July 13, 2019

The plan seems to be working.

Trial runs for fascism are in full flow

Babies in cages were no ‘mistake’ by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism

by Fintan O’Toole
The Irish Times, Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 05:00

To grasp what is going on in the world right now, we need to reflect on two things. One is that we are in a phase of trial runs. The other is that what is being trialled is fascism – a word that should be used carefully but not shirked when it is so clearly on the horizon. Forget “post-fascist” – what we are living with is pre-fascism.

It is easy to dismiss Donald Trump as an ignoramus, not least because he is. But he has an acute understanding of one thing: test marketing. He created himself in the gossip pages of the New York tabloids, where celebrity is manufactured by planting outrageous stories that you can later confirm or deny depending on how they go down. And he recreated himself in reality TV where the storylines can be adjusted according to the ratings. Put something out there, pull it back, adjust, go again.

Fascism doesn’t arise suddenly in an existing democracy. It is not easy to get people to give up their ideas of freedom and civility. You have to do trial runs that, if they are done well, serve two purposes. They get people used to something they may initially recoil from; and they allow you to refine and calibrate. This is what is happening now and we would be fools not to see it.

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To see, as most commentary has done, the deliberate traumatisation of migrant children as a “mistake” by Trump is culpable naivety. It is a trial run – and the trial has been a huge success. Trump’s claim last week that immigrants “infest” the US is a test-marketing of whether his fans are ready for the next step-up in language, which is of course “vermin”. And the generation of images of toddlers being dragged from their parents is a test of whether those words can be turned into sounds and pictures. It was always an experiment – it ended (but only in part) because the results were in.

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https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-trial-runs-for-fascism-are-in-full-flow-1.3543375

July 12, 2019

"Wrong" being the operative word.

And I do mean Operative.

July 12, 2019

Where Are Jeffrey Epstein's Alleged Accomplices Now?

When prosecutors gave Jeffrey Epstein a sweetheart plea deal in 2007, they agreed not to charge four women allegedly involved in recruiting dozens of underage girls for abuse.

By Pilar Melendez
The Daily Beast, July 9, 2019

For decades, financier Jeffrey Epstein allegedly abused dozens of underage girls in a sex-trafficking enterprise, according to a new federal indictment unsealed in the Southern District of New York.

But in order to successfully “create a vast network of underage victims for him to sexually exploit” and expand his network of possible targets, he relied on the loyalty and organizational skills of his employees, prosecutors claim.

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In Epstein’s controversial 2008 plea deal in Florida—which was granted by then-prosecutor and now-Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta and other DOJ attorneys, without informing the billionaire’s alleged victims—four women are named as possible accomplices. Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement, which sentenced him to 18 months in prison, also granted immunity to the four women and any other “potential co-conspirators," identified in the document as “including but not limited to Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, Lesley Groff, or Nadia Marcinkova.”

“While Epstein was at the head of the international sex trafficking organization, that conspiracy could not have functioned without many others playing their part,” attorney Paul Cassell, who represents multiple victims of Epstein, told The Daily Beast after Epstein’s arrest on Saturday. “Jane Doe 1 and 2 will continue to fight for all of Epstein’s co-conspirators to be held accountable in New York, Florida, and anywhere else they committed crimes.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-accomplices-where-are-sarah-kellen-nadia-marcinkova-adriana-ross-and-lesley-groff

July 10, 2019

Impeach Trump Now

1. Traitor: Trump conspired with our sworn enemy to “win” election.
2. Corrupt: Obstructed justice in its investigation of conspiracy; and has used office to enrich himself, reward friends and punish enemies.
3. Pedosadist: Protects child sex traffickers, rapists and predators - including himself.

Please add reasons pro or Don the Con or to comment.

Like Bob and Jimi said, the hour is getting late.

July 8, 2019

The Ties That Bind Jeffrey Epstein, William Barr & Donald Trump

Todd Neikirk
Hill Reporter, May 19, 2019

During Attorney General, William Barr’s confirmation hearing, he was mostly peppered with questions about how he would handle the Mueller Report. Senator Ben Sasse’s (R-NE) questioning, however, diverged from the pack. Sasse asked Barr about the lenient sentence given out to billionaire pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The future Attorney General told Sasse that he would look into the matter.

This, however, was not the first connection between Barr and his family and the disgraced pedophile. In 1973, Barr’s father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattan’s Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher.

While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a number of reasons. Epstein had not earned a college degree as he dropped out of New York’s prestigious Cooper Union. The other odd circumstance was that the new teacher was only 20 years of age.

Apparently, the hire was a successful one. The New Yorker wrote in a 2003 profile on Epstein, “he was something of a Robin Williams–in–Dead Poets Society type of figure, wowing his high-school classes with passionate mathematical riffs.” Epstein’s mathematical skills caught the eye of Bear Stearns’ chairman, Alan “Ace” Greenberg, whose son attended the Dalton School. Greenberg hired Epstein as an options trader and the former teacher was able to amass a fortune.

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https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-william-barr-donald-trump-34107

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Barr must’ve seen something in that young man, otherwise there’s no logical rationale for the hire.

July 4, 2019

Star Spangled Banana

It is a sad day for our country when comparisons between the leader of Nazi Germany and the president of the United States are apt. It is an even sadder day when no one seems to notice.

— Christopher Brauchli

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/06/29/trump-and-hitler-juxtaposition

July 2, 2019

Gohmert calls Mueller an 'anal opening' ahead of testimony

BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO
The Hill, 07/01/19

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) called former special counsel Robert Mueller an "anal opening" ahead of the former FBI chief's public testimony before Congress.

“He’s done some irreparable damage to some things and he’s got to answer for them,” Gohmert told Politico. He is one of 25 Republicans on the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees who get to grill Mueller during the back-to-back hearings scheduled later this month.

The Texas lawmaker added that his reading of the former special counsel’s report did little to temper his animosity toward Mueller: “It reinforced the anal opening that I believe Mueller to be.”

Lawmakers from both parties will have the opportunity to question Mueller for hours during back-to-back House hearings on July 17 about the findings of his 22-month investigation into Russia’s election interference in 2016 and potential obstruction of justice by President Trump.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/451209-gohmert-calls-mueller-an-anal-opening-ahead-of-testimony

Wonder what Trumputin has on this guy?

June 22, 2019

How did a bankrupt unstable criminal moron become President?

Read how a traitor became president, so far as we know, in the Mueller Report:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5955118-The-Mueller-Report.html

I get the feeling Acting AG Whittaker did his best, and CIA AG Barr is doing his best, to put the kibbosh on We the People getting to the bottom of things.

In the meantime, Trumputin does all he can to shred the Constitution and enrage his base against us for noticing.

June 21, 2019

Unbelievable: Hannity - Manafort collusion

‘Unbelievable’: Paul Manafort’s texts with Sean Hannity revealed in court filing

Cody Fenwick
Alternet, June 21, 2019

Texts between former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort and Fox News host Sean Hannity were released on Friday as a court filing entered in Manafort’s sentencing.

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At one point, Hannity asked why Manafort didn’t get a “sweetheart deal” like Rick Gates, his deputy campaign chair who pleaded guilty in the investigation and cooperated extensively with Mueller.

“They would want me to give up [Donald Trump] or family, especially [Jared Kusner.] I would never do that,” Manafort said.

“Understand,” said Hannity. “There’s nothing to give up on [Trump.] What did [Kushner] do?”

“Nothing,” said Manafort. “Just like I did nothing. They will want me to make up shit on both. I will never do that.”

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/06/unbelievable-paul-manaforts-texts-with-sean-hannity-revealed-in-court-filing/

June 21, 2019

The show is called 'Treason.'

All the players’ strings are showing and lead to a couple of really rich producers.



Must tell Dumped Donnie his show is cancelled. Someone else is wearing his ring.