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Xplisset's avatar

What jumps out here is how many different freakin parts of the system are being bent to keep one man’s secrets quiet.

A DOJ pardon-for-silence deal. Pressure on the Fed. Fake tariff bets. Resurrecting old conspiracies through Tulsi like backup dancers in a dying routine.

It’s not just chaos anymore. It’s a collapsing structure trying to brace itself with familiar lies.

I’ve been tracking the strategy behind the spectacle for a while now. If you’re following this story frame-by-frame and wondering how it all ties together here: https://substack.com/@xplisset/note/c-138101461?r=5z1bn1&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

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Xplisset's avatar

You’re right Pat the GOP Congress is the firewall. Everything else, from corporations to media to lower courts, can collapse or be captured. But when Congress refuses to act, that’s blatant in your face coordination.

What scares me most is exactly what you said. It’s not that Trump is scrambling. It’s that so many people elected or not have made peace with the idea that democracy is disposable as long as the money flows.

Boycotts matter. So does memory. Because if we don’t remember who stood down during this moment, they’ll rebrand and run again.

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S. A. Linden's avatar

GOP congress sold the firewall to make money. The tariffs are the tip of the iceberg but we will be the Titanic, when the ship finally goes under.

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Pat Robinson's avatar

Above all, and actually the only one that matters is the entire GOP Congress. I find it pretty sad about so many businesses but they are only in it for short term profits and sort of as long as they stay on trump's good side they may continue to make profits (I hope everyone who supports democracy will boycott Coke now.) but I don't have to buy their products but I do need Democracy and the upholding of the Constitution.

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Eileen Howorth's avatar

he will be judge by God in the end who he must not fear

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Pitty's avatar

Hey Meidas and Ben, SUGGESTION we need a segment dedicated to all these child abuse cases committed by Maga, religious leaders, coaches, gov. officials we hear about a case once then it goes away; we need them all on one page?

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Everybody's Mamá's avatar

Great idea!

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Marie's avatar

And we need to construct a mechanism of PROTECTION to extend to now-women like Katie Johnson (see comment just below) who otherwise will probably not come forward to testify as to how they were raped at the hands of Epstein, possibly Trump(so Katie said in her court papers = https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4154484/1/katie-johnson-v-donald-j-trump/ — can somebody please mirror this webpage?) and other sexual assaulters of underage female children.

Chris Hedges recently stated —in, I believe, his sub stack— that no one knows where Katie Johnson, a pseudonym, IS at present. Knowing the moral turpitude of those who would rape ANYONE , but especially a child, is it any wonder that she and others like her would want to keep their head down?

SO, Does anyone know any well-to-do democrats, Republicans, or people of no parties at all, who CARE ABOUT THE WELL-BEING AND LIVES of now-women who were assaulted by these predators when these now-women victims were children, sufficiently to devote the money necessary to setting up a structure for such victims — akin to what is done for victims of domestic violence— that they might have sufficient protection from those who would want to kill (“suicide”) them to keep them silent, as to feel “safe” enough to testify as to the identities of those who raped and otherwise sexually abused them?

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Linda's avatar

The best vengeance would be a class action victims lawsuit that results in individual payments that ultimately bankrupt him. That would do it.

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Everybody's Mamá's avatar

Führer tRump hurts children and doesn't give a damn. He clearly was friends with known child human sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein. Many accusations and lawsuits for brutal assaults and rapes have been filed against him but he always gets away with because he has the money and power to follow through with his threats. When the Epstein Files are released there will be more evidence exposing him as mother fuckin pedophile rapist. He's also a racist white supremacist, homegrown treasonous, felonious, imbecile currently the first Limp Dick Traitor of the Un-United States of America.

His entire regime is made up of chosen Musk Rats, Republican MAGAts and ICE henchmen who serve him and hurt people, even seniors, women and children around the world. The hate and madness must end.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has slashed funding for US Children's Programs including:

~ Education

~ Adoption

~ Foster Care

~ Child Protection Services

~ Shelters for Homeless kids and their families.

Millions of children could get sick or die if they lose their:

~ Medicaid & Health Care Services

~ Medical Science Research

~ Food Safety Inspection

~ Public Health Warnings

~ Weather Monitoring & Alerts

Senator Sanders has a plan to end this madness but he can't do it alone. It's going to take ALL of us to take down the Oligarchs and the Administration from Hell.

Our words - written or spoken - are the most powerful tool we have to support the resistance. For the sake of our families and bank accounts. Watch some of Senator Sanders many YouTube videos to learn more about his plan to take the power away from the billionaire oligarchs and return the power to the people. If you want to be able to have affordable education, health, child and elder care check out BernieSanders.com then share your knowledge and talk about, post or forward these messages to/with everyone you know.

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nick johnson's avatar

F ing brilliant!

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C Giza's avatar

They don't care because these are not their children or the children of their wealthy benefactors.

They are trying to further a class-based society here in the USA where the "Haves" get to have everything and the "Have-Nots" are their serfs and work only for the pleasure of the very few, including the sale of their daughters into sexual slavery.

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Everybody's Mamá's avatar

Americans definitely deserve a change. The one good thing the tRump has done is united the People to take their Power back! I am sick of the Democrats vs Republicans. We need a complete government overhaul and Senator Sanders has a plan.

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They tell me it can't be done but since we must rise to bring down the administration from hell then we should also rise to build a whole new political party run “by representatives of the people, by the people and for the people!” - Abraham Lincoln.

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C Giza's avatar

I voted for Bernie in 2016. He has had very consistent messaging throughout his political career, especially about getting people with the most money who influence politicians out of the political arena. I did not dislike Hilary, just liked his overall policies better at that time. Didn't recognize that voting for him helped to get tRUMP elected, though, because of the electoral college issue, and because many of us did not recognize how many people at that time would be so easily fooled by tRUMP. I also believe that a younger Bernie-minded person might attract more of the younger voters. Still like his overall message though.

The demographic voting issue is something that AI could help the savvy people in the Democratic Party, and Bernie, who is an independent, assess.

One large problem at the moment still is, if the voters split the vote too much for a third party or candidate, (for example Jill Stein) then there is a chance that the RepubliCONS could win again because of how the electoral college works. We are already in a difficult situation in our country. My current opinion is we need to work at the micro-levels so there is no "tomfoolery" going on with our local politics, libraries, school boards, etc. These are the places where one can hear the voters' opinions, and create policies to address those opinions.

Also need to quickly put in place guardrails against vote tampering on either side, so that the midterms (if tRUMP) is still around, and does not declare Martial Law, return to favor democracy, not authoritarian rule.

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Tara's avatar

I feel bad for the victims, and jurors, it's like calling all them liars, time wasted, wounds opened 🥹🥹sad

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nick johnson's avatar

Youtube Katie Johnson 13 yr old virgin Trump raped

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

Amen, this story should have been reported when he first ranned for President

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nick johnson's avatar

Too many death threats from MAGA - she was too afraid to finalize the filing. -went into seclusion...

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Marie's avatar

I’m so glad you mentioned this young lady, who I just learned of the other day for the first time, and came across the court papers filed by her:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4154484/1/katie-johnson-v-donald-j-trump/

Also, please see my comment just above about a mechanism of protection for the now-women who may well feel unsafe to come forward and testify against their rapists when they were children.

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nick johnson's avatar

After seeing South Park, at least she wasn’t THAT hurt…

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Vicki Green's avatar

Sick...sick...sick! These are powerful people who will do anything...anything to keep those files covered up. Everyone of you will have a history that will live in infamy. You've throwing our country away, enabling Netanyahu, kidnapping innocent people who thought the United States offered opportunity and justice for all. That's a joke. Opportunity for billionaires to take whatever they want and anyway they want to whomever they choose. Reigns doesn't last forever. You've made your names and your namesake names associated with your crimes. Forever.

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S. A. Linden's avatar

Yes. And Howard Lutnick is so full of corruption it's coming out of his ears. Literally I see corruption, like in the human body, when I look at him. Disease, deterioration, cellular death.

He is making this nation into a giant casino, with Trump's help. Remember what happened to Trump's casinos? This is the US economy we're talking about!

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ROBERT W. MOILANEN's avatar

He wants to make us pay for his loss in 2020, the point he doesn't get is the Secret Service made him leave the White House because he lost the 2020 election. This time the 22nd Amendment has him by the nuts and the Secret Service WILL throw him out on his fatass if necessary. Hopefully the State of New York grabs the fat bastard by his nuts and sends him to the Rock Island Prison for the rest of his fat stinkin life.

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nick johnson's avatar

excellent!

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Pat Robinson's avatar

What do you mean "may have pressured the co-conspirator"?. Of course he has and will continue to do so. Even if there were concrete proof, there is no longer a justice system that can do anything about it.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

"What could possibly be the basis for the number two person in the Justice Department to meet with the woman at the center of the criminal enterprise that now threatens to envelop Trump in a scandal like none other in his sordid career?"

Ans. A fix?

"The woman" is represented by David Oscar Markus.

Episode 1 • 2nd June 2024 • For the Defense with David Oscar Markus •Todd Blanche for former President Donald Trump. https://forthedefensepodcast.com/episode/todd-blanche-for-former-president-donald-trump

"Todd Blanche, the first guest to appear twice on For the Defense with David Oscar Markus, discusses everything from the war room to Melania Trump not appearing at trial to getting into it with Michael Cohen and everything in between in this in-depth and free flowing interview about the trial of the century involving the former President of the United States, Donald Trump."

Episode 2 • 27th June 2023 • For the Defense with David Oscar Markus • Todd Blanche for Paul Manafort

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Judy Cross's avatar

All of this makes me sick. This regime is all for sexually abusing young girls. It makes you think that they are all capable of doing that, since they will not defend the young girls and are all for covering up who did. They want no prosecution for the criminals, want these men to get off scot free and never have to pay for their crimes. How f__king sick is that? These men are just as dispensable as they thought that these young girls were. These girls need total justice and should be able to sue these men for every penny they have. Instead, these men are living free, making more money and probably still abusing young girls and getting away with it. What kind of justice is that and what kind of message does it send?

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S. A. Linden's avatar

The Old Boy's Club is a long, dark story under many guises. The Stepford Wives took a stab at it, but Hollywood simply cannot convey the depth of corruption and immorality of that story.

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Judy Cross's avatar

The Old Boy's Club needs to be exposed.

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nick johnson's avatar

Youtube Katie Johnson 13 yr old virgin Trump raped

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Marcia Goodman-Blair's avatar

What a freak show this whole administration is. I hope they are digging themselves in deeper every day.

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nick johnson's avatar

Youtube Katie Johnson 13 yr old virgin Trump raped

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Jose Moreno's avatar

This is b*******, we want the truth, we want all the child molesters prosecuted to the fullest

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Youtube Katie Johnson 13 yr old virgin Trump raped

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Everybody's Mamá's avatar

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nick johnson's avatar

Youtube Katie Johnson 13 yr old virgin Trump raped

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Jose Moreno's avatar

Somebody has to be there to witness this talk because you know they're going to try to take names out of it

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Marie's avatar

Congress must be the one to interview her, not some skeezy previous personal lawyer to trump in a back prison interrogation room

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Connie Martin's avatar

There is so much here to unpack, but report after report by Michael Popok on the danger of this administration always demonstrates the depth of pure evil we are all being forced to live under today. It is beyond me why the 'Psychopath in Thief' wasn't impeached and removed during the first 30 days. The entire lot of Republicans in Congress should ALL lose their next election, and NO Republican should be elected again for the foreseeable future. They must pay for agreeing to and promoting all of this mass destruction heaped upon our country and her people. None of our "checks and balances" are working, leaving only pushback (and protection) by the brave Federal Judges and those fighting back via lawsuits. Unfortunately, with 6 out of 9 corrupt SCOTUS judges currently in place, it's a lose-lose situation right now. An ethical, moral, and reputable court would have never given 'blanket immunity' to a most obvious, mentally ill felon in the first place. They alone could have put a stop to all of this unbelievable insanity a long time ago. Keep up the good work, Michael! We need your voice!

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Marie's avatar

There is so much evidence that computers were hacked for the 2024 presidential election – – what’s being done to make sure that won’t happen during the 2026 midterms!?!?!?!?!? And all the other skeezy Repugnican manipulations of the Vote : who is allowed to vote; gerrymandering of voter districts; and “disqualification” of hundreds of thousands of votes by just any old person who could come up and say “such and so person isn’t a valid voter— toss their vote” and it would be done! After watching this journalist’s summary of his investigation of the potential hacking of the 2024 presidential election — https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7kNAbMuSB0c — I’m asking myself not only, why did Kamala Harris not insist on a hand count of the paper ballots (which she was urged to do by numerous computer hacking and statistical experts); and not only how are we going to prevent another hacking, etc., debacle during the 2026 midterms; but also, how are we going to get this pretender off the throne ASAP f indeed it can be proved that the 2024 presidential election was stolen?

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Connie Martin's avatar

I wholeheartedly agree with you, Marie. It is all so damn frustrating! We know that Elon and his teenage geek squad were messing with the voting machines in so many places, including ALL of the swing states, which miraculously, the moron won, despite no one winning ALL of the swing states for the past 40 years. Yes, square that away? Additionally, ALL of the polls in the days and hours leading up to the election had Kamala winning, right up till the felon called the race for himself. Elon has not shared details (beyond saying that the POTUS and several Senators would not have been elected if not for him) because it implicates him in Election Fraud, and would warrant prison time, which is where the insane felonious POTUS should be right now. Without Elon in 2026, it is possible we might return to fair elections, but so many people noted in the days following the November travesty, that when they checked their ballots to make sure they had been cast, nothing! Ballots were just missing entirely for so many voters. Additionally, several districts, some quite small (like only 536 people), showed 100% voting for Trump, and 0 for Kamala, despite being a BLUE district. Additionally, they discovered that in some all-blue districts, entire ballots were all blue, except for the President and the next position down on the ballot. Typically, these were Senate races. This is how they got the majority of Republicans in the House and Senate, too. No one will ever convince me that 2024 was a "fair" election.

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Marie's avatar

how are we going to get this pretender off the throne ASAP if indeed it can be proved that the 2024 presidential election was stolen?

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MAHA=DomesticTerrorists's avatar

If Democrats where smart, they would be hitting him on Epstein and accuse the Repubicon party of protecting pedophiles. Like Rep Omar did.

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Robyn DeLong's avatar

What frightens me is how clever Trump and his cohorts are at finding loopholes to get around safeguards and do whatever the heck they want to.

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