Release the files! The way I see it, the invasion of one state by another is a call to state Governors to mobilize when threatened their National Guards to resist UNLAWFUL assault. Also, the gerrymander fight is on. There is a new playbook. The old rules have been struck down by the Supreme Court. We need to change the gears here as fast as possible for deadly preemptive strikes. Newsom has moved out on this already. Who is next? Hochul. Where are you? Pritzker. What are you doing? TIME TO MOVE IS NOW.
I want Blue States to form their own taxing entity collectively and not to give federal taxes anymore, but to give them to the state instead, an have the state use them to fund things the federal government is not.
The fatfuck doesn’t even know anything other than that the mob bosses that used him for decades to launder their money seemed to enjoy a certain power dynamic. I cannot imagine a worse role model for this best of all possible worlds.
The famous WWII era quote by Martin Niemoller which began “First they came for the Socialists…” comes to mind and I ask the question, just how much of this bullshit will continue to happen until, as Niemoller put it at the end of his prescient poetic statement “and there was no one left to speak for me”?
The entire statement should be drilled into then minds of anyone who supports Trump and his madness:
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me".
Where, oh simple people, will you be when they come for you? Who will be there to protect you? Certainly not Trump for if this scenario plays out he’ll be dead and gone and new, mindless and hateful people will be in charge. What about your children and grandchildren and extended families?
I have gone from thinking of Trump as a Mob Boss to Trump as. Terrorist. Perhaps because I like the alliteration, but also because it comes to mind when we see how he is dealing with foreign governments. Trump the Terrorist!
Anne Applebaum says in chapter 5 of her book "Autocracy, Inc." called "Smearing the Democrats"
-That in his book "From Dictatorship to Democracy," Gene Sharp says that nonviolent protest is more effective because the dictators are always better armed, and one has to find their Achilles heal of weakness instead. One takes power, but peacefully through opposition to the leader.
-Modern autocrats prefer to smear than kill to avoid the martyrdom of a person
-They prepare their smear and legal campaigns ahead of time.
-Still they do spot murdering to keep people in line, they don’t have to do mass killings to do that. A few journalists or activists.
-Dictators make laws that outlaw anything that is activism, but they don’t say it directly.
-Corruption accusations against activists often makes even friends wonder and turns people against them.
-Public despair comes after the crushing of a movement, especially if violence has been used.
In 2022 Mexico most dangerous country for journalists
We see Trump fully using this playbook. I have been thinking not only how Trump is shaking down US corporations and institutions, but also how his Terrorist Tariffs are working. Ursula von der Leyen told EU member states that the reason she negotiated the terrible 15% tariffs with Trump (who is not legally allowed to set tariffs, Congress is but no country seems to know this or say this to Trump), that she felt bad tariffs were better than no tariffs, whereas many countries in the EU felt the other way around was better. Her claim was that it would help businesses plan. I thought if she believes that I know a bridge I can sell you. Trump will not stick to any deal he made and can change the tariffs up or down by whim. No one can plan on anything stable, unless they cut the US out of their trading zone. Already we are reading that the German shipping company DSL is not shipping to the US any more because of tariffs. A friend who has an Etsy shop has also stopped shipping to the US because she says the tariffs make it too expensive. It is too expensive.
My book club was also discussing that Trump wants to rename the Dept of Defense, the Dept of War, which sounds like another piece to setting up us going to war, so that he can take over Greenland, and Canada, and divide the Arctic up with Putin. However, I don't see that being a successful happening. Even if the US military will go for this, which some certainly will, they are not going to be occupying willing participants. I supposed that like Israel they can kill everyone in Greenland off, since that is a small population. But the rest of NATO will have to decide whose side of the war they are on, the US or the Denmarks, and Canadas. Not just a mob boss, but an international Terrorist.
Excellent review! That second paragraph encapsulates the Trump modus operandi. I would only add a complete lack of originality—all tactics borrowed from his father (and Roy Cohn) and his pre-Putin idol, John Gotti.
So we now have a new title for Trump: Extortionist-in-Chief.
Thank you, Mr. Waldman.
Release the files! The way I see it, the invasion of one state by another is a call to state Governors to mobilize when threatened their National Guards to resist UNLAWFUL assault. Also, the gerrymander fight is on. There is a new playbook. The old rules have been struck down by the Supreme Court. We need to change the gears here as fast as possible for deadly preemptive strikes. Newsom has moved out on this already. Who is next? Hochul. Where are you? Pritzker. What are you doing? TIME TO MOVE IS NOW.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/gerrymander-fight?r=3m1bs
I want Blue States to form their own taxing entity collectively and not to give federal taxes anymore, but to give them to the state instead, an have the state use them to fund things the federal government is not.
The fatfuck doesn’t even know anything other than that the mob bosses that used him for decades to launder their money seemed to enjoy a certain power dynamic. I cannot imagine a worse role model for this best of all possible worlds.
Oh, I guess it’s not at all terrifying that the man who wants to control so many American companies, is so extraordinarily ignorant.
The famous WWII era quote by Martin Niemoller which began “First they came for the Socialists…” comes to mind and I ask the question, just how much of this bullshit will continue to happen until, as Niemoller put it at the end of his prescient poetic statement “and there was no one left to speak for me”?
The entire statement should be drilled into then minds of anyone who supports Trump and his madness:
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me".
Where, oh simple people, will you be when they come for you? Who will be there to protect you? Certainly not Trump for if this scenario plays out he’ll be dead and gone and new, mindless and hateful people will be in charge. What about your children and grandchildren and extended families?
I have gone from thinking of Trump as a Mob Boss to Trump as. Terrorist. Perhaps because I like the alliteration, but also because it comes to mind when we see how he is dealing with foreign governments. Trump the Terrorist!
Anne Applebaum says in chapter 5 of her book "Autocracy, Inc." called "Smearing the Democrats"
-That in his book "From Dictatorship to Democracy," Gene Sharp says that nonviolent protest is more effective because the dictators are always better armed, and one has to find their Achilles heal of weakness instead. One takes power, but peacefully through opposition to the leader.
-Modern autocrats prefer to smear than kill to avoid the martyrdom of a person
-They prepare their smear and legal campaigns ahead of time.
-Still they do spot murdering to keep people in line, they don’t have to do mass killings to do that. A few journalists or activists.
-Dictators make laws that outlaw anything that is activism, but they don’t say it directly.
-Corruption accusations against activists often makes even friends wonder and turns people against them.
-Public despair comes after the crushing of a movement, especially if violence has been used.
In 2022 Mexico most dangerous country for journalists
We see Trump fully using this playbook. I have been thinking not only how Trump is shaking down US corporations and institutions, but also how his Terrorist Tariffs are working. Ursula von der Leyen told EU member states that the reason she negotiated the terrible 15% tariffs with Trump (who is not legally allowed to set tariffs, Congress is but no country seems to know this or say this to Trump), that she felt bad tariffs were better than no tariffs, whereas many countries in the EU felt the other way around was better. Her claim was that it would help businesses plan. I thought if she believes that I know a bridge I can sell you. Trump will not stick to any deal he made and can change the tariffs up or down by whim. No one can plan on anything stable, unless they cut the US out of their trading zone. Already we are reading that the German shipping company DSL is not shipping to the US any more because of tariffs. A friend who has an Etsy shop has also stopped shipping to the US because she says the tariffs make it too expensive. It is too expensive.
My book club was also discussing that Trump wants to rename the Dept of Defense, the Dept of War, which sounds like another piece to setting up us going to war, so that he can take over Greenland, and Canada, and divide the Arctic up with Putin. However, I don't see that being a successful happening. Even if the US military will go for this, which some certainly will, they are not going to be occupying willing participants. I supposed that like Israel they can kill everyone in Greenland off, since that is a small population. But the rest of NATO will have to decide whose side of the war they are on, the US or the Denmarks, and Canadas. Not just a mob boss, but an international Terrorist.
Query: Will that blackmailed money from Intel then revert to Trump like the Qatar airplane?
Excellent review! That second paragraph encapsulates the Trump modus operandi. I would only add a complete lack of originality—all tactics borrowed from his father (and Roy Cohn) and his pre-Putin idol, John Gotti.