Useless Tree

“The way that can be spoken is not the real way." ~Laozi, Daodejing

[Useless Tree @_Useless_Tree_]

@krystalball @LesChouans1793 Maybe you can be the first to talk to former girlfriends of Gavin Newsom. You’re right, he’s a total malignant narcissist creep.

[Useless Tree @_Useless_Tree_]

@USTreasury @FinCENnews @POTUS Last time I was at my credit union, they were helping an illegal alien couple in Spanish at the desk next to me.

[Useless Tree @_Useless_Tree_]

@JoeyMannarino The DNC finds these people and pushes them on us. Thet don’t want normal. None of it is bottom-up and organic.

[Useless Tree @_Useless_Tree_]

@USAttyEssayli @KATYSaccitizen She wasn’t paying these homeless out of her own pocket. She should’ve been forced to name names if she wanted a deal.

[Useless Tree @_Useless_Tree_]

@USAttyEssayli @KATYSaccitizen The system needs to be taken down, not just one measly crook here or there.

[Useless Tree @_Useless_Tree_]

If Amaryillis Fox is resigning now because the CIA is operating domestically and moving money unaccountably, maybe she noticed these activities were targeting US elections.

[Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd]

I'm totally shocked to learn the agency, that has been absolutely out of fucking control since 1947, is still absolutely out of fucking control today.

Whod'a thunk they still had domestic programs, when they've been exposed over and over for domestic programs?

WASHINGTON—Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a former senior Trump administration official, said she resigned last month in part because she was increasingly frustrated with the lack of oversight of the intelligence community’s use of taxpayer funds—including gold bullion.

“I couldn’t keep signing the checks,” she said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “I would have become complicit.”

Kennedy had broad oversight across the sprawling U.S. intelligence apparatus. The daughter-in-law of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., she served as a deputy director of national intelligence and sat on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. Kennedy, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer, also held a third post as an associate director of the Office of Management and Budget with oversight over the spending of the CIA, as well as the 17 other intelligence agencies.

She publicly announced her resignation last month, citing family reasons. Her continuing frustrations with the intelligence agencies are only now coming to light.

“Until there’s functional oversight of the IC’s ample and unsupervised movement of money and gold, we are stuck living in something less than the constitutional republic our founders designed,” she said.

Some of that intelligence activity was “brilliant, courageous, and everything an American would be proud to fund,” she said. But she said other intelligence activities “are broken and corrupt and result in domestic political activities that no American would condone.” Kennedy wouldn’t disclose what activities she found onerous, citing ongoing national security concerns, but said she decided to resign once it became clear that certain intelligence agencies were stonewalling elected leaders.

She dismissed as inaccurate a recent report that her resignation came in part as a result of her disagreements with President Trump over the war in Iran. Though she has long been a critic of foreign entanglements, Kennedy contended in the Journal interview that Trump was “future-proofing” against a more protracted conflict with Iran, and praised him for eliminating “the seed of a future full-blown war while it can still be done with minimal casualties and no boots on the ground.”

Her decision was the result of an inability to fully confront actors in the intelligence agencies, she said, who wield “covert resources to affect political outcomes.”

Kennedy has long been an outspoken critic of the national-security establishment and previously warned against further entanglement in the Middle East. “The Blob in Washington has been secretly encouraging Israel to start a war with Iran, while publicly calling for them to de-escalate,” she wrote in an October 2024 social-media post endorsing Trump. His top qualification, she said, was that he didn’t start “a single new major war anywhere on Earth.”

In the Journal interview, Kennedy argued that Trump is pursuing his stated goal of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, while also eliminating “an excuse for future neocons to justify major, bloody ground war.”

After giving Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff, a heads up, she told colleagues last month that she planned to resign. “I’m rejoining the private sector because I have a daughter about to begin college, with two younger children to educate, and I have to keep my family financially on track,” she wrote in a social-media post. “But make no mistake about it—I stand with the president every step of the way.”

Kennedy will maintain her seat on the president’s intelligence advisory committee, but she held out the possibility of returning to the administration if there were ever “a genuine appetite to eliminate domestic political abuses in the IC.”

“I’ll be first in line to come back and serve full time,” she said.

[Department of State @StateDept]

Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West.

The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

Anyone who has ever extracted themselves from a relationship with a narcissistic abuser knows it isn’t clean or easy.

I cringe remembering how many times I tried to play the “cool girl” or fawn in response to what was clearly abusive, coercively controlling behavior by Graham.

I also know how dangerous it is to become the target of a narcissist — so even long after our relationship ended I continued to be upbeat any time he reached out, though I would also immediately shut down any attempts on his part to initiate flirting or romanticizing of the past.

Yes, the day I saw him announce he was running I wanted to make sure people knew he had a Nazi tattoo — and I was terrified he would find out it was me.

But of course he knew it was me.

What’s ironic is I absolutely never would have shared my story if he hadn’t been relentlessly attacking my character behind the scenes for months once the tattoo story came out.

I tried to signal that I wasn’t the source and stayed completely silent about him on social media even as most of my friends posted regularly about what a bad person he is.

But then in early April the New York Times came to me. I asked how they got my number. I said I was not interested in sharing my story. They said but wait—there are other women. Women terrified to tell their stories, too, and you need to band together. WE will help you. We will protect you. Men can’t keep getting away with this.

Hours before their first call to me I saw Eric Swalwell’s name plate get removed from his office door in Cannon. It felt like fate.

I welcomed the two journalists into my home days later, nervous and overwhelmed. Justin Fairfax had just murdered his wife and himself the previous day and even conservative pundits were conjecturing that “if only those women hadn’t accused him of abuse, this never would have happened…”

But I told them my story. I let them take pictures of my diary pages. I sent them screenshots of messages and gave them phone numbers and contacts. It was excruciating. I was surprised by what details I remembered, and as I poured through old messages I was horrified by how much I had forgotten.

I explained very clearly that, like many women abused by their partners, I had not told anyone about his violence at the time—I had covered for and defended it. I accepted his earnest apologies. They said that’s fine because the diary entries and my on the record story was enough.

They connected me to two of the other victims so we wouldn’t feel so alone. I insisted to each of them that I trusted the NYT journalists and that we were doing the right thing despite their (sadly very accurate) sense that something was wrong.

One of the victims and I realized our relationships with Graham overlapped completely - he had been cheating on both of us the entire time we were together.

I should note here that my life is just… beautiful. These are the best years of my life. Raising two young girls in a safe, beautiful neighborhood where I work from home and shuffle my children from dance classes and soccer to church events — I am blessed far beyond what I deserve with wonderful friends and family and the most loving, brilliant husband in the world. Why would I blow my life up like this? Why would I risk the psychotic doxxing from violent leftist activists?

Because while I have been terrified to come forward I decided this was the “hard right thing” to do. The guilt of staying silent has nagged me.

Most therapists recommend a “gray rock” approach to extracting yourself from narcissistic abuse — it works really well, but it is a gift to the abuser, allowing them to persist in their delusion that they’ve done nothing wrong.

I couldn’t stay silent as he continued to lie and lie and lie. I want my daughters to boldly speak out if they’re ever abused as I was.

[Useless Tree @_Useless_Tree_]

@JamesBlairUSA @NMalliotakis That’s pretty much exactly what’s needed to account for everyone who died. In other words, to break even.

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

I read that the baby aborted for having Down syndrome by the YouTuber and his wife yesterday was done so when she was half way through her pregnancy, so I am going to describe in graphic detail what aborting a second trimester baby looks like. Read on at your own discretion.

At 21 weeks the baby is a fully formed miniature human being roughly 10 to 11 inches long from crown to rump weighing about three quarters to one pound. His skin is thin and translucent but covered in fine lanugo hair. He has distinct fingerprints eyelids that can open and close and functioning senses. He can hear your voice and external sounds taste the amniotic fluid and respond to touch. His heart beats strongly. You could feel it if you pressed a hand to the mothers belly. Lungs are developing with practice breaths and he kicks stretches turns and sucks his thumb in the womb. Viability outside the womb is possible with intensive neonatal care in modern hospitals. Many 21 week preemies survive with medical intervention.

A typical 21 week abortion is performed via dilation and evacuation. The process begins by forcibly dilating the mothers cervix over hours or days using laminaria or medications which causes cramping and pain as the body is prepared to expel the child. Then under ultrasound guidance in many cases the abortionist inserts forceps through the birth canal into the uterus.

The baby often still alive and moving is grasped limb by limb. The abortionist twists and pulls tearing off arms and legs one at a time while the child recoils and struggles inside the womb. The smaller bones snap like twigs the joints dislocate with audible pops under the instruments. Blood and amniotic fluid mix as the torso is wrenched apart. The spine is crushed or snapped. Finally the skull is gripped collapsed with the forceps sometimes after being pierced and the brain suctioned out to make removal easier and the remains are extracted piece by piece. The abortionist then reassembles the body parts on a tray to ensure nothing hands feet torso fragments is left inside to cause infection. The mother’s uterus is scraped clean with a curette.

This is not a procedure on tissue. It is the deliberate piecemeal dismemberment of a baby who can feel pain. Fetal pain receptors and neural pathways are active by this stage who reacts defensively to the invasion and whose only crime is existing. The mother carrying this child in her body for nearly five months feeling his movements, knowing his sex, and seeing his ultrasounds chooses to have him torn apart inside her. And in this disgusting case of psychopathic narcissism “for his own good”. She schedules the appointment consents to the crushing and extraction, rests peacefully while her baby is tortured to death because he wasn’t perfect enough for her, and she walks away while the baby’s tiny mutilated body is discarded in a “medical waste” sink to be sent for incineration.

Many women later describe the visceral aftermath. The sudden cessation of kicks the hormonal crash the haunting knowledge that they authorized the destruction of their own baby’s body. It is an act of profound betrayal by the very person biologically wired to protect that life. If the image of a tiny writhing child being methodically ripped apart limb from limb by cold metal tools then sucked or scraped from its mother’s womb does not disgust you regarding the “woman’s choice”, then the propaganda worked on your weak, pathetic soul.

[Useless Tree @_Useless_Tree_]

@jimmydie1963 Startling? It's called election fraud.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

1987. Mitch McConnell goes off about voter fraud and stolen elections.

McConnell has advocated for voter ID laws during much of his career and yet he just voted against the Save Act

[Useless Tree @_Useless_Tree_]

@DisgracedProp There is no Bass or Raman machine. The machine is the Democrat machine. Heads they win, tails you lose.

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@meghan_daum In 2022, Caruso won on election night and Bass won many days later.
She's always been illegitimate.

But the inflection point was in 2020 on the national level.

[Useless Tree @_Useless_Tree_]

@walterkirn The feedback loop is a strong phenomenon in states with fraudulent elections. Eventually the state REALLY becomes blue.

(Even so, CA is still much more red than people realize.)

[Useless Tree @_Useless_Tree_]

It should not need to be said, but the reason for the ridiculously long vote counting process (in CA and elsewhere) is so those doing the "counting" can see how the vote allocation needs to go as totals for each candidate are periodically announced.

If it's all counted at once, then the result is what it is, and there is no opportunity, or means of coordination, to change it.

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@PatrickByrne @instapundit Patrick, check this out. https://t.co/4tGFp3Dpi5

[Useless Tree @_Useless_Tree_]

If the remaining 38% of votes cast for the LA Mayor are all allocated at the same proportion as the last batch that came in, Nithya Raman will come to within 100 votes of Spencer Pratt.

This is so precise that it appears those doing the counting know the rate at which they need to proportion the votes to eliminate Pratt.

[Useless Tree @_Useless_Tree_]

@walterkirn They say they like popular votes and not the electoral college, but the electoral college is actually 50 popular votes, more or less.

[Useless Tree @_Useless_Tree_]

@jwegener The results are widely available. You can do the math with Excel.

[Useless Tree @_Useless_Tree_]

If the remaining 38% of votes cast for the LA Mayor are all allocated at the same proportion as the last batch that came in, Nithya Raman will come to within 100 votes of Spencer Pratt.

This is so precise that it appears those doing the counting know the rate at which they need to proportion the votes to eliminate Pratt.