Send Better Paranoia

Daniel Block of the Washington Monthly speculates on how Trump might cling to power despite losing in 2020. His gist revolves around allegations of election fraud, which we now know can only be executed by NC Republicans.

Yeah, yeah, take my advice and go long tin-foil because there will be a vast market for this genre. However, this passage is baffling:

The U.S. also lacks the kind of politicized military that lets some discredited autocrats, like Venezuela’s Nicholás Maduro, hang on. “I can’t imagine the military accepting an effort to turn them into a partisan arm of the executive,” said Robert Mickey, a political scientist at the University of Michigan who researches the history of authoritarianism in the American South.

What?!? I can imagine a December 2016 in which Pres. Obama showed Pentagon leaders convincing (but HIGHLY secret!) intel that Trump was a Putin asset. What would the Trump transition have looked like? Its not as if the military establishment was likely to be more pro-Trump than the rest of the Washington establishment, or deeply fearful of a Hillary ascendance.

So if I can imagine that, why can't progressives imagine Trump trumping up convincing evidence of Russian kompromat against President-Elect Bernie Bolshevik? Hey, the evidence might even be true! And there is no way the Pentagon would favor Sanders over Trump, so they might be willing to be convinced. Giving Bernie the nuclear football? My goodness, is Bernie enough of an American to even know that "football" involves concussions, extra points and TV time-outs to sell pick-up trucks and ED remedies, or does Bernie thinks 'football' is that Euro-footsie thing?

Well. Although I worry constantly about being overtaken it's reassuring that my paranoia remains second to none.

THIS IS HOW WE DO IT! Just to give Daniel Block a chance to watch a pro in action: the North Carolina election fraud was a Republican pawn sacrifice and 'proof of concept': one fall guy gets jailed but no one can say "fraud can't happen here". Smooths the way for Trump to dispute any close state in 2020.

Why is this blindingly obvious only to me?

 

Comments

[RattlerGator]

(okay, wow; disappointed to be greeted like this right off the bat but . . . what the hell)

(addressing the Tom R issue and his engagement of same)

How does that resonate with you?

Posted by: Beasts of England | April 01, 2019 at 12:15 AM

My man !!!

I hear ya, BoE. I hear you. I got it, I see it. I'm not asking for a re-hash and I'm hoping y'all will avoid that. Yes, I've taken note that Tom R has unwisely defended himself. None of y'all need defense here. That's my position.

Can that become *our* position ???

Yes, I think it can. As Captain Picard might say, "Make it so."

* * *

Fair warning: with so much going on in the world, I'm not sure how much more of *this* shiznit I'm going to engage today.

[D]

First

[RattlerGator]

Look at that; the first damn comment.

Providence, y'all, providence at work.

[D]

Actually second.
Good advice RG.

[Beasts of England]

Sound advice as always, RattlerGator! 😎

[Captain Hate]

Daniel Blockhead sounds like a typically low IQ MFMer.

[Narciso79]

Fill in host for maddow, likely future executive producer, meanwhile Qatar hacked 1200 persons crickets

[Jane]

Hey RG,

Will you send me a copy of that paperwork when you get a chance? Thanks

[rse]

peter-

we took the kids to parma but stayed in an agriturismo outside salsamaggiore with its baths. The kids noted all the pigs in trucks on the highway going into parma, but then empty pens coming out as we later drove to bologna to turn in rental car.

To this day, they always want me to have a wedge of parm reggiano in the refrig. The vegetarian diva went through a stage where she had read it was not vegetarian because of how it was stored and asked me to get veggie parm. Tried it and decided it was not a matter of principle and went back to what she loved.

Not sure well else you are going but from bologna we took train to ferrara for the night. It has one of the last moated castles left in europe and is the home of the d'este family. Lucretia borgia married into that family and lived there. Has a real dungeon too.

Also in the town square is a wine bar in operation continuously since the 1400s. Copernicus lived above it. My kids claim travelling with me is one continuous history lesson. Anyway, ferrara is a stop on the train to venice.

[Narciso79]

I noted last night about Rushdie's cluelessness from the beginning re the 2nd war with Pakistan, kind of like Amos oz or David Grossman in Israel

[JimNorCal]

Trump will do well in the '20 election.
Maybe the Dems could run Madura? Worth a shot!

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2019/04/maduro-adopts-green-new-deal.html

[Narciso79]

Maybe they gave Sanchez a copy just to keep him in line:

https://investigativejournal.org/qatars-hack-of-our-democracies/

[Tom R]

Yes, I've taken note that Tom R has unwisely defended himself.

Umm, how exactly is it unwise to defend your opinion against personal attacks, ridicule, accusations of ignorance, idiocy, etc?

[Narciso79]

They made vote harvesting legal in califirnia tm, I'm sure Evers will follow suit, what happened with hr #1

[henry]

narciso, we'll know more tomorrow evening, after the SC vote.

[Threadkiller]

Why is this blindingly obvious only to me?

LOL

[sbwaters]

IIR Montaigne: Why should I not run to embrace the truth when I see it coming.

[Narciso79]

I thought Carter pages interview with Atkinson was worthy, ymmv.

[Narciso79]

Yes I remember the Florida supreme court,

https://www.google.com/amp/s/legalinsurrection.com/2019/04/why-isnt-rachel-maddow-treated-like-other-crazy-conspiracy-theorists/amp/

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
36m36 minutes ago

The cost of ObamaCare is far too high for our great citizens. The deductibles, in many cases way over $7000, make it almost worthless or unusable. Good things are going to happen! @SenRickScott @senatemajldr @SenJohnBarrasso @SenBillCassidy

[RattlerGator]

Nothing to fill out Jane. Everything remains fluid but looks good. As you know, though, circumstance can change in the blink of an eye. I should be able to let you know something in a week or two.

* * *

What a bizarre column from Daniel Block, TM.

So if I can imagine that, why can't progressives imagine Trump trumping up convincing evidence of Russian kompromat against President-Elect Bernie Bolshevik?

Here's my answer to that question, man. It's called the kind of cognitive dissonance one experiences when looking in the mirror and confronted with a difficult personal truth.

The tendency?

Project, project, project.

External, external, external.

Not my fault!

Orange man bad!

Fear the fascist!

We didn't want to do it!

But we had to do it!

(sure you did, bee-otch)

My criminology professor might have said it's the result of "anomie." For me, if we're lucky, the leftwing version of this lack of moral guidance, this lack of boundaries or understanding what is absolutely beyond the pale, made operational even if clumsily so by Clinton, Inc. and Obama, Inc., is about to get exposed bigtime.

They can't imagine it (this writer, at least) because of an existential fear of Donald Trump. What if he's as ruthless as we are ???

That difficult thought is why he can't imagine it and that's probably why that column was commissioned and written at all. Timing, dontcha know.

[Beasts of England]

That's a great Maddow link, narciso! The self-awareness is clearly absent in that one...

[Narciso79]

She is stark raving Benen is her executive producers, also from this Sam's publication

[Narciso79]

They are using a drive in projector, rg

[MissMarple2]

Threadkiller,

Regarding your question at the end of the last thread, I have no idea about Sater's good guy/bad guy status.

I looked at the posts on that thread and was interested in the visits and connections.

One of the problems with all of this is that there are so MANY connections between all of these parties and banks that it requires someone a lot more savvy on this than I am.

That is why I pay attention to ChiTown, who understands this stuff and fills me in. One of the things that alerted me to how bad this situation is is that Goldman Sachs is in on the money laundering, according to that story posted in thread i linked the other day.

[lurkersusie]

Great article

Chuck Ross
@ChuckRossDC

What to do about the Steele dossier now that its core claims appear to be wrong?

Commentary here from former CIA chief of station
@danielhoffmanDC, who was one of very few intel guys to *publicly* argue that dossier was Russian disinfo. (link: https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/31/steele-dossier-russian-disinformation/) dailycaller.com/2019/03/31/ste…
@dailycaller

[MissMarple2]

Here's that thread again that I was talking to Threadkiller about.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1112377851708350470.html

[Threadkiller]

One of the things that alerted me to how bad this situation is is that Goldman Sachs is in on the money laundering, according to that story posted in thread i linked the other day.

Ted Cruz's wife's employer?

[Narciso79]

Hes a protected asset is he whitey bulger or Edwin Wilson, Wilson was naval intelligence also logistics from bay of pigs to Vietnam he began supplying Qaddafi in the 70s like the villain in airwolfs pilot, company contacts were eye pretext for Turner's Halloween massacre, but the joke was they knew all along they still sent him to prison for 20 years.

[Threadkiller]

Thanks for the relink, MM.

I have no idea about Sater's good guy/bad guy status.

Me either. :-)

[Buckeye]

Well the basketball team was a bust this year, but the women's synchronized swimming team...

That’s a wrap on the 2019 U.S. Collegiate Championship! Coming back to Columbus with all gold medals and the program’s 32nd NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

That is what I call DOMINANT:)

[Captain Hate]

Ralph should have Patterico on to advance his loon theories as a real life prosecutor.

[MissMarple2]

TK,

Crus's wife's employeer? One and the same.

Here is something to ponder; what if they had a plan to take out Cruz with a similar operatioin, using his wife as a mark?

[Narciso79]

Ditto:

https://mobile.twitter.com/alimhaider/status/1112689039377862656

[henry]

Maybe the Dems are worried the expanded medicaid dollars will stop. They were a part of ACA.

[Narciso79]

McIntyre thinks u 1 is more of a strictly Kazakh thing ironically who was Russia's pawn again nusurbayev supported by McCainn that would be akhmetshim.

[MissMarple2]

Another reason we should be glad President Trump got our energy companies on track:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/secret-coal-plants-reveal-chinas-strategy-of-the-green-mirage_2860707.html

[sbwaters]

#APEdited -- The Associated Press wrote: WROTE:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Border officials are aiming to more than quadruple the number of asylum seekers sent back over the southern border each day, a major expansion of a top government effort to address the swelling number of Central Americans arriving in the country, a Trump administration official said Saturday.

It was the latest attempt to ease a straining immigration system that officials say is at the breaking point. Hundreds of officers who usually screen cargo and vehicles at ports of entry were reassigned to help manage migrants. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen asked for volunteers from non-immigration agencies within her department, sent a letter to Congress late this past week requesting resources and broader authority to deport families faster, and she met with Central American and Mexican officials.

The efforts are being made while President Donald Trump is doubling down on threats to shutter the U.S.-Mexico border entirely, a move that would have serious economic repercussions for both the U.S. and Mexico but wouldn't stop migrants from crossing between ports. His administration also announced it was cutting aid to the Central American countries home to most of the migrants. ...

What we ran:

WASHINGTON — Border officials are aiming to more than quadruple the number of asylum seekers sent back over the southern border each day, a major expansion of a top government effort to address the swelling number of Central Americans arriving in the country, a Trump administration official said Saturday.

In 1966, two radical professors devised the Cloward-Piven strategy, a political plan to overwhelm social services to change public policy. The current swell appears the latest attempt to break current immigration policy, tacitly supported by Congressional Democrats.

Rather than deal with the massive influx, Democratic leaders attempted to draw attention away from it, alleging the administration wanted to revive “horrific” and “immoral” plans, noting its border policies have created “senseless heartbreak and horror.”

“Democrats reject any effort to let the administration deport little children, and we reject all anti-immigrant and anti-family attacks from this President,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement. ...

[Tom R]

MM,

Would you mind asking ChiTown lurker who he thinks is behind the Panama Papers leak? If it was a real leak it would have to be someone inside Mossack Fonseca. I’m curious to know if it was some state-level intelligence agency that hacked into Mossack Fonseca and seized the terabytes worth of data exposing the global money laundering scheme.

[Threadkiller]

Here is something to ponder; what if they had a plan to take out Cruz with a similar operatioin, using his wife as a mark?

As a mark or as a plant?

[RattlerGator]

Good one on the drive-in projector, narciso!

* * *

Umm, how exactly is it unwise to defend your opinion against personal attacks, ridicule, accusations of ignorance, idiocy, etc?

Posted by: Tom R | April 01, 2019 at 10:07 AM

Tom R, because I made the claim you unwisely defended yourself and because I'm not dismissing what anyone said (including you) I think you deserve a response. After this, however? Not so much.

So . . .

For me, it's unwise because -- as I wrote -- there's no need to defend yourself here. Okay? This is not specific to you, it applies to everyone here.

If the convo has devolved into the personal, simply disinvest yourself from the convo -- especially after it's clear opinions are entrenched, styles are different, and we collectively find ourselves back at elementary school recess and allegations of "you started it, nuh uh YOU started it."

Dayyyyuuuuummmmmmm !!!

So, my request / plea: do *not* make me come back to this, Tom R. Deal? It's time to look forward, comment forward.

[James D.]

RG, you are pretty likely going to win money in my pool.

If Virginia wins the championship, you win first place.

If Virginia loses to Texas Tech in the final, you win first place.

If Auburn beats Texas Tech you win first place.

If Texas beats Auburn, you win second place.

If Auburn beats Michigan State, you win third place.

If Michigan State wins the championship, sadly, you get nothing.

[Threadkiller]

Ralph should have Patterico on to advance his loon theories as a real life prosecutor.

LoL.

Did you notice that he has banned everyone worthwhile except Narciso and Haiku?

He keeps provoking Haiku to try to get him to break the "rules of decorum." It isn't working and seems to be driving Patterico off a cliff.

[RattlerGator]

Well done, sbw!

[Threadkiller]

How are you doing on your last place goal, James?

I cracked up when you explained that rule change.

[Narciso79]

I've been trying last time I was sent to the phantom zone, for questioning his sterling judgement

[henry]

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
4m

No matter what information is given to the crazed Democrats from the No Collusion Mueller Report, it will never be good enough. Behind closed doors the Dems are laughing!

[MissMarple2]

TK,

Either one. One of my concerns about Cruz back in the primaries was his wife's employment for Goldman Sachs.

She could have been set up by a similar operation, compromising Cruz. Or, she could have been a bad actor, perhaps due to blackmail.

I have no idea. Since so many people didn't think Trump would win, it seems a not unreasonable concern about her GS connection.

[RattlerGator]

James D. -- money !?!

And my odds look freaking incredible.

My man, please eMail me: rattlergator gmail or get my number from some of the folks here who have it.

[Narciso79]

She worked for the urban development unit, based on her work for W's policy council.

[James D.]

TK, a paralegal at my friend's law firm has already clinched last place. They have 34 out of a possible 192 points.

I'll email you now, rg.

[MissMarple2]

Tom R,

ChiTown says he doesn't know.

[James D.]

The last place bracket in my pool had a Final Four of: Maryland, Syracuse, Washington and Old Dominion. So last place was probably inevitable right from the start.

[MissMarple2]

tjking
‏ @tjking
20m20 minutes ago

Does anybody remember the "heated" nature of the phone discussion of Aussie PM & @realDonaldTrump? I think Trump was sending a message. Also, remember it was UK that begged Trump to not release certain documents in 2018. Why?

=====================

Sebastian Gorka DrG
‏Verified account @SebGorka
34m34 minutes ago

British Betrayal.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
16m16 minutes ago

No matter what information is given to the crazed Democrats from the No Collusion Mueller Report, it will never be good enough. Behind closed doors the Dems are laughing!

[Captain Hate]

He keeps provoking Haiku to try to get him to break the "rules of decorum." It isn't working and seems to be driving Patterico off a cliff.

Yes the "I keep correcting your mistakes to not mislead my readers" is pretty funny for someone who mopes about not having as many friends as he used to and not posting as much. His toadies and sock puppets were congratulating him on finding some low traffic site to include his ravings which makes me wonder if PJ Media hasn't given him the Red State treatment already. Btw Munro seems to be back, assuming the loon isn't socking him.

[MissMarple2]

Extra,Extra Clinton tickets for 13 state tour went from $700 to $7.00.
🤣😂👏👏 pic.twitter.com/8d0Tad7i8b

— Cutie1-#SuperElite (@CuteScarley) April 1, 2019

Screen cap at link.!

[RattlerGator]

I’m curious to know if it was some state-level intelligence agency that hacked into Mossack Fonseca and seized the terabytes worth of data exposing the global money laundering scheme.

Posted by: Tom R | April 01, 2019 at 10:42 AM

That is one of the $64,000 questions, isn't it? But on a certain level, it's also water under the bridge right now. The info is out, and clearly the adage to follow the money is applicable. The Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers. Everybody here should familiarize themselves with both.

To shake the tree, it appears the Trump Administration is grounding much of their strategic prosecution efforts in anti-money-laundering cases.

There will be fireworks. Banks, Bottom Bitches, functionaries caught up in the maze *will* be flipping.

[Tom R]

RG,

OK let’s move forward and see if everyone else will take your advice. The Panama Papers leak occurred in 2015. In the tweet you linked yesterday, DawsonSField made the point that Mueller was investigating the global money laundering scandal exposed by the Panama Papers leak.

https://twitter.com/dawsonsfield/status/1111626788243947523?s=21

For the above conjecture to be true, in 2016 prior to the election the DOJ/FBI would have had to be actively already investigating the global money laundering crimes. Comey was FBI Director at the time.

Further down, Field points out the previous connection with Comey and HSBC. He credits Comey for helping HSBC setup a money laundering detection system.

https://twitter.com/dawsonsfield/status/1111635094610079744?s=21

Do you think in 2016 Comey was directly involved in the FBI’s global money laundering investigation?

[MissMarple2]

https://fox8.com/2019/03/29/five-brothers-who-all-served-in-vietnam-war-honored/

[Narciso79]

Mossack fonseca had been going on for 40 years, it's the law firm for the shadow world.

[Tom R]

Narciso,

You are correct about Mossack Fonseca. The number of people hearing about them for the first time is starting to grow exponentially thanks to the Twitter Sleuths.

[MissMarple2]

https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/30/wilford-democrats-taxes/

When drafting sweeping legislation, mistakes are bound to pop up. These are normally identified and fixed in “technical corrections” bills, or in other subsequent legislation. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s tax system, has been no different. Experts have moved quickly to identify the most significant errors in the legislation and to propose quick fixes, but Democrats appear set on stamping their feet and refusing to help as a way to get back at Republicans.

At the heart of the issue is the so-called “retail glitch.” The retail glitch came out of efforts to simplify the tax code by consolidating four different types of interior building improvements which had previously been subject to long depreciation schedules into a single category: Qualified Improvement Property, or QIP. Under the TCJA, assets which had previously been subject to a depreciation schedule of 20 years or shorter were instead eligible for five years of “full expensing.”

(More details in the article.)

[henry]

were prior administrations investigating or identifying opportunities for skim?

[Tom R]

To shake the tree, it appears the Trump Administration is grounding much of their strategic prosecution efforts in anti-money-laundering cases.

I wonder how much of that illegally laundered money over the decades made its way into the campaign coffers of corrupt Swamp politicians from both parties? Hundreds of dollars? Thousands? Millions?

[MissMarple2]

Tom R.,

Given how many leave office as multi-millionaires, I would say millions.

[henry]

Som things resist correction.

Jillian D'Onfro
@jillianiles

NEW: Google employees are circulating a petition calling for the removal of conservative think-tank president Kay Coles James from $GOOG's outside AI ethics council, citing her anti-trans views forbes.com/sites/jilliand… (One other member has already resigned, 1 wk after launch)

https://twitter.com/jillianiles/status/1112733350358192129

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Umm, how exactly is it unwise to defend your opinion against personal attacks, ridicule, accusations of ignorance, idiocy, etc?--

It's unwise because, in this context, it not only doesn't work, but is counterproductive. Your defenses become part of an ongoing personal turmoil that creates a "pox on all their houses" mindset in those not involved.
My advice is to make your arguments and simply block and ignore the people who you believe engage them with the methods noted above.

[Old Lurker]

RG, that was good advice from you at 10:44.

Sadly it will not stick for several reasons.

First, with some people, it ain't about the "story", it is about the fight and winning the fight. The "struggle" is the goal.

Second, the problem with deploying a high energy, aggressive Socratic style is that Socrates was a "teacher", and the students knew they are "students". Forcing those roles on peers is bound to cause trouble.

Third, when the second objective of the forceful, in your face, Socratic style is to goad the student into providing an answer which can then be used immediately to explain why that student is so wrong...well that just gets old real fast.

So this one just has to be waited out until he goes away like the others before him.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Send Better Paranoia--

Funny how the "reality based community" is so in need of psychotropics isn't it?

[Buckeye]

I wonder how much of that illegally laundered money over the decades made its way into the campaign coffers of corrupt Swamp politicians from both parties? Hundreds of dollars? Thousands? Millions?

Millions

[Old Lurker]

Hundreds of millions.

[Tom R]

This article says authorities in the US assisted in the investigation for over a year. I assume that refers to the DOJ/FBI. Any objections to that assumption?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/10/panama-papers-mossack-fonseca-offices-raided-over-odebrecht-bribery-scandal

[Melinda]

OL-

The "B" you dropped is down here.

B

[Buckeye]

Any objections to that assumption?

Is that "code" for how you create "facts"??

[Tom R]

Iggy @ 11:28

I harbor no illusions that people whose minds are already made up can be convinced to change them. There are however a lot of people here who acknowledge all the uncertainties surrounding Spygate and are willing to consider all the possible explanations for what is going on. When I defend my opinion it’s the opinion of that group of people that I place value in..

[clarice]

All the more reason why immigrant children must learn English fluency and civics:https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/pew_nearly_20_of_worlds_migrant_population_lives_in_the_us.html

[Old Lurker]

I know, Mel, but didn't want to be accused of exaggerating.

Besides, these days people are so mathematically challenged that they have no sense of scale anyway.

[Jim Eagle]

Ah! Odebrecht. Now where have I seen that name before:) Don't answer that Narciso:)

https://www.dw.com/image/37622940_401.png

Miami not included:)

[MissMarple2]

https://amgreatness.com/2019/03/31/the-tables-turn-in-russian-collusion-hunt/

Victor Davis Hanson.

[Melinda]

The first tool of engineering and physics is a bucket of zeroes.

[MissMarple2]

Europe Elects
‏ @EuropeElects
25m25 minutes ago

France, OpinionWay:

President Macron Approval Rating

Approve: 29%
Disapprove: 70% (+1)

Field work: 27/03/19 – 28/03/19
Sample size: 1,051
===================
Another victim of the Trump curse.

[Old Lurker]

For example, the old saw:

Spend $1 per minute, and in two years you will have spent $1 million.

At that rate, it takes two thousand years to spend $1 Billion, when Jesus walked the earth.

At that rate, it takes two MILLION years to spend $1 Trillion.

The US Government on budget spending is $4T each and every year.

[MissMarple2]

https://nypost.com/2019/04/01/kellogg-is-selling-its-keebler-and-famous-amos-cookie-brands/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

[Old Lurker]

"The first tool of engineering and physics is a bucket of zeroes."

And when math was taught, that was the first real lesson in the 7th grade when we geeks learned to use slide rules. Those damn zeros were the hard part.

[MissMarple2]

I follow back all MAGA

Johnny Carson talks about keeping personal beliefs & politics out of entertainment. “The people don’t want to hear it. They watch us to be entertained, not lectured to.”

Please RETWEET if you agree with Johnny Carson. pic.twitter.com/9NkSQxGPAR

— Julie Reichwein ❤️Laura L00m3r & Israe1 (@JulieReichwein1) April 1, 2019

Video of Johnny Carson talking to Mike Wallace at the link. Gosh, I had forgotten how much I missed him!

[Jim Eagle]

For Beasts, the Latin Phrase of the Day:

Contra felicem vix deus vires habet.

Save the bucket, all you need are exponents to whatever value you think they steal.

[Captain Hate]

The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
Joe Biden's affectionate, physical style with women comes under scrutiny

[Tom R]

OK if I am interpreting them correct Melinda and OL believe the amount of illegally laundered money that has been given to Swamp politicians from both parties reaches into the billions. No argument from me there.

RG has stated he thinks the Trump administration is grounding much of their strategic prosecution efforts in anti-money-laundering cases. Obviously 100% agreement from me with that point.

A few days back after reading DawsonSField tweet thread I made the point here that part of Trump’s “4D Chess” strategy to defeat the Swamp was to cut off their source of funding. I was ridiculed by a few people for making that point.

If it turns out that Mueller was indeed investigating the global money laundering scandal like Field believes, IMO that satisfies the demand for proof that Mueller was working with Trump and not trying to destroy him. If Mueller was trying to destroy Trump, why would he be assisting in the DOJ crackdown on the money laundering scheme that helped send billions of dollars to his fellow Swamp allies?

[Beasts of England]

I'm feeling lucky today, JiB - but not enough to test fate!! ;)

[Jim Eagle]

The jokes write themselves at the WaPo headline writers meeting, CH.

"Against a lucky man, a god scarcely has power."

[Beasts of England]

An 'aggressive, physical style with women'? I didn't know the one free grope rule had morphed into a style...

[MissMarple2]

Tom R.,

My confusion is WHO was investigating it?

The cutting off of money is also including the universities (free speech EO denying grants to colleges who tamp down free speech) plus the admissios lawsuit.

Like I said, if he shuts down the border that will go a long way on cutting off drug money into the Swamp.

There is probably more stuff I am not aware of. I do think it is a good idea, since these are not personal investigations, precluding Hillary and Obama claimming it is political persecution.

[MissMarple2]

AFFECTIONATE style, Beasts!

You may think it's aggressive, but look at what the WaPo wrote again!

[Narciso79]

Think of the Lockheed northrop inducement exercise that was discovered in the 70s, but that tracked back to the 50s with ties from the Netherlands to Japan, quelle surprise, on a smaller scale you have Jonathan aitken and Jeffrey archer, who had kingdon and Nigerian ties respectively, but they are Tories,

[lyle]

Have we yet solved the riddle of how many pinheads dance on the feet of angels here at JOM? 🤔

[MissMarple2]

While everyone was mocking President Trump for saying the GOP would be the party of healthcare, look what he's been up to!

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house-working-on-secret-healthcare-plan-with-three-conservative-think-tanks

[Narciso79]

Who did bcci have on its payroll that's why they had Mueller slap that door as hard as possible sonr of these players emerged in ths golden chain

[Melinda]

Not what I wrote, so don't reinterpret. I said Nothing about final destinations, nor would I.

Only wrote about the amounts involved.

Continuing Resolutions since 2009 ran up the skim pool from $1.7T to $4.2T, which is what Ryan was complicit to.

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Anna Giaritelli
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15m15 minutes ago

I broke this story in December, the last time @realDonaldTrump threatened to shut down the US-Mexico border. Federal data shows shutting that border would have a devastating effect on the US economy - maybe why Trump didn't follow through on that threat?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trumps-threat-to-shut-down-the-border-would-disrupt-300b-in-trade