It was a poll conducted using the same process by which he declassified those documents in his bathroom at Mar-a-lago.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
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This absolutely is a reasonable explanation why Putin had such an easy time convincing him.
We always know when they are nearby - their pecking is surprisingly loud, like someone hammering wood very fast (inhumanly fast) with a mallet.
I'm increasingly seeing that as the point. I've believed since 2016 that he's either intentionally or being easily manipulated to serve Russia's interests and obviously I'm not alone here.
But at this point, dismantling US soft political power, military power, economic power - every action Trump is taking is directly damaging the US with no apparent self-interested payoff. Sure, it's plausibly deniable and just on the edge of conspiracy-sounding to the public and mainstream, but the theory that Trump acting to destroy the US on behalf of Russia is currently the best fit to the evidence.
I suppose because he can at a moment's notice gut the SEC and presumably now that X is incorporated in Texas and I have to assume xAI is as well(?) there's no federal or state fraud investigation likely.
Feels quaint that Trump in 2017 even went to the trouble of filling a table with blank papers to give the appearance of being concerned about conflicts of interest, and this outright self-dealing corruption is happening daily while nobody in power even talks about it.
The allegations from comparing various password leaks are that it's the same password as for known Hegseth accounts. I get that nothing is verified - someone could have discovered that password in a leak and reused it as a setup - but that's the strongest corroboration.
This guy is so awkward he can't even casus belli properly.
They're a witch speaking in tongues! Burn them!
requiring Ukraine to allocate all resource income to a joint fund managed mainly by the U.S. The proposal grants the U.S. first rights to purchase extracted resources and repayment of aid with 4% interest before Ukraine gains profits.
In other words, "Reject this deal already so we can say Ukraine doesn't want peace and we can start openly supporting Russia."
Bondi signals criminal probe into Signal chat is unlikely, despite long history of similar inquiries
We've decided not to investigate ourselves, and found no wrongdoing.
What a huge amount of words to say so little: The feeling is changing based on a few polls that are trending down.
Ok, I disagree. The polls are settling, bottoming out, in a place much higher than they should be. Trump is shock-and-awing successfully. People are disoriented, but the Overton window is shifting very quickly.
And the game isn't "vibe" or approval. The game is authoritarian takeover. And that game is effectively over. Yes, they stopped following the rules but as we argue about those rules, they're collecting all the pieces, and putting them away in the box. They. No. Longer. Care. About. Polls.
All this to say, this copium isn't even high-grade product, it's too heavily cut with delusion.
Careful, this is bat country.