1/ The promised laughs/tears of the day have arrived!
Buckle up y'all! Remember that incel loser who came at me the other day (image below, top left)? 👇🤠
Let's talk about it. Signals indicate the account belongs to Vladislav "Artem" Klyushin, a convicted hacker who was recently traded back to Moscow (Artem is a common diminutive for Vladislav).
He's wealthy and well-connected, is an associate of a GRU operative already indicted by the U.S. for interference in the 2016 election, runs cybersecurity firm "M-13" which does IT work for Putin's office, and was–and may still actively be–one of Putin's "Musketeers" (bodyguards, somewhat akin to the Secret Service) in the Federal Protective Service (FSO), which is reportedly assigned some level of responsibility over information warfare.
ARTEM_KLYUSHIN represents a high-level Kremlin influence actor who combines cyber and info warfare capabilities, financial operations, and direct policy influence through social media channels owned by his partners to achieve the goals of the man to whom he is loyal.
KEY FINDINGS
> Direct operational connection to GRU through indicted business partner Yermakov
> Demonstrated ability to predict and potentially influence major U.S. policy decisions
> Pre-arranged platform access on X
> Evidence of active, long-running coordination with Trump world + Musk
> Visible systematic strategy to degrade U.S. institutional safeguards
I apologize if images are a bit fuzzy, as the size limit on X is 10mb–I can also mirror these elsewhere later.
I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.
I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.
My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.
That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.
Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.
It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.
I want to tune out.
But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.
And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.
That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.
For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.
The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.
It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!
But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.
It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.
We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.
That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.
Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.
And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H
NEW: Walz flat out asks Vance whether Trump lost the election. Vance refused to answer. Walz then reminds Vance why Pence isn’t on the stage tonight. IMHO: that moment won Walz this debate.
What's breathtaking about Vance is that he tells a personal story of govt helping him out - food stamps, grandmother's social security, GI Bill funding his college. But he stands for taking all that away.
Let me be very clear: As a Homeland Security Advisor in the Trump White House, I witnessed firsthand how Donald Trump politicized disaster relief, leaving devastated Americans waiting for help. Leaders across the country & government were calling my office, desperate for action as Trump failed them in moments of crisis. Today, he's once again failing Americans by distorting the facts & spreading lies. The reality? The Biden-Harris Administration is stepping up in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene with decisive leadership & a swift, effective response.
Breaking: NEW bombshell JD Vance video by MSNBC & Rachel Maddow. JD Vance wants to shut down American universities & business using extra constitutional powers. He wants to rip them out like a tumor and install political religion. Vance is following the plans of right-wing blogger Curtis Yarvin who suggests deleting the entire Federal Government and replace it with a dictator | CEO. (Trump, Musk)
Maddow has the receipts and video.
Rudy Giuliani's daughter just endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.
"Donald Trump took my dad from me. Please don’t let him take our country, too." - Caroline Giuliani
BREAKING: In a stunning rebuke of Donald Trump, Republican Governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, just made it clear that President Biden and Vice President Harris have been incredibly helpful as Virginia fights against Hurricane Helene
What hideous, shameless racism. Republicans in Congress and on the Presidential ticket continue to peddle dangerous lies about our Haitian neighbors. This vile behavior has no place in our politics and no place in America.
The GOP is telling us who they are. Believe them.
A last minute effort by the Trump campaign to have Nebraska change how it allocates its electoral college votes has failed, as a key GOP State Senator refuses to go along with the plan. https://t.co/eKzmcP2cew
Taylor Swift has been bombarded with death threats since she endorsed Kamala Harris.
Donald Trump hasn’t once disavowed those threats of violence. He hasn’t once implored his base to stop.
But what did he do instead?
He did this. 👇