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Cheeto’s Personal Needs Over National Defense

Snopes has validated what the NYT first reported in June and now validated by other reporting agencies(https://bit.ly/4lSlUmL) that Cheeto’s Defense Department secretly transferred almost $1B earmarked for renovation of nuclear Minuteman missile silos and decided to use it for upgrading Cheeto’s Qatar gift airplane This despite the fact that there are in production 2 Air Force One’s that would be sidelined Once out of office the Orange One would then have the gift airplane for his own personal use

So in essence Cheeto is having the American taxpayers pay for the renovation of his own personal plane while a national security project to upgrade our nuclear defense of the country is put on hold

Mark Epstein, brother to the now dead sex trafficker, was told by Jeffrey that after years of friendship with Cheeto that he was staying away from Cheeto because in his words Cheeto “was a crook” When criminals hang around with each other they each get to know what dirtbags they are The problem for the country the crook happens to be a salacious lowlife

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Xplisset's avatar

Damn, Dr. Bill… you dropping receipts like it’s a congressional hearing and I’m here for every timestamp.

Let me get this straight: he takes a billion dollars meant to protect our nuclear silos…our nukes and reroutes it to upgrade a Qatar plane like it’s an Uber Black membership? While Mark Epstein is out here confirming Trump’s too dirty to hang with the Epstein family? That’s like Voldemort saying, “Nah, he too dark for me.”

And Michael Cohen nailed it: we’re watching the rule of law get traded in for loyalty pledges and backroom vendettas. The DOJ used to fear the Constitution. Now it fears offending Trump.

We got judges out here asking, “Do I wanna be next?” Not because they’ve done anything wrong—but because doing their job might get them doxxed, threatened, or sued by the man who used to be the executive branch.

At this point, we’re not a banana republic man we’re the damn peel. And we just lettin’ the monkey throw us against the wall.

I’ve been off for 24 hours, but y’all done pulled me back in. This is witness testimony. If this all still feels normal to you, congrats you’re fully acclimated to the fall of a republic. For the rest of us? Might be time to stop scrolling and start subscribing to the folks pulling the fire alarm.

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Protect the Vote's avatar

The only way to deconstruct the current Nazi regime is make it impossible to succeed in the 2026 election That takes all of us Spread the word as I'm sure you are

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Mary Greendale's avatar

We'd better come up with something before then...and I see no leaders, no ideas except my own. This is a battle between us and three extremist groups - Christian Nationalists (Russell Vought) - Fascists (Stephen Miller) - Technocrats (Peter Thiel, Musk-eteers and J D Vance with a finger in each pie). Plan as if there will be NO election...now what?

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Lisa Korn's avatar

I believe the mid-terms will be performative at best, Stolen at worst.

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Bill Prange's avatar

All the members of the house are up for reelection in 2026, yet the Republican ones are acting like they don’t care if they win or not. By then the consequences of the horrible things they have enacted will start to come true, and I doubt they could Win a fair election for dog catcher. Do they know something we don’t? From all indications it seems that something must be planned to bypass that election. Perhaps a “national emergency”; perhaps the Supreme Court will discover that the constitution doesn’t specify secret ballots, and you’ll cast your vote with an ICE agent looking over your shoulder. Perhaps something original from the esoteric Protocols of the Elders of Project 2025.

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Here’s a list of what we know so far

Rockland County Board of Elections vs SMART Legislation to be heard Sept 2025

https://bit.ly/43Hm61y Dissent in Bloom Substack June 2025

https://bit.ly/4n3TeIr SMART Elections Substack 2.25

http://bit.ly/4kZqXAH Morningstar coverage 5.25

https://bit.ly/43BfwJJ Economic Times 6.25

https://bit.ly/4l5EAP6 Reddit article 4.25 Review of voting in Pa and NV

Greg Palast Vigilante Challenge https://bit.ly/3XUt1kr or bit.ly/43K4Gl2 have to pay to get the documentary/audio of interview bit.ly/41UelTx this is free

Election Truth Alliance(ETA) ongoing statistical analysis of precincts in swing states

website electiontruthalliance.org videos are very convincing

Russian interference https://bit.ly/4l6AlCU\

Substack resume https://bit.ly/43ZBNkO

And what the Nazis are doing to attack voting rights in the future

Elias timeline of DOJ antivoting strategy https://bit.ly/4lgGD36

Cheeto blatant notice to rig Texas elections https://bit.ly/4kJXnyG

Elias and GOP state gerrymandering ramp up https://bit.ly/4lvRnuF

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Mary Greendale's avatar

You are right in my view. We should operate now as if there will be no election. Now what?

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HarrisWalz FTW 2024's avatar

Some of the cuts that will hit their people won't be enacted until after the mid-terms. What a coincidence! I hope we *have* mid-terms.

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Kathy Davidson's avatar

Can’t Congress do something about this???

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Ani Sweitzer's avatar

You mean the same Republicans who have been grabbing their ankles this whole time? I think they are not going to do anything different from what they have done thus far. We no longer have checks and balances in this government.

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Protect the Vote's avatar

The Nazis have control of both chambers Let's hope for ethically driven Republicans Hmmm that's contradictory

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HarrisWalz FTW 2024's avatar

Do you mean the ones asleep at the wheel or the ones who figuratively crawl on their hands and knees when DJ says "come!" Heck, some of them probably do it literally.

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E L Nolan's avatar

Can they, yes. Will this one, no.

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Karen Grimes's avatar

They won’t.

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Vanessa L's avatar

So if this is so terrifying and scary, why aren’t you guys calling this what it is, a full on coup by an authoritarian dictator? Millions of people can’t or won’t acknowledge how dire this is for no other reason than big accounts like this or Elias aren’t sounding the alarms. Unless and until you’re willing to call this exactly what it is so that the entire country realizes that neither voting, nor protesting, nor the courts can fix this, you’re complicit in the demise. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Michele Baxter's avatar

That is basically what is being said. Calling it a coup or anythng else is not going to change what is happening. I wonder wherre we would be know if people stood up to him from the vey beginning?

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Bill Prange's avatar

Because he was a clown that nobody could take seriously. In fact, he was just the visible tip of a much larger iceberg of seditionists.

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Helga Fellay's avatar

If the US were truly a democracy where the people have a voice, Trump would be long gone. He is the most dangerous, most lawless dictator we have had as our so-called president.

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Bill Prange's avatar

There are a number of places where people are finding irregularities in the way machines counted the votes. One is in Rockland County New York. Since managing elections is a pro ROG of the states you may have access to the detailed vote counts in the last election. The experience so far Has been people found precinct where the Democratic candidate for Senate won by a large margin and Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris by a large margin. The laws of thermodynamics suggest that is an anomaly. It is theoretically possible that all of the active, hot molecules end up on one side of a bucket of tepid water and the slow, cold molecules on the other. Then you would see one side boiling and the other side freezing over. What are the chances of THAT happening?

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Timithius Leblanc's avatar

When he successfully gets away with it, who should we blame. This didn't just happen organically.

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Linda Tokarski's avatar

We the people- specifically those who supported the flagrant lies and deceptions; those who sat home; those who voted for this kind of representation; and those who sit in all bastions of power (at all levels) vote against what their constituents want and avoid direct interaction to absolve themselves of complicity.

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Phillip's avatar

King Foolius

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Heather.B's avatar

- Trump commits crimes.

- Trump gets indicted for crimes.

- Trump accuses Democrats of weaponizing justice system against their opponents.

- Trump unequivocally weaponizes justice system against his enemies in retribution.

Up until he returned to office in 2024, we heard him declare how Democrats were weaponizing the Justice department. Look at what Trump is doing now. Hypocrisy!

And the corrupt Supreme Court and quisling Congress are doing everything they can to help him...

Trump is determined to transform America’s system of justice into his personal political weapon.

"When historians look back on this era, they’ll inevitably ask how a nation built on principles of democracy, justice, and equality allowed one man to commit such a broad range of crimes and abuses, and whether President Donald Trump is indeed the most dangerous criminal in American history."

People and organizations need to standup and tell Trump and his authoritarian regime NO!

Just got my t-shirt which reads "We the People" are pissed off... This one 👇

https://libtees.dashery.com/products/76978001-we-the-people-are-pissed-off-t-shirt

That's how I feel now. This pissed off feeling that doesn't go away is what's going to power "We The People" to save our democracy!

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Bill Prange's avatar

You simply don’t understand Trump speak. When he accuses Democrats of foul play, he is actually planning to do that very thing. When he promises a fix, it turns out to have the opposite effect as his promise. Are the “worst of the worst” actually being deported? What is currently the biggest source of Waste Fraud and Abuse in this country? Do you feel safer now that almost $1 billion of your tax money has been moved from upgrading missile silos to updating his private jet?

I couldn’t believe the psychological process of Projection when I learned about it, but now I see a case study of that flaw.

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Anne's avatar

Another excellent and articulate article, Michael. As each day passes, I keep asking myself: when will the actual revolution from within come? As each layer of your country's institutions are violated and robbed, all I see is inertia. It is beyond troubling. Les Miserables! 🇨🇦 🍁

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Carl Selfe's avatar

Now is our moment—take action against this harmful government. Covering up a pedophile ring. Ignoring court orders. Blatant corruption. The poor, the needy, and children are being abused—by our government. In the streets we must protest outright crooks and the pedophiles until after their shooting us starts, until we go down or we oust tyrants. I made 54 protest signs, and will make many more to share. You will see something different in these signs! Help yourself to this second batch, and share them as far as you can.

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/free-protest-signs?r=3m1bs

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Bill Prange's avatar

Sign suggestion:

How can you intrust your country to a man

You can’t trust with your daughter?

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chev_chelios's avatar

BEYOND THE FACT that tRUMP is a blithering idiot who's a total embarrassment to our country and the entire world ( evidence of that disgusting, horrific oval office press conference with the British PM ( the guy probably wanted to run screamin out of there)....where tRUMP was asked about the people starving in Gaza....the orange fat bloated gasbag PEDO menace went off on subjects all around the world having nothing to do with that question and not able to string a coherent sentence together.....I'm beyond angry...I'm beyond fed up....what's happening to the people of Gaza at the hands of Israel being aided 100% by this POS is without a doubt War Crimes that are off the reciter scale.....tRump & BeBe need to be arrested and tried.....All maga needs to be eliminated....full stop.

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paul's avatar

Choen, its about Trumps illegal

Russian money laundering. This laundering would lock Trump up in the cage he deserves. You have the keys to lock him in the cage. Use them tell us what you know. Start with Rubalof purchase of estate that Tump bought for 50 million and resold to Rubalof for 94 million. This was tied to Epstien. Spill the beans. Where are the skeletons the off sore accounts. If you'd tell us he would have no hole to hide.

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Mary Merrill's avatar

It's what we've all been thinking...thank you for bravely calling out what it is.

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Elizabeth Fenlon's avatar

You sure do write great essays, Mr. Cohen. I appreciate your words and your thoughts.

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Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

This is ridiculous. We can't wait until the mid terms. We the People need to take our country back. That is what I see.

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ramona j's avatar

I agree. It is not going to end well. The question is when the revolution will start.

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Edward mead's avatar

The Big Orange Cheat is hiding the fact that he and Epstein both enjoyed younger woman, Look at Trump wife's and also Epstein, Trump will pardon because she is the only one who knows if trump was screwing younger girls, The same as Jeffery Epstein

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Robyn Chauvin's avatar

This is not about Trump, he will be out of office before the first snows fall on the East Coast. This is about the fanatical far right billionaires that have taken over our government. They got what they needed from Trump, their 2025 project otherwise known as the big beautiful bill has been passed and now they’re going to put JD vans their man into power.

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pamela bonkoski's avatar

Where is Iran when we need them?

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JOHN SMITH's avatar

dONALD you better line your fallout shelter with the Gold you are enslaved to. It makes good shielding against the radiation of the Nuclear fallout that you are asking for. You are a depraved Lunatic. We see all your lesions and that you are dying on the inside as nobody really can love your sickness.

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