Cameron kelleher

[trap dad @dude_gang]

white people be like this song was on the nhl 19 soundtrack

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

This makes me sick

[Nalin Haley @Nalin_Haley]

"Imagine if instead of spending billions on wars, America spent that money on its people. We’d have a much different country."

[Cameron kelleher @Cameronk128]

@dons_weeney Delete the app

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Only 7% of Dems support this illegal war and I think they are all elected to congress.

[𝙎𝙋𝙊𝙊𝙆𝙔 𝙁𝙊𝙍𝘾𝙀 𝙂𝘼𝙕𝙀𝙏𝙏𝙀 ™ 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @FrancisWegner]

Are we sensing a pattern yet?

[Chris Mowrey @chrisdmowrey]

“hAvE aNy oF tHeSe WaRs EvEr bEnIfiTeD tHe Us??” Fuck you Bradley

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

One of the most shamelessly fraudulent presidential campaigns in American history:

[Conor Ryan @ConorRyan_93]

Glad to see Boucher decided to finally watch the film

[Cameron kelleher @Cameronk128]

@McguirePetrov TNT is embarrassing

[Ty Anderson @_TyAnderson]

Team's best defenseman gets rocked with an elbow to the dome but don't you say mean words to the referee. MLB umpire behavior.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

The Jeff Epstein saga isn't a scandal about pedophilia, it's about a Russian word called 'blat,' a Soviet-era word meaning 'the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures.' It's about a kind of government.

As with the large number of 'blatniks' in the Soviet era who made sure their factories got what they needed outside the formal state procurement process, Epstein greased the wheels for the neoliberal state. His job was governance.

What does that mean? Well it's clear that Epstein was an entrepreneurial broker across multiple public and private bureaucracies, helping organize 'under-the-table' deals among the legal, business, intelligence, and political elites to allow them to escape the rule of law and traditional conflict of interest restrictions. It's statecraft to allow a superclass to systemically escape the formalized rules.

The pedophilia and prostitution were part of it - that is obviously violating the rule of law - but so are the random favors Epstein bestowed. Like Epstein sending Senator Joe Manchin's request for a yacht, a request which came from the First lady of the Virginia Islands, to a random NY financier who might have one. Or working with Joi Ito at MIT and billionaire Reid Hoffman to restructure the Bitcoin Foundation. It's all about matching capital and talent and inputs outside of the restrictions ordinary people are subject to.

This kind of governance is particularly important in Soviet-style states, where everyone knows the rules are fake, where skirting the system IS the system. Epstein and his affiliates thrived because of the weakened institutions of the United States, institutions enfeebled in many cases by the men in his network, like Larry Summers. These men adopted multiple roles - advisor, businessman, academic, board member, regulator - and put on the hat that best maximized their self-interest and the self-interest of their narrow network at that moment.

The old world, where handing someone your business card meant you represented that institution, disappeared in the 1980s. Over the course of the 1990s, neoconservatives, neoliberals, bankers - ultimately Epstein's network - built this new social order. It was one where you couldn't succeed through the formal rules, but if you were let into the networks of trust by blatniks, you could do anything you wanted.

While all the specifics of Epstein's network are not known, and while conspiracy theorists often have crazy views, they have correctly fingered that the world of meritocracy and formalized systems is increasingly a fraud. And that the real government lies elsewhere.

In short, when formal democratic institutions like Congress stop governing, the networks of men like Epstein fill the power vacuum. Epstein built what Roy Cohn always wanted to have, but never achieved, because the then-institutions were too strong for him to break.

Here's a passage from sociologist Janine Wedel's Shadow Elite on how this form of governance works.

[Cameron kelleher @Cameronk128]

@ryanwhitney6 This is not aging well post game

[Ty Anderson @_TyAnderson]

Jon Cooper right now:

[Tom Joseph @TomJChicago]

Shameful that there is not a bipartisan group of House Reps and Senators storming the White House to tell Trump he will be impeached and convicted if he doesn’t resign today.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

They're seizing ballots.
Raiding homes without warrants.
Gunning down protestors in the streets.
And now, arresting journalists.

They’re coming for our freedoms. America, stand up while you still can.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

Maybe we can get a report that reveals that water is in fact wet.

[AF Post @AFpost]

An FBI report from a confidential human source, deemed credible, says that Trump was "compromised by Israel" and that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was effectively running the Trump organization and presidency.

The report also connects Kushner's family to corruption and Russian money, as well as the Chabad organization.

The report also details Alan Dershowitz as a potential conduit for control over elite students, namely the Kushners, on behalf of the Mossad.

Kushner's dad, Charles Kushner, was a felon for his involvement in financial crimes and was eventually pardoned by Trump.

Follow: @AFpost