One thing keeps sticking with me today: why does Trump, who says he wants to make America strong, keep doing things that makes us weak? Possible answers - 1) he's a complete idiot 2) he works for Putin. 3) both 1 and 2 4) Is there another explanation? bsky.app/profile/simo... - ThreadSky

simonwdc.bsky.social • 66 days ago

One thing keeps sticking with me today:

why does Trump, who says he wants to make America strong, keep doing things that makes us weak?

Possible answers - 1) he's a complete idiot 2) he works for Putin. 3) both 1 and 2 4) Is there another explanation?

https://bsky.app/profile/simonwdc.bsky.social/post/3lmwypd3c2s2a

Reposted from Simon Rosenberg

Friends, this story strongly suggests the interim US Attorney in DC was very recently on the payroll of Russian intelligence.

bsky.app/profile/wash...

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4ann-marie.bsky.social•65 days ago

Sadistic psychopath needs control.

ruku9.bsky.social•65 days ago

It is all in the plan. They are ALL Russian assets. Traitors to this country and determined to destroy it.

luckyauntie.bsky.social•66 days ago

And how does Elon Musk/Doge fit in all this? All this worries me deeply, but as an ordinary citizen rather than one in intelligence agencies, or a past president, vp, or other high-ranking person in power, we’re left to fight pretty much blindly. Won’t keep me from the fight yet it’s disconcerting.

snewsat9.bsky.social•65 days ago

He's a complete idiot who is easily manipulated through flattery and fear, and who delivered himself into Putin's hands ala Freddy Corleone.

cinlewis.bsky.social•65 days ago

No, Simon, I think you have it absolutely right. All three of you suggestions apply, but I think Putin is the architect of much of Trump’s folly, especially considering how filled with Russian sympathizers our government is these days. Scary times.

cupcake1312.bsky.social•65 days ago

Why? This is why…:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

andreakremer.bsky.social•66 days ago

Here you go.
https://heyslick.substack.com/p/the-technate-of-north-america

susanoca25.bsky.social•66 days ago

#3 💯 x 1000 👿

thepissedoldlady.bsky.social•66 days ago

#3. I'm going with #3.

angold.bsky.social•66 days ago

He's trying to thread the needle, but he's too dumb to understand unintended consequences. He wishes he had the impunity, power, and direct access to the treasury that Putin has, but he thinks the US will remain powerful regardless of his actions to try to accomplish that.

richard68.bsky.social•65 days ago

dutchgenx.bsky.social•66 days ago

Useful idiot (for Putin). Trump is too dumb to be a Russian agent, but he's mortally afraid of Putin. He'll do anything to get (stay) in his graces. Probably large debts in Russia too. So, endebted to Putin literally as well as figuratively.

mastranj.bsky.social•66 days ago

Definitely 3️⃣

schatzkin.bsky.social•66 days ago

He is a sociopath and his daddy was mean to him.

reedermt.bsky.social•66 days ago

They got rid of him. He was such an asshole they shipped him off to military school.

terraknack.bsky.social•65 days ago

Where he was bullied and urinated on.

jxxmxx.bsky.social•66 days ago

Have you not followed any of the coverage and exposes regarding Network State thinking, the Butterfly Revolution, or anything VC /Tech oligarch leaders have been saying aloud and to each other and their audiences and backers for years? It's not conspiracy-thinking. It's actual explicit conspiracy.

jxxmxx.bsky.social•66 days ago

Like follow @gilduran.com and his Substack The Nerd Reich

jxxmxx.bsky.social•66 days ago

Good post by him on this topic: https://www.thenerdreich.com/trumps-anti-freedom-cities-and-network-state-tech-dystopia/

jxxmxx.bsky.social•66 days ago

Take a look at @brockm.bsky.social and his writing at Notes from Circus

jxxmxx.bsky.social•66 days ago

Good post by him on this topic:

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america

jxxmxx.bsky.social•66 days ago

Read Iris Hubbe's piece: https://irishubbes.substack.com/p/ever-heard-of-the-butterfly-revolution

jxxmxx.bsky.social•66 days ago

Read Paddy Murphy's piece: https://medium.com/thought-thinkers/the-butterfly-revolution-america-is-being-stolen-ddeae909b270

jxxmxx.bsky.social•66 days ago

Watch Blonde Politic's video published LAST NOVEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

mupx2.bsky.social•65 days ago

Please keep in mind that the board, supporters, and staff of the Heritage Foundation are significantly behind this. They are convinced in their own superiority. All they had to do was stroke Trump’s ego and promise him he could continue to play golf.

terraknack.bsky.social•65 days ago

Putin has hooked drumph on some very addictive drug that only he can supply?

That and all the old dirt about the first wife, the paternity of his elder son, all the epstein stuff, Moscow trips...

d5frickel.bsky.social•66 days ago

For the felon loser making America strong is acquiring more power for himself. Virtually everything he has done since inauguration is positioning himself to bully others - law firms, allies, trading partners, Secretary of State, enemies, and on and on.

cornellmom.bsky.social•66 days ago

cologirl.bsky.social•66 days ago

Don’t forget personal enrichment

connierr.bsky.social•66 days ago

He’s a liar. He wants to destroy the US. Doesn’t want to say do of course so he’s all bluster and lies.

milesdestin.bsky.social•66 days ago

This hasn't been a difficult question for a long time, but the hypernormalization project of our media keeps the answer obscured. Time to get real. Face the obvious truth:
https://bsky.app/profile/ayoungethan.bsky.social/post/3lisjhnvx7s26

nhegday.bsky.social•66 days ago

Without a doubt, both 2 and 1 and in that order.

beccasmullet.bsky.social•66 days ago

It's #2. It's always been #2. The idiocy and viciousness encompassed by item #1 were just the ways that Putin got his talons into Trump, to get system #2 going.

thegray732.bsky.social•66 days ago

He just is using the chaos to get people to buy his coin or pay 5 million dollars to him in attempt to get a carve out or some type of reprieve. The whole country can suffer and will be doomed to a lower standard of living so he and his family become richer.

patrickpoll.bsky.social•66 days ago

I go with stupid and petty

sosayu.bsky.social•66 days ago

1 & 2 are most likely, but also possible he is a sadist, enjoying punishing a country who didn’t give him enough of the narcissistic supply he craved.

nilesgazic.bsky.social•65 days ago

#4. He hates himself, because deep down he knows that he's a perpetual screwup; he hates his followers, because he doesn't respect them; and he hates the rest of us, who refuse to show him the respect that he thinks he deserves. America's decency makes him angry, and so he wants to destroy it.

jennerzi.bsky.social•66 days ago

By America, he means himself. He knows he's got another 15 years tops, and he's doing quite well for himself.

easylife60.bsky.social•66 days ago

It’s blatantly oblivious.

wbfmorningstar.bsky.social•66 days ago

Tragical #5 - I grew up in a rich, Trump like family, but escaped. When my mom - at the heart of a lot of it - developed the worst dementia, she became both violent and tried to coopt people into money laundering. It's hellish watching the same thing over and again, with even more life/death parts.

snowdragonium.bsky.social•66 days ago

dmzoutis.bsky.social•66 days ago

They have him via video of his raping minors in Moscow and his taking Putin mobster cash. And a sociopath doesn't care about anything, not country for sure.

21cpedagogy.bsky.social•66 days ago

1) spite

kootafoot.bsky.social•66 days ago

He wants to burn everything down so he can rebuild it into his own likeness for HIS KINGDOM.

satyarta.bsky.social•66 days ago

Of course Trump is in Putin’s pocket. And if the enemy of our friend is our enemy, and if Trump is supporting and aiding our enemy, then he is guilty of treason.

onetwoxyou.bsky.social•66 days ago

Hard 3

stillmovingalong.bsky.social•66 days ago

Perhaps a prerequisite for any political appointee in the kakistocracy??? Just sayin'!!!

makeartandpeace.bsky.social•66 days ago

Money, malignant narcissism, all of the above.

reedermt.bsky.social•66 days ago

He's manipulated by Putin. How many calls were there between them between election and inauguration? We don't even know.

northsleuth.bsky.social•65 days ago

He is still living in the era of Studio 54. His perception of the world is that of a Sociopathic Malignant Narcissist trying to relive his glory days.

politicallyint.bsky.social•66 days ago

I just don't think we can pretend he does not work for Putin anymore. The problem is that there are other republicans who also do! It feels like we have been conquered with no shots fired. I started feeling like we MIGHT be in trouble after watching Ghost stories
2018:

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-stunt-to-smear-counter-intel-expert-strzok-ripe-for-backfire-1275196995963

susanoca25.bsky.social•66 days ago

I was worried election night 2016 when all the battlegrounds went for him. And, as we learned, Russia had helped. Paul Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnick got it done. Peter was correct.

politicallyint.bsky.social•66 days ago

5:18 in: "The FBI has revealed that a network of illegals ("the illegals") is now living and operating in the service of one primary, long-term goal: to become sufficiently "Americanized" such that they can gather information about the U.S for Russia, and can successfully recruit sources...

politicallyint.bsky.social•66 days ago

who are in, or able to to infiltrate, United States policy-making circles...

politicallyint.bsky.social•66 days ago

17:20 This is the kind of stuff that, for obvious reasons, ends up making good movies and good TV series, but those movies and those TV series are based on real life. This is the way governments fight each other. This is the way governments steal information from each other. And sabotage each other

politicallyint.bsky.social•66 days ago

This is potentially the way governments can fall...

politicallyint.bsky.social•66 days ago

If you can use clandescent operations like this to get people loyal to a different government into positions of power into your targeted country, you can, essentially, bring down that countries government. That country can fall...

mmclean.bsky.social•66 days ago

Remember he’s the master of projection. When he says he wants to make America strong, he means he himself wants/needs be seen as strong.

bd-sint.bsky.social•65 days ago

He's a complete idiot, he works for Putin, and he wants to be a dictator himself.

angrylawyer.bsky.social•65 days ago

No. He does what Vlad tells him. The only question is why.

mupx2.bsky.social•65 days ago

And why are all these Republicans kissing the ring? What have they been promised? What have they been threatened with? What happened to their honor and dignity?

angrylawyer.bsky.social•65 days ago

Honor and dignity left the building a long time ago.

R’s are on board because the only Republican principle is acquisition and maintenance of power.

Vlad also is rooting for a one party state.

boblortie.bsky.social•66 days ago

He is plain dumb and revengeful, and enjoy making others suffer. He is not at the origin of some of the bad stuff but is the useful idiot for Musk, Thiel & co for the establishment of some technofascit order.
Or, he is controlled by Klingons!

stadler91.bsky.social•66 days ago

I'll take number 3 for the win, Simon.

desolebleu.bsky.social•66 days ago

Senility? Syphilitic insanity?

fsgillispie.bsky.social•65 days ago

1 is definitely true. Because of 1, he doesn’t think he’s working for Putin, but is completely being manipulated.

realbenisons.bsky.social•66 days ago

He has cognitive failings but isn't yet senile or incapacitated

But he has no feel for our freedoms

He has a feeling for some of the political weaknesses of opponents

But no feel for the spirit of liberty that is a big part of our country's strength

tinavstammy.bsky.social•65 days ago

Yeah, he's lying about wanting to make America strong. For one thing, it was, before he got in again.

He doesn't have any loyalty to any nation. His only loyalty is to himself. As a multinational business entity (allegedly!) owned by Vladimir Putin, making America strong is not in his interest.

linuxrebel.org•66 days ago

Dunno just know that his most recent move will really screw up national security. He's working to remove the US from the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exploits) system. Meaning the US will no longer have this information and a viable clearing house to combat this.

cacarroll.bsky.social•66 days ago

Assumes facts not in evidence. He doesn’t want to make America strong.

What he wants to do is:
(1) settle scores; and
(2) make himself rich.

nikgee.bsky.social•66 days ago

All of the above, and he actually couldn’t care less about America.

meandyou22.bsky.social•65 days ago

If I don’t want to live like this NOW, can you imagine what we’ll experience in another 3-6 months? I’m deep cleaning because we are putting our house up for sale. I threw all my 4th of July shit away because we sure in the fuck ain’t free and we sure in the fuck ain’t brave. We fucking suck.

bellyup50.bsky.social•66 days ago

Yep

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