annatar1914 wrote:All of this is true. But the Liberal and Deep State (two different but overlapping groups of people to an extent) factions in the government are determined to destroy President Trump, his family, his associates, and those who voted for them, make an example out of them.
Destroying 60 million people is a bridge too far. I think we were supposed to draw conclusions that putting the screws to Manafort or to Cohen that Trump is a bad guy, because they convicted people close to him of unrelated matters. From what I can see, however, it's making Trump stronger with his base. In Washington he gets booed. In Alabama, he gets a standing ovation.
annatar1914 wrote:The Impeachment Inquiry and Impeachment itself will be a joke, in themselves, but it's going to be timed to color revolution in the streets, to put pressure upon the US Senate, with a complicit media and other institutions, to remove Trump from office.
Your "complicit media" comment is interesting, because FoxNews oped folks like Carlson, Hannity and Ingraham are not on board; yet, they are all heeding the warning not to mention Eric Ciaramella's name, even though it is not illegal to say his name. The rest of the mainstream media is also zipped lips on Ciaramella, which is absolutely amazing in a scoop-and-headline driven media. That tells me that they have paid non-disclosure agreements with the CIA and the CIA invoked the agreements, because certainly Trump wouldn't have done it and none of the outlets would forgo the profit opportunity from the headlines. Yet, the whole country knows about it and the only people not talking about it are the media and the politicians. It's quite eerie irrespective of your political persuasion.
annatar1914 wrote:It will escalate until someone stops it, with calls for VP Pence to resign, and much more besides, until the troops are called out into the streets.
Well, I notice that Evo Morales got bounced out of Bolivia, and the only US politician who squawked about it was Bernie Sanders--because the Bolivian military called on Morales to resign. So I'm guessing they may try some bullshit like that this week--a parade of office gossip purporting to be evidence, followed by some crescendo of accusations, and then some high-level persons asking Trump to resign with the media in tow and pumping that show up. I mean, what else do they have? No crime has been committed, so hot air is all they've got.
annatar1914 wrote:Few on PoFo want to see another American Civil War happen, and many would be incredulous at the very suggestion that it even might happen. But the fact is is that it's already started. Just as with the Presidential Election of 1860, deep down inside one or both sides of our political divide wittingly or unwittingly decided not to accept the results of the ballot box and would rather break apart the country along ideological lines.
Well, as Zaid tried to clarify, this is a coup of lawyers not guns. The problem is that they don't have a cause of action, and they don't have any traction at all with Trump's base. One more note on that at the end of this post.
Tainari88 wrote:I picked this up about Snowden and how ordinary people are being spied on by cell phones? It is concerning.
Oh, I was on about that quite a long time ago, and said more or less the same thing. Your phone is a bug. So is Amazon Alexa by the way. Yes, it is concerning. It's also a colossal waste of resources.
Tainari88 wrote:If the state truly wanted to repress enormous amounts of people? Today's technology just might be able to do that easier than past regimes in human history bent on controlling people and their thoughts and abilities to connect.
Well just think about the complete silence about the whistleblower's identity. The masses are stupid. The whistleblower statute is to prevent someone from ending your career as a result of whistleblowing. It does not cover anonymity at all. In fact, a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to confront his accuser in the United States. Yet, ABC, CBS, NBC, WaPo, NYT, AP, even FoxNews will not say "Eric Ciaramella" for anything. Even YouTube is threatening to ban YouTubers if they say his name. It's ludicrous. Everybody knows it was him. I queued this one up to a funny point where instead of saying "Eric Ciarmella", they just put up a "Censored" sign. Literally everybody knows who they're talking about.
Since you're an anthropologist, this is why I bring up the book Left of Boom. The CIA's redactions are just beyond stupid. Everybody knows he's talking about Pakistan, but they force the author to omit the name Pakistan and a bunch of other trivial details as though we couldn't figure it out. It makes me think they out to rename the CIA the Central Idiot Agency. (by the way, I know a big, big secret, and I'm not telling any of you)
About once a week I tune in to Mark Dice for a laugh. He was the last person from whom I expected to hear some hard news details, or to hear him get a lot more serious:
A few days ago, Dice noted that Zaid, Ciaramella's attorney, had a bunch of likes on his YouTube account about a bunch of very young Disney stars. It's about 2:49 seconds into this video. He points to a pretty disturbing Zaid Tweet where he claims he got people security clearances who had child pornography issues. In spite of YouTube's feed censorhip, Mark Dice still gets over 200k views on this video.
While he looped back to Project Veritas and the Amy Robach leak, it struck me that Zaid said he could get people with child porn issues security clearances.
I've said before that I thought the Epstein story resurfaced as payback to the Clintons for Russiagate. I don't think Trump expected that they were going to execute Epstein.
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