yawn in the face of a story that would bring down any other presidential candidate.
[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]
#Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter#Robert b. Hubbell#TFG#Russia Russia Russia#Bob Woodward#blackmail#COVID test machines#Covid#Trump ties to Putin#Putin
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đȘ https://open.spotify.com/playlist/74rrLIgdHwrq4WwmcAtK1h?si=2YJ6PtUKSsaGikC2sBo21g&pi=AJkOX64BTw-Vr #spotify #musicplaylist #Playlistcurator #Playlists #playlist #Spotifyplaylist #PostPunk #noiserock #darkwave Russia đȘ SOVIET WAVE (500 BANDS FROM BALTICS, EASTERN EUROPE AND FORMER SOVIET REPUBLIC) đȘ
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P:s regardless of the results of this poll, the actress playing her will not be Ukrainian, I spent too looking for one to replace her now
#stop russia#russia#fuck putin#vladimir putin#putin#destiel putin election#stop putin#trump and putin#putin puppet#anti putin#anti russia#russian terrorism#russian imperialism#russia is a terrorist state#russia is the occupier#Russia is a war criminal#russia interference#russia invades ukraine#free ukraine#russia war#russia russia russia#russia terrorist state#russia today#russia ukraine war#russia ukraine crisis#russia ukraine conflict#russia ukraine today#russia ukraine invasion#all rights and credit go to original writer#emonydeborah on ao3
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While it's snowing at the White House, Joe starts WW3
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so, today we, russian queers, may become "extremists" by decision of russian supreme court and thus our existence will be silenced and erased. any queer activism will be impossible for us. I don't know what to do anymore. I was heartbroken when they passed the laws about "gay propaganda" and transgender people, now I'm just numb. I don't want to escape. I just want to live safely in my own country.
please hear us.
#lgbtq#lgbtqia#lgbtq community#lgbtqia rights#lgbtq rights#lgbt+#lgbt rights#russia#russian lgbtq#lesbian#gay#bisexual#trans#transgender#queer#queer rights#russian queers
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Discord is officially blocked in Russia
anti-DPI programs can handle Discord here's Goodbye DPI w/ GUI here's ByeDPI, possibly nicest solution for Android other variants can be found here
regarding VPNs - Windscribe is still the real one, w/ non-standard protocols and special "hostile network" switch, one problem though - limited traffic, so you most likely have to juggle it w/ some noname VPN apps or proxy add-ons
note that it's illegal in Russia to talk about blocks circumvention, so if you don't live in Russia, please share this post, so your followers, who live there could see it and use it
#i copied this post from my russian mutual who couldnt share it bc its dangerous for them#but not for me#so pls reblog#living in dictotarship sucks but not everyone can leave#discord#russia
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Wake up! We're at war
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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
September 5, 2024
Heather Cox Richardson
Sep 06, 2024
The U.S. government continues to tighten the screws against Russian malign activity. This morning the Department of Justice announced an indictment charging Dimitri Simes for violating U.S. sanctions against Russia. Simes allegedly worked for a sanctioned Russian television station and laundered the money from his work. Simes advised Donald Trumpâs 2016 presidential campaign.Â
A second indictment charged Simesâs wife, Anastasia, with sanctions violations and money laundering through the purchase of fine art.Â
The Justice Department also issued a grand juryâs superseding indictment against six Russian computer hackers. Five were officers in Russia's military intelligence agency; one is a civilian. The six are charged with hacking into and leaking information from, as well as destroying, Ukrainian computer systems. The hackers also attacked systems in European countries that support Ukraine and in the U.S.
The State Department has offered a $10 million reward for information on the defendantsâ locations or their malicious cyberactivity.
The fallout from yesterdayâs revelation that six powerful right-wing media figures were on the Russian payroll continues. One of the right-wing commenters referred to in yesterdayâs indictment, Tim Pool, has pushed the idea that the U.S. is in a civil war, interviewed Trump on his podcast in May, and has been fervently against American aid to Ukraine. Today, he posted: âUpon reflection I now understand that Ukraine is our Greatest ally[.] As the breadbasket of Europe and a peace loving people we cannot allow the Fascist Russians to continue their crimes against humanity[.] We must redouble our efforts and provide and additional $200b at once[.]â
By this evening, though, he was making a joke of the news that his paycheck had come from Russia.
Notably, Trump posted on his social media site a rant that tied his own 2016 campaign to yesterdayâs indictments, although the indictment itself did not do so. He accused âComrade Kamala Harris and her Department of Justiceâ of âresurrecting the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, and trying to say that Russia is trying to help me, which is absolutely FALSE.â
Vice President Harris is not in charge of the Department of Justice.
By tying yesterdayâs indictments to his campaignâs involvement with Russian operatives in 2016, Trump might have been trying to suggest the story was old news, but it does highlight the parallels between Russia and right-wing operatives trying to get him reelected. Along with his colleague Donie OâSullivan, Jake Tapper put it like this on CNN: âToday, the U.S. government is trying to peel back more layers of what officials say are massive and complex efforts underway to influence your vote in the upcoming election. One part of these alleged plots: replacing your average 2016 Russian social media bots with actual conservative Americans, right-wing influencers with a combined millions of followers, influencers promoted by Elon Musk, some visited by Republican politicians such as former president Trump.âÂ
Then Trump fell back on the old trope that his opponents are communists, posting on his social media platform: âWe are fighting true COMMUNISM in this Country. We have to save our Elections, our System of Justice, our Constitution, and our FREEDOM, but that can only be done after we win BIG on November 5th, and proceed to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.âÂ
Economists for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. say that a Trump win in November would hurt the U.S. economy, while a Harris winâif she also gets Democratic control of the House and the Senateâwould make it grow.Â
Trumpâs 2024 campaign is not at all about reality; itâs about a worldview. When asked at an event at the New York Economic Club âwhat specific piece of legislation will you advanceâ to make child care affordable, the 78-year-old Trump answered:
âWell I would do that. And weâre sitting down. You know I was somebody. We had Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka was so impactful on that issue. Itâs a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that Iâm talking about, that becauseâlook, child care is child care. Itâsâcouldnât, you know, itâs something you have to have itâin this country you have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that Iâm talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that theyâre not used toâbut theyâll get used to it very quicklyâand itâs not going to stop them from doing business with us, but theyâll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that weâre talking about, including child care, that itâs going to take care. Weâre going to haveâI look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country, because I have to stay with child care. I want to stay with child care, but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that Iâm talking about, including growth, but growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just told you about. Weâre going to be taking in trillions of dollars, and as much as child care is talked about as being expensive, itâs, relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers weâll be taking in. Weâre going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people, and then weâll worry about the rest of the world. Letâs help other people, but weâre going to take care of our country first. This is about America first. Itâs about Make America Great Again, we have to do it because right now weâre a failing nation, so weâll take care of it.âÂ
There is no specific legislation here, or even a grasp of the specific nature of the problem of paying for child care. What there is, apparently, is an argument that high tariffs will solve all of the nationâs problems. In the New York event, Trump called again for slashing taxes on the wealthy and insisted that new, high tariffs of 20% on all imports, and as much as 60% on Chinese imports, will end federal deficits and bring trillions of dollars into the country, although he is wrong about how tariffs work.Â
Trump insists that tariffs are taxes on foreign countries, but they are not. They are essentially taxes on imported products, and they are paid by consumers. Trumpâs running mate, Ohio senator J.D. Vance, recently tried to claim that economists disagree about whether consumers bear the cost of tariffs, but as Michael Hiltzik explained in the Los Angeles Times yesterday, economists agree on this.
When he was in office, Trump launched a trade war in 2018 by putting tariffs of up to 25% on $50 billion worth of Chinese products. The next year he added another set of 10% tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, and the next year he did it again, this time on an additional $112 worth of Chinese products. The nonpartisan Tax Foundation calculates that this amounted to an $80 billion tax a year on American consumers, costing the average household about $300 a year and costing the U.S. about 142,000 jobs.
There are reasons to use tariffs. They can be used to protect a new industry from cheaper foreign products until the new industry can compete, or to stop foreign countries from flooding a country with cheap products that destroy a domestic industry. When he took office, Biden kept those of Trumpâs tariffs that protected certain industries.
Trumpâs insistence that tariffs will solve everything is not about economics, itâs about pushing a worldview from the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century, one embodied by the 1890 McKinley Tariff. âIf you look at McKinley,â Trump told right-wing media host Mark Levin on Sunday, âhe was a great president. He made the country rich.â In fact, McKinley (R-OH) pushed through the tariff named for him while he was in the House of Representatives from his position as a spokesperson for wealthy industrialists. They insisted that high tariffs were imperative to the survival of the country, that such tariffs were good for workers because they protected wages, and that anyone who disagreed was a socialist. But in an era without business regulation, industrialists actually kept wages low and used the tariffs to protect high prices that they passed on to consumers.Â
In the late 1880s, the American people demanded a lower tariff, but when Republicans in Congress went to âreviseâ it, they made it higher. In May 1890, in a chaotic congressional session with members shouting amendments, yelling objections, and talking over each other, Republicans passed the McKinley Tariff without any Democratic votes. They cheered and clapped at their victory. âYou may rejoice now,â a Democrat yelled across the aisle, âbut next November youâll mourn.âÂ
Democrats were right. In the November 1890 midterm elections, angry voters repudiated the Republican Party. They gave the Democrats a two-to-one majority in the HouseâMcKinley himself lost his seat. Republicans managed to keep the Senate by four seats, but three of those seats were held by senators who had voted against the McKinley Tariff, and the fourth turned out to have been stolen.
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
#Letters From An American#heather cox richardson#american history#history#russia russia russia#tariffs#Russian Military Intelligence#Russian malign activity
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âTrumpâs public line on the war in Ukraine is that Putin never would have invaded on his watch, because of his strength. Yet evidence keeps piling up that Trump is weak to any Putin overtureâthat Putin can get Trump to do what he wants, and has done so again and again. It happened when Trump sided with Putin over U.S. intelligence agencies at the horrifying Helsinki summit in 2018, it happened when he declined to bring up election interference during a phone call in 2019, and it happened when Putin got Trump to hush up the transfer of the testing equipment. If Trump is so effective at pressuring Putin, and he remains in touch with him to this day, why isnât he exerting that influence to pressure Russia to withdraw and end the war?â
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So russian and belarusian athletes are banned from competing under their countries' flag for the war in Ukraine but Isreali athletes are still allowed to compete under Isreali's flag despite Isreal's genocide being 4 times as deadly as the Ukrainian invasion?? Fuck Isreal. Fuck Russia. Fuck the Olympic Committee. Free Palestine. Free Ukraine.
#olympics#olympics 2024#2024 olympics#paris 2024#free palestine#fuck israel#free ukraine#fuck russia
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