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Is Trump owned by a foreign power? Maybe.
Is Trump owned by the billionaire class? Definitely.
This is a stupid article selling a sensationalist story when the truth is playing out everyday with shady crypto deals and ballroom "donations".
We’ve known for about a decade.
Corporate news sewers sold us all out.
Almost like billionaire owned media won't tell the truth about billionaires.
If you press is free but it can be owned by a private coproration then it's not a free press.
Or the media wont tell the truth about the media
Some small part of me will be pissed for the rest of my life knowing Dale Gribble was absolutely right about everything.
He’s a wise man and an excellent lover, or so I was told.
Hey, you still bringin your macaroons to the gun club potluck Dale? It's this Sunday I called Nancy and she said she'd be at John Redcorns' and didn't know what your plans were.
I don’t know who Dale Gribble is, I don’t answer to that name, and frankly it sounds like the kind of identity the government invents so you’ll accidentally admit to owning a leaf blower.
Now purely for the sake of accuracy, if this so-called ‘Dale Gribble’ were bringing macaroons to the gun club potluck, which I am not confirming, then let’s get one thing straight: they are almond-extract macaroons, not vanilla. He switched after 2004. Anyone saying otherwise is either misinformed or working off outdated surveillance notes as we all know ovens run on government-calibrated thermostats.
As for the potluck itself—total psy-op. Food-based compliance exercise. Coconut is a known vector for trust-building. I’ve said this for years.
so not only is trump responsible for child abuse but it was a sanctioned KGB operation to put children in harms way and make them essentially into prostitutes. this world wasn't created by a god or any other supernatural being. You humans are evil filthy animals that need another extinction level event. but who knows the actual truth, you? me? definitely not anyone who can actually make things better.
Future generations are laughing at how collectively stupid we are.
Jokes on them when we all die before they are born
if there are people around to talk aboot it, with these people in charge i don't know if history will be written by them or there wont be anyone around able to tell the history.
‘the world’s largest honeytrap operation’
So that's what we are calling sex trafficking children rings now?
No, honeytrap operations are specifically a intelligence operation where assets (manipulatable agents in a target business or country) are obtained by gaining blackmail through documentation of embarrassing or illicit sexual encounters.
Sometimes a trafficking ring is just for pedos to have sex ...and while that is really fucking horrible it isn't a honeytrap.
It’s both, but the honey trap provides both motivation for the traffickers and it means everyone involved should be considered compromised by foreign states. If it were only a pedo ring, it would be bad but that’s pretty much where the conspiracy would stop.
But with a verified honey trap, it needs to be assumed that the named people are now (and have been) acting on behalf of a hostile foreign nation who has mountains of blackmail on them. And reframing those implicated peoples’ motivations from “they’re just seeking power for themselves” to “they’re aiding a hostile foreign nation” shifts things from “selfish and power-hungry” to outright “high treason”.
Still nothing will happen.
RawStory: You're not going to guess who is REALLY behind THE PRESIDENT! And they're STILL using their WICKED INFLUENCES to CONTROL HIM!
American Pleb: Is it rich people? Specifically, wealthy overseas special interests with ties to the intelligence services?
RawStory: FUCK! We'll have to FIND SOMETHING even more EXPLOSIVE to try and SHOCK YOU MORE next TIME.
Nope. This is all not just allowable, but seemingly acceptable.
At this point, what can happen? Congress is under the same sticky thumb as Trump, and there aren't enough voters who are engaged enough to even know about it. The firehose of bullshit did exactly what it was supposed to do, and now there's no public will left to keep fighting for freedom and democracy.
Military coup. A well respected general that still gives a shit about their country and their pride decides to say 'not on my watch', sends in the troops hot and hard, when least expected. Capture who you can. Eliminate those who can't be. There would be no negative consequences for that person if they succeed.
Pretty sure they sniffed out anyone capable of that and sacked them in the purges. Hell, that was the reason for the purges.
It’s Israel. Just because Epstein shared intel with Russia doesn’t make this a KGB operation. Wild how desperate the news media is to draw attention away from Israel and Mossad. They are very obviously still pulling the strings today.
Ghislaines dad was literally Mossad and the day it was revealed he was Mossad he died for some reason but yeah it’s spoooooky Russia and not the genocidal zionists that are destabilizing the world
Weak damaged man, weak damaged president, weak damaged nation.
The office of the president is far too powerful, just as the anti-federalists feared:
Holly Brewer, the Burke Professor of American History at the University of Maryland and the brief's main author, told ABC News that historical writings from key figures, including Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and others as well as the records from the states as they ratified the Constitution explicitly show they were against "another runaway monarchy" after suffering under Great Britain's King George III.
And now, Putin is our defacto president. Disgusting.
The office of the president is far too powerful
The office of the Republican president is far too powerful.
The office of the Democratic president is impotent and feeble.
Putin is our defacto president
It's so funny to see the US intelligence services working overtime for sixteen years to do regime change in Russia. And because they keep fucking it up, the presumption is that we're in Russia's thrall.
Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu takes flights out to DC every few years to give joint chamber speeches at our own capital building. He gives his minions in our legislature explicit marching orders, while his affiliates in AIPAC drop billions of dollars into primary and national congressional races, influence peddle to affect judicial appointments, and lobby states to outlaw criticism of the Israeli state, and we're just like "Oh yeah, this is normal, nothing to see here".
Trump didn't nail up a pic of him and natanyahu on the white house wall a few weeks ago, but he did putin. Besides they can all be in bed together, which is probably the most likely.
Trump didn’t nail up a pic of him and natanyahu on the white house wall a few weeks ago
Trump shaking hands with Netanyahu doesn't Own The Libs. It's one of those issues Chuck Schumer races Mitch McConnell and Mike Johnson to applaud him on.
Besides they can all be in bed together
I don't think for a second that anyone believes Democrats are in bed with Putin. And the urgency to take the fight to Russia is a major dividing line between MAGA Republicans and Neocon leftovers. (One that Trump was on the other side of as late as 2019)
It would be safer to say Netayahu is in bed with Putin, pulling strings on his behalf, than that the Trump GOP is aligned with Putin directly and not just playing Ukraine and Russia off against one another for their own benefit.
Besides they can all be in bed together
I mean Putin, Natanyahu and Trump are in bed together.
I think the situation is more complex than that. These are three expansionist imperial powers in a very loose coalition, perfectly happy to stab the other two in the back if it suits them.
The idea that Putin "owns" Trump is American media fiction. It's not Devin Nunes sitting in the VP chair and its not Aleksandr Dugin operating as his Homeland Security Advisor. The folks that have their hooks deepest into Trump are 100% American.
Here's some reading you can do to catch up: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33277983
Also research Cambridge Analytica and Cambridge Analytica: links to Moscow oil firm and st Petersburg university
Also research Cambridge Analytica
Cambridge Analytica Ltd. (CA), previously known as SCL USA, was a British political consulting firm that came to prominence through the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. It was founded in 2013, as a subsidiary of the private intelligence company and self-described "global election management agency" SCL Group by long-time SCL executives Nigel Oakes, Alexander Nix and Alexander Oakes, with Nix as CEO. Cambridge Analytica was hired by a variety of political actors, including the Trinidadian government in 2010 and the 2016 presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
Nigel John Oakes (born July 1962) is a British businessman, and the founder and CEO of Behavioural Dynamics Institute and SCL Group
Alexander James Ashburner Nix (born 1 May 1975) is a British businessman who was the former CEO of Cambridge Analytica
Alexander Waddington Oakes (born November 1968) is a British businessman, and the co-founder and an executive of Behavioural Dynamics Institute and SCL Group
So, I'm seeing a country's name come up over and over again. But it's not Russia.
The firm maintained offices in London, New York City, and Washington, D.C.
Cambridge Analytica (SCL USA) was incorporated in January 2013 with its registered office being in Westferry Circus, London and consisting of just one staff member, director and CEO Alexander Nix (also appointed in January 2015).[13] Nix was also the director of nine similar companies sharing the same registered offices in London, including Firecrest technologies, Emerdata and six SCL Group companies including "SCL elections limited".[14] Nigel Oakes, known as the former boyfriend of Lady Helen Windsor, had founded the predecessor SCL Group in the 1990s, and in 2005 Oakes established SCL Group together with his brother Alexander Oakes and Alexander Nix; SCL Group was the parent company of Cambridge Analytica.[15] Former Conservative minister and MP Sir Geoffrey Pattie was the founding chairman of SCL; Lord Ivar Mountbatten also joined Oakes as a director of the company.[12] As a result of the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Nix was removed as CEO and replaced by Julian Wheatland before the company closed.[16] Several of the company's executives were Old Etonians.
Yeah, I'm seeing a whole lot of Brits show up in this article.
They also fought tooth and nail against fiat currency/central banking...
So of course we have the FED, the king of all central banking!
They also fought tooth and nail against the federal government being a moral arbiter with too much power....
So of course we now have a goliath super surveillance state working hand in hand with megachurches and companies!
They also fought tooth and nail against military/police power abuse...
So of course now we now have asset forfeiture and immunity to prosecution!
etc., etc.
The problem with ignoring the constitution for decades is you can't decide it counts now and try to enforce it...
Are you willing to admit Trump is a pedophile yet?
IDF,* not kgb..
Why not both?
I have heard from multiple cia people that Epstein was likely a recruit for the Israelis. That said it’s entirely plausible it was for the KGB as well as but based on recent events Israelis seems way more likely
Doesn’t matter. There is no longer any accountability in our government. It would take both Democrats controlling congress and getting their spineless shit together to start taking action. I could see the former happening, but I predict that they will pooch the latter, and most critical, step in the process because they are the reigning champions of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. The US has failed. Even if the dems somehow manage to step up, the flaws in the system are terminal. The wealthy won. The blood spilled is of the 99.9% and not those who drove the country off the cliff.
There really isn't government anymore. It's completely clear that nations are just tools for more powerful entities to utilize. It's almost comical watching people still thinking everything is NOT completely outdated.
This woman digs into it pretty good. Takes a few minutes to get to it. https://youtu.be/0NMVKovsILo
Not from the US: How reliable/credible is this publication? Rawstory?
Just checking sources don’t pounce on me.
Daily Mail is trash
Well if you look at the landscape of modern media, it’s pretty clear that the line between "just the facts" reporting and passionate activism has gotten really blurry. Sites like Raw Story tend to lean into the tabloid or "fast-paced" side of digital news for sure.
But when you talk about Thom Hartmann, you’re looking at a completely different animal. He isn't just a talking head; he’s a incredibly prolific author (American) who has spent decades building a reputation on "advocacy journalism"—which is basically reporting with a clear moral or political goal in mind.
Ok so the publication is mixed, but this particular author has integrity and established credibility.
That's the way I feel, although others might feel differently. However, from my point of view, if he's referencing this and putting it up there as journalism, then I would think it holds some weight.
Probably more reliable than the government agencies sharing the Epstein documents with the public
This article's source is the Daily Mail...
Is this what we've been reduced to? Soon as it says something you want to be true, now the Daily Mail is magically a bastion of journalistic integrity?
Holy confirmation bias.
It's not. Report it to the mods.