I kept wondering why the FIRST trip Marco Rubio made was to El Salvador, why was securing jail space soooooo important to this administration that it was the first thing they did? I don’t wonder why anymore. Need a lot of jail space once martial law is called. Saddest day I’ve ever lived … yet.😢
Kleptocracy is biological. It consumes everything in its path like a parasite.
In Russia it ate Dostoevsky and Tchaikovsky and shit out alcoholism and hopelessness.
Justin Kennedy (justice kennedys son) was the inside man at Deutsche bank that was getting all trumps toxic loans approved.
No other bank but Deutsche bank would touch trump and his imaginary valuations.
Why?
Because Deutsche bank was infested with Russian oligarchs.
For 50 years the oligarchs consumed everything in soviet Russia. They stole everything of value including the hope of Russians.
The corruption eventually collapsed the Soviet Union like the carcass of a parasite riddled host and the oligarchs were forced to expand their feeding grounds.
In 89 the Soviet Union fails and for a couple of years they hid all their ill gotten gains under a mattress until they started buying condos at trump towers.
They made stops in Ukraine, Cyprus and London but they landed in New York because that was what everyone wanted in the late 80’s.
Levi’s, Pepsi, Madonna tapes that weren’t smuggled bootlegs, Wall Street cocaine
They all bought new suits and cars and changed their title from “most violent street thug in moscow” to “respectable Russian oligarch” but they didn’t leave their human trafficking, narcotics or extortion behind. It was their most lucrative business model.
Trump and Giuliani just opened the doors and let the predators in to feed. They all bought condos at trump towers and used trumps casinos to launder their money.
In 89 three of trumps casino execs start asking why their books don’t make sense and they die in a helicopter crash that Roger Stone pulls trump off of at the last minute.
Guiliani redirected NYPD resources away from his Russian allies intentionally and onto the Italian mob. It let him claim he cleaned up New York and it lets the russians a perk of doing business with trump.
The attorney/client privilege is their continual work around they use to accept bribes and make payments up and down the mob pyramid.
The insane valuations coming out in trumps fraud trial are a necessity of the money laundering cycle that duetschebank was doing with the Russians.
The reason trump cosplays as “folksy” is because he is feeding on the U.S. middle class, not because he is one of us.
The GOP fell in line to MAGA because Trump did what pathological liars do, they told them anything they wanted to hear.
Trump with his money laundering and child raping buddy Epstein, Roger Stone with his sex clubs in DC and Nevada, and Paul Manafort with his election rigging pretty much everywhere, sat down at a table with Mike Johnson and the extreme religious right and convinced them that they were the same.
They self evidently are not, at least at a surface level, but there is enough common ground in the exploitation of children, Russian kompromat, desire for unilateral control that they became the worlds weirdest and most dysfunctional orgy.
Trump belongs to the authoritarians. The GOP now belongs to trump.
But their overall goal is the same.
Kleptocracy.
Putin became one of the richest people in the world by stealing from Russians first. The Russian oligarchs used perestroika to privatize all the assets of the USSR by stealing them from the hands of the decent people because that’s what predators do.
We don’t have a political problem. We have a predator problem. Like murder hornets that invade a beehive and destroy a bee every 14 seconds until the hive collapses the oligarchs want to move into the United States and do the same because none of them want to live in Russia.
Who would? after all, it was destroyed by oligarchs and nobody steps away from the mob, they get retired through violent means.
But all these oligarchs are old now and know they can’t keep ahead of the slightly more violent and ambitious lion cub beneath them who is growing tired of paying the old man when he does all the dirty work.
The soviet oligarchs ate Russia to death with their greed. Then Ukraine. Now they are designing a perestroika 2.0 to put 330 million Americans into real estate default so they can come in and buy everything up at 3 cents on the dollar. Trump just enabled them.
It’s the collapse of the USSR, American edition using the naive and compromised GOP as their assault force, But your slave masters are the same. The 3% that are so devoid of empathy that they put their wealth above everything else
Kolomoisky was the putin puppet in Ukraine that bought most of downtown Cleveland.
Before that he started privatbank which was taking IMF loans which the oligarchs would loan to themselves and never repay.
When the IMF figured it out they tried to force Zelensky to have the Ukrainian people pay it back before they would extend any more aid.
Kolomoisky wasn’t alone. He was just the crossroads between Rudy Giuliani, trump and Kushner.
When Ukraine arrested him last year for corruption it cracked the whole network open.
Trump can’t stop lying now or his MAGA base tears him apart when they realize he is literally the man who stole the world.
Trump is a pathological liar. But lying is an expensive habit. If you tell the truth, you can say it once and it’s finished. You have expelled all the energy necessary for it to stand on its own for eternity.
Lying requires infinite and exponentially more energy input in the form of more lies, bribes, extortion and murder to keep it covered.
Trump is now testing this theory on a worldwide scale.
Putin is tied to him by the purse strings and so is everyone who pushes Putin’s narrative because puppet strings work both directions. Why would any sane human push a psychopaths lies unless they are heavily invested in it?
The difference is, this is the first time in known human history that the Information Age happened. You can hide your neighborhood bullshit in 1980. It’s harder in 2000. By 2024 the internet knows more about a narcissistic oligarchs movements than he knows about himself.
It’s just a matter of organizing that data.
They couldn’t self regulate their greed. It’s just following the roach trail back to nest after that.
Also when you’re getting millions and millions of views every week you are now the mainstream media. You aren’t some fringe alternative. You’re literally bigger than some TV channels
He's bigger than all of them except fox. Fox is by far the largest news network though and it's not even close. They get 3.9m daily viewers. Joe averages around 2m per day based on quite an old number.
I was disappointed in Bill Murray that he didn't try to gently and perhaps comedically talk to Joe about Joe's alignment with the dark side. I know it's not fair of me to expect Bill to assert a fatherly hand. But if anybody could do it, it would be Bill. And Rogan clearly admires Bill so much I think he may have listened and taken it to heart. It seemed like in the beginning Bill was trying to say something and perhaps planning to but then lost the nerve? I guess I'm one of those delusional people that thinks Murray is more like his characters than he really is. It's just that with the terrifying things going on lately, I was hoping some of these beloved people would lead some kind of push back with their amazing ability to reach large audiences. I hope we're not at the stage yet in our coup where guns are being pointed at anyone speaking on camera...Bill did seem unnerved at times.
I love the JR show but talks out his ass sometimes. On this very episode he tried to bond with Bill about his fond memories of his time in San Francisco during the hippie years. He was born in Aug 1967. The peak of Haight Ashbury times was past before he even turned 2. There’s no way he has memories of his hippie years in San Fran with his parents.
I commented on the YouTube channel that Joe couldn’t be any less self aware than that interview. When Bill is talking about the old NYC and Joe is just like wow man that must have been awesome. It’s like, dude of NYC was like it was back then you conservatives would be shitting on it. NYC was crazy back then. If they today’s Seattle is bad. And here he is romanticizing it now.
Fun fact the chancellor during this timer, was still in power almost a decade later, but didn’t speak at my graduation because she had just gotten caught for committing rampant nepotism
Haha, if he only knew nobody actually cares about nepotism, felonies, Epstein stuff, meme coin rug pulls, broken promises, etc.
He should have spoken and said after the speech he’d give everyone $5,000. People would have cheered him during the speech! Then he could say the payments would arrive in 2 weeks.
I mean, was your dean stupid? This is leadership 101.
Oh, Hungary did. The very first day the new parliament had session, a fidesz politician made political theater by placing a stop sign for agricultural vehicles signaling that from that point on it will again be possible to block roads with tractors.
That was in 2010 and shortly after they declared the parliament and its vicinity to be sensitive to national security. Meaning you can ask to protest and the police will likely refuse if the party tells them they're not welcome.
In the last 15 years it was not only impossible to protest Xinor Erdigan, plainnclothes Turkish and Chinese cops actually got away with briyralizing people (you may recall trumpnalsovallowed wrdogan to beat up Americans ).
The current situation is you can either protest where nobody can see youvor risk being catalogued in a massive violation of gdpr.
No, you have it all wrong, we're not sliding into authoritarianism, we're disrupting the fascism market by increasing our level of competition in that space.
I've seen a bunch of comments saying this unironically. A large portion of the country is completely lost, but they get to say their team won, so who cares?
They complain about free speech when liberals are in power because it is according to liberal principles. They take away free speech when they are in power because it is according to their principles
The freedom loving boys over at r/conservative are fantasizing about rounding up folks who suffer from TDS (anybody who criticises trump) because they see them as national security threats.
They claim Reddit is 90% bots on that sub. I don’t think that’s true, or even close as I know Reddit has some protections in place. For example, 2 upvotes from the same IP using different accounts gets tor a temp ban. Human interaction is their core product.
But if you read that sub, it really reads like it’s against American values and the repeat a lot of Russian talking points. It’s scary. It’s like the radical Americans are being groomed to hate what America has become.
Like you said, they want too round up Americans that disagree with Trump? Round up? Seriously?
They call Zelenskyy a dictator? And a bad leader? His people love him and he’s done a great job up until now. You can’t have free and fair elections on a battlefield, he’s obviously right to delay elections. Plus a leadership change in wartime gives the enemy a HUGE advantage.
They say Zelenskyy needs to just let Russia keep everything they stole? Why? Because that’ll be the end of it? Putin won’t be back in a year to take more?
They say Russia isn’t a threat to the US? Ummm…they’ve been our biggest enemy for half a century!? Does anymore remember that?
They say Elon is doing a great job firing thousands of top performers in government roles while he can’t even show his receipts for his cuts? They accept that all of those jobs are wasteful because of an anecdote about a wasteful job.
They cheer 19 year old kids with the maturity to call themselves “Big Balls” with access to our personal information and the power to target a lifelong government employee for firing?
They cheer on when the US President “trolls” other countries? When Elon trolls the citizens with a Rick Roll while he takes a literal CHAINSAW to the federal workforce? And now the US President is a laughing stock and it used to be the most respected Office in the world?
Every isolated “immigrant did crime” news story gets posted there as political news. Yet they ignore every “Republican Official or Pastor caught with CSAM” material.
They cheer the demise of our system of checks and balances?
They cheer billionaires and unqualified people cabinet positions? Like…they want on oligarchy??? That has never been a popular American belief.
The only things that seem American are when they cheer on things like a factory being built here, which we can all agree is a good thing. But if you go in the comments the discussion will be about how great Trump is, how libs are evil, and not any real discourse about the factory.
I could go on and on…the point is, it really seems like that sub is heavily influenced by Russia. I’m not saying it’s bots, but something is going on.
Jesus Christ. That is terrifying. And why do they perpetually think that the left are “brainwashed by the media”? Where the fuck do they get that from? There are like two news sources who aren’t chortling trump’s balls constantly. And it’s terrifying that like two people out of the hundreds that commented said how dangerous that thinking is. It’s terrifying how they accuse Dems of “propaganda” when they themselves are spewing propaganda? Jesus fuck.
You just now realizing this? That was the whole point of trump popularizing "fake news" 9 years ago. It gives his people an out of all of the negative press that Trump knew he was going to get. Plus we're talking about the type of idiots that think simply being a contrarian counts as critical thought.
In his first term, they used the White House twitter account and manipulated a video of reporter jim Acosta, trying to show him more aggressively taking a mic from a woman White House worker as if it were assault
It wasn’t like a gag for laughs, or extremely obvious to those not paying attention, that’s what made it dangerous. It was a manipulated video and his base fell for it, calling for Acosta’s job, threatening him etc. This seems like peanuts in comparison to today’s actions and not worth even mentioning now, but the entire time and all the years I had been bringing it up I was told “both sides do this” or some adjacent excuse. Any red blooded American should be for freedom of press/speech and should recognize what this administration and his previous one have been trying to do to our rights
They've violated the constitution so many times there's 60+ open lawsuits and they've been ignoring injunctions from the lower courts to keep on violating. In fact the funding freeze lawsuits had a deadline set last week that would have allowed a judge to put the administration in contempt but Roberts stepped in to put an administrative stay on the injunction, effectively allowing them to violate the constitution indefinitely.
Anyone who thinks this isn't grab your guns and kill the fascists territory hasn't been paying attention. They all need to be put down. This entire admin and Republican Congress are open traitors to the constitution and it's democratic framework, in favor of an autocratic executive.
I made a comment yesterday that got a lot of replies/views. It was basically 'The USA is the 3rd most populous country on Earth, one billion behind 1st and 2nd.'
I have received, so far, four replies saying 'dude, what's really crazy about that is if you took one billion people away from India and China they'd still be ahead of the USA!'
Four people, and who knows how many others thought it but didn't write it. I genuinely got a little bit pissed off at the sheer stupidity. Like...I literally just said that? The fuck are you repeating it for?
One of them said 'an easier way to think of it is if you added a billion to the USA it'd still be in 3rd.' How fucking stupid are you that you need that explained a second way?!?!?
And yet people in this sub will probably continue to support Joe and listen to everything he says (I'm only here due to seeing this on the front page -- I would never contribute to Joe's viewership numbers)
I can just hear Elon putting that quote in Don’s ear:
“That’s a good quote Elon- a great quote actually- and by a great man too by the way, some would say. Who said that again? I’m going to have to use that some time ya know we’ve got Europe involved, Ukraine is involved with it… it’s a big deal- a tragedy you might say- and a man that used to be the President, goes by the name of, Biden- Crooked Joe they’re calling him- he would never use that quote I’ll tell you right now.”
Rick Scott (GOP senator from Florida) wants AOC arrested for educating people about their constitutional rights. This new administration will do everything they can to gut the first amendment.
Waiting on the the ineffectual dork web to start making the podcast the rounds.
They were so strong standing up to 18 year olds.
Waiting....
Waiting...
Alright MAGA boys time to make some more excuses. How are we being told to cope with this one? Got any of those long FB posts breaking down why this is actually a genius 4D negotiation tactic? Or is this one of those times you don’t mind losing essential rights because it’s targeting college libtards and it’s totally worth it for the memes? I suppose I’ll have to wait a bit until the propaganda tells you what your opinion is on this one. Probably still working on spinning this tariff situation.
100% correct. The fact that it's upsetting libruls is enough for MAGAts to take enjoyment, logic aside. Sane Americans who believe in the constitution are upset because MAGA is not upset. Get it?
It's easy to try to make a light hearted joke or quip about this, but there is absolutely nothing funny here. This is one of the most treasonous and unconstitutional comments ever made by a sitting US president.
I’ve been talking to anyone who will listen. This is a dictatorship. We should all be protesting every chance we get, we should be calling our state reps every chance we get.
its all projection with these lunatics. JD Vance telling "the biggest problem lies within europe: free speech" only for Tump posting this 2 weeks after. Is this really not just a comedy show? what the fk. no one can trust these idiots!
Protesting is allowed in public space. College campuses are public space. As long as no one enters the buildings, it's all legal. Protested by the First Amendment.
He’s already bared certain press from attending white house conferences. He’s just setting up a system to not allow anyone to fight back or be informed on anything
There we go. For all those who've been very precious and careful with their definitions. Not wanting to prematurely use certain words lest they lose their meaning. We can now proceed.
No matter how many times I say that Jane has an apple, the word apple retains it's meaning. Jane really does have an apple. Just like Mark really does have a bicycle and Donny really is an authoritarian.
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u/V4refugee Monkey in Space Mar 04 '25
No protests with masks? Promise?