u/smayonak

We'll never know who epstein sold the trump tapes to but in this case it looks like the increased visibility has to do with the refusal of the administration to release any documents on the epstein case and their release of a doctored video which they similarly refuse to comment on. This is tantamount to admitting they are part of the conspiracy.

I don't know if he's serious about regime change in iran. He seems to negotiate from a raft of threats and lies. Hopefully it's all for show but if the war does go down my guess for approval ratings is over 60%. Not quite Bush I or ii numbers due to decline in news consumption.

It was perceived that he was losing the war and lying to the public about the successes that they claimed to have achieved.

But winning wars, even unjust ones, always gets the president brownie points in the eyes of the public and corporations

This might sound insane but every single wartime president has gotten a huge boost to their approval ratings due to media networks circulating pure propaganda nonstop. Even NPR will start doing positive coverage.

They have a chaplain who goes on open mic before each meeting of the house

This is the usa

https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/06/justices-side-with-high-school-football-coach-who-prayed-on-the-field-with-students/

They ruled that school officials can openly pray on school grounds and encourage students to pray.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/court-upholds-rule-house-open-each-day-it-session-prayer

And they openly pray in legislative houses

They've recently established in the Supreme Court that pray ins are kosher

Up until now the Ukrainian military conferred with the USA as to what targets to strike. The us provided a great deal of intelligence.

The low hanging fruit is the guy 1. Didn't actually win the election 2. And he declared himself president of the wrong country

The right wing are such liars that grammatical mistakes are the least of their problems

That is precisely the origin of reactionary movements. If we look at Weimar Germany, Francisco Franco's Spain, and Portugal's brief experiment with dictatorship, we see a pattern: elite squandering of public resources directly cause the sort of instability that leads to fascism.

Also, Liberal Democracies tend to be very permissive of reactionary movements, owing to a combination of elite preferences for wealth inequality, manipulation of public discourse, and weak democratic structures, which the fascists easily undermine and destroy.

Liberal Democracies tend to have "freedom of the press" which leads to a large number of voices influencing political discourse. The press are usually owned by elites. Elites prefer inequality because that is what allows them to own things. So we have many voices being heard but elite voices are the loudest. This leads to corruption and theft from public funds. In the case of the first rise of fascism, elites bankrupted the states of Europe by pursuing a pointless war. The US was able to abrogate a third World War because they forgave many war debts and instead chose to economically develop nations which had been ravaged by war.

Elite today are looking at US government indebtedness and are falsely swallowing the narrative that public entitlements are causing the problem, when the real issue is war debt incurred by the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

The natural response to a declining standard of living is to demand economic change. The fascists are not a movement of the poor, although they are supported by the poor. They are a movement of the ultra wealthy to prevent economic and social change.

A large part of their movement is based on aesthetics. And csam is probably a bridge too far for them. It just looks ugly. But I have no doubt many of them don't care about that either.

But from the blackmail angle, the public image of a sick pedo is not compatible with the orange man's public facing persona and his narcissism would make him the perfect blackmail target

There's nothing that explains what orange man is doing better than blackmail.

I was skeptical up until the tariffs. Now it's obvious they've got blackmail.

Alao an interview with epstein was leaked last year where he mentioned trump having sex on his plane. But in 2017 that clip was suppressed for some reason.

We know trump flew on that plane many times and that it was rigged with secret cameras

The US has 3.5 billion in trade with Russia. The tariffs include Iran; Venezuela, etc... they also slapped them on countries which we have a trade surplus with.

It's also looking like they used chatgpt to write the list but then specifically omitted five countries. Russia, north korea, Cuba, Belarus. Russia and its fine closest allies. How can anyone see this and not think the Kremlin does t own the Epstein tapes

It's not even the worst ideologically driven madness Pushed on foreign nations. The George W. Bush administration used aid programs to coerce African nations to focus on faith based birth control initiatives (such as abstinence) during the HIV epidemic leading to absolutely massive numbers of infected across the continent.