We know he spent a night in a Moscow hotel room in was it 2015? We also know he's too stupid to be thinking about hidden cameras. We also have Comey's notes..which basically were like "Trump insisted to me for the 4th that he would never do that because he's a germpohobe but please look into this".
Whether he’s an asset or just acting like one, the intelligence community’s job is the same: assess, warn, and protect democracy from internal and external threats.
If he's an asset it's still a W for communism because all it took was one charismatic telegenic buffoon, a shitload of money, and the backing of white christians to prove that Capitalism and the US's form of government is IN FACT, unstable, unsustainable, dogshit.
Ever see Hot Fuzz? British buddy cop comedy spoof. You think there is some big criminal conspiracy and in the end you find out the *spoilers* town elders are killing undesirable people so they can keep winning the village of the year award.
In mid teens, circa 75-77, I knew, without proof he as Mob related, and seriously dude, if there was choice between Russia and China, and you have to ask, WTAF.
I can't believe how many "experts" can tell us all about the foreign affairs trees while saying nothing about the forest. Trump's administration isn't misjudging anything. Donald Trump has simply been a Russian stooge for decades. He will always try to do what's best for Putin.
That’s not the core of the problem though. Why let oligarchy rule? Why no system there to prevent mentally unfit and criminals to run for presidency? Why no one couldn’t stop funding Israel? Imagine if there wasn’t genocide by Zionist? People could vote for democrats.
Actually, he beholden to the right wing Fox media and talk show hosts. And THEY get their talking points from Russia. Like Lulu talking him into firing key national security people. I bet you she got the instructions from Moscow.
Or maybe a Thiel asset? Remember that Thiel has been writing that democracy and freedom are incompatible. The goal is a 'new world order' w/o countries or voting and w/broligarchs in charge.
Exactly. For all of this: the systematic dismantling of our most valued programs and institutions, economy and destruction of our unique strengths and best relationships.
If the single goal is to hurt the US the. it would all make perfect sense. Someone is winning here
Hello Scott. If you watched "Question Time" on BBC 1 a week or two back you'll have heard one Richard Bacon say that Trump may not be a Russian asset but he's certainly an asset to Russia...True that...
From the “Obama is not a US Citizen” way back in 2014/15ish to today..it’s the only explanation that makes any sense. Mueller was HAMSTRUNG by Barr. Was only allowed to look at election interference, and nothing else. The proof was there. Now, it’s too late.
Or; he’s the grossest ( yet logical ) consequence of a culture that prizes ego and acquisition above all else. You often call it “idolatry of founders”. He’s trying to found America again, in his own image. That’s what makes the most logical sense to me.
If you were trying to destroy the United States isn’t this how you would go about it?
Putin has been coaching him, probably paying him , now that he has that black box for crypto donations
The health and medical research is especially tragic. Who thought of that?
Yes but to Magas and republicans, they don’t care! They’ve sold their souls to the devil and are the opposite of American patriots! They’re trump/putin patriots! They’re traitors!
Yes. I think he is and I think that Vance is also an asset. I think they may also have several members of the republican house and maybe a few senators.
Hypothetically what would he be doing differently. It all seems so deliberately terrible. He got on to tariffs in the 80’s, and that’s when the conspiracy says he got bought. Lines up!
To paraphrase a statement Joe Walsh repeated on his podcast a couple of weeks ago, sometimes the simplest answer is the correct answer. So to answer your question, yes, it would make perfect sense.
To much credit for acolyte Trump.Told him he can be like golden British emperor George III and prevent the Declaration of Independence. His only skill to use the force is simple trigger illusions for the uneducated masses.
It makes sense when you realize all he cares about is power and deals. Divorce yourself of any other thoughts of his intent. All his people were from deals made. All his “policies” are structured to create deals. All the groups for his campaign were based on deals. All this makes him look powerful.
No. Not unless half the country are sleeper agents. People in this country continue to find this conduct acceptable if not commendable. The pretense that this is somehow more sensical if it's all a Manchurian Candidate situation doesn't hold water, unfortunately.
It doesn't matter. He is an asset to both, and a good one. Still, I think Vlad Vexler was right that Putin is someone Trump admires, one narcissistic sociopath to another, which is why Zelenski going after him was the unpardonable sin.
Basically, a real agent would look less like an agent...
I get the "couldn't be more of a foreign asset if he tried" takes, but it's kind of beside the point. America, by a slim margin, decided to embrace this morally bankrupt idiot for a second time, and we need to reckon with that more than anything.
Even if he wasn't before, he is now. Or will be in the future invited to the Kremlin to live out the rest of his life as a state guest. Showered with everything an asset gets.
I’m pretty sure we already knew this. It’s just that people don’t want to admit it because that would require them to admit that they are ignorant fools
JFC, Scott why not start with Vance’s Accelerationism and neo-reactionary ties? You and Swisher continue to fail on this singular issue. Fuck off, with your tech pandering
Well his companies have taken Russian money since the 1980s, and Eric Trump admitted that a lot of their projects are funded with Russian money sooo it's not exactly far fetched
This is the nagging thought I just can't shake. It's the only answer that fits all the data, and yet... my God... the magnitude of such a betrayal. I don't want to believe it. But it's staring me in the face. Unblinking. Cold.
No, and I read reports years before the Mueller report that spoke of Russian assets paying more than market prices for Trump condos in NY. Apparently, this has been a long running money laundering scheme for mobsters.
Yes, it really would. I mean I would hope this orange babbling buffoon had a reason why he is destroying human lives #Trump #TrumpFire #DumpsterFire #TrumpDDumpty #HeDidItAgain.
It's darker--and weirder--than that. There are certainly receipts for Trump's alliance with Russia. But it's the "neo-reactionary" #NRx #darkenlightenment movement spawned by the tech billionaires that makes it come clear. This article is a good entre. https://america2.news/the-four-memos-quietly-rocking-washington/
True story, the Muller report didn't say Trump wasn't an asset or there was no election interference. In fact it said specifically Trump used russian contacts, obstructed justice, the kremlin interfered in our elections. Then the GOP made it go away. Never forget.
We all know he’s a Russian asset, that was obvious when he hired Manafort in 2015. Anyone who thinks otherwise has their head in sand, which is a lot of Americans. In history this will be clear.
Since his actions are better explained by that of being a Russian asset than that of random / irrational behavior, we already have the proof we need. QED
To get people to actually SEE and UNDERSTAND the Administration's dealings - they would have to give up their candy sweet moments of "getting the libs" broadcast daily by Foxy Nooz and similar ass kissing traitors on the web. That would cost them one of their few pleasures as we watch markets burn.
Yes, it absolutely would make sense. I have always said, I can’t prove that he is a Russian asset all I can say is, this is how a Russian asset would behave.
Absolutely! We’re watching the dismantling of the U.S. politically, economically, socially, and trying to find a rational explanation when that’s the only one that fits every move, every appointment, he’s made.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/politics/nsa-cyber-command-chief-fired.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Now what.
https://bsky.app/profile/thinkronicity.bsky.social/post/3llxjsw3ams26
Kinds feels like that.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book
The only reason he’s nice to China sometimes is because Russia and China are frenemies.
I'd put 0% on both.
Russia hogs up all that land and produces nothing, whereas China is productive with much less land. I'd expect war between those two.
https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethbitmeehan.com/post/3llx6k5k4522m
If you look at all if it through the lens of “what would Putin want” it all makes sense.
He would be nowhere without the GOP. He’s the beard!
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/
Trump is a buffoon. Think 14 year old bully on the playground bluffing, with no plan in case you stand up to him.
Planning & reading are for suckers
It is really that simple. Trump is a moron & a sociopath.
Why he does what he does is irrelevant all that matters is he does it.
If the single goal is to hurt the US the. it would all make perfect sense. Someone is winning here
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It doesn't fundamentally change anything but motive.
He has married nothing but women from the region.
Putin has been coaching him, probably paying him , now that he has that black box for crypto donations
The health and medical research is especially tragic. Who thought of that?
And where are the GOP senators?
It would make sense if he was though.
https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/trump-russia
#Gaga
And he is probably in on it too.
Makes sense to me.
My theory is that people may be too prideful/embarrassed to turn away now, so they keep up the facade
#sunkencostfallacy
Basically, a real agent would look less like an agent...
Russia.. yup!!
1. Trump has been a Russian asset since 1987
2. Trump is a Chinese useful idiot
3. Trump is a North Korean useful idiot
4. Trump yearns to have the same dictatorship status as Putin, Xi & Kim
5. Item 4 explains much of Trump's behavior
"Why did a Russian oligarch pay now-President Donald Trump $95 million for his Palm Beach mansion?
...he went ahead and paid an exceptionally high, $50 million premium to Trump...for a property he never sought to live in, not even on a part-time basis."
https://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/why-did-russian-oligarch-pay-so-much-for-mansion-owned-by-trump/2316032/
Nationalism is a trap to keep the plebs penned in.
Or Trump is profoundly idiot.
But 2 self-supporting things can be true at once.
🤷♂️
Now all that remains is what we will do about it.