Joe Bauer Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) I wonder. How long before Dick Cheney reacts to this Trump vigilante movement to destroy his daughter politically? One would imagine Dick Cheney still has friends in the highest places and he will come to the defense of his daughter if this goes too far imo. This attack on Liz Cheney and the other Republican representatives who have decided to abandon their loyalty to Trump is a stupidity reveal of him and his rabid followers who still blindly listen to and obey their fearless leader's intimidating getting back wishes no matter how recklessly wanton they are. You'd think these Trump Yahoos who are saddling up onto this latest Trump ship jumper "go get em" posse would have some slight pause after seeing the price other Trump followers are now paying after also blindly following their master's none-too-subtle vindictive encouragement orders to march down to that Capital Building on January 6th and ... don't be weak! You might guess that these blindly riled up and obeying Trump vindictive vigilante groups will eventually target someone they ought not be messing with and I would think Dick Cheney's daughter might fit into that category? Just wondering. Edited January 31, 2021 by Joe Bauer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Joe Pickett for President. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 All 5 quit? Quite a statement. Donald Trump's entire legal team quits week before impeachment trial: Sources (msn.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 It is said that the disagreement was mutual. Trump said, "I'm not paying you." The lawyers said, "Well, we're not working for free." The breakup was mutual. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 5 hours ago, Ron Bulman said: A republican Florida congressman campaigning in Wyoming against the former veep's daughter at this point? Could it backfire? George W. Bush Wades into GOP Civil War as Matt Gaetz Stirs Wyoming Revolt (msn.com) Ron, What astounded me, was that in his appearance in Wyoming, Gaetz wasn't just there to campaign against Liz Cheney, he announced his intention to take on Mitch McConnell for leadership of the the Republican Party. At his appearance, he said, "We are in a battle for the soul of the Republican party, and I intend to win it," said Gaetz "The truth is that the establishment in both political parties have teamed up to screw our fellow Americans for generations," Gaetz said. "The private insider club of Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi and Liz Cheney, they want to return our government to its default setting: enriching them." With Kevin McCarthy traveling to Mar Lago, and Gaetz making this appearance in Wyoming, we can see where this is heading. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Did Trump know ahead of time? https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/536612-did-trump-know-what-was-about-to-happen-jan-6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ecker Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 4 hours ago, Ron Bulman said: All 5 quit? Quite a statement. Donald Trump's entire legal team quits week before impeachment trial: Sources (msn.com) Why does Trump need a defense? He's not going to be convicted, so why should he bother with any lawyer low enough to work for him? (The only reason would be to hear himself being talked about on TV, which is what he lives for.) He could just have his puppet Kevin McCarthy tell the Senate trial that Trump does not recognize this unconstitutional proceeding. (Anyone else old enough to remember the ventriloquist act Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy? Now it's Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Bauer Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Russian Intelligence Cultivated Donald Trump for Decades, Says Former KGB Agent And the Kremlin was delighted with the results, former KGB major Yuri Shvets tells The Guardian. By Mary Papenfuss The KGB Soviet spy agency and later Russian intelligence cultivated Donald Trump as an “asset” for 40 years, a former spy told The Guardian in a bombshell interview. And the Kremlin was delighted with the results, said former KGB major Yuri Shvets. The strategy was typical: Focus on reasonably good prospects and hope one of the wooed Americans rises to a position of power or access that can be beneficial, said Shvets, who now lives in Virginia. “People were recruited when they were just students and then they rose to important positions; something like that was happening with Trump,” explained Shvets, who worked as a KGB major in the 1980s in the U.S. with a cover job as a Washington correspondent for the Russian news agency Tass. Shvets is a crucial source in the new book “American Kompromat,” written by investigative journalist and former Vanity Fair contributing editor Craig Unger, who has also penned “House of Trump, House of Putin.” The KGB — and Czechoslovakian agents — first noticed Trump in 1977 when he married his first wife, Czech Ivana Zelnickova, Shvets told The Guardian. Trump was wooed during his first visit with his wife to Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1987, as intelligence operatives flattered him, floated talking points they hoped he would push in the U.S., and urged Trump to go into politics, said Shvets. “For the KGB, it was a charm offensive,” he explained. “They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically — and he was prone to flattery. This is what they exploited.” They “played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality and believed this is the guy who should be the president of the United States one day.” The intelligence service was blown away by how eagerly Trump appeared to embrace the perspectives operatives pushed, said Shvets. Trump took out full-page ads in three major newspapers the year of his Moscow visit attacking western alliances by complaining that allies weren’t paying their fair share for defense. It was a theme he would push from the White House, chipping away at the bonds among Western nations. Trump’s links to Russia continued to strengthen when he held his Miss Universe beauty pageant in Moscow in 2013, sought a deal to build Trump Tower Moscow even as he was running for president in 2016, and developed other business links. Trump’s 2016 campaign and presidential transition team had more than 100 contacts with Russian-linked operatives between September 2015 and January 2017, according to a report by the Center for American Progress’ Moscow Project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 1 hour ago, Douglas Caddy said: Did Trump know ahead of time? https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/536612-did-trump-know-what-was-about-to-happen-jan-6 Also, what was discussed the the meeting in Trumps private residence at the Trump Hotel on the night of January 5, 2021? Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ecker Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 59 minutes ago, Steve Thomas said: Also, what was discussed the the meeting in Trumps private residence at the Trump Hotel on the night of January 5, 2021? Steve Thomas Must have been the same thing that was discussed at the famous meeting at Clint Murchison's the night before the JFK assassination. A coup d'etat! Of course, some people claim there was no such meeting. Such people are no fun at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election Hours after the United States voted, the president declared the election a fraud — a lie that unleashed a movement that would shatter democratic norms and upend the peaceful transfer of power. 77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 3 hours ago, W. Niederhut said: 77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election Hours after the United States voted, the president declared the election a fraud — a lie that unleashed a movement that would shatter democratic norms and upend the peaceful transfer of power. 77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Maybe we've dodged the bullet for the time being. Orwell's been wrong for 36 years and counting about 1984, and I pray, for the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 (edited) Well, we're still a model for other nations: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/31/world/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-detained-intl/index.html "Myanmar's powerful military has taken control of the country in an apparent coup, following the arrests of Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior government leaders in early morning raids Monday. "In an address on military-owned television Myawaddy TV, Myanmar's military said that it had detained key political leaders in response to what it termed 'election fraud' and had declared a state of emergency, Reuters reported. "Myanmar's election commission on Thursday rejected claims of voter fraud, saying any errors -- such as duplicated names on voter lists -- were not enough to impact the result of the vote." Edited February 1, 2021 by David Andrews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 The Texas High School Recruiting Its Mexican American Teens to Be Border Patrol Agents ‘At the Ready’ A good salary and playing with guns? Sundance doc “At the Ready” shows how Mexican American students in a border town are being recruited into immigration law enforcement. By Kevin Fallon Feb. 01, 2021 https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-texas-high-school-recruiting-its-mexican-american-teens-to-be-border-patrol-agents?ref=home “Watching them train in their tactical gear is surreal. It’s jarring to see these children—and they are just children—sprinting through the hallways with fake guns and riot helmets. Some of their frames are so youthful and slight that the bulletproof vests barely have shoulders to cling onto.” “Like in so many different areas of the immigration debate, you’re left with an upsetting aftertaste: They’re just kids. Kids who are pretending to disarm and incapacitate an active shooter in a hostage situation. But kids nonetheless.” Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 What Ulysses Grant Can Teach Joe Biden About Putting Down Violent Insurrections By CASEY MICHEL 01/30/2021 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/30/what-ulysses-grant-can-teach-joe-biden-about-putting-down-violent-insurrections-463976 “The deadly siege of the Capitol in Washington, which sought to overturn a legitimate election by targeting lawmakers with assassination, was not the first attempted insurrection in American history.” “Grant’s approach relied on a combination of brute military force and a drastic curtailment of civil liberties, yet it nevertheless has relevance for the current moment and contains lessons for lawmakers who fear that January 6 might have been only the first of widespread attacks on the government and elected officials at all levels, across large swaths of the nation.” Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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