Thank you, Heather. An early night! From what you report and from what we've been hearing and reading, it's possible that many of Trump's campaign promises will be difficult, if not impossible, to keep. at least immediately. That would be lovely. Out of our shock and disappointment emerge hope and resistance.
Thank you, Heather. An early night! From what you report and from what we've been hearing and reading, it's possible that many of Trump's campaign promises will be difficult, if not impossible, to keep. at least immediately. That would be lovely. Out of our shock and disappointment emerge hope and resistance.
Mim the ones that concern me in Project 2025 is that the first month they plan to shake up the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense by replacing the leadership. This is frightening. Is the US now a client state of Russia? That is my concern. I don't know how one can resist this.
I am in Spain and I know someone who worked in American intelligence. She told me that as soon as Trump was elected, the EU, Australia, and many other countries have onvoked a strategy to not share any information that could be damaging if leaked, as Trump is a leaker and Putin fan. Obviously, within the EU, there are probably also measures to exclude Orban, but I am not privy to them.
That is so good to hear. The Intelligence Achilles heel, as ever, might be here in Northern Ireland. It has a huge military Intelligence apparatus largely unchanged since the dirty war. It also shares a border and police intelligence with an EU country as well as to a British state that is entirely politically and economically allied to the present US administration. Add to this mix, years of neglect by the UK government allowing an exponential rise in armed loyalist paramilitaries and an ongoing working and training partnership with NetanyahuтАЩs Mossad. If Putin or any other hostile player wanted an easy soft spot to apply pressure on the EU, the fire keg of Northern Ireland, as presently chaotically politically and socially constituted, is a hostage to fortune.
Trump is PutinтАЩs puppet. He wants his hotel in Moscow. This isnтАЩt about making America great again . It is about tightening the noose of the oligarchs around our collective necks.
The national security risk (both Trump and Elon revere Putin and are in communication with him) is what scares me the most.
Dan Coats (Former NSA in Trump administration) said on the record with Bob Woodward (see Newsweek article 10-20-24) that he suspects Trump is being blackmailed by Putin. (easily google the article) Why doesn't our current administration keep us safe from such things? Don't we have the best military intelligence in the world??
When the WSJ pubished an article about three weeks ago that it was found Musk had been asked by Putin (as a "favor to China") to withhold Starlink communications tech from Taiwan, I thought that would be 'stop the presses" moment, and it was barely discussed
Rachael devoted the first part of her show last Monday night (the day before the election) to musk and all of his putin connections along with his top secret projects for the US government. He is letting the russians use Starlink to fight the Ukrainians not the other way around which is our policy. For our national security he needs to be removed from all of his companies that contract with our government. He turned off Starlink over Taiwan as a favor to putin to curry favor with China. And now heтАЩs the insipid oneтАЩs best friend. Absolutely nothing about this is good, unless you think putin controlling our government is a good thing. I am not confused about russia I carry a piece of their iron in my leg, and for the most part I do know how to punctuate. ЁЯдм
Clearly our intelligence under Trump is for sale or trade. I think other countries are aware of this, and may be protecting themselves. The Biden collaboration will be ending soon. Project 2025 is full of Russia and China as main enemies. I know it was written in 2022. One can tell. Still, it seems like allegiances have switched now. Bad news for Ukraine, bad news for Taiwan, bad news for the EU, and bad news for the citizens of the USA.
I read an article tonight that Trump's "advisors" are wanting him to bypass Federal background checks for security clearance on the people Trump appoints...that had me thinking of foreign operatives working inside the White House. Very concerning
Musk already has a seat at the table. Not only is he an Uber rich South African immigrant who controls rural internet through Starlink, he's also a foreign national who has Putin on speed dial and did mess with Ukrainian Starlink service as a favor to Putin. Our allies are wise to withhold information because Musk and maybe Trump will share it with our adversaries like Putin.
THey do not care. If they did, Trump would not be entering a second term. It's got to be money & power, and billionaires like Musk have an unlimited amount of money. And so does Putin, although he hides it, he's one of the wealthiest in the world.
I donтАЩt think the Rs care. Like so much of our transactional society, money and material success are what matters. We have all been complicit in this and the indecency and inequality of those choices are catching up with us now. Values count, but not in the world of the oligarchs.
That is the plan. Trump is Putin's boy. But let us not go off the deep end. It will take time and there are many of us who will be standing up to it all.
Is the US now a client state of Russia? No. The US is now subservient to Russia. Chump must pay up. P2025 already has picked the leaders of DOJ and Defense so not much lag time.
Well in P2025 the say a month to figure out who goes where, and a month is a long time to have a gap in your intelligence or military leadership. The difference between being a client state and subservient is semantics. Since P2025 also says gathering intel on our NATO allies and not sharing with them, I was glad to read someone responding to a comment that countries are guarding their intel. Trump is not trusted to keep it. So, there we go. Hello ISIS. Hello White Supremacists.
тАЬA hard circle to squareтАЭ? Nah. Blame it on the Dems. Does the economy crash because of TrumpтАЩs tariffs? Blame it on the Dems. Poor rural families get no food support because of MuskтАЩs cuts? Blame it on the Dems. I mean, instead of blaming TrumpтАЩs victory on the real culprit, Outin, who gave him the American election in exchange for Ukraine and Poland, everyone is blaming the Dems. Works every time, and the billionaire-owned media happily sings along with this tune. Rump, Musk and Vance will never be called to hold account and face justice for what they have done and will do.
Damn, Dutch Mike, you read my mind. The Dem bashing and the Dems bashing each other is pathetic. Focus people. Dems guilty of still thinking itтАЩs politics as usual. Repubs allied with Putin and Putin won. Wake up. ItтАЩs Polonium Tea time, not a blame game.
Wish it were that simple. I have posted this ad nauseam, but one more time. тАЬI used to rig card games for a living. IтАЩd watch people sit down and lose everything, again and again. But they didnтАЩt lose because they тАЬplayed by the rulesтАЭ but we didnтАЩt. They lost because it wasnтАЩt a game. It just looked like one. Democrats think itтАЩs a game.тАЭ Posted on T years ago by Derek DelGaudio. After 2012, repubs stopped pretending and went all in on win, no matter what it takes. Rupert and the tea party had already set the stage, and the тАЬStarтАЭ materialized like magic. We all missed it, especially the Putin connection.
It maybe a cultural thing. Remember the title of Jack Welch' book? "Winning". That's all that counts, regardless of the costs, the havoc that is wreaked and the principles that were sacrificed.
Good point. Shifting blame is one of their favorite games. They never take responsibility for their messes. They have been programmed from birth to believe someone else will pick up after them. Time to get up and face the day.
When you see it happening in your state it is not hard to see it happening nation wide. What is the difference between defeatism & realism? Water is wet & rocks are hard.
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He did it beforeтАФlied and didnтАЩt deliver (Mexico will pay for the wall) and I this election Latinos and women still voted for him, two of his targets. тАЬYes sir. More please.тАЭ
We need to worry about his enablers, he will soon become incompetent probably well within his term of office, then they will have the power. They will shield that reality from the public and the MSM will remain clueless. So we just elected a shell of a human to be our president, the puppet masters will not take long to get their hands on the strings, as long as he lives they will be in control, and we didnтАЩt elect any of them. Biden can put a permanent stop to this, he has immunity and his end is coming soon anyhow, but I donтАЩt know if he has the iron will to act on it. It would put the nation into turmoil, but we are going to be put into turmoil starting on 20 January anyway. A year from now after we have watched our government be dismantled in front of our eyes, and WWIII looms on the horizon, will we wish Joe Biden had acted, search your hearts, and look your children or grandchildren in the eyes and try to think what to say to them, as they are about to be fed into the cauldron.
Those orders have already been prepared by the Project 2025 team and there is the E-signature, which means the people working for him will use it in his name. Interesting choice of Chief of Staff. As the job has been written in Project 2025 that person is the gatekeeper and will have much more real power than the VP. See chapter one of Project 2025, White House Office.
He couldnтАЩt pass an infrastructure bill first time around and heтАЩll have less competent people both in the WH and Congress. No Ryan or McConnell this time.
Kevin Robbins, couldn't pass Infrastructure bills because R's never want to. It's spending for the people. They just want to take credit when D's pass it. And ruthlessness, abject corruption, and desire for cruelty are the greatest of motivators.
They have been training people to take over agencies as advertised in Project 2025. The long list of people who composed the game plan are ready to go & implement while T plays golf
The Trump '47 presidency was purchased with lots of money from a few people, and lots of lies and deceit. He made lots of promises in 2016 that were never kept. 2024 will be no different. What worries me is the obligations he now has to the few who contributed a lot. Mostly this will involve giving large sections of the economy to those who will treat it like a source of extractive wealth - extracted from We the People. This will ruin the economy in fairly short order and lead to a 2008 style depression, and Russian style corruption.
And THIS TIME, I hope that mainstream media will HAMMER these facts out on the evening news with as much enthusiasm as they did for every Biden gaffe!
As I commented above, NOW is a prime opportunity for an alternate to Twitter to come out!
I am praying that some new social media site ,that will not let Russians overwhelm it, comes into development and EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT leaves Musk and joins it.
Thank you, Heather. An early night! From what you report and from what we've been hearing and reading, it's possible that many of Trump's campaign promises will be difficult, if not impossible, to keep. at least immediately. That would be lovely. Out of our shock and disappointment emerge hope and resistance.
Mim the ones that concern me in Project 2025 is that the first month they plan to shake up the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense by replacing the leadership. This is frightening. Is the US now a client state of Russia? That is my concern. I don't know how one can resist this.
I am in Spain and I know someone who worked in American intelligence. She told me that as soon as Trump was elected, the EU, Australia, and many other countries have onvoked a strategy to not share any information that could be damaging if leaked, as Trump is a leaker and Putin fan. Obviously, within the EU, there are probably also measures to exclude Orban, but I am not privy to them.
Sounds like a good call on their part
That is so good to hear. The Intelligence Achilles heel, as ever, might be here in Northern Ireland. It has a huge military Intelligence apparatus largely unchanged since the dirty war. It also shares a border and police intelligence with an EU country as well as to a British state that is entirely politically and economically allied to the present US administration. Add to this mix, years of neglect by the UK government allowing an exponential rise in armed loyalist paramilitaries and an ongoing working and training partnership with NetanyahuтАЩs Mossad. If Putin or any other hostile player wanted an easy soft spot to apply pressure on the EU, the fire keg of Northern Ireland, as presently chaotically politically and socially constituted, is a hostage to fortune.
Meaning we will be less safe. And so will our allies. Can NATO survive without us
Can we survive without NATO?
America becomes untrustworthy again.
Trump is PutinтАЩs puppet. He wants his hotel in Moscow. This isnтАЩt about making America great again . It is about tightening the noose of the oligarchs around our collective necks.
The national security risk (both Trump and Elon revere Putin and are in communication with him) is what scares me the most.
Dan Coats (Former NSA in Trump administration) said on the record with Bob Woodward (see Newsweek article 10-20-24) that he suspects Trump is being blackmailed by Putin. (easily google the article) Why doesn't our current administration keep us safe from such things? Don't we have the best military intelligence in the world??
When the WSJ pubished an article about three weeks ago that it was found Musk had been asked by Putin (as a "favor to China") to withhold Starlink communications tech from Taiwan, I thought that would be 'stop the presses" moment, and it was barely discussed
WHAT IS HAPPENING ?!?!?
We have no real press. They are corporate press agency's.
Rachael devoted the first part of her show last Monday night (the day before the election) to musk and all of his putin connections along with his top secret projects for the US government. He is letting the russians use Starlink to fight the Ukrainians not the other way around which is our policy. For our national security he needs to be removed from all of his companies that contract with our government. He turned off Starlink over Taiwan as a favor to putin to curry favor with China. And now heтАЩs the insipid oneтАЩs best friend. Absolutely nothing about this is good, unless you think putin controlling our government is a good thing. I am not confused about russia I carry a piece of their iron in my leg, and for the most part I do know how to punctuate. ЁЯдм
SF write this to ProPublica and ask them to write on it. When ProPublica breaks a story sometimes the mainstream press picks it up.
The administration can't help, when the Extreme Court is protecting this felon.
I collaboration of the ignorance of religion with the mendacity of oligarchy.
The peons easily manipulated.
Clearly our intelligence under Trump is for sale or trade. I think other countries are aware of this, and may be protecting themselves. The Biden collaboration will be ending soon. Project 2025 is full of Russia and China as main enemies. I know it was written in 2022. One can tell. Still, it seems like allegiances have switched now. Bad news for Ukraine, bad news for Taiwan, bad news for the EU, and bad news for the citizens of the USA.
I read an article tonight that Trump's "advisors" are wanting him to bypass Federal background checks for security clearance on the people Trump appoints...that had me thinking of foreign operatives working inside the White House. Very concerning
Criminal negligence.
Musk already has a seat at the table. Not only is he an Uber rich South African immigrant who controls rural internet through Starlink, he's also a foreign national who has Putin on speed dial and did mess with Ukrainian Starlink service as a favor to Putin. Our allies are wise to withhold information because Musk and maybe Trump will share it with our adversaries like Putin.
Not a lot we can do about that except hope that the R's in Congress are paying attention...if they even care.
They arenтАЩt.
THey do not care. If they did, Trump would not be entering a second term. It's got to be money & power, and billionaires like Musk have an unlimited amount of money. And so does Putin, although he hides it, he's one of the wealthiest in the world.
Putin is probably the wealthiest person in the world. The details of his wealth are less well known than that of Musk.
It they cared, they would have impeached him. Trump would be in jail.
I donтАЩt think the Rs care. Like so much of our transactional society, money and material success are what matters. We have all been complicit in this and the indecency and inequality of those choices are catching up with us now. Values count, but not in the world of the oligarchs.
They do not
That is the plan. Trump is Putin's boy. But let us not go off the deep end. It will take time and there are many of us who will be standing up to it all.
Is the US now a client state of Russia? No. The US is now subservient to Russia. Chump must pay up. P2025 already has picked the leaders of DOJ and Defense so not much lag time.
Well in P2025 the say a month to figure out who goes where, and a month is a long time to have a gap in your intelligence or military leadership. The difference between being a client state and subservient is semantics. Since P2025 also says gathering intel on our NATO allies and not sharing with them, I was glad to read someone responding to a comment that countries are guarding their intel. Trump is not trusted to keep it. So, there we go. Hello ISIS. Hello White Supremacists.
We have become a danger to the world. They learned, we didnтАЩt
тАЬA hard circle to squareтАЭ? Nah. Blame it on the Dems. Does the economy crash because of TrumpтАЩs tariffs? Blame it on the Dems. Poor rural families get no food support because of MuskтАЩs cuts? Blame it on the Dems. I mean, instead of blaming TrumpтАЩs victory on the real culprit, Outin, who gave him the American election in exchange for Ukraine and Poland, everyone is blaming the Dems. Works every time, and the billionaire-owned media happily sings along with this tune. Rump, Musk and Vance will never be called to hold account and face justice for what they have done and will do.
Damn, Dutch Mike, you read my mind. The Dem bashing and the Dems bashing each other is pathetic. Focus people. Dems guilty of still thinking itтАЩs politics as usual. Repubs allied with Putin and Putin won. Wake up. ItтАЩs Polonium Tea time, not a blame game.
Exactly. If you're playing a game of chess and your opponent keeps punching you in the face, it may be time to stop trying to play by the rules.
Wish it were that simple. I have posted this ad nauseam, but one more time. тАЬI used to rig card games for a living. IтАЩd watch people sit down and lose everything, again and again. But they didnтАЩt lose because they тАЬplayed by the rulesтАЭ but we didnтАЩt. They lost because it wasnтАЩt a game. It just looked like one. Democrats think itтАЩs a game.тАЭ Posted on T years ago by Derek DelGaudio. After 2012, repubs stopped pretending and went all in on win, no matter what it takes. Rupert and the tea party had already set the stage, and the тАЬStarтАЭ materialized like magic. We all missed it, especially the Putin connection.
It maybe a cultural thing. Remember the title of Jack Welch' book? "Winning". That's all that counts, regardless of the costs, the havoc that is wreaked and the principles that were sacrificed.
Jack Welch was an idiot in my humble estimation.
Agree 100%. Tell James that.
CanтАЩt find James
Good point. Shifting blame is one of their favorite games. They never take responsibility for their messes. They have been programmed from birth to believe someone else will pick up after them. Time to get up and face the day.
Dutch Mike, you bring to mind the often heard phrase of yore: тАЬThanks ObamaтАЭ
Trump may have no intention of fulfilling most of them. It is the promises that he will seek to implement that worry me.
The Department of Education seems to be a gonner.
Gee donтАЩt accept it before it happens. No defeatism!
When you see it happening in your state it is not hard to see it happening nation wide. What is the difference between defeatism & realism? Water is wet & rocks are hard.
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Let's hope many of them will be resistible.
How many of them are actually do-able?
It's harder to blame Democrats for screwups on one's own watch.
Obviously he promises a lot that is BS, like all the pre-election claims that somehow Mexico would pay for his wall. He forgot to ask Mexico about it.
He did it beforeтАФlied and didnтАЩt deliver (Mexico will pay for the wall) and I this election Latinos and women still voted for him, two of his targets. тАЬYes sir. More please.тАЭ
He wonтАЩt forget revenge. Putin has the expertise
We need to worry about his enablers, he will soon become incompetent probably well within his term of office, then they will have the power. They will shield that reality from the public and the MSM will remain clueless. So we just elected a shell of a human to be our president, the puppet masters will not take long to get their hands on the strings, as long as he lives they will be in control, and we didnтАЩt elect any of them. Biden can put a permanent stop to this, he has immunity and his end is coming soon anyhow, but I donтАЩt know if he has the iron will to act on it. It would put the nation into turmoil, but we are going to be put into turmoil starting on 20 January anyway. A year from now after we have watched our government be dismantled in front of our eyes, and WWIII looms on the horizon, will we wish Joe Biden had acted, search your hearts, and look your children or grandchildren in the eyes and try to think what to say to them, as they are about to be fed into the cauldron.
Perhaps I missed what Biden would do if he has the courage. Would you mind clarifying?
Indeed. How many promises can he keep on Day !?
I fear that he will have his 'staff' prepare oodles of executive orders that he will sign one by one on Day 1 under the disbelieving eyes of the press
Those orders have already been prepared by the Project 2025 team and there is the E-signature, which means the people working for him will use it in his name. Interesting choice of Chief of Staff. As the job has been written in Project 2025 that person is the gatekeeper and will have much more real power than the VP. See chapter one of Project 2025, White House Office.
She came up with the тАЬswift boatтАЭ crap against Kerry, didnтАЩt she? What a lovely woman. ЁЯШТ
That's not a good prospect, Marli, but you may be right.
They were all prepared by the Heritage Foundation months ago, all he has to do is sign them.
He couldnтАЩt pass an infrastructure bill first time around and heтАЩll have less competent people both in the WH and Congress. No Ryan or McConnell this time.
Kevin Robbins, couldn't pass Infrastructure bills because R's never want to. It's spending for the people. They just want to take credit when D's pass it. And ruthlessness, abject corruption, and desire for cruelty are the greatest of motivators.
The flip side is that there are no dems to blame for anything now.
He will ALWAYS blame the Dems. Always. Even when we are not in office. And his people will believe anything, we already know that.
I don't really think they'd be concerned about passing an infrastructure bill or any other bill that will directly help the people with anything.
Maybe pork to certain friends.
They have been training people to take over agencies as advertised in Project 2025. The long list of people who composed the game plan are ready to go & implement while T plays golf
We'll see. Hopefully none.
Betsy he will have the rest of his life and Vances' to fulfill them.
How many lies can he tell in a minute?
Project 2025 told us
The Trump '47 presidency was purchased with lots of money from a few people, and lots of lies and deceit. He made lots of promises in 2016 that were never kept. 2024 will be no different. What worries me is the obligations he now has to the few who contributed a lot. Mostly this will involve giving large sections of the economy to those who will treat it like a source of extractive wealth - extracted from We the People. This will ruin the economy in fairly short order and lead to a 2008 style depression, and Russian style corruption.
ЁЯШвthenЁЯТкЁЯП╜
And THIS TIME, I hope that mainstream media will HAMMER these facts out on the evening news with as much enthusiasm as they did for every Biden gaffe!
As I commented above, NOW is a prime opportunity for an alternate to Twitter to come out!
I am praying that some new social media site ,that will not let Russians overwhelm it, comes into development and EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT leaves Musk and joins it.