Trump claims Russia stole US hypersonic missile designs during Obama’s presidency, alleging a leak of classified information
The Kremlin denied the accusations, asserting it developed its own technology https://t.co/s2OLFV5zbd
In the early 2000s, Russia's oligarchs supported Putin. Some were nervous about his autocratic proclivities, but most were excited about his pro-business tax policies.
"But I think the problem with Biden is that he believed in our values but not our power. Whereas Trump believes in our power, but not our values. As Democrats, I hope we will learn hard lessons from both."
Brutal from @Malinowski
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Trump's proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer.
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“But for Mr. Trump’s election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,”
People ask me how you get someone who’s brainwashed out of a cult. The short answer is, you can’t, but there��s a catch. Let me explain.
Being in an authoritarian cult is like living in a 360-degree interactive virtual reality movie theater that has such advanced technology you perceive it like the real world. Or, think about “Truman Show” if you’ve seen it.
The cult leader is the movie theater operator and their minions have a clear set of jobs:
—Recruit people to come TO the theater
—Entice them to come INTO the theater
—Close the door and DON’T let them leave. If they do, punish them
—Keep the movie projector on at all times to TRAP them in a different reality
As long as the door is closed to the movie theater people are trapped in, trying to intrude on their reality is like someone pointing a flashlight directly into their eyes or talking in their ear at the movies. They immediately want it to stop.
In reality, this effect is called “cognitive dissonance” which is mental pain caused by a dissociative disorder induced by repetitive trauma. This trauma can be caused by propaganda and psychological warfare—which has been done to tens of millions of people.
This means trying to force someone out of a cult while they are still in the movie theater created for them is nearly impossible. What must be done is the projector in the movie theater has to be shut off and the lights turned on, so people can find own way out. Some will immediately find the exit, while it will take some time for others to realize what happened to them.
Regardless, the solution to helping someone who’s brainwashed is to stop them from being brainwashed. It’s really that simple.
The job of people who know someone trapped in a cult/movie theater is to make sure they know you are still outside waiting for them when they’re ready to come out, or sit quietly with them in the theater for a little while and hand them some popcorn.
In other words, be there for them, stay in touch, but don’t fight them about what they’ve been programmed to believe. This just makes you the enemy. It makes them hate you and want to stay in the theater even more.
The way we get our loved ones back is to defeat the transnational criminal conspiracy creating and operating the movie theater trapping millions of people. We know who’s running this malevolent show, we know how it works, and we know how to stop it.
Now, we just have to do something about it.
#ArrestMikeFlynn
The entire population of the United States has been adversely affected by Russian-backed psychological warfare.
At least one-third have been directly affected by undue influence caused by psychological operations which created an alternate reality for them.
Coercive, traumatic propaganda combined with social engineering has been intentionally tuned to create a weapon of mass mental destruction:
—The vast majority of the GOP believe the Big Lie.
—Tens of millions believe Pizzagate & QAnon fiction.
—Tens of millions of others are adjacent to QAnon through infiltration into Christian churches, “PastelAnon” & other derivatives.
The people affected by these lies are living in a different world where monsters—like “Satanic pedophile demonrats”—actually exist to threaten their children and haunt their thoughts all day long.
At this point, everyone not directly affected by undue influence knows someone who has been. Anyone who has lost a neighbor, friend, or family member to MAGA/QAnon+ has been affected.
Losing someone you care about to an invisible, undeclared war is traumatic. Having a loved one *replaced* by a stranger is a living nightmare. The entire nation has been traumatized & no one even acknowledges it.
This central, obvious truth—that we’re all the target of a foreign attack being orchestrated by domestic traitors—is being hidden from us. This is wrong—morally, tactically, and strategically.
We are in a global information war that is threatening to turn kinetic. The sides have been drawn and everyone sees it, everyone feels that this is moving towards violence. The biggest mistake we can make is to deprive civilians of the information they need to navigate this threat.
Allowing people to hide their heads in the sand while we continue to treat this as politics is how we lose our democracy.
“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”
—Leon Trotsky
@POTUS step up.
It's getting crazier by the day.
Donald Trump reacting to Pierre Poilievre saying Canada will never be a 51st State:
"Maybe he won't win (the election) but maybe he will. I don't care....listen I don't care what he says."
Reporter: are you also considering military force to annex Canada?
Trump: No. Economic force.
Now: Anti-Trump protesters gather at the Lincoln Memorial to demand Congress block Trump’s January 6, 2025 certification for being an “Insurrectionist” over his actions on January 6, 2021.
Hey House Republicans, tired of having an unelected billionaire hold contested primaries over your heads like a sword of Damocles unless you blow up the government? Simply pass an election reform bill that ends Citizens United and his unlimited spending power. 🤷🏻♂️
First Patrushev, who helped blow up apartment buildings in Russia to get Putin elected, said that Trump owes a debt and needs to repay while following up that he hoped Trump isn’t killed.
And now Putin discusses that Trump needs to be careful not to get killed.
The Russians are sending a message
When the owner of this website, the richest man in the world, the most followed-man on Twitter, constantly, daily, hourly, posts again and again to tens of millions of followers that the media lies, that the media can’t be trusted, that all media is corrupt and dishonest, you don’t think that has a massive effect not just on trust and polarization in society, but on election outcomes and political messaging? Especially when it comes after years of Donald Trump doing the exact same thing?
If Dems, and liberals in general, don’t understand the way in which Musk, Trump and co have cynically created an unpenetrable bubble around their followers, primed them against a reality-based universe, pre-emptively undermined any negative stories about themselves, then Dems and liberals will never be able to ‘win’ - in terms of narratives or elections. It’s key to everything. It’s at the heart of everything.
Democratic leaders have long known that our elections can be hacked. Likewise, they have long known that there is no way to determine if hacking has or hasn’t occurred without forensic analysis, manual recounts, or rigorous manual audits. They also know that Rs blocked legislation that wld have required rigorous manual audits for all federal races & that MAGAs breached voting systems in swing states. Their refusal to pursue manual recounts is thus unacceptable. @VP@marceelias Thread. 👇