Kid Berwyn
Kid Berwyn's JournalPruneface never did make up for it.
There’s a damn good reason they called the washed-up stooge of J Edgar Hoover Informant T-10, “Red Ink Ronnie.” As the first modern white supremacist President, he led the charge rightward, foisting the Robin Hood in Reverse Trickle Down Voodoo Economic Laffer Bell Curve upon the United States of America. In the process of cutting the income tax on the Haves, tax revenues shrank and doubled the National Debt. Of course all that red ink had to buy something and that’s where the perpetual War on Terror comes in. Halliburton and the rest of Wall Street has profited from war and legislation that pretty much made theft of the Treasury legal. Transferring wealth from those who create it to those who spend it to those who hold it became the National Priority of every Republican administration since. What’s worse, the GOP and its allies use all the red ink they’ve created on behalf of their rich backers as an excuse not to lift a finger or spend a dime on the middle classes, let alone the poor.
Pruneface and Poppy enjoy breakfast with the late, great Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and the late, great Michigan Governor Bill Milliken.
Thank you, barbaraann!
That part of his story was jarring.
The Time Nixon’s Cronies Tried to Overturn a Presidential Election
The gambit was cynical and disruptive, but in the end it didn’t work.
by David Greenberg
Politico, October 10, 2020
Donald Trump is fanning fears that if he loses the presidential election in November, he’ll try to discredit the vote totals as fraudulent and won’t concede the race. Doing so would amount to a dramatic break from historical precedent, as commentators are noting. But not all of them are getting their history right. Al Gore, we’re reminded, accepted defeat in 2000, despite reason to believe he should have won Florida, and Richard Nixon, we’re told, declined to challenge John F. Kennedy’s razor-thin victory in 1960.
The part about Gore is true. But Nixon did no such thing. In fact, his top aides and the Republican Party, almost certainly with Nixon’s backing, waged a campaign to cast doubt on the outcome of the election, launching challenges to Kennedy’s victories in 11 states. Far from providing a counterexample to Trump, the 1960 election aftermath amounts to one more way in which Nixon, known for his contempt for the Constitution, furnished Trump with a playbook for thinking about political power. And let’s remember that in the end, it didn’t work: While Nixon’s gambit was cynical and disruptive, it went nowhere, suggesting it’s harder to overturn a presidential election result than doomsayers suppose.
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In fact, from election night onward, Nixon hedged his bets. As the vote totals came in favoring Kennedy, the vice president pulled back from a full-throated concession. He cagily couched his formal remarks in tricky caveats. “I want Senator Kennedy to know,” he said on television at 4 a.m., “and I want all of you to know, that if this trend does continue, and he does become our next president, then he will have my wholehearted support.” The wording was pure Nixon, leaving himself abundant wiggle room with that little if.
Nixon’s crew recognized that overturning an election result would be an extreme long shot. They often admitted as much to the press. But that didn’t stop them from trying. They calculated that even if they failed, it would still be possible to cast doubt over Kennedy’s victory, imbuing his presidency with a whiff of illegitimacy. This in turn would rally their base voters for future elections.
Throwing their weight behind the effort were three Republican pols who had run his 1960 campaign: Kentucky Senator Thruston B. Morton, chair of the Republican National Committee; Leonard W. Hall, a former congressman and former RNC chair, who had served as the campaign’s “general manager”; and Robert H. Finch, a veteran of California politics who became “campaign director.” Immersed in the plotting, too, was Peter Flanigan, who would serve in 1968 as Nixon’s deputy campaign manager and whom Ralph Nader later called the “most evil” man in Washington.
Morton led the charge. On November 11, just three days after the election, he announced proceedings to question the electoral results in Illinois, Texas and nine other states (Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and South Carolina). At one point, Morton claimed the RNC had received 35,000 letters and telegrams with anecdotal accounts of fraud. Days later, Hall and Finch deputized staffers to carry out what the Associated Press dubbed “field checks” in eight contested states—essentially, poking around, seeing whether they could find suspiciously pro-Kennedy totals in any precincts. Democrats saw the project as troublemaking. Democratic National Committee Chair Henry L. Jackson called it “a fishing expedition on a grand scale.” Former President Harry Truman called the whispering campaign about rampant fraud “a lot of hooey” and said the Republicans were “just a bunch of poor losers.”
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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/10/the-time-nixons-cronies-tried-to-overturn-a-presidential-election-428318
Politico, of all places…
The Goal of Wholesale Surveillance
The goal of wholesale surveillance, as (Hannah) Arendt wrote in “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” is not, in the end, to discover crimes, “but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population.” And because Americans’ emails, phone conversations, Web searches and geographical movements are recorded and stored in perpetuity in government databases, there will be more than enough “evidence” to seize us should the state deem it necessary. This information waits like a deadly virus inside government vaults to be turned against us. It does not matter how trivial or innocent that information is. In totalitarian states, justice, like truth, is irrelevant.
Chris Hedges, The Last Gasp of American Democracy
Ask James Comey about the DoJ Catch-22
The leadership at Department of Justice doesn’t want to indict a potential presidential candidate too close to an election to keep from unduly influencing the electorate and the election’s outcome.
Thus, candidates who are alleged to have committed a crime would be protected from being publicly accused as a criminal before having their day in court.
This protects the innocent and the guilty — except, of course, when the candidate is a Democrat.
It's not like they were ordered off his car's bumper in Dallas.
Because they were ordered off his bumper in Dallas.
After that videotape was retrieved from an ABC Dallas affiliate’s trash bin, the USSS, through reporter and author Carol Leonnig, said it was JFK who ordered the agents off the car.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/16/jfk-told-secret-service-to-keep-its-distance-on-assassination-day/
That’s at variance with what Jacqueline Kennedy said, who reported her husband always followed what the USSS recommended.
China must be a client.
“Nixonian Flexibility” got JFK murdered.
Strange Bedfellows
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/K%20Disk/Kohn%20Howard/Item%2002.pdf
Carol Leonig said USSS never keeps a back up of texts.
Leonig told Nicolle Wallace that she’d covered Secret Service for a decade and that’s just how they do business. The agents use their text messages to mostly brag about their romantic lives and their emails for business. She seemed to believe it was a normal idea to fail to record and back up text messages.
I think that was a co-opted natsec beat reporter protecting her USSS sources. All hail Corporate McPravda.
Ivana was an "Olympic athlete" per Dimdonnie.
She may have been an alternate on the ‘72 Czech ski squad.
We do know
Czechoslovakia ramped up spying on Trump in late 1980s, seeking US intel
Exclusive: aided by Ivana Trump’s father, intelligence service with KGB ties targeted high-level government information, files show
Luke Harding
The Guardian, Oct. 29, 2018
The communist intelligence service in Prague stepped up its spying campaign against Donald Trump in the late 1980s, targeting him to gain information about the “upper echelons of the US government”, archive files and testimony from former cold war spies reveal.
Czechoslovakia’s Státní bezpečnost (StB) carried out a long-term spying mission against Trump following his marriage in 1977 to his first wife, Ivana Zelníčková. The operation was run out of Zlín, the provincial town in south-west Czechoslovakia where Zelníčková was born and grew up.
Ivana’s father, Miloš Zelníček, gave regular information to the local StB office about his daughter’s visits from the US and on his celebrity son-in-law’s career in New York. Zelníček was classified as a “conspiratorial” informer. His relationship with the StB lasted until the end of the communist regime.
New archive records obtained by the Guardian and the Czech magazine Respekt show the StB’s growing interest in Trump after the 1988 US presidential election, won by George HW Bush. The StB’s first directorate responsible for foreign espionage sought to “deepen” its Trump-related activity.
A former StB official, Vlastimil Daněk – tracked down to the village of Zadní Arnoštov, where he lives in retirement – confirmed the Trump operation. Addressing the matter publicly for the first time, he said: “Trump was of course a very interesting person for us. He was a businessman, he had a lot of contacts, even in US politics.
“We were focusing on him, we knew he was influential. We had information that he wanted to be president in future.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/29/trump-czechoslovakia-communism-spying
Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein
Hope the smelly NAZI gets asked about the nature of his relationship with the late sex trafficker, in court and before Congress. The NBA blogger wrote an excellent summary below of the relationship that goes where Big Money, politics, cameras, drugs and women “on the young side” converge.
Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein
What was that relationship really about?
TrueHoops, Dec 10, 2021
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Bannon is also a Jeffrey Epstein buddy who, according to several reports, visited Epstein’s houses on multiple continents, and spent hours prepping Epstein for a 60 Minutes interview that never happened. When Epstein invited a reporter to dinner it was with Bannon.
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First up in my craw is this oddity: Do we know how Bannon and Epstein met? I have a lot of questions about Steve Bannon’s business history, which put him in the vicinity of Leon Black, Epstein’s key funder, and the founder of Apollo Global, the NBA’s most important source of cash. Black recently resigned from Apollo Global after it was revealed Black bankrolled Epstein to the tune of $158 million. Black is another character who hung out at Epstein’s mansion, and consulted with Epstein, by his own admission, on the most sensitive matters.
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The second funky component of this: In 2020, just off Westbrook, Connecticut, the coast guard and law enforcement stormed the superyacht of Bannon’s business partner in a media startup: fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. But they weren’t there to arrest Guo. They were there to arrest Bannon, on allegations he had siphoned money from a Trump-related charity. (Trump later pardoned Bannon.)
Here’s where it gets crazy, though: Take a look at Guo’s story of business success. It might sound a little familiar. Cui Xiankang, Yu Ning and Liu Ran report for Caixin Global:
Sources close to Guo said he has used his luxury hotels, including the ones in Yuda International Center in Zhengzhou and the Pangu Plaza in Beijing, to host high-level officials to develop connections.
Sources said he collected evidence of wrongdoing by officials by secretly shooting videos of them living in luxury and engaging in affairs so that he could blackmail them later and help his business interests.
The third “this feels odd” coincidence here is that Guo’s most important source of cash is the same as Apollo Global’s most important source of cash: the royal family of the United Arab Emirates. If you haven’t already read our earlier reports, that royal family has deep ties to children and women being used as sexual playthings to gain power. They were invested with both Leon Black’s Apollo and Guo Wengui at the same time, while Black was bankrolling Epstein.
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https://www.truehoop.com/p/steve-bannon-and-jeffrey-epstein
"Which throw was more heartless?"
“Trump threw paper towel rolls at a crowd of homeless, starved, displaced, and desperate Puerto Ricans after the territory was devastated by a hurricane. Trump threw a plated hamburger against the wall in the presidential dining room after Attorney General Bill Barr said there was no election fraud…”
¡Hijo de la gran puta!
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