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Trumpet said:
I feel that this paragraph in this article says it all, about Crazy Trump.

A reliance on bullying, intimidation and underhanded dealing — the hallmark of his entire career; its apparent successes rooted in corruption, cronyism, and criminality — facilitated by the deference of other parties who lacked his ruthless cold-bloodedness. In his record of failures, as testified by six bankruptcies, he contrived to stiff his partners and creditors in each instance.
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This sounds more like Democrats and the Biden Presidency. Of course you, being an empty headed, brainless Kamala voter, would fail to comprehend the OBVIOUS.
 
Trumpet said:
Putin ass kissers, not welcome here.
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But brainless progressive leftist morons like you are?
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Scott said:
Not sure what TDS means. As to Biden, since the essay is about Trump, I'm alright with him not mentioning him. I -suspect- that, like Yakuda, you'd be happy if Trump were to walk away from the war in Ukraine. I myself would be quite happy if he did. Unfortunately, it looks like various forces have persuaded him to start ramping things in between the U.S. and Russia there again.
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TDS = Trump Devotion Syndrome*

MAGAts use a lot of whataboutism to defend their Orange Messiah.

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* a cruder version is Trump Dick Sucker.
 
Truth Detector said:
Scott said:
Just read another article on Trump from Larry Johnson of Sonar21, this one focusing on Trump's demotion of Mike Waltz. It's here:

Quoting from its introduction and conclusion:
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The Washington Post published a story today (Saturday), written by a crew of reporters, that purportedly gives the behind-the-scenes account of why Michael Waltz was fired as the National Security Advisor. While the White House is using the lipstick-on-a-pig technique by painting Waltz’s move to the UN as a promotion, nothing could be further from the truth. As National Security advisor, Waltz had the task of coordinating the President’s policy goals with the Pentagon, the Department of State and the Intelligence Community, ostensibly to ensure everyone was singing from the same sheet of music.

If Waltz manages to survive the confirmation process — and I think he may not pass that challenge — then he will be working as a subordinate to Marco Rubio. That ain’t a promotion, boys and girls. The publication of this article — replete with quotes from unnamed sources in the Trump White House — is a sign that Waltz is going to face an uphill climb to secure Senate approval. The juicy tidbits in this article will provide the Democrats, and some Republicans, great grist to grind Waltz into dust. There will be embarrassing questions about Waltz pursuing an independent foreign policy vis-a-vis Israel, as well as a deep-dive on Signalgate. Waltz will be under oath and will be asked about any previous communications or contact with Jeffrey Goldberg, for example.

I would not be surprised to learn, in the coming weeks, that Waltz will withdraw from the process, provided he can secure a lucrative job with one of the Beltway bandits. This Washington Post story intent, in my judgment, is to damage Waltz even more. Let’s look at the details.

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The situation with respect to the battle raging in Washington, between the pro-Zionist crowd that want to attack Iran and those who believe such a move will be, at a minimum, very damaging to Donald Trump and US interests in the Persian Gulf, is precarious. Stay tuned.
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Washington Post? :laugh:
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I rarely read the Washington Post myself, though I do have a cheap subscription to their online version, which I generally only use when a publication I trust (such as Sonar21) references them.

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So, we will presume that "behind the scenes" means anonymous source while fabricating a dumb narrative.
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From what I've read, any insider revealing infighting within an Administration has to be done anonymously if said insider wants to keep their job. Since I do have a subscription to the Washington Post, I was able to look at the article Larry Johnson was referencing. One actual Trump official is named, though she may not have been one of the sources. I'll quote the first few lines of the article below:
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President Donald Trump’s decision to oust his national security adviser, Michael Waltz, was the product of a slow accumulation of frustration with a former Green Beret officer who was seen as far more eager to use military force than his boss in the Oval Office.

Waltz’s fate was sealed by his inclusion of a journalist on a sensitive Signal group chat in March. But he had been clashing with other top officials since early in the administration, including over whether to pursue military action against Iran, senior officials and Trump advisers said Friday.

The episode has left some senior White House officials questioning the need for a traditional National Security Council and content to leave Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whom Trump on Thursday named as Waltz’s interim replacement, in a caretaker role for quite some time — a decision that will likely diminish an institution that has had a powerful role in shaping the foreign policy of modern presidencies. And it sidelines a key figure in the White House with a long track record of favoring military intervention, officials said. Trump has nominated Waltz to be his ambassador to the United Nations, so he will remain in government.
Waltz’s troubles built up over time, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles increasingly felt he was not a good fit for the president, according to a senior White House official, a Trump adviser and one additional person familiar with the matter on Friday. They and others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel considerations.
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Again, since I do have a subscription to WaPo, I'm able to share 10 articles a month with others. Here's this one:

Edit: I just tried clicking on the above link and reading the article, apparently it doesn't work if you don't at least have a free account with WaPo.
 
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Scott said:
A new article dropped 2 days ago from Moon of Alabama dealing with the Ukraine minerals deal that Trump just made with Ukraine. It can be seen here:

I just skimmed through it, looks quite good. Near the end, it references the article I linked to in the opening post of this thread, Michael Brenner's "Core Trump".

Quoting from Moon of Alabama's latter half of their article:
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The agreement will without doubt be used by the U.S. to rob Ukraine of whatever valuables it has left.

At the same time it does not commit the U.S. to do anything.

With this capitulation Zelenski has fulfilled everything the Trump administration had demanded from him for a ceasefire. The U.S. has, however, no means to press Russia into a ceasefire. President Putin and other Russian officials have made it clear that they have no interest in just stopping the fighting but want a long lasting peace agreement.

The Trump administration has neither the will nor the capabilities to negotiate and enter into long term peace agreement with Russia.

That is why it is now, on one side, washing its hands over the whole issue:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated Thursday that a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is still on the horizon but noted the eastern European nations are still very much at odds with “no military solution.”

“I think we know where Ukraine is, and we know where Russia is right now and where [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is. They’re still far apart,” he told Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “They’re closer, but they’re still far apart.”

Rubio essentially says: ‘We got what we wanted. Now lets get out of here’:

“There does come a point where the president has to decide how much more time at the highest levels of our government do you dedicate it, when maybe one of the two sides or both aren’t really close enough, when we have got so many, I would argue, even more important issues going on around the world, not that a war in Ukraine is not important,” the secretary of State said Thursday.

Vice President Vance confirmed that take:

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Thursday evening that the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine is far from over and that it’s now up to Russia and Ukraine to end the fighting with Washington mulling a step back from peace talks.

“It’s going to be up to them [Russia and Ukraine] to come to an agreement and stop this brutal, brutal conflict,” Vance said during an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier.

“It’s not going anywhere, Bret. It’s not going to end anytime soon,” he added.

Now, as the mineral deal is signed, the U.S. says it has no more responsibility for what happens in Ukraine.

But the mineral deal is also, on the other side, a trap to keep the U.S. committed to the war. As Yves Smith explains:

[O]ur prediction that this deal would be a spoiler as far as normalization of US-Russia relations look every bit as operative as we predicted from the get-go.

We had warned from the outset that the so-called Ukraine “raw earths” deal conflicted with the US agreeing to a settlement of the Ukraine conflict by creating an economic incentive for the US to support Ukraine in retaining as much territory as possible.
… To put it another way, the minerals pact was certain to be a source of conflict with Russia were it ever to get done. The fact that the Administration pursued the deal so aggressively said it valued a splashy but low to no value win over normalizing relations with Russia.

The U.S. may already be back to be fully committed to the war. As soon as the mineral deal was signed the State Department gave notice to Congress about a $50+ million weapon sale to Ukraine.

During the night from Thursday to Friday a large scale drone attack from Ukraine took place in Crimea. Last night another, ever larger attack took place. During the attack Ukraine used Storm Shadow cruise missiles which need U.S. intelligence based coordinates to reach their targets (machine translation):

For the first time since January, Russia announced a strike by British Storm Shadow missiles.

This is reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The last time the Russian Federation officially reported on the Storm Shadow strike was almost three months ago-on January 15.

Also in Russia, a mass drone raid was reported on the Crimea (96 were shot down) and the Krasnodar Territory (47 UAVs were shot down). In addition, it is stated that 14 Ukrainian unmanned boats were destroyed in the Black Sea.

Recall that on the night of May 2 , the Crimea was also under a massive drone attack . Explosions were, in particular, in the areas of military airfields.

Without U.S. (and British) intelligence support the recent attacks by Ukraine would not have been possible.

This points to not yet public Trump decision to continue the war even though the U.S. has no chance to win.

Michael Brenner explains how Trump’s ‘malignant narcissism’ has led to this outcome.

When Russia will launch its big Summer offensive after Victory Day on May 9, it will become very obvious that making peace with Russia would have been the more difficult but also more promising way to proceed.
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More inane TDS drivel from the Trump haters. Who, with even half a brain, takes this bullshit seriously?
 
Scott said:
Substacker Mark Miller just published a good article today. It can be seen here:
markcrispinmiller.substack.com

No longer underdogs, Trump's hardcore base should NOT act like their enemies (and neither should those enemies)

We ALL should try to take the high road (inconceivable though that may be), and join forces to bring down our REAL enemies, who are really neither left nor right, but sway them both, from high above
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I'm not a paid subscriber, so I can only see the first part, but it's more than enough in my view. Quoting most of said first part below:
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No longer underdogs, Trump's hardcore base should NOT act like their enemies (and neither should those enemies)​

We ALL should try to take the high road (inconceivable though that may be), and join forces to bring down our REAL enemies, who are really neither left nor right, but sway them both, from high above

May 08, 2025

Trump and his enemies​

When the world went nuts five years ago—empty hospitals hysterically reported to be “overrun”; drivers wearing masks, with no-one else in the car; sheets of plexiglass “protecting”cashiers from their customers (and vice versa); priests using squirt-guns to baptize infants; any and all gatherings forbidden as “super-spreader events,” although no law proscribed them, and so on—there was, on top of all that madness (and as many people know), a dizzying political reversal all throughout the West, as the left that, back in the day, was staunchly anti-war (above all against the war on Vietnam, but all wars, and the agencies and interests that promoted them); pro-integration; committed to free speech for all, along with free assembly (even for Nazis); for workers’ rights across the board, against the growing might of corporate power; against “free trade”; for women’s rights, and, latterly, gay rights; and dedicated to the cleansing and safeguarding of “the environment,” as it was now imprecisely called: i.e., concerned about industrial pollution of the air and soil and water, and the chemical adulteration of our food.

Those aren’t the only issues that the left, as I remember it, addressed, before its infiltration and subversion by the state, mainly via the CIA and FBI (dirty trickery that started in the Sixties, both to divide and depoliticize the left). However, the catalogue above includes the major issues that defined the left—until things changed radically (as it were), so that the left became “the left,” a vast “woke” mob that, for all its incoherent preaching about race-and-gender, was a Bizarro version of the right, c. 1952. Aside from the deep impact of cell phones and the Internet, what thus transformed the left into its opposite was mainly the unlikely-seeming rise of Donald Trump, and then the demonic global spectre of “the virus”—a double whammy that has made “the left” pro-war, especially toward Russia, with a fierce commitment to the Nazi legions in Ukraine; belligerently “triggered” by free speech and free assembly (for anyone except themselves), and therefore hot for censorship, online and off-, with all contrary views reviled as “hate speech” and/or “misinformation”; virulent abhorrence of the working class (except its blocs of “color”), who, “the left” believes, don’t deserve due process, habeas corpus or the right to earn a living; a new belief in segregation—of blacks on campus (a consequence of Critical Race Theory). and of the “unvaccinated” (Noam Chomsky urging that they all be locked up somewhere, with or without food); a weird contempt for women’s rights, in favor of the new misogyny promoted by transgenderism; a cringing reverence for Big Pharma, and (unbelievably) absolute trust in the CIA and FBI; and a lunatic rejection of environmentalism, with its emphasis on cleansing our air, water, soil and food, in favor of the groundless and impossible objective of eliminating CO2.

Those few of us who still believe in the (real) left’s passé agenda started noticing the shift decades ago. (I myself began to doubt the left’s reliability way back in the Nineties, when I became an activist against the corporate concentration of the media, and discovered that the left could not care less about that issue; and then the same thing happened under Bush the Younger, when I shifted my attention to reform of our abysmal voting system, for which the left attacked me and my few allies.) However, it was not til 2020 that the left became “the left”—shock troops for Big Pharma (rather like ACT UP in the Eighties). Since then, it has been all too clear that there was almost no left left, since it was now suddenly the right that was resisting censorship, gathering in defense of free assembly and against the state-and-corporate juggernaut of “COVID measures,” suffering persecution, federal detention and impoverishment for their dissent and/or religion, opposing war with Russia, questioning the narratives disgorged by “our free press” (unintimidated by dismissal as “conspiracy theorists), defending girls’ and women’s rights against harassment, and displacement, by trans activists, and rightly skeptical toward the apocalyptic hooey of “climate change.”

Thus those who had formerly “identified” as being on the left were now “politically marooned” (to quote Del Bigtree), and, primarily because of COVID, gravitated toward the libertarian and Christian right, whose sanest members were as capable of civil conversation as “the left” were prone to foaming at the mouth if you should question any of their pieties. This sea-change has been vividly exemplified by Tucker Carlson’s taking Amy Goodman’s place as a trustworthy oracle (although, in fact, she wasn’t)—a shift that’s been especially disorienting for myself, since, back in the day, I found Carlson’s strict adherence to his party’s line (and preppy smirk) obnoxious, while I appeared on Amy Goodman’s show some half a dozen times, was on good terms with Michael Moore, got along with Chomsky, and otherwise misjudged the idols of the left. Another sign of the times: Goodman, Moore and Chomsky, and their followers, all jeered 9/11 Truth, turned a blind eye to the Kennedy assassinations, and, more recently, stridently condemned the protesters on “January 6,” celebrating their fascistic punishment; while it’s been Carlson—along with punching-bags like Alex Jones and Joe Rogan—who has given us invaluable truths about such pivotal catastrophes. (Carlson isn’t smirking anymore.)

While it was “COVID” that mainly drove the right’s resistance, their stance was also based, of course, on their fierce faith in Trump, especially since the “liberals” and “progressives” who dumped endlessly on him dumped almost as heavily on all the “Nazis” cheering him. (Trump is no less dangerous than “Trumpism,” Chomsky proclaimed last year, meaning the majority of the electorate—i.e., the working class.) And now that Trump is “back”—and acting largely as you would expect him to, what with his thin skin and feral court, the incessant vitriol drenching him since he first ran for president, and the sketchy “lawfare” used to drive him out—the right seems far less righteous than they did as underdogs, scorned and persecuted by “Joe Biden” and the government-and-media that (barely) propped him up. (None of “the resistance” ever took the high road against Trump: indeed, by ceaselessly and often crudely mocking him, they were not opposing him so much as emulating him.) Now that their leader is in power again, his staunchest fans support his every move as zealously as his attackers raged at everything he ever said or did, even though Trump’s moves appear increasingly to be insane.

'He's gone': Attorney 'shocked' after Trump admin 'disappeared' delivery worker (April 22, 2025) (source: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/worl...admin-disappeared-delivery-worker/ar-AA1Dpwnm(​

And thus Trump’s (and, until recently, Elon Musk’s) attempts to cut “wasteful” federal funding have included cutting back on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—programs that Trump and Musk will surely never need, but that keep countless Americans alive. And thus Trump’s stand against transgender “healthcare” for children has entailed the targeting of trans adults. And thus, in spite of his apparent preference not to go to outright war, and his assurances that he can always “make a deal” to end hostilities, his (weakening?) support for Netanyahu’s ongoing massacre in Gaza maintains Biden/Harris/Clinton’s bloody policy, as does the attack on Yemen (the second-poorest country in the Middle East and North Africa). And thus, intent on payback as he is, Trump is blowing off the Supreme Court, and going after judges whose rulings have annoyed him. And thus he has imposed whopping tariffs to revitalize domestic manufacturing, regardless of its economic impact on real people, and without much bothering to explain their rationale. (Now Trump has imposed a tariff of 100% on movies made abroad.) And so on—especially including federal harassment and economic clout against protesters, and the schools that respect, or did respect, the latters’ First Amendment rights.

What Trump has done, in short, is build on rational and even necessary policies—deporting foreign criminals, pushing back on DEI, protecting kids from mutilation, saving taxpayers money—to go hog-wild across the board, and without clearly saying why; Trump’s rampage seems intended mainly to project himself as mean and tough (as well as infallible), and to encourage the same bully posture in his “base.” In other words, he almost always doubles down—just like his attackers, who are now reacting to his provocations even more hysterically than they did when he first ran, and throughout his first term, and even afterward; and, far from trying to bridge the gap, his “critics” (if we can so dignify their virulence) savage anyone who dares even talk to him, as opposed to screaming at him, as we’ve seen lately with Bill Maher.
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I wish you could do better than endless cut and pastes.

his staunchest fans support his every move as zealously as his attackers raged at everything he ever said or did,

Again, this is mostly bullshit. Trump doesn't need anyone to defend him, what they are defending are the facts and the truth. Beginning with the lies about Russian Collusion, the faked Hillary campaign Steele Dossier leading to the three year $50 plus million Mueller investigation, then we had the Trumps not my President rant in 2017, the Covid response hoax, the Covid origin hoax.

Anyone who buys what the media are peddling is a clueless dotard as far as I can tell.

even though Trump’s moves appear increasingly to be insane.

Really? What moves are insane?
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Trump Biden will go down in history as the worst President in the 21st century if not at of all time.
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FIFY. What we do know is that all of your posts are moronic and won't age well.

Dutch Uncle said:
He's a presidential example of a bull in a China shop who claims he's simply cleaning up the place.
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Wrong, but Kamala voters like you are pretty stupid. He's an example of what leadership is really about unlike the clueless Dotard he replaced.
 
Scott said:
It seems to me that what you'd -like- is for Trump to leave the Ukraine war to Russia and the Europeans. As I've said, I would applaud him if he were to actually do this. The problem is, he's not doing this- as the article I quoted shows, it looks like various forces have persuaded Trump to start ramping up support for western Ukraine's war. At this point, I'm just -hoping- that he doesn't escalate things to the point that Biden did.
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In order to bring a dumbass like Putin to the table, a despot who only understands brute force, it may take an escalation.

Trump would like to see the killing to stop. He's also aware that a continuing war could bleed into other nations. So getting Putin to the table is the main goal here as he has already shown a willingness to not listen.
 
Truth Detector said:
I wish you could do better than endless cut and pastes.

his staunchest fans support his every move as zealously as his attackers raged at everything he ever said or did,

Again, this is mostly bullshit. Trump doesn't need anyone to defend him, what they are defending are the facts and the truth. Beginning with the lies about Russian Collusion, the faked Hillary campaign Steele Dossier leading to the three year $50 plus million Mueller investigation, then we had the Trumps not my President rant in 2017, the Covid response hoax, the Covid origin hoax.

Anyone who buys what the media are peddling is a clueless dotard as far as I can tell.

even though Trump’s moves appear increasingly to be insane.

Really? What moves are insane?
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Putting tariffs on movies for one.
 
Scott said:
Not sure what TDS means.
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Are you living in a cave? Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Scott said:
As to Biden, since the essay is about Trump, I'm alright with him not mentioning him. I -suspect- that, like Yakuda, you'd be happy if Trump were to walk away from the war in Ukraine.
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Wrong again. I'd be happy if Putin weren't a despotic asshole and would assist in ending the wasteful killing which is Trumps goal.

Scott said:
I myself would be quite happy if he did. Unfortunately, it looks like various forces have persuaded him to start ramping things in between the U.S. and Russia there again.
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See above.
 
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