Here are the documents released today. Laugh away if you want, but this looks like quite a receipt. I am eagerly awaiting Taibbi’s take on the situation. I am also eager to hear Heather Cox Richardson explain it away.
The most enchanting woman ever to serve in government also released a whistleblower report. Sadly, I’m still waiting for Tulsi to release her heart to me. I will send her another hand-written letter, this one describing what our first date would be like.
Sounds like governmental shenanigans to me run by the usual suspects. We have a huge grifter / fraud class that wheels and deals in the shadows within NGOs and non-profits - often in bed with each other and the government in weird threesomes of financial fuckery.
This is nothing new sadly.
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That Grok was even baffled by it indicates that fuckery of some kind is afoot, I just don’t know exactly what kind of fuckery, aside from handing out public money without much scrutiny to politically connected people.
And yes, some involved are also connected at the genitalia.
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Journalist Glenn Greenwald, by no means a conservative, explains the corporate media’s conundrum with this massive story.
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It’s a slow day at work and raining outside, so here’s a local story of the realities of the ACLU’s successful efforts at bail reform.
This was across the river in Lewiston’s twin city of Auburn last night and into this morning. Bail was set at $500.
Somebody on the Daily Show, maybe John Stewart, called Tulsi Gabbard “Director of National Security and woman who gave Snow White the apple.”
I thought it was funny. Her other critics usually put up an unflattering picture when thry talk about her.
It would be funny if there was any element of truth to the joke, but late night comedy has been making jokes based on the assumption that all of the lies their friends in the media tell are true, which just makes it sad and pathetic. Gabbard has been treated the same way any defector gets treated, as evil incarnate.
Audiences agree, which is why the audiences of political hacks posing as comedians are so small in 2025. Political comedy only works when you’ve got the truth on your side, not a manufactured media narrative. That’s why the Babylon Bee has been killing it lately.
I bet more people watched Jon Stewart’s tantrum for LOL’s than actually tuned into the entire show. The Go Fuck Yourself Choir was hilarious, but not for the reasons Jon Stewart hoped for.
These are all the same people who wanted us to believe that Joe Biden was compos mentis, that Trump colluded with Russia to somehow trick Americans into voting for him, that Hillary Clinton’s private email server was no big deal, that COVID came from a bad batch of pangolin soup, that the vaccine stopped COVID dead in it’s tracks, and that the 2020 election was the cleanest election of all time, among MANY other narratives that are now known to be completely fabricated bullshit.
You’re right! There is Zero evidence Gabbard is a shape-shifting, apple-poisoning lady who talks to mirrors.
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Thats because she’s really good at it.
Absence of evidence is just as good as evidence. In fact, a lot of times its even better.
Rush was before podcasts (oh, I also watched his short-run television show while drinking coffee in the mornings for however long it lasted). But my point is not to discuss my sources of information and their validity or lack thereof - some of these are decades old - but rather to point out that I do my best, and always have, not to be a victim of any particular echo chamber. At the same time, I’m not willing to spend my time poring through information, given my belief that both sides (the two political parties) are culpable and equally dishonest/corrupt. However, no one in history as far as I can tell has lied as frequently and casually as Trump. And this information I get by watching the man himself. If there’s a particularly damning statement about what he’s said, I find the speech or conference and watch it myself for context.
“Read my lips: no new taxes” destroyed GH Bush’s credibility. “It depends what your definition of ‘is’ is” was considered shocking at the time (I did not vote for Clinton for his second term and was shocked that the dems did in such numbers). And now I see side-by-side videos of Trump both nominating J. Powell and accusing Biden of same. And there’s a lot of this sort of thing with him. Alternative facts.
“Trigger warning” is loaded terminology and not what she says. But whatever. No one specific thing is THE thing nationally. I like a lot of the changes occurring. What I dislike is the change I see in the people around me. The sneering anger at vast numbers of people - half the population! I dislike that there’s no such thing as truth now. Differing opinions don’t faze me at all - I tend to have views on both sides of the aisle. I am fazed by the decline in civility. I’m even willing to blame the liberals for their use of this as a strategy.
As for Jon Stewart, I see bits here and there, mostly when I’m procrastinating workouts. In particular recently I appreciated his calling out of Jake Tapper and the Axios guy for their “bombshell” book about Biden’s decline, which as Stewart points out should have been breaking news when they discovered it, not when they were shilling it.
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Okay, I’m at work and need to go home and get ready to go camping. I know I have a tendency to drop into this thread and disagree, then not stick around to debate it, but I honestly do poorly with conflict of this sort with people I like.
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X is currently the only way to not fall victim to that, aside from whatever local journalism you can discover, or perform yourself.
In simple terms, our corporate/mainstream media is compromised, has been for a long time, and no longer even makes the pretense of doing the job of government watchdog. Today’s release of classified documents has a LOT of implications that will take time to understand fully.
This administration’s actions are NOTHING like what Biden, Clinton, Obama, et al did to Trump or some kind of “same stuff on both sides”.
Trump can’t instantly fix everything, but boy, are they chopping at the roots in some pretty big ways. I just checked MSNBC and there doesn’t appear to be any mention of the most significant political scandal ever. I’m really curious to see how they try to characterize this.
Sedition isn’t a stretch if what these documents say is true. We’re all the victims of a massive scam, backed by liars who hijacked our public institutions. Taibbi and Greenwald are two journalists I highly recommend you check out on X. They are actual journalists, not partisan hacks, with very long track records of calling bullshit on a wide variety of bad actors.
The deep state is very real, and here’s a picture of it from DataRepublican (small r), who is also worth following. This is the grant distribution network of the Barak Obama foundation, but it could be any other major nonprofit. They all look like this when mapped out, and a massive percentage of those grants originate with public money.
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Speaking of foundations, wasn’t there a Donald J. Trump foundation? I wonder what happened to it.
I’d be surprised if any billionaire in the USA doesn’t have a nonprofit. They seem to be great ways to give relatives high-paying jobs and avoid paying taxes. It doesn’t look like his received any public funds, or was involved in any regime change operations overseas or domestically, only minor shenanigans when compared to other NGO’s.
What AI is allowing us to better understand is how public funds are granted to very large foundations (some are in the hundreds of billions), then “granted” to recipients who then grant to more recipients, so on and so forth, until eventually we’re funding a regime change operation in a foreign nation through innocuous-sounding organizations that subvert their media, issue bribes, basically the whole dirty playbook the CIA first tried out in Italy in 1946. It was successful, and has only been refined and enhanced since.
I don’t know much about Obama’s foundation either, but the visualization of the grant network is the what I wanted to share. The flow of money is completely bonkers and deliberately deceptive to the public.
A perfect example is NPR, who ALWAYS insisted that they only received 1 percent of their funding from the government, which was technically true. What they didn’t say is that a huge chunk of any given member station’s funding came from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, another nonprofit, which received nearly 100 percent of its funding from the federal government.
In other words, we’ve been paying to be deceived for a really long time, and we’ve been paying to do it to other countries around the world through similar mechanisms.
The whole thing is a lot to get your head around.
It is all in the public record, increasingly so as formerly classified documents are being released. The real story of the JFK file declassification was all of the information about CIA/State Department operations overseas to do regime change operations, not anything about additional gunmen or Jack Ruby.
No tinfoil hat or crazy theories mapped out on a whiteboard are needed, just modern analytics powered by AI to sort through tens of millions of grant awards and 501(c)(3) tax fillings, which can all be viewed individually on the IRS’s website by looking at their 990’s.
I’m currently writing a piece about how Maine tax dollars are being used to fund Democratic Socialist revolutionaries right in Lewiston by Maine Inside Out and The Maine Prisoner’s Advocacy coalition. In addition to receiving tax dollars, both of these radical activist organizations were also awarded $65,552 each from the Maine Community Foundation from funds collected from people who were given the impression that they were donating to provide relief for mass shooting victims.
LOL if you want, but this is how we fund political activists abroad, have for decades, and are now doing it to ourselves.
My quick canary in the coal mine litmus test is the opinion of “former leftists” like Taibbi and Greenwald. Especially on the “us” vs “them” issues.
Not that hard, if one is trying to be objective.
Damn @twojarslave, you are one patient individual lol.
You bring a horse to water, and you try to make it drink.